I like to read books to find the right pair. That is, to read two related books together, so that reading both books will be more profound, and the plot and thoughts in one book can be used to supplement the other book.
This way of reading is like coffee and a partner, coffee alone is not impossible to drink, but after adding a partner, it has a different taste.
The reading companion I found for the Japanese shiota samurai "The Voice of Sin" was "Say Nothing: A Murder in Northern Ireland" (hereinafter referred to as "Northern Ireland").
On the surface, the two books seem to have nothing to do with each other, "Voice of Sin" is about a kidnapping and extortion case in Japan 30 years ago that caused panic in the whole country, and "Northern Ireland" is about the conflict between the two factions in the history of Northern Ireland.
I put these two books together because they are extremely similar in one way:
It's all about implicating the innocent.
This is the first point that allows me to connect the two books. The widow in "Northern Ireland" was killed, she herself is not at fault, she is only because she is a weak woman with 10 children, too topical, she will be selected by the other camp as a tool to attract the attention of the news.
There are many such innocent people in "The Voice of Sin". The "sound" of "Voice of Sin" refers to the sound, in the original kidnapping and extortion case, the kidnappers used the voices of three children in the blackmail tape in order to attract more attention and create more topics. All three children recorded their voices under the coaxing of their parents.
The ten children in Northern Ireland have since lost their mothers, and the trajectory of their lives has been completely disrupted.
The three children in "The Voice of Sin", two slightly older children are a pair of brothers and sisters, at that time, after the case evaporated nationwide, the two children realized that they were involved in the crime, and the young children could not stand the feeling of being a thousand husbands, and the sister died in a car accident because of the panic. The younger brother watched his sister die, did not dare to go to recognize, and his mother hid in Tibet, and later with the help of his mother, the younger brother successfully escaped from the bandit cave, but since then he has been separated from his mother for 30 years, living a dark life, life is only a hidden word, his life for more than 30 years has been completely destroyed, when the reporter found him, his eyes have almost nothing to see, and then almost isolated from the world, the whole person lives like a rat in the gutter. And another younger child, at that time did not know the truth of the matter, when 30 years later, he inadvertently found that when the original evil voice was recorded by himself, the whole life was subverted, and the unique shame culture of Japan made it almost impossible for him to look up, and he locked his heart deeply into a small space to punish himself.
Allowing innocents to suffer is the most unforgivable sin.
In The Voice of Sin, what about innocent children?
The people who create panic disputes also think that they are innocent, because their families have also been innocently implicated, and they have been deeply affected by them while implicating more innocents in the same way, when the whole Japanese society was in a panic due to the food poisoning case.
Is such a chain reaction really unavoidable?
This requires a wise man to cut off one of the links and make him stop the chain.
Let's take a positive example. The Miao Ren Phoenix in Mr. Jin Yong's "Flying Fox on the Snowy Mountain" is something I admire very much.
At that time, the Miao family and other martial arts families had a grudge against each other, passed down from generation to generation, and every revenge would implicate the innocent, as the first person in the jianghu, Miao Daxia, deeply saddened by the carnage between the innocents, so he was determined not to teach his daughter martial arts, so that his family's martial arts were lost, thus fundamentally cutting off the chains of the vicious circle.
No reason at any time is a reason to implicate the innocent!