In martial arts stories, the key elements that drive the development of the plot can be summarized into two types: subtle magic cheats and grievances and hatreds. However, these cheats will always lead to fights, and ordinary emotional entanglements are difficult to lead to wonderful stories, so the emotions between these grievances often have a kind of "bad fate". Taking the emotional entanglement between Yang Guo, Guo Fu and Xiaolongnu in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" as an example, we can see the evil fate. In addition to love, the father-son relationship between Yang Guo and Ouyang Feng is also full of bad fate. The arrangement of this relationship may be related to a deleted character. First of all, let's take a look at the bad relationship between Yang Guo and Ouyang Feng.
Yang Guo suffered from a tragic life experience since birth, losing his father and losing his mother when he was a teenager. In a lonely situation, he met Ouyang Feng, known as the "old poison", a martial arts master who went mad because he practiced Xi "Nine Yin True Scripture". Why did Ouyang Feng accept Yang Guo as his adopted son?It is very clear in the original book that Ouyang Feng decided to adopt Yang Guo after seeing his beautiful face, and asked Yang Guo to call him his father. This seemingly far-fetched arrangement actually hides a deep meaning, and the relationship between the two is full of evil. Secondly, let's take a look at the grievances between Yang Guo and Ouyang Feng's family.
In "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Ouyang Feng's son Ouyang Ke did a lot of evil, and even had evil thoughts about Huang Rong. Later, due to Ouyang Ke's crimes, Yang Kang killed him, causing the Yang family and the Ouyang family to form an enmity. Later, Yang Kang wanted to kill Huang Rong again, but he died because of Ouyang Feng's snake venom, which can be regarded as Ouyang Feng's revenge on the Yang family. It can be said that the grievances between the two families made Ouyang Feng not adopt Yang Guo in the first place, and he would even choose to kill Yang Guo directly. So why did Jin Yong arrange it like this?This has to mention a deleted character, that is, Yang Guo's biological mother. Finally, let's take a look at the deleted Yang Guo's biological mother.
In the original version, Yang Guo's biological mother was not Mu Nianci, but a woman who was regarded by Huang Rong as a rival in love, namely Qin Nanqin. In a later version, the role of Qin Nanqin was deleted, and Yang Guo was also rewritten as Mu Nianci's child. However, this has a strong connection with Ouyang Feng. Ouyang Feng's weapon is a ghost-headed spirit snake staff, he is good at using snake venom, and the deleted Qin Nanqin also has a similar label to a snake, she is a snake catcher. Yang Guo's role is not similar to Mu Nianci, but it is very similar to Qin Nanqin, both are martyrs with stubborn temperaments. Therefore, Jin Yong later arranged for Yang Guo and Ouyang Feng to meet and become a father-son relationship, probably in order to echo Yang Guo's biological mother and make the story echo before and after.
To sum up, the emotional entanglements in martial arts stories are often full of bad fate, and behind these complex relationship arrangements may contain the author's deep meaning of the story. This kind of intricate character relationships and emotional entanglements is what attracts readers to martial arts stories.