nucmednet Chapter 183 2 Sisters
Chapter 183 2 Sisters
The magistrate nodded, feeling that what the county magistrate said made perfect sense. He narrowed his eyes. The Si family was no longer a major player, having become a merchant, so naturally, they were no longer a threat.
It would be better to let him teach and find something to do to avoid causing trouble.
The county government sent someone to build a school next to Songji Village, and Si Xingzhi became the teacher. However, because it was supervised by the government, the school belonged to the government, not a private school.
Therefore, half of the tuition fees paid by everyone should be submitted, and the rest will belong to Si Xingzhi.
However, after the school was renovated, more and more people came to enroll. Fifty-three children from the surrounding villages came to study. Each child received a monthly tuition of one hundred wen, and Si Xingzhi received fifty wen. With so many children, he could earn two taels of silver a month.
This made Si Xingzhi very happy. He had no shortage of money to spend now, but no amount of money could make him happier than the money he earned himself.
In addition to the salary, there are many other families who send various local products and mountain goods to the Si family, all of whom are here to establish relationships with them.
Si Xingzhi was originally very happy, but Si Muyan waved his hand and said loudly.
"My dear aunts, please do not send these things to my house in the future. If anyone does, I will have my father not accept their child. Children who are about to enter school only need to prepare the necessary supplies and tuition. Other things, whether food or daily necessities, are not allowed to be sent."
Hearing that if they sent gifts to the Si family, the children would not be able to go to school, those people didn't dare to send anything and were just very surprised.
"In the past, Master Cen would make things difficult for my children if I didn't send him gifts."
"Who says he isn't? I once gave him two boxes of cakes, and he even came to me and said they were delicious."
"In addition to the tuition, I have to give dozens of coins to the teacher every month."
"Why doesn't the Si family want anything?"
"It shows how generous the Si family is. I heard that the literacy class that Master Si ran before was free, and any child in the village could be sent in."
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Si Xingzhi knew what his daughter meant, so he didn't say anything. After all, he could earn money now, so if he wanted something, couldn't he just buy it himself?
However, most of the children in Songji Village were unhappy. Some of them, now that their families had money, were happy to spend the money every month to send them to school, but the others, after discovering that the school was not free, refused to let them continue.
Children who really love to study can’t study anymore and don’t even know what to do.
Seeing this, Si Xingzhi called the children over and said, "If you really want to learn to read, it's easy. Take those sandboxes back home. I'll give you a word or a poem every day, and you can practice on your own. Come to my house after dinner, and I'll check on your reading and reciting."
"Great!"
The children ran away happily.
Si Xingzhi sighed and said to his daughters, "If it weren't for the school run by the county government, I wouldn't have planned to enroll here."
Si Muyan said, "You should still accept it. This is the rule, and we shouldn't break it at will. Besides, people say that a little kindness pays off, and a big kindness pays off. If you're always nice to people, and then there's a special situation in the future where you can't be nice to them, not only will they not understand, they'll even blame you."
After the second and third sisters handed over their work to others, they really had some free time. The third sister also had a few little followers who learned accounting from her. Apart from taking care of the children, the second sister seemed to have nothing else to do.
Even when it comes to taking care of the baby, there are three people, Zhu Pozi, my younger brother, and Feng Zizhou, all competing to take care of it, so it is really not her turn to worry about it.
When she had nothing to do, the second sister would find the books left by her eldest brother and read them. She hadn't read for a long time and was not as sharp-minded as her elder and younger sisters. She found it a little difficult to read at first, but after reading a few books, she got used to it.
Feng Zizhou took Xiaoxia out for a walk, then returned the child to Mrs. Zhu and asked her to give Xiaoxia a bath. Since Xiaoxia was eight months old, Si Muyan had not allowed the men in the family to bathe her. She also explained that after Xiaoxia could go to the bathroom on her own, they would no longer be able to change her diapers.
He strolled around the house, went to see his younger sister, and then went to the back to see Si Muyan discussing with the neighbors how to cool the vegetables in the hot summer.
They all felt bored, and finally ran to look at the second sister and snatched the book from her hand.
The second sister was startled: "Feng Zizhou, are you sick?"
"Hehe, this is so boring, Sister Tong. There's nothing to do in the countryside. Why don't we go to the county town?" Feng Zizhou picked up the book and took a look. "Xu Gong's Case Solving Collection? What's so interesting about this?"
The second sister glared at him and said, "If you want to play, go play by yourself. I'm not going. Give it back to me."
After saying that, she snatched the book from his hand, placed it in front of him, and took notes while reading.
Feng Zizhou leaned over the other side of the table and said, "This kind of book isn't true at all. First, solving a case isn't the work of just one person; it's the collaborative efforts of a group of people. Secondly, many of the real details of the case can't be written in a book, or else they'll be copied by bad guys and cause trouble. Furthermore, there are many secrets from above that can't be revealed, so how could they be written in a book?"
Second Sister said, "I know what you're saying, but people read books more for the thrill, not to see how the case is solved. It's a pity that there should be several volumes in this series, but I only found two. The rest are missing."
Feng Zizhou looked at her notes again and asked, "You're just watching this for fun, why are you taking notes?"
The second sister held up her face and thought for a moment before answering, "Cousin, what is written in this book is that all the cases are based on real cases. Is that true?"
"Mr. Xu was the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture in the previous dynasty. He investigated many cases. This set of books was written by his advisor. Although it has been embellished, the cases are all true." Feng Zizhou explained, "When I was a child, I saw it in my brother's study. My brother said that Mr. Xu's method of solving cases was always unexpected, and many cases were solved in this way. It was very good."
The second sister handed him the case she was reading. "Look at this case. It tells the story of a woman who brutally murdered eight members of her husband's family, even her own two children. In the end, she was only sentenced to exile, not capital punishment."
Feng Zizhou took it and looked at it, then spread his hands and said, "Perhaps the laws of the previous dynasty were different from those of our Great Zhou, and there was no capital punishment."
"No, I saw a similar case in the first volume. It involved a man who had a woman and a child at home, but was involved with another woman. When he took the child out to meet the woman, she disliked the child, and the two tortured the child to death. In the end, both the man and the woman were sentenced to death. Since both cases are related to Mr. Xu, the law shouldn't change much."