First, the troubles of growing up
In "Water Margin", there are two growing good men. One is That Lu Zhishen, who didn't know a single character at the beginning of the game, stood out for Jin Cuilian, and after punching the town of Kansai, he foolishly went to the siege when he fled and arrested his own notice. If it weren't for the fact that Old Han Jin knew about en Tu and forcibly pulled him away, I'm afraid that Lu Zhishen wouldn't even be able to be a monk.
As a result, it was this illiterate Lu Zhishen who made the most Zen, far-reaching, and philosophical "desperate poem" in "Water Margin" before his death. Especially those last two sentences: The tide on the Qiantang River is rising, and today Fang knows that I am me. I am afraid that even the most talented people will be impressed.
Compared with Lu Zhishen's good brother Lin Chong, he wrote poetry before going to Liangshan. So-called: Battle righteousness is Lin Chong, the most simple and loyal... He is young and prosperous, Weizhen Taishandong!
Very simple and straightforward, but also seems to be very ambitious and domineering, but the question is the result? Lin Chong came alive to become the role of the tragic spokesperson in "Water Margin". From the "eight hundred thousand forbidden army religious leaders" who can write and fight, he has become a brainless, good man who only knows how to fight and kill.
So much so that when Song Jiang openly shouted out Zhao'an, even Li Kui jumped and Lin Chong was silent--it must be known that among the 108 generals of Liangshan, everyone can accept Zhao'an, but Lin Chong can't. The person he offended was Gao Li, and if he ran back again, he would not be surprised if he did not play dead. So this is equivalent to Lin Chong living more and more out of the way...
The second growing good man is Wu Song. If Lu Zhishen belongs to "active growth", then Wu Song is "passive growth". That is, Lu Zhishen has always taken the initiative to attack - either taking the initiative or taking the initiative to cause trouble, anyway, Lu Zhishen has always bullied others. Wu Song is a "passive reaction".
Wu Song was slighted by Chai Jin and endured until he waited for Song Jiang to come, inadvertently providing him with a breakthrough.
Wu Song fights the tiger is also like this, that is, your shop Xiao Er wants to earn my silver, I Wu Song will not be deceived, just go up the mountain! When he went to Jingyang Gang, he knew: Bad things, there are really tigers! I wanted to run back immediately, but I was afraid of planting noodles, and finally I had to finish fighting the tiger with a hard scalp.
Wu Song was always pushed by external forces, causing him to face desperate situations again and again, and once again in desperate situations, he exploded with "heavenly man"-like energy and ability. Therefore, Wu Song's growth path is completely tragic, and Lu Zhishen is like a comedy.
Therefore, Wu Song's growth is far more thrilling than Lu Zhishen's, from a naughty teenager who "hits people and runs, lets his brother carry the pot" to "the first business card of water margin", and his popularity is even higher than Lu Zhishen. What is Water Margin, you ask? Some people may not know, but if you ask who Wu Song is, the other party basically knows.
In short, whether it is tragedy or comedy, there will be troubles in growing up. Lu Zhishen has always been troubled for others (taking the initiative), while Wu Song is always worried about himself (always in a desperate situation). However, when the two faced Song Jiang Zhaoan, they made a unanimous choice: resolutely opposed Song Jiang Zhaoan.
Second, Wu Song took the initiative to attack and used the Taoist sacrifice knife
So in the process of Wu Song's growth, is there a key node, so that people can clearly see that Wu Song will oppose Zhao'an in the future? After all, Wu Song's reasons for opposing Song Jiang Zhao'an were not as powerful and sufficient as Lu Zhishen's, but only "afraid of chilling the hearts of the brothers."
Don't say, there really is, Shi Nai'an wrote very cryptically, this is on the Centipede Ridge. After Wu Song's blood splashed the Mandarin Duck Building, he was rescued by Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang's yin and yang mistakes, and then got a double ring knife and a walker's clothing. Since then, Wu Song has become a "walker". It was at this time that Wu Song came to Centipede Ridge, but "heard the laughter of someone in the forest in front of him."
Wu Song is very strange, this is not a shop in front of the village, what is the trouble? Therefore, when he looked for the sound, he found that "a gentleman put his arm around a woman and watched the moon in front of the window and laughed."
This made Wu Song furious, "but the monks did such a thing." So Wu Song drew his sword in his hand, "The knife is good, but it has not been in my hands, and I will test the knife of Mr. Bird." Then Wu Song knocked on the door, but a small Road boy came out and asked Wu Song what was he doing?
Wu Song narrowed his strange eyes and shouted, "First sacrifice this bird Dao Tong knife!" "In the past, it was a knife that killed this innocent Daoist boy." Then the Daoist priest came out, this person was called Wang Daoren, the nickname of the jianghu: Flying Centipede.
Seeing that his Dao Tong was killed, the Flying Centipede was furious, so he fought with Wu Song, "fighting to the end of the ten", and the Flying Centipede was also killed by Wu Song with a knife. So what's so special about this? In a nutshell, there are two.
First: This is the first time that Wu Song has taken the initiative to attack. Before Wu Song, although he was drunk and beat Jiang Menshen, it was in order to give Shi En a head and retake the Happy Forest, so he could not be considered active. The Centipede Ridge Sacrifice Knife was Wu Song's first initiative, but it seemed somewhat unreasonable. Although there are factors to save people, it is more for the sake of "sacrificing the sword".
Second: indiscriminate killing of innocents in the true sense. When Wu Song's blood splashed the Mandarin Duck Building, even YaHuan and other unrelated personnel were killed. However, considering the dangerous environment that Wu Song was in at that time, there was no living mouth to ensure that he had time to escape, so although there was a suspicion of indiscriminate killing of innocents, it was forgivable.
But on Centipede Ridge, there is no existential crisis at all. Wu Song killed the flying centipede to eliminate the harm, but the little Dao Boy was obviously innocent, and the book made it very clear, "This Dao Boy was also taken captive from elsewhere." Therefore, Wu Song's indiscriminate killing of innocents this time is a solid one.
With these two particularities, the conclusion naturally came out, Wu Song was no longer yesterday's Wu Song, he had obviously changed. In other words, Centipede Ridge's killing of flying centipedes and innocent Daotong is a watershed in Wu Song's growth path.
Therefore, What Wu Song did on centipede ridge naturally requires your attention. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why Wu Song would be so fiercely opposed to Song Jiang Zhao'an. In my opinion, there are two points that need to be paid attention to and cracked.
The first: Why is it here that Wu Song began to kill innocents indiscriminately. Second: whether there is anything hidden in the flying centipede to be excavated.
Third, this is the reason why he opposed Song Jiang Zhao'an
The first question is simple. Because before Wu Song always had hope. That is to say, the reason why Wu Song is always pushed into a desperate situation is because he has always held out hope - without hope, there is no hope, this is a dialectical relationship.
Only because of hope is wu song so painful and vulnerable. For example, that Zhang Dujian, with only one magnolia, easily caught Wu Song: to be your daughter-in-law, let you Wu Song live a normal life. This made Wu Song unable to sleep with excitement. As a result, what awaited him was the "Feiyunpu Desperate Situation".
Therefore, when Wu Song takes the headband and becomes a walker, there is a symbolic meaning: Wu Song will no longer belong to the worldly mortals. So-called: how to wear a headband to lose mortal dust, and how to redeem without a headband? This state determines that it must be cut off.
And the place where it was broken was Centipede Ridge. This explains why Wu Song took the initiative to attack, because there is a metaphor hidden in the flying centipede.
The second question is very cryptic. First of all, let's look at the nickname "Flying Centipede", although it looks very domineering, but it is actually the name of Chinese herbal medicine, which is used to treat diseases, which represents a kind of healing.
However, if you add a "royal person", it immediately shows its deep meaning. Did the centipede fly into the sky and look like a flying dragon at first glance? Can a king's way be interpreted as a person who upholds the king's way? Who do these two explanations point to?
It is the emperor's big brother, and the emperor's big brother has always been the ruler of the secular red dust. Now he was cut off by Wu Song with a "ring knife".
The meaning is already very clear: Wu Song has cut off the connection with the worldly red dust with a knife. At the same time, it also represents that he no longer has any hope in his despair of the imperial court.
Therefore, this is the starting point and reason for Wu Song's opposition to Song Jiang Zhao'an. It was from this moment that Wu Song no longer had any illusions about Zhao'an, and then opened the road of self-redemption, until finally he put down the butcher knife and broke his arm to become a Buddha!