Look at the life of water margin (50): Don't learn from Yan Qing's indifference
Text/Chinoiserie
If we talk about the perfect person of Liangshan, it is none other than Yan Qing, the prodigal son of Tianqiao Star. This little brother can be Liangshan all-round small fresh meat, is simply a generalist of Liangshan Bande's all-round development of intelligence, body and beauty. First of all, he is handsome, more than six feet tall, twenty-four or five years old, three teeth to cover his mouth and thin hair, very thin waist and wide shoulders. The lips are like Zhu, the eyes are like dots of paint, and the face is like a pile of Qiong. It is full of flowers and embroidery, but it looks like a jade pavilion pillar is covered with soft green. If you are a champion, whoever you are, will lose to him. Such a look is no less than that of Liangshan façade Hua Rong, if it were not for Li Shishi, the first beautiful woman of song, he would not have "had the heart to look at him" as soon as he saw Yan Qing.
Speaking of martial arts, Yan Qing's martial arts are not bad, especially sumo wrestling and riding archery. Yan Qing was the first in the world, as brave as Li Kui, and could not make a move under his hands. Ren Yuan, who had been unmarried for two years in Tai'an, was also defeated by Yan Qing's men. Riding and shooting is also the existence of chasable flowers. "Holding a crossbow, using only three short arrows, the suburbs fell, did not let go, the arrows fell to the object; entering the city at night, killing less than a hundred and ten insects and ants." A typical example is a crossbow arrow shooting a flock of geese, and once a shot at Ding Desun's horse's foot, which is really a magic skill, which means where to fight.
Yan Qing's most powerful and most popular with readers is his talent. Look at what Old Master Shi said: "No, it is a good flower embroidery, but also blowing, playing, singing, dancing, tearing down white Words, top real continuum, nothing can not, nothing will not." It is also said that the various roads and townships are talked about, and the city language of the province's various lines and arts. If the Championship Society, where the goods are good, the pipes are all his. And this person is full of cleverness, and the head of the road knows the end. "Or the hook bar veteran, "the first place in the wind and moon bush".
Yan Qing also attaches great importance to righteousness, although he was misunderstood by his master Lu Junyi to "beat the door", he still did not remember hatred and secretly protected his master. On the way to Lu Junyi's army, he finally killed Dong Chao and Xue Ba, saving Lu Junyi's life. He also ran for the cause of Liangshan without regrets, especially for the first merit of the Zhao'an Grand Plan, if there was no prodigal son through the line of Li Shishi, it was estimated that it would be much more difficult to accomplish.
But yanqing's most admirable part is its insight. Wu used the trick of pretending to be a ghost to make Lu Yuanwai sit restlessly, and Yan Qing could see through it at a glance, "Xiao B is unfortunately not at home at night, if he is at home, he will say two words and two words, and overthrow Mr. Na, so that he dares to have a funny scene." "After the Liangshan army and horses pacified Fang La, the Banshi returned to the dynasty, and he waited for the meritorious service to be rewarded and sealed his wife Yinzi. But Yan Qing was not excited, he saw through the imperial court, taking Han Gaozu's killing of heroes as an example to persuade his master Lu Junyi to retreat bravely to ensure peace, but Lu Junyi did not listen and was eventually killed. And Yan Qing retired to the rivers and lakes, picked up a load of gold and silver, and lived a happy fairy life.
Such a Yanqing, who does not admire and who does not like? Having a friend like that is really fun. The Ming Dynasty scholar Chen Chen gave Yan Qing the highest evaluation: Yan Qing was loyal to his master, sensitive to things, extremely skilled, all harmful, it seemed that there were university questions, big economies, and the prime minister who could be saved, and the non-Liangshan Po figures could be compared.
However, for Yan Qing, I still can't like it, and when I think of his indifference and his cold blood, my good feelings gradually dissipate. Look at the seventy-third passage of the Water Margin: When Li Kui looked at it, he saw a woman with a harem in her arms and talking there. Li Kui kicked open the door, and the axe went everywhere, only to see the fire burst out and the thunderbolts were mixed. When I fixed my eyes on it, I turned over the lamp. But the latter was about to leave, and was shouted loudly by Li Kui, and the axe was cut down early. The woman went under the bed and hid. Li Kui cut off the man's head with an axe and carried it on the bed. Knock the axe on the edge of the bed and drink, "Mother-in-law, come out!" If you don't save it, chop the bed and smash it. The mother-in-law cried out, "You spare my life, I will come out!" However, he only gathered his head, and was grabbed by Li Kui's hair, dragged straight to the side of the dead body, and asked, "Who is this guy I killed?" The mother-in-law said, "It's my adulterer Wang Xiao'er." Li Kui asked again, "Brick food, where do you get it?" The mother-in-law said, "This is me bringing the gold and silver head to face with him, and the three two will come in from the wall." Li Kui said, "What do you want to do with such a pickled lady!" "Pulled to the edge of the bed, an axe cut off the head." Tie the two heads together, and then mention the corpse of the mother-in-law, and the corpse of the hanzi. Li Kui said, "I have eaten enough, but there is no place to eat." "Then he took off the upper half of his clothes, picked up the double axe, and looked at the two dead bodies, one up and down, just like a beating of the chaos for a while." Li Kui smiled, "Seeing these two can't live." "This is the bloodiest passage in the Water Margin.
Some people may say that Li Kui killed people, what happened to Yan Qing? Originally, it was not about Yan Qing, but the problem was that Li Kui was so frustrated and mad to chop people, and Yan Qing was always on the scene. Such a cruel beastly act, Yan Qing did not say a word from beginning to end! You must know that the deceased was the daughter of Di Taigong, and Di Taigong killed pigs and sheep to entertain Yan Qing and Li Kui! If it is said that Di Taigong's daughter has hatred with them, Li Kui killed them, and Yan Qing did not speak, but in the absence of any hatred, Li Kui performed the most terrifying and murderous scene in the whole book, killing people and chopping them into meat sauce like a dish! Li Kui is a madman, the more he kills people, the more painful he is, is Yan Qing also a madman? Does he need that pleasure too? When he robbed the execution ground in Jiangzhou, King Chao Tianwang saw Li Kui killing people indiscriminately and severely reprimanded him, so in the end there was still a reason to save people. But this time, there was no reason at all, but Yan Qing, who was considered to be kind and loyal and invincible, was actually indifferent and allowed the tragedy to happen in front of his eyes! If Yan Qing was not able to stop Li Kui, it would still be reasonable, but Yan Qing was specially sent by Song Jiang to guard Li Kui, and Li Kui was also very obedient to Yan Qing, afraid that Yan Qing would beat him! However, to the great disappointment of the reader, Yan Qing did not persuade a word, nor did she have any behavior to stop Li Kui, nor did she say a word of condemnation to Li Kui afterwards, let alone a word of comfort and guilt to Di Taigong and his wife who had lost their only daughter, seeing that after Li Kui had killed and chopped people, Yan Qing casually went to bed with Li Kui in a room, and such a cruel thing in Yan Qing's eyes was as if nothing had happened! What was even more indignant was that Li Kui slept until dawn, jumped up, and said to Tai Gong: "I caught a ghost with you last night, how can you not thank the general?" "Taigong had to pack up his wine and eat and treat him." Li Kui and Yan Qing ate it. I really don't know how Yan Qing can eat it with a face! Here, although Yan Qing did not move, what was the difference between this and his action?
If a person does not have conscience and morality, the greater the ability of such a person, the greater the harm to society; if a person does not have the bottom line of principle, the greater the ability of such a person, the greater the side effect on society. Man can be unsophisticated, but he cannot be unkind, and he can be poor, but he cannot be ignorant of right and wrong. In Dijiazhuang, I only saw Yan Qing's cold-blooded ruthlessness, saw the evil in Yan Qing's heart, and saw Yan Qing's ruthless trampling on the weak, but I didn't see anything else. In my heart, Yan Qing and Li Kui are the same person, regardless of each other.
May the world not learn from Yan Qing's indifference or even cold-bloodedness.
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