Chapter 16 What is Jia Zhen's crime?

In the fifth chapter, Qin Keqing’s album poems and [A Good Thing Ends] song in the Taixu Illusory Realm pointed out twice: “It’s all good to talk about bad things, but it’s safe to start a quarrel.” Ning." From this, it can be speculated that after the 80th chapter, Jia's house was confiscated and punished, which should be the most serious crime and disaster for Ningguo's mansion.In Gao E’s continuation of the book, he did write enough about the disasters of the Ningguo Mansion. Luan's second concubine.However, the Rongguo Mansion was preserved and "returned to the world as the political elder Mu Tianen".In Jia She's family, only Jia She himself was murdered. Jia Lianfeng's sister lost her property, but she was at large.Not only Jia Zhen, but also Jia Rong was murdered in the Duning State Mansion, and it was completely finished.

What kind of felony was it?Gao E really couldn't write circles.According to what he wrote, Jia Zhen was accused of committing the crimes. One is "forcibly occupying the wives and daughters of good people as concubines and forcing them to death." This refers to the second sister You, but it was Jia Lian who married the second sister You. Zhang Hua, who retired from her sister's marriage, filed a complaint and later sent people to chase and kill Zhang Hua and abused her. It was Wang Xifeng who caused the death of Second Sister You. Jia Zhen was at best their accomplice.The second is that his wife and sister You Sanjie committed suicide and buried herself without reporting to the official. Such a crime is not too serious; Not some great crime.

In the first eighty chapters, what was written clearly and made readers understand was the heinous crime of the Rongguo Mansion: at the beginning of the seventy-fifth chapter, it was written that Youshi was about to go to Mrs. Wang, and the old lady who followed The nuns replied quietly: "Grandma, please don't go to the room. Only a few people from Zhen's family came, and there are still some things. I don't know what they are doing. I don't know what kind of confidential business it is. I'm afraid it will be inconvenient for grandma to go." You Shi heard this. "Yesterday I heard from your master that the Zhen family had committed a crime in the mansion report. Now they have confiscated their property and transferred it to Beijing for punishment. Why did someone come again?" The old mother said: "Exactly. A few women just came , the complexion is not good, flustered, presumably there is something to hide." Cao Xueqin wrote this, with a very clear intention, that is, even though Jia Amnesty forced the stone nerd to seek antiques, and made friends with Pingan Prefecture through Jia Lian's running The crimes of foreign officials, Wang Xifeng's taking bribes and taking power at Tiekan Temple caused two deaths, and the illegal issuance of usury loans. What I hate is that when he copied the official house, someone helped hide the evidence and money. According to the "law of the king", it is a heinous crime for the Rongguo Mansion to do this. Such a thing was not done by Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang without telling Jia Zheng. This heinous crime will definitely cause the Rongguo Mansion to "scatter and run away", so it is conceivable that after the 80th chapter, it will be written that "the tree falls and the monkeys scatter" in the Rongguo Mansion, and Jia Zheng will be punished. The ghost tricks of the "resurrected old Mu Tianen" written by Gao E.

However, if we go through the stories of the first eighty chapters in this way, we will be even more puzzled.Why did you say that in the fifth chapter? "Everyone obeys respect", Jia Jing let Jia Zhen inherit the title, abandoned his home and went out of the city to the Taoist temple to mess with the Taoist priests, and let Jia Zhen "can't be happy, turned Ningguo Mansion over, and also No one dares to take care of him." Of course, this can be regarded as "decadent fur". From the perspective of feudal etiquette, there are serious moral problems, but it seems that it does not constitute a judicial crime.Looking at the first eighty episodes that we can see now, among the male masters of the Jia family, only Jia Zhen is more masculine. If he makes a mistake, he can coexist peacefully with his brothers and sisters of the same generation. He and Youshi are generally regarded as affectionate. The important plots about him in the book, except for Qin Keqing and Eryou, include organizing the scene of the Qingxu Guan's wedding ceremony, Teaching his nephews a lesson, collecting rent and distributing new year goods at the end of the year, leading his wives and concubines to admire the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, boldly scolding the corners of the wall for strange sighs, in these plots, Cao Xueqin accurately and vividly wrote the demeanor of a middle-aged nobleman; of course, Jia Zhen There are many explicit and implicit writings in the book. This is a strong and strong man with strong sensual desires, but he did not "press his head forcibly without drinking water" like Jia She wanted to occupy a mandarin duck. He and Second Sister You He did not adopt the method of coercion and forcible occupation, nor did he have the kind of "regardless of fishy or stinky" greedy behavior towards Miss Deng and Bao Er's family. Although he " Unclean” but maintains the lion-like majesty of the gate of the noble mansion. People who studied this character in the past seldom analyzed and discussed it. In fact, as an artistic image, its vitality is very strong. In 2001, it was popular on Chinese TV. Bai Jingqi, the "male number one" in the series, has Jia Zhen's blood flowing in his image.

Zhang Ailing wrote in her later years that she carefully studied the question of why Jia's house was confiscated and punished. Of course, she noticed that the first eighty chapters were full of related foreshadowing. "Banquet", Zhi Yanzhai's comment tells us that this is a discount in "A Handful of Snow", "the defeat of the Jia family"; The fan that the idiot forcibly seized probably refers to the Cheng Kiln Wucai Cup that originally belonged to Miaoyu, or something else.Another example is the ups and downs of Jia Yucun's official career. An accident in Yucun will implicate Jia's mansion.In addition, Jin Chuan's throwing into a well and Jiang Yuhan's hiding can also be transformed into clues to investigate the crimes of the Jia family.Eileen Chang calculated, and felt that there were not many clues about Jia Zhen's crimes in the first eighty chapters. Therefore, she made some research based on the similarities and differences of the various versions, and believed that the prophecy of the fifth chapter "the start of the quarrel is really safe." Cao Xueqin's early conception of "Family matters perish and be the first to commit crimes" was Cao Xueqin's early ideas, but he changed his mind later, so in Chapter 75, he specifically wrote that Rongguo Mansion had the audacity to receive the family members sent by his family after Zhen's house was confiscated by the emperor. Many things were hidden on behalf of others, forming the "first crime", resulting in contradictions between the plot and the prophecy, which once again proves that it is a manuscript that has not been completed or has not yet eliminated its own contradictions although it has been roughly completed.

But I think that Jia Zheng of Rongguo Mansion concealed property for the condemned Zhen family as written in Chapter 75. It is indeed not the "first crime" of the entire Jia family, let alone the beginning of "provocation", because Jia Zhen of the Ningguo Mansion is not hiding ordinary criminals, nor is it only their property, but a living person—Qin Keqing. "Qin Keqing's obscenity in the Tianxiang Tower" (one said "Qin Keqing's obscenity in the Tianxiang Tower"), now we only see the text that Cao Xueqin edited according to Zhi Yanzhai's opinion, and all we know of these texts is Jia Zhen The abnormal love with Qin Keqing, the sudden death of a girl and the other girl's vow not to return to the house of the dead, and the funeral of an astonishing scale, etc.I once wrote the book "The Death of Qin Keqing" (later expanded to "The Mystery of the Three Hairpins in the Red Chamber"), which revealed the mystery - according to Cao Xueqin's original plan, he was going to write that Jia Zhen of the Ningguo Mansion risked his life to adopt the orphan of the emperor's political enemies The plot of Qin Keqing, but writing it like this is too easy to lead to a literary prison, so I had to make major deletions and changes according to Zhi Yanzhai's opinion, and even had to "patch" at the end of the eighth chapter, deliberately writing Qin Keqing's origin as from After seeing the refill pen, Zhi Yanzhai wrote such a sigh: "It is very difficult to hold a pen with a sword and an axe, and have the heart of a Bodhisattva!" When I figured it out, the prophecies of "It's better to start a quarrel" and "Family affairs die first" are very easy to understand, and Jia Zhen's image of "blindly happy" also has the depth that conceals political courage. The image of this noble man is even more interesting.