Chapter 26 "A meticulous depiction of male selfishness"

Liu Bo In this book, like many other similar storytelling books, all the national events in the book seem like a child's play. one The author of "Xue Rengui's Expedition to the East" failed to leave his name.Considering that we know only a few words about the lives of Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong, this is not a loss worth mentioning in the history of literature.But if Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, knew about Quan Xia, he would probably be angry that he could not find this guy to settle accounts.In this book, he became a real fool and coward, a clay puppet who was manipulated by Xu Maogong.After receiving the provocative letter of credence from Gai Suwen of the Goryeo Kingdom, he was ignorant of all kinds of territorial and economic arbitrary demands, and was only indignant at the cheap words of "pass it to my son Li Shimin".In Fenghuang Mountain in Koryo, Tang Taizong was obviously far more impressive as a tourist than as a supreme ruler.What is even more dumbfounding is his fear of wind and waves when he went to sea on the Eastern Expedition:

The wind and waves in the sea splashed several feet, and the emperor's face was ashamed, and the dragon case was turned upside down... The emperor was afraid, trembling with fright, and said: "Sir, I don't want to go to the East anymore. I would like to enjoy Chang'an in peace. Let him kill him and let him go." You can see, why bother to die in the sea?" From then on, the retreat began.For a while, how to make the emperor brave to go to sea became a difficult problem that plagued the civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty.Obviously, this is just the opposite of the fact that the Tang emperor was almost paranoid in history to conquer Goryeo.As we all know, it is not a long and dangerous voyage from Dengzhou, which is today's Penglai, to the Korean Peninsula.If I were an experienced reviewer, I would say that the reason why the novel is exaggerated in this place is not so much a statement of a fact, but a reflection of the deep psychological structure of the Han people for the ocean. fear.However, limited by my talents and knowledge, I am unable to make such a profound analysis on this issue.I say this just to make one point: this book is like many other similar storytelling books, and all the major national events in the book seem like a child's play.

Of course, it is worth mentioning that Qin Shubao and Yu Chigong competed for the commander seal.The two Yuan Rong of today and the heroes of the past started a tragic weightlifting competition with the spirit of who can ask Lian Po if he can still eat when he is old.According to traditional practice, the golden lion in front of the hall has once again become a sports equipment.First, Yuchi Gong failed in the snatch. Now let's pay attention to the performance of Qin Qiong: Then Qin Qiong... flicked the sleeve of his robe, and held it in the same way. He didn't move, and he didn't even believe it. He said, "what! Where is my youth?" Lift it up, how can you walk three times?Sparks burst out in front of my eyes, my head is round, my feet are loose, and my eyes are black; at the second step, blood is coming up, I can't help opening my mouth, the blood spurts, and I fall to the ground head-on, alas.You must know that Qin Shubao is famous all over the world, but most of it is empty, pretending to be a hero, he will endure a lot of blood and injuries.In the past, I was in the prime of life and could bear it. Now I am old, the old disease has relapsed, and the blood is sprayed out.

A generation of hero Qin Shubao passed away in this way.And our protagonist, Xue Li and Xue Rengui, is worrying about his pig-like appetite at this time, and the ideal of being a marquis and worshiping general is just a big talk of a prodigal son, without any clue. two "Xue Jiajiang" corrected some of my misconceptions.For example, I always thought that if someone descended to earth as a certain star official, then of course the starting point of descending to earth is within the mother's womb.In fact, this is not necessarily the case—it is right to think about it, reincarnation is dangerous, and it is not easy to select the winning bidder from hundreds of millions of sperm in advance, even if it is a fairy.

In comparison, the form of possession is much safer and more accurate, but the reduction in the degree of difficulty also leads to a decrease in the quality of the combination.More often, Xue Rengui just seems to have a white tiger as a summoned beast.That's fine, otherwise I'd have to bother explaining to everyone why Xue Rengui is a white tiger, but not a woman with hairless lower body.Baihu Kefu, this is a woman's fault.Xue Rengui, the male white tiger, restrained his own parents. "White tiger sits on the head, if there is no disaster, there will be disaster." Xue Rengui was possessed by a white tiger when he was 16 years old. Not long after that, his parents died.

Like most playboys, Xue Rengui lacked the ability to run a family and manage money, so the family business quickly declined.During this time, he appeared weak and incompetent, and ignorant of the ways of the world.Embarrassment at the hands of wealthy relatives is a traditional theme in Chinese fiction.However, if a borrower with an attitude like Xue Rengui can still borrow rice, it will be a miracle instead: Outsider: What are you doing here? Rengui: My nephew is visiting his uncle on the one hand, and on the other hand, the family is short of rice, so he wants to borrow a bucket or two of rice from his uncle and return it at another day.

Outsider: What do you want rice for? Rengui: I want to learn martial arts and eat horse racing, so bring it to me. Outsider: You bastard sees furniture as worthless, so you can spend a lot of money on it.I'm hungry today, and I wanted rice, why didn't I go to the bow horse to find it? Rengui: Uncle, don't take martial arts lightly.Don't talk about the previous dynasties, even according to the current dynasties there was Yu Chigong, who made a living by forging iron, only for his high skills, he became the Duke of E, and I heard that most of these ministers were civilians.The nephew's ability is not inferior to the ministers in the court. Now that his fate is not clear, and he is in trouble here, it is inevitable that there will be a chance one day, and a family of princes will be in his hands.

It is difficult to say whether Xue Rengui's generosity is really out of self-confidence, or just eager to save face because he has been slighted.Not only did others not believe it, but he himself didn't have the patience to wait until the day when he met "once in a while".When Xue Rengui came out of his uncle's house empty-handed, his heart was filled with a sense of desperation. If he hadn't happened to be rescued by a benefactor, he would have hanged himself on the old locust tree with crooked neck behind the mountain. After spending a period of free food almost shamelessly at the savior's place (almost bankrupting this small property owner), Xue Rengui started his career as a part-time worker.In the winter of guarding the wood in Liujiazhuang, a love that is said to transcend class fell from the sky.

The scene where a man and a woman get acquainted is written by the novelist without romance.It seems that the cause of the relationship is that Ms. Liu is proficient in the study of facial expressions, so she has the ability to predict and judge the future of men that ordinary people cannot match: The young lady thought to herself: "Although this man looks like a beggar, he has an official face. He is not a prince, but a prince. It's a pity that his clothes are not good enough, and he is shivering in the cold." From then on, she gave this down-and-out general star extra care, and then the classic Watchman story of ten tans of rice and eight buckets of dry firewood, struggling to survive the cold kiln to spend the spring and autumn, began from here.It needs to be explained that the love between Xue Rengui and Liu Jinhua, or the love between Xue Pinggui and Wang Baochuan are two different versions of the same story.The latter seems to be more famous, and its origin is full of Chinese warmth and morality: an old lady from a wealthy family was eager for Liu's later husband, and the plot of dying of illness and cold kiln was in her arms, and she became sick. The filial son asked someone to make up another play about the reunion of Xue Pinggui's husband and wife, and the old lady's illness "healed without medicine".

Regarding the Beijing opera that tells this story, Zhang Ailing believes that it "depicts the selfishness of men in every possible way", "but Xue Pinggui is written as a good man even though he is not very considerate to women. The cuteness of Peking opera lies in this simplicity and subtlety."In this play, Zhang Ailing only talked about "Wujiapo" (if the protagonist is still named Xue Rengui, it would be "Fenhe Bend"). There are other more powerful examples of her words in the novel. Liu Yuanwai discovered the lady's red dress on Xue Rengui's body, and concluded that his daughter had an affair with him, and wanted to beat her to death. At this time:

There was a young man...he said to Xue Li: "You are a thief! This big red dress of yours belongs to my lady, and I want you to steal it and wear it on your body. Now outsiders are looking for the red dress, and my lady beat you to death." You are in the hall. Your life is a must and you will be executed." Xue Li heard this sentence, looked at his clothes, still half of the scarlet was exposed outside, listened carefully, and saw that the inside of Liu's house was full of turmoil. Crying loudly, he said: "It's not good, if you don't leave now, when will you wait?" When writing here, the novelist's tone is as usual.Every time I think about this, I feel that Zhou Xingchi is boring. three It is conceivable that every conquest of foreign countries is a grand ceremony for the younger generation in the court.Apart from the chance of making great achievements, the young lords are obviously looking forward to a romantic relationship in a foreign country.On the road leading to Fanbang, there are beautiful Huaichun women everywhere, either they are the daughters of the generals of the enemy country, or they are the descendants of some former ministers living here.These foreign women, all blond and blue-eyed, with long busty legs, dismissed the stout figures and beards of men of their own ethnicity, and only wanted to marry Han boys with "faces as beautiful as pink and lips as vermilion"—— It can be seen from this that although neutral men are a newly popular term, our tradition has long had a preference for them.Our teenage hero puts on a look of embarrassment and pretends to refuse, but it all works out in the end.Although the rule of "Seventeen Articles and Fifty-Four Cuts in the Army" stipulates that accepting a wife before the battle is a mortal crime, there has never been anyone who was actually killed because of this. From this point of view, "Xue Rengui's Expedition to the East" is a bit special.Along the way, Xue Rengui didn't have any glamorous encounters, but the only stunning woman he met was not a virgin.That was the wife of Gai Suwen, the coach of Koryo State. Xue Rengui obviously had no sympathy for this Korean beauty. But readers obviously don't like such a story of blind fighting, so in the derivative version of Xue Rengui's story, it is again "there was a female warfighter in Xiliang, and she took me off the saddle of a horse".And as if to make up for his father's mediocre conquest career, Xue Rengui's son Xue Dingshan intensified his efforts. During the later Western Expedition, he married three wives. As for the threat of death in battle, it is not something our teenage heroes need to consider.They came to marry wives, and of course they had no sons before.If they died in battle before their son was born, the author of the novel would only feel embarrassed: Who will act in the next generation's novel?