Chapter 49 The Ninth Floor "Red Mansion" Authentic Version (5)

The Aftermath of Xiangyun and Others Dai, Chai, and Xiang are the three main girls related to Baoyu's ending. How will Cao Xueqin write about them after eighty chapters?For a long time, our minds have often been constrained by the framework of Gao E's sequel, thinking that it "should" be like that, and we are unwilling to think about the series of problems that exist here.It is relatively easy to see the problem of Zhong Daiyu, but it is not so easy for Baochai to speculate on imagination.But the most problematic is the Xiangyun issue, and the researchers have the most divergent opinions on it. Even if they want to try to talk about it, it is the most difficult to be caught off guard.Even so, some deduction should be tried in the end.Deduction is not necessarily correct, but when the research problem is "stuck", it is often quite necessary for someone to give a clue and make some introduction.Because it can be led from incomplete to close to right, it is better than all blank.

When trying to test Xiangyun, the situation is different from that of Dai and Chai. The most difficult thing is that there are too few clues, and we can hardly "grasp" any basis for finding out.But one thing is very clear: a typical character in the first 80 chapters is so heavily written, it will never be like Gao E's writing, with no echo, a few words "brought over", even if it is "attributed" to her.Her accident and status in the second half is obviously extremely important. When writing Xiangyun in the first 80 chapters, there are several characteristics, which should be paid attention to first.

One is to write about her first appearance, which is not at all different from the close-up of how Chai and Dai each entered the mansion, but the family suddenly reported: "Miss Shi is here." At that time Baoyu was playing with Baochai. ——This is already the twentieth time late! The second is that after Xiangyun came, it immediately caused Bao and Dai's quarrel, and even led to the plot of listening to the song and comprehending the Zen machine-"Naked to come and go without any care", all the way to "letting go on the cliff" and other plots. The third is that after she came, she immediately aroused the unhappiness of the attackers, and immediately "admonished" Baoyu. ——It can be said that it went straight to the Grand View Garden.

Fourth, in the two major events related to Yuanchun and related to marriage proposals, "returning to the province" and "fighting for sacrifices", Xiangyun did not appear on the scene; Here we come." Twice exactly the same.After the second Dragon Boat Festival appearance, I immediately wrote that Xiangyun had been "watched" and congratulated her, and immediately wrote a large close-up of "On Yin and Yang" and "Picking up Kirin". The fifth is important poetry clubs, such as chrysanthemum poems and catkin poems. Although they are in the Grand View Garden, they are all caused or hosted by Xiangyun, such as Yami and Jiuling.What is particularly noticeable is that the important scene of the Mid-Autumn Night Lian Chan at the final gathering near the end of the first half, but everyone has dispersed and gone to sleep, and only she and Daiyu (Miaoyu rarely joins in) come to the end .

The sixth is to cut the fishy smell, with her and Baoyu as the protagonists. (Daiyu jokingly said: "Where can I find this group of flowers!" It is not a general language, which means that Bao and Xiang will become beggars later.) As long as we look at the above lines, we can't feel nothing and think that an important image that the author has deliberately arranged and focused on will lose all effect and color after eighty chapters-even the face will no longer be shown, just I heard that the married man is sick, and it's hard to see him well. Jia's mother can't come when she is dying, so that's it. ——Does this look like it?

If readers are like me and feel a little different, then they should come to speculate on her second half of the plot. The general opinion is that there is one article in the "Zhipi" that is related to Xiangyun's later life.It is the general comment after the thirty-first chapter: The unicorn worn by Ruolan in Shepu dozens of times later is exactly the same unicorn.The outline lies in this chapter, the so-called grass snake gray line is thousands of miles away. The researchers then thought: This is the evidence that Xiangyun later married the noble son Wei Ruolan.And think: this unicorn obtained by Baoyu later came to Ruolan's waist, just like the "Xianxiangluo" incident, implying that it played a role, leading the thread.Some imagined it more carefully, thinking that Jia Zhen set up a shooting garden and Baoyu was one of the participants. Later, when he met Ruolan and was invited to a shooting competition, Baoyu bet on the unicorn and lost to Ruolanyun.

Thinking this way is not out of mind.But I still beg to differ. What do you say?If that was the case, then Cao Xueqin spent a lot of effort to circle a circle as big as that, just to explain that Xiangyun (a betrothed who had already been engaged and was loved by human beings) married Wei Ruo Lan—hasn't Cao Xueqin become a big fool?Besides, what does this mean, what is the significance at all?Cao Xueqin's imaginative brushwork is indeed surprisingly meticulous and ingenious, but why does it make people feel a little self-defeating, deliberately going around in circles, and wasting unnecessary pen and ink?So I don't believe it's such a simple and superficial thing.He will not write the same text as "Xianxiangluo".

"Zhipi" brought up Ruolan, and Xiangyun had a certain relationship with him, so it shouldn't be wrong.But it should also be noted that the reason why Baoyu paid attention to the "male" unicorn at first was because Baochai said "Sister Shi has such a one".Moreover, it came to Daiyu's mind again—— Recently, according to the unofficial history that Baoyu has obtained, most of the talented men and beautiful women are matched by small toys, or there are mandarin ducks, or phoenixes, or jade rings and gold pendants, or scorpion sash.Now I suddenly see that Baoyu also has a unicorn, so I am afraid that there will be a gap, and Shi Xiangyun will also do that romantic deed.

We all know very well that Cao Xueqin's brushwork does not always have idle words, and each has its own effect.If this is just to explain the problem of "marrying" Ruolan, how can he forcefully put such a special pen here? It should also be noted that Baoyu cherishes the same life as the unicorn, let's see what he said: Instead, Yin Ping was lost.I'll die if I lose this! (At this moment, the attacker delivered tea and said, "Miss, you were overjoyed to hear that!" Shi Xiangyun blushed, and did not answer after drinking tea.) All kinds of strokes are not random and casual. ——Is there any similarity between this and Hanjinzi and Qianxiangluo?If it was just something related to Wei Ruolan, why did Baoyu kill him like that?

In fact, Baoyu and Xiangyun asked and answered each other, and the dialogue between Yin and Lin was at the same time "following the line for thousands of miles". How did Baoyu's unicorn reach Ruolan's waist?He would never use this thing as a bet for games and adventures.The "little loss" in the garden was a fake loss, and it was used as a lead for him to lose it later. He really lost this treasured and secret weapon, and Wei Ruolan picked it up by accident. Whose thing. Press the unicorn does not watch.You can talk about Xiangyun again.Eighty chapters later, Mrs. Wang first ordered Baoyu to move out of the garden, the grand event disintegrated, and the people in the garden were scattered, and the Grand View Garden first became a desolate and lonely place.Then the Jia family was defeated.Just as Menzi said in the fourth round of "protecting officials", the four major families of Jia, Shi, Xue, and Wang are closely related to success or failure, and historians also fell into defeat.At the same time when the family property is confiscated, the immigrant woman, for example, must enter the official position, or be assigned to the noble family as a slave, or sold to someone else as a maidservant.At this time, Shi Xiangyun said that the congratulatory marriage that the former "didn't answer" had already changed and became a lie①, and the unmarried girls were within the range of being dealt with by the government (for those who became monks, those who were married, those who died early, were spared this fate).

At this point, let me take a moment and ask readers to take a look at the situation after Li Xu (the historian may have borrowed some material from his family's artistic creation) was defeated. On October 16, the second year of Yongzheng, the minister in charge of the House of Internal Affairs made a memorial, which said: The quasi-governor Zha Bina wrote: Li Xu’s family and his servant Qian Zhongying and other men and women, boys and girls, a total of more than 200 names, have been sold in Suzhou, and it will be a year so far. People, no one dares to buy.Those who should be kept for interrogation will be temporarily interrogated, and the rest of the records will be sent to the Yamen of the Office of the Chief of Internal Affairs. How to deal with it, there is a record of the record, and it is ordered: according to the proposal, hereby.After sending Jiangnan director Tongzhi and E to send them here.Equal cause.When Jingchen's office found out, excluding the man, woman and young girl who died on the way, a total of 227 people were sent, including ten women and children of Li Xu. Two hundred and seventeen servants were handed over to the Chongwenmen supervisor for fifty-one grades.He waited for the interrogation of Qian Zhongshui and other eight people. After the trial, he would also be handed over to Chongwenmen for a change of rank.Equal cause.For this purpose, please write a decree.