Today's time mainly talks about two things, one is the wet nurse who was closest to Li Zhen'er, and the other is the coffin mentioned by Uncle Hua last time.
This nursing mother is not Guan Ge'er's nursing mother Ruyi'er, she is Li Zhen'er's nursing mother- Lao Feng.
As mentioned in the previous article, Mother Feng is now looking at the house for Ximen Qing in Lion Street, and for a while she always greeted Wang Liu'er, trying to earn some ximen Qing's reward.
In fact, this is not the most profitable livelihood of Feng's mother, since Li Zhen'er married into Ximen Province, she has been engaged in the business of human trafficking.
Old Feng sells very young girls, and occasionally has a daughter-in-law in her eighteen or nineteens and early twenties;
The source of these people is not explained in the book, but the next home is found by Lao Feng himself.
Often out of nowhere to buy two or three girls, Old Feng raised them in the house on Lion Street, and then all parties inquired and sold them to each family for a price of a few dozen taels of silver.
Sell it and buy a new one, and the cycle will start over and over again.
In Ximen Mansion alone, Lao Feng once sold three little girls, li jiao'er, Wu Yueniang, and Sun Xue'e, for five or two pieces of silver; this is not counting the two in the family of the sixth son of the concubine Wang Liu'er.
In this way, it seems that Lao Feng's business is doing well.
Before selling them, Lao Feng had to keep them and take care of their food and shelter, but the quality of food and accommodation was particularly low.
How low is it? We'll talk about that later.
This old Feng had once contributed to Li Zhen'er, when the good Han of Liangshan attacked the Daming Mansion, Li Zhen'er, who was still a concubine of Liang Zhongshu at that time, not only did not lose her life, but also took away a large amount of property, and it was this old Feng who accompanied her.
Xiao Qiao has always been very strange: this old Feng has no children and no daughters, in Ximen Mansion, food and clothing are worry-free, Li Bottle'er treats her not thin, and the silver two clothes are not less for her.
She is biased, where there is money to earn, she will run wherever she wants, and her legs and feet are sharp like an old mother in her fifties.
What does she do with all this money? So weird!
We didn't talk to Lao Feng face to face, we didn't know what she really thought, only that she was an old godly woman who was bent on getting into the eyes of money.
In these days when Li Zhen'er was seriously ill, Ximen Qing had repeatedly ordered Xiao Wei to ask Lao Feng to come back to accompany him, but Xiao Wei went several times, and he always couldn't see Lao Feng's people, leaving a message, and she never came.
From another point of view, it can also be seen that this old Feng is indeed very busy - the business of human trafficking needs to travel in many ways, and it is not idle for a moment.
Today, Old Feng finally came, and when he entered the door, he smiled and said a blessing to Li Zhen'er.
Ruyi'er said with disgust: "Mother Feng, why don't you come to see Niangniang?" Yesterday, Dad made peace again and called you, saying that you locked the door and did not know where to go. ”
Old Feng first sighed: "I can't say that I am bitter." I went to the temple all day to practice the Fa and went out in the morning, and it was until the black, not until the black came home, but there were those Zhang monks, Li monks, and Wang monks. ”】
Ruyi'er laughed at her: "Why do you have so many monks in your old man's house?" Wasn't Master Wang with you then? ”
Li Zhen'er listened, smiled slightly, and scolded: "This mother, just let the wind blow." ”
Ruyi'er smiled and said, "Mother Feng." Shouting that you are not coming yet! The mother can't eat the porridge these days, and her heart has been impatient, and you just came, which caused the mother to smile. If you serve in the old man's house for two days, it will be good to keep your mother's illness. ”
Mother Feng also laughed and said, "I am your mother's doctor who eliminated disasters!" ”
Li Zhen'er has not laughed for a long time, we have not really calculated, it must be a long time, but today she was laughed at by Mother Feng once, which was very rare.
But this is only a joke that has been said halfway, originally there is no need for Xiao Riding to write it down completely, it can be summed up in one sentence, only to say that Old Feng came and bo Li Bottle'er smiled.
But the hidden affair of this paragraph is actually very important, related to the character of Lao Feng, the character of the allusion, so almost not a word can be less.
Since it has been a few years since I first saw this metaphor, I really can't remember what I saw from that book, and I have forgotten who the author is, and I am sorry.
There is a point in that book that this Feng mother is actually alluding to the great eunuch Feng Bao, and that the Zhang monk, the Li monk, and the Wang monk allude to Zhang Juzheng and others who control the government together with Feng Bao, and that the 'temple' here also alludes to the court, and the 'revision' alludes to the implementation of the law.
Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng were both important ministers of the Jiajing Dynasty, one inside and one outside, implementing the reform measures of 'one whip law', and in the eyes of those of us who came after them, they were all reformers and good ministers of ZTE.
However, at that time, people did not think so, first of all, since the reform will definitely shake the interests of some people, it is easy to produce the opposite emotions in the absence of anyone really experiencing the benefits;
And the reform policy may be good, but when it is implemented, it is crooked and distorted, and those who deserve benefits are not obtained, and even the original benefits are not preserved, which is also the reason why there are very few supporters.
In the end, the change of law failed, and the fate of Feng Bao and others was also very sad, making those literati even more ridiculed.
Failures are often like this, and they get far less sympathy than they do.
As a result, the vast majority of literati are opposed and ironic about their reform strategy, and it is not surprising that this attitude is expressed in "Jin Ping Mei".
And this Feng Bao was very greedy, according to legend, he built more than 5,000 houses in his hometown, covering an area spanning two counties.
This disposition is also very similar to Lao Feng.
Regardless of whether it is true or not, we just have to listen to it, since people have put forward this hypothesis, naturally there is still some truth.
Ximen Qing came in to see Old Feng and asked her why she didn't come these days?
Old Feng complained, "My grandfather, why don't I come?" These days, I only care about pickles in the house, and when someone brings those karmic obstacles, it is better to give them food, otherwise I have the spare money to buy vegetables for them to eat? ”
Ximen Qing then said, "If you hadn't told me earlier, it would have been enough to pick up two or three ridges for you yesterday when I started cooking in that zhuangzi." ”
The mother-in-law smiled and said, "You have to be your old man again!" ”
The previous paragraph of Feng Baozi's statement to Ruyi'er is completely different from this paragraph's statement to Ximen Qing.
That passage says that she went to the temple all day to practice the Fa; this paragraph tells the truth--she is engaged in the business of buying and selling people.
This mother-in-law's words were very unbelievable, very cunning, and a few words took advantage of Ximen Qing's several ridges of vegetables.
There is also a story behind Feng Baozi, first put her aside, and then talk about the coffin.
In the morning, Hanako's eldest brother, Hanako, came to visit and went out and said to Ximen Qing, "You should prepare a coffin board for her early. ”
Ximen Qing did not express his position at that time, and returned to the room and said to Li Zhen'er: "Don't worry, I will first prepare a pair of coffin wood for you, give you a flush, and manage this disease." ”
Out of Li Zhen'er's house, Ximen Qing summoned his son-in-law Chen Jingji and the housekeeper Ben Si and asked him to inquire where there was a good coffin, no matter how much money it was, as long as it was good.
The two of them ran around, but they didn't find a good one, and on the way back, they met Qiao Dahu, and heard him say that Shangju's family had a good coffin, so Qiao's family went with him to discuss buying it.
Shangjuren's coffin was brought back by his father when he was a push official in Chengdu, and there were originally two pairs, and Shangjuren's mother used one, leaving only the current one.
Shangju asked for three hundred and seventy-two pieces of silver when he opened his mouth, and Qiao Dahu talked for half a day, and was only willing to let fifty taels more;
Ximen Qing listened and said, "Bring three hundred and twenty-two to it, but don't let outsiders know." ”
At dusk, the coffin board wrapped tightly in large red felt strips was carried in, and Ximen Qing looked at it with joy, and it was indeed a good board.
The corresponding earl said, "This board has also been seen." ”
Count Ying boasted: "Originally, it was said that the marriage version always has one master for one thing, and the sister-in-law followed the brother, and it is indeed enough to receive this plate today." ”
He also commanded the craftsmen: "You do it with your heart, and as long as you do it well, your father will reward you with five or two pieces of silver." ”
There are craftsmen and plates, so they are built overnight, and Ximen Qing watches from the side, and sees that it is more genius to go back to the room.
At the request of the Earl's resignation, Ximen Qinglian told him: "Tomorrow morning, I will go and invite Pan Daoshi to come, and we must not delay." ”
Count Ying agreed and resigned.
Ximen Qing returned to Li Zhen'er's room and wanted to accompany her for one night, because there was Wang Guzi and Old Feng, Li Zhen'er refused, Ximen Qing went out, and went to Pan Jinlian again...
Three hundred and twenty-two can buy more than sixty fourteen and fifteen-year-old little girls, enough for ordinary people to live a moist life for fifteen or sixteen years, is Wu Song's first ten years of Feng Lu.
Ximen Qing bought such a coffin board for Li Zhen'er.
Not to say that Ximen Qing did not feel sorry for money at all, he only wanted to give Li Bottler the best; he only said that he was sad because he saw the coffin and wanted to accompany Li Bottler for one night.
At this time, Ximen Qing really felt that Li Zhen'er was about to leave him, and there were many things he wanted to say to her, but Li Zhen'er was worried that he would not rest well, and once again he did not stay!
Originally thinking of Li Zhen'er, she came out of her room, turned her head and slipped into Pan Jinlian's bed...
I don't know how to describe this guy with no heart and no lungs!
The focus of the next time is still Ximen Qing, look at his tenderness and his several times of crying and tears, and deepen the understanding of the other side of him.
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