Character image:
Dr. Yu entered school at the age of 24, and then he worked as an old scholar for 3 years. Having been a scholar for thirty years, it seems that Dr. Yu is the same as Pu Songling, and he has repeatedly failed in the examination. Pu Songling has been a scholar for a long time than Dr. Yu. He has been a scholar for fifty years. Pu Songling spent his whole life, and he didn't get a candidate in the exam. Is this Dr. Yu going the same way as Pu Songling?
in order to make a living, Dr. Yu became a teacher. Dr. Yu is lucky. He taught private schools to pay a very high salary, thirty taels of silver a year. Mr. Pu Songling's salary is much lower, only eight taels of silver a year. The salary difference between them is three or four times. Pu Songling, with a low salary, often racked his brains for food and clothing, while Dr. Yu, with a relatively high salary, married his wife with about thirty taels of silver.
Dr. Yu, who married his daughter-in-law, has accumulated twenty or thirty taels of library money in two years and found four rooms. Does looking for a house mean renting a house or buying a house? Renting a house is not quite like it. It's too expensive to rent twenty or thirty taels of silver a year. I'm afraid twenty or thirty taels of silver is not enough to build a house for four rooms. So, Dr. Yu should have bought a second-hand house.
otherwise, why is it called finding the house? According to the price ratio, it is a lie to ask Du Shaoqing for fifty taels of silver to repair the house. Twenty or thirty taels of silver is enough to buy four rooms, but Huang needs fifty taels to overhaul the house. He must have cheated Du Shaoqing of his money.
Event:
When Dr. Yu was thirty-two, he lost his library, could not run a private school and lost his job. Fortunately, Dr. Yu can also tell fortune and see Feng Shui. He shows a family named Zheng Feng Shui's grave. After being buried in the grave, the Zheng family thanked him for twelve taels of silver. Earned the equivalent of half a year's salary as a museum at a time, which depends on Feng Shui as a high-income industry. If Dr. Yu hadn't won the imperial examination later, he might have become a fortune teller and a feng shui master.
On the way home, Dr. Yu saved a man who threw himself into the river. The rescued man threw himself into the river because he had no money to bury his father. Dr. Yu gave the man four taels of silver, and naturally everyone helped each other. What Dr. Yu means is that everything should be open-minded, and death is not the way. If you need help, ask for help. Dr. Yu is kind-hearted. He not only gives money to help people, but also gives them advice and solutions.
Character evaluation:
In a sense, "the creation of Yu Yude's image is the author's most important". Compared with Du Shaoqing's personality, Yu Yude's image is much more dull, but these seemingly dull plots are very idealistic and close to a sage. First of all, the novel devoted the thirty-sixth chapter to Yu Yude's biography, and then the novel deepened its image of "Confucian sage" with some plots.
Dr. Yu also took this road in reading, but he was not as crazy as Fan Jin in the face of the good news of his winning, and his attitude towards "winning a job" was not like Du Shaoqing's.
A farmer was suicidal in diving, and Dr. Yu quickly asked the boatman to rescue him. When he learned that the farmer was struggling to survive, he did not give his twelve taels of silver as an ideal gift, but frankly stated that he also needed silver for travelling expenses and gave it to the farmer four taels. He is not penniless, but he doesn't mean to be an unsung hero. On Dr. Yu, there is a golden mean rhythm.