Chapter 388: Buddhist Sect Encounter, 2 Awkward Moments

Although he had eaten all of that dish, the portion was indeed small, leaving him dissatisfied, so this time he came along with Sun Wukong to guess the dish names.

He hoped his luck would improve so he could guess the dish names, take the freshly cooked dish back, and if his luck was bad, he would shamelessly ask Sun Wukong for the leftovers, since they were leftovers anyway and Sun Wukong should not refuse.

As it turned out, he did not expect their little schemes to go crackling, the dish they had longed for was actually eaten clean by that little thief, which made him unable to swallow this anger.

"I already said before, this thing is leftover food, right? Anyway, it needs to be dealt with, so them eating it is just fine, saving me Old Grandson from feeling heartbroken when I handle it."

Sun Wukong smiled indifferently.

Several celestial officials present looked at the group of servants with their heads down, blaming them, for if they themselves had not still been able to eat two portions, they would not have expected to be outmaneuvered in this way by them.

"Thank you, Great Chef Sun Wukong, for your mercy, we will leave now, not disturbing Great Chef Sun Wukong here among the celestial officials."

Once the matter ended, this Buddhist Sect disciple wanted to sneak away—if not now, when else? —but unexpectedly, at this very moment, he ran into a fellow sect senior brother who was just about to come in from outside.

"Senior Brother, is this the right place, right? How come the Imperial Kitchen is so quiet?"

"When I came, I had already planned it, this Imperial Kitchen was enchanted by that Sun Monkey with a technique, so the smell and sound of this Imperial Kitchen cannot be transmitted out, hence it is so quiet..."

That person was explaining, while his companion beside him froze, keeping his elbow jabbing him.

"No, I am kindly explaining to you, why do you keep jabbing me with your elbow..."

These two Buddhist Sect disciples arrived relatively late, both timid, and the two of them had merely been calculating inside the house for a long time.

In the end they decided to set out to investigate, but unexpectedly, their expedition failed before it began, standing on the wall they were caught red-handed by everyone.

Originally, these several punished Buddhist disciples were preparing to go out, still thinking they had finally escaped this calamity, who would have thought, just as they stepped out the door they bumped straight into their own junior disciple.

The celestial officials inside did not know what had happened, only feeling that these few servants about to leave were somewhat strange, seeing them standing motionless at the doorway, they walked over and asked: "What are you doing? Why aren't you moving? Did someone give you an immobilization talisman?"

"Oh dear, who is this?"

Sun Wukong also followed the celestial officials over, saw the Buddhist Sect disciples standing on the wall top, laughed out loud, "Yo, why so lively, who are you? Why not go through the main gate? Coming over from this wall top?"

The two Buddhist Sect disciples on the wall top stammered, not knowing how to answer, "I, we, we are..."

"Speak, Old Grandson Sun Wukong has no time to listen to your stammering here, if you do not answer, I here have some excellent True Words Pills."

Sun Wukong said this, and really pulled out two embroidered pouches from his pocket, waving them in front of everyone.

The Buddhist Sect disciples on the wall panicked, hurriedly saying, "That is, my Buddhist beads were lost, I do not know where they were lost, no matter how I search I cannot find them, I thought I might have accidentally dropped them into the utensils while eating at the banquet, but now it is so late, I do not want to trouble Great Chef Sun Wukong, so I came myself to look for them."

After the disciple finished speaking, Sun Wukong burst out laughing, "Haha, what a coincidence!"

The Buddhist Sect disciples on the wall did not know why Sun Wukong was laughing, only feeling it was utterly inexplicable, "Why is Great Chef Sun Wukong laughing? Buddhist beads are often held in hand, occasionally dropping is also normal."

"No, I am not laughing because you dropped your Buddhist beads, I am laughing about something else."

Sun Wukong pointed at the Buddhist Sect disciples standing ahead and asked, "Do you recognize them?"

They certainly recognized them, but given the current situation, they did not know whether to say they recognized them or not.

"Why aren't you answering? Do you recognize them or not?"

Sun Wukong asked again.

"Naturally, we recognize them."

The disciple on the wall had just answered when he suddenly saw his senior brother opposite frantically shaking his head at him.

But he was not clear whether this head shake meant he should not answer or should answer that he did not recognize them, so he shifted his tone: "It is not recognizing them, please forgive Great Chef Sun Wukong for taking offense, we are too far away to see clearly, let us come down and get closer."

"Fine, then you can come down slowly."

Sun Wukong replied with a laugh.

This Buddhist Sect disciple felt Sun Wukong's words were really somewhat strange, always feeling a yin-yang weirdness.

But Sun Wukong has always been his own way, and he is used to the yin-yang weirdness, so he slowly descended from the wall, preparing to take one step and see what happens.

As soon as these two Buddhist Sect disciples came down, the opposite senior brother immediately said: "Sir, was it not you who told us your Buddhist beads were lost, so you had us come look for them?"

"Ah?"

The Buddhist Sect disciple who had just come down from the wall froze.

Then he instantly reacted, "Ah, yes, that is right, I previously could not find my Buddhist beads and asked them to help me look, but after waiting left and right with no sign of them returning, I thus decided to come myself to look for them."

This seemed to match exactly what had been said before, the celestial officials also felt nothing unusual, only began to complain.

"How could these Buddhist beads be lost while held in your hand? It is all your fault, otherwise they would not have thus committed a great mistake?"

"Committed a great mistake?" These two Buddhist Sect disciples' hearts jumped, they secretly felt it might be as they imagined, yet also felt it was not.

"If it were as I imagined, it would certainly not end so lightly, there must have been something else happening in between."

"What great mistake is it?"

The two Buddhist Sect disciples asked cautiously, deliberately emphasizing their words when speaking of the great mistake.

Sun Wukong took over the conversation: "The celestial officials said it seriously, you do not need to mind, it is not a great mistake, just that when coming to help you look for the Buddhist beads, they could not withstand the temptation and secretly ate the dishes, this is a small matter, I am merely making them help me gather all the ingredients, then run a few laps in the Imperial Kitchen."

Although Sun Wukong said it lightly, for these two Buddhist Sect disciples facing him it was not a small matter.

"What?!

Secretly ate the dishes?"

"I already said it is not a big deal, you also do not need to blame them for this, they merely ate the leftover dishes prepared for disposal."

The two Buddhist Sect disciples looked at their fellow brothers, but the brothers, due to guilt, did not dare to meet their eyes.

"Dare to ask Great Chef Sun Wukong, what exactly is this dish?"

The two Buddhist Sect disciples looked at each other, swallowed their saliva, ten thousand times do not, ten thousand times do not be that dish, the dish that brought them here.

Sun Wukong opened his mouth, each of his minute movements, in the eyes of these two Buddhist Sect disciples, appeared slower by an unknown multiple.

Only see him slowly utter a few words, although these words are trivial, in the eyes of these two Buddhist Sect disciples, they seemed like a great mountain pressing on their hearts.

"It is just that meat dish."

Sun Wukong said slowly.

Although Sun Wukong did not specify which meat dish, they knew in their hearts, this meat dish naturally would not be any other dish.

It is that dish placed before them, which they could only look at but not touch, and moreover, it is the dish whose name was not spoken.

"Why aren't the two of you speaking?"

Sun Wukong asked, "You don't need to feel too guilty, after all, looking for Buddhist beads is their duty; as for whether they'll secretly eat, that's their own business. They're willing to help you look for the Buddhist beads, so they must have come because they wanted to sneak a bite."