But the moment the little dragon girl jumped down, she didn't know she would survive. Sixteen years later, when they met at the ruthless bottom, there was a touching dialogue in the original:
Yang Guo sighed, "why do you think of sixteen years? If you had made an appointment for eight years, wouldn't we have met eight years earlier? "
"I know you have feelings for me," said the little dragon girl. "In just eight years, you can never dilute your bad temper. Alas, I thought even after 16 years, you still jumped. " Yang Guo said with a smile, "We know that a person still has feelings. If I miss your heart and just cry in front of the heartbroken cliff instead of going there, then we will never meet again. " Here, the little dragon girl explained that she was afraid that eight years was too short, and Yang Guo would still jump if she missed herself. Sixteen years, such a long time, is enough to erase the passion in Yang Guo's heart, and she won't commit suicide.
However, why didn't the little dragon girl say it was fifteen years later or seventeen years later, and the time was long enough, so she chose sixteen. Is there any hidden meaning in this?
In fact, no matter how earth-shattering the characters and story lines in novels or film and television works are, they are all made up by someone, and the lines and ideas of the characters are given by the author, so if you want to ask why, or hide something, you can only find the reason from the author.
This is why the little dragon girl has to wait for Yang Guo 16 years.
1 is to prepare for Guo Xiang's later appearance. The year when the little dragon girl jumped off the cliff, Guo Xiang was still a newborn baby lying in its infancy.
16 years later, Guo Xiang grew up and just turned 16 years old, and began to play formally.
The most beautiful, youthful and unforgettable time for a girl is 16 years old, which is also the time when the ancients respected her beauty the most. For example, Su Dongpo once wrote a poem, "Twenty-eight beauties are horses, and wine is the song of Weicheng". The Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes the story of Diusim: "My daughter was elected to the government in her early years to teach singing and dancing. At the age of 28, she was a beautiful prostitute. Allow her to treat her as a daughter. "
Therefore, the author Jin Yong gave Guo Xiang a chance to play in this flower season with good intentions. He almost cruelly put the little dragon girl in his heart 16 years, in order to make Guo Xiang appear in the best moment of his life in the future. It can be seen that little evil is the love in Mr. Jin Yong's heart.
2. In ancient times, 16 was a perfect number. Fan Li, known as the Shang Saint in the Spring and Autumn Period, found that it was difficult to achieve fair trade by estimating things on the market with the naked eye, so he thought of inventing something to accurately measure the weight of goods.
One night, he looked up at the sky and had a whim. He used the six stars and the Big Dipper in Nan Dou as markers, with one star representing one, two and ten stars representing thirteen, thus inventing the scale.
However, although there are tools to measure the weight of goods, after a long time, there are still businessmen who tamper with the scales. What shall we do? Fan Li thought of adding three more stars as a conscience account to remind the merchants that if you cheat and miss two pounds, your fate will miss these three stars. "When a businessman deceives one or two people, he loses his blessings and happiness; If you cheat others, future generations will never get paid; If you deceive others, you will lose your life. "
The three stars that Fan Li added later were "Fu Lushou", so over time, 16 became a perfect number in ancient times. One more number didn't come, and one less number means one less for Fu Lushou.
Mr. Jin Yong is good at history, which he will surely know.
To sum up, 16 is not a figure moved out of thin air by Mr. Jin Yong, but reflects his love for characters and his familiarity and respect for historical allusions. Coupled with reasonable logical reasoning, sixteen years has become the best proof of the peerless love between Little Dragon Girl and Yang Guo.