[Red House] Lixian

To persuade a person, in addition to presenting facts and reasoning, you can also play the cards of emotion and strength.

Wei Qian is young, how many people are willing to listen carefully to what she says?Play the emotional card?According to Father Wei's personality and patriarchal attitude, he might not give her this chance.

Furthermore, in the eyes of outsiders, this marriage is indeed beneficial to the Wei Mansion, and it is also a good husband to Wei Qian.Wei Qian was the only one who voiced objection.

Those who eat the Weifu, those who wear the Weifu, still want to play the young lady's temper?

Wei Qian is not stupid, she knows that she is not qualified.At present, she does not have the strength to decide her own marriage.Not only her, but also the princesses in the Daming Palace can hardly control their own destiny.Much of their training is for this marriage after adulthood.

It's just that Wei Qian was even more unlucky, and got married when she was seven years old.In the future, when you go out for a walk, you need to be more cautious when doing things under the label of the Huangfu.

"Strength!" Wei Qian helped Jia Mei choose the golden lock, and after showing her attitude in front of everyone, she returned to the room to meditate.After Hongchun sent Wang Xifeng away, she stood outside the door, pacing back and forth, worried about Wei Qian's situation.

But Wei Qian understood better than she thought.In today's society, men occupy a dominant position, and if they want to dominate their own destiny, they have to find another way.

Women can't be officials and appearances, so if you want to cultivate Taoism and become immortal without relying on men, that's the only way to control your destiny.

Concentrate your thoughts, try to empty your mind of distracting thoughts, and start to visualize the bright moon.

Xuanyun explained to Wei Qian the taboos of visualization. When visualizing the picture of inviting the moon, the most taboo thing is distracting thoughts.If the mood is unstable and distracting thoughts arise, you must not visualize alone.

There is still Xuanyun protector in the Doulao Temple, but Wei Qian is the only one in the Wei Mansion.

So, try not to think about it, try to let go of your mind, and it took a long time to finally find the feeling of yesterday.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, the silver moon rises high, the fairy dances, and wisps of aura melt from the sky into the limbs.It's just that compared to last night's visualization, daytime visualization is far less effective than last night's.

"Is it because I don't see Yuehua, or is it because I visualized alone without the help of Senior Sister Xuanyun?" I couldn't figure it out, so I had to put it aside: "It's better to experiment at night."

However, there is a huge difficulty in collecting moonlight at night.

people!

Leaning against the head of the bed, looking at the door, the girl frowned tightly: following the red toon and boxwood all day long, there is no way to hide the matter of meditating and practicing qi.

"Father doesn't even let me read the Four Books and Five Classics, and makes me study "Female Precepts" and "Female Virtue" every day. If he knew what kind of qi refining technique I was practicing, I'm afraid he would have beaten me down with a single blow." Wei Qian thought As for the strategy of turning around, I immediately had an idea.

"Chun'er, come in!" Raising his voice, he called Hong Chun: "Come and have dinner with my mother at noon."

There are currently only four serious masters of the Wei Mansion. Mrs. Wei has been in poor health for these years, and has been shooting fires in the backyard all year round.Wei Yan and his colleagues were out drinking, and they often didn't see anyone at noon.And Wei Qian and Jia Mei also divided their fires. Except for dinner parties, they seldom eat together on weekdays.

Hong Chun guarded the door for a long time, and was overjoyed to see Wei Qian finally spoke.Push open the door and come in: "Miss, have you figured it out?"

Wei Qian smiled, took Hong Chun's hand to find Jia Mei.

Huang Yang happened to come back from making tea, and seeing Wei Qian and Hong Chun leaving, he quickly prepared Wei Qian's chopsticks and other things, and followed them to Jia Mei's main courtyard.

After Wei Yan came back to discuss with Jia Mei, he went out to drink with his colleagues at noon.Jia Mei took care of the household affairs for a while, and it was time for lunch.

Seeing Wei Qian approaching, Jia Mei hurriedly said to Dai Lan beside her, "Miss is here, let the kitchen prepare a few more dishes."

"No need." Wei Qian sat next to Jia Mei: "Daughter, these few dishes are enough."

Jia Mei was born in a duke's mansion. Although she came from a concubine's room, she never lacked in fine clothes and food since she was a child.She was particular about food, and she ordered four dishes and one soup, three condiments and two dishes of snacks for her alone.

Although Wei Qian has been in this world for seven years, she is still not used to this luxury.With a glance, the dishes on the table were clearly seen.

There is a pot of simmered chicken soup with green bamboo shoots in the middle, and there are four dishes on the side: five-spice drunk goose, fried pork with wild rice stems, hibiscus tofu, fried eggplant with duck feet, and three side dishes: salty pickled white melon, sweet ginger in red sauce, and oil-dried tofu. vegetable.

On the other table, there are prepared flower sugar chestnut cakes and lotus seed taro balls.

"How can this dish be enough?" Jia Mei greeted Dai Lan: "Go to the kitchen and ask them to steam a few more stewed eggs and fry two side dishes. By the way, Qian'er doesn't like meat, so I prepare two Light vegetarian dishes."

"Yes." Dai Lan went down to prepare, Huang Yang put down Wei Qian's special chopsticks, and Hong Chun filled a whole bowl of stalked rice in a porcelain bowl with fine flowers.

Bai Jingjing's rice was steaming, and Hong Chun beside her was already filled with soup.The new green bamboo shoots are simmering with the young pheasants that are several months old, which has a special taste.

Wei Qian sat upright, without looking sideways, showing everyone's ladylike demeanor, Jia Mei couldn't help nodding when she saw it.

"Standing, sitting, walking, and sleeping can best tell a person's etiquette cultivation, and Qian'er is not in vain for my painstaking teaching for many years."

The birth of nobility is not only about money and land, but the etiquette and style are the most important.

Now that the dynasty has been in existence for a hundred years, the Jia Mansion and the Wei Mansion are only enshrined after the Taizu conquered the world.In the eyes of those aristocratic families, they were nothing more than upstarts.

Three generations are not called nobles.

The ancestors of the Jia family were also considered shrewd, and they attached great importance to the upbringing of their offspring.Men marry at the bottom and women marry at the top. Jia's mansion is the home of bells and lanterns, and the in-laws of the daughters of Jia's mansion are mostly princes and nobles.

Otherwise, why would someone say: If you want revenge, the best way is to give birth to a daughter, and then intentionally teach her to be bad, marry into an enemy's family and harm her family.

Jia Mei's grandmother was born as a daughter of an aristocratic family, and she deeply understands that what Jia's family lacks most is heritage.Strictly educate Jia Mei and other daughters' families in order to increase their social status when they marry in the future.

It's a pity that grandmother left too early, Jia Shi's marriage was arranged by Jia Mei, and she married Wei Yan, a disciple of a nobleman whose family fortune had fallen.It was a waste of my grandmother's painstaking efforts.

"Otherwise, according to my grandmother's teaching back then, even if she is a stable uncle, she should be the wife." Jia Mei thought of Jia Shishi's deeds back then, and her heart filled with hatred. "She only cares about her own daughter, Jia Min, and always treats our three daughters with contempt. If it wasn't for Wei Yan's respect, I'm afraid it's what she meant!"

Jia Mei married into the Wei Mansion by herself, and spent many years bowing her head and brows in front of Mrs. Wei, until Wei Qian was born and finally made her way.But the upbringing things learned by Jia's mansion can't be used in Wei's mansion.

Wei Yan is just a rough guy, how can he know so much.If it wasn't for Jia Mei's strong request, Wei Yan might not even let Wei Qian learn how to read, just like Wang Xifeng.It is euphemistically called "a woman who has no talent is a virtue".

Flying thoughts in her mind, Jia Mei maintained the grace of the head of the house, and said to Wei Qian: "You have learned etiquette well. After all, you have the blood of our Jia family. Our daughters are never poorer than men."

Wei Qian nodded and served Jia Mei with dishes.

Seeing Wei Qian's posture of holding vegetables, Jia Mei shook her head: "The basic skills are still good, but this will show up immediately after eating." Picking up a small wooden mallet from the side, she straightened Wei Qian's posture of picking vegetables.

"Giving food to the elders is also a matter of knowledge. In order to be able to watch, listen, act, and stop, you also need to touch the elders' minds and think about what the elders want to eat in advance. Hold your hands high and show humility to the elders."

Wei Qian was obedient and taught, and carefully picked up a piece of eggplant for Jia Mei.

Jia Mei immediately said again: "There is another knowledge among the pickled vegetables. Things with thorns and bones should not move as much as possible. If the elders choke, it is your fault. If the greasy things fall on the body, You too will suffer."

Suddenly, Jia Mei stopped and sighed: "Forget it, it's useless to tell you these things. This is the rule of young women of those princes. If you marry the Huang family in the future, you will follow the customs of the Huang family, so you don't pay attention to it." These things. You just need to show some respect to your elders, and pay more attention to Huang Bao."

"There is another way for the same generation to judge the degree of intimacy. If it is between a husband and wife, in order to show intimacy, the behavior and words and deeds should be closer to each other. But in front of outsiders, there is one way, and the husband and wife themselves have another way. Keeping your wife's manners can't be too obsequious. When husband and wife are alone, they can act more small."

Wei Qian couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart.The reason why she didn't want to eat with Jia Mei was because she was afraid of Jia Mei's nagging.In her previous life, she boasted that she was very particular about dining, and she was often called a gentleman, but she was full of mistakes in front of Jia Mei.

"It's also fortunate that it was worn from a young age. If it was really worn halfway, I'm afraid it will be exposed in three days. When the time comes, take it to those Buddhist masters, and it will be treated as a ghost immediately."

The meal was eaten carefully, and Jia Mei didn't let Wei Qian go until Dailan brought three stewed eggs: "I taught you how to peel eggs, try it."

Clear marinated eggs, the top of the raw egg is opened, the yellow is removed and the clear is left, poured with chicken broth and marinated, stirred, then topped with ham and steamed again.It is still in the shape of an egg when done.

Wei Qian sighed and picked up a marinated egg, which was still warm.The slightly raised jade fingers tapped carefully, then stretched out two fingers and slowly pushed aside.

"That's right. Peeling an egg is a test of your finger skills, and it's also a test of a woman's softness and elegance. If you peel the eggshell stupidly, or peel the egg white into pieces, it will be disrespectful on certain occasions."

Wei Qian didn't speak, and silently peeled off the egg shell, but it seemed that something went wrong when steaming the egg, and some egg whites at the bottom stuck to the shell and were torn off.

Wei Qian quickly held the part of the eggshell in the palm of her hand, put the marinated egg on a plate and handed it to Jia Mei: "Mother, please use it."

From the appearance of the whole marinated egg, the surface is smooth without any cracks.

Jia Mei lightly moved the chopsticks, saw the part of the egg white that had been torn off at the bottom, frowned, saw Wei Qian closed her palms, and quietly put the egg shells stained with egg white into the handkerchief, Fang said: "The response is not bad. If something goes wrong, you must try to remedy it immediately, and if it doesn’t work, cut an egg. If you peel the egg for the mother-in-law, give the remaining half to the father-in-law, or to the children around you, and don’t leave people a chance to compare.”

This is Jia Mei's personal experience.When she peeled eggs for her grandmother when she was a child, she and Jia Min handed them over at the same time.It turned out that she peeled it better than Jia Min. In contrast, the egg Jia Min peeled was pitted and even stained with other soup and broken eggshells, so my grandmother didn't eat a single bite.And she was praised a few times, but was later targeted by Jia Shishi and suffered a few dark losses.

"Unfortunately, there are only three Huang Baos in the Huang family, but they don't have so many relatives and friends." Wei Qian said quietly.

Jia Mei was startled, but couldn't help but smile bitterly.That's right, she cultivated her own daughter, which was to work towards the direction of being a lady and marrying a prince.Although the Huang family is a scholarly family, it seems that they are not qualified enough to pay attention to these things.

"Forget it, let's learn more, there is no harm."

"Speaking of no harm, my daughter thinks of one thing. The Huang family considers itself a scholarly family. Huang Bao will definitely take the road of scientific research in the future. If her daughter is not good at anything, she will be despised by others."

"That's why I wanted you to learn more as a mother back then, but it's a pity that your father refused to hire you a teacher. I can teach you to read and write with this little knowledge, but if you go further, poetry and songs will not work." Not afraid of gods Enemies, they are afraid of pig-like teammates. When they meet their own, Jia Mei's actions are overturned, and she can only watch helplessly, helplessly.

"My daughter can't learn poems and songs. I just talked about the art of Qin when I was chatting with sister Xuanyun last night. If you learn a skill of Qin and music, it can be regarded as a skill that is not ashamed of your background."

When Jia Mei heard this, her heart moved.You don't need to be proficient in everything in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but at least you have to come up with one, and you will be able to look good when you marry into a scholarly family.

"That's fine, but your father's temper is hard to find a good husband for you."

"Why do you need your father to come forward? In the temple, Senior Sister Xuan Yun is the best at playing the piano, and she was also a generation of masters in the past. I just need to run over there more."

"That's fine, Master Xuan Yun is a woman, so there is no need to worry about the protection of men and women." Jia Mei said to the maid beside her, "Make a note, and prepare a piano for the young lady later. Then prepare some repairs for Master Xuan Yun." gift."

Seeing that Jia Mei agreed, Wei Qian felt happy.As long as you agree to learn the piano, you can go to the Doulao Temple more, and when the time comes, you can also shirk the meditation and meditate as a preparation for studying the way of piano music.

As for why it is similar to Taoist qi refining, it is originally the qin technique passed down by Taoist nuns, so that you can practice meditation in front of everyone.