Chapter 8 Chapter Five: The Mystery of Lin Daiyu's Dangerous Situation

Lin Daiyu's living conditions in Rongguo Mansion, she herself described as "the wind, the sword, the frost, and the sword are pressing against each other".Of course she has her joys and her moments of sweetness, but she feels that the overall situation is very bad.Her dangerous survival situation, in a proverb, is called "the mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows".If we compare Lin Daiyu to a cicada, there must be mantises trying to catch her.What is arresting her?Just to exclude her.Who was the first person who wanted to exclude her?It is Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue.If they want to achieve "Golden Marriage", they must exclude Lin Daiyu.Of course, they would not be so vicious to Lin Daiyu that they wanted to kill her, probably not to that extent, but they must fully dig out the reasons why she is not suitable for marrying Jia Baoyu, and show it to Jia Mu.Do you still remember Mrs. Wang's attitude before copying and inspecting the Grand View Garden?She recalled once when she went to the Grand View Garden and saw a big girl in Baoyu's room scolding a little girl, she said that her eyebrows and eyes looked a bit like Sister Lin, and then said that girl was very frivolous, and she didn't like that kind of frivolity— —She was talking about Qingwen, which actually reflected that she had a deep disdain for Daiyu in her heart.Mrs. Wang despises Lin Daiyu, she sincerely despises her.It's not that she thinks Lin Daiyu is good in her heart, it's just that she suppresses her liking for Lin Daiyu because she wants to make a "golden marriage", she just doesn't like it.

Through Qingxu's view of what happened before and after the ceremony, Mrs. Wang found that as long as Jia's mother was alive, she had to protect Lin Daiyu for a day, so she felt very unhappy and wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of Lin Daiyu at any time.After Baoyu was beaten, Xiren went to report to her, saying that he was always worried, what was he worried about?The main idea is to worry that Baoyu has grown up now, and there are two sisters who are always in front of him, one is Sister Lin, and the other is Sister Bao.Ordinarily, the elder sister should be mentioned first and the younger sister should be mentioned last, so as to conform to the order of words, but Xiren knows who Mrs. Wang likes and who she doesn't like-she has to mention Xue Baochai, but she talks about Lin Daiyu first.When Mrs. Wang heard this, she thought Xiren was so sensible, so she immediately accepted her as a confidant, gave her the status of a quasi-aunt, and allocated two taels of silver from her monthly silver as a special allowance to Xiren.Mrs. Wang was born in the Wang family of the four major families of Jia, Shi, Xue, and Wang. From Cao Xueqin's description, it can be seen that Mrs. Wang likes the Baochai-style character of being pure-hearted and ascetic, while Daiyu is romantic, dexterous, and sharp-edged. Bi Lu is incompatible with her preferences.In Mrs. Wang's opinion, Daiyu is weak and sickly, and has a bad temper; she is also suspicious and loves to cry, and likes to provoke Baoyu. It is just right for three days, and she is annoyed for two days. Let Baoyu be fascinated by her. This is the last thing Mrs. Wang can tolerate. of.

From this point of view, it is understandable for Mrs. Wang to reject Daiyu; but what is the psychology of Mrs. Wang's younger sister, Aunt Xue, about the relationship between Bao and Dai? Some "red fans" friends discussed with me, saying that Aunt Xue once offered to say that it is best to ration Sister Lin to Baoyu?There is indeed such a description in the book. In the fifty-seventh chapter, in front of Lin Daiyu, there was Xue Baochai at that time, and Aunt Xue said something like this: "Brother Bao, the old lady loves him like that, and he is born like that. Talking about it outside, the old lady definitely doesn't like it, why don't you marry your younger sister Lin to him, wouldn't you have all four corners?" When she said "It's better to marry your younger sister to him", her face was obviously turned towards her daughter Xue Baochai's.This is a very risky discourse situation!She has always had the idea of ​​"Golden Marriage" in her heart, and there are her daughters present, who should enjoy "Golden Marriage", and at the same time, Lin Daiyu, the biggest obstacle of "Golden Marriage".But Aunt Xue suddenly made a dangerous move at this time and said such words to Lin Daiyu in front of her daughter.What is she doing?Did she really advocate letting Jia Baoyu marry Lin Daiyu?At that time, Cao Xueqin wrote something immediately, did you notice——Zicuckoo heard it, and hurried over with a smile: "Since my aunt has this idea, why don't you tell my wife?" Some ancient books write this place as " Why don't you talk to the old lady?" I personally think that among the different writing styles, the one that conforms to Cao Xueqin's original intention should be "Why don't you talk to my wife".Zicuckoo is a smart person and should say so.Because the old lady's attitude does not need to be discussed, Aunt Xue has repeated "old lady" several times in her words: Brother Bao, the old lady loves him like that, and he is born like that, if you talk about it outside, the old lady will definitely not like it ? ?You have to pay attention, the relationship between the characters in the novel is designed very accurately, after all, the hostess of Rongguo Mansion should be Mrs. Wang.Jia's mother has a very high status in the clan, but her husband has passed away. She now lives in a large courtyard on the west side of the central axis building complex. Although everyone respects Jia Baoyu, after all, Jia Baoyu is the son of Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang. It should be Jia Zheng who has the most say on who Jia Baoyu marries as his wife.Judging from the description in the novel, Jia Zheng doesn't care much about these matters, and Mrs. Wang is basically in charge of this matter.So Zijuan is smart, she knows that the obstacle to this marriage is not with the old lady, but with Mrs. Wang.Aunt Xue is Mrs. Wang's biological sister. She said that Zijuan didn't get along with her when she said anything else. Talk to your wife?" Go ahead!As soon as you tell your wife, as soon as your wife expresses her opinion, and as soon as the old lady is happy, isn't the matter over?As a result, you can see from the description below that Aunt Xue held it up high and put it down gently, meaning that it was a joke, saying that Zijuan, you girl, might be looking for a husband's house, what are you in a hurry for?Just diverted the words.Zicuckoo was very disappointed and had to leave.Aunt Xue, what does she want to do?It's fire reconnaissance!Logically speaking, it was very cruel for Aunt Xue to do this, because it is well known that Lin Daiyu loves Jia Baoyu, and Jia Baoyu loves Lin Daiyu. I know, and Mother Jia said that they "are not enemies and don't get together", this sentence spread throughout the house, and Aunt Xue openly said this in front of Daiyu at this time, in order to see Daiyu's reaction.In the whole book, apart from the love story, it also describes the situation in which various interest groups in a large aristocratic family are fighting for the control of the mansion (first of all, the right to possess and divide the property).Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue are looking forward to the "golden marriage" all day long.For Mrs. Wang, it was marrying a good daughter-in-law. For Aunt Xue, her daughter married the most satisfying husband.Once Jia's mother passed away, the world was completely theirs.So they have been dreaming this kind of dream, that is, the "mantis" behind Daiyu, who is wholeheartedly doing things to exclude her.

The plot continued to develop, because an old concubine was murdered in the imperial court. Both Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang needed to go to the imperial court to participate in related memorial activities, and the mansion needed to strengthen security. Entered the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.As early as the Qing Dynasty, some critics made comments, saying that Aunt Xue was really powerful, treacherous and cunning——she lived in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and completely controlled all of Daiyu's activities, making Baoyu and Daiyu Yu's communication has become particularly inconvenient.For Daiyu, you can say that she is narrow-minded and bitter, but she is very pure and kind in her heart, so she doesn't realize it.She felt that she was lonely and was well taken care of by Aunt Xue, so she even accepted Aunt Xue as her godmother.Aunt Xue accepted hypocritically, forming a very strange situation.This is one aspect of Daiyu's dangerous existence.Don't forget, there are several interest groups in the mansion. For Mrs. Wang, there is an interest group that targets her all the time, and its leader is none other than Aunt Zhao.

Aunt Zhao is Jia Zheng's concubine and the biological mother of Tanchun and Jia Huan.It stands to reason that in feudal society, mothers are more valuable than children, but for Aunt Zhao, all the good things in Jia's mansion are not for her.In many important events, even a little decent girl was on the table, but there was no Aunt Zhao.Aunt Zhao has a trump card. She gave birth to a daughter and a son to Jia Zheng.In that kind of society and family at that time, if a concubine (an aunt) had children, her right to speak would be enhanced; if she could give birth to boys, her right to speak would be further enhanced; if the male master If you still like her, you don't want others to serve you, but if you only want her to serve you, then her right to speak will even override the hostess.Aunt Zhao is a very scheming person. For her, the biggest obstacle is Jia Baoyu.Because Jia Zheng has two sons (we don’t count Jia Zhu, because the eldest son died at the beginning of the story, leaving only a widow, Li Wan), one is Jia Baoyu and the other is Jia Huan.With Jia Baoyu around, Jia Huan's status couldn't be higher.One is because he was born of a concubine, not the eldest wife; the other is because he is younger than Jia Baoyu, so seniority and orderly seniority are not good for him.Therefore, Aunt Zhao and Jia Huan, the mother and son, wanted to harm Jia Baoyu all day long.Once, Mrs. Wang asked Jia Huan to copy scriptures in Mrs. Wang's room. During the process of copying scriptures, Jia Baoyu came back from the private school and rolled into Mrs. Wang's arms. Mrs. Wang showed him a deep mother-child relationship. Love: Mrs. Wang keeps rubbing Baoyu, and Baoyu grabs Mrs. Wang's neck to gossip.Seeing this, Jia Huan hated him, so he took the opportunity to kill Baoyu. Baoyu was lying on the kang, talking and laughing with the girl, not far from the kang table where Jia Huan copied the scriptures. He went to Baoyu's face, trying to scald Baoyu's eyes, but fortunately he missed, but Baoyu's face was scalded with blisters.You see, Jia Huan is so cruel to his brother.

Aunt Zhao was even more ruthless. She used Ma Daopo to kill Wang Xifeng and Baoyu, making both Wang Xifeng and Baoyu on the verge of death. Fortunately, a monk who was active in the world came in and thought of a way to save them. Otherwise, Baoyu would have died that time.At that time, Baoyu was already dying, and Aunt Zhao said some ugly things, and even said, "Don't cry, you usually love him so much, now it's better to let him go, maybe let him go, he It's easy.At that time, Mother Jia was furious when she heard this, and spat on her and scolded her.Mrs. Wang was of course very angry when she heard this.Aunt Zhao harmed Baoyu and Sister Feng in order to fight for control of Rongguo Mansion.Mrs. Wang and Aunt Zhao constitute two opposing interest groups, so it is called "the mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows".If Mrs. Wang is likened to a "mantis", the "sorrel" is Aunt Zhao.Aunt Zhao’s interest group (through the plot around the fifty-eighth chapter, we can see that some women in the Rongguo Mansion still support Aunt Zhao, which is her "social foundation") to compete for interests is very crude, Very vicious.If Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue only disliked, hated, and wanted to reject Lin Daiyu, I don't think they would kill her. From the description in the book, it is not clear that they have this intention; Judging from Auntie's description, she will definitely take decisive measures against things that she considers to be her obstacles.Daiyu's living environment is really dangerous.So, what will Aunt Zhao do to Lin Daiyu?The first is to keep an eye on.Don't think that only Aunt Xue was there to conduct fire reconnaissance, and Aunt Zhao was not idle either.She must kill Lin Daiyu, why?Although there is no direct conflict of interest between her and Lin Daiyu, she absolutely cannot tolerate Jia Baoyu marrying Lin Daiyu and living a happy life.And she knows that Jia Baoyu loves Lin Daiyu to such an extent that if Lin Daiyu is gone, Jia Baoyu will either die or become a monk. I became a monk.Aunt Zhao used Ma Daopo to not kill Baoyu, she would not give up, she wished Jia Baoyu would die or go away.How to let Jia Baoyu die or go away?One of the tricks is to let Lin Daiyu die.

From the novel, we can easily see that Aunt Zhao is really useless as a master: her daughter Tanchun treats her with contempt, her son Jia Huan often refuses to listen to her instructions, and even the little girl dares to push her Push? ?Perhaps it was this great loss that made her even more frantic to take risks in order to seize control of Rongguo Mansion. So, how will Aunt Zhao, who has only ambition but lacks wisdom, set up obstacles in Bao and Dai's love path?And what made her feel confident in Jia's mansion?Are there any clues in this regard in the text of ? If you read the text carefully, please don't miss a detail of Chapter 52.In the fifty-two chapters, there is no love suspicion and friction between Bao and Dai. It should be said that the relationship between the two of them has returned to calm and cared for each other.There is such a detail: no one else was there, and only Baoyu and Daiyu were left in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Baoyu smiled and said something important to Daiyu, and only then did his son remember it—and he and Daiyu Yu was already very harmonious, so she leaned over her while talking—and whispered: "I think the bird's nest that Sister Bao gave you?" , and asked her how the past two days have been.Here Cao Xueqin's writing is very delicate and the description is very precise.Entering the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, entering the inner space where Daiyu is active, should cross some gray spaces or some secondary spaces, among which there will be girls and women. Without waiting for these girls and mother-in-law to report, he walked in by himself.Before going in, she might stop and look in, and when Baoyu moved close to Daiyu, she would suddenly go in.Then she said that she came to greet Daiyu.This is malicious, in fact, it is conducting reconnaissance, to obtain evidence of misconduct between Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu, and to be a witness.Who will she tell the situation to?She would not tell Mrs. Wang, nor would she tell Mrs. Jia, because she knew that both Mrs. Jia and Mrs. Wang hated her and would not listen to her. Even if she grasped the so-called fact, she would not Buy her account.However, she didn't actually need to tell them, she had a trump card, she could tell Jia Zheng directly.Jia Zheng is the leader of this grand mansion, the real and serious owner of the mansion.Some "red fans" friends will ask, as an aunt, does she have such a big right to speak?In fact, her right to speak is very strong in front of Jia Zheng, and it is clearly written in the book.For example, Chapter 73 writes: "Aunt Zhao was talking to Jia Zheng when she suddenly heard a noise outside. She didn't know what it was. Come down. Aunt Zhao scolded the girl a few times, and she led the girl to go to bed, Fang came in and sent Jia Zheng to rest, no problem." Don't let these transitional words go easily, Jia Zheng, as the master of the Rongguo Mansion, every night Who waits for him to sleep?It's not Mrs. Wang, and there is no description about Aunt Zhou, but Aunt Zhao.This description appears more than once in the book.Once, Aunt Zhao was still in front of Jia Zheng and asked Jia Zheng for permission to give Jia Huan a girl next to Mrs. Wang.These all show that she has the right to speak in front of Jia Zheng, because Jia Zheng likes her.Although others hate her, the palace master likes her, and the leader likes her, so sometimes she is fearless and scary.

Then look down, and you will find that the right to speak of this Aunt Zhao will even cause a big earthquake.Have you noticed the flow of plots in Chapter Seventy-Three?It was all right in Yihong Courtyard, everyone was going to bed, when suddenly a little girl called Xiao Que ran in and said that Aunt Zhao's grandma didn't know what she said in front of the master just now, and asked Jia Baoyu to be careful, and ask the master carefully tomorrow!This little magpie is a little girl of Aunt Zhao.What happened when Aunt Zhao sent Jia Zhengan to rest, the window fell and needed to be restored, probably all people like Xiao Que participated in it.Xiao Que must have heard something very serious. It is clearly written in the novel. The people in Yihong Court asked her what you were doing here so late. It was very abnormal. Xiao Que said that she knew something and had to tell them. Drink tea and leave immediately after speaking.This caused a series of chain reactions: Baoyu couldn't sleep anymore - how could he sleep like this? Tomorrow his father would ask him what he asked, presumably for his homework. Thinking that these days are far away from these things, I had to start to make up for it immediately, which made the whole Yihong Courtyard unable to sleep - if he didn't sleep, the big girl would of course take the lead in not sleeping, and some of the little girls were there I became sleepy while sitting, hit my head against the wall, and was scolded by Qingwen, making me very nervous.Then, the plot continued to flow down again. At this time, Fangguan (Fangguan was originally a singer, but later the troupe was disbanded, so he was assigned to be a girl in Yihong Courtyard) went out for a trip (it is written many times in the book The girl went out for a while, to put it bluntly, it was convenient), and when she came back, she said that she saw a black shadow jumping down from the wall.Oh, Qingwen is like a treasure: I couldn't find a reason to prevent Jia Zheng from asking Baoyu about his homework the next day, isn't that the reason?So they said that there were thieves, someone jumped the wall, and then told those night watchmen not to sleep, and searched everywhere with lanterns and torches.Where is it? I searched all night and found nothing.Cao Xueqin wrote Qingwen very vividly, and it made us very sad, because Qingwen never expected that she would make a big deal out of it.Qingwen said at the time, don't think that this matter is over, Baoyu was frightened, she was going to tell his wife, and asked her for a sedative, should it be fine?Qingwen was upright and confident, feeling that she was on the same side as Mrs. Wang, showing off her power to those night watchmen.But those people just can't find the thief, what should they do?I can't explain it.This matter snowballed and became bigger and bigger, and finally it came to Jia Mu, who became angry and said that she knew about these ills in the mansion, and there must be people gathering at night to gamble, so she checked the betting.The plot is so fluid, right?The snowball got bigger and bigger.I checked the gambling, it’s terrible, Yingchun’s nanny is the dealer who takes the lead in gambling, involving a lot of people, and in the end, a whole yard of people knelt down to kowtow to Jiamu—because the old ancestor usually doesn’t care, she suddenly came to take care of this in person Of course everyone was scared.Further down, another silly elder sister picked up an embroidered spring pouch and handed it to Mrs. Xing. Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang had conflicts, so she sealed it up and handed it to Mrs. Wang, which means that you are the mistress of the Rongguo Mansion, How are you managing this stall?Look, even this kind of thing has appeared in the Grand View Garden!Because according to the design in the book, Jia Amnesty is the eldest son of Mother Jia, and Mrs. Xing is the eldest daughter-in-law. However, Mrs. Xing does not have the right to manage the Rongguo Mansion.Mrs. Xing also represents an interest group, and the conflict with Mrs. Wang has intensified.Mrs. Wang felt ashamed, so she went to find Sister Feng angrily—at first she thought it was Sister Feng's embroidered spring bag, but Sister Feng argued that it was not, and it was not.So, whose embroidered spring bag is it?Originally planned to investigate secretly, unexpectedly Mrs. Xing's companion, Wang Shanbao's family, got involved again and slandered Qingwen, and the situation developed to a public raid on the Grand View Garden.Who was the first victim of plagiarism in Grand View Garden?It was the one who insisted on emphasizing that someone jumped the wall, and others said don't investigate it, forget it, she thought she couldn't let it go, she had to report it to her wife, and insisted on making things worse-Qingwen.Therefore, the plot laid out by Cao Xueqin flows very naturally, and it is really thrilling.After reading these words, we can think of many profound things such as the complexity of human nature, the treacherous fate of people, the relationship between the inevitability and chance of things, and so on.Having said so much, tracing back to the source, the wind started at the end of Qingping, and the plagiarism of the Grand View Garden was triggered by Xiao Que's report, because Aunt Zhao sued Baoyu in front of Jia Zheng.It can be seen that Aunt Zhao has great energy and is a very destructive evil force.After careful reading, it is not difficult to find that Cao Xueqin basically does not simplify or make facial expressions of the characters in the book.This is an important aesthetic principle for Cao Xueqin to create characters.But Aunt Zhao is an exception. In Cao Xueqin's writing, Aunt Zhao is a relatively flat character with muddled nature, bad intentions and wretched behavior.

The ruthless Aunt Zhao wanted to kill Lin Daiyu to achieve the purpose of causing Jia Baoyu to collapse, so how would she attack Lin Daiyu? This point is not explicitly described in the first eighty chapters, but there are clues to be found.what clue?The third chapter writes about Lin Daiyu entering the mansion. When Jiamu and the others saw Lin Daiyu, they found that "although Lin Daiyu's body and face are very timid, but she has a natural flow, you can know that he has deficiencies"—that is, some congenital deficiencies in development, because Ask: "What kind of medicine do you take regularly, and why don't you rush to treat it?" Lin Daiyu truthfully reported to her grandmother: "I have always been like this. I have always taken medicine when I can eat?? Now I still take ginseng Yangrong pills." Jia's mother said: "It's just right. I'm preparing pills here. Just ask them to make more ingredients." Ginseng Yangrong pills are nothing to Jia's family. It is nothing more than made with things like ginseng, and the raw materials are not difficult to find.Originally, this seems to be a leisurely stroke, and it doesn’t seem to have much meaning, but Zhiyanzhai has two comments in this place that are worth noting, one is "the writing is as thin as a cow's hair", which shows that Zhiyanzhai advocates careful reading of the text , don't let go of some subtleties; then, where Jia Mu said, "Just ask them to add more ingredients", write a very clear comment: "For Houchang and Lingfu." That is to say, these few days The first sentence about dispensing medicine is laying the groundwork for the later stories of Jia Chang and Jia Ling.Cao Xueqin is often a grass snake and a gray line, which stretches thousands of miles. In the third chapter, he has such a grass snake, such a gray line, but he does not echo it within 80 chapters, and he will talk about it after the 80th chapter.These two people, Jia Chang and Jia Ling, will appear in later episodes.Everyone knows that the Jia clan is very large. Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion are two big mansions with noble titles, and they are the most honorable two families in the Jia family. However, they still have some poor relatives and some economic conditions. Middle or even low-level relatives, some of these relatives will come to them and ask them to help them financially.Some male relatives also hope to get a job in the mansion and earn some money.Because you have done something in the mansion, the mansion will allocate money to you, and you can keep a part of it as your own income when you use the money to do things.The one who impressed everyone the most in the novel is Jia Yun.Jia Yun is a descendant of a close branch of the Ning and Rong families, and is a blood relative.Jia Yun failed to apply for a job several times, and finally got a job to replant flowers and trees in the Grand View Garden.So, is it written in the book that other children of the Jia clan participated in the affairs of the mansion?some.For example, after the Concubine Yuan visits her relatives, the Daguan Garden will officially make a plaque (the plaques used by the Concubine Yuan to visit her relatives are all made of lamp plaques, because the Concubine Yuan did not approve, you can’t fix it, after the Concubine Yuan approves, some have passed To change, you have to formally fix it, like engraving on a stone, and turn it into red color after engraving.) Those involved in this matter, besides Jia Rong and Jia Ping, are also the first generation of cursive characters.Then she clearly explained that due to lack of manpower, Jia Zhen called Jia Chang and Jia Ling to oversee the work.This sum will tell you two pieces of information. One piece of information is that Jia Chang and Jia Ling originally had affairs in the mansion that they were in charge of. Now, because this matter is urgent and requires a lot of manpower, they have reorganized their human resources. Jia Zhen temporarily called the two of them to help.Since Jia Chang and Jia Ling are helping temporarily this time, what are they usually responsible for in the mansion?It should be responsible for dispensing medicine.The third round of Zhipi has already talked about, "for Houchang and Lingfu", so Cao Xueqin's writing is indeed as fine as a cow's hair, and his technique is really incomparable.Since Jiachang and Jia Ling have the right to dispense medicines, it is conceivable that Aunt Zhao can have a relationship with them - Aunt Zhao has a relationship with Ma Daopo before, and she also succeeded through the relationship, but it fell short in the end.After the eighty chapters, it is estimated that there will be such a plot: Aunt Zhao, or Jia Huan, persuaded Jia Chang and Jia Ling to let them not necessarily directly poison Lin Daiyu when dispensing medicine, but they can make Lin Daiyu chronically poisoned, and finally It caused a state of death for which the cause could not be found out, so Jia Baoyu had to die in a hurry.The fifty-seventh chapter wrote "Hui Zicuckoo loves resignation and busy jade", do you remember?Just hearing that Daiyu was going to be picked up by the Lin family, Jia Baoyu was so anxious that he fell ill and almost collapsed.If Lin Daiyu died of illness and the cause cannot be found out, Jia Baoyu must either die or become a monk.This is what Aunt Zhao wants to achieve.What she is going to do and how she will do it, according to my speculation, is related to Jia Chang and Jia Ling.From a secular point of view, the specific cause of Lin Daiyu's death was the exclusion of her by Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue in order to fight for the control of Rongguo Mansion, and the murderous hands of Aunt Zhao in order to fight for the control of Rongguo Mansion.

So how did Lin Daiyu die?Is it like what Gao E wrote, because of a "substitution trick", he got angry with Jia Baoyu, and then he burned the manuscript to break his infatuation and died?I personally think that Cao Xueqin's idea is not like this. Cao Xueqin's description of Lin Daiyu's death should be about her sinking into the lake.Why I came to such a conclusion, the answer will be revealed in the next lecture.