Chapter 192: Giving Porridge

There are too many shortcomings to be made up to become a real family. Hua Kai finished the trial for 10 family members. He wandered around the mansion alone. The servants of the Hua family have gradually adapted to the life in the mansion. He saw that many servants have already started families, but there are still not many people who can marry the maids of the Hua family.

As time goes by, the female slaves that Hua Kai brought back from the grassland have been in Huajiabao for more than a year. After a year, they have not only recovered physically, but also become very beautiful.

The maids of the Hua family have become the objects of pursuit of all underage men in Huajiabao. Some affiliated families of the Hua family even asked Hua Kai for marriage for their direct lineage.

However, Hua Kai has made it very clear about the marriage of all the maids. Everything must be nodded by the girls themselves. Many people expressed their incomprehension.

By this year, some maids are over 16 years old and have slowly reached the best age for marriage. They have also begun to look for their other half. Some maids took the initiative to marry the servants of the Hua family, and some maids chose men from the Hua family's collateral line. Although they are all married now, they often go to the main courtyard to help with work.

After watching the maids and women in the mansion weaving lanterns for a while at home, the Hua family's lanterns of various styles have now spread throughout Guang County, becoming another good source of income for the Hua family.

In a few days, it will be the New Year, and the demand for lanterns in the city will increase. Colorful lanterns will also be hung inside and outside the Hua Mansion, so there are people making lanterns everywhere in the mansion.

Butler Huafu told Hua Kai that the porridge shed in the slums has been built, and asked him if he wanted to go and see it.

Hua Kai thought about it and went home to take 25 students from the family to go out together. It is better for them to participate more in this kind of porridge and love. If the opportunity comes, they can comprehend the Confucian mind method [Righteousness Jue]!

This is the first time Hua Kai has entered the slums. He finally understands why Butler Huafu organized 500 family members to maintain order here!

All the buildings here are simple and short wooden houses, as if they can fall down with a gust of wind.

Some thin children and women lined up outside the porridge shed timidly waiting to start serving porridge. Some men who looked stronger also stood in the team, and the Hua family servants stared at them closely.

It is estimated that there are at least 5,000 poor people queuing in front of the Hua family porridge shed. There are at least tens of thousands of poor people living in this slum that is less than the size of Washington. The statistics of Guang County City with only 20,000 people may not have counted them.

When the porridge was distributed, there was constant congestion in the back. The Hua family servants beat them with wooden sticks and whips, but they still couldn't organize them to line up. In this regard, the porridge shed had to be closed at the beginning of the porridge distribution, and the housekeeper Huafu came to Hua Kai.

"Let all the poor stand 10 meters away from the porridge shed, stand in line and we will call them one by one. Everyone line up and keep a distance. If anyone is crowded again, drive them out." Hua Kai said.

In this way, the scene was chaotic for more than an hour. The Hua family servants had more than ten conflicts with the other party, and the order gradually improved. This is the Hua family. If ordinary families want to distribute porridge, they may not even be able to get through the gangster forces in the slums!

Ignoring the troublemakers who were beaten and lying on the ground groaning, the Hua family porridge shed continued to distribute porridge, one bowl of thick porridge for each person, plus a coarse steamed bun.

Those who received the porridge quickly drank the porridge and carefully hid the steamed bun. This coarse steamed bun might save their family's life.

Hua Kai watched carefully here, occasionally using the [Eye of Truth] to check their attributes, but the people here didn't know how many times they had been selected by various families, and there were very few people with qualifications above D-.

Hua Kai did find a lot of children with good qualifications, and most of them were girls under 10 years old. The older girls with high qualifications had been discovered by the gangsters here, and they didn't know where they were sold. The Hua family now has too many servants, and the ratio of men to women is seriously unbalanced. These girls just make up for the lack of women in the Hua family.

Until the evening, Hua Kai received more than 100 girls. These girls went to the Huafu as maids. In the future, they can support their families with wages. Maybe they can save the whole family from suffering in the future.

Seeing more than a dozen little boys and their families reluctant to leave, Hua Kai was kind-hearted and allowed them to visit their children at any time, so that their family would no longer have to worry about going hungry.

What Hua Kai didn't expect was that when he returned home at night and was taking the Hua family's students to study, Hua Fu's housekeeper said that a group of girls came from outside the Hua Mansion and hoped that the Hua family would take them in as maids. Today, the Hua family took in so many girls. Those girls who hid at home and dared not come out seemed to see an opportunity and wanted to find a job in the Hua family. In this way, they could not only be protected by the Hua family, but also bring some income to the family.

Hua Kai asked Hua Fu's housekeeper to handle this matter himself. He couldn't save everyone. There were no idea how many families were behind those slum gangsters, but the Hua family settled in Guang County, and the slums would no longer be as chaotic as before.

After the evening practice, Hua Kai returned home and continued to test the family members to improve their strength. At night, he realized the [Righteousness Jue] in his dreams, and his righteousness value was increasing every day.

The next morning, Hua Kai was about to go to the Hua family porridge stand in the slums. Butler Hua Fu told Hua Kai that someone from the Qi family had come. Hua Kai went to the door to greet them. He saw that the other party was led by a Xiantian realm, a team of 30 elite cavalrymen.

This was the team sent by the Qi family to the State of Lu to propose marriage for Hua Zichen. The King of Lu had agreed to the King of Qi's proposal and agreed to let the Hua family enter the State of Lu in March next spring to formally discuss the marriage between Hua Zichen and Princess Ji Le.

Hua Kai was very happy to hear the news. Everything would be fine if the King of Lu was willing to talk. It would not be good for the Lu family if Princess Ji Le did not get married now that she was over 19 years old. After Hua Kai sent away the Qi family Xiantian, he told the news to his fifth uncle Hua Zichen.

There were only more than two months left until March next year. It was not easy for the Hua family to marry the princess of the State of Lu. It must be carried out according to the "Six Rites" procedure. Hua Kai had to prepare well for this!

Hua Kai had seen the process of the king marrying his daughter in the collection of books in Guangxian Academy. The first of these "six rituals" is to propose marriage, and when the other party agrees, it is "Nacai".

After the first step is completed, the man has to ask the woman's birth date, which is called "asking for the name". After asking, he needs to find the "auspicious hexagram" of the Yin-Yang family. If the birth date is not compatible, it ends here.

If the birth date is compatible, the man has to send a betrothal gift, which is called "Nazheng". Only after the woman accepts it can it enter the critical stage.

The fourth step "asking for the date" requires the groom to go to the woman's house to tell the other party the date of marriage he has arranged. This will be tested by the woman. If he fails, all the betrothal gifts will be gone, so he should go back obediently!

The fifth step is "welcoming the bride". After the bride is willing to marry the groom, the monarch will hold a banquet and invite relatives and friends to congratulate. At the banquet, the groom may be challenged and targeted by various forces. After the banquet, the bride is welcomed out of the door. This ceremony is considered to be over. Then the sixth step is to worship and get married.

Hua Kai asked his fifth uncle to put down everything he was doing and prepare to marry Princess Ji Le. According to the stipulated time, he had to send people to the palace of Lu State to "ask for the name"! Hua Kai didn't need to take care of these things. He only needed to arrange the betrothal gifts. Princess Ji Le was the daughter of the King of Lu, and the betrothal gifts could not be less. Calling all the core members of the mansion together, Hua Kai had decided to pay the betrothal gifts, and everyone began to discuss how to do each step. Hua Kai continued to take 25 students from the Hua family to the slums to distribute porridge. On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Hua Kai entered the family secret space at night to discuss the New Year's affairs with his grandfather and fourth uncle. This year, everyone can't celebrate the New Year together. Tomorrow, the visit to the village elders in Huajiabao can only be left to the third uncle. The fourth uncle lived well in the Ordos tribe. The grassland was quiet in winter. Occasionally, a few lone wolves did not dare to approach the tribe. Many slaves could already communicate in Qi language. The next day, the entire Guang County City began to decorate with lights and colors. This year, there were few wild beasts outside the city, and there was no pressure at all. The entire inner city of Guang County was prosperous and peaceful.

Today was also the last day for the Hua family to give porridge. More than 200 people in the slums were selected by Hua Kai. After dealing with several thugs and bullies in the slums, the atmosphere in the entire slum area became much better. More people began to look for work in winter.

At noon, Hua Kai gathered everyone together for a reunion dinner. Tomorrow morning, he had to go to Guang County Academy again. But this time he saw a special person.

Second uncle Hua Ziqi appeared in the main courtyard with a woman and followed by a young man who looked a bit like the second uncle. Hua Kai knew that the second uncle had a concubine a long time ago, because Hua Mo's mother was a woman from the Shen family, so he didn't dare to bring her home. Today, it seems that the second uncle has brought them back to Huafu.

Hua Kai didn't want to get involved in his uncle's private affairs, and Hua Mo didn't seem to have any resistance to this. The woman came to Hua Kai with a timid face and saluted him. It seemed that she was also from the family. Hua Kai just nodded to him slightly.

At the dinner table, his uncle Hua Ziqi kept talking with a smile, but no one paid attention to Hua Kai's new aunt. Only Huang Shuyun politely asked her a few questions whether Hua Mansion was still suitable for living, and she answered carefully.

Hua Kai looked at his cousin who suddenly appeared beside his uncle. He looked older than Hua Kai. Hua Kai checked his attributes and found that he only had e+ qualifications and only 9 points of loyalty. Then Hua Kai ignored him.

In the afternoon, they put on new clothes and posted couplets. The lanterns in the mansion were lit early. Hua Kai looked at the children of the family playing happily, and he couldn't help feeling proud.

In more than two years, the Hua family has changed dramatically. All the family members are wearing silk brocade, and the Hua family has become one of the most powerful families in Guang County. If a few more years pass, the Hua family will definitely be a completely different place. Thinking of this, Hua Kai couldn't help but smile in his heart. Everything will get better and better, better than he imagined!