Granny Liu's rescue of Qiaojie is the most touching plot in A Dream of Red Mansions. The Jia family was robbed and the tree fell apart. Relatives are ruined, but granny Liu saved Wang Xifeng's daughter Qiaojie with all her money, which shows the greatness of high righteousness! So how much did Granny Liu spend to save Qiaojie? That depends on how many things she took from Jia's house.
In the original text, granny Liu's three visits to Guo Rongfu must be more than three times, and the benefits are not limited to these. This book is not very detailed, so we can only sort out what we got twice before Guo Rong Building. As soon as he entered the mansion, Feng dumped twenty taels of silver. When I entered the Guo Rong Building, there were more. Mrs. Wang gave me one hundred and twenty pieces of silver, cloth, japonica rice, Pinger's old clothes and other semi-kangs. Later, in Grandmother Jia's room, Yuanyang took out Grandmother Jia and several sets of her own clothes, as well as two wallets containing pens and gold ingots. Finally Baoyu gave Miaoyu a kiln cup.
Everything should be valuable except rice, medicine and the old clothes that Granny Liu may have left.
First of all, silver is 120 beam.
This is the largest sum of cash, enough for Granny Liu's family not to need anything for five or six years. And the use of this money is actually explained. Mrs. Wang said, either do some small business or buy a few acres of land. Granny Liu's family is more likely to buy land. According to the land value in Qing dynasty, it is not a problem to buy a dozen or twenty acres of land with this money. You should know that this price is a good place near Beijing, and it is by no means a marginal rural land.
Followed by wallets, cloth, Jia's clothes and so on.
The most expensive thing here is Jia Mu's two sets of clothes. Yuanyang "said that these are some clothes of the old lady, which were all honored by everyone on their birthdays in previous years." "The people here are mostly Jia She, Jia Zheng and Jia Zhen, and everyone's clothes dedicated to Jia Jia should be very valuable. Judging from the current set of famous brands, these sets of clothes have at least 120 pieces of silver. After all, Wang Xifeng's maids spend twenty taels to make clothes, so Jia's clothes for the New Year are naturally better and more valuable. Granny Liu is naturally reluctant to wear it, but in order to save Qiaojie, she pawned the money in a hurry.
Finally, there are kiln cups!
Miaoyu's tea set is a priceless antique. This was collected by Miao Yu's ancestors. The small cup of tea she gave to Jia Mu was even more exquisite. Cheng Kiln was the official kiln in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty, and Chenghua porcelain has been a treasure in the collection since the end of Ming Dynasty. A few years ago, hundreds of millions of chicken cylinder cups were an example. And Miaoyu, with a small cover, is bigger and the cover is definitely more valuable. Granny Liu was pawned, and she had at least a couple of hundred taels of silver.
To sum up, Granny Liu's income in Jia's family is at least three or five hundred taels of silver. Qiaojie, as a lady in a frenzy, should sell for at least three or five hundred taels of silver. Cao Xueqin intends to arrange the value of Granny Liu's income, which should correspond to the value sold by Qiaojie. This is really the old America. Grandma Liu Can gave everything she had to save Qiaojie. Friendship is priceless.
Qiaojie's judgment depicts a beautiful woman spinning, and her living conditions are not good. According to the above clues, Qiaojie finally married Banel and settled in the farmhouse. Spinning also shows that the life of the peasant woman behind Qiaojie, everything is zero, start again! Her mother, Wang Xifeng, accumulated virtue for her and treated Grandma Liu well. In the end, Qiaojie's rescue was rewarded with a good thing. Wang Xifeng doesn't believe in what goes around comes around in the underworld, but it comes soon. It can be seen that being a man needs to do more good deeds!
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The information in this article is mainly quoted from:
Re-evaluation of the Eighty Stories of the Stone by Zhi Yanzhai
Copy of Dream of Red Mansions passbook 120