Several doors of the Hall of Merit had been opened, and when Huo Sijin walked in with Old Madam Feng in her arms, she didn't see a young man, and Prince Qing didn't come, she secretly looked at her aunt Huo Yuan, and sure enough, she saw disappointment on Huo Yuan's face.

Huo Si thought about it, the reason why she liked to be with Huo Yuan was because Huo Yuan's joys, sorrows and sorrows were written on her face, and she was better able to deal with them than others.

There was no table in the Hall of Merit, everyone could only stand, and Old Madam Feng couldn't help complaining: "Which great good person is this?" There is not even a chair for such a stirring of teachers. ”

The old lady glanced at her and snorted coldly.

When Old Madam Feng heard this, the corners of her mouth moved, and she was about to say a few words in return, when the sound of footsteps came, and she saw a woman walking in surrounded by everyone.

Huo Sijin heard Huo Yuan exclaim in a low voice: "Eldest Princess Fangyi! ”

Before she could react, she knelt down with the crowd.

I only heard a woman's voice from above: "Excuse me." ”

The voice was cold, like a layer of snowflakes.

Everyone got up, Huo Roufeng hid behind Old Madam Feng and secretly looked over, she saw the graceful and luxurious young woman.

As Huo Yuan said, the eldest princess Fangyi has a slender figure, standing in the middle of a group of female dependents, like standing out from the crowd, her skin is as white as the first snow, her facial features are exquisite, and her expression has a hint of laziness.

She said to everyone slowly: "If you are tired of standing, then go out and sit, and you don't have to sit here." ”

The flesh on Old Madam Feng's face twitched twice, and her body took a step back, and she didn't know if the eldest princess was talking about her.

Mrs. Zhou of Chengenbo Mansion said with a smile: "Look at what the princess said, the last time the Hall of Merit opened was fifty years ago, who would be tired of standing, and it is not tiring to go out and sit, but if you still want to walk in, then you will have to wait for another fifty years, but I can't wait." ”

Mrs. Zhou is the biological mother of the Queen Mother and the grandmother of the eldest princess Fangyi, who is highly respected, and when she said this, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly relaxed, and the ladies said auspicious words one after another.

At this moment, several monks slowly walked in with the abbot around, and the abbot walked in front of the eldest princess Fangyi and clasped his hands together: "The old man is late, the eldest princess has been waiting for a long time." ”

The eldest princess Fangyi said lightly: "The abbot must have a reason for being late, so there is no need to be stubborn. ”

The abbot smiled and said, "Eldest princess, donors, the old man asks you to walk up to the Hall of Merit today, it is really a big deal. In the past, the Yellow River flooded, there was a river Li family in this hall of merit to donate good silver, for the benefit of the common people, today there is Hangzhou Huo family donated 100,000 taels of good silver, to help the court to solve the problem, the temple is to remember the Huo family's good deeds in this hall of merit. ”

Hangzhou Huojia?

Isn't it the Huo family on the Yongfeng?

The Huo family, who had previously caused a lawsuit because of the death of Wang San's grandmother in Pengcheng Bofu?

There was silence in the Hall of Merit, and Old Madam Zhou's mouth moved, but she didn't say anything after all.

Pengchengbofu is the queen's maiden home, the queen is connected to the emperor, the relationship between the queen mother and the emperor is delicate, and Chengenbofu is the queen mother's maiden family, so it is necessary to avoid it at this time.

Peng Chengbo's Mansion is on the cusp, Pengchengbo's Mansion just sent someone to send incense and silver, and did not come to participate in the festival, but in the main hall, there are the wives of the first assistant Guo Yong, and there are also the wives of Lu Zheng and Zhao Xu, their husbands and the queen mother's political views are different, and the whole dynasty knows it, as for Guo Yong's secret command of Shuntianfu to arrest people, it is also a lice on the bald head, which is obvious.

Mrs. Guo could feel the eyes of everyone quietly looking at her, and in this matter, Mrs. Zhou didn't say anything, so she wanted to see what she was going to say.

Mrs. Guo covered her mouth with a trowel, coughed dryly, and then looked at the abbot and waited for the abbot to continue.

The abbot looked outside the hall and raised his voice and said, "Master Huo, please come into the hall." ”

Everyone looked over, only to see a child walking in from outside the hall, this child was about ten years old at most, with a white and chubby face, and on the two small buns on his head that could barely be tied up, each with four pearls the size of his finger belly, lining a small face with a radiant face.

Whose child is this? So good-looking?

But soon everyone understood that this was the Huo family in Hangzhou, the legendary Huo Jiu who had seen the Queen Mother.

Huo Jiu entered the hall, followed the appearance of an adult, clasped his fists and saluted, and the abbot smiled and said: "This little benefactor Huo is the son of the Huo family in Hangzhou." ”

Huo Jiuwei smiled first: "The kid is the ninth in the family, the sister has not yet left the cabinet, so she let the kid come over, the kid is young and doesn't know how to measure, but I still remember that my father once taught us to accumulate virtue and do good deeds when he was alive, therefore, the kid brought 100,000 taels of silver this time for the purpose of military salary, the kid doesn't understand the big truth, but he knows that with the military salary, the soldiers can support their families and have no worries, so they can better serve the court." ”

As she spoke, she clapped her little hands and said in a loud voice, "Carry it in." ”

From the moment Huo Jiu entered the hall, Huo Sijin's eyes never moved away from her, this was the second time she saw Huo Jiu, compared to the last time Huo Jiu suddenly ran out of the bamboo bushes, this time Huo Jiu was more calm and calm.

With such a big scene today, even Old Madam Feng was almost out of shape, but Huo Jiu didn't panic at all, as if this was not a hall of merit that only opened once in fifty years, and she was not facing the eldest princess and the first-class women in the capital, but more like in her own back garden, all she saw in front of her own relatives.

Huo Sijin sighed silently in her heart, maybe this is the difference between people, just like when she was learning cooking, Cui Wei also learned together, but she could learn Cui Wei ten times or eight times, but when she was a girl, she and Cui Wei were also together, and when Cui Wei could cut clothes, she couldn't even do socks well.

Huo Jiu's words fell, and a large box was lifted, a total of thirty-two. There was no place in the temple at all, and these boxes were placed from the inside of the temple to the outside of the temple.

Huo Jiu walked to the front of a box, stretched out his hand to open the lid of the box, and suddenly there was a silver light, and there were ten taels of big ingots in the box.

Huo Jiu walked to the second box again, and then opened the lid of the box, which was still full of silver ingots.

She didn't bother to open all the thirty-two boxes, and for a while, the needles in the hall could be heard, and there was only the sound of her opening the boxes.

Those who can stand in the hall are all the most numbered people in the capital, and the officials and relatives who can be counted, all of whom have seen the world and silver, but no one has ever seen so much silver at one time, and the hall of merit is like a silver vault.

Huo Jiu also seemed to be infected by these silvers, and her voice was full of joy: "Two hundred catties per box, no, it's three thousand two hundred taels, and here are thirty-two boxes, a total of one hundred and twenty-two thousand four hundred taels of silver." ”