"Journey to the West" is broad and profound, many details in it are worth recalling, there is a question that I don't know if everyone has thought about, that is, the red child was taken away by Guanyin Bodhisattva, why didn't the Bull Devil King lead the army to attack the South China Sea and ask for aizi? Let's talk about your own views on a pot of porridge.
Red Child
We know very well that the Red Child was not willing to let the Guanyin Bodhisattva go, but could not fight the Bodhisattva before he was forcibly taken away, the Bull Demon King has a wide network of contacts, and moreover, he is such a son, so he will soon get the news that the Red Child has been taken away by the Bodhisattva. Let's not talk about the Bull Devil King, let's assume that this kind of thing happens in real life, so what is the parent's reaction? If the child does not know where to be taken, the parents will definitely mobilize all relatives and friends to go out to find the child, and contact the police to find the child's whereabouts through various channels. If the whereabouts of the child are known, the parents will go to the scene by any means to save the child, or contact the police to save the child through the means of the police.
But our Bull Devil King is not like this, he has no intention of bringing the child back, his life has not changed much, Youzhao soaked wine and drank, it seems that there is no hurry at all, until the Tang monk team arrived at the Flame Mountain, Sun Wukong asked the Iron Fan Princess for a banana fan without success, and turned to seek the help of the old cow, only to see the Bull Devil King. It is reasonable to say that the enemy is extremely red when they meet, and the Bull Demon King should fight with Sun Wukong for his life, after all, it is because the Tang monks took the scriptures that the red child was taken away by the bodhisattva. However, the fight between the Bull Demon King and Sun Wukong was simply a child's play, and when he heard that the Dragon King of Bibotan invited him to drink, the old cow decisively left the monkey and went to the banquet.
Red Child
Have you ever seen a father like this? He didn't care about the red child's life and death at all, nor was he sincere in avenging his son, a banquet could make him let go of his hatred for the monkey, this father was really competent, to know how the red child treated the cow demon king, after he caught the Tang monk, he immediately sent the little demon to ask the cow demon king to share, and the father did this, the red child should also be cold.
So the question is, does the Bull Demon King really ignore his son? If it was replaced by Sun Wukong, and his children were taken away by the bodhisattva, I think he would definitely raise an army on Huaguo Mountain and attack the South China Sea to regain Aiko, so why didn't the Bull Demon King do that?
In fact, what everyone sees is only the appearance, the Bull Devil King is not so ruthless, not cold-blooded, the reason why he ignores it is not that he does not love children, but that all this has long been arranged. There are three details that can be seen in this arrangement, one is that West Niuhe Zhou is Rulai's territory, and the Bull Demon King is the most powerful Demon King in West Niuhe Prefecture, he occupies the Horn Mountain, the Flame Mountain, the Jilei Mountain, and parts of the daughter country, there is a saying that "lying on the bed will not allow others to sleep soundly", and Rulai's strength is far beyond the Bull Demon King, so Rulai has long greeted the old cow, and not surrendering is a dead end, and the Bull Demon King is also an old demon king, very knowledgeable about current affairs, and converted to Buddhism.
Such as the Buddha
Second, since you have taken refuge in Buddhism, why do you continue to do evil? In fact, it is for the sake of Rulai's plan to learn the scriptures, as analyzed before, the disasters on the way to take the sutras are all found by the Buddhist community, and these people who are found are not in vain, and the Buddhist sects have corresponding returns. The Bull Devil King's family has at least three difficulties, and of course the rewards given are indispensable, such as sealing the Red Child as a boy of good fortune, the Bull Devil King as the Great King Bodhisattva, and the Iron Fan Princess also cultivating into a positive result. How could the Bull Demon King not cooperate?
Third, the Bull Demon King is only a grassroots demon king, and no matter how powerful his son is, does he dare to randomly drive and insult the land of the mountain gods? Let's see how miserable the land dukes are in the original book:
The walker fought for a while, and a group of poor gods came, all draped in a piece, hanging a piece, crotchless, pants without a mouth, kneeling in front of the mountain, calling: "Great sage, the mountain god land to see." ”
The gods said, "It is precisely because there is no money to be with him, so I have to catch a few mountain roe deer and beat up some spirits in the morning and evening; if there is nothing to send, I will come to dismantle the temple, strip my clothes, and stir up my life!" The Great Sage of Wanwang and I will eliminate this monster and save the creatures on the mountain. ”
land
You must know that although the mountain god land has low mana, they are all grass-roots civil servants in the heavenly court, and the red children dare to bully them and have not yet been punished. The whole Journey to the West dares to drive the demon king of the mountain god land so that Sun Wukong and the Golden Horn silver horn king, Sun Wukong is the Great Sage of Qi Tian, the golden horn and silver horn backstage is Lao Jun, what is the Bull Demon King, just a grassroots demon king, if he does not rely on this big tree, does he dare?
Therefore, it is a drama for the red child to be taken away by the bodhisattva, even if he lends the Bull Devil King 100 guts, he does not dare to attack the South China Sea, because he has already been recruited by Rulai.