Royal Palace.

Kunning Palace.

Seeing Hu Fei's affectionate look on his daughter, Queen Ma nodded with satisfaction, and the smile on her lips became more and more obvious.

"Fei'er, I'm not wrong about you. You really didn't disappoint me. You even performed well at the annual banquet, which was an eye-opener for me."

Queen Ma looked at Hu Fei and said with a smile.

"Thank you very much, Queen Mother, for your honor. But speaking of the New Year's Banquet, I have one more important thing to do here today."

Hu Fei cupped his hands and said with a smile.

Hearing Queen Ma call him Fei'er, Hu Fei felt happy.

"What's the matter?"

Queen Ma hesitated and asked curiously.

After hearing what Hu Fei said, Princess Anqing also showed a trace of doubt, because she had never heard Hu Fei say that she had something to do with her mother.

"At the New Year's Eve banquet, I presented three annual gifts to His Majesty. Before the New Year's Eve, I also gave gifts to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King Yan. Everyone gave them. How could I not give them to my mother only?

Woolen cloth?"

Hu Fei smiled and said slowly.

"Oh? Is it also for me?"

When Queen Ma heard this, she was very happy and asked with a smile.

"Of course, no one can be missing without the Queen Mother."

Hu Fei nodded affirmatively, and as he spoke, he took out an exquisite rouge box from his arms, slowly opened it, and revealed it in front of Queen Ma.

In the wooden box, there are two silver vials, crystal clear and unique in shape.

"What is this?"

Seeing the two silver bottles, Queen Ma looked full of curiosity and couldn't help but ask.

"The thing contained in this silver vase is called perfume. It was developed by my own hands for my mother and Changshu, and is given to my mother and Changshu as a new year's gift."

Hu Fei pointed to the silver bottle in the box and said slowly.

"perfume?"

When Princess Anqing heard this, she came closer curiously and looked at it expectantly.

Queen Ma also stood up from the couch and slowly came closer.

"What is perfume?"

Queen Ma asked doubtfully while looking at the silver bottle in the box.

"Perfume, as the name suggests, is a liquid that can emit a special fragrance. Press this switch on the body to release the fragrance, which will linger around the entire body for a long time."

"Compared with ordinary rouge gouache, the taste is longer-lasting and more refined, and the operation is simple, just spray it lightly."

As Hu Fei spoke, he called the eunuch Feng Shao, handed the box to Feng Shao's hand, then took out a bottle and sprayed it lightly into the air.

As a stream of liquid that turned into mist was sprayed out, a fragrance slowly spread in the air.

"Mmm, it smells so good!"

Princess Anqing on the side smelled the smell and couldn't help shouting in surprise.

Queen Ma couldn't help but smell it. The smile on her face became brighter and she nodded frequently. It was obvious that she liked it very much.

"You made this with your own hands?!"

Queen Ma looked at Hu Fei in surprise and couldn't help but ask.

"That's right."

Hu Fei nodded and replied.

"I'm sorry for you. I didn't expect you to be able to do this. How many abilities do you have that you haven't shown yet?"

Queen Ma looked at Hu Fei approvingly and couldn't help but sigh.

"The Queen Mother is overly praised. It's just that my son likes to speculate blindly. It doesn't matter. As long as the Queen Mother likes it."

Hu Fei smiled and shook his head and said slowly.

"I like it, I like it very much."

"Xiao Fengzi, put it away."

Queen Ma nodded and said with satisfaction.

Feng Shao nodded and slowly closed the box.

"Hey? Queen Mother?"

When Princess Anqing saw it, she hurriedly stretched out her hand and said with a grimace.

"Oh, I almost forgot, you also have a share in this."

"Xiao Fengzi, get a bottle for the princess."

When Queen Ma saw it, she immediately thought of it and said with a smile.

Feng Shao agreed, quickly took out a bottle from the box and handed it to Princess Anqing.

Princess Anqing played with the perfume in her hand, looking left and right, unable to put it down.

Seeing the satisfied faces of Queen Ma and Princess Anqing, Hu Fei breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that his gift was a gift to their hearts.

As the saying goes, if you want to get your daughter-in-law, you must first get your mother-in-law. And if you get your mother-in-law, you will not be far from getting Zhu Yuanzhang.

Ingratiating himself with Queen Ma was an insurance policy for him to secure his position as consort, ensuring that nothing would go wrong.

Afterwards, Hu Fei stayed in Kunning Palace and exchanged greetings for a while before bidding farewell to Queen Ma and leaving the palace.

...

at dusk.

Hong Bin Building.

Backyard main hall.

Hu Fei was sitting on a chair, drinking tea slowly, with a box on the table in front of him.

The left and right sides were already filled with people. In addition to the people from Hongbinkou Tower, Hanlinxuan, and Huifeng Bank, all the guards, Pei Jie, Xiao Wu, and others were also there, and Qi Yun was also there.

"Master, everyone is here, we can start."

Qiu Li, who was standing next to Hu Fei, glanced at everyone, counted the number of people, turned to Hu Fei and said respectfully.

"good."

Hu Fei agreed and turned to face the crowd with a faint smile on his lips.

"Everyone has worked hard during this period. Some people often wake up early and work late at night. This young master has seen it all."

"Since the New Year has come, I should express my gratitude, so I have prepared a piece of New Year's money for each of you. It's not too much, so don't be too little. Don't worry, as long as you follow me, I won't treat you badly.

"

Hu Fei looked at everyone, reached out and opened the box next to him, and said with a smile.

Hearing the young master saying that he wanted to give out money, everyone present could not help but be stunned for a moment, and then everyone smiled happily.

Especially those guards who were on duty in Hu's mansion early in the morning, their eyes widened, thinking that they had heard wrongly.

You know, this is the first time in so many years that the young master has been given a new year's money.

The young master can think of them so much, no matter how little money they have, they will be satisfied.

"let's start."

Amid everyone's surprise, Hu Fei glanced at Qiuli and said slowly.

Autumn Oriole nodded, then took out a piece of paper.

"Whoever's name is read next, come up and collect the money."

"Pei Jie."

Qiu Li looked at everyone and read out the first name as he spoke.

Pei Jie was obviously stunned when he heard his name. He originally thought that he had no share.

Then Pei Jie glanced at Hu Fei sheepishly and walked forward slowly.

Qiuli looked at Pei Jie who looked expectant and smiled, then slowly took out a money bag made of red cloth from the box and handed it to Pei Jie.

"Thank you, Master!"

Pei Jie bowed to Hu Fei and took the money bag with both hands. However, he suddenly felt that the bag was much heavier than expected. He hesitated for a moment and couldn't help opening the bag and taking a look inside.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, but when you look at the white silver in the bag, you can't help but froze in surprise.
To be continued...