The Return of Lord Qiang of the Red Mansion System

The book "Interpretation of Micro-Expressions" is very thick, and Jia Qiang read it for more than two hours at a stretch, but only skimmed through it in a hurry. If you want to read it carefully, you need to spend more time.However, just looking at it roughly, he has already gained a lot.

Watching people's faces was once a skill he relied on for survival, but even if he could see that some people said something insincere, and what they said was not true, he didn't know why.And the examples summarized in the book made him feel enlightened.

After thinking about it for a while, he decided to find a simple and easy-to-understand person to practice.

Putting the book away in the small drawer beside the bed, he slightly raised his voice: "Hongju, come in and make some tea."

"Yes, Lord Qiang—ahhhhhhhh!" Hongju's face turned pale from the blowing, even dimmer than the white light around her, but she didn't dare to neglect, she trotted in while trembling, and poured tea attentively.

The teacup was held in front of her, but Jia Qiang didn't seem to see it, she didn't pick it up, she just asked leisurely: "Hongju, I remember that you are not born at home, besides your parents, you also have a few younger brothers and sisters. They How are you doing?"

Hongju didn't know why he suddenly asked about family affairs, so she had to answer honestly: "Their recent situation is better than before."

"Your surname is Xiao, isn't it?"

"Yes."

Recalling the previous life, when a certain embroidery shop surnamed Xiao was raided after a big disturbance, Jia Qiang suddenly put down her crossed legs, put her hands on her knees, bent slightly, and looked at Hongju: "Your family made a lot of money by using the embroidery work of the ladies and ladies of the famous Marquis Mansion as a gimmick?"

Hong Ju was startled, the teacup in her hand immediately rolled to the ground, and smashed to pieces with a clang.

Nowadays, the world advocates extravagance, which makes many families who are already strong in the outside world more difficult to make ends meet.And some people, although they look glamorous on the outside, have been searching for cracks in the inside and trying to make up for the shortfall.Those with real power set up clever projects to amass money wantonly, while those without real power mostly let their female relatives do needlework to help support their families.

But most of the people who did this felt ashamed, and they only excused that it was done by servants and had nothing to do with the masters.Even Hui Niang, whose embroidery cost more than a thousand gold, became famous only after her death, and was renamed Huiwen by a group of arty literati without authorization.

The Xiao family took advantage of Hongju's convenience in working in a rich family, tried every means, or waited for the opportunity to steal, or asked the younger sisters to borrow, and got Jia's mansion and came and went with many wives and ladies' embroideries. Name sale.This approach is undoubtedly slapping the nobles in the face.

Hongju is aware of the pros and cons, and is deeply disturbed by this, otherwise she would not have agreed to frame Jia Qiang without hesitation when the attackers came to her to collude with her.In order to persuade Xiren to borrow that handkerchief from Li Wan, she had no choice but to reveal some words, promising to give Xiren money as a thank you gift in the future.Once the attacker is dying to fight back, she will not be able to get rid of the responsibility.

They had planned well: Jia Qiang was useless, she was frightened by Jia Zhen, and he was only around that day, so he didn't see the truth.At that time, as long as Xiren said it in front of the old lady, and several elders got angry together, Jia Qiang would never dare to talk too much.

But she didn't expect things to change so quickly, Jia Qiang knew everything, and he, who was always docile and almost cowardly, suddenly seemed to be a different person. the overall situation.

Hongju knew that the mansion would never tolerate what she had done, but she couldn't refuse the request of her relatives.Every time she tries to get a handkerchief, she comforts herself that those who buy embroidery are ordinary people and have nothing to do with rich and powerful families, and this trivial matter will not reach the ears of the nobles.

She would also have nightmares from time to time, dreaming of being interrogated by the Patriarch after the incident.But she never thought that the truth would be said so casually from her master, a handsome boy who was only ten years old.

Seeing that Jia Qiang was only asking, but not getting angry, Hongju, who thought she was going to die, couldn't help but start to think again: Brother Ganqing Qiang went uncharacteristically today, not because he knew that he planned to frame him, but because of this matter.Mostly because he didn't have a mother, he didn't know the consequences of the outflow of embroidery, but just thought that his family would do business and just asked casually.Maybe we can follow this topic and blur things out.

Hongju was thinking about her speech, Jia Qiang had already seen all the changes in her.When people are afraid, their eyebrows rise, and the wings of their noses become bigger; if they feel ashamed, they will unconsciously touch the center of their eyebrows with their hands; and...

Jia Qiang was comparing Hongju's expression with what was written in the book one by one, when she suddenly saw Hongju raised her head and looked at herself, her eyeballs were still flicking to the right. The glance was about to lie, and it hit all of them.

Hongju didn't know Jia Qiang's inner thoughts. Seeing him smiling, she thought she had guessed right, and the lie she had just made up suddenly became smoother: "Master Qiang was joking, my family has a small business, and the products they sell are ordinary ones. Embroidery has nothing to do with wives and wives. And it’s just a few buns for three meals a day, only a few copper coins, not much money.”

Through the combination of theory and practice, Jia Qiang has basically realized the trick of observation: quick eyesight.It is said in the book that people cannot restrain the change of expression, and those who are good at lying just shorten the time of change and cover it up with other expressions.The tangerines are obviously not good at covering up, so they are not good observation objects.Coupled with her intention to frame herself, Jia Qiang has decided to take her away from him.

"Bring me the food." Looking coldly at Hongju whose expression suddenly became relaxed, Jia Qiang found an excuse to send her away.

After counting lightly with his fingers on the edge of the bed, he suddenly asked, "System, is there merit in helping white people?"

"Yes, but very rarely."

"No amount is too small." Jia Qiang narrowed her eyes, and her smile revealed a bit of treachery unique to businessmen.

Although Jia Zhu had no fame, he was the eldest son of the second wife, so the funeral was more grand.On the day of the death, all the families who had good relations with the Jia family came to express their condolences.

In the mourning hall, the newly widowed Li Wan cried so hard that no one could persuade him.When the female relatives saw each other, they all shed tears and praised the virtuous woman.But Mrs. Wang, who also had a sympathetic face, quietly grabbed the plain silk in her hand to wipe her tears when she heard this comment.

The people next to her saw that her complexion was not good, and they thought she was heartbroken for the early death of her beloved son, and they were overly sad, so they all advised her to take a rest.

Seeing that all the people who came here were relatives, it would not be considered impolite to walk away for a while, Madam Wang said she was offended, and helped Zhou Rui's family to enter the back room.

After closing the door, seeing no one around, Mrs. Wang finally broke out: "Cry, cry, cry! You have the time to pretend, why did you go early! If it wasn't for the veil she lent, my Pearl wouldn't have died! "

Zhou Rui's family hurriedly persuaded: "Madam, don't be angry and hurt yourself carefully. This is purely an accident, and the world would never think of it."

Hearing this, Mrs. Wang immediately spit at her: "If she was more careful, there would be no such accident! I heard that her sister is also a widow, so it seems that Sha Kefu was born in the family! If I had known this, I would You shouldn't have hired her, you'll kill my son!"

Zhou Rui's family's kind persuasion was met with spit instead, and they didn't dare to say anything more, but it was embarrassing not to say anything.After thinking about it for a long time, he said, "Madam, it's important to take care of yourself. You still have the second master."

"Baoyu looks clever, but in fact he is honest and honest. He doesn't like to read. Unlike Zhu'er, who can't leave the book at the age of four. Although I love him, I dare not count on him!" Mrs. Wang cried again When he got up, Zhou Rui's family poured tea and served water, and after a long time of persuasion, he stopped slightly.

Mrs. Wang scolded happily in the wing room, but she didn't know that she had offended someone.Mrs. Li stood outside for a while, shaking with anger.

She came here with good intentions to comfort her mother-in-law, but before she knocked on the door, she heard Mrs. Wang yelling that her daughter was killed by Kefu.I wanted to rush in to find her for an argument, but because of the rigorous family style of the Li family, I didn't dare to make mistakes.His chest heaved and heaved for half a day, but he finally endured the bad breath, turned around and left.

"Mother, why did you leave, didn't you find our wife?"

After walking a few steps, Li Wan greeted him with a tea tray in his hands, and couldn't help being surprised when he saw this.At this moment, all the guests had gone to the table, and there was no one in the mourning hall. Seeing her mother-in-law and mother coming to the side room one after the other, she presumably had something to say, so she hurriedly washed her hands and served tea.I didn't want to see Mrs. Li go and return before I got to the room.

Mrs. Li saw that her daughter was still filial to her mother-in-law, and when she thought of Mrs. Wang's words just now, she couldn't help feeling overwhelmed.When he wanted to tell her the truth, he was afraid that his daughter would be sad, so he forced a smile and said, "Your wife is resting, I don't want to disturb you, so I'm back."

Because of this incident, Mrs. Li no longer wanted to stay in Jia's mansion. She said she had a headache and went home without even having a meal.Talking about this matter with her husband Li Shouzhong made her half-dead from anger.Because it coincided with the year-end official performance examination, he wrote a letter to his protégé on the spot when he was serving as the Imperial Academy, asking him to erase Jia Zheng's superiority and change it to words such as unknown employment and ineffectiveness.

Mrs. Wang is totally unaware of these consequences.At this moment, she was holding her niece's hand and complaining: "There are a lot of things in the house, and I don't have a headache every day. Your brother went away again. The total number of times I sleep these days is not enough for one hand. Feng girl , I am looking forward to you coming to the house to help me now."