Why is Jin Yong's story so classic? In fact, the setting he gave to the ending of each work is enough to describe it as "wonderful". Take "The Condor Heroes" as an example, Long Yang and his wife have lovers and eventually become married, and Xiangyang City has also been guarded, everything seems to be just right, but this is just a consummation deliberately created by Jin Yong, and the reader knows in his heart that Xiangyang City will be broken sooner or later.
And Jin Yong's approach is also very smart, even if there is a sequel to "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", he only brushed aside the "Last Xiangyang War", and did not present Guo Jing's death directly in front of the reader, but because of this, this plot has also become intriguing.
Because according to the details in the book, Huang Rong is very likely to be alive, and she did not die in battle, but why did she have no intersection with her youngest daughter Guo Xiang later?
1. The tragedy that no one witnessed
The last battle of Xiangyang took place many years after the end of "The Condor Heroes", and it is not difficult to speculate from the Xiangyang War at the end of "The Condor Heroes" that the last battle must have been more tragic.
(Huang Rong stills)
However, with the ability of Guo Jing and his wife, it is not difficult to abandon the city and escape, after all, his light skill of going up the ladder can help him jump onto the city wall, if he has the heart to escape, who can stop him.
Of course, Guo Jing also said that what he can do is to "do his best and die", he has already had the consciousness of dedicating himself to Xiangyang City, he has no intention of running away, but Huang Rong has a reason to live.
As for the result of that war, Jin Yong only mentioned it once through the mouth of Zhou Zhiruo, the successor of the Emei faction.
said yes: "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. ”
(Guo Xiang stills)
The "result" that Zhou Zhiruo heard was passed down from generation to generation by the head of the Emei faction, this is the problem, Guo Xiang himself who first came out with the news was not in Xiangyang, how did she know what happened in Xiangyang City?
Therefore, Guo Xiang is just hearsay about the outcome of that war, Guo Jing is most likely dead, but Huang Rong may not be dead.
Because she has a reason to live.
2. Huang Rong who is still alive
In fact, Guo Jing and his wife have always been very pessimistic about the matter of "guarding Xiangyang", they had long expected that Xiangyang City would be flattened by Mongolia iron horses sooner or later, so they pinned their hopes on future martial arts talents, so they had the "Heaven and Dragon Slaying Plan".
Regarding that plan, some readers have been criticized as "unrealistic", first of all, how do Guo Jing and his wife ensure that the person who gets the sword in the future is a decent person? If it falls into the hands of wicked people, won't it be a failure?
In fact, this is not the most unrealistic place, and the more criticized place is "how to hide the cheats in the sword".
Yes, when the sword is forged, how hot is the sword? How can the "Nine Yin True Scripture" and the "Wu Mu Testament" be hidden in the sword? Not to mention paper, even if it is a parchment roll, it has long been burned.
(Guo Jing, Huang Rong stills)
Therefore, Jin Yong modified this plan in the new revised version, originally only Guo Poyu needed to keep the dragon slaying knife, and Guo Xiang could keep the Yitian sword, but now there is one more link, that is, hiding cheats.
In the newly revised version, what is hidden in the sword is no longer the secret book itself, but two pieces of iron: "Guo Daxia and his wife hid this secret of the art of war in a top secret place, and engraved the map of this location on the two pieces of dark iron and iron plates, and indicated the method of entry, and hid the iron pieces in the Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Slayer Knife." To obtain this secret of the art of war, you must first find the iron piece, and how to cut the sword to obtain the iron piece must be used interchangeably, and all of them are indispensable. ”
And this is the problem, Guo Jing has been guarding the city all the year round, and even Yang Guo has been practicing martial arts in the Quanzhen Sect for many years, and even he is completely ignorant of the Quanzhen Sect, which shows that he is busy with the war in Xiangyang and has no flawless withdrawal, and Guo Fu is a straw bag and did not participate in the task, Guo Poyu and Guo Xiang keep the sword separately, so naturally they can't escort the cheats.
(Yang Guo, Guo Xiang stills)
In this way, Huang Rong is the only one left who can escort the cheats to Peach Blossom Island.
For Guo Jing, firstly, she is Guo Jing's most trusted person, secondly, she is most familiar with the organs on Peach Blossom Island, and thirdly, she can save his wife's life, so there is no doubt that the person responsible for escorting the cheats must be Huang Rong.
So Huang Rong, who has already left Xiangyang, will naturally not die, although she is extremely heartbroken about her husband's arrangement, she can also understand that she has already been assimilated by Guo Jing and has become a Huang woman.
But if she is still alive, why doesn't she meet Guo Xiang's little daughter? They are each other's only relatives in this world, what is the contradiction behind this?
The answer may be very simple, just because Guo Xiang has already given his innocence to someone who shouldn't be given.
3. Mother and daughter who forget each other in the rivers and lakes
Who ruined Guo Xiang's innocence?
The "innocence" mentioned here has two meanings, one is "fame", and the other is "the innocence of a woman".
Let's start with the former.
When the last Xiangyang War broke out, why was Guo Xiang not in Xiangyang? Is she not wanting to? If this is the case, she will not want to rush back to Xiangyang to save her parents later, so the real reason may be that Guo Xiang can't stay in Xiangyang, and she lives to say that the people of Xiangyang can't tolerate her.
As for the reason, it is very simple, just because in the Xiangyang War that year, King Jinlun sacrificed his life to save Guo Xiang at the last moment of his life, will the people of Xiangyang think that this "devil" is a conscience discovery?
No, they would only think that Guo Xiang had already colluded with the Golden Wheel Dharma King, and at this time it was just a bitter ploy, otherwise what reason would the Golden Wheel Dharma King in the hostile camp have to save Guo Xiang?
In the eyes of Guo Jing and his wife, there is a completely different understanding of this matter, they know that Guo Xiang worshipped King Jinlun as a teacher, but they didn't know that King Jinlun's feelings for Guo Xiang were so sincere.
(Guo Xiang, Golden Wheel King stills)
How did His Holiness do this? Guo Xiang will definitely tell his parents about his experience of getting the Golden Wheel Dharma King's teachings, and the Golden Wheel Dharma King will teach him what he has learned all his life, which also includes a trick of "Supreme Yoga Tantra", for women, practicing the ancient yoga stunt is tantamount to self-destruction of innocence, if you don't understand, you can check the relevant information yourself.
How could Guo Jing and his wife not be sad when they heard the news? So whether it was out of "protecting Guo Xiang" or "hating iron does not make steel", they had every reason to drive Guo Xiang out of Xiangyang.
This is the reason why Huang Rong did not want to see Guo Xiang again even if he was alive, and Guo Xiang, in order to prove his innocence, devoted his life to fighting Mongolia, so that he was emaciated and died early, so that everything made sense.