The twenty-ninth time in "Dream of the Red Chamber", although the inner pocket of Jia Fu has come up, but the outer shelf has not fallen, and Yuan Chun is still in the palace, there are rewards for every New Year's Festival, and people go to Qingxuanguan to fight, Jia Fu still looks like a peaceful scene of fire cooking oil, but the book reveals a detail, just to imply the decline of Jia Fu with relatives.
Zhang Daoshi, who was a qingfu guan, was a stand-in for the grandfather of the Rongguo Mansion at that time, and the dignitaries called him "immortal", so he was quite decent in front of Jia Mu. But as soon as this Daoist priest saw Baoyu, after a few words of greeting, he immediately told Jia Mu about giving Baoyu a kiss:
That Taoist... He laughed again: "I saw a young lady in a person's house the day before yesterday, who is fifteen years old this year, and she was born a good look." I thought it was time for my brother to look for relatives too. If you talk about the appearance of this young lady, smart and intelligent, and the foundation of the family, it is also worthy. But I don't know how the old lady is, and the trail doesn't dare to make a mistake. After asking the old lady's instructions, he dared to open his mouth to people. Jia Mu said, "Last time a monk said that this child should not marry early in his life, and he would wait until he was a little older." You are also inquiring now, no matter how rich she is, as long as she looks worthy, come and tell me. Even if the family is poor, it is enough to give him a few silver or two. It's just that the appearance of the character is rarely good. ”
Zhang Daoshi brought Baoyu's affair to Jia Mu and said that it did not count, and he said that he waited to ask Jia Mu's meaning before he dared to open his mouth to people. Saying no, he suddenly said that he saw a young lady in a family after greeting him, but he did not even say which one of the others was clear, only that the appearance and foundation and wisdom were worthy, and the key information was unknown. The precious grandson who seems to care about the old lady is actually a false shot and said some scenes.
Jia Mu's answer was also very clever, pretending that a monk said that Bao Yu should not marry early in his life, and then did not refuse Zhang Daoshi's concern, saved face for him, let him help inquire about others, and said that even if the family was poor, it would be fine, but it would only give people a few silver or two.
Among other things, Zhang Daoshi, a monk, is supposed to stay away from the red dust and not ask about the world, but he is just hanging around in the rich and noble field, and he even cares about the relatives of the princes and ladies, and also said that when he saw a young lady in a family, he almost did not report his maiden name and put out the foundation of the family. At best, it is to care for Baoyu and offer courtesy to Jia Mu; to put it bluntly, it is to be nosy and white teeth.
But on the other hand, under the situation of jia fu cooking oil, in the first eighty times, there were not many people who intended to marry Jia Fu, only Zhang Daoshi asked About Baoyu's relatives, jia zheng's protégé Fu tried to send two mother-in-laws to visit Baoyu who was beaten, but when the two mother-in-laws left, it was not Baoyu's good that was chanted all the way, but Baoyu's various badness.
As for Nan'an Princess coming to Jia Mansion to see each other, it was only the girls who looked at them, and only one of the Jia family girls visited the spring to meet the princess, and the rest were girls from relatives' families. Although she finally met Tanchun or recognized her as a righteous daughter, she did not say goodbye to Tanchun, but let her be a peacemaker, which was equivalent to using the daughter of the Jia family as a chess piece in the politics of the Nan'an Royal Palace.
Therefore, whether Tanchun is a peace relative or a concubine, it is not an honor for Jia Fu, and at most it is just a political investment to offset the sins committed by the Jia family and Wang Xifeng. Even if Tanchun later had the identity of a princess, it was completely different from the situation of Yuan Chun's concubine in that year, and it was not the same.
According to the custom of the four major families of Jia Shi Wang Xue, they were internally married. Even Jia Min, the daughter of the Jia family, who is married to the jia family, is also the Lin family of the scholarly nobles who are promised to the real Zhong Ming Ding food family. And Bao Yu's brother Jia Zhu, married to his wife Li Feng, although not in the four major families, but also the daughter of li Shouzhong's family, which is also a famous family.
Jia Yu, who attacked the official, and a wife he had married earlier, was probably not bad, and he knew it by looking at Jia Lian's demeanor. It is also expected that Lady Xing of The House was from a humble background, but the daughter-in-law Wang Xifeng, married by Jia Huan's son Jia Lian, was obviously carefully selected by the jia family's parents, and was the daughter of the Wang family and the niece of Lady Wang, the second wife of Rong Province.
In summary, regardless of the Ning Province, at least in the Rong Province, for the matter of marriage, it can be said that it is cautious and cautious, and it is inclined to combine strong and strong.
But when it came to the golden phoenix of Jia Province and the old lady's treasure Jia Baoyu, the matter of in-laws did not seem to be very optimistic.
It is reasonable to say that with the status of Baoyu, although there is an older brother on the top, he died early, and the future family property will always be indispensable to him. Speaking of appearance, Baoyu is also a first-class figure, and he knows how to read and write, and miscellaneous studies are collected. Judging from the situation at that time, all his shortcomings were just those who liked to mix with girls and deviate from the past. However, among the relatives and friends, no one even asked about Jin Baoyu's marriage, which made it appear that a Zhang Daoist could directly ask about the embarrassing situation in front of Jia Mu.
Within the four major families, except for the Xue family who released Jin Yu early, almost no one paid attention to Bao Yu's relatives. However, the Xue family was the first to decline, and Aunt Xue's mother and daughter still relied on Prince Teng and Jia Zheng to take care of them, in addition to the little trading accident in the family, there was also a Xue Pan who was not angry and often caused trouble.
The Wang family often interacted with the Jia family. Prince Teng and his wife often sent things over, Feng Sister Baoyu was ill, and Prince Teng's wife also came to greet him. The Wang family's aunt and uncle had a birthday, and they had also invited the Baoyu sisters to be guests, but in addition to these socializing, the Wang family and the Jia family had no other important things to talk about.
The Shi family has a Xiangyun and Jia family who often come and go, but neither Jia Mu nor the Shi family has the slightest intention of matching Baoyu and Xiangyun.
Generally speaking, many married women are attached to their mother's family, but Jia Mu seems to be an exception. It is not surprising that women who have been blessed with such a great blessing as Jia Mu in the past and the present have always been rare. Except for Jia Yu and his wife, who are not happy with themselves, no one in Jia Fu does not respect Jia Mu, which makes Jia Mu not have much attachment to her mother's family.
In short, I don't know whether Jia Mu didn't like Xiangyun, or whether the historian didn't like Baoyu, and Xiangyun, who was very young in the Grand View Garden, was the first of the sisters to betrothed.
If it is really a piece of fragrant food, then there are always people who try to get ahead of the curve; if it is not fragrant, it is inevitable that few people will fall behind.
Baoyu's marriage affairs are not up and down, in addition to the relatives and friends of baochao, daiyu, Xiangyun, it seems that there is no longer any side by side with the rich nobles to come to make friends and inquire, it is difficult to choose a more suitable woman, but also makes it difficult for Jia Mu to determine whether it is Baochao or Daiyu, which caused her to suddenly think that Baoqin is a more suitable candidate for a while, so that she seriously asked Aunt Xue about Baoqin's Nian Geng eight characters and the situation in the family.
In short, Jia Mu was undecided about Bao Yu's marriage, whether it was asking Bao Qin's eight characters, or saying in front of Zhang Daoshi, "No matter how rich she is, as long as her appearance is worthy, it is that the family is poor, but it is enough to give him a few silver", it can be seen that Jia Mu really wants to ask for a satisfactory daughter-in-law for Bao Yu.
As for saying that Jia Mu would really ask for a young lady from a poor family for Bao Yu? This possibility is not impossible, but the possibility of Jia Fu asking Bao Yu to be a young lady from a small family to be his wife is almost minimal.
Among the granddaughters-in-law, Jia Mu was very satisfied with Qin Keqing, who was born in the Yingjilang family, but her family was very poor compared to Jia Fu, and even her younger brother Qin Zhong went to school or Qin Yedong cobbled together twenty-four taels of silver to send to school.
But from Jia Mu's point of view, if you find a poor girl for Baoyu, it must have the best appearance and personality, I am afraid that I must not lose Qin Keqing, otherwise if the appearance and personality do not make her like, you have to find a family with a foundation of wealth and equal.
Judging from the girls of the Jia family's relatives, regardless of blood relations, Daiyu's personality is obviously not very pleasing to the elders, and her physical fitness is also a hard injury. Although Baochao is thoughtful and mature and stable, Baoyu's feelings for Daiyu are obvious to all, and there is only sisterhood between Baochao and Baochao. Xiang Yun grinned widely, seemed unlikely to take care of people, and looked like an immature child. Finally, a Xue Baoqin came, and Jia Fu praised her up and down, saying that she compared Bao Chao Daiyu to these people.
Jia Mu was very fond of Baoqin, and such a difficult to find appearance, personality, family lineage and experience were not easy to find at that time.
This confirms from the side that the hidden feeling of the Jia family's decline has long been impossible to hide, and many family relatives and friends are willing to promise their daughters to the Jia family again because they see this. Although the Beijing Wangfu and the Nan'an Royal Palace, which were good friends with the Jia family, moved around from time to time, and they also heard that Baoyu was born with jade, such a strange thing was only a new thing or a talking point after tea and dinner, but it could not add more charm and value to Baoyu or the century-old Jia Mansion.
Jia Mu naturally knew this, although she loved Dai Yu, but the first thing in her heart was always Bao Yu. Before thinking about Daiyu, she first had to consider Baoyu's vital interests.
From this point of view, the matter of Qing Huanguan beating the curse seems to be the noble concubine who ordered the blessing of the concubine, but in fact, it exposed the loneliness and helplessness of Yuan Chun at that time, and he would ask the gods to worship the Buddha, and Zhang Daoshi was even more because he gave Bao Yu a kiss, which confirmed from the side that the real rich and noble people were unwilling to marry their daughters to the Jia family again, and the defeat of the Jia family was a foregone conclusion.
References: "Dream of the Red Chamber Fat Collection", by Cao Xueqin, Comments on Fat Yan Zhai, Yuelu Book Club.