I often hear people say that "how great the ability, how much responsibility is", if this is said by the hero, it is a manifestation of a sense of responsibility, if it is said by others, it is a kind of moral kidnapping, who said that the greater the ability, the more responsibility must be shouldered? Don't capable people deserve to enjoy life?
This truth is very intuitive when you look at Guo Jing, is it because Guo Jing has a miraculous skill, he should guard Xiangyang and finally die in the city?
Obviously not this reason, at least when the author read the setting of Guo Jing's family martyrdom, even if he is just a fictional character, he can't help but feel heartache, after all, Guo Jing deserves a good ending.
(Guo Jing, Huang Rong stills)
And if you look at the details left by Jin Yong in the book, in fact, Guo Jing may not be dead, but what Guo Jing's final ending is, Jin Yong did not fully write it until the pen.
First, the superficial ending
Anyone who has read the "Condor Trilogy" should know that Jin Yong actually has a great preference for the role of Guo Jing.
"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is needless to say, Guo Jing is the protagonist in that work, and he is naturally a collection of thousands of favors, and it is not a problem to learn all kinds of magic skills.
In "The Condor Heroes", he has taken a back seat, and the protagonist at this time has been replaced by his beloved nephew Yang Guo, but when it comes to the end, he is also elected as one of the five peers in the world along with Yang Guo.
Although his heroic shadow is no longer seen in "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", the main plot revolves around his "legacy", and the competition for the dragon slayer knife is the introduction of the main plot of this work.
It can be said that Guo Jing is the character that Jin Yong has spent the most pen and ink to create, how could he easily let Guo Jing be written to death?
However, from the bright side, Guo Jing's ending was indeed death in battle.
After all, there is such a sentence mentioned in "Heaven and Dragon Slayer": "On the day of the destruction of Xiangyang City, Guo Daxia and his wife were martyred at the same time as Guo Gongpo, and the whereabouts of the dragon slayer knife are unknown." Patriarch Guo was in Xichuan at the time, and he wanted to save his parents and relatives, but it was too late. ”
But if you take a closer look, who said this news?
(Zhou Zhiruo stills)
Zhou Zhiruo, and Zhou Zhiruo heard it from the extermination master, and the extinction heard it from her master, Fengling Shitai, and the Fengling master naturally heard it from the Emei patriarch Guo Xiang.
So the question is, Guo Xiang himself was in Xichuan back then, how did he know everything that happened in Xiangyang City?
Obviously, she only heard the news of the death of her parents and brother in the battle, and did not witness everything.
So this is not a "fact", just a "hearsay".
Whether Guo Jing died in battle or not is still variable.
At the same time, there are details in the book that can prove that Guo Jing is not dead.
2. Details in the serialized version
There are three versions of Jin Yong's novel, namely the serial version, the triptych version and the newly revised version, and most readers read the triptych version, that is, the version of the book, compared with the serial version, the story of this version is smoother, and some settings that have nothing to do with the main plot in the serial version are abandoned.
However, the serialized version of the story is the most original, which hides Jin Yong's original idea of the whole story, and in the serialized version of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", there is a character suspected of Guo Jing appearing.
It was the twenty-first episode of the serial version of the original work, Zhang Wuji defeated He Laosan with a set of mysterious palm techniques, Zhang Wuji was just a child at this time, but he could defeat an adult, Yu Lianzhou and others only felt incredible, and then Zhang Wuji explained that he used the eighteen palms of the dragon.
Yes, you read that right, the serial version of Zhang Wuji also learned the eighteen palms of dragon descending, but he only learned three of them, and the person who passed on his palm technique was his father-in-law Xie Xun.
(Huang Rong, Guo Jing stills)
The book only said: "Yu Lianzhou comforted for a while, and Wuji stopped crying and said: 'My father-in-law said that this is a long-lost palm technique in the martial arts, called 'Eighteen Palms of Dragon Descending'!" As soon as the five words of 'Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Descending' came out, Yu Lianzhou and Zhang Cuishan were all discolored, and Yu Lianzhou let go of his hand and put Wuji on the ground...... My father-in-law told me that he would only get three of the eighteen palms, and that he had learned from a hermit, but he always felt that the changes were a little wrong, and that the hermit had not realized the real mystery. ”
In fact, in the martial arts at that time, except for Guo Jing himself and his son-in-law Yeluqi, no one knew that the eighteen palms of the dragon descended, Yeluqi has always been the leader of the beggar gang, and his son Yelu Yuanru (a character in the serial version) and Song Yuanqiao are still buddies, so this person must not be Yeluqi or Yelu Yuanru, then it can only be Guo Jing himself.
As for why Xie Xun said that the man did not comprehend the essence of the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Descending, it is also possible that Guo Jing did not fully trust him and only taught him a little bit of fur.
As for why Guo Jing wants to pass on the merits of Xie Xun, it also makes sense, Xie Xun is not the villain he looked like from the beginning, he was also a humble gentleman, Guo Jing wants to support the new forces in the rivers and lakes against Mongolia, which is also reasonable.
Then why did Guo Jing disappear again after passing on his merits to Xie Xun?
This matter can be analyzed from the names of his children.
3. Hints hidden in the name
In fact, the names given by Jin Yong to each character in the book have deep meanings.
For example, Guo Jing's name is a pair with Yang Kang, taken from "Jingkang's difficulty", which is intended to make them not forget Jingkang's shame.
Another example is Yang Guo, when the child was still in infancy, he was given a single name "pass", which was intended to make him change, as if to give people a sense that even if the child is pure and good-natured, he must make some mistakes, otherwise he is sorry for the general feeling of this name, and the later Yang Guo did take a detour, but fortunately, he lost his way and finally became a Condor Hero.
And Guo Jing's fate can also be analyzed from the names of his three children.
What is the meaning of the names he gave to those three children, Guo Fu, Guo Xiang, and Guo Poyu?
(Guo Xiang stills)
Maybe when Jin Yong wrote the role of "Guo Fu", he didn't expect everything that happened later, but when Guo Xiang and Guo Poyu were born, everything was very clear.
Isn't the name of these three children linked together "Fu Xiang Po Jiao"? Supporting the Xiangyang guards and breaking Hulu is just that "Fu" is regarded as "support".
But this is only the wish of Guo Jing and his wife, the truth may be the opposite of what they think, maybe reading the names of these three children backwards is his true fate.
And in turn, it becomes a "captive prisoner", and the "Fu" at this time is regarded as the "captive" of the "captive".
Therefore, Guo Jing's fate is most likely to be captured by the Mongolia side.
(Guo Jing, Guo Xiang, Guo Fu, Guo Poyu stills)
You may be about to say, how could Kublai Khan let him go? Quite simply, it depends on his relationship with Kublai Khan and his father Tuolei.
And don't forget, Kublai Khan also had an aunt Hua Zheng, and that woman has always loved Guo Jing.
If there is no accident, most of the later Guo Jing will be captured by Kublai Khan, and then sent to Hua Zheng to repay his love debt to Hua Zheng.
Such an ending is not a good ending, but compared with "Death in Xiangyang", it is also easier for readers to accept, after all, Guo Jing is such a big hero and deserves a good death.