Why has the overlooked Second Wood suddenly become the center of attention? Why has Lin Daiyu, once the target of scorn, suddenly stopped being bullied? Why have the snobbish members of the Jia family gone from haughty to obsequious?
Come enjoy a spectacular Sichuan opera-style face change: The fallen family has made an astonishing comeback!
Standard synopsis:
A sudden tsunami kills all four members of Hou Han'ying's family. When they wake up again, they're insignificant nobodies who narrowly survived on the frontier.
Fortunately, they have skills, memories, and golden fingers. In just a few years, they become major figures on the frontier, then return to the capital in glory after the new emperor ascends the throne.
Then they realize, to their shock, that the capital has a Ning-Rong Street and the Duke's mansion has a boy born with a jade in his mouth.
Only then does the Hou family discover that they've transmigrated into Dream of the Red Chamber. Further investigation reveals that the book's Second Wood is actually a close relative of theirs!
P.S. The romance between Bao Dai and Daiyu remains intact. Don't read if you can't accept that.
Theme: Have the courage to seize opportunities and defy fate.
When writing about Xue Baochai, she would also plan and fight for her own plans. Lin Daiyu only had a little love when she was eleven years old. She has a father and a stepmother. Compared with the original work, she has no spirit at all. She is like a wooden person and has to be controlled by a maid. The author's secret promotion of Chai and Dai should not be too obvious.
In the original work, her father passed away and no one made the decision. Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu gradually fell in love with each other after returning to Jia's house. Now that Lin's father is alive, the friendship is more like childhood sweethearts, and they don't live together. The parents can decide the marriage freely, which is far from the relationship in the original work. At this time, Baodai only has a brother-sister relationship. The author should not be sentimental.
Isn't it inappropriate to put all the blame on Mrs. Wang? How can the men in the Jia family not participate if they are just decorations? Even if Jia She continues to drink and eat, how can he be calmed down if he doesn't nod? It's ridiculous to only have Mrs. Wang carry this matter. At least the men from the Jia family must be brought along!
I was wrong. It was Lin Daiyu who was taken advantage of. At this time, the author has set her up to be affectionate and righteous with Jia Baoyu. There is no difference between her father alive and dead.
The negative points go to Father Lin who is not interested in his daughter. He originally had a stepmother, but it is normal for a stepmother not to be interested.
I think the plot of Jia Baoyu's entry seems very presumptuous, but in fact it is not very beautiful, because the novel was written in the Qing Dynasty. Although there was a lot of oppression on women in the Qing Dynasty, you have to say that under the real imperial power are the Han people who are often satisfied or consider themselves Manchus. They don't particularly care about these, and they are still a more casual order. In particular, what he wrote has some customary ideas from the Qianlong and Yongzheng periods. So you can probably know that he must have not been so strict on this ethical requirement in the past few years since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
In that situation in ancient times, I think the marriage between wood and stone was the best solution for that situation at that time. It is also the one that is most acceptable to everyone at the moment. It is the best for Lin Daiyu. But for Jia Baoyu, it may not be the most suitable for him. He may be able to marry other women from aristocratic families. But for Lin Daiyu, that is the best choice. Many authors have written about her marrying this prince or that official, or marrying the male protagonist directly. To be honest, even his father would not be willing to marry her to these people, because without the support of blood relatives, once the other party changes his mind, his daughter will be in a dangerous state. Therefore, marrying back to the Jia family is the best way for Lin Daiyu to marry. Especially Lin Daiyu. It is not in itself whole. Walking in the aristocratic circle, his father was sent out, and it was not because of Guan Guan in the capital that although he was highly used, his death was like a lamp extinguishing the emperor's sacrifice to this minister. But Lin Daiyu will only be taken care of in the beginning, but will it be taken care of in the future? You can't guess the psychology of an emperor, right? He has so many things going on in a day, how can he have time to care about your little love, right? So if you don't involve imperial power and can ensure that your children can live a good life, you can accumulate a large amount of your own property. It is most suitable to marry someone from the Jia family. Even the second brother is already married, so there is nothing he can do. Look who else is there. The only one who is single, is a legitimate son, and has a more suitable status, is Jia Baoyu. If there is option 2, you may not choose it. So I always feel that if I respect the first 80 chapters of the original author, I should still decide on the marriage between wood and stone, and then start writing from somewhere else. So when I saw this novel about strengthening the marriage between wood and stone, I really felt that I must save it.
In fact, in the final analysis, it is feudal ethics that harms people. Otherwise, most of these girls have the ability to stand on their own feet.
Looking back at this chapter, it turns out that the author here set Bao Dai to be sentimental, but he was really eager, and the original work didn't even reach this level.
After so many chapters, I'm still so frustrated...