In the work "White Deer Plain", Leng Qiuyue's fate is even more tragic than Tian Xiao'e.
In Tian Xiao'e's life, she has experienced loving and being loved, but Leng Qiuyue has never really experienced the feeling of loving and being loved until the last moment of her life. She is a very attractive but hardly attractive woman, and her love is as fragile as her life. In her short life, she was always immersed in the pain of unattainable love, until she became crazy and finally tragically came to the end of her life.
In the original work, Leng Qiuyue's death was described as follows:
The daughter-in-law is no longer shouting loudly, nor is she crazy, she doesn't eat a bite of food for two or three days in a row, she just climbs to the water tank and scoops cold water to drink, and then becomes emaciated every day, like a skeleton, and dies on the kang on the night of the ninth day of the winter solstice. The daughter-in-law died tragically and for a long time. The women of the neighborhood, as they put on her shroud, smelled a foul smell and noticed that the lower half of his body had been eroded, and all the pus and blood had flowed out.
Leng Qiuyue, a virtuous and virtuous woman, who strictly abides by women's morals and knowledge, why did she suffer such an unpleasant death?
Thinking carefully about what she said after her nervous breakdown, I really understood the reasoning:
I have a man just like I don't have a man, I don't have a man, I can still earn the chastity card, I have a man to keep a widow for what"?
The phenomenon of "keeping the widow alive" made Leng Qiuyue, who was originally gentle, restrained and beautiful, become insane, and finally came to the end of her life in an unpleasant way.
It is only a nominal husband without actual action.
Leng Qiuyue's husband Lu Zhaopeng was not only a revolutionary pioneer in that historical period, but also a fighter who resolutely opposed the feudal system.
During his childhood, he was a student of the famous Confucian Zhu in Guanzhong, and when he became an adult, his father, a man who advocated "studying to become an official and becoming a master", sent him to the provincial capital to receive a modern education.
Lu Zhaopeng accepted new ideas and ideas in the outside world, and felt deep disgust and disgust at his parents' decisions and matchmakers' arranged marriages.
Although everyone thinks that his marriage to Leng Qiuyue is the most perfect union, and Leng Qiuyue is an impeccable woman, he has always wanted to get rid of this marriage and has never had a love for Leng Qiuyue.
After marrying Leng Qiuyue as his wife, he quickly turned around and left, devoting himself to the huge revolutionary activities.
Since then, Leng Qiuyue has become the decoration of the Lu family, and Lu Zhaopeng has become her husband in name.
In order to avoid Leng Qiuyue's gaze, Lu Zhaopeng always refused to live at home even when he returned to Bailuyuan as the principal of the primary school, citing the busy school affairs.
Lu Zilin, his father, in order to make Leng Qiuyue closer to him and give Mr. Leng a clear answer, went to the school many times to look for him, but each time he was cold and expressionless, and appeared under various excuses.
When confronted with the school's principal's son, Lu Zilin struggled to suppress his anger, persuading the unsuccessful students to beg and beg them to shed tears. The son finally agreed. In the end, Lu Zhaopeng even said something like "If you don't go home again, I will jump into the river, and then your mother will hang herself", but he still didn't care.
A marriage that exists in name only is like a tomb, making the originally gentle and flower-like Leng Qiuyue become like a walking corpse.
Leng Qiuyue's heart was full of anticipation and pain for marriage, and she dreamed that when Lu Zhaopeng saw her untouchable husband, he would re-examine and care for her.
Although she waits every day, what she finally gets is the result of her husband marrying the lovers who grew up with her brother-in-law.
Leng Qiuyue had the idea of leaving the Lu family, but her father, Mr. Leng, made her give up this idea with a sentence, because he had already had other marriages and used her at home as an ornament:
Men's ambitions are everywhere, and you should take care of your in-laws wholeheartedly at home, making sure you go to bed early and wake up early."
Lu Zhaopeng has always been the ideal son-in-law in Mr. Leng's heart. Mr. Leng knew that his son-in-law was a man with great ambitions and worked hard outside the home, and his daughter's marriage to such a man made his face full of honor. Therefore, although he understands that the two are dead in name, he still decides to let his daughter continue the marriage.
In the West, there is a proverb: if marriage is not heaven, then it is also hell. After marrying Lu Zhaopeng, this marriage seems to have become a hell of Leng Qiuyue.
Leng Qiuyue had been waiting for Lu Zhaopeng to change her mind, but she couldn't wake up a person who was pretending to be sleeping;She had intended to end this seemingly hopeless wait, but her father was a man who valued face more than the sky.
In this seemingly hopeless marriage, Leng Qiuyue was tightly bound by a husband who existed in name only and was untouchable, until she finally went crazy.
They don't have children.
Lu Zhaopeng was able to give birth to a child, which was Leng Qiuyue's last wish in this seemingly hopeless marriage. Her father, Mr. Leng, also made great efforts and sacrifices to ensure that his daughter could have a child.
When Lu Zhaopeng caused a famine in the same place and was in danger of being beheaded, his father, Lu Zilin, thought that he could no longer be saved, so he was unwilling to save him.
Lu Zilin expressed this to his in-laws, Mr. Leng:
My family's beautiful life was ruined by this turtle grandson. But now that his turtle grandson has been properly handled, there is no longer any need to suspect my Lu Zilin's affairs in Cangli County, and the affairs of the family have become easier to handle.
Lu Zhaopeng's views on marriage make Lu Zilin feel creepy whenever he thinks about it.
Lu Zilin has always neglected his daughter-in-law because of his son, and he is even unwilling to give her a child, which makes him feel guilty in his heart. Therefore, whenever he saw Mr. Leng, he didn't know what to do.
But after listening to Lu Zilin's words, Mr. Leng responded in an indifferent tone:
If you don't come to save me, my son-in-law!I am willing to exhaust all my possessions, hoping only to save him."
Therefore, Mr. Leng did not hesitate to use all the family property and successfully bribed Tian Fuxian, thus saving the life of his son-in-law Lu Zhaopeng.
After the incident, Mr. Leng did not reveal any information to his son-in-law Lu Zhaopeng, but conveyed such a sentence to Lu Zhaopeng through Mr. Zhu: "Give your daughter a doll, give a baby, and your daughter can survive in the Lu family."
After listening to the message conveyed by his father-in-law, Lu Zhaopeng sat on the ground softly, hugged his hands tightly, sighed deeply, and said, "Oh my God!."Why don't you end my life and enjoy it"!
Leng Qiuyue felt lonely and struggling in her married life, she no longer had any expectations for her husband, she only hoped that Lu Zhaopeng could give her a child. However, for Lu Zhaopeng, who has lofty ideals, it is better to choose to end his life than to give birth to a child with a woman who has no feelings.
For married women, having their own children is a more precious thing than life, and whether they can take root in their in-laws' family is undoubtedly the most critical part.
Leng Qiuyue has endured loneliness for a long time in her married life, and since this marriage is destined to be inescapable, having a child of her own will be her only hope to continue living in the Lu family. But in the end, Lu Zhaopeng, who only had Bai Ling in his heart, didn't even give her that glimmer of hope.
For Leng Qiuyue, life without marriage and children has lost the value and meaning of its existence.
In the TV series, Lu Zhaopeng and Leng Qiuyue have never experienced the relationship between husband and wife. He is an honest and dutiful man, but his wife is not a gentle and considerate person. In the original work, Lu Zhaopeng walked past Leng Qiuyue's side in a hurry on the night of the candles in the cave room.
The only thing that happened on the wedding night of the two did not bring too much happiness to Leng Qiuyue, but it became a memory of Leng Qiuyue's life.
Leng Qiuyue's heart has experienced a transformation from ignorance to knowledge, from hazy to clear, and that dreamlike and wonderful feeling constantly affects and torments her.
For this reason, she began to suffer from insomnia, unable to sleep all night, and showed a deep desire for love.
In the past, when Leng Qiuyue saw Tian Xiao'e, the woman of the black baby, he was always dismissive, and even felt very disgusting.
At this moment, she witnessed Tian Xiao'e coming from the door of her house, her elegant little feet lightly stepping on the ground, her slender waist and round buttocks, which filled her heart with jealousy and emotion. She was jealous that Tian Xiao'e could spend time with Heiwa every day and enjoy the joy of love, but at the same time, she felt sorry for marrying a husband who existed in name only, and lived a widowed life in her in-law's house every day.
Leng Qiuyue's strong desire for love caused her to fall into a complex psychological state. Whenever she envied Tian Xiao'e, she would feel deeply guilty and deeply regret her past wrongdoings - who is she?Am I the one who is envied by others?How can you envy a woman like Tian Xiao'e?
This complex psychological state further deepened Leng Qiuyue's anxiety about love, and she often had all kinds of strange dreams, which made her feel weak and mentally in a trance.
Occasionally, he would unconsciously mistake his brother-in-law, Lu Zhaohai, for his husband Lu Zhaopeng. When Lu Zhaohai took the rice bowl from her, her face and heart would involuntarily become rosy and beating. Whenever she saw the black baby passing by the door, her husband Lu Zhaopeng would always come to her mind.
Due to her long widowhood, Leng Qiuyue didn't dare to look up at the faces of any adult male, so those chaotic dreams became more and more common.
When Leng Qiuyue is facing a huge predicament in her lonely life, whether with or without a man, if someone can give her sympathy and comfort, she may feel less depression and pain, but people only notice her patience and rarely see her vulnerability.
After a long period of inner depression and patience, Leng Qiuyue often ends up encountering a huge psychological outburst. In the question of "no man can still earn a chastity card if he is widowed, what is the purpose of a man to be widowed", Leng Qiuyue's mental breakdown became an inevitable ending.
A morally corrupt father.
Lu Zilin, Leng Qiuyue's father-in-law, is generally regarded as a romantic man in Bailuyuan, and the residents of Bailuyuan have a view of him - once he meets a woman, he will hardly move his legs.
Leng Qiuyue's mother-in-law, Lu He, had a habit of going to the temple to burn incense and keep vigil on the first and fifteenth days of each month, in order to pray to the gods to bless her two sons who were working outside.
One night, when the mother-in-law went to the temple again to burn incense and keep vigil, only Leng Qiuyue and her father-in-law Lu Zilin were left at home.
Late at night, when Lu Zilin, who was very drunk, returned from outside, he mistook his daughter-in-law who was lifted from the ground for his wife, and instinctively put his arm on his daughter-in-law's shoulder.
Leng Qiuyue saw this scene and told him shyly: "This is not my mother, but me."
Strongly stimulated by alcohol, Lu Zilin completely forgot his true identity. He hugged his daughter-in-law tightly, and while gently curling his furry mouth on her face, he said vaguely, "What's your mother, what's wrong with you?"Both are the same".
Leng Qiuyue screamed in horror because of her father's sudden gaffe, and she broke free from her father's embrace in fear, rushed into the building and closed the door.
At breakfast the next day, Lu Zilin took out a handful of wheat straw from the porridge bowl brought by his daughter-in-law to feed the livestock, which made him immediately realize that he had done an embarrassing thing last night.
Lu Zilin, who was extremely cunning, drank the porridge in the bowl without any scruples when facing his daughter-in-law and the bundle of wheat grass, and decided to wait patiently for any reaction from his daughter-in-law.
The wheat straw in Lu Zilin's bowl turned into the straw that broke the camel's back, which made Leng Qiuyue fall into an indescribable emotion, and the scene of Ah Gong's drunkenness kept playing out in her mind.
When the mother-in-law went to the temple again for the ritual of burning incense and keeping vigil, Leng Qiuyue tried and hinted at Lu Zilin at dinner time. "Look at me, it's all a dish!In order to restore her face, Lu Zilin also added wheat grass to the plate of vegetables when she was not paying attention.
When Leng Qiuyue found the wheat grass on the plate, Lu Zilin suddenly made a noise, shook the chopsticks violently, and scolded her loudly: "Don't forget, you are the beast that really eats grass."
Lu Zilin, who misbehaved, not only did not feel remorse or apologize after he made a mistake, but in order to save his face, he first induced his daughter-in-law to get close to him, and then humiliated her as an elder.
Due to Lu Zilin's malicious revenge, Leng Qiuyue was directly pushed into the abyss of Infernal Hell.
The mind was completely broken.
In the scolding of Ah Gong, Leng Qiuyue gradually regained her consciousness and felt extremely ashamed and ashamed. She wanted to cry, but she couldn't, so she slowly slipped from the corner to the ground, grabbed the clothes on her chest tightly with both hands, and lowered her unsupportable head.
At that particular moment, Leng Qiuyue suddenly realized that he would never be able to stand in the Lu family.
When her eyes fell on the straw on the plate, she deeply wanted to end this painful life with a rope, but she decided to give up her life in consideration of her proud father.
From that particular night on, Leng Qiuyue stopped talking to anyone, and she silently carried out the instructions given to her by her mother-in-law, and when she was done, she returned to Xiaya to spin.
Shockingly, in the humming of the spinning wheel, Leng Qiuyue's thoughts occasionally appeared in the words of her father-in-law: "Don't forget, you are the beast that eats grass." She knew that she had been deceived by her father-in-law—that was what her father-in-law said to herself, but she didn't listen. Her father-in-law's angry scolding made her often wonder if she was really a brute
After three or four months of mute life and mental torture, Leng Qiuyue was spinning yarn one morning when she suddenly heard a crisp sound similar to a broken cotton thread in her mind. When this voice echoed in her head, she immediately jumped up, rushed out of the house, and went straight to the Bailucang No. 1 Security Station where Ah Gong Lu Zilin worked.
Since then, Leng Qiuyue's mind has completely collapsed and she has become a crazy person. She no longer feels sad and hopeless because of love, nor does she expect her husband to change his mind in name only, nor does she just want to have a child to accompany her for the rest of her life.
Leng Qiuyue, a once knowledgeable person, lost his human spirituality and became a thoughtless walking corpse after the collapse of the spiritual world.
Self-abandonment and despair.
Leng Qiuyue did not completely lose her mind after the collapse of the spiritual world, the disease she suffered from was paroxysmal, and her mental state was good and bad.
When she is in good spirits, she sweeps the yard gracefully with a broom;And when she was emotional, she would repeatedly say, "My dad is good with me." I'm good with my dad. Don't tell my grandma."
After Mr. Leng learned the news of his daughter's illness, he planned to take her back to her parents' house to live temporarily, but Leng Qiuyue did not agree, saying that her in-laws had many things to deal with.
After returning to the Chinese Medicine Hall, Mr. Leng told Lu Zilin, who came to pick up the medicine: "I have ** her illness, you can ask Zhaopeng to write a letter of resignation to solve this problem."
Lu Zilin felt very embarrassed after listening to his in-laws' advice, but he still nodded in agreement, and said: "Let's not mention divorce first, and we will discuss it when we recover from our illness."
Leng Qiuyue resolutely refused to take the medicine, and Grandma handed the decocted medicine to her, and she said firmly: "I don't have any disease, what's the use of drinking that cup of bitter water?"
Although there was a problem with her mental state, Leng Qiuyue knew that for her, there was not much difference between being sick and not being sick. She felt that the desperate marriage made her feel like a walking corpse, and the humiliation of Ah Gong made it impossible for her to raise her head in this world again. If she could live soberly, then she would rather choose to die blindly.
Leng Qiuyue was more and more crazy every day because she was unwilling to take medicine, and seeing that her daughter-in-law had less and less time to be awake, Lu Zilin had to go to Mr. Leng for help. After pondering for a while, Mr. Leng took a pair of medicine and gave it to Lu Zilin, asking him to find a way to pour it into his daughter.
Leng Qiuyue woke up after taking the medicine her father had prepared for her and found that she had become a mute.
Leng Qiuyue became speechless, and she had no complaints about her father. She was born into a family of medicine and knew her father's true intentions.
She could not understand why she had to stay as a widow for so longDo you live for the happiness of your children or for the happiness of your husband and wife?Who is it for?