Chapter 533 Given by the Queen Mother
The surprise came so suddenly that Si Linglong almost couldn't help grinning.
Thinking that there were people watching me, I had to do my best to stay calm.
She was just worried that she would come empty-handed and return empty-handed, which would inevitably make her look ugly, but she didn't expect her elder brother to have such a brilliant idea.
This way you donate the money and get the greatest benefit!
[Let’s just say, my big brother is awesome, and I won’t accept any rebuttal.]
Soon, the palace servants brought up the desk, writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone that had been prepared in advance. Everyone watched as the emperor personally went up to pick up the pen. Those who guessed what the emperor was going to do looked at the father and son of the Si family with envy and jealousy in their eyes.
Cunning!
The Si family is indeed a family of merchants, they are so cunning!
That is the emperor's calligraphy!
Just because the Si family donated money alone?
They can also donate individually.
As for the 250,000...
Well, they couldn't.
But the Bai family paid 260,000 yuan, but the emperor didn't seem to give them any calligraphy.
Thinking of this, everyone looked at Mrs. Bai with some sympathy in their eyes.
Mrs. Bai's face was still gentle and generous, but the hands hidden in her sleeves almost seemed to be about to tear the handkerchief into pieces.
On what basis?
Two hundred and sixty thousand taels, the money that the Bai family had to work hard to scrape together. Even though they had obtained the Empress Dowager's Buddhist beads, how could it compare to the Emperor's calligraphy? Not to mention the significance of the Emperor's calligraphy.
Compared to the many complex emotions of the people in the hall, the father and son of the Si family were elegant and indifferent, and they were not surprised by insults, which made many people in the hall look up to them.
Under everyone's gaze, Helian Yue wrote down four words.
These four simple words were equivalent to giving the Si family a label of contempt in front of everyone.
【Home of Good Deeds】
Si Linglong looked at the four big words in front of her, and a sense of familiarity flashed through her heart for some reason, as if the scene before her matched a small plot in the original novel.
Before they had time to think about it, Helian Yue personally stamped his seal on it, and the reputation after the emperor's seal was thus left to the Si family.
Si Linglong smiled and praised herself to the fullest, then announced, "Then this charity banquet has come to a successful conclusion. Thank you all for your kindness to the people of Chuanlin."
Si Linglong finished her words and stepped aside. As the initiator of this palace banquet, the Queen Mother naturally had to make a speech. However, what no one expected was that the Queen Mother's first words were -
"This charity banquet was proposed by Lang Zhaoyi, and she hosted it in my name. Now that it has been successfully completed, I will naturally reward her."
As he said this, he signaled to the palace maid, "Bring over the jade seal that I just bought."
Everyone was shocked at first by what the Queen Mother had just said. After all, there were concubines in the palace who were of higher status than Lang Zhaoyi. How could it be the turn of a Zhaoyi like her to organize such a charity banquet in the palace, and to do it in the name of the Queen Mother?
After hearing the Queen Mother's next words, everyone looked at Lang Zhaoyi with even more complicated eyes than when they looked at the Si family father and son just now.
What good fortune did this Si family have?
That jade seal represents a favor from the Wu'an Marquis Mansion.
The Queen Mother gave it to everyone in front of them. Even if the Wu'an Marquisate did not like Lang Zhaoyi, they would not be able to easily refuse her requests in the future...
The Queen Mother has always been upright and never close to the concubines in the harem. Why does she value this merchant girl from the Si family so much?
Others may not know, but Helian Yue knows it clearly.
The Empress Dowager participated in the auction not for the jade seal of the Marquis of Wu'an Mansion, but just for the sake of the old lady's dignity. When the silent bid was higher than that of the Empress Dowager, the Si family chose to remain silent and give in. The Empress Dowager would certainly not take advantage of this.
Giving the jade seal to Si Linglong was just a disguised way of returning the favor to the Si family, but giving it in front of so many people was indeed a way of giving honor to Si Linglong, because Si Linglong had indeed raised a lot of donations for the disaster victims in Sichuan this time.
Just for this reason, the Queen Mother was willing to save her face in front of everyone.
Although Si Zhongqing and Si Jinyu were surprised by this development, they were also delighted.
After all, the jade seal was originally purchased by the Si family and was intended for Si Linglong.
Now it can be considered a coincidence.
Oh, and I saved 100,000 taels of silver.