troubled times or prosperous times. Men always hope that the woman they love can be happy and put it into action. All men in the world have this in mind. Japan is the case, China is the case. When it comes to Kiyosato, his misfortune is not simply due to being in troubled times, but rather that he seeks happiness in a way that goes against his wife's expectations.
Perhaps, a man in a troubled world inevitably has such a trace of restlessness in his heart. As the son of a junior samurai, Kiyosato doesn't think that he can bring happiness to his lover. So he came to Kyoto before the marriage, devoted himself to the class struggle at that time, and only hoped to make a great contribution, and after shining the lintel, he returned to his hometown to marry the woman who was full of white plum fragrance. Therefore, although he was reluctant to give up and knew that his swordsmanship was mediocre, he still held on to hope and went to the center of the turmoil alone. Start a family, start a business, start a family. This idea of the Japanese is obviously formed under the influence of Chinese culture. Europeans are far less obsessive than Easterners in this regard. It's a deeply ingrained concept. That's why Qingli still chose to travel far away despite the fact that both sides were wealthy.
In fact, Ba's requirements are low, and Kiyosato's existence is her happiness. When Kiyosato didn't realize it, or even though he realized it, he was still driven by the so-called samurai's heart, when the idea of going to Kyoto came up, and the seeds of tragedy were quietly planted. The act of finding happiness for a lover ends up burying the lover's happiness.
At that time, Kyoto was like purgatory. The forces of all parties hold their own justice tightly in their hands, and use violence as a means to adhere to their ideals. But the fact is that a considerable number of them are not very clear about the meaning of what they are doing, they are lost in the trend of the times, and they are caught in the Asura path of killing and being killed. It is often to collect corpses for others today, but do not know who will collect corpses for themselves tomorrow.
The nights in Kyoto are terrifying. One night, Kiyosato performed the task of escorting dignitaries. While walking, the lord asked about Qingri's upcoming marriage and congratulated him, but Kiyosato said he was ashamed. Now the army is in chaos, but he... The lord interrupted, no matter what the world is like, if you want to live a happy life, you don't need to think guilty. Kiyosato recalled the meeting with Ba before leaving. However, the appearance of the rumored executioner in the next second shattered his promise to return.
Seeing that the two people other than himself were solved by drawing a knife and cutting melons and vegetables, only despair and unwillingness remained in Qingli's heart. The boundless despair overwhelmed him. He didn't want to die, happiness was clearly within his reach, but now, he could only see the imminent death in his eyes. The strong desire to survive helped him dodge the knife that was supposed to kill, but a miracle would not happen, and he fell down after a while, although the last knife miraculously wounded the opponent.
I couldn't bear to see the man's face in the pool of blood, what kind of unwillingness it was. Obviously, happiness is in sight, he stretched out his hand forward, and before he touched the last illusion, his life was completely ended by drawing a sword.
With a single swing, the happiness of the three was cut off.
Ba
"plays with clear streams, or travels in forests, or picks bright pearls, or picks up green feathers, joins hands in high mountains and flowing waters, and boats on clear blue waves."
For Ba, the so-called happiness is probably like this.
However, this too quiet woman did not show an expression corresponding to the infinite joy in her heart when the man she loved proposed to her. Being clumsy in expressing her feelings, she was unable to make Kiyosato realize her true feelings, which invisibly encouraged the latter's determination to go to Kyoto. Even if she disapproved of the other party's trip, she still chose to remain silent.
Later, bad news came.
So, grief-stricken, remorse, and tears are washed away.
In the midst of inexhaustible pain, she finally develops the idea of avenging her lover, aiming to open a gap in her broken heart of remorse. After leaving home, she found an assassination organization subordinate to the shogunate, and under the arrangement of the leader of the organization, launched a revenge operation against Yudaosai, taking a chance encounter as an opportunity to approach Yudaosai and observe the opponent's weaknesses by his side.
When the terrifying executioner who had murdered countless people in our minds finally turned into this handsome half-year-old child in front of us, we didn't know what Ba's inner feelings were, and we couldn't capture anything from her expression. Even in the next interaction with Draw Dao Sai, she was still indifferent, indifferent, only the occasional murderous aura from the short blade she carried with her showed her revenge. As the contact deepened, she began to understand the drawing of the sword naturally, of course, as planned - able to grasp the other party's thoughts, but did not agree with it.
The tavern scene shows the conflict of ideas between the two. In this scene, Ba finally reveals to Kenshin, to the audience - at least verbally - the truth of her inner part. However, her accusations against Kenshin could not change the latter's pure and almost paranoid thoughts. Then, when the killing on the way to the Ikeda House started, she even begged him not to shoot, her eyes were so panicked and desolate - who are these people who are about to die? Who will be whose Ashura?
After the hellish bloody slaughter ended, the roulette wheel of fate changed in an instant. Ba and Kenshin began a peaceful rural life. It was during this period of life that Jian Xin's thinking changed, and Ba's revenge gradually faded. She no longer even carried that short blade with her. Yet her pain continued unabated. When the ultimate purpose of revenge is no longer clear, what is the meaning of her own existence? What about Kiyori? Forgiveness even means denying the existence of Kiyosato, who died tragically. How should she face the man she loved deeply and still loves deeply in her heart? But because of her restraint, not only the audience, but also the people around her can't touch the whole truth in her heart. All this can only be seen in that diary. One thing is certain: the pain caused by the contradiction continues to devour her already mutilated heart.
The distance between love and hate may really be only the thinness of a piece of paper. After a night of rejoicing, on the day of the plan's execution, Ba Jing tried to kill the leader of the implied organization he belonged to, thereby sabotaging the plan at the key point. Just imagine if she succeeds, what should she do next? It was almost certainly suicide, her heart was already tied, and only death could free her from the agony she had already reached to an inexhaustible state. Of course, she can't be successful. From the fact that she resolutely chose to bite her tongue to commit suicide after being knocked to the ground after being discovered by the leader, it can be seen that she has already made up her mind to commit suicide in advance, whether she succeeds or not.
The leader brought up Kiyosato after stopping Ba's suicide, forcing her to face the man who had passed away but was still irreplaceable to her at this already painful moment - she was even powerless to face it. She was also unable to face Kenshin, who was covered in bruises and wounds and fought the final battle with the leader. Her heart could not find an outlet.
No Exit. Only death. whose death?
The man in Jianxin
, after going through everything, finally chose to live, carrying the pain of himself and others. Ten years after the Restoration, what kind of mood did he look back on back then—that young man who had aged instantly in a certain winter when he was fifteen years old? Or the heaviness of the pain has made it impossible to recall the past?
simple. This word came to me overwhelmingly when I thought of Kenshin, and instantly drowned out his other attributes. Yes, Kenshin at the end of the curtain, that fifteen-year-old boy, his simplicity is so accessible.
Huang Ying once wrote a character called Yun Feiyang. The biggest regret in the life of this world's No. 1 master turned out to be "not much knowledge", because of this, he "can't see through many things, doesn't know how to deal with it, and understands that it affects the ability and method of expression, even if there is a chance It may not hold steady.”
When Kenshin was five or six years old, he took Bigu Qingjurou as his teacher. At the age of fourteen, he left the mountain and threw himself into the troubled times. In just a few years, he was filled with the arduous learning process of swordsmanship. Beyond swordsmanship, Bigu could teach him Not much, and what he could comprehend at that age was quite limited. Kenshin also said something like "The executioner doesn't need to read books" to Ba. However, the simplicity formed by the lack of cognition has just become the umbrella of his life as an executioner for more than a year.
Gui Zeng implored Ba to be the scabbard of Kenshin's razor-sharp blade, because he didn't want the latter to end up being an unstoppable mad sword - which was almost inevitable. It was Kenshin's own simplicity that prevented this development in the past year or so. However, after more than a year of killing, his confusion has deepened, and his simplicity has been unable to bear such a load, but he His age can't provide him with the same determination as Gui Xiaowulang and Takasugi Shinsaku. As the killing continues, waiting for his ending is either a complete collapse or complete loss, and the probability of the latter situation is far greater than the former. .
In fact, the appearance of Ba did not really bring an opportunity to Kenshin's transformation, and the killing continued. What changed him was his later life in the field.
After being lost for a long time and then getting out and watching from a distance, wouldn't it be better to grasp the essence of things?
At first, he joined the reformers with the mentality of saving the people from the fire and water. He does believe that reform can be achieved through violence, and he is willing to be the vanguard of violence. Killing to stop killing, and winning the happiness of many people at the expense of the happiness of some people, is all this right? right? His firmness faltered over time. Is violence really the only way to get peace? He couldn't see the end of the killing, let alone find an outlet for the contradiction. The sudden reclusive life undoubtedly gave him space and time to think.
However, how can a fifteen-year-old boy think of a solution to the predicament that the world has been unable to manage for thousands of years. Rather than saying that life in the field created a brand-new thinking for Kenshin, it is better to say that he affirmed or denied all the ideas he had ever had. He denies the uniqueness of killing as a means of peace, but at the same time affirms his fate as an executioner who can only follow this no-return road; The ability of the people to seek well-being, thus affirming his determination to make atonement after the end of the war.
Of course, these transformations are all accomplished in the company of Ba, who acts as a catalyst. It's just that he didn't understand her pain, this woman who was cut off by him with a knife, her pain was always silent. He even tried to give her happiness, how ridiculous, after he finally learned the hidden truth, everything fell into dust and happiness was nothing but an illusion. Wasn't his heart also tied?
The fruit of one tragedy becomes the cause of another tragedy, and if it is repeated, the pain is endless.
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