There is such a funny scene in "Guben Water Margin": "I can only hear the shouting: 'Where is the straight mother thief going to escape?'" Lu Zhishen jumped in front of the horse early, only a Zen staff, and knocked down Fu Yin Lianren and the horse, seeing that he couldn't live anymore. Wu Song followed, and when he saw the men and horses fall to the ground, he sighed and said, "It's not good to catch you alive, but you fight so poorly." Lu Zhishen said with a smile: "This dog official is not strong, and he has no strength, how can he change into a similar shape." ’”
Careful readers may have already discovered that there are two versions of the last fifty chapters of "Water Margin", one is the "Zhao'an version" that includes breaking the Liao Kingdom, fighting Tianhu, destroying Wang Qing, and Zheng Fangla, and the other is the "ancient book" of the heroes of Liangshan who did not accept Zhao'an and continued to act chivalrous and punish the evil and eliminate evil: the last fifty episodes of the Zhao'an version of the Liangshan heroes have lost their personalities, and the language has become boring, and the language style of the ancient book is perfectly matched with the first seventy chapters.
In the era when there were emperors, novels that purely wrote rebellion and did not write Zhao'an could not be published, printed, and distributed, and the author could also be imprisoned. I don't know who wrote it fifty times after the popular version of the Water Margin, but looking at it, there are always two words hidden between the lines: "slave".
Song Jiang became a slave of the imperial court, and the heroes of Liangshan became a slave of Song Jiang, which is obviously not the original intention of Mr. Shi Nai'an, so the author prefers to believe that the ancient book is the original work, but he did not dare to publish it publicly back then.
After watching the popular version fifty times, it makes people feel indignant and aggrieved, and only that chapter of the ancient book can make people's blood boil: Zhu Wat Mountain hero design, Yizhou Mansion evil Shao (referring to Gao Yanei) died; The black whirlwind stole Wen Taishou, and Lu Zhishen made trouble in Phoenix Village; Zhu Jun's division planned to break the chicken song mountain, and the martial artists tried their best to save filial piety; Lin Chong angrily attacked Toyota Town, and Song Jiang's soldiers attacked Kouzhou City......
Compare the last fifty catalogs of the popular version, it is simply a running account, and it is estimated that many readers will lose interest in reading it when they see that the heroes of Liangshan are recruited.
The work of "Continuing the Mink by Order" is boring, let's take a look at the chivalrous hero Wu Erlang in the last fifty chapters of the ancient book - he is like the first seventy times, his double knives are like snow, coming and going like the wind, and the top masters in the book are single-handed, and he never lets others help, as long as someone disturbs the situation, he immediately retracts the knife and stops, never bullying more or less.
In the last fifty episodes of the ancient book, Wu Song's first shot was to rescue the prodigal son Yan Qing, who was captured in the Daimyo's Mansion and escorted to Bianliang: the jade unicorn Lu Junyi took the leopard head Lin Chong and the nine-pattern dragon Shi Jin to set up an ambush on the road, but he fell into Liang Zhongshu's plan to attack the west, and was confused by the place name of "Yanlaipo", thinking that Yan Qing would pass by, but he didn't expect to rob the prisoner car only to find that there was no Yan Qing inside, and the desperate Saburo Shixiu and Wu Song had already predicted that Liang Zhongshu must have a trick, After discussing, he ambushed and intercepted Li Cheng, the Heavenly King who was as famous as Dadao Wenda, and Gao Chonghan, who was higher than Li Cheng's martial arts.
Gao Chonghan is the confidant of Taiwei Gao Yu, this time he was ordered by Gao Yu to go to the Daimyo Mansion to extract Yan Qing: "This official name is called Bashan Lishi Gao Chonghan, who is Gao Yu's henchman, born nine feet long, broad shoulders and round waist, face like blue indigo, infinite strength, good at making a gold treasure, dozens of people can not approach him." ”
There are only two heroes in the ambush on the path, Wu Song and Shi Xiu, facing the two generals of the palace marshal's mansion and the daimyo's mansion, it is naturally one-on-one: "This general of the war Wu Song, he is so good, his voice is like a bird, his face is like a plague god, he is wearing an iron helmet, wearing an iron chain armor, holding a golden hammer, sitting down with a tall head and curly haired idea horse, this person is the mountain wrestler Gao Chonghan." ”
Lu Junyi, who fell into Liang Zhongshu's "plan to move stars and change fights", rushed to the road, Wu Song had fought with Gao Chonghan for countless rounds and it was still difficult to distinguish the winner, Shi Xiu and Li Cheng went head-to-head, and it seemed that they had lost the upper hand.
Lu Junyi wanted to fight Gao Chonghan with Wu Song, but Wu Song felt that it was very boring: "Wu Song is fighting, seeing that Lu Junyi came immediately, he hurriedly opened the double ring knife and opened the golden hammer, jumped out of the circle, and shouted: 'Lu Yuanwai, this dog general's head, and let you take it.'" ’”
Wu Song left Gao Chonghan, and Shi Xiu couldn't win Li Cheng at that time, so he killed the prisoner car with Shi Jin, the nine-patterned dragon - they knew that Li Cheng was chasing, and they would inevitably be stopped by Wu Song.
Wu Song did not live up to Shi Xiu's tacit understanding, he intercepted Li Cheng's battle: "Li Cheng is as brave as he is, and he can't help but get Wu Song's divine power, the more panicked he becomes, and his marksmanship is a little messy. Wu Song couldn't catch up with him and let him escape. ”
Wu Song poked Li Cheng with a knife, and Lu Junyi also picked Gao Chonghan with a gun, this is the life and death fight of the Liangshan heroes that the Water Margin should have, not at all like the communication board fabricated, the Liangshan heroes will fight the enemy in the future at every turn, and they will not talk about martial arts like the official army.
Wu Song drew Gao Chonghan and defeated the king Li Cheng, and the first battle ended perfectly in the last fifty times, and later fought with the iron rod teacher Luan Tingyu, Dadao Wenda, and Saicun Xiaoyao Gang, and as always, he did not join forces with others, as long as someone helped, he immediately closed the knife and stopped fighting.
The author always feels pleasing to the eye when he looks at the ancient book Water Margin, for example, Lin Chong went to the second level in front of the mountain to find Lu Zhishen and Wu Song to eat wine in his spare time, and the dialogue between the three of them can make people feel a lot of emotion after laughing.
Connecting Lin Chong into the checkpoint, Lu Zhishen first complained: "The Sprinkle family is suspicious of being a monk and being a robber, who knows that when you are a robber, you are the same as a monk, and you are not suffocated!" ”
Wu Song came up with an idea: "Lin Jiaotou, the festival is close to Duanyang, the grenade is as red as fire, and the scenery between heaven and earth has changed, we are idle, why don't we go down the mountain for a walk, eat a few big bowls of wine, and it is like sitting here." ”
When the three of them arrived at the hotel, Lin Chong sighed: "I remember that I was drinking here, I was lonely and angry, I had no way to vent, I wrote eight sentences in the wall, Zhu Gui also played with me, the years flowed, and the time passed away, and it was a few years ago when I think about it today." ”
Wu Song was very open-minded: "The three of us, which one has never done anything big, it's not interesting to talk too much, it's better to eat a few more bowls of wine, have a happy life and want to be happy!" ”
Lu Zhishen agreed: "Okay! Good! In life, eating and drinking is the most enjoyable! ”
The three of them are so wonderful that the author can only quote in the original text, and then we should take a look at Wu Song's shocking heads-up - he fought and killed the monk of Fahua Temple who killed Chao Gai, the drunken King Kong, the selfless Taoist who wanted to take away his parietal bone rosary, and the four or five "small fights" such as Yao Gang, who was killed and killed.
After Luan Tingyu escaped from Zhujiazhuang, he first attached himself to Tong Guan, and then took refuge in Gao Yu, and was promoted to the prison of Laizhou soldiers and horses, and was recruited by Tong Guan Gao Yu, and took the Flying Tiger Hu Cheng who ran away from Hujiazhuang to conquer Liangshan.
Luan Tingyu successively defeated the red-haired ghost Liu Tang, the sick lieutenant Chi Sun Li, Shan Tingqi Wei Dingguo (double battle), the jumping tiger Chen Da, the ugly county Ma Xuanzan, Jing Mu Qian Hao Siwen, the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi, the urgent pioneer Suo Chao, and the town Sanshan Huang Xin, and drew the big knife Guan Sheng, "Tiger Mask Walker" Wu Song couldn't hold it back, and the wind swept in front of Luan Tingyu's horse with two knives in his hand. ”
Wu Song and Luan Tingyu fought for countless rounds, and just gained the upper hand, but Li Kui came out to stir up the situation, holding two plate axes to fight Luan Tingyu, but Wu Song disdained to join forces with him: "Li Kui arrived in front of the battle early, raised his throat and shouted: 'Second Brother Wu, don't relax, I'm here to help you!'" Wu Song had the intention of offering some skills today, wanting to capture Luan Tingyusheng alive, and did not want Li Kui to come up, Wu Song did not want to fight again, so he jumped out of the circle and returned to his own formation. ”
This time it is called "Liu Tang Suo Chao was captured, Li Kui Guan Sheng was hit by both arrows", readers can naturally guess that Li Kui and Guan Sheng also lost to Luan Tingyu later, and at the same time, we can't help but regret it: If Li Kui hadn't interfered with the situation, Luan Tingyu would have been killed or captured alive by Wu Song, and Guan Sheng would not have been injured by Luan Tingyu and almost lost his life.
Wu Song fights alone, and generally never leaves a living mouth under the knife, and it is a very lucky that the king Li Cheng can escape from Wu Song's knife, which leaves a question for the readers: Wu Song single-handedly pulls out the mountain force Gao Chonghan and the iron rod teacher Luan Tingyu, if there is no Lu Junyi and Li Kui to stir up the situation, what will be the result?