The gold, silver, and silk were presented as rewards, and the servants directly sent all the things to Haoye Hall.

Xue Zhi didn't even look at them. He waved his hand and said to Zheng Xiu: "You can do with the things. You can use the gold or melt it into jewelry. It's up to you."

The emperor negotiated 500 taels of gold. It was the first time that Zheng Xiu saw so much golden gold. She was still worried before that the silver her father gave her was obviously not enough in the Duke of Qing's Mansion, and she didn't know what to do in the future. Suddenly, she had so much money in her hands.

She didn't know how to use it for a moment, so she just said, "Put it in the warehouse first, and take it out when you need it. Where is the warehouse key? Where is it?"

Xue Zhi smiled indifferently, "It's just a reward, not worth anything." As he said that, he suddenly slapped the back of his head, "I have such a bad memory that I forgot to give you the things." He opened the box, searched for a while, and found a bunch of keys.

He handed the key to Zheng Xiu, "This is the key to the warehouse of Hao Yetang. I am not good at management. The things and the money I saved in the past are all in it."

Zheng Xiu was surprised and said, "You just stuffed it into the box casually?" Hao Yetang didn't have many people, but there were also a group of servants. What if someone with bad intentions stole the key while he was away?

Xue Zhi took him to the chest and pulled out several secret compartments from the corners. "They are not placed anywhere. These are secret compartments. Ordinary people will not find them if they don't know about them."

Zheng Xiu took a closer look and found that the secret compartments were indeed made ingeniously. She had opened the chest frequently in the past few days, but she never found anything else hidden. Xue Zhi

said again: "In fact, they are not placed randomly." As he said that, he opened Zheng Xiu's dressing box again, took out all the jewelry inside and put them on the table. The bottom layer of the dressing box was hollow. He pulled out the partition and found a letter lying inside.

"I wrote a letter and put it here, telling you something. Look, you haven't touched the jewelry I chose for you?"

He was right. The jewelry he chose looked very expensive. Two of the hairpins were made of pure gold inlaid with rubies and sapphires, but Zheng Xiu didn't touch them. Therefore, she didn't find the mechanism in the dressing table.

Zheng Xiu took the letter and prepared to read it, but Xue Zhi snatched it away quickly, and said with a strange expression: "I'm back, don't read this letter. If you don't know something, just ask me directly."

Zheng Xiu glanced at him, "It was written to me, why can't I read it." Then she spread her slender hands in front of him, "Give it to me."

Xue Zhi couldn't do it well, so he had to put the letter back in her hand.

"Where is that kid A'shao? How come he disappeared after returning from the front yard?" Xue Zhi laughed, and then said, "I'll go see him."

Then he strode away, as if escaping.

Zheng Xiu unfolded the letter and saw that it said:

'My wife A'shao, I feel so happy to see you in person.

I haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss you day and night.'

She couldn't help but smile, and then continued to read.

In the letter, Xue Zhi explained some of the situations in the Duke of Qing's Mansion and Haoye Hall, and then wrote that he was very happy that she could see this letter, because it meant that she was willing to bring A'shao to Beijing to find him...

His handwriting was very neat at the beginning, and he was probably really happy at the thought of it at the end, so his handwriting became a little flamboyant.

The letter contained only a few words, mostly describing how happy he was incoherently...

Zheng Xiu read it over and over again, and couldn't stop smiling.

This guy, he can actually write love letters!

Outside in the yard, Xue Shao was playing with Ji Lei, and then his father came over.

Xue Zhi had a suspicious blush on his face.

Xue Shao couldn't help but ask with concern: "Dad, why is your face red, are you not feeling well?" Thinking that it might be caused by the wounds on his father's body, his little face was full of worry.

Xue Zhi coughed lightly, "Don't worry so much, kid."

Xue Shao said "Oh", thinking that he was just concerned about his father's injury, why didn't he let people ask more questions?

"Have you neglected your boxing skills during this period? Show me some for Dad to see." Xue Zhi asked seriously.

Xue Shao said, "Of course not." Then he started to practice.

Xue Zhi watched absentmindedly, still thinking about the letter...

He was not sure that Zheng Xiu would come to the capital at that time, and he thought that even if Zheng Xiu came, she would not be here, so he did not care too much when writing, and just said whatever came to his mind. Now he could not remember what he wrote besides explaining some things, he only remembered that he wrote a lot of words like missing her and being glad that she was willing to come to the Duke of Qing's Mansion for him... He didn't know how she would react after reading it.

When he was absent-minded, Xue Shao had finished a set of boxing.

Because his father did not stop, he practiced another set.

After finishing the two sets of boxing, his father still didn't say anything, so he performed another set of Five Animals Exercises.

After finishing the Five Animals Exercises, Xue Shao stopped with sweat all over his face.

Xue Zhi was still frowning thinking about the letter. When he saw him walking up to him, he reacted, "Have you finished? Well, I did quite well." He nodded seriously and said, "But this set of Changquan emphasizes strength and speed. Your strength and speed are not up to par yet. You still need to practice diligently. Only after years of practice can you achieve some success."

Xue Shao: ...

"Dad, I just practiced the Five Animal Exercises."

The Five Animal Exercises are a kind of Qigong practice for health and physical fitness. It imitates the movements of five animals: tiger, deer, bear, ape, and bird (crane) to achieve the effect of external movement and internal stillness, stillness in movement, both hardness and softness, training both inside and outside, and combining both inside and outside. This set of exercises emphasizes the inner stillness of movement, seeking stillness in movement, combining movement and stillness, having both hardness and softness, and training both inside and outside.

"Dad, are you really watching me boxing?" Xue Shao muttered dissatisfiedly.

Xue Zhi coughed again and said awkwardly: "Dad was distracted by something just now, you...you fight again, Dad must watch it."

Xue Shao was already sweating all over, how could he fight? Even if he could fight again, he didn't have the strength just now.

He looked at his father with resentment.

Xue Shao laughed and said: "Forget it, wait until you have a rest before fighting for Dad. Little kid, don't make such an ugly face."

Xue Shao: ...

Blame me?

After reading the letter, Zheng Xiu took the key to open the storeroom and asked someone to put all the things the emperor had given her.

She also went in to take a look. It would have been fine if she hadn't taken a look, but this look really gave her a shock.

No wonder she used to think Xue Zhi was a spendthrift, the wealth in this warehouse is really rich. Not to mention those expensive-looking big items, makeup and satin materials, there are several large boxes of silver alone.

Minghui and others followed her into the warehouse, and they were also shocked. They were not maids who served their masters closely before, so naturally they had never seen the warehouse of Hao Yetang. When Xue Zhi was not around, the key had always been in the hands of Princess Guihe, so they naturally didn't know that Hao Yetang was so wealthy.

After Zheng Xiu brought Xue Shao back, she didn't mention the matter of the warehouse. They thought that the second master might not be willing to give her the key, so they didn't mention it.

Zheng Xiu couldn't help laughing. Her family was living a hard life guarding the treasury. Before, she was trying to show off her power in front of Chou Gui and the Princess, and she often withheld several months' wages from the servants in Hao Yetang. Her private money could make up for it once, but it was not certain that it could make up for it every time in the future. There was really no need to worry about some of these things, and she would be more confident in the future.

"Minghui, where is the account book of the private treasury?" Zheng Xiu thought about counting it.

Minghui said embarrassedly: "The account book should be with the second master or the princess."

It happened that Xue Zhi was waiting outside and was getting impatient. Thinking that Zheng Xiu should have read the letter but had not responded yet, he came all the way to find her.

The warehouse of Haoyetang had not been open for a long time. As soon as he entered, he smelled a moldy smell and frowned, saying, "The account book is in my front yard... A-choo!" Then he sneezed loudly.