Chapter 184 Chapter 184 Shameful Relationship

After hearing the whole story, Xu Yunfan rubbed his chin in frustration. "Uncle, that student said he's going back and telling other relatives that they won't let their children attend Qingfeng Academy anymore? He also said Qingfeng Academy is no longer a reputable institution, even accepting someone of unknown origin as a teacher?"

It’s not that Xu Yunfan suspected that his uncle was lying to him, he just wanted to confirm whether his understanding was correct.

The uncle nodded and said, "Xu kid, I'm still young and my hearing is not bad. How could I have heard it wrong?"

In fact, those students became more and more excited as they spoke, as if they were extremely righteous. In their eyes, Xu Yunfan was simply degraded to the dust.

The uncle didn't want Xu Yunfan to make trouble with others. It wouldn't look good if he showed up on Sun Tiantian's wedding day, but what they said was too much. If it really got out and people who didn't know believed it, it might not be a good thing for Qingfeng Academy or Xu Yunfan.

If there was, Uncle wouldn't even know how to say it out loud, nor would he know how those students could say such nonsense without any evidence. Xu Yunfan is not that kind of person.

Seeing the uncle hesitate to speak, Xu Yunfan smiled and casually tossed his hair on his forehead. His tone was very helpless, "Oh, really, people who are too outstanding are easily envied."

Jing Mingze and the others around him pursed their lips and couldn't utter a word for a long time.

Finally, Jing Mingze asked, "Do you want to go and take a look?"

"What do you think? It's their big day today. If I go, I'll really make enemies in the future."

"Are you afraid of making enemies? Besides, aren't you and the Sun family enemies? Your husband beat up an old man from the Sun family. Don't you think they won't remember this? What are you afraid of? They are just a few students." Jing Mingze found that Xu Yunfan was being a little naive.

The naive Xu Yunfan patted Jing Mingze on the back and said, "Since you said so, let's go together."

Jing Mingze: “…”

I shouldn't have said so much if I had known this earlier.

The Sun family’s wedding was a lively affair, with people from several nearby villages, both known and unknown, coming.

There is no other way. Sun Tiantian is going to marry Master Lu's son. As long as she has this relationship with him, it might be easier for her own children to go to school in the future.

Therefore, almost everyone who knew about the wedding came.

When Lu Jin and several other students came riding on tall horses, everyone was stunned.

Sun Tiantian's family's eyes suddenly lit up, and they raised their chins even higher, looking very proud.

Look, for girls and boys from nearby villages, if they are better off, it is considered very good if they can ride in an ox cart when they get married. But Tiantian from their family is different. Her son-in-law came to pick her up on horseback. Can others compare with this?

Now, everyone who came from the Sun family felt proud.

Aunt Yi felt very proud. "Hey, now it's not just the Xiao Qin family who can get horses. Our Tiantian family has men who are no worse than the Xiao Qin family. Look at the Xiao Qin family. Ever since they got a horse, they've been so proud. They ride it almost every day, as if they can't wait for everyone in the village to know that they have a horse."

This is really unfair to Xu Yunfan.

If Xu Yunfan doesn't ride a horse when he has one, wouldn't he be a fool?

And every time he rode out, it was always to do business, not to show off.

After all, it’s just a horse, what’s so great about it?

"That's not true. You haven't seen Run'er. We used to avoid him when we saw him, but now... hmph, he's a bit rich now, so he's getting more confident. We're his elders after all, but he doesn't even take the initiative to say hello when he sees us. I'd say this guy, now that he's rich, has lost even the most basic manners. I'm afraid he looks down on poor people like us."

"No, you don't know. I used to think Xu Yunfan was quite capable. After all, he was a teacher at Qingfeng Academy. But last time I went to the town to sell vegetables, I accidentally heard a few students passing by talking about him. Do you know what they said?" The person who spoke looked around mysteriously before speaking in a low voice, which immediately piqued the curiosity of several people.

"What did they say? Come on, tell us now, we're dying of curiosity."

The man smiled, but this smile was full of irony. "I've said before that the husband Run'er picked up was too good-looking. He didn't look like someone who could work in the fields to make a living. I even tried to persuade Run'er and introduced him to someone, but that ugly guy, with his high standards, actually looked down on my nephew."

Everyone in Dali Village knew about this.

The person who said this was Lan Fang. Her nephew was a widower in his thirties, and his wife had passed away. Qin Run didn't have to be a mistress if he went to live with her, but he had four children, and the eldest son was already in his teens. Even so, if Qin Run went to live with her, he would be a stepfather, and a stepfather to four children at that. Who would want to be a stepfather to a clean and innocent boy?

Others who knew about this thought Lan Fang was dishonest, but Lan Fang didn't care. She even said that Qin Runyun's mole was so light that it was not certain whether he could have children. He should be secretly happy that he could get four children for free.

After Qin Run brought Xu Yunfan home, Lan Fang was anxious. She pretended to meet Qin Run by chance several times and told him that although Xu Yunfan was good-looking, it was obvious at first glance that he was someone who could not endure hardship. Such a person would have to leave sooner or later.

Unexpectedly, Xu Yunfan not only did not leave, but also learned to do business and suddenly became the envy of everyone in the village.

Lan Fang had spoken with such confidence at the beginning, and now the slap in the face was so painful.

But today, she felt that her chance to redeem herself had come. "I told you at the beginning, some people can't stand hardship, so they'll do anything, even sell their bodies, like those brothel girls, to please men with their beauty."

As soon as Lan Fang said this, the other people's eyes lit up incredibly.

Oh my God, what did they hear?

"What? Come on, Lan Fang, what do you mean by that?"

"That's right, hurry up and tell us, we are so curious, could it be that Xu kid... No way, it's impossible, he is a real man."

Lan Fang pouted. "A man, so what? Li Liu from our village isn't a man. He is a man, but wasn't he suppressed by other men? What's the problem? Besides, I heard some young masters like this. Even a man like Li Liu is willing to sleep with him, let alone Xu Yunfan. Those students even said that Xu Yunfan might have become a teacher in exchange for his body."

"Think about it, Xu Yunfan looks like that, even if he's from overseas, how old is he? Have you ever heard of a man who can be a teacher in his teens? I heard his family is in business, so it's not surprising that he can do business, after all, it's something he's familiar with. But is being a teacher the same as doing business? He's not even a scholar, so how can he be so capable that he can be a teacher? I think they are probably right. Sometimes, there is smoke without fire."

One stone stirs up a thousand waves, and now everyone is talking more.

Several uncles and aunts were discussing the matter. These people had disliked Qin Run before. It was Qin Run's fault for hiring so many workers. Except for the village chief and Sun Mu's family, no one from the other Sun families could earn as much as the Qin family did. They had been feeling unbalanced for a long time.

Previously, because of Xu Yunfan, they were not convinced and felt that Qin Run did not know how to behave and only employed people from the Qin family. They wanted to talk to Qin Run and tell him not to be partial to one over the other, but because of Xu Yunfan's identity as a teacher and the fact that Xu Yunfan was a "ruthless person", they held it back.

Now Sun Tiantian is lucky enough to have found a scholar as her husband, and her husband's father-in-law is also a teacher. Sun Tiantian's mother also said that Lu Jin will take the exam for the scholar next year, and their Sun family's son-in-law may not be worse than Xu Yunfan. The opportunity to be proud has come.

On the other side, Lu Jin and several other students took a look around and saw everyone's reactions. They were secretly very satisfied and then they got off their horses cleanly and neatly.

However, they had just dismounted and had not yet said a few words to the Sun family when they heard the neighing of horses' hooves.

Everyone looked over subconsciously.

I saw eight or nine people riding on black horses galloping towards me, raising clouds of dust wherever the horses went.

Even if one had never seen horses before, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the horses ridden by Lu Jin were completely incomparable to the horses ridden by Xu Yunfan and his companions.

"Why is Xu Yunfan here? Could it be that he heard what we just said?" Seeing that he was up to no good, Lan Fang was a little panicked.

Although they were trying to curry favor with Lu Jin, that didn't mean they were less afraid of Xu Yunfan.

"Are you stupid? He just arrived, how could he hear it?"

"What's he doing? Who's next to him?"

"It seems they entered the village yesterday, but I remember they left after the village chief came back."

Lu Jin looked up and saw Xu Yunfan on horseback, and his face suddenly darkened.

Since he came but didn't get off the horse, it was obvious that Xu Yunfan was not here to attend the wedding.

"What's wrong with this guy?" Although Lu Jin's classmate was angry, he still had some eyesight. It was obvious that these people were not ordinary people, so he could only ask in a low voice.

When the Sun family came out of the yard, they frowned as soon as they saw Xu Yunfan.

Obviously, they did not welcome Xu Yunfan's arrival.

Xu Yunfan raised his chin towards Lu Jin and the others, not even saying hello. He went straight to the point, "You've been saying bad things about me ever since you met the Qin family? You even said you'd go back and talk to other relatives about it, and that you'd be cautious about entering Qingfeng Academy in the future? How could I not know that there was such a person in this town, and that he could enter Qingfeng Academy whenever he wanted? Come on, come on, which private school are you guys from? You can't even get into Qingfeng Academy, so where do you get the courage to question the dean of Qingfeng Academy, and where do you get the confidence to doubt my ability?"

"You...you are Xu Yunfan?" Classmate Lu Jin blushed. It was because they said those things before and they did want to show off in front of other villagers, but Xu Yunfan's few words directly tore off their fig leaf.

Xu Yunfan nodded, "It's me, what's wrong? Are you guys too proud to admit it?"

"I dare to admit it." As students, they still have to have some dignity. "Are we wrong? As a teacher, I dare to ask if you have achieved the most basic requirement of being a teacher, the status of a scholar? Since you are not even a scholar, we naturally have the right to question your ability."

These words directly avoided their doubts about the dean of Qingfeng Academy. It was true that the worst teacher in the Dayan Dynasty was at least a scholar, but there was no clear provision in the laws of this dynasty that all teachers must be scholars, and non-scholars were not allowed to serve as teachers. It was just that under the long-term tacit acceptance of the industry, this view had long been deeply rooted.

As students, they actually slandered Jiang Lanfang for this. These people must be talking nonsense. Xu Yunfan just wanted to shake his head and laugh after hearing this. Those who slandered him behind his back were probably immoral and mean.

Xu Yunfan signaled to Jing Mingze, intending to let Jing Mingze go up.

Jing Mingze is now "controlled by others" and has to go up even if he doesn't want to.

There was no way. He couldn't afford to offend this person, otherwise Li Liu would definitely make trouble with him.

Jing Mingze and several guards dismounted. The guards all had expressionless faces. Jing Mingze released the restrained aura of a superior, and everyone who came to the wedding banquet was suddenly unable to breathe.

As a student, my perspective is naturally different from that of other villagers.

When Lu Jin and several other students saw the token hanging on Jing Mingze's belt, their eyes suddenly widened and their hearts began to pound. After seeing the token clearly, only one sentence flashed through their minds: it was over.

They were finished. The person who came had bad intentions, and it was obvious at a glance that he was in cahoots with Xu Yunfan. In that case, he would definitely stand on Xu Yunfan's side.

Jing Mingze showed his token, and Lu Jin and the others quickly knelt. Jing Mingze said angrily, "Are you the students in town? What kind of books have you studied? You are making irresponsible comments about right and wrong, without knowing the truth. You are jumping to conclusions behind others' backs without any evidence, judging others' right and wrong, and judging other teachers' right and wrong. Is this what your teacher taught you? As students, you should know that words can cause trouble. What is the status of the Dean of Qingfeng Academy? Even I have to bow and give way to Dean Jiang when I meet him. How can he be someone you can judge so recklessly? Or is your status higher than mine, so you dare to be so unscrupulous?"

This is so scary.

Several students were so frightened that their hearts almost jumped out of their chests. They quickly bowed their heads and admitted their mistakes: "Sir, please calm down. This is our fault. We shouldn't have been making irresponsible remarks about the teacher, let alone President Jiang. We are ignorant of our own limitations..."

"snort."

Before the students could finish, Jing Mingze snorted coldly, "Although I don't manage politics or academic affairs, I can certainly dismiss one or two teachers. I heard about it on the way here. Although Master Lu is a scholar, his moral character is poor. He insults the children in the village at best and punishes them corporally at worst. Now he has even appointed a son who has been a student as a teacher. This is nepotism. I will report this to the county magistrate in the future."

Lu Jin rested his head on the ground, not daring to breathe. This man clearly wanted to deal with him. He knew that if he spoke too much, he would be in trouble. The more he said, the worse his fate would be.

As for the other villagers, they were shocked at once.

My officer?

Dismiss the Master?

Report this to the county magistrate?

Even though they didn't know what the token on Jing Mingze was, they were not fools and they immediately knew Jing Mingze's identity. This man was not only an official, but also a high-ranking official.

Sun Tiantian's family was stunned.

Just now they were so proud and happy. Having Lu Jin as a son-in-law really made them proud.

Seeing so many villagers coming to curry favor with them, it really makes people feel proud. So what if Xu Yunfan looks down on their Tiantian? The person Sun Tiantian married is no worse than Xu Yunfan. This is really a proud thing.

But now, not only could Lu Jin not stay in the school, he couldn't even keep his position as a teacher for Lu's relative-in-law.

Sun Tiantian's legs and breasts went limp, and she immediately wanted to sit on the ground and throw a tantrum, yelling that the official was bullying her.

Jing Mingze has been in the countryside for so long, what has he not heard and seen, and what strange people has he not met?

To such old people, the softer you are, the harder they will be, because a kind horse is ridden and a kind person is bullied.

Jing Mingze raised his hand, twitched his index finger, and gestured to the people around him, "This village woman is so bold that she dares to openly slander an official appointed by the court. Come, take her to the government office. I will make sure the county magistrate redresses my grievances."

Xu Yunfan seemed to remember something and said quietly, "Slandering an official of the imperial court can result in a year in prison at the very least, or even the whole family being imprisoned at the worst. Brother Jing, what do you think is the crime committed by the person you are slandering?"

Jing Mingze: "I was ordered to inspect agricultural affairs. I have always been diligent and cautious, and have never done anything to oppress the people. Even if I tell others about what happened today, I will still be right. This old woman accused me of oppressing the people based on nothing. If I do that... I am afraid my reputation will be ruined. What do you think?"

Her reputation is at risk, in other words, her official position is at risk. That's it. Do you think the mistake made by Sun Tiantian's grandmother is serious?

The other members of the Sun family almost fainted.

If the whole family is sent to jail, wouldn’t that mean that all the more than ten people in their family will go to jail?

If this gets out, will they still be able to live as human beings?

Sun Tiantian, wearing a wedding dress, even had the illusion that her soul had returned to heaven.

No, how could her happy marriage turn out like this?

She was clearly feeling elated just now when she heard the compliments and envy from the other young sisters, but now she had suddenly fallen off a cliff. This gap made Sun Tiantian unable to understand what was going on.

Sun Tiantian's grandmother looked at the guard who was so close to her. She thought that if she threw a tantrum, the man would be scared. After all, although he was a powerful official, he also had to save face, right?

These officials should value their reputation as much as Li Yunfei does.

But she forgot that moral kidnapping is not advisable in the face of absolute power.

If an official appointed by the imperial court is afraid of even a village woman, how can he control the people?

Just as the guard held a knife in one hand and stretched out the other, Sun Tiantian fainted.

A good marriage ended up being a farce.

The fact that a few students dared to talk about Xu Yunfan like this shows that many other students do not approve of Xu Yunfan's identity as a teacher, and some even think that Jiang Lanfang is messing around. When some see that Xu Yunfan is more beautiful than a boy, all of a sudden, absurd remarks such as Xu Yunfan was sexually exploited and used in exchange for benefits spread among other private school students.

These rumors did not reach Xu Yunfan's ears, so Xu Yunfan naturally didn't know about it.

But Xu Yunfan had actually anticipated what happened today.

With his identity, he has gained recognition from students at Qingfeng Academy with his strength, but outside, there are still many people who are not optimistic about him.

Even so, if he didn't have another identity, if he wanted to participate in the Master Competition next year, I'm afraid Jiang Lanfang's strong recommendation would not be enough.

Perhaps other students and teachers would speculate that he and Jiang Lanfang had some shameful relationship. Otherwise, why would Jiang Lanfang be so interested in such a young but overly handsome guy?

Jing Mingze naturally thought of what Xu Yunfan could think of, but he didn't know about the Master's Competition. He only knew that Xu Yunfan's current situation was probably not as respected as he thought.

In that case, Jing Mingze doesn't mind saying a few more words for Xu Yunfan for Li Liu's sake.