She is an underrated top master in "Dream of Red Mansions", and she is also a vulgar shrew in Red Mansions.
But looking at the entire Jia Mansion, except for Wang Xifeng who can suppress her, she is absolutely unprecedentedly scheming, and two things are enough to explain.
But the agency was exhausted, and in the end she was divorced by her husband, and her favorite daughter was sold, leaving her own body.
Cao Gong doesn't like to ink on his "mother-in-law", and anyone in the Red Mansion who can get more of his pen and ink is basically Bingqing Yujie's daughter.
This "Bingqing Yujie" does not mean that a woman has never been married, or has not broken her body, but she has not yet had that kind of bitter and mean face that cares about everything.
But it is not without exception, there is a person who he explicitly says is "vulgar" and "stupid" in the book, and there are many descriptions from beginning to end, appearing on many occasions. This person is Jia Zheng's concubine Aunt Zhao.
In the impression of the whole book, Aunt Zhao is a concubine with a small heart and a small brain.
It's just that because he gave birth to a son and a daughter, and he always wants to fight for his son Jia Huan to find a way out, he did a lot of stupid things.
But in fact, is Aunt Zhao really just a stupid person?
If there is really no other characteristic except stupidity, why did she have so many appearances in the Red Mansion?
1. Beautiful as a flower, it can satisfy the joy of Jia Zheng's boudoir
Among so many male masters in Ningrong and Rong's mansions, Jia Zheng is a rare serious one, and it is rare not to mess with men and women. However, that doesn't mean he doesn't need a beautiful and considerate concubine.
There is such a description in the book: When Jia Zheng was at Aunt Zhao's place, there was a sudden noise outside, and the window was not fastened.
Aunt Zhao personally took the maid ring and continued to come in to serve Jia Zheng.
This is a very life-like scene, but for Jia Zheng, he can only see this scene from Aunt Zhao.
It is impossible for Mrs. Wang, who was born into a wealthy family, to buckle the window drawer for him personally, and the timid and cowardly Aunt Zhou probably won't either.
But it's nothing to tell the maid to do it.
But being willing to do it in person is a manifestation of heart and care. At this time, Jia Zheng must be very ironing in his heart.
In terms of appearance, Aunt Zhao must not be bad.
Although there is no positive description of her appearance in the book, the two children she gave birth to are not ugly.
Needless to say, "shaved shoulders and thin waist, long figure, duck egg face, handsome eyes and eyebrows, looking forward to Shenfei".
Although Jia Huan does not have any positive descriptions, the two big girls around Mrs. Wang, Caiyun and Caixia, have friendship with him, which is enough to show that he is not bad-looking.
Inferred from the appearance of her children, Aunt Zhao must be a beautiful woman.
Moreover, her two children are younger than Mrs. Wang's children. Not to mention the eldest daughter Yuanchun, Mrs. Wang's precious youngest son is older than Aunt Zhao's eldest daughter Tanchun.
Jia Zheng will never spoil his aunt for no reason, she is still a beautiful aunt.
Therefore, there is a high probability that Aunt Zhao was the concubine of Jia Zhengna after Mrs. Wang gave birth to Jia Baoyu.
Then, Aunt Zhao should be at least ten years younger than Mrs. Wang. No matter how decent men in feudal society are, they also like to be more beautiful little girls.
It is not difficult to see from the fact that she even gave birth to two children that Jia Zheng loved her very much for at least a while.
Even if Aunt Zhao was originally just a slave born in the family, Jia Zheng's favor and two children also won her a certain status. Being young and beautiful is Aunt Zhao's most advantageous weapon.
Second, dare to think and dare to do, regardless of the difference in status
Aunt Zhao's most important scene in the Red Mansion was to contact Ma Daopo to harm Sister Feng and Baoyu together.
Sister Feng really looks down on Aunt Zhao.
There is a time in the book that when Aunt Zhao entered the house, everyone in the room said hello to her, only Sister Feng talked to Daiyu by herself, and she didn't give her a look.
Moreover, Sister Feng is in charge of the house, and she is usually willing to give a good face to others, but she is not willing to give Aunt Zhao any more. If she hadn't had a son, she probably wouldn't have saved much money.
Although Baoyu has a lot of taboos with the girls, there is almost no intersection with her father's aunt. As for Jia Huan, the younger brother of the concubine, he does not account for much in his life.
Aunt Zhao wanted to kill Sister Feng, which can also be said to be out of personal grudges. If you want to harm Baoyu, you are really fighting for family property.
Moreover, she didn't kill Sister Feng entirely out of "hugging grievances" for herself. When conspiring with Ma Daopo, she said with a grudge that Sister Feng had all the family property for herself.
It can be seen that the big head is still in the family property.
In the early stage, the life of Jiafu was very rich, and the widows Li Kun and Jia Lan were also doing well.
Although Jia Huan is a concubine, he will not be able to share any family property, at most, he will not have as many sons-in-law, which is also the proper meaning.
Although Jia Zheng is a fake upright, he talks about honesty and frugality. Jia Huan is not like this at all, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling everything, so naturally he can't save any money.
said that Aunt Zhao was stupid, she was really not smart.
Li Kun knew that she was educating Jia Lan to be motivated, but she was blindly used to Jia Huan, and she wanted to help her son with some crooked ways.
Call her stupid, she's really bold.
The young grandmother in charge of Jiafu, as well as the eyeballs held by Jia's mother in the palm of her hand, she dared to harm when she said harm.
Facing Ma Daopo, who was not a relative, he said, "Kill the two of them, tomorrow this private family is not my ring'er, what do you want at that time?" ”
With such a sentence, it cannot be said that Aunt Zhao is unscheming.
At least, she is the only person in Jiafu who has captured the essence of Ma Daopo's villain, and knows that she can be tempted to harm others by virtue of her interests.
She also really dared to speak, when Baoyu was not in good health, she dared to say in front of Jia's mother: "Brother is useless."
At that time, Jia Zhengdu had already given up Baoyu, but if Jia's mother was a little weaker, she might have believed this sentence instead of spitting her on the spot.
Therefore, although Aunt Zhao can't take any fair and honest path, she is not a pure stupid person. She really dares to think and do.
What's even more powerful is that she can still get away with her whole body after doing such a harmful thing.
Afterwards, it was neither exposed, nor was Mrs. Wang and Mother Jia wear small shoes because of this sentence.
3. Came out many times to make a wedding dress for her daughter Liwei
Aunt Zhao did hurt Jia Huan a little more, but she didn't care about her daughter Tanchun.
Especially after Tanchun had a certain status in the house with her housekeeper talent, what she did seemed absurd, but in fact, it promoted Tanchun.
After Sister Feng was injured in childbirth, the family affairs were handed over to Li Kun and Tanchun to manage. Li Kun is the eldest daughter-in-law, but Tanchun is the daughter of the concubine, and she has to lose a lot in terms of identity.
The status is not high, and he is young, but he still wants to make drastic reforms, but it is conceivable that it is very difficult for Tanchun to take this big step, and there must be a lot of people who are not convinced.
During the spring housekeeping, Aunt Zhao did two things.
The first is Sapo, who asked Tanchun to give her an extra twenty taels of silver on the pretext of his brother's death.
Many things, if not shouted, will be done.
But Aunt Zhao was so loud that almost the whole house knew about it, and she also used the attack as a raft to make things even bigger.
Tanchun, who has just been reformed, has only one way at this time, and that is to reject her.
This is indeed giving Aunt Zhao no face, but Tanchun has really benefited.
She is strict in charge of the house, and even her biological mother is not partial, and her image is immediately established.
And Aunt Zhao made such a fuss, which shows that the mother and daughter are not of the same mind, and the shadow of "concubine" on Tanchun's body will be lighter.
The second thing is that she fought with Fang Guan and others.
This was originally just a trivial matter, and afterwards, people inside and outside also felt that this matter was not worth such a fight between Aunt Zhao and Fang Guan.
However, just like Qingwen did, if something like this happens, Tanchun, who is Aunt Zhao's daughter and has the right to be a housekeeper, will definitely be invited over.
The fight between the aunt and the drama is the same as asking for excess pensions above, which is a very noisy matter and is not complicated to deal with.
This is all a chance to establish power for Tanchun, and it was Aunt Zhao, as Tanchun's biological mother, who used her face as a pedal to send it to her.
From a genetic point of view, Tanchun is so smart, and Aunt Zhao, as a mother, will not be too bad.
She may not have received the education of Miss Everybody, and she is not very decent, but she is definitely not a pure stupid person.
At least she knew very well from beginning to end that her "relationship" with Jia Zheng was unreliable, and the Jiafu family property that she could get to Jia Huan was real.
She knows better that a very smart person is not tolerated by Mrs. Wang.
Therefore, she will always be a villain image in front of Mrs. Wang, otherwise, she may not be able to live that long.
Second Sister You is beautiful, smart, and motivated.
But as soon as he faced Wang Xifeng, he was defeated and soon lost his life. Mrs. Wang is also a young lady from the palace, will the means be bad?
Therefore, "stupid" is just Aunt Zhao's protective color. In order to survive well in this Jia Mansion and fight for as much family property as possible for her daughter and son, she also tried her best.
If it weren't for the fact that the decline of Jiafu had become a foregone conclusion, Aunt Zhao would inevitably have a "sinking" ending on this broken ship. With her scheming, she may be able to have a much better ending than most of the women in the book.