Divine Doctor: Daughter of the First Wife (Yang Shi Liu) 801

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Having received news from her family, Zhu Kongshan naturally felt thankful towards the eighth prince. Aside from gratitude, she began another round of activity.

Handing out congee and making soup, just relying on herself was not enough. Even if the Sheng Palace had mountains of gold and silver, it would not be able to sustain this sort of thing, thus Zhu Kongshan contacted the madams and young misses from the families of the eighth prince’s faction and invited them to participate. As for benefits, put plainly, there were no real benefits. But they would be able to improve the reputation of their families. How important was reputation right now?! The reputations of those in the eighth prince’s faction were already quite bad, and they had been worrying about the lack of ways to recover it! Zhu Kongshan’s suggestion received approval from the officials in court, as they urged their wives and daughters to participate. They also had them listen to Zhu Kongshan.

With this sort of thing happening outside, the members of the imperial harem were also unable to sit still. Those without children were all leaning toward the eighth prince’s side. Hearing that their families had begun moving, they thought a bit and decided to put in some of their own contributions. The members of the imperial harem did not have much money, but they did have large quantities of accessories, and they were all things that had been made in the palace. When taken out, they could be sold for large sums of money. They had people send their accessories back to their homes to give them something. The families were naturally happy to accept.

Like this, the group handing out food in the northern part of the city grew once more. It was such that there were some that simply decided that instead of congee, they would just give out plain rice with some vegetables. This sight, to Feng Yuheng who had secretly gone to take a look, had a similar feeling to a modern soup kitchen run by the government.

With so many people participating, the ones to benefit were the poor citizens. But because of the public opinion of the Sheng Palace, the people were not too thankful to the officials that had come to help. Instead, they thanked the young miss from the Sheng Palace. They believed that these people had only given these things to give face to this young miss. The one with the greatest contribution was the young miss.

Of course, this was the outcome that Zhu Kongshan desired the most. Aside from this, she deliberately sought out the people who had been harmed by the fake Hundred Herb Hall opened by the eighth prince. This was all within plans for making amends. Of course, the situation needed to advance one step at a time. She did not want to go and claim it all at once. If things were done like that, her value to the Sheng Palace would shrivel up.

In the Yu Palace, Huang Quan stood at Feng Yuheng’s side. While listening to Ban Zou’s report about the situation, she asked with great concern: “Young Miss, are you really not worried? To allow them to continue like this, the hearts of the people in the capital will be pulled away!”

Ban Zou also had such a thought, but he did not say it as directly as Huang Quan. He just nodded to Feng Yuheng, indicating that he had a similar thought as Huang Quan.

But Feng Yuheng remained unworried, only saying: “The hearts of the people do not belong to us alone. That’s why we can’t treat their hearts as our personal items, not allowing others to touch them. Moreover, I spent three years capturing the hearts of the people in the capital. Zhu Kongshan wants to capture them in a single winter? You’re overestimating her too much.”

“But the eighth prince’s side is pressing hard!” Huang Quan stomped her foot and could not help but begin complaining about Xuan Tianming: “His Highness really is able to hold his breath, not even saying a single word about helping young miss.”