Chapter 14 Why does Baoyu drink water?

This is a small episode in version collation.In the eighth chapter, Baoyu drank in Lixiangyuan, and the script was roughly the same.The 1791 edition of Cheng Paijia and the new edition of the Writer's Publishing House in 1953 are cited as examples, and the original edition is used as a reference.It is stated above: Baoyu has passed three cups. Later, Aunt Xue said, "Auntie will accompany you to have two cups, but just eat."But Baoyu didn't eat.The main text is this: Fortunately, Aunt Xue coaxed him a lot, and only allowed him to have a few cups, and then hurriedly took it away.After making sour bamboo shoot and chicken skin soup, Baoyu drank a few bowls bitterly, and ate half a bowl of Japonica porridge.For a while, Xue and Lin also finished their meal, and drank several bowls of tea vigorously.

This is very strange.Let's do the math for Baoyu.The above said "three cups have passed", and then I didn't know how many minutes I drank.According to the previous citation, at the end I ate a few glasses of wine, drank a few bowls of sour bamboo shoot and chicken skin soup, ate more than half a bowl of green rice porridge, and drank a few bowls of tea, totaling more than a dozen bowls. Come on, it's more than Lu Tong's seven bowls of tea.Why does he always drink like this?It is incomprehensible.There is a little less in the original version, probably because he drank too much.Recorded text:

Fortunately, Aunt Xue coaxed him a lot, and only allowed him to have a few cups, and then hurriedly took it away.To make sour bamboo shoot and duck skin soup, Baoyu ate two bowls and ate half a bowl of green rice porridge.At that moment, Xue and Lin also finished their meal, and tea was served again, and everyone ate. Such as sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup (it’s ridiculous to have an original version of duck skin), Cheng Benjin’s original version is "drinking a few bowls", and there is an original version as "two bowls"; "Half a bowl of porridge" is "half a bowl of porridge", " Drink a few bowls of tea" as "everyone ate", don't remember the number.Compared with these places, it is true that a lot has been subtracted, but there are still enough.

Looking at it from top to bottom, left to right, it's even more strange.On the eighth time when Baoyu went to Lixiangyuan, Aunt Xue ordered someone to make tea as soon as she entered the door. Later, Baochai asked Yinger to pour tea and scolded her for not pouring tea. It can be seen that Baoyu always drank tea first.Looking at the following, Qianxue brought tea and drank half a cup, but he went back to his room to drink tea again.Nanny Li said, "Even if you drink a pot", does he really want to drink a pot?Why don't you eat dry rice? If it is said that Baoyu is raised delicately and eats less food, but it should not be more delicate than the weak beauty who eats less.It is recorded in the book that Chai and Dai had eaten and said:

Xue and Lin also finished their meal. Then, Baoyu's not eating dry food is obviously a omission in various books.The solution is very simple, let him eat something dry and it will end.The text of Yinzhi Yanzhai Jiaxuji's Mao edition: I ate half a bowl of rice porridge. Gengchen is originally the same, and the two words of marginal note were added by later generations, written in brackets: I ate half a bowl of rice (combined with some) green rice porridge. In our opinion, the word "饭" shouldn't be deleted anyway, so why should the word "饭" be deleted?The reason for this can be imagined from Shangyin Geng.They probably think that "Half Bowl of Rice Porridge" has a bad style, so they may add the word "hexie" as Gengben, or simply delete the word "Fan" to become "Half Bowl of Rice Porridge"; or simply delete the word "Fan". Keep the trace of the word Duo below, and become "half a bowl of Duobi Japonica porridge".This is all because of the lack of new punctuation.

Let's see now: I ate half a bowl of rice and green rice porridge. There is no problem.Xueqin didn't stop at the beginning, so she made a joke.But this joke has been around for two hundred years, and people rarely hear it, so it's good luck.If you want to call it its misfortune, it is naturally up to you.