The depth of writing in the book "Plum in the Golden Vase" is often reflected in the complexity of the characters' interpretations - any good book must be like a glass of old wine, which can withstand fine tasting, rather than a clear soup with little water, and you can see the bottom of the bowl at a glance.
Ximenqing's wife Wu Yueniang has this kind of complexity, if you are a reader who reads "Golden Vase Plum" for the first time, you will often regard her as a positive character, because Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng's portrayal of Wu Yueniang's image is different from Ximenqing's other concubines, and there are few descriptions of her and Ximenqing's sexual life in the book, which shows that the author does not want to brand her as "lewd", and at the same time she seems to have the characteristics of a "good wife", and often advises Ximenqing to keep a distance from those fox friends and dog friends.
Ximen Qing worshiped the ten brothers
For example, in the fourteenth episode, Hua Zixu was arrested for a lawsuit, and Ximenqing told Wu Yueniang after returning home, Yueniang didn't mind after listening to it, but beat Ximenqing with this:
When Yueniang heard this, she said: "This is just right, you follow this group of people all day long, you don't have a home, you just mess around outside; Today, if something happens, it's a hand. You don't want to die yet. Until tomorrow, if you don't eat people and fight, the group will go there and beat a rotten sheep's head, you are willing to cut off this road! [Zhang Jia criticism: There is no respect for the persuasion, so it can't be moved. Are you willing to listen to the words of your wife at home? But the harlot of the court speaks before you, and you listen to her by the ears of a donkey. [Zhang Jiapi: Who said this to her husband? Writing Yueniang does not know the etiquette, and writes Ximen with a hidden pen. Exactly: family members talk about the wind in their ears, and outsiders say the golden scriptures. Ximen Qing said with a smile: "Who dares to beat me with seven heads and eight dares!" Yueniang said: "You are a good person, so you have to talk about it at home." —Chapter 14
Wu Yueniang's personality traits are vividly displayed through this dialogue.
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Wu Yueniang is like a wife, a mother, and a sister to her husband Ximenqing, so she can condescendingly complain about Ximenqing, but Wu Yueniang's speaking style is extremely vulgar, and she is "beating a rotten sheep's head" and "listening to him with donkey ears", so the critic Zhang Zhupo commented that Wu Yueniang "does not know etiquette" and "there is no respect for persuasion, so it can't be moved".
Despite this, readers are still willing to admit that Wu Yueniang is a "good wife", but if you read the original book deeply and savor the details in "Golden Vase Plum", you will find that Wu Yueniang is a woman with a deep city.
In the fourteenth episode of the original work, "Li Bei'er sent the traitor to the meeting", Hua Zi took the lawsuit, and Li Bei'er handed Ximenqing 3,000 taels of silver to help with it, and at the same time implored Ximenqing to move all his cabinets, gold, silver and other things to Ximen's Mansion first.
This is an extremely absurd thing, especially for Wu Yueniang - her husband wants to move someone else's wife's property to his own house, what is going on? In addition, why did Li Bei'er hand over his property to Ximenqing, and what is the relationship between the two? The answer is simply self-explanatory.
Li Bei'er greeted the rape and went to the meeting
But how did Wu Yueniang do it? Let's take a look at the description of the original book:
Ximenqing came to the house all the time to discuss with Yueniang. Yueniang said: "The silver will be brought by the little servant with a food box." If the cage comes from the gate, teach the neighbors on both sides to look unobtrusive? You have to hit the wall at night to come over and be more secret. Ximenqing was overjoyed when he heard this, and ordered the four small servants of Ju'an, Laiwang, Laixing, and Ping'an, two food boxes, and brought three thousand taels of silver to the house first. Then at the end of the evening and the moon, Li Bei'er put tables and stools on the same side to welcome the spring and embroider the spring, and put the cabinets next to the wall. Ximenqing's side, just Yueniang, Jin Lian, and Chunmei, use a ladder to continue. The walls were lined with felt strips, and they were sent over one by one, and they were all sent to Yueniang's room. —Chapter 14
Wu Yueniang's greed is unbridled, which can be seen from this, so in the book "Qiushuitang on the Golden Vase Plum", Tian Xiaofei gave the following evaluation of Wu Yueniang's absurd approach:
However, when it came to the bottle to store the property at Ximen Qing's house, Ximen Qing came back to discuss with Yueniang, Yueniang did not make it difficult, agreed, and helped Ximenqing come up with ideas...... Ximenqing heard that he was "happy", and he wrote that Yueniang and Ximenqing were just a couple in terms of accumulating wealth, and they connived at each other. Wealth and sex, the author wrote a big book at the beginning of the novel, and the evil virtues that the world is inescapable of, are best reflected in Ximen Qing and Yueniang: Ximen Qing and the bottle cheating, from the wall past, and now the bottle cage comes from the wall, the author specially pointed out these two things "the neighbors don't know", in order to wake up the reader's eyes, the two things are one. When the things were delivered, Ximenqing's side was "just Yueniang, Jinlian, and Chunmei, and they were followed by a ladder", and after that, "they were all sent to Yueniang's room". However, Yueniang ignored her husband's stealing from other people's wives over the wall, and actively participated in other people's property over the wall into her own house. - "Qiushuitang on the Golden Vase Plum"
Of course, Tian Xiaofei's analysis here is not accurate, Wu Yueniang should not know that Ximenqing and Li Bei'er had a tryst through the wall, but Wu Yueniang knew that Ximenqing and Li Bei'er got mixed together, which is certain, and she accepted this fact very calmly.
Li Bei'er served the flower eunuch
The evidence is also obvious, the fifteenth "Li Bei'er welcomes the traitor to the meeting", it is the ninth day of the first lunar month, at this time Hua Zixu has died of illness, Li Bei'er went to Ximen Mansion to celebrate his birthday, during the banquet Ximen Qing and Li Bei'er words and deeds are indecent, the original book clearly remembers: Yueniang saw that the two of them ate together, and their words were quite evil, so they couldn't look down on it, so they went to the room over there to sit with Wu Da Yanzi. is enough to prove that Wu Yueniang actually knows everything.
This is the most chilling social truth revealed in "The Golden Bottle" - in the face of money, morality and ethics cannot stand the test.
This disdain for morality and ethics in the book of the Golden Bottle runs through the whole book of "The Golden Bottle Plum", and there are Han Daoguo, Wang Liuer and his wife in the later text, Ximen Qing took advantage of Han Daoguo's absence at home, asked his wife Wang Liuer, and when Han Daoguo went home, Wang Liuer told her husband the truth, and the husband and wife were very happy.
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Wang Liu'er told her husband: He (Ximenqing) will add a few more taels of silver with us tomorrow to look at the good house. It was also me who lost a game, and left him with some good supplies to wear.
Han Daoguo told his wife: When I go to the shop tomorrow, if he comes, you only push me I don't know, don't snub him, and flatter him in everything. Now it's so easy to make money, how to catch this road.
Wang Liuer won Ximenqing's favor in a masochistic way, Han Daoguo was not ashamed, but proud, and persuaded his wife to flatter Ximenqing more, the couple's behavior fell below the reader's glasses - it can be seen that the creative background of "Golden Vase Plum", that is, during the embryonic rise of capitalism in the Ming Dynasty, everyone only obeyed money, which made the atmosphere of "laughing at poverty and not prostitution" become the mainstream of society.
Ximen Qingbao occupies Wang Liu'er
Wu Yueniang completely ignored the relationship between Li Bei'er and her husband, and just stared at Li Bei'er's money, and compared with Ximenqing's greed, Wu Yueniang was more treacherous.
Ximenqing received Li Bei'er's property, hinting at a tacit fact, that is, Li Bei'er was also preparing to marry into Ximen Mansion, and she took advantage of Hua Zixu's temporary imprisonment to transfer her property, which was paving the way for herself in advance.
Wu Yueniang also agreed to accept this property, which naturally means that she also agrees with Li Bei'er, and if she takes other people's money, she wants to give someone a name, but this is not the case, just as the critic Zhang Zhupo said: The evil of Dashu Yueniang, teaching her husband to be a dog, has caused the disaster for the child, which is to prevent him from marrying, to make him a thief, and then count.
Sure enough, in the sixteenth episode of "Ximen Qing Seeking Wealth and Marrying a Woman", when Ximen Qing proposed to marry Li Bei'er, Wu Yueniang suddenly turned her face:
Ximenqing walked all the way to Yueniang's room, and Yueniang was combing her hair. Ximen Qing said that Li Bei'er was going to marry from beginning to end. Yueniang said: "It's not good for you to marry him." He was the first one, and his filial piety was dissatisfied; The second thing is that you had a manly relationship with him; Thirdly, you have a relationship with his wife, buy his house, and receive many of the things he has deposited. As the saying goes: the machine is not fast, and the shuttle is fast. I heard people say that Hua Da in his family is a gangster. If there is some noise for a while, it will not provoke lice to scratch their heads. The slave said good things. Zhao Qian, Sun Li, you don't follow, it's up to you! Ximen Qing was speechless. —Chapter 16
Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng portrayed Wu Yueniang extremely complicated, just looking at the above dialogue, every sentence is simply a wise saying, from the perspective of interests and interests, to persuade Ximen Qing to be right and wrong, but if combined with the previous article She accepted Li Bei'er's property, the righteous words here are more and more disgusting.
There is a sentence here to embroider the golden vase, which can be called a sentence: At that time, on the day of the cashier, why not stop?
This sentence alone is enough to ask Wu Yueniang, if she was afraid of being involved in the quagmire, she should not have secretly accepted Li Bei'er's property, and now that the gold and silver are in her pocket, you will abandon Li Bei'er as if she were a shoe, Zhang Zhupo used the word "hateful" to evaluate Wu Yueniang, which is indeed a correct argument.
Wu Song fought and killed Ximen Qing
Therefore, reading the golden bottle plum, we will always feel an inexplicable sense of fear, it exposes the dominance of power, money, and desire in the secular society, and the words and deeds of the characters in the book seem extremely deformed from the perspective of today's orthodox values, but this is the real face of the times.
The accidental incident of Wu Song beating Ximenqing to death in "Water Margin" will not happen in "Golden Bottle Plum", because in the world of Golden Bottle, fists cannot defeat power and money, including the final death of Ximenqing, which is not the result of heavenly justice, but the result of his personal indulgence, tearing the social truth in front of the reader, which is the greatest thing about "Golden Bottle Plum".
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