In Jia Province, theft is a rare occurrence. Although the population of Jia Province is large, although each master's room is decorated with countless antique treasures.
Although there are many things and a large population, the rules of Jia Province are very strict. For each item, there is a corresponding person in charge, and if something is lost, there are naturally relevant personnel to take responsibility. This makes everyone dare not take it lightly. Even at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet in Jia Province, there was a thin porcelain teacup missing, and the daughter-in-law who managed the tea set looked for most of the night.
However, in such a strict management, the much-anticipated Yihong Courtyard has been stolen twice: one is the lady who steals jade, and the other is the gold theft.
Cao Xueqin spent a lot of ink and ink to tell the whole process of the matter: because Ping'er and the girls ate barbecue together, they took off the bracelet on their wrists and put it aside, but they didn't expect to eat the barbecue, and the bracelet was gone. Later, aunt Song of Yihong Courtyard found that this precious shrimp whisker bracelet was stolen by the little girl of Yihong Courtyard.
Because Xiang'er stole gold, it led to Liang'er stealing jade——
"I hurriedly took the bracelet and thought about it: Baoyu is partial to your intentions, and it is better to win." That year, there was a good child who stole jade, just cold for a year or two, and some people brought up to take advantage of the wish, this will run out again to steal gold, and even more stole to the neighbors, but he was like this, but his people beat their mouths..."
For the sake of Jia Baoyu's face, Ping'er hid this matter and only told Musk Yue to let her turn around and think of a way to send Xiang'er out.
If you steal something in Jia Province, you will definitely be thrown out, which is an unquestionable rule. In fact, not only Jia Fu, but even in any era and any place, a person who has done such a thing is very rare to be forgiven and accepted.
Xiang'er was thrown out, and Liang'er of that year must have also been thrown out, so among the many servants in Yihong Courtyard, there was never a figure of Liang'er.
A fallen child (sin), a good child, a stealing of gold, a stealing of jade, this detail, absolutely can not be the author's unintentional move, the story behind it, is definitely not simple.
Because we are familiar with the readers of "Dream of the Red Chamber", we all know that in this work, the most important marriage is the "golden jade good relationship". And Xiang'er and Liang'er, one stole gold, one stole jade! The stolen gold and jade actually implies that the "golden jade good fortune" cannot have a good result.
This is the deepest foreshadowing that Cao Xueqin buried in "Dream of the Red Chamber". The Xue family traveled thousands of miles into Beijing for the sake of the golden and jade good fortune; Xue Baochao, for the sake of the golden jade good relationship, ran to the Yihong Courtyard one after another in the middle of the night, regardless of the system; Aunt Xue tried everything to please Jia Mu for the sake of the golden jade good relationship; the Xue family's handmaiden mother-in-law was not idle, and she thought of trying to make friends with the mother-in-law and the maid of the Yihong Courtyard.
For the sake of the golden jade good relationship, the Xue family went to great lengths, but what they never expected was that the "golden jade good relationship" was actually just a lie concocted by the leper monk, destined to endure many setbacks, and would eventually fall into a void.