Sun Erniang is the heroine with the most distinctive personality in "Water Margin".
Under Shi Nai'an's pen, he portrayed Sun Erniang as a pungent, straightforward, brave, and righteous heroine, and gave her the nickname "Dominatrix".
It is precisely because of such a character setting that everyone thinks that the steamed bun shop she opened must not be simple.
Therefore, the steamed bun shop has become Sun Erniang's golden sign on the rivers and lakes.
Sun Erniang has a special business philosophy when she opens the "Human Meat Bun Shop", that is, she does not kill three kinds of people.
As for which three kinds of people they are, there is a great mystery in this.
There is a famous afterword: Sun Erniang opened a store - pit people.
Why?
This actually has a lot to do with the steamed bun shop opened by Sun Erniang.
Sun Erniang's steamed bun shop is not an ordinary steamed bun shop, she sells steamed buns, and the meat filling inside is very particular.
In the seventy-second episode of "Water Margin", there is a special introduction, Sun Erniang and her husband Zhang Qing stunned the businessmen who used to rest, and then tied them up and killed them, and the large pieces of good meat will be sold as yellow beef, and the small pieces of meat will be adjusted into bun filling, and then wrapped into buns.
If the business of the steamed bun shop wants to be prosperous, the location must be very important.
After thousands of choices, Sun Erniang and her husband Zhang Qing decided to open a store in a place called Cross Slope.
Cross slope, as the name suggests, is a very convenient traffic and a large amount of crossroads.
It is mainly people who come and go here for business and pleasure.
The most important thing is that these people are all alone, they don't drag their families with them, and they are easy to deal with and have no worries.
Therefore, Sun Erniang's steamed bun shop business is still very hot.
Zhang Qing, nicknamed "Cai Yuanzi", works in the back kitchen of the hotel and is not seen often.
Generally, this kind of restaurant opened by husband and wife is like this, the wife greets customers in the store, and the husband is in charge of cooking in the back kitchen.
However, Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang are not doing a serious business.
It is said that it is normal to open this kind of black shop, do business that makes money and kill, and worry about it all day long.
But Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing are unusual, smiling all day long, working hard to run the store, and they are still happy.
It's not uncommon to blatantly solicit business for the store.
Seeing this, everyone may wonder in their hearts, why would this husband and wife run a steamed bun shop that kills people and sells goods in such a prosperous section?
Why hasn't the government moved at all?
This has to talk about Shi Nai'an's ingenious design.
The background of the book is a relatively chaotic era, the emperor is incompetent, the traitors in the court are in charge, the folk peasant uprisings are everywhere, all the mountains are occupied by the green forest heroes, and the social order can be imagined.
And Sun Erniang's purpose in opening the store was to kill people and sell goods, and the main targets were the merchants and pedestrians who came and went at that time.
This is mainly for the sake of making money.
As the saying goes, if you do good things at home, it is difficult to go out everywhere.
Therefore, the pocket of a merchant who is away from home must be full of money.
In this way, a lot of wealth can be obtained quickly by killing people and stealing goods.
And Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing saw these two points before they made up their minds to open such a meat bun shop.
Since it is a business of killing people and selling goods, you have to hide people's eyes, and the bun shop is the best disguise.
Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing, one is responsible for stunning the guests, and the other is responsible for disposing of the corpse.
Selling large pieces of meat, chopping small pieces of meat into bun fillings, eating the meat in the stomach, breaking the bones and feeding them to the dogs or throwing them into the river, leaving no evidence.
In this way, even if the family cannot find anyone to report to the government, they will eventually have to be treated as a missing person.
After all, there were many fierce beasts in the mountains at that time, and even a strong man like Wu Song was almost eaten by a tiger, not to mention the merchants and tourists who were outside.
In addition, there were many bandits and uprisings at that time, and the government could not suspect Sun Erniang's shop.
In this context, the husband and wife became more and more rampant, and the bun shop became their hunting ground.
But an uninvited guest came that day, and this became a turning point in the fate of the husband and wife.
This uninvited guest is none other than Wu Song, the hero of the tiger fight.
However, at this time, Wu Song was escorted here and wanted to rest in the store.
Wu Song is a hero who fights tigers, and he has also been the head of the battle for a period of time, so it can be said that he has a certain amount of experience in handling cases and reconnaissance ability.
With this professionalism and intelligence, Wu Song stepped into the bun shop with his front foot, and he sensed that something was wrong with his back foot.
Therefore, after stepping into this store, Wu Song was fully prepared.
Wu Song is smart here.
If you don't see through it, you know that this is a black store, and you still break in.
Because, it is necessary to find out whether the black shop is behind the human flesh trade.
So, Wu Song deliberately used words to provoke Sun Erniang, so that she would show her feet.
Sun Erniang didn't kill Wu Song at first, she saw that Wu Song was escorted, she must be a poor person.
However, she never expected that Wu Song would take the initiative to provoke herself, so don't blame me for being ruthless.
Sun Erniang thought to herself: "Since you are bent on death, I will never be soft." ”
After she poured a full amount of *** into the wine she gave Wu Song, she sat back and waited for Wu Song to pass out.
In fact, Wu Song knows Sun Erniang's little tricks.
So, he will do what he wants, pretending to be smehered by the drug, and he wants to see what tricks you can play next.
At this time, Sun Erniang dragged Wu Song into the back kitchen.
Between the sword in his hand, Wu Song jumped up.
Sun Erniang** is Wu Song's opponent, and she was won by Wu Song in minutes.
At this time, Zhang Qing happened to come back, and when he saw this scene, he knew that he was definitely not Wu Song's opponent.
In order to survive, he had to kneel and beg for mercy, hoping that Wu Song would let them go.
After learning that it was Wu Song, the hero of the tiger fight, the husband and wife were full of admiration, and the three of them did not know each other, and Zhang Qing also confided the truth about opening the store while talking and laughing.
Only then did Zhang Qing explain to Wu Song that the purpose of opening his shop was to kill people, sell meat, and loot money.
However, they are not black-hearted people who kill people when they see them.
The couple had made a rule that there were three kinds of people who were not hunted.
At this time, Wu Song was puzzled, since they were all murders, why did they have a choice?
Zhang Qing said: "The wandering monks and Taoist priests, the dusty women who walk the rivers and lakes, and the criminals who have committed crimes and have been exiled, these three types of people will not be killed. ”
Speaking of which, we understand why Sun Erniang didn't have murderous intentions towards Wu Song at first, the reason is that Wu Song was an escorted prisoner.
Although Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing are engaged in illegal business, they still have a bottom line.
In Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing, we obviously see that they are contradictory.
They have both positives and negatives.
Talking about morality in the rivers and lakes, after becoming friends with Wu Song, he did everything possible to help Wu Song escape the predicament, which is positive.
Running a black shop, killing people and selling goods, ruthless, selling human meat steamed buns, but there is no turmoil in his heart, and he is not aware of his mistakes at all, which is the opposite.
Although Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang told Wu Song that they would not kill these three kinds of people, this was not the case, they still killed a wandering walker.
It can be seen that they did not have such "rules" from the beginning, at least when they killed the walker, there were no rules.
After killing the walker, perhaps it was unprofitable, or perhaps out of sympathy for the practitioner, Sun Erniang did not leave the body of the walker, but left the clothes of the walker.
This also laid an important foreshadowing for helping Wu Song escape from the predicament later.
In those days, everyone was adrift, and no one knew what would happen tomorrow.
They killed one walker and saved another.
When killing, it is crisp and neat, and when saving people, it is also unambiguous.
It is precisely this kind of contradiction that Shi Nai'an has created a character like Sun Erniang deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Although she is diametrically opposed to the traditional female image in ancient China, it is precisely because of this that Sun Erniang can eat well on the rivers and lakes.
It stands to reason that Sun Erniang is a character who is full of murder between her eyebrows, her eyes reveal the best character, she kills people without mercy, and she can smile in front of guests, she is an all-rounder.
But why didn't such a ruthless person kill these three kinds of people?
On this point, Shi Nai'an does not elaborate on this aspect in the book, but we have to analyze the secrets in detail.
First of all, it is said that monks and Taoist priests will not be killed.
Shi Nai'an explained in the book through Zhang Qingzhi's mouth that because monks and Taoist priests are generally cultivators and monks, they are still relatively taboo about wine and meat, and they will not be "overused", so they do not kill.
In fact, monks and Taoist priests rarely come to their kind of shops to make purchases.
Most of the cultivators walk the rivers and lakes with food from the karma to satisfy their hunger, and they often do not carry any money with them, which is unprofitable.
And the cultivation of people is relatively high, and they will not have quarrels with others, nor will they provoke Sun Erniang.
Therefore, they are not within the hunting range of Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing.
The second is the dusty woman who walks the rivers and lakes.
Zhang Qing said that these women go from south to north, they have no home, and they are just acting on the spot when they interact with people, and they earn hard-earned money.
Moreover, the women of Fengchen were originally a vulnerable group at that time, they were helpless and gave up their bodies to support themselves, if they killed these women for such a small amount of money, they would ruin the reputation of their husband and wife in the rivers and lakes.
Here the other side of Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing is exposed, that is, good face.
Walking in the rivers and lakes, everyone pays attention to leaving a good reputation, so that they can eat well.
Especially in "Water Margin", such as Song Jiang, it is because of his good reputation of "timely rain" in the rivers and lakes that he has been repeatedly rescued when his life is in danger.
A good reputation works in **, this is the capital of socialization.
In today's words, it is to save face and pave the way.
For this reason, of course, they will not do anything to have a bad reputation and destroy face.
chose not to kill the Fengchen woman for the sake of his own reputation, which obviously reflects that Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang excluded the Fengchen woman out of the need to protect their own interests.
Finally, there are the prisoners who were exiled for their crimes.
Zhang Qing said that among the prisoners, many of them are heroes who have been wronged, and of course they cannot be killed.
In fact, the reason why Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing did not kill prisoners was out of their own considerations, and they had always positioned themselves as heroes, so in their hearts, these prisoners were like-minded people with themselves, so they chose to let them go.
At this point, we can see that the three types of people that Sun Erniang and his wife chose not to kill have common characteristics.
First of all, none of them have too much wealth, whether it is a walker, a dusty woman, or a prisoner, they are all people living at the bottom of society, compared to those rich merchants, they can be regarded as poor.
And Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing's original intention of opening a human meat bun shop was to kill people and make money, and there was no need to start for such a penniless or poor person.
In addition, we can also see that the reason why Sun Erniang and his wife selectively kill people is actually to show a kind of mercy for the weak from the strong.
On the other hand, these three types of people are relatively weak groups.
But even so, it cannot be denied that Sun Erniang committed the crime, and the indiscriminate killing of innocents cannot be forgiven.
And Sun Erniang's personality is hot, once she sends **, she doesn't pay attention to the rules at all, just like she did to Wu Song.
One of the rules of "three no-killing" is that criminals who are exiled are not killed.
Although Sun Erniang didn't think about killing Wu Song at firstBut under Wu Song's verbal provocation, Sun Erniang's desire to kill was ignited.
At this time, she didn't care about the rules of "three don't kill" at all, and resolutely put *** into Wu Song's wine, and thought about Wu Song.
It can be seen that in Sun Erniang's world, rules actually don't work.
She didn't kill Wu Song because Wu Song had the ability, not because her Sun Erniang was soft-hearted.
Therefore, when they selectively kill people, they actually show a kind of mercy for the weak by the strong, but this has nothing to do with the goodness in human nature, it is just a cover for their own crimes.
Such a person is actually not a hero in the true sense.
Although there are factors in the social environment, we cannot choose to forgive them for their contempt and trampling on the lives of others because they seem to be principled.
Therefore, their so-called "three non-killings" are just a fig leaf.
It seems that there are rules, but in fact there are no rules.
Although they set up the rule of "three no-killing" when they opened the human meat bun shop, this could not cover up their crimes.
After all, the so-called "three no-kills" are just a fig leaf.
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