Why are Jin Yong's martial arts novels attractive? In fact, there is no need to compare writing or imagination, just take the most basic "character design" as an example, Jin Yong has thrown off most authors for 108,000 miles.
Most of the other martial arts stories have a common problem, that is, the characters are too faceless, for example, the decent must be spotless, they will not allow themselves to make any mistakes, and the villains are mostly heinous, and you can't see any human brilliance in them.
(Yue Buqun stills)
Such a character design can certainly make the plot conflict more obvious, but it will inevitably make the characters look "inhuman", because people in the real world are complex, and Jin Yong has many characters with very complex characters.
For example, the decent head mentioned in this article, she forced her disciples to order the palace sand and tighten all their behaviors, but she forced them to seduce the devil, which is really disgraceful.
1. Decent people who are more vicious than villains
When it comes to Jin Yong's "hypocrite", most people may think of Yue Buqun in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", as the head of the Huashan faction of the righteous sect, his personality is really no different from the evil faction.
However, the head of the article is not Yue Buqun, after all, Yue Buqun later turned black and degenerated, and he can no longer be said to be decent, and the extermination master in "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" is a decent character from beginning to end, but what she does is not decent at all.
In fact, it is not difficult to see from the Dharma name of this Shitai that she is not easy to mess with, and even it is difficult for you to associate this Dharma name with the identity of "decent head".
Of course, what she meant might be "exterminate the demons", which also makes sense, but judging from her actual actions, what she wants to destroy is not only demons.
(Exterminator stills)
For example, when dealing with Mingjiao, the innocent young man Zeng Aniu intervened to stop the extinction from killing, which can be regarded as letting the extinction bear some sins, she is a monk anyway, and she shouldn't be so angry.
But where is the exterminator willing to stop? Even if the other party is a teenager who has nothing to do with Mingjiao, she is determined to take down this kid, just to set foot in Mingjiao.
Later, I learned that the reason why the exterminator Tai hated Mingjiao so much was not only because she was the head of a decent family, and Mingjiao was an evil organization.
That Zhang Sanfeng also hated Mingjiao, but he never wanted to meddle in the affairs of Mingjiao, even when the six major sects besieged Guangmingding, he did not end up in person, just because he knew the righteousness, the main contradiction at this time was the contradiction between the people of the Central Plains and the Dayuan court, and Mingjiao was also the vanguard of resistance to the Yuan, but the righteous heroes wanted to fight with the Mingjiao nest, wouldn't it be the heart of the Dayuan court?
(Zhang Sanfeng stills)
It can be seen that the extermination master really has no pattern, and the reason why she hates Mingjiao is very simple, just because her senior brother Gu Hongzi, who is also a lover, was angry to death by Yang Xiao, the left envoy of the Ming Sect, she vowed to destroy the demons of the Ming Sect.
To put it bluntly, she has a bit of a communiqué and personal vendetta, and because of this, in the battle of Wan'an Temple, even if the heroes accepted Zhang Wuji's rescue, she was unwilling to accept the kindness from Mingjiao, for her, this is a great shame, it is better to die.
From this point of view, she still stuck to her bottom line, and the image of this character did not collapse, but such an image is not very good.
What's even more bizarre is that she also set incomprehensible door rules.
Second, the inexplicable door rules
Regarding the "Shougong Sand", as early as in "The Condor Heroes", Jin Yong had already mentioned it from the perspective of Xiaolongnu that she lost the Shougong Sand after Zhen Zhibing's chastity was ruined.
In the last episode of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", Jin Yong revisited this setting from Zhou Zhiruo's perspective.
He said: "The male and female disciples of this sect, if they were not monks and cultivators, they would not have been able to marry, but since the founding of the sect patriarch Guo Zushi, all the most profound kung fu...... When each female disciple apprentices, the master will put down the palace sand on our arms. Every year on the birthday of Patriarch Guo, the first teacher has to inspect, and the senior sister at that age ...... That's it......"
The rules were set by Guo Xiang, but Extinction is already the third generation of the head, and the rules can have been modified long ago, after all, even she herself doesn't seem to follow the rules, otherwise why did Fan Yao say that Zhou Zhi was the illegitimate daughter of him and Extinction, and everyone in Emei was convinced?
It's just because the extermination master herself didn't keep the palace sand, otherwise they would never believe this kind of slander, and most of the extinct palace sand was confiscated by her senior brother Gu Hongzi, which is why she has never forgotten the senior brother.
3. Despicable means
This kind of double standard practice of being lenient with herself and strict with others is already hateful, but Extinction has done something even more hateful, that is, as a decent head, she actually sent her disciples twice to seduce people in the Demon Sect.
The first time was to ask Ji Xiaofu to seduce Yang Xiao.
(Yang Xiao, Ji Xiaofu stills)
The original book reads: "The exterminator raised his head to the sky, hated and hated, and muttered to himself: 'Yang Xiao, Yang Xiao...... I have not known your whereabouts for many years, and today I have always let you fall into my hands...... 'I suddenly turned around and said, 'Okay, you have lost your body to him, returned to Monk Peng, offended Senior Sister Ding, deceived Master, and raised children privately...... I don't care about all this, I sent you to do one thing, after the completion of the work, when you come back to Emei, I will pass on the mantle and the sword of Yitian to you, and make you the heir of the head of this faction. These words only caused great astonishment among the people. ”
The Emei girls were shocked, how could the master say such shameless words?
And this is not the only time she has used such despicable means, and later in the face of Zhou Zhiruo, she wanted to repeat her old tricks.
only said: "Zhou Zhiruo thought to herself: 'Why did Master force me to do this?' She wants me to lure this little devil, but I can't really be nice to him, she doesn't know how hard it is! Why does Master think he's a demon......'"
(Zhou Zhiruo, Zhang Wuji stills)
The extinction made Zhou Zhiruo close to Zhang Wuji, but it made her make a vow that she could not marry Zhang Wuji, and only waited for the opportunity to eliminate the Ming Sect, which was really ruthless.
Strictly speaking, Extinction is indeed decent, but the justice in her heart is too extreme, and her eyes have long been blinded by personal vendettas, so that she has become so crazy.
In any case, if you want to talk about the most disgusting decent characters in Jin Yong's pen, the exterminator must be one of them.