Chapter 22 The Mystery of Qianxue's Being Driven Out

——Commemorating the 240th anniversary of the death of Cao Xueqin Qianxue is one of the big girls in front of Baoyu.The eighth chapter writes that Baoyu returned to Jiangyunxuan after drinking in Lixiangyuan. Half drunk, he took the tea held by Qianxue and ate half a bowl. I brewed a bowl of maple dew tea, and as I said, that tea became outstanding after three or four times, why did I brew this again now?" Qianxue said, "I kept it originally, and then Li Grandma is here, and if he wants to taste it, let him eat it." Baoyu heard this, and threw the teacup in his hand to the ground

With a clatter, it smashed to pieces, splashed the tea on Qianxue's dress, jumped up and asked Qianxue: "Which kind of grandma is he, you respect him so much? It's just because I ate it when I was young." He has only nursed him for a few days, but now he is bigger than his ancestors, and now I can't eat milk anymore, so why raise my ancestors for nothing! Get rid of him, everyone is clean!" After saying that, he wanted to go back to Jia Mu immediately, and kicked him out. His wet nurse.Baoyu’s dislike of Nanny Li has been laid out in detail before, so far, readers will think that Nanny Li will be expelled, but when they read later, they will be surprised to find that Li Nanny is not Nurse, and the nanny's bad habits did not show restraint at all, and it was the innocent Qianxue who was kicked out.Huo Qianxue did not write it directly. First, readers will find that this big girl has disappeared. In the nineteenth chapter, it is written that Nanny Li came to Jiangyunxuan again, and had a quarrel with all the girls. Hu Meizi coaxed me, I don’t know about the last time I picked up Qianxue for tea, if there is tomorrow, I’ll come to get it again!” Xiren was also afraid that Nanny Li would eat the pastry that Baoyu had left for her, "An accident happened again, like Qianxue's tea and so on", so he tried to divert Baoyu's attention; in the twentieth chapter, through Nanny Li, "the villain first sued", he held Daiyu and Baochai to "bring the day's attention to death." After drinking tea, Qianxue went out, babbling and talking about things like yesterday’s crisps.” Finally, readers understood that Qianxue was really kicked out after Baoyu threw the teacup angrily!In the forty-sixth chapter, when mandarin ducks resisted marriage, when mandarin ducks told Ping'er their heart-to-heart words, they said: "For example, Xiren, Hubo, Suyun, Zijuan, Caixia, Yuchuaner, Sheyue, Cuimo, followed Smith’s Cui Ling, the dead Keren and Jin Chuan, the dead Qian Xue, and you and me, these ten people, why don’t they say anything since childhood?...” It’s like a painter’s three-stroke technique, and then Let's talk about Qianxue being kicked out for a cup of tea.

We all know that it is a manuscript that has not been finalized. Although Cao Xueqin has basically finished writing the entire book, there are still some obvious gaps to be filled. The most obvious one is the seventy-fifth chapter, which is equivalent to taking on the role of editor. The Zhiyanzhai solemnly recorded: "Qianlong 21st May to the Qing Dynasty. Lack of Mid-Autumn Festival poems, waiting for Xueqin." Moreover, Cao Xueqin did not write it down one by one. He probably had a general idea and planned After reviewing the book, when the interest reaches that step, I will write (or complete) that chapter first, so now the twenty-second chapter of the ancient banknote has the comment "This chapter has not been completed yet, but Qin passed away, sigh!".Because there is no time to repair the whole body, take the girl who wrote about Baoyu as an example, there is a situation where there is not enough care. They were Xiren, Meiren, Qingwen, and Sheyue, but the second-ranked charming person never appeared again. Maybe this charming person is the Keren mentioned above?is she deadWhen and why did he die?Can't guess.It's fine to be dead, but the problem is that words like Qilu, Tanyun, and Zixiao appeared more than once in the text, and they were clearly alive all the time, and they didn't mention "gone", and then they all disappeared without an explanation.Qilu is a big girl with status. In the twenty-sixth chapter, Xiaohong was talking to Jiahui when she was in the next room. Suddenly, a little girl with no head left brought some flowers and two pieces of paper, and asked Xiaohong to describe it. Come out, throw it down and run away, Xiaohong asked who really wanted it?The little girl said outside the window, "It belongs to Eldest Sister Qi." Although Xiaohong was extremely annoyed, she had no choice but to find a pen to deal with it.After Baoyu moved into the Grand View Garden, he wrote a poem about the four seasons. There is a sentence in "Summer Nights": "The window is bright and the musk moon opens the palace mirror, and the room is covered with sandalwood clouds and tastes the royal fragrance." Farewell, worrying about the dowry of Musk Moon; combing the dragon and flying, mourning and breaking the teeth of Sandalwood", obviously deliberately embedded the names of the two big girls, Musk Moon and Tanyun, as a pun.But in the sixty-third chapter, all the maids in Yihong Court gathered together to celebrate Baoyu's birthday, and pointed out that the four first-class maids at that time were Xiren, Qingwen, Sheyue, and Qiuwen, and the second-class maid was Fangguan. , Bihen, Xiaoyan (Chunyan), Si'er (formerly known as Rue, Huixiang), Qi, Tan, Zi, etc. are all gone.According to the nature of "Unfinalized", we may think that: Qianxue is also an artistic image that Cao Xueqin failed to perfect, so we will write her away after the eighth episode, right?

If we read carefully the ancient banknotes with fat approval, we will find that Qianxue is actually a very important character, and the details of her being kicked out are a big foreshadowing of Cao Xueqin's special design of "not showing it for the time being".As the saying goes, the gray line of the grass snake has a thousand miles of veins.According to Zhipi, the tea name "Fenglu Tea" "reflects from a cave of thousands of reds". "Thousand Reds and One Cave" is the tea given to Baoyu by the Jinghuan Fairy in the illusory realm, which sounds like "A Thousand Reds and One Cry".What about maple dew tea?I thought it was a homonym for "every angry tea".Although Baoyu threw the teacup, jumped up and scolded Qianxue for being drunk, and ran back to Yihong Courtyard because of the rain in the next thirty times, the door opened late by chance, and kicked it away as soon as the door opened, just hitting the attacker The chest is the same, it belongs to his countless words and deeds of cherishing girls, and the very rare special case of treating "flesh and blood" girls violently, but it also fully shows that he has the status of a master after all. Whoever it is, that "tea" is bitter to the end.After Qingwen's tragic death, Baoyu wrote "Fu Rong Yu", which begins with the words: "The turbid jade in Yihong Courtyard, I would like to take the pistils of the flowers, the ice sharks, the springs of Qinfang, and the tea of ​​maple dew. With sincerity and sincerity..." Fenglucha has become a witness who confides his heart, does this mean that Baoyu has long felt guilty and remorseful for making Qianxue shameful and wronged because of his anger?

According to Zhiping, "Xian Xue went to the Temple of Prison to submit the text, and the text of Xi (person) marked Chang (headed) 'Flowers attacking people have a beginning and an end'. Five or six drafts are lost by the borrowers, sigh!" It can be seen that after eighty chapters, it will be written that Baoyu is imprisoned, and the most important person who went to the prison temple to comfort and rescue him was Qianxue!In addition, there is Xiren, and according to another Zhipiao, there is also Xiaohong.Xiren and Xiaohong's consolation to Baoyu is not out of reader's expectation, but Qianxue's Hell God Temple comes forward to comfort Baoyu, which will surely surprise readers.I believe that in the story about the Temple of Prison that Cao Xueqin wrote, he will look back and explain how he kicked Qianxue out back then.In fact, by carefully reading the existing eighth chapter, you can also figure out some clues.Baoyu threw the teacup angrily, alarming Jia Mu.At that time, the Grand View Garden had not yet been built, and Jia's mother lived with Baoyu and Daiyu. Although each had its own living space, the houses were connected together.The dignity of Jiamu has been written since Daiyu entered the mansion. In Jiamu's room, "everyone held their voices and held their breath, respectfully and solemnly." "A long time ago, Mother Jia sent someone to ask what was wrong, and the attacker hurriedly said: I just poured tea, slipped by the snow, and smashed the bell by mistake..." Although she concealed it for a while, after all, Mother Jia could not be alarmed, so hereby The matter is so big, how can we let it go?Probably because it was finally found out that it was not Xiren but Qianxue who poured the tea, and there was no room for arguing about the reason behind it.Jia's mother appeared with a kind face on most occasions, but in seventy-three chapters, when she checked and gambled, she said "righteousness and strictness" and "how can it be forgiven lightly", the housekeeper Lin Zhixiao and others "seeing Jia's mother angry, who would Dare to play favoritism", resulting in many people being beaten, kicked out, monthly money stolen, and transferred to the toilet. Lin Zhixiao was also reprimanded in public.Cao Xueqin is so powerful with just one pen. The characters are not only three-dimensional, but also multi-dimensional. They don't start from the concept at all, and they are vividly written, as if they are right beside us, and we can feel it when we breathe.

The maids in Jia’s mansion, especially the first- and second-class maids, are far superior to ordinary farmers and citizens in that era in terms of food, clothing, housing, and use, and they can still receive monthly money. This is repeatedly exaggerated through many descriptions in the novel , Grandma Liu's amazement, Xiren's mother and brother's feelings, Liu Wu'er's pursuit of entering Yihong Courtyard... all show that being a stable slave like that is something that people envy and nostalgia, and they are kicked out, or when they are older, they are matched with boys. It is the greatest sorrow and pain for them if they seek in every possible way but fail to become slaves. After Jin Chuan was expelled, she felt ashamed and cut off her future, so she threw herself into a well and died. Although Qingwen was praised by many commentators as the most The female slave who rebelled against her character quarreled with Baoyu in the 31st round, and Baoyu said to Qingwen: "You don't have to be angry, I also guess what's on your mind.

up.I'll go back to my wife, you're too old, can I send you out? Doesn't this supposedly give slaves a chance to "get out of the cage"? But as a female slave, Qingwen resisted like this: "Why did I go out?"If you want to dislike me, you can send me out in different ways, but you can't! "" I will not come out of this door even if I touch my head to death! Later, Qingwen hated Zhui'er for stealing Ping'er's shrimp beard bracelet, so she decided to throw Zhui'er out immediately, and finally she herself was kicked out by Mrs. Wang as a "vixen" and died young. "Okay?" Pulling out to match a boy" (in the words of Nanny Li) is a disaster for the girl in the Jia family. If it is said that Jin Chuan was kicked out, after all, it was the thin words between her and Baoyu that Mrs. Wang of Yangshen heard. ;Chui'er did steal something; Siqi is really bold to lure lovers into the garden to have sex; Si'er, who has the same birthday as Baoyu, was told by someone that "the same birthday is a husband and wife" "seduce" words; Fangguan is really frank Sexual freedom... But Qianxue was not at fault at all. Her expulsion was entirely the innocent victim of Baoyu's accidental rage and Jiamu's usual majesty.

But it was such a girl who was kicked out for no reason, when Jia's mansion suddenly collapsed like a building, the tree fell and the monkeys scattered, and Baoyu was imprisoned, she took the initiative to go to the prison temple to comfort Baoyu regardless of the past. What kind of implication does the secondary brush and ink want to express?I'm afraid it can't be simply attributed to revenge, right?It is a pity that the five or six drafts that Cao Xueqin has already written have been "lost" by the "borrowers". What kind of "borrowers" are these?Why are authors and reviewers not allowed to leave manuscripts?Does the so-called "lost" mean being confiscated and destroyed?What is the content of the "text" presented by Qian Xuena at the Temple of Hell is another major mystery.I wrote about what happened in the Hell God Temple in the last of the three consecutive novels "Qin Keqing's Death", "Jia Yuanchun's Death" and "Miaoyu's Death". I designed Qianxue to be kicked out After living in the mansion, she married Wang Shortlegs mentioned in the twenty-four chapters of Drunken King Kong.Wang Duanke was originally a horse dealer, and later became a jailer. Qianxue came forward to help Baoyu, creating an atmosphere of "sadness and happiness are all illusory, ancient and modern dreams are all absurd".

The names of the people in the poem may be chosen randomly, or they may have homophonic meanings.Qianxue may mean "ow (to) avenge (shame)".After Baoyu got drunk, he displayed the music of the noble son, which caused Qianxue to be kicked out of the house, and suffered a lot of hardships. He owed her a lot, and it should be "the one who is kind, escapes from death; the one who is ruthless, clearly repays" Unexpectedly, Qianxue could forgive Baoyu for his ruthlessness when Baoyu was in distress. That day, it was really because she was drunk and obsessed with her nature and occasionally exposed her bad manners. What's more, it was Nanny Li who kept saying that she was going to be kicked out, not herself. Snow's human beauty.

Writing about the complexity of human nature, and finally not losing confidence in the goodness and beauty of human nature in the face of the complex, treacherous and even hideous horror of human nature, this is a precious aesthetic heritage that we should learn from Cao Xueqin.