We Chinese look down on slaves in our hearts. This kind of contempt for a long time has become a kind of hatred and contempt in the bones, so there are titles such as "soft bones" and "dog legs".
But on the other hand, we are afraid of slaves.
Why be afraid? Because slaves have masters behind them, and there must be a certain power. In fact, the masters of the power are not necessarily how terrible, after all, we are ordinary people, and the eight rods cannot be beaten. But if the slaves have to "fox fake tiger power" and "dog fighting human power", it is really enough to drink a pot.
This may be the reason why some people, although they feel that being a slave is suffocated, are still willing to be a slave.
Just like the Zhou Rui family in "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Zhou Rui's family is a title for married women in the north, which means Zhou Rui's daughter-in-law. What is the origin of this Zhou Rui family? It turned out that she was Lady Wang's companion, and together with her husband Zhou Rui, she worked as a slave in the Rongguo Mansion.
She has a daughter, married to a son-in-law named Leng Zixing, and is an antique dealer.
On this day, the Zhou Rui family took Grandma Liu into the Rongguo Mansion and met Wang Xifeng. After sending Grandma Liu away, she went to talk back to Madame Wang.
At that time, Madame Wang was in the Lixiang Courtyard, talking to Aunt Xue about the family.
When the Zhou Rui family saw it, they naturally did not dare to be alarmed, so they went to the back room to find Xue Baochao to gossip. As a result, before the two of them could say much, Madame Wang called out to her again.
She hurried out and returned to Madame Wang.
Who knows, after Madame Wang listened, she didn't say a word and directly left it there. Obviously, Lady Wang had an opinion in her heart about the Zhou Rui family's taking Grandma Liu into the RongGuo Mansion.
Zhou Rui's family stood for half a day, bored, and wanted to leave. Thanks to this time, Aunt Xue smiled and stopped her, and asked Xiangling to take out a small brocade box, but inside was twelve palace flowers of Shaza, asking her to help give a share to the sisters in the house.
This is not a big deal, Zhou Rui's family will first send Yingchun and Tanchun, followed by Xichun.
The three of them were in a harmonious mess. When sending flowers to Feng Jie, she was first waved by the little girl Feng Er and instructed to go to the East House, and then when she saw Ping'er, she divided two flowers and let them be sent to the Qin clan of NingGuo Mansion, and waited until she returned, and then gave up.
If not to mention that slaves are not good! Even the anger of the people around the master has to be endured.
However, that's not all.
After sending everyone else, Zhou Rui's family went to Jia Mu and sent the last two palace flowers to Lin Daiyu. At that time, Lin Daiyu was in Jia Baoyu's room, and the two of them played together in a series of nine.
Zhou Ruijia's explanation came to mind, Jia Baoyu was impatient first, rushing to see what kind of palace flowers it was.
Lin Daiyu was very indifferent, only looked at Jia Baoyu's hand, and casually asked whether it was only given to himself, or did other sisters have it? Zhou Rui's family replied like this:
"You all have it, these two branches belong to the girl."
This is also a bit of a level. But in front of Lin Daiyu, a sentence pierced her:
"I knew that if no one else picked the rest, they wouldn't give it to me."
It's just plain wrong. Just because of these twelve palace flowers, Zhou Rui's family was busy for most of the day without touching the ground, and was instructed by Ping'er not to say a word, and when he came, he was choked by Lin Daiyu and could not say a word.
If you don't say that you are a slave to people, you will have to endure any anger!
But then again, is it that as long as you are a slave, you can only be angry all day long in addition to being angry? Especially to be a slave to a family like Jia Fu?
Of course not.
When the Zhou Rui family sent flowers to the palace, there was such a plot: on the way to Jia Mu's place, the Zhou Rui family actually met their daughter who was already married.
Why is her daughter here?
In her daughter's words, Leng Zixing had a dispute with someone while drinking, and did not think that the other party had actually sued the government on the grounds of "unknown origin" and said that he would be deported back to his hometown. In fact, it was Leng Zixing who was sued when he was selling antiques.
As for why sell an antique, he was also sued by the other party?
There is no explicit statement in the book, only speculation.
In short, the daughter saw that her husband might be deported back to her hometown, and she was suddenly anxious and hurried back to her mother's house to think about it. Who knew that Zhou Rui's family was busy sending palace flowers, and most of the day did not see back, so the daughter found it.
Just by looking at her daughter's rush into such a posture, I know that this lawsuit should be quite difficult.
Who knew that after the Zhou Rui family heard this, they actually reprimanded their daughter:
"What's this, busy so."
"The little man's family hasn't gone through anything, so you're in such a hurry."
Look at the tone of the people's speech, just like she is a master sitting in the court to judge the case. Next, she directly took her daughter back and let her wait for the news at home.
And the Zhou Rui family, or what to do, did not rest assured of this matter at all.
Is it really not taken to heart?
"The Zhou Rui family is fighting for the snobbery of the master, and at night they only ask sister Feng to finish."
What is Fox Fake Tiger Wei? What is dog fighting?
Just like the Zhou Rui family.
But then again, don't say that the ancient times are gone, it is put on hold now: If a small people like you and me can have a job like the Zhou Rui family, how many people are not willing to do it?
Yes, the Zhou Rui family was a slave sent by others in the Rongguo Mansion.
But when she walked out of the RongGuo Mansion, she wasn't sure how many people would get on the pole to tie the knot! Besides, Rong Guofu is powerful and powerful, but no matter how powerful it is, in the end, it is not the same as the slave of the emperor's family!
Therefore, most people's mentality towards slaves is actually very contradictory.
Although we all look down on slaves in our hearts, we are often afraid of slaves. Sometimes, even if we want to be a slave to someone, we often don't get it.
This is the real human world.