Nine master looked at the poison in front of him, with a suicide note in his hand. He only smiles. He is more cruel and knows how to kill people than Grandpa Four. In fact, if it weren't for kuya's love of jade sandalwood, how could this heart be punished? The ninth master is undoubtedly poor. He never got what he wanted. He gets nothing, whether it is power, freedom or complete love.
It is said that the dragon gave birth to nine children, and each child is different. In "Walking on Thin Ice", the sons of Emperor Kangxi are like this. No matter the protagonist group, the prince is fatuous, the third child is incompetent, the Laojiu viper, the 10th straw bag, and the 13th free and easy, no matter which elder brother, it is very distinctive in the story. As Ruoxi saw, the characters in those books came to life and changed from a symbol to a figurative character, which is perhaps the most exquisite of the author's writing skills. Symbols are always easy, and people are always complicated. Among these big brothers, the most obvious symbolic figure is Master Jiu.
In the story, Ruoxi crossed to the Qing Dynasty, and the first eldest brother he met in the Eight Lords House was not the Eight Lords, but the Nine Lords. At that time, Ruoxi looked at the "poisonous tongue" nine masters in the book with a novel face. Little did she know that this man could actually give her a fatal blow. In Ruoxi's eyes, right and wrong always have their own positions. But only nine masters, he seems to have no heart, and the poison tongue is even more poisonous in his heart. He neglected his life, killed the green grass and sacrificed jade and sandalwood. But is this really the case?
It is no exaggeration to say that kuya is the most "villain" who is treading on thin ice. The nine sons seized the office, and the nine lords followed the eight lords and became the people of Tao. He killed people, set fires, took bribes and perverted the law, which can be said to be evil. Such a master of nine paragraphs is hateful, but it is a bit shallow to describe a person only with "bad". I think if this role is simply "bad", there will be no followers like Yu Tan. Master Jiu is a sinister and suspicious person, but if we read this character carefully, we will find out why he became "Master Jiu".
As we all know, Jiuye is actually not a good eldest brother among Kangxi's sons. Based on this, he formed an alliance with Eighth Ye early. In fact, in "Walking on Thin Ice", it is also difficult for us to study the past of nine lords and eight lords. How did these two people get together? One is a polite person, and the other is a cold-faced executioner. There are two reasons for this.
On the first floor, Master Jiu can empathize with Master Eight. As we all know, if you want to be an ally of your companions, there must be similarities and differences. If they are all different, you can't be a group. From the body of the Eighth Master, we can read the true face of the Ninth Master.
We all know the growth experience of Eight Masters, and his biological mother, Liang Fei, has no background. To put it bluntly, it is the woman that Emperor Kangxi found from Huan Yi Bureau, the brother of an inferior handmaid. What is the treatment of mother and son in the harem? When Emperor Kangxi discovered the prince designed by Eight Masters, he once denounced Eight Masters as the son of a humble woman. Although the Eighth Master was expressionless at that time, his back made people feel infinitely sad.
As the Eighth Master himself said, he has nothing and wants to fight for it. And ninth master, isn't that right? Although he is the son of Kangxi, his long-term neglect has made his character more and more tricky. However, even though kuya's personality is clouded, he is still reasonable. There are too many brothers in this harem, and he is not the only one neglected by Emperor Kangxi.
But what Jiu Ye doesn't understand is why Emperor Kangxi prefers this fatuous and arrogant prince and relies on his own background to dominate one of his brothers. The perennial lack of fatherly love, coupled with years of coldly looking at the rise of the prince, gradually produced a distorted psychology in the nine masters' hearts. He doesn't want to be that bastard's brother. One day, he will let his Amar see himself, and he will personally overthrow all the unfairness in this world.
From this point of view, it is not difficult to find out why among the eight masters, nine masters are always ruthless, and he can buy off corrupt officials and ignore the people. This is also because the "goodness" in Master Jiu's mind has long been swallowed up by the man-eating Forbidden City. In the story, Ruoxi shared the so-called good and evil, right and wrong, and conveyed the thoughts of modern civilization to you every time. Only kuya wouldn't listen to a word. He didn't deliberately ignore it, but his heart had already closed the door. The reasonable nine masters with a clear distinction between good and evil have long been submerged. He kept struggling, hoping that he could get a compliment from Amar, but in the end there was nothing, so in that case, he broke the jar and broke it. Anyway, he didn't have it in the first place, and he was not afraid of losing it.
On the second level, we find that the eight masters and the nine masters have a common feature. When they grow up, they are rebellious and prescient about themselves, but they all yearn for freedom in their bones. Looking at the whole Forbidden City, who is better than their brothers? They have lived in luxury since childhood, and food and clothing are not a problem. But so what? They were born with golden spoons, but they never got what they wanted. On the day of the tenth master's adult ceremony, Emperor Kangxi gave Mingyu to the tenth master. Under the gaze of the eighth master, the tenth master smiled and thanked him. At that moment, Ruoxi felt helpless and painful. They are already brothers, but they can't even decide their own marriage.
Marriage is still like this. What else can they choose? Eight lords competed for the throne, and he hoped to gain absolute power, so that he could control his own life. Don't nine master even don't have that power? He just wants his myna to be superior and give himself absolute choice. This is also the reason why Ninth Master can fully support Eighth Master. He is never afraid of losing, but he is even more afraid that he is not qualified for the competition. Kuya is willing to sacrifice everything, even his lover, for the freedom of the rest of his life.
If you want to hit a snake seven inches, jade sandalwood is the seven inches of Master Jiu. In fact, Yu's personality can be said to make up for the only loophole in Jiuye's personality, that is, human nature. No one is perfect. Similarly, evil is endless. This is the case in kuya. If kuya, who looks terrible, has any weakness, it is Yutan. Jade sandalwood is a chess piece put into the palace by Nine Lords, and neither of them said a word until death. When Yongzheng ascended the throne, Yutan got the order of Nine Masters, disturbed people in the harem, and was sentenced to death by Yongzheng soon. A big living person was roasted alive in a steamer. Who can accept it?
If Sunrise finds kuya unhappy with Jed Tan Ming, kuya simply says, "She can die for me and should be grateful.". But after turning around, no one saw the hole in Nine Master's eyes. In a trance, Jiuye seems to think of the jade sandalwood many years ago. A little girl, in rags and barefoot, ran into his carriage. My little daughter said, "Please give me money, and I will be a slave for you." A few words somehow touched a nerve of his. From then on, Yutan became the servant girl of kuya House.
Kuya watched Yutan grow up, taught her to make tea, taught her to read, and then sent the girl to the palace at her best. Yutan is loyal, and the once thin little girl is more clever, obedient and alert in the harem. Of course, she is satisfied with herself, but why does she feel sorry for Yu Tan's death? Until kuya was imprisoned, he watched the old thirteen throw the bloody jade sandalwood book into the door. When he saw Yu Tan's sentence "No regrets", he finally cried into tears.
In this life, he has never been afraid, but he has put everything in the blood and tears of Yutan. To some extent, Ruoxi has fulfilled the ninth Lord. Although Yutan is dead, she still loves kuya, which is the best comfort in kuya's life. At this point, kuya's tragedy really came to an end.