Carrying a heavy oil paper bag and humming a silly ditty, Li Jin returned home under the full moonlight.
"Damn ghost, why didn't you come back until now?"
Madam Li opened the door for him, but was almost knocked to the ground by the latter's choking alcohol smell. "How much did you drink?"
"Not much, just two pots of Apricot Blossom Drunk."
Li Jin smiled drunkenly and put the oil paper bag in his hand into his wife's hand, "This is the wine and food I packed back, just for you as a midnight snack."
Madam Li is the most gluttonous person. He weighed the heavy oil paper bag and smiled happily, "How can you be happy about something?"
Li Jin entered the room, sat down on the chair, and replied triumphantly, "Today I touched a water fish, pinched out ten taels of snowflake silver, and divided the old Zhang San taels."
"Really?"
Madam Li was overjoyed. "Where did the water fish come from?"
Li Jin is a tax collector in the county government, which is a good job. However, the official is corrupt and the money that can fall into his hands is limited.
The local merchants and traders in this town are not so easy to bully!
Today Li Jin took a fish out of water and made out ten taels of snowflake silver. Even if he gave the old Zhang San two taels, he still made a huge profit.
"A foreign scholar."
Li Jin waved his hand carelessly and said, "Go and heat some hot water. I want to warm my feet to make myself comfortable."
"Okay!"
Madam Li happily ran to the kitchen to boil water.
Li Jin opened the oil paper package on the table, grabbed a piece of braised beef and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it while thinking about how to get more oil and water from the fish.
He has been a tax collector for more than ten years, and his eyes are so venomous that he can tell that he has something to say.
This kind of water fish should be simmered slowly and slowly, and the oil and water should be squeezed out bit by bit.
In addition, the whistleblower also needs to hammer and hammer, and eating both ends is the way to go!
Li Jin The more I thought about it, the more beautiful it became, and I reached out to grab the beef again.
As a result, he missed the opportunity this time and knocked over the oil lamp on the table with the back of his hand.
"Ah!"
Li Jin instinctively wanted to hold up the lamp, but as a result, he drank too much and his hands and feet were sluggish. Not only could he not hold it up, but he and the table fell to the ground.
The burning lamp oil flew in all directions and quickly ignited the gauze tent next to it. The small flame turned into a raging flame in the blink of an eye.
Li Jin was shocked and struggled to get up to put out the fire.
But no matter how hard he tried, the chair weighing him down seemed as heavy as a mountain, making him unable to move.
The greedy tax collector watched helplessly as the fire spread and engulfed him whole.
He couldn't help but howl in despair.
"The Li family is in trouble!"
When the raging flames burned through the roof, the neighbors noticed the situation, and someone immediately rushed out and shouted loudly.
Half the city block was alarmed, and people rushed over with buckets to put out the fire to prevent their homes from being destroyed.
With the strength of many people, this sudden fire was quickly extinguished.
Then the patrol soldiers came after hearing the news and dragged out two charred corpses from the ruins of the mostly burned Li family.
A neighbor recognized the couple Li Jin based on some characteristics of the corpse.
Mr. and Mrs. Li Jin are both natives of Qing'an County. They have no sons but only two daughters, and they are all married.
Since Li Jin himself is a tax collector, the county government still attaches great importance to it and sends out detectives and police officers to investigate.
Finally, it was concluded that Li Jin was drunk and accidentally caught fire and dragged his wife into the sea of fire. This incident was purely accidental and there was no sign of man-made creation.
Then the Yamen closed the case, and Li Jin's two daughters and relatives and friends were in an ugly quarrel over the inheritance issue, which became a hot topic among the neighbors.
But the funeral could not be postponed. In the end, it was the county government's master who came forward to settle the funeral arrangements.
Buying coffins, performing rituals, conducting funerals and burials, setting up banquets...
After the whole process, Li Jin and his wife spent all the property they left behind, and their two daughters also gave away ten taels of silver, causing the sisters to completely fall out and never communicate with each other again!
The tragedy that happened to the tax collector Li's family did not have any impact on Wang Chen, who taught in the Tongluo Alley school.
Under the principle of "education without distinction", his number of students increased by fifty, and then he closed the door and hung up a pen indicating that he would no longer recruit students.
There is no way, Wang Clan School is very small, and it has exceeded its limit to accommodate fifty students. If there is no room for more students, it naturally cannot continue to expand blindly.
Day after day, the days passed slowly like this.
Tongluo Alley Teacher Wang Chen's reputation gradually spread over time.
There are both official and private schools in Qing'an County, but there is no public school like Wang Chen that recruits all the children of the poor from the lowest level, and the tuition fees are very low.
A piece of bacon and half a bag of rice can be used as bundles!
Not only that, Wang Chen also teaches very well. Wang Clan School's door is open during the day, and anyone can go in and watch him teach.
This aroused dissatisfaction among some teachers at the private school, who felt that what Wang Chen did was an insult to gentlemen and ruined their reputation.
During normal gatherings, these teachers would often criticize Wang Chen, and some would join forces to expel him from Qing'an County.
But the thunder was loud and the rain was light. Even though the gentlemen were aggrieved, they did not see Wang Chen disrupting the market.
On the contrary, some of the noisiest gentlemen either fell down while walking and broke their bones, or their homes were robbed and lost a lot of property. All in all, they were very unlucky.
Over time, everyone has acquiesced in the existence of Wang Clan School.
Anyway, most of the people Wang Chen recruits are poor and humble children, and there is no direct conflict with them.
Wang Chen is no longer a hot topic.
However, a few months later, he once again appeared on the hot search list of Qing'an County.
Wang Clan School not only accepts poor and humble children as students, but also provides these muddy bitches with a free lunch and teaches them basic martial arts to strengthen their bodies.
It is common for rich and powerful families to do good deeds by giving porridge to the poor, but as a teacher and a down-and-out scholar, Wang Chen actually did such a thing, which is really impressive.
If Wang Clan School was not too small to recruit more students, all South City families would send their children to study under Wang Chen.
Then there were more voices scolding Wang Chen for seeking fame and reputation with ulterior motives.
Some private school teachers also called the students under Wang Chen "Wang Sheng", belittling and ridiculing them, and strictly prohibited their students from interacting with "Wang Sheng".
Gradually, "Wang Sheng" became another existence in Qing'an County!
However, these ups and downs from the outside world cannot affect Wang Clan School at all, nor can they shake Wang Chen in the slightest.
Time flies and another year passes.
On this day, an uninvited guest came to Tongluo Alley's private school.
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