Wang Xifeng's exclamation attracted the attention of everyone around her, but when they saw that the person standing in front of her was Mr. Xing, everyone felt relieved.

We are all the dearest relatives and friends of Rongguofu. How come we don’t know that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have always disliked each other and are on the same page?

Therefore, everyone thought that the scream was caused by Mrs. Xing taking the opportunity to attack again, so they all looked away. After all, no one wanted to get involved in the fight between the daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law.

Only Baoyu, who had just slipped back from the male guests' table, was startled before she sat down next to Xichun, so she asked curiously: "Sister Feng, what is 'you'? What does this mean?"

?”

Wang Xifeng turned around and glanced at him, and said angrily: "I asked you to eat less wine, but you refused to listen. Now you can't even hear the words clearly. How dare I call my wife 'you'? What I just said was clearly

The word 'is extremely'."

"I haven't had much wine, either?"

Baoyu scratched his head in confusion, he had clearly heard it very clearly just now, how could he have heard it wrong?

But then again, it is indeed unlikely that Sister Feng would address her mother-in-law as "you" in public.

Could it be that I really heard it wrong?

At this time, Tanchun tugged at the corner of his clothes and persuaded with a smile: "Brother, please sit down and have some food so that you can suppress the alcohol."

Seeing Baoyu sit down hesitantly, Wang Xifeng breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was lucky that the three girls were here, otherwise it would be bad if this stupid brother kept asking questions and alerted the chairman.

She turned around, smiled slightly, and said with a respectful attitude: "My daughter-in-law didn't understand what she heard just now, so I would like to ask my wife to step in and give me some advice."

"That's fine."

Mr. Xing nodded slightly with a gloomy and charming face, and then walked towards a secluded corner.

She originally thought Jiao Shun was considerate, but unexpectedly he treated her like a plaything like Jia She. The fault was that all her wealth was in Jiao Shun's hands. Jia She was now suspected of having a heart disease.

I really wish I could break up with him!

but……

The surprised look on Feng Lazi's face just now gave Xing a vague idea that she was just angry and hesitant about whether to follow Jiao Shun's instructions, and didn't bother to think about the reason behind it.

Now that I thought about it carefully, I was suddenly surprised to find that Wang Xifeng was probably having a secret affair with Jiao Shun just like me!

This discovery horrified her, and the resentment in her heart suddenly weakened a lot. Instead, she began to think about the benefits that this matter might bring to herself.

So when they arrived at a quiet place, Mr. Xing couldn't wait to ask: "Are you and that Jiao Shun..."

"Mrs."

Wang Xifeng interrupted her and said with a smile: "Brother Shun asked me to marry Ping'er as my concubine, but he said he wanted to give me a living treasure to compensate for it. I thought it was a cat or a dog, but I didn't want to...

hehe."

Mr. Xing had just thought about it, so Wang Xifeng was thinking a lot.

The 'living treasure' given by Jiao Shun was obviously more important than she had imagined, but although Wang Xifeng hoped to hold her mother-in-law's hand, she did not want her own hand to be held by Xing.

Therefore, I first used this to silence Mrs. Xing. At the same time, I was testing whether Jiao Shun had abided by the agreement and not to tell others about his affairs at will.

Judging from Xing's reaction, Jiao Shun probably didn't say it clearly.

This made Wang Xifeng relax a little. Although Ms. Xing obviously didn't believe her words, as long as she didn't live up to her words, there would always be a way to evade her in the future.

unless……

Wang Xifeng recalled that Jiao Shun once proposed that she should be together with Heping'er, but was rejected by herself. She wondered if this little slave introduced the 'living treasure' to her because he wanted to...

Bah~

I really want to blind him!

Wang Xifeng's words made Mr. Xing a little unsure of his own speculation, but once the seeds of doubt were planted, how could they disappear so easily?

What's more, she also hopes in her heart that Wang Xifeng will be dragged into the water, so that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will return to the same moral level, and she will be more balanced in her own mind.

Now that Wang Xifeng refused to admit it, she subconsciously wanted to press her, but then she thought about it, her daughter-in-law had always been a decisive person, how could she easily change what she had decided?

If he continues to ask questions, he will only completely expose his relationship with Jiao Shun.

Why not learn from others...

"This brother Shun is really unseemly!"

Mr.

"Small business?"

Wang Xifeng's heart moved and she asked tentatively: "But what about the maritime trade business going to the West?"

Ms. Xing nodded slightly, and then asked, "I heard that your Wang family also participated?"

Wang Xifeng used greedy money to do business, so naturally he did not dare to openly use his own banner, so he only told the outside world that the business was the Wang family's business.

After confirming that Mr.

You have to stand up for me!"

Ms. Xing was a little unsure of what she meant.

Wang Xifeng then went further: "As the saying goes, we are in the same boat, but I will get closer to my wife in the future. If your wife gives you any instructions, I will definitely do it as appropriate."

Only then did Mr. Xing suddenly realize.

The current situation is: both of them are unwilling to admit their affair with Jiao Shun, but they both believe that the other person is cheating on her.

Therefore, Wang Xifeng simply put aside this core point and tried to form an offensive and defensive alliance with the Xing family on the surface using wealth as the reason and grasshoppers on the same boat as the link.

In this way, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had their own hidden agendas and were wary of each other, but they managed to reach a consensus.

Namely: Mrs.

And Wang Xifeng promised that she would appropriately give some of the fat jobs to the Xing family, so that she could get a share of the pie. This was also thanks to Mrs. Wang's move to Qingtang thatched cottage, and her ability to control the mansion was significantly reduced. Otherwise, Wang Xifeng might not have been able to do so.

Dare to hide it from her and agree to let the Xing family's people join the game.

But it was said that at the same time, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were playing riddles with each other and giving and receiving privately.

Tanchun also went beyond his agency, invited Jia Baoyu to be the go-between, and invited Jiao Shun to meet in a nearby pavilion.

Xiangyun played the leading role, and Chai and Dai also chose to accompany him. But what was surprising was that Jia Yingchun also followed for some reason.

After the two parties arrived at the pavilion, Tanchun couldn't help but ask after they had just finished their greetings: "Is it true that Mr. Sui Ge resigned? I wonder what impact this matter will have on Brother Jiao?"

Hearing her say "Brother Jiao", Jiao Shun was really uncomfortable.

I wonder if this little girl is trying to set a trap for myself again?

If nothing else, her acting skills have improved a lot.

There was a slight smile on his face, and he said calmly: "Miss Laosan is worried about me. This matter will naturally have a big impact. However, my promotion to the position of Gongxue Jijiu this time has already gone against the trend. If I think about it for this reason, I will not look forward to the future."

Wouldn't it be a failure of the Holy Spirit's trust? At worst, the soldiers will come and cover up the water and earth."

This calmness and ease in this critical situation immediately caused Tanchun's heartbeat to skip half a beat, and his breathing became slightly faster. For a moment, he forgot to continue speaking.

There is no other way. The third girl, who is full of hero complex, can't bear this trick the most.

Shi Xiangyun took the opportunity to take over the conversation and asked: "Has Brother Jiao thought of a countermeasure?"

"Is this..."

Jiao Shun deliberately hesitated for a moment, whetting the appetite of everyone across from him, and then said: "I'm afraid it's not that easy to completely resolve it, but it's not difficult to offset part of the impact."

"What do you mean by this?"

Lin Daiyu asked the third question.

“To put it simply, it’s just two words ‘add money’!”

Jiao Shun raised two fingers, shook them, and said seriously: "I am going to petition the court to use a portion of the increased profits from state-owned workshops to provide special New Deal subsidies to middle and lower-level officials starting next year."

"The better the New Deal is implemented, the greater the profit of the workshop, and the higher the amount of special subsidies. This should be able to dissolve the resistance of some officials to the New Deal."

"This new policy subsidy will be piloted in the capital city first, and then gradually extended to all provinces where the new policy is well implemented. Those who resist the new policy will naturally have to suffer as local officials for a while longer."

To put it bluntly, this method is not complicated. Who would think of a way to solve the problem by sending money?

The real key is that the New Deal can actually increase the country's income, rather than just making empty talk about filling the gap.

The beauty of this method of distributing money is that it not only partially appeases middle- and lower-level officials, but also forces local officials to promote new policies through performance appraisal. It can be said that they complement each other.

Among the six people opposite, except for the indifferent Baoyu and the absent-minded Yingchun, they were all more or less aware of the benefits of this method.

But they were not sure whether this idea would work.

After all, all the girls came from wealthy families. Even Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun, who were in relatively tight situations, had never experienced the kind of dilemma forced by life.

And they are accustomed to the propaganda of "literary character". Even if they have recently seen the faces of scholars opposing the New Deal for the sake of profit, this can barely be explained as a dispute over orthodoxy.

Now it is purely bought with money...

Jiao Shun saw their doubts and couldn't help laughing: "After all, there are only a few literati who don't give up for five buckets of rice. As the saying goes, if there is a shortage, you will cry out. It is precisely because there are few people who don't love money that they always mention it in poems and songs.

This matter."

The person who is most receptive to such rhetoric is Xue Baochai.
To be continued...