The next day, the housekeeper of the general’s mansion came to Xiao Baili and said that the food was ready.
Xiao Baili also knew that Ge Chunru was under house arrest, and she couldn’t squeeze anyone, and it was meaningless to stay in the general’s mansion.
So she took Xiao Hanyi outside of the city to distribute porridge.
They distributed porridge for several days in a row, but it was not the kind of thin porridge, but half-dry.
In addition, each person was given a hot multi-grain steamed bun.
Because of the heavy snow before, some villagers in the village suffered and ran to the capital to take refuge and beg.
But they all gathered outside the city and became a group of refugees.
But there were few people to give alms, so life was tough.
The Emperor sent people to settle them, helped to build shacks, and distributed some dry multi-grain cakes every day, but it was just to ensure they would not starve to death.
Therefore, after drinking a bowl of hot porridge and getting a hot steamed bun, everyone looked at Xiao Baili, who was standing not far away, and thought that this lady was beautiful and kind.
As for Xiao Yuanshi, who spent money to provide food, he was completely ignored by everyone.
That day, Liang Mingcheng and Xi Xinheng met and mentioned this matter.
Liang Mingcheng said: “What is Xiao Yuanshi thinking about all day? Building roads and distributing porridge, but people are not thanking him.”
Now, everyone in the capital knows that General Xiao did something to let his ex-wife and his children down.
Every day he has nightmares and feels uneasy, so he can only try his best to compensate his ex-wife and children.
When his ex-wife wanted to build a road, he paid for someone to build it.
When his daughter saw the refugees outside the city were pitiful, he spent money to buy food and distribute porridge.
Everyone in the capital had heard the reason, so many people thought that Xiao Yuanshi must have done something too much, so he had to make such compensation out of guilt.
Then, whether the people outside the capital benefited from the road construction or the refugees outside the city, they were all grateful to Mrs. Kong and Xiao Baili.
No one said good things about Xiao Yuanshi, and some people laughed at him behind his back for being stupid.
Xi Xinheng smiled softly: “Maybe he was tricked by Shi Qingluo and Xiao Hanzheng.”
Only Shi Qingluo and Xiao Hanzheng could think of such a method.
Xiao Yuanshi might have thought that he spent money to do good deeds, and then people would remember the kindness of the general’s mansion.
He didn’t expect that every time he did something, the capital would spread the reason for his doing so, which made people laugh at him.
Liang Mingcheng laughed: “We thought of the same thing.”
At this time, he was even more grateful that he didn’t try to win over Xiao Yuanshi, otherwise he would have stepped into a big pit.
He has to say that his youngest son has a good eye for this.
Xi Xinheng curled his lips: “Stay away from Xiao Yuanshi in the future.”
Liang Mingcheng nodded: “Of course.”
Not only the two of them thought so, but many people in the capital thought so.
Xiao Yuanshi also knew what was spread in the capital and how others looked at him in a few days.
He was almost so angry that he vomited blood and fainted on the spot.
Just when he was furious, the housekeeper suddenly ran over in a hurry.
“General, the Wang Family came to the door and said that the young master beat their young master and came to settle the score.”
“What do you think we should do?”
Xiao Yuanshi’s face was very dark: “How many times that stinky boy has caused trouble?”
The housekeeper replied: “This is the fifth time.”
Since the young master moved into the general’s mansion, he likes to take the guards of the general’s mansion out for a stroll.
He likes to meddle in other people’s business. When he sees someone bullying others or molesting decent women, he will ask the guards to beat them. Then he would say: “My former father is General Xiao. Although we have broken off the relationship, he said he would compensate me. If you are not satisfied, go to the general’s mansion to find him.”
He only beat several court officials in officials’ sons the previous few times. Who would have thought that he would directly beat the son of the Wang Family today…
Xiao Yuanshi was going crazy. Where was his well-behaved and sensible one son? How did he become like this?
The housekeeper looked at the mad general and said cautiously: “And several shops in the capital came to collect debts today.”
“The young master spent more than 10,000 taels of silver outside, and all of it was recorded in the general’s mansion account.”
Xiao Yuanshi was very puzzled: “What did he buy?”
A few days ago, Xiao Hanyi became closer and closer to him, and said that he wanted to buy something, but he had no money.
He asked him if he could use the money from the general’s mansion to buy it or go out to buy things and record it in the account.
At that time, he thought that children could not spend much money, so he agreed to buy things and record them in the general’s mansion.
But he gave a premise that buying shops, fields, farms, gold and silver jewelry, and other large sums.
He also prevented Xiao Hanyi from being taught by Shi Qingluo and others to calculate him.
Xiao Hanyi agreed very obediently at that time.
But it was only a few days, and he spent tens of thousands of taels.
The housekeeper replied truthfully: “The young master bought a lot of cloth and cotton in the cloth shop and sent them to make clothes for the elderly and children among the refugees outside the city.”
“Then he went to the bookstore and bought a lot of four treasures of the study and sent them to the poor students who went to the capital for the imperial examination.”
“He also bought a few carts of books and rented a small courtyard to put the books in, providing free reading for scholars who can’t afford to buy books.”
“Hot water is also provided every day, and an iron stove table and honeycomb coal that can be used when the weather warms up are also bought in the courtyard for reading.”
“All these expenses are recorded in the accounts of the general’s mansion.”
Xiao Yuanshi’s eyes were a little dark when he heard it: “This evil creature must have done it on purpose.”
These were all things that can buy people’s hearts. The stinky boy took the money from the general’s mansion to do it, and he became a good person, but he asked him, his old man, to spend money.
“No, we have to send these two little ancestors away.” He really couldn’t stand it.
Xiao Baili spent a lot of money on porridge.
After distributing the porridge, many lonely elderly people and children lost their parents in the capital, they were very pitiful, and they had to send some warmth to these families.
Each family sent a gift, including food, vegetables, clothes, eggs, and brown sugar.
The gift was not much, but there were so many families sent it, adding up to several thousand taels of silver.
He was still thinking about how to send Xiao Baili back to the Xiao Family Mansion first so that he could cultivate a good relationship with his youngest son.
Who would have thought that his youngest son was also not a good person, and was dedicated to cheating on his father……
Forget it, he better send them back together this time. No matter how prosperous his general’s mansion was, it was enough for the two devils to defeat.
The housekeeper reminded: “General, the people from the Wang Family are still waiting outside.”
What else can Xiao Yuanshi do? He can only go and deal with it in person with a dark face.
He heard from the housekeeper that his son took people to beat the young master of the Wang Family because he wanted to force good people to go back as slaves.
The main point was, although that young master was an illegitimate son of the Wang Family, even the legitimate son has to give in to him.
Xiao Yuanshi was so angry. What does it have to do with him if that evildoer buys slaves?
The headmaster of the Wang Family came directly. He was so rude and scolded Xiao Yuanshi, accusing him of not being able to discipline children.
Xiao Yuanshi could only hold his nose and apologize, saying a lot of nice things, finally compensated a lot of good medicinal herbs, and then sent him away.
Finally, he went to the courtyard of Xiao Baili and Xiao Hanyi with a dark face and anger.
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