In "Dream of the Red Chamber", the four major families are rich people, but their relatives and friends are not all rich. Like the Xing Xiuyan family, Jia Yun, Jia Qin and other Jia family children can even be said to be poor.
Xing Xianyan has no fixed home and lives by renting a house.
Jia Yun also has no industry, and has to look for a job at a low level.
Jia Qin was even more profligate, not even looking like the New Year, and was scolded by Jia Zhen.
But just like that, there are still little girls at home. Like Grandma Juan, who is in a slightly better situation, she also takes a car and takes a car when she goes out, and she can't see how poor she is.
Then, in "Dream of the Red Chamber", these poor people, Grandma Lai all said that "the root is starving and starving", why can they still afford to use the handmaiden? There are two reasons for this.
First, the "poor people" are not so poor.
Xing Xianyan, Jia Yun, Jia Qin, these people belonged to the "broken" nobles, and they were not so poor.
Just like Liu Xianglian's kind of broken settlement, there are also small apricot slaves under her hands, and it is not excluded that there are one or two servants who wash clothes and cook.
Xing Xiuyan's father was Lady Xing's older brother, and he was not a very good person. However, Lady Xing was able to marry Jia Shu, the eldest son of rongguofu, to "fill in the house" and become a hereditary first-class knighthood lady, and the original family was absolutely well-off.
Later, Lady Wenxing's younger brother, Uncle Xing, complained that the family property was in the hands of her sister Lady Xing and had to be issued regularly, which also showed that the Xing family still had a family foundation.
Xing Xiuyan's family had no real estate before entering Beijing, and lived by renting the property in the Miaoyu Temple, and the relationship between Xing Zhong and Lady Xing's sisters and brothers was "doubtful" and was not mentioned.
Just saying that Xing Zhong would rather rent a house than find a rural area to buy two houses to work as a farmer shows that as urban people, they can live a living.
Similar situations like Wu Dalang of "Water Margin" are also rented and not poor.
After all, Xing Xiuyan is the big miss of the Xing family, and she is also a "rich" bridesmaid, the standard of education is not bad, and no matter how poor she is, she must have a little girl to serve.
And Xing Xianyan's parents were originally "people with bad wine", and if they could persevere, they would never be poor like Grandma Liu.
There is also a mother and daughter of you who also said that the family road is difficult. It's just that relatively speaking, it is more than enough than the top and the bottom.
As for Jia Yun, the people of the Jia family, although they can't be as rich as the long house, each has its own decline and fall. But after all, it is not so poor that it is jingles. The situation is still stronger than Liu Xianglian.
The property is inherited, and there will be some industries, so that it will not really be impossible to eat. Moreover, the rich and noble cannot watch them starve to death, and will give subsidies and help.
It is not surprising that Jia Yun also has little girls to serve in his family, they are also "grandfathers" and "grandmothers", and there should still be pomp and circumstance.
And poverty is relative, compared with the Jia family, all families are poor. Grandma Liu's family was poorer than all the others. But Grandma Liu's family can also feed themselves, but they just don't have savings. More than her poor family. So, there are many kinds of poverty. At least Xing Xianyan and Jia Yun were just shy in their pockets, not that they couldn't live.
Therefore, the author also wrote about ordinary people's families, such as Jin Ronghu's widows and wives who have no servants, Jia Yun's uncle Bu Shiren's family also does not have one, and there is a drunken King Kong Ni Er, they are ordinary people in society.
Second, labor is too cheap.
Xing Xianyan and Jia Yun had envoys, mainly because the labor at that time was too cheap.
The slaves of the Ningrong Second House were basically two kinds of children born at home and bought. There are also "part-time" or professional servants hired like the teachers of Thei-in Temple.
The master is responsible for all expenses of the children and the slaves who are bought, and the monthly money received on a monthly basis is different from the outside wage, more like a subsidy.
However, part-time or external "servants" are different from children at home, and they have a clearly marked salary.
Ancient society had special "professional servants", such as cooks, palanquins, including servants, etc., who were engaged in the "servant" profession.
"Exercises" like Lixiangyuan require monthly wages. Another example is the hired cook, the accounting office, and the tutor, whose salaries are higher, more than the monthly money of the family's children.
But there is also a category of people who have no skills and do not want to lose their freedom, and will be employed as servants.
Like the little ladies in Jia Yun's family and Zhou Rui's family, most of them are "please", how much money is given in a month or a year. They are different from the Jia family's handmaidens, and their personal freedom is similar to that of the current nanny. If you don't want to do it, don't do it.
If someone needs a short-term amount of money and is not willing to sell the "death contract" like an attacker, he will also sign a contract for several years. When the time comes, you will choose to leave, and you will not be a slave forever.
Relatively speaking, the price of servants who serve people is not expensive. In particular, the little girls are cheaper, and even some poor families are willing to give their children a bite to eat and have a way to live.
In the forty-fifth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Xiang Guozheng of Xiuning County voluntarily called his second daughter Fengdi, who was seven years old, and sold wang mansion as a daughter, "receiving a financial gift of silver five or two whole"
In the forty-eighth year of Qianlong, Mandou bought Zheng Rong and his wife Liu Shi, his son-in-law Gao Shou'er, and his daughter-in-law as slaves, and used their silver for twenty-five taels
This is the price of the Qing Dynasty people sold into slavery. But five or six two silver one person.
Like Jia Yun and Xing Xiuyan, the family members are all little girls. Even if you buy it, it is not worth a few dollars, and you can still make money by selling it when you are older.
Generally speaking, the little girls under the age of thirteen or fourteen are the cheapest, and the master should teach them the rules to eat, and may only provide "food, clothing, shelter and transportation" without spending money, which is completely within their scope.
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