Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 392 Daming Welfare Home

In the south of the city, there is the Neigongjianhuangzhuang office.

This is a three-story courtyard with about twenty children, both boys and girls.

Xiaohua patted her chest and said to the group of children shamelessly: "I tell you, my husband will come to rescue me soon!"

"Call me the chief now, and when my husband comes, I will take you all out."

Several children laughed and said, "Cen, you already have a husband at such a young age? Is he very powerful? Even more powerful than the fat guy?"

Anyway, I'm going to marry Brother Chen when I grow up, so it's not too much to call him my husband, right?
Xiao Hua sneered, "Haha! My husband is the most powerful man in the world! Then you just wait, it's a deal, when my husband and Sister Wu come to take me out, you have to recognize me as the leader! I will take you out!"

"Okay!"

Several children said with a smile.

One of the children said weakly: "But where can we go? We can still have food to eat here..."

There were many children like them in the Ming Dynasty, especially girls, and countless of them were abandoned or trafficked.

Generally, if a boy is lucky, he will be adopted by a powerful family, but if a girl is lucky, she will most likely become a beggar and eventually starve to death.

Xiaohua was lucky, she met Chen Ce and Mrs. Wu.

But there are many more small flowers that may die in some corner at any time.

If Chen Ce had not adopted her last winter, she might not have survived more than half a year after escaping from here.

The atmosphere was somewhat silent, and the children's tender cheeks drooped.

Just then, several eunuchs from the East Factory came to find Xiaohua and took him out.

Outside the courtyard, Madam Wu, Li Zhen and others were waiting. Xiaohua excitedly ran to Madam Wu and took her hand: "Sister Wu."

Madam Wu quickly pulled her over to look at her, and only breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that she was fine.

……

When Chen Ce and Li Guang appeared here, Madam Wu had already taken Xiaohua back.

Li Guang asked Chen Ce in a low voice: "Master Chen, should we release these children?"

Chen Ce was silent.

Where should we send so many children after they are released? Let them continue to wander?
He stared at Li Guang expressionlessly, and Li Guang hurriedly said, "Master Chen! I really didn't hurt them!"

Chen Ce said indifferently: "Have you been corrupt in the inner palace prison over the years?"

Li Guang was so frightened that he almost collapsed, but Chen Ce held him back and continued, "I haven't finished what I'm saying yet."

"Take out some money and build a welfare home in Shuntianfu."

There were basically no welfare facilities in the Ming Dynasty, and no one would pay attention to these homeless children and lonely elderly people.

At least the lonely elderly have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, but what about these abandoned children?
Li Guang naturally didn't know what a welfare home was. After Chen Ce explained, Li Guang hurriedly said, "Hey, okay! I'll send someone to build it right away!"

"Not only do you need to build an orphanage, but you will also need to hire people to take care of and raise the children. You will have to pay for the monthly wages of these people."

Li Guang was shocked and said, "Isn't this a bottomless pit... Well, fine, whatever you say, Master Chen, I will do as you say."

He also embezzled a lot of "yellow and white rice" from the imperial treasury over the years, and some officials asked him for bribes to buy official positions, as well as money from imperial farms, private fields, salt permits, etc.

If Chen Ce's plan is followed and such an orphanage is really built, coupled with all the subsequent daily expenses and other costs, it would be a bottomless pit. Li Guang would really bleed a lot this time.

But he dared not disobey Chen Ce's words. If he made money, he would live to spend it. If Chen Ce really wanted to kill him, Li Guang felt that this would surely be easier than embezzling his money!
"Go directly to the Bureau of Finance and Economics to give me the money in the future."

After saying this coldly, Chen Ce left.

Li Guang wiped the cold sweat from his head and finally sent this ancestor away.

"Godfather, who is this man? How dare he ask you for money?!" a eunuch from the East Factory asked, "Do you want me to find someone to kill him?"

Snapped!
Li Guang slapped him in the face and angrily said, "Fuck you! Do you have the guts to do this?"

"You know he's going to die in Peking. Not to mention you, the emperor can even dig up the bodies of your entire ancestor and whip them for you. Do you believe it?"

"When you see him next time, show some respect to me and don't say anything bad about him behind his back!"

The new eunuch from the Eastern Depot trembled with fear and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

……

Chen Ce returned to Huaihua Hutong. Madam Wu had prepared dinner. Xiaohua hid behind Madam Wu and whispered to Chen Ce, "I, I was just playing at the door. I didn't go far..."

She was afraid that Chen Ce would get angry, so she admitted her mistake in a low voice.

Chen Ce looked at her and said, "Come and have dinner. I don't blame you. They are the ones who are wrong, not you."

"They didn't bully you, did they?"

Xiao Hua quickly came to Chen Ce and said, "No! I ran away early, the day after I was sent in. I asked Chi and the others to run away with me, but they didn't want to."

"They said if I went out, I would have no food to eat, and at most I would be stripped and played with by the fat guys... My mother said that girls should not take off their clothes randomly or they would not be able to get married. I wanted to get married in the future, so I ran away..."

Xiaohua chattered a lot, but she probably didn't know what it meant.

Well, there was some dirty tricks going on, but at least the kids weren't hurt.

Madam Wu said to Chen Ce, "Xiaohua said there are many children in there. They shouldn't be humiliated like this. What will happen to them when they grow up?"

"I know you can't adopt more people, and I also know that those children might starve to death if they were released now..."

Madam Wu seemed to be thinking of her own childhood experiences. She was also sold by her parents when she was very young and almost became a prostitute, so she was particularly sensitive and concerned about these things.

But she also knew that this would bring a lot of trouble to Chen Ce, and it was not a solution to feed so many children. More children would come in the future, and this would be a bottomless pit.

Besides, Chen Ce's health is not good and he has no time to worry about these things.

Chen Ce glanced at Madam Wu, holding the bowl and said, "I have thought of a solution. Let's eat first."

Madam Wu was stunned for a moment and asked, "What method?"

Chen Ce said: "I don't have the ability and energy, but there are people who do. Anyway, don't worry."

Madam Wu said happily, "I knew you wouldn't just sit there and watch!"

"Let's eat."

"Uh-huh."

……

Early the next morning, Chen Ce went to the Finance Bureau first, and Li Guang came over in person to give Chen Ce the money.

Not long after, Zhu Houzhao arrived, stared at Li Guang with unfriendly eyes, and sneered: "Haha! You came at the right time!"

He shouted at Liu Jin: "Fuck this fat beast for me! Fuck him to death!"

Liu Jin kicked him.

Li Guang covered his fat head and said to Chen Ce, "Master Chen, please spare my life!"

Chen Ce stopped Zhu Houzhao and said, "Forget it."

"Forget it?" Zhu Houzhao's eyes widened and he said, "How can we just let it go like this?!"

"Don't worry, little brother. You are afraid of the punishment from the emperor, but I am not! I don't care who he is. I will kill him today. Tomorrow I will go to the emperor to confess my crime. I will see if the emperor will punish me for a dead eunuch! Or a beastly eunuch who did evil things!"

(End of this chapter)