The Maid's Strategy in the Red Chamber

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The so-called concern leads to chaos, in fact, it was a very simple truth, but because Xueyan was too worried about Lin Ming, she didn't think of it for a while.

They thought that their master and servant would stay at Jia's house for a few days, but the next day, Mrs. Liu brought her servants to pick up Daiyu.

Now Mrs. Liu is also the goddaughter of Jia's family. After coming here, she naturally wants to meet Jia's mother first.Jia Mu smiled and said, "When I first met you, I felt that I had eyes for you, didn't I? Now we really have become a family."

After a while, Wang Xifeng came in coquettishly with a thick gift list, and replied to Jia Mu: "The old lady doesn't know, Aunt Liu is so polite, she brought two carts full of presents." .”

While talking, she handed the gift list to Mother Jia, and Mother Jia looked at the gift list and said to Liu Shi with a smile: "You are too honest, since you have become a family, why should you be so polite!"

Mrs. Liu said with a smile: "Today is the first time I come back after I get married, so it's a homecoming ceremony. The old lady can't think my things are thin when I come back next time."

Mother Jia chuckled: "I won such a good girl for nothing. Don't say that you came with something, even if you come to beat your sister-in-law and nephew with empty hands, I will welcome it with both hands. Who made her woman rich now?" It's over."

"Hey, I managed to earn a few coins this time, and the old lady is thinking about it. No wonder she has been dragging me around every day for the past few days. It turns out that I have already set my purse idea." Xing Laughing and making fun of it.

After talking and joking for a while, Mother Jia asked the girls in the family to come over and visit Mrs. Liu again.Naturally, Mrs. Liu had prepared a long time ago, and prepared a meeting gift according to each person's status.

Mrs. Liu proposed to take Daiyu home, but Mother Jia was a little unhappy: "She only came to stay for one night, and you rushed to pick her up. I thought you really came to see me, an old woman."

"It's true to see the old lady, and it's also true to pick up Sister Yu. It's just a coincidence that I rushed together. It's not that I don't want her to stay here for a longer time, but I just came home yesterday and received a lot of money." Prayer, there are still some classmates and old friends of the master who need to visit, and Yu'er is not young, she must learn to go out to socialize." Liu Shi said slowly, her voice was not heavy, but her tone was very firm.

Jia's mother was a little displeased, she was always thinking carefully, and wanted to put the two jade children together.At the beginning, when her daughter had just left, she wrote to her son-in-law about it, and the son-in-law's reply was obviously moved.It's just that I don't know why later, but I never mentioned it again.A few days ago, when he came back to Beijing to pay his respects, he made insinuations about this matter, but his son-in-law refused because of their disagreement.What is temperament disagreement?It's not that the two children get along less, she is about to stay Daiyu for a few more days so that the two Yu'er can be more intimate, how can she let her go home so easily.

Seeing the stalemate between the two, Mrs. Xing smiled and mediated: "Sister Liu also has her difficulties, the old lady should be more considerate. She has only been a stepmother for a few days. If she goes out to socialize, she won't bring Yu'er What will others think when they see it? They will definitely not think that the old lady loves her granddaughter and refuses to let her go. Instead, they will say that Sister Liu has treated her original daughter badly, and sending her back to her mother's house will not be nosy. When the time comes, Sister Liu How do you deal with yourself?"

Mrs. Liu hurriedly responded: "That's the reason, it's because my sister-in-law knows my suffering. Originally, because Yu'er didn't come home yesterday, the master is already a little dissatisfied. These days, the family will inevitably welcome and send you off. If Yu'er doesn't show up, I really don't know how to explain it!"

Speaking of this, it would be unreasonable for Mother Jia not to let him go.She promised Xing's to recognize Liu as her goddaughter in order to maintain the close relationship between the two families, but now it seems that the loss outweighs the gain if she breaks the original harmony for a small matter.In desperation, Mother Jia had no choice but to compromise, but told Liu Shi: "When the work is over for a while, we must send Yu'er to stay for a few more days."

"That's for sure. It's okay if the old lady doesn't want it." Liu said with a smile.

After all, Mother Jia kept them for lunch before letting them go back.

Coincidentally, not long after going back, before Xueyan and the others had time to put the salutes in order, the eunuch came to the palace to announce the decree.

The whole family, big and small, hurried to the front yard to receive the order.

This time it was a happy event, because of Lin Ruhai's contribution, the Liu family was conferred the imperial order of the second rank, and the palace also rewarded a lot of palace satin and some jewelry.

Xueyan knelt in the crowd, and quietly raised her eyes to see the imperial gifts, there were only a few pieces of jewelry, but a lot of silk and satin.She couldn't help muttering in her heart: This emperor is really good at saving money, and he only uses these worthless gadgets to fool people...