Enemies in the Red Chamber

When the servant girl came in to report that Mrs. He was coming, Daiyu was following Mrs. Yang to take stock of the family property. The eldest son must have got these in the end, but the second son couldn't really be ignorant.When Mrs. Yang heard that Mrs. He had come, she raised her hand and rubbed her forehead, with a helpless expression, "Your second family, you go, just say that I am too busy to be free."

It was the first time for Daiyu to see Mrs. Yang showing such an expression. Looking back on Mrs. He, she remembered that she was gentle and not talkative, except that she loved to have a bitter face, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with her. She couldn't figure out why her mother-in-law was so shrewd. And open-minded people worry.Somewhat amusingly, he followed the maidservant to the flower hall.

Mrs. He was sitting on a chair wiping her tears with a handkerchief. After serving tea, the maids stood at the door waiting for orders. Several of them covered their mouths and whispered. When they saw Daiyu coming, they bowed their heads and stood still. They all quietly took two steps back.

"My sister-in-law is here. My wife is busy and can't move her hands for a while. My sister-in-law is pregnant again. I will talk to my sister-in-law. Don't think I am young. If there is a sentence or a half wrong, please bear with me." If someone else comes Well, Daiyu wouldn't talk like that, but since Mrs. He made his wife so helpless, it's okay to say that.

Mrs. He is the daughter-in-law of the fourth son of Yang Shi's auditorium uncle's family. That uncle and Mr. Yang are the same grandfather, and the relationship between the two families is neither too close nor too far away.When Mr. Yang's father was in charge of the house, the family of the cousin and grandpa were separated from the main house, and life was tepid after that. Every year, the main house was divided into Chinese New Year's dividends. Add some more.

People who cry and cry when visiting other people's homes are always unpleasant, but this Mrs. He doesn't care, and she still cries while talking to Daiyu, "I know, it's my aunt who bothers me, and I'm also annoying. Being annoyed by my husband at home, and hated by everyone outside, oh..., if it weren't for the fact that I still have two children, I would have died a long time ago, so that no one would pay attention to me. It's just right, just to make room for the newcomer place, woo..."

Daiyu's eyelids twitched when she said it. There was nothing wrong with what she said except being straightforward. Daiyu had heard more straightforward, but why was it a little bit unpleasant!Daiyu forced a smile, "Sister-in-law, what are you talking about? The whole family has nothing to worry about. It doesn't make people sad. It's so boring. Sister-in-law, wash and wipe some oil on your face to save your face." Cracked. Xueyan, tell them to bring a basin of water, and then go to my room to get some oil and powder."

"Hey!" Xue Yan looked at Mrs. He strangely before leaving the house, probably she had never seen this appearance before visiting other people's house.

He took Daiyu's hand and continued to cry, "I don't care about my face, don't say it's just cracked, even if the flowers are rotten, I don't feel sorry for them, and no one will look at them anyway, woo... pity my child , I’m still so young, I don’t understand anything, I’m about to lose my mother. My son has been clinging to me since he was a child, and when he was three months old, he would cry as soon as he left me. He kept crying and crying, and my heart was broken by his crying. When I was one year old, I would only pick up things when I was holding them. As long as I wasn’t holding them, I wouldn’t even glance at all the fun things on the table, but would tie my hands and let me hold them. When I was one and a half years old... when I was three years old ……Now……"

Daiyu is going crazy, you are here to talk about something, you say you are always crying, I don't know what it is!Ask for help, ask for money, ask for ideas, you say it!

When she finally said "I really don't dare to think about what to do without my child", Xueyan finally came, Daiyu heaved a sigh of relief, and asked her to wash her face, "Sister-in-law, wipe your face." Pushing the wet towel into her hands.

He was cut off, choked and burped, and finally wiped his face with a towel.Xueyan waited for the little girl to turn her back and covered her mouth with her hands and smiled, Daiyu glared at them, then tightened her face with a suppressed smile, lowering her head so that Mrs. He could not see the smiles in their eyes and the corners of their mouths .

When Mrs. He finally left, Daiyu's ears were filled with buzzing sounds, but she couldn't understand what she wanted to say.Reluctantly, she went back to Mrs. Yang and said, "I didn't understand what the fourth sister-in-law was here for. Fortunately, my wife didn't go. It's really uncomfortable to cry."

Mrs. Yang said helplessly: "This is the one you went to see. If I went, I guess I would cry even more. It was your fourth cousin who did the crime. He had to raise a foreign room. Your uncle broke his leg." You still don’t want to change it. If you want to send the outer room away, your cousin is still looking for death. The master said that if he wanted to die, let him die. In the end, he really hit the wall with his head bleeding. When I came back, I scared your uncle and aunt very much. Your aunt dared not force him any more, she knelt down and begged the master to beg me, but the master couldn’t help it, so she had to ignore it for the time being.”

Daiyu was speechless, and asked: "Didn't our son teach him not to be promiscuous since he was a child? The second master also said that the master of the family school taught him since he was a child, why did this happen?"

Mrs. Yang sighed: "In such a big family, there are always one or two ignorant ones. These are better, and those who are out of the fifth service are even more chaotic. Fortunately, the family's requirements for them are also loose, otherwise they will be dealt with all day long. You can’t finish all the things. Your fourth cousin and your fourth sister-in-law also met first before they agreed to settle down. The two of them were very affectionate at the beginning. I remember your cousin still came. He complained to me, saying that the son married a wife and forgot his mother, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law bickered and the son didn't help the mother. By now, there are two children, and this has come out."

Daiyu asked: "What does the master say? After all, our family has such family rules, and it may not be good to openly indulge. Although the outer room is not considered a concubine's room, it is not a violation of the family rules if it is seriously pursued. It's just a pretext to fool people. If something like this happens, if you really let it go, you will inevitably be said behind your back to gain fame.... Is there any precedent to follow?"

Mrs. Yang said: "I heard from the older generation that there was a case before, but the daughter-in-law had a backbone. After hearing about it, she took the initiative to write a letter of divorce and moved the dowry to her own dowry. The child followed suit. Mother, because she didn't change her surname and felt guilty about it, she ignored it and helped them everywhere. She came back to take over the family business after she grew up. That clansman never remarried in his life, and lived in an outhouse. The outhouse Yang’s family can’t come in, and it’s just an outhouse until death. The children born didn’t dare to have the surname Yang. After going down, that tribe left here after death, and I don’t know where to settle.”

Daiyu wondered: "Since there are already established rules, just follow them. Why bother so much. Seeing that the fate of the daughter-in-law of the tribe is not bad, it is even more comfortable, and no one else in the tribe is allowed to take the position. The fourth sister-in-law, Why are you still so... so..." Daiyu thought for a long time but couldn't think of any words to describe He.

Mrs. Yang sneered, "It would be easy for your fourth sister-in-law to have such a temper. The master dislikes this matter the most, and he will definitely not make her suffer. I have said that in the future, all dividends in the clan will be given to the two children. I am willing to leave that Just follow the previous example, out of sight and out of mind, take the child out to live, and the dividends will be sent directly to her. If you don’t want to take the child, you can go out and remarry. The Yang family will support her, and the child will be raised by grandparents. No If you are willing to live at home with Li, take good care of your children, take care of your home, don’t let your fourth cousin have any money, and give your aunt and uncle an order, don’t allow them to help you, and go out to earn your own food if you don’t respect the family rules Eat, boil slowly.

In the end, both of your fourth cousins ​​were unwilling, and you didn't want to reconcile, and you didn't want to let your men suffer, but let us control your fourth cousin to change his mind and sink the outer room.You said, is this request too much?She came to look for her every day when no one paid attention to her, and left after crying for a while, and came back the next day.You said that you have this skill, why don't you go directly to the outer room and beat him up?I'm afraid that your fourth cousin will blame her, but I really annoy her. "

Daiyu was speechless, who are these people!Can't you have a little backbone? !

Then I heard Mrs. Yang sigh, "That's why I said that choosing a daughter-in-law must be accurate. There are more and more people like your cousin sister-in-law. She is still literate. There are those who misinterpret that a woman's lack of talent is virtue, no Literate, illiterate, ignorant, and don't know what it looks like. Then some great Confucianists still use the banner of ancestor saints to misinterpret those women's precepts and women's rules, and they don't look at the background when the sages wrote these. At that time It’s so messy, it’s only possible with these restrictions, and now it’s necessary to change it if it’s applicable, but they’ve compared it one by one, and it’s become more stringent. Our Kong family doesn’t raise girls like this, instead they say those nonsense It’s the words of a sage. I heard that another famous Confucian came out from the south to preach some etiquette and made the rules even stricter. It’s just inexplicable!”

Daiyu thought about her angry horse in fresh clothes in her previous life, and then thought about the current advertised gates that don’t leave the second door, she has to take a car when she goes out, and she has to wear a veiled hat when there are people in the car. experience.I couldn't help but want to record this matter and my own thoughts.

So when Yang Shili returned to his room, what he saw was Daiyu writing vigorously.Looking at the first draft, it contained impassioned criticisms of etiquette and etiquette.Qi asked: "Why did you think of writing this?" Yang Shili himself did not agree with these, and he didn't think her writing was out of line at all.

Daiyu put down her pen, twirled her sore wrist, and told him the story slowly, and then said: "I can understand Sitang sister-in-law's insistence on discord. In the past, women felt ashamed to be divorced, but now they are with her." Leaving the book has also become a shameful thing. The two children have a mother who is divorced from their father. It is not good to say it. In the final analysis, it is the fault of the general environment. Although etiquette is important, it should be moderate. Although I cannot change the environment, But I always want to write it down to let future generations know that there will always be a person or even a group of people." Yang Shili said: "It just happens to be companions with those letters of mine." The two looked at each other and smiled.

The author has something to say:

I want Daiyu's works to be less monotonous, and have some deep-seated things, and I hope they don't collapse.