The secret borrowed by Jia Lian and Yuanyang was learned by Mrs. Xing, who was upset and took the opportunity to blackmail.
Without saying anything, Jia Lian came in, clapped his hands and sighed, "Oh, it's another trouble. I borrowed Yuanyang as a chess piece the other day. How did the wife know? My wife just asked me to move 200 pieces of silver for the festival on August 15th. I have nowhere to go. The wife said:' No money, a place to move. If I discuss it with you for nothing, you will prevaricate me and say that there is no place. Where did you get that thousand silver the day before yesterday? Even you have the magical power to take out the old lady's things. Now you have two hundred and twenty pieces of silver, and that's all. Luckily, I didn't tell anyone. I don't think my wife is short, so why find someone else? "
Jia Lian was at a loss. Xifeng was not there at that time. It is important to send my wife away. We would rather be brief than boring.
Because Pinger was called, "Bring me my gold collar and send it with 220 pieces of silver."
Pinger arrived as promised, sent for Wang's daughter-in-law, and soon brought the money. Jia Lian sent it himself. The two hundred and twenty pieces of silver were specified to be returned, and Mrs. Xing's miser cashed it in vain.
Palace eunuch to have a windfall, and Xifeng clearance:
Her name is Pinger: "Take out my two gold collars and put in four hundred and twenty pieces of silver for the time being." Pinger agreed and went for a long time. Sure enough, she brought a brocade box with two brocade packages in it. When I opened it, there was a golden pearl, all the pearls were the size of lotus seeds, and one of them was inlaid with precious stones. Both are inseparable from the things in the palace. I took it for a while, and sure enough I took four hundred and twenty pieces of silver. Feng told the little eunuch to fold in half, and Wang's daughter-in-law to fold in half, and told him to hold the Mid-Autumn Festival in August.
In another chat with Wang Er, Xifeng also mentioned that the golden bell sold five or six taels of silver. In less than half a month, a dozen questions, large and small, were filled in for nothing.
To be fair, although Wang Xifeng's money came from a disgraceful source, it was used aboveboard. Jia Lian spends a lot of money, the palace is short of funds, and domestic and foreign troubles are constant, all because of Feng's generosity. Coping with the palace eunuch and Mrs. Xing's blackmail, subsidizing cigarettes, dressing up and attacking people, and even the two hundred and twenty pieces of silver that Lian Ping stole for Jia Lian, that is, more than one thousand pieces of miscellaneous silver.
Wang Xifeng deliberately made money to collect wealth, but used it to alleviate the urgency of the family, subsidize the family, make up for the deficit, and use it for charity. It can be said that dirty money is well used. This alone seems to be enough to offset the merits and demerits.
03
Wang Xifeng's Dream of Red Mansions is the closest to the song of goodness.
The agency is too clever to calculate the so-called life. Heartbroken before death, ethereal after death. It is better to have a rich family, but eventually a family will die and everyone will go their separate ways. This is a waste of time and a half-life heart; Night is like a dream. Suddenly like the first floor, suddenly like Yi Deng. Ah! One happy and one sad. Sigh the world, it's hard to decide!
It can be concluded that Xifeng made countless money and made great efforts. In the end, she still lost everything, or was copied because of the destruction of her family, or was squandered by Jia Lian. In short, she is rich and made wedding clothes for others.