Chapter 197 I Don’t Want to Be a Loyal Servant!
"Lin Shu, do you have time after school today? I'll treat you to Jueweixuan." A cute little fat boy came up to Lin Shu with his small school box on his back and said to him in a flattering tone.
Lin Shu was packing his books, writing brushes, inkstones and paper into his bookcase. "Fang Yuan, I've already said that you don't have to treat me to a meal. I'm just helping you as a classmate. It's just a casual thing."
The fat boy Fang Yuan was very persistent: "My father said that I should thank those who helped me and not let their kindness go unappreciated. Lin Shu, you helped me fight off those guys and saved me, so you are my benefactor. It is only right that I treat you to a meal."
Before Lin Shu was sent to the private school by Si Yuan, he had never thought that there would be so many small groups in such a small private school.
As a transfer student who joined the class midway, it was naturally difficult for him to integrate into the group.
However, after being taught by Si Yuan for more than a year, the confident Lin Shu didn't care at all that he was vaguely isolated, and he just focused on studying in the private school.
It was only the second day of school when Lin Shu unexpectedly ran into the fat boy Fang Yuan outside the private school. He was surrounded and blackmailed by six tall and strong students from Class A of the private school.
The private school is divided into four classes: A, B, C, and D, according to age and learning progress.
Class D is for little kids who are just starting out.
Class C is for children around ten years old like Lin Shu and Fang Yuan who have been enlightened for a few years but have not learned much.
Class B is for students who have read the Four Books and Five Classics and are beginning to prepare for the imperial examination.
Class A is the class for students who have already begun to attempt to take the imperial examination.
However, there is a special type of students in Class A, that is, those who are arranged to join the class due to their connections. Because the teacher of this private school, Mr. Wang, is very good at teaching students, his Class A has already produced five students and two scholars. This teaching result is enough to make Wang's Private School the most famous private school in Licheng.
As a result, many families spent a lot of money and used connections to get their children into Mr. Wang's Class A, hoping that Mr. Wang could teach their children well.
But they probably don't know how much Wang Xiucai hates these people who come to his class because of connections. If he couldn't afford to offend the families behind so many of them, Wang Xiucai wouldn't want to pay any attention to these students at all.
However, in the private school, Mr. Wang's minimum requirement for these people with connections is not to disrupt the classroom order. It doesn't matter whether they study or not. He is only responsible for teaching and assigning homework. If the homework is not completed, he will directly report it to the parents. His real focus is on those students who are capable of achieving some results in the imperial examinations, not these people with connections who are hopeless.
The fat boy Fang Yuan was targeted by these people with connections in Class A.
Because the fat boy Fang Yuan is the second young master of the Fang family, the Fang family is a well-known wealthy family in Licheng, and the largest restaurant in Licheng, Jueweixuan, is the Fang family's restaurant.
Fang Yuan was somewhat neglected in his family because he had an older brother who was respected and a younger brother who was loved. As the second child, he was sandwiched in the middle.
It's not that Fang's father and mother don't like him, it's just that one of them needs to run the Fang family business, the other needs to manage the Fang family's inner court, and they also have to take care of the eldest son and care about the youngest son. A person has limited energy, and if they spend more energy on other things, they will have less energy to spend on Fang Yuan, the second legitimate son.
The Fang family is rich, and Fang's father and mother are unable to take care of Fang Yuan, which makes them feel guilty about him. The way they make up for it is to give him pocket money.
So Fang Yuan became a rich young man who received little attention from his parents but had a lot of pocket money.
Fang Yuan was neglected at home and had a soft and introverted personality. After he came to the private school, he wanted to make more friends. His way of making friends was to spend money to treat his friends and give them gifts.
Use money to please classmates and make them friends.
This method did attract many classmates who wanted to take advantage. After all, there were not only children from wealthy families but also poor farmers who came to private schools.
Master Wang was able to teach five students and two scholars, so naturally he would not only accept children from wealthy families as his students in order to earn tuition. He was also willing to accept those children from farming families who had little money but were talented as his students. If the other party's family could not afford the tuition, he was willing to let these students go to school while paying the tuition to the private school.
Anyway, even if these students from poor families cannot succeed in the imperial examinations in the future, it is not difficult for them to find a job as an accountant after learning the knowledge. After all, there are few literate people in this world, and being able to read makes one quite competitive in finding a job.
It is not difficult for educated people to find a job to support themselves as long as they are willing to humble themselves. Master Wang is not worried that these students who owe tuition fees to private schools will not be able to repay the debt in the future.
He only allowed poor students to pay tuition fees, but he did not pay for their studies out of his own pocket, so he did not lose money and could also gain a good reputation.
If there is one among these farm boys who is really talented and succeeds in the imperial examination, then he will make a lot of money.
Among the five students and two scholars taught by Master Wang, half of them were from farming families.
After all, these farm boys know best that if they fail the imperial examination, they will have to go back to work in the fields, facing the loess and back to the sky, and continue to dig for food. The pressure of life and the hopes of the whole family are on them, so naturally they can endure the hardships of studying more than those rich young masters.
There are quite a few students from poor families who owe tuition fees to private schools. There are five of them in Class C where Lin Shu and Fang Yuan are.
These five poor students, some were so sensitive and inferior that they were unwilling to approach Fang Yuan, the rich young master, and accept his charity, while others treated Fang Yuan, the rich young master, as a sucker.
Fang Yuan taught two so-called good friends in Class C, spent money on their food and drinks every day, and also paid for their study paper and pens.
The news of such a large expenditure soon spread and was discovered by the students in Class A who had connections with the family.
The families of these students with connections are all quite well-off. If their families were not well-off, they would not be sent to join our class by their families.
But their good family background does not mean that they have a lot of pocket money. In order to make them study well, their elders strictly control their pocket money to prevent them from spending their time on playing instead of studying.
So after hearing that a very rich and generous kid who was trying to take advantage of the situation had come to Class C, these students who were worried about not having enough pocket money blocked Fang Yuan after school and blackmailed him.
The two so-called good friends who walked with Fang Yuan ran faster than anyone else. The students who were related to Fang Yuan and were blackmailing him were too lazy to chase them, after all, their target was Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan was timid, and after being scared by them he obediently handed over his pocket money.
The large sum of pocket money that Fang Yuan's father and mother gave to him in order to prevent him from feeling wronged and to make up for their lack of care for him became the root cause of his blackmail and bullying.
These people with connections to Class A also didn't allow Fang Yuan to complain to the teacher or his parents, otherwise they would definitely beat him up.
Fang Yuan knew that these people were relatives and had good connections. Even the Fang family could not afford to offend the families behind them. Fang Yuan was a weak person and was afraid of being beaten, so he just obeyed and did not dare to complain, and just paid the money obediently.
He had been blackmailed for half a month until Lin Shu was sent to a private school by Si Yuan and was assigned to Class C. Then on his way home from school, he happened to see Fang Yuan being blackmailed by several 17 or 18-year-old boys from Class A.
Lin Shu has a chivalrous spirit in his bones. When he was learning martial arts with Si Yuan, he wanted to be like the heroes in the storybooks, fighting against evil and upholding justice.
So he stepped forward without hesitation, stood in front of Fang Yuan and scolded the boys in Class A who were much taller than him.
The boys in Class A were not afraid of Lin Shu, the brat from Class C, so a conflict naturally broke out between the two sides. In order to ensure that their new source of pocket money would not be cut off, they decided to beat up both Lin Shu and Fang Yuan.
Then Lin Shu handed the book box he was carrying to Fang Yuan. After removing the seal, he directly used the fighting methods taught by Si Yuan and beat up these teenagers who only relied on their physique to bully younger children.
When Lin Shu beat them, he kept Si Yuan's teachings in mind and hit them on the acupuncture points, making them feel more painful but not leaving obvious marks. The teenagers rolled on the ground in pain, but they could not see any bruises.
Lin Shu pulled Fang Yuan, who was looking at him with admiration with her big round eyes, away.
Then Fang Yuan became his little fan and insisted on inviting him to dinner at his own restaurant Jueweixuan.
Lin Shu refused. He thought that instead of going to Jueweixuan for dinner, it would be better to go home early and eat the medicinal food made by his father. That was a good thing that could make him stronger.
But Fang Yuan was very persistent. He would continue to invite Lin Shu the next time if he was rejected, and he always followed Lin Shu like a little tail.
Lin Shu packed up his bookcase, looked at Fang Yuan who was staring at him eagerly, and said helplessly: "Okay, I'll go home and tell my father today that I won't be going home for dinner tomorrow. I'll go to Jueweixuan with you."
Fang Yuan immediately smiled with his eyes curved: "Okay, then we'll go to Jueweixuan tomorrow, I'll ask someone to prepare the food in advance."
Lin Shu carried his bookcase and said, "Let's go home."
But at this moment, Master Wang suddenly came over, and when he saw Lin Shu and Fang Yuan who had not left yet, he said to them, "Lin Shu, Fang Yuan, come here."
Fang Yuan nervously pulled Lin Shu's sleeve. He was worried that Master Wang had come to them because he had beaten up those young men with connections with Lin Shu in order to get him to save him.
Lin Shu was very calm. After all, he knew when to strike. Although those guys were in pain, they didn't even have bruises. Even if they called a doctor, he couldn't find any problem. They just said that he beat them. Who would believe that a ten-year-old boy could beat six tall teenagers of seventeen or eighteen years old?
So he pulled Fang Yuan out without any fear and greeted Master Wang respectfully: "Hello, Master."
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