is like the demon lord in the sky, he is really the god of Tai Sui in the world, just like Shi Nai'an's evaluation of Wu Song, he is indeed the most eye-catching character in the book, but if you want to say that he is the most worthy of the title of "hero", then it may not be, Wu Song has a heroic side, and there are times when he does evil, such as not stopping evil, but colluding with him, that is doing evil, and Wu Song has done it more than once.
When he fell into Mengzhou, he helped Shi En in addition to Jiang Menshen, strictly speaking, Shi En is also an underworld, Wu Song helped him destroy Jiang Menshen, it was just "black eating black", but Shi En was kind to him first, and he helped.
But when facing Sun Erniang on the cross slope, it was not the case, Sun Erniang had the intention of harming Wu Song at the beginning, why didn't he bear to kill this poisonous woman?
1. The ruthless Wu Song
Wu Song is not a soft-hearted person, which has been reflected since he killed his sister-in-law in Yanggu County.
What Wu Song hates the most should be his sister-in-law's kind of frivolous person, after all, when Wu Song first met this sister-in-law, he obviously had a little resistance to this woman.
(Pan Jinlian, Wu Song stills)
For example, this description is very intuitive: "Wu Song is a straight man, he only treats each other as a sister-in-law, who knows that the woman is a handmaiden, she is used to being petty, and she doesn't want the woman to be attractive." Wuda is also a kind and weak person, and he will treat people there. The woman ate a few glasses of wine and looked only at Wu Song's body with one pair of eyes. Wu Song couldn't see it when he ate it, so he just lowered his head and ignored it. ”
And when Pan Jinlian made a move to cross the line, he would also reprimand the other party mercilessly, such as this paragraph: "The woman's desire was like fire, and she didn't look at Wu Song's anxiety, so she put the fire on it, but sifted a glass of wine, took a sip of herself, and left most of it, looked at Wu Song and said: 'If you have the heart, eat my half of the left.'" Wu Song snatched it with his hand, splashed it on the ground, and said, "Sister-in-law Hugh must be ashamed!"
So from this point of view, it is not unusual for Wu Song to kill Pan Jinlian in anger later, after all, he already hates this kind of frivolous person, not to mention that the woman also killed his brother.
(Pan Jinlian stills)
At first, she gave Pan Jinlian face because she was still her sister-in-law, but now that she is the murderer of her husband, why should Wu Song show mercy.
Because of this, Wu Song should be more decisive when facing Sun Erniang, after all, there is no friendship between them, and Sun Erniang happens to be the type of person he hates the most.
Second, Sun Erniang, who deserves to be punished for her crimes
How bad is Sun Erniang?
It can be seen from Zhang Qing's remarks after his debut, when Wu Song captured Sun Erniang, Zhang Qing jumped out, that guy was obviously defending his wife, but judging from what he said, if Wu Song is a person who can't tolerate the slightest evil in his heart, he will only become more and more murderous.
After all, Zhang Qing said: "The villain's surname is Zhang Mingqing, and he was originally a vegetable garden in Guangming Temple here." In order to fight over some trivial matters for a while, he killed the monks of the Guangming Temple and set fire to the ground. Later, there was no wrongdoing, and the lawsuit did not come to ask, and the villain only cut the path under the slope of the big tree...... I had to still come here to build some grass huts and sell wine for a living. But he waited for the merchant to pass by, and when there was one who caught his eyes, he took some sweat medicine with him, and died. Cut large pieces of good meat, cut them into yellow beef and sell them, and make small pieces of meat to make stuffed steamed buns. ”
Zhang Qing explained how the husband and wife killed people and used human flesh as bun filling.
Even if he took a step back and said that they didn't do these things, just because Sun Erniang's attitude towards Wu Song at the beginning, he had every reason to kill this woman, because Sun Erniang's makeup and words and deeds revealed a frivolity like Pan Jinlian.
(Wu Song, Sun Erniang stills)
For example, this description is very intuitive: "Look at the edge of the big tree, I saw a hotel in the morning, and there was a woman sitting by the window sill in front of the door, revealing a green gauze shirt, with a hairpin ring on her head and some wild flowers on her sideburns. Seeing Wu Song and the two dukes coming to the door, the woman walked up to greet her. Tie a bright red silk skirt below, rub a face of rouge and lead powder, open your chest, revealing the main waist of peach yarn, and a color of gold buttons on it. ”
Where does this look like a serious person?
Later, when she approached Wu Song, she also scratched her head and made a gesture, which was a bit provocative, of course, she was to confuse Wu Song, so that she could turn the other party over and then kill him.
(Sun Erniang, Wu Song stills)
In any case, Wu Song should have killed their thief couple, but why didn't he do it?
Perhaps the answer to this matter can be found in Lu Zhishen's experience.
3. Lu Zhishen, who penetrates everything
Lu Zhishen also suffered a loss in Sun Erniang's shop, he was not as alert as Wu Song, he was stunned as soon as he entered the store, if it wasn't for Zhang Qing to stop him, this flower monk would have become a bun filling.
However, the Lu Zhishen penetrating everything that the author refers to has nothing to do with his contact with Sun Erniang, but the author Shi Nai'an expressed a fact through Lu Zhishen's experience, that is, everything that happened in the book has already been determined.
In the ninetieth chapter of the original work, that is, before the expedition to Tianhu, Shi Nai'an arranged for Elder Zhizhen to say something meaningful to Lu Zhishen.
Said yes: "The elder said, called Zhishen to the front and said: 'My disciple is going here, farewell to your future, and the positive fruit is coming! He said: Capture in summer, and persist in wax. Listen to the tide and be round, see the letter and be silent. Lu Zhishen bowed to the verses, read them several times, hid them by his side, and thanked his teacher. ”
At this time, Lu Zhishen may not understand the deep meaning, but when it came to the section of Zhengfangla, the four sentences said by Elder Zhizhen were fulfilled one by one.
(Stills of Lu Zhishen and his master)
The "capture in the summer" refers to his killing of Xiahou Cheng in Wulongling, and "the persistence of the encounter" refers to the fact that he later captured the next La, don't be surprised, there is no "Wu Song captured Fang La with one arm" in the original work, Fang La was won by Luda; as for "listening to the tide and round, seeing the letter and lonely" refers to him listening to the sound of the tide of the Qiantang River in Liuhe Temple and sitting.
So how did Elder Zhizhen know everything? It is not explained in the book, but it does not matter, because "Water Margin" is a literary work full of magical colors, for example, at the beginning of the original book, it is mentioned that Taiwei Hong let go of one hundred and eight demon lords, and later Liangshan really gathered thirty-six Tiangang and seventy-two earthly demons.
So looking back, Wu Song's refusal to kill Sun Erniang was definitely not out of personal feelings, but who could go to Liangshan and who should sit in which seat, there was already a fixed number, and in the dark, there had already been arrangements, and Wu Song was just a chess piece to advance the plot.