Ancient marriages paid attention to "the order of parents and the words of matchmakers". However, for the servants of the rich and noble families, their marriages sometimes even their parents cannot decide, but are arranged by their masters.
This is the case with Jia Fu in "Dream of the Red Chamber". When the servants in the Jia mansion reach a certain age, they will be assigned by the master to the family squatter and begin to undertake the mission of breeding the next generation of slaves for the master. This kind of "marriage matching" has a certain "randomness", just like Qingwen's cousin Duo Girl, although young and beautiful, she was promised to be matched to a multi-hun worm who did not understand the wind and only knew how to drink, and began the most unwilling married life. The so-called "recruitment of heroes and talents" in the second house of Ningrong is actually a kind of resistance to this marriage model.
However, most of the marriages of the bridesmaids, the masters will not interfere specifically, only need to hand over to the daughters-in-law who are in charge of the affairs of the family. However, there are exceptions - when Cai Xia, the big girl in Madame Wang's room, reached a certain age, was released by Madame Wang and married herself, she received the high attention of the young grandmother Wang Xifeng, and for cai xia's marriage, Wang Xifeng did not hesitate to tear it up personally.
Wang'er's daughter-in-law said, "It doesn't even work, I said that grandma must be the master." Jia Lian then asked, "What's the matter?" Sister Feng said, "It's not a thing, Wang'er has a little boy, who is seventeen years old this year, and he hasn't said anything about women, because he asked Cai Xia in his wife's room... Therefore, Wang'er's daughter-in-law came to beg me, I think his two families are also the right door, a natural way to go, who knows that this will make her come, but it is useless. ”
Wang'er's family is Wang Xifeng's companion. In ancient times, the dowry room and the dowry maid were not a concept, although they were all "appendages" when the noble lady got married, but the dowry maid was a single person, and the dowry room was based on the family as a unit. A family followed the young lady and married into the husband's family. Therefore, these ladies are often biased towards their dowries and companions.
The son of the Wang'er family, therefore, will inevitably have some decency among the slaves of Jia Province; and Cai Xia is also one of the most decent servants in Jia Province. Wang Xifeng said that these two "door to door" are also somewhat reasonable. However, such a "door-to-door" marriage was fiercely opposed by Cai Xia, and she was not willing to marry the boy of the Wang'er family at all.
The reason for this is because this little squatter, who is fighting the power of his parents and the favoritism of his master, acts arbitrarily outside, eats wine and makes trouble, and is not as skilled as a skill. Marry such a person, the girl's life will be ruined.
Moreover, for Cai Xia, there was a more important reason - she liked the Third Young Master Jia Huan in Jia Mansion and hoped to make Jia Huan a concubine. Although it was a relatively risky thing to make a concubine for the young master in jia province, if it was successful, the benefits were also very obvious, so the servants went forward and never gave up such efforts.
Wang'er's daughter-in-law is also a very shrewd person, and when she replied to Wang Xifeng's words, she did not mention Cai Xia's thoughts at all, but said, "If the child is good, according to my private heart, she has nothing to say in her heart", "It's just that she is two old things, and her heart is too high."
This sentence of the Wang'er family made Wang Xifeng's heart move. The children of the accompanying house can't look at it, and they are still "low", so which "high door" do they look at? Cai Xia and Jia Huan's things, Jia Fuzhong can almost be said to be ignorant. Wang Xifeng could not have been unaware. Therefore, Wang Xifeng immediately understood that in this marriage, she must personally tear it up!
It's not that I can save some face with my room, but no matter what, I can't let Cai Xia marry Jia Huan and become Aunt Zhao's arm!
The hatred between Wang Xifeng and Aunt Zhao has a long history. From the beginning of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Wang Xifeng did not like Aunt Zhao and scolded her a few times at every turn. Aunt Zhao was also not a fuel-saving lamp, and she did not dare to fight with Wang Xifeng, and secretly bought Ma Daobao, wanting to kill Wang Xifeng.
Cai Xia was also a very smart and capable handmaiden, and if Aunt Zhao got Cai Xia's arm, Wang Xifeng would have to exert a lot of effort to deal with Aunt Zhao. To reduce the strength of the enemy is to increase one's own strength. Of course, Wang Xifeng could not fail to understand this truth.
Cai Xia did not want to marry, and the young grandmother Wang Xifeng personally tore up and called Cai Xia's mother to force her to agree to the marriage, and the reason behind it was like this.
As the young grandmother of Jia Fu, Wang Xifeng could not explain this reason, but she must try her best to stop Cai Xia and Jia Huan, and she must try to marry Cai Xia to the boy of the Wang'er family. As for whether this marriage will be happy, it is not the scope of Wang Xifeng's consideration.