Author: Qing Zhi
The fifth time in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Baoyu dreamed of too illusory, saw a plaque with "Bo Mingsi" written on it, and then went in to take a look. In the "Thin Life Division", there is a seal on the kitchen that reads "Jinling Twelve Noble Books", which contains a sentence that implies the life of the twelve women.
According to the interpretation, we know that these twelve people are: Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochao, Jia Yuanchun, Jia Tanchun, Shi Xiangyun, Miao Yu, Jia Yingchun, Jia Xichun, Wang Xifeng, Qiao Jie, Li Feng, and Qin Keqing. In addition to these twelve people, in the "Jinling Twelve Plates Supplementary Album" and "Jinling Twelve Plates and Supplementary Albums", there are also the judgments of Xiangling, Qingwen, and Raider.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", the author has created the image of many women, in addition to the fifteen people listed in the "Twelve Nobles of Jinling", in fact, there is another person whose life has not escaped the word "thin life".
In the "Twelve Books of Jinling", only one person's sentence is written, this person is Xiangling (formerly known as Zhen Yinglian), in fact, in addition to Yinglian, her mother Fengshi is also a thin-lived woman.
(1) How unfortunate is fengshi?
Feng Shi, Zhen Shiyin's wife, she appeared in the first time in "Dream of the Red Chamber", the book said that she was "virtuous in temperament and deep in righteousness", which shows that Feng Shi is a very indifferent and gentle woman. Husband Zhen Shiyin is a local squire, the family is well-off, the husband and wife have a harmonious relationship, although there is no child under the knee, but there is a lovely daughter, the husband and wife named the daughter "Zhen Yinglian", the two regard the daughter as a treasure, the family is very happy.
However, what Feng Shi did not expect was that her happy life had ceased to exist since the Lantern Festival of that year.
That year's Lantern Festival, Huo Qi, a servant of the Zhen family, took Xiao Yinglian to see the flower lanterns, and Huo Qi went to Xiao Xie halfway through, so he put Yinglian on the threshold of the family and sat down. However, when Huo Qixiao returned from solving, he found that Yinglian had disappeared. Huo Qi searched unsuccessfully, fearing that Zhen Shiyin and his wife would blame him, and fled overnight. When Zhen Shiyin and his wife saw that their daughter had not returned overnight, they knew that something was not good, and they sent someone to look for it, but in the end they could not find it. Middle-aged to get this woman's Fengshi, can not find the daughter, can only cry day and night, and even almost look for death, thinking of the female disease of the Fengshi eventually a serious illness, every day to seek medical treatment.
However, the misfortune did not stop there, shortly after the disappearance of her daughter Yinglian, the gourd temple next to the Zhen mansion caught fire, causing the Zhen mansion to be burned into a rubble field. Although the fire did not harm the lives of Zhen Shiyin and his wife and other underlings, the house was destroyed and could no longer be inhabited. Therefore, Zhen Shiyin and Feng Shi decided to move to the farm to settle down. Unexpectedly, at the time when the drought was not harvested, rat thieves were swarming, and the people were uneasy, in desperation, Zhen Shiyin had no choice but to change the farmstead and take his wife Feng Shi to his father-in-law Fengsu.
However, for the Feng clan who returned to her mother's home, she was greeted not by the warmth of home and the pity of her father, but by her father's deception and white eyes. Father Fengsu was not welcome to the arrival of his daughter and son-in-law, and when he saw that his son-in-law still had some silver in his hands, he deceived himself with half coaxing and half earning. Zhen Shiyin and Feng Shi barely supported for a year or two, and became more and more poor. Feng Shi, who once lived a solid life, now lives a day worse than a day.
If there is anything that the Feng clan can rely on at this time, it may only be his husband Zhen Shiyin. At this time, although Zhen Shiyin was getting poorer and poorer, after all, the love between husband and wife was still there, and although the life of the Feng clan was difficult, there were still people to accompany him. However, unexpectedly, Zhen Shiyin actually followed a crazy crippled person away. When Feng Shi heard about this, he cried and died. After consulting with his father, Feng sent people to search everywhere, but in the end there was no news.
The daughter disappeared and did not return, the husband ran away from home, the family was in a difficult situation, and the Feng clan suffered one blow after another in just a few years, and the Feng clan at this time must have been exhausted. If the Feng clan still has the care and care of their parents, it can be regarded as a comfort, however, even this small comfort is a luxury for the Feng clan. Although Feng Su did not leave feng shi, white eyes and complaints were also indispensable every day.
For a person, the material shortage may be able to endure, but the mental torture is really like a year.
At this time, only two old servants were still with her, and the three masters and servants were doing some needlework and selling day and night to make a living. On this day, the big man next to Feng Shi went to the door to buy a line, and happened to meet a new official, who was not a bystander, but Jia Yu Village, who had been favored by Zhen Shiyin.
After Jia Yucun learned of what happened to Zhen Shiyin's family, he sighed, and then gave Feng Su some money and also included Ya Gui Jiaoxing in the palace. Jiaoxing was lucky to go, and Feng Su also got a sum of money out of thin air. Only Feng Shi not only failed to get a penny, but also had one less person around him who could help him take care of trivial matters and care about his own life. At this point, Feng Shi had no one else except an old lady who was still with her, and at this time, Feng Shi was almost alone.
(2) What exactly supports Feng's survival?
I think that the only thought that keeps Feng Shi alive is probably her long-missing daughter Yinglian. After hearing about what happened to Zhen Shiyin's family, Jia Yucun promised Feng to help find Yinglian's whereabouts. However, when Zhen Shiyin really knew the whereabouts of Yinglian, he arbitrarily adjudicated the case for his own career. Yinglian's only chance of returning to her mother Feng's side was thus ruined by Jia Yucun. Only pity the Feng clan who is still waiting for news of his daughter at home, even if he hopes more, he will not be able to look forward to his daughter's return after all.
Feng Shi, a woman who once had a happy life, a woman with a gentle and virtuous temperament, in this life, she did not harm a person, did not do a single evil thing, but misfortune came to her head one after another: the only daughter went missing, the search was fruitless; the house caught fire, sold the property; turned to her father, suffered a cold reception; her husband ran away from home and lived a widowed life. Poor Feng Shi endured the hardships of life and the torment of the spirit, with a wish that could never be fulfilled, and struggled to survive.
In this life, Feng Shi experienced too much separation and misfortune, and endured too many complaints and laments. However, Feng Shi never complained about anything, nor did he blame anyone. She just tried to live, silently waiting, waiting for the news that did not know when it would come, not knowing whether it would come or not.
Day after day, year after year, Feng's life no longer fluctuated, only the monotonous repetition, the empty nostalgia. The women who were included in the list of "Jinling Twelve Nobles" were thin-lived, and the Feng clan, why not?
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