Qin Yao said indifferently: "If you are not afraid of others thinking too much, then it's up to you."
Song Zhang thought to himself, I am afraid that others don’t think too much. What I want is to make people think too much. Otherwise, how can he, a county magistrate from outside, compete with these local tyrants?
Hearing Qin Yao's casual remark, Song Zhang was overjoyed. He pretended to be reserved on his face, but the degree of his raised mouth corners still revealed his thoughts.
"That's settled then. Madam Qin, you must be at home." Fearing that he would come back empty-handed, Song Zhang did not forget to emphasize this before leaving.
Liu Ji watched the man in the green official robe go away, crossed his arms in confusion and asked, "Madam, what does he mean by this?"
Qin Yao thought that he would be delighted when he knew the county magistrate was coming to his house.
I didn't expect him to be so calm.
It seems that the training over the past two years has gradually shown results.
Qin Yao shrugged, "I'm not a worm in his stomach, how would I know?"
Liu Ji stared at her in disbelief, "You must know."
Qin Yao insisted: "I don't know!"
In fact, she was too lazy to think too much. She could just deal with it as it came. Could Song Zhang really eat her up?
Liu Ji guessed: "He must want to recruit you to work for him."
Qin Yao glanced at him, and he immediately sneered with a disdainful expression, saying: "But how can his small temple contain such a big Buddha as my wife?!"
She disdains the guards of Her Royal Highness the Princess, so how could she look down on a mere seventh-rank county magistrate's staff?
Liu Ji leaned against the carriage and complimented her, "My dear, when you become successful in the future, please don't forget to support me. I will work like a cow or a horse for you, and I will do the hard work and never complain, and I am happy to do it!"
Qin Yao laughed and scolded: "Get lost!"
Liu Ji immediately cooperated and quickly moved away from the carriage, and reached out to help her get on the carriage, "My lady, please be careful with your steps."
Qin Yao was speechless. When a person is extremely mean, he is invincible. She was too lazy to even scold him.
Not long after, I saw Jinhua running back happily, shouting as she ran:
"Aunt, I won! Uncle, I won!"
The little girl had a very loud voice, and the whole Dingjiazhuang was filled with her happy echoes.
Qiu and Liu Zhong, who were following behind her, hurriedly told her to slow down, with an uncontrollable smile on their faces.
Jinhua ran to the carriage and held out her hand for Liu Ji to carry her up. The little girl got into the carriage and showed off the red sign in her hand to Qin Yao:
"Look, Third Aunt, here's the red sign. I can come to school with Fourth Aunt and the others!"
As he spoke, he raised his chin with pride and said, "Out of fifty people, only two girls won the prize, and I am one of them. Third Aunt, do you think I am amazing?"
"Yes, very lucky." Qin Yao nodded affirmatively.
Jinhua smiled, looked at the red lottery ticket in her hand, and sighed regretfully, "If only Ah Ju could come and draw the lottery with me, then we could be together."
After all, Si Niang was in the first class, so the two of them couldn't be in the same classroom.
The Aju mentioned by the little girl is the eldest granddaughter of Liu Ji's uncle, who is about the same age as Jinhua. When Si Niang went to school, Jinhua and Aju were the best friends.
But not all parents have the same awareness as Qiu and Liu Zhong.
My uncle's family was reluctant to lose a labor force at home, so they did not allow Aju to enroll. They were afraid that if she went to school, there would be no one at home to feed the chickens, cook, grow vegetables and raise silkworms.
They also think that once girls read books and learn to read, their hearts will become wild and they will not listen to them in the future.
Jinhua sighed again, looked at the red sign in her hand, and suddenly realized how lucky she was.
Qin Yao rubbed her little head and comforted her silently.
She won't say anything in advance that hasn't been achieved.
But the new order mentioned by County Magistrate Song today encourages wealthy gentry in various places who have the conditions to build free schools.
Although there were no wealthy people in Liujia Village, there was still hope of building a school.
The wolves hunted in the village must have sold for a lot of money, so she would go and find out what the old village chief has to say when she has time.
Jinhua was able to draw a red ticket and successfully enroll in school. Liu Zhong and his wife were relieved and decided to go to the town to buy two kilograms of meat to bring home to celebrate.
Liu Zhong and Liu Ji drove to the town. Qin Yao accompanied Qiu to buy meat. At Jinhua's request, she also bought peanut candy for the children at home. The two families returned home happily.
On the way, Liu Zhong asked in a low voice about the county magistrate's visit.
Wherever Song Zhang appeared in his green official robe, he became the focus.
Not only Liu Zhong saw him coming over to see Qin Yao and Liu Ji, but everyone outside the Ding family ancestral hall saw it.
The expressions of the Ding clan elders were very subtle at the time, seeming to be resentful and fearful.
However, since there has been no precedent of women joining the classroom since ancient times, all everyone could think of was that the county magistrate was curious about this strange man and wanted to make friends with him.
But even so, considering Qin Yao's almost incredible fighting power, many people still lost their composure.
In response to Liu Zhong's question, Liu Ji used Qin Yao's previous trick and asked, "I'm not the county magistrate's worm, how do I know what he's doing here?"
"But he did say that when he comes down to inspect the wheat harvest, he'll come to my house and sit down."
"What!" Liu Zhong exclaimed, his first reaction was not happiness, but panic.
He is the county's chief official. How should we entertain him?
Just thinking about it makes him feel dizzy.
Liu Ji gave him a blank look and said, "Second brother, why are you so nervous? We are not going to your house."
Liu Zhong was startled when he heard this. Yes, they had separated a long time ago. He felt relieved and laughed. He reminded him meaningfully, "Then you must not neglect it. If you offend the county magistrate, both of our families will be in trouble."
Liu Ji nodded perfunctorily, thinking to himself, with Qin Yao around, it's hard to say who will get into trouble.
Liu Zhong saw Liu Ji nod, thinking that he understood what was going on, so he didn't say anything more, but was secretly excited.
After all, this was the first time in the village that the county magistrate had come in person.
Because Liu Ji did not tell them not to spread the news, Liu Zhong told the whole family the good news as soon as he arrived at the old house.
When Old Man Liu heard this, he was so excited that tears came to his eyes. He didn't even eat the celebratory dinner that night, and ran to his cousins' house to ask them if they knew how to receive the county magistrate.
The next day, when Qin Yao went to the factory, the whole village looked at her with admiration.
Now that’s a problem. If Song Zhang hadn’t come, this would have been a disaster.
Liu Ji felt secretly happy. Whenever the villagers saw him, they would say something polite and complimenting to him, which greatly satisfied his vanity.
The weather is getting warmer, and it is time to harvest the wheat in the fields.
This time, the Qi family guards were not present, so the village could only hire temporary workers to help harvest the ten acres of land.
As for Liu Ji and Awang, they had a more important job to do - collecting rent.
During the busy farming season, the school would give students three days off to allow them to go home and help.
Early in the morning of the second day after the wheat was harvested in Dingjiazhuang, Dalang and his two siblings took abacus, weights, homemade notebooks, pens and ink, and got on the ox cart driven by Awang and the horse carriage driven by Liu Ji, and ran excitedly to Dingjiazhuang.
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