Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochao were both nieces of Lady Wang, and they both traveled thousands of miles from the land of Jiangnan to the capital and lived in the Jia Mansion.
However, the degree of intimacy between the two nieces and Lady Wang is not consistent, Xue Baochao is the daughter of Lady Wang's sister and has a close blood relationship with Lady Wang, and Lin Daiyu is the daughter of Lady Wang's sister-in-law Jia Min, and has no direct blood relationship with Lady Wang.
It is precisely because of this difference that Madame Wang's attitude towards these two nieces has a very obvious difference. The difference between them is presented to everyone through Madame Wang's address to the two nieces.
Among The Wangs, Xue Baochao will always be a "treasure girl".
That day, Madame Wang went to Lixiangyuan to talk to Aunt Xue, and when Zhou Rui's family went back and forth to Grandma Liu, Aunt Xue asked the Zhou Rui family to bring back the twelve palace flowers and give them to the girls in Jia Province.
Madame Wang said, "Just keep it for bao yatou, and think about them again." ”
The twenty-eighth time, Bao Chao, Dai Yu, Jia Baoyu and others were all talking in Madame Wang's room, and Jia Baoyu said that he needed three hundred and sixty taels of silver to dispense a medicine for Lin Daiyu, and also said that Xue Pan had already been matched, and spent thousands of taels of silver, and said: "Mrs. Bao does not believe it, just ask Sister Bao." ”
When Bao Chao heard this, he smiled and shook his hand: "I don't know, I didn't hear it, don't ask my aunt to ask me." Madame Wang smiled and said, "In the end, it is Bao Yatou, a good boy, who does not lie." ”
And Lin Daiyu in Wang's population will always be a "big girl".
Madame Wang saw Lin Daiyu and asked, "Big girl, is it better for you to take that medicine from Dr. Bao?" ”
Later, when Jia Mu took Grandma Liu to visit the Grand View Garden, she came to Lin Daiyu's Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and Lin Daiyu hurriedly served tea to the elders.
Madame Wang said, "We don't eat tea, and the girl doesn't have to pour it." ”
Girls and girls are very common titles for girls, but they feel different. In "Dream of the Red Chamber", the girl often refers to the noble lady, and the maid often refers to the unmarried girl who is a slave. However, when the elders use these two titles to the juniors, "girl" always makes people feel a distance, a kind of courtesy; "yatou" reveals the closeness and pampering of the elders to the juniors.
Wang Xifeng loves to joke with Lin Daiyu the most, and the relationship between the two people is also relatively close, Wang Xifeng calls Lin Daiyu, many times it is a very close "Lin Yatou", and calling Xue Baochao is often "Xue Girl". In the daily life of Jia Fu, Wang Xifeng did not interact with Xue Baochao very much.
Therefore, just from The different names that Lady Wang called the two nieces Xue Baochao and Lin Daiyu, it can be seen that these two girls have completely different positions in Lady Wang's heart.
For Madame Wang, Xue Baochao, who is related by blood, is her niece and her favorite girl; while Lin Daiyu, who is not related by blood, is an "outsider" from beginning to end, and she maintains a distance and courtesy at all times.
It is no wonder that Lin Daiyu always has a feeling of "sending people to the fence" in Jia Province, and she once lamented that now she lives in her aunt's house, and everything cannot be too arbitrary, not too willful, and as far as possible not to cause trouble to her aunt.
A "bao yatou" and a "big girl" are Madame Wang's completely different recognition of Xue Baochao and Lin Daiyu.