Regent, the princess you found is a treasure

The Prince Regent's Palace distributed porridge to the people, saving them from disaster. The prestige of the Prince Regent and the future Princess was at its peak, and they were deeply loved and praised by the people. For a time, the praises were endless in the capital, and everyone praised the Prince Regent and his wife.

When Xuan Jingyu heard about this, he immediately summoned the prince to the imperial court and ordered him to give rice porridge to the people in the name of the emperor. He would never allow Xuan Moyin's reputation to become more prominent among the people, causing the world to only know the regent but not the emperor. This situation made him unhappy and felt like a thorn in his throat.

However, a problem now emerged - because his private vault was robbed, it was now empty, with no money left. With no money to use, Xuan Jingyu hoped that the prince Xuan Haotian could help him out. Unexpectedly, Xuan Haotian also looked embarrassed, saying that he was also short of money. It turned out that not only was the prince's vault robbed, but even the entire mansion had suffered a fire disaster.

"Father, it's not that I don't want to follow your orders." Xuan Haotian's words were evasive, and he stuttered as he explained, "It's really... I'm penniless right now!"

It was only at this moment that Xuan Jingyu remembered the theft in the Prince's Mansion. Time passed quickly, and many days had passed, but there was still no clue about the theft of his private treasure house and the Prince's Mansion, and the investigation had not made any progress.

Just as he was lost in thought, Xuan Haotian suddenly had an idea and said to the emperor excitedly: "Father, although we are short of money, those ministers are all rich! As long as you issue an imperial edict, indicating that the snow disaster is raging now, the emperor cares about the people and decides to lead the officials to build sheds and give hot porridge to the people. At the same time, the emperor and the concubines will take the lead in donating money. I hope that the officials can also donate generously and contribute to the people to survive this natural disaster! In this way, not only can the funding problem be solved, but also the hearts of the people can be won. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone!"

Then, Xuan Haotian offered another suggestion: "You can let the Queen Mother take the lead and set an example. As long as the Queen Mother takes the lead in donating money, everyone in the harem will follow suit and actively respond to the call. In this way, this matter can be carried out smoothly!"

After Xuan Jingyu heard this, his eyes lit up and he thought this was a good idea. He looked at the prince with satisfaction, nodded in appreciation and said, "Well, good! I'll leave this matter to you." With his father's approval and support, Xuan Haotian took the order with full confidence.

Led by the Crown Prince and the Empress, the concubines in the harem generously donated their hidden money. The civil and military officials in the court showed different reactions - some were willing to donate; others were reluctant, but seeing that the Empress and the ladies in the palaces had already donated, they had to bite the bullet and pay for fear of offending the Emperor. By the time the Crown Prince had finally calculated the amount, the silver bills plus various jewelry converted into cash had raised a total of more than 300,000 taels!

The prince immediately made arrangements to exchange all the silver notes for rice, millet, flour and other daily necessities, and posted an imperial edict the next morning: "Due to the recent heavy snowfall, Your Majesty is concerned about the people and has specially ordered the establishment of a porridge stall to provide free rice porridge to the people to help them tide over the difficulties!"

Since the porridge stall set up by Su Luoxue and others was located near the south of the city, Xuan Haotian ordered his men to find another vacant space in the east of the city to build a porridge stall.

The people living closer to the east side of the city flocked to the prince's porridge stall and lined up in long queues waiting to receive rice porridge.

When Su Qingrou heard that Su Luoxue was the one who personally made porridge for the people at the porridge stall in the Prince Regent's Palace, she naturally did not want to be outdone, and did not want others to only praise Su Luoxue's kindness and benevolence. At the same time, in order to win back the prince's heart, she not only wholeheartedly supported the prince in opening a porridge stall to help the victims, but also dressed up carefully and went to the scene in person to personally give out hot porridge to the people.

The two places were distributing porridge at the same time, so the people naturally made some comparisons. They looked at the guards of the Prince's Mansion standing upright with solemn expressions on both sides of the porridge stalls, and they were all silent and lined up in fear. And the beautiful and charming princess who was standing in front of the porridge stall and was responsible for distributing porridge had a smile on her face, but everyone could feel the hypocrisy and unnaturalness behind that smile, which made people feel uncomfortable.

In addition, compared with the porridge stall in the Regent's Palace, the rice porridge provided here is obviously not thick enough. More importantly, there are no hot packs distributed to the people to keep warm like in the Regent's Palace.

As a result, many people could not help wondering: "Why is there such a big difference when they are both giving out porridge?"

Of course, these people were trembling with fear and did not dare to speak easily when they were at the scene, but those who had been there once would rather take a detour to go to the porridge shed set up by the Regent's Palace to receive relief food.

As the days passed, the number of people who came to the prince to get porridge became fewer and fewer. Sometimes, after a whole day, only about half of the full pot of porridge was given away.

Su Qingrou was naturally indignant: if the residents who lived closer to the south of the city chose to go to the porridge stall over there to get porridge, she would have nothing to say; however, the people living in the east of the city had to walk several miles more to get there, but they still insisted on going! This really confused her.

So, Su Qingrou told the prince about her inner doubts. At this moment, the prince was actually worried about this matter! If his father knew that the porridge shed he built was almost unpopular, wouldn't it make both his father and himself a laughing stock in the eyes of everyone?

After some discussion, the two decided to send a guard disguised as an ordinary citizen to investigate the situation.

About an hour and a half later, the guards finally returned and brought back a bowl of steaming, fragrant, thick white rice porridge and a big, round steamed bun, as well as a package of something they had never seen before and had no idea what it was.

Xuan Haotian picked up these things one by one and examined them carefully, but he still couldn't figure it out. At this moment, the guard beside him hurriedly explained: "Your Highness, when I took these items back, I heard from others that this is called a 'warm baby'. Just stick it on your underwear to keep warm and drive away the cold."

Hearing this, Xuan Haotian couldn't help but show a look of surprise, saying that this was the first time he had heard of such a novel thing. Then, he continued to ask: "So how should it be used specifically?"

The guard did not dare to neglect it, and quickly took out one of the warm baby and unpacked it, and then explained to Xuan Haotian in detail how to use it - just stick it on through the underwear. And this operation skill was also learned by the guard from someone else just now.

Xuan Haotian did as he was told with half belief and half doubt, but a miracle happened. After a while, he felt the place where he had put the "hot pack" started to heat up. It was really hot and made him feel warm.

Xuan Haotian also opened his mouth in shock.