Gou becomes a boss in the fairy world.

Chapter 1460: Tempering the Heart in the Mortal World (4)

Chapter 1460: Tempering the Heart in the Mortal World (IV)

Carrying a heavy oil-paper bag and humming a weird tune, Li Jin returned home under the moonlight.

"Damn it, why did you come back only now?"

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

"Not much, just two pots of apricot blossom wine."

Li Jin laughed drunkenly and stuffed the oil-paper bag in his wife's hand: "This is the wine and food I packed back. It's just right for you as a midnight snack."

Li was the most greedy. She weighed the heavy oil-paper bag and smiled: "What are you so happy about?"

Li Jin entered the room, sat down on a chair, and answered proudly, "I caught a water fish today and minted ten taels of silver. I gave three taels to Old Zhang."

"Really?"

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

Li Jin was a tax collector in the county government, which was a good and lucrative position, but his superiors were greedy and the benefits he could get were limited.

The local merchants and vendors are not so easy to bully!

Today, Li Jin actually managed to get ten taels of silver. Even if he gave three taels to Lao Zhang, he still made a lot of money.

"A foreign scholar."

Li Jin waved his hand carelessly and said, "Go and boil some water. I want to give my feet a good soak. It will make me feel good."

"Okay!"

Li happily ran to the kitchen to boil water.

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

He had worked as a tax collector for more than ten years, and his eyes were very sharp. He could tell that the other party was a well-connected person just by looking at him.

This kind of water fish needs to be fried and boiled slowly over low heat to squeeze out the oil and water bit by bit.

In addition, the whistleblower must also be punished. The best way is to have the best of both worlds!

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

This time he missed and the back of his hand knocked over the oil lamp on the table.

"Oh!"

Li Jin instinctively wanted to lift the lamp, but he had drunk too much and his hands and feet were clumsy, not only was he unable to lift it, but he fell to the ground with the table.

The burning lamp oil splashed everywhere and quickly ignited the gauze curtain next to it. The small flame turned into a raging flame in the blink of an eye.

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

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

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

He couldn't help but let out a howl of despair.

"The Li family is in trouble!"

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

Half the block was alarmed, and people ran over with buckets of water to put out the fire to avoid being caught in the fire.

With strength in numbers, this sudden fire was quickly put out.

Then patrol soldiers who arrived upon hearing the news dragged out two charred bodies from the mostly burned ruins of the Li family’s home.

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

Mr. and Mrs. Li Jin are both natives of Qing'an County. They have no sons but two daughters, and both of them are married.

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

The final conclusion was that Li Jin was drunk and accidentally started a fire, dragging his wife into the fire. This incident was purely accidental and there was no sign of human involvement.

Then the government closed the case, and Li Jin's two daughters and relatives and friends had a big quarrel over the inheritance issue, which became a hot topic among the neighbors.

But the funeral could not be delayed, and in the end it was the county government's legal advisor who stepped forward to resolve the funeral affairs.

Buying a coffin, performing rituals, holding a funeral, setting up a banquet...

After going through the whole process, not only was the property left by Li Jin and his wife spent completely, but the two daughters even gave them ten taels of silver, causing the sisters to completely turn against each other and never have any contact with each other again!

The tragedy that happened to the tax collector Li's family did not have any impact on Wang Chen, who was teaching in the private school in Tongluo Lane.

Under the principle of "teaching without distinction", the number of his students increased by fifty, and then he closed the door and hung up his pen, indicating that he would not recruit any more students.

There was no other way. The scale of Wang's School was very small. Accommodating fifty students was already beyond the limit. If there were more, there wouldn't even be enough room for standing. Naturally, it couldn't continue to expand blindly.

Day after day, the days passed slowly.

The reputation of Wang Chen, a teacher in Tongluo Lane, gradually spread as time passed.

There are both official schools and private schools in Qing'an County, but no school is like Wang Chen's, which recruits children from the poorest classes and charges very low tuition fees.

A piece of bacon and half a bag of rice can be considered as a gift!

Not only that, Wang Chen was also an excellent teacher. The door of Wang's school was open during the day, and anyone could go in and watch him give lectures.

This caused dissatisfaction among some teachers in the private school, who felt that Wang Chen's actions were disrespectful and had damaged the reputation of teachers.

Whenever these teachers got together, they would criticize Wang Chen harshly, and they seemed ready to expel him from Qing'an County together.

But the thunder was loud but the rain was small. Even though the gentlemen were indignant, they did nothing to Wang Chen who had disrupted the market.

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

Over time, everyone accepted the existence of Wang's private school.

Anyway, most of the people Wang Chen recruited were from poor and humble backgrounds, so he had no direct conflict with them.

Wang Chen is no longer a hot topic.

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

Not only did the Wang's School accept children from poor families as students, it also provided these poor bastards with free lunch and taught them basic martial arts to strengthen their bodies.

It is not uncommon for wealthy families to give porridge to the poor and do good deeds, but it is really impressive that Wang Chen, as a teacher and a down-and-out scholar, did such a thing.

If Wang's private school was not too small to accommodate more students, families from all over South City would send their children to study under Wang Chen.

Then more people began to criticize Wang Chen for seeking fame and having ulterior motives.

Some teachers in private schools even called Wang Chen's students "Wangsheng", belittling and mocking them, and strictly forbade their own students to have any contact with "Wangsheng".

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

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

Time flies and another year has passed.

That day, an uninvited guest came to the private school in Tongluo Lane.

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