01
Grandma Liu took Ban Er into the Rongguo Mansion and came uninvited.
When Ping'er saw the two, Zhang Cai's family and Zhou Rui's family were chatting with her in the house, and two or three servants were pouring dates and melons in their pockets and some wild vegetables.
Seeing Ping'er enter the house, Grandma Liu took the initiative to say the motive for coming to the RongGuo Mansion:
"This year, two more stones of grain have been beaten, and melons, fruits, vegetables and vegetables are also abundant." This is the first to pick together, and did not dare to sell it, left the tip of filial piety aunts and grandmothers to taste. The girls are also tired of eating the taste of the mountains and the sea every day, and this eating a wild child can also be regarded as our poor heart. (Dream of the Red Chamber, 39th)
It can be seen from this that Liu Grandma entered the Rongguo Mansion for the second time, carrying 2 bags of melons and fruits selected by the best of the world, mainly to repay Wang Xifeng's financial support and thank the Rongguo Mansion for its help to her.
When Grandma Liu left the Rongguo Mansion, Ping'er said when she sent something away:
"These two pockets were filled with melons and fruits yesterday, and now this one contains two buckets of Oda japonica rice, and it is rare to boil porridge; inside this one are the fruits of the garden and all kinds of dried fruits." (Dream of the Red Chamber, 42nd)
It can be seen from this that Grandma Liu and Ban'er carried a lot of melons and fruits into Jia Province.
So who ate these fruits?
Ping'er revealed the answer.
02
In the face of many gifts, Grandma Liu was at a loss to recite the Buddha, and Ping'er smiled and said:
"At the end of the year, you will only bring some dried gray vegetables and cowpeas, lentils, eggplants, gourd strips, etc. that we love to eat up and down here."
Who does Ping'er refer to as "up and down"?
In fact, it refers to the same level of Ping'er's Ya ring.
Jia Fuli is strictly hierarchical, and the Yahuan are divided into three, six, nine and so on. This is something Mandarin Duck once said.
Jia Yu took a fancy to Mandarin Duck and wanted to take her as a concubine, but Mandarin Duck swore to die and revealed his heart to Ping'er privately:
"This is our good, such as Raider, Amber, Su Yun, Purple Crane, Cai Xia, Yu Jun'er, Musk Moon, Cui Mo, Cui Miao who went with Shi Girl, The Dead Ke Ren and Jin Jun, Xi Xue who went to you and me, these ten or so people, what did they say from childhood?" What not to do? Now that they are all older, they have gone their separate ways, but my heart is still the same, and I have something to say and do not hide from you. ”
From what the Mandarin Duck said, it can be seen that the Yahuan in the Rongguo Mansion is divided into grades, and more than a dozen people, such as Ping'er and Mandarin Duck, belong to the first level.
Dietary protection varies depending on the level.
03
The before-and-after changes in raiding meals amply illustrate this point.
Lady Wang took advantage of Jin Jun'er's death to promote the attacker to "would-be aunt", and one of the landmark moves she made was to reward the attacker with two bowls of dishes.
The attacker was puzzled by the two bowls of vegetables given by Madame Wang, and BaoChao implicitly prompted: "Is this embarrassing?" Ming'er has something more embarrassing to you than this! The raider remembered what Madame Wang meant to herself, and immediately understood that Madame Wang's addition of vegetables meant that her identity had changed. (Dream of the Red Chamber, 35th)
Ping'er dined with Wang Xifeng privately, and she could also see the difference in rank between the two.
After Ping'er and Wang Xifeng reported jia Tanchun's handling of Aunt Zhao's affairs, "Feng'er and three or four little ladies came in and put the small Kang table. Feng Jie only eats bird's nest porridge, two plates of exquisite side dishes, and the daily routine dishes have been temporarily reduced. Feng Er then brought Ping'er's four separate dishes to the table and served rice with Ping'er. (Dream of the Red Chamber, 55th)
From this detail, it can be seen that although Ping'er "calls the wind and rain" in the Rongguo Mansion, the food she eats is still of the Yahuan level.
Therefore, what Ping'er said to Grandma Liu, "We are up and down here", refers to the Yahuan class.
04
What is the significance of Ping'er and others eating Liu Grandma's melon fruit?
For Grandma Liu, it is a kind of hope.
Behind eating is hierarchy, and behind the hierarchy is social stratification. Since ancient times, it has been difficult for the lower layers to flow to the upper layers. For Grandma Liu, being able to give gifts to rongguo mansion is a kind of hope, and it is the possibility that she, a poor person, has the possibility of climbing the Jia family.
I hope to open up the infinite possibilities of life and the beginning of changing the fate of life.
Grandma Liu carried Gua Guo'er into the Rongguo Mansion on her back, hoping to communicate with Lady Wang, Wang Xifeng and others, although The melon fruit was not recognized by the master, but the recognition of Ping'er was also a harvest.
For Ping'er and others, it is a kind of value confirmation.
Ping'er is the identity of "half a master" in RongGuofu, and this identity needs to be recognized within Rongguofu, and it needs to be presented in front of outsiders.
The melon fruit sent in by Grandma Liu is something that is honored to Lady Wang, Wang Xifeng and other "aunts", and eventually becomes food for herself, which is equivalent to confirming her master's identity, which is more comfortable than when she eats Grandma Liu's melon fruit.
Therefore, Ping'er and the others ate the melon fruits that Liu Grandma carried into the Rongguo Mansion, realized Liu Grandma's wishes, and met the needs of Ping'er and others, and finally sent happy and received comfortably, and both sides were very happy.
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