Dream of the Red Chamber Continued Text 173: After Lin Daiyu's death, Jia Mu made a big fuss, consumed a sum of money, and resolved a crisis, and Madame Wang couldn't help but cry afterwards
(Creative Introduction: According to the first eighty times of "Dream of the Red Chamber", analyzing the development trend of things and exploring the original meaning is a unique way to read "Dream of the Red Chamber".) This article starts with the treasures hidden in Jia Province by the Zhen family in Jiangnan and speculates on the story that happened later. ）
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When the wind and rain in Jia Province were shaking, Lin Daiyu died in tears.
How to deal with the aftermath has become a problem that must be faced.
The standard of jia fu handling aftermath is very high.
After Qin Keqing's death, Jia Zhen gave everything he could and held a grand funeral, and the four kings and eight dukes, outside the palace, and people with heads and faces and friendships sent people to the scene to offer sacrifices and funerals.
After Jia Jing's death, when the funeral was delivered, the alleys were empty and the scene was grand.
When Lin Daiyu died, jia fu was no longer beautiful, and it was already unable to make ends meet. On Baoyu's birthday, Lin Daiyu said to him privately:
"Our family is also too expensive. Although I do not care about things, my heart is always idle, and I calculate for you, and if I do not save money now, I will not take over my hands. (Dream of the Red Chamber, 62nd)
There was a financial crisis, and Lin Daiyu was not a descendant of the Jia family, so Jia Zheng, Madame Wang, Wang Xifeng and others advocated that everything should be simplified and a quick decision should be made quickly.
After Madame Wang reported her thoughts and reasons to Jia Mu, Jia Mu resolutely opposed it and clearly said to Madam Wang, "Use the Zhen family's property and make a big fuss!" ”
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When Madame Wang heard about the Zhen family's belongings, she panicked.
After the embroidered spring sac appeared in the Grand View Garden, she was terrified in her heart and took someone to Wang Xifeng's room to ask for questions.
Wang Xifeng patiently explained and put forward the suggestion of inspecting the Grand View Garden at night. On the second day of the night inspection of the Grand View Garden, when You Shi wanted to go to Madame Wang's room, the old grandmothers around her quietly reminded: "Grandma and don't go to the upper room." Only a few people from the Zhen family came, and there were still some things, but I don't know what secret things they were doing. Grandma is afraid that this is inconvenient. You Shi listened, "Yesterday I heard your grandfather say that I saw that the Zhen family had committed a crime, and now they have confiscated their furniture and transferred them to Beijing to deal with the crime." How come someone is coming? The old lady said, "Exactly." Only a few women came, the look was not colorful, panicked, presumably there was something hidden. (Dream of the Red Chamber, 75th)
Madame Wang thought she had done it cleverly, but she didn't expect Jia Mu to know it.
At the beginning, Madame Wang's idea was very simple, the Zhen family and the Jia family were friends, the two sides were old relatives, the Jia family once stored 5 taels of silver in the Zhen family, (reference basis: "Dream of the Red Chamber" The 16th time, Jia Lian asked about the silver needed to buy a play, Jia Qiang said: "Grandpa Lai said, there is no need to bring it down from Beijing, the Zhen family in Jiangnan still receives us fifty thousand silver." Tomorrow we will write a letter and we will take the ticket, first spend 30,000, the remaining 20,000 are stored, and then use it after purchasing flowers and candles. The Opportunity of the Zhen Family's Suffering, Storing Money in the Jia Family, is beyond reproach.
After this incident, she did not tell Jia Mu, so when Jia Mu mentioned this money, she was panicking.
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Jia Mu understood Madame Wang's thoughts, and when she got the news, she wanted to stop it, and mu had become a boat, and she could only pretend not to know.
"Human feelings are like thin sheets of paper, and the world is like a new chess game." Jia Mu has been through the world for a long time, feels more about the situation facing Jia Fu, and has a deeper sense of the dangers around her.
The Zhen family has had the honor of taking over the car four times, but still can't escape the fate of being raided, which implies that Jia Fu will also usher in the difficulty of raiding the family. (Reference: In the 74th time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Tanchun scolded Wang Xifeng and others: "Don't be busy, naturally even the days you copied!" You didn't get up early this morning to talk about the Zhen family, and you did a good copy of your own home, and sure enough, you really copied it today. We're coming too...")
Madame Wang was stupid and did not fully estimate the harm of harboring the property of the criminal courtiers.
Jia Mu could not ignore it, as the ancestor of Jia Province, solving the crisis of the Zhen family's money and goods brought into Jia Province in Jiangnan became a problem that must be solved but was difficult to solve.
Lin Daiyu's death provided an opportunity.
The property of the Zhen family that Madame Wang hid could be turned into things stored by the Lin family in the Zhen family, and the Zhen family was returned before it was raided. By handling Lin Daiyu's aftermath and holding a beautiful funeral, not only can this money be exhausted, but also the crisis that Madame Wang brought into Jia Province can be resolved, killing two birds with one stone.
Of course, this kind of move can not make many people believe, but the money is used to deal with Lin Daiyu's aftermath, it can be determined that it is Lin Daiyu's money, whether outsiders believe it or not is not important, the important Jia Mu believes.
Jia Zheng, Madame Wang, Wang Xifeng and others quickly understood Jia Mu's thoughts and immediately organized everyone to organize a grand funeral for Lin Daiyu.
At the funeral, Madame Wang thought of her own stupidity, thought of Jia Mu's ingenious arrangement, thought of Lin Daiyu's death, both ashamed and grateful, accompanied by the cries of the crowd, and could not help but cry...
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