Today is the eighth day of the first lunar month, that is, the traditional Lapa Festival. Every day on the day of the Lapa Festival, every household is to drink a bowl of hot Lapa Porridge to kick off the New Year.
In Jin Yong's martial arts novel "Chivalrous Travel", every 10 years, The Island of Chickaku will arrange for the envoys of rewarding good and punishing evil to go to the Central Plains, inviting the leaders of the world's famous sects, the leaders of various sects, the leaders of various gangs, and the famous masters and masters of martial arts who have their own special abilities to come to Chickasaw Island to drink a bowl of Laba porridge.
Someone invited to drink Laba porridge, which was a very pleasant thing, but it made all the good people in the rivers and lakes feel very jealous. Because none of the martial arts masters who accepted the invitation to go to Chickasaw Island returned, and the martial arts masters who refused to accept the invitation to go to Chickasaw Island to drink Laba Porridge were often ruthlessly killed, or even destroyed.
Therefore, every 10 years, a bloody storm will be set off on the rivers and lakes because of the appearance of messengers of rewarding good and punishing evil. It was precisely because the Changle Gang had received the order to reward the good and punish the evil, and was worried that there would be a disaster of extinction, so they successively found Shi Zhongyu and Shi Tiantian as substitute ghosts.
The question arises, why didn't the "Skyscraper" receive an invitation from Chickasaw Island to drink the famous bowl of Laba porridge?
Is it because Xie Yanke's martial arts skills are not high enough, not as good as the magic eye of Chickasaw Island?
The answer, of course, is no.
At the beginning of "Chivalrous Journey", many good men in the jianghu scramble for a "Gentetsu Order" issued by him in order to beg him to deal with the rewards and punishments of the two envoys of Chickasaw Island and avoid the disaster of accepting the bronze medal. This shows that in everyone's mind, Xie Yanke can fight with rewarding good and punishing evil.
From the perspective of actual combat, Xie Yanke once defeated the Old Man of Great Compassion and Bei Haishi, slapped and injured the 3 incense lords of the Changle Gang, and at the same time fought with Bai Wanjian, Cheng Zixue, and Liu Zimian, the top three masters of the Snow Mountain Sect, without falling behind, and it can be said that in addition to the gang of immortals on the Chickasaw Island, the world's top martial artists were among the best.
Is it because Xie Yanke's name is not loud enough, so that the people on Chickasaw Island do not know of his existence, so they did not invite him to drink Laba porridge?
Nor does this claim hold.
Although Xie Yanke lives in seclusion on a sky cliff and is known as a "sky dweller", he is not a hermit tall man. In fact, Xie Yanke's reputation in the jianghu is very large. The Xuantie Order he left behind set off a storm on the rivers and lakes, and even the famous Jiangnan Xuansu Zhuang lords in the rivers and lakes, Shi Qing and Min Rou, the "black and white double swords", were involved in it.
If you put it in the "Legend of the Archery Hero", Xie Yanke is almost a character like the Eastern Evil Yellow Medicine Master, and the well-informed two island owners of Chi Ke Island and the messengers who reward good and punish evil have not heard of the name of Xie Yanke?
So, is it possible that the skyscraper where The Smokers live is too remote for the people on Chickasaw Island to find and have to cancel the invitation letter?
"Chivalrous" does not specifically mention the location of the skyscraper, we can infer it. The first time Xie Yanke met Shi Baotian was in the small town of Hou Jianji, twelve miles from the east gate of Kaifeng. They traveled south for seven or eight days, "to the bottom of a walled mountain, holding a chain hanging from the peak, and climbed up", which is the skyscraper.
From Kaifeng to the south, walk for seven or eight days, should still be in Henan territory. Henan belongs to the Central Plains and is not a remote place. The messengers of rewarding good and punishing evil are very familiar in this area. They were able to find the Snow Mountain Sect that dominated the Western Regions, how could they not find the Sky Cliff? Didn't the People of the Changle Gang,such as Behaishi and Mi Yokono easily find the Sky Cliff?
I think that the main reason why Chickasaw Island did not invite Xie Yanke to drink Laba Porridge is that Xie Yanke is a human being, and it is difficult to measure the values of Chickasaw Island. Chickasaw Island sent emissaries to the Central Plains to reward the good and punish the evil, on the one hand, to invite chivalrous people to the chivalrous island to drink laba porridge; on the other hand, to eradicate the evil forces and punish the treacherous and evil people.
What kind of person is a smoker? In the original book of "Chickasaw Island", it is said: "In his life, no one has ever said that he is a 'good man', although he occasionally does a few good things, but he is happy to do it, and compared with the bad things he has done in his life, these few good things are simply insignificant." "You say he's a chivalrous man, and he often does bad things; you say he's a bad guy, and he occasionally does a few good things. Therefore, is Xie Yanke the target of punishment for rewarding the good and punishing the evil messengers, or is it the guests invited by The Chickasaw Island to drink Laba porridge?
The two island owners of Chickasaw Island will definitely be worried about the attributes of Xie Yanke. That being the case, it is better to simply do not exist when he does not exist.
Of course, there is also a possibility that When Mr. Jin Yong created "Chivalrous Travel", he forgot the existence of Xie Yanke when he wrote it, and when he remembered it later, he had formed a loophole, and he could no longer change it, so he had to let it go.