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By the time Jia Baoyu came to his senses and mustered up the courage to go find Daiyu, it was already noon three days later.

In the end, no matter how hard he begged in front of the door, he was still rejected.

Naturally, he would not give up and wait for three days of constant entanglement. He even did not hesitate to ask the old lady to come forward and persuade her. In the end, he met her, but Lin Daiyu always had a serious face. No matter how much he pretended to be crazy and acted foolishly, it was just a few words.

A tough scene.

Jia Baoyu was so anxious that his whole body was on fire. He once threatened to break up with Daiyu in person more than once, but within two days he couldn't help but run to her and beg her softly.

But despite his hard and soft tactics, Daiyu just ignored her. She even stopped interacting with Sanchun Chaiyun, and only became closer to Xing Xiuyan.

Si Qi and Yuchai often followed him to sit there.

Because the time had not come, Jiao Shun's thoughts had not yet been revealed. He only often revealed Baoyu's "true face" in front of Zicuckoo and Xueyan, who seemed to be passionate but was actually ruthless, and who seemed to be generous but was actually cold.

Effects vary from person to person.

Zicuckoo always thinks of her master and is Sister Lin's most trusted maid. In the original work, she even took the initiative to help Daiyu test Baoyu's feelings and made Baoyu go crazy for a long time.

But after all, she was a domestic child trained by an old lady, and she had an unspeakable affection for Baoyu, so she was very repelled by Yuchai's words to criticize Baoyu, and she always had to argue with him.

She was even more vigilant about the small favors given by Yuchai.

As for Xueyan, she was originally a direct descendant of the Lin family who served Daiyu, but she has not been trusted by Daiyu in recent years. In the Rongguo Mansion, she has no relatives to rely on, and the rejection she receives is much more serious than Sister Lin's "Frost Sword and Wind Sword"

times.

Therefore, she had little resistance to Yuchuan's remarks. After receiving some small favors, she quickly developed to the point of drawing inferences from one case to another, providing a lot of ammunition to Yuchuan and Jiao Shun who was hiding behind them.

Time flew by in this farce, and before we knew it, we entered the twelfth lunar month of the fourth year of Longyuan.

The weather is visibly rising during the new year, and all major yamen have also begun intensive final inventory work. As the general manager of the Ministry of Works, Jiao Shun is naturally even more busy.

The seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.

Jiao Shun arrived at the Yamen early in the morning. He first drew up a welfare distribution plan for the year based on the reports from each department and the quota set by the ministry. He ordered people to copy it and post it in the office for public notice. He also set up a special suggestion box for officials.

They give feedback.

After all, he is a new official taking office. He cannot say that he will do his best. At least, he must ensure that his subordinates cannot find any major faults.

As soon as this matter was arranged, I turned around and met with several outstanding representatives of disabled retired officers in the lobby of the General Affairs Office, discussing the matter of sending them to Zuo'anmen to serve as military training instructors after the year.

After personally sending off the retired officers and promotions from several large state-owned factories in the capital, the ambassador was brought in by Liu Changyou to report on the preparation progress of the 'in-factory art performance'.

This is also one of the new policies that Jiao Shun vigorously promoted after he was promoted to head of the Department of Affairs.

In front of several officials who seemed to understand but did not understand, he said that the content of the program must reflect the characteristics of the workshop and represent the thoughts, desires, and wishes of the broadest group of workers.

It is best to create an atmosphere where the factory is your home and you are proud of it.

Seeing that all the officials were getting more and more confused, Jiao Shun couldn't help but smile and said: "As the saying goes, hearing is false and seeing is believing. I have asked the work-study students from the Mongolian School to rehearse a small play. When you come over tomorrow and have a look, we will Everything is understood."

Everyone then breathed a sigh of relief. After all, they were all people-friendly officials in charge of thousands of people. Even if they were unable to innovate, it would still be no problem to imitate the gourd.

After sending away the leaders of these large factories, the Ordnance Department sent people to inspect and accept the newly manufactured magazine springs - this was a sequelae caused by Leng Chong's prophet. If there was any new progress in the Ordnance Department, he should be asked to come and help. Have long eyes.

Before they could even leave the experimental workshop of the Ordnance Department, the General Affairs Department sent another urgent report, saying that the miners in Hunan had gathered to rebel, and asked the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War to coordinate consultations and formulate a general policy to counter the rebellion.

This matter was not something Jiao Shun could decide, so he hurriedly reported the news to the minister and the ministers, and was ordered to convene relevant departments to discuss countermeasures. As a result, they continued to quarrel until late at night, but they could not make up their minds.

In the end, we can only select representatives who negotiate with the Ministry of War first, and then we will not have to blame others for recruiting and demolishing.

When he finally got to the office, Jiao Shun's mind was almost in a mess.

When he got home, he lay down straight away. Even dinner was fed to him by Xing Xiuyan, who knelt on the footrest and fed him a spoonful and a chopstick.

After being so sluggish until about two o'clock in the morning, Jiao Shun finally cheered up and asked if the compensation given by Mrs. Wang had been implemented now.

Mrs. Wang originally wanted to arrange a well-matched marriage in the future as compensation for Jiao Shun, but Jia Zheng kept urging her for the sake of her future, and Jiao Shun's attitude was much tougher than expected.

But how can this ready-made marriage be easy to guess?

She really wanted to use Lin Daiyu to top the cylinder, but the old lady didn't have an easy time.

As for Tanchun...

Having been rejected by Jia Zheng before, Mrs. Wang would not like to bring up the old matter again.

After much deliberation, I had no choice but to offer tangible benefits as early compensation - as for later compensation, I still promised to help Jiao Shun protect his matchmaking.

And her so-called benefit was to sell half of Tian Xingjian's shares to Jiao Shun for thirty thousand taels of silver.

This half-percent dry stock can be divided into about 7,000 taels of dividends a year. Even if it drops slightly in the future, five years will be enough to repay the capital. Compared with the price of 115,000 taels per 10% dry stock when mortgaged to the Xue family, It is not an exaggeration to say that it is half sold and half given away.

Of course, this is just the opinion of others.

Because Jiao Shun knew that the Rongguo Mansion in the original work was in a state of decline in just a few years, he never thought of holding Tian Xingjian's shares for a long time. He only planned to take the opportunity to create some obstacles for Wang Xifeng and then resell them in exchange for some ready-made goods. benefit.

But when Xing Xiuyan heard him ask about this, she couldn't help but frown, and said helplessly: "I asked people to ask several times, but the second grandmother ignored me. Today, my wife went there in person and only saw Ping'er. Girl - listen to Miss Ping'er, it's easy to talk about the dividends. We want to send someone to follow up to do the accounting, but we're afraid..."

This was also expected by Jiao Shun. Wang Xifeng controlled the tire business with one hand, and he did not know how much benefit he had gained from it. At this critical moment of settling accounts this year, how could he allow others to interfere?

What's more, because of the original misunderstanding, Wang Xifeng had long been angry with Jiao Shun.

"Don't disturb your wife again."

Just listen to Jiao Shun's instructions: "You continue to send people to ask every day. When the heat is up in a few days, I will let Master Zheng and his wife come forward to put pressure. She will not be able to agree by then."

Xing Xiuyan responded obediently, and then hesitantly reported Lin Daiyu's current situation.

"Er Master Ribao has been standing in front of the door for a while every day these days, and various objects have never been broken. Although Sister Lin has not paid attention to it, I can see that she is actually a little shaken."

This time it was Jiao Shun's turn to frown.

Compared with the progress on Wang Xifeng's side, Lin Daiyu's side was obviously more troublesome for him.

Previously, I just thought of swapping to steal money from the bottom of the family, but when I actually put it into practice, I discovered that the competitive advantages of both parties were not at the same level at all.

Na Baoyu relied on his status to come to the door every day and pester him, but he could only rely on Xing Xiuyan to attack him. This was a layer of separation, and it was difficult to use all kinds of means.

Sometimes Jiao Shun even thought about giving up. Anyway, Lin Daiyu was beautiful, but her figure was not her type.

But Baoyu ruined his marriage for no reason, and if he couldn't retaliate in the same way, how could Jiao Shun vent the evil in his heart?

Jiao Shun pondered for a long time, then ordered someone to get pen, ink, paper and inkstone, repair a letter and handed it to Xiang Ling: "Tomorrow morning you send this invitation to the Xue family and say that I am waiting for Brother Xue at the Zuo'anmen Meng School.

"

He was originally worried that the news of that night would be leaked, which would make the prophecy of 'a good match in gold and jade' come true - although the matter had been disturbed by Jia Baoyu, he still coveted Baochai.

But looking at the current situation, if you continue to look east and west, I'm afraid you will really be out of reach!

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The words are divided into two parts.

However, after Mrs. Xu left that afternoon, Wang Xifeng, who had been hiding in the room and refused to show up, called Ping'er to the front and asked with a straight face: "What did my wife Lai Wang just tell you? You can tell me everything."

Learn from me!"

There was distrust both inside and outside of these words.

However, Ping'er has gotten used to it recently, and besides, Wang Xifeng's suspicion that she was secretly liaising with the Jiao family is not really unjust.

Therefore, I just pretended that I didn't hear the strangeness in these words and replied calmly: "Laiwang Aunt didn't say anything else. She only asked when grandma was home and what she has been busy with recently."

"Hmph~"

Wang Xifeng snorted coldly and said angrily: "You are really a good slave that I trained. Only a dog that knows not to bark can bite people."

Ping'er was silent for a moment and couldn't help but persuade: "Grandma, we have been in love for so many years and there is nothing we can say openly. Why bother..."

"You will be a good person!"

Wang Xifeng interrupted her with disdain and sneered with a sneer on her pretty face: "He is about to ride on my head, and he still wants me to beg him to speak?!"

After saying that, he rolled his sleeves and said, "Okay, you go to the old lady's place and wait there first. I'll go there when I'm done with my work here!"

After Ping'er took the order, Wang Xifeng became increasingly restless alone in the room.

She has always regarded the tire business as private property. Not only does she take everything she wants, but at least she has monopoly power.

Mrs. Wang had previously proposed to pledge 20% of the shares to the Xue family, which made her very unhappy.

Later, it was learned that although the Xue family had become a major shareholder, they were willing to let Rong Guofu continue to be at the helm, and they also took the initiative to give up the dividends for the first three years, and made an agreement that the shares could be redeemed at the original price at any time within five years. Wang Xifeng then turned off

The thoughts of secretly obstructing.

Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, Mrs. Wang actually sold half of the shares to Jiao Shun at a low price. Not only did she have no additional conditions, but she also promised that Jiao Shun could send someone to do an accounting at any time.

This really poked Wang Xifeng's lungs!

You must know that in the past year, the money collected from Tian Xingjian accounted for more than 60% of her secret income!

Coupled with the humiliation experience on the top of the mountain that day, Wang Xifeng just wished that she could crush this bully and slave into ashes.

By the way...

After all, it has been more than half a month, but why is there no news from Jia Rong?

Several times I was pressed to ask questions, but they were just perfunctory.

Could it be that he failed to understand his hint that day?

Wang Xifeng hesitated for a moment, then decided to add more chips. Anyway, he was promised, so it didn't matter if he did it sooner or later.

So he deliberately changed into something loose and bright, and secretly sent someone to call Jia Rong.

But when Jia Rong was summoned by Sister Feng, she was so worried that she gnashed her teeth. She wanted to shirk the refusal, but she didn't dare to offend Wang Xifeng head-on.

In the end, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to Rongguo Mansion, planning to find some excuse to get by.

But as soon as he walked in, his eyes widened immediately!

Wang Xifeng seemed to have just taken a bath. She was wrapped in a long flesh-colored dress with a pattern on her body. The important parts were not revealing at all, but it also aroused endless reverie. Her black hair was half pulled up and half disheveled, revealing the laziness and uniqueness of a young woman.

charming.

Two flawless bare feet were half raised in the air, swaying with fluorescent light. Every bump seemed to step on Jia Rong's heart, making his mouth dry and his hands and feet trembling, and his mind was full of thoughts.

impulse.

"Brother Rong, do you have any idea of ​​what I told you earlier?"

It wasn't until Wang Xifeng spoke that Jia Rong suddenly regained some of her consciousness, thinking that although this aunt was a charming beauty, if she really got her way, she would probably have to lose her wife and lose her troops.

For this benefit that I can see but cannot eat, I just want to let myself...

"Alas~"

At this time, Wang Xifeng suddenly sighed quietly, and lightly beat his shoulder with his backhand, saying: "I don't know what happened recently. My shoulder is so sore. Ping'er needs some strength after all. Let your uncle help with the massage. He just keeps doing it again."

Prevaricate me——Brother Rong, how about you come over and try?"

Seeing that she was getting more and more excited due to her actions, Jia Rong swallowed her saliva and threw all considerations out of the sky for a moment. She couldn't help but walk towards Wang Xifeng. She subconsciously raised her arms even though she was only a few feet away.

Lift your shoulders and reach your core.

Seeing that he seemed to have lost his soul, Wang Xifeng was secretly proud and felt the pleasure of revenge against Jia Lian. Instead of dodge, she puffed up her chest provocatively.

With this further encouragement, Jia Rong took the first two steps to take action.

"grandmother."

Just at this moment, Ping'er's voice suddenly came from outside: "The old lady asked you to come over early, saying that she has something to discuss with you."

Wang Xifeng was taken aback, quickly pulled the blanket around her body, and curled up her two tender feet.

Jia Rong stumbled back five or six steps, lowered her head in fear, and did not dare to look at Wang Xifeng again.

Wang Xifeng composed herself and then raised her voice: "I understand, you go back to the old lady, I'll be there right away."

Unexpectedly, Ping'er remained silent for a long time, but then replied: "Since we won't be delayed for long, I'll just wait for grandma to go there together."

After hearing this, Wang Xifeng didn't know that she was deliberately trying to ruin his good deeds?

At that moment, his teeth were itching with hatred. While signaling Jia Rong to leave, he said angrily: "Then come in and talk!"

Jia Rong and Heping'er walked in and out, bumping into each other in front of the door.

Jia Rong also wanted to force himself to calm down and say hello to Ping'er, but Ping'er didn't even look at him, just crossed the threshold and closed the door heavily.

Not to mention how Jia Rong returned to the experts with fear.

But the master and the servant in the house looked at each other.

Wang Xifeng's eyes seemed to be bursting with fire. Suddenly she threw the blanket to the ground, revealing her body that turned all living beings upside down. She gritted her teeth and asked: "Why, have you learned to bite back?! Do you want to go to the second master?"

You sold out your master, so you can climb up on my shoulders?!"

As she said that, she slammed the table and stood up angrily: "Dream your spring and autumn dream! Even if I die, I will never let you little whore get what you want..."

Just as she was talking, Ping'er suddenly knelt down in front of her.

Wang Xifeng was stunned when she saw this, and subconsciously stopped talking.

I heard Ping'er say: "I know that grandma was so badly hurt by the second master that she started to think of herself as inferior. I just can't bear to see grandma entrusting me to someone else! I won't hide it from you even now."

, Brother Rong sold you to Brother Shun that day when he got back, and he even volunteered to help Brother Shun deal with you!"

Wang Xifeng's face changed drastically and she couldn't help denying it: "What nonsense are you talking about? Why did Brother Rong betray him... With just a slave named Yangzi, is Brother Rong crazy?!"

"Grandma has always underestimated Brother Shun, but how could she know what he is capable of now?"

Ping'er said helplessly: "In the beginning, he took advantage of Ning Guofu's shortcomings because of the matter of seizing the title. Later, with the help of both kindness and power in the lumber business, even Uncle Zhen was afraid of him, let alone Brother Rong."

"What's more, Uncle Zhen has always treated Brother Rong harshly and had unethical thoughts. If it weren't for Brother Shun's help, I'm afraid the newly married Mrs. Xu would have followed in the footsteps of the Qin family, let alone Brother Shun's marriage alone.

A benefit to him."

"With all these things, how dare Brother Rong follow Grandma to plot against Brother Shun?!"

"How could..."

Wang Xifeng sat back heavily on the Arhat bed, her eyes filled with disbelief. She had thought that it was already a great thing for Jiao Shun to win over Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang by taking advantage of the opportunity of working together in the Ministry of Industry.

Who would have thought that his influence in Ningguo Mansion would be greater than that in Rongguo Mansion!
Chapter completed!