Gou Becomes a Boss in the Fairy World

Chapter 1460 Refining the Heart in the Mortal World (4)

Carrying a heavy oil-paper bag and humming a silly ditty, Li Jin returned home under the full moonlight.

"Damn ghost, why didn't you come back until now?"

Li opened the door for him, but was almost knocked to the ground by the latter's choking alcohol smell: "How much have you drunk?"

"Not much, just two pots of apricot blossoms."

Li Jin smiled drunkenly and put the oil paper bag in his hand into his wife's hand: "This is the wine and food I packed back, just for you as a midnight snack."

Mr. Li was the most gluttonous. He weighed the heavy oil paper bag and smiled happily: "How can you be happy about something?"

Li Jin entered the room, sat down on the chair, and replied triumphantly: "I touched a fish today, pinched out ten taels of snowflake silver, and gave Lao Zhang three taels."

"Really?"

Li was overjoyed: "Where did the water fish come from?"

Li Jin is a tax collector in the county government, which is a good job. However, the superior officials are corrupt and the money that can fall into his hands is limited.

The local merchants and traders in this town are not so easy to bully!

Today Li Jin actually took a fish out of water and pinched out ten taels of snowflake silver. Even if he gave Lao Zhang three taels, he still made a huge profit.

"A foreign scholar."

Li Jin waved his hand carelessly and said, "Go and heat some hot water. I want to warm my feet to make them comfortable."

"Okay!"

Mrs. Li happily ran to the kitchen to boil water.

Li Jin opened the oil paper package on the table, grabbed a piece of braised beef and stuffed it into his mouth. While chewing, he thought about how to get more oil and water from the fish.

He has been a tax collector for more than ten years, and his eyes are so venomous that he can tell that he has something to tell by one glance.

This kind of water fish should be simmered slowly and slowly, and the oil and water should be squeezed out bit by bit.

In addition, the whistleblower also needs to keep hammering, and eating both ends is the right way to go!

The more Li Jin thought about it, the more beautiful it became, and he reached out to grab the beef again.

As a result, he missed the opportunity this time and knocked over the oil lamp on the table with the back of his hand.

"Oh!"

Li Jin instinctively wanted to hold up the lamp, but as a result, he drank too much and his hands and feet were sluggish. Not only was he unable to hold it up, but he fell to the ground along with the table.

The burning lamp oil flew in all directions and quickly ignited the gauze tent next to it. The small flame turned into a raging flame in the blink of an eye.

Li Jin was shocked and struggled to get up to put out the fire.

But no matter how hard he tried, the chair weighing him down seemed as heavy as a mountain, making him unable to move.

The greedy tax collector watched helplessly as the fire spread and engulfed him whole.

He couldn't help but howl in despair.

"The Li family is in trouble!"

When the raging flames burned through the roof, the neighbors noticed the situation, and someone immediately rushed out and shouted loudly.

Half the city block was alarmed, and people rushed over with buckets to put out the fire to prevent their homes from being destroyed.

With the strength of many people, this sudden fire was quickly extinguished.

Then the patrol soldiers who came after hearing the news pulled out two charred corpses from the ruins of the mostly burned Li family.

A neighbor recognized Li Jin and his wife based on some characteristics of the corpse.

Li Jin and his wife are both natives of Qing'an County. They have no sons and only two daughters, and they are all married.

Since Li Jin was a tax collector, the county government paid great attention to it and sent out police officers and policemen to investigate.

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In the end, it was concluded that Li Jin was drunk and accidentally caught fire and dragged his wife into the sea of ​​​​fire. This incident was purely accidental and there was no sign of man-made creation.

Then the Yamen closed the case, and Li Jin's two daughters and relatives and friends were in an ugly quarrel over the inheritance issue, which became a hot topic among the neighbors.

But the funeral could not be postponed. In the end, it was the county government's master who came forward to settle the funeral arrangements.

Buying coffins, performing rituals, conducting funerals and burials, setting up banquets...

After the whole process, the property left by Li Jin and his wife was completely spent. The two daughters also paid ten taels of silver, which made the sisters completely fall out and never communicate with each other again!

The tragic incident that happened to the tax collector Li's family did not have any impact on Wang Chen, who taught in the Tongluo Alley Guan Shu.

Under the principle of "education without distinction", his number of students increased by fifty, and then he closed the door and hung up a pen indicating that he would no longer recruit students.

There is no other way. The scale of Wang's private school is very small. It has exceeded its limit to accommodate fifty students. If there is no room for more students to stand, it naturally cannot continue to expand blindly.

Day after day, the days passed slowly like this.

The reputation of Wang Chen, the teacher in Tongluo Lane, gradually spread with the passage of time.

There are both official schools and private schools in Qing'an County, but none of them recruits the poorest children like Wang Chen, and the tuition fees are very low.

A piece of bacon and half a bag of rice can be used as bundles!

Not only that, Wang Chen also taught very well. The door of Wang's school was open during the day, and anyone could go in and watch him teach.

This aroused dissatisfaction among some teachers at the private school, who felt that Wang Chen's actions were insulting to gentlemen and ruined their reputation.

During their normal gatherings, these teachers would often criticize Wang Chen and even plan to join forces to expel him from Qing'an County.

But the thunder was loud and the raindrops were light. Even though the gentlemen were indignant, they could not do anything to Wang Chen who had disrupted the market.

On the contrary, there were several noisiest gentlemen who either fell and broke bones while walking, or had their homes robbed and lost a lot of property. In short, they were very unlucky.

Over time, everyone tacitly accepted the existence of Wang's Academy.

Anyway, most of the students Wang Chen recruited were poor children, and there was no direct conflict with them.

Wang Chen was no longer a hot topic.

However, a few months later, he was on the hot search list of Qing'an County again.

Not only did Wang's Academy accept poor children as students, but it also provided these mud bastards with a free lunch and taught them basic martial arts to strengthen their bodies.

It is common for wealthy families to give porridge to the poor and do good deeds, but Wang Chen, as a teacher and a poor scholar, actually did such a thing, which really made people look at him with admiration.

If Wang's Academy was not too small to recruit more students, otherwise the whole family in Nancheng would send their children to Wang Chen to study.

Then there were more voices scolding Wang Chen for seeking fame and having ulterior motives.

Some teachers in the academy also called Wang Chen's students "Wang Sheng", belittling and mocking them, and strictly forbade their students to associate with "Wang Sheng".

Gradually, "Wang Sheng" became another existence in Qing'an County!

However, these ups and downs in the outside world could not blow into Wang's academy at all, nor could they shake Wang Chen in the slightest.

Time passed in a flash and another year passed.

On this day, an uninvited guest came to the academy in Tongluo Lane.

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The first update is here.