I don't know when Li Kui's mother was hurt by a tiger, which became a testimony to the ruthlessness of the good man of Liangshan: Li Kui told a tragic story, and all the good men, including Chao Gai and Song Jiang, laughed.
"Water Margin" after countless revisions and additions, this has the common version that most people see - to cater to the wishes of the ming and qing dynasties, some places must write the good han of Liangshan as extremely vicious and exterminating humanity, in fact, the good men of Liangshan did not all laugh after learning the bad news of Li Kui's loss of his mother, but narrowed the smile just now, and the only one who really laughed was Song Jiang alone.
Many versions of the "Water Margin" have different details, such as the version that Jin Shengsi, Li Zhuowu, Yuan Wuya and others saw and commented on, and it was written like this: "Li Kui worshiped Song Jiang, returned two axes, and told the fake Li Kui that he was killed by cutting the path, and everyone laughed; and also told the story of killing the tiger, in order to take the mother to Yiling, was eaten by the tiger, said it, and shed tears." Song Jiang laughed and said, "You killed four fierce tigers, and today there are two live tigers in the cottage, and they are upright and celebratory." ’”
Seeing this, the readers must have understood: Li Kui was not heartless and lungless, and the good men on the Juyi Hall (not called Zhongyi Hall at that time) were not cold by nature, and the crowd laughed at the beginning, laughing like a fake Li Kui met the real Li Kui, when Li Kui told about Yiling killing the four tigers, the crowd had already put away their smiles with a heavy heart, and Jin Sheng sighed when he saw this: "The big book Song Jiang laughed, you know that everyone does not laugh." Who is the husband? What do tigers eat? The mother was eaten by the tiger, and her son shed tears, why should he love it? What is Jiang Du's heart, but he cannot mourn and laugh again; he does not laugh only, and laughs loudly? ”
When Jin Sheng sighed and commented on The Water Margin, he classified Song Jiangshi as a subordinate, and rated Li Kui and Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Lin Chong, Guan Sheng, Yang Zhi, Hua Rong, Wu Yong, Ruan Xiaoqi and nine others as superior figures, although they may not be fully recognized by modern people, but there is no big difference: Wu Yong's cunning and Li Kui's fierceness are indeed outstanding among the one hundred and eight generals in Liangshan.
Li Kui's fierceness was also that Bai Sha was black in Nirvana, and was taken by Song Jiang step by step. Before meeting Song Jiang on the banks of the Xunyang River, Li Kui gambled money without playing tricks, and Xiao ZhangYi, the owner of the gambling house, was also surprised by Li Kui's changes: "Brother Li, you often gamble the most straight, how come you didn't have an open mind today?" ”
The reason why Li Kui became "out of the way (here is the meaning of out of breath, not to get out and exonerate)" was that he was smashed by Song Jiang's big silver of twelve and one ingots.
It's hard to learn, and it's hard to learn. When Li Kui met Song Jiang, he knew the magic of the silver--if it were not for Song Jiang spending twenty-two pieces of silver to level it, the singer's "benefactor" would be reported to the official palace, and Li Kui would have to be beaten if he could not come up with the money.
Li Kui went down the mountain to pick up his mother, and at the beginning he was also quite compassionate and warm, and when he encountered Li Ghost who cut the path in the name of the fake black whirlwind, Li Kui did not hurt the killer: "I specially returned home to get my mother, and killed a person who adopted a mother, and heaven and earth will not tolerate me." cease! cease! I spared your life!" ”
Half a pot of old wine has always hated Li Kui, but after reading this paragraph, he can't help but give a thumbs up to agree with Li Zhuowu and Jin Shengsi's statement: "Big Brother Li is a filial piety and a true saint." ”
Li Kui not only did not kill Li Ghost, but also gave him ten pieces of silver as capital. At this time, Li Kui didn't seem to have felt the sinister nature of people's hearts: This hit my hand! Since he is a filial man, he will change his profession. ”
What happened later, everyone who has seen the original work of Water Margin knows, that is, Li Ghost took the silver given by Li Kui, and also got a cheap sell behind his back: "That donkey bird was flickered and lame by me, not only spared my life, but also gave me twelve pieces of silver as a capital!" ”
Li Ghost naturally did not have an old wife, and he took the big piece of silver to "honor" his wife.
Li Kui's heart was cold, but at that time he still had his old mother alive, so after he killed Li Ghost, he did not hunt down Li Ghost's wife--Li Kui was a "person who used to walking through mountains and mountains", running much faster than Zhu Tong, the duke of beautiful hair, and he wanted to chase after Li Ghost's wife, which was a matter of minutes.
Li Kui's eldest brother ran to the rich man's house to report the news for the reward of three thousand yuan, and then took a dozen or so farmers to arrest his own brother, and the slave face Li Kui did not see, he ran away with his mother on his back all night, just to run to a beautiful tomorrow without worries about food and clothing.
The sharp teeth and claws of the four tigers of Yiling shattered the last bit of human warmth in Li Kui's heart, and what made Li Kui even more chilling was the attitude of "Yuncheng Tiger (the nickname that Song Jiang made up for himself when he was tortured by Liu Gao of QingfengZhai)", Jin Shengsi lashed at Song Jiang as usual: "The first big book Song Jiang is not allowed to take the mother, and the back big book Song Jiang smells the tiger eating the mother and laughs, so the person who talks about loyalty and filial piety has no heart in his chest, and he is the one who is the prince of the barnyard history." ”
Li Kui is indeed not a good person, but the original goodness of man, the evil of Li Kui, is also accumulated bit by bit, and Song Jiang's laughter is the last straw that crushes Li Kui's good thoughts: "The people under the world can not be sons, and the world can not be sons, then each has his own mother." If jiang is not the son of man, and if he is like a son of man, how can he hear that the mother of a man has been eaten by a tiger, and the son of man is a laugh? ”
Jin Shengsi's evaluation, if we use the words of Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West", is "improper son of man" - these four words have two meanings: one is the humility of "sin, do not dare to be"; the other is not worthy of being a son of man, that is, the meaning of being the same as pigs and dogs, Song Jiang is not a son of man, obviously to use the second interpretation.
Song Jiang pretended to be "filial piety" to Song Taigong, but in order to eat black and white without worries when he was yuncheng's abbot, he was actually willing to let his father go to the official palace to "sue for rebellion", that is, Song Jiang was the contrarian son recorded by the Yuncheng official government. Song Jiang, who was "expelled from his family," had a case of filial piety, and he was not allowed to take the imperial examination in any dynasty, even today, his children joining the army and taking the civil service examination will also be brushed off by the first batch.
Zhu Jun, a reader who is familiar with the original work of Water Margin, must have noticed a detail: Song Jiang's mother has never appeared, and the small landlord Song Taigong has not continued the string, which shows that Song Jiang, whose mother died early, his life and personality are incomplete. Therefore, Li Kui's mother was hurt by the tiger, Song Jiang did not have any compassion at all, and Jin Shengsi's rebuke could really be described as three points: "I don't pity others and have no wife, but I boast about my own tiger." Do not hang filial piety, but Qing bandits, Jiang who cheats, cheats too publicly? ”
Of course, the contrarian son Song Jiang did not despise to deceive his father Song Taigong, he wanted to deceive the good men of Liangshan, and at that time, the good men seemed to be really confused by Song Jiang. Readers can imagine this: Li Kui's face did not dry with tears, but the laughter of "big brothers and brothers" sounded in his ears, and everyone rushed to toast to Chao Gai Song Jiang and Li Yun, the blue-eyed tiger, but none of them came to shake hands and offer condolences.
So we can paraphrase the classic words in martial arts novels to describe Li Kui in the laughter of the good man of Liangshan: his axe is cold, his heart is cold, his blood is cold, his people are cold...
Song Jiang's father went to Liangshan, Chao Gai gao greeted the large row of feasts, Li Kui thought of his poor mother and cried loudly; Li Kui's mother died, Song Jiang laughed heartily, "Many good people are very happy, so they teach to kill cattle and slaughter horses, and do feasts to celebrate two new leaders", seeing here, can the readers still say that Liangshan's one hundred singles and eight generals are good men? Can you still believe that Liangshan really has brotherhood? Do you still think that Chao Gai and Song Jiang do things "all based on loyalty and righteousness"?