In "A Dream of Red Mansions", the Second Red Mansion is a very strange existence.

From the moment they appeared in Chapter 63, they appeared as playthings.

Chapter 63: Second Sister You and Third Sister You came to Ningguo Mansion with You Lao Niang to attend the funeral and help their sister You take care of the housework.

The first person to see Eryou was Jia Rong. Although Jia Rong was not born to the You family, according to her seniority, she should be called Er You as aunt. This relationship is similar to the relationship between Jia Baoyu and Aunt Xue.

Confucianism emphasizes "ordering the elders and the younger". According to seniority, Jia Rong is Eryou's nephew, but his way of treating Eryou is neither fish nor fowl.

Seeing the two aunts coming, Jia Rong said with a smile: "Second aunt, are you here again? My father is missing you."

In this sentence It contains a lot of information, hinting at the ambiguity between Sister You and Jia Zhen. In this regard, there are more than one explicit or implicit revelation in the book.

Chapter 64 said, "The second sister is also a watery person, and she had problems with her brother-in-law before." Chapter 65 also mentioned that "Jia Zhen and her second sister have always been everywhere."

And it is said that Sanjie You "although she and Jia Zhen have always had occasional banter, she is not as easy-going as her sister."

After the second sister You was taken to Jia's house by Wang Xifeng, Sister Feng took the opportunity to ridicule the second sister and said:

Various signs indicate that the second sister You and her brother-in-law Jia Zhen are indeed better than their brother-in-law. Sister-in-law relationship.

What kind of man is Jia Zhen? He is a man who has an affair with his daughter-in-law Qin Keqing. He is lustful and has no regard for ethics. With Second Sister You's beauty and "water nature", how could Jia Zhen let her go?

It can be seen from Jia Rong's tone of voice that the ambiguous relationship between Second Sister You and Jia Zhen has been going on for more than a day or two, and I'm afraid no one in the whole family knows about it.

Not only Jia Zhen, but also Jia Rong couldn’t help but take advantage of this second sister. The most unbearable scene was:

It was so unbearable that even the girls present could not stand it. , shouting to tell Jia Zhen to go.

Jia Lian all knows that "Jia Zhen and Jia Rong have always had a problem with each other". The so-called "Ju Huo Zhi" refers to the beastly behavior of father and son openly possessing a woman.

Qin Keqing was a precedent back then. Coincidentally, the You sisters were also treated as exclusive playthings by Jia Zhen and his son.

Just because he knew the details, Jia Lian took the opportunity to seduce the You sisters in every possible way when they first met. He flirted with the second sister at the funeral, and even communicated in private. How could a serious unmarried woman do this?

Even if these two sisters are as beautiful as flowers and have the right youth, they are just the playthings of the beast-like Jia Zhen and his son.

How did they get to this point?

No woman wants to be treated as a plaything. The decline of the You sisters is the result of multiple factors.

First of all, this has something to do with the family of the You sisters. The You sisters are the daughters brought over by Mrs. You when she remarried. They are both much younger than You. It can be seen that You and the two sisters are not the same. The father is not the same mother.

Nowadays, the children brought by such remarriages are called "oil bottles", and they are destined to survive in the cracks. Later, the stepfather passed away, and one can imagine the living situation of the two sisters.

Two sisters who were born into a poor family, were beautiful, and had no one to protect them. If they were not sold to rich families as slaves like Xiren, they would have become maids from rich families. Concubine. Or they will live in poverty all their lives, or even end up in a brothel to make a living by selling jokes.

What saved the two sisters from the danger of survival? In Chapter 64, You Lao Niang told Jia Lian the truth behind it:

The "young man" You Lao Niang refers to It’s Jia Zhen. If not for the beauty of the two sisters, would Jia Zhen help the You family for no reason?

After reading this, we naturally understand why Mrs. You turns a blind eye to the matter between her uncle and the two sisters. Do you think she is just old and confused? It's just that they know each other well and understand each other tacitly.

Why did Mrs. You agree to secretly betroth Sister You to Jia Lian even though she knew that Jia Lian was not a serious person and had a jealous wife at home who married her in a shady manner?

It’s just forced by life. On the day of the wedding, "Mother You saw that her second sister's body and hair were completely new and she didn't look like she was at home. She was very proud and took her into the bridal chamber."

The more proud you are, the more helpless and sad you are as a mother. This is all she can do for her daughter.

Once the second sister You marries Jia Lian, she will have Jia Lian as her legitimate uncle to pay for the family expenses. The You sisters can temporarily escape from Jia Zhen's clutches and live a normal life.

Therefore, when Jia Lian married Second Sister You, he not only married Second Sister You, but also "married" Third Sister You and Lao Niang You.

If life were not in embarrassment, why would my mother and sister live with a married girl? And she was still secretly married to a girl.

Second Sister You's "easy-going" is just forced by life, the same with Jia Zhen, and the same with Jia Lian.

Compared to Jia Zhen, Second Sister You is more attracted to Jia Lian. In addition to Jia Lian's suaveness, it is also because instead of being at the mercy of Jia Zhen, it is better to take a gamble and bet on something that looks like Jia Lian, who is more reliable, at least has a sense of stability in this world.

Second Sister You never expected that she would just come out of the tiger's den and enter the wolf's den. Not only did she not get the stability she wanted in this world, she actually lost her life because of it.

Jia Lian covets the second sister’s beauty. Doesn’t the second sister want to have a share and be relied on for life? How can a person who can't even make ends meet have the right to fall in love?

In comparison, Sanjie You is much more willful and bold. She would rather not have the stability of this world, but also pursue the love she wants.

Even if Liu Xianglian was alone, wandering around and living in the open with him, she would still be willing - who knew that this was also a wishful thinking.

It would be one-sided to just attribute the depravity of the two You sisters to the external environment. There must be their own factors for their becoming men's playthings.

Even if the family is poor, if they can stay indifferent and run the house diligently, it is not impossible to live with the beauty of the two sisters. No matter how bad things are, working for others like Xiren Qingwen and relying on labor to support the whole family is not without hope.

But Eryou relied on his sister to marry into a wealthy family, and he also dreamed of relying on his beauty to seduce the powerful and live a prosperous life.

Little did he know that the wealthy life that outsiders envied was just a gorgeous robe covered with lice. The life of a wealthy family is full of holes, and only those who have lived in it understand what it feels like.

Taking Youshi as an example, is she really happy? Even Wang Xifeng was cheered in front of and supported by others, but how much bitterness did the others swallow?

Eryou, who was born as a commoner and was simple and ignorant, did not understand the intrigues of wealthy families. It was not much different from the palace drama, otherwise Sister You would not have been tortured to death by Wang Xifeng.

They are unwilling to change their lives through labor and place their hope on clinging to the powerful, so they can only become the playthings of wealthy young men.

In this regard, the girls of the Jia family are more worthy of respect. Although they come from poor backgrounds, they are self-reliant and have great integrity. Especially Yuanyang, who would rather resist to death than commit herself to Jia She. Even Sister Feng did not dare to underestimate her.

If you don’t strengthen yourself, even if you come from a wealthy family like Yingchun, you will still have a miserable fate.

As the saying goes: "Flies don't bite seamless eggs." People who grew up in the same environment, Second Sister You and Third Sister You are also different.

Faced with Jia Rong's teasing, the second sister did not lose face like the third sister. Instead, she chased and fought with Jia Rong, no difference between elder and younger.

As Jia Rong’s aunt, Second Sister You’s frivolity makes it difficult to relate to her identity.

Similarly, in the face of Jia Lian's various flirtations, the third sister only responded indifferently, but the second sister was very interested in it, regardless of the occasion or each other's status.

Therefore, whether it is Jia Zhen, Jia Rong or Jia Lian, they all circle around the second sister like bees clinging to flowers, vying to take advantage. If the second sister could speak upright and sternly like the third sister when facing a man's ill-intentioned teasing, I'm afraid she wouldn't be reduced to a plaything.

It’s not that the You sisters are unaware of their status as playthings, and it’s not that they have never thought about starting a new life.

Since the second sister married Jia Lian, she has been determined to live with Jia Lian wholeheartedly, run the house diligently and prudently, consciously alienated Jia Zhen, and avoided Jia Zhen when she encountered him.

If it is not a matter of livelihood, who would be willing to despise oneself? Regardless of livelihood considerations, the second sister is also a self-respecting and self-loving woman.

Third Sister You’s resistance became even more intense. In Chapter 65, Jia Lian wanted to bring Jia Zhen and Third Sister You together, but Third Sister You first scolded him:

Then he talked loudly, He squandered freely, tried his best to seduce the two brothers, but did not let them get close at all. He indulged his temper and laughed at the brothers Jia Zhen and Jia Lian for fun.

The third sister used such an absurd way to maintain her dignity and issued the strongest protest against her fate as a plaything.

Although he looks heroic, he is actually full of helplessness and sadness: without a family background, without the protection of his father and brother, if he is not strong, how can he not be a mermaid?

Even in such a difficult situation, the third sister still retains the most beautiful yearning for love.

Sanjie You could wait five years infatuatedly for Liu Xianglian, whom she had only met once, just so that she could have her own happiness like a woman with an innocent background.

This deep feeling, this expectation coming from the dirty reality, makes people awe-inspiring.

How easy is it to change your destiny?

Second Sister You is determined to be good, even if she has to endure hardships and live in an ignoble existence, fate does not give her a chance.

She unfortunately met Wang Xifeng, the most powerful opponent, and wanted to kill him. The second sister's efforts ended in committing suicide by swallowing gold.

The third sister had waited five years for her sweetheart, but she was burdened by her previous reputation and was mistaken for a shameless prostitute by Liu Xianglian.

The staunch third sister drew her sword and killed herself, not only out of disappointment in Liu Xianglian and despair in life, but also in exchange for her innocence in life, even at the cost of her life.

"Peach blossoms are crushed and red all over the ground, no matter how hard it is to hold up the jade mountain when it collapses", it's a pity for You Sanjie!

Eryou, the red man, spent his young life paying a heavy price for the chaos in the first half of his life.

Who can decide which era and what kind of family he was born into?

Instead of complaining about the darkness of society and the tricks of fate, it is better to take every step of life seriously and respect and love yourself.

If there is an afterlife, I think they will never take this road again.

2021-12-13