When Shen Yu finished washing up and the four of them began to eat, Shen Yu drank rice porridge and ate a meat and vegetable dish made by Ling'er herself, and instructed Ling'er: "I have already said hello to the household, wait a minute, you go over and get two taels of silver, and then accompany my mother to go out and buy two clothes for the two of you." ”

Shen Yu hurriedly straightened up and said curiously, "Please tell the head of the Wang Bantou a brief talk to the official about this old master." ”

Wang Ruoxu nodded: "Although this old master is only a county teacher from the ninth grade in our Tianchi County, he is a Jinshi from the Immortal Emperor Dynasty, and he once served as the inspector of the fourth grade of our Tianshan Province. The old master was full of wealth, learned and was rich in five cars, and was once known as the first Confucian in Tianshan Province. If it weren't for the old master, who was too upright and tough, maybe the old master would have entered the Hanlin Academy or the Ministry of Rites and reported on his work in Beijing!"

Shen Yu reached out and took another clean teacup, personally poured a cup of tea for Wang Ruoxu and handed it over, and said with a smile: "Hehe, Wang Bantou spoke slowly." ”

"Master Xie. Wang Ruoxu took the teacup, tasted it slowly, then put down the cup, and continued: "Originally, the old master, the inspector, was a good student, but there was a meeting in the province, and I don't know what the new governor of Tianshan Province, Shangguan Jie, said, which made our old master angry, and he scolded the governor on the spot. Governor Shangguan didn't say anything at the time, but early in the morning of the second day after the meeting, more than a dozen local dignitaries above the fourth rank jointly impeached the old master for five crimes. ”

"The first crime: disrespecting the elderly, openly molesting female students, hurting morals and customs, and insulting the court; the second crime: relying on the old and selling the old, committing the following crimes, openly criticizing the government and despising the court; the third crime: being old and mediocre, deaf and incompetent......"

After reading the impeachment documents of these local dignitaries, the governor of Shangguan was furious on the spot, and immediately summoned the three governors of Tianshan Province, and on the same day he ordered that the old master Kong be demoted by 11 levels in a row! The old master was suddenly reduced from the dignified and provincial superintendent of the fourth grade to the Tianshan Province, Wujiang Mansion, and our small county of Tianchi County!

Wang Ruoxu sighed deeply and continued with a wry smile: "Governor Shangguan announced to the whole province that the old master doesn't like to teach? Doesn't he like to cultivate the pillars of the country for the imperial court? Don't you think that you are talented and have the talent to go through the heavens and latitudes? Then let the master always be a county teacher. It is also because of the words of the governor of Shangguan that in the past two years, our Tianchi County, including Du Zhi County, has a total of three governors, and none of them has summoned the old master, and the county has held a meeting, and the old master has not been notified at all, and the officials of the county are all regarded as old masters, and the official position of the county priest seems to have become the exclusive property of the old master and himself! The official positions of other officials are promoted or demoted, or leveled and retired, but the county teaching of the old master Confucius has always been as stable as Mount Tai, and no one dares to move. ”

Hearing this, Shen Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly!

Although Old Master Confucius had a bigger temper and a more stubborn personality, he was indeed indifferent to fame and fortune! In the face of falling from the sky to the ground all at once, he was demoted to a full eleven levels in a row in the face of trumped-up charges, and in the face of the ignorance of his colleagues and superiors around him, he always showed an attitude of indifference. Not only was it not affected in the slightest, but it really came to the spirit, and it looked like a decent person, and started the errand of the county school seriously!"

"The old master first used all his money as tuition fees for poor students, and also personally went door-to-door to the homes of those rich squires in our Tianchi County to start fundraising. Raise funds for the tuition of poor students, raise funds for hiring assistant teachers in county schools, and raise funds for the reconstruction and renovation of county schools. There is no way, the buildings of the county school are too dilapidated! Moreover, the six subjects of the children's and juvenile classes of the county school: liberal arts, martial arts, arithmetic, agriculture, arts, and medicine, all lack teaching assistants! In short, the old master almost broke his leg, and in the end, the emperor lived up to his wishes, and even more of those squires and wealthy families in our county also knew that the old master did have a university education, so they all expressed their willingness to donate money and materials. ”

When Shen Yu heard this, he subconsciously reached out and touched his nose, and sighed: "Alas!

Wang Ruoxu shook his head helplessly, and said with a slightly sad face: "How can the wicked man be in charge, and the old master is too upright, so what originally seemed to be about to be done has a major accident!"

Shen Yu frowned and said suspiciously, "Could it be that someone from the Hou family is making a hindrance?"

Wang Ruoxu glanced at Shen Yu in surprise, nodded and said: "Well, the old master has been collecting donations door-to-door, almost all the squires and wealthy families have already agreed to donate, some promised to donate 20 taels of silver, some promised to donate 50 taels of silver, and my father was even more willing to donate 100 taels of silver directly...... But who knows, at this time, Hou Jinbao found the old master and said that he was willing to donate 1,000 taels of silver directly, but there was a condition, the condition was that his only son, Hou Gui, who was now studying in Wujiang Mansion School, also came back to study with the old master, and said that the old master would accept his only son Hou Gui as a closed disciple. Adults may not know that this Hou Gui is not only a scoundrel like his father, but also this guy is unlearned and unskilled, bullying men and women, and he can really be described as a notorious playboy in our Tianchi County! This is not counting, this Hou Gui seems to have some problems in his head, he can't be said to be an idiot, but he can definitely be regarded as a mentally handicapped! When the old master heard this, he was furious at that time, and in front of many people, he began to scold Hou Jinbao......

If it weren't for the county lieutenant Hou vigorously persuading him, Hou Jinbao might really let people directly dismantle the old master's old bones! Hou Jinbao was furious, and since he couldn't take the old master to be angry, he poured all his anger out on the others, and openly put down cruel words, saying that whoever dared to provide even one or two pieces of silver for the old master would kill his entire family. As a result, it is conceivable that the rich squires who originally promised to donate money and materials, including their fathers, suddenly died down, and they never mentioned their previous promises!"

Shen Yu's eyes were cold: "A squire, how dare you be so presumptuous, if you don't get rid of it, where is the majesty of the court." In this way, the head of the Lao Wang team immediately led the way for the official, and the official wanted to visit the old master Confucius in person. ”

Wang Ruoxu opened her mouth and stopped talking.