The meal was eaten in a harmonious atmosphere. After Jia Huan left the main room of Jia Amnesty, Mrs. Xing sent a little maid to invite Jia Yu over.

It was a hot afternoon, and the room was quiet and cool. After listening to Mrs. Xing's words, Jia Yu sat on the wooden chair and groaned softly.

Mrs. Xing smiled. Jia Huan refused to enter and exit through the corner gate on the east side, and was very vigilant. It shows that he knows very well in his heart where the true power of Madame Wang's ban is.

and mentioned that the prince Tenglai added conditions, in fact, he was also willing to cooperate.

Of course, "cooperation" in the back house does not immediately have a clear person or thing (goal), and you need to wait for the opportunity. The key is to reach a tacit understanding.

After being silent for a long time, Jia Yu snorted coldly, "At a young age, I have a big appetite. With that, he threw up his sleeves and left Mrs. Xing.

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Jia Huan walked briskly along the shade of the trees in the courtyard, and walked towards the corner gate in the corridor.

I have to say that Mrs. Xing (Jia Yu) suddenly stretched out an "olive branch", making his perspective on Jiafu suddenly widen, as if a huge picture scroll was slowly opening in front of him.

Reveal its final, original, true colors!

Jia Huan understands the pattern of Jiafu, but he has never seen it so clearly.

The previous understanding was just from the original book and the mouths of everyone in Jiafu to understand and speculate. Hearing Mrs. Xing's (Jia Yu) thoughts with my own ears today is as clear as suddenly lifting a veil in front of my eyes.

If Jiafu is compared to a chessboard, there are only a few people who are qualified to play chess on it. Jia Huan has always focused on Jia Mu, Jia Zheng, Mrs. Wang, and Wang Xifeng. Because these four rulers of Jia Province are all related to his life.

But after today, there were two more people in his sight: Jia Yu and Mrs. Xing.

And it's like permutations and combinations in mathematics, even if the total number of combinations is one more than one, there are many variables.

This also completes the whole picture of the pattern of Jiafu in Jia Huan's heart.

Jia Huan's bottom line of Jia Yu's understanding from Mrs. Xing's mouth is divided into two parts:

First, Jia Yu's appeal. He wanted to get the power of the inner house of Jiafu, because it meant silver and power. Mrs. Xing expressed this very clearly. Jia Yu is the eldest son of Jiafu, and he should be the housekeeper in terms of etiquette.

Second, Jia Yu's dedication. How naïve Jia Huan must be to believe what Mrs. Xing said: You two should be yours.

This seems to mean that Jia Yu will help Jia Huan seize more of the family property. But this vague language just exposes the essence of Jia Yu's inwardness, the hole card: he doesn't dare to turn on the "deathmatch mode" at all.

Do you remember Jia Huan's temptation? He asked Mrs. Xing: What is the relationship between Jia Yu and Wang Ziteng? Mrs. Xing smiled and did not answer. This is actually the answer: Jia Yu has nothing to do with Wang Ziteng. Jia Yu didn't dare to provoke Wang Ziteng. And Mrs. Wang is Wang Ziteng's own sister.

What Jia Yu wants to engage in is just a "house fight", to be precise, it is to instigate Jia Huan to be a pioneer to fight: I am unhappy that you fell on my face today. Tomorrow I will fall on your face, and my heart will be happy. Long-winded, back and forth is like a child playing at home, without affecting their respective status, only to obtain a sense of satisfaction.

Mental masturbation!

Jia Huan was quite disgusted and despised such behavior. If you don't have a clear and clear goal for doing things, what a reputation!

Jia Huan has no intention of joining forces with Jia Yu, this kind of person who exposes the essence of "pig teammates" before he has any contact, if he becomes a teammate, he doesn't know how miserable he will be. It's just a mutual use.

Of course, with this contact and the so-called "tacit understanding" reached, Jia Huan's room for maneuver in Jiafu will also increase.

Jia Huan left the Jia Amnesty Courtyard and returned to his residence. The pattern of Jiafu was churning in his mind.

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The geographical pattern of Jiafu is composed of three roads: east, middle and west. And the power dynamics revolve around that. The focus of its core interests is: the management of the back house of Jiafu.

It's about money, power, treatment.

Whoever has the right to manage the back house can make the big and small maids, mothers-in-law, girls, and aunts in the back house of Jiafu be in awe. Just look at Jia's mother's daily treatment. It's not just about "filial piety".

According to the feudal etiquette, for Jia's mother: the husband dies and obeys the son. She lives with Jia Yu, or lives with Jia Zheng as she likes, but it is very important that she has to hand over the management of the inner house of Jiafu. At least on the surface, hand it over.

However, many times it is often the case: the rules are the same, and the actual operation is the same. Because there is another rule in the feudal etiquette: filial piety comes first.

For example: Mrs. Xing is a person who has no weight in her speech in Jiafu. Wang Xifeng is very powerful and authoritarian in Jiafu. It stands to reason that when Mrs. Xing meets Wang Xifeng, she will be an opponent, and she can only be abused. But Wang Xifeng is Mrs. Xing's daughter-in-law, look at how Mrs. Xing "plays".

Chapter 71 of the book. Because the two mothers-in-law of Jiafu were disrespectful to the maids of the You family, Wang Xifeng planned to punish the two mothers-in-law. When Mrs. Xing was present with many people, including Mrs. Wang, she "accompanied Xiao and pleaded with Sister Feng" in public.

What was Sister Feng's reaction? I guess many people can't think of it.

Sister Ling Defeng "was ashamed and angry in front of many people, and she couldn't find her head for a while, and her face was purple", "The more I thought about it, the more ashamed I became, and I didn't feel discouraged and sad, and I rolled down tears".

The mother-in-law smiled in public and begged her daughter-in-law, what would this be like? This is a usage of "100 virtues and filial piety first": to retreat as advance. The power is so great that people like Wang Xifeng, who are sharp and shrewd, will be defeated.

Mrs. Xing, a scumbag like a war scumbag, can "tune and teach" Wang Xifeng, who has explosive combat effectiveness. Not to mention the old man like Jia's mother who has experienced glory and wealth, and the rise and fall of Jiafu.

So in reality, whether the mother is in power or the daughter-in-law is in power in the inner house mainly depends on who is more intelligent. Obviously, Jia Mu is a very smart person. Although she is now a Rongyang, she has handed over the power of the inner house of Jiafu to Mrs. Wang to manage. But they still have the right to decide.

Jia Yu and Mrs. Xing are people on the fringes of power. They want to get into the center of power all the time.

But in front of Mrs. Wang, Jia Yu and Mrs. Xing could only think about it. Mrs. Wang herself is powerful, and she has the support of Wang Ziteng now, and the support of her daughter Jia Yuanchun in the future. There is a nephew Queen Xifeng below. Solid position.

Therefore, the power structure of Jiafu is such a main line: Jia Mu - Mrs. Wang (Jia Zheng) - Wang Xifeng. At the center of this chain of power is Madame Wang.

Wang Xifeng is not an indispensable link in this power chain. She can only be regarded as an excellent professional manager. She is a nephew and daughter-in-law who helps her uncle and aunt housekeeper, a very awkward identity. Her power comes from the trust of Jia Mu and Madame Wang.

It is precisely because it is not indispensable that when she fell ill in the book, Mrs. Wang easily replaced her with a combination of Li Kun, Tanchun, and Xue Baochai.

Wang Xifeng is not as strong as she seems!

In the end, as Jia Huan believes: there is no faction in the party, and there are thousands of strange things. In this chain of power, is there no contradiction between Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang?

Some Hongxue points out that Mrs. Wang gradually elevates Jia's mother in the book. The dispute between Qingwen and the attacker in Baoyu's room is that the two sides are fighting. Qingwen was kicked out of the Grand View Garden and died, and Jia's mother's sigh was used as a testimonial of failure.

"That's right, and that's what I'm thinking. But Qingwen's girl I think he's very good, why did he get up like this. I mean, these girls are not as good as him in terms of appearance, speech, and needlework, and only he can call Baoyu in the future. Who knows that it has changed. ”

When the leader speaks, the general focus is on the content after the "but", see what Jia Mu said after the "but"? Contextual and thoughtful reading is very meaningful.

Baoyu's marriage, whether it is Daiyu or Baochai, is also the focus of conflict between the two parties.

In the book, the only time Jia's mother scolded Mrs. Wang was when Jia Yu wanted to marry a mandarin duck, Jia's mother scolded: "You all calculate me." With Jia's mother's old spicyness, wit, and hidden needles, how could it be just an angry remark, she still has some opinions about Mrs. Wang in her heart.

Of course, the contradiction between Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang does not need to pay too much attention to Jia Huan. On the point of disgusting him, Jia Huan believed that Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang's positions were the same. They are Jia Baoyu's guardians.

What he can use is Jia Yu's ambition.

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After Jia Huan and Mrs. Xing met, they concentrated on reading. Time passes slowly.

Madame Xing's suggestion to let him leave the mansion from the east side of Jiafu was like a kitten's paw, scratching in his heart from time to time. Itchy. Freedom, when you lose it, you will be incomparably desired. But he finally restrained himself. As long as he walked once, he gave Mrs. Xing and Jia Yu a handle.

The price of this freedom is too high!

Around the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, Jiafuli began to become bustling and noisy, with a lot of traffic. The people who came and went were all dignitaries, such as the Zhenguo Mansion, the Liguo Mansion, the Qi Mansion, the Zhiguo Mansion, the Xiuguo Mansion, the Xiuguo Mansion, the Nan'an County Palace, the Xining County Palace, and the Beijing County Palace.

Batches of housekeepers, dependents, and wagons carrying goods came in and out. These are the first batch of nobles canonized when the Zhou Dynasty was founded, including Rongguo Gong, Ning Guogong, and Dongping County King, collectively known as the "Four Kings and Eight Princes".

However, after a total of 153 years of five dynasties, the intricate power of the nobles has declined. Jia Mansion is like this, Jia Daishan (Jia's mother's husband), the eldest son of Rongguo Gong, can still be awarded the title of Rongguo Gong, and now they have fallen into a medium-sized family.

In the book, Qin Keqing's funeral has a general description of the current situation of the four kings and eight dukes: the grandson of Zhenguo Niu Qing is now the first-class Boniu Jizong, the grandson of Liguo Duke Liu Biao is now the first-class son Liu Fang, the grandson of Chen Yi, the Duke of Qi, the hereditary general of Sanpinwei Town, Chen Ruiwen, the grandson of Ma Kui, the grandson of Ma Kui, the hereditary third-class Weiyuan general Ma Shang, the grandson of Hou Xiaoming, the grandson of Hou Xiaoming, the grandson of Xiuguo, the hereditary first-class Boshi Guangzhu (apocryphal).

The decline and division of the old powers: some still maintain their former glory, while others sink. A new noble rises. This is an irreversible tide of history!

But in the three major festivals of the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Spring Festival, the old noble groups such as the Four Kings and Eight Princes will still move around each other, contact feelings, and communicate with each other. Especially at this time, the court is in a hurry.

But this excitement has nothing to do with Jia Huan. He still heard these news from Tanchun. For example, the relationship between the palace of Dongping County and the palace is not good, and contact has been severed.

On the afternoon of the 23rd, because of the next day's holiday, Jia Huan got out of school early and went back to the house with Jia Lan. When passing by Aunt Zhao's courtyard, Jia Huan went in and walked around, and heard a whining cry coming from inside.

The cry was miserable and miserable, and the grievances were unspeakable.