Indeed, serving a self-denying girl like Xue Baochai is really a sign that her boyfriend is too aggressive. However, is Yingying really as honest and filial as she looks?
In fact, there are quite a few small theaters arranged by Cao Gong for Yingying, which can reflect her personality every time-it has nothing to do with keeping a low profile. It should be said that Cao Xueqin still likes this character.
Yinger's first appearance was the eighth time that "Jia Baoyu knows the golden lock by chance, and Xue Baochai knows the psychic skillfully". I took on an important task when I first appeared on the stage-
"Golden lock with Baoyu" was first said by Yingying.
After reading it, Baochai looked at it from the front and said, "Fairy Heng Chang, don't forget what you lost." After reading it twice, he turned to Yinger and said with a smile, "Why are you still standing here staring blankly?" Yinger also smiled: "I heard these two sentences, but they seem to be a pair of words on the girl's collar." When Baoyu heard this, he quickly smiled and said, "So my sister has words on that collar, too? I also appreciate it. "
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Baoyu read it twice, then his own twice, and said with a smile, "Sister, these eight words are a pair with mine." Yinger smiled and said, "This is from a bad-headed monk. He said he had to soak it in a gold vessel. " Baochai said angrily before he finished, "Don't pour tea!"
Some readers pointed out that Yinger's performance was inspired by Aunt Xue or Baochai. I think so too. As a maid, Yinger has no guts and doesn't need to "intervene" in such an important matter. Besides, Baochai "blamed" Inge twice for "not pouring tea", and Inge still rapped sideways, which was out of line. As I will say later, Xue Baochai is not only strict with herself, but also with Yingying. As a clever girl, if she didn't get some kind of "hint", she would have the above performance.
I say "hint" because according to the characters of Aunt Xue and Baochai, no matter how enthusiastic they are, they can't be too explicit, but a clever girl will know what to do as long as her master gives her a look and a hint. Judging from Ying Er's performance in this dialogue, the interruption and rhythm are just right, and they are not intentional. It can be seen that Yinger herself is a very clever girl, and her performance level is first-class, which is not much better than the matchmaker in The West Chamber.
But with Baochai, a girl who is famous for being "cold" and "heartless", the enthusiasm and spirit of welcoming children are always suppressed when the master and servant are together. Her second impressive performance was in the 20th. During the Chinese New Year, Baochai and Xiangling were idle and bored, just when Jia Huan came, she also wanted to play. So four people made a table, "ten dollars at a time".
This card combination is very strange in itself: it covers the master, half master (concubine), girl, and a "man" (although underage). It can be called an entertainment activity that breaks class and gender and ignores ethics.
Although the article specifically said that "Baochai always looked at Jia Huan like Baoyu". However, it always makes people feel a little strange. However, Miss Bao has always been good at "United Front Work" and never forgets Aunt Zhao when giving gifts. It is not surprising to think so.
However, when you play, something happens. The reason is that Jia Huan can't afford to lose-the reason why he can't afford to lose is actually that he is poor. In the end, he still has no money. The book says:
The dice turned sideways. Jia Huan is anxious. He reached for the dice and asked for money, saying it was four o'clock. Yinger said, "It's obviously one!" Seeing that Jia Huan was in a hurry, Baochai glanced at Yingying and said, "The older you get, the more unruly you are! Do men still depend on you? Don't put down the money yet.
Baochai certainly won't take Jia Huan seriously because of this; Xiangling is a person who is used to resignation and will have no objection. But Yinger was not convinced, not because of money, but even though she was "full of grievances, she dared not speak out when she saw the girl, so she had to put down the money." However, it may be because the baby girl at that time was young after all, and it is more likely that the atmosphere of national joy before gave Yinger an illusion that he could be like Jin Yuanyang's three proclamations, "the casino is like a battlefield", so he muttered: "A grandfather still depends on our money, and even I look down upon it! I played with Mr. Bao the other day, but he didn't worry if he lost. The rest of the money was still robbed by several little girls, and he just smiled. "
Unexpectedly, it was this sentence that made Jia Huan jump up-Jia Huan was also a very sensitive child in essence. Boys in the turbulent period of youth-Jia Huan and Jia Lan are as sensitive as Baoyu. Jia Huan refused to attend the family dinner on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival because Jia Zheng didn't invite him. Jia Baoyu's sensitivity is called sensitivity when he is taken care of by others, and "stingy" or "withdrawn" when he is not taken care of by others
Far away, back to the story of Yinger, from this kind of whispering, we can see that Yinger is not a girl with a "sense of ceremony" in her bones. If it was an attack, I believe she wouldn't have such a complaint on any occasion.
These are the days when Miss Yingying and Baochai were together. Without her own girl, Yinger seems to be more open, and her enthusiasm, intelligence and even love for "doing things" are becoming more and more obvious.
Once, for the 35th time, Baoyu bothered Yingying to make a connection. This passage can be regarded as Yinger's "true story", which introduces her life experience and age in detail, including the process of renaming.
Let's talk about Aroma's departure. Yinger came to Baoyu with a portable bag and asked, "What are you doing?" Baoyu smiled at Yinger. "I just talked and forgot about you. If you don't come, please contact me. " Yinger asked, "What kind of collateral?" When Baoyu asked, he said with a smile, "No matter what you pack, how many dozen of each." Yingying clapped her hands and said with a smile, "That's not bad. You can't do it in ten years. " Baoyu said with a smile, "Good girl, you are idle. Think of it as for me. " Aroma said with a smile, "Did you finish the fight at once? Now let's pick out some important ones first. " "Never mind," said Yingying. "Just a fan, a fragrant Zhui Er and a sweat towel." Baoyu said, "It's just a towel." Yingying said, "What color is the sweat towel?" Baoyu said, "Red." Yinger said, "The red one must be black, or it must be azurite, so as to suppress the color." Baoyu asked, "What does Song Huase deserve?" Yinger said, "Pine flowers are pink." Baoyu said with a smile, "This is beautiful. I want to be a little delicate in elegance and lightness. " Yinger said, "Green willow yellow, elegant." Baoyu said, "Never mind. Also make a peach and make a green. " Yingying said, "What's the clever plan?" Baoyu asked, "How many tricks are there?" Yinger said, "A wick of incense, a stool facing the sky, an elephant-eye pedestal, a victory, a chain, a plum blossom and a willow leaf." Baoyu asked, "What trick did you play on Third Girl the other day?"
The reason why this paragraph is quoted completely. It is because the colors and patterns mentioned in it are so beautiful that it gives people too much room for association, which is simply unbearable. Every time I read these colors with strong visual impact, I will think of Baochai's "snow cave" residence and a picture of "half new and not old" In front of a simple girl, Yinger's "eighteen martial arts" are almost useless. No wonder she was so excited and even showed off when she told Baoyu about it.
Later, Yingying pushed Aroma and others to dinner, leaving only Baoyu and her in the room, and the picture gradually approached "Xiang".
Baoyu said, "Sister Bao loves you. You must follow Sister Bao when she gets married tomorrow. " Yinger giggled. Baoyu said with a smile, "I often tell your elder sister Hua that tomorrow I don't know which of you will share in your suffering." Yinger smiled and said, "You don't know that we girls have several advantages that no one in the world has, and looks are second." Baoyu has been overwhelmed by Yinger's charming laughter. Why not mention Baochai? Then he asked, "What benefits? You tell me in detail. " Yinger said, "I tell you, don't tell him." Baoyu smiled and said, "This is natural."
As you can imagine, these words are whispers. Since "thin", two people's heads must be together and they can smell the hot air exhaled from each other's noses. Baochai asked, "Why is it so quiet?" It also confirms this picture.
I always suspected that Baochai's "passing by" was intentional, and she was not at ease with this close-fitting girl. After coming, she flatly rejected all the suggestions before Ying 'er, saying only that "the gold thread should be matched with the black pearl thread, and it will look good one by one." To tell the truth, the gold thread of black beads is hard and unimaginative, and there is no femininity except wealth. "Baoyu was overjoyed when he heard this, and a bunch of annoyances told Aron to get the gold thread." This is not only really good, but also to please Sister Bao.
What best shows that Yingying is not afraid of "doing things" is the dispute that happened in Qin Fang Bridge Bank in 1959. The reason is that Yinger broke the wicker basket containing flowers and plants on the way to Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Yinger's dexterity is recognized by the whole Grand View Garden. But now, because the flowers and plants in the Grand View Garden have been contracted to households, they are no longer "ownerless wasteland". The poetic behavior of girls infringes on the economic interests of a group of people. Before this, Chun Yan also half-truths to remind her (this community is Chun Yan's aunt's house, as can be seen from the conversation between Chun Yan and her mother later, she is a family-oriented girl, and may really hope that her aunt's place will suffer less damage, but she is also sensible and knows that it is not worthwhile to annoy Yingying for this trivial matter).
But Yinger may have been unhappy for some time, and her answer to Chun Yan is:
If others can't do it, I can do it alone. Since the foundation has been distributed, there are separate items in every room every day, only flowers and plants: whoever cares, they should be worn by girls in every room every day, and some bottles such as branches of various colors should be sent. Only our girl said,' Don't give anything, I'll ask you for it after I ask for it.' I never asked for it. I'll pinch some today, and they're too embarrassed to say.
This statement is also half correct. In the Grand View Garden, good-looking girls can enjoy many established benefits beyond the regulations. For example, in a word, Qingwen can taste gluten-fried Artemisia for free; Occasionally, he said that he had a bad appetite, and the Liu family served four dishes and one soup. Although Siqi made a fuss about steamed eggs for one night, she also showed from the side that she thought it was her right. However, since Baochai wants to establish a "good image", she must pay in advance to eat a bowl of fried wolfberry with oil and salt. It can be seen that Yinger is forbidden to do similar things at ordinary times, which leads to Yinger not enjoying the "welfare" she deserves, and it is inevitable that there is no resentment in the baby girl's heart.
In the whole process, you can find Yingying doing things constantly, deliberately making things big. Originally, she didn't talk back, or just said she made it up. I think Aunt Chun Yan is confused again. She dare not do anything to "a relative's servant girl". However, Yinger deliberately said it was Chun Yan's idea again and again, deliberately teasing the old lady to make a spring swallow, and finally got into a bee. This girl is quite scheming.
But later Baoyu asked Chun Yan and her son to apologize to Yingying, and specially took care to avoid Baochai, so that Yingying would not be taught a lesson by Baochai again. It can be seen that Baoyu still knows something about how Baochai and Yingying get along.
There are two things that make people think deeply and fear about Yinger. One is about renaming.
From her conversation with Baoyu, I knew that her original name was "oriole" because Baochai thought it was "bite" and changed her name to Yingying.
Baoyu is the favorite person to change people's names in A Dream of Red Mansions. The change of "Jolie" to "Xiren", "Yanming" to "Baked Tea", "Fangguan" to "Venus Glass" and even "Xianghui" to "Si Er" is purely out of interest, and there is not much business.
But something is different. Changing "Redjade" to "Xiaohong" is a violation of Baoyu and Daiyu's "jade"; Xiangling was renamed "Qiu Ling" because it violated the "osmanthus fragrance" in Xia Jingui.
Where's Yingying? Baochai had a beautiful maid named satellites, and she said that the name "oriole" was awkward. I didn't see how smoothly satellites read. Why didn't Baochai change her name to "Xinger"? I'm afraid it's more because the word "gold" violates the "gold" of the "golden lock". Of course, Miss Bao won't be so stingy, so "screaming" is the best reason.
There is another story. When "reforming the Grand View Garden", Tan Chun was worried about "people who are not good at making herbs". Pinger said that Yingerniang could do this. Baochai wanted to avoid suspicion, refused to use Xue's family, and recommended the old horse of Baked Tea Niang.
There is an old horse in Yee Hong Court. She is the mother who bakes tea. That's an honest man, and he is very good with our mother Yingying. Why don't we leave this matter to Ma Ye? If she doesn't know anything, we don't need to tell him, then we will tell Yingying's mother. I'm afraid the horse will leave it behind and give it to that man. This is their business, and some people can't blame us for gossiping. In this business, you do it fairly and properly. "Li Wan ping son said," it's true. Tanchun said with a smile, "Even so, I'm afraid I've forgotten the benefits." . Pinger smiled and said, "It's irrelevant. "。 The day before yesterday, Yinger also recognized Ma as an adoptive mother and invited her to eat and drink. These two families are very friendly.
Yingerniang has a good personal relationship with baking A?vagho?a. Yinger recently admitted that Laoma is also an adoptive mother. Two "please eat and drink, two are very thick."
Isn't that weird? Xue Baochai is versatile, but she is impartial to the people around her and never gets too close to anyone. However, men are so close? It can be seen from "I recognized the foster mother not long ago" that the friendship between the two families did not exist, but it quickly warmed up after the Baochai family moved in. You said the two families hit it off. But I also have reason to suspect that this was deliberately arranged by Xue Baochai. Send "old clothes" from Xue Baochai to Mrs. Wang's room (I don't believe that the beautiful maid Jinchang will lack clothes to wear; I don't believe those clothes are really old. From Baochai's efforts to win over others, it can be seen that Baochai's sister may have woven a net around Baoyu.
But it is not enough to rely solely on Jinchuan and Xiren, because none of them can accompany Jia Baoyu out of the Grand View Garden. But baked tea can, and the status of baked tea around Baoyu is no less than xiren to some extent.
It is impossible for Baochai to come into contact with roasted tea, even Yingying is not suitable. However, there is no problem with Baking Ming's mother, Yingying's mother and two old sisters. So:
Baoyu-Baked Tea-Baked Tea Niang-Yinger Niang-Yinger-Baochai
This line is open.
Okay, I know you're going to call me a conspiracy theorist again.