Chapter 3 Chapter Two: The Mystery of Qin Keqing's Adoption

In the last lecture, we drew two conclusions. The first conclusion is that the Jia clan is unambiguous in marrying a daughter-in-law. The second conclusion is that it is a self-narrative novel, and its characters all have life prototypes. Let's discuss Qin Keqing and see if she has a prototype. Red fans know very well that there is a clear account of Qin Keqing's background. At the end of the eighth chapter, this account is very strange. It is very different from Cao Xueqin's writing about other people's family business and foundation. Strange, now let's analyze sentence by sentence.

At the end of the eighth chapter, Baoyu and Qin Zhong are going to study in the family school, so they use this as an excuse to mention the backgrounds of Qin Zhong and his sister Qin Keqing.It is said that the Qinye Department is currently the Construction Department of the Ministry of Industry, and the Construction Department is a very small official, who may be in charge of engineering construction.Qin Ye This is the name of Qin Keqing's adoptive father set by Cao Xueqin.One thing worth noting is that when Gao E and Cheng Weiyuan continued, they not only followed up forty chapters after the eighty, but they also made some changes before.For example, they changed the word "Qin Ye" this time. It's very strange. What's worth changing?Gao E and the others changed Qin Ye's name to Qin Bangye. It can be seen that Gao E and Cheng Weiyuan are sensitive to this name. Why?Because in ancient books, Zhiyanzhai had a very clear comment on the name "Qin Ye" in the commentary.How did Zhi Yanzhai comment?She said, "Wonderful name, the evil of the industry."Everyone knows that in traditional Chinese characters, such as "making karma" and "making evil", the "karma" and "evil" are interlinked, and the words "karma" and "crime" have the same meaning.Qin Ye, "Qin" is a homonym for "love", because Cao Xueqin immigrated from Jiangnan to Beijing, so there are many southern accents in it. Southerners zh, ch, sh and z, c, s, l and n, in and ing often There is no difference, so he thinks that "love" and "Qin" are interlinked and homophonic.Qin is the homonym for "feeling", and karma is the homonym for "evil". Together, they mean that there is evil caused by having feelings.His name is meaningful, and I will reveal it further in the future.Gao E, Cheng Weiyuan and the others may have seen the meaning of this, and they didn't want to cause trouble because of this manuscript, or even had worse ideas, so they changed it.So if you read Cao Xueqin's book, fate is very rough and tortuous.

According to Cao Xueqin, Qin Ye was a small official, "nearly seventy years old, his wife died early".In the book, Qin Keqing should be about twenty years old when she appeared on stage, so it means that Qin Ye got her when he was around fifty years old. Daughter, this is Qin Keqing's origin, which is very strange. We have already mentioned in the previous lecture that the feudal society attached great importance to the inheritance of blood. Even in today's society, many people still attach great importance to this. Not only do they value other people's blood, but they also value their own blood. Am I born to my own parents? son?Now there is a new science and technology called DNA testing, which can be tested.Modern people still have such confusion about blood relationship, not to mention that in the era Cao Xueqin represented, blood relationship was a very important issue.

Because his wife died early and he had no children, Qin Ye decided to go to the Yangshengtang to hold the child. Although he was a petty official with a shy eunuch, how could he continue his heir like this?Still weird.First of all, we have to figure out what is Yangshengtang?I am personally very sensitive to the three words "Yangshengtang", why?I was born in 1942 in Yuyingtang Street, Chengdu, Sichuan. At that time, there was a Yuyingtang on the street where my family lived. Yuyingtang was Yangshengtang. The two names are similar.Speaking of these words in Chengdu dialect, the pronunciation is "yoyintanggai". I was born in such a place called Yuyingtang Street, so after my parents told me, I was very sensitive to it when I read it. I used to go to that street 20 years ago to look for traces of the Foundling Hall on that street, but with the rapid development of society, there are no traces to be found.

What is Yuyingtang or Yangshengtang? We can look at a cartoon by Feng Zikai, a famous writer and cartoonist in the last century. He has a cartoon titled "The Last Kiss". It shows a poor woman holding a Child, she couldn't raise this child anymore, so she decided to send him to Yangshengtang.Before sending him off, she gave him a last kiss, and there was a dog in the corner of the picture, but the dog did not abandon his child, and let his child get warm in his arms.This is a caricature of the world, and the whole mood is very sad.The rules of the game for Yangshengtang to accept abandoned babies are very strange. Looking at it today, we will find it a bit unbelievable: the people in the Yangshengtang do not see the parents of the children. There will be a big drawer on the wall of the Yangshengtang building. This drawer can Open the two sides, understand this meaning, the drawer can be opened outside the wall, and the drawer can be opened inside the wall.Feng Zikai’s cartoon depicts a woman hugging a child. She can’t bear it any longer, so she sends the baby to the health care hall, opens the drawer—the drawer has already been opened in the picture—the farewell kiss After that, it was time to put the baby in the drawer, and after putting it in, the drawer could be pushed up, and she could turn around and go away.People in the Yangshengtang will check this drawer at any time, open this drawer, if it is empty, it means that no one will abandon the child at this time, if they open it and see that there is a child, they will take the child out and raise it.In fact, the conditions in the Yangshengtang are very bad, and they often die before they can grow up. Those who are barely raised are mostly malnourished or become disabled.Children in Yangshengtang can be adopted by people in the society. When they are young, no one will take them away. When they grow up, they will often be taken to work as coolies. The males serve as coolies, and the females may be even worse. Many are taken away by brothels. For whores.Therefore, only the most helpless people will open their drawers and give their children to Yangshengtang, or they are too poor, or they are the children of sinners, or because the father or mother has blood problems, or there are other reasons. If there is any problem, if you don't want it anymore, or if it is a disabled baby, it will be given to Yangshengtang.

Cao Xueqin's words are very weird. He said that Qin Ye went to the Yangshengtang to raise a child because he had no children.Then let's think about it. In the society Qin Ye lives in, according to the rules of the game of family blood continuation, if he is a man in his fifties and has no children, his first move to solve the problem of heirs is to continue the family. , if your wife dies, you can marry another one. If the wife you marry doesn’t have children, then you can take a concubine. Polygamy was practiced at that time. It is socially allowed to marry a concubine, isn’t it?Wouldn't it be over for you to multiply your offspring like this?Maybe some readers want to discuss with me, saying that Qin Ye may not be fertile anymore, but according to the following text description, this Qin Ye is fertile, and later he gave birth to Qin Zhong, so Qin Ye is fertile Yes, if he wants to continue the heir, there is no need to go to the Yangshengtang to adopt the child.And it's very weird, usually go to the Yangshengtang to hold a child, if you want to continue the offspring, you should hold a boy, but when Qin Ye carried it, he carried a pair, a boy and a girl.It is said that you have to be able to raise two and have two boys with double insurance. Wouldn't you be able to continue your Qin surname?But he hugged another daughter, it seems that this daughter must be hugged, who let him hug it?I'm afraid it may not be the one he is willing to hug, but no matter what, he hugged a son and a daughter.What's even weirder is that in the end the son died again, and it wasn't the daughter who died, it was the son, and there was only one daughter left.There is only one daughter left. If you want to continue the heir, you can hug another son and it will be over. The boy in the Yangshengtang is easy to hug. You can choose whatever you want. You are not the poorest. Little official, you can't compare with the Jia family, but compared with ordinary people in the society, you are still good. It's strange that he only raises this daughter and no longer has a son.

In addition, in that society at that time, if you really couldn't bear a son, you could adopt a son from your brother or cousin.As I said in the last lecture, Cao Yin died, and not long after his own son Cao Yong died again, his wife Li was still there, but he had no other sons, so Emperor Kangxi personally intervened in this matter, and let One of Cao Yin's nephews, Cao Fu, adopted him to Cao Yin, and continued to weave in Jiangning to serve Cao Yin's widow, Li Shi.This method of continuing family blood was very popular from top to bottom in that era, and it was very convenient to implement, unless you had no brothers or cousins ​​at all. But in the novel, Cao Xueqin clearly wrote that after Qin Zhong died, Jia Baoyu Hearing the news and going to the funeral, "When I came to the head of Qin Zhong's gate, there was no one there, so I flocked to the inner room, scaring Qin Zhong's two distant aunts and several brothers from hiding." Adoption of a son in the clan is a ready-made matter.But this Qin Ye neither took concubines nor continued, but wanted to go to the health care hall to hold children. After bringing a son and a daughter, he didn't take care of the son seriously, but put all his thoughts on raising the daughter.It was a miracle.

Qin Ye liked the daughter he brought from the Yangshengtang very much, and her nickname was Ke'er; in the old language, Ke'er meant cute.When Cao Xueqin wrote this sentence, there was Zhiyanzhai's comment below, which means "famous", which means that the Qin family began to have a name, and Ke'er is Qin Keqing. "I don't know whether the Qin family is related to the He family. The so-called praise and blame are different from good and evil." It doesn't matter; It seems that there is something hidden.If he thinks the same as some of our readers, it’s a fiction, I’ll write that it was embraced by Yangshengtang, what’s the matter?Then there is no need to make a fuss, but Zhi Yanzhai said that writing like this is "a pen with a knife and an axe", how could it be "a pen with a sword and an axe"?The knife and ax are used to cut things, that is to say, she pointed out that the author used a big knife to cut away a lot of truth when writing this character, right?What did the knife and ax cut?He also said that he "has the heart of a Bodhisattva", and "the heart of a Bodhisattva" is the heart of intolerance and compassion. Then, it is obvious that he cannot bear to write the truth, so what is going on?There are many mysteries.

Zhi Yanzhai also said, "Writing like this, we can see that the origin is also very bitter, and I also know that the author wants all people in the world to cry for this love word." The homonym is love.This Qin Keqing has a very difficult background, and when she grows up, she is described as graceful and romantic.There is no need to discuss this, because it is a girl from the Yangshengtang, and it may be like this after she is raised. The strange thing is that Qin Ye, the Yingshi Lang, has some ties to the Jia family, so they got married and made Qin Keqing and Jia Rong his wife.In the last lecture, we spent a lot of effort and came to a conclusion that Jia Rong's wife must not marry randomly. The blood of Ningguo Mansion has reached the critical moment of the third generation's single pass. To marry a daughter-in-law, you must marry a daughter-in-law who belongs to the right family. If it is not right, it must be higher than the family and households of the Jia family, and it must be guaranteed to give Jia Rong a son, that is, to pass on the descendants of Ning Guogong.But just because Ying Shanlang had something to do with the Jia family, he went to marry the daughter of the Yangsheng Tang he had adopted to Jia Rong. She was not a concubine, but married as the main wife.In the old society of polygamy, it was okay to marry the concubine first and then the regular wife, but that was not the case in the Ningguo Mansion, who formally married Qin Keqing as Jia Rong's wife.So every sentence in this passage is really weird.

There may also be friends who want to discuss with me again.When I talk about it here, I always feel that someone is discussing with me. In fact, it is the same. Discussions can be fun, so we discuss, and it is possible. Cao Xueqin wants to go beyond here. This kind of thought and feeling is different from other aristocratic families, so they don't think they are poor. Although they are a rich family, they don't have the vision of wealth.But this Cao Xueqin’s writing is really weird. He seemed to be afraid of our misunderstanding, and he seemed to be on guard against our thinking. He immediately said from the bottom, "Jia’s house is full of rich eyes", lest you forget this. .How can it be said that he wants to show that the Jia family has no vision of wealth and honor?He reminds you that everyone has a vision of wealth and honor, so Qin Ye wants to send his son Qin Zhong to the Jia family's private school, which is tantamount to a supplementary study, because he is not a descendant of the Jia family, he is just a relative, with his permission , go there to study; you have to pay tuition fees when you study there, which is obviously not called tuition fees, but called Zhijian Li, according to the rules at the time, at least twenty-four taels of silver, twenty-four taels of silver is simply nothing to the Jia family. It's not money, but for Qin Ye, it feels very difficult. He is shy and poor, and everyone in the Jia family looks down on the poor, so he will be discriminated against.

Some people may also want to discuss with me, saying that you cut it too finely, why did you break it apart and crush it?Can Cao Xueqin not be allowed to accidentally write such a sentence?Not coincidentally, the Jia family has a pair of eyes of wealth and honor, and it was written in Chapter 71 that it was Jia Mu's octogenarian celebration, do you still remember?Many relatives and friends came to join us and wish her birthday. At that time, distant relatives also came. One was Jia, and his mother brought her daughter Xiluan to celebrate her birthday. Another was Jia Qiong, Jia Qiong’s mother. , also brought a daughter named Sijie to Jia's mansion to celebrate Jia's mother's birthday.Mother Jia has one characteristic, she likes girls, you see she lives in Rongguo Mansion, but she puts Xichun in Ningguo Mansion, Jia She's daughter, as supposed to live with Mrs. The people in the hospital, Yingchun, were all received by their side and raised together.She likes girls, especially she thinks that Xiluan and Fourth Sister are both beautiful and talkative, she likes them very much, so Mother Jia kept the two mother and daughter pairs, saying not to leave after the birthday feast, and play for a few days .Then Cao Xueqin specifically wrote that Mother Jia asked all the servants, including the housekeeper. She said that the women in the garden went to the women everywhere and told them that although the fourth sister Xiluan was poor, she should be the same as the girls at home. Take good care of it.She said, I know that the men and women in our family are rich and dignified, and they don't necessarily take them seriously. Some people underestimate them, but I don't listen to them.If at the end of the eighth chapter, it was said that people in Jia’s mansion had rich eyes, it was only through Cao Xueqin’s narration language, then in the seventy-first chapter, one of the important figures, Jia Mu, passed through the Rongguo Mansion. In addition, the person with the highest seniority in the Jia family in Ningguo Mansion, let her speak for herself. I understand the situation of our family. It is a rich heart with two decent eyes. Even the servants in the family are like this. Then the masters of the Jia family Can we make an exception?Mother Jia seemed to be an exception, but she just kept them and played for a few days, and after all, they were all relatives in terms of blood. Some red fans noticed that in the twenty-ninth chapter of the book, Jiamu led the whole family, including almost all the eldest girls and many servants, to Qingxu Temple to pray for blessings.Daoist Zhang of Qingxuguan, who knew Jia Mu very well, suddenly proposed marriage to Baoyu. Jia Mu didn't accept his fault, and reasoned that Baoyu was still young and was destined to marry early, and also said that if he wanted to marry, " It doesn't matter whether he is rich or not, as long as he looks good and has a good personality.Does this mean that Jia's mother really doesn't pay attention to basic wealth when she marries a daughter-in-law for her children and grandchildren?Let's take a step back and assume that Mother Jia really doesn't pay attention to the social status and economic situation of the daughter-in-law's family, but Mother Jia did not say that she can tolerate the daughter-in-law to the point where she can't even figure out her blood relationship, even when she grew up. Later, the abandoned babies in the Yangshengtang were also very happy to accept it. Jia's mother definitely didn't mean that.In fact, Jia Mu's marriage to Baoyu has always been hanging in her heart. In the fiftieth chapter, she thought Xue Baoqin was so cute and better than the beauties in the painting, so she thought about it. And the family situation".Baoqin is a member of the four major families in Jinling. Needless to say, her bloodline is a good match for Baoyu. What about marrying a woman from a poor family?Aunt Xue told Jia's mother that Baoqin had been betrothed to the son of Mei Hanlin's family, but because of some special circumstances in the Mei family, they were not yet married. After hearing this, Jia's mother had to give up.I will tell you my analysis in future lectures, that is, why Jiamu rejected Zhang Taoist's proposal of marriage with such words. It was not Jiamu's sincere words, but some excuses.Although Jia Mu often said something to criticize others for being rich and dignified, in essence, her heart was the most wealthy and her eyes were the most respectable. How did you speak? "Since that's the case, please sit outside and prescribe the medicine. If it's ready, I'll prepare another thank you gift?? If it's delayed, I'll send someone to demolish the lobby of the Tai Hospital!" This is Mother Jia's truest thoughts and feelings. Alright, now let's talk about Jia Baoyu.Jia Baoyu is a very transcendent image in Cao Xueqin's works. In that society, he is not compatible with the mainstream.So what am I going to say about him now?That is to say, Jia Baoyu also has a bad side.Although he is very equal to the people around him, especially the girls, he likes girls, not only treats them equally, he treats them like flowers.He is a flower king of Jiangdong, a prince who protects flowers in a red cave, he loves flowers, young flowers, girls, not only masters and girls, servants, maids? ?He likes all young women.But after all, he is a nobleman, and he sometimes loses his temper. Once it rained a little, and he went back to knock on the door of Yihong Courtyard. The door was opened a little late, and he kicked it. Unexpectedly, it was Xiren. Xiren vomited blood that night, everyone remembers this episode.He is arrogant, he is the master after all, he is a noble son, and sometimes he will inevitably show the waywardness of a rich man.In fact, at the very beginning, I wrote that he was tempered, and it constituted a big incident, which was more serious than kicking people to vomit blood. This is what I want to tell you today. This incident may as well be called Feng Dew tea incident. This plot is in the eighth chapter.The eighth chapter is so beautiful. In Lixiangyuan, Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai looked at each other’s adornments. Lin Daiyu came. For the first time in the book, a triangular relationship was developed, and their different personalities were vividly portrayed. It is really beautiful and exquisite. .Because these main plots are so exciting that some people have ignored the passage I just said in the eighth chapter, the explanation about Qin Keqing's background, and the matter of Fenglu tea is even more so. Turned over. Cao Xueqin wrote that Jia Baoyu was drinking and getting drunk at Aunt Xue's place. During the period, his nanny Li nanny stopped him from drinking. He was not happy, he hated his nanny, and the two had conflicts.But Nanny Li just kept her mouth shut, so she had to take a rest later, and Jia Baoyu returned to Jiangyunxuan drunk - at that time there was no Grand View Garden, no Yihong Courtyard, and the place he returned should be the same as The rooms Jiamu lived in were connected together. In the room he lived in, something happened at this time, which was the Fenglu tea incident. When I was reading it, I looked down upon it when I read it here. I thought there was nothing wrong with it, what was it written about?It was written that when Jia Baoyu went back, he wanted to drink tea. A girl named Qianxue brought him a cup of tea. When he drank something wrong, he asked why he gave me this tea. Didn’t I make a cup of maple dew tea in the morning?This maple dew tea is a very strange kind of tea, and its information can be found in the relevant tea classics.Generally speaking, it is a kind of tea made from the buds of maple leaves. This kind of tea is not outstanding when brewing one course, but it should be decanted after one course, and then decanted again. Three or four courses are excellent. It's the best time to drink.So Jia Baoyu thought that he brewed it when he left, and when he came back, it should be exactly three dishes. When drinking the best tea, you should serve me this kind of tea.At this time, Qianxue told him, this tea is reserved for you, but Grandma Li came, that is, his nanny, Nanny Li came, and asked her to drink it.Nanny Li went to the place where Jia Baoyu lived to drink and eat. She said she would save this Fenglu tea for Baoyu. I drank it, and she drank it.Jia Baoyu was furious when he heard this.At this time, Cao Xueqin wrote about the privilege of noble sons who can get angry at will, and Baoyu jumped up, furious.He threw the teacup out with a bang, and the teacup shattered, splashing the tea on Qianxue's skirt. He jumped and scolded, saying, who is grandma, but she just milked me, and I drank a few sips of her milk?What's the big deal, kick it out and kick it out—he wants to kick out this Grandma Li.At that time, because I didn’t live in Yihong Courtyard, but lived with Jiamu, you think a teacup was smashed with a bang, and the floor must be very high-grade. The sound of breaking a teacup was very loud, so Mother Jia asked what was the sound?Xiren also covered up on his behalf.At this time, when writing Xiren’s character, under normal circumstances, she always calms down. Xiren told the other side that it was snowing. I fell and broke a teacup. Nothing happened, so I covered it up. .Jia Baoyu was only a little tipsy at first, but when the alcohol came up, he became very drunk, and when he was very drunk, he became furious. The homonym of Fenglu tea may be Fengnu tea.Just happened to happen that our Jiangdong flower king was furious, and he didn't like flowers, and destroyed flowers to this point, yelling at Qianxue.At that time, Nanny Li had already gone home and was not there at all.This is the eighth episode. I have a question here. I couldn’t read it at first, so why do I think it’s the eighth time to write this?Later, when I read the ancient edition, I discovered that there was a comment in Zhiyanzhai saying that the character Qianxue was very important.It turned out that I thought that Qianxue just gave her a cup of tea, touched a bad head, and then disappeared. According to the later explanation, she was kicked out, and then you read to the end of Chapter 80, and this person is no longer there.Gao E followed forty chapters, and there was no trace of Qianxue.So I once wondered how Cao Xueqin could write like this when writing a book. When writing novels, especially novels, one should set up a character and have his role, right?Some important characters should have continuity, which is even a common practice in Chinese and foreign ancient and modern novels.How can you write that Qianxue writes here, and then there is no more?And what's even more strange is that although Baoyu was angry, the one he kept saying was Grandma Li, that is, Nanny Li. Looking back, how could it be Qianxue who was kicked out?In the nineteenth chapter, this nasty Nanny Li appeared again, as if nothing had happened, and said to the maids in Baoyu's room, "I don't know about the last time I picked up Qianxue for tea"; , and mentioned that "Xianxue went out to eat tea that day"; even in the forty-sixth chapter, when writing about mandarin ducks resisting marriage, she talked intimately with Ping'er and Xiren, and mentioned in the words "the dead Keren and Jin Chuan , Qianxue who has gone", all of these clearly conveyed the same unmistakable message, that is, because of the Fenglucha incident, Baoyu was furious after drinking, which actually led to Qianxue being kicked out.We all know after reading the whole book that the maids in the mansion, especially the big ones, being kicked out means losing face and even cutting off their way of life.For example, after being kicked out, Jin Chuan was so ashamed that she threw herself into a well and died; after Qingwen was kicked out, she was soon crushed to death, as if a pot of orchids that had just drawn tender arrows were moved to a pigsty.Therefore, Qianxue's being kicked out is a big deal, and she can almost be said to be the first girl to be kicked out in the book. The reason for kicking her out is not that Mrs. Wang thinks she is a coquettish girl, but she is not at fault at all. She was completely wronged, but when Jia Baoyu threw tea in a rage after drinking, she was kicked out! After drinking, Jia Baoyu yelled to be kicked out. The one he wanted to kick out was Nanny Li, but this Nanny Li always existed. After Jia's mansion built the Grand View Garden, she still went to the Grand View Garden for activities.Everyone remembers the "Bee Waist Bridge Setting Up Rumors to Pass on Hearts" written later, which is already the twenty-sixth chapter, and it tells the story of Xiaohong and Jia Yun's love affair.Who did Xiaohong meet in the Grand View Garden?I met Li Mama, which means that she was fine and not kicked out, and Jia Baoyu also asked her to send a message to Jia Yun.This Nanny Li was the culprit in the Fenglu tea incident, but she was unscathed afterwards, but Qianxue was kicked out and disappeared before the Grand View Garden was built in Rongguo Mansion. I read the eighth chapter, and I didn't read it carefully at the beginning. I thought it was Madam Li who was kicked out.This old woman is really annoying. Before drinking Fenglu tea, she had already left a plate of tofu skin buns that Baoyu specially left for Qingwen, and brought them back to her home privately for her grandson to eat; later she wrote that she left Baoyu The crispy cheese for Xiren was eaten up while chattering.She relied on the old to sell the old, and didn't bring any happiness to Baoyu and the people around Baoyu, but just kept spoiling people's interest there, so when I read it wholeheartedly, I often felt that it was Mammy Li who was kicked out.But after reading it carefully, I found that, ah, it was Qianxue who was kicked out because of a cup of Fenglu tea. This was pointed out many times later. Then, here comes the question, Qianxue was kicked out, how did she get kicked out?Why was she kicked out when she was innocent, while Nanny Li, who was responsible for the Fenglucha incident, was let go?After thinking about it like this, I feel that the eighth chapter seems to be missing a paragraph of text, a paragraph of text explaining how Qianxue was kicked out, and now the text of various ancient books cannot be connected at this place.Think about it, after writing this, I suddenly stopped talking, and wrote that Baoyu sobered up, and Qin Zhong came the next day, and they made an appointment to go to the family school together.Then he explained what was going on in Qin Zhong's family, and incidentally explained his sister's background.Such a text looks strange.So the eighth chapter is a very strange text that deserves deliberation. Then, you might think this way, when Cao Xueqin wrote about the Fenglu tea incident, he just wrote it so casually. The role of Qianxue is like a disposable glove, which is thrown away after use.If that's the case, it's fine, but after I read the ancient book, I knew that Qianxue was not simple.Zhiyanzhai said that Cao Xueqin has a basic writing skill when writing, what is it called?It is called a tree with thousands of branches, a source of thousands of sects, unintentional, and thousands of miles.Just don’t look at one thing he wrote, his event is radioactive, a tree with thousands of branches, not just a single trunk, he writes about a very dense big tree; It is a source, but in the end it flows into many rivers, one branch is a tributary, and one source is thousands of schools; and sometimes you feel that he seems to be unintentional, unintentional, but in fact he has thousands of miles.Cao Xueqin was very painstaking, he wrote about Qianxue in an ambush, don't look at her sudden disappearance after the eighth chapter.Later, in the twentieth chapter, when the characters mentioned Qianxue, Zhi Yanzhai said in her comments that "the temple of Qianxue's prison will be the main text", which means that the front This point was written by Qianxue incidentally, and was written to Qianxue in a serious biography, which was the episode of the Temple of the Prisoner after the 80th episode.It is a group portrait novel. You can say that Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are the protagonists, but it is definitely not just about their stories. There are many characters in it. In some chapters, these characters may be very secondary characters. But when it comes to another round, it may suddenly rise to be the protagonist of that round.For example, Yingchun, "Miss cowardly, don't ask about tired Jinfeng", that time is the main story of Yingchun, the main text of Yingchun. The author dedicated that part of the text to Yingchun, shaping her image, showing her cowardice, and being a good person. , kind-hearted to the point of unbearable, he is such a person who allows others to bully; "Yagu Jie put an end to Ningguo Mansion" is the main text of Xichun.So where is the text of Qianxue?Zhiyanzhai told us that at least half of the text in the prison temple was dedicated to Qianxue.Zhiyanzhai told us, "I only saw five or six manuscripts, such as Wei Baoyu from the Prison God Temple, were lost by the borrowers when they were transcribed clearly." She clearly saw it, and she saw "" The words "Prison God Temple comforts Baoyu" are of course written that Qianxue went to the Prison God Temple to comfort Baoyu.Baoyu was furious because of a cup of tea, which caused her to be kicked out, but she didn't remember the past, that is to say, she could see people comprehensively. She felt that it was an exposure of Jia Baoyu's shortcomings, and Jia Baoyu had many advantages. Baoyu is worthy of help after falling into trouble.This was not just a rough idea. Cao Xueqin had already written one of the chapters after the eighty chapters. The manuscripts were available and transcribed several times, but it was a pity that they were lost.It can be seen from this that it is no accident that the eighth chapter wrote about the Fenglu tea incident. I talked about Qin Keqing and the Fenglu tea incident, why?What is my idea?That is to say, I think that the text about Qin Keqing's origin has signs of being added later, that is to say, the eighth chapter is incomplete. He removed a paragraph. What he removed should be a paragraph about Qianxue being kicked out. There is nothing wrong with that. Not writable, right?Why did Jia Baoyu want to kick out Nanny Li because he dropped a cup of Maple Dew Tea, but in the end it wasn't Nanny Li who kicked out, but Qianxue?This time, there should have been some explanations for this, there should be such a text, and it should be there in terms of style, but now we see that there are no such texts in various ancient editions up to the current edition.In addition, the number of words in each round is generally balanced. He has a basic control, and there may be a little difference, but the difference is not very large.The scale of the text passed down from the eighth chapter is similar to that of the other chapters, although a section of the text about Qianxue being kicked out is missing.Therefore, in the text about Qin Keqing's background that I see now, I guess he added it later.Because he wants to maintain the uniformity of each round, and because of reasons we can't ascertain now, he removed that section and added this section.Why is that passage weird?It has something to do with it being added later, and Cao Xueqin seems to be afraid that we will not understand the weirdness of this passage, that we will not understand his painstaking efforts, and that he has no choice but to make up this paragraph, so every sentence of his It is more absurd to play the wilderness, every sentence is weird to the end. I have already read it just now. Do we have doubts about every sentence?When he was writing about other people, he wouldn’t cause us so many questions, and then he related to the thirteenth episode of Qin Keqing’s death—the original episode was called “Qin Keqing’s Obscenity in Tianxianglou”, and it is said that someone saw a kind of In the ancient version, "mourning" was also written as "shang" in "shangxia" - it was more clearly stated in the thirteenth chapter of Zhi Yanzhai's commentary. It was she who persuaded Cao Xueqin to delete a large paragraph about Qin Keqing's death.In fact, this is to cover up and hide Qin Keqing's real origin and real cause of death. This is another non-artistic consideration, not an artistic consideration, because the thirteenth chapter about Qin Keqing's real identity has been deleted. and the real cause of death, it is necessary to find a place to make a patch and have an explanation.So Cao Xueqin found the end of the eighth episode very painfully. After the Fenglucha incident, he may have deleted some specific text about Qianxue being kicked out in the Fenglucha incident, and followed this patch. Here is a passage about the origin of Qin Keqing and Qin Zhong.My guess may also lack a very solid logic of argument, but I provide it for your reference, and I hope that red fans can discuss it with me. Anyway, I have two premises, which I think you should basically be able to accept: one is that Qin Keqing's background is based on the overall description of the Jia family, and it is impossible for her to be so humble. He was raised by a shy official; secondly, Cao Xueqin was in great pain when dealing with Qin Keqing's image, very painful. In addition to artistic considerations, he also had many non-artistic considerations, so his writing Deletions, deletions, additions, subsidies and subsidies have formed an opportunity for us to start with Qin Keqing to interpret.So we have to continue to discuss, what to continue to discuss?It means that we change our thinking and look at it from a different angle. If Qin Keqing is really like what Cao Xueqin explained, she is an abandoned baby brought by Yangshengtang and raised by a shy official, just because she has a little relationship with the Jia family. Just married to the Jia family, and married to Jia Rong, who is the only biography of the third generation, as his wife, and is still the main wife, then according to the basic laws of artistic creation, the character he described should match the background he set in every aspect , coordinated.In other words, the question we will discuss in the next lecture is, if Qin Keqing really came from such a humble background, how should she behave in the book?Let's discuss it again in the next lecture.