Chapter 21: The so-called help
"Very good, Xiao Jing, when I came to this Xuanwu hug today, I found that the room on the fourth floor of your Xuanwu hug seems to be full of people from your chamber of commerce, right?" Mrs. Cheng asked.
Xuan Shijing nodded: "Exactly, now the shopkeepers of the entire Chamber of Commerce are basically doing things here, and it is more convenient to schedule." "With these Duchess of the Kingdom, Xuan Shijing has nothing to hide, first, the people who can sit here have an unusual relationship with the Hou Mansion, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a family, and secondly, not only the Hou Mansion is doing business behind the scenes, but these Guogong Mansions all have their own caravans, otherwise such a large mansion, relying on the little money of the Grandpa Guo, how can it be possible to make a living.
"Xiao Jing, do you have any room available here?" Mrs. Cheng asked again.
Seeing Mrs. Cheng's expression, Xuan Shijing faintly understood that Mrs. Cheng also wanted to get an office on the fourth floor of Xuanwu's house, which belonged to them and also belonged to the foundation.
"Aunt Cheng rest assured, the little nephew will let people arrange it, if you are free in the future, you can go to the fourth floor of this Xuanwu hug, don't dare to say anything else, this Xuanwu hug food, the little nephew is all covered." Xuan Shijing said with a smile.
Hearing Xuan Shijing say this, Mrs. Cheng also laughed happily.
"Master Hou, then we Yanlailou" Qin Yuxin said: "I will contribute 5,000 yuan on behalf of Yanlailou, and the position of vice president will not be wanted, after all, according to the identity of the concubine, it is still a little inappropriate to be with all the ladies, the concubine and Bingyue have nothing else to ask for, just for a reputation, what does Master Hou think?" ”
Xuan Shijing said with a smile: "Very good, Yan Lailou is making money every day, and the proprietress of Yuxin is also wealthy, and the foundation is really indispensable for the help of the proprietress of Yuxin." ”
Regarding the identities of Qin Yuxin and Qin Bingyue, the ladies present did not dislike anything, several ladies have come all the way from the troubled times, they are used to seeing the ups and downs, and they are naturally more open than others. If it were an ordinary Qinglou prostitute, they might still be discriminatory, but Qin Yuxin and Qin Bingyue of Yanlailou have been famous in Chang'an over the years, and they have also heard of it.
Now Qin Yuxin has indicated that he only makes money to earn fame and does not participate in the affairs of the foundation, and several duchess are naturally happy in their hearts, although the two can be regarded as innocent, but in terms of identity, in the eyes of others, there is always a difference, if they are really together, this is into the foundation, and the reputation has not been earned, but they have lost face first, which is more than worth the loss.
Soon, the money promised by everyone was sent to Xuanwu Hug, there is a large storage room in the basement of Xuanwu Hug, which was originally used to put aside some ingredients and store ice cubes stored in the winter, and now it has been cleaned out, and the ingredients are put on the other side alone, and there are only a few ice cubes left in it, and now it has entered the winter, and it is useless to store ice cubes, so the ice cubes inside have also been moved, anyway, there will be new ice cubes stored in it this winter.
Subsequently, Xuan Shijing ordered everyone to carry all the money underground, let the account room record it, record it in the account book, and hand it over to the Wang family.
The people under Xuan Shijing's hands are also very neat, especially now most of the people arranged in Xuanwu Hug have just come from Erxianzhuang, and now because there is nothing else to do, they are idle, so they come to Xuanwu Hug to be a helper.
The fourth floor was quickly cleaned up a house, tables and chairs, the four treasures of the study and bookshelves and the like are ready-made, when Long'er was built, he built an extra set, which was originally intended to be put in Xuan Shijing's room on the fifth floor in the future, but now it comes in handy in advance.
After arranging everything, several duchess came to 'work' with great interest.
According to Xuan Shijing, several duchesses first sent posts to their girlfriends, asking if they were interested in joining and forming a good relationship, and then they drafted a charter for the entire foundation.
As the saying goes, no rules, no rules.
At that time, what Xuan Shijing said was that the foundation would not only help the victims of the disaster, but also that if an ordinary poor person had a serious illness and ended up ruining his family and his family was ruined, this kind of thing would be helped after everyone reviewed it, and he would also send funds to help others.
As for how to help, there must be a degree, Xuan Shijing said to them, to save the emergency not the poor.
Several duchess were very puzzled, wasn't the foundation established to help those in need, why did they say that they couldn't help the poor in emergencies?
This Xuan Shijing also thought about how to explain the truth to them, he couldn't say that he had seen some things in his previous life, some people, some people who spared no effort to help others, but the people who were helped got used to the help of others over time, and he would feel that this was a matter of course, and when one day this person could no longer help him, then the problem would come
Therefore, the explanation given by Xuan Shijing is: if you ask a beggar to eat three meat buns a day, and after a month, you only invite him to eat two, then he will resent you, but he didn't think that you invited him to eat because you were kind, not that you had the responsibility to support him all the time.
Because he has become accustomed to this kind of charity over time, taking it for granted, after a long time, he will not be grateful, and a person who can't even be grateful will basically be helpless
Human inertia and habit are a terrible thing.
Although this explanation was given, several dukes and ladies still listened to it in a fog, so they decided in their hearts to find a beggar outside the city to see if what Xuan Shijing said was true.
The novelty temporarily extinguished the enthusiasm of several duchess including the Wang family for mahjong, and Xuan Shijing originally thought that they would be able to set a table in the office
To say that a few duchess are bored at home, it is really not true, as the saying goes, the male protagonist is outside the female protagonist, and the huge mansion also needs to be taken care of, and the people who take care of the mansion are almost all these virtuous helpers, but there are not only these ladies in the house, but also the housekeepers and bookkeepers in the house, and these ladies, all they need to do is to get an idea, and even sometimes just help convey things to the head of the family, so it is more than enough to make time to come to Xuanwu to 'work'.
For example, Xuan Shijing's mother, Wang, almost all the affairs of the Hou Mansion are taken care of by Zhong Zishuo, and the Wang family can trust Zhong Zishuo, so he simply let him do it, anyway, there is no son of his own
All of a sudden, the fourth floor of the Xuanwu Arm became the most lively place in the entire Xuanwu Circle, and even the hall downstairs for dinner was not as good as it.
(To be continued.) )