The Heavens Begin with Dream of the Red Chamber

Chapter 25: Sister Feng's Attack

Mrs. Wang, on the other hand, has been suffering from the increasing expenses at home and the decreasing income in recent years. She is gradually facing a situation where her income is not enough to cover her expenses, and she is often worried.

Fortunately, her younger sister came to live with her family recently and scattered gold and silver everywhere in the house. While making her happy, she also found a way to increase income for the family.

As the elder sister, she was too embarrassed to ask for money directly, so she often talked about the family's difficulties when chatting with her younger sister.

According to her thinking, since her younger sister's family is so rich, why not give some money to help her elder sister's family?
But I don't know whether the younger sister didn't understand or what she was thinking. She was always generous when rewarding the servants, but became stingy when it came to her elder sister. In all these days, except for the time when she just entered the mansion, she had never once shown filial piety to her elder sister.

Later, Mrs. Wang could not hold back any longer, so she mentioned it to Feng Yatou, hoping to use her to ask for money.

Wang Xifeng was originally the housekeeper. Seeing that her elder aunt had hinted at it, she naturally wanted to make some money from her younger aunt, so she often went to Lixiangyuan.

She was reluctant to speak up at first, but after spending a long time with Baochai in Lixiang Courtyard, she liked this sister who was calm, steady and peaceful, more and more, and suddenly an idea came to her.

Xue Pan, however, is a good-for-nothing. He follows Zhan Niansi around all day long and allows himself to be bullied by him. But recently, he has become friends with Master Bao.

If Baochai, the younger sister, is married home, then the Xue family's immense wealth will also come in.

At worst, I can marry my younger sister to Xue Pan, to strengthen the relationship between them!
After having this idea, she quietly went to find her aunt, Lady Wang, and got her tacit approval. Then she began to think of ways to ruin this marriage.

Sister Feng didn't think it was difficult to ask Mr. Zhan to cancel the engagement.

A mere local gentry is nothing in a place like the capital!
It's just asking him to break off the engagement, which is not a life-threatening matter. At worst, I can introduce a few daughters of officials to him.

There are a lot of poor people among the officials in the capital, and there must be some who are willing to marry a rich businessman. If you count it this way, he is still marrying up!
She has been in charge of the family for many years now, and has seen many ugly things that people do in order to climb up the social ladder.

For example, there was a man named Jia Yucun, who, in order to curry favor with the Zhen family, made his concubine, who was born a maid, his legal wife, and even abandoned the dignity of a scholar.

Later, after being dismissed from office, although he had no connection with the Jia family at all, he relied on the slight connection with Lin girl's father to cling to the family and pretended to be a distant relative.

What is it for?

Isn't it for the sake of letting the Jia family give him a boost and allowing him to be reinstated?
This is still considered good. After all, Jia Yucun came from a formal imperial examination system and still has some respect for the reputation of a scholar.

For example, the master's disciple, the judge named Fu Shi, in order to climb up the social ladder, delayed the marriage of his own sister Fu Qiufang!
Fengjie had also seen Fu Qiufang, a girl of both talent and beauty, a very elegant lady. It was a pity that she was almost twenty years old now and had not yet been betrothed. It seemed that she would never have any good marriage in this life.

Fu Shi repeatedly asked Fu Qiufang to run to the Jia Mansion. Who couldn't understand his little tricks?

I am afraid that if any young man in the mansion is interested in her, even if it is the illegitimate brother Huan, he can take this kind-hearted girl into his room with just a wave of his hand.

If it were a few years earlier, this girl might have been able to marry a man of equal status and become the principal wife, but now she is in her twenties. If she is unwilling to marry a man of lower status, she can only be a concubine.

This good girl has ended up in such a situation, all because of her brother who is obsessed with money and wealth and only cares about currying favor with the powerful!
She had seen many of these men's ugly behaviors with their heads full of scheming, and she believed that as long as she lured them with benefits and threatened them with power, Mr. Zhan would definitely withdraw obediently.

Even though he is a small local gentry, he would not dare to cause trouble in Rongguo Mansion!

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