Chapter 1459

Carrying a heavy oil-paper bag and humming a deserted ditty, Li Jin stepped on the full moonlight and returned home.

“Deadbeat, why didn’t you come back until now?”

Li opened the door for him, only to almost be smoked to the ground by the latter’s choking wine breath: “How much did you drink?”

“Not much, just two pots of Apricot Blossom Drunk.”

Li Jin drunkenly hemmed and hawed, shoving the oil paper bag in his hand into his wife’s hand, “This is the wine and food packed back, just right for you to use as a night snack.”

Li was the most gluttonous, weighing the heavy oil paper bag and smiling: “What’s so happy?”

Li Jin entered the room, sat down with his butt on a chair, and replied proudly, “I touched a water fish today, and pinched out ten taels of snowflake silver, and shared three taels with Old Zhang.”

“Really?”

Li was overjoyed, “Where did the water fish come from?”

Li Jin was a tax collector in the county government office, which was considered a good fat job, but the superior officer was greedy and contemptible, and the amount of oil and water that could fall into his hands was limited.

The local merchants and traders in the township are not so easy to bully!

Today, Li Jin even touched the water fish pinch out ten taels of snowflake silver, even if it is divided into three taels to the old Zhang, it is also a hard earned a sum of money.

“A foreign showman.”

Li Jin said with a big grin and waved his hand, “Quickly go and burn hot water, I want to properly iron my feet and get comfortable.”

“Good grin!”

Li happily ran to the kitchen to boil water.

Li Jin unwrapped the oil paper packet on the table, grabbed a slice of marinated beef and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing as he thought about how he could get more oil from that water fish.

He had worked as a tax collector for more than ten years, his eyes were so poisonous, one look at the other party and he knew that there was a bottom line.

This kind of water fish should be slowly boiled over a gentle fire to squeeze out the oil bit by bit.

In addition, the whistleblower must also be knocked again, eat both ends is the king’s way!

Li Jin thought more and more beautiful, and reached out to grab the beef again.

As a result, this time he grabbed nothing, and the back of his hand even knocked over the oil lamp on the table.

“Aaah!”

Li Jin instinctively wanted to pick up the lamp, but as a result, he was too drunk and his hands and feet were slow, so not only did he fail to pick it up, but instead, he collapsed on the ground together with the table.

The burning lamp oil splashed and flew in all directions, quickly igniting the screen next to it, and the small flame turned into a blaze 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 on his body seemed to be as heavy as a mountain, making him unable to move.

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

He couldn’t help but let out a desperate howl.

“The Li family has gone under water!”

When the roaring flames burned through the roof, the neighbors to the left and right realized the situation, and someone immediately rushed out and shouted.

Half of the neighborhood was alarmed, and people ran over with buckets of water to put out the fire, so that their own homes would not be affected.

With the strength of many, the fire was quickly extinguished.

Then the patrol soldiers who heard the news came and dragged out two charred black bodies in the ruins of the mostly burnt Li family.

Some neighbors recognized the bodies as Li Jin and his wife based on some of their features.

Mr. and Mrs. Li Jin were both natives of Qing’an County, with no sons and only two daughters, all of whom were married.

Since Li Jin was a tax collector, the county government took the case seriously and sent constables and coroners to investigate.

The final conclusion was that Li Jin was drunk and accidentally caught fire, dragging his wife into the fire with him, and that the incident was purely accidental, with no signs of any human production.

Then the Yamen closed the case, Li Jin’s two daughters, as well as family and friends and because of the inheritance of the problem made a very ugly, became the topic of discussion in the neighborhood.

But the funeral couldn’t be delayed, and finally the master of the county court stepped in to settle the aftermath.

Buy a coffin, do the puja, funeral and burial, set up a banquet ……

The whole set of process down, Li Jin couple left the property to spend clean not to mention, the two daughters also posted ten taels of silver out, making the sisters completely turned their backs on each other, and from now on, old and dead!

And happened in the tax collector Li’s family tragedy, on the Causeway Lane school teaching Wang dust, and did not have any impact.

Under the tenet of “teaching without prejudice”, his students increased by fifty, and then he closed the door and hung up his pen, saying that he would no longer recruit.

There is no way, Wang’s school is very small in size, accommodating fifty students has already exceeded the limit, any more even the place to stand, naturally can not continue to blindly expand.

Day after day, the days passed slowly.

Causeway Lane, Mr. Wang Duan’s reputation as a teacher, but also with the passage of time gradually spread out.

In Qingan County, there are both government and private schools, but there is no school like Wang Duan, the bottom of the poor children are recruited, and tuition fees are also very low.

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

Not only that, but Wang Duan also taught exceptionally well, and the doors of Wang’s school were open during the day, so anyone could go in and watch him teach.

This aroused the dissatisfaction of some teachers, who felt that Wang Chuan’s behavior was degrading and ruined his reputation as a teacher.

In their usual gatherings, these teachers could not help but criticize Wang Duan, and they had the intention to join hands to expel him from Qing’an County.

But the thunder is loud and the rain is small, even though the gentlemen are indignant, but also did not see how to stir up the market Wang dust.

On the contrary, there are a few noisy Mr. loudest, either walking fell and broke bones, or home burglary loss of a large number of property, in short, very unlucky.

Over time, everyone acquiesced to the existence of Wang’s Pavilion School.

In any case, most of the students enrolled by Wang Dust were poor and lowly, and there was no direct conflict with them.

Wang Dust was no longer a hot topic.

However, a few months later, he once again appeared on the Qing’an County’s hot topic list.

Not only did Wang’s Pavilion School accept poor and lowly children as students, but it actually gave these mudbloods a free lunch and taught them basic martial arts to strengthen their bodies.

The rich and powerful family porridge to help the poor virtues and good deeds from time to time, but Wang dust as a teacher, downtrodden scholar, actually did such a thing to, really impressive.

If Wang’s school is not too small to accommodate more students, otherwise the entire southern city of the family will send their children to Wang Duan’s door to study.

Then there were more voices scolding Wang Duan for his reputation and malicious intentions.

Some teachers even called the students under Wang Chuan’s discipline “Wang Sheng”, greatly belittling and ridiculing them, and strictly forbidding their own students to associate with “Wang Sheng”.

Gradually, “Wang Sheng” became another existence in Qing’an County!

However, all these storms in the outside world could not enter Wang’s school in the slightest, nor could they shake Wang Chen.

Time flies another year.

On this day, an uninvited guest came to the school on Causeway Lane.