Poor Family

  Chapter 40 Accidental Attack

In the afternoon, it was time to mark the examination papers. Eight teaching assistants from the county school would do the marking behind closed doors. Officials would no longer participate. Views.

  In the middle hall of the county government office, five officials, including magistrate, county magistrate, county lieutenant, chief bookkeeper, and Xuezheng, were humbly listening to the lectures of magistrate Li Guanren.

  Li Kui smiled gently at everyone: "This time I accepted the invitation of Liu Zhixian to come to observe the competition of the boys' association in your county. Although it's not long, I have already deeply understood the influence of the boys' association in Tangyin County.

In particular, Lushan Academy won the championship yesterday, and the city was full of firecrackers. I knew that Tangyin County’s literary style was flourishing. I will promote the experience of Tangyin County to the whole prefecture, and I will also present it to the imperial court. Of course, suggestions must also be made. In order to make the Tongzihui run better, I will only make two suggestions. "

  Hearing that Zhizhou wanted to report to the imperial court, Liu Zhen, the county magistrate, was very excited. His main purpose of running the Boys’ Club was to increase his official career. He quickly said: "Please Li Guanren, please punish the inadequacy. We will learn from our lessons and make persistent efforts."

Li Kui smiled slightly, "It's too serious to say whipping, but I just want to make two small suggestions. The first is the selection of participating students. I found that most of the students have participated in several consecutive sessions. They are old faces every year, which is not conducive to For the selection of rookies, I suggest that each student participate in at most two sessions, and at the same time increase the number of participants, so that more students will get this valuable learning opportunity."

  Li Kui's suggestion hits the nail on the head. Limiting the number of times students can participate will break the monopoly of several big families on places and allow more students to have the opportunity to participate in the competition.

Li Kui immediately put forward a second suggestion, "I found that there is a big age gap between the students at this boy's meeting. The youngest is only six years old, and the oldest is 14 years old. I don't think this is appropriate. I suggest a little restriction." Check the age of the participating students, such as over 12 years old and under 15 years old, so that the level of knowledge between each other will be closer, or you can compete in groups, one group for six to eight years old, one group for eight to 12 years old, one group for 12 years old and above For a group, it is up to your county to decide what plan to use, and I am just making a suggestion."

Li Kui's two suggestions are very reasonable, and he also said that the Boys' Association is not enough. The county magistrate Ma Fu immediately seized the opportunity to criticize Liu Zhen. , six-year-old students can not participate in the competition, this kind of students are just talented, but there is no process of learning and accumulation, this is unfair to other students studying hard, but Liu Zhixian is stubborn and must give the chance of winning the championship to six I don't understand why this is a student who is 10 years old? Is there something shady in it?"

Liu Zhen was not angry at all, and said coldly: "Maxian Chancellor is talking about Li Yanqing! His knowledge is obvious to all, and everyone knows whether I am partial or not, but Ma Xiancheng took five hundred taels of silver from him and swore to it Guaranteeing that someone else will win the championship next time, I don’t know if this counts as an invisible thing?”

  Ma Fu's face changed drastically, he stood up and said angrily, "You...you are spitting blood, you should make it clear today, when did I take five hundred taels of silver from others?"

  Li Kui's face had become extremely ugly, but he still didn't say a word, watching them fight coldly, other officials turned their heads one after another, fearing that he would also be involved.

Liu Zhen said calmly: "Of course you won't admit it, but you didn't expect that the five hundred silver coins are all marked, and they are all official silver minted by the Shaozhou Huangkeng Yinchang in the first year of Yasukuni, twenty-five taels per ingot." Believe it or not, I will search your mansion now and find five hundred taels of silver on the spot."

   Ma Fu’s brain went ‘hum! With a sound, he immediately understood that He Zhen's gift of money to him was actually a trap arranged by Liu Zhen, just to show it off in front of Zhizhou, and he was fooled.

   Ma Fu suddenly became angry and anxious, trembling all over, pointed at Liu Zhen and cursed: "You are despicable and shameless!"

  As soon as he said this, it was tantamount to admitting that he had collected five hundred taels of silver, and everyone sighed inwardly. Liu Zhen's move was too ruthless, and Ma Fu might be doomed this time.

  Li Kui's face was livid, he stood up and shouted angrily, "It's a mess!"

  He flicked his sleeves, turned and left the county government office. A moment later, a government servant rushed to report, "Master Zhizhou has left."

   Ma Fu, who had been glaring at him with the county magistrate, finally came to his senses, stomped his feet anxiously, and chased him out. Liu Zhen looked at his flustered back and sneered in his heart. Although Li Guanren didn't express his opinion on the spot, Ma Fu couldn't pass the test easily this time.

  The internal strife in the Tangyin County officialdom did not affect the Boys' Association. News came out that night that Lushan Academy ranked third in the exam, and first in the debate exam. Finally, it won the leader of the Boys' Association with the first overall score.

   Although Tang Beixiang Academy did not make it to the finals, it still ranked third in the debate exam and ranked second in the total score of the first exam. Tangyin County Xuexiao School ranked third.

   Surprisingly, Weinan Town Academy ranked fourth in the overall score with fifth in the debate test and second in the test.

However, the school in Yuli Town, which was second in the debate, was in big trouble. Someone reported that the "Partridge Sky" they wrote in the third question of the debate was written by their master three years ago, and it is still in Yuli Town. In the Tanchun Pavilion, the evidence of fraud was conclusive, and the ranking of the Yuli Town School was cancelled, and the competition was suspended for one year next year.

  After the news came out, the sound of firecrackers went off all night, and various emotions were mixed in the sound of crackling firecrackers.

  The next morning, after participating in the awards ceremony, the students began to return to their hometowns. The large carriage of the Wang family was also waiting in front of the inn early.

  Amidst the sound of firecrackers, the four of Li Yanqing bid farewell to the villagers who saw him off, and embarked on the road back home.

   "I don't know what my grandfather will reward me this time when I return home?"

Wang Gui stayed up all night last night, feeling agitated and disturbed. He kept fiddled with a copper plum blossom on his chest. It was engraved with four small words 'Crown of Students'. This was a medal he got personally. His name will be included in this year's county annals.

  Li Yanqing leaned lazily on a cushion, holding his own "The Great Sage Hunting Monsters" in his hand, and he read his masterpiece as a reader.

  Hearing Wang Gui's words, half of his face appeared from behind the book, and he smiled and said, "Ask your grandfather for a real suit of armor."

   "It's too heavy for me! I want a horse."

   "You can't ride a horse, your legs are too short!" Tang Huai said sharply.

"screw you!"

  Wang Gui stretched out his short legs and plucked Tang Huai's donkey's ears, then asked Yue Fei, "Fifth brother, what do you think I want?"

  Yue Fei was also watching "Monster Hunt". He covered his face with the book, and then jumped out from the back of the book with disappointing words, "If I were you, I would study hard from now on, otherwise I will be sorry for the title of 'Crown of Students'."

  Wang Gui blushed, and muttered, "I knew you would say that a long time ago."

At this moment, the sound of galloping horses resounded loudly, approaching from far away like lightning, coming from behind them, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, Li Yanqing reacted the fastest, sat up straight, stuck his head out of the car window Looking back, I saw patches of black slurry kicked up by the horseshoes behind, revealing a team of powerful knights.

It was morning, the sun was shining and warm, and the official road from Tangyin County to the south was quite lively. In addition to the residents of this county, there were also many tourists and businessmen who passed through Tangyin County. This happened to be the intersection of two official roads. At the intersection, there are stalls selling hot **** tea on the side of the road, hunters selling wild game, old people selling snacks, and peddlers selling hardware and groceries. Many nearby villagers crowded in front of the peddlers’ stalls to pick out what they needed.

  But when the sound of hooves sounded together, the official road suddenly led children and shouted for their mothers. There was chaos, and everyone stumbled and hid in the snow next to the official road.

  The carriage driver's expression changed drastically, and he shouted, "Everyone sit down!"

  He didn't even have time to take a closer look at the terrain, so he pulled his horse and rushed into the snow beside him. The carriage was jolted violently and almost fell over. Four teenagers fell into a ball inside the carriage.

   "What's going on?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously.

   "It's a Khitan barbarian!" Wang Gui's face was pale, and panic appeared in his eyes.

  Li Yanqing's heart trembled, he hurriedly got up and looked out the car window.

  (end of this chapter)