Chapter 288: Distributing Silver, Second Watch (3)_1
The process of distributing the silver was pre-arranged by Cai Wei. She instructed Nangong Yi to make the donation in his name, with Manager Li assisting in distributing the silver taels, while Zhui Feng, Zhu Yue and others were to keep a guard to prevent anyone who was obsessed with money, whose eyes glittered at the sight of money, from doing anything irrational...
The silver was delivered house by house. The villagers who received the gifts were tearfully grateful, ceaselessly chanting prayers to Buddha. Some even asked Manager Li for the young master’s name, so they could go home and set him up an immortal plaque, to which they would offer three sticks of incense a day!
Of course, these requests were all refused by Manager Li.
When the turn came to give the silver to Mu Zhongli, Manager Li suddenly stopped preparing the silver. With an ambiguous smile, he looked at Mu Zhongli and said: "I’m sorry, Grand Master Mu. Unfortunately, there’s no silver here for you."
"What? Why does everyone else get some, but not me?"
In the freezing weather, Mu Zhongli had been standing in line for half a day; hearing that he was not getting any silver, he became instantly infuriated.
"My family’s house was damaged by the EQ as well. If you don’t believe me, you can come with me and see."
Manager Li laughed: "It’s not a matter of whether your house is damaged or not...with all due respect, our young master said that his silver can only be used for the relief of the poor. As we all know, Grand Master Mu’s family has just recently come into possession of the best tavern on the finest street in town. That hardly makes you poor. Therefore, you can’t take this silver."
Upon hearing this, Mu Zhongli was instantly engulfed in anger. So, it was that little b*tch who got her revenge, making things difficult for him and embarrassing him in front of everyone because of their conflict over the tavern. They were family! Now that she was so wealthy, what difference would it make to give him a bit of it? Yet, that little b*tch was relentless, ready to give out tens of thousands of silver taels to strangers rather than to her own family! What kind of ungrateful, unfilial person does that? Would the young master still favor her if he knew she treated her family like this?
With that thought, his gaze became rather peculiar.