Baoyu's beating was a turmoil in Rongguo's Mansion that affected almost everyone, and the reasons for the beating seemed to be sufficient: obscene humiliation of his mother and maid, wandering and neglecting his studies. After learning of Baoyu's evil deeds, Jia Zheng was so angry that his face was as pale as gold paper, and he sat upright on the chair panting, his face full of tears, and while ordering the little guy to take a big stick and a rope, he shouted that he would kill Baoyu, and then ordered that the little guys were not allowed to send messages inside, otherwise they would be killed together (Chapter 33).
In this case, Baoyu was pressed on the stool by the little guys, and the little guys raised a battle symbolically more than a dozen times, Jia Zheng saw that this was not a beating at all, it was a simple massage, and kicked the little guy who opened the palm board, and he grabbed the big wooden stick, gritted his teeth, and beat dozens of sticks, and beat Baoyu to the skin and flesh, and swallowed his breath.
This Jia Zheng has also been rich and noble since he was a child, he has never worked, he neither practices shooting a bow and archery, nor does he practice riding a horse and galloping, and he can't take care of himself in the life of being served by servants every day, so he is still a weak and short of breath scholar, otherwise, let alone a big wooden stick, even if it is a small wooden stick, if it is rounded dozens of times, people will properly lose their breath.
To what extent was Baoyu beaten? The original text said: The crowd saw that the fight was ominous. These people snatched the wooden stick in Jia Zheng's hand, and sent the little maid into the inner curtain to report the news, Mrs. Wang didn't care about anyone and no one, so she hurriedly came, hugged the board, and cried with tears.
Baoyu was beaten this time, is he to blame for not beating? Jia Zheng must teach him a lesson and let him have a long memory? Or is it Jia Zheng's anger? Is it to educate a son or to be arbitrarily violent?
Jia Zheng personally believes that he is educating his son, because in the face of the subsequent reproach of his mother, he defended himself:
"For the son's lesson, but also for the glory of the ancestors. Mother's words, how can I bear to be a son? ”
Look at Jia Zheng's logic: Baoyu has made a big disaster (whether it's a real disaster for the time being), I, as his son, of course have to teach him a lesson, after all, "the son is not the fault of the father", I am performing my duty, but my mother scolded me in front of the female dependents and slaves, where do I put my face? How can I stand it?
When Jia Mu heard him say this, she became even more angry, and directly spat him and scolded him:
"If I say a word, you can't afford it, you can't afford to play a deadly board like that, can Baoyu be able to do it? You said that teaching your son is to glorify your ancestors, how did your father teach you in the first place! ”
Jia Mu couldn't help crying when she said this. This can be regarded as exposing Jia Zheng's ugliness, Jia's mother's two sons are not successful, compared to Jia Yu, Jia's mother still gives Jia Zheng more face, after all, even if this son is unproductive, but he is also in charge, and nominally it is also the responsibility of Rongguofu, and demolishing Jia Zheng's platform is equivalent to demolishing Rongguofu's platform and demolishing his own platform.
But this time Jia Zheng wanted to beat Baoyu to death, and Jia's mother was angry, anxious, sad, and disappointed, and said everything in her heart in a hurry. Jia Mu's words have two meanings:
First, Jia Zheng made a mistake in beating Baoyu
Whether it is the so-called hooking up with Jiang Yuhan or flirting with Jin Yu, it is not Baoyu's fault, to put it mildly, it is Jia Zheng's own fault.
Did Jia Baoyu hook up with Jiang Yuhan? Baoyu and this Youling did later have a part of friendship that went beyond ordinary friendship, but Jiang Yuhan's escape was neither Baoyu's idea, nor was it something that Baoyu could arrange for him.
Jiang Yuhan wanted to escape from the Zhongshun Palace, but he was a little play, he had to have a place to live when he escaped, and he had to solve the problem of survival, and more importantly, a servant like him, in today's words, did not have a household registration book and ID card, he could not move an inch, Jiang Yuhan did escape later, and solved the problem of settling down very well, that is, he bought a house and land in a place called Rosewood Castle.
Jiang Yuhan couldn't do this, he didn't have the ability or the guts. Can Baoyu solve it for him? Baoyu wanted to add a grave to Qin Zhongtian, but he couldn't solve the costs involved, and he could still plan to contract Jiang Yuhan to escape? Whoever thinks so, then his brain is really in water.
There is another person who has a deep friendship with Jiang Yuhan, that is, the King of Beijing who gave him Qian Xiangluo, King Beijing is different, it's just a play, what is it? Just explain it to the people below. Therefore, the reason why Jiang Yuhan dared to escape from Zhongshun Mansion was because he had the big backer of King Beijing, but after he escaped, it was normal for him to have dealings with Jia Baoyu, and Baoyu naturally knew Jiang Yuhan's whereabouts, which is very understandable.
The chief historian of the Zhongshun Mansion didn't dare to be so arrogant to find the King of Beijing to ask for someone, so he would find a soft persimmon to pinch, find the Rongguo Mansion, and find Jia Zheng to make trouble, Jia Zheng was so frightened that he was left trembling, looking at his cowardice in front of the chief historian of Zhongshun Mansion, he looked like he was useless.
Jia Zheng said that he is the father of the concubine, and he doesn't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, and the chief historian doesn't look at it at all, it can be seen that Jia Zheng is estimated to have a bad reputation in the officialdom, otherwise, the Rongguo Mansion, which has just finished kissing the emperor's relatives and relatives, must always taboo the concubine's pillow wind!
Therefore, this matter can't stand up to analysis, once the analysis is full of loopholes, Jia Zheng is good, timid and afraid of bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, pretending to be a gentleman in front of outsiders, facing his own son who can be manipulated at will, he will come to a violent meal, and joke about his son's life for outsiders.
As for Jin Jue's matter, the root cause is not Baoyu, Baoyu and the girl's jokes happen every day, this time it's just because Mrs. Wang and the Xue family were completely mixed up by Mother Jia in the Qingxuguan Jiao incident, and she was angry, and it happened that Jin Jue hit the muzzle of the gun, and she was unlucky to become a wronged ghost.
If you want to say that you killed Jin Yu, it is Mrs. Wang. Now that this human life is counted on Baoyu's head, although there is a reason why Jia Huan made a bad accusation, then Jia Zheng, can't you ask the ins and outs? Are Jia Huan's words the truth? What's more, he has always been jealous of Baoyu, and the relationship between his brothers is not harmonious, which shows that Jia Zheng is confused.
Knowing his son Mo Ruomu, it is no wonder that Jia's mother hated to eat him alive when she saw him. Some readers will ask, does Jia's mother have heavenly eyes, and she can anticipate these things like a god? Of course she can't, Cao Xueqin knows, she just said or hinted for the author.
The second is that Rong Guogong taught Jia Zheng a lesson, but Jia Zheng did not obey discipline, in fact, he became a person who achieved nothing and ruined the family business, and was not qualified to educate his son.
In terms of ability, although the men in Jia's mansion are gentle, they can still handle key issues, like Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, and Jia Amnesty, all of whom are responsible and capable, Jia Zheng is the most incompetent one, the problem is that he pretends to be upright and does not care about mundane things, people say that judging a man depends on his taste for women, it is obvious that the Aunt Zhao that Jia Zheng likes is almost teased and laughed at by the entire family, and Jia Zheng's true colors can also be known.
Jia Yu is likely to have made an unforgivable mistake, resulting in his loss of the inheritance of Rongguofu, even though Jia Zheng is incompetent, but Jia's mother does not have a third son, and can only hope for the third generation, this third generation, Jia Baoyu is the most highly hoped. In the fifth chapter of the novel, Ning Rong Ergong asked for a police illusion to dial Baoyu, and said that Baoyu is the only hope of the family, the only is not the only one, and Ning Rong's second duke is in heaven, and he should also have God's perspective. At this point, even if there is an element of emotional doting, it is recognized that she values Baoyu the most.
When Jia Zheng beat Baoyu with his dead hand, you can think of Jia's mother's anger, but it is her own son, what else can she do? If it is not someone else, it must be "You don't pee and take pictures, see if you are qualified to talk about education!" ”
Baoyu's beating was the result of Jia Zheng's indiscriminate treatment, and Baoyu really became a weak and soft persimmon, and he suffered for others.
The author of this article: Pingshan Magenta Mansion
Reference to the original work: "Jiazhu Ben Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record" "Gengchen Ben Fat Yan Zhai Re-evaluation of the Stone Record"
Image source: "The Dream of Red Mansions by Sun Wen"