Intensive reading of the Red Chamber | The Fourth Time (Part 2): Menzi's Advice

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The second half of this review is "Gourd Monk Judging Hulu Case". This time, the text has been compiled in the middle school Chinese textbook, and it is one of the most wonderful passages in the whole book of the Red Chamber.

In fact, it is just a case that has been broken. If this case is put into modern times, eye-catching elements such as the N generation of officials, the scramble for girlfriends, and the killing of petty bourgeois youths will surely quickly appear on the hot search and become the headline news of everyone's attention. In the meantime, the teams of the two sides will certainly not give in to each other, and passers-by will also break the news in various ways, "the background of the official N generation", "on the harm of beautiful girlfriends", "The Feng Yuanqi people I know", and even bring fire to several active Weibo accounts and WeChat public accounts. Because the internal situation is constantly flipped, the melon-eating masses express their joy.

But, in that era, this case was not noticed. The reason for this should be that the environment in which the case occurred is too closed and the spread is not strong.

Witnessing Feng Yuan's beating to death, there were only a few neighbors. These neighbors, one is afraid of the Xue family's power, and the other is still very superstitious. There is still a certain market for this superstition -- that is, when man dies, he is at the time of death; when he is dead, he will die no matter what. This kind of cognition partially dissolves the resentment and panic of the murderer (Jia Yucun made full use of this when he decided the case). An altar was set up in the public court, and the saying was that the deceased Feng Yuan and Xue Pan had met for a long time, and now that the narrow road had met, it should have been closed), and people on a larger scale did not know about this matter, which could not cause a sensation.

In addition, such cases may occur from time to time. Go to the Water Margin to see it, and you will know that by robbing and framing, not only the upper-level Gao Qi, but also the middle and low-level Zhang Dujian also do this, forcing Lin Chong and Wu Song to kill people and vent their hatred. People are not surprised, as long as they don't get into trouble with themselves. Therefore, the lawsuit has been going on for more than a year, and only Feng Yuan's family is insisting, but the purpose is only to get some silver.

The author intends to present the world's cold, and a shocking case can also be eliminated under the operation of all parties. This case sets the tone for the whole book, and all the cases that follow are much easier to handle. Leng Zixing's case, Zhang Jinge's case, Shi Zhizi's case and other invisible cases, the results of handling are all who are rich and powerful, and whoever gets cheap. Readers no longer have to question human fairness. Then accumulate, accumulate, to a certain extent, the rich and powerful begin to avalanche, and then accumulate, and then avalanche, the so-called one and the other, chaotic, you sing I appear.

Specifically, this time, the author did not write about the process of judging the case in detail, but chose the secret room conspiracy. The protagonists are Menzi and Jia Yucun. Menzi is a subordinate, a small monk in the old gourd temple, an old acquaintance, a devotee, an insider of the case, and a counselor; Jia Yucun is the boss, the hermit of the old gourd temple, the exposer of the old embarrassment, the uninformed person in the case, the semi-novice in the official field, the determined fissioner who wants to benefit from the system, and the excellent actor.

Jia Yucun first learned from Menzi that the newly appointed officials now had a "talisman" in their hands. This "talisman" has four families that are hot in today's officialdom, and it is also the four families mainly written about in "Dream of the Red Chamber". There are others, but not the point. The author cleverly used the matter of "Old Master Wang to worship" and did not mention it. And this Old Master Wang is easy to think of as a person on Prince Teng's side. They are always staring at this case and are ready to move, which has to sigh at the superbness of Cao Xueqin's brushwork. The point is that he doesn't write it yet, let you guess, whether it's with the reader or not you judge.

Secondly, he learned the details of the case from Menzi. Therefore, Jia Yucun encountered two difficulties in this case: one was that he had just taken office and urgently needed to shape the image of a Qing official, and he encountered the tough backstage of the Houmen Guifu; second, when it was time to repay the benefactor, but to sacrifice the opportunity to catch up with the two families of King Jia.

Third, although he chose the latter, he has always said that it is inappropriate and inappropriate, and he must think about it carefully before saying it. Perhaps from that moment on, the good young man with the starry eyebrows and sword eyes and the moonlit night chanting in the reader's impression has degenerated into an official oil with extreme hypocrisy and cunning.

Menzi, on the other hand, was a young monk when he was young. Because the Gourd Temple was burned, he had nowhere to stay, and when he saw that the errand of the door was "lively and light", he grew his hair, jumped to this industry, married a wife, and perhaps gave birth to a child, and there was a new chapter in his life.

This is the tossing and turning of small people under the cover of impermanent fate. Everyone was unlucky because of that fire, but he took it as an opportunity and turned his career. No matter how you look at it, you can also be regarded as a clever person. If you continue to be so stable, your life will be complete. However, it seems that there is another opportunity, Ying Tianfu has changed the old man, and this new old man is actually an old acquaintance.

It can be said that if there is no such case, Menzi can also use other opportunities to approach Jia Yu Village and obtain the green eyes of the new old master to seek more benefits. However, far from helping the new old man to do a good job, he came more steadily. Men must seize this opportunity.

In the secret room, he obliquely signed his body and told Jia Yucun in detail the beginning and end of the case, the ins and outs were clearly explained, and even the background of the robbed girl, the motives of the plaintiff who had been suing, and the situation of Jia Yucun at this time were all clear, and how to judge the case was also given a specific plan.

At this point, we cannot but say that Menzi has done a lot of homework for this case. He hoped that this time there would be a higher jump, closer to the enchanting light emanating from power.

The idea of the door is also a common human feeling. But the officialdom is a complicated place, just and honest and no backstage supporters, although they will be thrown off the horse, but those who do not pay attention to morality at all and only look at the real profits will also be suppressed. Menzi's advice is good, that is, too blunt, too strong, forgetting to use the fig leaf of morality, which is a big taboo for a sensitive reader who has just ascended to Qingyun.

I always felt that if Menzi only knew how embarrassing Jia Yu Village was that day, Jia Yu Village would not be so grumpy. More importantly, he felt that Menzi had mastered how he had received Help from Zhen Shiyin that day, but today he ignored the benefactor's daughter and did not save him. At least when he saw the door, he thought he was an ungrateful person. And the joy and blackmail of Menzi and his exclusive enjoyment of this secret have become his hidden pain and weakness. He tried to cover up and smooth it out. Therefore, he found a reason and filled the door with the army.

When Menzi gave advice, he couldn't imagine such an ending, but as a grassroots, there is the tenacity of grassroots. According to Li Yan, Menzi returned and went to another senior officer and brought Jia Yucun down. Such a story, unlike the drama on the Chinese stage, is not a punishment for evil and good, nor is it unpleasant, but only makes people feel the ridiculousness and sadness of people's calculations.

This kind of positive depiction of officialdom is no longer there, but this time, it is enough. This is the basis why Jia Baoyu is so disgusted with shitu and refuses to join it.

Because this time, Jia Baoyu's seemingly rebellious and shocking remarks can stand, the paradise he seeks is particularly desirable, and his behavior in the daughter group all day can be understood by readers, and on this basis, Bao Dai's love has become pitiful and lovely.

Otherwise, Jia Baoyu would be a person who did not do the right thing, and Sister Lin's lament would become a source of water, and this novel would become a third-rate secular romance novel.

This time, in the case, Xue Pantuo' family, who died of a violent illness, took the family into the capital and lived in Jia Province, and under the temptation of Jia Fu's children, it was ten times worse than in the past.

However, objectively speaking, Xue Pan lived to such a big age, and he had not yet made a little storm in his life. It wasn't until Liu Xianglian and Xia Jingui appeared that he began to face the unsatisfactory impact. At that time, he may still commit murders, but there is no force to cover up or run for him.

Bao Chao, the woman who is more and more read by modern people, also came to Jia Fu this time. Since then, the author has begun to focus on Bao Daichao's youth and love.

It is said that the attendants of the gods have gone through all the disasters, and the pearl fairy has repaid the grace of manna, and the heavens should be the beauty of adults. Just like this time, Feng Yuan welcomed Xiangling into the door, how complete it was. But life has no script, and the gods can't do anything about it.

With Sister Lin, there is also a treasure sister. Sister Bao is more beautiful and more capable of being a person than Sister Lin. Sister Lin is a thin life, but in the end, Sister Bao is also a void. The mysterious and mysterious fate and the tragic intersection of the human world, who can judge it clearly?

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