"Dream of the Red Chamber" reads to the seventy-first time, and the target question is "Suspects have a heart to have a gap, and the Mandarin Duck Woman has no intention of meeting the Mandarin Duck." Reading this time, the most troublesome thing is that the average reader is not easy to read what is being said this time, and many people read it to the end, just remembering that Mandarin Duck found that Siqi and her boyfriend Pan Youan were secretly having an affair. In fact, this time, in addition to this beautiful plot, there are many important details, let us cut out these details little by little...
(Suspects have a heart to have a gap)
On the third day of the first month of August in the old calendar, Jia Mu's birthday, Jia family relatives and friends, and the powerful people in the DPRK and China all came to celebrate, and invited male guests to come and go at the Ningguo Mansion, and invited female guests to and fro in the Rong Guo Mansion. On the surface, how complicated and expensive Jia Mu's gifts are, in fact, it is also said that rongguofu is in such a humane society, and it is also necessary to participate in the same status, equal quantity, and equal quality of ushering in and sending and human exchanges, Rongguofu cannot live in a vacuum, and the declining income of Rongguofu is no longer enough to bear these personal exchanges. This is a realistic environment that Rong Guofu cannot be separated from.
Among the guests, there are important female guests, Nan'an Princess and so on to see the younger men and women, note, there is a detail here, that is, Jia Mu arranged for Nan'an Princess to receive only Shi Xiangyun, Xue Baochao, Lin Daiyu, the Jia family's own daughter, only called Tanchun. Needless to say, What about Yingchun? Why don't you let Yingchun come out, you know, she is actually the second sister of Tanchun.
(Jia Yingchun)
There is an explanation after this: because Jia Mu dislikes Lady Xing, the direct reason for the dislike is that Lady Xing helps Jia pardon Mandarin Duck, which is also the foreshadowing of the "gap" between Jia Mu and Lady Xing, and the suspects here refer to Jia Mu and Lady Xing.
After that, there was a "two mother-in-law" incident (for convenience, we call it the "gap" incident) that arose from the Ningguo Fu Youshi, which was very trivial and difficult to sort out without careful reading, and we reasoned it out:
(You's)
Because You Shi wanted to receive female guests who came to worship Shou for Rong Province, he was sent to visit during the day and accompanied Jia Mu at night, so he stayed at Li Feng at night. And on this day, Youshi was going to enter the garden again, but—
I saw that the main entrance and the corner doors in the garden were still not closed, and there were all kinds of colored lights hanging, because the little girl called the woman of the class. The lady walked into the classroom, but there was no one there, and came back to Youshi.
The servant looked for someone again, and found two mother-in-laws on duty at night who were sharing vegetables and fruits, so they wanted to let them go to "pass on the people", and as a result, the two mothers-in-law heard that the grandmother of the East House (Ning Province) wanted to pass on the people, "not very much in the heart", and did not want to pass it on. Naturally, the servant was not happy and said that it was difficult to listen, so the two mother-in-laws said something even more ugly:
"Rip your cheeks! Whether we pass it on or not has nothing to do with you! You don't have to denounce us, you think, your old lady is more able to slip in front of the housekeepers over there than we are. What 'shimizu miscellaneous noodles you eat I will see', each door, another household, you have the ability, pomp and pageantry you go there. On our side, you're still early! ”
Of course, this is very vicious, you and You's beard is naturally angry, this is the origin of the "gap" incident: the two mother-in-laws of the Grand View Garden verbally collided with Youshi (it was Youshi who collided with you, but it was actually Youshi who punched his face).
There is also a detail in this paragraph, that is, when it comes to the palm lamp, "only to see that the main entrance in the garden and the corner doors in various places are still not closed", this detail is actually saying that the internal management of Jia Fu has gone wrong, at least in the portal management is no longer so strict (the mandarin ducks in the back of the garden, there are also the door is not tight care, this is all details).
Then talking about the central incident, You Shi and the raiders, Baoqin, and Xiangyun said about the two mother-in-laws, the raiders privately arranged to find someone, and met the Zhou Rui family (note that she was Lady Wang's companion, it was Lady Wang's person), the Zhou Rui family just happened to be incompatible with these two mothers-in-law, so they reported the matter to Sister Feng, and Sister Feng then arranged to say, "After these few days, bundled up and sent to that house to be developed by the eldest sister-in-law, or a few shots, or he graced them, and let him go, what a big deal." ”
Note that Sister Feng's arrangement here is no problem, because she arranged "waiting for these few days", because these days are Jia Mu's birthday, but Zhou Rui's family is not like this, he is not compatible with these two mother-in-laws, so, "Immediately tie up these two mother-in-laws and hand them over to the horse pen to send people to guard." Pay attention to the details here, is "immediately.". Moreover, the later text also borrowed Jia Mu's mouth to say that Sister Feng's arrangement was in line with "etiquette".
(Zhou Rui's)
Rong Mansion housekeeper Lin Zhixiao's family got the news, immediately came to you, Youshi wanted to rest things, said that there is nothing to worry about, this matter can no longer be mentioned, Lin Zhixiao's family's empty run, about to go out of the garden, but met the "troublemaker" Aunt Zhao. Aunt Zhao had a friendship with those managing mother-in-laws, so she began to stir up trouble:
"My sister-in-law, although it is not a big deal, it can be seen that they are too arrogant." Baba's word came to you, obviously teasing you and calculating you. Rest and go, Ming'er still has something to do, and I won't leave you to eat tea. ”
Aunt Zhao provoked trouble, saying that the Zhou Rui family was troublesome, and Sister Feng was troublesome, teasing the Lin Zhixiao family's running back and forth.
This is the development of the "gap" event. Among them, there are not only Zhou Rui's family, but also Aunt Zhao's family, and there are also Lin Zhixiao's family (at the instigation of Aunt Zhao, Lin Zhixiao's family also has a gap).
(Aunt Zhao)
The two mothers-in-law were tied up, and their daughters naturally begged for help, so they asked Lin Zhixiao's family, and Lin Zhixiao's family gave advice, so that they asked Lady Xing to accompany the room fee lady. Because of the two mother-in-laws, one of the daughters of the mother-in-law married the son of Lady Fei.
This is actually the detail: the relationship between the whole Rong Mansion and the people under them is intricate, and they are inextricably linked in one way or another. Between them, there is a huge network of relationships.
Then she said that when Lady Fei heard the news, she had more seizures:
After listening to Zhou Rui's family's bundle of his own family, he added more and more fuel to the fire, and with the wine, he pointed at the wall of the partition and scolded for a while, and then he came up to Ask Lady Xing, saying that there was nothing wrong with his family,...... First it was just to sue the slaves over there, and then gradually to sue Sister Feng... Later, he sued Madame Wang... Even if Lady Xing is a person with an iron heart and brass courage, the women's family will inevitably have some resentment in the end, and recently she really hated Sister Feng. Now that I have heard such a passage, I will not say how long or short.
Fei Daniang's words aroused Lady Xing's suspicions toward Sister Feng, her dislikes for Lady Wang, and even her dislike for Jia Mu. This is the evolution of the "gap" incident, and the "gap" people here have both Lady Fei and Lady Xing.
(Lady Xing)
The next day, Lady Xing "threw her face" at Sister Feng, embarrassing Her Sister Feng:
Lady Xing did not intercede with Sister Feng in front of many people laughing until the evening, saying, "I heard that last night the second grandmother was angry and sent the wife of the Zhou housekeeper to tie up two old wives, but I don't know what crime I have committed." Reasoning that I should not be pleased, I think the old lady has a good life, fiercely give up money and rice, Zhou poor to help the old, our family first tortured people. Without looking at my face, but at the old lady, he let them go. "Say it, get in the car."
The mother-in-law spoke to her daughter-in-law in this way, which clearly embarrassed Sister Feng, which was the climax of the "gap" incident.
(Suspected of the beginning and end of the incident and related characters)
As we can see, the entire "gap" incident involved almost all levels of personnel in the Grand View Garden, including factional disputes between Lady Fei of the Zhou Rui family, the concubine dispute between Lady Wang and Lady Xing, the dispute between Aunt Zhao and Lady Wang's main concubine and concubine, and also the relationship between the eastern and western provinces, and even the relationship between Jia Mu and Lady Xing's mother-in-law. Therefore, this "gap" incident seems to be just a small household affair, but it actually tells us how fierce the internal struggle is beneath the surface of Jia Fu's prosperity.
As Tanchun later said: "It can be known that such a large family, if it is killed from outside, it cannot be killed for a while, but this is what the ancients said, 'a hundred-footed insect, dead but not stiff', must first commit suicide from home and kill itself, in order to be defeated!" (Seventy-four times) At this time in Jia Province, various internal disputes have gradually become irreconcilable, so the essence of the "suspect gap" incident is to speak about the internal struggles of Jia Province, rather than simply describing the daily trivia of Jia Province.
([Follow the pudding to read "The Red Chamber"] No. 146, picture from the Internet)