"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is a martial arts masterpiece with the theme of "love", in which the main plot revolves around the love and hatred between the children of the rivers and lakes, although it is much inferior to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", but it is also a superior work.
However, when I read "The Condor Heroes" at the beginning of the year, I always felt a sense of awkwardness, especially the ending of the story was really difficult to satisfy.
You may want to say, isn't it expected that the hero and heroine will eventually become married?
(Stills of the Condor Heroes)
It's really not, after all, from the bright side, the little dragon girl back then was highly poisonous, and she jumped off the abyss, how can there be any reason to survive? On the other hand, if Yang Guo and Guo Xiang came together, it just continued the fate of Guo and Yang's two families, so the ending of the original work gave readers a sense of forced consummation.
And it is worth savoring the scene of the reunion of Long and Yang after "sixteen years", Yang Guo's handsome face has been polished into a slightly vicissitudes of life by the years, and Xiaolongnu is still a girl, why is this?
Maybe it's because Xiaolongnu has cultivated an evil skill, and if Yang Guo knew the truth, he probably wouldn't marry her.
1. The woman at the bottom
Some people often ask Yang Guo why he believed Huang Rong's "South China Sea Shenni Theory" back then, even the predecessors such as Master Yideng have never heard of the South China Sea Shenni, with Yang Guo's intelligence, how could he not think that Huang Rong was lying to him?
In fact, the reason is very simple, Yang Guo just left a thought for himself, which is also the reason for him to live.
However, for readers from God's point of view, they prefer to regard this as Jin Yong giving Yang a buffer period of "forgetting the little dragon girl", if he is relieved after sixteen years and accepts a new life, no one will criticize him for anything, after all, he has been sticking to the little dragon girl for sixteen years.
Needless to say, Guo Xiang is his best choice, but when Yang Guo jumps off the deep valley and reunites with Xiaolongnu at the other end of the cold pool, Guo Xiang has no hope of becoming Yang Guo's wife, and the reader can only accept a forcibly happy ending.
(Yang Guo, Xiaolongnu stills)
In fact, all this is like a dream for Yang Guo, not only because the little dragon girl is still alive, but the appearance of the little dragon girl is not even much different from what she looked like back then.
After all, the book says this: "Suddenly I felt a soft hand gently caress his hair, and asked softly: 'Guo'er, what's not happy?' This tone of tone, the way he stroked his hair, was the same as the little dragon girl comforting him in the past. Yang Guohuo turned around and saw a brown-shirted woman standing in front of Yingying, with still snow skin and flowers like yesterday, it was the little dragon girl he had been thinking about day and night for sixteen years. The two stood for a long time, and with a soft 'ah' cry, they hugged each other. After a long time, Yang Guo cried loudly and whimpered: "Long'er, your appearance has not changed at all, but I am old. The little dragon girl stared at her and said, "It's not that I'm old, it's that my son has grown up." ’”
Reuniting with her lover who had been separated for many years, Xiaolongnu's first sentence was simply inexplicable, what was not pleasant, did she still need to ask? Could it be that she felt in her heart that living alone for 16 years was a happy thing?
And what is more concerning is her appearance, why hasn't her appearance changed at all?
(Xiaolongnu, Yang Guo stills)
It was mentioned in the book that it was because she practiced the internal strength of the Tomb School, and the book only said: "The Tomb School's Jade Maiden Gong health cultivation has the positive and negative keys of "twelve less, twelve more": "Less thinking, less thinking, less desire, less things, less talking, less laughter, less sorrow, less happiness, less joy, less anger, less good, less evil." Doing this twelve less is the deed of the health capital...... Gradually, I think less, have less desires, and live alone at the bottom, but I don't feel lonely. Because of the reunion between the two after a long absence, it seems that Yang Guo is older than her. ”
It seems reasonable, but it doesn't make sense, unless there is something special about this internal skill.
For example, it is an evil skill that originated from the Loose School.
Second, Jin Yong's martial arts worldview
Not to mention that there is no free school in the "Condor Trilogy", although that school only officially appeared in "Dragon Babu", Jin Yong has actually opened up the world view between various works in the new revised version.
For example, in the twelfth chapter of the newly revised version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the name of Xuzhu was mentioned: "During the Northern Song Dynasty, Xiao Feng, the leader of the beggar gang, invited the heroes of the world to fight, and very few people could block him in three moves and two styles. At that time, there were a total of 'twenty-eight palms of the dragon', and then Xiao Feng and his brother Xuzhuzi deleted the complicated and simplified, took the essence and used the macro, and changed it to the eighteen palms of the dragon, and the palm power was thicker. This palm technique was passed to Hong Qigong. ”
(灵鹫宫女剧照)
In addition, in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", Ren Wuxing also mentioned that his star-absorbing Dafa originated from the lineage of the Xiaoyao School during the Northern Song Dynasty and was passed down by Emperor Duan.
Therefore, all of Jin Yong's works are in the same world view.
So, how did the Tomb Sect originate?
The answer may be very simple, it is precisely because of the lineage of the Loose School.
3. The inheritance of the Tomb School
The reason why the Tomb School and the Loose School are associated is because Guo Xiang used the Tomb School's stunts when he broke into Shaolin, but the name of the move is the same as the name of the Easy School's moves.
The book is written: "You must know that the Shaolin School's 'Dharma Swordsmanship', 'Arhat Swordsmanship', etc., are all on a fierce road, and the 'Jade Girl Swordsmanship' has been extinct in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and the nature is diametrically opposed to the various swordsmanship of the Shaolin School. In fact, this jade girl's swordsmanship may not really be better than Shaolin multi-way swordsmanship, but it is really beautiful at a glance. ”
So how did the martial arts of the Tomb Sect spread to the Tomb Sect? There is only one explanation, that Lin Chaoying, the patriarch of the Tomb Sect, was a certain palace maid of the Vulture Palace back then, she broke away from the Vulture Palace, took away the secrets in the palace, and then set up her own door.
(Tianshan Tong Grandma stills)
And Xiaolongnu can be a permanent youth, also because the martial arts of the Tomb School are integrated with the magic skills of the Tomb School, that is, the eternal immortality of the Changchun Gong, that is, the evil skill used by Tianshan Tong's grandmother back then, and her face is permanent through practice.
In other words, Xiaolongnu looks like a teenager on the surface, and I don't know if she is already an old woman in her seventies and eighties, if Yang Guo knew that Xiaolongnu had cultivated this evil skill, most likely she would not marry her.
Of course, this is just the author's speculation based on the original work, which is also the reason why Jin Yong's stories are vigorous, precisely because those stories can stand up to scrutiny and are worth playing repeatedly.