Jia Zheng had two concubines, Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zhou.
Aunt Zhao needless to say, but brushed enough sense of existence, she gave birth to a pair of children, and was quite pampered by Jia Zheng, and the concubine room could do this, which is also a model of success. How many of her dreams of the ultimate goal she had achieved, and with a place to live, she also had to rely on for the rest of her life, at least she had no worries about food and clothing. But Aunt Zhao's quality is too poor, not four, will not be a person, will not come to things, although she is half a master, but still a city shrew frame style, often become the joke and talk of everyone, that is, those small dramas and small girls do not put her in the eyes.
Aunt Zhou was another concubine of Jia Zheng, but her sense of existence was much lower than that of Aunt Zhao. She was like a shadow, obscure, and easily overlooked. It seems that these two concubines are diametrically opposed styles. One is a red rose and the other is a white rose.
However, through the mouth of exploring spring, we know that although Aunt Zhou is low-key, she is respected and has a bit of face, which is much more reliable than her own mother-in-law, who is not light or heavy, and will only cause trouble. After Aunt Zhao had a fight with a few small dramas, Tanchun once again tried to persuade Aunt Zhao bitterly, and mentioned Aunt Zhou, "You look at Aunt Zhou, why didn't anyone deceive him, and he didn't look for anyone to go?" In Tanchun's view, Aunt Zhou's style of acting is more in line with the standards of an aunt, and the mother-in-law can't move to fight with people, and even tear up with slaves, which is too detrimental to face and does not help.
Aunt Zhou appears very rarely, and even if she appears, she will not attract attention. Like Aunt Zhao, she did work such as opening curtains, but she was actually half a slave. Aunt Zhou does not have a single line in the whole text, but through the side, it can be seen that this is an unfavored, frustrated concubine, and Aunt Zhao are two very different styles. The impatient Aunt Zhao and the silent Aunt Zhou are indeed very clear.
Aunt Zhao is Xu Niang and half old, and Aunt Zhou should also be an old pearl yellow. Moreover, having been an aunt for so many years, she did not have a son and a half daughter, let alone Jia Zheng's love. From the perspective of Jia Zheng's petting aunt Zhao, Jia Zheng prefers this kind of woman with a wild and spicy taste, which complements his own personality, while Aunt Zhou is mostly not as beautiful as Aunt Zhao, and even less like Aunt Zhao's flamboyant personality. For Jia Zheng, it is enough to have a serious wife, and then a warm aunt is just a formality. Aunt Zhou is not a white moonlight, nor a white rose, but a rice sticker on the sleeve. Jia Zheng's attitude towards her directly determines her living conditions in Jia Province. And, it's only going to get worse.
Therefore, Aunt Zhou's life has never been highlighted. Whether or not she volunteered to be a concubine for Jia Zheng, her married life was uneventful. There is no love of the lord, but there is the harshness and suppression of the concubine by the master mother, in this harsh environment, Aunt Zhou can only swallow her anger, be alone, want to have her own children, want to have a stable second half of life, it is simply a daydream.
Aunt Zhao jumped all day long, and there was always no time to be satisfied. Aunt Zhou, however, was ignored day after day, and she lived herself into a shadow. Aunt Zhao has children and daughters, although she is middle-aged, Jia Zheng still comes to her house from time to time to rest, she still complains to herself, saying how difficult it is to live, and she has boiled oil for so many years. In fact, Aunt Zhao is not all about the river, and the situation of the aunt is already embarrassing. But if Aunt Zhao, who has children and daughters and someone to protect, is it so difficult for Aunt Zhao to have nothing, isn't Aunt Zhou even more upset?
Aunt Zhou threw her youth in Jia Province, and all she got was to ignore it. When you are young, you are not loved, and when you are older, no one pays attention to it. Doesn't she keep a low profile? Can she find someone to find something? That's not more repulsive. Aunt Zhou was bottomless. She has a humble identity, has nothing, no strength, no Lizi, no Lizi, even if others can give a little face, it is also to see the mood of others.
Who's going to be bored with themselves? Like Aunt Zhao, she is full of wind and waves and is laughed at? In the final analysis, it is not who is afraid of her, who wants to want her, but that she has that qualification, and others hate her anymore, but looking at the love of her excellent daughter Tanchun, they can only be more responsible for her. Raising offspring is the greatest role of the aunt and the greatest credit. Therefore, Aunt Zhao can swing wildly. But Aunt Zhou couldn't. If she did that, she would become a real joke in the mansion, and she would be more ridiculed and oppressed.
Moreover, Aunt Zhou didn't even have children. What is she fighting for, and what is there to fight for? Since it is impossible to fight, why bother to annoy people in vain? Even if the dispute comes, of course, this is only a hypothesis, and who can the dispute be given to? She herself is already middle-aged, and it is even more impossible to get Jia Zheng's liking, and the meaning of her existence seems to be only alive for herself.
Aunt Zhou was already living without a sense of existence. Of course, this is also a way for her to survive. Perhaps, she also has many beautiful visions, perhaps, she also longs to get the second half of her life to rely on, who would not want it? However, after half a life, the real environment has allowed her to see through it, and it has also made her understand that her own situation can only be like this. No one would ask her if she was doing well, and no one would care if she was happy or not, and all the suffering, only she knew.
However, it is not necessarily all bad to be able to get out of the noisy struggle and become a useless person, even a wasted person. She lives a life of her own alone, and her light personality will make her have a more transparent view of life. She will not live like Aunt Zhao, living an incomparably tangled life, even if she gets it, it will still be more painful.
Aunt Zhou was already so non-existent. No one thinks of her, but when she is exploited, others cannot forget her. When Wang Xifeng celebrated her birthday, Jia Mu asked everyone to pool money for Feng Jie's birthday, and Feng Jie actually thought of detaining the aunts' money for fun. You shi couldn't look at it anymore, and said bluntly, what to do with these two bitter urns! Aunt Zhou and Aunt Zhao did not dare not give it, and even when You Shi wanted to return the money to them, they did not dare to take it. It wasn't until Youshi patted his chest and promised that they dared to take it.
Admittedly, no one in the house took the initiative to find trouble for Aunt Zhou. Because she has lived so humblely, and she has not offended anyone's interests, and she will not go through with anyone, who will have enough to eat and have nothing to do, and go to her trouble? To put it bluntly, it is not necessary, and it cannot be committed.
As Tanchun said, Aunt Zhou would not look for anyone to go. She didn't have too high requirements, and she didn't expect anything, so why did she look for someone else? Isn't it self-inflicted? Aunt Zhao, one is enough.
Don't think that Aunt Zhou really has face. Yes, others seem to have given her face, and possibly even a few fluttering compliments. But such praise has neither temperature nor use, so what is it for? Everyone also knows that Aunt Zhou's face is only face. And there is no lizi, there is a little face in the air, there is a little wind and grass, it is not reliable at all, and it is impossible to resist the cruelty of reality, and human feelings are cold and warm.
Aunt Zhou herself understood that she had only this little face left in her life. Others are not rare, and she herself is not rare. She never complained about how hard she was, because no one would care. If you can choose, who does not want to live a life like Aunt Zhao, at least there is a child, and there is a foundation. There is no face, but you have to give her three points of affection.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber" written by Gao Yan, when Aunt Zhao died, Aunt Zhou had a series of psychological activities, rabbits died foxes were sad, and things hurt them, "Do the end of the partial room, but so!" If he has a son, I don't know what will happen when I die!" "Suddenly, the figure of Aunt Zhou was brought closer." But in fact, why should there be these psychological descriptions, the aunt Zhou who was far away and had a vague back was already tasteful enough, and the pen of virtual writing gave people endless imagination space.
She is a shadow, and she does not get real care and warmth except for the two thin noodles given by others. She doesn't have to say anything, she doesn't have to let the reader know anything, it's enough to make people sigh. She lived a life of nothingness, plain and plain, in fact, how could she know that she had not exhausted all her strength?
Author: Ah Wu, this article is to read less of the original works of the Red Chamber.