Hearing what Sister Feng said, Jia Lian secretly thought:
For someone like Sister Feng, who has a stubborn temper and thinks she is extremely smart, she won't listen to anyone who tries to reason with her calmly, and her good words and persuasion are completely useless.
Sure enough, you have to be cruel and let her hit her head against the south wall, experience the big loss for herself, and be dealt with properly. This is definitely a good way to benefit her physical and mental health.
If everything goes smoothly for her and she gets carried away with herself, it will really be called "out of control".
You see, after being punished, she finally became more sensible and her temper improved. Jia Lian felt a little relieved.
Now, if you give her another sweet date, she will feel the sweetness.
"Where do we have to live on your dowry?" Jia Lian took Sister Feng's hand, took out a brocade box from his sleeve, and put it in Sister Feng's hand, "I brought this back from Gusu specially for you.
, just this one, no more."
Sister Feng knew that Jia Lian had no money, so she smiled:
"What good thing is so expensive?"
When she opened the box and took a look, Wang Xifeng was immediately stunned.
Lying on top of the red velvet in the box is a phoenix hairpin made of Khotan white jade, gold and silver inlaid with rubies. The craftsmanship is exquisite and lifelike. There are three tassels of rice beads in the phoenix's mouth, and at the bottom is a nasturtium flower.
Exquisite and exquisite.
You can tell at a glance that this is the best of the best, the best of the best.
Seeing that Wang Xifeng, who claimed to be used to seeing good things, couldn't explain why, Jia Lian smiled and said:
"Others use gold and silver to wrap jade, but this one uses jade to wrap gold and silver.
The common name of this craft is "Su Gong Jin Jade", and the serious name is "Gold and Silver Inlaid Jade". It was the specialty of Lu Zigang, a master of jade carving and inlaying in the Ming Dynasty, and it has now been lost.
Except for him, no one else can embed such fine gold and silver wires in the jade groove without using any adhesive, and the wires will not skip or fall off."
Wang Xifeng really doesn’t have such rare and unique objects.
Sister Feng immediately smiled and held the box in her hand:
"Did it cost a lot of money?"
Jia Lian smiled and lied:
"Uncle Lin gave it to me."
Wang Xifeng nodded, but then a shrewd look appeared in his eyes:
"The Lin family used to be princes, so it's not unusual to have some good things. But what's strange is why would they give you such valuable good things?"
"I have the ability, the Master will be happy and everyone will love me.
Just now I went to the great master, and he rewarded me with a hundred taels of silver.
The eldest man said that he and his eldest wife will come over tomorrow and tell us to just follow what we prepared before."
Jia Lian said, took out another hundred taels of silver notes and put them in Wang Xifeng's hand.
Wang Xifeng lowered his head and looked at the bank note, with a look of surprise on his face:
"This is strange. Is the eldest master such a sensible and caring person? Is the sun rising from the west?"
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With the in-depth understanding of Wang Xifeng, Jia Lian has come to the conclusion: for people like Wang Xifeng, it is most effective to always use the method of "inviting generals rather than stimulating them".
If you are polite to her, she will get angry with you. In her opinion, other people's "good temper" means they are "easy to bully".
As long as you find the right method, there is no wild horse that cannot be harnessed and no fox that cannot be caught.
So Jia Lian deliberately showed his face:
"Don't worry about what methods I use, anyway, I have the ability to make the old man follow my fingers.
If you were really capable, you could coax the eldest lady to follow your lead."
As Jia Lian expected, Wang Xifeng immediately became eager to win:
"Bah! I thought it was a big deal, look at how proud you are.
I'm not boasting. Although I don't look down on the eldest lady as a person and have less contact with her, I'm pretty good at being polite and face-conscious. Ever since I married into this family, I haven't spoken back to her at all.
She.
It's just that she's a left-wing person, and she's also very petty. When we meet, she just plans to make money, but she also has to do it so badly that she doesn't deserve to be admired.
Humph, I don’t care about coaxing her. If I want to coax her around, just a few words from me will be enough. What’s the big deal?”
Jia Lian pouted:
"Don't blame me for not telling you. The eldest lady will come tomorrow, but it was ordered by the eldest master.
You also know how the eldest lady is. As long as it is what the eldest master wants, she will do her best. Don’t be unable to accept the eldest lady’s tricks.”
"Shit! What good fortune can she have? Is there any tricks that I can't catch? Look, there's no one who can't be coaxed by me!"
Jia Lian had only two words in his mind: Haha.
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The next day was a perfect sunny day.
Early in the morning, just after dawn, a large group of magpies landed on the big persimmon tree in Jia Lian's courtyard, chirping non-stop.
Jia Lian got up early and took the time to go to the Yamen.
After such a long time, fortunately, his subordinates were still working hard, especially Tong Zhiji and Hui, who were thorough and steady in their work, so there was no problem. It was just that there was a backlog of things and we had to wait for Jia Lian to come back to make a decision.
Jia Lian picked two or three important items to deal with first, and hurried back to Rongguo Mansion. It was almost noon.
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Thinking of the excitement ahead and the inconvenience of wearing official uniforms, Jia Lian entered the Jia Mansion through the corner door and hurried back to his room to change into homely clothes.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw Sister Feng on the kang holding her eldest sister in tears, while Ping'er was trying to persuade her.
Jia Lian hurriedly asked what happened, and Sister Feng wiped her tears and said:
"Bah! You still have the nerve to say it? It's so hard for you to hide it from me.
"Just now the old lady came here with the eldest wife and my wife, saying that today she would give the eldest sister a good bath.
He also said that even the palace’s minister, Mr. Dai, was here, and he was chatting with him outside.
There were opera singers and opera performers outside, and there were also men and women telling stories. It was so lively.
The old lady was afraid that I would be bored, so she would ask the opera singer to come to my yard to sing later.
If I had known that today would be so beautiful, why would I have been so miserable last night that I couldn't sleep for most of the night?"
As he talked, his tears turned into laughter again,
"The eldest lady came early in the morning and almost caught me off guard.
She gave the eldest sister such a large red gold necklace. Although the workmanship is not exquisite, it is very heavy. I have never seen the eldest lady be so generous. It is unprecedented.
Fortunately, I was smart and asked Ping'er to quickly bring out the two pieces of fine Yunjin that my second uncle brought me last time.
I said: 'This high-grade gold and silver embossed tapestry silk brocade is extremely rare. Jiangnan Weaving only gave my second uncle four pieces. Since it was my birthday, my uncle gave them to me.
On the birthday of the old lady in front of me, I gave her two crimson and purple horses. These two pine-green horses with flowers are only worthy of my wife.’
After hearing this, the eldest lady immediately smiled from ear to ear.
When I saw it, I decided to do my best to show my favor, and got a pair of gold bracelets with beads and twisted silk, and asked her to bring them to the second sister, and said a few words of love to the second sister.
The eldest wife was so happy that she couldn't sit still and kept calling her "my son", which was extremely disgusting."
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When the four pieces of brocade were delivered, Jia Lian happened to see them. They were indeed rare and good things.
Mrs. Xing must be very happy today.
Not only because she got the fine Yun brocade offered to the palace, but also because Wang Xifeng's words, "Other than the old lady, only the madam is qualified to use it" gave her the feeling of finally overpowering Mrs. Wang.
Come to think of it, if Mrs. Wang hadn't been so unfeeling towards Wang Xifeng, Wang Xifeng would definitely have given these two pieces of brocade to Mrs. Wang as a filial piety.
With Jia Lian behind the scenes, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Xing and Wang Xifeng, is obviously much closer than before.
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Jia Lian had to take care of the outside and couldn't stay in the room for too long. He praised Wang Xifeng a few words, then quickly changed his clothes and rushed forward.
Just walking through the flower hall, I could already faintly hear the sound of singing pipes in my ears, and the banquet at noon was already ready. Entering the hall, I saw not only Jia She, but also Jia Zheng came out to entertain Dai Quan.
When Dai Quan saw Jia Lian, he happily clapped his hands and called Jia Lian over. Just as Jia Lian sat down, he suddenly heard someone coming from outside to report:
"The third master and third wife of the Wang family have arrived."