Xue Ji followed her gaze and could just see a middle-aged man with dark skin, sweating profusely, wearing a coarse cloth and short brown, pushing a cart of grass back.

"Little brother, what's in your car?"

Xue Ji deliberately stopped the old woman from greeting the man, and stepped forward to point to the contents of the cart and asked suspiciously.

The man raised his head and looked at Xue Ji, looked up and down, and made sure that this was a stranger, so he was a little more vigilant in his eyes.

"This is Ma Cao, who are you, how did you come to our house?" After that, he looked at the old woman behind him, "Grandma, what are so many people looking at? Whose house is on fire?"

"Whew! What kind of fire, your nobles have come to your house!" The old woman looked more pleased than anyone else, clapped her hands and said loudly, her eyes still glanced at Xue Ji, which was a clear indication to him.

But the middle-aged man was stunned, frowning and staring at Xue Ji for a long time, but he still didn't notice anything unusual, and pouted, "What noble? What for? Send money to our family?"

It is not difficult to see that this family is really short of money, if it is not really short of money, how can they remember to send money with one mouth...... It's just that Xue Ji didn't take it to heart when he heard it, and he still wanted to laugh.

The middle-aged man looked at the strange person in front of him for a long time without saying what he meant, and asked what was in the car and there was no follow-up, and the indescribable irritability came to his heart.

Can't blame him for his bad temper, this weather is one thing, recently the elders of the family are sick and can't get out of bed, and they are still talking about sending his little son to study, and he wants him to say that it is better to grow up honestly like the other elder brothers, and farm well, and in the future, the harvest will be good for the family to earn a few more money, what useless sage books to read, read and read, and not die in the hands of the mountain bandits like that Lord Huang.

Xue Ji didn't care what he was thinking, he approached and reached out to pick up the two horse grasses he said, and frowned after a slight glance.

"What are you doing with all this horse grass? You still have horses?"

I really didn't mean to mock him for being poor, and I definitely didn't mean to look down on him, but the old woman also said that there were no horses in the village, so how could he have nothing to do with so much horse grass?

The man shrugged his shoulders and said, "Sell, of course."

Xue Ji's eyebrows were locked tighter, someone would buy this kind of horse grass? But thinking that this was cut back by people's hard work, and he couldn't just hit people so bluntly, so he swallowed all the doubts in his stomach again, looked away at the house behind him, and finally got to the point.

"I heard your kids want to study? Don't have enough money?"

The man couldn't hold it on his face, and no one liked it if others came up and exposed it like this.

"yes, yes, what's wrong, has something to do with you?"

Xue Ji smiled, tried his best to make himself look friendly, took a few steps closer, and said, "I'm Xue Ji, the prefect of Qianzhou, just now you asked if you came to send money, I don't tell you that it's true, I want to sponsor the two children on the roster to study, come and ask what you mean."

As soon as the man's hands were loosened, the poles on both sides of the cart fell to the ground and almost hit his feet, with a look of surprise on his face. "You're the prefect?"

At this time, an old man came out of the house, the old man was on crutches in his hand, and he coughed several times when he walked, and he walked a few steps with difficulty and stopped at the door, and raised his hand tremblingly, not knowing what he wanted to express.

"You, you're the prefect? Our children want to study, please help our children, the children are still young......

Xue Ji hurriedly stepped forward to support the old man, glanced into the house, and said, "The old man should go into the house, let's talk inside, call the child too."

The man in the prime of life was naturally resentful, and he had nowhere to say anything about his grievances, but as soon as he raised his head, he met the resolute gaze of the old man, and he had no choice but to turn his head and go to the field to call out to the little son who was helping the adults.

Xue Ji entered the house with the old man, dragged two chairs and sat down face to face, the old man was still a little excited and did not slow down, and he didn't speak very sharply.

When the teenage child jumped into the house alive, he shouted "Grandpa!" , The old man was a little more energetic, and his eyes could shine when he looked at Xue Ji.

"Your Excellency,

I heard that you are a good official, and in the past half a year or so in Qianzhou, you have been purging the government and fighting out the mountain bandits...... Hey, my old man just hears about it, but he doesn't understand it!"

Xue Ji heard him brag as soon as he opened his mouth, his face was hot, and he waved his hand embarrassedly: "Where, it's all within the bounds."

After that, he got to the point, Xue Ji was curious about how such a poor family could think of sending their children to study, and now that they were sitting in someone's house, they didn't beat around the bush, so they asked directly in front of people.

The old man took a sip of water to cool down the heat, then looked out at the sky through the lintel, and sighed faintly.

"Everyone knows that our family is poor, and the poor can't afford to send their children to school, but that's why we have to let him study, and reading will be productive in the future...... I can't let my family be poor forever."

Xue Ji was a little surprised in his heart, he didn't expect that an old man who had never read in the countryside could have this consideration.

The old man said, "My lord, my old man's grandson, there are already four of them who have no time to study, and they all go to work in the fields to make a living. Please help our children, I know you will not lack such a few dollars......

Xue Ji saw that he was excited to stand up, hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him, and explained to him with a smile: "I came here for this reason, and I must help, but I hope you promise me one thing."

As soon as these words were spoken, the old man's expression changed a little, and the old man was nervous in his heart, thinking that there was nothing valuable at home, what conditions did this a prefect and a rich businessman young master negotiate with him? After thinking about it, I don't know the bottom of my heart.

Xue Ji actually didn't want anything for him, what did he need to plan for such a poor family? He hoped that if the old man really had this idea, then he could not give up, and he was most afraid that after reading for two years, he felt that this road was not in sight, so he turned back and returned to the village to continue to be a farmer who never came out......

"Don't think too much about it, I mean, if you think about letting your child study, then you will go all the way to the dark, and you must not give up halfway."

The old man finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this so-called 'condition'.

"You said you scared me, no problem, let him keep reading!"

Xue Ji smiled even more, turned his head to look at the child who had been sitting well, stroked his head and looked at it carefully, this child looks sensible and well-behaved, it is these eyes, he is deep and bottomless at a young age, and he looks much deeper than ordinary people.

"What's your name?" How old are you?" Xue Ji teased the child and asked.

The child raised his head and stared at the face, not at all afraid, and said clearly, "Xie Zhixi, twelve years old."

is twelve years old, which is two years younger than Wu Huai'an, but he obviously doesn't eat well and looks like a bamboo pole. Xue Ji was slightly stunned when he heard his answer: "Knowing Xi, knowing me is Xi......" muttered a sentence in his mouth, and suddenly looked back at the old man, his expression was a little complicated.

The old man was a little uncomfortable to look at him like this, scratched his head and said, "This is not me, how can I have this literary talent, it is the old fortune teller at the entrance of our village, he read two books back then, I saw that he seemed to be a little cultured, so I asked him to name my child, but I didn't expect that the man would go crazy not long after he gave this name."

In this way, it is easy to explain why Qianzhou is depressed. Scholars have become like this, the dead are crazy, and the gods are difficult to save.

Xue Ji came out of the Xie family and walked away directly with the child, and when he arrived at the neighbor's house, he asked another child who wanted to study, the head of the family was an old woman, and it was no different from the Xie family's origin, but there were fewer children in this family, and after listening to Xue Ji's condition, he hesitated for a long time, and finally gave up.

It is a problem for such a family to eat, and if we send good children to study again, wouldn't there be one less male who will farm and work in the future?

So Xue Ji beckoned to Wang Qu and returned to the yamen with the young and old Xie Zhixi.

Besides, the turmoil in Beijing has not stopped, since King Ning returned to the capital from Qianzhou, the wind and rain in the city have not abated at all

There is a sense of becoming more and more violent.

Qin Heng didn't close his eyes for three whole days, in order to have a mountain of endless impeachment recitals piled up on a royal case, this time it wasn't just for Huang Sheng, one after another sharp arrows fell like a rain of arrows, and they were nailed to Huang Sheng's henchmen.

Of course, King An and those subordinates under King An are indispensable, including Chen Yu.

Not long after King Ning returned to the house, Jiang Yan hurriedly arrived at the door with a stack of letters.

As soon as he came to the door, he was in a hurry and pointed to the affairs of the court to report to King Ning one by one, and there were naturally endless things in the court in the past six months, especially recently, Huang Sheng's matter.

King Ning didn't talk nonsense with him, and asked the key point directly. "How much did King An get involved in this?"

Speaking of this, Jiang Yan showed a deep smile on his face, which was unpredictable and very cunning. "Lord Wang, what King An is mixing is not so simple...... I said why are talented people so unfavored, but King An is like having eyes in the palace...... A few days ago, the excerpt of the impeachment of the Imperial Historical Observatory attached a list of bribes that Huang Sheng had received, and King An's people gave a lot of money."

King Ning is not different from this, King An is much worse than others in his mother's family, so he naturally has to find a way to make up for it, and he is also capable of climbing Huang Sheng, the chief eunuch, of course, the main thing is that Chen Yu is capable and rich.

"They have been making trouble for so many days, and they have been handing it up endlessly, is there an excerpt to impeach King An?"