A poetry club was held in the Red Mansion Grand View Garden. As the president, why didn’t Li Wan pay a penny?

Li Wan did not stand out among the many outstanding women in the Twelve Beauties of Jinling. She married Jia Zhu, and after giving birth to Jia Lan, her husband died early. As a widow, she could only be like "a dead tree." "In normal life, she strictly follows the standards of a chaste and martyr woman, attending to her parents and raising her children every day. At most, she studies nvrou with Miharu and other sisters, and spends her youth like this.

It wasn’t until Concubine Yuan issued an order to let the sisters of the Jia family move into the Grand View Garden that Li Wan briefly bloomed. Tan Chun proposed to establish a poetry club, and Li Wan immediately raised his hands and agreed, and also recommended himself to be the poet. She became the president of the Poetry Club, but something worthy of criticism about Li Wan also emerged - she was too stingy!

One of the most worthy of analysis is the plot in Chapter 45. Li Wan brings the sisters of the Jia family to Wang Xifeng to ask for money. This plot is worthy of careful consideration.

In the 45th chapter, Sister Feng was comforting Ping'er in the house because of the jealousy incident the day before yesterday (the 44th chapter was about Sister Feng's jealousy incident). Suddenly, all the sisters came in together. Tanchun came up and threw a A "smoke bomb":

Tan Chun said with a smile: "We started a poetry club, but the first club was not complete. Everyone was soft-faced, so it was chaotic. I think you will be the supervisor. A social censor must be impartial and impartial. The things my fourth sister used to paint the garden were all incomplete, and she returned them to the old lady..." Sister Feng said with a smile: "I don't know how to do anything wet. "Okay, do you want me to eat?" - Chapter 45

This conversation is very interesting. Li Wan is obviously the president of the poetry club and the oldest sister-in-law among the sisters. But the person who actually communicated with Wang Xifeng was Tanchun. I'll stop here. Please think carefully.

Sister Feng is not stupid. She knew as soon as she heard that the purpose of Tanchun's visit was not to let her be the so-called "censor of the prison society", but to ask her for money, so Sister Feng smiled. Tan Chun's "conspiracy" was exposed: You coaxed me, so I guessed that instead of asking me to be the censor of the prison society, I was clearly asked to be a copper merchant to make money. Whatever club you set up, you must take turns being the host. Your monthly money is not enough, so you came up with this idea and dragged me there so that you can ask for money from me, but this idea?

At this point in the analysis, the author wants to go off topic and first talk about the idea of ??asking Wang Xifeng for money. Who came up with it? According to the following text, we learn that it is Jia Baoyu!

Li Wan nodded and said with a smile: "It's hard for you. As expected, it's okay. In that case, let's go home. Wait until she doesn't send her away, and then we'll make trouble with her again." With that, he took the The sisters left. Sister Feng said: "These things, there are no two people who are born of Baoyu." - Chapter 45

Wang Xifeng's words were casual, but they revealed things that were not written in countless books. Previous article. Jia Baoyu likes to find work for his dear sister Feng. The earliest one was in Chapter 13. When Qin Keqing passed away and You became ill, the Ningguo Mansion was left unattended and turned into a mess. At that time, Jia Baoyu was also attached to Jia Zhen. , recommended Wang Xifeng.

From this point of view, Jia Baoyu must have found a lot of "jobs" for Wang Xifeng in daily life, so the sisters are now coming to Wang Xifeng for "funds to start a poetry club", and it must be Jia Baoyu's suggestion. , otherwise these sisters have never interacted with Wang Xifeng in terms of money, how could An have thought of this method?

But this also tells us from the side: before the sisters came to Wang Xifeng, a group of people must have conducted research on "how to raise money." During this research process, Sanchun, Daiyu and others The person's monthly money was not enough, and Li Wan didn't want to contribute money. In the end, the discussion couldn't come to an outcome, so Jia Baoyu gave a suggestion - ask the housekeeper Wang Xifeng for money. This is how the scene with Wang Xifeng, the "routine" of exploring spring, came about.

We can even analyze it in more detail: when everyone was discussing the funds of the poetry society, Li Wan mostly chose the "silent" approach to deal with it.

Because if Li Wan also actively participated in the discussion of "raising funds for the Poetry Society", then as the president, she must have taken the lead, including later bringing the sisters to Wang Xifeng to ask for money. She, as the president, should also be the leader and Wang Xifeng Communication, not Tanchun. It can be seen that as soon as Li Wan encountered the matter of providing money, he chose to quietly retreat behind the scenes and gave the right to speak to Tanchun.