Chapter 408 I will kill him that night
Fubao was sprayed with water in the face and he wiped his face with a frown.
Luo Jiu hurriedly said to Jin Lian: "I'm sorry, I suddenly remembered something urgent, we have to leave first."
Several people hurriedly stood up to get their things. Pan Jinlian's eyes darkened a little. She looked at their backs and bowed, saying, "So I am sorry for insulting your ears with my humble name."
Luo Jiu hurriedly said: "Don't say that, don't worry, we don't mean that, it's just... there's something urgent that needs to be dealt with first.
By the way, let me ask you, do you know Mr. Ximen now?"
"Master Ximen?" Pan Jinlian was stunned, not knowing how the topic came to this point. She said, "I have heard of you, but I have never seen you or known you."
Luo Jiu was delighted. "Don't get to know him yet. Let us sort it out. We'll come back tomorrow and tell you in detail."
In Pan Jinlian's confused eyes, the five people walked to the gate of the courtyard. Feng Qi turned around and warned: "The customs here are not good. If you meet a scoundrel in the market again, mention our name..."
Feng Qi just remembered as he was talking, "We don't have a name either?"
Luo Jiu said: "Go back and get it."
Luo Jiu said as he pulled Jin Lian, "Anyway, you should hide from those hooligans first, and it's best to wait until we come tomorrow to go out with you."
Jinlian smiled again, "It's okay, they just said a few harsh words, I won't listen. Come tomorrow, I'll make some snacks and we'll have a few drinks."
Cheng Yaoyao said: "Don't bother, let's go out to eat tomorrow."
As they walked out of the courtyard, Zhong Jialing turned around and saw Jinlian still standing at the door. She waved her hand and said, "Go back quickly, close the door, and beware of bad guys."
Jinlian smiled and nodded. The five of them silently wanted to return the same way. Soon they saw a man selling pancakes on his shoulder walking towards them.
He was short in stature, and seven or eight children surrounded him, clapping their hands noisily and shouting, "What a good piece of mutton, it fell into the dog's mouth."
Luo Jiu stopped, raised his chin and motioned everyone to look. He must be Wu Dalang.
The original novel says, "Wu Dalang is less than five feet tall." In ancient times, people often said "a man of seven feet tall," and seven feet was the normal height. "Eight feet tall" was considered a standard for a handsome man. When introducing people like Zou Ji and Pan An, they would specifically mention their height as "more than eight feet tall."
Wu Dalang was less than five feet tall, and was obviously shorter than others.
Shi Nai'an, the author of "Water Margin", hated him so much that he not only wrote that he was short, but also that he had a "ferocious face and a ridiculous mind". Everyone called him "Three-inch-tall tree bark".
What does the bark look like? Scarred and scabby. Not only is he short, but his facial features are also ugly. Ugliness is barely acceptable, but he is dark-skinned, has bad skin, and looks dirty. Just looking at him makes people feel upset.
At first glance, Wu Dalang looked like someone who had been bullied a lot. Even though he was surrounded by a group of naughty kids, he didn't dare to hit or scold them. His expression was so numb that he didn't even seem angry.
Fu Bao went up and kicked each of them, pushed them aside, and cursed, "Go home, if I see you again, I'll slap you in the face!"
The naughty kids covered their butts and ran away.
Wu Dalang grinned and said, "Girls, would you like to buy some pancakes?"
Fu Bao looked at his big yellow teeth and said through gritted teeth: "Buy...buy two."
"Okay, okay, five cents each." Wu Dalang opened the shoulder pole and wrapped two hot pancakes in paper.
Fubao didn't have change, so he gave him a piece of silver and said, "No need to change."
Wu Dalang weighed the silver and said hurriedly, "How can this be possible? This silver is worth at least a hundred coins. Wait a moment, I will give you the change."
He opened his purse and began to count the money. Luo Jiu came over to take a look and saw that there were still a dozen or so steamed buns left in his basket. He simply said, "Don't bother looking for them. Pack all the buns for us and close the stall early."
Everyone was carrying Wu Dalang's cakes and had no desire to go shopping. They found a silver shop to exchange some coins, bought some snacks for Fubao, and hurried home.
After walking through the foggy woods and returning to our yard to put down our things, the first thing we did was to flip through the books and read the original works in silence.
Cheng Yaoyao spoke first, "Should we take care of this?"
Luo Jiu said firmly: "Yes. The system task is to change 80% of the original plot. There are many things to change. This matter is easy to manage. If you don't manage this matter, other things will be more difficult to manage. Besides, I think Jinlian and Wu Dalang are really not a good match."
Zhong Jialing slammed the table and said angrily, "It's more than just a mismatch. It's like a flower stuck in cow dung. I glanced at him a few times today and now I feel uncomfortable.
How did Pan Jinlian tolerate Ximen Qing until she met him and then killed him?
If it were me, I would have killed him the night I married him. I would rather go to jail than give in. If he touches me, I feel like vomiting.
How could she bear to sleep with such an ugly and short man every day?"
Feng Qi hurriedly said, "You shouldn't marry someone like that."
Luo Jiu sighed, "It's not what she wants to get married, isn't it written in the original novel?
Jinlian was originally a maid in a wealthy family in Qinghe County. The master of the family took a fancy to her and pestered her, but she refused and told the mistress, which offended the master. The master held a grudge against her and deliberately treated her badly.
The master married her to Wu Dalang, who was looked down upon by everyone. Not only did he not ask Wu Dalang for a penny, he even gave him some dowry to force Wu Dalang to marry her.
Cheng Yaoyao said angrily: "If you can't get it, just destroy it. Men are petty-minded. This old man is worse than a beast."
Fu Bao broke open Wu Dalang's pancake and fed it to Da Mei. He asked, "When should we take care of it? When Ximen Qing shows up?"
Luo Jiu analyzed: "No, that Ximen Qing is not a good guy either. He has many wives and concubines at home, and he also schemes to steal other people's wives. He has low character, but he just has some dirty money.
Let's now take a bird's-eye view, review the plot, and re-evaluate this matter.
The old man failed to get his way, so he married Jinlian to Wu Dalang for revenge. He was deliberately harming people. He succeeded in his revenge and was the beneficiary, while Jinlian was the victim.
Wu Dalang is a so-called honest man. Although he did not do anything evil subjectively, he objectively got a beautiful wife. He is also a beneficiary, and Jinlian became the victim.
The affair was caused by Ximen Qing's love for Pan Jinlian. Wang Po accepted Ximen Qing's favor and tricked Jinlian into doing needlework for her so that they could have an affair. The beneficiaries were Ximen Qing, Wang Po and Jinlian, and the victim was Wu Dalang.
Wu Dalang's death was also a conspiracy of the three. In the end, Wu Song killed them all and ended the story.
Throughout the whole process, Jinlian seemed to be involved from the beginning to the end, but she was never able to control the direction of things. She was entangled by the master and married to Wu Dalang, all of which were passive.
After sleeping with Ximen Qing at Wang Po's house, Wang Po deliberately jumped out to act, pretending to say something like "I asked you to make clothes but you came to steal men", which frightened Jinlian to kneel down and beg for mercy. She forced Jinlian to promise her to meet with Ximen Qing every day, otherwise she would tell Wu Dalang.
I thought that even if Jinlian was willing to do this, she was forced by Wang Po's evil scheme and was only half-hearted.
The truth was revealed, and they were afraid that Wu Song would come back and not obey them, so they simply killed Wu Dalang. Wu Dalang was a victim, but Pan Jinlian was also a victim to a certain extent.
If we talk about her black spots, apart from the indisputable fact of murder, the others are nothing.
Whether it was having an affair with Ximen Qing or seducing Wu Song, wasn't it just cheating on a man? At that time, men could openly have three wives and four concubines, and could flirt with women on the street at will, but at that time, cheating on a woman was considered a serious crime, which was too hypocritical.
Being forced to marry a man like Wu Dalang, the key point is being forced, should she still be obedient and be a chaste and heroic woman? If there is a choice, who would marry Wu Dalang? "
Feng Qi said hurriedly: "That's right, luckily she hasn't met Ximen Qing yet, and Wu Dalang is not dead yet, how can we intervene?"
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