strictlysupreme Chapter 120 Fundraising for Disaster Relief
Chapter 120 Fundraising for Disaster Relief
"Big sister, I received news that the city was hit by severe floods, and many people were killed and injured. Many houses collapsed and were submerged by floods.
A large number of disaster victims have rushed into Lincheng. Lincheng is now in a state of emergency and the city gates have been closed to prevent further influx of disaster victims. However, it is known that the relief food in Lincheng has been distributed.
There is a severe shortage of food, clothing and medicine in the city. If we wait for the emperor to approve the distribution of relief food, it will take too long and may cause riots."
Shangguan Yue found Zeng Qianer applying a facial mask with Chen Bianbian in Jun Lanwan.
"What? No wonder Cheng Rui never came to see me. It turns out that such a big thing happened in Lincheng, but he didn't even tell me a word!"
Zeng Qianer asked angrily, no matter how busy you are, don’t you have time to write a few words?
"Madam, someone brought you a letter from Lincheng." The maid Hua'er ran in happily. The master still missed you very much, and finally the letter came.
Zeng Qianer excitedly opened the letter. Shangguan Yue saw that the excitement on Zeng Qianer's face had not yet faded, but the disappointment in her eyes could no longer be concealed.
The letter floated under the table with the breeze. Zeng Qian'er sat back in her chair without saying a word, picked up the unfinished facial mask and put it back on her face.
Chen Bianbian looked at Zeng Qianer in surprise, then at Shangguan Yue. What happened?
Shangguan Yue picked up the letter on the ground. It turned out that the letter was not written by Cheng Rui, but by Cheng Rui's long-time attendant Xiaohe.
He talked about the current situation in Lincheng, how busy the adults were, and hoped that the lady would not blame the adults.
I hope the lady will come back to take care of the young lady and the young master, help the adults appease the people in the city, etc.
Haha, it’s a common problem among men that they all think that a woman should be a good wife after getting married, serve her parents-in-law, be considerate to her husband, and take care of the children.
As someone else's daughter-in-law, wife, or mother, who would serve, care for, and take care of her? Isn't she a human being who shouldn't be cared for?
"Big sister, are you going back? Go back to Lincheng to comfort the people and give out porridge?"
"What the hell! No one cares about my own life or death, so why should I care about the lives of others? Like you said, I don't have a saintly heart."
"Pfft! Big sister, you have turned evil. You were not like this before. You used to be very kind-hearted. You even apologized when someone slapped you.
It seems that the elder sister has really changed. Could it be that we have led her astray? We don’t admit it! "Shangguan Yue couldn’t help laughing.
"Xiaoyue, stop teasing your elder sister. You have to go back. Your elder sister can't just ignore us two little nephews.
But the master didn't give the order, and a servant came to call him and he went back in disgrace? That's too cowardly. Even if he goes back, it's the return of a king. "Chen Bianbian didn't want Zeng Qian'er to go back so shamelessly.
"Our second sister is right. We have to go back. Lincheng is in trouble now. If each of us only cares about ourselves, something terrible will happen to Lincheng.
Yu'er and Heng'er are both in Lincheng! Only when the people are stable can our families be safe. Let's try our best to do what we can!"
In the face of disaster, most people are kind and innocent. Kindness is also a kind of inheritance. If you are not kind and others are not kind, then the world will be cold and without a trace of warmth.
"If we go back, we must do it with dignity. This time, the three of us sisters are going back together to help the people. Why should we rely on the name of Prefect Cheng? We are going back in the name of the wife of the general and the lady of the minister.
If that Cheng guy dares to bully you, I, the general's wife, will help you kill him! Don't be angry, it won't be beautiful if you are angry again."
Chen Bianbian pinched Zeng Qianer's face. Since returning to Yuecheng, Sister Zeng's mood might have changed. She seemed like a different person. She became more beautiful, and her skin became several shades whiter and tenderer.
It is true that being a resentful woman in the boudoir makes people haggard and old. Look at Sister Zeng, who is now 28 years old, she looks like a young lady in her twenties.
A lot of supplies were needed to go back to Lincheng for disaster relief. If all of them were purchased in large quantities in Yuecheng, it might cause unnecessary speculation and panic. Therefore, purchasing them in several other cities near Yuecheng avoided unnecessary speculation.
With their current financial resources, it would be no problem for them to come up with one or eighty thousand taels of silver. The same goes for Zeng Qianer. Especially the Zeng family, when they heard about the disaster relief, they also sent one hundred thousand taels of silver.
The General's Mansion and Zeng Qian'er donated a total of 200,000 taels, plus the Shangshu Mansion's 100,000 taels, a total of 300,000 taels.
Based on the price of goods here, one tael of silver is approximately equal to one thousand yuan, so these three hundred thousand taels are almost three hundred million yuan.
Think about how people in modern times work 996 every day and live paycheck to paycheck every month. Making money is really not as fast or as much as in ancient times.
It’s just that in ancient times, information was backward. There were no cars, no airplanes, no air conditioning or television, no mobile phones or computers. If you wanted to find someone or send a message, you would have to run a lot of people and horses.
If you gain something, you must lose it! If you have obtained luxury, fame and wealth, it is normal to lose high-tech information. There is no such thing as a perfect life.
Zeng Qian'er wrote a letter to the owner of her dowry shop, asking him to prepare several large warehouses so that the supplies would have a place to be stored when they were transported there.
Shangguan Yue quickly gave orders to purchase rice, corn, soybeans, flour, medicinal herbs, coarse cloth, etc. from Yuecheng and several cities adjacent to Yuecheng.
She, Chen Bianbian and Zeng Qian'er also participated in the purchasing. After all, the required quantity of materials was large, and they had to buy them as soon as possible while the disaster situation might only be known to the emperor for the time being and had not yet spread to the people.
This is to prevent unscrupulous merchants from hoarding large amounts of grain and making it difficult for them to buy grain.
They bought 10,000 to 20,000 dan of grain from each of the neighboring cities, and also purchased supplies such as medicinal materials in several other cities.
After signing the contract, pay 30% of the money on the same day, and pay the balance the next day after inspecting and shipping out all the goods.
In order to avoid any further complications, we had to act decisively and finally completed the purchase after three days.
Shangguan Yan would have to take up her post at the camp outside the capital in a day or two. Although she had hired a security company to escort her, she was still worried and sent ten secret guards to protect them to Lincheng.
Shangguan Yue did not plan to live in Cheng Mansion after arriving in Lincheng. Zeng Qianer said that she made a lot of money from the dowry shop, so when Cheng Rui came to Lincheng to take office two years ago, she bought a private courtyard near Cheng Mansion.
She said that when she was upset, she would go to that house and stay for an hour or two. Because she couldn't tell her troubles to others, this house was where she could release her emotions.
She did not tell Cheng Rui about this house. She felt that if Cheng Rui knew about it, she would lose even this secret base.
Several people agreed to live in this house when they went to Lincheng, and set up a free point for collecting disaster relief supplies at the refugee gathering place at the east gate of Lincheng.
Because refugees are registered when they enter Lincheng, after registration only one person will receive a receipt, and a family will receive a booklet.
The government used this receipt and booklet to distribute relief food per person.
Therefore, Shangguan Yue and her friends will need these certificates to receive the free relief supplies, and local people in Lincheng cannot receive them.
There are also many poor households in Lincheng, and they also have to discuss what benefits can be gained from the people, otherwise it will be easy for the locals to look for refugees.