Chapter 4 Chapter Three: The Mystery of Qin Keqing's Survival

I made a judgment before the end of the last lecture, and then I asked another question.What is my judgment?I pointed out that the explanation about Qin Keqing's life experience at the end of the eighth chapter, that strange text, did not exist in the first place, but was a patch that Cao Xueqin put in at the end out of non-artistic considerations.What is my question?That is, what kind of living condition does Qin Keqing live in Jia's mansion?I will start this lecture from here, and continue to explore the life prototype of the character Qin Keqing. We know that Cao Xueqin, the author of the famous novel, is very good at writing characters. He not only shapes the character through the behavior, language, emotion, and psychology of the character himself, but also often sees him through others, through other people's eyes, others' evaluation of him, Ideas to shape this character, such examples abound.He is no exception when writing about Qin Keqing.So let's first take a look at how these people in Jia's mansion think of Qin Keqing.

We first selected Jia Mu. How does Jia Mu think of Qin Keqing?Through Jia's mother positioning her, we can know Qin Keqing's actual living condition in Jia's mansion.Who is Jia Mu?In the past, there was a labeling and simplistic analysis method, saying that since Jia's family is a noble family, a family of a decadent and declining exploiting class, and Jia's mother is a figure on the top of the family's pagoda, there is no need to use your brain. Well, this is the worst kind of person, a corrupt and declining figure in the feudal ruling class, an old stubborn and old feudal.This simplistic analysis is not suitable.Cao Xueqin starts from the prototype of life when he writes characters. He writes a living life. He makes you believe that this kind of life actually existed in a certain time and space in history. He writes about the complexity of human beings.Of course, Jia Mu is a figure on the spire of a feudal aristocratic family. She also has some evil and dark sides of this family, and she herself is responsible for these aspects of this family.But this is only one aspect of her. Mother Jia is actually a very complicated character.

Jia Mu has a very loving side. She can sometimes express a kind of sincere concern and pity for people from poor families and low status, and this is not pretended.For example, you wrote such a scene in the novel, everyone must remember that Jia Mu took the female family members of Rongguo Mansion to Qingxu Temple to have a funeral.Dajiao is a religious ceremony, the purpose is to pray for happiness.Of course, Mother Jia is a very happy person, so this time the review is called "Enjoy people's blessings and pray for blessings". She feels that happiness is not enough, and she has to pray to God and Buddha to give her more happiness. .She was very excited that day, and she said that the weather was fine, and after the ceremony, the theater troupe could still perform there for everyone to watch.She said, all our wives and ladies go.When Jia's mother was in high spirits, the subordinates of course responded, so almost all the female family members of Rongguo Mansion came out. Mrs. Wang went, Wang Xifeng went, all the ladies went, and the big girls around the girls also went. The women in charge also went, as did some nuns, old ladies, and those who served them.So the scene described in the book is one of several big scenes in the book.The cars and sedan chairs of Jia's mansion were almost approaching Qingxu Guan in front, but they were still at the gate of Rongguo Mansion in the back.You think, what a mighty team!

Because a large group of female relatives are going to do the offering, the Taoist priests of the Qingxu Temple need to avoid it first.The other Taoist priests were very clever, and when they heard that the female relatives of Jia's mansion were coming, they all ran away.There was a little Taoist priest who moved slowly, he avoided it too late, and all the female family members of Jia's mansion had entered, before he ran out, he bumped into Wang Xifeng's arms.Wang Xifeng got so angry that he stretched out his hand to scrape his ears, knocking the little Taoist to the ground. Moreover, Wang Xifeng blurted out a very nasty curse - it was too nasty, so it's inconvenient to quote it here, you If you forget, you can turn to that episode and watch it yourself.This little Taoist priest was in charge of cutting candle flowers. At that time, candles were mostly used for lighting. After burning candles for a long time, burnt ends would accumulate in the wax core, which needed to be trimmed with a kind of scissors, and the cut burnt ends were collected into the scissors. Go inside, and the flame of the cut candle will be revived.When the little Taoist hurriedly dodged, he was still holding the scissors in his hand.He hid too late, and when he saw that they were all women, he didn't know where to flee, and was in a panic.All those in charge of Jia's mansion and the servants must show their master's dignity, shouting one after another: "Take, take, take! Hit, hit, hit!" flee.The chaos disturbed Jia's mother. When she heard it, there was a description below, and Jia's mother asked, what's going on?Jia Zhen hurried over to deal with the emergency.

Why did Jia Zhen show up?Jia Zhen is the patriarch of the Jia clan. When the ancestors of the clan perform a ritual ceremony, he organizes his nephews to go there to do logistics support. He is the general commander of the ritual ceremony.The book also describes that as the patriarch, Jia Zhen is very dignified. Jia Rong was afraid of the heat and hid in the shade to be lazy.On such an occasion, Jia Zhen was of course present. He hurried to Jia Mu, and Jia Mu said, quickly bring the little Taoist priest, and Jia Zhen brought the little Taoist priest there.The little Taoist was trembling all over and couldn't stand up anymore. Mother Jia asked him kindly, how old is he?How old?what's your name?How can the little Taoist answer it?Mother Jia told Jia Zhen: "Brother Zhen, treat him well, take him out, coax him, give him some money to buy fruit to eat, don't make things difficult for him."Jia's mother even said, "It's pitiful, the children from a small family have never seen such a battle like ours!"You frightened him, how distressed his mother should be!Mother Jia is not hypocritical when she says this, she is very sincere. She does have a side of pity for the poor and the old.In the book, it is not only this time that Jia's mother behaved like this, so I won't give more examples.

Why do you want to explain the matter of Jia Mu's treatment of the little Taoist priest in such detail? It is to follow such a logic: If Qin Keqing is an abandoned baby brought in by the Yangshengtang, her adoptive father is a shy official. She actually married to Jia's family and Ningguo Mansion just because her adoptive father had a little relationship with Jia's family, and married to Jia Rong of Ningguo Mansion, which was passed down by the third generation. A great-grandson daughter-in-law.If this is the case, we can speculate that Jia Mu is the first, and she is likely to oppose this marriage, saying, how can she marry a daughter-in-law like this?Your Ningguo Mansion itself is not the same as Rongguo Mansion. We have already pointed it out in the previous lectures. How can they marry a daughter-in-law for the common matter of Rong and Rongfu?Of course it's also possible, because Mother Jia thought about it, after all, Ningguo Mansion is a bit different from Rongguo Mansion, and I don't care if Ningguo Mansion wants to marry such a daughter-in-law, so I'll bear with it.If Mother Jia has such an attitude, what should she think about Qin Keqing?She might treat her like the little Taoist priest she met later, pitiful, you see, she doesn't know who her parents are, and her natal family is so poor, after she got married, she looked pretty good, so she It is possible to ask the subordinates to wait, saying that you should treat her well and don't wrong her. The attitude similar to that of treating little Taoist priests should appear before our eyes.But the description we read, it’s wrong, it’s not written like this.

Qin Keqing officially appeared on the stage for the fifth time, and when she appeared on the stage, she was very impressive.What kind of story should I write for the fifth time?The plum blossoms in Ningguo Mansion were in full bloom, so Youshi was very interested. He thought it was a good opportunity to flatter his relatives, especially his ancestors, so he invited Jia Mu, Mrs. Wang, and Wang Xifeng to come to Ningguo Mansion to enjoy the plum blossoms. They all came.As usual, Jia Baoyu wanted to join in the fun, so he followed.Although Jia Baoyu is indeed opposed to the official career economy on the one hand, and has a certain rebellious nature. For example, he said that those who study, take part in the imperial examination, and seek official positions are national thieves, but on the other hand, he is an out-and-out Noble son.He is very lazy. After admiring the plum blossoms and eating lunch, he wants to take a nap, and he doesn't just sleep like a fool. He wants to have a good sleep.At this time, there is an astonishing description in the book that Qin Keqing went to arrange his nap.

Everyone calm down and think about it, in such a feudal society, in such a feudal family, who should arrange for a person like Jia Baoyu to take a nap?The most appropriate arrangement should be made by Jia Zhen and his cousin, who are of the same generation and are both men.So Jia Zhen is not here, who will come forward to arrange?It should be arranged by sister-in-law and Youshi, right?Youshi didn't come to make arrangements either.Who will arrange it?Qin Keqing will arrange it!Have you figured out your seniority?Jia Baoyu's seniority is higher than Qin Keqing's. He is Qin Keqing's uncle, and Qin Keqing is Jia Baoyu's nephew and daughter-in-law. Her seniority is lower.But according to the description in the book, Qin Keqing is already very old, probably around twenty years old, much older than Baoyu.So if an older nephew and daughter-in-law arrange a nap for a younger uncle, you think it is unreasonable and inappropriate if you think about it, how will others think of her?We don't care what other people think, let's first read what Jiamu's vision is written in the book.How is it written in the book?Let's press the book first.Let's imagine, I have read it several times, and now I re-read the fifth chapter from the beginning, Jiamu will probably think, sorry, there is no one at home, so it's hard for her? ?no! ——"Jia Mu always knew that the Qin family was a very proper person", she didn't do it once, she did it twice, she was always right!She came out suddenly and took Baoyu to take a nap, which was very appropriate.This is Jia Mu's vision.In Jia's mother's opinion, Qin Keqing "was graceful and slender, gentle and peaceful in her actions" - one is to describe her appearance and figure, and the other is to describe her character and temperament are very good.That's all.Then Cao Xueqin made an indisputable judgment for Jia Mu through narrative language.This judgment is like this, saying that Qin Keqing "is the first proud person among the great-grandson's wives"!The second is not, there is no tie, and it is firmly in the first place.Don't you think it's weird?If the eighth chapter of the text was not patched as I said, but it was really the case, how could she be a proud object?Let the ancestors feel very proud, and "the first proud".

I saw some listeners smiling down below, saying, "Oh, there are many ancient books, and the characters are different. Some of them are written like this, and some are written like this. Is it possible that the one you chose made a mistake in this sentence?"Weird!There are many kinds of ancient books that we can see now, and many sentences in these ancient books are different, but this sentence is all the same!It can be seen that it is Cao Xueqin's original intention.Jia's mother just thought that Qin Keqing "is the first proud person among the great-grandson's daughters-in-law".In a large feudal family, it is appropriate for her to make judgments on her daughter-in-law, grand-daughter-in-law, and great-grand-granddaughter-in-law as Jia's mother. Good family background.Look, isn't this the same patch that was applied at the end of the eighth chapter, is it fully twisted?And if you think about it carefully, this is too weird. At this stage of the story, only one great-grandson married a daughter-in-law in the entire Ning and Rong mansions. It was Jia Rong who married Qin Keqing. There was no comparison. Yes or no?But Mother Jia has a prophecy that in the future, Jia Lian, you will also have a son and marry a daughter-in-law. I don’t need to use my brain now, and I will definitely not be able to compare with Qin Keqing; Or Jia Huan also had sons and married wives, but they couldn't compare to Qin Keqing.Of course, none of these people had a son yet.However, in front of Mother Jia, she also has a great-grandson, Jia Lan, with the prefix "grass", who is the same generation as Jia Rong.Jia Lan was relatively young at the time, but she was not very young. As long as Jia Mu was in good health, she would go to pray for blessings when she was old. If she was blessed with a long life, she would be able to watch Jia Lan marry a wife. No matter what daughter-in-law you marry, Qin Keqing will always be the most proud person?Why is Qin Keqing so insurmountable?Is this worth our consideration?I think it's worth thinking about.

Next, let's analyze how Qin Keqing's in-laws view Qin Keqing.Immediately below, the corner of someone's mouth was curled, and I knew you were laughing at me, and I knew what you were thinking, and you said, oops, don't mention her father-in-law, right?Her father-in-law is nice to her, do you need to tell me?Yes or no?Her father-in-law is nice to her, does it have to be her background?People are another matter!You are also right, the ambiguous relationship between Jia Zhen and Qin Keqing is not some extreme family secret, we can see it at the end of the seventh chapter.At that time, Wang Xifeng and Jia Baoyu went to Ningguo Mansion to play, and they met Qin Zhong at that time, and finally Qin Zhong wanted to go home.What is the relationship between Qin Zhong and Qin Keqing?The siblings in terms of status are neither father nor mother. It is a matter of face, so he is not allowed to stay in Ningguo Mansion, and he will be sent back at night.Who was sent by the housekeeper to send Qin Zhong off?An old servant named Jiao Da.Jiao Da was drunk, and when he heard that he was assigned this job, he became furious, and because of his reputation in front of his masters in previous generations, he cursed loudly.There are a lot of scolding words, I will only pick out one sentence now, he has a sentence, which is thrilling, called "climbing ashes, climbing ashes"!

"Climbing ashes, climbing ashes", what does this mean?It refers to the father-in-law and his daughter-in-law having an affair.It is said that in the censer in the temple in the past, there were always people burning silver ingots stacked with tin foil, which may be a gift to the gods and Buddhas, or provide silver for the dead of relatives to use in the underworld.Sometimes, because there were too many silver ingots stuffed into the incense burner, the outer layer was burnt to ashes, but there was still a lot of tin foil inside that was not burned through, and was even quite intact.So, some people went to pick up the ashes, scraped the ashes away, and stole the tin foil inside, which could be reused, and then turned into silver ingots of different sizes, and sold to others for burning.Therefore, "pick ashes" means "steal tin", and when converted into a homonym, it means "climbing ash", which means "stealing daughter-in-law", that is, the father-in-law steals the daughter-in-law, messes with the daughter-in-law, and has an improper relationship. Then what Jiao Da scolded meant, it was very clear, he pointed the finger at Jia Zhen, and the finger of his scolding was not directed at Qin Keqing, but at Jia Zhen.He scolded very loudly, not only Sister Feng and Jia Baoyu who were already in the car could hear clearly, Jia Rong also heard it, Youshi certainly heard it, and all the servants around him heard it too. Therefore, Jia Zhen's problem is not a secret in Ningguo Mansion. Even if Youshi is, for example, a cowardly person, or this person has no decisiveness, she cannot make a final conclusion whether her daughter-in-law is with her or not. If her husband has an adulterous relationship, at least she should be unhappy, at least she should feel disgusted and disturbed.So in the tenth chapter, when Qin Keqing was ill, Youshi’s reaction to Qin Keqing, according to our logic of thinking, should be such a reaction: you don’t know who your parents are, they are wild species, You came from a petty bureaucrat's family and married into our family with reluctance, and you actually messed with your father-in-law. You are sick, and you deserve what you deserve. It would be better if you died!And Qin Keqing's illness, as we all know, it is vaguely mentioned in the book that she has irregular menstruation, no menstrual period for several months, or the menstrual period is very long.This is very likely to be pregnant, Mrs. Xing thought she was pregnant.If she becomes pregnant, it is still possible for Youshi to turn her anger into joy, because after all, the purpose of marrying this daughter-in-law is to let Jia Rong pass on the third generation of Ningguo Mansion to the fourth generation.But the doctor was very sure, it wasn't Xi, and Youshi seemed to agree with the doctor's judgment, either she was pregnant or she was sick.Then, there is a large section of You Shi's attitude and reaction to Qin Keqing's illness, which should be read carefully. Regarding Qin Keqing's illness, what did you say?She told Qin Keqing: "You don't have to be formal, you don't have to come up as usual sooner or later." What is "come up as usual sooner or later"?Do you understand?Writing back and forth, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu have to go to the elders in the morning for morning inspection, and in the evening for evening inspection, that is, the younger generation has to go to greet the elders every morning and night, and insist on it every day, unless you are sick. Forgive you, allow you not to go, otherwise you have to go, routine homework, no mistakes.But You Shi was so tolerant to Qin Keqing. She said, if you are sick, you don’t have to come up as usual sooner or later. you tell.And You Shi also said something even weirder. She said to her son Jia Rong: "You must not tire her." Tired is another northern language, which means, "Don't make things difficult for her, don't make her angry." ".The following words became more and more strange, saying: "If she has something good or bad, you want to marry such a daughter-in-law again, with such a look, such a personality, and there is nowhere to look for it with a lantern." This is so strange!She heard Jiao Da scolding "Climbing Hui, Climbing Hui". Before she said these words, she should have been very disgusted with her daughter-in-law. She couldn't afford to value her so much, and she was not pregnant. She had such a strange disease, and she was so caring. to such an extent.Moreover, how come you can hold a lantern, and you can't find a woman who is better than the wild species brought by the Yangshengtang?This is not logical, and it is not logical in today's society. You don't need to light a lantern or light a torch. If you touch a woman in the dark, you may be able to find out her parents.Yes or no?And You Shi actually said that! Tell me, what kind of living condition does Qin Keqing live in Jia's mansion?You can see it clearly through the eyes of others. Starting from Jiamu, everyone respects her and likes her. She has no discomfort. She is like a fish swimming in spring water, very comfortable. a state of being.Youshi also said such things to others, saying, which relatives, which elders don't like her!This is strange, even if your Ningguo Mansion tolerated her, and Jia Mu tolerated her, no gossip is allowed among relatives, and if your family marry a daughter-in-law, you will marry a wild species brought by the Yangshengtang?Her natal family is a shy little bureaucrat, is there anyone who doesn't like her?Oops, that's weird!There is no elder in the family who doesn't like her, so You Shi said, I have been so worried these two days, I am so anxious, when I think of her illness, I feel like a needle is pricking my heart.Such a daughter-in-law got a little sick, and her heart felt like a needle prick!Tell me, how distressed it is! Let's take a look at how Wang Xifeng, a very important and responsible person in Jia's mansion, treats Qin Keqing.Wang Xifeng, to be honest, just like what Jia Mu pointed out: "One rich heart, two decent eyes." That's a very powerful person!You see, when Jia Yun, a distant relative, came to her to ask for something, she didn't even look at Jia Yun until Jia Yun bribed her and gave her some borneol and musk, which were very valuable things, and she accepted them. .Because once the children of the clan are assigned a job, they can go to the general account to close the money. After closing the money, some of the work and some, to be honest, belong to themselves. My nephews are all willing to come to Jia's mansion to do something.Before Jia Yun, Jia Qin took a fat job in the housekeeper temple, so proud!Jia Yun looked greedy, so of course she tried harder to pursue it.Jia Yun took great pains, during which he was stared at by his own uncle, and met the drunk King Ni Er by chance, so he was funded and bought some borneol and musk to bribe Wang Xifeng.But Wang Xifeng, after collecting the things, didn't stop walking, didn't even look him in the face, didn't send him work right away, and only said hypocritically later, why didn't you say it earlier?Finally, he was assigned the job of replanting trees and flowers in the Grand View Garden.This is Wang Xifeng!This is still the case with her relatives and friends who she knows very well, because although Jia Yun’s family is poor, he is a full member of the Jia clan. Who are his parents and who are they? Qin Keqing, it stands to reason that ten thousand people should look down on her, right?Your Ningguo Mansion is blind, marrying a daughter-in-law and marrying an abandoned baby from the health care hall, what family background is it?Qin Ye, a small bureaucrat, is so shabby!Ordinarily, her best attitude towards Qin Keqing was just perfunctory, but no!She formed a close friend relationship with Qin Keqing. Although she was of a high seniority, she was an aunt, and Qin Keqing was a nephew and daughter-in-law, but the two of them were very close. It was clearly stated in the book.As mentioned in the eleventh chapter, Wang Xifeng went to Ningguo Mansion to visit the sick Qin Keqing, and said so many heartfelt words.To give an example, Wang Xifeng said: "Your father-in-law and mother-in-law heard that you are cured well, not to mention ginseng for two dollars a day, even two catties can afford it." She comforted Qin Keqing, saying that the entire Jia family will do its best to keep Qin Keqing. Life can be afforded by eating two catties of ginseng a day. If Ningguo Mansion is gone, Rongguo Mansion will go.When she went to visit Qin Keqing, Jia Baoyu always followed him, a "follower". Wang Xifeng thought he was a bit redundant, so he sent Jia Baoyu away.After Zhi left, there was a very important one, that is, Wang Xifeng and Qin Shi lowered their voices and said a lot of heartfelt words. Look, how good are the two of them?Is this an attitude towards an abandoned baby brought from the Yangshengtang?Absolutely not. After Qin Keqing's death, it was written in the book, "At that time, everyone in the family knew about it, and everyone was amazed, and they were a little suspicious." Or elicit "admiration"? "I'm a little suspicious." What are you suspicious of?I will analyze these later.What are the next two sentences?That is to say, the older generation thinks of her filial piety, the ordinary generation thinks of her being harmonious and intimate, the younger generation thinks of her being kind, and the servants of the family think of her being sympathetic to the poor and humble, caring for the elderly. The kindness of loving the young, all weep bitterly.Even if she is popular, she came from the Yangshengtang after all, her blood relationship is not clear, and Qin Ye who adopted her is just a poor official. Normally, no matter whether it is old or young in the house, master or servant, there will always be someone like this. Think about it this way: Although she is dead, she is still very lucky. With such a background, enjoying a good fortune for a while, is it enough? ?However, when Cao Xueqin wrote in an objective narrative tone, she did not mention this kind of reaction, and they all unanimously only expressed her gratitude for her benefits.The strangest thing is that she also specifically said that she was always sympathetic to the poor and humble. In fact, in terms of her background, she herself is both poor and humble. She needs others to take pity on her. However, all the descriptions in the book can only make her We feel that she is very noble, people up and down seem to be looking up at her all the time, and when she died, they all wept bitterly.Such a comprehensive description seems to further reveal that this person's true origin is by no means humble. In addition to analyzing Qin Keqing's living conditions in the Jia Mansion from the perspective of how others view Qin Keqing, we can also conduct further investigations from her own mentality. So let's take a look now, what Qin Keqing thinks.To write about a character, one is to write about the people outside and how people around her think of her, and the other is to write about herself, what she thinks inside.If Qin Keqing was really an abandoned baby brought by the Yangshengtang, and if her adoptive father was really a shy bureaucrat, she would definitely have an inferiority complex, and she would feel embarrassed.On the surface, she can hold on, but when the night is quiet and the night is quiet, she will feel that she is in a dangerous environment. With such a rich family and such a terrible background, she will feel inferior and suffer.However, there is no such description in the book. From her fifth appearance to her death in the thirteenth time, there is no such content at all.Even when Sister Feng went to visit her, there was guilt in what she said to Sister Feng, but it was not a feeling of inferiority, not a feeling of inferiority arising from her blood and family.This is how she told Sister Feng. She said: "It's all my fault. In such a family, the father-in-law and mother-in-law treat them like their own girls. Although my aunt's nephew is young, he respects me, and I respect him. I have never blushed. Even among the elders and peers in the family, except for my aunt, there is no one who does not love me, and there is no one who does not treat me well." The reason why she felt a little guilty was not because she felt that she She comes from a humble background and has low self-esteem, but she feels that others treat her so well, but she doesn't live up to it, and is so sick that she is about to die.And she also said a soul-stirring sentence called "It doesn't matter if you let the gods do it, you can't cure the disease if you cure it."What is she talking about?what does it mean?So Qin Keqing has a psychological shadow, which is a shadow of death, not a pain or a shadow caused by insufficient birth, blood and family wealth. The audience below is smiling again, because you are going to discuss with me again, I know what you want to discuss with me, you will say, oh, is Cao Xueqin not allowed to write like this?It's a novel, so he said he wanted to write it like this. The character's family background is relatively poor, so she doesn't feel inferior.So, is every one of his characters written like this?We can examine the text. Cao Xueqin follows a principle in writing this book, that is, he writes about a person's temperament, identity, as well as his inner emotions and psychological activities. It is written based on economic status, without exception. For example, the simplest example is Tanchun and Jiahuan.Tanchun, she is the daughter of Jia Zheng. Don’t discuss her father’s bloodline, she is very noble. She is only because of her mother’s humble bloodline. You can see how heavy the shadow is in her state of existence!There is a lot of space in the book to describe her inner pain, just because her mother was originally a slave in Jia's mansion. Somehow Jia Zheng slept with her one day, gave birth to her, and gave birth to a younger brother, so Jia Zheng took this person as his concubine, Aunt Zhao.It was for such a reason that she suffered terribly.Moreover, she had a violent conflict with her biological mother, and she did not recognize Aunt Zhao as her mother.She said, I only recognize Master and Madam, who is my father?Jia Zheng.Who is my mother?Mrs. Wang.what are youYou are a slave.When Aunt Zhao's brother, Zhao Guoji, died, she and her biological mother had a violent conflict over the issue of how much taels of silver to give to the deceased's family, and she only gave twenty taels.Because according to the old rules of the Jia Mansion, when a servant born and raised by the family dies, the pension is twenty taels.If the slave who came in from outside died, the pension might be higher. She strictly followed the rules of the game at that time to do this.Aunt Zhao quit, she ran away crying.At that time, Wang Xifeng was ill. Tanchun, Li Wan and Xue Baochai came to take care of the family and manage affairs on behalf of Wang Xifeng.Aunt Zhao said, you crawled out of my intestines, it's fine if others don't pull me, why don't you pull me?Tanchun was very angry and said, if a person is normal, does he need someone to pull him?Although she went to fight against Aunt Zhao, her heart was very painful, because half of the blood flowing in her veins belonged to Jia Zheng, and the other half belonged to Aunt Zhao.She was actually much better than the abandoned baby brought in by the Yangshengtang, but she was still in pain, very painful. The same is true for Jia Huan. Jia Huan went to Xue Baochai's place to play games, play Go and play dice with Yinger and Xiangling. False, greedy for our little money, he cried immediately.The reason he cried was that there was a shadow in his heart, a shadow of blood.He said, you all know that I was not raised by my wife, so you just bully me blindly.There are many other examples in the book of Jia Huan's inferiority complex because of his concubines.So you can see that when Cao Xueqin writes about people, he wants to write about the heart of the character from the lineage of the character, isn't it?It is impossible for him to write about Tanchun and Jia Huan, follow such a principle of writing characters, and write about Qin Keqing, he has another principle, it cannot be like this. Some friends also want to discuss with me, saying, this is just a matter of blood, so have you written about someone who is suffering because of her poor family?Are there any examples of this?some.For example, Xing Xiuyan, she is the daughter of Mrs. Xing's brother. At that time, the Xing family's family situation had gone downhill, so her parents took her to Mrs. Xing, and Mrs. Xing arranged her to live in the residence where the Spring Festival was held in the Grand View Garden.It is written in the book that even though she, Xue Baoqin, and the two daughters Li Wen and Li Qi brought by Aunt Li Wan lived in Jia's mansion, Wang Xifeng paid them a month's salary according to the standards of the young ladies in Jia's mansion. Two taels of silver was used, but Mrs. Xing was very stingy, so she asked Xing Xiuyan to keep only one tael of silver, and let Xing Xiuyan give the one tael of silver to her parents.In this way, Xing Xiuyan lived in Yingchun's house, and he didn't have enough money for cosmetics, and his heart was very painful, but in order to win over the girls in Yingchun, sometimes he had to spend some extra money from the already small amount of money to treat those girls to eat snacks. , her life is really embarrassing.There is also a passage in the book, the daughters of the Grand View Garden after the snow, plus the scene of Jia Baoyu's party, written like a poem and picturesque.We should all remember that in this description, every lady is wearing a very expensive snow-proof cloak and coat.Needless to say, Jia Baoyu, Jia's mother gave him a golden peacock fur, twisted with gold thread and peacock feathers, and made a big cloak with this kind of thread. Isn't it luxurious?Mother Jia liked Xue Baoqin very much, and she gave Xue Baoqin a cloak, which was called Fumaoqiu. It was woven from the feathers of wild ducks' heads. How many wild ducks' heads did it cost?What other people wear is either eggplant-colored duoluo double-breasted long gowns, or so-called crane cloaks, or Zhaojun suits on their heads, or Guanyin pockets. up.At this time, he wrote that because Xing Xiuyan's family was poor, she didn't have a big cloak or a big dress, so her image in front of other beauties was like bowing her shoulders, which was very pitiful.Later, she even had to secretly take the cotton clothes to the pawn shop to exchange for some money, and she felt very painful in her heart.So you see, in Cao Xueqin's works, there are examples of suffering because of poor family background.But he wrote about Qin Keqing, Qin Keqing's bloodline is far worse than Tanchun and Jia Huan, and Qin Keqing's family background is far worse than Xing Xiuyan, right?But in the description of Qin Keqing, is there any trace of inferiority complex?Is there any trace of inferiority and pain caused by one's own blood and family background?no.This is what Cao Xueqin described to us, Qin Keqing's actual living condition in Jia's mansion. So, after listening to my above narration, we should raise a newer question, that is, if at the end of the eighth chapter, the confession about Qin Keqing was a patch he had to make in order to cover up and cover up something, then What is Qin Keqing's real background?Who is this character based on?What kind of person is Qin Keqing described by Cao Xueqin based on this prototype in his original conception and original text?Our problem has come to this point.This is the secret we will reveal in the next lecture, that is to say, Qin Keqing's background is not only not humble, but also higher than Jia's family.Why?Listen to me next time.