Actually, the few rules at Lin Wanwan’s mansion are nothing compared to the strict hierarchy in other gentry households.

With such a benevolent attitude towards her servants, she has already gained a group of staunch loyalists that no one can sway.

Now that there are more people around, Lin Wanwan only gives the few personal maids and servants a share of the modern fruits she brings over; the rest of the servants do not get to enjoy them.

However, the foods that can be bought at the Great Tang market, Lin Wanwan does not skimp on at all, allowing the servants to eat freely.

Just this is enough to ensure loyalty, and what’s more, Lin Wanwan also hands out welfare items like toothpaste, soap, and shampoo in ceramic jars.

She is not stingy with the spices added to the servants’ daily meals; if pepper is needed, pepper is added. Ask which large household would add spices like pepper to the servants’ meals!

Absolutely none!

In a middle-class household, pepper is reserved for when important guests visit!

With the treatment Lin Wanwan gives to the servants in her mansion, others would find it impossible to poach them.

Recently, Lin Wanwan has been using aggressive sales tactics in Yu Yao to deal with the Yu Family, making it unbearable for them, so they sent people to infiltrate Lin Wanwan’s shops.

But in the end, the result was very disappointing, as they could not buy anyone over and almost lost their own people.

The people sent out discovered the high treatment at Lin Mansion, and their eyes turned red with envy.

The Yu Family could not comprehend how there could be long-term workers in this world who were completely aligned with their employer!

In business, they could not compete with the wealthy Lin Wanwan; in strength, they could not compare to the Village Chief Mansion with its thundering power; in influence, the Yu Family could not surpass Xiao Clan of Lanling.

With Xiao Chong in Mao County, the Yu Family’s attempts to use influence to target Lin Wanwan officially were entirely impossible.

Thus, after being suppressed for a long time and suffering heavy losses, the Yu Family came to seek reconciliation.

Their Yu Family couldn’t just take care of the clan members living in their ancestral home in Yu Yao; in fact, most of their resources and wealth had to be transported to Chang’an to support the main forces operating in the official circles there.

Every loss inflicted by Lin Wanwan was cutting into their flesh and blood.

Upon hearing that Lin Wanwan had a masterful senior brother who sent her a vast amount of spices and treasures each year, the Yu Family could not bear it.

The Yu Family, large and established as it was, could not withstand such wasteful spending as Lin Wanwan’s.

This dumping battle was a huge blow to the Yu Family, but it was a great thing for the local people of Yu Yao County, who benefited considerably.

As a result, Lin Wanwan’s shop over there couldn’t even close down because people were begging them to stay, indirectly expanding her business map.

The representative the Yu Family sent for this reconciliation was a married woman, specifically the second wife of the Wang Family, Yu Shinan’s grandniece, who "gave" Lin Wanwan a piece of Yu Shinan’s calligraphy.

This time, the Yu Family brought valuable gifts and came by ship directly to the Lin Family Manor, showing full sincerity.

She did not wait for Lin Wanwan to return to Xiaoxi Town before visiting the Lin Mansion there; instead, she came directly to Lin Family Manor despite the weariness of travel, showing how anxious the Yu Family was about the matter.

Lin Wanwan received the visiting Yu at the flower hall.

Her issues with the Yu Family had little to do with the Wang Family’s daughter-in-law, Yu, and it was not her direct parents facing her.

They were just clan relatives, and for a married woman, the interests were far off.

Therefore, Yu had no major resentment in her heart towards Lin Wanwan for coming to seek reconciliation this time.

On the contrary, because of Lin Wanwan’s series of combos, she even received a favor from the Yu Clan Leader.

At Lin Wanwan’s mansion, the two just drank tea and chatted leisurely, without bringing up the matter of reconciliation, which both parties understood well enough.

Whether Lin Wanwan would accept depended on the sincerity of their apology and compensation.

After sending Yu off from the small wharf of Lin Family Manor and returning to the house, Lin Wanwan instructed Hong Yan and others to open the gifts she had brought.

Silks and furs were among them, which were good but not something Lin Wanwan craved.

Nowadays, Treasure Pavilion took the initiative to send good goods to Lin Wanwan every month for her to pick first.

However, there was a fan packed in a dark wood box that caught Lin Wanwan’s attention.

With such elaborate packaging in a precious box and placed at the centerpiece of the gift pile, it was undoubtedly something valuable.

Lin Wanwan picked up the hexagonal fan, examining it closely.

This fan was made of bamboo, and the craftsmanship was ordinary, but the five characters written on the fan surface were vigorous and stunningly majestic.

Overall, the bamboo fan showed obvious signs of age, indicating that it had been around for many years.

"Could this be Yu Shinan’s calligraphy?" Lin Wanwan wondered aloud, repeatedly admiring the characters on the fan surface, liking them more with each glance, yet increasingly feeling they didn’t seem like Yu Shinan’s writing.

Cui Ying seemed to want to speak but hesitated.

Lin Wanwan noticed and laughed, "What’s the matter? Do you recognize this item?"

Cui Ying bowed and replied, "Madam, I have also seen a similar bamboo fan at my family’s uncle from the Cui Clan."

"Oh? What’s its origin?" Lin Wanwan asked curiously.

Cui Ying replied, "This bamboo fan is a usual bamboo fan, but the calligraphy on the fan surface is unusual. If I’m not mistaken, it is from the Master of Calligraphy, Wang Youjun of the Langya Wang Clan."

Lin Wanwan was both surprised and delighted upon hearing this, "The calligraphy of Wang Xizhi! My goodness!"

I’ve made a fortune, made a fortune! It’s a national treasure!

Lin Wanwan immediately put down the fan in her hand, afraid of damaging it, as the calligraphy was written by Master of Calligraphy Wang Xizhi, dating back over three hundred years!

A small bamboo fan, poorly preserved, would easily get ruined! It’s fine to just look at it, but absolutely not to handle or touch!

Oh my, the Yu Family’s sincerity in apologizing and compensating is quite enough!

The calligraphy of Wang Xizhi is an heirloom-level existence in Great Tang, usually collected by gate valve clans and the imperial family.

Lin Wanwan was able to get one, truly benefiting from the advantages of socialism!

If she didn’t have the backing of a modern granary, how could she have scared the Yu Family into seeking reconciliation?

Cui Ying saw Lin Wanwan’s joyous expression and smiled as she began narrating the story of the fan: "Madam, there’s a story about the origin of this fan."

"Oh? Do tell," Lin Wanwan inquired, her eyes never leaving the fan surface.

Cui Ying slowly narrated, "It is said that when the Master of Calligraphy served as Inner Minister in Huiji, leading as Right General...

One day at Jishan, he saw an elderly woman trying to sell hexagonal fans, but not one sold, and she was very distressed.

The Master of Calligraphy approached, took a brush, and wrote five characters on each bamboo fan.

The old woman was initially displeased, but the Master of Calligraphy said to her, ’Tell buyers that these words were written by Wang Youjun, and each fan sells for at least 100 coins.’

Hearing this, the old woman rejoiced, and upon announcing it, indeed many buyers came forth.

Later, aristocrats and gentry received news and began buying the bamboo fans that had circulated that day for high prices, using them for collection. My Cui Clan also has one in their collection."

"That elderly woman indeed had a stroke of luck," Lin Wanwan remarked with a sigh, her heart filled with joy.

She planned to take this fan to the modern day, preserve it using the best modern techniques, and store it back in the Great Tang.

She also wanted to publicize the fan’s information online for all to appreciate the beauties of calligraphy.