When Awang went to pick up the children from school and came back, 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 Yao thought to herself that you were just playing nonsense literature, so she hurriedly asked Awang: "Then the assessment will still be held 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, I saw Liu Ji still patting his chest and muttering that he had an unknown premonition, which made him feel even more heartbroken.

Just as he was talking, a large force 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.

But Si Niang heard what the adults said, and looking at her sister Jinhua's careless look, she sighed heavily like a little adult.

Si Niang listened perfunctorily to Jin Hua's sharing of her life today, and at the same time pricked up her ears to eavesdrop on the adults in the main room talking.

Qin Yao said: "Don't panic now. We don't know anything now. We'll wait until we get to town tomorrow morning to discuss everything. The county magistrate has been alarmed. This matter will definitely not go by in such a hazy manner."

Liu Zhong said hurriedly: "Then I will go with you tomorrow morning."

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."

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."

"Okay, okay." Liu Zhong pulled up Qiu who wanted to say something, called Jinhua, and went back.

After sending the family of three away, Qin Yao walked into the house and frowned: "I'm afraid this matter is not that simple."

Liu Jishen nodded with the same feeling. He had wanted to say it just now, but the second brother and second sister-in-law didn't have the guts to say it directly.

Now that he was gone, Liu Ji no longer had any scruples, and said strangely: "I don't know who is so capable that he can still ask the county magistrate."

What was the tone of official duties in Kaiyang County in the past?

I heard from Awang that the people who invited the official servants were just wine shops in Jinshi Town. Under normal circumstances, these official servants could not be dispatched.

Moreover, it came just in time.

This is really suspicious!

"You don't think it's an official call from the restaurant?" Qin Yao asked jokingly.

Liu Ji was certain, "It can't be him!"

The couple looked at each other, who was the person behind the scenes?

An enemy of the Ding family?

Or is it that the county magistrate has a whim and wants to rectify these frauds and corruptions?

Qin Yao had a hunch that the commotion in the Ding Family Academy might be a good thing for ordinary people.

"Fortunately we can go fast." Liu Jihou said fearfully.

If he left a quarter of an hour late, he might even get into trouble.

When Liu Zhong came over, he said that the people who gave gifts to the two wives were also taken to the county government for questioning.

Although it was only a small fine, if he entered the county government, he would not dare to think about the consequences.

Qin Yao also thought of this and reminded Liu Ji: "You are now bearing the name of a great Confucian disciple, so you should keep a low profile in the future, otherwise, if you don't keep it all, you will be expelled by your teacher one day!"

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!"

Qin Yao rolled her eyes speechlessly.

In the early morning of the next day, 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.

As a result, several people in the car did not dare to fart even a single person along the way.

Because of what happened yesterday, the Ding family 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.

Da Mao was placed in the old house and looked after by Mr. Zhang.

In the factory cafeteria, Mrs. Qiu also asked a familiar villager to help cover the whole morning, and all her wages for the day were given to them.

Compared with my daughter's important event, this day's wages don't matter.

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.

There were many people who arrived earlier than Qin Yao and his party.

The sun had just risen above the horizon, and the square at the entrance of the Ding family ancestral hall was already filled with people who came to seek explanations.

Those who wanted to vent yesterday have already vented their anger. Today, everyone wants to make sure that they are recruiting students or not.

There were too many people, so Qin Yao took Qiu and Jin Hua to stay in the carriage and asked brothers Liu Ji and Liu Zhong to go into the crowd to inquire about the situation.

Unfortunately, the doors of the Ding family's houses were closed, and no one came out at all.

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 Zhong was affected by the angry crowd. He was so angry that he walked out of the square. He didn't 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!"

Mrs. Qiu called him twice before she shut up and sat on the shaft of the car with Liu Ji, staring closely at the Ding family ancestral hall.

Wait until the sun reaches its peak.

The Ding family didn't wait.

The county magistrate is here!

Things became interesting, and Liu Ji and Liu Zhong were excited.

Otherwise, while Qin Yao was watching, Liu Ji would have rushed up to see the county magistrate, trying to get close to him.

With the officials maintaining order, the Ding family ancestral hall, which had been noisy all morning, finally calmed down.

When the Ding family heard that the county magistrate was coming, several elders in charge of the clan were hurriedly carried over by the juniors.

As soon as the elder 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 imperial 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."

As the county magistrate asked questions, the expressions of Qin Yao and the others in the car became a little subtle.

Liu Ji coughed twice, and continued to open his eyes like a normal person to see how many inside stories they didn't know about the free admission.

It turns out that the Ding Family School received as much as one hundred taels of tuition subsidies from the imperial court!

It turns out that as long as you go to the county government to claim the subsidy, the county government will give an additional twenty taels of silver to the Ding family school!

Therefore, with a total of one hundred and twenty taels of silver, it could have been used to build several new schools, hire several tutors, and accommodate hundreds of students of appropriate age, but the Ding family only allocated fifty places.

After hearing this information, Qin Yao and his wife looked at each other in tacit understanding.

Liu Ji calmly picked up the reins, turned the car, and silently withdrew a hundred meters away.

Soon, very soon!

There was a fight at the Ding family ancestral hall. Those who threw shoes, smashed the door, and spat on the elders of the Ding family.


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