"I……"
The Minister's wife wanted to defend herself, but when she opened her mouth, she couldn't say anything.
She lowered her head and reflected on her past self. After a long while, she spoke in a hoarse voice, "You're right. I was a bad mother before. I always favored Zuo Lanzhi and ignored the feelings of the other children."
Xiao Yunying said, "It's not too late to correct it now. Qingzhi may have some minor complaints, but she definitely doesn't blame or resent you. You can live for yourself from now on and care more about the people around you. Perhaps life will be much more enjoyable."
The Minister's wife smiled with relief: "You are so young, yet you see things so clearly. It's laughable that I've lived twenty years longer than you, and I'm still not as open-minded as you."
Xiao Yunying smiled slightly and said, "Madam was unable to consider anything else because she suffered such a great blow back then. I still maintain that everything is moving in a positive direction now. Madam should not continue to dwell on the past. Looking to the future will make you feel more at ease."
"Thank you for your comforting words."
When Zuo Qingzhi went into the kitchen, she not only got pastries, but Zheng Yunwan also packed her a lot of other snacks.
When she came out carrying a bag of things, she saw that Xiao Yunying and her mother looked relaxed and even had smiles on their faces. She felt that the two had chatted quite well while she was away, and her mood improved as well.
As she approached, the Minister's wife exclaimed in surprise, "Why is there such a big bag? Don't take all of your sister's newly made pastries with you."
Zuo Qingzhi hugged the cloth bag tightly and refused to let go: "This was given to me by that Miss Yun Wan on her own initiative, not something I asked for."
It contained dried apples, beef jerky, meat floss, pork jerky, and many other foods she had never seen before. No matter what her mother said, she wouldn't put them down.
Xiao Yunying said, "It's just some food, there's no need to be so polite."
Zheng Yunwan's attitude towards people always depends on her own attitude. She knows that she likes Zuo Qingzhi, so it's not surprising that she would take the initiative to be friendly to her.
Zuo Qingzhi smiled and said, "Big sister is the best."
The Minister's wife glanced at the sky and said, "It's getting late, we should set off."
Zuo Qingzhi reluctantly said goodbye to Xiao Yunying: "Big sister, I will come to visit you again when I have the chance, so please don't forget me."
Xiao Yunying replied politely, "You're welcome anytime."
He thought to himself, "This girl is fifteen now. After she comes of age, she should be of marriageable age. If she gets married, she can no longer show her face in public. It will be difficult for me to come from the capital to see her anytime."
After watching them board the carriage and leave, Zheng Yunwan hurriedly came out of the kitchen.
"Sister Yunying, has that Qingzhi girl left?"
Xiao Yunying stopped the door she had half-closed: "Just left, what's wrong?"
Zheng Yunwan took out a purse: "I just saw this purse on the long table where the food was prepared. It's full of silver notes. That girl must have secretly put it there while I was packing food for her."
The purse was quite large, bulging with contents; one could guess without even looking inside that it contained a considerable amount of silver notes.
Xiao Yunying quickly took the purse and went out, but the carriages had already disappeared.
She opened her purse and took out its contents. Apart from a thick stack of silver notes, there wasn't even a letter inside, as if they were afraid she would find out who gave it to them and send it back.
Xiao Yunying glanced at them and saw that they were all large denomination silver notes of two thousand taels each, totaling fifty thousand taels in this stack.
Zheng Yunwan asked, "Sister Yunying, this purse was placed there by that Miss Qingzhi, right?"
Xiao Yunying put the silver note back into her purse: "It can only be her."
"I heard from that girl that they are returning to the capital today. What should we do with these banknotes?"
Xiao Yunying thought for a moment and said, "Since the Minister's Mansion is so generous, I will accept it. However, I will not keep these silver notes for my own use. It just so happens that the border soldiers are currently lacking supplies, which is giving Luo Sheng a lot of headaches. I will use this batch of silver to purchase some supplies and send them to them."
She's not a particularly wealthy tycoon yet, so providing supplies for 100,000 Luo family soldiers is simply a pipe dream. Easily acquiring even a small amount of supplies could bankrupt her, so she can't bear to do it.
But if it's someone else's money, there's no burden in spending it. It's all the thought that counts, and I don't think Luo Sheng would find it too little, nor would I feel bad using it.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yunying put the purse into her bosom without any hesitation.
Remembering that he hadn't taken out the various medicines he had refreshed today, he told Zheng Yunwan and went back to his room first.
The items in her space are not unlimited; they only refresh automatically at midnight every night, so she can only take out a small amount of medicine each day.
What she had to do was remove the packaging, sort and pack the various medicines, and write down the purpose and precautions for each one to prevent any allergic reactions or adverse reactions from mixing them with other things.
Once packed, Luo Sheng will have a trained eagle deliver it to the border, a true direct airlift.
As Xiao Yunying was writing down the precautions, Luo Sheng returned. The first thing he asked upon entering was, "The Minister's wife is here again?"
Without looking up, she said, "They are returning to the capital today to say goodbye to me, and they left behind 50,000 taels of silver notes."
I plan to use this money to buy a batch of essential medicines for the border and send them over. After all, the amount of various medicines I can produce each day is limited and simply cannot supply the needs of 100,000 soldiers.
"You're willing to accept this banknote for my sake?"
After Xiao Yunying finished writing the contents, she blew on the letter and calmly said after hearing this, "You're overthinking it. It was Qingzhi who secretly put the purse in the kitchen. By the time Yunwan found it, they had already left, so the silver notes were left behind."
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