Ancient Ways of Grudges

"Ancient Road Enmity" was revised several times before it was put into the palace of online literature by the author. The textual descriptions in each chapter can be said to be carefully thought out and try to avoid mistakes and pretentiousness.

An era has its shadow. Among the vast mountains, many shadows flash in my mind. At the end of the autumn of 2021, I was on the long-abandoned ancient road, looking for traces of the ancient road that had faded into the dust of history, and then suddenly came up with the idea of ​​writing "Grudges and Enmities on the Ancient Road", intending to expose the generally dusty stories to the world. Since I started writing "Ancient Road Enmity", the image of a mountain hunter has lingered in my mind. That hunter has a lot of human elements in it. In the mountains, hunters who often go into various dangerous situations are the most agile. At the same time, they have formed a tradition of helping each other in dealing with various dangerous situations, because only in this way can they not be overwhelmed by nature and man-made dangers. Oiwa, one of the protagonists in the novel, is a typical representative of this group of hunters. He has lived in the mountains for a long time, and he combines love and hatred. He is a heroic and lonely man who almost dies on a cliff while rescuing a workman. What saves him is his wisdom and skill. However, his loyalty and enthusiasm for the people in trouble are not tolerated by his wife Cui'e, who loves vanity and is full of fantasies about living a life of a master. Dayan's emotional setbacks collided with Jianghu's loyalty, causing a fierce emotional conflict between him and his wife Yi'e, who was a laborer. Li Julin, a laborer, was a victim of this era. After being rescued from a robbery on the ancient road, his physical disability prevented him from living a normal married life. Yi'e, who was still young, was undoubtedly a widow. Traditional women's ethics and attachment to their children had to make him struggle psychologically between Li Julin and Dayan. This is a bright line in "Ancient Road Enmity". Dayan has no children, so he picked up an abandoned baby from a tree hole and raised him. He named the abandoned baby Shudong. Dayan rescued Li Julin, a prostitute, which aroused the robbers' wanton revenge. The picker's injury was urgent, so Oyan had no choice but to seek help from Master Qingyun of the nunnery. Master Qingyun is also a person with a warm heart. He helped Dayan transfer the injured, but he was informed by the robbers' spies, who led the robbers to burn the nunnery and took Qingyun away. In order not to harm his apprentices Fuchen and Dayan, Qingyun jumped off a cliff and died. In the process, Dayan met Shudong. When father and son met in this situation, Dayan thought that Shudong had become a bandit, and he was extremely angry at this time because he hated evil. Shudong's identity was finally revealed by Qingyun's apprentice Fu Chen: Shudong was still an underground party member, and he was sent by the underground party. On the one hand, he wanted to prevent the big-mouthed robbers from endangering the mountain people and passing business travelers, and on the other hand, he wanted to prevent the big-mouthed bandits from falling into the reactionary camp of the Kuomintang. At this point, a hidden thread for the underground party to stabilize the people and ensure the smooth flow of ancient roads emerged. Hunter Rock is the intersection of these two lines. Dayan's adopted son Shudong and the big-mouthed bandit leader Green Faced Beast are actually brothers. Their father was also a hunter in the mountains. The security guard brought people to rob their beasts. However, the security guard was overly excited and the road was slippery, so he fell into a urine puddle. The Bao Zhang falsely accused their father of harming him and took their father away. Their father has disappeared since then. The Bao Zhang's son coveted their mother's beauty and forcibly humiliated her. After sending her infant son to a tree hole, the mother hanged herself. The five-year-old green-faced beast became an orphan and fend for itself in the mountains. After the green-faced beast developed its skills in a dangerous environment, he killed the Baochang and his son, fell into the trap and became a bandit, and eventually became the big boss with a big mouth. Relying on the kung fu taught by O Yan and his extraordinary wit, Shudong became the second boss of Big Mouth and became the backbone of the green-faced beast. The two brothers did not know each other's life experience at this time, but there was a feeling of sympathy for each other. Such a heart-wrenching experience made the green-faced beast hate the government to the core, although it did not dare to openly confront it. However, he hated his subordinates' activities of colluding with the government and showed no mercy. This is exactly why the underground party organization sent Shudong to infiltrate. For the hunters in the mountains, they are a group of people who live in the gap between the government and the robbers. Oyan's temperament has already become a thorn in the eyes of the robbers, and he wants to get rid of him quickly. In addition, he saved the troubled picker this time, which will lead to the disaster of death. Cui'e, who is cheating on Hongxing, hooks up with the green-faced beast. Cui'e plans to lure Dayan into taking the bait, and cooperates with the bandit to get rid of Dayan, and then becomes her wife of Yazhai in a grand manner. At this time, Shudong took advantage of his identity as Da Zui Ao and cleverly used the cover of night to help Dayan escape. Soon after Cui'e arrived in Dazui'a, she was not satisfied with her status as the wife of Dazui'ao. She used her beauty to win the favor of the director of the regiment defense bureau, and constantly traveled between the county and Dazui'a in disguise. When Dayan learned that his wife had conspired to kill him, he became furious and vowed to cut her into pieces. The underground party learned of the situation and sent people to spy secretly to prevent Dayan from acting recklessly. When Li Julin's people and goods failed to return, the owner came to Li Julin's house, robbed his property, and forced his father-in-law to death. Yi'e was so heartbroken that she spent all her family's wealth to bury her father-in-law. She entrusted her young son Dong'er to her neighbor Zhang's sister-in-law, and then took her young daughter Ju'er with her to find her husband. Yi'e went through many hardships and finally found her husband with the help of the underground party. After the couple reunited, Li Julin lost his normal physiological functions due to injury, which made Yi'e feel like a widow. Dayan and Yi'e are secretly in love. But Oiwa's love was deep and profound, and his feelings could not be broken through a piece of paper, so he fell into depression. The tree wants to be still but the wind doesn't stop. The bandits came to the door to cause trouble. The bandit leader admired Yi'e's beauty and wanted to disrespect Yi'e. Li Julin tried his best to protect him, but he was disabled. In addition, the bandits were numerous and powerful. Li Julin and Yi'e were in tears when faced with the rape. At the critical moment, Dayan stepped forward. Li Julin's physical shortcomings are also very clear to him. As a result, his temperament changed drastically, and he got angry for no reason from time to time. Yi'e, who has a gentle temperament, could not bear the double oppression from her husband in the end. As a result, the young Ju'er was caught in the middle and was forced to endure family disputes that were often filled with the smell of gunpowder.

The conflict caused by a foot picker being in danger moves the plot forward like waves.

A novel requires one attractive scene after another. The setting of the scene progresses as the storyline progresses. The story of "Enmity and Enmity on the Ancient Road" takes place in a mountainous area with steep terrain, more than an hour's journey from the ancient county seat. The setting of the scene must not only conform to this characteristic, but also be consistent with the historical background formed in a specific era. Therefore, the selection of scenes is not something that can be done at random, but depends on the author's on-the-spot experience and investigation. The scene setting in Chapter 25, "Secret message in the nunnery, everyone cleverly picks up the expert" is well-intentioned. If you read it carefully, you will find that it was not only restricted by the very secretive nature of the underground party work at that time, but also by the complicated social environment.

The plot of this novel is full of ups and downs, with a worker in danger and a hunter coming to the rescue. The plot is thrilling. The plots of robbers causing trouble, monk Qingyun standing up to protect each other, the hunter's son falling into the grass and becoming a bandit, the father and son sharing the same hatred of the enemy, picking up work to make a living, the mountain bandits causing trouble, the hunter's wife Hongxing betraying the enemy, and the internal fighting in the bandits' den are all intertwined. The novel's environment description, action description, and language description echo each other, making the characters lifelike.

In the first chapter, the plot of hunter Oyan trying his best to rescue Li Julin, a laborer who was in trouble on the edge of the cliff, can be said to be a masterpiece of steady writing. The verbal description of characters plays an immeasurable role in portraying the characters. Dayan's answer to Xiaobi's decision to save or not to save him was very precise and meaningful. In many places, you can appreciate the author's control of details, which is quite skillful. For example, Cui'e's encounter with a vicious dog is a detail that vividly depicts the confrontation between humans and dogs. All in all, the novel has many highlights and is worth reading.

The plot of the story is complicated and confusing, and the method of character description is novel.

The plot of the novel is delicate and vivid, the content is rich and colorful, and it is full of artistic appeal.

The general background of the novel is the eve of the liberation of a certain county. The author vividly shows the life scenes at that time through plots such as workers in danger, hunters rescuing, and everyone assisting. It warned people about the social environment at that time: it was the darkness before dawn, officials and bandits were colluding, and people's lives were difficult. But in this dangerous social background, there will always be a ray of light shining in the darkness, and that is the oil lamp lit by those who welcome the dawn. In the dangerous natural environment, hunter Dayan's simple truth of "saving others is equivalent to saving yourself." Made him rescue Li Julin from the edge of the cliff regardless of his own safety. And when he learned that Li Julin was seriously injured, he never abandoned him and tried his best to avoid danger for him and find a place where he could rest and recover. Hunter Oiwa can be said to be an important character in this novel. "Relieving danger, relieving the poor, and saving the common people" is the Buddhist disciples' sentiment of helping the world. There are many Buddhist disciples in the novel. Masters and apprentices such as Qingyun and Fuchen, Baiyun and Manchen, etc., All practice the creed of "saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda" in this dangerous world, saving lives and healing the wounded. There is also a group of people who, regardless of personal life or death, are active on the ancient roads. They consciously practice their beliefs and trust each other. They build a safety barrier for the people in this dark society and provide strong support for the smooth flow of the ancient roads. Shudong, Baiyun, Fuchen, Manchen and Zheng Xin are the main representatives of this group of people. The bandits who robbed homes and homes added a degree of darkness to this dark society. However, the origins of bandit members vary widely, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party do their best to compete for the power of the bandits. Underground party organizations use certain channels to break into bandit gang organizations to ensure that the Dazuiwa bandits are generally inclined toward justice. As a representative of dark forces, there are few specific descriptions of the government and local disadvantaged forces. They are mainly expressed through the description of the fate of the characters in the novel. Such writing is conducive to allowing readers to expand their imagination and enhance the artistic sense of the novel.

I like the ups and downs of the plot, and the story is intertwined.