Chapter 170 Chapter 170 Jiang Lanfang's worries
After learning about this, Qin Feiyu didn't know whether to be angry or worried. Is Xiao Hengzhi crazy?
Does he know how dangerous it would be for him to leave the capital rashly?
Qin Feiyu wanted to fly away from Beijing immediately to find Xiao Hengzhi, but at this time, other secret guards who were secretly looking for the child got a clue and Qin Feiyu had to go there in person.
Love is important, and children are equally important.
As long as Xiao Hengzhi is not stupid and doesn't seek death, protecting himself should not be a problem.
After being in a dilemma and hesitating for a while, Qin Feiyu still followed the secret guard.
There's no way, he has been looking for his child for eight years.
Eight years ago, when he was rescued and brought back to Beijing, he suffered a head injury and could not remember some things. On the way back to Beijing, he encountered several assassination attempts. The guards around him were killed or injured. The guard who first discovered him is no longer with us. Qin Run didn't know where he had stayed or where his children were during the eight years that he could not remember.
He only vaguely remembered that he was once again assassinated on his way out of the capital. For some reason, he had to pawn the jade pendant he carried with him, along with his wet nurse and personal maid. He also bought his house deeds and land deeds in the village from a man who had left the village when he was young and was still a boy in his twenties. He also secretly replaced the man's identity. After all these operations, there was not much money left from the pawning of the jade pendant.
At that time, there was no one else around him except these two people. After escaping all night, the adults were exhausted and didn't even know when the child got a fever and fell into a coma.
In the end, although his child was not burned stupid, he could not remember what happened before. Qin Feiyu was pregnant with another child at the time, so he was unable to do many things despite his willingness.
After returning to the capital, Qin Feiyu spent two years recuperating from his injuries and sent people to find his children, but until now, there is still no clue about his two children.
Qin Feiyu didn't even know whether his youngest son was still in this world. From his unclear memory, he knew that the reason he fell into the pit when he went up the mountain was because his youngest son was sick. His maid died a few months after his youngest son was born. So, wasn't there only an elderly wet nurse left in the family?
A ten-year-old child, a few-month-old baby, an elderly woman, such a family, what will they do now that he is gone? How will they survive?
Whenever he thought of this, Qin Feiyu couldn't wait to find them back. He focused all his attention on the children, so much so that he had no time to look for Xiao Hengzhi.
After his injuries healed, Qin Feiyu wanted to go look for Xiao Hengzhi, but when the people in the Xiao Mansion saw him, they wanted to cut him into pieces. When they learned that he was looking for Xiao Hengzhi, there was no way the Xiao family would let him in.
Unable to enter Prince Xiao's Mansion, Qin Feiyu had to resort to other means. He waited outside Prince Xiao's Mansion for many days before he finally saw the person he had been thinking about for years.
A few years ago, he returned to Beijing once, but that time, he did not know about Xiao Hengzhi. In addition, the Xiao family's attitude towards him was not good, and the outside world was saying that he and Xiao Hengzhi were not in harmony. For this reason, few people dared to mention anything about Xiao Hengzhi in front of him.
During his years in Beijing, he could count the number of times he had seen Xiao Hengzhi on dozens of fingers. Later, he learned that Xiao Hengzhi had been assassinated and poisoned when he left Beijing that year.
It was obvious that Xiao Hengzhi didn't want him anymore, but Qin Feiyu was still obsessed with wanting to see Xiao Hengzhi.
However, it was difficult to break into Prince Xiao's Mansion. The Xiao family protected Xiao Hengzhi too well, so Qin Feiyu could not get close to Xiao Hengzhi at all. After learning that Xiao Hengzhi was assassinated, all he could do was send his confidants to protect Xiao Hengzhi.
Now that he suddenly learned that Xiao Hengzhi had left the capital, Qin Feiyu was worried, but he had to rush to other prefectures.
He wanted to see Xiao Hengzhi, face to face with him, and ask him why he was so heartless, but he couldn't find anyone. Now that Xiao Hengzhi had left Beijing, his chance had come, but... the feeling of powerlessness of being unable to do anything made Qin Feiyu feel uncomfortable, but he was helpless and unable to change.
Xiao Hengzhi didn't know that because of his rash departure, the others were almost running around in panic.
After a good night's sleep, when Xiao Hengzhi got up, Qin Run had already prepared breakfast. The college entrance examination was coming soon, and there were no classes in the college. Qin An and Qin Mu chose to stay to accompany Xiao Hengzhi, and only Qin Run and Xu Yunfan went to the academy.
Several women and men were sitting on the ox cart going to work at the academy. Xu Yunfan was squeezed in the front, and there were several bags of corn in the middle of the cart.
Qin Dayou and his friends didn't harvest much corn yesterday. Because of the obstruction of Old Lady Sun, they only managed to harvest about ten bags in one evening.
Xu Yunfan asked them to continue collecting today, and put the ones collected last night into the car and let Aunt Qin and others take them back to the canteen to cook.
Some of these corns are sweet corns, and some are sticky corns. Whether they are sweet or sticky, they are good to cook for breakfast.
At noon, we arranged to have some sweet corn and pork ribs soup, but a few bags of corn were not enough.
Why can't villagers get rich farming? Why do they toil year-round, sweating profusely, only to have a few extra cents left after barely making ends meet?
That’s because food is too “cheap”.
The price of a pound of corn is only one or two cents, and that is when it is dried. As for crops like sweet potatoes, the price is even cheaper. A pound of salt costs twenty-six cents, and this is the price after the court has suppressed the price. Even so, apart from the daily necessities of life, how much money can the villagers earn?
Xu Yunfan knew that he couldn’t make a lot of money from farming, but the land was there and it would be a waste if he didn’t farm it.
How much can Xu Yunfan earn if he waits until the corn is old before harvesting it?
Now he sells corn cobs for two cents a bunch, which is quite profitable!
Aunt Qin and the others didn't understand Xu Yunfan's intention at first. After all, they had been farming for decades and had eaten corn cobs before, but to be honest, the corn cobs in their fields were not very tasty.
Until the whole cafeteria was filled with the sweet aroma of corn, and after seeing the prices marked by Qin Run, Aunt Qin and the others opened their eyes wide.
Many times, Xu Yunfan thought that with his brain, even if he didn't do business, he could feed the Qin family with just the dozen acres of land.
Qin Run arranged for Sun Wu to deliver four bags of corn to Yunrun store and let Sun Qingsong and others deal with them. At the cafeteria, the remaining corn was all processed.
To be honest, not to mention Qin Run, even Aunt Qin and the others had never eaten such sweet corn in their decades of life. After eating a handful, each of them still felt unsatisfied.
After Xu Yunfan ate a few handfuls of glutinous corn, he wiped his mouth and went to find Jiang Lanfang with the food box Qin Run had prepared for him.
He had just returned home to "slack off" for a few days, and Jiang Lan had someone tell him to come over. Could it be that she had something against his "slacking off"?
Xu Yunfan was confused. When he went to Jiang Lanfang's study and saw Jiang Lanfang with a sad face, he felt he didn't dare to speak rashly.
The main point is that if the enemy doesn’t move, I won’t move.
After answering the call and letting someone in, Jiang Lan remained silent, staring at Xu Yunfan without blinking for a long while. "Xu Yunfan, do you know why I called you here today?"
Xu Yunfan: “…”
If he knows, it would be strange. It’s not the worm in your stomach.
"I don't know." Xu Yunfan shook his head and spoke very obediently, "What's the matter with Dean Jiang calling me here? You look worried. If you trust me, you can tell me. Don't worry, I will never tell anyone else."
"I do have something difficult to decide on." Jiang Lanfang didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong. He had discussed this matter with other teachers for a whole morning two days ago, but they still couldn't come up with a solution. For some unknown reason, he thought of Xu Yunfan.
Jiang Lanfang did not allow Xu Yunfan to attend that meeting, not because he was excluding him, but because he felt that Xu Yunfan was too young and would probably be alone if he went. Later, after the meeting, when Qi Xiu Ze and the other four came to ask him questions, they learned of his worries and called out to Yaya, asking why he didn't go and ask Xu Yunfan?
For some reason, Xie Baizhou and the other three had a mysterious confidence in Xu Yunfan. They acted as if they were following Xu Yunfan's lead and thought that Xu Yunfan was very powerful and could do anything.
Jiang Lanfang was brainwashed after hearing several students talking about Xu Yunfan again and again.
That's why he found Qin Run and asked Xu Yunfan to come over today.
Jiang Lanfang: "As you know, many students from the academy took the September entrance exam. Unfortunately, although they didn't make the list, this doesn't mean they aren't talented students. The other teachers and I suggested that they should just take this opportunity to try and gain experience so they can keep trying. However, the students aren't just facing the disappointment of failing. There's also a bigger problem plaguing them."
"You know, the annual tuition at Qingfeng Academy is just a drop in the bucket for the children of wealthy families, but for ordinary people, it's a fortune that their entire family can only save by scrimping and saving. Not all of our students come from wealthy families. After this exam, some students were deeply devastated and have even told their teachers they want to drop out."
Jiang Lanfang naturally didn't want these students to leave.
To him, every student who can enter his academy is a treasure that needs to be carefully polished so that it can become a dazzling and shining pearl in the future.
But now, his students are facing the dilemma of dropping out of school because of their family’s poverty, which makes Jiang Lanfang feel very sorry.
To be honest, he has the wealth to pay tuition for these students, but what will the other students think if he does so?
His ability is limited. Students need money to enroll and pay tuition. Does that mean that pens, ink, paper, and inkstones, as well as money for future exams, will not be needed?
If such a situation occurs in Qingfeng Academy, does it not happen in other academies?
He could help one or two people, but he couldn't help hundreds or thousands of people.
Jiang Lanfang wanted to find the most appropriate and long-term effective way to solve these problems.
In the previous meeting, several older teachers argued endlessly about this matter. Some said it was a test, while others said it was for them to work hard to overcome difficulties. In short, everyone had their own ideas, but to Jiang Lanfang, none of them pleased him.
Xu Yunfan rolled his eyes as he listened, "Is that all? Just because of this, you're worried about it. These are just trivial matters, not that serious."
"Can you please not speak so lightly?" Jiang Lanfang was so worried about this that her hair fell out. Xu Yunfan actually said it was just a small matter?
These words gave people hope but also made them almost fuming.
Xu Yunfan said it was a small matter, which meant that he had a solution. "Do you have a solution?"
"Yes, but I want to ask you, which forces are behind the banks here?"
"There are the Royal Family, the Qi Family, and a few others, but all of these banks, without exception, are trustworthy."
Xu Yunfan nodded. "Forget about other banks. If you can cooperate with the bank run by the royal family, most of these problems will be solved. Of course, if other banks are trustworthy, we can also cooperate."
"What do you mean?" Jiang Lanfang looked confused.
Xu Yunfan: "If you have a way, you can find the officials in charge of finance or education in the court and cooperate with them to set up a 'student loan'. This loan is like this... With this money, students from poor families can solve the miscellaneous expenses such as tuition, dormitory fees, living expenses, etc. during their studies. After they have completed their studies, they certainly cannot pay it back all at once. You can adopt an instalment repayment method after they complete their studies. During the loan period, you will not charge the so-called interest. After they complete their studies, it is not too late to charge interest. As for the assessment, which students can apply for this loan, what are the requirements for loan guardians, etc., you can..."
By then, the students who have successfully graduated from Qingfeng Academy will be considered half-talented if not scholars after graduation. It should not be difficult for them to find a job, and paying off the loan should not be a problem.
"Of course, this loan alone may not be enough to solve the plight of some students. You can also set up a 'Dawn Plan' with them. This plan is designed for students from poor families... In addition, the college can create or establish a 'scholarship'. The amount of this award is determined by you, the dean. I don't know if these things are easy to handle here, but in my country, there are such good policies. Because of these policies, many students have schools to go to and books to read. Many students benefit from this and don't have to give up their dreams of studying because of tuition fees. It is because of this policy that many people benefit throughout their lives. Even if reading cannot make them go further or take higher positions, it can broaden their horizons and improve their knowledge level. This is a beneficial thing. Of course, I am also providing you with my country's policies for reference. As for whether it can be done, my ability is limited and I don't know anyone, so I won't participate."
"Also, besides this, you can also cooperate with other wealthy businessmen, or cooperate with me, to provide students with a part-time job, allowing students to exchange their labor for corresponding compensation..."
After Xu Yunfan left, Jiang Lanfang was still in shock for a long time.
There is no way, the policies Xu Yunfan talked about are really shocking.
What kind of country can do so well that students don’t have to worry about tuition fees? With such policies, what Xu Yunfan said before, that in his country, “scholars are everywhere” is really not an exaggeration.
To be honest, Jiang Lanfang was too envious. He couldn't even imagine that such a country existed. But with the appearance of Xu Yunfan, every word he said confirmed that such a country really existed.
It turns out that it is actually possible to ensure that every student has access to books and does not have to worry about tuition fees.
Jiang Lanfang thought over Xu Yunfan's words again, fearing that he would forget them. He even picked up a pen and wrote them down word for word. It was not until noon when Jiang Lan, with an empty stomach, noticed the food box that Xu Yunfan had placed on the tea table.
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