Chapter 2423 Extra: Wei Qin and Chang Jiayi
When Mr. Huai'an and Mr. Hejiang occasionally talked about Meng Yunzheng, they couldn't help but marvel at his versatility. Even if he hadn't become the headmaster and had actually entered the imperial court as an official, he would have been an absolute legend.
Putting aside everything else, with him in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, the national treasury would definitely be full.
But this man wasn't just obsessed with money. After the academy made money, he would also sponsor some students in need, especially those with exceptional talent, because no one could bear to let them go to waste.
Moreover, Meng Yunzheng and the two teachers encouraged the students to go out and explore more, to gain more experience.
When they travel, the academy will also provide some of their travel expenses.
Just like this time, the capital held a lecture series on classics. Not to mention the learned scholars, there must have been many scholars gathered in the capital.
This is a rare opportunity. Zhenglu Academy has allocated more than twenty places, allowing students who are over fifteen years old and have no special circumstances to join the delegation through a lottery system and experience the grand occasion of this lecture tour in Beijing.
There will be many more opportunities like this in the future. Meng Yunzheng said that if it doesn't happen this time, it will happen next time. It will happen eventually.
Because of this, both teachers and students in the academy held Meng Yunzheng, the headmaster, in high esteem and had great faith in him.
Meng Yunzheng chatted with Mr. Hejiang for a while, then took Mianmian and walked to the back.
Song Le was standing there, talking to her classmate.
"Where is your mother?" Meng Yunzheng asked.
Nine-year-old Song Le stands out among his classmates, whose average age is fifteen or older. He's quite helpless as older students put their arms around his shoulders and rub his chubby cheeks.
Upon seeing Meng Yunzheng approach, the other students immediately stood up straight. Song Le finally escaped from the clutches of the crowd and took the opportunity to step out of their encirclement. She looked up at Meng Yunzheng and said, "My mother is over there comforting Xiao'e."
Meng Yunzheng looked in the direction he was pointing and indeed saw Wei Qin being pulled by the hem of her clothes by a little girl of about seven or eight years old, who was whispering something to her.
Xiao'e is Chang Jiayi's daughter. Chang Jiayi was one of the two students recruited by Shu Yu when he was recruiting workers for Zhenglu Academy.
Xiao'e was only four years old at the time, but after being abandoned by her mother, abused by her neighbor, and kidnapped by a child trafficker, she became timid and withdrawn.
Although she had been living in the academy with her father, Chang Jiayi, for the past few years and her situation had improved, she was still as timid as a kitten compared to others.
Song Le had experienced autism before, but with the care of his uncles and aunts and the support of his older siblings and friends, and because those hardships were experienced before he was two years old, he had almost forgotten them.
After his mother returned, he lost even the last trace of his inferiority and timidity, and became very cheerful.
Xiao'e was already old enough to remember things when she experienced those events.
Because of this, when Song Le was at the academy, he would patiently talk to her and comfort her. Xiao'e would hide when other students came by, but she was unusually unafraid when she saw Song Le.
Over time, Song Le, her, and Quan Quan, who was inseparable from Song Le, became good friends.
As a result, Wei Qin and Chang Jiayi, who were each other's parents, also became acquainted.
One of them was widowed, and the other's wife had run off with someone else; both were single, and they almost never spoke to each other to avoid suspicion.
(End of this chapter)
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