What is the relationship between Xueyan, Daiyu's servant, and Daiyu in A Dream of Red Mansions?

On the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival, I always see the array flying in the sky and the sound of geese moving. Wild geese are warm-loving animals. In order to find a warm habitat, they have started a large-scale migration to the south. There are some old, weak and sick geese in the north, and it is difficult to fly high, so they can only stay there and face the rain, snow and frost in the north alone. Suddenly thought of Lin Daiyu's maid Xueyan in A Dream of Red Mansions. "Snow geese" are geese in the snow. Snow goose is like a wild goose that has not returned to the north, lonely and desolate in the ice and snow!

Xueyan is a Jiangnan girl. She worked as a maid for Lin Daiyu since she was a child, so she lived in the Lins' home with peace of mind. However, something unexpected happened, and Lin Daiyu's mother passed away. Grandma's poor granddaughter is young and unaccompanied and wants to take her to Beijing. At that time, the handmaid didn't have much personal freedom, and she followed her master wherever she went. Ten-year-old Xueyan followed Lin Daiyu and Mammy Wang on a sailboat to Kyoto.

At the age of ten, he is just an immature child and needs the care of his parents. On the other hand, Xueyan should learn to serve the host. It's really a different life for the same person. Jia Baoyu and other boys and girls need ten or twenty maids to take care of them every day, and the young Xueyan has taken on the duties of a servant. Perhaps, Xueyan was born in poverty and was sold into the Lins' house by her family since she was a child, or she didn't even know who her parents were, so she had no roots, no chance and let fate arrange her. Grandmother Jia also thought Xueyan was young and delicate, so she asked Ying Ge, the maid around her, to wait on Lin Daiyu.

Lin Daiyu is a good host. She is naturally kind to Xueyan, and Xueyan is also loyal to her victims. What Zijuan said can only show that Lin Daiyu is better to her than Xueyan. Xueyan is not as intimate as Zijuan, as knowledgeable as Jia Tanchun and others, and has little spiritual communication with Lin Daiyu. Her identity is similar to that of Fine, and they have a lot in common. Sunny is her good sister, and Xueyan is almost obedient to sunny. Once, Lin Daiyu went to visit Xue Baochai in cold weather, and Xueyan sent a small hand stove. Xueyan is a sincere person, and she didn't take the credit. She told Lin Daiyu that her sister Zijuan asked her to send it. Lin Daiyu made fun of Xueyan, often ignoring her words, but taking Zijuan's words as an imperial edict. Although this is a deliberate mockery of Jia Baoyu, we can also see the intimacy between Xueyan and Zijuan.