The twenty-seventh episode of "Dream of the Red Chamber" writes a story that takes place on the Mangsang Festival. The book explains that the custom at that time was to make a ceremony on this day, to sacrifice the flower god and send her off. Because it is summer after the planting of mangoes, the flowers are all thankful, and the flower god is about to abdicate. Of course, this kind of flower and grass festival is the most favorite of girls, the girls of the Grand View Garden, so they gathered together and got busy.
Dream of the Red Chamber 27 Dai Dunbang painting
But Lin Daiyu did not come, and Yingchun guessed that she was still sleeping. Bao Chao said, "You wait, I'll go and make trouble for him." Saying that, he left everyone behind and went all the way to Xiaoxiang Hall. When they were about to arrive, they suddenly looked up and saw that Bao Yu had entered, and Bao Chao stopped and looked down and thought: There are many suspicious places among their brothers and sisters, laughing at moodiness; and Lin Daiyu is used to being suspicious, so as to make a little sex. At this moment, he also followed in, afraid that Dai Yu would be suspicious. I thought it was wonderful to come back, so I pulled back.
It's not a big deal, but it's a bit boring. Bao Chao was just about to look for another sister, when he suddenly saw a pair of jade-colored butterflies in front of him, as big as a tuan fan, and it was very interesting to go up and down to the wind. Bao Chao wanted to pounce and play, so he took out a fan from his sleeve and pounced on the grass. Only to see that pair of butterflies rise and fall, come and go, wear flowers and willows, and will want to cross the river. The upside-down Baochao crept and crept all the way to the dripping pavilion in the pool, drenched in perspiration and delicate breathing.
Baochao Fluttering Butterfly and Xiangyun Drunken Lying Flowers are both favorite topics for painters. This is also a section in "Dream of the Red Chamber" that writes Xue Baochao particularly beautifully. She is a so-called "cold beauty", doing things calmly, thoughtfully, and is a model of following the ancient "women's morality". However, when she fluttered butterflies, she was innocent and innocent, a beautiful girl who was playful and unsentimental.
However, behind this plot, the novel immediately has a strong turn, forming a sharp contrast between the front and back of the tone.
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Bao Chao chased the butterfly to the Dicui Pavilion. This pavilion is built in the middle of a lake and is surrounded by veranda curved bridges. The pavilion is surrounded by wooden mallets with paper paste on them, so you can't see anyone in the pavilion from the outside.
The butterfly did not flutter, and Bao Chao was going to go back, when he overheard someone chattering in the Di Cui Pavilion. Bao Chao stopped and listened carefully.
In the pavilion are the red jade and pendant in the baoyu room. Hongyu and Jia Yun were interested in each other, but they could not communicate, so they exchanged information through the head of a handkerchief through Xiang'er.
Bao Chao heard a voice saying, "Look at this handkerchief, if it is the piece you lost, you will hold it; if not, you will return it to Second Master Yun." ”
This is Xiang'er, and she passes a handkerchief to Hongyu on behalf of Jia Yun. But this was not the piece that Hongyu had lost, and Jia Yun had replaced it with his own.
Of course, Hongyu knew what was going on when she saw the handkerchief, but she said without hesitation, "It's not my piece!" Bring it to me. This shows that she accepted the message that Jia Yun wanted to express. But Jia Yun also asked for thanks, and Xiang'er relayed: "He told me again and again, if there is no thanks, I will not be allowed to give it to you." This is Jia Yun's request for Hongyu to make a clear response: I want to be good with you, do you agree?
Hongyu paused for half a moment and replied, "Well, give me this to him and thank him." "Accepting and giving back gifts is equivalent to two people being engaged." As for what the gift was in return, Bao Chao couldn't see it, and it was not explained in the novel.
It's a love adventure. As a slave, Hongyu was of course more cautious, and she demanded that Xiang'er swear not to tell anyone else—so she suddenly remembered that she had been negligent, they were talking in the pavilion, what if someone quietly heard it outside? Hongyu said, "It's better to push this hammer away, because some people see us here, and they only talk about us." If we come to the front and we see it, don't say it. ”
When Bao Chao heard this outside, he was surprised in his heart. She eavesdropped outside the window, and as soon as the curtain opened, she was immediately exposed to the two men.
What does Baochao think? She first thought: "Strange way from ancient times to the present, those who raped dogs and thieves have a good heart." "Adultery and dog theft, this is almost the worst comment when talking about a person in ancient times, which reflects Baochao's very solemn moral stance."
At the same time, Bao Chao also heard one of the people speaking like hong'er in Bao Yu's room. She understands that Hong'er "has big hollow eyes and is a first-class tricky and strange thing."
As mentioned in the previous story, Bao Yu was very unfamiliar with this handy man in his room, but Bao Chao knew what kind of person she was! Here also reveals a kind of information: Baochao is very concerned and understands the people around him. The reason why she is good at dealing with various people is related to her ability to understand others.
What kind of people do what kind of things. Bao Chao thought: Today I listened to his short son, when people are in a hurry to rebel, and the dog jumps the wall, it will be very unfavorable to himself.
A common saying in old novels is called "speak late, then fast". Hongyu reached out to push the window, it was a blink of an eye, and Baochao immediately had to find a way to deal with it. What's the solution? The golden cicada's plan to shed its shell.
That side was reaching out to push the window, only to hear a "creak", Bao Chao deliberately put his feet down, laughing and calling Lin Daiyu's nickname: "Er, I see you hiding there!" He said, while deliberately rushing forward. The red jade and the pendant in the pavilion just pushed the window, only to hear Bao Chao say this and rush forward, and both of them were frightened.
Bao Chao didn't move, and the two of them laughed, "Where did you hide Aunt Lin?" ”
She said, "I was just on the other side of the river watching Aunt Lin crouch here and make water." I was going to scare him quietly, and before I could get to him, he saw me, and when he looked east, he disappeared. Don't hide your head here. As he spoke, he deliberately went into the pavilion to look for it, then withdrew and left, saying, "I must have gone into the mountain cave again." When you meet a snake, you can just take a bite. As he spoke and walked, his heart was amused: this matter was covered up, and I don't know how the two of them were.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" often has this kind of plot, quiet and thrilling.
You think, when Bao Chao realized that she had overheard someone else's privacy, it was still dangerous, and she knew that Hongyu was not a good person, and if she didn't get it right, it would bring big trouble to herself, and in a blink of an eye, she could come up with such a clever plan to free herself from the predicament, how witty she had to be!
However, the so-called "golden cicada shelling", when Xue Baochao cleverly escaped, who is her "shell"? Lin Daiyu!
She said that she saw Lin Daiyu squatting on the side of the pavilion playing with water from a distance, which of course would make Hongyu think that what she said to Xiang'er had been heard by Lin Daiyu; her dangerous privacy had been exposed to Lin Daiyu. Therefore, the troubles that Bao Chao realized, and even the danger of the so-called "people rebelling in a hurry, dogs jumping the wall" have now been passed on to Lin Daiyu.
It's a thrilling plot.
We probably can't say that Bao Chao deliberately endangered Dai Yu, she was just in a hurry. But she was such a smart person, she should realize that saying this was very unfavorable to Lin Daiyu!
Also, why is It Lin Daiyu and not everyone else? Was it because she had just gone to Xiaoxiang Hall and saw Bao Yu enter, and she didn't like it in her heart, so when Shi Jin cicada's plan to get out of the shell and needed a person to pad his back, unconsciously, Lin Daiyu's figure jumped out first?
From this, I will also feel that in the innocent figure of Baochao fluttering butterflies, there seems to be a thin layer of loneliness.
But the authors have not given a clear explanation for all this. "Dream of the Red Chamber" is poetic, and it likes to use the method of suggestion to leave many questions to the reader. (Luo Yuming)