The two of them ran all the way to the Hou Mansion, panting. On such a cold day in the wax moon, Zhao Xiaoxi's back was stunned by a dense layer of sweat beads.

What's this called? She was a little depressed. began to roar at his father-in-law: "Can you change the way you help people in the future?" I hate long-distance running the most. ”

"The lady has been weak recently, and running is good for her body." Xiao Jingrui didn't know where he knew about this scientific knowledge, so he said it with a serious face: "Just now, those people have already talked about donations, but there is no definite news from the imperial court. I'm afraid that the lady will be excited and say the wrong thing. ”

Come on, Zhao Xiaoxi just wanted to say that those officials in the imperial court would not care about the lives of the people. If they really don't pull out a dime in the future, won't they be slapped in the face? Thinking about it like this, she felt that her father-in-law's image was much taller.

People with good brains are different, Zhao Xiaoxi sighed from the bottom of his heart.

Speaking of which, after waiting for so many days, those Beijing officials were stunned and didn't move at all. What is going on in the court, how can they, the people in the shopping mall, understand it? However, Song Guangfu has not mentioned this stubble in the past few days, as if it is not going well.

Fortunately, the down jacket is already being made, and it will probably be shipped to the north this month. As long as the money can be gathered at this point in time, then it will all be lived.

Within three or two days, Song Guangfu held a family meeting. The conversation was still about raising money for disaster relief, but Zhao Xiaoxi didn't expect that those big officials were willing to pay two thousand taels of silver.

It's really powerful, Zhao Xiaoxi was stunned. She was thinking about the fact that there were two hundred officials in the capital, and if each of them could come up with two thousand taels, she didn't have to make a move at all, and the problem of building a fire kang and fireplace in the north would be solved.

"So much?" Zhao Xiaoxi touched his little nose and honestly expressed his question: "Dad, why are they willing to donate so much silver to go out?" ”

"After all, you donated fifteen hundred taels." The corners of Song Guangfu's mouth raised slightly, with the cunning of an old fox.

Fifteen hundred taels? Zhao Xiaoxi glanced at Xiao Jingrui in confusion: "No, we were going to donate five hundred taels before." I thought that if the people in the court were not willing to help, we would raise funds through the charity we had before in the future. ”

"Well, and the thousand taels are from me." Song Guang's comeback was actually far more than 1,000 taels of silver, and knowing that Zhao Xiaoxi was making winter clothes for the people in the north for free, he specially found a dozen or so experienced masters, spent a lot of silver taels, and sent them all to Fengle Town.

The production of ready-to-wear also has to go through Fengle Town, which is troublesome in the end. In order to solve this problem, Song Guangfu also renovated a piece of land in the south of the city, and in about another month or two, he hoped that the production of ready-to-wear could be completed in the capital.

But Song Guangfu hadn't mentioned this matter to Zhao Xiaoxi and them, and he was just doing it quietly.

A certain woman was very excited when she heard that her father-in-law was so powerful. Rubbing his little hands, he shook his spirits: "No wonder those big officials are so reluctant, it turns out that they are forced to be helpless." ”

"Tomorrow they will come to the house, and you two will come and hear it too." Song Guangfu didn't care what he was doing, Zhao Xiaoxi was convinced, and nodded busily: "Okay." ”

The next morning and a half, those people came. One by one, they were full of spirit, and they walked out of the pace of 2580,000.

"When are we going to go?" Zhao Xiaoxi couldn't wait, so he wanted to hear what flowers those people could say, so as to open his eyes.

"Wait a minute!" Xiao Jingrui looked at her little lady in such a hurry, Xiao Jingrui's smile grew, and she nodded her little nose lightly: "When they are almost done, let's go again." ”

"Why?" Zhao Xiaoxi didn't understand, and puffed out his mouth: "Dad let us listen." ”

"Those people now treat us as a thorn in the flesh, and it is not pleasant to meet them so straight and straight?"

Also, Zhao Xiaoxi nodded, and followed Xiao Jingrui back to his own yard. After waiting for a long time, Wu'er came to pass the word, only saying that Song Guangfu asked them and his wife to go to the study together to talk about big things.

The two of them hurried to the study.

Before he entered the door, Zhao Xiaoxi felt the low pressure rushing towards him. Those people have become a habit of picking at the door, and a little bit of silver will definitely hurt a lot. This time, because Zhao Xiaoxi took the lead, they had to pay out of their own pockets, how could they not hate, resent, or blame?

After entering the house, the dozen or so pairs of eyes fell on Zhao Xiaoxi. It's probably a bit of gnashing of teeth and tens of thousands of resentments. She is not "eye-catching", nor is she ignorant of the situation, Zhao Xiaoxi just doesn't bother to pay attention to those moths.

All of them are full of private pockets, obviously rich and oily, but they want to be an iron rooster who does not pull out a dime. Every year, the imperial court will allocate funds to the north for disaster relief, but they scavenged a layer of oil layer by layer, and finally sent it to the north, only the fur remained.

Fortunately, the people in the north thought that they had been abandoned by the imperial court. Otherwise, they wouldn't have believed the rumors of those wicked people who were traitors and criminals, and they would have become reactionaries in the coldheart, wouldn't they?

What is more embarrassing is that the wives or concubines of these big officials have business dealings with Hope Cards. In other words, nine times out of ten, their wives and concubines are Zhao Xiaoxi's customers.

At this time, I offended these Beijing officials, those rich and noble wives, maybe they won't come to patronize it in the future. Anyway, everything has been done, and Zhao Xiaoxi has no reason to regret it, and still sits majestically on the side, squinting at those high-ranking officials.

Some of the faces are quite familiar, but more often than not, they are still fresh. Zhao Xiaoxi didn't know him, crossed his hands, and sat on the side.

I don't know who coughed coldly, but the officials at the scene made a slight move, stalked their necks, and slowly voted to Zhao Xiaoxi with their eyes. That kind of look, as if Zhao Xiaoxi had done something evil to kill people and set fires.

"It is worthy of being the young lady in this Hou Mansion, she is really organized and reasonable, and she is as stable as Mount Tai!" It was a white-bearded old man who spoke, and he looked like he was brave and loyal, but the disdain and contempt between his eyebrows and eyes all showed his treachery and evil.

"Where." Song Guangfu now loves his daughter-in-law more and more, and waved his hand busily: "It's just a female doll, doing some small business, where do you know a lot of things?" ”

"Hope cards aren't a small deal!" A big official told the truth with a sigh on his face: "How can ordinary people have the ability to manage such a big shop?" In the end, it is still the young lady's good skills. No, the soldiers are not bloody, and we have scavenged all our savings over the years. ”

Savings over the years? It's a shame that these old men can say it. The money they donated was a drop in the bucket compared to what they had earned. Grandma's bear, is it so picky? Zhao Xiaoxi shivered for a while, shivering.

"The people in the north are also the people of our Great Xia Dynasty, if they freeze to death, how can the officials feel good when they look at it? I'm just an ordinary, ordinary small businessman, and I don't have much to offer. This time, I was also thinking, I can help, where did I think that all the adults were so kind and willing to donate generously? ”

Where are they willing to give generously? is clearly forced to be helpless. After all, if you don't do some proof to prove yourself, there will be rumors that so-and-so officials are not even as good as a businessman. In this way, their reputation will be ruined, and it will definitely not be so convenient to make money or something in the future.

This is also for the preparation of catching big fish in the future, or for their own future, which is not a good intention.

In the end, it was an old man in the officialdom, the big guy saw Song Guangfu's displeasure, and he didn't dare to provoke Zhao Xiaoxi more, so he drank a few sips of tea silently. When talking about the question of how to build the north in the future, the faces of several high-ranking officials suddenly became extremely different.

In any case, as long as it involves issues such as construction, the amount of money to be spent must be not small. They had already paid a lot of money before, and now they really didn't want to pay for it anymore.

Seeing that the faces of several adults were so bad, Xiao Jingrui said: "The silver donated by the big guys before is enough. ”

As soon as these words came out, they took a long breath, and their faces were gloomy, so that people could not see the slightest mood swing.

"Enough, then feel free!" Somebody, who looked younger, said the most innocuous of things. It seems that for him, as long as he doesn't ask them for silver anymore, he can say everything.

With such professional ethics and professionalism, can you still be a Beijing official? It's ridiculous. The psychological activity on her side is so intense, and Song Guangfu on the other side is also very agitated when she talks to the big guy.

Now the money is in place, but they don't have many people at their disposal when it comes to finding artisans. I don't know if there are so many skilled craftsmen in the north.

In the end, I don't know what step they talked about, Zhao Xiaoxi was drowsy, and after a while, she heard Xiao Jingrui whispering in her ear: "Lady, let's go back to the house?" ”

"Finished talking?" She snorted and glanced around. Seeing that those people were red and red-eared, like Guan Gong, she thought about it with her toes and understood that these people had been hit.

When the silver comes out, what else is there to give up? Zhao Xiaoxi was very confused, but in this situation, it was best to shut up and protect himself.

She pondered in her heart, it must have been Song Guangfu who said something to make it difficult for them, so she was embarrassed. However, Zhao Xiaoxi didn't want to get involved, so he quietly withdrew from the study with Xiao Jingrui.