Fan Jin is a character in the Qing Dynasty's long satirical novel "The History of Ru Lin", which appeared in the third episode of "Zhou XueDao's Scholar Ba Zhen Cai Hu Butcher's Murder and Success Report". Fan Jin's family is poor, living in the countryside of Guangdong, Kao Keju has been studying for decades, and he is only a child in his 50s, which is really sad.
How poor is Fan Jin's family? Look first at his clothes, he was still wearing a thin linen cloth in the early December weather, frozen and begging.
Look at Fan Jin's house, where he lives in a straw hut, a shawl, and a thatched hut outside the door. The main house is where the mother lives and the wife lives in the cloaked room. Fan Jin's wife was the daughter of a Hu butcher in Jishang.
The poor family can only marry ugly wives, and Fan Jin's wife is very ugly, according to others, it is "a pair of red-rimmed eyes and a nest of yellow hair." I lived here that day, and I didn't have a pair of shoes, and in the summer I had a, and my legs were crooked. ”
In the case of arranged marriages, women generally marry in their teens. However, Fan Jin's wife married Fan Jin in her 30s, which shows that it is not easy to marry. In the Qing Dynasty, women in their 30s could become grandmothers.
Fan Jin's family was so poor that they couldn't even eat, when Fan Jin went to the city to participate in the township test, the family ran out of grain, Fan Jin's mother and wife were hungry for two or three days, and as soon as Fan Jin returned, her mother let Fan Jin sell the hen that laid eggs to buy rice. Fan Jin's home is really destitute.
Fan Jinzhong was developed as soon as he was raised, and there were many people who came to flatter him, some who sent the fields; some who sent the shops; and those who were broken and settled, and the two sons came to devote themselves to being servants and sheltering. By two or three months, Fan Jin's slaves and servants would all have them, and money and rice would not need to be said
Zhang Xiangsheng also sent a new house to Fan Jin, and Fan Jin moved to the new house, singing, setting up wine, and inviting guests for three consecutive days, which was really beautiful.
Fan Jin's mother and wife followed Fan Jin to live a good life, with plenty of food and clothing, eating chicken, duck, fish and meat, wearing silk satin, becoming an old lady and wife, making slaves and maids, and no longer poor people who lived in grass houses and could not eat.
However, Le Ji was sad, and Fan Jin's mother died in happiness, the original text is as follows:
Zhang Xiangsheng's family came again to urge them to move. Moved to a new house, singing, serving wine, entertaining, for three days. On the fourth day, the old lady got up to eat snacks, walked to the third house, and saw Fan Jin's wife, Hu Shi, who often wore a silver silk bun; it was the middle of October, the weather was still warm, wearing a satin suit of azure and green satin skirts; the governor led the family, daughter-in-law, and beards, washing dishes and cups.
The old lady looked at it and said, "You sisters-in-law and girls should be careful, these are all other people's things, don't break it." ”
The daughter-in-law of the family said, "Old lady, there is someone else's, it's all your old man's!" ”
The old lady laughed and said, "How come I have these things in my house?" ”
The maid and her daughter-in-law said together, "Why not?" But this thing is, even those of us and this house belong to your old lady's house! ”
The old lady listened, looked at the thin magnetic bowl and the silver-encrusted cups and plates one by one, and laughed: "This is all mine!" He laughed and fell. Suddenly, the phlegm came up, not waking up. ”
In this way, it is Fan Jinzhongju, and the whole family's happiness has urged the old lady's life. If Fan Jin does not win the move, the whole family is still living in poverty, Fan Jin's mother will not die so soon, and will still live in poverty.
But if you think about it, the death of Fan Jin's mother is not sad, at least she lived a good life in the last period of her life, which is better than a lifetime of poverty. Life only needs to be good, not long. Fan Jin's mother had been poor all her life and had lived at least three good days.
Although the book does not indicate the age of her old man, according to Fan Jin's age of more than 50 years old, Fan Jin's mother is at least more than 70 years old. The death of more than 70 years old is not young now, let alone in the Qing Dynasty?
Fan Jin's mother died in wealth, died in happiness, laughed and died, it is already happy, not sad, many poor people can not get such happiness.