The Honest Man of the Red Chamber

"Come here, too, and choose a fabric you like." Wang Guizhi beckoned to Jia Zhu. She deliberately asked Yuan Chun to pass on the message, but let him touch the ashes on the nose, which was a bit apologetic.

Although Jia Zhu felt that she was useless in life, she didn't want to disturb her mother's interest, so she put aside those personnel matters for the time being, and picked up all kinds of materials with crescent moon yellow swastikas with continuous patterns.

Wang Guizhi nodded, and told Caixia, "Remember, make one of these materials for Master Zhu and Grandma Zhu, and when the time comes to wear them together, I will show the old lady to have a look."

"Yes, ma'am." Caixia smiled.

"I'll do the same thing as the eldest girl, okay?" Wang Guizhi picked up two colors of peach red and dark red materials, "you and Caiyun will also make a body with the remaining materials, and take this piece of plain gauze, Cut them into handkerchiefs, one piece for each person in my house." She looked at Li Wan again, "Is the roster finished?"

"Return to Ma'am, it's all marked up." Li Wan hurriedly replied.

Wang Guizhi thought that Wang's family often received some western ships, especially the cotton cloth "robbed" by the Netherlands from Great Britain. People in the Wang family looked down on such cloth, but they have seen it anyway. Silver is always accompanied by some high-end goods as a gift. It doesn't look very good, but in fact it is fine and long, and when it is dyed, it is the best to be used as a reward.

It's just that Wang Ziteng was the envoy of the Beijing camp, a figure with military power and a large number of soldiers, so it was not convenient for the Wang family to deal with foreign envoys, and gradually faded away.As soon as he touched the cloth, Wang Guizhi remembered the fold.

Wang Ziteng was afraid that it would be inconvenient for the emperor to be suspicious, but Wang Guizhi felt that instead of taking advantage of his power to bully the people, get some unscrupulous lawsuits, and tarnish his official reputation, it would be better to get some merchant ships to do business. Money is fast and right.Everyone has money to earn, food in their stomachs and money in their hands, isn't it just right?At this time, the emperor has not changed, and the Wang family and the Jia family all have the merits of taking over. They don’t make more money.

Of course, the Wang family is not short of money at this time, otherwise Sister Feng would not be superior to Jia Lian in the future, saying that - just sweep the cracks of our Wang family, it will be enough for you to talk for a lifetime.

"When we go back, you will reward me according to the number of people on the roster and their seniority." Wang Guizhi planned to give it a try and see how the people in Jia's mansion and her servants would react. .You can't become a big fat man with one bite, and the interests of all aspects cannot be easily cut with a single knife.With the situation in this world like this, she had no choice but to take it easy.

Li Wan smiled and agreed, the mother-in-law sent a reward, which was easy and decent.

Caiyun Caixia led the girls to make fun of them and squatted down to thank them.

"Okay, after all, it's up to you to do it yourself. You can serve snacks. Take it down and do it. I'll talk to the children later." Wang Guizhi asked them to go busy with their needlework. The current servants of Jia's mansion, Either the family has a child, or the person who bought it when they picked up the car, and they have children when they are older; there are also family members brought by the wives and grandmas themselves, who have not yet bought people outside.

Some of them are old faces of several lifetimes. They are like the aerial roots of old trees in Jia's house. They have taken root, and they have gradually become seedlings.If you want to move these people, either you have the power of thunder and can cut them cleanly, or you can move them out and let them develop otherwise.

According to Wang Guizhi's understanding, no matter how the family has children in Jia's mansion, that is, those who come to Jia's mansion to work, when it comes to kindness and dignity, it is for the greater good.

I don’t know there is a saying, isn’t it a good boss who doesn’t raise money with employees?

Naturally, there are some bad people among these people, just like the Jia family, not all of them are as prosperous as the Ningrong and Rongfu, but what can Mrs. Wang do?

She is also just a madam, and at this time when her husband is the sky, she is much better than those maids who can't help themselves, but there is no way to drive out people who you don't like casually. The government's ability.

There is only division and differentiation, and separate management.

Therefore, as soon as Wang Guizhi noticed that something was wrong with Wang Yao, he used Jia Zhu's strict investigation as an excuse to use Wang Yao as a target to subdue his accompanying family members. ring training.

Seeing that there were no outsiders in the room, Yuan Chun excitedly said, "Brother, what's the matter, have you caught those scoundrels?"

Jia Zhu was rather frustrated, "I'm sorry, sister, mother, except for Wang Yao's family who you told me hid taxes and collected land rent secretly, I didn't find out at all. They seemed to be all It’s all very innocent.” But how is that possible?When he thought that these people under his mother's hands were so cunning, and that his mother would use them in the future, he was angry with himself, why he didn't find any evidence, and he was fooled by them all at once.

It was only now that Li Wan knew what he was going out to do. Hearing what he said was not done well, she couldn't help but feel sorry for him. She was about to speak out to persuade her, but Wang Guizhi held her down.

"Why do you think you failed?"

What a joke, it is natural for a daughter-in-law to feel sorry for her son, but people grow up through bumps and bumps, and failure is the mother of success. Before summing up the lessons and learning something, she started to love her son, so why would she let Jia Pearl to make such a trip?

Jia Zhu pondered, "It should be that the news leaked out. The messages between their slaves are clearer than our masters. My mother specially asked my sister to tell me, but I didn't want to startle the snake, but apart from Wang Yao, the main accuser, other people But it's clean."

"They're all clean, isn't it good?" Wang Guizhi felt that he could see that the people under him were not simple, especially if he would fool the master in various ways for his own benefit, he already had some ideas.

Yuan Chun was too young, so Li Wan understood a little bit, but he didn't know why the wife wanted to let the uncle and a brother know about this?In the future, he wants to study and become an official. Wouldn't it be enough for them to take care of these common affairs?

Jia Zhu blushed, "Mother, don't laugh at me. Wang Yao is just one of your companions. He even dared to hide the rent of [-] acres of land in private. Some villagers respectfully called him Uncle Wang. Others How could it be possible for the housekeeper not to follow the trend, how could it be like what they said, except for some profit-making shops, there is no money at all." He also thought of what his mother told him about money, it was ten million can not do without.Only then did he really know that even if he asked someone a word, if you didn't give him some money, he might not hear a few words.

The honest-looking old farmer can lead you into the ditch.

If it weren't for the boys around me who followed closely, and there was a family who had experienced some hardships and knew how to tell the direction, I'm afraid they wouldn't even know how to go...

Faced with the women's loud and forceful words, he knew the truth in the book, but he couldn't remember the slightest while riding on the horse.

Wang Guizhi nodded and said with a smile, "Now that you understand, let's see how I deal with them, okay?"

"Well, I would like to ask my mother to give me advice." Jia Zhu stood up and said respectfully.

"Don't underestimate them. You must know that the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in an ant's nest. You see the big from the small, and you know the small from the small."

Jia Zhu felt more reasonable after listening, "What mother said is absolutely true."

Besides, Wang Guizhi has no more words, so it's not too bad to ask her to tell a story. She has met many people and encountered many things in her life, but it would be difficult if she made her wordless, after all, she has been honest all her life. Lots of time to do things.

"Come on, you all take out your pen and ink, I have a letter for you to write." Half of Wang Guizhi's goal was achieved, so she stopped entanglement, talking too much and annoying people, although she didn't want to be an honest person, she also I can't make long speeches, I can't speak very well, and I can't be as slick as Sister Feng.

Jia Zhuqi asked, "Mom, we all have to write?"

"Yes. As for you, write a letter to your uncle, first say hello to the whole family, and then tell him that I have discovered that a servant has privately occupied the land rent. I heard that my sister-in-law is pregnant again. I have some problems here. Send the best bird’s nest to her. If I’m free, I’d like to visit. In addition, I’d like to buy those white cloths at home with silver, so I’ll ask if it’s okay.” Wang Guizhi said, “That’s how it is, you Choose your own words. After finishing writing, write a letter to your uncle and say hello to them, saying that the old lady misses your aunt very much. The Jia family also has a shipyard in Yangzhou. It is very easy to get a boat back to Beijing. If it is convenient, why not? I can come to our house for a reunion." She smiled, "Your uncle is a Jinshi Tanhua, and his knowledge is excellent. If there is anything you don't understand, you can contact him more in the future."

His mother really thought of everything for him, Jia Zhu responded happily, and immediately sat down to polish the ink.

Yuan Chun also carefully selected a pen, and after seeing his mother give instructions to his brother, he hurriedly asked, "What about me?"

"My eldest girl, you have to write a letter to your aunt." Wang Guizhi lovingly touched the little girl's face, seeing her like this, how could she be willing to let her enter the palace to live the dark days.