As a literary masterpiece, "Water Margin" carefully creates 108 characters with distinctive personalities.
Although Song Jiang, the boss of Liangshan, is the soul of the book, stringing together the fate of the entire Shuibo Liangshan, compared with the tortuous writing of Song Jiangming's praise and disparagement, Mr. Shi Nai'an's preference for one of the heroes is undisguised.
This character is Wu Song, and Mr. Shi described Wu Song's main deeds in detail in ten chapters, so some literary critics jokingly called Wu Song "Wu Shihui".
Presumably, readers have different evaluations of Song Jiang and controversy, while most of the opinions on Wu Song are positive or even just.
I have to say that Wu Song is a very important character in the entire Water Margin, and some of the stories surrounding him are also the most widely circulated and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Throughout his life, there are two biggest mistakes that have to be mentioned
Before we elaborate, let's first understand the personality traits of this tiger hero.
There are several characters in "Water Margin" whose personalities are particularly complex, Song Jiang counts as one, Wu Yong counts as one, and Wu Song counts as one.
Wu Song's character has two outstanding points.
Most readers' evaluation of Wu Song is that he is chivalrous and righteous, and likes to draw a sword to help when the road is uneven, but this is actually a misunderstanding.
He is different from Lu Zhishen, Lu Zhishen likes to fight injustices and save people with righteousness.
But Wu Song basically didn't care much about the lives of others.
Wu Song's heart is very hard-hearted, lacks empathy, and he doesn't like to meddle in things, he feels that other people's bullying is someone else's business, and it has nothing to do with him.
The reason why he is cold-blooded is because of Wu Song's background, he is the lowest grassroots.
lost his parents since he was a child, and followed his dwarf's brother to rely on each other, tasting the warmth and coldness of human affection, and the world was hot and cold.
When he and his brother were bullied, how could anyone help them?
He grew up relying on only a pair of fists.
The struggle between the bottom of this world is often the most brutal, truly embodying the law of the jungle.
So how could Wu Song, who had never experienced kindness, return kindness to the world.
The world kisses me with pain, and I also sing with the world", Wu Song does not have that realm.
He believes in the principle that as long as you are good to me, you are a good person
As for how you treat people, it has nothing to do with me
This is exemplified by his relationship with Grace, for example.
Wu Song was sent to Mengzhou for killing Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian.
The prison cell in Mengzhou is simply a hell on earth, and the father and son in charge are demons, not only abusing prisoners with cruel means, but also bullying the market.
But the father and son were very good to Wu Song, not only entertaining him with good food and drink, but also arranging a single room with good conditions for him to live in.
Of course, they were good to Wu Song because they wanted him, they took a fancy to Wu Song's kung fu and wanted him to be a thug.
Because Shi En holds the power of life and death of prisoners, he uses some prisoners to do things for him, collects protection money in the area of "Happy Forest", and becomes the boss there.
Because of the huge profits, a ** Zhang Tuanlian also wanted to do this, but it was inconvenient to come forward, so he instructed Jiang Menshen to take the "Happy Forest" over.
Shi En didn't have a way, it just so happened that Wu Song was assigned here, so he started Wu Song's idea, hoping to help him recapture the "Happy Forest".
Wu Song not only gladly accepted this kindness, but also became a brother with Shi En.
This is the origin of "drunken beating Jiang Menshen".
Wu Song helped Shi En recapture the "Happy Forest", can you say that this is chivalrous and righteous, and the fight is uneven?
To put it bluntly, neither side is a good person, it is a dog-eat-dog, black eats black, so what Wu Song did has nothing to do with chivalry and righteousness.
He has never sought justice for those prisoners who have been abused by his father and son, and he has an attitude that he does not care about himself.
Wu Song is such an indifferent person, he has not experienced too much warmth in his life, he has already given all his efforts to live, and there is no extra love to spread to the world.
This is the difference between him and Lu Zhishen.
Wu Song is a very suspicious person, and he will not trust others easily
Sun Erniang and his family opened a black shop in the cross slope, and Lu Zhishen was defenseless when he arrived there, and soon fell on the road and almost lost his life.
However, Wu Song easily saw through Sun Erniang's tricks and completed the countermeasure.
I have to say that Wu Song walks the rivers and lakes all the year round, has a very keen sense of smell, and has an instinctive heart to defend against people.
Wu Song is suspicious, and the most typical is Jingyanggang fighting tigers.
The shopkeeper kindly reminded him that there was a tiger on the hill, but he suspected that the shopkeeper was making up nonsense to make money in the middle of the night.
When he arrived at Jingyang Gangxia, he saw the prompt on the tree "There is a tiger ahead", Wu Song still didn't believe it, and still felt that it was the trick of the store owner, and wanted people to stay in the store and cause harm in the middle of the night.
This is Wu Song's logic, so guarded against others, probably because as the bottom of the society, he sees too much darkness.
He was never stupid and sweet.
After talking about Wu Song's personality characteristics, let's get down to business and talk about two mistakes in his life.
This first mistake is to mistakenly believe in a sinister villain Zhang Dujian, and the "blood-spattered Mandarin Duck Tower" has also become Wu Song's most criticized stain.
Wu Song, who was born at the bottom, has a natural reverence and yearning for the government.
Because he was too eager to enter the system, he didn't doubt it at all when Zhang Dujian courted him.
After all, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a grassroots like him.
Zhang Dujian was very good to Wu Song, he was promoted, he was a banquet, and he planned to marry the beautiful Yahuan Yulan to him, Wu Song was naturally grateful to Zhang Dujian.
Unbeknownst to him, he had fallen victim to the rivalry between the two factions.
Zhang Dujian is Jiang Menshen's brother-in-law, and he shows favor to Wu Song in order to gain his trust, and then find an opportunity to get rid of him.
Zhang Dujian finally succeeded in setting up a bureau, allowing Wu Song to eat the lawsuit in vain.
Not only that, Zhang Dujian also wanted to kill Wu Song on the way to the dispatch, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and never suffer in the future.
But on Feiyunpu, Wu Song completed the counter-kill and learned the whole truth.
This ** completely angered Wu Song, and also aroused the demon in his heart.
In a fit of rage, he rushed back to Mengzhou City overnight and slaughtered Zhang Dujian.
Prior to this, although Wu Song was indifferent by nature, he did not kill innocents indiscriminately, but in the Mandarin Duck Tower, he killed a total of fifteen people, including the old ** child, in one go, and the knives were all cut blunt.
Later generations felt that Wu Song's evaluation of this paragraph was too much and too ruthless.
However this. The world has never felt the same way, and I don't know if we can still be rational in the same situation.
In extreme cases, it is easy for people to bring out the animalistic side, and this side is destructive.
The second mistake Wu Song made was to mistake a brother, and finally went from being intimate to being a stranger
And this brother is the boss of the heroes of Liangshan, Song Jiang, nicknamed "Timely Rain".
The two met when they met.
At that time, Wu Song had a fight with someone because of drunkenness, mistakenly thought that the man was dead, and fled to Chai Jinfu to hide for fear of a lawsuit.
But the people in Chai Jin's mansion were very cold to him, and no one cared about him when he was sick.
And Song Jiang took refuge in Chai Jinfu because he killed Yan Poxi.
Song Jiang saw Wu Song's superiority and admired him.
not only took money to make clothes for Wu Song, but also greeted him with warmth and took care of him in every way.
These actions made Wu Song, who was snubbed in Chai Jinfu, quite grateful, and felt that Song Jiang was the real brother.
When Wu Song learned that the person he had beaten was only unconscious and not dead, he was anxious to leave Chai Mansion and go back to visit his brother.
Song Jiang went to see off Wu Song, and he was reluctant to send him away.
It wasn't until Wu Song disappeared at the end of the road that he turned around and left.
You said such a drama, can Wu Song not be moved?
Chai Jin raised Wu Song for more than a year, and spent a lot of silver, but there were no benefits.
And Song Jiang said a few sweet words and said goodbye for thousands of miles, and easily won Wu Song's friendship.
In fact, when he first went to Liangshan, Wu Song was still a die-hard fan of Song Jiang, and resolutely supported Song Jiang as the boss of Liangshan.
But as time went on, the contradictions between the two gradually became apparent.
And the biggest difference is that there are different views on Zhao'an.
Song Jiang was bent on being recruited, and he was extremely eager for fame and fortune within the system.
As a former member of the system, Wu Song has long lost the idea of returning to the system, which is the fundamental difference between the two.
After being recruited, Wu Song followed Song Jiangnan to conquer the north and participated in all the battles.
He made great achievements, but when he attacked Fang La, he was injured in his left arm by a flying knife.
Wu Song, who lost his left arm, chose to let go completely, he gave up the world, gave up his fame, and became a monk in Liuhe Temple.
Song Jiang only said lightly about Wu Song's choice: "Let your heart follow."
Song Jiang was so indifferent, perhaps because he felt that Wu Song had become a cripple and had no use value.
may think that this result is the best arrangement for Wu Song.
But no matter what Song Jiang thinks, their friendship has come to an end.
The two who were originally different from each other eventually became strangers.
In Liuhe Temple, only Lin Chong accompanied Wu Song
At this time, Lin Chong had already suffered a stroke, and Wu Song took care of him for half a year before passing away.
Two people with very different backgrounds end up on the same path and come to the same destination.
The second half of Wu Song's life was peaceful and peaceful, he was just a one-armed man, and he was no longer anyone's tool.
This tranquility also made him a rare long-lived person among the heroes of Liangshan.
Looking back on Wu Song's life, it can be called colorful and magnificent.
It also left many wonderful stories for future generations.
Although the two mistakes he made cost him dearly and rewrote the trajectory of his fate, life is a choice, and everyone has to pay for it.
And he finally chose to retreat in the Liuhe Temple, from the splendor to the silence, I think it is a very wise choice.
Looking at the fate of other heroes of Liangshan, it can be said that it was this choice that kept him away from disasters and reaped unprecedented peace.
My peace of mind is my hometown", Qingdeng Ancient Temple is Wu Song's peace of mind, and it is also his best destination