They are all relatives, but they are different from each other, and they are different from each other.
Everyone knows that Daiyu is the granddaughter of Jia's mother and the niece of Jia Zheng and Jia Zheng. And Baochai is Mrs. Wang's niece.
Don't think there's much difference between "the master's niece" and "the wife's niece". In fact, Mrs. Wang's status in Jia Mansion is not much lower than that of Jia Zheng. Her niece is not more distant than Jia Zheng's niece. is different from Mrs. Xing, who is not competitive and has a low status, her niece Xing Xiuyan is very looked down upon in Jiafu: Wang Xifeng refused to arrange an independent residence for her, and the maid and mother-in-law of Yingchun blackmailed her, and even Ping'er "only doubted Miss Xing's girl, who was originally poor, but I was afraid that the children had never seen it, and there were people who picked it up" - too poor and often afraid of people and suspected thieves", Xing Xiuyan is a touch of desolation in the flower-filled Grand View Garden.
And Jia Wangtong is a member of the "Four Great Families", the Xue family is also one of the "Four Great Families", and the Lin family is after the "Liehou" and the "Former Detective Flower". Daiyu Baochai's family background status is about the same - don't tell me anything, "Merchants also deserve to be compared with Tanhua?" "If you are worthy or not, it doesn't matter if you say it, and it doesn't count if you say it. On the "talisman" copied by the well-versed Menzi, the Xue family is listed in the top four of the "most powerful, extremely wealthy, and noble" "family of famous eunuchs" in Jinling.
Hey, since the two families have the same social status, and they are both nieces in Jiafu, why do I say that they are different in intimacy and distance?
There are many versions of "Dream of Red Mansions", and the third episode of one version is "Rongguofu adopts Lin Daiyu". In fact, this is incomprehensible, because Lin Ruhai was still alive in the third round, and Daiyu only went to live with relatives for a few years, how can it be regarded as "adoption"? This review should come from a relatively early draft, in which Lin Ruhai died earlier, and Daiyu was "adopted" by Rongguofu when her parents died when she first entered Beijing.
Regarding the version of "Dream of Red Mansions", I am a pure layman, and the previous paragraph is nothing more than speculation. Anyway, after Lin Ruhai's death, Wang Xifeng once said, "Your sister Lin can live in our house for a long time", which is the sign of Rongguofu's adoption of Lin Daiyu.
That is to say, since the fourteenth round, Lin Daiyu has become the self-evident adopted daughter of Rongguofu, and in the future, she will "spend an extra dowry", and her upbringing, mate selection, marriage, and even returning to relatives after marriage are the responsibilities of Rongguofu.
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As for Baochai, he has a mother (although he has to rely on Baochai to make an idea) and a brother (although he is not as good as nothing, it is a negative number), and he has always been a relative of Rongguofu and has not become "his own person".
On the surface, there is no difference. But in private, whether it is the distribution of monthly money, or the inspection of the Grand View Garden, one of his own people, and a relative's family, the difference is obvious.