As soon as Grandma Liu entered the Rongguo Mansion, Wang Xifeng gave her twenty-two pieces of silver and had the money to prepare for the winter New Year. When she entered the Rongguo Mansion for the second time in the "second year", the time was one month earlier than before, at the end of August. This time she didn't come empty-handed.
(Thirty-ninth time) Ping'er agreed, and went out of the garden gate to the house, only to see that Sister Feng was not in the room. Suddenly, Grandma Liu and Ban'er, who had come back to fight Feng, came again, sitting in the house over there, accompanied by The Zhou Rui family of Zhang Cai's family, and two or three servants poured dates and melons in their pockets and some wild vegetables on the ground. When the crowd saw him coming in, they all got up.
The first time Grandma Liu came empty-handed, she didn't bring any gifts.
When I came to that early winter, there was nothing at home.
Second, I can't look at the Jia family.
Third, if you want money to make money, you must "have nothing".
It is not cost-effective to build something into it again.
As soon as Grandma Liu entered the Rongguo Mansion, it was not worth advocating in itself, so Cao Xueqin's pen was merciless, and the image of Grandma Liu was not good. Not because she was from a peasant background, but because she was a spineless "beggar" who deserved to be disrespected.
Although Grandma Liu wants money, don't ignore the fact that Grandma Liu's family is not particularly poor.
When modern people say that being poor is the kind of "poor" who eats the last meal and does not eat the next meal, and cannot live. In fact, Grandma Liu's family is far from that point. They have a house and land, and they are only poor because their son-in-law Wang Dog is not good at management, good food and lazy.
Grandma Liu's family has no savings and spare money, and it is not a lack of food and clothing.
Wang Dog'er is worried about "winter things have not been done", not a family "no food and no drink".
The so-called "winter event" refers to the preparation for winter. Repairing houses, buying cotton clothes, stockpiling firewood and charcoal fires, purchasing New Year materials, and offerings to ancestors are all called "winter events".
"Winter affairs" are considered by qualified talents at home. The real poor will only worry about what to eat and live, and will not think about "winter things"!
Therefore, Grandma Liu's family is not as poor as imagined. The clothes she and her grandson wore were not good, but they were also clean and tidy, indicating that the conditions at home were acceptable, but there was no money left.
According to the situation of Grandma Liu's family, she did not need to turn to relatives and friends at all. But the dog does not produce, can hold the Jia family thigh white to take so much money, who does not want.
It was precisely because Grandma Liu tasted the sweetness when she entered the Rongguo Mansion that she entered the Rongguo Mansion for the second time.
Many people, because of the glorious image of Liu Grandma's Zhi'en Tu Bao, recognized her too tall, so that they believed that Liu Grandma's second entry into the RongGuo Mansion was just a simple reward for grace, which was not right!
(Thirty-ninth time) Grandma Liu, because she had been here last time and knew Ping'er's identity, jumped down to the ground and asked "how is the girl" and said, "Hello at home." I had to come to ask my grandmother's Ann to see the girl come, because the dealer was busy. It is easy to hit two more stones of grain this year, and the 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. ”
Grandma Liu said it well, and she really came to repay the favor. But behind it is far from simple. The details of these words have revealed a lot of meaning.
First, Grandma Liu did not come early or late, and did not come until late autumn. She said that the field was busy, but in fact, it was not a day to be busy.
The reason why they did not come early was that in the late autumn and early winter, it was another difficult time of the year, and their family had to prepare for winter again.
Second, there is a lot of output in the crop field all year round, in addition to pumpkins, sweet potatoes, turnips, cabbage and the like in autumn, but it is not as rich as melon fruits and vegetables in late summer and early autumn.
If you really want to repay the favor, if you come a month earlier, the gift is more sincere and sincere.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there is no talk of any melons, fruits, vegetables and vegetables picked from the first stubble. Many plants have withered. Pumpkins, radishes, sweet potatoes, cabbage and the like are indeed wild.
But Grandma Liu really didn't need to say anything like "I didn't dare to sell it." Everyone knows that her family is poor, and the income of giving the best to the Jia family will be less, and can she really eat her in vain?
The unspoken meaning of Grandma Liu is self-evident, that is, she still wants to ask for money again.
Fourth, Grandma Liu calculated the crab account, no more, no less, and more than twenty-two, saying what "such a crab, this year is worth five points and a pound." Ten pounds and five dollars, five five two two five, three five one fifteen, and then put on wine and vegetables, a total of more than twenty two silver. Amitabha! The money for this meal is enough for our family to live for a year. ”
Seventy or eighty pounds of crabs are only three or four silver, how can it be calculated that a meal is more than twenty two silver?
She didn't leave her mouth for three sentences, she was mentioning "money", that is, she still wanted to ask for another twenty-two silver to go home to "spend the winter". If you give back twenty-two this year, do you believe that Grandma Liu will come back next year? The reason why Wang Xifeng sought out Madame Wang was to discuss a solution.
The Jia family is not stupid and no one echoes her, and Ping'er also asked if she had seen Wang Xifeng, and they all did not need to say anything more, and they could not be the lord without giving them.
Finally, Madame Wang gave her a hundred taels of silver at a time, and asked Ping'er to carry the words: either buy a few acres of land, or do some small business, and stop relying on relatives and friends.
Where does Grandma Liu still have "relatives and friends" who give money? It's not the Jia family. She went to find Prince Teng and didn't know him... Madame Wang's meaning clearly told her that next time she would not give, and don't think about asking for money again, give enough at one time.
It is not false for Grandma Liu to enter the Rongguo Mansion to repay the favor, and it is also true that she wants money again. It is not that people's hearts and minds must think of Grandma Liu badly, but this is the case.
Grandma Liu can come up with the idea of smoking a rich food "food that comes from the mouth", and she has a cunning side of her personality, which must not be recognized!
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