Chapter 18: The Sprout of Evil
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At this moment, the onlookers gathered more and more, and the square was already crowded, although the wind and snow were getting bigger, but everyone was lively and good to see, and no one left, only Li Shuchong was an exception.
He saw three strange-looking people in the crowd and recognized them. One was dressed in a big red robe, wearing a golden monk's hat, and his figure was extremely burly, half a head taller than everyone around him, and he was obviously a monk with a wise master; the other was of medium stature, with white hair like silver, but his face was smooth and without a trace of wrinkles, like a child, he was really childlike and white-haired, and his spirit was radiant, and he was wearing a kudzu cloth robe, and he was dressed in an unconventional manner, which should be the old monster Liang Ziweng; the third was a five-short figure, full of red silk, but his eyes were like electricity, and his upper lip was short and upturned, and he was undoubtedly a thousand-handed man Tu Peng Lianhu.
After witnessing Mu Nianci's love at first sight with Yang Kang, the follow-up fight plot was clear to Li Shuchong, so he was bored, and he decided to familiarize himself with each scene in advance and step on it everywhere.
Walking straight west from the square, it didn't take long to come to the West Street Gaosheng Inn. With the help of paper and pen, ask the store where Mu Yi lives, and it will be easy to find it next time.
Soon, Li Shuchong returned to the square, only to see that the fight in the field had ended, and the crowd of onlookers was gradually dispersing at this moment. Yang Kang made a gesture to a Taoist (Qiu Chuji's junior brother Wang Chuyi), said a few words, and then stepped on the horse led by the servant, and with a shake of the reins, the horse ran towards the crowd, but fortunately everyone dodged one after another, and the horse's hooves did not step on others.
Guo Jing turned around, immediately knelt down in the snow, and thanked the king for saving his life. Wang Chu lifted up with both hands, grabbed his arm, squeezed out of the crowd, and walked quickly towards the suburbs without touching his feet.
Li Shuchong did not follow Wang Chuyi and Guo Jing to the suburbs, he saw that the sedan chair that Bao Xiqiao was riding had already risen, so he hid his figure and secretly followed, preparing to go to Zhao Wangfu to explore the road before Guo Jing.
Li Shuchong followed everyone to a big mansion, only to see a vermilion gate, the flagpoles on the left and right sides are towering, two mighty and hideous jade lions are sitting cross-legged, a row of white jade steps leads straight to the front hall, the momentum is extremely heroic, and the plaque on the gate reads "Zhao Wangfu" three golden characters.
Li Shuchong followed Bao Xiqiao to the backyard, bypassed a bamboo fence, and three white-walled huts appeared in front of him. He looked at the furnishings in the room, and saw that the tables and stools were all made of rough wood, and the bed tents and utensils were all like those of the folk peasants, very rough and simple, with a rusty iron spear and a broken plow hanging on the wall, and an old spinning wheel for spinning in one corner of the room. Li Shuchong secretly sighed for Bao Xiweak, thinking about it carefully, she is also a hard-working person. As the saying goes: the husband is not guilty, but he is guilty. If a woman is too beautiful, she is easy to be remembered by men with bad intentions, and this Bao is weak only because of the overflow of compassion back then, saving a person who should not be saved, which led to her tragic fate.
Li Shuchong walked to the back garden again and found the place where Mei Chaofeng practiced, that is, the cave under the rockery. Because Mei Chaofeng did not understand the internal skills and practiced carelessly, resulting in paralysis of the lower limbs, Mei Chaofeng was still starving in the cave at this moment, and it would soon become one of the main battlefields for everyone to fight. In order not to startle the snake, Li Shuchong left for the time being.
While wandering around, Li Shuchong solved the problem of eating by the way.
Inadvertently saw Liang Ziweng coming out of the hall, and Li Shuchong followed Liang Ziweng to see the treasure snake. I saw that Liang Ziweng's pharmacy was full of all kinds of medicinal materials, as well as large and small bottles and jars, and there was a large bamboo basket next to the medicine shelf, and the basket was covered with a lid. Li Shuchong watched carefully, only to see that inside the basket was a big red snake, the snake body was about the thickness of the mouth of the bowl, and the whole body was coiled in the basket.
After finding the treasure snake, Li Shuchong was relieved, quietly withdrew from Liang Ziweng's residence, and began to think about how to deal with the old monster after sucking the snake's blood.
Li Shuchong considered a problem, if he sucked the snake blood, then Guo Jing would not be able to suck blood, and Guo Jing's internal strength would not increase. At this time, Liang Ziweng was not an opponent at all, and it was easy to be in danger. Considering that Liang Ziweng doesn't have much plot in the future, in order to protect Guo Jing, is it necessary to kill Liang Ziweng to prevent future troubles? Liang Ziweng still has a few opportunities to appear later, if Liang Ziweng is killed now, will it change the direction of the overall plot?
He suddenly remembered a question he had struggled with when watching "Shooting the Condor": Who is older Guo Jing or Huang Rong?
If according to the revised version (that is, the triptych version) of "Shooting the Condor" that most people have seen, when Yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian of Niujia Village bumped into Qu San who was being chased by officers and soldiers at night, Qu San had been living in Niujia Village for three years, and later when "autumn and winter came", Guo Xiaotian found out that his wife was pregnant, that is to say, Guo Jing had not been born at this time. And Qu San is Huang Yaoshi's outcast Qu Lingfeng - Huang Yaoshi's "Nine Yin True Scripture" was stolen, at this time, Huang Yaoshi broke the hamstrings of the remaining disciples in a fit of anger and expelled them from Peach Blossom Island, including Qu Lingfeng; Therefore, Huang Rong's birth and Qu Lingfeng's outlying island happened almost at the same time. Therefore, when Guo Yang and the others met Qu San, Qu Lingfeng had been out of the island for at least three years, Huang Rong was at least three years old, and Guo Jing did not exist yet, so Huang Rong was at least four years older than Guo Jing. Therefore, Guo Jing is not "Brother Jing", he wants to call Huang Rong "Sister Rong" instead.
In order to maintain Guo Jing's status as "Brother Jing", Mr. Jin Yong personally wrote and made great changes in the newly revised version of "Shooting the Condor" in the century. First of all, Jin Yong changed Qu Lingfeng to Mei Chaofeng's eldest brother (can't be called Qu San, it's a little awkward), about 15 years older than Mei Chaofeng (when he was on Peach Blossom Island, his wife died, the little silly aunt was born, and Huang Yaoshi also knew that the child was a little half-stupid); But Mei Chaofeng fell in love with his second senior brother Chen Xuanfeng, who was only two years older than him, Qu Lingfeng was jealous, and he pretended to teach Chen Xuanfeng a lesson by his master, and was driven out of Peach Blossom Island by Huang Laoxie in advance Later, Ah Heng silently wrote the Nine Yin True Scripture and caused a miscarriage to death, and Huang Yaoshi was furious, broke the foot bones of the other three apprentices, and expelled them from Peach Blossom Island.
This change seems to have solved the problem of Jing Rong's age, but a new problem has emerged. I feel that Qu Lingfeng is older than his master Huang Yaoshi, and the silly aunt is older than Guo Jing, and the silly aunt's mother died too early, and the five or six-year-old silly aunt is not stupid because she saw Qu Lingfeng's death......
Li Shuchong feels that the chain reaction caused by such an adaptation is too great, just like a person accidentally telling a lie, and then having to tell more lies to fulfill the original lie. In fact, there is no need to worry too much about some small problems in the novel, it should be like what Tao Yuanming said in "The Biography of Mr. Wuliu": "Good reading, don't seek to understand; "If you like to read, you don't need to put too much effort into every word.
In contrast, the 83 version of the "Condor" TV series adaptation of the original version seems very natural, adding "Huang Rong borrowed clothes to pretend to be leprosy", "Huang Rong delicacies to lure the seven princes", "Yang Kang was poisoned by the Mongols, Mu Nianci pushed the palace for blood", "Yang and Mu fell in love, fell in love and became married" and other plots, without harming the main story line, only some reasonable changes were made to the plot, and the characters did not deviate from the original work, some of the changes were to plump up the characters, and the ending of the story and the ending of the characters followed the routine of the original work, and did not violate the purpose of the original work.
Thinking of this, Li Shuchong decided not to kill Liang Ziweng and keep the plot basically unchanged.
You can't just let Huang Rong call him "Brother Jing", let Huang Yaoshi, Qu Lingfeng, and Mei Chaofeng be together, and there will be a big triangular ambiguity between master and apprentice, if you adapt it like this, how can you make Mei Chaofeng's husband Chen Xuanfeng's style embarrassing? How big is Chen Xuanfeng's psychological shadow? Could it be that the Black Wind Shuangsha will kill people without blinking in the future, because he was hurt when he was on Peach Blossom Island, and his psychology was distorted, so he planted the sprout of evil?