Live when you are alive, die when you are dead, come and go as you please (Rui Xiaodan’s view of life and death in "The Way of Heaven")

"The Way of Heaven" is one of my favorite TV series. I don’t remember how I came to know this drama, but I just remember that I fell in love with it the first time I watched it in September 2012. After reading it overnight, I bought the original book "The Distant Savior" and read it in one sitting. I felt more and more that this drama was really well done. I have collected these twenty-four episodes of videos on my computer and have saved them to this day. I watch them again from time to time.

To this day, I don’t remember how many times I have watched it. Every time I watch it, I have a different feeling. Maybe it’s because I’ve been paying attention to the issues of life and death recently, but this time I felt more like thinking about death.

This drama begins with the death of the heroine Rui Xiaodan. After a shocking explosion, accompanied by the theme music "Daughter of Heaven", Rui Xiaodan said: "In the summer when I was 27 years old, I died. But I was so calm and satisfied in my heart, walking towards heaven with an eternal love. Four days later, Lin Yufeng, a leader in the Chinese audio industry, drove off a cliff. Liu Bing, a small figure selling records in an ancient city, looked both like a winner and an aggrieved child, and jumped from the top of the 20th floor. Go on. Whether it is eternal suffering or the death of two people within two months, it is all caused by a deep love and a gift. "These three people all died of suicide, but the cause of death and the mentality of dying were different. But there is a huge difference. What thoughts will we have from this?

01. Survived the catastrophe

Rui Xiaodan is a police officer. During an operation, a gun was pressed to her head. She was suddenly startled and thought: It's over. Surprisingly, the gun didn't fire. She immediately realized that it was a stink bomb, so she seized this one-thousandth of a second opportunity to subdue the criminal, and then took out the handcuffs from her waist. Only then did Rui Xiaodan see clearly that this person was Wang Mingyang, the number two figure in the criminal group.

Just as Rui Xiaodan was about to handcuff Wang Mingyang, she suddenly saw a criminal raising a gun and about to shoot his colleague Zhao Guoqiang. Rui Xiaodan fired his gun and hit the criminal in the head. The criminal fell to the ground with blood splattering everywhere.

When Rui Xiaodan completely calmed down, it was at this moment that she truly realized rationally that death had passed her by once again. There was only one thought in her mind: If it hadn't been a stink bomb just now, then she would never see Ding Yuanying again. When she thought that she might never see Ding Yuanying again, she felt a deathly pain in her heart, and tears flowed down silently.

She subconsciously took out her mobile phone and dialed Ding Yuanying's number. The moment Ding Yuanying's voice reached her ears, she cried loudly like a wronged child seeing her father: "I was almost beaten to death just now, and the muzzle of the gun was placed on my head. "Bang, I'm afraid that after I die, I will never see you again..." There was silence on the phone. Ding Yuanying was silent for a moment and then made a decision: "It is enough to have your confidante in this life."

After Rui Xiaodan turned off his phone, he suddenly felt exhausted. In a short period of time, he experienced his own journey from death to life, ended a person's life with his own hands, and gained the love he had been pursuing so hard, from great sorrow to great joy. This mental journey gave her a profound understanding and thinking about death.

02. Discussing death

As a police officer, it is inevitable to face death. Once when she was out for fun, Ding Yuanying solemnly said to her: "You should resign. Please note that it is you who should resign, not my wish. As long as you are a policeman for one minute, you must fulfill your bounden duty as a policeman for that minute, and you will not The power to avoid danger. However, the state machine does not lack a female detective who will be eliminated sooner or later, and society should have one more talented person with extraordinary achievements. This is a value that cannot be understood by ordinary heroism and ordinary equality."

After a discussion with a Buddhist connotation, Rui Xiaodan thought for a long time and then said: "I am a criminal police officer. I resigned because I was afraid of death. I can't do it. You shouldn't say it, You should know how difficult it is to reject you. I believe in your judgment. You judge my future based on the conditions you can control, but that is yours, not mine." p>

This discussion also foreshadows Rui Xiaodan's ending, and also opens up the discussion between the two about death. After returning home, Rui Xiaodan closed the curtains, turned on the stereo, and played the "Daughter of Heaven" record.

Rui Xiaodan closed her eyes intoxicated and murmured: "I really want to die like this, in your arms, and then you throw me into the sea. I will be the happiest woman." Ding Yuanying said: "You can't die anyway. What does it mean to draw an arc in the night sky?"

Rui Xiaodan said softly: "Look, the night is so beautiful. Then I will lie in your arms and listen to the music. Tell me about heaven and hell, and I die quietly in your arms. My grave is covered with tiny forget-me-nots. On a drizzling morning, you come through the winding road, holding a hand in your hand. A flower stands silently in front of my grave, ah... I will live in your heart forever."

Ding Yuanying said: "You just said to go to the sea, why did you go underground again in the blink of an eye?" Rui Xiaodan smiled, thought for a while and said: "No, you have to throw me into the sea, then you can stand at the beach. You look at the boundless sea and shed two drops of wolf dog tears. Then you wander around the world and are killed by another The beauty took her in."

From this discussion, we can understand why Rui Xiaodan chose to die calmly in the end. In her heart, after having Ding Yuanying's love, she no longer fears death. This is what Yuan Haowen said in "Moyu'er": "Asking what love is in the world can directly teach you how to make love between life and death." When love reaches the depths, death is no longer scary. This is why those who die for love are not afraid of death.

03. Facing death

After one of his missions, Rui Xiaodan sent the family members of the captain of the criminal police team home. On his way back to the county town, he unexpectedly encountered a wanted criminal. Her first instinctive reaction was to call Ding Yuanying. She turned on her phone while driving and got through immediately: "Yuanying... Listen, don't interrupt me. I'm returning from a road in the wind beach area of ????Bei Shaanxi. On the dirt road in the county town, no matter how coincidental, we met the wanted criminal Huang Fuhai, who was the chief culprit in three armed bank robberies in the ancient city. There were three other people I didn't see clearly. They were changing tires on a jeep on the roadside. Qingu County is only 15 kilometers away, and it only takes 20 minutes to drive." Ding Yuanying was silent on the phone. She didn't say a word and stayed silent for a few seconds.

Rui Xiaodan then dialed the cell phone of team leader Zeng Hua to report the situation and request reinforcements. Turning off the phone immediately after making the call allowed her to be undisturbed, calm down, and concentrate on dealing with the emergency at hand. After a period of struggle, she was finally affected by a suicide bombing, losing her legs and ruining her appearance. Perhaps due to his training, even after the explosion, Rui Xiaodan still held a gun in each hand. She persisted in confronting the chief criminal Huang Fuhai until reinforcements arrived.

"Tiandao" did not show that Rui Xiaodan committed suicide, but the original work "The Distant Savior" described the scene of suicide. When she watched the motorcade approaching, many police and armed police officers rushed down before the vehicle could stop. She saw Zeng Hua, Huang Wenxian, and Captain Wang...but the scene of Ding Yuanying carrying a box of instant noodles before the Spring Festival came to mind. , and said to herself sadly: "Good boy, I can't hurt you anymore, go find something to eat by yourself." She struggled to stand up a little, put the gun into her chest, pressed it against her heart, and pulled the trigger. A gunshot rang out and she committed suicide. Everyone present was stunned by this scene!

Rui Xiaodan committed suicide. Almost no one could understand her suicide, and no one could understand Ding Yuanying's silence on the phone. Before the end of the book, Xiao Yawen asked Ding Yuanying these two questions.

Xiao Yawen asked: "Why did Xiao Dan commit suicide?"

Ding Yuanying replied: "Because she thought she was useless."

Xiao Yawen said: "It was useless Suicide is generally considered to be trampling on the dignity of life." Ding Yuanying said: "Dignity that can be trampled is not dignity, it is dignity that can be spoken. It is relatively dignified, but it is not dignified after all."

Xiao Yawen asked: "Xiao Dan called you, why didn't you stop her?"

Ding Yuanying said: "Xiao Dan called you. There is only one thing to say, what can I say in the face of such a farewell? I know that I can't stop her, and Xiao Dan also knows that I won't stop her. And I didn’t stop her because I had a choice.”

Xiao Yawen asked seriously: “Why?”

Ding Yuanying said calmly: “Because she is a policeman. ."

This conversation explains the reason why Xiao Dan committed suicide.

Although he understood all this in his heart, when faced with Xiao Dan's death, no matter how Ding Yuanying resisted, soothed, or concealed it, it would not help the pain in his heart. It was a heart-wrenching, unbearable, and uncontrollable pain - pain.

He thought he was a sensible person, he thought he could be calm and optimistic, but when he quietly brewed a cup of tea and drank it quietly into his mouth, the cup of tea was choked by a lump in his throat. The lump was blocking him, and at the moment when he tried to swallow the cup of tea, a physiologically uncontrollable substance suddenly spurted out from his chest. He instinctively closed his mouth tightly and walked quickly to the bathroom sink. What he spat out was a mouthful of bright red blood. In the past, he had always thought that being sad and vomiting blood was an exaggerated description in literature, but at this moment, he realized that it was not an exaggerated description by literati, but that it did not reach the point of sadness. At this moment, his rationality and strength... collapsed!

He suddenly felt weak, and stars were dancing in front of his eyes, as if thousands of needles were piercing his heart. The kind of cramping pain that bursts out like lava is heartbreaking, and the chest is so choked that you can't even cry even if you want to. Then he was told by phone that Rui Xiaodan's father would not allow him to attend the funeral. That means he can't even know where her grave is. What she left to him was an eternal soul and eternal beauty, and she was happy and without regrets in heaven.

The issue of life and death is something that each of us must face. Most people like life and hate death, but after Rui Xiaodan survived a catastrophe, he took death very lightly and even regarded death as the eternity of love. Facing Rui Xiaodan's death, Ding Yuanying murmured to herself: "When you are alive, you live, when you die, you die, come and go as you please. Girl, it's not simple!" This sentence is the best portrayal of Rui Xiaodan's view of life and death.

2017/07/09 ?22:22 Yu Ziyunju