It's all hard work from the front to the back, and it's fate from the back to the front.
There is a character named Yang Xiong in "Water Margin", I have always felt that Yang Xiong is very aggrieved, and I have never understood why Yang Xiong went to Liangshan?
Yang Xiong went to Liangshan to be coerced by Shi Xiu, before that, Yang Xiong was "imprisoned in two courts, and served as the executioner of Cao Xing in the city," he was busy with yamen miscellaneous work every day, and he lived a very fast and fulfilling life.
Since they got acquainted with Shi Xiu, the two worshipped, Yang Xiong was the brother, Shi Xiu was the younger brother, Shi Xiu temporarily lived in Yang Xiong's house, opened a slaughtering workshop, and sold meat for a living.
Yang Xiong's official mansion is on business, and he always comes and goes in a hurry at home, Shi Xiu lives in Yang Xiong's house for a long time, and gradually discovers the clues in this family, Yang Xiong's wife Pan Qiaoyun hooked up with the monk Pei Ruhai in the temple.
Shi Xiu set up a plan and instigated Yang Xiong to kill Pan Qiaoyun on Cuiping Mountain, and then went to Liangshan.
In this process, Yang Xiong was just a passive executor, taking one step at a time, until after the killing, Yang Xiong asked:
"Brother, everyone has been killed, but I and you are going to settle down?"
You didn't even care about where to flee after killing someone, and you didn't think about how to deal with the aftermath after killing someone, but you dared to kill people, so you have two living lives, Pan Qiaoyun and the handmaid Ying'er? This Yang Xiong is a typical passion murderer, controlled by emotions, manipulated by others, such a character, in the next life, if you don't experience great sorrow and pain, if you don't have the self-awakening of life, it is difficult to achieve real growth, it is difficult to go to the top.
In fact, after Yang Xiong went to Liangshan, he was nameless, similar to the mountains and forests, until the end of "Water Margin", he took a stroke: "Yang Xiong died of back sores," which can be regarded as a footnote to Yang Xiong's life and ended Yang Xiong's sad life.
How much a person has achieved in life has a lot to do with the maturity of his or her mind.
When Yang Xiong appeared, he was dressed in embroidery, with two eyebrows and sideburns, phoenix eyes facing the sky, a good martial arts, and a good talent, however, in the next process of going to Liangshan, he showed that his character was unassertive, indecisive in doing things, and he was confused in the name of "righteousness".
For a person like Yang Xiong, he is reckless in his belly, and he does not have too high political requirements, staying in the prefect, that is, staying in the system, and living a free life, is actually his best choice, however, under the coercion of Shi Xiu, he went to Liangshan, at that time Liangshan was a good man, can you Yang Xiong become a good man when you go to Liangshan? How can it be so easy!
This is the dragon and phoenix among people, you can stand out anywhere, you are a common man, and it is the same anywhere, put you on the dragon chair, you may not be able to sit firmly in the country.
Yang Xiong is Yang Xiong, Yang Xiong is not Shi Xiu, he does not have Shi Xiu's shrewdness, thoroughness, meticulousness, and meticulousness, you see that although Shi Xiu's starting point is not as good as Yang Xiong, Shi Xiu can accurately grasp the direction of his life, and he quickly discovered his wife Pan Qiaoyun's adultery after staying in Yang's house for only a few days, and successfully booby-trapped his adulterer Pei Ruhai.
Yang Xiong is Yang Xiong, Yang Xiong is not Song Jiang, Song Jiang is a person with political ideals and political aspirations. In the early years, Song Jiang was in the Yali of Yuncheng County, which was a person who ate both black and white, like a fish in water, and secretly accumulated a large amount of gold and silver to make friends with the world's heroes.
Song Jiang, known as "timely rain," has no gold and silver, what can be used as timely rain? The biggest contradiction in Song Jiang is the confusion of identity, he is a "official," and an official is not an official, and even if Song Jiang, a small official in Yuncheng, is capable, he cannot be an official, and this is Song Jiang's fatal wound. It is not so much the sorrow of Song Jiang, but the sorrow of the Great Song Dynasty system and the sorrow of the Great Song Dynasty selection and employment system. Song Jiang throughout his life, he worked hard for the change of identity from "official" to "official", he went to Liangshan, gathered the heroes of the green forest, and won the world with great momentum, and finally was named the pioneer of the Song Dynasty, and finally was named the "pacification envoy of Chuzhou and the head of the soldiers and horses," and became the official of the Great Song Dynasty. ”
Cover the volume and think deeply, no matter how entangled the people of later generations are with the success of the heroes of Liangshan and retire, or die, but there is one thing, as an individual Song Jiang, he is successful, although he led the Liangshan heroes one hundred and eight generals on the road to Zhao'an, but Song Jiang did not violate his original intention, and became a high-ranking official of the Great Song Dynasty with dignity, and became famous all over the world, realizing the pursuit and dream of his life ideals. After the death of Song Jiang's victim, Song Jiang had no queen, and his younger brother Song Qing's widowed son Song Anping, who was an official to a secretary bachelor, was finally hired by the imperial court.
Compared with Song Jiang's ideal of life, Yang Xiong has nothing, Yang Xiong is just a little person, living in a daze, dying in a daze, why did he come? I don't know! Why did death come? I don't know, he became a cannon fodder in the Liangshan army, and he was miserable all his life.
In fact, for a small person like Yang Xiong, living in the system of the Great Song Dynasty, someone blocks the wind when the wind comes, someone blocks the rain when the rain comes, someone covers the wind and rain, there is a beautiful wife at home, the wife is rich, and it is the best choice to live a good life. Yang Xiong had already realized the life ideal of "eating meat in large pieces, drinking wine in large bowls, and dividing gold and silver with scales" advertised by Liangshan heroes, but at the instigation of Shi Xiu, he inadvertently lost it, and then imposed other people's ideals on his own head, desperately snatching it, until he gave a small life, and failed to do so!
I am not sure if Yang Xiong had any regrets before he died, Shi Nai'an explained Yang Xiong's ending with a shallow stroke, no sadness, no joy, no anger and no sorrow, but it made the hearts of future generations uneasy. If it is today's documentary writing, the detailed portrayal of Yang Xiong's death, Yang Xiong, who wants to die, must think of Pan Qiaoyun, must think of Pan Gong who treats himself as his own, and perhaps in his deepest part, Shi Xiu will have a deep resentment towards Shi Xiu who interferes in his life in the name of "righteousness". It's just that all of these are beautiful conjectures, and we have no way of knowing the real death of Yang Xiong.
Yang Xiong's life is very much like the life of ordinary people, I don't know what the meaning of life is? I don't know what the meaning of death is? After a storm hit, he unconsciously followed forward, and walked towards a future with no expected ending, so he spent his life empty, and life was not worth it!
Is life meaningful? Most lives are like cannon fodder, without the slightest meaning.
In fact, for ordinary people, if they have lived a relatively stable life, do not toss, do not toss, live the current life, and learn to "stop," it can be regarded as the most complete life. If you can't achieve fame and fortune through the ages, you will strive to achieve fame and fortune; if you can't achieve fame and fortune, you will strive to achieve one of them, or get fame or fortune, at least one of them. Just like Yang Xiong, live his own little life in Jizhou, leisurely, what a good life! What Liangshan, only to die in a foreign land, a lonely and nobody.
Life is hard to live, life is hard to live!