In chapter 7 of Dream of the Red Chamber, the old servant Jiao Da gets drunk and abuses his masters. When Jia Rong scolds him, Wang Xifeng says Jiao Da should be sent away: “If relatives and friends heard of this, would they not laugh at a family like ours, with no law or rules?”
Jiao Da goes on shouting that the family’s descendants do shameful things in secret. “What don’t I know?” he cries. “With us, ‘a broken arm is hidden in the sleeve!'” The terrified servants tie him up and stuff his mouth with earth and horse dung. Wang Xifeng and Jia Rong hear it from a distance and pretend they have not heard.