A New Character Every Month

As soon as he entered, he found that his eldest brother Zhao Mingyi was also there.

Immediately wanted to turn around and leave.

"Deer, come in!"

Zhao Heng's serious voice came from inside the room.

Zhao Mingde walked in with a bitter face. He was more afraid of his father who was the head of the family.

As for his half-brother, it's just a pure dislike.

Because of his weaker martial arts talent, he is inferior to Zhao Mingyi in many things, and every time there is a dispute, he will be suppressed, causing him to walk around when he sees the other party.

Zhao Heng said with a serious expression, "What are you looking for?"

Zhao Mingde glanced at his elder brother, and then told him exactly what Lin Zian had said to him.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Mingyi showed a look of disdain: "Then Lin Zian is just a mere son-in-law, the reason why I told you this is probably because I had an affair with you, so I gave a false information to make our Zhao family bleed. "

Zhang Mingde lowered his head and secretly rolled his eyes.

Zhao Heng has a different opinion: "I heard that Lin Zian has often made some unexpected moves in the past two months. This matter should not be that simple."

"Father, don't you really believe my brother's words?"

Zhao Mingyi retorted: "It's not like you don't know about a person like him. He had a conflict with Lin Zian last month. How could Lin Zian change his attitude suddenly."

Nonsence!

Zhao Mingde spat in his heart, couldn't Lin Zian be convinced by my noble thoughts and want to help me?

"It's better to believe what it has than to believe it doesn't."

Zhao Heng said firmly: "Our Zhao family is preparing two donation pledges, one is the same as usual, and the other is a hundredfold increase. Depending on the current situation, we will see which one to donate."

Seeing his firm attitude, Zhao Mingyi had no choice but to bow his head and say yes.

Zhao Mingde smiled secretly, this time he finally managed to win the round.

If Lin Zi'an hadn't lied to him, then he would have made a contribution to the family, and Zhao Mingyi might not be able to mock him for nothing in the future.

Two days later, the fundraising ceremony came as scheduled.

Led by the government, the big landlords and big merchants in the Zhou family's fief were called together to raise donations for the upcoming disaster.

But what is different from the past is that this time the donors will not only register their names in the book, but even make a stone tablet specially for this fundraising, and engrave each donor on it.

The higher the ranking, the bigger the name.

In the crowd, many people became excited.

In life, you can't win wealth and fame.

They don't lack money very much, but they lack fame.

You must know that this stele is placed in a conspicuous part of the city, and everyone who passes by can see their names. Even if the stele does not fall down after ten or a hundred years, someone will always remember them.

Of course, they were just tempted, and they didn't dare to ask them to pay more money.

If you really want to break the rules of donation, donate more than those big families, but then you will be rejected by the circle.

Although other people are also interested in the stele, they don't want to donate too much. Although the reputation is good, they can't be seen or touched. How can money bring comfort and joy.

"The fundraiser begins."

On the donation platform, Guhuangcheng gave a voice and stepped back from above.

There were nearly a hundred people below, but no one stood up for the time being.

Most of the people were prepared to do as usual, waiting for those big families to stand up first, and then they were interested.

"My Wu family pledged 1 taels!"

Suddenly, an old man stood up.

"it is good!"

Guhuangcheng Ling smiled and pointed to the donation office on the stage: "Patriarch Wu, please sign in there."

Patriarch Wu immediately stepped forward and took out a bank ticket to sign in.

There was a whisper below.

"The Wu family donated a few hundred taels last time. How did it become 20 taels this time? How can I afford the [-] taels of silver in my hand?"

"It's unreasonable, what is the Wu family thinking?"

"The Wu family is hurting people."

"..."

At this time, another person stood up: "The Ma family pledged 9000 taels!"

The voice of discussion below is louder.

Zhao Heng looked at the two people who stood up. The families behind these two people were about the same size as the Zhao family, but I heard that they were closer to King Zhou. Could this be a fraudulent donation?

On the surface, he donated a lot, but secretly returned the donation.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Heng touched the bank note in his clothes, raised his hand and said, "The Zhao family pledged 1 taels."

Fortunately, I brought a lot more this time, otherwise it would be embarrassing even if it was a hundred times more.

Chapter 190 Three: The Traveler and the Reborn

Donation site.

Most of the people who were going to follow the vote fell silent.

I don't know whether to donate some casually as in previous years, or to grit my teeth and bleed a little.

"Hmph, do you think such a small trick can blow me up?"

Among the crowd, Patriarch Xu smiled contemptuously.

He turned his head to look at the few families he had been friends with on weekdays, and seeing that they also cast their gazes, they exchanged glances with each other.

Immediately, they all smiled.

"I am also very distressed about this snow disaster."

The head of the Xu family stood up and said with a downcast expression: "It's a pity that my Xu family's shop has not only failed to make any money in the past two years, but has lost all the money it earned in the past few years. Now it is completely beyond its means. If it weren't for this, today's No. .1, I really want to fight."

"Ugh."

He sighed, and continued: "But even if this is the case, I will not stand by."

As he said that, he took out a 500 tael silver ticket from his body: "This is the silver ticket that I exchanged for the ancestral Ye Mingzhu in my pawn house after I received the invitation to the fundraising meeting. Now I have donated it all!"

"Patriarch Xu is really kind."

The ancient imperial city said with a smile on its face.

"I'm just doing my best."

Master Xu said with compassion: "Ye Mingzhu is just a vulgar thing, if you sell it, you will sell it. If you can save more people, I believe that if the ancestors of my Xu family knew it, they would not blame me."

Beside, Zhao Heng frowned and said nothing.

In terms of family strength, the Zhao family is almost the same as the Xu family.

But when it comes to the ability to make money, the Zhao family's flattery can't keep up with the Xu family who is omnipotent.

So if it is said that the Xu family will be unable to make ends meet, and even need to sell ancestral treasures to make ends meet, he is the first to not believe it.

Patriarch Xu had just stepped onto the stage, when several Patriarchs stood up from the crowd, and then gave another impassioned speech with tears in his eyes.

Probably the content is almost the same as what Patriarch Xu meant. Either there was a problem with the business, or the family was suffering from a terminal illness, etc. The money donated was similar to the previous few times.

With these few people taking the lead, other small landlords and merchants finally breathed a sigh of relief, took out the silver or materials they had prepared, and began to donate one after another.

Among them, only a dozen people chose to respond to the call of the Zhao family and several other families, and the amount of donation was several times or even dozens of times that of previous years.

A small building on the side.

Zhou Yunhan stood by the window sill on the third floor, silently looking at the donating crowd below.

"The county lord."

On the side, Xiaoyi said angrily: "Those people who said they were losing money are so shameless, they are obviously dressed better than the people in our county palace, but they are only willing to give out this little money."

Zhou Yunhan asked, "Which company was the first to say it was losing money just now?"

"The Xu family."

Xiao Yi replied quickly.

"The Xu family..."

Zhou Yunhan said with a blank face, "The first one starts with the Xu family."

"Princess, I'm going to give an order now."

Xiaoyi nodded and went down quickly.

Although this area is the fiefdom of the Zhou family, due to the limited strength of the Zhou family and the pressure from the court, they have not been able to fully control this land.

It is not the first time that some families that have been rooted here for hundreds of years, relying on the relationship behind them, have obeyed and violated the orders issued by the Zhou family.

Among them, the Xu family is the best.

The crimes committed by the Xu family have long been piled up in the government. If it weren't for the backing behind them, the Xu family would have died countless times.

I really need to find out, if the Xu family abides by the law, naturally nothing will happen.

But if the Xu family is really like this, the government will not receive so many cases from them.

And among the hundreds of people below, how many can stand the investigation?

Wild North Mansion, Snow Wind City.

Thousands of miles of land was covered with a vast expanse of whiteness, and Snow Wind City stood like a nail in it.