Chapter 11 Chapter Two: The Mystery of Xue Baochai's Red Musk Skewers

As mentioned in the previous lecture, Jia Yuanchun consciously made Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai get exactly the same rewards for the Dragon Boat Festival, while Lin Daiyu was placed on the same level as Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun, which is much less.The gift was reported to Jia Baoyu by Xiren, and there were four items: the first item, two high-grade palace fans; the second item, two strings of red musk; It is a very thin, but very high-grade textile; and then hibiscus mat—someone blurted out after hearing it: Erling.No, it's a collar.Mat is a mat made of bamboo silk, a high-grade mat with hibiscus patterns on it. Why is it a collar?Because it is used by two people, is there any meaning in it?is meaningful.The most meaningful of these rituals is the red musk string, which can also be referred to as the red musk string, which is a very important prop specially designed by the author.The musk deer is a deer animal, but no matter whether it is a male musk deer or a female musk deer, there are no horns on its head. In some places, this animal is called musk deer. Why?There is a gland in the hind abdomen of the male musk deer, which secretes something called musk.

The musk deer is becoming more and more precious, because it is becoming rarer and rarer. It mainly lives in Tibet and Tibetan-inhabited areas such as Yun, Gui, and Sichuan bordering Tibet.Later, such animals also existed in some places such as Gansu and even Inner Mongolia.In the past, the use of musk was very cruel. First, the male musk deer was hunted down, and then the sachet was dug out from its abdomen to obtain the musk.You think, when a musk grows to adulthood, it has only one sachet and only one musk, so the final value of this musk is more expensive than gold.Later, I tried to artificially raise the musk deer, and improved the method of extracting musk, so that the male musk deer can continue to secrete after the first extraction, and then produce musk, and then extract it, which is better than the previous method, but later The quality of the musk taken out is generally not as good as that taken out for the first time.Now scientific research has fully figured out the chemical composition of musk, so there are artificial musks, which use artificial synthesis methods to produce things with the same or similar chemical composition.Musk is very rare, and it also has two characteristics, one is very fragrant, it has a strong and strange fragrance; second, it has medicinal value, the fragrance can enlighten people, and using musk as medicine can cure many diseases.Therefore, musk is a very precious thing.

Use musk mixed with some other materials, especially red dye, to make red musk strings, which become a very expensive and unique kind of counting beads.What is counting beads?It is a bead string, generally composed of eighteen beads.People who believe in Buddhism usually wear it on their wrists, hold it in their hands when chanting Buddha, say "Amitabha", twist a bead, and twist it in circles. This means devotion to the gods and Buddhas, so it is called a few beads.The word counting beads officially appeared in the book. At the end of the twenty-eighth chapter, Xiren reported to Jia Baoyu, and she said: "You are the same as Miss Bao. Miss Lin is the same as the second girl, the third girl, and the fourth girl." There are only fans and pearls, and everyone else is gone." Some "red fans" friends discussed with me, saying that Lin Daiyu and the others are different, there is no phoenix tail, no hibiscus bamboo mat, but Lin Daiyu also got the red musk string ?Because she doesn't have counting beads?But it doesn't look like it from the description in the book, because Xiren reported to Jia Baoyu that Daiyu, Ying, Tan, and Xi got the counting beads, and Jia Mu also got the counting beads. Mrs. Wang, Jia Zheng, and Aunt Xue were all Got it.Counting beads are a general term for wrist wearables. There are many materials for making counting beads, such as jade, jadeite, agate, pearl and sandalwood, etc. can be made into counting beads, but red musk strings are very special counting beads.A friend who collects antiques told me that he has seen many counting beads from the Qing Dynasty, but he has never seen a string of red musk beads. He believes that this may be a virtual thing that only exists in Cao Xueqin's artistic imagination .

Judging from the description in the book, only Xue Baochai and Jia Baoyu should have the red musk string.Because the second half of the twenty-eighth chapter is called "Xue Baochai's Shame Cage Red Musk Skewers", it would not be surprising if everyone has red musk strings, so it is Xue Baochai who has it most.After she had it, she didn't put it aside and refuse to wear it—Jia Baoyu didn't wear it, Jia Baoyu had it, but Jia Baoyu didn't wear it, and Jia Baoyu didn't even pick it up to take a closer look after she owned it—— Xue Baochai put it on, and when she put it on, she felt uncomfortable, and she was "ashamed".As a close reading of the text, these places are intriguing and worth pondering.

In the past, there was a saying about the marriage of young men and women, that is, an old man under the moon tied a red silk thread to the two, so the pair became a couple.The red musk string is similar to the red silk thread, which has the same metaphorical meaning, and it means to use it as a matchmaker to accomplish good things. Therefore, Jia Yuanchun expressed a clear and implicit meaning by awarding the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony, that is, for Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai. Refers to marriage.To put it clearly, the red musk string clearly has the metaphorical meaning pointed out above; to say it implicitly, because she did not make a clear decree after all, she wanted to "stop it" and let the elders in the family fulfill her wishes.

Jia Yuanchun was in the palace at the time, so he was obviously not able to participate in the draft. The emperor did not designate you to participate in the draft, so you could not intervene in government affairs without authorization. Therefore, she could only worry about whether Xue Baochai could be selected.But she should get the news about the results of the draft soon. For example, from the eunuch Xia Shouzhong, she can get accurate news that your cousin has lost the election and has no chance. Since there is no chance, let it be.What's more, when she returned to the Rongguo Mansion to visit her relatives, she cried and told her grandmother and mother that the imperial palace was "a place where people should not be seen", and she said to her father: "The farm house, although it is made of salt and cloth, can finally express the relationship between family and friends." Joy; although we are extremely rich and honorable today, we have all kinds of flesh and blood, but in the end there is no fun!" So she felt that through this Dragon Boat Festival ceremony, she would give Xue Baochai a comfort, and at the same time, she would send a message to Xue Baochai and the whole family, It’s just that this cousin is so good, since she was not selected in the draft, it doesn’t matter, she can still marry my beloved brother Baoyu as his wife, and, with this result, it may be more “interesting” than being selected into the palace.Therefore, in her gift, a red musk string was specially arranged to strengthen her intention of referring to marriage.In Rongguo Mansion, the core issue in family politics is Jia Baoyu's marriage.Although Jia Yuanchun's intentions are self-evident, Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue also readily accepted the "golden jade marriage", but what is Jia's mother's attitude?Does Jia's mother support the "marriage of gold and jade" or maintain the "marriage of wood and stone"?This is a very acute problem facing the Jia family.In the first half of the twenty-ninth chapter, Cao Xueqin wrote "Enjoy the blessings of the people and pray for them deeply", but if we read them carefully, we will find that the initiator of the ritual ceremony at Qingxu Temple is not actually Jiamu, and its purpose is also Not to pray for the further happiness of the blessed.So, what exactly does "enjoying blessings and praying deeply for blessings" mean?

Jia Yuanchun's instructions on making sacrifices at the Qingxu Temple were very clear, and Jia Yuanchun's intention to bestow festival ceremonies was also very clear, but there was one person in the mansion who pretended to be stupid, who was it?It's Mother Jia.Don't underestimate Mother Jia. Although she is old, she is very capable. Ten Wang Xifeng tied together can't beat her alone. In terms of family politics, Mother Jia is absolutely top-notch.Some people will say that there is family politics in politics?Politics, after all, is the distribution of power and interests. This problem exists in the country and society, and it also exists in the family.Who will the power and wealth of Rongguo Mansion belong to in the future?Baoyu is the first heir of Jia Zheng. Needless to say, if Baoyu marries Baochai as his wife, then it will be easier for the Wang sisters to control the Rongguo Mansion. value; but if Baoyu married Daiyu as his wife, the situation would be very different.So, what is Jia Mu's idea?You can see that Jia's mother has a very strange performance in the twenty-ninth chapter. First of all, she completely subverted Jia Yuanchun's instruction to go to Qingxu temple to make a sacrifice.Jia Yuanchun specially provided funds for the ritual ceremony, and she asked eunuch Xia to send one hundred and twenty taels of silver, which was earmarked for the ritual ceremony at the Qingxu Temple.Please note that the money came from the concubine Yuan, not from the Rongguo Mansion, let alone Jia Mu.What is the theme of the funeral?Concubine Yuan has very clear instructions to perform the Ping An Jiao, which is a religious ritual to pray for the dead and the undead to be peaceful in the underworld and not to come to the yang to hinder the living.As for Jia Mu, although she took over the business of offering sacrifices, she changed its theme, from praying for peace for the dead to "enjoying blessings and praying for blessings" for the living.Yuanchun also had special instructions for those who participated in the ceremony, asking Jia Zhen to take the men from the two mansions to burn incense and kneel to the Buddha, but Jia Mu didn't care about that. It became a carnival centered on herself.Originally, Jia Zhen was supposed to be the main body of this ceremony, and it was a large-scale event for all the men. As a result, Jia Zhen became a peripheral figure in logistics support. Except for Baoyu, all the men were sidelined.Do you think this mother Jia is great?And I have already said before, when is the point of offering sacrifices?It's the third day of May, did Mother Jia go there on the third day?She didn't care about that day, Jia Mu went there for a day on the first day of May, and then stopped.Because of Baoyu and Daiyu's quarrel, she cared about this matter, she cared about the emotions of these two people, she said that this is called "it's not friends who don't get together", unless she swallows this breath, she can't see it, she can't control it, otherwise As long as she lives, she will take care of it to the end.She's busy with it.Mother Jia understands that only if Jia Baoyu marries Lin Daiyu, the control of the Jia family will be in the hands of her and her trustworthy people during her lifetime, because I have already told you in the previous narration that from the perspective of the prototype, Lin Daiyu Jia’s blood relationship is the closest to Jia’s mother, and Baoyu, in theory, is her grandson, but in fact, Jia Zheng was adopted, so when Baoyu and Daiyu get married, even the marriage of close relatives may cause birth. There are no ills of a silly child. With such a combination, she will see the most trustworthy people in front of her eyes. It is a perfect marriage; and she has long seen that the two sisters of the Wang family hide evil intentions under the superficial flattery and docility towards her. Want to get more long-term control of the Jia family.So between them, you see, eating, drinking, gossiping, and so-and-so is often written in the book "because of laughter"-there are too many words in this series-the smile, if you think about it, often It's not funny, it's a manifestation of intrigue under the veil of tenderness in aristocratic families.

In the book, there is a very important point about the ritual ceremony at Qingxuguan, you must pay attention to it, that is, on the eve of the ritual ceremony at Qingxuguan, Mrs. Wang asked for leave, saying she was not feeling well, so she would not go.From the very beginning of the novel, Cao Xueqin wrote that Mrs. Wang was obedient in front of Jia Mu. In the society at that time, it was absolutely unavoidable for a daughter-in-law to take care of her mother-in-law. The description, including the description of Qin Keqing, was so seriously ill that she still had to go to Jia Zhen and Youshi's every morning and evening to calm down. Although Youshi said later that you are sick, you can stop coming, she still struggled as much as possible To abide by the courtesy of a daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law.It is also written in the novel that Mrs. Wang dared to take time to rest only after Jia Mu rested. She did not forget to ask the girl to ask Jia Mu if she woke up from her nap at any time.However, this time, Mrs. Wang asked for leave and refused to go to such an important event of Qingxu Contemplation and Ritual Offering.What to say, firstly, I feel uncomfortable, and secondly, I am waiting for someone from the imperial concubine Yuan to come to receive her.This is out of the ordinary, as abnormal as Xue Baochai's gaffe.

But Mother Jia didn't let her go, please pay attention to what Mother Jia ordered.Didn't Mrs. Wang take leave?In the twenty-ninth chapter, there is such an explanation: Mother Jia told Xue Baochai that Aunt Xue must go, and sent someone to invite Aunt Xue specially, "Tell Mrs. Wang on the way, and I want to take their sisters for a stroll." What is this? mean?Just to give Mrs. Wang one last chance.Of course Mrs. Wang still won't go.Are you not going?Well, it's good for your sister to go. In the lecture on Lin Daiyu, I have already analyzed it with everyone. When it came to Qingxu Temple, what Jiamu said to Taoist Zhang was actually for Aunt Xue. Mrs.These words show that in the matter of Jia Baoyu's marriage, no one should interfere, and Jia Yuanchun is no exception. In her heart, although she does not dislike Xue Baochai, in the matter of who Jia Baoyu marries as his wife In fact, she does not support "Golden and Jade Marriage", her balance is absolutely tilted towards "Wood and Stone Marriage", for "Wood and Stone Marriage", as long as she has one breath left, she will escort to the end.So, now you should know better why Xue Baochai is depressed.Ordinarily, the concubine in the palace wearing the yellow robe had already clearly expressed her intention to bring about a "golden and jade marriage". Her mother and Mrs. Wang must be very happy, but the old ancestor Jiamu was still alive, so she remained calm.After all, your Concubine Yuan is just an intention. You just expressed a wish by giving the ceremony, using the same share, and especially using red musk strings, but you didn't say it clearly. If you really make an edict, then my mother Jia can't help it, but Since you didn't make an edict, I just assume that you don't have that meaning.This is so interesting to write, so read it, it’s okay if you can’t read these flavors.

For a smart woman like Xue Baochai, she certainly knows the special meaning in the red musk string bestowed by the concubine Yuan. It is a combination of "golden and jade marriage", and it is also her greatest comfort after losing the draft. and the greatest guarantee of future happiness.However, although she wore the red musk string on her wrist, it was in a "shame cage" attitude. Why was she "ashamed"? It is written in the book that Xue Baochai was feeling depressed—she was very disappointed when she failed in the draft. Although Yuan Chun comforted her and suggested marriage, it was impossible for her to change her mood immediately.But Xue Baochai, we all know that she is a person who worships the concubine Yuan, a person who guides her behavior according to the basic norms of feudal ethics. It was worn on her wrist, so she thought about it, and if she didn't wear it disrespectfully, she still put it on. Even though she wore it, she felt unhappy in her heart, so she was a "shame cage".What is a "shame cage"?That is, after wearing it on the wrist, pinching a part of it in the hand, half-covering it.At this time, when she saw Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu together, she felt very uncomfortable. There is a line in the book: "Xue Baochai's mother and Mrs. Wang once mentioned that the golden lock was given by a monk. Only those who have jade in the future can marry each other." For marriage and other words, so it is always far away from Baoyu."

It turned out that she had a very high heart and wanted to enter the palace and the mansion, and to be with the royal family. She felt that there was no need to pursue Baoyu, and let Daiyu go with Baoyu. If not, at this juncture, Concubine Yuan expressed her willingness to assign her to Baoyu. This should be the best point of her life other than being selected in the draft. It is said that she should be very pleased.But Baochai is a dignified and reserved person after all, and losing in the draft will be a great blow to her self-esteem, so there is a saying in the book that she "becomes more and more boring in my heart".What is "more and more"?That is to say, I already thought it was boring, and if it was boring again, it would be even more boring.The first meaningless one is that she originally thought that Dai Yu might be the emperor, at least the prince. With such good conditions, she should be glamorous and crowned in the talent show, but she just failed the selection. Interesting or not?boring!So at this time, Yuan Chun came to express his intention to marry, although it was indeed to give comfort, to her it became being pitied, which was equivalent to saying that Yuan Chun was looking for love for her, that is to say, if this is the case, you should marry my brother.When Baoyu went to Lixiangyuan to visit her, the two of them exchanged accessories—Baoyu is a psychic jade, she is a golden lock—comparing the chiseled characters on the jade and the lock, Yinger beside him couldn’t help but say: They were a "couple", and there was a prophecy from the monk with a scarlet head. At that time, she cut off Ying'er's conversation and told her not to speak.She was not shy at that time, she was gentle and humble on the surface, but in her heart she was still proud and arrogant. At that time, she didn't have the idea of ​​"the next best thing", and she didn't fall in love with Baoyu, but she had more intimate contact with Baoyu later. Of course, the relationship is not normal, but she can see that Baoyu is in love with Daiyu, so she has no idea or practice of seizing love.Unexpectedly, as soon as she failed in the draft, Yuan Chun immediately came to propose a marriage, and her mother and aunt pushed her to the forefront, which not only made her suspected of seizing Daiyu's love, but also made her have to surpass her ancestor Jia Mu This huge obstacle, so in this case, she felt more and more boring.This is also the complicated psychological state when she shamed the red musk. Although Xue Baochai is "shamed", Jia Baoyu has sharp eyes, and when he meets her, he sees her at a glance, thus forming the important plot in the second half of the twenty-eighth chapter. In fact, Jia Baoyu himself got the red musk musk skewers. It is said that after getting the red musk musk skewers, he should be very happy. Even if he doesn't want to wear them, he can always pick them up and take a closer look and smell them, right?He didn't even do such a thing. He heard Xiren report to him that he had taken back the gift from Jiamu's house, including the red musk string. What was he thinking at that time?He hurriedly asked Xiren, what did Sister Lin get?Hearing that Sister Lin got less gift than him, he immediately asked the girl to take all the things he got, including red musk musk skewers, to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion for Sister Lin to choose.Sister Lin's character, you can imagine, she gave them all back, saying that I can get it too, no.Everyone can recall that when Sister Lin saw her father after returning to the capital from Suzhou, he presented a bead string to Lin Daiyu, which is a bead string. This bead string is the same as the red musk string. It is very difficult to find out in the literature, it is probably Cao Xueqin's artistic imagination, which is a clever fabrication to portray the characters and deepen the connotation of the work.That time Lin Daiyu didn't take it seriously at all, he said: This is from the emperor!Lin Daiyu said contemptuously: "What kind of stinky man has worn it!"She really regards the royal family as dung, she doesn't want the ones worn by "stinky men", but can she want the ones worn by "stinky women"?This is Lin Daiyu.The girl had no choice but to take all the things she took back to Yihong Courtyard. After bringing them back, Baoyu probably didn't even glance at them. At that time, he was full of thoughts about this matter, and he was not happy——Why did Sister Lin get so different from me? The same, but sister Bao got the same as me?Because of this, Baoyu obviously had this red musk skewer, but he never picked it up to look at it. After seeing Xue Baochai wearing it by chance, after all, he was still a man transitioning from a boy to a young man. He couldn't restrain his love for beauty, so he just wanted to see it, especially Baochai's "shame cage" posture at that time, which was half-covered, which made him even more curious, so he asked Baochai to take it off her wrist to show him .At this time, Xue Baochai wanted to take it off to show him, but she was rather plump, not a skinny beauty. The red musk string was made of eighteen beads, and it was the first time she wore it. It must be tight, so it was not easy to take it off.At this time, Cao Xueqin wrote about Jia Baoyu's sexual psychology. Baoyu felt that Xue Baochai's snow-white crisp arms were very attractive, so he moved his mind, "If this arm grows on Sister Lin, or you have to touch it, it grows on him." body." This writing is very reasonable, which not only shows that Jia Baoyu is a healthy man, he has a normal sexual psychology, and has such physical needs for sex, but he also has moral control over himself, which shows that he really only loves Lin Daiyu. A thing of self-restraint exists.Xue Baochai saw that I had already faded away, why didn't you pick it up, why were you in a daze?Just lost the beads.So in the novel, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai each threw a string of beads, Lin Daiyu threw the string of beads, and Xue Baochai threw the string of red musk musk. The two strings of beads brought two characters to life, which is really interesting. Next, I wrote that Lin Daiyu happened to come over, and there were a lot of psychological conflicts and frictions between the three of them, so I won't go into details.In short, Xue Baochai was really suffering during the period before the Dragon Boat Festival.Lin Daiyu said that "the wind, the sword, the frost, and the sword force each other hard." In fact, a woman like Xue Baochai can't really control her own destiny. She also has a very sad side. Think about it for her. Under the circumstances at that time, How many kinds of unhappiness gathered before her eyes? Xue Baochai had to sort out her thoughts in such a situation, what should she do?Everyone should also think about her, what should she do?The draft failed, Concubine Yuan expressed her intention to marry her, but Mother Jia refused to accept Concubine Yuan's proposal, her mother must be very worried, and Mrs. Wang was also secretly worried. What should she do when the situation has developed to this extent? Cao Xueqin is very smart in his writing. After the big waves happened, he calmed down the waves gradually, because one piece of one relaxes, the way of civil and martial arts, and writing novels is the same. After a climax, you have to have some ups and downs, you have to have different peaks Prominence, and then you have to have a trough, and then push to another set of plots to form a new climax.Cao Xueqin controls the flow of the plot in his pen very skillfully. He writes some things clearly, but at the same time, he writes many things implicitly. In this place, I must point out to everyone that he wrote about the emotional entanglements of Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai. The love story of three people, Dai, Chai.Because if you want to talk about love, the love between Xiaohong and Jia Yun is written in the twentieth chapter of it, and they are all included in the book.Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu's reading together under the peach blossom tree is of course very touching, and it is also a very bold act of love. As for "Idiot Daughter's Papa Lovesickness", it is of a higher level.He wrote that when Xiaohong approached Jia Yun, she stared at Jia Yun twice with dead eyes. Think about it, what is "dead eyes"?That was Daiyu's impossible way of looking at people, let alone looking at a person of the opposite sex!Therefore, there are many love stories written in the book, more than one kind of love story.What's more, it not only writes about love, it also writes about family politics, many scenes of life, and even a political story of "Double Hanging Sun and Moon Shining on the Universe", so it must be fully understood.What do I mean by this?I hope you put the emotional entanglements between Xue Baochai, Jia Baoyu, and Lin Daiyu under a grand background to observe, so that the observation will be more in place, more interesting, and more appropriate. According to a comment from Zhiyanzhai, we can judge that by the thirty-sixth chapter, it is exactly one-third of the whole book, and by the thirty-eighth chapter, there is still more than one-third of the book.If you look through it carefully, you will find that the emotional entanglements between Bao, Dai, and Chai are mainly concentrated in chapters 19 to 40. Of course, Cao Xueqin also wrote many other things around this time. , the writing is intricate and complicated, and the patterns embroidered are not simple, but colorful. Therefore, when we read, we must know how to read the subtext below its explicit text, or read the hidden writing behind its explicit writing.After he wrote Xue Baochai's gaffe, he gradually wrote about Xue Baochai's self-adjustment. We should pay attention to such words. First of all, Xue Baochai realized more deeply that in Jia's mansion, the internal affairs of the family, in the final analysis, are decided by Jia's mother, so he must continue to win over Jia's mother.She knew how to please Jia Mu very early on. Not long after the novel started, it was written that she celebrated her first birthday in Rongguo Mansion, and Jia Mu offered twenty taels of money to celebrate her birthday.Some readers misunderstood, saying that Jia Mu must have taken a fancy to Xue Baochai. I didn't hear that Jia Mu contributed money for Lin Daiyu's birthday!But Cao Xueqin was afraid that you might misunderstand, so he wrote Wang Xifeng's funny words, what did Wang Xifeng say? "Baba found out this rotten twenty taels of silver to be the host,?? This guy who sells wine is a joke?" In fact, Mother Jia was just being polite, because at that time Aunt Xue brought Xue Baochai and the others to live in Rongguo Mansion. Not long ago, she was a very close relative, Baochai, a daughter, good-looking and good-natured, it was the first time she celebrated her birthday at her aunt's house, and her ancestors donated twenty taels of silver.Cao Xueqin told us jokingly through Wang Xifeng that twenty taels is a very small meaning, is it enough for wine?Still enough drama?Understand?Therefore, it cannot be considered that the presence of such plots in the book proves that Jia Mu seems to have a higher valuation and opinion of Xue Baochai than Lin Daiyu, which is not enough to explain, and cannot be explained. Xue Baochai herself was very well-behaved, so Mother Jia asked her what she wanted to eat?What play do you want to hear?She knew that old people like Jia Mu liked to eat sweets and rotten things, and they liked to listen to lively dramas when watching plays, so she said it according to what Jia Mu liked.When Jia Mu heard it, she was very sensible, liked it very much, and was very happy.However, Xue Baochai understood through the later incident of Qingxu Guan's marriage ceremony that Jia's mother was not easy to deal with, and Jiang was old and hot, so he felt that it was not enough to just flatter her, and more and more ingenious methods had to be adopted. In the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth chapters, Xue Baochai's method of exchanging Jiamu's favor is secretly written in the book.any solution?That is, the Poetry Club was established in the Grand View Garden, beginning with the Begonia Club. After reciting the Begonia flowers, it happened to be autumn and it was time to appreciate the chrysanthemums. At this time, Shi Xiangyun came back to Rongguo Mansion and lived in Hengwuyuan, where he lived with Xue Baochai. At the same time, Shi Xiangyun wanted to host an event, enjoy chrysanthemums, and write chrysanthemum poems.But what about Shi Xiangyun's economic situation?Is there any description in the book?There are some words in the book that are neither written explicitly nor implicitly, but should be called profiling, pointing out Shi Xiangyun's situation, she actually has a very difficult side.Although the Shi family was relatively powerful at the time, the two brothers of the Shi family were both knighted, one was the Marquis of Zhongjing and the other was the Marquis of Baoling, but neither of these two Marquises was her father, and both of her own parents died. All her uncles.She lives in these two families in turn, and it can't be said that these two families treat her badly, her own niece and daughter; but after all, she is not her biological daughter, her aunts are more harsh to her, and the aunts in these two places live very poorly. In order to save money, the girl in the family does all the embroidery work, and a high share of needlework is assigned to her. She often does it very late, can't sleep well, and her neck is sore.This is a very sad side of Shi Xiangyun. Of course, living in such a mansion, she has the status of a young lady, and the mansion will give her some pocket money.Look at the description in it, the ladies in the Rongguo Mansion, all the way to the little girl, have a share every month, and some have a higher share, for example, the ladies are two taels of silver, and Jiamu’s eldest girl is one tael. Silver, there are five hundred coins.Of course Shi Xiangyun also has some pocket money, but if you think about her situation, can she have a lot of money?She doesn't. But when she got interested, she talked about admiring chrysanthemums and composing chrysanthemum poems, and wanted to be the host.At this time, Cao Xueqin wrote that Xue Baochai was extremely smart. He didn't explicitly write how Xue Baochai wanted to win over Jia Mu, but he secretly wrote that Xue Baochai gave Shi Xiangyun an idea, saying, "It's better to be your host, or your treat, and then we will eat crabs and reward Jiamu." Chrysanthemums", she said that she knew in the mansion, "from the old lady to the bottom, more than half of the people like to eat crabs".For Xue Baochai, crabs don’t need to be bought with money. Although her father passed away, and her elder brother is a poor quality existence, Xue’s family still has a farmland, a pawn shop, and a buddy. rich.There is a guy in their pawn shop, whose home is in the farm, and there are a lot of big and fat crabs raised in the rice fields. Through her brother, she can pull a few baskets and prepare some fruit dishes to serve with wine. Isn't it all right?For Xue Baochai, if she talks to her brother, if her brother has prepared all these things, the matter will be done; , These are all ready-made, there is no need to spend money specially, and there is no need for Shi Xiangyun to pay money.Such an invitation will make everyone from Jiamu to the whole mansion very happy, and there will be many descriptions of everyone's very happy later.You see, Xue Baochai is really scheming. On the surface, this is Shi Xiangyun's host. Everyone should thank Shi Xiangyun, but Shi Xiangyun's money is not an "economic secret" in Rongguo Mansion. Everyone knows it, even Xiren has said it. How she was at home; when she came to Rongguo Mansion from home, she brought some rings to the girls, all of which were relatively cheap crimson stone rings. Although the gift was light, the affection was very heavy, and the girls all knew this.So in the end, Mother Jia will definitely know that it was actually Xue Baochai who organized the crab-eating and chrysanthemum-appreciating event in the fall, and in her heart, she must be given extra points.In fact, Mother Jia was indeed very happy that day.Therefore, Xue Baochai first came to skillfully adjust the relationship between himself and Jia Mu. Xue Baochai understood that it was not the peers involved in the marriage that ultimately decided her marriage. The decision was neither in Baoyu nor Daiyu's hands, but only in the parents' hands.Therefore, in the process of the novel's plot flowing down, she quickly overcomes her abnormalities and gaffes, and returns to her inherent character, showing her tenderness, elegance, and modesty. "You have to be careful!" Of course, this kind of stern expression is completely gone.After she determined to achieve the goal of "golden jade marriage" in Rongguo Mansion, she actively and skillfully adjusted the interpersonal relationship, focused on pleasing Jia's mother, and waited for the harvest.In this way, Cao Xueqin wrote a real lady in a feudal society who wants to abide by the code of ethics, but also has some human elements that are difficult to completely suppress in her nature, such as sense of loss, self-esteem, competitive heart, etc. Such a lady.This is what we can radiate from the red musk string and realize some of the content. Someone will ask such a question: You have been talking for a long time, but you still analyze Xue Baochai more from a rational perspective. However, does she have a soul vibration for Jia Baoyu that comes from the depths of human nature, is purely emotional, and belongs to a level beyond reason?To put it bluntly, regardless of utilitarianism, does she love Jia Baoyu?If it is said that she loves Jia Baoyu, how many outstanding performances have there been in Cao Xueqin's Eighty Chapters?Personally I think twice, how many times do you think?As for which two times?Let's discuss it together next time.