In fact, the rules in Lin Wanwan's house are nothing compared to other gentry families with strict hierarchies.
With her generous attitude towards her slaves, she already has a group of die-hard loyalists who cannot be bribed.
Nowadays, people talk too much. Except for Lin Wanwan, who gives some of the modern fruits to a few personal maids and servants, the rest of the servants cannot enjoy it.
But Lin Wanwan didn't know how to search for the food she could buy from the Tang Dynasty market, and let the servants eat it freely.
This alone is enough to make people loyal, not to mention that Lin Wanwan will also give out additional welfare items such as toothpaste, soap, and soap in ceramic jars.
The servants are not stingy with the seasonings they add to their daily meals. If pepper should be added, pepper should be added. Which wealthy family can add pepper and other spices to their servants’ meals!
Absolutely not!
In middle-class houses, pepper is only given when distinguished guests come to the door!
The treatment Lin Wanwan gave to the servants in the house was such that even if they tried to pry the corner, they couldn't.
Recently, Lin Wanwan used goods dumping in Yuyao to seduce the Yu family, which made them miserable, so they sent people to infiltrate Lin Wanwan's shop.
But the final result was very disappointing. They didn't buy it and almost lost their own money.
When the people sent out found out about the high treatment of the Lin family, their eyes turned red with envy.
How could anyone in the Yu family imagine that there are long-term workers in this world who are completely aligned with their employer?
In terms of business, they cannot match the wealthy Lin Wanwan, in terms of military force, they cannot match the Xiangjun Mansion with Xinglei, and in terms of power, the Yu family cannot surpass the Lanling Xiao family.
With Xiao Chong in Luan County, it would be impossible for the Yu family to use their influence to attack Lin Wanwan from the government.
So, after being suppressed for a long time and suffering heavy losses, the Yu family came to seek peace.
It's not like the Yu family only needs to take care of the people living in their ancestral home in Yuyao. In fact, most of their resources and financial resources have to be transported to Chang'an to support the main forces active in Chang'an's officialdom.
Lin Wanwan suppressed them, and every sum she lost was a piece of flesh and blood.
I found out that Lin Wanwan had a mysterious brother who never came to an end. He sent her huge amounts of spices and treasures every year, and the Yu family couldn't bear it anymore.
The Yu family has a great business and cannot afford to throw money into the water like Lin Wanwan.
This dumping war was a huge blow to the Yu family, but it was a good thing for the local people in Yuyao County, and they received a lot of benefits.
So much so that Lin Wanwan could no longer close the shop she opened there, so she begged them to stay, thus expanding her business territory in disguise.
This time the Yu family sued for peace, and the representative they sent was a married woman, the second daughter-in-law of the Wang family, the granddaughter of Yu Shinan, who "gifted" a calligraphy from Yu Shinan to Lin Wanwan.
This time, the Yu family came directly to Linjiazhuang by boat with a heavy treasure, showing their sincerity.
She didn't even wait until Lin Wanwan returned to Xiaoxi Town before visiting the Lin Mansion in Xiaoxi Town. Instead, she directly left the town and came to Linjiazhuang regardless of her workload. This shows how anxious the Yu family is about this matter.
Lin Wanwan received Mrs. Yu who came to visit her in the flower hall.
Her affairs with the Yu family have nothing to do with the Wang family's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Yu, and they are not directly related to her parents.
They are just clan relatives, but for a married woman, the benefits are far away.
Therefore, when Mrs. Yu came to seek peace this time, she did not have a big grudge against Lin Wanwan.
On the contrary, because of Lin Wanwan's combination of punches, she got a favor from the leader of the Yu clan.
When they arrived at Lin Wanwan's house, the two of them just drank tea and chatted, and did not mention the matter of suing for peace at all. It was good that each other knew this kind of thing.
Whether Lin Wanwan will accept it depends on the sincerity of the other party's apology.
After seeing off Ms. Yu from the small pier in Linjiazhuang and returning to the house, Lin Wanwan ordered Hongyan and others to open the gifts she had brought.
Silk and fur are also good things, but Lin Wanwan is not rare.
Now every month, Zhenbao Pavilion will take the initiative to send good products to Lin Wanwan to pick first.
But there was a fan in a gloomy nanmu box that caught Lin Wanwan's attention.
It is carefully packaged in such an expensive box and placed in the C position of the gift pile. This must be a good thing.
Lin Wanwan picked up the hexagonal fan and tasted it carefully.
This fan is made of bamboo, and the workmanship is average, but the five characters written on the fan are like dragons and phoenixes, which is remarkable at first glance.
Overall, this bamboo fan has obvious traces of time and is quite old.
"Could this be Yu Shinan's calligraphy?" Lin Wanwan said to herself, admiring the calligraphy on the fan over and over again. The more she looked at it, the more she liked it, but the more she looked at it, the less it felt like it was Yu Shinan's calligraphy.
Cui Ying beside her was about to speak but stopped.
Lin Wanwan noticed it and smiled: "What's wrong? Do you know such a thing?"
After Cui Ying saluted, she said, "Go back to my wife, I have seen this bamboo fan at the house of my great-uncle of the Cui family."
"Oh? Then what's its origin?" Lin Wanwan asked curiously.
Cui Ying replied: "This bamboo fan is the most ordinary bamboo fan, but the words on the fan are unusual. If I read it correctly, it was written by Wang Youjun of the Wang family of Langya, who is known as the sage of calligraphy."
Lin Wanwan was surprised and happy when she heard this: "Wang Xizhi's words! Oh my God!"
Get rich, get rich! National treasure!
Lin Wanwan immediately put down the fan in her hand, fearing that it would be damaged. The words on it were written by the calligrapher Wang Xizhi, so it was more than three hundred years ago!
A small bamboo fan will break easily if not kept well! Just take a look at it for yourself, but don’t dare to touch it if you can’t handle it!
Good guy, the Yu family’s apology is very sincere!
Wang Xizhi's characters are considered to be heirlooms even in the Tang Dynasty. They are usually collected by aristocratic families and the royal family.
If Lin Wanwan can get a side, she really has the glory of socialism!
If she hadn't been backed by a modern granary, how could she have frightened the Yu family into suing for peace.
Seeing Lin Wanwan's joy, Cui Ying smiled and told the story about this fan: "Madam, there is still some explanation about the origin of this fan."
"Oh? Tell me." Lin Wanwan asked without taking her eyes off the fan.
Cui Ying said slowly: "It is said that Shusheng was working as an internal historian in Kuaiji and led the general on the right.
One day in Jishan, I saw an old woman carrying a hexagonal fan and asking for money, but she couldn't sell any of them, so she looked very sad.
The calligrapher stepped forward and picked up the hexagonal fan, took pen and ink, and wrote five characters on each side of the bamboo fan.
The old woman was a little unhappy at first, so the calligrapher said to her, "Tell the buyer that this calligraphy was written by Wang Youjun, and each hand can be sold for at least one hundred yuan."
The old woman was overjoyed when she heard this. She shouted, and as expected, many people bought it.
Later, when the gentry and gentry got the news, they bought the bamboo fans that were leaked that day at high prices for their collection. I, Mr. Cui, also have one in my collection."
"This old woman is really lucky." Lin Wanwan sighed, feeling happy in her heart.
She wanted to bring this fan to modern times, protect it with the best modern collection techniques, and then hide it in the Tang Dynasty.
She also wants to make the information about the fan public on the Internet so that everyone can enjoy reading it.