Lady Cui is an inconspicuous character in "Dream of the Red Chamber". On the role, she is not as good as the attacker, Qingwen, and Mandarin Duck; on the wisdom, she is not as good as Ping'er and Zi Juan; on the mouth, she is not as good as the waiter and musk moon; on chance, she is not as good as Xiaohong and Fangguan, but it is also this inconspicuous role, and there are also admirable shining points on her body, becoming an extremely cute image in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Cui Wei was originally also a servant in Jia Province. Later, when Shi Xiangyun returned to the Shi family, Jia Mu was bent on sending her niece and granddaughter a personal maid, and Cui Wei became the inductee.
I have to say that the situation between the Jia family's servant and the Shi family's servant is very different.
In fact, don't talk about the maid, even if it is the miss of the Shi family and the little maid of the Jia family, the living conditions are very different.
The ladies of the Jia family, each of them was surrounded by more than a dozen slaves, large and small, and all their affairs were taken care of by the slaves. Occasionally I want to do needlework, but I also have my own thoughts, what I want to do, and who I want to do for whom. If you don't want to do it, if you idle for three or five months, the elders will not say anything.
Every grandmother and lady of the Shi family have to make their own clothes, shoes and socks by themselves, and for these needlework, they often have to stay up until midnight. If you happen to do a little bit for others, your family will not be happy.
The ladies of the Jia family, the monthly money of two or two silver per month, no matter how they dispose of it, if it is not enough, they can also find their sister-in-law Wang Xifeng to play with, and ask for some more. Ping'er also once said that the pocket money of the girls in Jia Province was set up for the convenience of the girls.
The monthly money of missing ladies of the historians is not so simple. When Shi Xiangyun was preparing to set up a banquet in the Grand View Garden to invite the sisters to write poems, Xue Baochao once said, "You have a total of several strings of money a month, and you are not entangled enough, this will do this irrelevant thing again, your aunt heard it, and complained more and more about you, moreover, it is not enough for you to take it out to be the host."
Xue Baochao's words revealed that even if Shi Xiangyun's monthly money reached her own hands, how she spent it was, to a certain extent, was also limited by Shi Jia's aunt. If it is used for "things that don't matter", it will definitely be complained about by the aunt.
Moreover, in "Dream of the Red Chamber", a few strings of money and a few hanging money are not a concept. On the thirty-sixth occasion, Madame Wang interrogated Wang Xifeng, "How much is the monthly money of Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zhou?" Wang Xifeng said: "That is the rule, two or two per person. Aunt Zhao has two or two of the ring brothers, a total of four two, and another four strings of money. ”
These four strings of money are the monthly money of Aunt Zhao's servants. In the dialogue between Wang Xifeng and Madame Wang later, it is not difficult for us to deduce that four strings of money are actually equal to one hanging money. So, a string of money is actually two hundred and fifty copper coins. Therefore, Shi Xiangyun's monthly money of several strings of money per month was far less than the two or two pieces of silver of The Ladies of Jia Fu.
Shi Jia's ladies still only have four strings of money every month, and they have to do needlework until three more midnight every day, not to mention Shi Jia's servants.
Therefore, when Cui Miao changed from the handmaiden of the Jia family to the servant of the Shi family, what followed was more heavy work and a sharp decrease in monthly money.
If you are an ordinary person, do more things, take less monthly money, will definitely be very dissatisfied. However, Cui Wei obviously did not care about this, she was doing more heavy work than before, holding more than half of the monthly money than before, but she still lived the happiest.
On the thirty-first occasion, there was a very interesting conversation between Shi Xiangyun and Cui Wei. This heartless and lungless girl showed her cheerful optimism to the fullest. Hearing Shi Xiangyun say, "Flowers and grasses are the same as people, have sufficient qi pulses, and grow well", this young man immediately laughed and said, "I don't believe this, if I say that I am the same as people, why don't I see a person with a head on the head of a person?" ”
Such a funny dialogue is not unrelated to Cui's frank and lovely personality. In this regard, Shi Xiangyun and Cui Wei can be said to be a "match made in heaven", which can be regarded as the most general pair of master servants in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
At the same time, we can also see that Cui Wei really does not care that her work is not proportional to her monthly money. Compared with those ladies in Jia Fu who do not know the blessings in the blessings, the personality of Cui Wei can be said to be very cute and optimistic.
From the handmaiden next to Jia Mu to Shi Xiangyun's handmaiden, Cui Wei did not care about those things outside her body, but instead lived the happiest look.