In the classic book "Water Margin", Li Kui is one of the most impressive characters. If Zhang Fei is the first reckless person in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", then Li Kui as the first reckless person in "Water Margin" is by no means an exaggeration. However, Li Kui is not without merit.
After being forced to go to Liangshan, Li Kui took his mother to Liangshan to enjoy the blessings, and also let Li Kui circle a lot of fans. However, in the process of returning to Liangshan, his mother was eaten by the evil tiger, and Song Jiang and others not only did not comfort but laughed when they learned the news. What is the reason for this, and doesn't the good man of Liangshan talk about brotherhood as described in the book?
Li Kui kills the tiger
After analyzing Song Jiang and others learned that Li Kui's mother was eaten by a tiger, they were not only unsympathetic, but laughed and had to see how it was described in the original work. The 42nd episode of "Water Margin" tells the story of the black whirlwind killing tigers on the mountain, when Li Kui lived a happy life of eating meat in a large bowl and drinking wine every day in Liangshan.
One day Li Kui looked at Song Jiang and remembered that his old father at home suddenly burst into tears, and Li Kui said that his mother was a blind man and he had never been blessed, so he asked Song Jiang that he wanted to go down the mountain to pick up his mother to Liangshan for a few good days.
After Li Kui returned home, he successfully received his mother, but because the government was wanting Li Kui, li Kui had to carry his mother all the way to Liangshan in order to rush to the road. When li kui's mother suddenly said that she was thirsty when she arrived at Yiling, Li Kui asked her mother to wait for her to fetch water.
When Li Kui returned, he found that his mother was not waiting for him in the same place, and then Li Kui began to look around. In a cave, Li Kui recognized the clothes his mother was wearing, and Li Kui did not dry up.
In a fit of rage, Li Kui killed all four tigers. The description of Li Kui's killing of the tiger in "Water Margin" is short of 300 words, but it can be seen that Li Kui's anger also shows Li Kui's filial piety to his mother from the side. As for the Li ghost that Li Kui encountered on the road, it happened before he received his mother.
This was probably the whole process of Li Kui killing the tiger. After disposing of the four tigers, Li Kui dug a pit to bury his mother, and the first reckless man in Liangshan cried bitterly in front of his mother's grave. Li Kui then set out for Liangshan, and after returning to Liangshan, Li Kui told Song Jiang and others about his experience of picking up his mother.
Different versions describe differences
In the original work of "Water Margin", it is described that Li Kui returned to Liangshan to tell Song Jiang and others about the incident. This passage translates into the vernacular that is now: My mother was eaten by a tiger, and I killed all four tigers in a fit of anger. Later, Li Kui told Song Jiang the story of his encounter with Li Ghost in the middle of the road. After Li Kui finished speaking, Chao Gai and Song Jiang laughed.
However, Chao Gai and Song Jiang said, "You killed four fierce tigers." Today, two more live tigers have been added to the cottage." Because when Li Kui was on the mountain, Li Yun and Zhu Fu also went up to Liangshan with Li Kui. Both men have the word "tiger" in their nicknames. It is not difficult to see that Chao Gai and Song Jiang and the others laughed and referred to Li Kui's killing of four tigers and two generals on Liangshan.
This raises a key question, why the rumors lead many people to think that Li Kui's mother was eaten by a tiger, and Chao Gai and Song Jiang laughed. This is precisely because of the differences between different versions, which caused such a misunderstanding is not unrelated to Jin Shengsi's comments.
The original work of "Water Margin" describes the reaction of Song Jiang and others after learning that Li Kui's mother was eaten by a tiger. He laughed after Li Kui said he had killed four tigers. Feng Menglong added a paragraph, describing that Li Kui once told everyone after returning to Liangshan that he dreamed that his old wife was talking, and was suddenly interrupted by a big insect... The crowd sighed.
However, in Jin Shengsi's version, it is easy to cause misunderstanding, and Jin Shengsi changed it like this: Li Kui told about killing the tiger, saying that his mother was tigerized, and saying that he shed tears. Song Jiang laughed and said, "You killed four fierce tigers..."
At this time, the problem came out, in the original "Water Margin", Shi Nai'an described Li Kui first said that the tiger ate his mother and killed the tiger himself... It's in accordance with normal narrative threads. Jin Shengsi used the Spring and Autumn Brushwork to swap the narrative threads at the front and back ends.
Jin Sheng sighed to Li Kui and said that he had killed four tigers because the tigers had eaten their mothers. Song Jiang laughed after listening to it, which was easy to cause misunderstanding. According to the current popular phrase Jin Shengsi is Song Jiang's "black powder".
Misunderstanding of Song Jiang
It is precisely because of Jin Shengsi's Spring and Autumn brushwork that many people are misled. Many people despise Song Jiang to nothing, and also regard Li Kui as a small person who cannot get on the table, believing that Song Jiang looks down on Li Kui from the bottom of his heart.
In fact, this is a misunderstanding of Song Jiang, of course, 1,000 people can read 1,000 Song Jiang, but many people have overlooked a very key detail. Song Jiang, known as "Timely Rain", was already famous in the world as a small official, and the good people in the rivers and lakes wanted to make friends with him.
What does this mean? It shows that Song Jiang's emotional intelligence is very high, and only Song Jiang's own righteous anger is clear in his heart, and it is certain that with Song Jiang's high emotional intelligence, even if he does not look up to Li Kui, it is impossible to show it on the surface.
Song Jiang's most controversial places are two, one is the insistence on recruiting security. After Zhao'an, in the process of conquest of Fang la, The good Han of Liangshan died, crippled, and some of them left their hometowns. Another point of controversy is that Song Jiang and Wu Yong used various tactics to force Lu Junyi, a rich and powerful official, to go to Liangshan in order to achieve their own goals.
In addition to these two points, there is really no place where Song Jiang can be black. It is no exaggeration to say that if Song Jiang is placed in today's workplace, he must be the kind of person who can't make a mistake at all. Therefore, after Li Kui's mother was eaten by the tiger, Song Jiang laughed and laughed, which was impossible for both reasonable and reasonable.
So it's easy to conclude now why most people think that Song Jiang laughed after learning that Li Kui had suffered misfortune? It is precisely because of Jin Shengsi's description of this story that reverses right and wrong, and there is also a point of over-interpretation.
summary
Spanning hundreds of years, modern people always interpret the stories of more than a thousand years ago with modern eyes.
Even the four masterpieces have their own historical limitations. "Water Margin" is originally a story that describes the happiness and revenge of good men in the jianghu, and it is also the author Shi Nai'an's yearning for the jianghu.
Later, different versions of the liangshan good man are interpreted differently. Looking at the original book and looking at a few more versions, it is easy to discern the truth. After Li Kui's mother was eaten by a tiger, Song Jiang laughed and thought about it and knew that Song Jiang's emotional intelligence could never do such a thing, and if you look at a few more versions, you can know that it is Jin Shengsi's misleading.