Duan Shaoqing returned home and went straight to Ruyi Hall.

The old lady didn't know that Xin Yu had donated 50,000 taels, and when she saw her son come in, she asked with a smile, "Why did you come back at this time?"

"Mother, give me a thousand taels from your private account."

The old lady sat up straight: "Is something wrong?"

Now the second wife, Zhu's housekeeper, all kinds of expenses in the family are in public accounts.

"Donate silver to the Dingbei disaster area."

When the old lady heard it, something was wrong: "Didn't you donate six hundred taels a few days ago."

Although these six hundred taels are in the name of the eldest son, they are from the public account, which represents the face of the Shaoqing Mansion.

Duan Shaoqing's cheeks twitched, and he squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Has my mother heard, Qingqing donated 50,000 taels to the disaster area."

"How much?"

Duan Shaoqing said word by word: "Fifty thousand taels!"

The old lady took a breath and covered her heart.

"Mother, are you alright?" Looking at the old lady's reaction, Duan Shaoqing regretted it a little.

If my mother couldn't bear it, she would suffer.

The old lady waved her hand, and her voice was a little unsteady: "Did you really donate 50,000 taels?"

Duan Shaoqing nodded heavily: "Now that it has been spread all over the place, there will be no fakes."

"This girl!" The old lady patted the arm of her chair.

In the past, it was still cost-effective to spend a small amount of money to earn a good reputation, but the old lady of 50,000 taels was really distressed.

How good a reputation is worth 50,000 taels?

Fame is almost fine, but too much is a burden.

After the old lady was distressed, she asked her son, "Then why do you want to donate another 1,000 taels?"

Duan Shaoqing was held up by Xin Yu and felt embarrassed, but such a large expenditure had to be made clear: "...... That's it, the girl persuaded me to donate less in front of a bunch of people, and if I didn't say anything, I would be laughed at."

The old lady took a deep breath and said slowly, "You don't go to Qingqing in the future."

Duan Shaoqing also wanted to give himself a mouthful.

Why doesn't he have a long memory!

may be the only consolation, because of the donation of more than 1,000 taels of silver, he can get a post of a banquet in the lotus garden, and then he will have a little sense of existence with the emperor.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the snow was falling, but there were many more carriages and sedan chairs on the street.

The Lotus Garden is a royal garden, not to mention ordinary people, even civil and military officials are usually not allowed to enter, so most of the people who go to the banquet are excited. Especially those wealthy businessmen, in addition to excitement, there is also apprehension.

Xiaolian lifted the corner of the curtain of the car, and looked excited: "Girl, there are so many carriages and horses!"

Xin Yuwaner: "So happy?"

Xiaolian nodded: "The maid never thought that she could come to the royal garden."

How far away that would be to her. Not only for her, but also for her young girl.

After following the girl, she realized that the wealth that the young girl had could do so many things.

It can save people, open your eyes, and live a happy life.

And her young girl obviously has these, but she can only nest in the deep boudoir, and she can't even tolerate this.

As soon as she thought of this, Xiaolian hated Shaoqing's Mansion to death.

"Then we'll take a look at it later." Xin Yu laughed.

Xiaolian quickly pulled out of her sad mood, put down the curtain of the car, and nodded vigorously at Xin Yu: "Hmm."

It didn't take long for the Lotus Garden to arrive.

The New Year is coming soon, the lotus garden is full of lights, and the palace people in new clothes are at the door to welcome the arrival of guests.

As soon as Xin Yu got out of the car, she saw Duan Shaoqing, and greeted her with the corner of her skirt: "Uncle."

Duan Shaoqing stiffened when he heard this voice, and slowly turned around.

The girl came with her skirt and stepped on the snow, with a bright smile, but in Duan Shaoqing's eyes, she was like a ruthless sharp knife.

Cut him a piece of meat at a time, and cut him a piece of meat at a time......

Duan Shaoqing took a half step back, noticed many eyes coming, and made a kind look: "Qingqing, feast

Let's go back to Shaoqing's Mansion with my uncle after the banquet is gone, the New Year will be over soon, and your grandmother has been thinking about you."

Xin Yu raised her lips: "Okay."

Duan Shaoqing: "......"

"Miss Kou." A voice *** came.

Xin Yu looked sideways, and it turned out to be King Xiu.

"His Royal Highness King Xiu." The crowd saluted in unison.

Among them, the officials were just that, and those rich people were so excited that their faces were red, and they wanted to take a closer look but didn't dare to look up casually.

King Xiu returned the salute: "You are all Xiao Wang's distinguished guests today, so you don't need to be polite."

When everyone straightened up, King Xiu smiled at Xin Yu: "Miss Kou is at the top of the list of good people, and Xiao Wang admires it. Miss Kou, please—"

Xin Yu bent his knees: "His Royal Highness King Xiu has tormented the people's daughter."

"Everybody, please." King Xiu finished politely and accompanied Xin Yu to the garden.

The expressions of the people who followed behind were different, and the heart said that Miss Kou was really majestic, and the prince personally led the way.

Thinking about it again, people donated 50,000 taels, and my mind was balanced.

The only one who is unbalanced is Duan Shaoqing.

In his mind, he is Kou Qingqing's uncle, King Xiu attaches so much importance to his niece, how can he look at him differently as an elder, who knows that he is just one of the "everyone" in King Xiu's mouth......

Walking in the crowd and staring at the back of King Xiu, Duan Shaoqing's heart was blocked.

King Xiu took Xin Yu for a while, stopped and told the palace people waiting there, "Take care of your distinguished guests."

"Yes."

"Miss Kou can just walk around first, and Xiao Wang will go to the door to greet the visitors."

Xin Yu bent his knees and watched King Xiu walk back.

As the king of the show, there is no need to wait for the arrival of guests at the door. Presumably, after this banquet, King Xiu will win a lot of fame.

Think about King Qing, who went to Dingbei to harvest the good name, King Xiu is temperament is like this, or if he does it intentionally, Xin Yu can understand.

She doesn't have much dislike for King Xiu.

Although she learned from Lord He's mouth that her mother and son had left the palace after discovering King Qing's mother and son, she could see clearly that there would be others without An Concubine. The mother ran away not because of another woman, but because she was disappointed in that person.

"Miss Kou, the contemptible person is the owner of Jinde Rice Shop, and I heard that Xingren Rice Shop is also your property...... a wealthy businessman came over.

Soon Xinyu was surrounded by a group of wealthy businessmen.

Duan Shaoqing saw it in his eyes, and his face turned dark.

This girl is really not ashamed, talking and laughing with a group of men!

He Qingxiao walked in and saw this scene, but he didn't smile.

Sure enough, as he thought, Miss Kou would be the most eye-catching person at this banquet.

The subordinates who came with He Qingxiao had complicated faces.

Miss Kou holds the moon in the stars, and there is not even a living creature within one foot of them except him, and the difference is too great.

At this time, in the palace, Emperor Xingyuan finished reading the final donation account book presented by Zhang Shilang, and his eyes fell on the name at the front.

"In other words, the one who donated the most to the disaster area in Dingbei is Miss Kou."

A little girl donated 50,000 taels of silver, which is really unthinkable.

What kind of person is Miss Kou?

Emperor Xingyuan became more and more curious.

"At this time, the Lotus Garden banquet is about to start, right?"

The great eunuch Sun Yan should be "yes".

Emperor Xingyuan got up: "Set up the lotus garden, and I will go to see the good people who donate silver for Dingbei."