Yang Jiaofeng on the Journey to the West series of articles:
When Sun Wukong was the Monkey King at Huaguoshan Mountain, he once befriended six demon kings and worshipped them as brothers with different surnames. But this group of demon kings is after all a friend of wine and meat, and when there is a benefit, they want to share it, and when they are difficult, they are scattered as birds and beasts.
But among these seven demon kings, there was only one Bull Demon King who really had the potential to carry the handle and the ability to suppress the other six to become the top big brother. But this demon king, like Sun Wukong, also made the same mistake, even more seriously.
That is, for the same kind of concubines, it is still quite benevolent, for example, Sun Wukong faced the seventy-two cave demon king being captured, without pity, fortunately the little monkey is not less. The same is true of the Bull Demon King, whose core team members are always immediate family members, such as the Red Child, the Iron Fan Princess, and the Ruyi True Immortal.
So, how did the Bull Devil King make his industry bigger and stronger step by step, and what was the origin of his son, the Red Child?
Yang Jiaofeng on the Journey to the West series of articles: The red child eats Tang monk meat, why not invite the Iron Fan Princess, you see what happened to him when he was a child?
One
The five hundred years that Sun Wukong was crushed under the Five Elements Mountain were the five hundred years when he and his six brothers who had completely parted ways.
In my (Yang Jiaofeng's) eyes, including Sun Wukong, the Bull Demon King is definitely the smartest of these seven brothers. Sun Wukong is lucky, he has become a pawn in the competition of many forces, because it has use value, so he opened Goldfinger and became a winner in life.
The Bull Demon King did not have such a big background, at least in the original "Journey to the West" he could not read that he had any backers, nor was he loved by the Heavenly Court. However, he read a hint of meaning from Sun Wukong's success or failure, and thus adjusted his survival strategy, and eventually became the most powerful monster in West NiuheZhou.
He took advantage of sun wukong's five hundred years of serving a sentence at the foot of the Five Elements Mountain to work hard to develop his career, not only marrying the beautiful iron fan princess, but also giving birth to a red child with great powers. Unlike the group of monkeys in Huaguo Mountain, Sun Wukong trained them for more than a hundred years, including the four skilled generals, and as a result, the level of this group of monkey soldiers could not even beat mortal hunters.
The Bull Demon King is different here, just take out one can be alone, the red child sits on the Trumpet Mountain, even the grass-roots immortals in the heavenly court have to look at this boy's face and act; the Iron Fan Princess occupies the Flame Mountain and the Cuiyun Mountain more than a thousand miles away, and everyone has become the Iron Fan Immortal in people's mouths; the younger brother Ruyi True Immortal even occupies the Fallen Birth Spring of the Daughter Country and becomes the richest Taoist there; even the concubine Jade Face Fox has a family wealth and controls the Jilei Mountain.
The means and abilities of the Bull Demon King's group of family forces were really beyond the ability of Marshal Ma Liu'er and General Bengba II of HuaguoShan.
Two
Although the Bull Demon King has been learning the lessons of Sun Wukong in the beginning, acting in a low-key manner and not provoking the Heavenly Court, he has also made a principled mistake.
Although he is trying to whitewash his yokai identity, for example, he is known as the Hercules King, his wife is the Iron Fan Princess, also called the Iron Fan Immortal, the son is the Holy Infant King, even the younger brother is a Ruyi True Immortal, and even the Bull Demon King has an exclusive car that only high-level immortals have - the Water Avoiding Golden Crystal Beast.
However, the Bull Demon King had lived for more than five hundred years, but he was still circling around in the circle of monsters, for example, he was still good friends with the Nine-Headed Worm who stole the Buddha's treasure. When Sun Wukong was the Great Sage of Qi Tian, he had already left the circle of monsters, except for the Three Qing and Four Emperors, that is, the Five Fangs and Five Elders:
"With the nine obsidian stars, the five generals, the twenty-eight houses, the four heavenly kings, the twelve yuanchen, the five parties and five elders, the universal astrology, and the gods of the River and Han, they treat each other only as brothers and call each other."
Whether it is true or false, in short, people have updated the circle of friends, at least in the eyes of outsiders, or tall.
Not only that, the Bull Devil King is actually facing a midlife crisis, that is to say, there are also problems in marriage and family. Of course, this crisis was not limited to him finding a small three-faced fox, after all, in the society at that time, successful men were still allowed to take a concubine. But you must know that since ancient times, fox spirit is not a positive word, and anyone who is related to this word can be alone?
As the saying goes, there is a knife on the head of the color character, which is true for people, and it is the same for monsters. Originally, he married the Iron Fan Princess and successfully whitewashed his identity as a demon, but this took a fox essence as a concubine, even if the body was not squeezed dry, the reputation was ruined.
Three
In addition to the fact that the Circle of Friends of the Bull Demon King has not been updated and the marriage is in crisis, his descendants, that is, the red child, have also made a big mistake.
Many people, ah, do not understand, said that the Bull Demon King did not provoke Sun Wukong, why did he finally attract the end of the siege of the gods?
In fact, the root cause lies in the red child's body, after all, the sutra taking project is a major event in the Three Realms, and the Bull Demon King will not be unaware of the strength of the forces behind this sutra collection team. The red children wanted to provoke them, not only to catch Tang Monk to eat meat, but also to spray a mouthful of fire, almost did not burn their own uncle Sun.
Originally, Sun Wukong thought that by virtue of his worship with the red child's father, the red child would raise his noble hand and release the Tang monk:
"This goblin is the son of the Bull Demon King, and I know his father. If it is about to rise up, or his old uncle, how dare he harm my master? ”
Although Sun Wukong was very happy, and the Eight Precepts of the Pig were also excited, he was splashed with cold water on the spot by the sand monk:
"As the saying goes, if you don't come to the door for three years, you won't kiss you."
Sha monk is very understanding of human feelings, as the saying goes, relatives do not move around for three years, and they cannot kiss if they want to. Similarly, the best time for you to have the relationship with the Bull Demon King is the most beautiful moment of your "Spring Breeze Triumphant Horseshoe Disease". It's a pity that you two haven't moved around for at least five hundred years, and when you were pressed down at the bottom of the Five Elements Mountain, did he ever see you?
Although Sun Wukong did look down on his brothers a little at that time, at this time and another, the red child had so much respect for his father, how did he meet Sun Wukong, but he did not even send personal affection?
If you were Sun Wukong, and there was a bear child who worshipped his brother's family who insisted on eating your master, what could you do?
Four
In fact, the Bull Devil King, the bad thing is bad on the red child, so we need to have a good chat about the red child, what is the origin of this bear child, how can it be so love to provoke?
Although the red child has strong skills, his IQ, including emotional intelligence, is still in the childhood stage. In fact, in terms of appearance alone, this is still the bigger picture, his appearance actually stays in the infant stage, which is why he is called "Holy Child King".
When Sun Wukong first met the red child, there was a description:
"But see the monster—his face is as white as Fu Powder's, and his lips are as white as Zhu Yicai's." The sideburns of Qingyun are deceitful, the eyebrows are crescent moon like knives, and the shape is richer than Nezha. ”
But in terms of looks, the red child is a very beautiful child, with fair skin, bright red lips, dark hair, and curved eyebrows. But these are not the key, the key is that his form, which looks similar to Nezha, is slightly richer than Nezha.
So what does Nezha look like?
When Sun Wukong and others sneaked into the bottomless pit to find the golden-nosed white-haired rat essence, they saw the Li Tianwang tablet enshrined by the rat essence, so they breathlessly went to Li Tianwang to comment on it, where there was a description of Nezha's life:
"This prince went down to the sea to cleanse himself, stepped on the Crystal Palace, and caught the dragon to cramp into a tassel."
The meaning of this sentence is that when Nezha was born on the third day, he ran to the sea to take a bath, and when he did not agree, he was going to kick the crystal palace of others and pick the tendons of other people's dragons.
Later, after Nezha removed his bones and returned to his father, a trace of his soul floated to the Spirit Mountain, and was reshaped by the Buddha (it is said that Taiyi Zhenren is mentioned in the "Fengshen Yanyi"), and after the rebirth, Nezha still maintained his infant image.
Five
It is no wonder that when Nezha followed Li Tianwang to encircle Huaguo Mountain, Sun Wukong also satirized this little Nezha:
"Little Prince, your milk teeth have not yet receded, and your fetal hair has not yet dried, how dare you say such a big word?"
In fact, the red child, who is a little richer than Nezha, is not much better, after he designed to coax Tang Monk, Sun Wukong once carried him on his back, and this back carried out the weight:
"The walker pulled him to the side of the road and tried it, but he had to weigh three pounds and ten pounds or two weights."
You know, under normal circumstances, the newborn baby is also more than six pounds, and the red child can't even reach the normal weight of the newborn baby, to put it bluntly, it is a premature baby.
In fact, not only are we doubting, Sun Wukong, who carries the red child on his back, will naturally also be confused, and when he is confused, he will have to ask the age of the red child. As a result, the red child opened his mouth and said that he was already seven years old, and Sun Wukong was stunned at that time:
"One year old is one pound, and it should be seven pounds, why do you weigh less than four pounds?"
Of course, Sun Wukong's sentence is also a common sense error, where a seven-year-old child only weighs seven pounds. In fact, the red child is more than three hundred years old, and the reason why he lied about being seven years old is also to confuse the other party, if he reported his actual age, wouldn't he admit that he was a monster?
In the face of Sun Wukong's questioning, the red child gave a reason, that is, he did not eat milk when he was a child:
"I lost milk when I was young."
Although this little devil king is full of lies, but this explanation seems to have no need to deceive people, so is the truth really so, his mother Princess Iron Fan really did not feed him?
Six
The red child is different from Nezha, who is a body made of lotus root, which naturally does not grow up, but the red child is a living flesh, and if it is stabbed by a knife, it will bleed:
"That goblin, through the legs of the knife tip out, blood flowed into a skin and flesh, good demon, you see him gritting his teeth, enduring the pain..."
That is to say, this little devil king is indeed flesh and blood. As the saying goes, people's hearts are all flesh, and red children do not jump out of the cracks in the stone, and naturally they are also the flesh that fell from their mothers.
So, Princess Iron Fan, why not feed the red child well, let him grow up to be a big man, and become a normal person?
In fact, the relationship between the red child and the iron fan princess is not as close as we understand. Even the later story of Princess Tiefan's intention to avenge the red child was against her will, which was just a reason why she refused to lend Sun Wukong a banana fan.
After the Red Child caught Tang Monk, he once sent someone to invite the Bull Demon King to a banquet, but he did not mention it and invited the Iron Fan Princess:
"You and I went to invite the old king to come and say that I caught Tang Monk here to steam with him and eat with him, and that I would extend my life to a thousand ages."
There is a very important reason is that the Bull Devil King and the Red Child and the Iron Fan Princess are not the same kind of people at all, they are both demons, they can eat human flesh, but the Iron Fan Princess is a person, a person who has become a fairy.
In the book, people's evaluation of the Iron Fan Princess is also quite positive, and she is worshipped as a god-like being:
"I'm here, pray once in ten years. Four pigs and four sheep, in the red table, the fragrant fruit, the chickens and geese, the wine, the bathing piety, worship to the immortal mountain, invite him out of the cave, and then give it. ”
Seven
And the praise of the Princess of the Iron Fan is not limited to this, but also includes that she has blessed a side of the land, such as in the eyes of the woodcutter:
"It is precisely this sage who has this treasure, and the good can extinguish the fire and protect the people of that party, so it is called the Iron Fan Immortal."
Even, in the eyes of the Bull Demon King, this wife of his own is also a living immortal, and his personal quality has nothing to say:
"My mountain wife has been practicing since she was a child, and she is also a virtuous fairy, but she is a child with strict doors and no foot inside."
That is to say, Princess Tiefan has scrupulously abided by her duties and obeyed the precepts since she was a child, and all her behavior habits were rushing to Chengxian. In fact, it is true that they have attained enlightenment, and even those who serve themselves in the family are maids, and even if there are male servants, they are all children, and they have changed before they become adults, so as to obey the women's way.
And what kind of person is the Bull Demon King?
At least in the eyes of the red child, this father did not give a good example, and he also believes that he is closest to his father, and his behavior habits are the same:
"My father and king usually eat people for a living, and now he is more than a thousand years old, so why is he eating fast again?"
The Iron Fan Princess usually did not go out of the door and did not step out, thinking about cultivation, and at the same time she could imagine it. Such a person who observes the feminine way naturally wants to be a wife or mother who will be a husband and a godson, and ultimately make a great contribution.
However, as far as the Bull Devil King is concerned, he has made friends with some people who are not in the same way all day, and he has also hooked up with fox spirits, traveled around, and has not been home for many years. He also brought his own son, the two grandfathers smelled the same, but in the eyes of the Iron Fan Princess, could they not be chilled?
You must know that the banana fan in the hands of the Iron Fan Princess is the true fire of Samadhi sprayed by the red child.
Eight
For the red child, naturally I don't want to invite an old woman who manages herself every day and has no choice but to come. Otherwise, as soon as she arrived, she didn't say a word, first slapped herself, and then asked to release Tang Monk, what to do?
In addition, in fact, the bigger reason is that the Iron Fan Princess is not actually the mother of the red child!
In other words, the red child lost milk when he was a child, which was real, because the Iron Fan Princess did not feed him a mouthful of milk. The reason for this is that this kind of cultivation as a baby into a demon or a fairy, either the old father swallowed the nine turns of golden dan for him, or he was not a normal person at birth.
This is the case with Nezha:
When the King of Heaven gave birth to this son, he had the word "Which" on the palm of his left hand and the word "Zha" on the palm of his right hand, hence the name Nezha. ”
Born as a magic child, on the third day of birth, he ran to the seashore, kicked the Crystal Palace, and smoked other people's dragon tendons. As you can imagine, the red child has more than enough, if this bear child is breastfeeding, maybe he will bite you.
Not to mention the two of them, when the Eight Commandments of the Pig reincarnated from the Marshal of the Canopy to the pig, they nibbled the old sow to death as soon as they were born:
"A spiritual true nature, who came to take away the reincarnation, did not expect the wrong path, cast in a sow fetus, and became like this." It was I who bit and killed the sows, but the dead herds occupied the mountain field here, and ate people to survive. ”
If the Iron Fan Princess, who has always practiced, gave birth to such a magic boy, if she didn't strangle him, she would have a kind heart, where would she still have the heart to feed him?
Of course, the red child is indeed a magic child at birth, not an acquired cultivation, after all, there is a regulation in the Journey to the West, that is, the age and appearance when the flesh becomes an immortal, that is, your eternal appearance in the future.
Nine
Obviously, the red child is an immortal body as soon as he is born, of course, this immortality is not immortal, after all, there are still earth governments and natural disasters in charge.
The reason why Princess Tiefan is suspected not to be the birth mother of the Red Child, in fact, there is a piece of evidence placed here, when the Red Child asked sun wukong the question of the cow demon king, Sun Wukong replied:
"Xian Lang please rise, because I am old, I have not been able to do things for several days, and I have accidentally forgotten the fruit of your birth." And when you come home tomorrow, ask your mother. ”
It was precisely because of this sentence that the red child doubted the identity of the Bull Devil King, not because the Bull Devil King had forgotten that the birthday was questionable, but because he actually said what he wanted to ask his mother.
The reason is simple, the red child knows where his biological mother is, and he also knows that it is difficult for the Bull Demon King to see his biological mother. Sun Wukong's so-called homecoming and asking his mother, of course, refers to the Cow Devil King's current wife, Princess Tiefan, but in fact, it is not.
The real mother of the red child is not the Iron Fan Princess, nor is she by the side of the Bull Demon King...
Let's see, the Bull Demon King family is so powerful, who is most sad to face the red child being taken away by Guanyin Bodhisattva?
As the Bull Demon King who has the best relationship with the Red Child, he is not sad, after facing Sun Wukong to come to the door, he is more concerned about why he wants to bully the Iron Fan Princess, after getting Sun Wukong's reply, it is okay to let him go:
"Having said that, I look at the old feelings and spare you."
However, there was a person who was extremely emotional and even discounted his leg for this, and he was ruyi Zhenxian, the uncle of the red child:
"Just chop you into meat sauce and take revenge on my nephew!"
Ten
What is the reason for the ruyi zhenxian who has always made a fortune in the daughter country, jump like thunder, and have to fight with Sun Wukong to the death?
It is because the red child is actually from the daughter country, and it is the only boy born under the daughter's domestic production under the protection of Ruyi Zhenxian.
As we all know, the book "Journey to the West" is a book written after integrating various forms of Journey to the West that have been circulated in other ways. In the meta-drama, there was a story that there was a team of five hundred people advancing, and one of the pregnant women was going to give birth, but no one else helped her and left her. So this woman vowed that in the next life, she would be reborn in Wang Shecheng and eat all the children inside.
Unexpectedly, her poisonous oath came true, and she really reincarnated, specializing in eating other people's children, and she also gave birth to five hundred children. Later, the Buddha took advantage of her lack of attention and used a bowl to hold her youngest child, and this child was the red child. If you can't open it after seven days, the child will turn into pus, and the Buddha also said, you have given birth to five hundred children, but none of them are willing to be eaten, why do you have to bear to eat other people's children?
Then the woman was surrendered and became one of the twenty-four heavens of the Buddha, she was the devil's mother, and the country she lived in was the daughter country, and only in the daughter country could a woman give birth to five hundred children in succession.
You know, when the Tang monks and the Eight Precepts of the Pig drank the water of the Zimu River, it would only take a few days to give birth to a child, which was theoretically true. Because the children born after drinking the water of the Mother River are not normal children, this leads to the fact that the red children do not grow up at all.
It is precisely because they are not big, so the people of the daughter country know that they have drunk the water of the Zimu River, and they must go to the fetal spring to take a picture, otherwise the boys born will not be able to raise much.
In the book "Journey to the West", there is also an Easter egg about the mother of the red child, who was on duty when Sun Wukong once asked for help from Guanyin in the South China Sea:
"From time to time, there was a report outside the Devil Mother Heavenly Tide Sound Cave: 'The bodhisattva learned that Sun Wukong came to see.'" ”
The mother of the red child is certain, but is his father really the Bull Devil King, what the Bull Devil King has done in the daughter country, how to get out of a red child, about these questions, I will tell you when I want to understand.
My name is Yang Jiaofeng, look at the journey to the west from a different perspective, you will find different fun, like please pay attention to it!