Since Zhang Wuliu inadvertently pierced the cowardly inferiority complex hidden in his heart, Yuan Jiuli was sad for a long time. But after all, he had read the sages, and after a brief period of depression, he regained his strength.

This time it is not a book or a scientific examination, it seems that there is no growth in this life, and he feels that he should do something real, that is, to make money.

The name of the principal of the girls' school affiliated to the Royal Academy is still very useful, and he began to go in and out of Yingtian's wealthy house with his name card, and peddled girls' schools to local tyrants one by one.

"The reputation of the Royal Academy must be known to outsiders, most of them are the daughters of the noble family, and there are two little princesses, who teach are all famous teachers and Confucians, and the grandmothers in the palace are also trained in etiquette and rules, and after studying in the girls' school, I am afraid that I will not find a good family in the future?"

This is Yuan Jiuli's common rhetoric, and the local tyrants are very comfortable with this, and they wish they had the opportunity to touch the royal extravagance, and it also gave the girls' school, which was barely able to break even, a lot more input.

Yuan Jiuli did not leave the money earned by the girls' school for her own use, but allocated most of it to the primary school, just so that she could recruit a few more poor peasant children who had no money to study in the coming year.

Some people scolded him and praised him, but he continued to disregard his reputation. In fact, he didn't know whether it was right or wrong for him to do this, but his grandfather, who had never said anything good to him, gave him a thumbs up, and said that he was too light on those local tyrants, and the tuition should be doubled.

No matter what others say, Yuan Jiuli thinks that he is worthy of his conscience, and there is no gentleman in the academy who comes out to run "business" on a hot day like him.

"Thank you Liu Yuanwai for being kind enough to forgive Yuan for not being able to eat in the house, these gifts must not be accepted, please stay outside the staff, and wait for the Mid-Autumn Festival to take the daughter of the house to the girls' school to sign up, Yuan said goodbye!"

"Sir, don't worry, wait for the coachman at home to set up the carriage and send you back to Fangshan."

"No need, the academy has specially equipped a carriage for the convenience of Yuan, and it is parked in the alley next to it. Hehe...... Leave! Leave! ”

Yuan Jiuli flicked the sleeves of his robe and turned around and left in a dashing manner, and the fat man sighed and said, "He is really a famous teacher and a generous elder!" He watched Yuan Jiuli enter the alley next door with an upward gaze, and then returned to the house.

But there was no carriage in the alley, but a woman came out with a cart of dung, and almost hit him, and the water splashed all over the ground and smelled bad.

"You old man, why do you walk and look at the sky and not look at the road!"

Yuan Jiuli, a scholar, never knew women, and muttered, "Ignorant shrew!" Then he went through the alley to the wharf of the Qinhuai River.

He didn't have a special car, just put gold on his face, and at this time there was no train and he had to take a boat. There are many boats parked on the wharf, and one boat with a small apricot yellow flag is very obvious, and eighty percent of them are sent by the college to pick up students.

"Save money on the boat!" Yuan Jiuli walked over quickly, and saw a young man in the clothes of the academy sitting on the bow of the boat, a little flustered, and there were a few young students in the cabin who seemed to have come from other places to take the exam.

He asked, "Is it a boat bound for the Royal Academy?" ”

"Hey...... Yes! Yes! Hurry in, we are sent by the Royal Academy to pick up people. As soon as the young man stretched out his hand, he pulled Yuan Jiuli onto the boat, "Hurry up and sit down, and I'm about to start the boat!" ”

He doesn't teach in the academy, and now even the students of the academy don't recognize him, Yuan Jiuli touched his rumbling stomach, and regretted a little that he didn't eat at Liu Yuanwai's house, "Then let's sail early!" ”

"Got it, got it, left right away!" The student at the bow of the boat casually perfunctory.

A young student sitting next to Yuan Jiuli asked, "The old gentleman is hungry, I have some dry food here to satisfy my stomach." ”

Yuan Jiuli turned his head to look, this student was seventeen or eighteen years old, and he was taking out a piece of dry food from the bag and handing it to him, Yuan Jiuli was really hungry and took it unceremoniously, and forgot to praise the student twice.

The young student took a water bladder and handed it to him, and asked softly, "Sir shouldn't have taken the exam at the Royal Academy, right?" As far as I know, the Royal Academy only accepts young students. ”

Yuan Jiuli took a sip of water and smiled softly: "You kid has eyesight, the old man didn't go to the academy to take the exam, the old man is the gentleman of the academy, and he took a boat back to Fangshan by the way." ”

The young student breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, "I see, then I can rest assured." ”

Yuan Jiuli touched the water trail on his beard and handed the water bladder back, "What are you worried about?" ”

"The late student looked at the crowd at the bow of the boat, and he didn't look like a scholar, and he kept muttering in his heart."

"Huh...... Then you are rare and strange, there are all kinds of strange students in the academy, but the knowledge is good. You put your heart back in your stomach, no one who doesn't have long eyes dares to pretend, this is the Royal Academy! ”

On the dock, another man dressed in academy clothes walked quickly onto the boat, "Li Lao Er hurry up, they are here!" ”

Li Lao Er casually threw the apricot yellow flag on the boat into the water, and left the dock as soon as the penny boat was propped up, and passed out of the water gate with a boat with an apricot yellow flag.

Xie Jin swept around the pier with a pergola, turned his head and said to Yang Shiqi, who was rowing: "How come there is no one, it is usually the most crowded here." ”

"Let's go to take the train in eighty percent, it's good if there are fewer people, we can run a few times less, my two arms are almost wooden!" Yang Shiqi rowed the boat and slowly landed on the shore, and a small apricot yellow flag was turned out of the water by wood pulp, "Hey, the flag has fallen?" ”

Yang Shiqi stretched out his hand to scoop up the small flag, spread it out and saw that it was written, "Huangjia Academy".

The boat came out of the water gate and went upstream, and it didn't go far before it stopped, and Li Lao Er jumped onto the shore and shouted: "Hurry up and get off the boat, the academy has arrived." ”

Several students in the cabin got off the boat with their own luggage, and Yuan Jiuli finally found out that something was wrong, "Mistakenly, the academy is still twenty miles on the east bank of the Qinhuai River." ”

Li Lao Er smiled and said: "That's right, the academy is here, I am a student of the academy, I don't know." ”

"Are you a student of the academy or a gentleman of the academy, the old man who has lived in Fangshan for most of his life will not know, what do you want!"

"Li Lao Er, look at what you are doing, let's plant it now!"

"This old man took the initiative to send it to the door, I thought not in vain, who knows where he came from, keep it just for him to teach."

A few young students finally understood what was happening, and it was too late to escape, and they didn't know where to get out of a few people who looked like servants restrained them, gagged them and escorted them to a dilapidated farm not far away, and there was a tattered wooden sign next to the gate that read "Huangjia Academy".

There are not only a few of them who are fortunate enough to come to this academy to study, there are already more than 100 students who have enrolled one step ahead of them, and all of them are yellow and thin, obviously the food is not very good, the hardware facilities are even worse, and there are no tables, chairs and benches.

But the security measures are quite good, there are twenty or thirty errand officers and green skins to surround the small courtyard impenetrable, it is rare that there is also a gentleman, a toothless head keeps shaking the old man, and now with Yuan Jiuli's joining, the faculty will be even stronger.

Li Lao Er knocked on a tattered sea bowl, "Come here and I'll tie it up!" ”

"You bandits are going to let us go!" A young student pointed at his nose and roared angrily.

"Don't talk nonsense, let's run a school in the right way, teach him the rules well!"

At that moment, a few messengers pushed the student to the ground and beat him violently, and when the messenger took his hand, the student was already messy with sideburns and his face was covered with blood, and he looked so miserable.

The few people who were newly "enrolled" were immediately frightened and began to open their burdens to pay for the bundles. At this time, the scholars generally had a good family background, and the poor families brought a lot of money when they went out, and copper coins and silver ingots piled up a dilapidated sea bowl.

But the other party was not satisfied and asked them to write a letter home, only saying that they were admitted to the academy and asked their family to come over with a little money, and this routine will definitely feel very familiar.

Li Lao Er personally untied Yuan Jiuli, and by the way, he ripped off the jade pendant around his waist, "With you joining in the future, our academy will be more like this!" ”

The old indignant young Yuan Jiuli was already furious, "At the feet of the Son of Heaven in the blue sky and the white sun, you dare to pretend to be a scholar and official to rob the people's wealth, aren't you afraid of the king's law!" ”

"Aren't you a gentleman who is illiterate, and I am optimistic that we are the 'Huangjia Academy', and they are all genuine officials, and they are all officials in Jiangning County."

Yuan Jiuli looked at the errand officer on the side, "Are you really an official errand?" How dare you derelict your duties and pervert the law to collude with these rotten people to do illegal things! ”

The errand officer sneered and replied: "It's true that we are officials in Jiangning County, but the officials also have to eat." The imperial court doesn't allow us to collect black money, can't we get some subsidies for people to work in our spare time? ”

"Shameless! The old man is going to the county office to sue you! ”

"Hey...... What to do in the county government and no one sits in the hall, if you want to find the county lord, you should also go to the land temple! ”

Li Lao Er rubbed his hands and smiled: "The old gentleman teaches with us well, and he will not treat you badly." If you don't cooperate, we can only be rude to you, I'm afraid you can't withstand a few punches and kicks! ”

"A soldier can be killed, but not humiliated!" Yuan Jiuli raised his hands behind his back and sung to the sky: "Fish, I can do whatever I want; Bear's paws, as well as I want. You can't have both, and you can't have both, and you can give up the fish and take the bear's paw. Life, also what I want; Righteousness is also what I want...... Yes! ”

At that time, it seemed useless for the students of the academy to drink the Xiongwen of Jinyiwei, and the official of Jiangning County slapped him away, "Damn, what are you talking about!" ”

Yuan Jiuli lay on the ground and spit out two broken teeth, and roared to the sky with a mouth full of blood: "Sooner or later, I will leave this rotten place where there is no fairness, right and wrong, and a sense of justice!" ”