Chapter 52: It's All About Luck
This kind of Xia Yanqing made Xu Qinghui's faint sense of crisis greatly increased.
After she entered the Wang family, she found that the Xia family was not simple, and it was not as unbearable as people rumored.
As the days passed, Xia gradually changed, and looked less shapely. With the change of body shape, there is also Xia's temperament, which is a kind of coolness and comfort that ordinary women do not have, which makes people look very comfortable.
Xu Qinghui is not afraid of wives and concubines, she has Wang Xi's favor, she has a preconceived foundation in the Wang family, and the Wang family agrees and apologies for her.
In this case, with her cleverness, if Xia Yanqing has a conflict or even a conflict with her, she dares to guarantee that she will definitely make Xia Yanqing disliked by everyone, so that she will never have a chance to turn over.
Why didn't this woman give her a chance to be tempted at all.
I don't know how to make it, although this woman is the daughter-in-law of the Wang family and Wang Xi's wife, she is always outside the Wang family, and she is not like the wives of other families, who grit her teeth at her husband's favorite concubine behavior.
Instead, he nested in the Autumn Moon Garden all day long, even if he went out for a walk, he picked up when there were few people, and tried to minimize contact with people. Not to mention making waves and clashing with people, there is no chance of it happening.
Before, Xu Qinghui deliberately stimulated Xia Yanqing, and came to Xuanbei Hall with Wang Xi every morning to greet Mrs. Liu. still pinched the time, and rushed after Xia Yanqing, just so that she could see her and Wang Xi like husband and wife, holding each other's love.
But Xia Yanqing, an outlier, was indifferent to this.
At the beginning, Mrs. Liu and Yuan also vaguely reminded the two of them that even if they were in love, they would try their best to be in their own yard, and they should always avoid being a little bit of a wife.
is probably the so-called familiarity, as time passed, Xia Yanqing did not express any dissatisfaction with Wang Xi and Xu Qinghui's double entry. Gradually, everyone in the Wang family became accustomed to the love of the two of them.
But Xu Qinghui was very depressed about this. Such a Xia Yanqing made her have no idea where to start.
Can't she go to Qiuyue Garden to find faults, right? In that way, even if she finds fault, she can trap Xia Yanqing in an unrighteous place, but I am afraid that she will have to be complained by the Wang family.
Xu Qinghui's heart was full of twists and turns, and she even forgot to greet Mrs. Liu and say something pleasing to her.
Xia Yanqing saw Xu Qinghui's gloomy expression at a glance, which was obviously different from usual. Since I have already expressed my heart to Mrs. Liu, in order to avoid trouble, it is better to leave quickly.
She heard Mrs. Liu praise her for her dexterity, and hurriedly humbled herself, saying that most of this was Mr. Bai's credit, and she just did some assistance.
After saying a few words, Xia Yanqing said that he needed to make some preparations for learning the rules in the afternoon, so he got up and said goodbye.
Mrs. Liu looked at Xia Yanqing's back, and then looked at a few small objects on the kang table, and wondered in her heart that Xia Yanqing was indeed smart and generous. In the future, if the son can reluctantly accept her, when the time comes, the wife and concubines will be complete, the son will be happy, and the Wang family's house will be peaceful, and there is no need to worry about the Xia family going back to his parents' house to complain.
But looking at Xu Qinghui by her side, such a well-behaved and sensible child, she couldn't bear it in her heart. This child is really pitiful, a good wife, but she became a concubine, and she is still careless in her own way, and she is ashamed of this child.
Thinking like this, he originally planned to show the three small objects to Wang Xi, which made his mind about Xia Yanqing's change a lot lighter.
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Xia Yanqing didn't know that Mrs. Liu had turned so much into her mind, she had to burn a few more pots of pottery. When the craft is really proficient and can do it with ease, when firing glass in the future, if someone is suspicious, she can burn a furnace of pottery at any time to meet the situation.
Probably because of the luck before, the blind cat ran into a dead mouse as soon as he got started, and made a few pieces of finished pottery.
In the next ten days, three furnaces were burned in a row, and almost all of them were defective, and even if they could be formed, there were many flaws, and they couldn't be taken out at all.
Originally, everyone in the Wang family, with their own different thoughts, paid attention to the stove in the guest house. Although Mrs. Liu and the Yuan family did not come to check in person, they also sent people to investigate, and they inquired several times a day.
I heard that there were three furnaces in a row, but not a single intact object was produced, and everyone in the Wang family put out their minds.
Mrs. Liu, who was originally regretful, thought that Xia Yanqing was just lucky to burn a few pieces of pottery, and her heart that had wavered between Xia Yanqing and Xu Qinghui before also settled down.
Xu Qinghui breathed a sigh of relief, although Xia Yanqing's threat was still there, but this matter was really a mistake for her, and she was a little disgraced.
As for reading and painting, it is not a one-time thing, and there is still time. Even if Xia Yanqing is talented, if he wants to surpass her in an all-round way, it will take three and a half years later.
Three or five years is enough time for her to have children, and at that time, her position will be secure.
Xia Yanqing and Mr. Bai were worried about three failures.
Although she knows that no matter what she does, she needs to accumulate experience, so she is not discouraged. But several of her maids were depressed.
In the next two firings, Xia Yanqing also put some glass raw materials in the stove.
I don't know if it was because the temperature was not enough, or the small crucible where the raw materials were placed did not directly contact the flame, and in the end, the sintered thing in the crucible was just a puddle of irregular solids.
Although the surface of that thing is also shiny and hard, it is definitely not called glass.
In the guest house, in the room where Xia Yanqing listened to the class, Mr. Bai sat on the side of the table, holding a distorted pottery bowl in his hand, bent his fingers again, lightly buttoned the edge of the pottery bowl with his knuckles, and listened carefully to the sound made by the tapping.
The sound was dull and murmuring, not at all as crisp as the clay pots that had been fired in the first furnace.
Mr. Bai regretfully put down the pottery bowl and asked the big strong daughter-in-law sitting on the brocade bench: "Have you ever asked, how to solve the problem of whether the heat and fire are even?" ”
After the firing failed, Xia Yanqing asked Zhang Dazhuang to make some silver and asked the insiders what caused their situation.
Zhang Dazhuang asked about the results, saying that it may be because the heating and firing fire power are unstable, resulting in the discontinuity of the clay transformation process.
Da Zhuang's daughter-in-law was a sturdy middle-aged woman, and when she heard Mr. Bai's question, she replied respectfully: "The slave and maid went with the master, and the kiln worker said that the firepower was all mastered by the master of the kiln." The masters rely on more than ten or decades of experience, and the kiln workers only follow the instructions and do things, they don't know how to cook. ”
Mr. Bai frowned, and said to Xia Yanqing on the other side of the table: "The kiln master has many years of firing experience, so we just started to do it, and it is in the backyard, so it is not good to invite someone to come and see it." But how do you master the heat? Especially in the heating stage, there should be enough temperature, and the temperature should not be too high. In our experience, we really can't grasp it. ”