Chapter 160 A good person may not be a qualified person
Jia Baoyu met Feng Ziying at the corner gate of the mansion.
His mood and expression are very complex and difficult to summarize in one word.
This more than a month has been a kind of torture for him, so much so that he has become less interested in going to Sister Lin's place.
I have told my ancestors that I have no choice but to study.
It is said that the master and the ancestor argued for a long time in the ancestor's room. According to Sister Yuanyang, this kind of thing has never happened to her in all the years she has been with the ancestor.
Jia Baoyu has never seen his father disobey her grandmother's wishes, but this time it seems that the father did not give in, but her grandmother gave in.
This made Jia Baoyu feel desperate.
Later, a dispute broke out between the father and mother. It is said that the mother wiped tears in the house for two days, but she could not change the father's decision.
The reason why my father had such a firm attitude this time was said to have a lot to do with the high-spirited Feng Dalang in front of him.
The mother's words also revealed that her uncle admired Feng Ziying very much and praised her a lot in her words. It was probably because her uncle and her father said something that made his father make up his mind.
This made Jia Baoyu feel a little resentful towards his uncle. Your own son can't study, how can you think that he can study?
Feng Ziying was not so impressed by the expression and mood of Jia Baoyu next to him. At this time, he was even more interested in admiring the magnificence of the Jia family's Hall of Fame.
The five main rooms are lined up in a row, and the wing rooms on both sides are built into the mountains. The three big characters "Rongxi Hall" on the red gold plaque are particularly grand, and the name is "Treasure of Ten Thousands of Chenhans". Feng Ziying knew that this should be the Guangyuan Hall. The emperor's calligraphy treasure.
It is worthy of being the residence of the Duke of Guo. This luxury and splendor cannot be matched by others. Feng Ziying has never been to other residences of the Four Princes and Eight Princes, but she estimates that even the residences of the Four Princes are not much better than the residence of Rong Guo Gong.
With sixty or seventy years of accumulation and careful management, Rongxi Hall is really a treasure. No wonder Jia Zheng wants to see himself here, and he probably has some arrogance.
“The sun and moon shine brightly on the seat, and the haze glows in front of the hall.” Feng Ziying softly recited the couplets on both sides. When she looked at the handwriting of Dongping County Prince Mu Shi, she sneered in her heart.
The Dongping County Prince's family is really a restless family. No wonder my father is so unkind to Dongping County Prince. I didn't expect that this family has such a irreconcilable relationship with the Jia family. It seems that these are real family friends, Feng This family friend is really not considered a family friend.
“Brother Feng, let’s go this way.” Jia Baoyu led the way.
"Okay." Feng Ziying followed closely, "Brother Bao seems to have lost a lot of weight during this period. You should pay attention to your body and bones."
Jia Baoyu smiled bitterly, not all of it was caused by the things you did, but he couldn't say these words to others, "Well, I wasn't feeling well some time ago, but I've gotten better these days."
“Well, take advantage of the quiet time after the new year to take care of yourself and take care of yourself.” Feng Ziying warned: “You are at your age when you are growing tall, so you must be careful about your diet and daily life.”
Jia Baoyu couldn't bear it anymore, "Brother Feng, I want to take good care of you, but I'm afraid I have other arrangements. I'm afraid I have some questions to ask when I see you today."
Feng Ziying did not pretend to be surprised, and nodded: "You are ten years old at the turn of the new year. It is normal for Uncle Shi to have some thoughts. The Jia family is no different from other ordinary families. Brother Lian has not completed his studies, and Brother Zhu died young. I'm afraid I'm counting on you to earn some face for the Jia family."
Seeing that Feng Ziying hit the point with just one sentence, Jia Baoyu didn't care much anymore, "Brother Feng, I haven't liked reading since I was a child, especially those classics, meanings, and policy theory. I feel a headache just looking at them. They are so tedious." What do worldly matters have to do with my little brother? The master only wants me to study, but never considers my little brother’s thoughts.”
Feng Ziying can understand Jia Baoyu's mood.
No one likes anyone forcing them to do things they don't like, and Jia Baoyu has been used to being pampered and indulged since childhood. Like a wild horse without a bridle, if he is suddenly locked up at this time, he will naturally be very resistant.
The problem is that you are the legitimate son of the second wife of the Rongguo Mansion. When Jia Lian failed to study, but there was another Jia Zhu who was successful in studying but died young, it is inevitable that everyone will think that you can also read like your elder brother Jia Zhu. .
Jia Zhudu was selected as a scholar at the age of fourteen and rushed to be promoted. If he had not died early due to illness, he would not dare to say that he was selected as a scholar now, at least he would be a safe candidate.
I don’t expect you, Jia Baoyu, to be a Jinshi, but at least you can imitate your elder brother Zhu and become a scholar, right?
“Brother Bao, you have to be considerate of Uncle Shi’s mood.” Feng Ziying didn’t expect that she would have to do some ideological work for Jia Zheng before she met Jia Zheng. It is estimated that he has been depressed for more than a month.
Jia Baoyu was indeed depressed and distressed. There were hundreds of people in the house, but he couldn't find a suitable person to pour out his inner distress.
People like Lian's second brother Rong Ge'er naturally won't listen to this. They have their own ideas and their own fun, and they don't understand what worries them at all.
It seems inappropriate to tell Sister Lin and Third Sister these things. Such matters should be solved by oneself. What does it mean to complain to a girl younger than yourself?
After all the calculations, it seems that only Brother Feng, who has become his role model, is barely suitable, although he does not have much favorable impression of Brother Feng.
"Besides you, who else does your Jia family have now? Jia Huan or Jia Lan?" Feng Ziying said earnestly, "Jia Lan is still young, it's hard to say, but if you don't want to study, and brother Huan really has some reading skills, what would you do?"
"What should I do?" Jia Baoyu was confused and couldn't react for a moment. Isn't it a good thing that Jia Huan can study? A scholar from the Jia family is like the eldest brother or Uncle Jing from the Ning Mansion in the east. He can finally support his appearance a little bit.
Feng Ziying glanced at this confused guy, stopped, and didn't go any further.
Walking further in and meeting Jia Zheng, there were some things that were hard to say.
Feng Ziying still has the same view. To say that Jia Baoyu is not a bad person, he can even be said to be kind-hearted, and he can be regarded as one of the pioneers of the concept of gender equality.
Of course, his idea of equality between men and women is based on the premise of equal status. If status is unequal, then forget about it.
The advantages are obvious, but the disadvantages are more, well, and they are basically fatal shortcomings, especially the fatal shortcomings and weaknesses in this cannibalistic society.
First, you are not sure of the situation. Your legitimate son does not study. If Jia Huan, as a concubine, studies, how can you deal with yourself? Have you ever thought about it? Especially when Mrs. Wang and Aunt Zhao are in the same situation.
The second is that you have no ideal goals and just want to get by. This is the most dangerous. The Jia family itself is in a whirlpool. If you are still living in the world all day long, then there is really a comparison. A blind man rides a blind horse and is in a deep pool in the middle of the night. .
The third is lack of perseverance, determination, and courage. This is not something he is born with, but something he develops. Although he is still young, it is already very difficult to completely reverse this personality.
As for the performance, there are too many. Countless bleak stories in "Dream of Red Mansions" are all due to his character weakness. The deaths of Jin Chuan'er and Qingwen, and the disillusionment of Lin Daiyu's romance with wood and stone, all stem from this. Of course, these character traits are, to a certain extent, caused by the first two weaknesses.
You can't see the situation clearly and you are dawdling. Although you still look quite noble and are one of the top figures in Jia's family, that is just about you, and other things related to you are actually of greater importance. At a discount, no one will care too much about what you care about.
Then everything is just a matter of following the arrangements of your family. You have no right to speak. If you want to resist and struggle, do you have the strength? Will people take your resistance and struggle seriously?
So it ultimately failed, and Jia Baoyu was the most failed person in the entire "Dream of Red Mansions".
In Feng Ziying's view, no matter how much Cao Gong praised and beautified Jia Baoyu's pursuit of free personality and love and his contempt for the feudal system, you have to admit the fact that under the mainstream environment at the time, you did not have the ability to overturn and veto this. In any case, whether you act arbitrarily or follow the crowd, it is a manifestation of being irresponsible and acting like a hooligan.
You and Lin Daiyu flirted with each other, you and me, giving people unlimited hope, but in the end you succumbed to family arrangements and gave up, leaving a helpless girl in complete despair. Aren't you being a hooligan?
It doesn't matter if you tease Jin Chuan'er. You are the young master, so of course you have the right, but if something goes wrong you have to carry it. If you don't have the courage to carry it, why are you so romantic?
It's okay if you like Qingwen's voluptuous and aggressive personality, but you have to consider clearly what will happen with this personality that you like or even deliberately indulge. Do you have the ability to block the wind and frost swords from outside at the door and window of the small courtyard? If you don't have this ability, don't commit suicide.
Of course, Feng Ziying knew that these were some of her opinions after reading the book "A Dream of Red Mansions". Well, it was very manly. Jia Baoyu himself might not be able to realize it even until his death, and others in this era might not be able to understand it, or even understand it. Nor can it be approved.
So even if I wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with him, firstly, many of the timelines have not yet arrived, so it is impossible to tell, and secondly, it is impossible to achieve much substantive effect, and it would be in vain.
So Feng Ziying planned to talk to the other party. After all, this person's quality was not bad, but he would have reservations about what he said, and how much the other party could accept depended on his own understanding and luck.
(End of this chapter)