Chapter 315 The Academy's Face Is Worth Nothing
“If Daiyu knew the key point, you should know it too.”
Yuan Hongqu did not tell Wen Ruoying directly what she should do, but only pointed out the key to the problem.
"In your home, or rather in your grandmother's yard, you are bound by her, but what about outside that yard? Can she still control your actions?"
Wen Ruoying is not stupid. Even a blockhead like Yingchun became more opinionated and developed her own personality after being close to Daiyu and spending some time in Rongyue Courtyard. She even dared to sever ties with her wet nurse's family. How much more so for Wen Ruoying!
She was among the first batch of students at the Capital Women's Academy. After studying there for several years, how could she not have changed!
“Mr. Yuan, Ruoying understands. She will certainly live up to your high expectations and will not bring shame to our girls’ academy.”
Wen Ruoying smiled subtly, not directly answering Yuan Hongqu's question, but it was clear that she had already made up her mind.
The dean has already dealt with that old woman Zhou. If I still can't stand up for myself, then I'll really be letting down the dean's efforts.
"The academy's reputation doesn't matter. If necessary, you can even step on it a couple of times without worry. After graduation, don't feel burdened by being a student of a girls' academy, or think that being unsuccessful will bring shame to the academy. Please don't have such thoughts, as they put too much pressure on us teachers and keep us up at night." Yuan Hongqu said half-jokingly.
"If you don't sleep well, you'll have a bad temper, which will lead to a poor complexion and accelerate aging. Our academy is full of female teachers, and what women fear most is aging. In order to keep us young forever, please don't put on airs for the sake of the academy's reputation. Just be yourself!"
Yuan Hongqu was somewhat moved.
"Speaking of which, each of you is a lively, cheerful, positive and optimistic good student. That is the greatest honor of the academy!"
Daiyu and Wen Ruoying were both amused by these words.
“Granny, if the academy’s reputation isn’t important, why did Dean Mi brave the heavy rain to come see you last time? Wasn’t it to protect the academy’s reputation?”
Daiyu remembered something from before and hurriedly asked.
"That was a despicable act deliberately targeting the academy. Dean Mi is afraid that if it's not handled properly, it could affect the academy's very survival." Just as Yuan Hongqu finished speaking, they heard Lan Su's voice outside the carriage.
“Mr. Yuan, the leader was riddled with arrows by you. The arrows have been pulled out and his wounds have been bandaged. Shouldn’t you wake him up now?”
"Aren't you afraid of the trouble of waking him up? His skills seem off."
"It's too easy for him to be unconscious while recovering from his injuries! He should be kept awake so he can feel the pain of his wounds and not do such a thing again!" Daiyu suddenly spoke up from inside the carriage.
When the bandits blocked the road, she was inside the carriage while her nanny was outside. She was so worried.
Especially when the leader suddenly jumped from over there to the side of the carriage, Daiyu realized that Lan Su and her brother were so skilled. At that moment, she was both scared and excited. If Yuan Hongqu hadn't stopped her, she would have fired the hidden arrow from her arm.
It's too good for him to just suffer a little pain now, without taking his life!
"Lan Su, did you hear that? Wake him up. He won't die from that wound even if it's not bandaged." Although Yuan Hongqu felt that criminals also had human rights and that this kind of punishment was inhumane, when she thought of the information Lan Su had brought back earlier—that the village's biggest source of income was from human trafficking—Yuan Hongqu felt that the leader deserved to be torn to pieces.
Lan Su took the order and went to instruct people to do their work. Inside the carriage, Daiyu and Wen Ruoying started chatting away again.
Yuan Hongqu simply closed her eyes to rest.
Summer nights come later; the sunset was just beginning to rise as the last carriage of the caravan drove into the camp for the night.
Because there are special programs tonight, everyone finished dinner relatively early.
After dinner, the students from the same group gathered together to discuss what had happened on their way home that afternoon, and they were also full of curiosity about the on-site trial that evening.
A temporary platform was set up next to the post station, decorated with the furnishings of a court trial.
In the lobby of the post station, Yuan Hongqu was looking through the county government's files.
The number of missing children and women in the county in the past three years is greater than the total number of missing persons reported in the previous ten years.
Various fraud cases are rampant in the county, but because the amounts involved are not very large, the county government has not paid much attention to them.
As for missing persons cases, most of those missing are women and children, and among the children, the number of girls is higher than that of boys, so they have not received enough attention.
The county magistrate stood to the side, head bowed in fear and trepidation.
Yuan Hongqu looked through the records and found that there were reports filed at the county government. However, most people in this era do not deal with the government. If a family member goes missing, they will at most mobilize the village to search for a few days, ten days or half a month at most, and then they will forget about it after a long time.
Therefore, the actual number of trafficked women and children is much higher, certainly not just those recorded in the case files.
Tonight's trial only selected a few typical cases, recreating the methods of the crimes on site to warn students, which is like an ancient version of "Online Legal Education".
As for the other cases, let this muddle-headed magistrate investigate them one by one, and do everything possible to rescue the missing women and children.
The magistrate of Qiuyu County was about to complete his term. He had already made arrangements with his superiors and was expected to be transferred to another place in a few months. However, Yuan Hongqu had stirred things up.
Yuan Hongqu directly sent a letter to the Ministry of Personnel, halting all promotions and transfers of officials in Qiuyu County.
Let the original team handle the original cases. These cases are never fully investigated or clarified. Not a single official in Qiuyu County should be touched.
Don't even think about leaving this mess to the next magistrate!
This was the first time Yuan Hongqu had used her status as a third-rank official to bully others.
The magistrate of Qiuyu County was sweating profusely. He had already been notified that a caravan from the Women's Academy would be passing through their county, and that their county's post station was to cooperate fully and act expediently.
The magistrate knew that the students of the girls' academy could not afford to make any mistakes, so he focused on the arrangement of the post station, but he did not expect that such a big problem would occur on the road.
Within the county under his jurisdiction, there was such a large criminal gang that they even stopped the girls' academy's convoy to rob it.
Fortunately, none of the students were hurt. If anything had happened to one of them, it would have been a catastrophic disaster for him.
The magistrate was still feeling relieved when the Imperial Guards took him and the case files to the post station.
It wouldn't have been a big deal, but he just happened to run into such a meddlesome female official, and he was really unlucky!
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