Chapter 3 Why did Jia Baoyu commit the felony crime of beheading?

book excerpt Text: Su Qin Another man who played a key role in Jia Baoyu's fate was his godson Jia Yun.Jia Yun in the movie is a self-motivated, self-made struggling talent.From being poor and having three meals a day to being in charge of the flowers, plants and trees in the Grand View Garden, and then living a well-off life of wealth, all this is due to his motivation and hard work.Speaking of it, this Second Master Yun is also an unusual character.According to seniority, he is Jia Baoyu's nephew, and according to relationship, he is Jia Baoyu's "godson". He is the only "descendant" of Jia Baoyu who makes an appearance in the whole book.But judging from the text, the relationship between this Jia Yun and his "father" Jia Baoyu is somewhat unusually ambiguous.

In the twenty-sixth chapter, Baoyu's nanny Li Nanny once had such a conversation with Hongyu: "Okay, I fell in love with that tree planter again, Brother Yun, brother Yu, and now I'm forced to cry He's coming. I'll call the room to hear it tomorrow, but it's not good." In these words, the combination of cloud and rain obviously has a sexual implication.Otherwise, why is Nanny Li afraid that the upper room will hear it?Although the Grand View Garden does not welcome outsiders.But Jia Yun was a relative, and she traveled frequently with the Rongguo Mansion, so didn't Sister Feng know Jia Yun's mother very well?Moreover, Jia Yun was in charge of planting flowers, plants and trees in the Grand View Garden at that time.It stands to reason that even if Shangfang knew that Baoyu had contacts with him, he would not have any reason to be unhappy?Unless the communication between them is not just as simple as chatting.

Judging from the book, Jia Yun had a close relationship with Jia Lian at the beginning, and later got in touch with Baoyu through the help of Jia Lian. In the twenty-fourth chapter: After seeing Jia Mu, when I went outside, all the men and horses were ready.Just about to get on the horse, I saw Jia Lian came back from the horse and was getting off the horse. They faced each other and asked each other a few words.I saw a person turn out from the side, "please Bao Shuan".When Baoyu looked at him, he saw that this man had a long face and a tall figure. He was only eighteen or nineteen years old.Jia Lian laughed and said, "Why are you in a daze? You don't even recognize him? He is Yun'er, the son of the fifth sister-in-law who lives on the back porch." Baoyu laughed and said, "Yes, yes, why I forgot." His mother is good, what is going on now.Jia Yun pointed to Jia Lian and said, "Let's talk to my second uncle." Baoyu laughed and said, "You are more picky than before, like my son." Jia Lian laughed and said, "I'm so ashamed! He's four or five years older than you." So I will be your son?" Baoyu laughed and said, "Are you in your teens?" Jia Yun said, "Eighteen."

It turned out that Jia Yun was the most clever and well-behaved. Hearing Baoyu say this, she smiled and said, "As the saying goes, 'the grandfather in the cart, the grandson on crutches'. Although he is old, the mountain is as high as the sun. It is only because my father did No one has taken care of him these past few years. If Uncle Bao doesn’t think his nephew is stupid, and he recognizes him as his son, it’s my good fortune.” Jia Lian laughed and said, “Did you hear? It’s not easy to recognize a son.” Said Then I went in.Baoyu said with a smile: "Tomorrow, if you are free, just come to me and don't sneak around with them. I will not be free at the moment. Come to the study tomorrow and talk to you, and I will take you Let's go play in the garden." As he spoke, he got on his horse, and all the young men followed him to Jia She's side.

This paragraph really vividly portrays Baoyu's image of a swinger.Although Jia Yun is a nephew who is a generation younger than himself, but four or five years older than him in age, Baoyu jokingly called him like his "son". But of course Jia Yun, who was at a disadvantage, did not dare to be angry, and had to happily accept this favor, voluntarily becoming Baoyu's "son".This not only shows Jia Yun's snobbery, but also Baoyu's rudeness. It can be seen that Baoyu is not so polite all the time, especially when he treats men! Jia Yun is an extremely important person. The literary society "Begonia Poetry Club" in the Grand View Garden is named after the two pots of white crabapple he gave. It can be seen that Jia Yun also has a poetic relationship, as if climbing a ladder for Baoyu himself. Like Qingwen who posted the words "Jiang Yunxuan", she will never be a clichéd mediocre person. After eighty chapters, there will definitely be words to show his skills.However, among the existing 120 chapters, the author of the last 40 chapters of the continuation book made a 180-degree turn of Jia Yun's character, portraying Jia Yun as an ungrateful villain and a trafficker of Fengjie's daughter Qiaojie. One of the "treacherous brothers", in fact, there is a serious misunderstanding.

In the Zhiping manuscript, reviewers have repeatedly pointed to Jia Yun's "righteous deeds" in the future, giving this character full affirmation.Zhi Yanzhai once commented on Jia Yun, saying that he is comparable to "Yang Zhi" in the movie, and he is a down-and-out hero.Drunk King Kong Ni Er lent money to Jia Yun for a section, and the Geng version also had a comment from Jihu Mei: "Drunk King Kong wrote once, and Fu Yun went to the nunnery with righteousness." In addition, the 24th chapter of Geng Chen's version also has comments: "A filial son can Sincerely, Rong Mansion is defeated, and there must be something to do.” And this "filial son" is Jia Yun who is four or five years older than "father" Jia Baoyu.And Jia Yun's word "Yun" refers to Yuncao. There is a legend in ancient texts that "Yuncao can be resurrected from death", and Jia Yun is a good medicine for Jia Baoyu to come back to life in the future.Moreover, judging from the previous article of the Red Chamber, although Jia Yun is bent on ingratiating herself, and even disregards her face to flatter her, but this is only because of her livelihood. In fact, this person is quite chivalrous, otherwise she would not let the market The hero Ni Er gave his all to help.According to today's words, Ni Er is a ruffian-level character, but the author holds a very positive attitude towards this person, saying that he is a "righteous hero", a hero in the market, and someone who can be valued by such a knight in the market can be seen Jia Yun is not an ordinary person, nor will she be an ungrateful person in the future.

After eighty chapters of the original version, Jia's mansion collapsed, his family was destroyed, Baoyu was imprisoned in the Prison Temple, and Jia Yun began to play an important role. "Prison God Temple" is a temple or god case built in a prison in the feudal era, and the "Prison God" is enshrined, hence the name.The custom at that time was: when a criminal was just put in prison, or before he was released from prison after being sentenced, he had to offer sacrifices to the prison god.This "prison god" is also said to have changed in personnel. Before the Ming Dynasty, the "prison god" was Gao Tao, but in the early Qing Dynasty it was replaced by Xiao He.Of course, in the text of "Prison God Temple", neither Gao Tao nor Xiao He is the main character, the main characters are Jia Yun, Xiao Hong, Qian Xue and others!At that time, Jia Yun and Xiaohong should have been married. The couple did not forget the old kindness, and joined forces with Qianxue, Ni Er and others to rescue Jia Baoyu, Sister Feng and other repeat offenders.After all, Baoyu's "son" did not recognize him in vain!

Speaking of this, some readers may feel puzzled: Jia Baoyu is just a "rich and idler", how can a rich son be so disrespectful, and finally reduced to the level of a felon?Is it just because he is a male descendant in Jia's mansion?That being the case, why is Jalan, who is also a male offspring, safe and sound? We all know that Jia Zheng's attitude towards his son Jia Baoyu is not only indifferent but also bad. As a father and an official who has been in the ups and downs of the officialdom all year round, of course he understands the importance of words and deeds as a courtier. Baoyu does not please his father for many reasons. One of them is his "freedom of speech" personality. Jia Baoyu has many ideas of equality and patriarchy in his heart, and without any political awareness, he often makes some crazy words and does some crazy things.When the Jia family was prosperous, ordinary people certainly would not care about it, but in the future when the family faced a crisis and the wall was overthrown by everyone, it was inevitable that it would not become a weapon for the Jia family's political enemies to attack. It can be seen that Jia Baoyu must have been affected by his "false ideas" back then. Get involved and become a felon.

This is by no means a wild guess. The system of prohibiting freedom of speech in the Qing Dynasty reached its peak. In previous generations, although there were often treacherous craftsmen in the court, the state system encouraged freedom of speech.In the Qing Dynasty, prefectural schools and county schools had Minglun halls, and in each Minglun hall there was a stone tablet lying horizontally, called the "lying tablet", with prohibitions engraved on it: first, students are not allowed to speak ; Second, no associations and alliances are allowed; third, no writing is allowed.The freedom of speech of intellectuals is explicitly prohibited, and Jin Shengtan, a famous literati during the Shunzhi period, was beheaded for violating the prohibition!Therefore, it is also a condensed history. The talented women in the Red Chamber Poetry Club are really smarter than those pedantic officials in the court. Of course, this is the view of readers, but it is taboo in the eyes of rulers.With such a son, Jia Zheng had to be worried, and these were the root causes of Jia Baoyu's future troubles!If it weren't for the righteous rescue of Jia Yun and others, Jia Baoyu might have been "guillotine" in the morning!

At the beginning, Baoyu didn't have any substantive respect and affection for Jia Yun during his several contacts with Jia Yun, and he was not even as good as treating an actress like Jiang Yuhan.But in Jia Yun's eyes at that time, Baoyu was useful, at least in the future.But in the end, instead of Baoyu helping Jia Yun, Jia Yun rescued Baoyu, which can be regarded as an absurd drama.But at the same time, this is also a kind of attack on the rich and powerful. Rich people do not necessarily have good intentions, and those who can save lives are not necessarily all rich and powerful people.Looking back at the past at the end of the story, I can't help but make people cry!

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