"Rambling is glorious, and the beginning of the provocation is really peaceful." This sentence in Qin Keqing's judgment had already set the tone for Ning Rong's second house. Although "Dream of the Red Chamber" is based on the Rong Guo Mansion as the main scene, the role of the Ning Guo Mansion should not be underestimated, because it is the existence of the Ning Guo Mansion that has long become the decline of the Jia family.
Regarding Ning Guofu, from the beginning of "Dream of the Red Chamber", there was almost no good evaluation.
Leng Zixing said that Jia Jing only met the "Taoist Priest Hu Chong" in the suburban Taoist temple, saying that Jia Zhen "was so happy that he turned the Ningguo Mansion over"; Jiao Da said that the masters "climbed the ashes and raised the little uncle's little uncle"; Liu Xianglian said that "only the two stone lions at the door were clean" in the Ningguo Mansion.
A century-old family, with a bad reputation, has begun to enter a real period of decline. Ning Guofu is notorious, and both Jia Jing and Jia Zhen seem to shoulder unshirkable responsibilities. However, what exactly caused Jia Jing to leave home, and why Jia Zhen became a waster who could only enjoy himself because of his neglect of teaching?
Behind these things, I am afraid that they are not unrelated to a woman. There is a saying that "good women, three generations of wang; bad women, three generations of destruction". Wang Xifeng in "Dream of the Red Chamber" also once said, "Wife and husband and young woman", "the appearance is not as strong as the strong". A virtuous wife can persuade her husband to make the family prosper gradually, and a dimwitted wife will make the family more and more decayed.
Historically, Empress Changsun, the wife of Emperor Taizong of Tang, and Empress Ma, the wife of Ming Taizu, were all famous empresses, and they played a very good role in the side of their husbands. Emperor Taizong of Tang became the Ming Emperor, and the role played by Empress Changsun should not be underestimated.
And this woman in the Ning Guo Mansion is obviously a negative model. Under her influence, Jia Jing hid in the Taoist temple and did not return home, Jia Zhen was taught by her to be a waste, and the poor fourth lady Xi Chun, after her death for many years, was also influenced by her and forced into a nunnery.
This woman is Jia Jing's wife. Although she never appeared in "Dream of the Red Chamber", between the lines of "Dream of the Red Chamber", we can still feel the influence of this woman on Ning Guofu.
At that time, Jia Jing could be called a model student among the rich princes, and he was also the greatest hope in Jia Fu. Obviously, he could rely on the family property and title left by his ancestors to live a life without worry about food and clothing, but he had to rely on his own efforts and became the only jinshi in Jia Province. It can be seen that Jia Jing is very hard-working and is a good man who strives for progress. Therefore, his later renunciation must have an unspeakable reason, and the truth in it was hidden in Leng Zixing's words.
Only the second son Jia Jing attacked the official, and now he is blindly good, and the rest are not at heart, fortunately, in the early years, he left a son, named Jia Zhen.
This passage shows that Jia Jing began to hide in the Taoist temple very early and did not ask about the world. However, then Leng Zixing said something puzzling -
The fourth lady is the younger sister of ZhenYe of the Ningguo Mansion, and her name is Xi Chun.
What is "sister"? A mother is called a sister. We all know that the age difference between Xi Chun and Jia Zhen is very large, and even Jia Rong is older than this aunt. When Lin Daiyu entered Jia Mansion, Jia Rong was already sixteen years old, while Xi Chun was "still small".
Jia Jing, who had already entered the Taoist Temple, only returned home during the New Year, and did not see anyone when he returned home. This Xi Chun's origin is puzzling. Therefore, it is very likely that it is because Jia Jing's wife has an unseemly thing that Jia Jing is discouraged and hides in the Taoist Temple, and from then on, Ning Guofu is regarded as a "place of right and wrong".
At the same time, we can also conclude that Jia Jing had been a Taoist priest for many years, and when Jia Zhen was nearly thirty years old, his wife was still giving birth to a daughter at an advanced age and gave birth to Xi Chun.
In the years when Jia Jing was ordained, the head of the Ningguo Mansion was obviously Jia Jing's wife. It was also under her teaching that Jia Zhen became a waster who could only enjoy, and would not do anything except drink and have fun.
Many years later, Xi Chun once complained about the unbearable situation of ningguofu, "If I go again, even I will arrange it." The subordinates of Ning Guofu can choreograph what things to do with Xi Chun? Obviously, it must be about Xi Chun's life. And Xi Chun finally became a woman who "guarded the green lantern next to the ancient Buddha alone", which was also related to the unbearable situation of Ning Guofu. And the root of all this is actually in her mother.
Being able to marry into the Ningguo Mansion and become the wife of the head of the Jia family, Jia Jing's wife's origin is absolutely extraordinary. However, this elderly woman who gave birth to a daughter raised her son into a waste, forced her daughter into a nunnery, and opened the prelude to the decline of Jia Province early.