After Yuan Chun province, Jia Baoyu was idle and idle, so he ran to Daiyu's room to play, so he led to a story.
The second half of the nineteenth episode of the Dream of the Red Chamber is "Yi Mian Mian Quiet Day Jade ShengXiang", which refers to the plot of Bao Yu's old classic of making Up Eight Porridges to make Dai Yu happy and not let her nap.
Bao Yu was afraid that Dai Yu would be sick from sleeping, so he casually made up a story of Yangzhou DaiShan Lin Zi Cave Rat Essence stealing sweet potatoes, smart as Dai Yu, naturally as soon as he heard this beginning, he knew that Bao Yu was orchestrating her. Li Yanzhai also said that the name of the mountain is the name of the cave, and the name of the mountain is known to The Child.
But Dai Yu was also idle, so he did not expose Bao Yu, and listened to how he made up this story, so Bao Yu told the story of a group of rats designing to steal beans and rice fruits around the festival of Lapa Ba.
This story is very interesting, Baoyu cleverly made up Dai Yu into it, the beginning of the Dai Shan, Lin Zi Cave, has hidden the name of Lin Daiyu, and then through the harmonic sounds of "sweet potato" and "Xiang Yu", the final foothold is the miss of the old man's family in the salt class, which is the real Xiang Yu.
It can be said that this story is not only what Baoyu is good at and can do by the miscellaneous learning, but also the consistent harmonic hint is also a major feature of Cao Gong's specialty and dream of the Red Chamber.
Although it is a story made up, this story is not only Baoyu afraid of Daiyu sleeping, in order to coax her to be happy and casually said, from cao Gong's writing ideas, it is obviously hidden deep meaning.
First of all, the story of this rat essence stealing taro is a secret comment on Daiyu, and the little consumption who is finally responsible for stealing taro is alluding to Daiyu.
This small consumption is "extremely small and extremely weak" and "cowardly and powerless", but it is self-clouded: "Although I am young and weak, I am boundless in magic, articulate, and far-reaching in scheming." Li Yanzhai said in a comment: Where the three sentences are secretly commented on Daiyu, the irony is wonderful.
Remember the plot when Dai Yu first entered Jia Province? "When everyone saw that although Dai Yu was young in appearance, his demeanor was good, and although his body and face were weak and invincible, he had a natural attitude of affection, and they knew that he had deficiency."
Bao Yu made up this story and commented on Dai Yu in this way, which is not only the Dai Yu in his eyes, but also the Dai Yu in cao Gong's eyes, but also the Dai Yu in the eyes of readers and the world.
When Dai Yu first entered the Jia Mansion, "step by step, always pay attention, always care, not willing to easily say one more word, one more step, lest he be ridiculed by others." Li Yanzhai said, writing Daiyu's heart since childhood. Doesn't this mean that Dai Yu is "far-sighted"?
And what can better reflect Daiyu's far-reaching scheming is the words she said on Baoyu's birthday: Although I don't care about things, my heart is always idle, I calculate for you, more out and less in, and if I don't save money now, I will not pick up my hands.
As for Daiyu's articulateness, not to mention, the original text is everywhere, Liu Grandma ii entered the Rongguo Mansion, Xiao Xiangzi Yayu made up for the afterglow, let us see Daiyu's humorous and clever mouth, even Bao Chao said, "True to this mouth of this lady, people hate and not like it." ”
What about spells? Dai Yu's predecessor was the Daizhu Fairy, and since she was a heavenly immortal, she naturally had boundless magic. It can only be said that Baoyu is indeed the person who really understands Daiyu.
Secondly, this story of stealing sweet potatoes also has some meaning of ruining the monk's slander, that is, satirizing reality.
The old man asked a small consumption to inquire, and a small consumption returned: "The inspection and inquiry everywhere has been completed, but the temple under the mountain has the most fruit and rice." "Li Yan Zhai comment: The temple used to be the most, wonderful.
This fruit and rice, that is, fruits and rice beans, are all grains and fruits planted by ordinary people's families at four o'clock, but what is unexpected is that near the end of the year, in Lapa Ba, the most fruit and rice is not the people's homes, but the temple.
This can't help but remind people of the story of Liu Grandma's entry into Jia Province, the original text said: "Because of the beginning of the autumn and early winter of this year, the cold weather will come up, the winter affairs at home have not been done, and the dogs are worried..." Li Yanzhai said in a comment: Poor people have such scenes.
You see, a small peasant family like Liu's grandmother and son-in-law, at the end of the year, was so poor that they could not even eat food, so they could not even afford the food and clothing needed for winter, and they saw that they were hungry and cold. This is consistent with the results of the visit to Xiao Wan's death.
Why is there not as much fruit and rice in the people's homes as there are in the temple? Look at how those monks in the dream of the Red Chamber cheated the money of sesame oil. The most typical ones are probably Ma Daoba and Jing Fei Lao Ni.
A person who was constantly lobbying among the major nobles and magnates, cheating money under the guise of buying sesame oil to offer to the bodhisattva to destroy wealth and eliminate disasters and accumulate virtue and good deeds, and even had different packages, naturally according to the wishes of those noble ladies, the most suitable one was recommended for their faces. For the sake of Baoyu's safety, Jia Mu bought a set of five pounds of sesame oil a day.
Qian Jiamu must have paid for it, to Ma Daoba's pocket, but this thief did not light this sesame oil who knows? Or no one will check after a few days, but the money is not less, it is really a stable profit and does not lose a million profits.
One is not doing the right thing in order to get silver and even act as an intermediary to help people fight lawsuits, that small door small rich family has things that cannot be settled, find the net void, the net void and then find the Jia family to help get it done, so that she does not have to do anything, move her mouth, the silver will come, which is much better than chanting Amitabha Buddha.
Zhang Jinge's divorce lawsuit, Wang Xifeng earned three thousand taels, and the original text did not say how much benefit the net void took, but since it was Zhang Rich, who did not care as long as he could win the lawsuit, no matter how much he spent, or an old acquaintance, he naturally would not treat her badly.
It is said that this Shuiyue Nunnery is not only an intermediary in litigation, but also a place of wind and moon, a place where dirt and grime are hidden, and in these temple temples, there are many sesame oil money fruits and beans and rice every year, which is really a great irony.
I personally experienced that one year I traveled to a certain place and visited a certain temple, and the southeast corner of the main hall was full of barreled oil and countless bags of rice noodles, which were offered by pilgrims at first glance. I have to say that Cao Gong's use of Baoyu to present this story in this way also has a deep meaning, which is really a wonderful irony of reality.
Finally, this story also implicitly writes the root cause of the decline of Jia Fu.
The crowd asked how the small consumption could be more clever than other thieves who stole the taro, so that people could not hear or see it. The little consumption said that it itself became a sweet potato, rolled in the pile of sweet potatoes, secretly carried by the doppelganger method, and gradually carried out.
There is a comment here: It is indeed coincidental and the most poisonous. Direct theft can be prevented, but this law cannot be prevented. What comes to mind when you see this episode and the lipogram?
I first thought of Wang Xifeng in Jia Province, then the descendants of the losers in Jia Province, and finally the slave group with the largest population base in Jia Province.
Wang Xifeng is the grand housekeeper of RongFu, she does have the ability to be a housekeeper, and she also keeps rongfu up and down in an orderly manner, at least to maintain a relatively balanced surface state. But I also have to say that she took advantage of the housekeeper's opportunity to do nothing less than to fill her own pockets.
For example, the aforementioned Langquan Tiezhan Temple, for example, she took everyone's money to lend money outside, that is, to pay for Li Feng's twelve or two shares of money, she saw it in her eyes! It should be said that although Wang Xifeng maintained and delayed the decline of Rong Province to a certain extent, she did not remove bricks and tiles from this century-old mansion, and she was the most conspicuous one of the many people who caused the fall of Jia Province.
Then there are the many descendants of Jia Fu who are "as rich and honorable as possible, and none of the strategists and planners", and they are also the rats of the Empty Jia Province. I still remember the words that Tanchun said when he was angry when he inspected the Grand View Garden: It can be known that such a large family, if it is killed from the outside, cannot be killed for a while, which is what the ancients once said, "A worm with a hundred legs, dead but not stiff." You must first commit suicide from home to destroy yourself in order to be defeated!
As the saying goes, day and night defense, family thieves are difficult to prevent. Just like the little waste in Baoyu's story, when it becomes exactly the same shape as the sweet potato, it is carried little by little with the doppelganger method, and gradually it is carried out. Wang Xifeng, who secretly crossed Chen Cang on the Ming Xiu Trail, was like this, the descendants of Jia Fu who sat on the mountain and ate the sky were like this, and those low-level slaves were even more so.
Author: Xi Si Shao, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.