Xueyan loves to talk.

In A Dream of Red Mansions, Lin Daiyu's mother died, so she was sent to Jia's house and two people were arranged to follow her: the wet nurse and Xueyan. When they arrived in Jiafu, the grandmother worried that they couldn't take care of Lin Daiyu, so she arranged a second-class maid, Zijuan, and assigned several women. However, when Lin Daiyu first entered the Jia family, she was only six years old. Obviously, she needs more people to take care of her, and Jia is a stranger. Why did Lin Ruhai only bring two people to see her?

There is a speculation that the Lins are simple and frugal, and Daiyu is only taken care of by these two people at home, so it is no different to enter the Jia family. But this statement obviously doesn't work. Even Xing Xiuyan, who later entered Jia Fu, had a personal servant girl, whose family background was less than one tenth of that of the Lins. When Daiyu was at home, there were definitely more than two maids. The author also revealed in Jia Yucun's words that Lin Daiyu has two classes of maids, one of whom is Xueyan, so why don't these two classes of maids go with her? And after Lin Ruhai's death, Daiyu entered Jia Fu again, with only wet nurses and snow geese around her.

In A Dream of Red Mansions, only Xue Baochai can rival Lin Daiyu in family status. At the beginning, Xue Baochai's maids were much more than Daiyu's. Although the story of Xue Baochai's maid is not mentioned too much in the book, the satellite mentioned by Aunt Xue is also one of Xue Baochai's maids.

To explore the reasons why Lin Daiyu only brought two people into Jia's house, we should also start from these aspects.

First of all, there are several kinds of servants in A Dream of Red Mansions: first, domestic slaves, just like Jia Baoyu's nanny's house. Then there are dowry slaves and slaves bought from outside, such as Qingwen. Another example is Ying Er around Xue Baochai, who is a slave of Xue Family. The family followed the Xue family into the Jia family. As mentioned earlier, Daiyu's two classes are all maids, one is Xueyan, and the other is supposed to be Lin's slave, that is, the whole family lives in Lin's family. If all the maids in this class come, it will get married and have children. Xueyan, however, has never been mentioned by others from beginning to end. It is possible that the Lins bought a maid from outside, and she was alone.

Although Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai have the same life experience and status, the only difference between them is that the expenses incurred by the Xue family are borne by themselves, while the expenses such as food, accommodation and medical treatment for Daiyu are borne by the Jia family, and the dowry of Daiyu is kept by the Jia family, and no money is allowed to move on weekdays. This shows that Lin Ruhai's vision is long-term: his own children have been annoyed to live in Jiafu. If they bring a maid from class to bring their children to get married again, I'm afraid someone will talk to them. For Daiyu's sake, I only brought the nanny and Xueyan.

What Zijuan said to Jia Baoyu also expressed Lin Ruhai's thoughts: "You know, I'm not from the Lins. I was with Yuanyang and xiren, too, and gave them to miss Lin. Piansheng and I are both excellent, ten times better than what he brought from Suzhou, and we can't live without each other for a moment. I am very sad now. If he is going, I must go with him. I am a family here. If I don't go, I will live up to our usual feelings. If I go, I will abandon my family. So I wondered, so I made this lie to ask you, and you were stupid. "

Zi Juan's words indicate that Lin Daiyu will go with her when she gets married. However, on the day when the servant girl got married, Xueyan and Lin Daiyu were about the same age. They not only take care of each other in life, but also have no generation gap in communication. Because they are young, Xueyan will not marry before Daiyu, so that she can always take care of Daiyu, and when Daiyu gets married, Xueyan can also follow her as a servant girl. Then beside Lin Daiyu, there was a Lin family who took care of him. Although at first glance, Daiyu, who only brought two people into Jiafu, was a little shabby, on second thought, Lin Ruhai was the one who really considered the long-term interests of Daiyu.