Chapter 238 Something Happened to the Liu Family
The crowd suddenly became quiet.
After a while, discussions broke out.
Some families still need their daughters to do housework, while others think it is useless for girls to study.
But if it can indirectly allow the boy in the family to go to school without spending any money, this method is not a bad idea.
So many people brought their daughters to sign up that day, and after returning home they kept asking:
"Study hard and learn to read. Our family is counting on you and your brother."
"You must follow the rules and listen to the teacher. You must not be kicked out of the academy!"
The news that Luo Family Academy accepted girls for free spread, and within three days, nearly two hundred girls were received.
Together with the previous one hundred people, there are more than three hundred people in total.
The male to female ratio is close to one to two.
Most of them are children under ten years old, with only about twenty people over ten years old, and only five of them are girls.
Regardless of whether you can read or not, you must stay in the basic class for at least one month and then be divided into classes according to your test scores.
As for the three subjects of medicine, agriculture and science, we currently plan to offer them as extracurricular interest classes, one class per week, and only if there are exceptionally outstanding talents will they be trained.
After all, the right way nowadays is to pass the imperial examinations.
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Huaxiang Building.
Liu Ge was tasting the food in the building. The taste and texture were indeed much better than those in the previous Tianxiang Tower.
But no matter how he hinted, the Luo family seemed not to understand.
He knew that Luo Xiao was pretending to be confused with him.
But the family lost a lot of money, so they had to find other ways no matter what.
"Brother, this is really the school run by the Luo family!" A drunk man at the next table raised his thumb.
"Who says it's not? My child finally has the chance to study."
"In the past, the lowest annual tuition for private schools in Guancheng was two taels of silver. The Luo family is such a kind family!"
"Yes, even the prefect can't compare to him!"
"Shh—you're drunk, even if it's the truth, you can't speak it out loud!"
"Humph, the tuition fees for government schools are even more expensive. When have those masters ever considered us ordinary people..."
The servant saw the young master's face change and hurried to comfort him: "Master, they are just a bunch of mean people who forget their principles when they see profit. Please don't take it to heart!"
Liu Ge was in a bad mood, but four or five people at the next table were talking about this matter. Now they were in Huaxiang Building and the lobby was full of people, so he could only suppress his anger and walk out.
But on the way back home, I heard lively discussions on the street, and a woman said she wanted to light the Longevity Lamp for the Luo family.
Many children even composed nursery rhymes while playing in the alleys.
The end result was that Liu Ge felt that the school opened by the Luo family had greatly affected his father's status in the eyes of the people in Guancheng, and was not conducive to management!
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Government office.
Magistrate Liu thought about the news his son had told him yesterday, and then looked at the things he had asked someone to check in the booklet in his hand. The statements were exactly the same.
He sighed worriedly.
Wang Tongpan was busy with winter preparations. He looked up when he heard the voice and asked, "My Lord, is there anything bothering you?"
Prefect Liu frowned. "It's a good thing for the Luo family to open a school, but listen to what the people outside are saying. They all say I'm not as good as them! That's really going too far!"
Wang Tongpan thought this was true, but his face was also filled with indignation: "The city's finances are tight. Every year, more than half of the money is used to protect the people's houses from strong winds at Guanhai. Where would the money come from to support their studies?"
I just don’t know how much money you have embezzled.
No wonder he wasn't allowed to handle these things.
"Lord Wang truly understands me!" Wang Tongpan's expression relaxed. "Don't I want to see more scholars and juren under my jurisdiction? But they don't know and blame me. What a scoundrel!"
Wang Tongpan sneered inwardly, but agreed outwardly: "Your Excellency is right. You may go and don't forget it."
After all, they are already busy with the things on hand, and there is no need to be distracted by these trivial matters!
The other party was silent for a while, then picked up the pen and started to handle official business.
I thought the matter would end there, but just as Magistrate Wang finished approving a memorial, he heard a faint voice overhead: "Tell me, if the Luo family's school couldn't open, wouldn't all these troubles be avoided?"
Lord Wang was silent, raised his head, and stared at the other person with a dark expression.
My Lord, can we please stop causing trouble?
Prefect Liu thought of something, held his forehead with one hand, and sighed, "No, the Luo family has someone behind them."
And this will also increase his political achievements.
Wang Tongpan also sighed: "My Lord, this is a trivial matter. Some people are talking about me. Why bother to worry about it? Who knows what new things will happen in a few days."
Magistrate Liu also knew this truth, but when he thought about himself becoming a control group that did nothing, he felt as uncomfortable as if he had swallowed shit.
But after all, I had some concerns, so I didn't think about it anymore.
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Mrs. Liu, who had been rejected when she visited the family before, saw that everything was fine these days and thought that the Luo family was just using the Luo family's name to bully others that day.
But that night, neither Mr. Liu nor his son came back very late.
She called the housekeeper to ask, but he hesitated and finally knelt down under pressure: "Madam, there's an accident in the rice shop!"
Madam Liu's heart trembled: "What happened? Tell me the whole story!"
The housekeeper hurriedly explained, "The master sent someone back in the evening saying that several grain merchants were out of grain, and we had just sold out, so we might be out of stock."
Madam Liu had a bad feeling in her heart: "How many grain merchants?"
The butler hesitated, then said, "Seven."
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Mrs. Liu stood up suddenly. She was so excited and stood up so quickly that her brain became congested and her vision went dark. She almost fainted.
"Mother!"
The Liu family's son immediately helped the man and asked the nurse to take the child away first. "Don't worry, my father and husband are already taking care of it. Maybe we'll have good news tomorrow."
Mrs. Liu squeezed her daughter-in-law's arm and said, "Yes, you are right."
She immediately ordered the housekeeper to send someone to the rice shop to inquire about the news, and to report back to the mansion as soon as there was any new developments.
After the housekeeper left, she waved her hand to let everyone else in the room leave, and for a moment, only she and her daughter-in-law were left.
"Mother?" Liu's daughter-in-law asked in confusion.
"Do you think this is related to the Luo family? Could that child really be from the Prince's Mansion?" This thought suddenly popped into Madam Liu's mind. "Otherwise, why would all the grain merchants we've been working with stop supplying us overnight?"
The Liu family's daughter-in-law's face suddenly changed, and her voice stammered: "It should... not be."
If it really has something to do with her son, how can she and her mother survive in the Liu family in the future?
"Yes, it's definitely not because of this." She quickly calmed down, "Mother, don't think too much. Besides, how could she be pregnant with the prince's child at the Luo family? They must have tricked us."
After hearing this, Mrs. Liu nodded slowly, and kept telling herself in her heart that it really had nothing to do with what happened that day.
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