Chapter 16 Chapter Fifteen Chapter 81 to 108 Chapter Mystery

In the previous lectures, I have almost revealed the whole book of Cao Xueqin.I have repeatedly told everyone that Cao Xueqin's complete book is not one hundred and twenty chapters, but one hundred and eight chapters.Although I announced the most solid evidence in the previous lectures, it is necessary to reiterate to the red fans now, I hope you will keep it firmly in mind, that is, in the forty-second chapter, Zhiyanzhai has an important comment, He said: "Although the hairpin jade has two names, it has one body. This is a magic pen. It has been more than one-third of the thirty-eight chapters of this book, so it is written in this chapter, so that the two become one. Please see After Daiyu’s death, Baochai’s words can be seen to be correct.” When I talked about Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai in the previous lectures, I explained the problem of Daichai’s unity, so I won’t repeat it here.The most important sentence in this commentary is called "more than one-third of the book has passed the thirty-eighth chapter".Any elementary school student can figure it out. If the whole book is one hundred and twenty chapters, what happens when it comes to the thirty-eighth chapter?It is less than one-third. Since there is still more than one-third, how can the whole book be one hundred and twenty chapters?If it is one hundred and eight chapters, then one-third of it is thirty-six chapters. When the book reaches thirty-eight chapters, is it one-third or more?It is exactly the same as Zhiyanzhai's calculation.

Some red fans and some viewers put forward a hope, saying that you have explored to this extent now, can you find a way to explore the last twenty-eight episodes, those episodes that we can't see now? At the same time, summarize the content of each episode?It's hard.However, out of my love for Cao Xueqin, I would like to share with you the chapters from Chapter 81 to Chapter 108 written by Cao Xueqin, as well as the content of each chapter.In order to make it coherent, it is inevitable to repeat what I have said before. I will try to be brief as much as possible, and expand what needs to be added.Cao Xueqin's recitations are very neat, each time is a pair, and each sentence is eight characters.In the past, Chinese classical chapter novels all had a purpose, but they were not as meticulous as Cao Xueqin in terms of recitation.For example, in "Water Margin", its chapters sometimes have seven characters in each of the upper and lower sentences, and sometimes it has eight or even nine characters. The author did not make very careful adjustments to the chapters.The review is also not neat.The recitations are all seven characters, but relatively crude.The recitations are very particular, like the nineteenth chapter "Love and Good Night, Flowers and Interpretations, Meanings and Tranquility, Jade and Jade Birth Fragrance", itself is two beautiful and subtle poems.

I think Chapter 81 should be about the tragic ending of Jia Yingchun and Xiangling.Chapter 81 may be "Zhongshan Wolf Swallows the Unlucky Female Hedong Lion's Roar and Breaks the Unlucky Soul". In this episode, Cao Xueqin will explain that Sun Shaozu was rescued by the Jia family when he was in distress, and that he is a white-eyed wolf and ungrateful. Chapter 82 may be titled "Four Rumors of Rumors and Disturbances in Officials and Central Governments, Closed Gardens and Closed Houses, Shocked and Shocked".The Rongguo Mansion hid the criminal property of the Zhen family, and people in the mansion whispered one after another, rumors spread like wildfire, people's hearts fluttered, and the officials were the first to become chaotic.What is Guanzhong?Such words appeared many times in the first eighty chapters. For example, Jia Baoyu was recuperating after being beaten, and suddenly said that he wanted to eat lotus leaf soup. Wang Xifeng ordered to prepare the raw materials. Mrs. Wang asked, what do you want so much for?Wang Xifeng said, since Baoyu wants to eat it, let's take this opportunity to make more and let everyone try it.So Jia's mother teased her and said, "Monkey, be good to you! Take the official's money and be a man!" Wang Xifeng said that she would not use the official's money, and she could afford to be filial to this little host. "Guanzhong" means that Rongguo Mansion has a management center. Its core organization is the general account room, which is in charge of the distribution of money in the entire mansion, including from Jiamu to the little girl. Everyone's monthly pocket money is It allocates outward.Expenses other than pocket money for each person will be paid by the officials according to the plans and practices of the mansion.Officials have the right to manage real and movable properties inside and outside the government.According to the established rules of the game, no one in the mansion, except enjoying their own share of the monthly silver, can not violate the regulations and embezzle the official expenses. What Jia Mu said means that even if Wang Xifeng is the actual big housekeeper in the mansion, She placed an order for Baoyu's lotus leaf soup, but she could only ask the officials to allocate enough for Baoyu to eat alone.Of course Mother Jia was joking.In the actual operation, from top to bottom, who really abides by the rules set by the ancestors?

If you read carefully, you will find that the eighth chapter writes that Baoyu went to Lixiangyuan to visit Baochai. It's called Wu Xindeng, homophonic "Wuxing 戥". In the past, there was a tool for calling silver. It used a star to approve the quantity. Wu Xing 戥, think about it, can it be unreasonable to withdraw silver from his hand?There is also the leader of the warehouse. Rongguo Mansion has many warehouses, which store a lot of things, mainly food. Then this leader is called Dai Liang, which is a homonym for "a large amount". It means that there must be corruption from it.There is also a comprador named Qian Hua, who spends money like flowers.These are very interesting names.These guys who are in charge of official affairs, when the master is in power, they are more fierce than anyone else, corrupt and corrupt, and the master is unstable, they are more bearish than anyone else.Jia Zheng made the decision to hide the criminal property of the Zhen family in the south of the Yangtze River, and it must be implemented by some officials. Even if he chooses trusted confidants, even if those confidants are still loyal for a while, there is no impenetrable wall. If something like this violates the king's law, if the news leaks out, there will be chaos among the officials first. There is a problem with the management mechanism of the entire mansion. At this stage, it must be sweeping away those who escaped, some who avoided disaster and asked for leave, and panic and sabotage. If there are, there will even be those who go to report for glory first.

So what about the Grand View Garden?Mrs. Wang had long wanted to move Baoyu out of the Grand View Garden. At this time, the whole mansion was in turmoil, and it was not practical to maintain the grand stall of the Grand View Garden.Baoyu moved out first, followed by Daiyu, Tanchun and Xichun.Baochai has long since left on her own, Yingchun has already married and died, and their original residence has long since been vacated.Only Li Wan and Jia Lan still live in Daoxiang Village, and Miaoyu lives in Yuancui Temple.Generally speaking, the Grand View Garden is a desolate scene with closed gardens and closed doors. Everyone's heart is beating drums, because they have heard ominous news and don't know what the future destiny will be.

This time it will be written that the emperor has successively launched attacks on the four major families.The first to be hit was the Shi family, Jia Mu's natal family.There are two historians in the book, one is Baoling Hou Shi Nai, and the other is Zhongjing Hou Shi Ding, so at this stage of the story, they were all deposed by the emperor.This dealt a great blow to Jia Mu, and the Xuanhe family behind her was eclipsed and on the verge of collapse.It makes sense for me to speculate on the direction of the story in this way. I have repeatedly told you that Cao Xueqin's book "conceals the truth, but preserves the lies".In real life, when the regime changed, Kangxi died, and Yongzheng ascended the throne, the Li family was the first to be hit. It was Jiamu's prototype family, and Jiamu's prototype's elder brother Li Xu. Yongzheng punished him soon after he came to power.So in the novel, it is not surprising that historians are the first to be hit.

Jia's mother is in her twilight years. The family suffered such a heavy blow, and she completely collapsed from the spiritual to the physical.By the eighty-third chapter, it will be written that Jia's mother died of fright.Looking back at the eighty-third chapter, I think it may be "Shi Taijun's Helpless Mansion Is All About Gold."Mother Jia died before she reached her eighty-first birthday.Cao Xueqin wrote this story, and he was quite precise in the passage of time.In the last two chapters of the first 80 chapters that we are seeing now, the lotus blossoms have passed, the summer is over, "the pond is cold all night in autumn", and "the Polygonum flowers and water chestnut leaves are full of sorrow".Then after the eighty-one chapters, in terms of chronology, it should be written next. It should be in the autumn of the third year after Concubine Yuan visited her relatives. Can't speak.She didn't have time to leave a will, and various interest groups in the mansion tried to rob her of her inheritance, and there were many ugly phenomena.As soon as Jia's mother died, Jia Amnesty would of course attack Yuanyang and force her to submit. Yuanyang would rather die than ask for everything, cut her throat and killed herself, splashing blood in the hall.

In the eighty-fourth chapter, it will be written that the attack is gradually approaching the Jia clan, and Jia Amnesty should be the first to be hit.The chapter eighty-fourth is, I guess, "The Incident in Ping'an State Is Unsafe, Shedding Tears, Cranes Are Difficult to Shed Tears".Jia Amnesty sent Jia Lian to look for Jiedu in Ping'an Prefecture, but he was impeached first, and the emperor punished him severely.Some red fans would say that the book didn't say what Jia Lian was going to do, so shouldn't he be allowed to meet for personal reasons?You must know that the emperor of the Qing Dynasty strictly prohibited the nobles in the capital from communicating with officials from other places. Don’t say that you are colluding together to do something that is not conducive to the court. Even if you have a private relationship, it is also a rebellion.The title of Jia She's first-class general was cut, and Jia She was shackled.The so-called yoke means that when you are not finally determined what to do with you, you have to wear a wooden yoke every day and stand in the street to show the public.Jia Lian managed to get away with it. He could say that he was only sending a letter under his father's order, but he didn't know what was going on. Although Jia Amnesty had no paternal love for Jia Lian, since it was related to the fate of the family, he must take full responsibility and try not to involve his son in it. .Jia Amnesty is Jia Zheng's older brother, of course the emperor knows very well, your brother is such a jerk, how about you?But at that time, Jia Yuanchun was still by the emperor's side, and she was pregnant. With Jia Zheng's consistent performance, the emperor's attack on Jia's family, when the story developed to this time, only reached Jia Amnesty for the time being, and did not deal with it. He made the final decision. Although Mrs. Xing and other family members were trembling, they could temporarily live in the original courtyard with the black oil gate.Jia's mother died, and Jia Zheng wanted to mourn for her. He personally transported her mother's coffin back to Jinling, her hometown.The family bid farewell at the Tears Pavilion.In the past, there were such long pavilions at large intersections and water wharves for people to use.The thirty-seventh chapter begins with the statement that Jia Zheng was sent by the emperor as an apprentice, so he writes that "Baoyu's disciples were sent to the Salei Pavilion".Originally, everyone should be completely immersed in the mourning of the family's own funeral, but at this time there was a turmoil. Someone accused Jia Zheng of hiding criminal property for the Zhen family. He asked his son and grandson to write the poem praising the general with ulterior motives.Although the news is not yet confirmed, the family should have shed tears purely for the loss of Jiamu and the temporary breakup, but suddenly their emotions were completely disordered, "It is difficult to shed tears in the Tears Pavilion".The eighty-fifth chapter, "Warm Painting Broken Lotus Root Pavilion Cut Hair Cold Moon Ripples Crimson Pearl Returns to Heaven".Write about Xichun running away from the mansion and Daiyu sinking into the lake to escape.Daiyu and Xichun were fully explained in the previous lectures, so I won’t repeat what I said.There is only one issue to discuss now.A red fan friend said that in the fifth verdict on Daiyu, there was a sentence "hanging in the jade belt in the forest", so he thought that Daiyu should have hanged herself from a tree by the lake in the Grand View Garden with the jade belt on her waist.This red fan friend conducted a close reading of the text.But I want to point out that this understanding is incorrect.What is a jade belt?This is a subject of cultural relics.Research can be carried out from various angles. For example, Mr. Pan Fujun compiled a "Plant Illustrated Book of A Dream of Red Mansions", and some people wrote academic monographs on architecture. I myself wrote an article on pets. There are people who study.It describes in detail what clothes the characters wear, including what belts to wear.Did he write that Lin Daiyu had a belt?I wrote it specifically.In the forty-ninth chapter, it was snowing at that time, and the ladies, Li Wan and Wang Xifeng all put on Yuxue's clothes.Daiyu was wearing a crane cloak with a red feather veil and a white fox collar, a very luxurious cloak for royal snow; what kind of belt was she wearing?It is tied with a lapis lazuli flashing green double-ring four-in-one wishful ribbon.Shuanghuan Sihe refers to the buckle of the belt, and that part is usually made of jade, so this belt can be called a jade belt.So can this kind of jade belt be used as a tool for hanging himself?It is not possible.In the Palace Museum, you can visit, it has some jade belts on display.These jade belts are made of relatively hard materials. Except for the jade buckle, the rest of the place will also be dotted with some beautiful jade, agate, emerald, emerald, pearls, etc. Such belts are not stretchable, so from a physical point of view, It is impossible for people to put it on the neck and automatically tighten it to suffocate.You may find it a little funny when I explain it this way, but it’s actually not funny. This is my experience of visiting antiquities exhibitions and consulting materials in order to investigate this issue.Therefore, if the "jade belt hanging in the forest" in the verdict does have a foreshadowing effect, it should be that Daiyu untied the jade belt around her waist before sinking into the lake, and let the cloak fall off the ground automatically. It was on a branch by the lake, which later became a basis for people to judge that she sank into the lake.

The eighty-sixth chapter may be called "Reluctantly, Er Bao Gets Married, Seems acquainted, and Pillow Xia Comes Out of the Pavilion".Jia's mother died, Daiyu fled, and the family was in a state of panic all day long. Under this situation, the parents decided to arrange the marriage of Baoyu and Baochai.After getting married, Er Bao didn't feel happy, the overall environment was not good, the two seemed to be in harmony, and there was no joy in the small environment. Shi Xiangyun is also married.If the first step of her two uncles was just to cut the nobles, it would not be as miserable as ransacking the house and punishing crimes. After cutting the nobles, you can still use your original accumulated wealth to maintain your life. Some nobles who cut the nobles would think He tried his best to find another way, hoping to restore his title.Then during this process, Shi Xiangyun's two uncles hurriedly married her off.Her husband is Wei Ruolan.In the first 80 chapters, it was written that Shi Xiangyun was engaged. At that time, she did not dare to imagine that her future husband would satisfy her. After getting married, she felt that Wei Ruolan matched her secret ideals in every way, and she had a feeling of déjà vu.Shi Xiangyun herself has a golden unicorn, which she wore since she was a child. It is relatively small and can be understood as a female; later she once picked up a relatively large golden unicorn in the Grand View Garden, which can be understood as a male. Baoyu got it from Taoist Zhang during the ceremony at Qingxuguan; after Shi Xiangyun and Cuilu picked up the golden unicorn, they returned it to Baoyu; when Shi Xiangyun got married, of course Baoyu and Baochai went to congratulate, They gave this big golden unicorn to Wei Ruolan, so that their husband and wife would each have a golden unicorn.Although the historian lost his title, the Wei family was in good condition at that time. During that short period of time, Shi Xiangyun felt quite happy. shape".

As for the eighty-seventh chapter, the title may be "Chun Ling resisted the decree and went far away to play chess, die in love and bring fish in the pond".There is a detail when Concubine Yuan visits her relatives. Everyone should have the impression that Jia Yuanchun praised Lingguan for her good performance and asked her to perform two more performances.At that time, Jia Qiang, the head of the theater troupe, went to tell the senior officer that you played "Garden Tour" and "Dream Startled"; the scenes in "Garden Tour" and "Dream Startled" were more beautiful and elegant.However, Ling Guan can be called a great artist. No matter what the occasion is, she doesn't listen to instructions. She makes art for the sake of art. She said that "Garden Tour" and "Dream" are not my specialty, and they are not my role. If I don't sing, I will What are you going to sing?Sing "meeting" and "cursing each other".Think about the names of these two plays, what occasion?You play "Meeting" and "Calling each other"!But Ling Guan has such a temper, so he had no choice but to let her act. After the performance, Yuan Chun didn't think there was anything inappropriate, and he still thought it was good.

Up to this time, I should write about the situation in the palace. "The place where the durian flowers bloom illuminates the palace", which means that Jia Yuanchun is about to give birth to the emperor's offspring. If she wants to give birth to a boy, it will be a great achievement; but, she Her family is in trouble, and the emperor's favor for her has visibly weakened.She must try to maintain the emperor's love for her, then she will think that when I visited my relatives back then, there was such a good theater troupe and such interesting plays; My idea is to use the eunuchs to find the most outstanding actor ever in the family, and ask her to perform a few funny comedies to make the emperor happy.After the order was passed down, the mansion reported that after the opera troupe was disbanded, there were no maids left, and there was no senior official; the senior official was taken out by Jia Qiang to marry her as his wife, renamed Chunling, and stopped singing operas; Jia Yuanchun issued an order: Anyway, find me!If you don't sing, you have to sing!When Jia Qiang and Chun Ling heard the news, they both flew away. There is an ancient book with a preface written by Qi Liaosheng. Before the eighteenth chapter, there is a Huiqian poem written by Zhiyanzhai: "If you treasure a thing, you can see the true love. Luxury is always in trouble. Daiyu Baochai passed on a good sentence. The titles of "Luxurious Banquet" and "Xianyuan" are interesting. To cut the purse and tie the knot, yield to the three lives of the beautiful girl. Poor words are empty in the blink of an eye, and the clouds float and the moon shines." The first five sentences are easy to understand, and they are aimed at the first five sentences I feel emotional about the specific plot in the eighteen chapters.The last three sentences have always stumped countless readers and commentators. How to explain "Successful Girls Knot Three Lives"?In fact, it is not difficult to understand.This is to point out that in the eighteenth chapter, the above-mentioned plot of Jia Qiang's "submission to the superior girl" is a foreshadowing.Red fans must notice that although Bao, Dai, and Chai in the book are great tragedies of love and marriage, the love and marriage of men and women in the book are not all tragedies. There are at least two young couples who broke through the shackles in that era of imprisonment, Love freely and get married eventually. The couple is Jia Yun and Xiaohong, and the couple is Jia Qiang and Lingguan.Of course, they could only live on the fringes of society later on. Xiaohong’s parents could not escape the fate of being beaten, killed, or sold after the collapse of the Jia family. She was a relic of a criminal family; , decided that they must live a more low-key hidden life in the future. Generally speaking, they are still poor-fated women.As for the last two lines of this Huiqian poem written by Zhi Yanzhai in Chapter 18, it is indeed difficult to understand.We all know that Shi Xiangyun did not appear in the 18th episode of Jia Yuanchun's father-in-law, let alone Sheyue. It's easy to understand, but it all boils down to "the clouds float and the moon shines by itself", what's going on?A comment that appeared in the twentieth chapter, which I mentioned earlier when talking about Musk Moon - "The Musk Moon is idle and speechless makes my nose sour, it is the so-called hurting the scene" - can be combined with the last sentence of this poem understand.That is to say, the critics not only speak in the book, but also speak outside the book.Zhi Yanzhai, who wrote the book, is probably the prototype of Shi Xiangyun in the book, and when she wrote these words, the prototype of Sheyue was sitting beside her.My idea is for reference only. I guess in the eighty-seventh chapter, there will be stories about playing chess.The style of writing in Gao E's continuation is generally in line with Cao Xueqin's original intention, so you can refer to it.However, in Cao Xueqin's writing, more plots should be derived.Siqi is a very active person in the Grand View Garden. In the first 80 chapters, it was written that there was a turmoil in which Siqi was used as the background to compete for the control of the kitchen in the Grand View Garden. Going to the kitchen run by the Liu family to beat, smash, rob, and copy is very fierce.Siqi planned to let one of her aunts, who belonged to Qin Xian's family, take charge of the kitchen. Seeing that the success was accomplished, Qin Xian's family replaced the Liu family's for a long time, but it turned around and was returned by Ping'er, and the Liu family's official was restored. In charge, Siqi fell backward in anger.Siqi pursues her love, and she is very firm and strong, which is worthy of recognition, but her super strong desire to control, and she does not hesitate to use methods of beating, smashing, and robbing to achieve her goals, is not worthy of admiration.After she was kicked out, the successive deaths of her and Pan You'an would stir up conflicts between the Liu family and Qin Xian's family who were still in Jia's mansion. On the issue of responsibility for her death, the Qin Xian family's It is possible to falsely accuse Liu's family, which will have the effect of harming the fish in the pond.This time, it may also be written that Xia Jingui, a shrew, finally made Xue Pan unbearable. During the quarrel between the two, Xue Pan accidentally beat her to death.Of course the Xia family didn't agree, and immediately sued the officials. At this time, the four major families were slipping downhill, and they no longer had the arrogance of beating people to death as a joke. Xue Pan was put in prison and faced death penalty. The eighty-eighth chapter is called "Xue Baochai's borrowed words contain satire Wang Xifeng, a hero who knows his fate and is strong".When I list the purpose of this review, I am most confident.Why?Because in the first 80 chapters of Zhiyanzhai’s comments, he clearly told us that Cao Xueqin had already written such a chapter, which was in the last 30 chapters, but he didn’t tell us whether it was the 80th chapter or the 90th chapter. It's only been a few times, and now I arrange it for the eighty-eighth time.This is a review of Cao Xueqin's original flavor.In the previous twenty-first chapter, he wrote about attacking people to persuade Baoyu, and about Ping'er covering Jia Lian.Zhi Yanzhai told us in the comments before the 21st chapter: "According to the text of this chapter, it is wonderful, but if you haven't read the last 30 chapters, you still don't see this wonderfulness." "This time" is the twenty-first chapter. Zhi Yanzhai summed up the cited chapters with "Jiao Chen Bao Yu, soft words to save Jia Lian", but the main meaning is summarized.Thank you Zhiyanzhai, it doesn't matter if you don't quote all the previous chapters, because we can see at any time, the latter chapter is fully quoted, which is very precious, so that we know that among the last thirty chapters, one is "Xue Baochai's Borrowing Words Contains Satire to Wang Xifeng" A Hero Who Knows His Fate".Zhi Yanzhai pointed out that the twenty-first chapter started with two slaves, and the later one "pointed directly at the master".It means that the two chapters are actually about the conflict between the master and the son, but the twenty-first chapter reflects the conflict between Baoyu and Baochai from the conflict between Xiren and Baoyu. In one chapter, I think it is probably the eighty-eighth chapter, I directly wrote about the ideological conflict between Baoyu and Baochai.After Daiyu sank into the lake and escaped from the fairyland, Baoyu "faced to the sky, the snow in the mountains was crystal clear, and I never forgot, the lonely forest in the fairy land outside the world".Although he lived outside the Grand View Garden, he missed Daiyu so much that he went to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion in the Grand View Garden to remember Lin Daiyu.When the twenty-sixth chapter above wrote about the bamboo clump stream in Xiaoxiang Pavilion, when it was described by the eight characters "the phoenix tail is dense, the dragon chant is fine", Zhi Yanzhai wrote a comment: "and the following text'The fallen leaves are rustling, the cold smoke Momo' pair, it's so hurtful!" The eight characters "falling leaves rustling, cold smoke Momo" should appear in the episode of "directly pointing at the owner".Baoyu went to the deserted Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and then returned to the residence with Xue Baochai outside the Grand View Garden. He must still be immersed in missing Daiyu. When Chai caught her, she "excused the words with irony" and advised Baoyu not to indulge in the affair of her children. Now that the family is in decline, it is completely impossible to inherit the title of nobility by relying on the emperor's kindness. You should study hard and pass The imperial examination seeks fame and revitalizes the family.Baochai is still the same old way, and Baoyu will definitely not listen to it.This is the content of the first half of the eighty-eighth chapter. The second half of the twenty-first chapter, on the surface, describes the conflict between Ping'er and Jia Lian, but in fact, it also reflects the tension between the master and the master.In the second half of this episode, Cao Xueqin did not go around the circle, "directly pointing at his master", and wrote positively about the conflict between Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng.There was chaos among the officials in the Rongguo Mansion, and Wang Xifeng's long-term use of the moon silver that was locked up in the government to obtain illegal profits was exposed. It turned out that she faced some complaints and could not care about them. You have reported it, and even the money lent out before can't be recovered, and the moon silver can't be issued at all, and the family is generally angry. You not only violated the king's law, but also violated the family rules. Coupled with various other factors, Jia Lian will never give up. Unwilling to suffer from "bronchitis" (strict wife control), she began to yell at Wang Xifeng three times. Finally, Jia Lian asked Jia Zhen, the patriarch, to come forward and announce in public that she would divorce Wang Xifeng, and then made Ping'er his wife.However, Wang Xifeng has a very stubborn personality, and she knows that she is destined to be like this, but in some specific situations, she still insists on pretending to be a hero.The eighty-ninth chapter, its title may be "The King of Zhongshun under the order to show off his prestige and flamboyance to attack people and Gu Jushe's reputation".The Rongguo Mansion was originally very powerful, so that the old servants in the mansion, such as the housekeeper Lai Da, also became very powerful. His family had a luxurious house with a large garden, and his son Lai Shangrong became an official.This time I wrote that Lai Shangrong's official career was prosperous all the way, he was promoted again, and he held a big banquet in Lai's garden.At this time, the upward momentum of the servant has already made the mentality of the master who is going downhill different from the original one.It turned out that it was the servants who wanted to curry favor with their masters, but now these masters are eager to curry favor with the servants who are going up.Therefore, many people in Jia's house went to join in the show and went to Lai's house for a banquet.Lai Shangrong went left and right, he originally came from Jia's house, but he will definitely go to the opposite side of Jia's house - such as Zhongshun Wang's mansion - to gain ties.Therefore, people from Jia's family and people from Zhongshun Palace inevitably met at Lai Shangrong's house.The son of King Zhongshun found out about Xiren - Xiren should have gone with Baoyu and Baochai - and he had the heart to occupy Xiren.At this banquet, there will also be some special characters who are good at drilling, such as Jia Yucun.Jia Yucun is an extremely clever bureaucrat, and he will curry favor with various political forces.Jia Yucun found out that the son of King Zhongshun had a fancy for Xiren and wanted to occupy him. He understood, you said half a sentence, I understood ten sentences, and he would try to meet the request of Prince Zhongshun afterwards.The story develops to this time, it should be the winter of the third year after Jia Yuanchun visited his relatives.After Jia Zheng buried Jia's mother, he came back from Jinling. As soon as he returned to Beijing, the emperor attacked him and sent King Zhongshun to issue an order, and he was detained and strictly investigated.The officials of Rongguo Mansion, using today's situation as a metaphor, are like entering a working group and being controlled by the people sent by King Zhongshun.Mrs. Wang, Baoyu, Baochai, and other masters all have to move from the big house to the small one. Most of the servants have to be dismissed. Only one or two people are allowed to stay with them. Specifically, Baoyu and Baochai are only allowed to stay one. I originally wanted to keep Xiren, but I didn’t expect Zhongshun Prince’s Mansion to ask for Xiren by name. In this case, I have already mentioned it before, so I won’t repeat it—Xiren made the decision to leave the mansion, leaving behind the words “at least keep Musk Moon” , Baoyu and Baochai left Sheyue. The ninetieth chapter, the chapter may be called "Jiang Yuhan's Anticlimactic Attack on People Has a Beginning and an End". "Flowers attack people from beginning to end", this is Cao Xueqin's original pen.In the first 80 chapters of Zhiyanzhai's comments, the seven characters in the chapters were quoted, only one word missing.This time it will be written that Jiang Yuhan was brought back from Red Sandalwood Castle by King Zhongshun long ago. King Zhongshun likes to watch Jiang Yuhan act, and cannot do without Jiang Yuhan.According to the description in the first 80 chapters, Jiang Yuhan is the treasure of the battle between King Zhongshun and King Beijing.In the book, the political forces of the "sun" and "moon" compete with each other. King Beijing seems to be neutral, and both factions will win over him in order to concentrate their forces on the opposing side.King Zhongshun held a hall meeting in the mansion, asked Jiang Yuhan to perform his skills, and invited King Beijing to come and see, which means that we "smile away our grievances and enmity". Although Jiang Yuhan belongs to me now, his superb skills can also be dedicated to you.Jiang Yuhan knew that the King of Beijing was looking down, and his heart was for the King of Beijing, so he showed all his skills and radiated brilliance.But King Jing of Beijing withdrew halfway.Jiang Yuhan saw that the King of Beijing had withdrawn, so he stopped acting seriously, "pretty anticlimactic".King Zhongshun was furious, and sent the chief historian to the backstage to ask him what's the matter with you?Jiang Yuhan came up with a lot of prevarication reasons, for example, the crown prince rewarded me with a piece of dim sum just now, and after I ate it, I lost my position, and so on.King Zhongshun personally reprimanded and insulted him.Hua Xiren was sent to Zhongshun Prince's mansion. Originally, the son of Prince Zhongshun wanted to possess her, but after Xiren entered the mansion, King Zhongshun coveted her even though he was an old bone. When encountering such a situation, wealthy families will adopt a compromise method, which is to take the woman to serve the oldest lady in the mansion first, and put her next to her, and then, the father and son will take advantage of her unpreparedness.Concubine Zhongshun was not yet in a daze at that time, and the attacker asked for help, but the concubine got angry, and neither King Zhongshun nor King Zhongshun's son got Xiren, and King Zhongshun got angry and rewarded her to Jiang Yuhan.It is an insult and punishment to reward Xiren to an actor, measured by the value standard of the society at that time.The marriage between Xiren and Jiang Yuhan was sealed by a scarf.At that time, the officials of the Rongguo government stopped distributing monthly silver, and Baoyu and Baochai's life was extremely difficult. Xiren and Jiang Yuhan quietly went to help Baoyu and Baochai. As far as the relationship between Xiren and Baoyu was concerned, she had "a beginning and an end". The ninety-first chapter is called "Xue Baochai in Wutai Mountains in the morning from the scorpion Baoyu to sing alone at night".Graupel means ice rain.I designed the review in this way to fight as much as possible. Both sleet and snow are a kind of thing in the sky. "Snow Baoyu" is against "Snow Baochai"; In Xueli's "Ye Cheng Ten Alone Chanting", one is in the morning, the other is in the night, one has a number five, and the other has a number ten, all of which form a confrontation.Although Baoyu and Baochai respected each other as guests after marriage, they could not be in love with each other, and they had no sex life.Baochai still kept saying in Baoyu's ear some "great truths" such as "the family is already like this, you have to work harder to study and gain fame" and so on.Baoyu couldn't bear it anymore, and on a freezing rainy morning, taking advantage of the guards sent by Zhongshun Palace to avoid the cold and neglect, he "let go of the cliff" and ran away from home to become a monk. This was the first time he became a monk.He was not immune to the common people at that time, and ordinary people knew that the Buddhist holy place was in Mount Wutai, so he went there.In the thirty-first chapter, Lin Daiyu stretched out two fingers and said to Baoyu, "I have become two monks. From now on, I will remember what happened to you as a monk." That was a foreshadowing.This time, it is written that Baoyu was ordained as a monk for the first time.Although the Jia family had declined at that time, you think it was a great happiness for a man from an ordinary family in the society to have a beautiful and gentle wife like Baochai and a concubine like Sheyue by his side. Baoyu has "the world can't bear to be poisoned by it", and he still feels that such a life is meaningless, so he cruelly leaves Baochai and Sheyue behind and "lets go on a cliff". Baoyu suddenly disappeared, and Baochai's spirit was on the verge of collapse.But Baochai is a very self-sufficient woman, so she adjusted her mood by writing poems. In this time, she wrote a set of "Ten Solitary Songs", about ten widowed and lonely ancients. Comfort yourself and pray that things will change for the better.In Cao Xueqin's texts, he is constantly embedding poems and prose, not just in the first 80 chapters, there are characters who write poems, but in the last 28 chapters, there will be no poems.Some people may ask, how do you know that Baochai wrote "Ten Solitary Songs"?This is not something I came up with out of thin air. Chapter 64, do you remember that Daiyu wrote a set of "Five Beauties"?At that place, Zhiyanzhai had a comment, which clearly told us: "The "Five Beauties" is compared with the later "Ten Du Yin." Another person can write "Ten Du Yin", who can match Lin Daiyu?None other than Xue Baochai.Baochai is very unfortunate, but she is a very rational person, she will not blindly act emotionally, and she will try her best to get Baoyu back.Who did she think of?Who can I ask to help find Baoyu?This involves the first foreshadowing.The first time Jia Yucun appeared on the stage, he showed great ambitions, and chanted a pair: "Jade is in the box for a good price, and the hairpin is waiting for the time to fly in the box." This pair, the eyes of ordinary readers I glanced over it and felt that it was Jia Yucun expressing his ambitions. Unexpectedly, Zhi Yanzhai wrote a comment saying that this was a "combined biography of two treasures", which alluded to Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai. status during a time period. Readers and researchers have always found it puzzling.But I think, if you follow me step by step, we seem to restore that ancient porcelain vase together, and inlay it piece by piece. From the previous lectures to the present, you will find it not so difficult to understand. When I talked about the plot related to the Prison Temple earlier, I told you, what was Baoyu waiting for?What they are waiting for is a token that allows them to return home, "money can make ghosts turn the mill", if someone offers a large sum of money to bribe him, it is equivalent to buying him a token, and he can breathe a sigh of relief temporarily. In that situation, Isn't it "Jade seeks a good price in the tree"? "Seeking a good price" is not to seek property, but to obtain relief. The prerequisite for relief must be a "good price" that the bribe-taker is satisfied with. 当然，关于宝玉在“椟中”（暗指监狱）“求善价”的情节应该在这回以后出现，而“钗于奁内待时飞”作为伏笔，就应该在这回里照应。贾宝玉悬崖撒手去出家，薛宝钗一定要寻人，寻人要找谁帮助？不能乱找人，而贾雨村，大家想一想，书里面所写的一些官衔虽然是虚拟的，但是有人会很调侃地告诉你，贾雨村所当过的官，一度就相当于市长，又等于是卫戍区司令，故事发生到这儿的时候，贾雨村可能他的官衔有所变化，但是呢，利用他的权力去寻找贾宝玉是最得体的，也是最便捷的。因此，在这一回，宝钗就会通过贾琏，去跟贾雨村取得联系，希望能通过他，把宝玉找回来。这副对子的后半句，“钗”是宝钗不消说了，“于奁内”，奁的原义是梳妆盒，那么宝钗跟宝玉住那个屋子，可以比喻成一个梳妆盒，宝钗在“奁内”等待什么呢？“待时飞”。有人会说，她在等待找一个合适的时候飞走吗？不，请你再仔细看一看第一回里是怎么交代的，贾雨村他“姓贾名化，表字时飞，别号雨村”。宝钗在自己屋子里苦苦等候“表字时飞”的贾雨村的回音，这就是这副对子伏笔的含义！曹雪芹的文本，就巧妙到这种地步。贾雨村品质恶劣，虽然薛宝钗对他抱着很大的期望，但这个时候贾雨村害怕贾家的事情牵连到他，躲都躲不及，怎么会去帮助薛宝钗寻找贾宝玉呢？“钗于奁内”，是空“待时飞”了。 第九十二回，叫做《甄宝玉送回贾宝玉甄士隐默退贾雨村》。宝玉往五台山去，半路上，大雪中看见对面走来一个人，跟照镜子似的，与他一模一样，谁啊？甄宝玉。甄宝玉虽然跟贾宝玉同龄，但甄家被查抄得早，他那时还没到十六岁，就没被拘押，流落社会了，然后去寻找一个心灵的归宿，到过五台山，结果甄宝玉就发现，真要求得内心的平静，这种世俗性的“悬崖撒手”——当和尚，是解决不了问题的。半路碰见贾宝玉之后，他就告诉贾宝玉，你要寻求更深层次的那种顿悟，就劝贾宝玉还是暂且回家。甄宝玉就把贾宝玉送回了京城，送回了荣国府，叫做“送玉”。有红迷朋友跟我讨论，说甄宝玉，是曹雪芹设计出来的一个影子般的存在，第五十六回里，他在宝玉的梦中出现过，估计这个角色会始终隐隐约约，你怎么到这回让他正面出场了啊？曹雪芹会这么写吗？现在我很郑重地告诉你，曹雪芹要让甄宝玉正式出场，第二回，脂砚斋一条批语明明白白地告诉我们：“甄家宝玉乃上半部不写者。”什么意思？下半部必写啊！那么甄宝玉出场，会“送玉”，这我又有什么根据呢？太有根据了。元春省亲时大开宴席，大演戏剧，演了四出戏，其中有一出叫做《仙缘》，是根据唐代沈既济的改编的，这个戏曲全本的名字叫做《邯郸梦》，《仙缘》是其中一折。那么所演的四部戏，伏书中四事，《仙缘》伏的是什么？脂砚斋就明明白白告诉你，“伏甄宝玉送玉”。 故事发展到这个阶段，贾雨村危机四伏了。贾家的事儿会不会牵连到他？He panicked.你别忘了，他还曾经在甄宝玉家当过家庭教师呢！不过年头比较久，皇帝可能不是很清楚。但是，贾赦贪占石呆子古扇的事情，石呆子本人并没有死，他见贾赦因私交外官枷号，能不去向官府诉冤揭发吗？那就必然牵出贾雨村来了！贾雨村就四处活动，一方面他会拉关系撇清自己，另外一方面他拼命寻求内心的安宁。他到一个道观去求仙拜神，发现里面有一个衣衫褴褛的道士，他去向道士问吉凶，人家闭目不理，他觉得面目似曾相识，仔细端详，不是别人，就是甄士隐。高鹗在他的续书里面，也有类似的内部。那部分内容，我觉得大体上还是符合曹雪芹的整体构思的，会有这样的情节出现。 第九十三回，回目可能是《卫若兰射圃惜麒麟柳湘莲拭剑赏梅瓶》。 书到这个地方，不会单纯去写一个贵族府第内部的故事了，曹雪芹会把他的笔触从贵族府第延伸到社会，延伸到皇权下面各种力量之间的相激相荡。卫若兰射圃，我在前面的讲座里，一再地引用脂砚斋的批语告诉你，八十回后有这样的情节，那么估计在这回里就该呈现了。什么叫射圃？这是种军事行为，就是在一个地方练习射箭，练习射箭的目的不是锻炼身体和娱乐，而是为了准备战斗。卫若兰参加了什么样的武装力量，要跟谁战斗？他参加就是书里面说的“双悬日月照乾坤”的“月派”，那派政治势力的武装力量，他们想通过发动政变，把书中在位的那个皇帝干掉，把他们喜欢的人扶上宝座当皇帝。会有惊心动魄的政治斗争的内容进入书里面来，但是，估计曹雪芹在文本上会进行控制，他不一定直接写两派武装力量的鏖战，他会重点写到备战的情景——射圃，可能是在菜地或者是在花圃当中来进行演练。按说卫若兰射圃的时候，他身上不应该佩戴任何东西，因为碍事，对不对？但是有一样东西他舍不得把它取下来，就是金麒麟。他戴着这个金麒麟射圃，这说明他很珍爱这个东西。这个东西是宝玉送给他的，他的妻子史湘云也有一个，不过比他这个小。估计卫若兰他离开京城集结到一个山寨，和另外一些“月派”的人物聚在一起，他不一定跟史湘云说实话，他可能说是去云游，你先在家里面待一段，我过些时候回来，实际上他是参加“月派”的政治军事活动去了。 柳湘莲和卫若兰他们是一伙。柳湘莲是“红楼四侠”之一。“射圃”的场面里一定有他。关于柳湘莲后来和薛宝琴巧遇成婚的情节，前面讲过，这里从略。需要补充的是，“射圃”之后会有实战，卫若兰牺牲了，咽气之前，他把身上的金麒麟取下来，交付给他的战友柳湘莲，嘱咐他设法再把它交还给贾宝玉，意味着他把史湘云托付给了贾宝玉，希望宝玉替代他照顾湘云到底。 第九十四回，估计回目是《蘅芜君化蝶遗冷香枕霞友望川留余憾》。大家知道宝钗和蝴蝶有一种配伍关系。宝钗扑蝶是书里最美的段落之一。虽然甄宝玉把贾宝玉送回了荣国府，但是宝玉依然跟她格格不入，她精神上无比孤独。到这时四大家族的王家又出了问题，王夫人和薛姨妈的亲兄弟，原来炙手可热的王子腾，被皇帝罢官，宝钗在家族败落和婚姻失败的双重焦虑中，抑郁而死。宝钗逝去时已是隆冬，却有蝴蝶飞出窗牖，室内氤氲出缕缕冷香。宝玉毕竟多年来跟宝钗耳鬓厮磨，思想上有分歧，情感上还是剪不断理还乱。宝玉填一首《蝶恋花》，感叹宝钗红颜薄命。 柳湘莲潜回京城，告知史湘云其夫卫若兰云游殒命真相，并找到宝玉，把卫若兰托付的金麒麟交给宝玉。史湘云到大运河边——数月前送别卫若兰的地方，痛哭哀悼。 第九十五回，回目可能叫做《玻璃大围屏酿和番油冻佛手埋奇祸》。玻璃大围屏是第七十一回里面，贾母八旬大庆时出现的一件寿礼。书里面有特殊的一笔，就是贾母专门问了王熙凤：“前儿这些人家送礼来的，共有几家有围屏？”王熙凤汇报说，有两架围屏特别好，一架是江南甄家送的，还有一架是粤海将军邬家送的玻璃大围屏。有人一听，可能很不以为然，玻璃大围屏——玻璃值什么钱？算什么好东西？怎么书里面就写贾母那么看重，说这两架围屏不能动，留着要送人。现在我们是什么时代？曹雪芹所写的又是什么时代？贾母身边有四个丫鬟取的什么名字？珍珠、琥珀、翡翠、玻璃。珍珠后来拨给宝玉，改名袭人。从四个丫鬟的名字可以看出，当时玻璃是和珍珠、琥珀、翡翠一样贵重的东西。 请注意，玻璃大围屏是一位管理海事的官员送的。这和后来探春远嫁应该是相关的。茜香国跟中国双方应该是打过仗的，茜香国可能失败了，女王甚至被俘了，后来怎么解决这个问题呢？茜香国女王表示服了，从此向中国称臣纳贡，中国皇帝也就对之实行怀柔政策，拿中国贵族女子去下嫁茜香国女王的儿子，也就是和番。首先向皇帝汇报战胜茜香国情况的，应该就是粤海邬将军。皇帝可能就让他把女儿拿去和番。邬将军虽有女儿，谦称自己地位太卑，女儿不够资格，恳求皇帝另觅合适人选。贾元春闻知此事，在这个当口，就会在皇帝幸她时，趁便竭力推荐自己妹妹贾探春。而贾探春呢，那之前在第七十一回已经被南安太妃看中，在贾政出事前，通过官媒婆运作，南安郡王世子已经跟贾探春订婚，贾母在世时，作为订亲聘礼的回礼，那架玻璃大围屏已经送往南安郡王家。情况汇报给皇帝，皇帝在再次召见粤海邬将军时会说，虽然有个贾探春备选，但她已订了婆家，是不是还是由你女儿去和番为好？粤海邬将军就会细细秉告，在荣国府史太君八旬大庆时，他妻子前往送寿礼，是一架玻璃大围屏，当时出面接待的，正是理家的贾探春，据他妻子回家后形容，不仅容貌好，言谈也爽利，很有才干，倘若此女去和番，定能让茜香国女王及王子满意，更有利于时时奉劝该国臣服中国。皇帝听后，就下旨让南安郡王改弦易辙，原来是要娶贾探春为世子之福晋，现在改为过继贾探春为女儿即郡主，以便下一步送去嫁与茜香国王子和番。玻璃大围屏这件道具，应该起到这样重要的作用。探春嫁往茜香国时，正值元妃省亲后的第四个年头的清明，贾家和南安郡王家都到大运河边送别，贾政能从拘押处所出来，作为家长送别女儿，贾家危机暂时获得缓解，但是探春心里非常难过，她知道自己如断线风筝一去不返，只能祈求“从今分两地，各自保平安”。 那么油冻佛手怎么回事？这个油冻佛手的“”字，写成“腊”（繁体为“”）是可以的，“”和“腊”是同义异体字。但是请大家注意，现在最通行的，红学所校注的，人民文学出版社出版的一百二十回里，把“腊”印成“蜡”，形成一个错字。红学所校注时前八十回使用的是古本里的庚辰本，庚辰本并没有错，写的是“腊油冻佛手”，校注者偏把“腊”字改成“蜡”字，这一回后面的“校后记”里，注明是“径改”，就是他觉得不对，直接就把它改掉了。这种改动太武断粗暴了。在所有古本里面，没有“蜡油”的写法，都是“腊油”或者“油”，以往的通行本里，也没有写成“蜡”的。 油冻佛手这件古玩，是在第七十二回里写到的。鸳鸯有事到了贾琏王熙凤住的那个小院，贾琏忽然想起，就问鸳鸯，老太太生日过去，现在官中清点寿礼，发现古董账上有个外路和尚孝敬的油冻佛手，可是古董房里却找不到它，管事的跟他汇报过两次了，他也急着寻其下落，问是老太太还摆着呢，还是交到谁手里去了？鸳鸯就告诉他老太太摆了几天以后厌烦了，给王熙凤了，平儿听到赶紧加以证明。历来都有读者把“腊油”跟“蜡油”划等号，觉得清代庙会就有蜡制的假水果出售，平民百姓用很便宜的价格就可以买到，拿到家里当摆设；以贾府之豪富，怎么会对一个蜡制的佛手模型，那么样地看重？府里古董房管事的觉得找不到是桩大事，日理万机的贾琏更郑重其事地进行查询，是否小题大做？更不明白曹雪芹他写，写出宝、黛、钗的爱情和婚姻悲剧不就行了吗，怎么还要写这么多的“废话”？看来红学所校注时也是这样，认为什么“腊油冻佛手”啊，就应该是蜡制模型，大笔一挥，径改为“蜡油冻佛手”。哎呀，油冻佛手太重要了，曹雪芹的这个文本，可是没有废文赘笔的啊！ 油冻是一种非常名贵的石料。现在大家吃鲜肉很方便，但是以前没有冰箱，鲜肉很难长期保存，所以多有把鲜肉加工腌制以利保存的，尤其南方各省，腌制的肉多称腊肉，现在也仍然有腌制腊肉，有人嗜好吃腊肉。油冻，就是石料的质感和色泽就和腊肉上面的肥肉部分一样。石头长成那个样子，是非常罕见非常贵重的，再把那个东西雕成一个佛手，叫油冻佛手，年代再久远些，当然就属上乘的古董了。它是书里面一个极其重要的道具。 大家知道，在元春省亲的时候演了四出戏，其中有一出叫做《豪宴》，《豪宴》是一个折子戏，是《一捧雪》里面的一折。“一捧雪”什么意思？就是有一种玉器特别好，捧在手里就跟捧的全是雪一样。这个戏曲讲了这样一件古玩给一个家族带来的一个惨剧。脂砚斋在批语里就很郑重地告诉我们，“《一捧雪》中伏贾家之败”，可见贾府的败落虽然有种种的远因近因，但是其中会牵涉到一件古玩，那这件古玩是什么？从前八十回里检索，它不能是别的，只能是这个油冻佛手，要不怎么七十二回里会那么用力地写到它？ 油冻佛手怎么会埋奇祸呢？估计就是在贾母还活着，王夫人也还有充分的活动自由的时候，她们还有机会进宫去给元妃请安，王熙凤就建议她们把这个油冻佛手带去，献给元春。佛手是很吉利的东西，一个人随时手里拿着一个佛手，就等于得到了神佛的长久保佑。当然，这样做是违反宫中规定的。允许你来探视妃嫔——只能是女眷来探视，贾政就不行——来请安，但是不能够私相传递东西。可是一个油冻佛手，体积也不大，当时贾母王夫人觉得算不了什么，带进去元春握到手中也感到确有安神的功能，没想到就埋下了奇祸。 于是到第九十六回，奇祸就呈现了，回目可能就叫做《潢海铁网山虎兕搏樯林智通寺香魂断》。潢海铁网山是在前八十回里面出现的，就是秦可卿死了，要做棺材，最后薛蟠就推荐了一种，叫做潢海铁网山所出的樯木。在小说最前面写贾雨村他赋闲的时候，游览山林，就发现有一座庙叫智通寺，那么第九十六回很可能把前面这些因素都加以使用，构成了这段故事。我在最早的讲座里，详细讲述过贾元春之死，这里不多重复。只再强调两处细节，一个是皇帝以秋（就是秋天打猎）为名，出征剿除叛逆，贾元春随行，在驻跸地，元春有乞巧的行为，乞巧，一般是阴历七夕，就是七月七晚上进行，方式是把一根针放到水盆里，月光下，通过针在水盆底下的影子，从中来测祸福。元妃省亲时演的四出戏，其中就有《乞巧》，是里面的一折，脂砚斋批语非常明确地说：“中伏元妃之死”。元妃乞巧时哪里预测得到，没过几时，她就在虎兕相逢时，被皇帝抛出惨死。再一处细节，就是贾元春一路上总握着油冻佛手。在皇帝犹豫要不要献出元春以为缓兵之计时，太监夏守忠向皇帝下谗言，说元妃她手里老抓着一个很有分量的油冻佛手，她因为圣上追究她家，心怀不满，是想趁您在睡着了不备的时候去砸您太阳穴！这就促使皇帝下决心把贾元春牺牲掉。她原来所怀的那个孩子早就流产了，皇帝对她当然无所吝惜。 第九十七回，就会写到《宁国府旧账成首罪荣国府新咎遭抄检》。宁国府有旧账，什么旧账？就是藏匿秦可卿。荣国府有什么新咎呢？就是闹了半天你不仅藏匿甄家的罪产，你也不仅是唆使你的子孙写反清的将军诗，现在又发现你私自把油冻佛手传递进宫，几乎把皇帝给谋害，这样的话，对荣国府就不是第一波打击那么客气了，就彻底查抄，忽喇喇大厦倾了。当然，皇帝到头来一算，“造衅开端首罪宁”，因为贾家最大一宗罪，还是藏匿义忠亲王老千岁的骨血秦可卿这件事，所以宁国府也就连锅端了。贾赦本来就有罪，当然一并加重处置了。 第九十八回，回目可能是《月落乌啼寒霜满天食尽鸟泣奔腾流散》。估计书里不仅会写到宁荣二府乃至四大家族，还有相关“月派”的大溃灭，甚至还可能写到整个“月派”政治力量的总后台，也就是第七十六回黛玉、湘云联诗里“乘槎待帝孙”的那个“帝孙”，就是义忠老千岁他的儿子，从前面最早那个皇帝往下算的话是孙子辈，跟现在的这个皇帝应该是同辈的一个人，这个“帝孙”的原型就应该是乾隆朝的弘皙。“弘皙逆案”，我在前面讲座里面有详尽展开的分析，大家可以回忆翻查，这里不多说了。那么以弘皙为原型，进入到书里面，成为一个影影绰绰的艺术形象，会被圈禁在清虚观里面。在月落乌啼的时候，他就会为自己这派势力的彻底的覆灭，感到既愤懑又无奈。而受他的牵连，四大家族的男男女女就败落得连一个绿珠那样的人物都出现不了，“白骨如山忘姓氏，无非公子与红妆”。但是故事并没有结束，还要往下发展。 第九十九回，叫做《良儿误窃真相大白凤姐扫雪痛心疾首》。故事发展到这个阶段，已经进入从元妃省亲往后算的第四个年头的冬季了。这回的故事在前面关于凤姐那一讲里已经讲得很详细。回目里为什么写成“良儿误窃”？“误窃”不是偷错了东西的意思，应该是“被误解为偷窃了东西”的意思。第八回里有一个细节，写袭人对宝玉照顾得无微不至，宝玉睡下了，她把宝玉脖子上的通灵宝玉取下来，用自己手帕包好，塞到褥子下面，这样第二天拿出来给宝玉带，就不会冰脖子了。脂砚斋在此处有条批语说：“交代清楚。'塞玉'一段，又为'误窃'一回伏线。”有位红迷朋友跟我讨论，他说从这条批语看，良儿当年被怀疑偷走的玉，也许就是通灵宝玉。我又细读了第五十二回里平儿提及“那一年有一个良儿偷玉”的文字，觉得如果当年良儿被怀疑偷了通灵宝玉，那就不是一般的偷窃行为，跟坠儿偷金也不必并列了，平儿提及，应该是另外的口气，因为就荣国府而言，偷通灵宝玉就等于偷贾宝玉的命根子，性质超越谋财，完全是害命。脂砚斋在第八回里所说的“'误窃'一回”，应该就是本回，我在前面就其基本内容进行了探佚，但是究竟曹雪芹是怎么交代当年“误窃”的具体情况，良儿如何被冤屈的具体细节，则难以细化复原了。 然后就到第一百回了，应该出现狱神庙的故事了，回目可能叫做《狱神庙茜雪慰情痴拢翠庵贾芸感诗仙》。前面刚讲过相关真故事，不重复了。第一百零一回，回目可能是《巧姐儿遭骗临绝地刘姥姥报恩如涌泉》。这段真故事也不重复了。 第一百零二回，一些前面的人物，看起来不起眼，在这一回会起到很关键的作用。回目可能是《傅秋芳妙计赚令牌红衣女巧言阻金荣》。前面讲到傅秋芳后来嫁到了忠顺王府，她通过行贿相关衙门的关键人物，设法弄到了令牌，宝玉得以从监狱出来，急速南下。从时间上说，这已经是元妃省亲后第五个年头的开春了，运河开冻了。金荣听说宝玉竟然拿到令牌走脱，就一直追到运河码头。金荣仍想逮住宝玉报官，让宝玉多吃些苦头。金荣追到码头，什么人用巧计阻拦了他？就是红衣女。红衣女是谁？第十九回，宝玉在过节的时候到袭人家里面去，回到荣国府以后问袭人，说炕上那个穿红衣的是谁？我见她实在好得很；袭人说那是我两姨姐妹，快出嫁了。那么这个人物不会随写随丢的，你想第十四回，只出现一个卫若兰的名字，他都是有用意的，何况红衣女有这样一些文字，而且，就在写到宝玉进入袭人家里，提到袭人之母还接了与袭人同辈的一些外甥女侄女儿时，脂砚斋就立刻批道：“一树千枝，一源万派，无意随手，伏脉千里。”从第十九回到这一回，可谓故事已经从那个场景发展了千里之外，袭人两姨姐妹红衣女再次出现，身份可能是码头饭馆的老板娘，她为掩护宝玉，巧言阻退金荣，是顺理成章的。 第一百零三回，回目可能是《靛儿弃前嫌护灵柩儿释新怨守绝密》。靛儿，有的古本子上写作靓儿。前八十回里她只出场一次，第三十回，靛儿无辜被薛宝钗厉声呵斥。故事发展到这一回，薛宝钗早抑郁而死，薛蟠判了死刑被杀头，薛姨妈也在绝望中死去，三个人变成了三口棺材，这些灵柩，由薛蝌送往金陵原籍去埋葬。那时候薛蝌和邢岫烟两口子生活十分窘迫，靛儿出现了，她居然不念前嫌，和她的丈夫一起，帮助薛家把灵柩往南运送。当然，靛儿夫妇也是正好要到南方办货，他们开了家卖纸札香扇的小店，第四十八回薛蟠家一个老伙计张德辉说，赶在端阳节前从南方采办些纸札香扇来京城卖，“除去关税花销，亦可以剩得几辈利息”。曹雪芹可能会通过这样一个情节，来展示底层青春女性那种超出贵族女子的心灵美。 儿，第十九回写到她跟宝玉的小厮茗烟偷情，那时候她和茗烟还不懂什么是爱情。在贾府败落之前，宝玉把茗烟放出去，儿也离开了宁国府，茗烟娶了儿一起过小日子。宁荣两府的垮塌，令他们揪心。忽然有一天，儿发现丈夫失踪了。其实，是茗烟得知宝玉得到令牌，护送宝玉去南方了。从前八十回里的描写看，他们身份虽有主仆之分，但相处得跟朋友一样。儿一开始很生气，知道了缘由以后，就释然了。Why?大家想一想十九回里写的，当年茗烟和儿在一间屋子里面偷情，被宝玉发现，儿不知所措，宝玉就提醒她说，你还不快跑，儿就往外飞跑，宝玉追出去说：“你放心，我是不告诉人的。”宝玉的好心，儿会感恩一辈子。宝玉得罪了金荣，收获的是蒺藜；善待了儿，收获的是香草。 第一百零四回，回目可能是《哭向金陵凤姐命断疾走江南宝玉神昏》。王熙凤的大结局在这回呈现。宝玉急着往南奔，最后心力不支，昏昏沉沉。多亏有茗烟照顾他。红衣女阻拦金荣，使宝玉获得宝贵时间，但金荣仍设法去告倒宝玉，忠顺王船队南下，其中要做的一件事，就是捉拿宝玉