The Maid's Strategy in the Red Chamber

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Seeing this scene, no matter how stupid Xueyan was, she understood that this woman was obviously relying on her, but she didn't know how she got into the yard where she lived and stole the handkerchief.

Mrs. Xing glanced at the handkerchief in the other party's hand, and sneered without changing her face: "What a joke, there are eighty if not a hundred handkerchiefs like this, and it's common for maids to lose them accidentally. You dare to touch porcelain with only a piece of handkerchief, it seems that I have treated you too much on weekdays!"

This is different from what Jia Mao's family thought. When encountering such a thing, shouldn't the head wife handle it in a low-key manner for the sake of the family's reputation?Maybe a dowry of 800 taels is required to stop her mouth, but Mrs. Xing doesn't seem to have such thoughts at all.Although she was a little nervous, but for the future of the family, she still endured the fear in her heart and said: "Ma'am, what are you talking about? I can't just talk nonsense for no reason. This handkerchief was really given to my son by Xue Yan." of…"

"Give it to your son? Then tell me, when did the two of them meet? How and where did you send it?" Xing asked with her eyes wide open.

Jia Mao's family murmured, "I... naturally met in her yard..."

"Fart!" Mrs. Xing slapped the table heavily: "The women and servants who guard our yard are all dead? Let alone a big man, even if you are a female family member, there will be at least two or three people staring at you. In this backyard, no one has the ability to avoid my eyeliner and spend the night before and after the moon! You are saying that not only is my command not strict, but also the inner curtain is chaotic, what kind of heart do you want?"

Jia Mao's family has never seen her get angry, and she didn't dare to speak at the moment. Xing sneered: "You rascals who are rogue and black-hearted, you often get food and clothing from my house on weekdays, even if you have a dog. Do you know how to look after the house? Those things for you have earned a bunch of wolf-hearted things! Don’t think that I don’t know what you people are planning? Isn’t it just to see that our maids are good-looking and skilled? If you can't get what you want, you will come to Yin, pick up a handkerchief and come to touch porcelain, don't you just think that our family is easy to talk to, and you won't let you make trouble for the sake of fame. Pay a dowry of 800 taels?"

The words went straight to the heart of Jia Mao's family: God, that's what I thought.

"Hmph, tell you, this is a dream!" Mrs. Xing blocked her thoughts with a single sentence.

"I have evidence for this." Jia Mao's family raised the handkerchief in his hand.

With just one look from Xing, several women came in from outside the door, held down their masters and servants respectively, and then Xiaohong went over and snatched the handkerchief from her hand.Knowing that Xueyan had been watching in the tea room, she handed it to her directly.

Xueyan took the handkerchief, and said with a sneer, "I don't know what has taken it, I don't want it anyway." After speaking, she threw it into the boiling water stove.

The handkerchief fell into the small red clay stove that was originally very calm, and with a "huteng", flames more than ten centimeters high shot up in an instant, and turned into ashes after a while.

Xueyan walked out of the tea room with a sneer: "Thank you, Grandma Mao, for treating me like a slave and giving me such a 'face'.

The standard is too high, I can't bear it, you'd better go out and find someone else.This time, it's bad luck for a servant, but if there is any gossip that is not good for me in the future, I will fight your family to the death even if I risk my life. "

Jia Mao's daughter-in-law was so frightened by her stare, she was about to say a few cruel words to get back on the stage, when she heard Mrs. Xing interject: "Did you hear that? It's not just Xueyan, if any maid in our house is rumored What a bad reputation, your family should not stay in Jinling anymore. You only think about how generous your ancestors were to others in the past few years, but you forgot how our Jia family ancestors got their military exploits? , if you insist on seeing the killing decision of our ancestors, then I have no choice but to accompany you to the end."

"Don't dare, don't dare anymore." Jia Mao's family was terrified this time, and begged for mercy: "I was just confused for a while, and it was really because of the difficult marriage of the boy in the family that I made such a bad decision. Don’t dare anymore.” If their family really offends the Rongguo Mansion, the patriarch of Jinling will not turn to them, but will only add insult to injury.So she was just talking loudly. Looking at the thick woman who trapped her master and servant, she knew that those tricks of crying, making trouble, and hanging herself would not work here, and now she could only admit her mistake and beg for mercy.

She said it nicely, but Mrs. Xing didn't intend to let her off so easily, and asked the mother-in-law to lock them up in an empty house first.Then someone called Jia Lian over, narrated the matter, and then looked at Jia Lian and said, "Although they only want to deal with the maids at home this time, once such a flame is ignited, the next time it's not sure that it will be the lady or even the maid. It's the grandmas. Fortunately, this woman has little knowledge and no schemes, and she does things rough. If someone else is scheming, our family will be peeled off if we don't die. If something happens, it's not just the maids at home, but you It will be difficult for my younger sisters to say goodbye in the future."

Jia Lian hurriedly said: "Yes, my son also felt angry when he heard this. These bastards dare to hit our idea on our head. Damn it!" Thinking about the maid next to the sisters, this Jia Cang is so courageous!

Xing said: "Jia Cang's mother is a womanizer after all, we can't really do anything to her, we just lock her up for a few hours and starve her twice."

.But that kid Jia Cang, you can't let him go easily.You have always done things well, so I will leave this matter to you. You must be severely punished, but you can't make too much noise, so as not to implicate your family's reputation.Don't spread the words of maids and handkerchiefs, and don't forget, there is still a future third-rank imperial order living behind the house! "

It was only then that Jia Lian realized that if Jia Cang's mother and son really ruined Xueyan's reputation, they would probably offend their uncle severely.Thinking of this, he trembled in his heart: Yes, my son knows what to do.

Although Jia Lian is not very talented in reading, he is still very skillful in these things.Turning around, he taught Jia Cang a harsh lesson, which not only dispelled his alluring thoughts, but made him want to take a detour when he saw the old house in the future.

And Jia Cang's mother was also detained by Xing in the small house for most of the day. Not only was she not given food or drink, she was not even allowed to go to the toilet.After all, Jia Mao's daughter-in-law was still acting like a mistress, unwilling to lose points in front of the servants, holding back her urine and dismantling the bomb without turning over.

In the eyes of others, both mother and son have learned their lesson, and this matter is over.But Xueyan still held a deep breath in her heart: If people don't offend me, I won't offend them; if people offend me, I will never forgive them!

So, she avoided people and found Jia Lian's servant Xing'er.