The next day, the steward 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, so she couldn't bully anyone and there was no point in staying in the general's mansion.
So he took Erlang to the outside of the city to distribute porridge.
We had been distributing porridge for several days in a row, but it was not thin porridge at all, but semi-dry.
Plus a hot multi-grain steamed bun for each person.
Because of the heavy snow, villagers in some villages suffered and ran to the capital to seek refuge and beg.
However, they all gathered outside the city and became a group of refugees.
But there weren’t that many people giving alms, so life was very difficult.
The emperor did send people to resettle them, help them build shacks to live in, and distribute some dry grain cakes every day, but that was just to ensure that 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 distributing porridge, and they all 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 brought up this matter.
Liang Mingcheng said: "What is Xiao Yuanshi thinking about all day? He is repairing roads and distributing porridge, but people are not thanking him."
Everyone in the capital knows now that General Xiao has done something that was unfair to his ex-wife and separated him from his own children.
I have nightmares every day and feel uneasy, so I try my best to make amends to my ex-wife and children.
His ex-wife wanted to build a road, so he paid someone to do it.
His daughter felt sorry for the refugees outside the city, so she spent money to buy food and provide them with porridge.
Everyone in the capital city heard the reason, so many people believed that Xiao Yuanshi must have done something too extreme in the past, which made him feel guilty and make such compensation.
Then, whether it was the people outside the capital who benefited from the road construction or the refugees outside the city, they were all grateful to Kong and Xiao Baili.
Anyway, no one really said good things about Xiao Yuanshi, and some people even laughed at him behind his back, saying he was stupid.
Xi Xinheng laughed softly: "Maybe Shi Qingluo and his wife had planned this."
Only Shi Qingluo and his wife could come up with such an idea.
Xiao Yuanshi might still think that he spent money to do good deeds, and that people would remember the kindness of the General's Mansion.
He probably didn't expect that every time he did something, the reason why he did it would spread around the capital, which made him a laughing stock.
Liang Mingcheng laughed, "We thought of the same thing."
At this moment, he was extremely grateful that he did not try to win over Xiao Yuanshi, otherwise he would have fallen into a big trap.
I have to say that his youngest son has a good vision in this regard.
Xi Xinheng curled his lips and said, "Stay away from Xiao Yuanshi in the future."
Liang Mingcheng nodded, "Of course."
Not only the two of them thought so, many people in the capital city thought so.
Within a few days, Xiao Yuanshi found out what was being said in the capital and how other people viewed him.
I was so angry that I almost fainted and vomited blood.
Just when I was getting very angry, the housekeeper suddenly ran over in a hurry.
"General, the Duke's family came to our house and said that the young master beat up their young master, and they came to settle the score."
"What do you think we should do?"
Xiao Yuanshi's face was extremely dark, "Is this the nth time that brat has caused trouble?"
The butler replied: "This is the fifth time."
Ever since the young master moved into the general's mansion, he likes to go out with the guards of the general's mansion.
He likes to meddle in other people's business. If he sees anyone bullying others or molesting decent women, he will order the guards to beat them up.
In the previous few times, he only beat the sons of a few court officials, but who would have thought that today he would directly beat the son of the prince...
Xiao Yuanshi was really going crazy. Where was she as well-behaved and sensible as promised? This?
The butler looked at the mad general and said cautiously, "And several shops in the capital came to collect their debts today."
"The young master spent more than 10,000 taels of silver outside, and all of it was recorded in the account of the general's mansion."
Xiao Yuanshi was very puzzled, "What did he spend?"
A few days ago, Erlang became more and more friendly to him and said that he wanted to buy something, but he had no money.
Ask him if he can use the money from the general's mansion to buy it, or go out and buy things and keep an account.
He thought that the child wouldn't spend much money, so he agreed to put the purchase on the General's Mansion's account.
However, there is a prerequisite: you cannot buy large amounts of money such as shops, land, farms, gold and silver jewelry, etc.
He was also trying to prevent Erlang from being taught by Shi Qingluo and others to plot against him.
Erlang agreed obediently at that time.
But in just a few days, he had spent tens of thousands of taels.
The housekeeper replied truthfully: "The young master bought a lot of cloth and cotton at the cloth shop and sent them to make clothes for the elderly and children among the refugees outside the city."
"I went to the bookstore and bought a lot of four treasures of the study and sent them to the poor students who were going to Beijing for the imperial examinations."
"I also bought several carts of books and rented a small yard to put the books in, so that students who couldn't afford to buy books could read them for free."
"Hot water is provided every day, and we also bought an iron stove table for reading in the yard, and honeycomb coal that can be used until the weather warms up."
"All these expenses are recorded in the General's Mansion."
Xiao Yuanshi's eyes darkened when he heard this, "This evil creature must have done this on purpose."
These are all things that can win people's hearts. That brat took the money from the General's Mansion and did it. He acted like a good guy, but asked his father to spend the money.
"No, we have to send these two little ancestors away." He really couldn't stand it anymore.
Xiao Baili spent a lot of money on providing porridge.
After distributing the porridge, he said that there were many lonely elderly people and orphaned children in the capital who were very pitiful, and he had to bring some warmth to these families.
Each family gave a gift, which included food, vegetables, cloth, eggs and brown sugar.
It may seem like a small amount, but with so many families sending it, it would add up to several thousand taels of silver.
He was also thinking about how to send Xiao Baili back to the Xiao Mansion first so that he could develop a good relationship with his youngest son.
Who would have thought that the younger son was even more of a jerk and would deliberately cheat his father...
Well, let’s send them back together this time, otherwise no matter how big his general’s mansion is, it won’t be enough to defeat these two evil creatures.
The housekeeper reminded, "General, the people from the Prince's Mansion are still waiting outside."
What else did Xiao Yuanshi do? He could only go and deal with it personally with a gloomy face.
When his son heard from the housekeeper that he was trying to force innocent people to be slaves because of the young master of the Prince's Mansion, he took people to beat up the young master.
The key point is that the young man is the most favored illegitimate son of the prince, and even the legitimate son has to give way to him.
Xiao Yuanshi was extremely angry. What did it have to do with that evil creature being forced to buy slaves?
The one who came directly from the Prince's family was the Crown Prince, so he was very rude. He first scolded Xiao Yuanshi and accused him of not knowing how to discipline his children.
Xiao Yuanshi could only hold his nose and apologize, saying a lot of nice words, and finally compensated the man with a lot of good medicinal herbs before he sent the man away.
Finally, he went to Xiao Baili's siblings' yard with a dark face and angrily.
The remaining 13:30~ (End of this chapter)
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