Liangshan has one hundred orders and eight generals, and the most hateful ones are the hypocrite Song Jiang and the real villain Li Kui. Song Jiang and Li Kui both appear in blackfaces, but there is no need to deliberately smear them, but Song Jiang's black guy sometimes has to learn from the white-faced Cao Cao, and when he does things, he also knows how to use high-sounding to cover up his despicability and filthiness, while Li Kui has a face of "I am a wicked person, who am I afraid of", and he has always taken pleasure in killing innocents.
Li Kui's slaughter has been returned to Hujiazhuang in Liangshan, whether it is instructed by Song Jiang or not, Li Kui is too addicted: "I cut it smoothly, and I want Hujiazhuang to rush to it, but it's a pity to leave Hucheng." On his farm, I killed not a single one. Although there is no credit, it also eats me to kill happily. ”
Li Kui is the only "Liangshan hero" who takes pleasure in killing, whether it is Dong Ping, a two-gun general, or Wang Ying, a bantam tiger, they are all small compared to Li Kui, only Jin Shengsi, who was born as a "wizard", praised Li Kui: "Li Kui is a high-level character, and he writes really innocently to the end." Judging by what he meant, there were seven hundred and seventeen people in the mountain, and none of them could get into his eyes. "Mencius" 'The rich and noble cannot be lewd, the poor and the lowly cannot be moved, and the mighty cannot be bent', which is his good criticism. ”
Jin Shengxian is indeed a wizard, there is no doubt about this: this person was known for being good at "helping the soul to descend to the spirit" during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, he claimed to be the reincarnation of the disciple of the Buddhist Tiantai patriarch Zhiyi, and also said that he had accepted more than 30 dead women as disciples of the underworld, and even Qian Qianyi, who was "disgusted with the water", was also fooled by him - if Jin Shengxian was born in modern times, it is estimated that he can also fool many movie stars and wealthy businessmen, because the "technical content" of "Fu Ping" is much higher than that of "empty basins turning into snakes".
Jin Shengsi, like Qian Qianyi, is a "famous man of the two dynasties" who has eaten the imperial grain of the Ming Dynasty (Jin Shengxian is a talent in the Ming Dynasty, exempt from taxes, does not need to serve labor and has rice and silver every month,) and kowtowed to the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. When Jin Shengsian commented on the Water Margin, no matter what Li Kui did to lose his conscience, he applauded loudly, which is a common face of people who "have no talents", that is, they always have to go against the public's good customs.
With more and more people reading the original work of Water Margin and willing to think independently, Jin Shengsi's trick is no longer effective, even in the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, novelists do not like Li Kui very much, including Shi Nai'an, the three novelists finally "killed" Li Kui - the three novelists let Li Kui die three times, because they all know that a fierce god like Li Kui, who does all kinds of evil, and is full of evil, cannot die well.
Shi Nai'an killed Li Kui with the hand of Song Jiang, in fact, to avenge the old and weak women and children of Hujiazhuang and the four-year-old child in Cangzhou Mansion, Song Jia's reason for poisoning Li Kui is also very funny - I am afraid that he will rebel again, "ruining the name of Liangshanbo for the loyalty of Tianxingdao".
Song Jiang, who wrote anti-poems, said that he was loyal to the imperial court, just like the sign on the back of the chest of the second elder of Huashan, Song Jiang said that Li Kui would rebel again, of course, it was an excuse: in the first battle of Zhengfangla, most of the heroes of Liangshan were lost, and Hu Yanzhuo, Zhu Tong and others, who really held the military power, would never listen to Li Kui, and Li Kui had no ability or courage to rebel.
In fact, Li Kui didn't want to die, Shi Nai'an used Spring and Autumn brushwork, hinting at Li Kui's greed for life and fear of death: "Li Kui saw it and burst into tears. Then he felt that his body was a little heavy. At that time, he shed tears and said goodbye to Song Jiang and got off the boat. When he returned to Runzhou, he died. ”
Li Kui didn't wait for death in Chuzhou with Song Jiang, what did he do when he returned to Runzhou? Li Kui is a single person, and there is no aftermath to take care of at all, so when he returns to his military camp, he can only seek medical advice to see if he can survive.
Li Kui died unwillingly in "Water Margin", and in "Dangkou Zhi" and "Remnant Water Margin", he died a more funny death, and everyone will seem to be very relieved.
Novelists create characters and give them endings, they must take care of the emotions of most readers, even if it is the anti-Water Margin "Dangkou Zhi", they dare not discredit the heroes in the minds of the vast majority of people, such as the flower monk Lu Zhishen and the walker Wu Song, which Yu Wanchun never dared to discredit - smearing Lu Zhishen and Wu Song, his books will not sell.
Yu Wanchun didn't dare to provoke Lu Zhishen and Wu Song, but he didn't have any psychological burden to "kill" Li Kui, he killed Li Kui, it was simply torture and killing: first he was called Xin (Zhaojia Village Group Practice, Jianhu Dongpu Putian Huanxi was born as a real person, ranked fourth among the eighteen scattered immortals) A boring cut off his left wrist and broke the tendons, and then was choked by Tang Meng (one of the thirty-six generals of the Lei Department, it is said that the Wufang Barbarian Lei General of Tianlou Lei Mansion was born) choked the back of the neck and pressed down, "The sergeants swarmed forward, tied Li Kui and the wild boar tightly, and carried them away. ”
Yu Wanchun said that Li Kui was like a wild boar, but he really didn't say that he had bent him, because in Shi Nai'an's writing, Li Kui was also a wild boar, and he was uglier than a wild boar: "The black bear is like a thick meat, and the iron bull is naughty all over." There are red and yellow eyebrows, and the eyes are red and messy. The furious hair is like an iron brush, and the hideous hair is like a vicious one. The canopy descends the ladder. ”
Shi Nai'an was embarrassed to say, but everyone could see clearly that Li Kui looked like Zhu Bajie, and Yu Wanchun's pig Li Kui was sliced into pieces of meat - he was escorted to the capital, and his clothes were cut off in front of everyone.
Yu Wanchun let Li Kui die without clothes, and Cheng Shanzhi, who wrote "Residual Water Margin", was not polite, and also "killed" Li Kui naked, and was shot by Liangshan's best-looking female general, Yizhang Qinghu Sanniang: "This black guy is bathing alone by the water, and it is the little sister who secretly holds a crossbow in one hand, which goes straight to her heart, and then takes the head and wraps it back to the cottage." ”
Li Kui didn't wear clothes when he fought on the battlefield, and it was rare to take a shower, of course, he wouldn't wear it, fortunately, Hu Sanniang only cared about his big head, so he didn't let Li Kui reincarnate and could only be Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, so Song Jiang saw something that made his heart tremble: "Hu Sanniang gently untied the burden, a strange head with fluffy hair and exposed teeth and teeth, flooded with lime, and it has never been broken, who said it's not a black whirlwind!" ”
Li Kui was "killed" by Shi Nai'an once, and was "killed" by Yu Wanchun again, the Qing Dynasty was gone, and Cheng Shanzhi still "killed" Li Kui unrelentingly.
Li Kui was "killed" three times by the novelist, which shows that he is indeed not well received, and only the "famous man of the two dynasties" like Jin Shengsi, who was moved by Emperor Shunzhi's praise and looked at the north and kowtowed, would feel that Li Kui was "the first good man in Liangshan".
If we take a closer look at the original work of the Water Margin, we will find that Li Kui is not a jobless vagrant, but a public man with public office and salary, the "prison" of the Song Dynasty is the jailer, he is the same as the iron called Zilehe, and Dai Zong is his leader, Li Kui, as Dai Zong's thug, not only has a salary to get, but also a "regular money" to take, he is mixed into that look, and he is completely lazy.
Of course, it is not objective to say that Li Kui is useless, at least in the eyes of Song Jiang and Jin Shengsi, Li Kui is very useful and useful, in any period, Li Kui's kind of people will not be extinct, just like some "celebrities" fantasize to travel to seventy or eighty years ago to "meet the army Shao", there are also some people who want to "be brothers" with Li Kui, but they never thought that they would travel to the Song Dynasty, when they opened their eyes, what they saw was the plate axe that Li Kui chopped off, or woke up by the cold water sprayed on his chest, and saw the drunken bantam tiger Wang Ying walking over with a boning knife and smiling.
In ancient times, some literati paid attention to "not surprising words and endless death", but novelists all knew that if the bad guys were not punished as they deserved, the remuneration would be very hot and even life-threatening. Nowadays, people are not superstitious, so they dare to say anything, dare to write anything, and there will naturally be no less Li Kui touted as "the first good man in Liangshan", but readers must have their own high opinions after carefully reading the original work of Water Margin: In your opinion, Li Kui should be regarded as the first villain in Liangshan? Of the three ways to die given to Li Kui by the three novelists, which one is more pleasant? If you also write a Water Margin, how will Li Kui die?