Chapter 50 Terrible
"Teacher Xiao Su, are we really going to hold this literary literacy competition?"
When Su Jing and the others came back, kindergarten was just starting.
Although Su Jinghe and his team had just returned exhausted, the entire process was carried out exactly as he had arranged, with the exception of an extra step that he had not even thought of.
"Hey, we definitely have to do it. It's about that sculpture in front of Fenghua Kindergarten. Can we move it?"
Su Jinghe looked towards Princess Fukang with pleading eyes, hoping that Princess Fukang, who was young but more capable than an adult, would lend a helping hand to this helpless man and save him.
This sculpture was something extra that Su Jinghe had not planned.
If it were a sculpture of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi and Zhuangzi, Su Jinghe would be amazed.
If it was a sculpture of Song Renzong, Su Jinghe would write some flattering words.
But, but...
"Teacher, I can't help you with this." Princess Fukang said, then she ran away with her short legs.
Only Su Jinghe was left wailing in the background, "How could this be my statue? What have I done to deserve this?"
"Okay, okay, stop howling. I can hear you outside."
Princess Fukang had just left when Hu Yuan came over.
"Those two Zhuge kids are pretty good. Didn't they run into their eldest brother? Why didn't they bring them along? That's not like you."
When Hu Yuan heard the two teachers talking about an older brother, he was delighted, thinking that he had gained another free laborer.
When he opened the school, he enrolled children who were able to take care of themselves and had good comprehension skills. Who would have thought that taking care of such young children who could only laugh would be so tiring.
They were given walkers produced by the Ministry of Industry, and they ran around like pigs out of a pen, not giving the teacher any chance to breathe.
His initial criteria for recruiting teachers was already young age, but now he realized that Su Jing and their approach was right. People who are not in their twenties really don't have the patience to take care of children all the time.
"Their eldest brother? He's an official and wants to be a county magistrate. Let's not compete with the government for him." After Su Jinghe said this, he once again forced out a flattering face and looked at Hu Yuan with expectation.
"Principal, it's... the statue at our door..."
"Oh, that one." Hu Yuan looked at Su Jinghe's "Please, move it away" expression with some amusement. "Others want it but don't have it yet. Why are you resisting so much?"
Upon hearing this, Su Jinghe's eyes widened. He pointed at himself and said, "Me, the statue? What have I done to deserve this? My dear principal, on what basis did you approve this statue? How could anyone agree to this? Even if it's just Confucius."
"No, if it's Confucius, we have Mohist scholars in our school, have you forgotten? Even if this statue was made according to Gongshujia's original intention, would Mohist scholars be happy?" Hu Yuan looked serious, as if he was teaching Su Jinghe the ways of the world.
Well, this.
Su Jinghe didn't ask if he could build something else. "How come everyone is willing to put up a statue of me? Isn't that strange... No one said we couldn't do it?"
"Well... you weren't here, were you? At first, I thought about making a statue and telling everyone that this kindergarten was only possible thanks to you. But then I thought, since it's already been done, and the statue is pretty nice, I just put it at the school gate. Everyone is very satisfied with it. Just bear with it, you'll get used to it after looking at it a few times."
Hu Yuan looked at Su Jinghe, who felt as if the sky had fallen, and really couldn't say any other words of comfort. He quickly ran away without giving Su Jinghe a chance to beg for help.
The real reason for the appearance of Su Jinghe's statue was certainly not a decision made by Hu Yuan on a whim to give Su Jinghe a sense of participation in the opening ceremony.
Instead, it was carefully planned by everyone in the court.
This was even a meeting reserved for high-level officials. If Hu Yuan hadn't known Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan, she wouldn't have known that...
It was these high-ranking officials of the dynasty who thought that Su Jinghe was very lucky, so they decided to build a statue of Su Jinghe.
"Watch it every day. What if the luck of the children who go to school here also improves? I heard that gods rely on people to believe in them."
Who understands the sense of redemption Hu Yuan felt when Han Qi said this and saw Fan Zhongyan’s speechless expression like her own!
After the Song Dynasty stopped promoting Buddhism and Taoism, they started to promote personality cult!
But Hu Yuan did not insist on being herself for long. After all, the statue was now in front of Fenghua Kindergarten.
What defeated him was a sentence from Fan Zhongyan.
"The Ministry of Works designed and built the statue at their own expense. They said if they agreed, they could just report any future deficiencies without having to approve funding. The Ministry agreed."
This alone was very attractive! At that time, I didn't know the destructive power of young children, but after all, Hu Yuan's own Anding Academy was full of young and strong teenagers. Their ability to demolish houses should not be underestimated. I couldn't refuse the Ministry of Industry's promise of guaranteed after-sales service.
Not to mention that Han Qi added, "Not only the Ministry of Industry, but also the Printing Department said they would take over the printing of the kindergarten in the future."
This is also very important. Most of the cards they give to children are small literacy cards. The possibility of children losing them is too high. With such logistics...
In short, the excellent after-sales service overwhelmed Hu Yuan's conscience. Between Su Jinghe's face and the subsequent savings of the college, he chose the latter without hesitation.
Su Jinghe had no choice but to turn his grief and anger into motivation and plan this "literary literacy" competition more calmly.
If he is unhappy, someone must be even more unhappy.
I have to say that Su Jinghe did it successfully.
A month later, the "First Bianjing Literary Literacy Competition - Held by Bianjing Fenghua Kindergarten" brought a wave of traffic to Bianjing comparable to the imperial examinations.
"It's even more extensive than the imperial examination. How did you manage to trick so many people into coming with just one invitation?"
Wang Anshi looked at the scholar sitting opposite him, holding his teacup and watching the scholars coming and going with satisfaction.
"Don't look. The Kong family is here. The emperor has already been informed. There are even quite a few of them." Wang Anshi thought Su Jinghe was looking for someone from the Kong family, and he even made it clear, "The two people from the Kong family you wanted are here too."
"Hehe, don't be in a hurry. School has already started, and the princes are not particular about which teacher. The eldest prince is busy with the student union election every day, and the young prince wants to get to know the teachers better." While Su Jinghe was talking, Yansheng still didn't pull himself out of the crowd. He would linger over every person who looked like a scholar.
"Since you are not in a hurry, why do you treat them like a cat seeing a mouse or a dog seeing a bone?" Wang Anshi didn't understand.
"It doesn't require just the two of them, which means there are a wider range of teachers for us to choose from." Su Jinghe raised a smile.
"Hmm? Will they agree?" Wang Anshi felt a little unsure about his choice.
"There's nothing you can do if you disagree. You've got to accept the outcome." Su Jinghe smiled slyly, like a fox. "The top three will be selected on a voluntary basis. Besides these three special prize winners, the first and second prize winners will be chosen by us on a voluntary basis as teachers. During their teaching period, they must teach at least half of the students in the class a skill."
Now that's good, Wang Anshi put himself in the situation and felt that he could strive for the first prize.
"No one who comes here intends to lose." Su Jinghe took out an invitation letter from his pocket.
This is what he took out today to compare with the people in his restaurant. If you hold the certificate, you can enjoy a 10% discount.
"Look, this is the back." Su Jinghe showed it to Wang Anshi.
"So many?" Wang Anshi stared in shock at the densely packed small characters on the back. "What is this? The Nangong family, who have been reelected..."
"The first part is the title, and the second part is the family. I wrote down all the invitations I wanted to invite and that I could send to them!"
When Su Jinghe thought of this, he wanted to praise himself for being so smart.
"Look, if you were a member of the Kong family, and saw so many prestigious families, and the Kong family was also listed, would you not come? Besides, we are the first state-owned kindergarten in Bianjing. With the support of the country, the things we send out are also valuable and prestigious!"
"I learned something." Wang Anshi looked at the invitation letter, not knowing what he had learned.
If others say they have learned something, Su Jinghe may not take it seriously. What can he learn from just looking at it for a few seconds?
But this is Wang Anshi, this is Wang Anshi!
Su Jinghe asked cautiously, "What did you learn..."
Before Wang Anshi could answer, there was already a commotion outside.
"How come I still see you guys in Bian Jing? It's so unlucky!" A very loud voice sounded just outside their door.
This was a private room with a door that they had specially found, and yet something like this could happen outside. Su Jinghe frowned, but the next second he had the idea of eating melons again. It was nothing else...
"We Kong family members are always invited wherever we go. Unlike you, do you have an invitation? You didn't just come here to flatter me, did you?"
This person spoke very aggressively, and Su Jing and the audience felt their blood pressure rising. If you put yourself in the shoes of someone who was being bullied like this, you would be a gentleman if you could hold back and not take action.
Obviously, the person on the other end is not that gentlemanly, or he is well aware that there is no need to be too polite when communicating with such a sharp-tongued person.
"Ah, ah, ah, don't do it, this is Bianjing..."
Su Jinghe heard someone advise this.
This also gave the Kong family an opportunity to mock them again, "Right, this is Bian Jing, but no one listens to your nonsense anymore."
"Kong Jiaxiang! Shut up! I'm talking nonsense? How dare you say I'm talking nonsense?" The man started to curse by naming names, but he was probably so angry that he didn't say anything specific.
Others might speculate so, but when Su Jinghe heard that he was scolding Kong Jiaxiang, he knew that this person was not unable to find trouble, but was too shy to speak up.
[Ah, Kong Jiaxiang of the Kong family is also a leader among the new generation. Aside from not pursuing a degree and being too romantic, his knowledge and appearance are both first-rate.]
really.
Wang Anshi looked at Su Jinghe. The old ministers had made up a story about these new ministers, saying that the voice of the heart was the voice of the person in heaven.
But Wang Anshi felt something was wrong, so he went to find Fan Zhongyan and clearly mentioned Su Jinghe's name, but when he wanted to talk about his relationship with this voice, he couldn't open his mouth.
For this reason, Wang Anshi even wanted to use the process of elimination, but the strange thing was that when he spoke to himself, he had no problem saying anything about who was related to Xin Sheng, but when he spoke to the second person, he couldn't say anything at all, let alone Su Jinghe, his main suspect, even if he said that Wang Anshi himself was related to Xin Sheng, it would not work.
Fortunately, Fan Zhongyan understood his thoughts and asked him not to spread the news and to keep the secret for his good brother.
Now Wang Anshi looked at Su Jinghe's apparent calm expression, and listened to his active thoughts, and felt that it was indeed not easy.
Su Jing and the protagonists of Xin Sheng were still arguing, and even the waiter and the owner of the restaurant came to mediate, barely preventing the two sides from fighting.
But after listening to Su Jinghe's thoughts, Wang Anshi felt that it was understandable for the two groups to fight.
[The Kong family is amazing. The educational philosophy they uphold is that the capable will be given the position. How can such a jungle law raise a kind and good child?
But raising Kong Jiaxiang is not sure whether it is a misfortune for the Kong family or for the people around the Kong family.
This guy is a playboy, he's popular with both men and women! 】
That is really unfortunate!
He had only been in office for a short time and had only heard Su Jinghe's thoughts a few times. Su Jinghe had even left Bianliang for two months, which greatly reduced the number of times he spoke to him. This made Wang Anshi quite uncomfortable with these gossips that were beyond his understanding and shattered his three views.
[It must be the Cheng family who is scolding him. Sigh, in the Confucius Mansion in Qufu, it is difficult for a family to survive and prosper, and this one from the Cheng family has it even harder...
Speaking of which, when I invited them, I also tried very hard to find someone Kong Jiaxiang had cheated on. This person was the most famous and the one he hated the most. Sure enough, before the game even started, he started cursing...
Do the other members of the Kong and Cheng families know the real reason for your hostility?]
No one would know this, right?
After listening to Su Jinghe's inner thoughts, Wang Anshi guessed that Kong Jiaxiang must have deceived someone else's feelings. Even if it was a matter between a man and a woman, he would not publicize it so that others would not know!
But it was too noisy outside, and Wang Anshi wanted to let this group know...
If they had a little understanding, they wouldn't have started arguing again, right? I guess we should have pulled them apart quickly!
Seeing that Su Jinghe was about to reach the door and wanted to take a closer look at the fierce battle outside, Wang Anshi quickly got ahead of him.
"It's too noisy. We've finished eating, let's go." As he said that, he opened the door and met the eyes of the group of people outside, looking quite calm.
"You've disturbed our meal, but we can forgive you. Now, make way for us."
Wang Anshi didn't dare to look around. He felt that when he looked at people, he might think of the story of "a scumbag cheating on feelings" in Su Jinghe's heart, and then his face would become even more uglier, or he might simply pick out the scumbag and kick him out of their invitation lineup.
Even if you are from the Kong family, you can't be so dissolute!
[Oh my god, it's Wang Anshi as expected! So cool!]
Su Jinghe just followed behind Wang Anshi, feeling the gazes on both sides on the road opened by Wang Anshi.
[Oh, I'm surprised. You guys will be able to cling to our thighs in the future~ Hehe, let me check the system to see if these people are impressed by our domineering aura!]
Su Jinghe's thoughts also made Wang Anshi feel a little uneasy, and then the uneasy feeling came true.
Oh my god, hurry up, hurry up! This damn Kong Jiaxiang has set his sights on our Wang Anshi! How audacious! How dare he look at anyone?
This sentence almost scared Wang Anshi to the ground, but fortunately he had extraordinary willpower and amazing self-control, so he avoided tragedy.
But his walking speed has indeed increased a lot, he must hurry to leave this dangerous place!
When Wang Anshi walked out of the restaurant and felt the sunshine, he had the illusion of being reborn.
"Jiefu, did you hear someone asking us to stop just now?" Su Jinghe vaguely heard it, but was not sure, so he asked Wang Anshi.
Wang Anshi thought he was going to tell him about Kong Jiaxiang, so he quickly denied it, "I didn't hear you. Didn't you say you wanted to go shopping? Let's go to Daxiangguo Temple. There are a lot of things there."
After saying this, Wang Anshi regretted it again.
Although he hadn't been to Daxiangguo Temple recently, he had a feeling that there would be a lot of people there, and many of them would be new to Bianjing...
Aren’t there many conflicts like this?
Not even an hour had passed before Wang Anshi began to hate his previous self.
Why bring up Daxiangguo Temple? Wouldn't it be better to just tell everyone to go home?
Even though he was still a staunch atheist at this time, he began to doubt whether his worst-case scenario had come true.
He was feeling very upset and desolate.
Su Jinghe was completely different. Not only was his mood as bright as a ray of sunshine, but his speed in eating the watermelon was even faster than a badger that fell into a watermelon field. He was a high-intensity and active badger that Runtu could never stab!
In front of a jewelry stall selling wooden hairpins, a man and a woman were snuggling together sweetly. They looked like a young couple in their passionate love period. They were dressed very delicately and were gesturing with hairpins on each other's heads, as if they were going to buy a couple's pair.
[Wow, a guy dressed as a crossdresser. Luckily, the guy is taller. Now they just look like a tall couple, and no one can tell their physiques are much stronger than those of ordinary women. The makeup is also amazing. You really can't tell it's a girl just by looking at her face. Luckily, you can see her Adam's apple.]
Adam's apple? Isn't it obvious on thin people but hard to see on fat people?
Wang Anshi reluctantly chose what he could listen to from Su Jinghe's gossip, and tried hard to think, trying to prevent his brain from being polluted by strange things.
But the results were minimal.
After all, just after walking past a jewelry stall, the next one is a food stall. The two people, who look like men, are sweetly sharing the same portion, one spoonful each.
[They really look like they're broke or don't have a big appetite. Who would have thought they were just trying to show off their affection? They're not short of money and have big appetites, just eating and eating.]
That's really a big eater.
Wang Anshi walked past without looking around, as if he hadn't seen it, and didn't even dare to look at the delicious food.
He will eat it again next time, but he can’t think of this couple when he sees it next time!
This is too destructive for a straight man!
I am also a straight man, but I have seen too much gossip about Su Jinghe, and I don’t empathize with him at all. I just watch the show.
In front of a bookstore, I saw people arguing again.
Wang Anshi was about to mediate the fight when he was stopped by Su Jinghe's inner voice.
[Sigh, that unlucky straight guy is attracted to a gay guy, but instead of confessing his feelings, he tries to trick the straight guy into marrying his sister, just so he can have more contact with straight guys in the future? Hmm... have you gay guys lost your minds too? Who would accept such a deep-seated feud?!]
Wang Anshi put himself in his shoes. Not to mention accepting it, he was not just arguing with the man, but was beating him up.
And...how was this discovered?
[Being engaged to his younger sister, this gay man was reluctant to give up his pursuit of pleasure, so he secretly went to Nanfeng Pavilion to play. It happened that this place was closed down because of excessive entertainment... On the day of the closure, this man had ordered two others to play together. The three of them were caught on the spot in a 0-0-0 state, and he was the one in the middle.
Both families were not ordinary people, and there were many people watching at the time, so the news spread like wildfire...
Hiss, so disgusting.]
At first, Wang Anshi didn’t understand what the “zero-one-zero-one” state meant, but after replacing the zero, he felt that his brain was completely unusable.
He no longer cared about the right and wrong in front of him, grabbed Su Jinghe's sleeve and pulled him forward.
"Let's go pick out some clothes. I want to send them to Wenjun. Should it be delivered?" Wang Anshi thought about it for a long time. It wasn't just a temporary excuse, but...
Not sure if it can be delivered.
Su Jinghe thought for a moment, "How about I...let my aunt's caravan deliver it? My aunt wants to buy some foreign seasonings, but it's too much of a loss to spend money on them. It's better to run her own business, so there will be a caravan going back and forth."
The price of seasonings is so expensive that if you calculate carefully, it even exceeds the price of gold!
My aunt really did have such a caravan, but Su Jinghe was not sure whether the information provided by the system could allow the caravan to be handed over to Wang Wenjun.
If you provide some information, the Ministry of Accounts should be able to send it...
Wang Anshi wanted to say this directly, but he still said it tactfully, "When the time comes, you can have the caravan accompany the Ministry of Revenue. I think the Ministry of Revenue will also want some supplies, right?"
"Maybe we can't get the supplies? But we can send them on the way back."
As soon as Wang Anshi mentioned the Ministry of Revenue, Su Jinghe came to his senses.
The current transportation situation is not modern, there are three types of transportation: sea, land and air.
The possibility of the person behind catching up with the person in front is too small, and the "800-mile express" is not needed on this "unknown road section".
"On the way back is fine..." Wang Anshi was really worried about his sister. "I don't know how long it will take for her to come back, ah..."
"Oh..." Su Jinghe also missed Wang Wenjun a little. This woman was really amazing and eloquent. If she was willing, she would be more than qualified to be a teacher in Bian Jing, and could even teach in the Imperial College!
but……
Su Jinghe thought about Wang Wenjun's personality and felt that compared to a life of being controlled by others, she might prefer something like doing business, which was more free and exciting.
"We were here first, don't we have eyes?"
They were too slow in going to the clothing store. Before they even reached the door, they heard noises from inside.
Wang Anshi looked at the two young ladies who were arguing inside and made a careful assessment. They both looked very ladylike, without Adam's apples, and had women's figures, without the masculine bulk.
These should be two girls, right? Could this be someone's son?
After Wang Anshi came to the conclusion, he was a little overwhelmed. His brain was really dirty!
But what made him collapse was yet to come.
[Wow, two more cross-dressing guys! ]
No, this...
Wang Anshi was also a stubborn man. He was unwilling to believe that his judgment was wrong. He looked up and down at the two quarreling "women", but he couldn't tell that they were men dressed as women.
Could Su Jinghe have seen it wrong? For example, it wasn't this clothing store at all, but another one?
Or maybe the artifact finally had a problem...
Wang Anshi even wondered if it was the system's fault.
Before he could figure out what was going on, Su Jinghe was already cursing.
[Damn, the limits of homosexuality in ancient times were beyond my imagination! Selecting underage boys to be servants and then dressing them up as women is abhorrent, pedophile!]
After Su Jinghe finished cursing, he seemed to think of the ancient times when people could get married as teenagers.
[It's legal for teenagers now, but now they're looking for seven or eight-year-olds! Damn pedophiles, there's no limit!]
Seven or eight years old?
Wang Anshi looked at it again and thought that if this was a child of seven or eight years old... it seemed true!
The shoes on his feet also look high, his hair also looks high, and the layers of clothes also make him look bigger.
This, this...
Who has no bottom line!
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