Shengjing Noble

Chapter 226 Gloating over misfortune

"Please don't be surprised, everyone. The reason why the amount of food is reduced by half today is mainly because Qiu County has been suffering from famine recently. How can our officials serve fish and meat when the people are starving?"

"So I cut the amount of food in half to avoid wasting it. This is also a good example for me. I hope everyone can save food like me."

These generous remarks immediately made those flatterers applaud and praise him.

"Lord Su really cares about the people and is truly an honest official!"

"Yes, we must learn from Master Su and not waste food!"

"From now on, our family will only eat half the amount, be frugal and follow Lord Su's example."

……

Although not everyone agreed, except for the sycophants, everyone else smiled awkwardly and didn't know how to refute.

However, Su Lanyin was not afraid of embarrassment. She stood up, blinked her pure and bright eyes, raised her voice and asked, "So, Lord Su is going to donate half of the food he saved to the disaster victims?"

"..."

This sentence made the whole banquet silent in an instant.

However, Su Lanyin did not stop there. She asked again, "Do the adults who just said they wanted to learn from Master Su also want to donate?"

"..."

The scene was frozen for a moment, and you could hear a pin drop.

Su Lanyin enjoyed the fun and grabbed Su Shengyun who was beside her.

"My Lords, I am Su Shengyun, the Magistrate of Qiu County, and would like to thank you all for your generous donations. Today is the best day to donate the rest of your meals to the disaster victims. Please come to my second brother to register your names, official titles, and donation amounts."

"..."

Those shameless flatterers all turned pale and for a moment they dared not open their mouths like cowards.

But Su Lanyin will not let them go.

The servant had already carried paper money with him, and the most convenient charcoal pen that could be used to write without ink.

With a gloating look on her face, she grabbed a pen and paper and ran to Su Yongcheng, like a happy and hardworking little bee.

"Sir Su, I have written down your name and official title. How much do you want to donate?"

"you……"

Su Yongcheng's face darkened, and he was speechless for a moment.

He just said it casually to ease the awkwardness, but he didn't expect that this damn girl would dare to take him so seriously. It's so abominable!

"Today is my son's engagement party, you'd better not cause trouble!" He warned in a low voice with gritted teeth.

Su Lanyin did not give him this face, and shouted: "I am only fulfilling Lord Su's kindness, how can it be considered as making trouble? Could it be that Lord Su's generous words just now were all false, and he is actually stingy and unwilling to let the guests eat the Su family's banquet?"

"Oh, no way, no way? When did Lord Su become so stingy? When my mother was still in charge of the Su family, the cost of each banquet was no less than a thousand taels."

"Why, after leaving my mother, the Su family can't even afford a banquet? Tsk tsk tsk... You should have told me earlier. I thought Lord Su really cared about the refugees and wanted to help. I didn't expect he was just pretending to be poor."

After saying that, she rolled her eyes, turned around and was about to leave. How was this attitude any different from actually smashing Su Yongcheng's face into eight pieces and stepping on it several times?

With so many eyes watching, if Su Yongcheng endured it, he would be admitting that he had been a gigolo at Lu Wanjun's expense.

Not only that, he will never be able to hold his head up again.

Compared to the embarrassing moments in the past, these were just family troubles. Every family has its own little troubles.

Speaking of which, it's nothing.

But if everyone knew that the Su family had no money, then he would be completely looked down upon and there would be no hope of anyone praising him.

Thinking of this, Su Yongcheng was furious. He pointed at Su Lanyin and shouted, "You little bitch, who are you saying is poor and pretending to be stupid? Your Lu family is now a poor and downtrodden family. How dare you say that about my Su family? Besides, when have I ever been stingy?"

"Isn't it just a donation of silver? Today, I, Su Yongcheng, will donate one thousand taels in public to prove with my actions that my Su family never relied on Lu Wanjun in the past!"

After saying that, he snatched the paper and pen from Su Lanyin's hand and wrote "one thousand taels" behind his name with a wave of his hand.

As long as he takes Fang Qingqing's dowry which is five times of mine, it's only a mere one thousand taels. How could he take it seriously?

But Liu Ruyan, who was standing by, felt so heartbroken that her heart was bleeding. She clenched her fists tightly and wished she could rush up and tear up the paper!

Su Lanyin smiled, and as if afraid that he would go back on his word, she took out a box of ink: "Come on, come on, it's no use just talking, Master Su, you have to put your fingerprints on it."

"Press it!"

Su Yongcheng didn't realize that he was being led by the nose. Even if he realized it, he would be in a difficult situation. He gritted his teeth and pressed the handprint.

Su Lanyin smiled and looked at the flatterers beside her: "My lords, Lord Su spent a lot of money for the disaster victims. Don't you want to learn from him?"

"This……"

The flatterers didn't expect that they would have to pay money for just a few words. What's the difference between this and cutting off one's own flesh?

However, now that things have come to this, I can’t swallow back the flattery I just said.

So several people wrote down the donation amount and put their fingerprints on it.

Su Lanyin handed the paper to Su Shengyun with satisfaction and said with a smile, "Second brother, this will help provide food and clothing for more disaster victims."

Su Shengyun curled his lips and put the paper away. He whispered with a doting look in his eyes, "It's all thanks to Yinyin's sharp tongue."

Seeing that the brother and sister had achieved their goal, Lu Wanjun was no longer patient. She was not convinced by what Su Yongcheng had just said.

"Master Su is really generous now. When I was in the Su family before, you were very stingy. Every banquet was paid for by me from my dowry. Why do you say now that you didn't rely on me? Do you want me to take out the account book and sort it out for you?"

Su Yongcheng could no longer bear it, pointed at her and yelled, "Shut up! You are a beggar now, what qualifications do you have to talk to me? If your son hadn't coveted my son's fiancée Qingqing, I wouldn't have invited you to come and witness so that your whole family would completely give up!"

"Don't think that your son is great just because he is the magistrate of Qiu County. Isn't he just a seventh-rank official? To put it bluntly, he is still inferior to me! What's more, your Lu family has spent all their wealth for Qiu County. Even if they don't end up on the streets, they are no different from poor people!"

"I advise you to take today's banquet seriously and eat a good meal, so as to avoid starving to death in a remote place like Qiu County, where even your corpse will be eaten by wild dogs!"

The mother and daughter of the Fang family, who had been listening for a long time, finally couldn't sit still anymore.

Fang Tao spoke first: "Alas, it's a good thing that our Qingqing didn't marry Su Shengming, otherwise she would have to go to a place like Qiu County and suffer. Fortunately, Lord Su is generous, and our Qingqing will enjoy a good life after marrying in."

Fang Qingqing also agreed with a smile: "Mother, what are you talking about? In fact, I have liked Brother Shenghao from the beginning. As for Su Shengming, he has always been self-indulgent."

Fang Tao nodded, her eyes full of contempt: "That's right, a poor person like Lu Wanjun deserves that her three sons will never get married! If you ask me, you might as well sell Su Lanyin to a brothel for a few melons and dates, so as not to let the whole family starve to death."