Chapter 23 parental style

The warmer characters that Shi Potian met were Shi Qing, Min Rou and his wife, Axiu and Granny Shi, etc. Shi Qing and Min Rou are the most humane and bright colors in Jin Yong's novels, and they are also common characters in Jin Yong's novels. A rare image of parents in martial arts novels. Jin Yong specifically mentioned in his postscript: "In this novel, what I want to write is mainly about Shi Qing and his wife's love for their son. Therefore, Shi Potian and Shi Zhongyu's similar appearance is not the focus. In the winter of 1975, In the 10th anniversary commemorative manuscript of "Ming Pao Monthly", I once quoted a passage of Shi Qing praying to the Buddha statue in the temple. This time I re-edited the old manuscript, and tears dripped from the text again. .”

The words Shi Qing prayed to the Buddha statue in the temple are as follows: Min Rou also had a similar message: These few confessions have outlined a pair of great parents who are full of holy love. For their children, they only give, without asking for anything in return, without complaining, and only taking responsibility for themselves. Parents to their children, and children to their parents, are all due to chance, and there is no choice.What kind of offspring you hope to get, you may get another kind of offspring; and no one can make anyone who wants to be their parents be their own parents.This is destiny.

If the child is disabled, or if the child is unable to become a talent, then the parents will feel a kind of incompleteness that can never be made up.Love, pity, self-blame, or disgust may all arise.However, the love between people is reflected in such incompleteness; and it is in such incompleteness that we cherish the perishable life more. What Min Rou and Shi Qing encountered was the tragic death and depravity of their son. They originally had two sons, but the eldest son was abducted and killed by Mei Fanggu, and Shi Zhongyu naturally loved the rest.Shi Qing wanted his son to become a talent, so he sent him to Lingxiao City to worship Wanli as his teacher.

Unexpectedly, three years later, Shi Zhongyu attempted to rape the granddaughter Axiu of Bai Zizai, the leader of the Xueshan School, and tried to escape, but caused Axiu to jump off the cliff, Bai Zizai went crazy, Axiu's grandmother Shi Xiaocui also ran away from home, and the Xueshan School almost fell apart. .Axiu's father Bai Wanjian personally led a large number of people to capture Shi Zhongyu, and then sent people to set fire to the villa of Shi and Min couples. Hearing this news, Shi Qing and Min Rou were both ashamed and sad.What Shi Qing thought was "I would rather be like Jian'er and be killed by someone with a single knife, it would be refreshing." But Min Rou's tears flowed down her cheeks, almost sobbing.A loving mother and a strict father are completely different, but they are all tied to the word "love".

In the Earth Temple, Bai Wanjian and others captured the "Shi Zhongyu" (actually Shi Potian) who had been at large for many years, intending to bring them back to Lingxiao City for punishment.Shi Qing and Min Rou suddenly felt pity for their son after seeing each other for many years. Seeing that Shi Potian didn't know the Sword School of the Snow Mountain School at all, the couple thought that the Snow Mountain School had treated their son badly, and their emotions changed drastically.The sword competition between Min Rou and Shi Potian, "How can this be a sword competition? Compared with the master-student feeding, she is 12 points more loving and 12 points patient." The feeling of licking the calf almost makes people cry. .

The third time they met Shi Potian was another dramatic scene.With good intentions, Shi Potian wanted to quietly take back the bronze medal from Daoist Wuxu for Min Rou, not wanting to injure the two Taoist priests, and Tianxu's group happened to be Shi Qing and Min Rou's fellow disciples.One is Aizi, the other is a fellow apprentice, caught in the middle, in a dilemma.However, Shi Qing and Min Rou's real qualities as decent heroes and their real qualities as parents are very natural and decent, with sincere affection and righteousness. Martial arts novels pay attention to the so-called chivalrous way, in the face of chivalry, the six relatives do not recognize it, and they are stern and selfless.For a word of "righteousness", one can kill one's unworthy son or apprentice without hesitation, which is a common heroic act in martial arts novels.

In contrast, Shi Qing and Min Rou do not seem to be "heroes" enough, at least they are not thorough "heroes". However, they are closer to the real situation of human nature, and they are really heroes of real people.To paraphrase Ni Kuang's words, it is "the top figure". The most touching thing about Shi Qing and Min Rou's characters is their commitment spirit based on "love" and bearing the pain.God was unfair, let them lose one son, and let another son go astray.It's not meant to be perfect.But they have never resented anyone, they just bear the shortcomings of this life on their own, and become more kind and broad.Because of one's own suffering, one pushes oneself and others, thus reaching the pinnacle of love.