❂ Author: Jun Jian Yakan Red Mansion
✪Illustration: Sun Wen "Painting the Dream of Red Mansions"
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Grandma Liu entered Rongguo Mansion twice and came to Jiafu to ask for money, Wang Xifeng and Mrs. Wang generously funded her with 128 taels of silver and a penny, and some materials.
This amount of money is not much for Jiafu, but it is enough for Grandma Liu's family to eat and drink without doing anything for five or six years, which is equivalent to the purchasing power of one or two hundred thousand yuan today.
Grandma Liu didn't pay anything, she got this money after two trips to Jiafu with red mouth and white teeth, and she was a white wolf with empty gloves!
She opened her mouth to "pretend to be poor", and she was as shrewd as Wang Xifeng was also deceived by her. I have to say that Grandma Liu has an accurate grasp of the hearts of the people in Jiafu.
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It is said that Wang Gou'er was worried about having no money to prepare for the "winter event", so Grandma Liu came up with the idea to ask him to come to Jiafu to ask Mrs. Wang for help.
(Sixth) Grandma Liu said: "...... I've come up with an opportunity for you. Twenty years ago, they saw that you were fine, but now it is natural that you are and refuse to get close to him, so you are estranged. I think my daughter and I have been there again. The second lady of their family is really loud and can treat people, but she doesn't take it big. Now she is now the wife of the second master of Rongguo Mansion. I can hear that now that I am old, I am more and more sympathetic to the poor and the old, and I love the monks and monks to worship and give up their money. Now that the palace has been promoted, I am afraid that these two aunts and wives still recognize us. Why don't you go and walk around, or if he misses the old days, there are some benefits, and I don't know. If he is a little kind, he will pluck a cold hair thicker than our waist. ”
Grandpa Wang Gouer is an official who can cling to the old lady of the Wang family, which shows that he has some skills. Naturally, the family is quite well-built.
By the time the dog's father Wang Cheng arrived, he was not short of money. Grandma Liu said to the dog: "You are used to eating and drinking because you were young, relying on the blessings of your hometown, but now you can't hold it." If you have money, you don't care about the end, and if you don't have money, you will be angry, what kind of manly husband will you be!"
As soon as Wang Cheng died, Wang Gou'er was too lazy to fall down, and he still had a house and land. The family "made a living in farming. Because the dog does some livelihood during the day, and the Liu family the well and mortar, etc., the child is still young and no one cares, so he thought of bringing his mother-in-law Grandma Liu, taking care of the child on the one hand, and supporting the old on the other, and on the other hand, he gave Grandma Liu's house and land to Wang Gou'er.
The so-called "making a living during the day" refers to buying and selling small businesses. It can be seen that the Wang family still has a family background, but Wang Gou'er is not good at management, does not make money in trading, does not produce in the field, and blindly eats and drinks, and is a "leper dog" general character.
Grandma Liu said that he didn't succeed, but in fact she was embarrassed to say that he was a "loser" and had a master of flowers.
At that time, the Wang family was not short of food or clothing, but they had no savings and could not prepare for the rich New Year. If you are an ordinary person, just grit your teeth and stop, and strive to make more money next year. It is not reduced to the point of begging at the door.
But Grandma Liu couldn't persuade her son-in-law to work hard, so she came up with the idea of letting him go to the rich man's house to ask for "food that came to him", which obviously violated the style of diligence and thrift, tenacity and progress. It will also encourage Wang Gou'er to be lazy and not enterprising. I'm afraid that the money comes too easily, but it will be spent faster.
Because of this, after entering the Rongguo Mansion, Grandma Liu had to come again.
Although there are some people who don't know the truth, they believe it when they hear Grandma Liu say that they are grateful.
In fact, in ancient times, when the poor came to the homes of the rich after the autumn harvest, they were suspected of "pumping the abundance".
Ordinary people want to be faced, and they will not choose to go to the rich family's house at this point in time to avoid being misunderstood.
After Grandma Liu's second entry into Rongguo Mansion was selected after the Mid-Autumn Festival and Autumn Harvest, no matter what she said, it was difficult to hide the fact that she came to ask for money again.
Cao Xueqin entered the Rongguo Mansion in the second time, making Grandma Liu's image more vulgar and ridiculous than when she entered the first place, and she also did not recognize her essence of "food that comes to her".
And Grandma Liu's ability to come to Jiafu three times and twice is not an ordinary old lady in the countryside. What she said in front of Sister Feng and Jia's mother was very measured, and she knew how to "show weakness" and guide her moderately.
(Sixth) here Grandma Liu was calm, and then said: "I brought your nephew here today, not for anything else, just because his old son and mother are at home, and they don't even have anything to eat." If it's cold again today, the more you think about it, the more you don't have a leader, so you have to take your nephew to run to you to grow old. ”
Let's just say that she really talks nonsense with her eyes open. The dog has a house and land, and he is so carefree to drink wine at home, and when he reaches her mouth, he "doesn't even have anything to eat" to deceive Sister Feng, which can be seen to be cunning.
In this regard, whether it is the Qing Dynasty painter Sun Wen's "Painting the Whole Dream of Red Mansions", or the 87th version of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", they all give an accurate positioning: Grandma Liu is lying.
She and Ban'er are not only well-dressed and without patches, but also dressed appropriately. In the TV series, Grandma Liu even has gold earrings, which is in line with the reality that her family was only dilapidated and not poor at that time.
Grandma Liu said this, just to use money to win sympathy, deliberately exaggerated.
With the situation of his family, even if he doesn't give a penny, at most he will have fewer new clothes and eat two catties of meat, which will really not be difficult for them.
The actual situation of Grandma Liu's family is "poor" rather than "poor". She doesn't mean to say "poor" as "poor", which is wrong.
Poverty refers to economic problems. "Decibel" is poor, that is, there is no money. But there is no shortage of food and clothing, and family assets are not affected.
Poor refers to the limitation of ability and behavior, and the incompetence of "acupoint power" refers to the exhaustion of the mountains and rivers, threatening the opportunity for survival.
Wang Gou'er's family is even better than when Liu Xianglian and Jin Rong's mother and son did not receive Xue Pan's funding, where is the "no food" as Grandma Liu said.
When she entered the Rongguo Mansion for the second time, Grandma Liu first calculated the crab account, and the crab silver of more than four taels forced her to calculate the crab banquet of more than 20 taels. What did he say, "One meal is enough for us to eat for a year", "Melons and fruits are not willing to sell", and when she saw Jia's mother, she was even more embarrassed, telling the story of Guanyin sending her son of "accumulating virtue and doing good", implying that she still wanted twenty taels of silver to go back.
It is a fact that Grandma Liu came to Jiafu to draw Feng, and she cannot be deliberately avoided. She will be teased by Wang Xifeng in various ways, and she will also bring humiliation on herself. If it were replaced by a shameful and faceless person, Sister Feng would definitely not play her like that.
The Jia family's positioning of Grandma Liu is also very accurate, and Ping'er hinted that "the old lady cherishes the old and the poor the most", so she used the word "poor".
Jia Baoyu talked about Grandma Liu, and she was also a "poor woman" rather than a "poor woman". It shows that the Jia family is not stupid, and knows that she is here to pump abundance, and it is not that she is really too poor to live.
Grandma Liu appeared twice, and her image became worse and worse, so that she was rejected by Miaoyu, Daiyu and Baochai. The image of the person who comes from the "food of the mouth" is unbearable, and it hurts them.
But "every time you slaughter more dogs", the lower the image of Grandma Liu, the more glorious her image will be after the Jia family raided the house.
Compared with those "relatives" who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, cling wholeheartedly when they are rich and rich, and will not be saved when they are in trouble, Grandma Liu has a light in her heart, which is called "conscience".
Those who once thought that Grandma Liu was a clown, but they didn't know that the clown was themselves.
Of course, despite the flaws, Grandma Liu's shortcomings in pumping are still not to be ignored, and it is her duty to be diligent, down-to-earth, and hardworking. Pumping abundantly, asking for "food that comes to you" is not taken by people after all.
✍ The above views are sorted out and inferred from the story clues before the 80th episode of "Dream of Red Mansions".