Qiao Jinniang lowered her eyes and said, "Ma'am, you don't know, the Qiao family is greedy, but if they can get a little bit of benefits, they will definitely push their noses and face more and more arrogant."

"I will give them silver taels today, and let them return to their hometowns, and tomorrow they may dare to do evil in the name of me and Qin Guogong's wife in Lin'an.

Or if you run out of silver and continue to come to Chang'an, it can be said to be endless! "

Empress Zhou sighed and said, "It's really difficult to have such relatives, but they are your relatives in the past anyway. If you really watch them become beggars, I'm afraid it will affect your reputation."

"Chang'an is no better than Lin'an, after all, we must let people in the world not criticize us.

They can't make any waves on the left and right. If you don't want to part with the money, you can send them away with some money from the Palace. "

Qiao Jinniang said repeatedly: "Mother, I don't care about money. Don't worry, I will handle this matter properly. Even if I can't handle it, the courtier will bear it all, and His Highness will definitely not be involved."

Empress Zhou smiled lightly and said, "The so-called oneness of husband and wife, why did Tong Yushi impeach you today? Isn't it because you are the biological mother of the emperor's grandson and the future lord of the Eastern Palace?

If you want to be alone, others may not be willing. You thought about not getting involved with Chen'er, but since you and Chen'er got married, you have been tied to a boat. "

Qiao Jinniang said: "But the minister is not a member of the East Palace yet, the worst case is that the minister and His Highness will make a clean break, and I will simply bear the bad reputation alone."

Empress Zhou said helplessly: "Jinniang, after Chen'er returned to the palace, he repeatedly provoked the anger of his father who loves him the most. Your majesty is your majesty after all, and father and son are also monarchs and ministers. He resisted your majesty many times for you, but what about you?"

"But you want to break up with Chen'er because of a few relatives? You say it is for Chen'er's good, but in reality, can you abandon Chen'er so easily?"

Qiao Jinniang pursed her lips, "Queen, I didn't intend to abandon Your Highness, but Tong Yushi impeached me, doesn't it mean that I am not worthy to be a princess?

Tong Yushi is the elder brother of the queen's sister-in-law, the brother-in-law of Duke Wu, and a full-fledged princeling.

Tong Yushi impeached me today because I am the mother-in-law of the emperor's grandson, isn't it also to protect His Highness the crown prince? "

Empress Zhou took a high look at Qiao Jinniang, "I never thought, but you still know about the in-law relationship in Chang'an City?"

Qiao Jinniang said: "After all, I don't want to make myself blind, ma'am, I also want to be one with His Royal Highness as husband and wife, but I also understand why a woman like me is being targeted by someone?

Today Tong Yushi may want to preemptively strike, fearing that in the future, other censors will impeach His Highness the Crown Prince and indulge me in extravagance, regardless of poor relatives.

Or maybe I feel that I am not worthy to be favored by the prince.

No matter what, this impeachment is all towards the prince. If the prince can't deal with the court officials first, why bother to blame me for giving up? "

Empress Zhou looked at Qiao Jinniang, took a sip of tea and said, "Since you have a proper way, then try it first."

Qiao Jinniang should be.

After leaving the queen, Qiao Jinniang went to the Jibingfang in the west city of Chang'an.

The Jibingfang is located on the west side of Chang'an, full of poor orphans, abandoned children, and some crazy people who were driven out by their families and had nowhere to go.

Among the Jibingfang, there is the Jingciyuan, which is full of old people who are not good at working, and the disabled garden, which is full of blind people who are not good at speech, and the Yuyingtang.

The nursery hall is full of children under the age of twelve, and most of the children over twelve will work as servants in other people's homes or work as long-term workers and embroidery mothers.

Qiao Jinniang went to the Yuyingtang, and the owner was a 40-year-old thin female gentleman. She said to Qiao Jinniang, "See the county master, who donated a hundred taels of silver to our Yuyingtang at first, which is really to let our Yuyingtang solve the problem. It is urgent, thank you county master!"

Qiao Jinniang said: "I see that the day is getting colder and colder, so come donate some charcoal, and do you need books here?"

The female gentleman said: "It's an extravagant hope for the children here to have enough food and clothing, and they dare not think about reading and learning. I asked the children to come out and thank the county magistrate."

The female gentleman came out with the children inside, and Qiao Jinniang saw that they were all women, "Why are they all girls?"

The female gentleman said: "Nowadays during the Taiping period, ordinary people's families are always able to get by, even if there are orphans, their relatives can take care of them on their behalf.

But for some girls in the fields, after being classified as extinct by the clan, most of them don't want to take care of them, and they are treated harshly at home.

Well-meaning people sent them to the nursery hall, and some had many daughters in their families and wanted to have a boy, and those who couldn't afford to raise a daughter but didn't want to be scolded for prostitution, so they sent their daughters here .

There are also some children born to adultery who have nowhere to go, some are the daughters of official prostitutes in the teaching workshop, and those who do not want their daughters to be official prostitutes in the teaching workshop are also sent here. "

Qiao Jinniang saw that there were only five boys, and most of the girls were very thin.

Although the Jibingfang has government subsidies and funding from benevolent people, it is a drop in the bucket after all.

Qiao Jinniang was a mother, and seeing a girl about Xi'er's age wearing tattered clothes, she felt uncomfortable. She thought that if she had a daughter, she would be reluctant to wear such thin and tattered clothes.

"Wow, is my sister Your Highness the Princess? This dress is so beautiful!"

"The hairpin on my sister's head is also really pretty."

"When I grow up, can I be as beautiful as my sister?"

Qiao Jinniang was surrounded by a group of girls and praised her beauty. If she said she was unhappy, she would be lying. She rubbed the cheek of one of the girls and said, "You don't have to wait until the tailor makes clothes for you, and you will definitely be able to look beautiful." Pretty bright."

The female gentleman said to Qiao Jinniang: "It's too expensive. Besides, these are children, and they don't need to be dressed. They just wear the cotton clothes that the maids in Xungui's mansion don't wear anymore."

Qiao Jinniang smiled slightly and said, "Girls always want to dress beautifully, so let's make them their own clothes."

The female gentleman sighed and said: "We appreciate the kindness of the county lord, there is really no need to spend money, the silver and charcoal fire donated by the county lord earlier are already gifts.

The county lord didn't know that there were a lot of fish and dragons in the medical aid workshop, so there were some bastards with bad consciences. Seeing that the girls here are dressed beautifully... it would be better to dress in shabby clothes. "

The female gentleman didn't explain clearly, and Qiao Jinniang didn't understand the meaning, "So what if you dress beautifully? Could it be possible to steal the clothes and sell them?"

The female gentleman said: "No, the county lord, girls who dress beautifully are easily bullied by those beasts, and there are also some old beasts in the Court of Respect.

The neighbors next to the Jibingfang are also the places where the three religions and the first class stay, and some seriously ill beasts see that their time is running out... Sigh! "

Qiao Jinniang felt sore and uncomfortable when she heard this, "The clothes still need to be made, I'll give you more taels, and you go to the prostitute and buy a few women with big arms and thick waists to protect these girls."

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