Sister Feng’s gray income
2021-11-01 12:03:51Source: Qilu Evening News
Sister Feng played cards with Mother Jia, always deliberately losing to her. Jia’s mother was very happy, and said that it was not about winning, but just drawing a small lottery. What is this little color head in Jia’s eyes? Each time it is a little more than a sling. The book said that there was a sling in Sister Feng’s box, and Ping’er was afraid that it would not be enough, so Ping’er sent another sling. Sister Feng smiled to Aunt Xue and said that mother Jia’s money box was just like this, and she didn’t know how much she had won.
A dang of money is Qingwen’s monthly money, and the purchasing power is close to but less than a tael of silver. It’s not too much to say, but do you know how much Sister Feng’s monthly income is, which is the legal monthly income? She once joked to Li Wan and said: “Your monthly bill of ten taels a month is twice as much as ours.” It can be roughly calculated that her monthly bill is only three or two, which is only enough to accompany Jia’s mother. Two or three cards. The book doesn’t say that she has other allowances. With reference to Li Wan’s income composition, they should still have a bit of “year-end”, which is equivalent to a year-end bonus, which is not particularly large, and Sister Feng is even less.
A high-level supply system is implemented in Jia’s residence. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all owned by the officials, and monthly money is everyone’s pocket money. They can’t go shopping, except occasionally buying a powder outside, most of the time, the monthly money is used to give a reward or add a dish in the kitchen, and one or two is enough. Like Li Wan, he earns twelve taels a month and his son Jialan’s twelve taels, a total of twenty taels. You can save a lot of money just by relying on legal income.
But Sister Feng is different. She is the director of the house, and she has to be perfunctory. If she is like Li Wan, with the little money in her tight hand, she is afraid that she will not be able to play in the big Rongguo Mansion. Just looking at Xue Baochai as a relative, her good popularity is related to her generosity. From Daiyu to Xiangyun to Xing Xiuyan and even Zhao Auntie, she has money to give away. It’s not that all these people except Aunt Zhao have seen money open their eyes, but it is true that money can best express their wishes when appropriate.
In the novel, Sister Feng’s expenses are mentioned from time to time.
In the thirty-fifth time, Baoyu wanted to eat lotus leaf soup. Sister Feng asked someone to take a few chickens to make ten bowls. It is said that this stuff is not eaten at home, so I just make more of it. The old lady, aunt, and wife all have a share. Jia’s mother laughed at her and said, “Monkey, behave! Take the money from the official and you will be a man.” Sister Feng hurriedly smiled: “This is irrelevant. I can still respect this little host.” Turning back, she ordered the woman. : “Speaking of the kitchen, I just need to make up for it, and I will get the money on my account.”
On the fiftieth time, the nun came to Jia’s mother to ask for money for the incense, but Sister Feng met and took the money and sent them away. This kind of incense money is Jia’s mother’s private expenses. Sister Feng should not have the right to put it on the public account. It is more likely that she will pay for it out of her own pocket.
When Xiren went home to visit her mother, Sister Feng sent her big hairy clothes. Although Xiren laughed and said that when she made the clothes next year, Xiren would return her, but everyone knew that this was a joke. Xing Xiuyan was dressed in shabby clothes, and Ping’er took her own clothes and gave her away. Sister Feng was very pleased and said, “That’s why she still knows a little bit about my heart.”
The people in Rongguo Mansion were quite comfortable with Sister Feng’s generosity. Especially Jia’s mother, every time she enjoys Sister Feng’s filial piety calmly, even like the “Lian Ye Geng” section, she beats her from time to time to let her show more “small color heads”. Is it that Jia’s mother is not considerate enough to Feng Sister? Of course not. In “Dream of Red Mansions”, it is Jia’s mother who loves Sister Feng the most. Those jokes, those beatings, but it shows that she is as clever as Jia’s mother, knowing that Sister Feng has a gray income, and acquiescing to Sister Feng’s gray income.
In “Dream of Red Mansions”, Feng Jie’s income is mainly reflected in three types.
One is more flexible, mainly because of the benefits she collects when she helps others. On the fifteenth time, she sent a funeral for Qin Keqing to Tiegan Temple. The old nuns in the temple lobbied her to help her divorce her daughter outside the Jin family. Sister Feng wrote a letter to Changan Jiedu Master Yun in the name of Jia Lian. , Sister Feng easily earned three thousand taels of benefits.
The three hundred taels of silver that she extorted from Jia Rong’s mother and son through the matter of Sister You also belonged to this category. Of course, half of her purpose was to vent her anger. Who told Jia Rong to tell Jia Lian about Sister You, and to make up for the hurt feelings with her income.
The second is normality, which is the bribes she was able to accept because the family was in power. For example, Jia Yun wanted to apply for a job with her, so she bought a big bag of borneol spice and gave it to her; if there were vacancies for the maidservant in Baoyu’s house, those with daughters would also offer various benefits. In this regard, Sister Feng’s attitude is to accept everything as the bill is, and the more the better.
As for the third type, it is more fixed, it is she embezzled public funds to extend the interest of loan sharks. In the novel, it was mentioned more than once that Sister Feng owed her family’s monthly bills and asked her confidant subordinates to release it to collect interest. Aunt Zhao once complained to Mrs. Wang for this, and Xiren personally asked Ping’er when the monthly payment would be issued.
In short, although Sister Feng’s salary is extremely low, her gray income is far greater than her legal income. Judging from Jia’s mother’s comfort in accepting Feng’s various “little heads”, she should be well aware of this, and she doesn’t think she has any. what is the problem. Perhaps, in the eyes of Jia’s mother, this is a better way to solve the problem.
Sister Feng’s income is not proportional to her contribution. Sister Feng and Li Wan are both Jia’s daughter-in-law. Li Wan’s legal income is much higher than that of Sister Feng, but his work is just for fun with the sisters. Sister Feng wakes up in the morning every morning, and can’t rest in the middle of the night. She has countless hearts, countless responsibilities, complaints, idleness, pressure to live more and less money, and no more gray income. What are you doing for you?
Jia’s mother can’t raise Sister Feng’s salary. Jia Mansion is ranked according to seniority, and income is also linked to it. Mrs. Wang and the others only have twenty-two months of cases. If Sister Feng’s income is greatly increased, even if Mrs. Wang does not speak, the people below will not accept it. There has always been no such rule. If Jia’s mother makes a strong decision, it will make Sister Feng a target of public criticism, and life will be even more sad.
What if it does not improve? As mentioned earlier, it is difficult for this sister Jiafeng to continue. Even if Sister Feng can use Hai Rui’s cleanliness to keep her family down, but as an ordinary person with average moral integrity, why should she be that Hai Rui who offends people with less money?
Sister Feng fights every day to charge and fight, half of which is her ability to play small and strong, and half of which is supported by various fascinating aspects of power. Maybe she had the dream of ruling the family in the spring style, but under the income system of the Rongguo Mansion, under the siege of all kinds of defamation and framing that can be imagined, this feeling must not last long. What’s more, she was spoiled by her father when she was a child, and she was extremely self-conscious. Her ability and greed grew together in this suitable soil, and they were inseparable from each other.
Therefore, behind the jokes of Jia’s mother and Feng’s sister, there must be an unspoken consensus. Jia’s mother was also the director of the house along the way, and she must be very clear about the twists and turns inside. Since she expected Sister Feng to take the lead, she didn’t want to ask too carefully. Sister Feng’s gray income became legal with Jia’s mother’s unconditional support.
Helpless, it is legal in Jia’s mother, but in fact it is not necessarily. Mrs. Wang once asked Sister Feng, why hasn’t Aunt Zhao’s monthly payment been issued? When she asked about the guilty conscience of Sister Feng, she cursed when she went out, and after she became ruthless, she would even do a few “serious” things. Although her voice was high, she was stern, and she knew that once the matter was found out, it would not be easy to explain. Mrs. Wang was still her aunt, and she had doubts in her heart, and she was just asking. As long as Jia’s mother passed away, there would be too many people with the desire and ability to bring down Sister Feng.
In ancient times, corrupt officials, such as Sister Feng, were numerous, and Qianlong might not be aware of Heshen’s misdeeds, but it was legal in his eyes because he was the law. When he died, Jiaqing was replaced by Jiaqing, so it would naturally be illegal. The similarity between Jiamu and Qianlong and others is that they used personal prestige instead of system to obscure and humanize management. But in the end, their blessing to their pets cannot become a refuge, but a life-long time bomb.
Regarding the ending of Sister Feng, the book does not go into details, but looking at the ending of this type of person in history, it is generally predictable.
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