Chapter 7 Chapter Six: The Mystery of Chapters 82 to 90 (2)——The Mystery of Jia Xichun

In the last lecture, I told everyone that Cao Xueqin would describe Jia Xichun's fate and ending in the first plot unit after Chapter 81. Why?Because after researching, I believe that Jia Xichun's renunciation should not be after the Ningrong Second Mansion was completely confiscated, but before that.How did Gao E write it? Gao E wrote why did Jia Xichun become a monk?It was because two aunts came to dizang nunnery and said something very superficial about the fruit of cultivating goodness. Jia Xichun was tempted and wanted to become a nun.This is not in line with Cao Xueqin's original intention. Jia Xichun's renunciation has a very profound psychological opportunity, and through Jia Xichun's renunciation, what Cao Xueqin wants to express is a very profound meaning.

Jia Xichun didn't write much about her positively in the first 80 chapters. On many occasions, she appeared as a foil, a secondary role.However, there was a time when a main story was set up for her, which was the second half of the seventy-fourth chapter. After the plagiarism of the Grand View Garden happened, she took the initiative to ask her sister-in-law, Youshi, to say that she had something to say. .When copying and inspecting the Grand View Garden, Jia Xichun didn’t have much to do there. Her big girl is called Ruhua, and some things found in Ruhua’s box are men’s supplies, but Ruhua is completely different from Yingchun’s big girl who plays chess. It's not that she has any ambiguous relationship with men outside, it's that her brother is working as an official in Ningguo Mansion and got some rewards from Jia Zhen. There is no other place that can be properly preserved, so he deposits them with his sister.So when Youshi saw it, she thought it was not a big deal, and said that the official salt has become a private salt, which means that these things were rewarded by her husband to the servant, and they were not stolen. There is no adultery, but some rewards from legitimate sources.Of course, according to the rules in the mansion, it is also wrong for a servant to pass these things over privately without greeting the master, but this is a small mistake.Therefore, Youshi advocated to blame Ruhua and let her continue to stay and serve Xichun, but Xichun refused.Xichun's personality is very weird. When she ransacked the house, whenever she copied the paintings and other things, she said, Sister Feng, you are going to take her outside to beat her. I can't get used to it.Xichun is such a person, with a cold heart and a firm will.Then she and You Shi started fighting.You Shi thought it was just a discussion about how to deal with the girl Ruhua, but she didn't expect that the more Xichun talked, the more frightening she became.What does Xichun say?Xichun proposed in front of Youshi that she would cut off all contact with Ningguo Mansion from now on.Why?She said that besides, recently I often hear people talking about some unbearable gossip behind their backs. I want to go again, and even I have arranged it.She said that the ancients said well that good and evil live and die, and father and son cannot live together, but I just want to keep myself.She also said, from now on, don't bother me if you have anything to do, and she also said that the ancients still have a saying: If you don't be a cruel person, it's rare to be a self-made man.Every sentence touched Youshi's heart.In the end, I even said something like this: I am a pure and innocent person, why did I teach you to make me tired?This is too powerful!Youshi couldn't bear it, so he took him away into the painting in a fit of anger, and Xichun really put an end to Ningguo Mansion from then on.

Some red fans may think that Xichun's words are easy to understand. You have a lot of scandals in Ningguo Mansion, don't you?Liu Xianglian said it well, except for the two stone lions at the door, your Ningguo Mansion is clean, maybe even the cats and dogs are not clean, so the so-called people gossip about something behind their backs is nothing more than talking about some promiscuous things in Ningguo Mansion.Well, she doesn't like to hear these things about Youshi, but she doesn't feel that they poke her heart.Because everyone knows that as early as the beginning of the novel, Qin Zhong came to Ningguo Mansion as a guest. When seeing off the guests, the housekeeper sent the old servant Jiao Da to take Qin Zhong home. You're all scolded, and the dirty news and embarrassing things in Ningguo Mansion are revealed, of course Youshi is not happy, right?But she didn't have a nervous breakdown, and she could still hold her breath without losing her composure.Because in that era, in that kind of society, it was not uncommon for aristocratic masters like Jia Zhen to have some scandals in the relationship between men and women, and wives and concubines generally had to bear it.Therefore, the gossip and gossip that Xichun said may include some rumors involving the relationship between men and women and the prostitution in the mansion, but that is by no means the core of these gossip.

What is the core of these gossip?It should also be that your Ningguo Mansion hid the flesh and blood of Prince Yizhong and Lao Qiansui. Your grandma Rong died suddenly and strangely. Nahan, I'm a little suspicious", and that "suspect" is the main axis of gossip.Of course, with regard to Qin Keqing's real background and the real reason for her sudden death, the people at the master and sub-level may not know all about it, and it is even more difficult for the servants below to know the inside story, but no matter how confidential the matter is, there is no impenetrable wall, and people don't know how to get back However, people will doubt it and talk about it behind their backs.Now that the Ning and Rong mansions have reached the 81st chapter, the mountain rain has come and the wind is full of the building. Although the building did not collapse immediately, it is rattling and rattling, so the discussions in the mansion will continue unabated. , including a few women from Zhen's family who came to the upper room, their complexions were not good, what are they doing confidentially?Even if you hide the criminal property, the servants can't fully know about it, but they can discuss it in private. Then, thinking of Qin Keqing's death back then, it will stir up the suspicion of the year and discuss it.At that time, the two prefectures of Ningrong and Rong must have such an atmosphere where political rumors were flying everywhere and people were panic-stricken.

Xichun is a person with foresight, not a superficial person, so she realizes that if something bad happens, it is possible that the emperor will settle the family's new and old crimes together.And she realized that she is Jia Zhen's younger sister after all, and she is from Ningguo Mansion according to her household registration. She was accepted to live in Rongguo Mansion only because her cousin Shi Taijun liked girls. Therefore, if something happened to Ningguo Mansion, If she is pursued by the emperor, she will be implicated. Therefore, in order to protect herself, the first step is to cut herself off from the Ningguo Mansion in public. Of course, she will also cut herself off from the Rongguo Mansion in the future, but that is the second step. , the first step is "Yagu to stop Ningguo Mansion", which is to announce that I will sever all ties with you Ningguo Mansion from now on, I am innocent and alone, and the dirty things you do have nothing to do with me, don't be burdened Broke me!Jia Xichun entered into a thinking of only seeking self-protection.You can't understand Jia Xichun's thinking.

In the fifth chapter, the verdict about Jia Xichun in the "Jinling Twelve Beauties" and the song about Jia Xichun in "The Twelve Songs of a Dream of Red Mansions" actually pointed out a long time ago that in the Ningrong and Rongfu, for the family Like Qin Keqing, she had a foresight and a premonition about her downfall.Qin Keqing entrusted Wang Xifeng with a dream before his death, and the verse he read was: "After the three springs go, all the fragrances will be exhausted, and each needs to find his own door." In the verdict and music about Xichun, there is a corresponding prophecy: "Explore the three spring scenes. It's not long" and "see through those three springs".She knew that the good life of this family is only three to five years. To be precise, it is three springs. Once the three good springs are over, there will be murderous intentions, the whole family will collapse, and the family will die. People are scattered, so although she is very young, she makes up her own mind, I have to free myself, I have to make plans early, Xichun is such a person.

So when she saw that the Rongguo Mansion was in chaos first, she ransacked the Grand View Garden, took it to her room, and took out all the things in the painting box. She thought it was an opportunity, and You Shi didn't come to her place to see her. She took the initiative to ask someone to invite You Shi over, just to explain to you that we will make a clean break from now on, You Shi still couldn't understand what she meant, and she was still there to persuade her.In the end, she said, to the end, I am a pure and innocent person, why did I teach you to tire me out!What does she mean?It’s not that I’m a little girl. You guys are very promiscuous in your relationship with men and women. People will say that I am also promiscuous. I think that even if she has this kind of worry, it will not be very serious. What is she most worried about?You have done some things that will be liquidated by the emperor sooner or later, and may implicate me.The so-called gossip and gossips are always behind the scenes, and when it comes to her in the meeting, how far will the meeting go?Some people say that she is a little girl, just like her brother, messing around, and of course she doesn't want to listen to it. Of course, this kind of discussion is terrible, but the possibility of talking about her like that is actually not great.What is the scariest argument?One Qin Keqing is hidden, is there another one?Who is she?Probably suspicious of her origin, right?Do you think it's scary for her?My brother and sister-in-law hid Qin Keqing and did this kind of thing, and in the end they got me involved, what should I do?So Jia Xichun made plans early on. Her renunciation is not simply to form good karma and cultivate good fruits. Even if there is such content, it is secondary. Separated, before the emperor pursued the crimes of the two governments and ransacked the house, they should draw a clear line and leave the government.

If you wait until the time of ransacking the house, it will be too late. No one can escape when the house is ransacked, and the wives, concubines and children of the offenders will be detained as criminals.Adults may be dealt with in one way, and minors are dealt with in another way, both of which must be dealt with severely under the strict authority of the emperor.However, if your family’s crimes are not to the extent of punishing the nine clans, on this premise, if you are a married girl, or a girl who has left the family to become a monk, then you can still be exempted from the crime under the law at that time. Those who are held accountable, including some servants in the mansion, if they redeem themselves, leave the mansion, and live independently before the entire mansion is ransacked and punished, and the criminal is not implicated in his crimes when he is investigated If it comes to you, then it may also pass.

Jia Xichun should have rushed out of the mansion before Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion were ransacked, took to the street, and found a nunnery called "Ziyi Dunchanged Old Clothes", black clothes are black clothes, Wearing black nun clothes, she holds a rice bowl and begs along the street every day, becoming a wandering nun.When the emperor comes to punish the Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion, even if such a young lady is found out, if it is confirmed that she has become a monk, and she is not directly involved in the family's crimes, it is possible that she will not be held accountable anymore. , she was able to save her own life and at the same time preserve her relative freedom.Jia Xichun is such a person.

Thinking about it, we should be very sad.It is described in the book that when Lin Daiyu entered the mansion, she met Jia Xichun who was "not enough in stature and described as still small". In the following plot flow, although she is growing up slowly, she has not tasted much of the joy of a girl. She has never had the experience of love, not like Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai. Although it ended in tragedy, at least she has loved and enjoyed love. She is a woman who has not enjoyed love, and has not been questioned by love.But she was facing such a tragic ending that her family would be uprooted. She could only protect herself and cut herself off from her brother and sister-in-law, and finally she cut off from Rongguo Mansion.

At that time, the young ladies of the Hou Menxiuhu were usually not allowed to go out of the main door, and they were not allowed to enter the second door casually.So some people will doubt, can Xichun go out?Then, on the eve of the imminent collapse of the big family, there will be some loopholes in the access control, and she has a chance to escape from the Rongguo Mansion.In fact, Cao Xueqin will write her ending in this way after the eighty chapters.She walked out of Rongguo Mansion and never looked back.She had put an end to Ningguo Mansion a long time ago, and she no longer thought about Rongguo Mansion. She walked farther and farther, "poor Hou Men Xiuhu girl", and at night, she "lyed alone next to the ancient Buddha with the blue lamp". In Chapter 74, when Jia Xichun put an end to the Ningguo Mansion, she spoke more harshly to You Shi. The book said, "You Shi has a disease in his heart, and he is afraid of saying these words."What's wrong with Yushi?I'm afraid the main reason is not how my husband is so playful, or how lewd my daughter-in-law was back then. Her heart trouble is because of the big political issues involved, and she has hidden the flesh and blood of Prince Yizhong, the old thousand-year-old!Hearing Xichun's utterances, almost piercing the layer of window paper, You Shi, a very generous and gentle person, couldn't bear it anymore, his heart burst into shame, his face and voice lost his composure, In the end, the aunt and sister-in-law tore their faces apart and broke up. Then there is a sentence in Xichun’s speech with You Shi that you have to read carefully. Some readers read very rough, and they don’t think about it carefully. It's just right, take him there quickly, I don't care whether he is beaten, killed, or sold." Is there such a thing?Many readers have questions, whether to fight, kill, or sell?How are they arranged?I also had this question when I first read it. It is said that beating, killing, and selling was the most terrifying thing for a life in the society at that time, should it be killed, right?The arrangement should be beaten, sold, and killed.But what?All the ancient editions, including the popular edition, are written in the same way, and they are arranged in this order, called beaten, killed, and sold.what happened?There are a lot of articles here, if you don’t understand these places, you will be reading in vain. You have to understand that in the Qing Dynasty, it was a terrible thing for the emperor to copy the official's house. Gao E also wrote about the copying of the Rongguo Mansion in the last forty chapters of the continuation. The writing is polite enough. We can refer to Some relevant information.For example, in the Qing Dynasty, a man named Xiao wrote a book called "Yongxianlu". "Yongxianlu" has a main edition and a sequel. There is a Xuezheng named Yu Hongtu. When we mention Xuezheng, we will think of it. It says that Jia Zheng was once sent by the emperor to go on a business trip.It is to preside over the local imperial examinations, to study politics, and to do this work.Then when Xuezheng's house was ransacked, his wife hanged herself as soon as she heard that the family was ransacked.That's all right, there was a child in that family, and after seeing that scene, according to the official documents at the time, he was frightened to death.Think about how cruel the emperor ransacked the house at that time! At that time, the official whose house was confiscated would be detained first, and his wives, concubines, and children would all become "chattable property" disposed of by the emperor, tantamount to spoils of war, waiting to be disposed of.Then the maids, it will be even worse, they will be imprisoned as a whole first, and the roster will be compiled, and then what will happen?The order of their fate is to fight, kill, or sell.How do you say this?Give a practical example and you will understand.As you know, although it is a novel, it is different from purely fictional novels. It has the color of family history and autobiography, and many artistic images in it have prototypes of life.For example, the prototype of Jia's mother in the book is Cao Xueqin's grandfather's generation, a younger sister of Suzhou weaving Li Xu.At that time, Cao Xueqin's grandfather, Cao Yin, was in charge of weaving in Jiangning, and Li Xu was in charge of weaving in Suzhou. The two families were very happy, and Li Xu married his younger sister to Cao Yin.Later, when Cao Xueqin wrote this book, he concealed the truth and kept false words, and wrote such a grandmother from the Li family into it, forming the artistic image of Shi Taijun Jiamu.Li Xu was very popular in the Kangxi Dynasty. Kangxi liked him very much at one time, but after Kangxi died, Yongzheng immediately punished Li Xu when he came to power, ransacked his house, detained him, interrogated him, and tried him. The case took a long time, and Li Xu had been waiting for it for several years. It was not until the fifth year of Yongzheng that the final verdict was reached.What is the fate of his wives, concubines, and children, and the servants in his house?There are official records, which can be found from the archives of the Yongzheng Dynasty.According to the archives, after the Li family was raided, there were more than 200 people, men, women, old and children. The emperor first asked the officials who ransacked the house to stay in Suzhou and sold them all.As a result, no one in Suzhou dared to buy it.Some people have benefited from the Li family in the past and can't bear to buy it.Although some hated the Li family, they didn't know how things would develop in the future, so they dared not buy.Emperor Yongzheng received the report and instructed that they should be transported to Beijing for me.So they were escorted to Beijing, and they were escorted like livestock.In the eyes of the emperor, these people are not lively and equal lives, but some active property, which will be transported to Beijing and disposed of separately.Then it is like transporting goods to Beijing, which is extremely miserable.A man, a woman and a young girl died on the way.This is recorded in official documents, isn't this the same as being killed?Before it's sold, it's dead.In the end, there were a total of 227 people escorted to Beijing. Among them, Li Xu's wives, concubines and children belonged to the class of masters, ten in total, and 217 servants in total.It is recorded in the files of the officials who escorted them, called Jiangnan Director Tongzhi, this is the official name, the name is Hesheng, and of course he is a Manchu.After arriving in Beijing, he began to sell these people. His wives, concubines and children also came to sell as living commodities. Of course, the price might be set a little higher. Those servants also sold, and the price might be set lower. attached.So how many did you sell first?First sold 209 of them, and then sold them one after another.So what about eight more?It was not sold at that time.Why didn't it sell?These eight people were examined by the officials appointed by the emperor, and they believed that they were directly related to some of Li Xu's crimes.You see, at that time, as a family member and servant of a criminal family, it goes without saying that you will be beaten first, and some will be tortured and tortured. killed.For those who stay, some people may think that it is better to die. You can kill me, but it is not that cheap. If you want to be killed, you are not qualified. You have to live for me. I want to sell you for money. The people who buy you are slaves.So under the circumstances at that time, to obtain a qualification to be sold, it was at the final stage, after killing the one who deserved to be killed, that it was your turn to stay and be sold. Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, after a family suffered the fate of ransacking, the family members descended from wives, concubines and children to these male and female servants, and their fate prospects were arranged in the following order: beaten, killed, and sold.Cao Xueqin's arrangement of Xichun's words was very strict in accordance with the actual situation in the society at that time.Being sold is actually the worst thing. At that time, the sinners were regarded as living wealth. Those people had the idea that life would be worse than death, and some people would try to commit suicide, but the guards would block even your chances of suicide. In the end, you might They would be sold in broad daylight like cattle.Some people say they will say: What you said is terrible, will it be so miserable?You can check the archives at that time, there are specific records of the people from Li Xu's family being auctioned, and the place where they were sold was in Chongwenmen.In Chongwenmen, Beijing, there are now very grand commercial buildings and beautiful flower beds, but in the early years of Yongzheng, the emperor ordered the auction of live wealth there.At that time, the name of the official who auctioned off the population of Li Xu's family was recorded in the files, and it was called Wuyi.Some people will be surprised, what is this name?How a digital ah?You know, in the Qing Dynasty, many Manchu people used numbers as their names, which was not surprising at the time. Jia Xichun also has a prototype, she should also be a woman in the same generation as Cao Xueqin in the Cao family.In that society, although the source of news for this woman in the boudoir is relatively scarce, there is no impenetrable wall.I mentioned earlier about a boy who wears a veil to cover his head. He said don’t look at me at the corner gate. I also have two full-grown sisters. What can we hide from us?Even the lowest servants in the mansion have sources of information.Therefore, when Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion were already in turmoil, Jia Xichun must have obtained some accurate information, and even heard a lot of gossip.For example, the Zhen family has been convicted, and the servants of the Zhen family, including the wives and children of the Zhen family, may have been taken to Beijing and sold at Chongwenmen. Can you not be shocked to hear that?In life, Jia Xichun's prototype, she will hear that her cousin, who is the prototype of Jia's mother, her brother Li Xu's family, was confiscated, and the whole family was beaten, killed, and sold. tragic fate.When Xichun's prototype heard this information, the state presented was different from others.She felt that in this situation, I had to make up my mind early. I couldn't wait until the end to copy me in. I was detained in general, and I was lucky in Chongwenmen, so that Wuyi could sell it. That would be terrible, right?If you don't even want to be murdered, if you can still move and be driven, then your remaining value will be squeezed to the end.It is very likely that she will be implicated by the family and sold. That is the most miserable, so she wants to avoid such a result.So she came up with the idea that first, I would cut off with my elder brother and sister-in-law, second, leave the mansion, and third, I would become a nun.When you come to raid our house, or you can't find me, or you find out that I have become a monk, and you can't find out what specific activities I and the parents have involved in the crimes, you have to let me go, right?According to the description in the book, the crimes committed by the Jia clan are not to the extent of exterminating the nine clans. If the emperor wants to exterminate your nine clans, you can't go anywhere, and you can get them out of them wherever you go.If you don’t reach that level, then you have already become a monk, and you may be let go. If you are a lady, you may be let go even if you are married.Some people may ask, in real life in history, are there any examples of officials being punished by ransacking their homes, but their relatives survived as you said?In fact, Cao Xueqin and his family in the Yongzheng Dynasty belonged to this situation.Cao, he inherited Cao Yin and Cao Lai as Jiangning weaving. In the sixth year of Yongzheng, his home was confiscated, and he was arrested and punished in Beijing.Cao Yin had a daughter who had been married to Beijing as early as the Kangxi Dynasty and became the concubine of Prince Ping, who later gave birth to Prince Xiaoping.This woman is Cao's elder sister and Cao Xueqin's aunt. After Cao was convicted, this married elder sister was not implicated or punished together, and she was still a princess.Of course, King Pingjun himself caused some troubles, and the emperor also punished him, but that was his family's own account.This shows that there was indeed a royal "rule of the game" at that time. If a woman was married or became a monk, then when your family was convicted, you could be let go.Xichun's prototype understood the "rules of the game", so she became a monk to avoid being implicated.Jia Xichun was in such a dark age, such a historical period when all kinds of contradictions gradually intensified, such a daughter of a noble family, she had a premonition of the ominous future of her family, and she resolutely walked out of the building before the collapse of the building. After leaving the house, she ended up begging for food in black.In the Qing Dynasty, some people read the content after the eighty chapters of Cao Xueqin’s original novel, not only Fucha Mingyi, whom I mentioned at the beginning of this series of lectures, but also others. In the written notes, some recorded what they read after 80 chapters and what Gao E continued. Some of them said that what he saw was Jia Xichun holding a rice bowl and begging along the street. The plot of the.Now you can imagine that in the long streets and alleys of the ancient city, there is an immature woman, wearing a black nun shirt, holding a rice bowl, walking alone, moving forward.She did this just to avoid the tragic fate of being beaten, killed and betrayed.She will not have any better prospects, she just saved her life first; second, she still has a little freedom of personal action; at night she will sleep under the golden-painted Buddha statue in a dilapidated nunnery.After getting up in the morning, continue to beg for food.What a sad scene! What Gao E continued to write was that Jia's Muhuangen, Fushizhi, Yanshize, Ning and Rongfu were all restored, and Jia Zhen was pardoned by the emperor. After returning, he would reorganize Ningguo Mansion. Jia Zhen said, then Let's circle Yuancuian.Everyone knows that the Grand View Garden was formed by demolishing part of the gardens of Ningguo Mansion, so when reorganizing Ningguo Mansion, it is possible to include the Grand View Garden Yuancui Nunnery. This point is well written by Gao E.But Jia Zhen said, let the fourth sister rest there, so it seems that Jia Xichun not only did not leave the Jia family, but even returned to Ningguo Mansion.This is completely inconsistent with Cao Xueqin's original intention. Incidentally, there are two ways of writing in the ancient books of Yuancui Temple, one is the wooden character edge, which is the 栊 of the curtain, and the pronunciation of "栊" is "dragon", which means that the plants in the nunnery are particularly well trimmed The verdant plants are like curtains; in another way of writing, the radical of "Long" is the handle, and the pronunciation is the third tone, which means that the verdant plants seem to be gathered together very luxuriantly.Both ways of writing can be established.Nowadays, what you read in current editions is often Quicui’an. I personally use Cui’an’s writing method, because I think Cao Xueqin’s words and sentences are very elegant in this text.As you know, there is a very important water system in the Grand View Garden called Qinfang. There is Qinfang Gate and Qinfang Pavilion. Qin is a verb, and Fang means fragrance. Layer by layer, it penetrates upwards, exuding fragrance.Then "Yongcui" and "Qinfang" should be compatible, and the first word should be a verb.This is for your reference only. Speaking of Yuancui nunnery, everyone knows that this Yuancui nunnery cannot be an ancient temple. It turns out that there is no nunnery in Ningfu and Rongfu. It is because Jia Yuanchun wants to visit his relatives, and he wants to practice Buddhism during the visitation, so he is building the Grand View Garden. At that time, Yuancui Nunnery was built, and the next post invited a nun with hair cultivation and a famous family, Miaoyu.It should be a new nunnery, it cannot have ancient Buddhas.In the fifth chapter, about the painting on Jia Xichun’s album, I told you that it was a painting of an ancient temple, and the verdict clearly told you that she was a "poor girl from the Hou family of Xiuhu, lying alone next to the ancient Buddha with a blue lamp", which further explained her It is impossible to become a monk in the ancient Longcui nunnery. Well, if we think about it now, we will really sigh for a long time about the fate of such a woman.In Cao Xueqin's works, Jia Yingchun was a miserable woman who died like that.Xiangling lived on another trajectory, and finally died.Then in the current eighty-two chapters, returning to the ninety-episode plot unit, he will write that Jia Xichun is in a very miserable state in which life is actually worse than death, and death is worse than life. Someone will ask me, and say that according to your analysis, after the eighty-one episodes, before the ninety episodes, Jia Yingchun's ending appeared, and Xiangling's ending appeared, so now Jia Xichun's ending is told by you Out.Because according to your analysis, it is really impossible to write Xichun's ending at a later stage. She has to become a monk before her house is confiscated.So in this plot unit, what fates and endings of the women who entered the album will be written? I think the first thing that will be involved is the attacker.Someone was thinking about it again, saying Xiren, isn't she married to Jiang Yuhan?Gao E also wrote it in the same way. This is a very transparent ending. Have you discovered anything new?Could it be that Gao E's writing about Xiren's marriage is unreliable?It’s really not that I personally have trouble with Gao E. After searching the complete book of Cao Xueqin after the 80 chapters, I found that the specific circumstances of Xiren’s marriage to Jiang Yuhan, what Cao Xueqin wrote is quite different from what Gao E wrote in the sequel. .It is a thrilling situation for Xiren to leave Rongguo Mansion, why is it thrilling?Please listen to my next lecture on Exploring the Lost.