Zhen Shiyin is a character who appears at the beginning of "Dream of the Red Chamber" and disappears at the beginning. In this retrospective, Zhen Shiyin's life is like a shot from far and near and from near and far, at the very beginning, we look at a quiet and benevolent village eunuch from a distance, holding a scroll and coming to us; when the camera is closer, we see him walking on the street, chatting with people, and living a peaceful and comfortable life; the camera is pulled away from him, his cloak is scattered, his back is covered, and the back of the lame Daoist who is crazy and fallen off, fluttering and shaking, getting farther and farther away, until he completely disappears into the lens and disappears from our sight.
Zhen Shiyin went from a free and elegant eunuch to a series of blows and changes such as the abduction of his beloved daughter, the burning of his residence, and the suspicion of his relatives, and his life situation took a sharp turn for the worse, until he drifted away with the crazy Taoists. In the experience of the sharp turnaround, if Zhen Shiyin could recognize the people around him early, he would not be so depressed and miserable.
The first is huo qi, a servant who is not responsible. Huo Qi is also one of the characters who flash by in "Dream of the Red Chamber", he is Zhen Shiyin's "family", in fact, he is a servant of Zhen Shiyin's family. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Huo Qi hugged Zhen Shiyin's only daughter Yinglian to see the lantern flower, and because of the internal emergency, he put Yinglian on the threshold of the house and sat down, and went to find the toilet himself.
At that time, Huo Qi was holding Yinglian to see the lamp, indicating that Yinglian was very young. Leaving a young and cute little girl with pink makeup unattended, and still in a crowded street market, is enough to prove that Huo Qi is a very irresponsible person.
Sure enough, when Huo Qi came back, Xiao Yinglian was already gone. When Huo Qi found that Yinglian was missing and could not be found, he did not report to the master at the first time and assumed the responsibility to work together to find it, but chose to escape and take advantage of the night to leave. By the time Zhen Shiyin's family found out that the situation was not good and went to look for it, it was already too late.
Huo Qi, a servant with no sense of responsibility and no responsibility, directly rewrote Yinglian's fate, turning her from a happy eunuch into a miserable kidnapper; at the same time, it also opened zhen Shiyin's bad luck in life, and the Zhen family has since "caused disaster".
The second is the door of the unmeritory neighbor. Zhen Shiyin's family lived next to the Gourd Temple in Renqing Lane, Shili Street, which means that it is only separated from the Gourd Temple by a wall. As a "god of first-class character", Zhen Shiyin is estimated to have donated to the Gourd Temple, and the monks of the Gourd Temple should have a gratitude to Zhen Shiyin. However, the Gourd Temple did not seem to bring peace and smoothness to the Zhen Shi Hermitage, but brought disaster.
Once the explosion was fired, "only poor Zhen's family is next door, and it has already burned into a field of rubble." At that time, a Shami in the Gourd Temple" "changed his profession" after the Fire in the Gourd Temple, and he first discovered Zhen Shiyin's lost daughter Yinglian. When Jia YuCun tried the Hulu case, Menzi once said to Jia YuCun, "On that day, this Yinglian, we coaxed him to play every day, although it was seven or eight years apart, now twelve or thirteen years old, although its appearance is better, but its appearance is probably not changed, acquaintances are easy to recognize", and after being abducted by abductors, Yinglian still rented menzi's house.
As the saying goes: distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and close neighbors are not as good as the door. Menzi and Zhen Shi's hermitage are separated by a wall, and even Menzi himself said that Yinglian "coaxed him to play every day" when she was a child. Remembering the old love points, even if he did not directly help, he could still send a letter to the Zhen family and let the Zhen family save people. However, Menzi chose to ignore it, allowing the kidnappers to abuse Yinglian and sell Yinglian, which shows that Menzi's cold-blooded and ruthlessness is unjust.
The third is Jia Hua, a friend without a conscience. Jia Hua is Jia Yu Village, and he was a poor Confucian on that day. During his stay in the Hulu Temple, he often drank wine and poetry with Zhen Shiyin, zhen Shiyin, as a vassal and elegant lover, jia Yucun's some talent, was quite appreciated by Zhen Shiyin, making the two friends in a sense.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhen Shi was intimately considerate of Jia Yu Village's "travel to the monk's room, not without a sense of loneliness", invited Jia Yu Village to drink and eat, and after learning of the difficulties of Jia Yu Village's pocket shyness, he "sealed fifty taels of silver and two sets of winter clothes" on the spot to fund Jia Yu Village, "as a quick entry into the capital, spring and a war". Jia Yucun was able to participate in the "National Examination" of Chun Min with the financial support of Zhen Shiyin, and won the Jinshi as a prefect.
When Jia Yucun, who was the prefect of the prefect, tried the Hulu case, he knew that it was the benefactor Zhen Shiyin's lost daughter Yinglian, but for the sake of his own official fortunes, he bent the law for personal gain and did not seek danger. Without Zhen Shiyin's financial support, how could Jia Yu Village have changed from a poor Confucian to a prefect, who expected to stage the story of "farmer and snake".
The ungrateful Jia Yucun, with a clear conscience, watched as Yinglian fell into the hands of Xue Pan, the Overlord of Dumb.
Fourth, there is no benevolent father-in-law. The roof leaked in the rain, and Zhen Shiyin, who had suffered bad luck one after another, turned to Yue Zhangfengsu. At such a time, as an elder, Feng Su should give more comfort to his son-in-law, encourage him to lift his spirits, bravely face life, and wait for the comeback.
This is harmless to Fengsu, multiple sons-in-law and children, and when they are old, they also have more to rely on. As for Feng Su, he did not have the slightest benevolence, and he had an idea of the little remaining family property of his son-in-law Zhen Shiyin.
Zhen Shiyin and his wife took out their only savings, "entrusting him to buy some necessary premises at the price of his share, for the future day's food and clothing." The seal was half coaxed and half earned, and some of them had to be with him in a thin field." He also played the heart trick of "half coaxing and half earning" for his daughter and son-in-law, and also created public opinion to gossip, "people before and after people complained that they were not good at living, only blindly eating and laziness and so on", which directly forced Zhen Shiyin to complain and complain, poor and sick, and "gradually revealed the situation of the next life", until he drifted away with the crazy Daoists.
In these unfortunate life encounters, the people around Zhen Shiyin also "appeared" one by one, showing the ugly and selfish side of human nature, only his wife Feng Shi was inseparable from him, when Zhen Shiyin went away with the crazy Daoist, Feng Shi "cried and died and lived, only to consult with his father, send people everywhere to visit", see the truth in trouble, please cherish the pillow people!
Author: Warm Forward, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.