Chapter 51: The Mystery of the Whole Book
As soon as I got home with the adults, I immediately went into the study and began to read at night.
I was attracted from the beginning: yellow, really yellow!
After reading another chapter, Kazu-sama changed his mind.
He remembered his own background.
I think I lost my mother at the age of three, lost my father at the age of ten, was young and poor, and I couldn't eat. At the age of 19, after inheriting the third-class light car lieutenant of Shijue, he was fortunate to be close to the emperor to serve as a guard of Luanyi. Later, with his own talent and learning, he won the appreciation of Lord Qianlong, and after several sad hardships, he had today's status and achievements. In contrast, Cao Xueqin's grandfather was also a cloth slave, and later became a Jiangning weaver, and was released as a high-ranking official during the Kangxi period. The Cao family was defeated, and Cao Xueqin experienced poverty and ups and downs, and tasted the joys and sorrows of the world.
The more I read with adults, the more I felt that I had a good relationship with Cao Xueqin, and I couldn't help myself unconsciously.
"Master, it's already midnight, why haven't you rested?!" At some point, Ji Wen walked in.
She was going to sleep, and she used to hold him in her arms when she slept.
"Is it midnight?!" and the adults patted their heads, "It's all to blame for this "Stone Story"!" ”
"The Stone? The master is talking about the ** "Stone Story"?! ”
"You also know the Stone?"
"Who doesn't know in the whole capital, who doesn't know?! However, not many people have actually seen it. This book is just so hard to find. Ji Wen walked to the desk and looked at the "Stone Record" on the table. Although she really wanted to see her true face, she didn't dare to move without the permission of the adult.
"What a strange book for the ages! No, I won't sleep tonight, I'll read it! ”
"Good books naturally have to be tasted slowly, what are you doing in such a hurry?! Is there still someone urging you to fail?! If you swallow dates and don't understand the taste of the book, wouldn't you be in vain in the words of this ancient book?! ”
"What Madame said is that I'll go rest now, and I'll read it tomorrow." He put away the book, put it in a corner at the top of the bookshelf and placed it properly, then closed the door with confidence, hugged Ji Wen's slender waist, and walked towards the bedroom.
"Jia Baoyu has deep roots, and she has such pity for Sister Lin, which is really breathtaking!" Walking with the adults, he said again.
"If you want to talk about amorous seeds, I see one. You and I have been married for six years, and you didn't even mention the matter of taking a concubine, in my heart, you are even more infatuated than Jia Baoyu! ”
"Where can I be as good as Baoyu. If you have time, you can also take a look, and you will know what it means to be a kind of eternal love. ”
"Are you going to show me?! Great, I've admired this book for a long time. I thought it was **, but you didn't let me read it. ”
"What**, this is a book of wonders! I want to ask the emperor for an edict, how can such a good book be banned?! ”
"Okay, but you have to be in a good sense of proportion, don't anger the emperor."
"Don't worry, aren't you at ease when I do things?!"
"Good, good, according to you!"
"Otherwise, let's experience the 'Poison Dragon Drill' tonight, right?!"
"Hehe, dead ......"
and adults are crazy to conquer the best young woman under the crotch, and the mind is still thinking of the eternal swan song "Stone Record". Anyway, Ji Wen fell asleep sweetly. I couldn't sleep at night with the adults, so I got up secretly, returned to the study again, and read through the "Stone Record" in one go.
After reading it once, I can't stop reading it again. Over and over again, and adults were completely conquered by "The Story of Stones". However, "The Stone Story" only has the first 80 chapters.
This novel was never finished.
And adults are anxious. He found Su Ling'a.
"What about the back?!"
"This ......"
"What's this?!"
"Yes, yes, but .......?!"
"But what?!"
"And my lord, you don't know. The reason why "The Stone Record" was sealed is because of the twenty-eight chapters (note here, it is twenty-eight, not forty. You can check it out. )。 I'm afraid you'll be angry when you read it, and the last twenty-eight times have long been extinct in the world, and what I have in my hand is the only collector's book......"
"I know, I don't want it, can't I see it?!"
"Okay, you wait, I'll get it for you."
And the adults waited anxiously, and it was difficult to sit still.
"My lord, here comes the book." After a while, Su Ling'a walked out with half a handwritten book. And adults can't wait to grab it in their hands and look at it on the spot.
"Huh?!" As soon as I looked back, I frowned.
Rub, this is a rebellion!
He put down his book and paced back and forth in Su Ling'a's study. Su Ling's children's shoes were very interesting, and stood aside silently, for fear of disturbing the adults.
"No, this book can't be written like that. Gotta change! ”
"But Cao Xueqin is dead?!"
"He's dead, you can find someone to write it for you. Otherwise, it would be a pity to have the first eighty times! ”
"Find someone to write for you?! Can it be done?! Who in the world today still has Cao Xueqin's perverted writing?! ”
"There's a guy."
"Who?!"
"Gao E."
Gao E, a native of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Han Army, was familiar with the scriptures and history, worked in Baguwen, poetry, novels, operas, paintings and the study of gold and stone, and was quite famous in the Qianlong period.
And the adults found Gao E.
To the surprise of Lord He, this thing regarded "The Stone Record" as his life, and he had already completed the continuation of "The Stone Record".
He didn't have the last forty catalogs in his hands, and he had never seen the last forty real faces.
According to research, there is a person in history who has seen the last 28 episodes of "The Stone Record". His name is 'Fat Yan Zhai'. And the last twenty-eight chapters in the hands of adults are recorded in the history of the wild, which is not enough to be trusted.
'Fat Yan Zhai', an obvious name of the Four Treasures of the Scholar's Shop, it is a pen name.
As for who he is, there are four theories in the red academic circles: first, the author said, second, Shi Xiangyun said, third, his uncle said, and fourth, his cousin said.
There are different theories about the four theories, but one thing is certain: the person 'Fat Yan Zhai' is inextricably linked with Mr. Cao.
Very close contact.
He annotated the first 80 chapters of The Stone. That is, some criticisms are written between the lines of the first 80 chapters, and some of these comments directly allude to the bibliography of the last 28 chapters. The red academic community studied the "Stone Record" and guessed the fate and ending of each character in it, and the official basis was the annotation of Fat Yan Zhai. Abbreviated as 'Fat Batch'!
Recently, there is a very popular news, saying that after 28 years of traveling abroad for more than 200 years, "Dream of Red Mansions" finally returned to China. I was so excited that I quickly took a look. Just one look back, the three views are all ruined: rub, this time the eyes are too white, and the whole thing is level.
What about playing?!
In fact, the whole version of "Dream of Red Mansions" did exist in China.
In the early sixties, there was a reader in Nanjing who found a manuscript of stone records in a friend's attic. He loves red learning, so he borrowed it and took it home to see it. It doesn't matter if you look at this, he found that the above comments are different from most of the comments published at that time, either a few more words or a few words less, and there are some special comments among them, which can quite solve the problem after 80 times.
Realizing that this was most likely the long-lost complete version of Dream of the Red Chamber, he copied some comments with a pen and sent them to several red scholars in Beijing.
After a few months, the experts finally realized the importance of these annotations and hurriedly sent a letter asking for the original.
The reader found a friend with a letter, claiming that experts in Beijing were going to study the ancient books in his home. This friend was also very excited at the time: Rub, I really didn't expect there to be such a treasure at home. Hurriedly climbed up to the attic, and suddenly saw that the attic was empty. Then he called his wife: Where's the book?!
His wife's reply was sonorous and resounding: sold.
In this way, the finished version of "Dream of Red Mansions" was lost again. It is rumored that in the 80s, I saw people reading this book on a train to Nanjing, and the words "this is a big poisonous weed" were scribbled on the book.
Maybe it's still alive.
Pity.
Wretched.
Alas!