"Dream of the Red Chamber": We are all on the road to becoming Jarry

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I gave the article this title, and many readers may be confused when they read it. Cao Xueqin rated as "the most cheap and endless", even the next person Li Gui, Ming Yan are disgusted, not to say that we must be better than him, but at least in real life we will never be with such a person, how can we become such a person?

At first, I thought so, that Jia Rui, who was kneeling and licking Xue Pan, blackmailing classmates, and flirting with Sister Feng, was too far away from me. However, after reading "Wang Xifeng Poison set up the Acacia Bureau" once, I suddenly found that behind these despised undercurrent behaviors in Jia Rui's body, it reflected a very common human characteristic - the attachment to things and feelings, and there was no regret until death. At this point, Isn't Jerry, who is confused by beauty and can't "retreat early", and we who say "we will win next time" in front of the "gambling table" are not as lucky?

01 A trap from a look

Jared, who was criticized by the author as "the picture is cheap and there is no end", from the appearance to the death of the disease, everything developed too fast, and it felt like he had just appeared. Although Jarry came and went in a hurry, looking back at his life, there are many interesting things to play, such as who could have imagined that the cause of his death would start from a look.

That day was the birthday of Jia Jing, the grand old man of Ningguo Province, and a group of clan members came to eat and drink to celebrate. After drinking and eating, Jia Rui, who was idle and bored, ran to the garden to relax, and coincidentally, he just met the oncoming Wang Xifeng. Seeing that Sister Feng looks beautiful, the book says that Jia Rui "can't stop looking at Sister Feng with his eyes."

Wang Xifeng was a wise man, and he understood it when he saw such a scene, but on the one hand, it was not good to have a seizure in front of everyone, and on the other hand, he was afraid that Jia Rui would do something out of the ordinary on the spot, so he had to remind him with a roundabout way.

"I can't complain that your brother often mentions you and says you're fine." See you today, listen to you say these few words, you know that you are a smart and angry person. I'm going to go to the wives, I'm not allowed to talk to you, and we'll talk when we're free. ”

Where can Jerry hear the meaning of "I am your sister-in-law, I must not be rude"? Not only did he not hear it, but he also intensified his efforts to create the opportunity to meet next time. "I'm going to go to my sister-in-law's house to ask for peace, and I'm afraid my sister-in-law is young and won't easily see people."

If you remind me, I don't know if Jia Rui pretended not to understand or really didn't understand, but what made Feng Jie breathe a sigh of relief was that she finally sent this obscene seed away and resolved the current embarrassing situation.

A few months passed, just when Feng Jie was about to forget that there was such a person as Jia Rui, he himself ran to the door to find a sense of existence, and this trip also became a major turning point in his death.

02 A fool who will not die

Seeing that Jia Rui came to the door again, Wang Xifeng realized that this person was too ignorant of good villains to teach him a lesson that would not lead to a long memory. However, where did she know that Jared was a character who would not let go until death.

Feng Jie's revenge on Jia Rui did not really kill him, and he thought that he would wake up after freezing in the cold wind for one night, but the book said that Jia Rui's heart was still unchanged, and he did not think that Feng Jie was teasing him", and came to feng jie two days later.

Seeing that Jarry was blinded by lard, the implicit way did not work, it could only be said. Therefore, this time, Wang Xifeng called out to Jia Rong and Jia Qiang, and asked them to teach Jia Rui to vent his anger for himself, and then clearly told him: "Now Second Aunt Lian has sued her wife, saying that you flirted with him for no reason." ”

Hearing that even Lady Wang knew of his ugly deeds, Jia Rui was scared half to death, and after suffering a big loss, he finally did not dare to go to the Rong Guo Mansion again, but the funny thing was that he still remembered Wang Xifeng. Unable to think, coupled with debt, frostbite and nervous homework, Jared "three or five times in the middle of the attack, do not feel that you have a disease."

This disease is also strange, not only is there no cure, but it is getting sicker and sicker. I thought that I would be killed like this, but just when Jerry was doing the final dying struggle, a crippled Daoist who claimed to "cure all the diseases of wrongdoing" appeared in time and sent a cure for the disease - the Treasure book of the Wind and Moon. "I have a treasure with you, and when you look at it every day, this life can be saved." He also instructed him, "Do not look at the front, but only on the back of him." ”

In the matter of being able to save lives, who else would mind the bitter mouth of good medicine? But Jarry was different, not only did he not take the medicine, but he also did the opposite, hastening his own death. The most ironic thing is that at the moment when he was taken away by the King of Yama, he also shouted, "Let me take the mirror and go again." "It's really crazy, until death."

We have always thought that Jarry, who is obsessed with beauty, is a fool, and even the threat of life cannot shake his attachment to love, which is really sad and ridiculous. But looking closely at the characters in "Dream of the Red Chamber", who is not so persistent, but the object of each person's attachment is different?

Take Jia Rui's nemesis Wang Xifeng, the obsession with money made her not only disliked by the subordinates in the family, but also betrayed the life of Brother Jin and the son of the garrison, even if she "knew that she loved this life talent", and finally ended up with a "mechanism that was too clever to calculate, but it was wrong to miss Qingqing's life".

Most of the people in "Dream of the Red Chamber", like Wang Xifeng and Jia Rui, have been obsessed with "things" and "feelings" all their lives without knowing it, and finally have to end in tragedy. This also made me deeply aware that perhaps we, as modern people, are not much more far-sighted than these people in the book, because we have more or less their shadows in us - there are too few people who can really "retreat early".