Even though Mrs. Tai is doing some repairs in her ancestral home, she still has to go out and tell her about such important matters.
"Okay, then the second aunt will go and tell her."
"Then I'll go with my sister-in-law."
Watching the two of them leave, Huo Xi walked towards her yard and told Xiang Xiang, "Go and tell your guy and ask him to take my seal to the bank and get some banknotes."
"Okay, girl."
Just as Vanilla was about to leave, Huo Xi took a look at her.
"Girl, what are you looking at?"
"You have no body?"
"What body?"
"You've been married for a while, right?"
Vanilla stamped her feet: "Girl!" She glared at Huo Xi, causing the maids around her to laugh.
"You can't do it, Vanilla!" Everyone teased her.
"You can't do that! My family is strong and strong, which I don't want for the time being. We have agreed that we will not have children until the girl gets married."
"Ah? Zhufeng agrees?" Huo Xi was a little surprised.
"How dare he disagree!"
"Tsk, tsk, it's different now that we're married, look at the tone of her voice." Mother Ma also teased her.
Vanilla stamped her feet again: "I'm not going to tell you what you said. I'm going to find my own place." She ran away quickly.
At first she was just a little girl who was secretly sold by her stepmother. Fortunately, she met a girl and was taken in by her to stay with her.
The girl married her to Zhufeng again, allowing her to have a family. She was grateful and wanted to serve the girl well. They also liked the child, and it was only two years later that she had nothing to worry about.
Mother Ma looked at Vanilla's running figure and said, "Girl, Shi Hua doesn't think so too, does she? She doesn't seem to be moving at all."
Huo Xi felt warm in her heart, "Let them go. It's okay for girls to have children two years later."
"Exactly, the recovery will be quick then." Mother Ma followed up and said that when the girl gets married, she will also remind her that she will have children two years later.
In the evening, Huo Xi found out that the madam had also donated five thousand taels. Several young ladies and young masters also donated hundreds of taels with their own savings.
Bi Ke came over to share the meal and whispered to Huo Nian: "Fifth brother, how much did you donate?"
"All the money I have has been used by my sister to buy property. I only have more than one thousand taels, and I plan to donate one thousand taels."
Bi Ke opened her mouth in awe, "Fifth brother, you have so much money!"
Huo Nian scratched his head. He knew he was rich. Seeing Sister Ninth like this, he felt a little shy: "I knew how to save money when I was a child. My parents let me save the fish I caught, netted, and sold.
.You can save a lot in a year.”
Bi Ke and Zhang Mao had just envied their brother for having so much money, but when they heard this, they felt a little pitiful for him, "When Brother Wu was saving money, I even asked the wet nurse to hold him and feed him."
The three little ones chattered about their childhood, which made Huo Xi couldn't help but laugh.
"Sister Ning, Sister Ning!" a loud voice sounded outside the courtyard door.
"It's Uncle San!" Several younger ones slid down their chairs.
Huo Xi smiled, wasn't it? Third uncle's loud voice was so recognizable that everyone in the family could recognize him.
"Uncle San." Several people greeted him.
"Are you eating?"
"Yes, third uncle, do you want to use it together?"
"No, no, uncle used it outside." As he said this, he took out a few banknotes from his pocket.
"Here, here are two thousand taels."
"Uncle Third, what are you doing?"
"Our third room and the second room have the same donation of 5,000 taels." He is the commander of the Jinyi Guard. Although he is not as high as the second brother's Shence Guard Commander, and not as high as the elder brother, he cannot be too much lower than the second brother.
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"Third uncle..." This is not necessary. The number of flesh and blood in the family will not be disclosed to the public.
"It's okay, keep it. Third uncle has money, and he doesn't need these two thousand taels. Also, didn't you say that you want to tell your third aunt about a profitable business? Third uncle will follow Sister Ning from now on. You
The bride price and dowry for my younger brothers and sisters all depend on you."
After speaking, he patted Huo Xi on the shoulder, laughed and left.
Huo Xi watched him go away, looked at the banknote in his hand, shook his head and laughed. When he turned around again, he saw Nian'er, Biko and Zhang Mao all staring at him.
"do what?"
"Tsk tsk, eldest sister, you are so pitiful. You are also responsible for the dowry and bride price of the sixth sister and the tenth brother." Bi Ke felt that her eldest sister was quite pitiful.
Huo Xi couldn't help but laugh.
Later, Zhufeng took the banknote back. Huo Xi looked at it and put it in the box together with the banknotes in the house.
"Girl, is it necessary to donate so much?"
Vanilla covered her heart. Two million taels. Zhufeng kept all the money he had saved over the years for her. Although it was a lot, compared with the two million, it was still not worth it.
Huo Xi took a look at the box and said, "The more than one million taels in it are the Wu family's wealth that was collected at the beginning. These ill-gotten gains can just be used for those who need them."
Uh... Vanilla and Grandma Ma looked at each other and almost forgot about this incident.
"Then just donate his family's wealth." The girl posted so many posts.
"Now the whole capital knows that I am doing business. Although they don't know my family background, it is a fact that I am a daughter of an honorable noble and compete with the people for profit. I will donate the money this time to reduce the criticism from outside.
"
Mother Ma nodded repeatedly: "What the girl said is true. A woman's reputation is the most important, and a splash of dirty water can kill someone. Back then, our house was a first-class Duke's house, and the Wu family couldn't get most of the ladies outside.
Just because she was held upright by a concubine and her body was no longer upright, the ladies from a famous family looked down upon her."
"I don't care that much, but when I think about Nian'er, I don't want to affect him because of me."
"It's right for a girl to think so. Since a woman is connected to her family, her parents, brothers and sisters, this reputation cannot be destroyed. Otherwise, why would the whole family be punished if one person commits a crime? Whenever a person's words and deeds are inappropriate, the whole family will be punished.
It’s shameless for a woman to go out.”
Huo Xi couldn't help but sigh. It seems that no matter what environment you are in, you must do what is appropriate for the environment. Everything must be in line with the public order and good customs of the time.
The next day, Concubine Zhang's courtiers came into the house again, and Huo Xi handed her the banknotes in the box.
"It contains not only donations from our family, but also a little bit of the family's thoughts."
"Great kindness. I will truthfully report the situation of your mansion to your concubine. These days, the emperor has a sad look on his face, and even his concubine and the nobles in the harem dare not raise their voices."
"I hope our small kindness can bring a little warmth to the people in the disaster-stricken areas."
"Your house is a great benefactor. I will report it to you truthfully."
Zhongcui Palace.
Concubine Zhang thought about how some empresses’ natal families had sent them silver notes yesterday. Some of them were as many as hundreds of thousands of taels, and some were highly praised by the emperor. There were also some who were less, and the emperor also praised them constantly, saying, "My dear concubines, they miss me." What I am thinking and worrying about is what I am worried about. I feel very relieved."
I don’t know what happened to her natal family, but it was a first-class Duke’s residence.