Chapter 185: To do good deeds or to make trouble
A group of ruffians walked around the crowd with sticks, and countless poor people lined up honestly, waiting and waiting, it was almost noon, but the soup kitchen had not yet begun. They had come early in the morning, and had been hungry for several hours, and they were almost faint from hunger.
Just when everyone was waiting impatiently, Xia Ruxue and Lan Jingcheng finally came surrounded by everyone.
"The eldest prince has arrived, the eldest princess has arrivedβ"
With a chant, the subordinate girls and the ruffians who maintained order knelt down first, shouting: "See the eldest prince, the eldest princess......" When the surrounding poor people saw it, they also knelt down blindly, and their voices rang out unevenly, like thunder: "See the eldest prince, the eldest princess ......"
This momentum is really like a king in the world.
Lan Jingcheng was wearing a dark purple brocade robe, wearing a gold crown on his head, and his instrument was magnificent. Xia Ruxue wore a beautiful light green long dress, a magnolia hairpin, and jade pendant earrings, dressed up beautifully and refined, like an elegant fairy in the moon.
She was already beautiful, dressed up so deliberately, and standing with Lan Jingcheng, she was really like a fairy couple. Instead of being high up and down the princes and nobles, there is more approachable fairy spirit, which makes people involuntarily feel like the mountains are looking up.
Everyone secretly looked at it, and they didn't dare to look up.
This is a nobleman, or a kind-hearted nobleman who gives them porridge!
"Excuse me, everyone, get up."
After Lan Jingcheng spoke, the poor people got up cautiously and listened to him.
"The prince knows very well that the people are the foundation of the country, and although my Daqing Dynasty is becoming more and more prosperous, there are still many people at the bottom who can't afford to eat, and their lives are very embarrassing. This prince can't bear to see everyone displaced and endure hunger, they are all the people of Daqing, as long as they are full of food and work hard, life will always get better day by day. β
"Therefore, the prince and the princess decided to start today and give porridge for one month. Do your part and do what you can for the people in need. β
As soon as the words fell, the audience was silent.
Suddenly, someone shouted: "The eldest prince and the eldest princess are kind-hearted, and they are the blessing of our people!" β
"The heart of the house is kind, and the blessing of all the people...... The house is benevolent, and the blessing of all the people! Finally, under the guidance of these words, everyone shouted in unison, and for a while, the crowd was passionate and the praise was endless.
After waiting for a while, Lan Jingcheng raised his hand and began to make porridge.
The crowd suddenly became noisy, they had been hungry for a long time, and they were about to faint from hunger.
According to the order of the queue, all the poor people took their broken bowls and went to the porridge bucket one by one, and some of the people who had prepared it long ago used spoons to divide the white porridge. One person has a big spoonful, and after serving the porridge, he goes to the side to get a steamed bun, and the women, children, children and the elderly still get meat buns.
For a while, everyone was grateful, regardless of the hot porridge while blowing and eating, praising the benevolence of the eldest prince and the eldest princess, and some people were even moved to cry.
In the private room of the restaurant across the street, Xia Jinse saw it clearly.
Although Xia Ruxue came in person, she only occasionally pointed her slender jade fingers
, take a steamed bun and hand it over. Whenever a poor man's hand accidentally touched her, her eyes changed and she felt disgusted, but fortunately she quickly recovered and was not noticed by the hungry people.
In order to help his daughter, the Zhao family did it himself, jumping up and down busily, but he also won a lot of good reputation. Lan Jingcheng patrolled around, and everywhere he went, he nodded to everyone and said two words of concern, which caused countless people to shed tears and tears.
"Miss, listen to the following, but after drinking a bowl of porridge and eating some steamed buns, everyone forgot what the eldest prince did before. It's all good things about him, how can you remember that he used drugs to control officials, and his methods were vicious! β
Chasing Yun said disdainfully, these foolish people are really easy to coax, just say good things if you give something to eat, it's stupid.
Xia Jinse said: "It's normal, people are forgetful, not to mention that Lan Jingcheng's evil deeds are only aimed at officials, and there is no specific loss for these low-level people, they just listen to gossip at most." Once they get Lan Jingcheng's goodness, and it is the rice grain they need the most, of course they will spare no effort to praise him. β
One side needs the hearts of the people, and the other side needs to fill their stomachs, which is a perfect fit.
Lan Jingcheng didn't pay much, but he was able to recover the hearts of many people because of this, for a whole month, this kind of people's hearts fermented, and everyone who could promote it knew it, and the whole capital knew that the eldest prince Lan Jingcheng had reformed himself!
When the time comes, there will be the queen and the queen mother, who will help the eldest prince say good things in front of Emperor Yuanqing, and it is not impossible for him to regain the emperor's heart.
Xia Jinse's location was not far from the place where the porridge was served across the street, and he could even clearly see what the porridge looked like.
It's not the kind of gruel with little water and only a few grains of rice, but a really sweet white porridge, which is as thick as the normal meal of the average family. There are also steamed buns and steamed buns, even she smelled the aroma from such a distance, it is conceivable that Lan Jingcheng and Xia Ruxue really spent money on the soup porridge this time.
According to the standard of one bucket of rice for a bucket of porridge, at least one tael of silver, five buckets a day is five taels of silver, plus the money for steamed buns and buns, it will be at least doubled. In other words, Lan Jingcheng spends about ten to fifteen taels of silver every day for soup kitchen.
But these are not the main ones, the focus is on labor costs. Including the ruffians and hooligans he hired, as well as the bounties of his subordinates, these together will not be less than two hundred taels a day. In January, he will spend more than 6,000 taels.
Ordinary rich people do good deeds, and spending five hundred taels is already good, but Lan Jingcheng spent six thousand taels to go out, which seems to be a lot, but in exchange for countless good reputations. According to his net worth, it is definitely a super bargain.
Shooting the moon pouted and said, "Miss, the eldest prince is so famous, fake, it's really shameless. β
Chasing Yun suddenly said: "Do you want to find someone to expose them, or think of trouble and sabotage their plot?" β
Xia Jinse smiled faintly, shook his head and said, "No need, why bother!" They did it deliberately for the sake of fame, but after all, they also spent money to let the poor people eat for a month
Fill up. He pays, he reaps, and he deserves, which is much better than the evil things he did in private before. β
"That's what Miss said! They do theirs, we do ours, as long as it doesn't affect us, it doesn't matter. The two of them were convinced.
Who knows, Xia Jinse just left with the two girls, and it was only in the afternoon when someone suddenly came to report.
"Miss, no, there are a lot of people around Tong'an Hall, all clamoring to come to see a doctor. Now that Tong'an Hall has been surrounded, the doctors can't get out, and they can't see a doctor for everyone, so it's a mess! β
Xia Jinse's face sank: "What the hell is going on?" is good, how can the people go to Tong'an Hall to see a doctor? β
Everyone knows the rules of Tong'an Tang, and it is not open to the public to only treat members.
A fellow from Tong'antang who came from the back door to report the news hurriedly said, "It's Miss Er...... No, it was the eldest princess and the eldest lady who said it! That's why everyone rushed here, but the doctors couldn't show it to everyone, there were too many people, they couldn't see it at all, and it was a stalemate for a while. β
This summer is like snow!
Sure enough, they didn't have a good heart, Xia Jinse sneered, she really thought that they were doing good things for the sake of fame, how did she know that there would be a future to calculate her? She really underestimated this sinister and black-bellied couple.
Xia Jinse hurriedly took people and rushed to Tong'an Hall to see that the water outside had been surrounded by a group of poor people. The shopkeeper of Tong'an Hall, Mr. Yang, guarded the door with a group of men, shouting loudly for them not to approach, but everyone didn't listen at all, and some people held their stomachs and shouted that they had to go in to see a doctor.
A woman as elegant as a fairy is protected, standing in the crowd, like standing out from the crowd. She stood on the side of the poor and said to Tong'antang's humanity: "Shopkeeper Yang, everyone is sick, thinking that Tong'antang is a doctor with excellent medical skills, so he rushed to save his life, why are you so selfish, you can cure everyone, but you don't let everyone see a doctor?" β
There were too many people, Xia Jinse didn't notice her for a while, when this woman spoke, it attracted the approval of countless people, and she immediately found out about this woman, sure enough, it was her good sister Xia Ruxue!
Like a noble fairy, Xia Ruxue was surrounded by everyone, and together with the Zhao family, she stood at the door of Tong'an Hall, arguing with Yang Shopkeeper and others. Everyone nodded yes, shouting for Tong'an Hall to open the door quickly and let them go in to see a doctor.
"As I have said several times, we have a rule in Tong'an Tang that we only treat members. Everyone has a small illness and a small pain, just go to a general medical center to find a doctor, why do you have to come to Tong'an Hall? Shopkeeper Yang was sweating anxiously, and there was already an uncontrollable trend.
As soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately shouted: "Just because you Tong'an Tang is a Tai Doctor, we all came!" Why, the imperial doctor only treats the rich, not the poor? You obviously look down on people and despise us poor! β
These words were like igniting gunpowder, and everyone suddenly made a commotion.
Shopkeeper Yang hurriedly explained, saying that Tong'an Tang collected membership fees from the wealthy, but the silver was handed over to the imperial court to repair bridges and pave roads and provide relief to the victims. But everyone didn't listen at all, and they were noisy and shouting, and Yang was the shopkeeper
Waiting for the strength of the crowd was weak, and the voice was suddenly muffled by the wave, and he was anxious.
"Who knows if you have handed over your money to Tong'antang? Maybe I spent it myself! β
"That is, who is willing to donate money after making money, liaring ghosts!"
"Since you said that we will give relief to the victims, then we are all so poor, aren't we also disaster victims? Shouldn't you help us see a doctor for free? Otherwise, you are lying and cheating people out of money. β
I don't know who shouted a few words, and a group of civilians suddenly made a fuss, crowding forward one by one, and they were about to collapse the gate of Tong'an Hall.
"Wait! Don't move! Suddenly, a voice sounded, full of energy, although it was a woman's voice, but it resounded throughout the audience, startling everyone, and the scene suddenly became a lot quieter.
Xia Jinse appeared in front of everyone with chasing clouds and shooting the moon.
Shopkeeper Yang looked at it and was amnesty: "Miss, Miss, you are finally here!" β
When everyone heard it, they knew that the woman who appeared was the owner of Tong'an Hall, and when it opened last time, many people watched the excitement and saw her. After a moment of silence, the crowd began to make an uproar again, as if they would not stop until something happened.
"Shut up, everybody!"
Chaiyun shouted again, with enough internal strength, and everyone who heard the sound could hear it clearly: "If you come to see a doctor, you will line up honestly, and whoever makes a big fuss will be treated as a troublemaker, and they will all be arrested and put in prison!" β
After all, it is the common people, and the concept that the people do not fight with the officials is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone finally quiets down again.
Xia Jinse stepped forward at this time, and the crowd hurriedly parted ways and let her walk to the door of Tong'an Hall.
With a move in his eyes, Xia Jinse looked at the woman dressed like a fairy in the crowd below and said, "Second sister, aren't you giving porridge, why did you bring so many people to my Tong'an Hall?" Are you doing good deeds or are you taking the lead? β
(End of chapter)
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