Some people say that the world of "Water Margin" is dark, traitors are rampant in the court, folk bullies are everywhere, and there are countless ruthless people in the green forest.
Yes, even Lu Zhishen and Wu Song, who are the heroes who are described by the author, also have a vicious side, for example, Lu Zhishen has also eaten the overlord meal and robbed the old monk's gruel, relatively speaking, Wu Song is even more excessive, he even killed innocent people, such as the maids in the Mandarin Duck Tower.
It is reasonable for Wu Song to kill Zhang Dujian, but what are the crimes of those maids? Maybe you never understood Wu Song.
1. Hero Wu Song
Is Wu Song a hero?
There is no doubt that even if he did not do anything to punish the traitor and eliminate the evil, he is still a hero, just because of the deeds of "Jingyanggang fighting the tiger".
(Wu Song, Yulan stills)
On the premise of this premise, as soon as the tiger appeared, he was instantly awake, and could easily deal with the attack of the tiger, and then beat the tiger to death with a stormy fist, which was really shocking.
It is not in vain that Shi Nai'an gave him the evaluation of "like the demon lord of the Tianshan Mountain, it is really the god of Tai Sui in the world".
And the gold content of Wu Song's feat of "fighting tigers" has been reflected after he returned to his hometown, and almost everyone knows that there is a hero in their county.
In addition, some of the things that Wu Song did later were enough to make readers admire this tough guy, he helped his brother avenge, killed Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian, fought grievances for grace, and taught Jiang Menshen a lesson.
But then again, did the author really intend to portray Wu Song as a perfect person?
No, in fact, there are no perfect people in "Water Margin", so Wu Song also did "evil things".
Second, the maid who should not be killed
The plot of the section "Blood Splashed Mandarin Duck Tower" is actually not as wonderful as imagined, or in other words, you can't understand the excitement of this plot without carefully tasting the author's words.
It can be said that the excitement of this plot lies not in how many turns and turns the story itself has, but in Shi Nai'an's description of the details.
(Yulan, Pan Jinlian stills)
For example, Wu Song's operation of changing knives in the middle of the book, the book only says: "When the lady saw a big man coming in, she asked herself: 'Who is it?' Wu Song's knife flew early. The door was slammed open, and he fell in front of the room and shouted. Wu Song held it down, and when he was going to cut, the knife cut the head and did not enter. Wu Song was suspicious, and when he looked at the knife in the moonlight, he had already cut it off. Wu Song said: "You can know that you can't cut your head. So he went to the back door to get the knife, lost the missing knife, turned over and went downstairs again. ”
Someone jokingly said, "If Shi Nai'an hadn't really killed people, he would not have been able to write such real details", yes, such details are reflected, which shows how rigorous Shi Nai'an is.
Because of this, Wu Song's action of killing those two maids is even more puzzling, since all the details are not idle writing, but strive for truth, what is Wu Song's motive?
You look at the description of the original book: "I saw the light bright, the adoptive mother Yulan, who sang the song before, led the two small ones, and saw that the lady was killed in the ground, and then shouted: 'Bitter! Wu Song held the Pu knife and shook it into Yulan's heart. The two small ones were also strangled to death by Wu Song, one with a knife, and it turned out. Walked out of the middle hall and tied the front door. Then he came in and looked for two or three women, and they were all killed in the room. ”
(Magnolia, maid stills)
Wu Song's killing of Yulan is actually not difficult to understand, Yulan has a name and a surname, and she is the woman designated by Zhang Dujian to give to Wu Song, and Zhang Dujian set up a bureau to frame Wu Song, it is difficult for Wu Song not to doubt whether Yulan is a pawn planted by Zhang Dujian beside him, even if Yulan has not clearly done anything to hurt Wu Song at this time, he can only rather kill by mistake than let it go.
But it is impossible for those two maids to participate in the project, so what qualifications do they have to participate in the plan?
In this way, they are unjustly killed.
But for Wu Song, there is a reason to have to kill, you can understand it by looking at the details when Wu Song killed his sister-in-law.
3. Details of Wu Song's killing of his sister-in-law
When Wu Song avenged his brother and killed Pan Jinlian, there was a detail.
The book only says, "Drag this woman to kneel before the spirit, and drink the woman to kneel before the spirit." Wu Song said: "Brother's soul is not far away, brother Wu Er will take revenge on you!" Tell the soldiers to light the paper money. The woman saw that her head was not good, but she was about to scream, but she was pulled down by Wu Song's brain, stepped on his two arms with two feet, and ripped open her chest and clothes. When it is too late, then it is too fast, so he takes the sharp knife to his chest and gouges it with a knife, holds the knife in his mouth, opens his chest with both hands, takes out the heart, liver and five internal organs, and makes offerings to the spirit. And with a stroke of the sword, he cut off the woman's head, and blood flowed all over the ground. ”
Wu Song's movements can be called clean and neat, but at this time Pan Jinlian still shouted, what was the result?
(Wu Song stills)
The four neighbors were taken aback and covered their faces. When he saw that he was fierce, he did not dare to move, so he had to obey him. ”
Neighbors popped up.
A similar situation also happened when Wu Song captured Sun Erniang, that Sun Erniang's martial arts were far inferior to Wu Song, her motives had already been seen through by Wu Song, and the moment she wanted to attack, Wu Song captured her.
Then the book only said: "Wu Song hugged the woman, restrained his two hands, brought him together, and hugged him in front of his chest." But he put his legs on the lower half of the woman, and pressed them against her. And the woman who slew the pig seemed to cry out. The two men were anxious to move forward, and were stunned by Wu Song's shout. ”
You see, as soon as Sun Erniang shouted, the man next to him was about to rush forward, and even Zhang Qing jumped out when he heard the sound.
(Pan Jinlian, Wu Song stills)
This is the problem, when a woman is frightened, it is inevitable that she will scream, and even not only women, but men who are not so bold will inevitably be frightened by the fierce martial arts and scream.
Wu Song is certainly powerful, but as the saying goes, "two fists are hard to beat four hands", in case those women shouted when they saw Wu Song killing, it would only attract more helpers, so Wu Song simply killed them, and the province himself was besieged by rescuers, which was Wu Song's motive for killing those maids.
is still the same sentence, the story of "Water Margin" has not become a classic because of how twists and turns it is, but more because of the author's description of the details.