Ever since the Xue family entered the Jia Mansion, they had been trying their best to maintain their dignity so as not to make the Jia family look down on them.
After all, at this time, the Xue family is no longer the era of "pearls are like earth and gold like iron", but the Jia family is still the era of "white jade for the tang gold as a horse", and even just produced a noble concubine. After all, the purpose of the Xue family entering Beijing is not really for Xue Baochao's "to be elected", but to be able to marry his daughter to Jia Fu and achieve "golden and jade good fortune", if the gap between the two families is too large, even if Xue Baochao can marry the Jia family, he may be despised.
Therefore, as soon as Aunt Xue entered the Jia family, she claimed that "all the daily expenses should be supplied, all should be waived, and the party is the usual method"; therefore, Xue Pan always gave generous hands, especially at Qin Keqing's funeral, and opened his mouth to give Jia Zhen an extremely precious tree and asked him to make a coffin for Qin Keqing; therefore, Xue Baochao lived like a "scattered" wealth boy, who sent this sister things at every turn, and helped the sister solve difficulties, just for Shi Xiangyun to do the east, he spent more than twenty silver and set up a "crab feast".
The Xue family has been trying to maintain the face of the family, but it is not difficult for clear-eyed people to see that the Xue family at this time is no longer what it used to be. Because when the Xue family entered Beijing, they barely brought only a dozen people, and even the side of Miss Qianjin Xue Baochao, there was only one big girl in Ying'er and one little girl in Wen Xing. This is in stark contrast to the current situation of Miss Jia Fuzhong, where there are more than a dozen handmaidens at every turn, plus seven or eight mother-in-laws.
Aunt Xue punched the swollen face and filled the fat, barely and awkwardly. After a long time, it is inevitable that the original form will be revealed, and it will inevitably not last. In particular, a sentence after Jia Baoyu was beaten struck the sore spot of Aunt Xue, and she had to admit in public that the difference between the Xue family and the Jia family was too great.
On that day, Jia Mu, Madame Wang, Aunt Xue, Xue Baochao and others gathered in Yihong Courtyard to visit Jia Baoyu's injuries. Aunt Xue asked Jia Baoyu very warmly, "What do you want to eat?" Just tell me. How did Jia Baoyu answer? Jia Baoyu smiled busily, "I remember, naturally I and my aunt are going to go." ”
So, does Jia Baoyu really have nothing to eat? Interestingly, As soon as Aunt Xue's voice dropped, Madame Wang also asked Jia Baoyu almost exactly the same words: "What do you want to eat?" Come back and send it to you. ”
Eating is a big thing in life. Especially for people who are sick, it is even more important to supplement the nutrition needed by the body. When visiting patients, "what do you want to eat" is also a phrase that is often mentioned. However, at this time, Cao Xueqin specially arranged for Aunt Xue and Lady Wang to ask Jia Baoyu at the same time, "What do you want to eat", but it has great meaning.
Because Jia Baoyu had just politely rejected Aunt Xue's concern, when answering Madame Wang, she said something completely different: "I don't want to eat anything, but the soup of the little lotus leaf and the little lotus puff that I made that time is better." ”
Of course, Madame Wang is Jia Baoyu's mother, and her son and mother are not polite. But Jia Baoyu is not really like he replied to Aunt Xue, "don't want to eat anything", "when you think about it, nature and aunt are going to go", but very much want to eat the same thing - small lotus leaf, small lotus soup. And this kind of eating is something that the Xue family can't do no matter what.
Because when Wang Xifeng ordered people to get the mold for making small lotus leaf lotus soup, they only saw that "all of them are more than a foot long and one inch square, and there are beans chiseled on them, there are chrysanthemums, there are also plum blossoms, there are also lotus puffs, and there are also diamond horns, a total of thirty or forty kinds, and the beating is very exquisite."
At this time, Aunt Xue was probably a little embarrassed, and when Fang Cai Jia Baoyu answered the same question as Lady Wang, the completely different answer was really poking at her pain point. She probably really understood, Jia Baoyu knew very well in his heart that what he wanted to eat, the Xue family didn't have at all!
Therefore, Aunt Xue could only use a self-deprecating way, helplessly admitting her failure: "Your house also wants to despair, after eating soup and these looks, if you don't say it, I see this, and I don't recognize what this is for!" ”
A set of silver molds for lotus leaf soup exposed the real difference between the Jia family and the Xue family to the eyes of everyone. The most exquisite place of the so-called giants is in these seemingly inconspicuous details. No matter how "bold" the Xue family behaved in their daily lives, they could not be compared with the Jia family at all.