(Snail Watch Journey to the West No. 6112)
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Praying for rain is a work with a threshold, it requires the mobilization of the Dragon King and even the Rain Squad of the Celestial Realm, and two of Tang Monk's three disciples can do this, they are Sun Wukong and the Eight Precepts of pigs.
It is already an open secret that Sun Wukong will ask for rain, the master brother got the promise of Guanyin in the Eagle Sorrow Stream, and later took the sutra to promise him to call the heavenly spirit of the earth, such a promise does not know how many people are red-eyed, Sun Wukong took the scripture on the way to let the Dragon King sneeze a few sneezes and rained a little rain, and then used this rootless water to configure a prescription for the king of Zhu Ziguo. On the way to the scriptures, Brother Monkey encountered the problem of asking for rain, and the Dragon Kings were very face-saving to help him.
The Eight Precepts of the Pig seem to be only able to eat, drink and have fun, but he is indeed a good hand at asking for rain, and in the Four Noble Trials of Zen, the Eight Precepts and the Mother-in-law reveal that he is also proficient in asking for rain: if you say a thousand words, you don't need to make cattle plow. With only one meal of palladium, the cloth seed is born in time. No rain can ask for rain, no wind will call the wind. Therefore, although the Eight Precepts of the Pig did not do the work of asking for rain on the way to the scriptures, he did master the craft.
Then, among the three disciples of the Tang monk, it seems that only the sand monk does not know how to ask for rain.
Sha Monk's spells were not inferior to those of Master Brother and Second Master Brother, so why didn't he learn to rain?
First of all, he did not get Guanyin's promise, Sun Wukong could get Guanyin's help, not the pie that fell from the sky, but his own efforts, Guanyin did not intend to give him this promise before, after all, she had already borrowed a lot of people from the Jade Emperor's hands, if she mobilized the people of the Celestial Realm, it would be a bit excessive, but Brother Monkey had already made his attitude clear, if he did not give him some privileges, he would not leave.
Sun Wukong's conditions to Guanyin are conducive to taking the scriptures, so Guanyin will unconditionally agree to him, but the starting point of the sha monk is for himself, he is not concerned about taking the scriptures, and he has the desire to return to the heavenly court, such a person will not let Guanyin give him privileges.
Then, he didn't have the ability of the Eight Precepts, who used to be the canopy marshal of the Celestial Realm, dealing with water day after day, and the Roller Blind General was a more protective role, and his task was to protect the Jade Emperor, so it was reasonable that he did not learn to ask for rain.
In the end, the sand monk has no place to play, Sun Wukong is the main backbone of the entire sutra taking team, he can support a team alone, in addition to water warfare, Sun Wukong almost contracted most of the work in the team, Brother Monkey is a person with super execution, so the eight precepts of the pig and the sand monk have almost no chance to shoot, the eight precepts of the pig will ask for rain, there is almost no place for him to use on the way to take the scriptures, so he only dares to show off in front of his mother-in-law, the sand monk will not ask for rain and how, he learns and does not have the opportunity to play.
In summary, whether the sand monk will ask for rain seems to be less important, everyone is concerned about the first place, who will care who the second place is?
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