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Chapter 11 What's the matter with Zhang Youshi?

Moon in the Red Chamber 刘心武 1934Words 2018-03-20
When discussing the second half of the tenth chapter in his "Revelation of the Red Chamber", Wang Meng said: "Mr. Zhang's medical treatment is mediocre." Amateurs don't respect professional" and other "recognized value", the entire section of Mr. Zhang's medical treatment for Qin Keqing, because there is no explanation for the internal cause, it is a "playful" way of writing, "There is a kind of A special sense of alienation". This is absurd!I thought that Zhang Youshi's diagnosis of Qin Keqing was really a thrilling big joint, where is it?

Such a game-like idle pen, especially its connotation cannot be summed up by the word "flat". I once wrote a long article "Qin Keqing's birth may not be humble", which was published in the second series of "Dream of Red Mansions" in 1992, and I had a correspondence with Mr. Zhou Ruchang on this important issue, which was also published on April 12, 1992 In Shanghai's "Wen Wei Po" on the 1st, my opinion is that after Cao Xueqin wrote all the stories about Qin Keqing, his collaborator Zhi Yanzhai felt that the plot associated with this character had constituted a fact of interfering with the current world. If it is kept and spread, it will cause great disaster. Therefore, he was ordered to delete the whole section of the thirteenth chapter "Qin Keqing's Lascivious Funeral in Tianxianglou", until four or five leaves were deleted. After being injured, he had to passively put on patches. At the end of the eighth chapter, he told readers that Qin Keqing was an abandoned baby brought from the Yangshengtang who grew up in the home of a small official.This is, of course, a lie that readers will not believe at first sight.

According to my speculation, Qin Keqing is likely to be a baby girl of a side that is temporarily defeated in the power struggle of the royal family and has not yet registered for household registration. After being adopted by Yangshengtang, she married to Ningguo Mansion and married Jia Rong under the pretense of being a wife, and she stayed there. Qin Keqing's family background was not completely destroyed at that time, but when the story developed to the tenth chapter, it was in the middle of a crisis. It was an extremely critical moment when defeat could be turned into victory, or there was no hope, so Qin Keqing became sick with anxiety, and the insiders in Jia's mansion also hoped that Qin's background could sing a triumphant song.It is precisely because the Qin family has such a special blood status that Jia's mother regards her as "the first proud daughter-in-law of the great-grandson", and she also reveals that she is more noble and delicate than any other mistress in Jia's mansion. The "Princess and the Pea" (a character in the Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen) like style.

Theorists in the past mostly regarded Qin Keqing as a beautiful and lustful stunner. It is said that in the exclusive "Zhiben" that was transcribed and circulated in the Nanjing "Jingben Stone Records" that once appeared and then lost The excised text of "Xiang Mourning Tianxiang Building" contains plots such as "changing clothes" and "left hairpin". Since there is no way to see the relevant text, it is generally guessed that it is the details of Qin Keqing and Jia Zhen's obscenities.Qin Keqing and Jia Zhen's year-end love, of course, existed, and it was not tolerated by the ethics and morals at that time. It is the root of a prodigal family", "Family affairs perish, the first crime is better", so Jiao Da wanted to yell and scold.But in my opinion, when Qin Keqing grew up, she seemed to have fallen in love with Jia Zhen before marrying Jia Rong on the surface, and Jia Zhen's love for her was quite sincere rather than playing around. Carefully reading the existing texts, it is not difficult to find that Jia Rong and Qin Keqing seem to be inseparable, and even the mysterious bedroom where Jia Baoyu took a nap with "Begonia Spring Sleeping Picture" is Qin Keqing's exclusive room, not sharing the same bed with Jia Rong. All in all, there is another kind of political relationship hidden in Qin Keqing's superficial relationship with Jia Zhen and Jia Rong. Therefore, if there is a plot of "changing clothes" in the deleted text, it is not necessarily pure love and sex. .

In fact, changing clothes has already been written in the tenth chapter. You Shi said to Jia Zhen: "The doctors in our family now... are very attentive. Three or four people take turns to check the pulse four or five times a day. ...it makes me change clothes four or five times a day."Changing clothes is changing clothes. On the surface, this change of clothes is not a customary ritual even for a rich clan like Jia's mansion. Jia Zhen may be trying to cover up the secret motive of Qin Keqing's weird behavior, so In front of the servants, he said: "...why take it off and change it...the clothes are good, but what are they worth..."

From my point of view, although Qin Keqing is physically sick, it is not a serious symptom. She is mainly mentally ill and suffers from anxiety disorders. In fact, it is also a political illness. She is anxiously waiting for her family members Sending spies to contact her for signs of victory or defeat, maybe the act of changing clothes is a way of communication.But in the group of doctors who often walked, she changed clothes and changed things diligently, but she got nothing, so her anxiety became deeper and her illness became more and more serious. In this situation, Feng Ziying, a family friend of the Jia family, suddenly appeared " Zhang Youshi, who went to Beijing to donate an official to his son, I suspect that it is a homonym for "something" (I discussed it with Mr. Zhou Ruchang face to face, and he said he had thought about it for a long time), he is not an amateur doctor, even if he is, then It is also a cover-up. He is clearly a spy with the mission of delivering information, sent by the background of the Qin family. Therefore, I thought his diagnosis process was full of nonsense. The prescription he prescribed should be People of insight have deciphered it from this angle.The most shocking thing is that what he brought was a piece of bad news: "In my opinion, this year's winter is irrelevant. It is always after the vernal equinox, and it is expected to be completely healed." It is written in the book: " Jia Rong is also a smart person, so I didn't ask further questions." Where is he so smart?It is to decipher the slang words of "something" and understand that the Qin family can only struggle for one winter in the power struggle. So she decided to die, but when did she die?Why "fornication"?And why should he be mourned in Tianxiang Tower?And why did the maid Baozhu "willingly become a righteous daughter" and then left the mansion to guard the spirit and kept her mouth shut?Because all the written "unbuttons" were deleted, it became an eternal mystery.

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