You may not have read "Water Margin", but most of you have heard about Wu Song, after all, he can be regarded as the most out-of-the-circle existence in "Water Margin", and the most classic of them is "Jingyanggang Fighting Tiger" and "Killing Pan Jinlian in Anger".
There is nothing to say about the fight against the tiger, after the war, Wu Song's image of "fighting the tiger hero" stands, and some people even like to remove the word "fight the tiger" and directly regard Wu Song as a hero, which is unreasonable.
In fact, take the plot of "Wu Song angrily kills Pan Jinlian", the villains may not only be Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian, in the whole incident, no character is innocent, Wu Song can also be said to be one of the accomplices, in the original work, his image is not so positive.
1. The hateful Pan Jinlian
Needless to say, in the whole incident, the most hateful person was Pan Jinlian, who hooked up with Ximenqing, and then there were all the subsequent tragedies.
However, there are still many women who hook up with men like her in "Water Margin", such as Yan Poxi hooked up with Zhang Wenyuan, Pan Qiaoyun hooked up with Pei Ruhai, but they didn't do anything to murder their husbands, even if Yan Po cherished, they just wanted to threaten Song Jiang, but they were killed back, only Pan Jinlian, in the face of her dying husband, she not only did not save her, but poisoned him to death, she was really a femme fatale.
(Pan Jinlian, Ximen Qing stills)
In fact, before she hooked up with Ximenqing, she had already hooked up with many men, for example, when this woman first appeared, there was such a description in the book: "Since Wuda married that woman, there are several treacherous prodigal children in Qinghe County, but they have come to his house to be troubled. It turned out that this woman saw that Wu Da was short and short, the characters were obscene, and she would not be romantic, but this woman was so good, and she loved to steal men for the head. There are poems as evidence: Jin Lian's appearance is more decorative, smiling and frowning at Chunshan's eight-character eyebrows. If you meet a merry child, wait for the idle clouds and rain to steal the period. ”
It can be said that Pan Jinlian is notorious, and it seems reasonable that she will kill her husband later.
So what is wrong with Wu Dalang as a victim?
It's actually quite simple.
Second, Wu Dalang, who is innocent of death
Wu Dalang is not only wrong, but also very wrong.
How did Pan Jinlian come to be? How did you fall in love with him?
In fact, there is no way to talk about "taking a fancy to him" at all, because she is not the daughter-in-law that Wu Dalang is marrying, she is just like a cargo, which was given to Wu Dalang by others.
The book only said: "There is a big family in Qinghe County, there is a maid, whose nickname is Pan Jinlian, who is more than 20 years old and has some color. Because the big man wanted to pester him, the envoy just went to sue the master's wife, and refused to obey. The big man hated it in his heart, but he paid some money for the house, and he didn't want a penny from Wuda to marry him for nothing. ”
(Pan Jinlian stills)
You see, Pan Jinlian has no personal freedom at all, and even judging from Pan Jinlian's refusal to harass from that big family at the beginning, she still has a bit of backbone, not everyone can despise her, she may not be a frivolous woman in the first place.
But why did he fall after marrying Wu Dalang?
You don't look at it, what kind of character is Wu Dalang, it is written very clearly in the book: "This Wu Dalang is less than five feet tall, his face is hideous, his mind is ridiculous, and the people of Qinghe County saw that he was born short, and gave him a nickname, called 'three-inch Dinggu bark.'" ’”
He is short and ugly, and Pan Jinlian doesn't seem to be an existence in the same painting style, how can they talk about "matching"? It is not surprising that Pan Jinlian would give up on herself because of this.
Why do people say that marriage should be "the right match"? It's because two people who don't match come together that they are destined to be happy.
(Wu Dalang, Pan Jinlian stills)
Wu Dalang didn't understand such a reason, he only felt that since the big family gave this woman to him, this woman should be disposed of by him, but he didn't think about giving this woman back.
It's not that he doesn't know what happened to Pan Jinlian and what he did later, but what did he do when he realized that Pan Jinlian was not a fuel-efficient lamp?
The answer is "escapism".
The book wrote: "But it is said that after Pan Jinlian passed through the door, Wuda was a cowardly person who followed his duty, and was shouted by this group of people in front of the door from time to time: 'A good piece of mutton fell into the dog's mouth.'" Therefore, Wuda couldn't live firmly in Qinghe County, so he moved to live in a rented house on Zishi Street in Yanggu County, and still sold cooking cakes every day. ”
Jokes, it was Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian who had the problem, and it was not Qinghe County, he moved to Yanggu County, and the people there were not blind, his move was undoubtedly self-deception.
Therefore, Wu Dalang is also to blame, if he lets go early, why will he end up being poisoned?
3. Wu Song's fault
In the whole incident, what was Wu Song's fault?
First of all, after Wu Song's return, in fact, his appearance was indeed not the right time, and it can even be said that his appearance was the cause of Pan Jinlian's complete blackening.
Pan Jinlian's eyes lit up after seeing Wu Song, just because this little brother-in-law was much more handsome and tall than her husband.
It is indeed written in the book: "The woman looked at the figure of Wu Song upstairs, and thought to herself: 'Wu Song and he are the same mother and brother, and he grew up like this. If I marry such a person, I will not be in vain for the rest of my life. Look at my 'three-inch Dinggu bark', three points like a man, seven points like a ghost, I am so angry! ’”
(Wu Song, Pan Jinlian stills)
Wu Song shouldn't have come back, or rather, he shouldn't have gone out in the first place.
If he had been by Wu Dalang's side and helped Wu Dalang check the gates, how could he let his brother marry such a frivolous woman?
So why isn't he by Wu Dalang's side?
The answer is simple, he's in trouble.
When Song Jiang met him in Chai Jinfu, he explained the reason why he was here: "The younger brother is in Qinghe County, because he was drunk and drunk, he fought with the secrets of this department, and he was angry for a while, and he only punched Nasi into a drowsy. The younger brother only said that he was dead, so he fled all the way and went to the big officials to take refuge in disasters, and it has been more than a year now. Later, I inquired that the guy did not die, but was saved. ”
(Pan Jinlian, Wu Song stills)
He made trouble and beat people, so he had to flee for his life, so before "fighting the tiger", Wu Song was a hero, he was just an impulsive teenager, and even "killing" was a very bad behavior, what kind of hero is he?
If there is no such thing, he can only stay with his brother with peace of mind, and the two brothers may be able to live an ordinary life.
Therefore, Shi Nai'an never wrote "Water Margin" to praise the heroes of Liangshan, but to objectively present all kinds of tragedies in that special era to readers.