"Journey to the West" is broad and profound, many details in it are worth recalling, there is a question I don't know if everyone has considered it, Sun Wukong guarded himself and often stole the peach in the peach orchard, but why didn't the peach orchard land public report it?
Monkey king
We know that Sun Wukong's stealing of peaches was exposed by the Seven Fairies, but at this time the situation was already very serious, because the Seven Fairies found that the peaches prepared for the peach conference, especially the big peaches, could not even make up a basket. Obviously, this is a shocking theft case, and the plot is very serious, of course, we who have seen the Journey to the West know that this is Sun Wukong's masterpiece, but let's think about it again, if Sun Wukong stole the first peach at that time, the peach orchard land public resolutely stood up to stop it, maybe the monkeys would strangle the horse on the cliff, the seven fairies would not be unable to make a difference, and Sun Wukong might be a Qi Tian Dasheng for a few more days.
However, the Land Duke of PanTaoyuan did not stand up, but chose to turn a blind eye, so he let the Seven Fairies grab the credit, so the question is, why didn't the Land Duke dissuade Sun Wukong or report directly to the higher authorities? You must know that the Jade Emperor's intelligence system is still very powerful, picketing lingguan from time to time around, such as when the pig eight precepts flirt with Gong'e, it attracted those spiritual officials, as long as the land public thinks, it will definitely be able to find the corresponding institutions, and the final news will also be accurate and unmistakable to the heavens, but the land public chooses to be blind, why is this?
Monkey king
Let's first consider a question, does the land know that monkeys are stealing peaches? The answer, of course, is yes, his mission in the land of peach orchard is to take care of peach, he knows everything in the garden, such as how many peach trees, how many types of peach trees there are, how to distribute them, and even the efficacy of peaches is so familiar, he can not know about monkeys stealing peaches, but he has not exposed or reported, obviously he does not want to do that. Just as in life you can never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep, and the people of the land are unwilling to expose Sun Wukong, what can you do? So what prompted the land to rot? A pot of porridge feels that the following factors are at work.
First, Sun Wukong is his direct superior, the cross-level report is very taboo no matter which dynasty or generation, and the land public skill status, the background is not hard, and Sun Wukong is parachuted in, who knows if he has descendants, but where there is a backstage he can not afford to provoke, is not there such a sentence? Fighting snakes does not die, and it kills itself. He didn't have to make that head.
Second, Sun Wukong was personally appointed by the Jade Emperor to take care of the peach orchard, the world knows that monkeys naturally love to eat peaches, the Jade Emperor will definitely have a deep meaning in such an arrangement, although the land prince is humble, but this bit of eyesight is still there, people originally grew up eating peaches, you Jade Emperor let him guard the peach, is not it to encourage him to steal peaches? If I recklessly report to the upper echelons and sabotage the Jade Emperor's plan, wouldn't it be impossible to eat and walk?
Jade emperor
Third, there are many peaches in the peach orchard, and the land lord introduced it to Sun Wukong:
There are 3,600 plants: the front 1,200 plants, the flowers are small, the three thousand years are ripe, the people eat the immortal Tao, and the body is light. In the middle, 1,200 plants, layers of flowers are sweet, 6,000 years of ripeness, people eat Xiaju soaring, immortality. The next twelve hundred plants, purple veined cores, nine thousand years of ripe, people eat and live with heaven and earth, the sun and the moon with Geng.
We know that in the mortal world a peach tree can grow 200-300 pounds of peaches, these 3600 peach trees can probably collect 720,000-1.08 million pounds of peaches, we know that Sun Wukong's meal is not high, three or two peaches on the way to the scriptures are full, and he was still the Great Sage of Qitian, the Great Saint House has a special meal, he does not need to eat too many peaches, but when the seven fairies picked, they found that the big peaches were almost all gone.
This shows what this shows, which shows that this peach was not eaten by Sun Wukong alone, and this peach orchard land and other staff also participated in the process of eating peaches. Friends who have watched "Dark Calculation" must remember that Xie Ruolin said such a classic line:
Now two gold bars are here, and you tell me which one is noble and which one is dirty, don't come to this set.
In the same way, now that the peach is lost, who knows which one is eaten by the monkey and which is eaten by the peach orchard land, but because the monkey offended the seven fairies, the seven fairies reported to the queen mother and said: The peaches were all eaten by the monkeys, and the peach orchard land duke and others perfectly avoided this peach theft incident. He also stole the peach but escaped the blame, will he still report it?
Peach will
Fourth, generally speaking, when new employees arrive at their jobs, they are cautious and cautious, and they are also conscientious in doing things, and a pot of porridge thinks that the peach orchard land duke was also a good employee at first, and he found that illegal things will also be reported to the superior department, but Sun Wukong stole peaches but he turned a blind eye, which shows that he has suffered a loss from the report. Isn't there such a saying? Once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of well rope. In life, there are also such examples, for example, in love, you pursue a woman, and she refuses to take a bite, will you chase again? Unless you don't want FACE, I believe he will absolutely back off the next time he meets her.
The same is true of this land lord, because sun wukong is not the only one who steals peaches in the peach orchard, but they are not punished without exception, but the land lord has made a gray face. Friends may ask, is there any basis for you to say this? In fact, there is, in the original work, Sun Wukong pushed down the ginseng fruit tree, so he asked the Emperor of Donghua to help, and ended up meeting Dongfang Shuo, and the monkey said so:
The walker saw this and smiled, "This little thief is here!" There are no peaches in the emperor's place for you to steal! ”
Obviously, Dongfang Shuo has been to the peach orchard, and was seen by the monkey when stealing the peach, and as a result, The Oriental Shuo still returned to the side of the Donghua Emperor intact, it can be seen that there are people in the background who steal the peach jade emperor will not be pursued, Sun Wukong guarded the peach for a long time but met the Oriental Shuo, and the peach orchard land worked for so many years, saw more than the monkey, but never heard who was punished for stealing peaches.
We can also infer that the Peach Garden Land Duke once caught a peach thief and reported it to the Jade Emperor, and was punished by the Jade Emperor, so later the Land Duke was not strange and did not dare to expose the accusation anymore, as for the monkey stealing the peach, he was even more blind, so he could only be replaced by the Seven Fairies.