In "Dream of the Red Chamber", the whereabouts of Lin Daiyu's family's inheritance have always been disputed, and everyone is generally more convinced that Jia Lian has given this inheritance and shared the loot with Wang Xifeng. Tu Ying, a Qing dynasty, also thought so, and also specially put evidence and reasoning in the "Dream of the Red Chamber" to show the fact that Jia Lian and his wife stole the Lin family's inheritance.
Or ask: "Lin Daiyu's millions of family assets are all returned to the Jia clan, and there are Ming Zheng and?" "Yes." When Jia Lian was in a hurry, he hated where to send another two or three million silver wealth, and he knew the word "again". Fu again, the name of the second also. There is no one, and why is it again? --Tu Ying
As soon as this theory came out, it became the consensus of the Lin family's inheritance, and in the past hundred years, there have been many red scholars who believed in this evidence, but they ignored the most important point, that is, the situation in which Jia Lian made this complaint at that time. Let's go back to the seventy-second time in the book to see under what circumstances Jia Lian said, "Send two or three million fortunes."
Jia Lian said, "Yesterday, when eunuch Zhou came, he opened his mouth for a thousand taels." I slowed down a little, and he got uncomfortable. There will be many places to offend people in the future. This will make another three or two million fortunes, and it will be good. ---------------------
Attention to the officials, at that time, it was the eunuchs in the palace who came to ask for silver, and Jia Lian lamented that there were too many outsiders, so he made this remark. So where did the silver to send these eunuchs come from? It is certain that with the greedy nature of Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian, they would never be able to pay their own pockets to do such a thankless thing, so the one thousand and two given to the Zhou eunuchs must be from the Jia officials, and at present, the family's livelihood is tight, Jia Lian sighed that "another three or two million fortunes" is aimed at the officials, not himself!
This alone can prove that the inheritance of the Lin Daiyu family was not embezzled by Jia Lian and his wife, and even if they took ten thousand steps back, Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian did not dare to secretly obscure the lin Daiyu family's family property, because this move was too risky, on the one hand, Lin Daiyu herself had eyes and mouths, and if she saw Jia Mu or said the family property, Wang Xifeng, the housekeeper, could not do it, and Jia Mu was not a confused person, the reason why she was willing to let Wang Xifeng be the housekeeper of rong mansion was because she could effectively supervise Wang Xifeng's every move, And Wang Xifeng withheld monthly money and put up usurious loans. As well as letting the Mandarin Duck steal a few boxes of gold to sell for money, these Jia Mu know that her old man just chooses to open one eye, more than one eye.
Therefore, with Wang Xifeng's shrewdness, she decided that she would not do such a stupid act!
So where did the inheritance of the Lin Daiyu family go? There are many details in the book that prove that the money was deposited in jiamu's hands. First of all, in the twenty-fifth "Evil Magic Uncle and Sister-in-Law Feng Five Ghosts", Wang Xifeng's words of teasing Lin Daiyu proved the existence of Lin Daiyu's family property.
Sister Feng pointed at Bao Yu and smiled, "You see, the characters and the door are not worthy, or the foundation is not worthy?" Doesn't look worthy? Or is furniture unworthy? Which point insults whom? Lin Daiyu got up to leave. - Twenty-fifth time
Wang Xifeng's words "furniture is not worthy" is equivalent to telling us from the side that the assets of lin daiyu's family are still quite abundant, even comparable to Jia Fu, before we analyzed the inheritance system of the Qing Dynasty, we also mentioned that Lin Jia Lin Ruhai belonged to the state of extinction after his death, under this condition, Lin Daiyu absolutely has the right to inherit, so Lin Daiyu must have brought family assets when he returned to Jia Province, which will not be repeated here.
And why Lin Daiyu's assets may be in Jia Mu's place is mainly based on several details in the book. First watch the twenty-sixth time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jiahui went to send tea to Lin Daiyu, just in time for the old lady to send Lin Daiyu monthly money, so she grabbed two handfuls for Jiahui.
Jia Hui listened, ran in and sat down on the bed, laughing: "I am so creative!" Just washing things in the courtyard, Baoyu asked to send tea to Aunt Lin, and Sister Hua handed it to me to send. But it happened that the old lady sent money to Aunt Lin and distributed it to their servants. Seeing that I had gone, Aunt Lin grabbed two for me. -Twenty-sixth time
From here, we can see that Lin Daiyu's monthly money distribution process is different from other sisters, other sisters are directly given by Wang Xifeng, the housekeeper, but Lin Daiyu is Jia's mother's own distribution, which means that it is thought-provoking.
Chen Dakang, an expert in red studies, once discussed this in detail in "The Mystery of Lin Daiyu's Family Property", he believes: "Jia Mu has a special amount of money there, and Lin Daiyu's 'daily fee supply' is spent from it, which seems to have the meaning of special funds!" ”
By the fifty-fifth time, Wang Xifeng's estimate of the cost of Bao Dai's marriage once again verified this:
Sister Feng smiled and said, "I am also worried about this, and it is enough to get there: Baoyu and Sister Lin, he marries one by one, he can make no money in the official, the old lady has her own ladder to take it out." --Fifty-fifth time
Although the marriage of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu has not yet been made clear at this time, but the people in the government are tacit, so Wang Xifeng dares to secretly plan in his heart, Wang Xifeng's sentence "The old lady has her own ladder to take it out" can be described as a huge amount of information. How clever Wang Xifeng was, since she dared to plan, it showed that she believed that Jia Mu would definitely pay money, and then there would be no need to spend money among the officials of Jia Province, why? Because the Lin family's inheritance is all in Jia Mu's place, it is natural to use this money to do marriage for Lin Daiyu!
Of course, there are also red scholars who believe that Lin Daiyu's assets were placed in Jia Mu's place, but they were divided into two, one part of which was used to issue daily monthly money and dowries to Lin Daiyu, and the other part was used when preparing for the construction of the Grand View Garden, after all, Lin Daiyu joined the Jia Province, and the assets became the assets of the Jia House, and the construction of the Grand View Garden was only used in advance. However, this inference is too subjective and suspicious, so it will not be elaborated here. Readers have their own views on the whereabouts of the Lin family's assets, and welcome comments and exchanges.
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