When Awang went to pick up the children from school, he brought this breaking news to Qin Yao and his wife. They were both stunned for two seconds.
After he recovered, Liu Ji patted his chest and said, "Let me tell you, I've been feeling restless these past few days, and there must be nothing good going on. I didn't expect that it was really nothing good!"
Qin Yaoxin said that you were just playing nonsense literature, so she quickly asked Awang: "Will the assessment be carried out tomorrow? What are the regulations for free admission now?"
Awang said: "I don't know yet. When I picked up Dalang and the others, people from all the villages gathered outside the Ding family ancestral hall to ask for explanations. It was a big commotion. The Ding family may have a headache."
Qin Yao rubbed her eyebrows, what's the matter!
Turning around, he saw Liu Ji still patting his chest and muttering that he had an ominous premonition, which made him feel even more heartbroken.
Just as he was talking, the large army from the village that went to Dingjiazhuang came back. Liu Zhong and Qiu also got the news. They quickly left their work and took Jinhua to Qin Yao's house to ask anxiously about the situation.
Jinhua herself was quite calm. When she saw Siniang, she followed her into the room with a smile on her face, without any worries at all.
Liu Zhong was affected by the angry crowd. He was so angry that he walked out of the square. He did not forget to turn around and curse:
"Recruit or not, you Ding family should come out and give us an explanation! What's going on like this! You think we are easy to bully!"
Da Mao was placed in the old house and looked after by Mrs. Zhang.
Qin Yao rolled her eyes speechlessly.
As Liu Zhong said when he came here just now, the people who gave gifts to the two masters were also taken to the county government for questioning.
The Ding family did not wait.
Although he was only fined a small amount of money, if he entered the county government office, he would not dare to think about the consequences.
Those who wanted to vent yesterday have already vented their feelings. Today, everyone wants to make sure that there are no more people to recruit for admissions.
This is really suspicious!
As the county magistrate asked questions one by one, the expressions of Qin Yao and the others in the car became a little subtle.
Qin Yao said: "Don't panic now. We don't know anything now. We will wait until we get to town tomorrow morning to discuss everything. The county magistrate has been alarmed. This matter will definitely not be passed away in such a hazy manner."
“Fortunately we are walking fast.” Liu Jihou said fearfully.
After seeing off the family of three, Qin Yao walked into the house and frowned: "I'm afraid this matter is not that simple."
What was the tone of official duties in Kaiyang County in the past?
Awang said that the people who invited the official servants were just the wine shops in Jinshi Town. Under normal circumstances, these official servants could not be dispatched.
After hearing this information, Qin Yao and his wife looked at each other in tacit understanding.
Mrs. Qiu called him twice, then she shut up and sat on the shaft of the carriage with Liu Ji, staring closely at the Ding family ancestral hall.
Qin Yao waved her hand to signal her not to be so polite, and stood up to see off the guests, "You go back first and have a good night's rest. Let's go to the town together tomorrow morning to see what's going on."
It turns out that as long as you go to the county government to claim the subsidy, the county government will also subsidize the Ding Family School an additional twenty taels of silver!
So, with a total of one hundred and twenty taels of silver, they could have built several new schools, hired several tutors, and accommodated hundreds of students of the same age, but the Ding family only allocated fifty places.
Because of what happened yesterday, the Ding family school gave the students two days off. The elders were still asleep at home, and there were only Qin Yao and his wife and Liu Zhong's family in the car.
But Si Niang heard what the adults said, and looking at her sister Jinhua's heartless look, she sighed heavily like a little adult.
At the canteen in the factory, Mrs. Qiu also asked a familiar villager to help cover the whole morning, and gave them all her wages for the day.
It turns out that the Ding Family School received as much as one hundred taels of tuition subsidies from the imperial court!
The sun had just risen from the horizon, and the square at the entrance of the Ding family ancestral hall was already filled with people who came to seek explanations.
At this stage, wait until the sun is in the middle of the sky.
When the Ding family heard that the county magistrate was coming, several elders in the clan who were in charge were hurriedly carried over by their juniors.
There are many people who arrived earlier than Qin Yao and his party.
Liu Zhong and his wife are not the only ones who are worried about this matter. People in every village are waiting for an explanation from the Ding family.
As soon as Qin Yao finished speaking, Liu Ji immediately "poofed" three times on the ground, "What she said doesn't count. Don't take it seriously!"
Otherwise, while Qin Yao was watching, Liu Ji would have rushed up to see the county magistrate, trying to get close to him.
Liu Ji coughed twice, and continued to watch with wide eyes like a normal person, to see how many inside stories they didn't know about the free admission.
Compared with my daughter's important event, I don't need to pay for this day's wages.
“You don't think it's an official call from the restaurant?” Qin Yao asked jokingly.
If you leave a quarter of an hour late, you might even get into trouble.
The county magistrate is here!
Things became interesting, and Liu Ji and Liu Zhong were excited.
Mrs. Qiu felt a little embarrassed and said, "I just have to trouble his three uncles and three aunts. We don't know anyone in Dingjiazhuang. If we want to ask someone, we don't know who to go to."
As soon as the old man of the Ding family got off the sedan chair, Magistrate Song gave him a cold shout:
“You, the Ding family, are so prestigious! You took the subsidy from the court and did not build a school or recruit students. Instead, you relied on these few free admission places to secretly accept bribes and leak examination questions.”
Liu Jishen nodded with the same feeling. He had wanted to say it just now, but the second brother and sister-in-law couldn't say it directly.
Or is it that the county magistrate has a whim and wants to rectify these frauds and corruptions?
Qin Yao had a hunch that if the incident in Ding Family Academy got into trouble, it might be a good thing for ordinary people.
With the officials maintaining order, the Ding family ancestral hall, which had been noisy all morning, finally calmed down.
The next morning, before dawn, the door of Qin Yao's house was knocked by Liu Zhong and his wife. Knowing that they were anxious about their daughter's enrollment in school, Qin Yao didn't say anything, but she didn't look very good along the way and looked like she wouldn't let strangers in.
Now that the person is gone, Liu Ji no longer has any scruples, and wonders: "I don't know who is so capable that he can still ask the county magistrate."
There were too many people, so Qin Yao took Qiu and Jinhua to stay in the carriage and asked brothers Liu Ji and Liu Zhong to go to the crowd to inquire about the situation.
Qin Yao also thought of this and reminded Liu Ji: "Now that you are a disciple of Confucianism, you should keep a low profile in the future, otherwise, if you don't keep it all, your teacher will expel you from the school one day!"
Liu Zhong said hurriedly: "Then I will go with you tomorrow morning."
It made several people in the car afraid to fart even a single person along the way.
Liu Ji really couldn't stand the stinking human smell, so he dragged Liu Zhong, who was still reluctant to leave, back to the carriage and shook his head at Qin Yao, "No one from the Ding family came out, let's just step aside and wait and see. "
Liu Ji was certain, “It definitely can't be him!”
Si Niang listened perfunctorily to Jin Hua sharing her life today, and at the same time she pricked up her ears and eavesdropped on the conversations of the adults in the main room.
Moreover, it came just in time.
It's a pity that the doors of the Ding family's houses are closed and no one comes out at all.
The couple looked at each other. Who is the person behind the scenes?
Is he an enemy of the Ding family?
"Okay, okay." Liu Zhong picked up Qiu who wanted to say something, called Jinhua, and went back.
Liu Ji calmly picked up the reins, turned the car, and silently withdrew a hundred meters away.
Very soon, very quickly!
There was a fight at the Ding family ancestral hall. Those who threw shoes, smashed the door, and spit were all targeted at the elders of the Ding family.
Chapter end
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