"White Deer Plain": Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin fight to the end, who is the winner?
I have read the novel "White Deer Plain" twice, and I never tire of it. On that quaint land, some people do whatever it takes to survive, some do not care about status for the sake of desire, some seek revenge for fame, and some resort to scheming for grudges... In short, Chen Zhongshi peels off the complexities of human nature and turns them upside down. .
By the end of reading, you will find that everyone is half human and half ghost. You're so close that no one can see.
After all, human beings are just an advanced animal. After being tamed by the so-called civilization, they become what they are in front of humans. But what's deep inside will never change.
As for the decades-long contest between Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin, who can say clearly whether they will win or lose?
01
Speaking of "White Deer Plain", the first person I can think of is Bai Jiaxuan. Just as the novel begins with sympathy for him, "Bai Jiaxuan later prided himself on marrying seven women in his life."
Yes, but six of them died. This is disgraceful in the countryside. It is rumored that he cheated on his wife, and everyone in the village whispered about him.
It wasn't until the woman in the sixth room died that the usually stubborn man finally gave up. There are three kinds of unfilial piety, the worst is not having children. When people are in despair, it is easier to leave their fate to the gods.
In desperation, after a heavy snowfall, Bai Jiaxuan was going to find a Feng Shui master to solve the mystery of his wife's death.
On the way, he saw an auspicious thing called a white deer by his knowledgeable brother-in-law Mr. Zhu. It's a pity that this rare and rare grass actually grows on Lu Zilin's land.
As a result, a plan took shape in Bai Jiaxuan's mind. Not long after, he used a trick to buy the land.
Once the land is obtained, good luck will follow. Soon, he married the seventh woman, Xiancao, and later gave birth to two sons and a daughter.
The ancients said: When marrying a wife, you should marry a woman with a prosperous husband. In Bai Jiaxuan's view, his wife Xiancao is undoubtedly such a woman. Of course, the "prosperity" that his wife has brought to Bai Jiaxuan is far more than that.
When Bai Jiaxuan got married, he relied on the poppy seeds given by his father-in-law and planted poppies behind the back of the villagers. Unexpectedly, these poppies made him rich. He renovated his old house and built a courtyard.
"The power of role models is infinite." In three to five years, the entire Bailuyuan was filled with poppies. Although the county magistrate banned poppy cultivation for three consecutive years, it still failed to stop people's eagerness to imitate and make a fortune.
Human desire is more like a poppy. Once it is contaminated, it makes people unable to stop.
However, due to the forced intervention of his brother-in-law, Mr. Zhu, all the poppies on the original site were destroyed. Ill-gotten gains will eventually become unavailable.
On the surface, the next step is to repair ancestral halls and establish schools for the villagers, but in fact, they hope that their names will be "as immortal as the ancestral halls and schools." Feudal ethics came together, but they were considered immoral and tried to prevent Tian Xiao'e from entering the ancestral hall; in the end, Tian Xiao'e died under Lu San's knife, but he chose to protect him...
This is Bai Jiaxuan, and his identity is The patriarch of a village who is kind, benevolent, generous, and has a big mind. At the same time, he is also a calculating, ruthless and indifferent feudal defender who is desperate for prestige and reputation.
"I think Uncle Jiaxuan's waist is too stiff and straight." It may seem like Hei Wa's unintentional words, but the meaning behind them is worth pondering.
To be too hard and too straight will inevitably lead to extremes. If there are extremes, there will be contradictions. If there are contradictions, there will be calculations, conflicts, and disputes. Human nature is a body of contradictions. There is another unknown self in everyone's heart, either good or evil.
02
There is a saying: The way of heaven is easy to reincarnate, no matter who the heaven bypasses. Throughout the novel, Lu Zilin is filled with tragedy.
He is greedy, vicious, selfish, lustful, and unscrupulous for the purpose, which is in sharp contrast to the seemingly upright Bai Jiaxuan.
From the beginning, his competitive nature destined him to "die" the fastest in this game with Bai Jiaxuan. In the end, it was not others that caused him to go crazy, but himself, his rotten heart that had long been eroded by his own greed and desire.
He and Bai Jiaxuan are both prominent figures in Bailu Village, but Bai Jiaxuan became the clan leader by virtue of hereditary inheritance. This incident was like a thorn in Lu Zilin's heart that he couldn't let go of.
After Lu Zilin committed adultery with Tian Xiaoe, although Bai Jiaxuan knew it well, it was only Tian Xiaoe and Goudan who were beaten. But in Lu Zilin's opinion: What you hit is my face.
People who are dark at heart always regard other people's tolerance as a mockery, and thus act more recklessly.
In order to retaliate, he asked Tian Xiao'e to seduce Bai Xiaowen. After the seduce was successful, he let Bai Jiaxuan know about it. He slapped the patriarch in the face without saying anything, and even took advantage of the situation to rob Xiaowen's house and buy his. land.
It’s just that if you do it yourself, you won’t survive. After Bai Xiaowen made a comeback, he was the first to deal with it.
Lu Zilin was imprisoned, and his wife sold the property to save him, and the buyer was Bai Xiaowen. Not to mention, when he witnessed the scene of his former companions being robbed and killed, he couldn't control himself for a moment, became incontinent and became mentally disturbed.
"Grandpa Tian, the Lu family still can't defeat the Bai family!" This sentence revealed the inner collapse and despair. To this day, he is helpless.
The man was stupid, he pooped and peed at home, and his wife was disgusted and locked him in the woodshed. When the cold wave comes after winter, I was frozen to death one night, and the feces and urine in my cotton pants had turned into ice...
No one would have thought that the man who once dominated the village would eventually become To die in this way is sad and deplorable!
Goethe once said: "If you are greedy too much, you will always suffer..." No matter who suffers, it is the bitter fruit you have brewed.
But it was such a person who introduced Bai Xiaowen to the security team when he was desperate and about to starve to death. Whether it was to show his "benevolence" or to feel guilty towards Bai Xiaowen, Bai Xiaowen turned around from then on.
If it was truly heinous, how could it be possible to give others a chance to turn over? Therefore, it is more appropriate to call him a villain.
03
"Cai Gen Tan" says: "If you are afraid of being known for doing evil, there is still a good way to do evil; if you are anxious for people to do good, then the good place is the root of evil."
03
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One is a hypocrite and the other is a real villain. The one hypocrisy and the other have created decades of grievances and hatreds between the Bailu family, and all the grievances and hatreds are just about one word: struggle.
Fight for interests, fight for fame, fight for reputation, fight for desires, and fight for greed. At the end of the fight, let’s not talk about who loses and who wins, but whose heart is more open?
Lu Zilin is naturally not open-minded. If he were open-minded, he would not go insane. Bai Jiaxuan was even less open-minded, especially when he apologized to Lu Zilin at the end: "Zilin, I can't help you. I will do this one shameful thing for the rest of my life, and I will repay your debt and make up for it in my next life."
Looking back on the past, did he really do this shameful thing? Of course not. How can a person whose apology is so hypocritical and untruthful possibly have an open heart?
The intrigues in this world are not on the battlefield, where you have to fight to the death to win or lose. The one who laughs last may not be the winner, and the one who quits first may not be the loser, it may also be a kind of relief...