Since the advent of "Dream of the Red Chamber", people have constantly asked: Where did Lin Daiyu's parents' million inheritances go? However, many people are skeptical about this, believing that Lin Ruhai did not leave a huge inheritance to her daughter, and even if there was, Dai Yu would not get much.
Why?
First of all, the daughter has no property inheritance rights, and Dai Yu has at most one dowry.
The property inheritance system of the Qing Dynasty was different from that of modern times, and followed the property inheritance system of the Ming Dynasty, according to the provisions of the "Household Order" of the "Daming Order":
If the deceased does not have a son, his surviving people and clans can set him an heir. Heirs are generally chosen from among the sons and nephews of the deceased. If there is no heir for the deceased, the entire estate is divided equally among the daughters.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, families with no children or only daughters, or husbands who died early and had no heirs, were called "extinct households". Because the daughter is an outsider after marriage, she does not enter the family tree, and the son can inherit the family business.
Moreover, her mother Jia Min was dead, and Dai Yu was only a girl in her early teens at the time, and it was impossible for her to participate in the disposal of property.
Lin Daiyu
If the Lin family has an heir for Lin Ruhai, Lin Daiyu can only get a dowry at most, and there is not much money; if there is no heir, Lin Daiyu is the only heir to the Lin family's property.
So, as an only daughter, is Lin Daiyu eligible to inherit her parents' inheritance?
The book says that after Jia Min's death, Lin Ruhai did not continue the string, although there were two concubines and no children.
When Lin Ruhai was dying, because other distant relatives were still "uncertain in the provinces", except for Jia Lian, who had rushed to the country early, there should be no one else to trust, and his property should only belong to the only daughter Daiyu.
After Jia Min's death, the Lin family was not yet extinct, but after Lin Ruhai's death, there were no heirs except Daiyu, and Jia Fu could participate in the lin family's property struggle as Daiyu's guardian.
Although the mother's family is not superior in blood compared with the Lin family's relatives, with the power of the "talisman" of the Guogongfu, naturally no one dares to dispute that Lin Daiyu should inherit her parents' inheritance.
Therefore, as an only daughter, Lin Daiyu naturally has the right and the ability to return to Suzhou to inherit her parents' inheritance.
The next question is, if it is true that Lin Daiyu inherited the inheritance, then can there really be as many as two or three million?
Many skeptics also believe that even if Lin Daiyu inherits her parents' inheritance with the help of Jia Fu, she has a generous dowry money, but it is impossible to have as much as two or three million silver.
One of the reasons for this is that the Lin family is a hereditary marquis, belonging to a low-level title that does not enter the stream, and no money is normal.
Generally after three generations, it will be reduced to a white body, although the Lin family has attacked one more generation, but it is not the same as the senior title of the Duke of Guo held by the Jia family.
In addition, Lin Daiyu's life in Jia Province could not be seen at all.
When Dai Yuli returned home from the funeral, he only brought some four treasures and books with him, and there were no gold and silver treasures, or Miao Yu's antique tea cups and other valuable things. Think about her life when she can't even afford to eat bird's nest, and say to Sister Bao: Do you rely on the Jia family for charity when you eat and wear every stitch?
Dai Yu said to Bao Chao, "You are just the affection of relatives, living here in vain, you should do big and small things, and you don't touch them with everything and a half, if you want to leave, you will leave." I have nothing, eating and wearing, grass and paper, all the same as their girls, that villain is not too suspicious. ”
And when Madame Wang heard Bao Yu say that the ginseng Yang Rong Pill taken by Dai Yu wanted three hundred and sixty taels of silver, she couldn't help but blurt out: "Fart!" "If Dai Yu has a huge amount of wealth herself, why is this so?" If the Lin family really had millions of family properties, how could Dai Yu feel that she would live a life under the fence in the Jia family?
In fact, Madame Wang, as a resolute opponent of Mushi's marriage, was not reluctant to spend money, but she did not want Dai Yu to heal and get rid of her weak and sickly state.
In fact, the Lin family should be very rich financially, leaving quite a lot of property for their daughter.
Lin Daiyu said that she had "nothing", which was obviously a blindfold. It's not hard to figure this out.
First, the five generations of the Lin clan have inherited the grace of the emperor, and they are a prosperous and prosperous family, and they have not been marginalized.
As Leng Zixing said: "The ancestor of Lin Ruhai once attacked the marquis, and now he is the fifth generation of the Ruhai Yejing." At first, only three were inherited, but because the current Longen Shengde was far from the previous generation, the father of the additional Garn to the sea, and then inherited another one. ＂
Therefore, the fifth family continued to accumulate considerable wealth.
Lin Ruhai's generation of heirs is thin, several generations of single inheritance are not divided into families, and the ancestral property will be inherited by him alone. Even if the title is gone, the entry may not be much, but the fixed assets of the house land will be a lot, no money is not normal.
Second, Jia Min's mother's family is the Rongguo Mansion where Zhong Mingding eats, and according to the marriage standard of the door-to-door pair, the Lin family's family foundation is naturally very good.
The book says that although his family is "a family of Zhong Ding, it is also a family of scholars", according to the marriage principle of the door to the household, the cloth of the small door and the small family, will Jia Mu agree to marry his most beloved daughter to him?
Moreover, in addition to Lin Ruhai's considerable ancestral heritage, he was still born in keju, not blindly nibbling on the old roots. On the career path, he once served as an official to the Lantai Temple, and the salt inspector Yushi, who was known as the "fat difference", and served as a salt transport envoy similar to the two Huai salt transports in the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and he had no habit of arrogance and lasciviousness, and his wealth would naturally accumulate.
Therefore, Lin Ruhai is the "second generation of officials" plus the "creation generation", even if his immortal character is not greedy, although it is not as good as the Jia Fuhao clan, he is also a rich poetry book passed down to everyone.
Third, Daiyu's mother, Jia Min, was the concubine of Jia Daishan, the Duke of Rongguo, and the dowry was quite rich.
See Wang Xifeng's dowry has a lot of gold utensils, saying that "sweeping the seams on the ground" also makes a fortune, as Madame Wang said, Jia Min's pomp and circumstance when she was a girl was "what a golden honor and jade noble", and her dowry was several times more than Wang Xifeng's.
Even if she inherits her mother's inheritance alone, like the monk Miaoyu of Jucui Li'an, who has a valuable precious tea set, even if it is antique treasures and gold and silver utensils, the amount of gold and silver is enough to have two or three million taels of silver, and there is no need to kick the ground to sell the house to get it together.
In addition, there is a lot of evidence that it is not too much to say that Dai Yu is a millionaire.
In the "Dream of the Red Chamber", it is written that Lin Daiyu has a Chen disease and needs to take expensive ginseng Yangrong Pills, and the medicine he takes is called "Yangrong Pills", in fact, Cao Weng not only reveals the secret of Lin Daiyu's true identity as ginseng, but also points out the fact that the huge property inherited by Lin Daiyu was embezzled and occupied by the RongGuo Government.
When Jia Lian was anxious about the lack of money in the RongGuo Mansion, he once stomped his feet and said: Where to send a fortune of two or three million, it will be good. In the context of the economic decline of Rong Guofu, the windfall that Jia Lian said should obviously come from the Lin family in Suzhou.
Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu
And in the 25th time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Feng Jie pointed to Bao Yu and said to Daiyu: "You see, characters, is the door not worthy, or is the furniture unworthy?" "
She explained the principle of marriage and matching of the big family, the so-called standard of the door to the door is the three categories of character, door and property, and Bao Dai is a good match for the golden boy and the jade girl. At this moment, Sister Feng directly told the matter of "furniture" and compared the property of the Jia Lin family, and said very clearly: The property under Lin Daiyu's name is comparable to that of Baoyu!
Smart as Sister Feng, of course, is turning around in the Kwa Daiyu, after all, in the traditional concept of male chasing female Phoenix seeking phoenix is in line with etiquette, no woman rushes to match the man. And an orphan girl under the fence, the property she owns can only be the inheritance of her parents in Suzhou.
So, where did Lin Daiyu's parents' inheritance go?
Jia Lian escorted Daisy back to her hometown to visit her relatives in the first half of the year, and in the tenth time, it was said that on the third day of September, Daiyu's father Lin Ruhai also died, and Sister Feng said to Baoyu: Sister Lin (whose parents died) can live in our family now.
After handling Uncle Lin's funeral at the end of the year, Jia Lian returned to Beijing with Jia Yucun. In terms of time, he had been gone for almost half a year, enough for Dai Yu to become more and more ethereal in Bao Yu's eyes.
Jia Lian
Why did Jia Lian spend so long on this trip? According to his last trip to pick up Dai Yu into Beijing, and the time limit for leaving the funeral in 7749 days, it would take only two or three months. In addition to spending time on the road and handling funeral matters, he should have spent a lot of time cleaning up and disposing of his uncle's property.
Therefore, after The Wanguan family wealth inherited by Dai Yu was brought back to the Rongguo Mansion by Jia Lian, it was embezzled by the grandmother's family to repair the garden, and it was only a matter of spending little money to carry out provincial pro-family activities.