Siqi wanted to eat steamed eggs, that is, chicken cake, and sent Lotus Tou to talk to the small kitchen steward Liu Family, but he did not expect to be rejected.
The Liu family's excuse that the egg Jin Gui could not buy, said that Si Qi's own sub-case did not eat, did not take advantage of the money, and ate extra small stoves.
So Si Qi, who listened to Lotus's report, became angry and led a group of young ladies in the room to the small kitchen to smash it. The people of the Liu family did not dare to argue in the end, and finally they steamed the eggs and sent them over, and Siqi did not eat them, and they were all spilled on the ground.
The fight in the small kitchen of the Grand View Garden is not only the internal contradiction of the slaves, but also represents the split between the long room and the second room of the Rongguo Mansion.
The Liu family is Jia Zheng's second room slave talent, and Si Qi's is Jia Pardon Changfang slave talent, and the two sides have been resentful from master to slave for a long time.
Cao Xueqin designed the fuse of this contradiction as "egg", which completely metaphorically showed the whole thing.
So, why is this storm that triggered the small kitchen a bowl of "steamed eggs" and not something else? It starts with that bowl of steamed tofu.
Lotus said, "I wanted to eat tofu before, and you made some stuffed ones and told him to eat me." There are no more eggs today. What a good thing, I don't believe that there are no eggs, don't tell me to turn it out. As he spoke, he walked up to the kitchen box, looked at it, saw that there were about ten eggs in it, and said, "Isn't this it?" You're at stake! Eating is the master's, our sub-case, why are you distressed? It's not your eggs, I'm afraid people will eat them. ”
The Liu family didn't steam eggs for Siqi, they just didn't want to do it. There are several reasons for this.
First, it is true that the eggs were expensive at that time, and there were only a dozen in the kitchen, and they had to prepare meals for the master, and they could not eat them casually.
Second, Siqi's behavior of not eating it in its own case, preferring to eat a small stove and not spending money is indeed wrong. The Liu family can't build money for her to do it themselves.
Third, the Liu family's bullying is that they are the people in the Yingchun room, and Yingchun is honest and unprofitable. If you change a master, the Liu family will not categorically refuse.
Especially before the tofu was steamed, now the eggs are not, it is clearly deliberate.
Fourth, from tofu to eggs, it is not a good thing, and Siqi is also too cheap.
Therefore, there is a problem with the whole thing "one slap" not making a sound. The root cause is that Siqi is not taking advantage of enough, and the position of the Liu family is not enough. After all, she gave Qingwen a good job, and not giving Siqi was also a bully.
However, this article focuses on deciphering the meaning of eggs and tofu.
Siqi wants to eat tender steamed eggs, which are very similar to tofu. Modern Japanese tofu, almond tofu and egg custard are no different.
Steamed eggs and steamed tofu essentially represent Jia Yingchun's weakness and deception.
Jia Yingchun's patron is actually not bad, not to mention that she is the eldest granddaughter of Jia Mu's long house, and her father Jia Yu is a hereditary first-class general. Lady Xing, the mother-in-law, is also a big lady who is not easy to mess with. The brother is Jia Lian, and the sister-in-law is Wang Xifeng... It is said that Jia Yingchun did not say that the wind and rain were called, at least no one dared to provoke.
However, the reality is that she has the least sense of existence in the Jia family, and no one takes her seriously. Wang Xifeng directly ignored her little sister-in-law and did not look at her.
"Can't see it" should be the attitude of all Jia family members towards Jia Yingchun. Therefore, Cao Xueqin designed the fuse of this incident storm, using eggs and tofu that are usually "unwatchable".
Tofu and steamed eggs are the most common ingredients, but also fragile and deceitful, and steamed tofu can not be eaten without "love", are the status quo of Jia Yingchun.
Eggs also have the meaning of "originally born from the same root, fried he is too anxious".
One chicken and more eggs, whether it is the Jia Pardon Long House in rongguo Mansion or the second room of Jia Zheng, are all descendants of Jia Mother.
The two sides should have been at home and everything, but the contradictions were intensifying day by day, and they were almost "brothers in the wall". If you really want to make trouble, there is only "chicken flying egg fighting", and the family suffers.
The struggle in the small kitchen is a microcosm, and the back copy of the Grand View Garden is the bayonet that is red, and it is not strange that Jia Tanchun cried angrily:
"It can be known that such a large family, if it is killed from outside, it cannot be killed for a while, which is what the ancients once said, 'a hundred-footed insect, dead but not stiff', and must first commit suicide from home to self-destruct, in order to be defeated!"
Infighting consumption is more like a bowl of steamed tofu, which can poison people when eaten.
"Tofu slag" is even more famous synonymous with "not a tool", at such a time, the Jia family, "there are as many people who are rich and honorable, and there is no one who strategizes to paint", and the typical mud cannot support the wall!
Therefore, a bowl of steamed eggs leads to a plate of steamed tofu, which becomes Jia Mu's greatest embarrassment, and it is the pain she does not want to face until she dies. The small kitchen storm is Cao Xueqin's satire on the reality that Jia Yingchun is looked down upon and the RongGuo Mansion is divided.
Otherwise how is not fried bean sprouts, slippery cabbage. A laugh!
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