Within three days, the same rumor was spread across the streets and alleys of the capital: the good deeds in the north of the city were not done by the Eighth Prince. The Eighth Prince never paid a penny from beginning to end, but he forgot a good reputation and was an absolute hypocrite!

There were only so many rumors, without mentioning Zhu Kongshan. When this was heard in Xuan Tianmo's ears, Xuan Tianmo was so angry that he smashed a hundred-year-old inkstone in the study. Then he hurried to find Zhu Kongshan to ask what happened, but Zhu Kongshan also said anxiously to him: "I'm just about to discuss this matter with my cousin! Now in the north of the city, all the officials who used to serve porridge and rice have been withdrawn. At first, I thought that the money in their mansion was not enough to support it, so I left. Doing good deeds is always voluntary and it's not easy to force me to stay. Later, I found that more and more people were leaving, and I felt strange. In recent days, I have walked around and asked the real reason why the officials removed the porridge shed, but I didn't expect it to be because of my cousin."

"Because of this king?" Xuan Tianmo was puzzled, "What does it have to do with me if they leave or stay?"

"Oh!" Zhu Kongshan pretended to be anxious and stomped his feet, "Why don't my cousin understand! The official family has paid for it and paid me a sum of money. Prince Sheng's mansion has never given them a penny of silver to them, but his reputation has been taken over. It will be successful in one day or two days, and over time, how can these people not be resentful? After I asked, more than one person told me that the Eighth Prince was too stingy and domineering, and he had money and effort to think about them, but no matter what benefits were, they never had any real benefits. They had not been promoted to one or two positions, so they could not hold on."

Xuan Tianmo looked angry, "Just doing such a thing, I want to be promoted? They dreamed!" Thinking about the rumors in the street, there is no need to ask, it was naturally passed down from those officials. He had long thought that people in small officials were unreliable. Although there was a daughter in the palace who was bullied by Concubine Yun and had not produced anything for decades, most of them were the noble concubine Jieyu, and they could not achieve great things. And those concubines and ministers who were in the first and second ranks could not win over them. This was his biggest shortcoming. "Has everyone withdrawn?" Xuan Tianmo asked Zhu Kongshan.

Zhu Kongshan nodded, "We are the only ones left."

"Yeah." He thought for a while and said again: "Five days later, I will go to the north of the city myself and bring the winter clothes prepared by my mother's mother. You can arrange it at that time."

Zhu Kongshan's heart was joyful, and he nodded quickly and said, "Kongshan remembers, don't worry, everything will be arranged in the north of the city." After that, he looked at Xuan Tianmo again, and his face turned red, "Do you stay here tonight?"

Xuan Tianmo waved his hand, "If you have something tonight, you can rest early!" After that, he turned around and left.

It was not until he walked out of the yard that Zhu Kongshan breathed a sigh of relief. Xiaoyu helped her sit back in the chair and said worriedly: "Miss, what if the Eighth Highness discovered what we did? Will he..."

"Will you kill us?" She sneered, "Of course I will kill, and it will make me die miserable." As she spoke, she clearly felt Xiaoyu shivering, and she quickly comforted her: "Don't worry, I have already arranged for you. Before something happens to me, I will arrange for you to leave the capital." As she said, she reached out and took out fifty taels of silver notes, "Please take this, I will give you another hundred taels before leaving, and I will prepare some broken silver for you to use on the road. If you have the money on you, it is enough to find a place far away from the capital and the Pinzhou to live a good life. In addition, I will return your contract to you. In the future, you will be free and go wherever you want."

When Xiaoyu heard this, she couldn't help but feel excited, and at the same time she was extremely grateful to Zhu Kongshan. She knelt down and said, "Miss, I am your maid. I am willing to serve the lady for the rest of my life, and I will never leave you!"

Is it true that life and death never separated? Zhu Kongshan sneered in his heart. There is no such thing as life and death in this world. Although Xiaoyu is also loyal, it is impossible to die with the master. Of course, she did not intend to let this girl go a long way to live. She could not share the honor and disgrace with her master. What's the use of keeping it? But now is not the time to turn against her, and she still needs the help of this girl to complete it, and she has to be wary of her going to complain to the Eighth Prince. It will take five days, and five days later, as long as the Eighth Prince brings Yuan Guiren's clothes to the north of the city, everything will be over.

Rumors in the capital were still spreading, and the Eighth Prince gradually became a estrangement from the officials who depended on him. On the other side of the north of the city, under the disclosure of beggars in the temple, the poor all knew that the porridge they had eaten were all the money paid by Miss Zhu's family, and had nothing to do with the Eighth Prince. The reason why the people who participated in the porridge cooking came here was for the Eighth Prince. Because the Eighth Prince had promised them to give the money, they could not give it a penny, so all of them withdrew.

The girl who followed Zhu Kongshan was very puzzled where this statement came from. Although the Sheng Mansion had paid a lot of money, why did it become a piece of paper in these rumors? She asked Zhu Kongshan in confusion what was going on. Zhu Kongshan just shook his head at her, saying that she didn't know it, and told the maid: "My cousin is also investigating, I hope I can find out the truth!"

In front of the people, Zhu Kongshan kept explaining to people that the rice and grain were bought by the Prince Sheng’s Mansion. However, people on the surface agreed, but behind their backs said: "Miss Zhu is so pitiful. If she didn't say good things to the Eighth Prince, she would be beaten when she returned to the Prince Sheng’s Mansion. Alas, why would such a good girl have such a miserable life?"

Feng Yuheng said that the wind changes at any time. This matter was normal in Feng Yuheng's eyes. She even sneered at it and said: "I thought they could hold on to this winter, but I didn't expect that the table would be removed so soon."

Huang Quan said: "From the servants' eyes, it's better to part early. Otherwise, I'll be so disgusting as I listen to people's praises to the Eighth Prince all day long."

Feng Yuheng laughed at her: "You just can't bear it. What's wrong with being disgusting? We can't lose a piece of meat. We eat a lot of food for every meal, just praise it. Remember, the higher the people you are praised, the more ruthless they will fall. I want to see what Zhu Kongshan can make this matter a big deal, and how should Lao Ba continue?"

Wangchuan was different from Huang Quan's considerations. She asked Feng Yuheng: "Miss, if something happens to the Eighth Prince again this time, will the emperor punish him severely? So many things before, including the Jade Mine and the Southern Realm, were covered up by the Eighth Prince. When I saw him, the emperor turned a blind eye to his attitude. What about this time? If the emperor still had the same attitude, we would have been in vain again."

Feng Yuheng also has this concern. In the contest with the Eighth Prince, she has always been passive. The other party tied the button and then undoed it, and countered it with a move. Emperor Tianwu's attitude was indeed like Wangchuan said, a little turned a blind eye. If the previous incident was investigated strictly, she would not be able to find out if she didn't believe it. Such a great crime, she didn't believe that the Ba Lao could still be as arrogant as today.

But the emperor did not investigate strictly and gave the eighth Lao to continue to develop. She had already seen that the elderly Emperor Tianwu was now preparing to sit and watch the tiger fight, just to see which one of the two tigers could reach the top in the end. This was a cruel game. She had no intention of playing with her, but she had no choice but to be in the position of the prince and could not retreat. In this world, Xuan Tianming wanted to guard, so she could only stay with her. One day she would have to see the final answer, and she should show her fighting spirit to fight against the Feng family.

Feng Yuheng cheered himself up and then said, "Look, with Zhu Kongshan here, the eighth brother will be proud of it for a few days. The success is due to his cousin, and the defeat is due to his cousin. This can be regarded as a reward for one another, where to get up and then fall from where to fall."

A few days later, the eighth prince Xuan Tianmo took a palace carriage and took a convoy of ten carriages to the north of the city. Zhu Kongshan had already told the people in the north of the city that the eighth prince would come here in person today, and brought new cotton coats made by the palace nobleman Yuan organized the palace maids and palace maids to make for everyone. He repeatedly emphasized: "This time, the nobleman Yuan paid the money himself, just to let everyone wear new winter clothes. The nobleman stayed in the palace for several nights and didn't sleep!"

These words had long been penetrated by the beggars in the dilapidated temple, making the beggars believe that the eighth prince finally wanted to do something practical under the pressure of rumors in the capital recently. She also told the beggars that this is also a good thing, and it is enough that the people can get benefits.

After getting her words, the beggars also told people that this time it was really the efforts of Concubine Yuan and the Eighth Prince, so people followed suit and believed it, waiting for the Eighth Prince to arrive with great anticipation.

On this day, Xuan Tianmo came to the north of the city and not only brought new winter clothes, but also several trucks of grain, and brought all the chefs of the Prince Sheng’s Mansion. He cooked food for the people on the spot, and distributed new bowls and chopsticks. He personally served the rice for these poor people. It was a whole day and it was very lively.

The people had a good meal and got new clothes. For a moment, they offset the complaints they had against the Eighth Prince a few days ago. Some even blamed themselves deeply, thinking that they were wrongly blamed the Eighth Prince.

It was not until the sky got dark that Xuan Tianmo took his people away. Before leaving, he also said a lot of "heart-loving" words to the people, and promised them: "As long as Prince Sheng's Mansion can afford to eat, he will not watch you starve."

After Xuan Tianmo left, Zhu Kongshan left the aftermath and said enthusiastically to the people who received the new winter clothes: "It's coming soon. It's so cold these days. Don't keep them if you get new clothes. Everyone wears them and must not be frozen at night."

People nodded repeatedly, especially those beggars living in dilapidated temples. These days they were really cold, and even if the charcoal basins were placed in the temple, they could not solve the actual problem. So people put on their newly obtained winter clothes and prepared to wrap them tightly at night. At least psychologically, the newly made clothes must be warmer than the old ones, and at least the cotton is new and thicker.

When Zhu Kongshan saw that people were wearing them, he smiled and kept saying, "It's good that everyone likes them, and noble Yuan is not in vain. It's not easy for the Eighth Prince who looked down on the poor people in the north of the city to come here in person today."

After saying this, the people's hearts stumbled. Think about it again, no, the Eighth Prince did not smile at all today.
Chapter completed!