Fun Kan Red House 183: Asking for funding, Li Yi admires the glass man, has the heart to settle the account, and Feng Jie is jealous of the undead
Jia Lian secretly fell in love with Bao Er's family, Wang Xifeng made a big fuss, and Jia Mu made peacemakers, and finally persuaded them. However, once some feelings are broken, it is difficult to bridge, especially Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian, and the root problem of concubines and children is not solved, and it is doomed to have good results.
Wang Xifeng's side was all right, but the people of the Grand View Garden came to her under the leadership of Li Yi to find her to "change her fate".
Since the people founded the poetry club, there was a cost of eating and drinking at each gathering. It is said that it is just some fruit tea, which does not cost much. But in fact, they spend a lot of money each time.
Later, Lu Xueguang's poems, everyone had five or six taels of silver per person, and Li Feng said that it was not enough for her to support the bottom. Supposedly, it is not enough.
Five or six two silver simply buy fruit tea where to use so much! But it is similar to the allusion that the Qianlong Emperor ate an egg for ten silver. Although it may not be true, it also reflects the current situation of soaring expenses after the slaves have increased their prices and exploited them.
To say that originally they set up a poetry club AA system is enough to spend, but as soon as Wang Xifeng has a birthday, everyone raises funds for her and takes out a month's monthly money, like the Sanchun sisters have no extra money.
Therefore, Li Feng led the crowd to find the housekeeper Wang Xifeng and asked for funds for the expenses of the poetry club.
Tanchun smiled and said, "We have two things: one is mine, the other is the fourth sister's, and it is also sandwiched between the old lady's words." Sister Feng smiled and said, "What's so important?" ”...... Tanchun said, "Although you can't do it, I don't want you to do it." You only monitor that there are thieves among us, and how to punish him is enough. Sister Feng smiled and said, "Don't fool me, I guess, there is a request for me to be the imperial history of the prison society!" He clearly told me to be a copper merchant who paid for it. Whatever society you make, you must take turns to be the host. Your monthly money is not enough to spend, and you have come up with this method to help me go, so that I can ask for money. But the idea? The crowd laughed. Li Yi smiled and said, "You are really a crystal heart liver glass person." ”
Regarding the matter of the Haitang Poetry Society's request for appropriations, there is now a very popular misunderstanding, that is, Li Feng refused to pay for his brothers and sisters to play, but instead managed Wang Xifeng to ask for money.
In fact, this matter has nothing to do with Li Feng, they are looking for Wang Xifeng to allocate funds is also reasonable, Li Feng does not cut the door.
First of all, Li Feng brought people to find Wang Xifeng, but it was Jia Tanchun who opened his mouth to manage his sister-in-law's money.
Tan Chun is the daughter of Lady Wang, a serious lady of the Rongguo Mansion, and she asks the "housekeeper" for appropriations as a matter of course.
Moreover, since Jia Tanchun opened his mouth, it must have been her idea, nor was it instigated by Li Feng.
Secondly, as soon as Wang Xifeng heard jia tanchun summon her to join the society under the pretext of inviting her to join the society, she knew that she was asked to approve the money. This is also inevitable.
Everyone in Daguanyuan is the children of the Jia family. Their daily support expenses, of course, have to be paid by the Jia family officials.
Although the poetry club is just a gadget, it also costs a lot of money. Everyone has two or two silver per month, one or two silver at a time, twice a month, and then they have to be happy to increase the number of times, there is simply not enough to spend, and there is no need to do anything else. Appropriations are a necessary initiative.
Moreover, Li Yi's people came to Wang Xifeng to find a housekeeper to allocate funds, not to let Wang Xifeng pay for it himself.
Therefore, Wang Xifeng is the beauty of adults, and the money given is also the money of officials, and she will certainly not refuse. She also "can't afford to offend" these people.
Finally, the focus was on Wang Xifeng's guess, and Li Yi laughed and said that she was too smart, "Really a crystal heart liver glass person."
Note that Li Feng used "crystal heart liver glass man" to describe Wang Xifeng, combined with Wang Xifeng's back to Li Feng to settle accounts, jealous of Li Feng to earn more, it is the source of Li Feng's judgment "like ice water is good and empty jealousy, and make jokes with others in vain".
What is "as good as ice water"? It means that the quality of crystal and glass is "like water like ice", ancient crystals and glass belong to the category of jewelry, and the quality of the product is called "ice species", and the water head is good.
Li Feng said that Wang Xifeng was a "crystal heart liver glass person", saying that her thinking was exquisite and clear, intelligent and accessible, like crystal and glass.
And Wang Xifeng calculated the account for Li Feng, and there was a lot of envy and jealousy in his words, that is, "like ice water and good air jealousy." If combined with "making jokes with others in vain", in the vernacular, it means that Li Feng has been widowed, but the orphans and widows of her son have received a little money, and Wang Xifeng is still jealous of her income, and she is thinking of settling accounts for her, which makes people laugh and be generous.
There are many ways to be happy, for Li Feng, family reunion, husband and wife happiness, fatherly love and filial piety are happiness, but for Wang Xifeng, having money and power makes her feel safe, and married life is just embellishment.
Li Feng and Wang Xifeng have different perceptions of "happiness", which determines that the two have different endings.
Wang Xifeng was greedy too much, and in the end, the organs were too clever to calculate Qingqing's life. She is jealous of power, reckless of people's lives, greedy for money and good things, and most of all, she is not virtuous, and is called "the first sinner of Jia Zhao" by Li Yanzhai . As a result, the young man died, just as You Shi and Ping'er said to her: "I watched your master so meticulous, get this money there to go!" Unable to do so, Ming'er took the coffin with her. ”
After the death of Li Feng's husband, his heart was like a withered mallet, and he could only serve his adopted son, abide by the way of women, and take the responsibility of raising his son Jia Lan chengcai and shining lintel as his responsibility, which is a model of women's morality. Contrast that with Wang Xifeng's greed. Wang Xifeng did not even reach old age, but Li Feng first suppressed the old age and then became rich, which is the embodiment of [Late Shaohua].
After understanding what "like ice water is good and empty jealousy" is, you can understand Cao Xueqin's meaning in [Late Shaohua] "also needs yin and yin to accumulate children and grandchildren".
If we only think that Li Feng's sentences and songs are simply about Li Feng, do not know the author's good intentions in comparing Li Feng and Wang Xifeng, and think that Li Feng's character is not good and does not accumulate yin, it will fail to live up to the author's significance of borrowing Wang Xifeng's "anti" and Li Feng's "right" as typical education for the world. Not mentioned.
Li Feng said that Wang Xifeng was a "crystal heart liver glass person", and Feng Jie immediately introduced the topic to her and told her about the crooked reasoning.
Sister Feng smiled and said, "You are a big sister-in-law!" Give the girls to you with the rules of study and needlework, they are not good, you have to persuade. Will they start a poetry club, can use a few dollars, you don't care? The old lady and the wife were originally the old feudal lords. Your monthly money of ten taels of silver a month is twice as much silver as we do. The old lady and the wife also said that your widow is unemployed, poor, not enough, and there is another boy, and the foot has added another twelve, and the old lady and the wife are equal. And he gave you a garden of land, and each of them took the rent. Year-end division, you are on top of each other. You ladies and daughters, there are not ten masters and slaves in total, and the food and clothing are still among the officials. In total, there are four or five hundred silver a year. This will you take out one or two hundred taels of silver every year to accompany them stubbornly, can you limit the limit of a few years? Each of them is out of the cabinet, do you still want you to lose? This will make you afraid of spending money, instigating them to make trouble for me, I am happy to eat a river dry sea, I don't know! ”
Wang Xifeng's words were purely jealous and rude. Specifically, there are a few points to pay attention to interpretation.
First, Wang Xifeng has the same identity as Li Feng, but his income is much worse. Li Feng had twenty-two pieces of silver per month, but Wang Xifeng's housekeeper only had five or two pieces of silver.
She did not say that Li Feng's income was mostly compensation for orphans and widows after the death of her husband, but only said that Li Feng's income was large. If Li Yi and her identities are exchanged, is she willing?
People are content. Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian's monthly income is only more than Li Feng, not less than Li Feng, what is not satisfied?
Second, Wang Xifeng envied Li Feng with a son in his words, and his identity was transcendent. It was her destiny. She also has a son!
The problem is that she controls the marriage by jealousy, makes a lot of chicken feathers in the family, and does not manage a good life well, but envies the bitter days and luck of a widow.
Third, Wang Xifeng ridiculed Li Feng for earning so much and not taking money out to play with his younger siblings. So how much did she take?
She said generously, "First lay down fifty taels of silver for you to slowly host the club," and asked if she had paid for it herself? Obviously not! So how to ask Li Yi to take the money out?
Fourth, Li Feng's money is not hers, but to be saved for Jia Lan.
Originally, the heirs of Rong Guofu, Li Feng and Jia Lan's mother and son, were not to be tolerated, but after Jia Zhu's death, Jia Baoyu succeeded his brother as the fourth generation of heirs of Rong Guofu, and Jia Lian was the fourth generation of heirs to the title. The fifth generation of Jia Lan completely lost the order of inheritance, and could only rely on his mother's savings and a private inheritance from Jia Zheng and Lady Wang in the future.
Most of the benefits of rongguo mansion were inherited by Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu, so why did Li Feng take Jia Lan's future money to raise children for her in-laws? Nor does that make sense.
Wang Xifeng said this about Li Feng, but she was jealous that she now earned several times more than herself, and she also knew that there was no reason to let Li Feng out, just ridicule.
The Grand View Garden Poetry Club looks like a gadget, but in fact, it has to be held one or twenty times a year, and there is no one hundred and ten silver that cannot come down. This money should have come out of the officials, and Wang Xifeng used this to ridicule Li Feng not only for no reason, but also for her good intentions to say it.
However, the reader should understand that Li Yi should not take money is not her stinginess. We must also understand that Wang Xifeng's intention to ridicule Li Feng is unreasonable, but out of jealousy and selfishness.
"Like ice water is jealous of each other, and laughing with others in vain" is Cao Xueqin's profound intention to educate the world to learn more from Li Feng and not to learn from Wang Xifeng.
Here Li Feng couldn't do anything to Wang Xifeng to settle the account for her, but he couldn't say anything about her. Fortunately, at this time, Grandma Lai appeared again, and another story with great significance occurred. So, how do you think about Mamma Lai's official appearance? To find out what happens next, look at the next breakdown!
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