When Jia Mu took out twenty-two pieces of silver to celebrate Xue Baochao's birthday, Lin Daiyu was very unhappy in her heart.
It is not because Jia Mu does not love Lin Daiyu and does not give Lin Daiyu a birthday, but Lin Daiyu mistakenly believes that this is her grandmother's approval of Xue Baochao and her approval of "golden jade good luck". Therefore, when Jia Baoyu came to invite Lin Daiyu to listen to the play, Lin Daiyu couldn't help but sneer: "Since you said this, you specially called a class of plays to come and pick the songs I like to listen to and show me, which will not make it impossible to hesitate to ask me in the light of others." ”
In fact, Lin Daiyu was still too young, and she did not understand her grandmother's mind at this time. Jia Mu did not do this because she liked Xue Baochao, on the contrary, she wanted to use this feast that only cost twenty-two silver to convey her contempt and dislike for Xue Baochao.
Twenty-two pieces of silver were far from enough to cost a banquet in Jia Province. The "crab feast" cost more than twenty taels of silver, or the famous eating of a few, many people did not catch to eat. Wang Xifeng ridiculed Aunt Xue, and when she asked Jia Mu to enjoy the snow and eat wine, she said that she should "weigh fifty taels of silver first" and give it to herself to collect, and when it snows, she will prepare everything. Therefore, for the female relatives of Jia Province, it is more normal for a relatively large-scale feast to spend forty or fifty taels of silver.
And Xue Baochao's birthday party, only twenty-two silver standard, but also including banquets and opera, how to see how to look too simple.
Soon after, Wang Xifeng's birthday feast, which cost one hundred and fifty taels of silver, set off this even more.
Jia Mu took the lead in contributing twenty-two, Aunt Xue was forced to follow with twenty-two silver, Lady Xing and Lady Wang sixteen two, Li Feng and You Shi twelve two (Li Feng actually did not pay for it), several decent housekeepers and mother-in-laws each twelve two, ladies each two two, the servants have two two, there are one or two... In a few moments, Wang Xifeng's birthday gift reached more than one hundred and fifty taels of silver.
There are also wine and dramas, And Xue Baochao's birthday banquet was "generally new small plays, kunyi have both"; Wang Xifeng's "not only have plays, but even men and women who play hundreds of plays and talk about books"; Xue Baochao is in "Jia Mu's upper room has several tables of home-cooked banquets", and Wang Xifeng's banquet is specially placed in the "newly built big flower hall", and its scale is grand, you can imagine.
Wang Xifeng and Xue Baochao are both grandchildren of Jia Mu, Wang Xifeng is Jia Mu's current granddaughter-in-law, and Xue Baochao is Jia Mu's future granddaughter-in-law. At that time, the "golden jade good fortune" had already spread in Jia Province. But the difference between Xue Baochao's birthday party, which cost twenty-two silver, and Wang Xifeng's birthday party, which cost more than one hundred and fifty silver, was too big.
To put it more bluntly, Wang Xifeng's birthday party is the pomp and circumstance of Jia Province! Xue Baochao's birthday party was too shabby. So shabby that even Wang Xifeng dared to joke directly with Jia Mu, saying that this "twenty-two moldy silver" and "enough wine?" Enough drama? ”
Comparing the two, Xue Baochao understood how much Jia Mu hated herself, and that birthday party was simply used to chill the Xue family! How about Jia Mu praising Xue Baochao better than the "four girls" in her own family? It's just a scene. If she wants to be the granddaughter-in-law of the Jia family, she is still far from qualified!
It is no wonder that at first, Xue Baochao desperately patted Jia Mu's ass and used various ways to please Jia Mu, and she liked what Jia Mu liked; later, Xue Baochao's attitude toward Jia Mu changed, and she began to imitate Madame Wang's "frugal style" and seek her aunt's support in this way.
The change in Xue Baochao is actually that she finally understands that Jia Mu will never be able to accept her as the granddaughter-in-law of the Jia family, and it is better to take the road of Madame Wang, which is more hopeful. And Xue Baochao's "frugal style" has also caused Jia Mu greater dissatisfaction, until this time, the contradiction between Jia Mu and Xue Baochao has become irreconcilable.
The two birthday parties in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Xue Baochao's birthday banquet cost twenty-two silver, Wang Xifeng's cost one hundred and fifty silver, the difference is not only the difference in costs, but also Jia Mu's completely different recognition of these two grandchildren.