Back to the 28th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, why did Xue Baochai lie about pills?

1. If you admit that you have this prescription, one will play tricks on your brother with Jia Baoyu, and the other Mrs. Wang has already said "fart", setting the tone for Baoyu's fairy party. Xue Baochai's admission is tantamount to overturning Mrs. Wang's judgment. In the book, Xue Baochai basically never refutes Mrs. Wang, even if it is a trivial matter, but with Xue Baochai's shrewdness, she will not oppose Mrs. Wang.

2. On the other hand, Xue Baochai doesn't want to deny the authenticity of the prescription, because this is tantamount to exposing Jia Baoyu's joke, and whether it will make Bao Brothers unhappy is second. The key is to expose Xue Baochai's brother's IQ in front of Mrs. Wang and Baodai.

So Xue Baochai had to tell a lie and said that she had never heard of it. Judging from the characters, Xue Baochai has always been like this. She likes to protect herself in everything, which is basically an instinctive reaction. This has been shown many times in the book. For example, the famous Didi Cuiting planting incident, she may not have expected the consequences to be so far-reaching, but she was only subconsciously protecting herself.

A Dream of Red Mansions is China's first classical Four Great Classical Novels and a novel written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty. In the early days, only the first 80 manuscripts were circulated, and some of them were not completed after 80, and the manuscripts were lost. Formerly known as "Re-evaluation of Stone Story by Zhi Yanzhai". Cheng Weiyuan invited Gao E to coordinate the publication of the first book 120, and named it A Dream of Red Mansions. There is also a version of "Jinyuyuan".

Xue Baochai, one of the heroines in the classic Dream of Red Mansions, is the menstruation and wife of the hero Jia Baoyu. She is a "cold beauty" who represents a model of feudal women, because she has a good appearance, refined manners and abides by women's morality. My father died early, and I have my mother (Aunt Xue) and my brother (Xue Pan).