Border Town

"Border Town" is very strange. More than ten years later, this story is hard to forget. The two protagonists have always been elusive and I always want to figure it out. Watching it again, I still think the beginning is amazing. With just a few strokes and a smooth and concise long shot, the leisurely second generation ancestor, the trembling shopkeeper, and the alienated and slow shopkeeper child emerged. "Many-faced man" Xu Bing is a suspense, and the answer to the mystery is not revealed until the end. Wu Tuo is a man with many faces. At first he was a lustful and playful bastard son, and later he was the son of a scheming general. Xu Tong praised him as "a loyal minister and a loyal scholar", and Liu Xiaozhi labeled him a "loyal minister and a loyal scholar". He then lived and died with the bandit leader Ba Hongjiang. Wu Tuo's story also has two faces. Bright Line is the story of an arrogant second generation ancestor who does whatever he wants. The Dark Line is a story about holding quicksand in your hands, and the harder you work, the more futile it becomes. "Bright Line: The Story of a Naughty Child" Many people don't like Wu Tuo. Wu Tuo's personal history is almost a history of getting into trouble. Shoot at Chi Xiangguo, kill the Tatar prince, torture to death Li Junran, kill Meng Renqin, kill Chi Rui. The enemies and ourselves involved by him are even more countless. The level of naughty kid is comparable to Nezha. He seems to have never been taught and never repented. But Wu Tuo is obviously not a "dumb overlord" like Xue Pan. His troubles and unrepentance are not intellectual defects. He is very smart and aware of the serious situation around him. Maybe you have to change the angle to see clearly why Wu Tuo is so "bearish". Governor Liu sent people to protect Wu Tuo and at the same time released Tatar killers to take his life. Hu Shichang escorted him and also kidnapped him. The Eighth Prince protected him and also used him. There were many people protecting him, but they were protecting Wu Tongxun's son. As a human being, no one cared about Wu Tuo. He was said to be a troublemaker who had no regard for the life and death of others. Rather, he lives in a world where everyone betrays me and I betray everyone. The novel is written so casually that it is easy for people to forget that Ning Yun and Wu Tuo got along well, but they were an important part in forcing Wu Tuo's mother to death. In the grand game of court, people are not important. His mother is not important, Ning Yun is not important, Wu Huan is not important, and Wu Tuo is even less important. His getting into trouble, being ungoverned and acting arbitrarily, just for his own pleasure, might as well be said to be a kind of revenge for this situation. Wu Tuo's arrogance and domineering has another tragic meaning: he doesn't care about others, because no one cares about him. "Hidden Thread: The Story of Quicksand in Hands" Behind the history of the naughty child getting into trouble, it is easy to ignore, but lurking behind the scenes is a darker story. When Wu Tuo was eight years old, his mother committed suicide and his father left. When he was a teenager, his eldest brother Wu Huan protected him and died in battle. In the following years, he lay dormant and planned to kill his enemies, and also exhausted Shaoqin to death. His parents abandoned him in different ways, and the deaths of Wu Huan and Shaoqin were a heavy warning. Wu Tuo was obviously loved. Only a child who has been loved will run away as a revenge against his father and brother when he was a teenager. But love is lost in different ways. The more forced it is, the faster it disappears. He had tasted some of the good things in life. Even if he lost it again and again and was warned that he couldn't get it, Wu Tuo still stubbornly wanted to find it. The inexplicable desire to protect Xu Bing replicated Wu Huan's protection for him. At the end, Wu Tuo vomited a mouthful of blood. I once wondered whether his wishful love for Xu Bing had such weight. Later I understood that the death of my mother, Wu Huan, Shaoqin, and every relative was a victory of fate over the individual. Xu Bing's death is fate's last blow to the stubborn: you can't have love, you can never get it back. "Wu Tuo's Mask: Laughter" Vice President Hu uniformly protected Wu Tuo while not treating Xu Bing as a human being. It was Wu Tongxun's son who was being protected, but Wu Tuo, who indulged in his children's affair, should not exist at all. Deputy Dutong Hu's attitude was very straightforward and he would kill with his stick. Leaving a whole body is already an extra mercy. Wu Tuo protected Xu Bing as if he were protecting his own life, but never defended himself against such actions. At the beginning of the novel, Wu Tuo's domineering behavior is highlighted. Most people are like ants to him. Life and death are not important, and dignity is nothing. Everything depends on his happiness. Similarly, Hu Shichang's plan to kill Xu Bing with a stick is also of the same origin and is a typical approach in their world. Wu Tuo has long recognized his own reality. In this reality, the overall situation is more important, and people are not that important. He had learned enough lessons to resist this indifference. The Eighth Prince said that Wu Tuoren put honey in his mouth before turning around and causing trouble with evil intentions. From the moment he appeared on the scene, he rarely looked angry. He laughed when he was making fun of things, laughed when he was causing death, laughed when he was annoyed, laughed when he was extremely angry, and even when he was stabbed and trembling with fear, he still laughed. The closer death is to you, the more you laugh. Only when facing Xu Bing, I am really annoyed when I am annoyed, and I am really smiling when I smile. Laughter is a universal mask he found, with disdain and self-deprecation. Behind the smile is a deep disappointment in myself and in an environment from which I cannot escape. "The truth about Wu Tuo: barbaric" The "manliness" beneath the smiling face is the truth about Wu Tuo. The greatest tension in the character Wu Tuo is that he is roaming in all directions in the officialdom while desperately resisting the system. Peeling away the various tossing on the surface, you will find that Wu Tuo has two main demands. First: Don't be a chess piece. The appearance of the uninvited guest Xu Tong made Wu Tuo angry and lose his temper for the first time. Xu Tong represents the Eighth Prince. Even after escaping to the border town, the Eighth Prince and Wu Tongxun played chess in the distance, but Wu Tuo was still the chess piece that could not escape. This was what made him resentful the most. Wu Tuo's biggest taboo is not only facing his unkind father, but also his unwillingness to be a chess piece. Whether it's his father's or the Eighth Prince's. Second: Keep Xu Bing. Xu Bing, the Eighth Prince, his father, and his senior brother are all more important than anything else. Even Wu Tuo didn't have to take his own life, but he had to protect Xu Bing. It doesn't really matter who Xu Bing is, nor does it matter why Wu Tuo likes Xu Bing. Wu Tuo needs love in his life, true feelings and sincerity as a person, to resist the fate of being almost destined to not have freedom, let alone love, in an environment like officialdom. He knew that his environment was cold and calculating, that no one cared about everyone, and that the individual had to give way to the overall situation. To a large extent, this environment had become a part of him. Wu Tuo was definitely not a good person. He saw clearly and learned bloody lessons. He also learned to laugh. But he didn't admit it. Wu Tuo has a hundred masks. At first he looks like a bastard, and at second he looks like a scheming bastard. As he goes up time, the masks change, and at the bottom is a barbaric boy who was abandoned by his relatives and harbors resentment. After all, he is still a bastard, but he is a complex bastard. Neither clever nor rebellious can escape his identity, but he resists to the end and tries his best to hold on to a little love and freedom. "Why do you like Xu Bing?" Most readers, like Liu Xiaozhi, cannot understand Wu Tuo's feelings for Xu Bing. Wu Tuo is very colorful, while Xu Bing is a gray shadow, not even a little bit popular. Wu Tuo illuminates Xu Bing with his inexplicable preference like a bright light, but the readers only find some light benefits: handsomeness, intelligence, and a good-looking smile. These benefits are scattered in inconspicuous corners of the story, making Wu Tuo's willingness to risk his life seem inexplicable. It is also easy to overlook that among all the characters, Xu Bing is the only one who wants nothing from Wu Tuo. The story ends with the two protagonists meeting each other unconsciously when they were teenagers. Xu Bing came out of Doctor Mo's house; Wu Tuo was walking in the procession returning to Beijing with a coffin. Xu Bing wants nothing, I don't want it. In the long torture of life and death, he has recognized the shape of fate. Wu Tuo can't ask for it, but I want it. He silently accumulated anger and stubbornly prepared to take revenge, whether it was revenge for Wu Huan, revenge for his father's indifference, or revenge for fate. When they met, the direction of the story was already decided. As a protagonist, Xu Bing is too light and airy. As a contrasting group, Xu Bing and Wu Tuo reflect the silent and irresistible fate in different aspects. But in this irresistible situation, it is difficult for us not to be moved by Wu Tuo's stubbornness. Xu Bing couldn't help but be moved by Wu Tuo. Xu Bing had seen through early and had nothing to cling to, but uncharacteristically chose to leave Wu Tuo before his death, traveled thousands of miles, and returned to Hu Ji. Xu Bing asked Wu Tuo, if Shaoqin had not died in front of his eyes, would he not be so sad? Wu Tuo said that people will eventually die, and people will always be sad if they are sad. But it would be nice to be a little less sad. This is Xu Bing's rare tenderness towards the world. It is also the author's tenderness. For the naive, the desperate, the stubborn, those who resist fate.

This ending is so beautiful, but it's also really sad. I felt so choked up after reading it.

This is a particularly unforgettable story, but the ending makes me hate it???. When will the author be satisfied with letting them be together in the modern extra story? It's so cruel?

I haven't seen such a good article in a long time. The ending is so sad. Even though I read this episode after a long time, I still can't calm down at all.

I saw Kisara's announcement. Can the author write a new extra chapter?

I have already bought Jinse. May I ask, sir, will this book on Border Town be published?

Watching it for the second time, how come the rushing ending is completely different from the original one? Qili? . . Secretly I thought, comedy, tragedy, tragedy, comedy, whatever, is nothing more than a result that is easy to change due to people. I like it best, but the gray forest is the best description. . For me, the result is that I can read Qili's writing. . . Race it over and over again. . . Yes, I just thought that everything was gone in the spring breeze at that time, so I just thought that one day I would be able to meet again, and if I survived, there would be hope, right? .

I couldn't help but come up and read a lot of comments. I don't know why, but I don't hate Wu Tuo. I even said that I like this person very much. He has a distinctive personality. I hope the author will not affect his mood because of too many comments. Keep your style…

Really good writing, I really like it.

Good article, indeed good article, but can anyone tell me what this extra chapter means? Embarrassing...