There are two extremely high and conceited people in the Red Chamber, one is Lin Daiyu and the other is Liu Xianglian. Both of them were close friends of Jia Baoyu, but they were subjugated by the Xue family brothers and sisters, one married Xue Baochao as a Jinlan sister, and the other married Xue Pan as a brother in life and death.
Is this just a coincidence? The author's arrangement must have a deep meaning.
Dai Yu was subdued by Bao Chao, and the explanation in the book was clear. Only because of Bao Chao's "Lan Yan solution to doubts", Let Dai Yu find that Bao Chao is frank and frank, and has always been suspicious of his own gods, "Who knows that she is really a good person, I only hide him for a long time." ”
Bao Chao's frankness did not count the previous suspicions to impress Daiyu, so "Jinlanqi cross-sectioned Jinlan language", and the two married jinlan sisters from then on.
Looking at Liu Xianglian and Xue Pan, their experiences and changes are similar to those of Qiao Dai, who have been hostile in the early stage, and then they have released their previous suspicions and then worshiped. However, as for the specific reasons for the worship, the book does not make it clear, but through Xue Pan's narration, it roughly describes the process.
I sold the goods with my buddies, got up in the spring, and went back, all the way safely. Who knew that the day before yesterday, when I arrived at the border of Ping'an Prefecture, I met a group of robbers who had robbed things. Not wanting Brother Liu to come from over there, Fang dispersed the thieves, recaptured the goods, and saved our lives. I thanked him for not being accepted, so we betrothed our brothers in life and death, and now we are all the way to Beijing. Since then, we have been brothers and sisters. When he parted ways at the fork in the front, he went south, and there was an aunt of his two hundred miles away, and he went to look and wait. I went to Beijing to settle my business, and then I found him a house, a good family affair, and everyone got up.
Let's take a look at the amount of information conveyed by this passage.
Xue Pan encountered robbers with a large amount of goods, and Liu Xianglian came to his aid. Then they befriended their brothers, and Liu Xianglian was ready to accept Xue Pan's kindness and marry a wife to live in peace.
This description is extremely unreasonable.
Liu Xianglian and Xue Pan have old grudges, and it is reasonable to draw a sword to help each other regardless of the previous suspicions, which is also in line with his chivalrous personality. However, why would such a highly conceited person be willing to marry Xue Pan as a brother in life and death? Why are you willing to accept Xue Pan's arrangement to live a small life from now on?
You know, it was he who helped Xue Pan, it was Xue Pan who wanted to be grateful to him, why did he condescend to worship Xue Pan?
According to his conceited and chivalrous personality, his performance at this time should be like this: Boy, I help you purely to see the road, I will also help if I change others, so you don't have to thank me. Since then we have nothing to do with each other, the tao is different and there is no conspiracy, you take your Yangguan Road, I cross my canoe bridge.
If Xue Pan asked to worship his brother at this time, Liu Xianglian should have reacted like this: Oh, with your personality, what qualifications do you have to be my brother? Do your Spring and Autumn Dreams go!
If Xue Pan proposed to buy a house for Liu Xianglian at this time, Liu Xianglian should be furious and would be eager to beat Xue Pan up again: Oh, who is rare in your stinky money? Dispel your mind as soon as possible, don't dirty my ears.
With Liu Xianglian's personality, if it were not for his willingness, no matter what Xue Pan said, he would not accept Xue Pan's gifts, let alone worship as brothers of life and death.
Just like Dai Yu to Bao Chao, if she was not willing, she would never marry Bao Chao as a Jinlan sister.
So, what magic did Xue Pan have that could make Liu Xianglian willingly? There was only one answer: Liu Xianglian saw the unique charm of Xue Pan and was impressed by it.
So, what charm does Xue Pan have that can make Liu Xianglian impressed? This is the deep meaning of the author to write this plot, through Liu Xianglian, let us know the real Xue Pan.
<h1>Xue Pan is a "dumb overlord", the focus is on "staying", not "bullying". </h1>
Xue Pan was described by the author as a "dumb bully", because he killed people as soon as he appeared, so in the reader's mind, he only remembered his "bully" and ignored his "stay".
This is also the author's intention, "when the fake is true, it is also false", "hegemony" is an illusion, and "staying" is the "essence".
Just like Madame Wang described Baoyu as the "Demon King of the Mixed World", the focus is not on the "Demon", but on the "Mixed World". Baoyu has no demonic nature, and his characteristics are mainly "mixed worlds", and he takes pleasure in mixing up his life under the doting of his grandmother.
In the same way, Xue Pan's "demon" is also the mother's doting pet has become a solipsistic, so overbearing, but its essence is "stupid" and dull in heart.
The word "stay" can be praised or derogatory, and understood in a pejorative sense, it is not lively and is easy to be stupid. According to the positive meaning of understanding, it is the heart and eyes, sometimes a little cute, there is no heart and mind and mind.
We remember this characteristic, and then look at the entanglement of Liu Xianglian and Xue Pan, it is easy to understand why Liu Xianglian was impressed by Xue Pan's charm.
<h1>After beating Xue Pan, Liu Xianglian also reflected. </h1>
The so-called no fight and no acquaintance, Liu Xianglian and Xue Pan's acquaintance is due to a beating, and it is Liu Xianglian who beat Xue Pan with crushing force.
After the fight, Liu Xianglian flew away, and Xue Pan, who was beaten, was therefore striving to go the right way.
There is reason to believe that Liu Xianglian, who has gone far away, has reflected on this matter, and only after reflection has found that this matter cannot be completely blamed on Xue Pan, and the main responsibility lies with himself.
Let's restore the course of events.
Because Lai Shangrong was promoted to an official, the Lai family invited guests, and Liu Xianglian and Xue Pan both went. Because Liu Xianglian was "the most fond of stringing plays, and the strings were all Shengdan Fengyue drama texts", Xue Pan mistakenly thought that he was a handsome person like Qi Guan, so he wanted to take this opportunity to get acquainted.
Because Xue Pan was a "dumb bully" and did not speak like Baoyu, he annoyed Liu Xianglian, who tricked him into beating him up in no one's place in the suburbs, and forced him to drink a few mouthfuls of dirty water in the mud.
Is it wrong not to be able to speak? Even if it is wrong, it is not an unforgivable mistake, and it is necessary to beat and humiliate?
Liu Xianglian's such a big anger should be that he has already accumulated a fire in his stomach, because such things have happened many times: he is often mistaken for a handsome person, and he is often inexplicably hooked up. Therefore, he vented the anger he had accumulated for a long time on Xue Pan.
Xue Pan is very aggrieved, first of all, you Liu Xianglian has been acting on the stage in costume for a long time, and it is normal for people to misunderstand, you can just explain it. Moreover, Xue Pan did not use his strength, "It was originally a wish of the two families, you did not rely on it, you had to say, why did you coax me out to beat me?" ”
Yes, originally it was something you wanted, if you don't agree, you can explicitly refuse, why do you want to trick people out and beat and humiliate?
Afterwards, Liu Xianglian also reflected on these. Of course, what triggered him to reflect was that the Xue family did not pursue responsibility, which was unexpected by him.
According to Liu Xianglian's expectations, he had a bad breath on Xue Pan, and the Xue family would definitely find trouble for him, and he was just ready to go out to avoid trouble, and he was not afraid of offending one more. This is also Liu Xianglian's daily life, when she causes trouble, she runs away, and her martial arts are strong and her whereabouts are uncertain.
However, the Xue family did not find trouble for him, they all beat people to carry them away, and actually did not look for trouble, is this still the legendary "overlord"?
This is exactly where Bao Chao's wisdom lies, to spare others and to spare people, not to mention that this kind of conflict at the banquet has always been a slap in the face, and it is necessary to review the fault of one's own family first. Also, if you don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face, and make a conflict at people's banquets, you always have to give people a little face, right? Moreover, this Liu Xianglian was still a friend of Jia Zhen and others.
The Xue family's generosity of not pursuing responsibility made Liu Xianglian realize that she was narrow-minded and dared to do it, so she felt guilty about Xue Pan.
It is with this psychological preparation that there will be a second emotional level.
<h1>When they met again, Xue Pan's childlike sincerity touched Liu Xianglian. </h1>
If the two sides who have fought have not reflected and met again, it is difficult to communicate. But to the extent that they can worship brothers in life and death, they must have made friends.
How will these two people communicate? With Liu Xianglian's qinggao, even if he felt guilty about Xue Pan, he would not take the initiative to show favor to Xue Pan.
We can infer the process of their communication based on their personality characteristics.
Xue Pan's goods were snatched away by the robbers, and when he was frustrated, he happened to run into Liu Xianglian. The embarrassment of the group is obvious, gossip is not much, Liu Xianglian knows the original commission, and immediately helps to snatch the goods back (it can be seen that Liu Xianglian's kung fu is not a fist embroidery leg, can fight a group of robbers alone).
In addition to being grateful, Xue Pan took the initiative to explain to Liu Xianglian the ins and outs of his sale this time, and thanked Liu Xianglian for waking him up and realizing that he had "grown so big, wen is not literate, and wu is not martial."
This is Xue Pan's "stay", the child's heart, its main characteristics are simple and direct, what to say, what to think in the heart, what to say on the mouth, not hidden at all.
This made Liu Xianglian feel even more guilty. Generally speaking, the more conceited people are, the heavier their minds are, and the easier it is to think of people in bad ways. Lin Daiyu is so, so is Liu Xianglian. Therefore, Lin Daiyu always felt that Xue Baochao was trying to harm her in his heart, and Liu Xianglian also thought that Xue Pan's last act was intentional to humiliate him.
In fact, Xue Pan was a very simple person, and this simplicity impressed Liu Xianglian. Liu Xianglian is a person who has no true friends, not that he does not treat others as true friends, but that others do not treat him as true friends. For example, his interaction with Baoyu, did Baoyu really treat him? For example, in the case of Qin Zhong, the relationship between Baoyu and Qin Zhong was so close, but after Qin Zhong passed away, it was Liu Xianglian, a wandering and destitute person, who was repairing the grave for Qin Zhong. Bao Yu's reason is that there is no money and no freedom, "I only hate that I am in the circle at home every day, I can't do the master at all, and some people will know the action, either this obstacle or the one who persuades, can say that it can't work." Although I have money, I am not allowed to do it." However, he could go alone to worship Jin Ju, or he could give money to Ming Yan to find the Ming Yu girl in Liu Yao's story. Besides, when he used the King of Northern Jing as an excuse, he was not suspected at all, if he really wanted to take money to repair the graves of his friends, such a sentient and righteous thing, would Jia Mu disagree? When Qin Keqing died, Jia Mu did not agree with him to see it, didn't he also insist on going?
So, what can't be done, only the one that doesn't want to do. Baoyu has always only had lip service and no practical action.
Treat Qin Zhong like this, let alone Liu Xianglian. Therefore, as Baoyu's friend, Liu Xianglian's interaction with Baoyu is not deep, at least not really communicative. This should be the root cause of Liu Xianglian's wandering: no real friend can make him settle down.
Now, I met Xue Pan, a seemingly unpleasant person, but a friend worth making deeply. Therefore, at xue pan's request, the two officially married as brothers, and Liu Xianglian also decided to end her wandering career and accept the advice of Xue Pan, a true friend, "find a house, find a good family affair, and let everyone live."
Bao Yu could say beautiful things, but did not act; Xue Pan could not speak, but he had strong action, and he would do it immediately when he thought of it.
This is the author's deep meaning of writing that Liu Xianglian and Xue Pan are brothers in life and death: reading this plot in combination with Jinlan, we will find that Baoyu seems to be sentimental but ruthless, and Dai Yu and Liu Xianglian have successively chosen to be close to the Xue family. Because, compared to Baoyu's mouthlessness and will not do it, the Xue family is sincere and worthy of heart.
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