136, the strength of the meal(1/2)
"Who are you?" Niu Er was tied up by Zhang Hu and carried it onto the carriage. He was so scared that he asked loudly.
"Don't worry about this for now." Chu Ci chuckled and then got on the carriage. Zhang Hu raised his whip and the horse ran away.
Niu Er was lying in the carriage, unsteady, his face sometimes blue and sometimes white, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.
When he arrived at the door of his house, Zhang Hu got out of the carriage and opened the door, then drove the carriage into the yard, and then dragged Niu Er in the carriage out and threw it into the yard.
After Chu Ci got off the car, he sat in front of Niu Er and said, "I see you guessed all the way. Have you guessed who I am?"
"Are you...she sent by Manager Yang from Chengximispu?" Niu Er tentatively.
"no."
"Are you a person sent by Xinglong Winehouse?"
"No." Tsk, there are so many people who offend it.
"Who are you? This hero, the villain really doesn't know when he will offend you. If he offends, I'll apologize to you here, please let me go!" Niu Er burst into tears, not knowing how he provoked them.
"Then I'll let you die and understand. The person I asked you to be Qian-" Chu Ci deliberately breathed heavily. Sure enough, before he could say his name, Niu Er called out, "It's Qian Bingwang, right? It must be him! This bastard!"
He seemed very excited, but the corner of his eyes was placed on Chu Ci, as if observing his expression. Chu Ci also noticed this, and he said calmly: "Who told you to go to find him today?"
Niu Er's heart skipped a beat. Even he knew this. It seemed that it was him!
"Didn't I say I won't tell you about this? Why did he send you to me?"
"He said he couldn't believe you and wanted us to see if you were honest."
"I promise I won't tell you! I just found out by chance that he is from the Imperial College! If I hadn't lost yesterday, I wouldn't have been obsessed with him!"
Chu Ci felt that the truth seemed to be coming out, so he patienced and struck while the iron was hot: "You know his character, why are you so uneasy? Why don't you tell me the whole story and ask me to judge it, how about it? If you really have a hidden truth, I will let you go and turn around and tell him that you have been dealt with. How about it?"
When Niu Er heard the word "treatment", he was immediately distracted. He didn't expect that he was so cruel!
"I tell you, you must let me go!" Niu Er grabbed the life-saving straw and begged. Then, he told the things he knew in full.
It turned out that the money was deposited by a shopkeeper. He had been depositing the money for two or three months. Because the interest here was two cents less than other companies, there were quite a lot of people borrowed.
Niu Er also borrowed ten taels of silver, but only nine taels of silver were obtained. The five coins deducted were called shoes and socks money. The money started to be reimbursed from the day it was lending. It would cost about 340 cents a day, and it would be paid off in a total of one month. If it was not paid off in one month, it would have to raise interest on the original basis.
Niu Er was lucky in the first month and soon returned the money with principal and interest. In the second month, he borrowed another twenty taels, thinking that he would win more money, but this month, he lost all of it.
In desperation, he had to borrow money everywhere to pay back the principal and interest required every day. During that time, he borrowed all his relatives and neighbors before he could pay off the interest, and then arranged for the person who collected the money to give up for the time being, allowing him to repay the money with the interest next month.
Unexpectedly, the third month came, and the shopkeeper suddenly said that he would take back all the money he had put down within three days. Isn’t this their life? For a moment, more people sold their property and sold their children and daughters as servants.
Niu Er is a bachelor. He has neither a wife nor a child. He only has two rooms left by his parents when he was still alive. This is the ancestral house and cannot be sold! If it is sold, his parents will have to be angry at the bottom.
Niu Er thought about whether he could go to the shopkeeper to talk to him for a few more days. So he lies outside the shopkeeper's house, thinking of going in and discussing with him after it was dark.
Who knew that when it was dark, he saw the shopkeeper quietly leaving the door with a box and walking towards a place.
Niu Er followed him all the way and finally saw him stopping on the back wall of the Imperial College, knocking on the wall a few lightly. Soon, a man climbed down the wall.
His cat listened carefully in a corner and found that the shopkeeper called him Lord Qian, and handed him the box in his hand, saying that he had collected several hundred taels.
Niu Er regretted that he had known that he had money in his hand, so he should have rushed out halfway. Suddenly, he thought again, this Master Qian was probably the one who put money behind him? If it weren't for these people put money on, how could he owe so much debt? So much so that he had to buy a house to pay off his debts? Bah, no one who is an official is good person!
Niu Er took off his pleading thoughts, but he had another thought. During the Jiayou period, this seal money was a matter that the people did not raise officials and investigated. The court turned a blind eye to it. But now it is the second year of Tianhe. The emperor now attaches great importance to this seal money. Many of the people who have forced people to death were imprisoned. If he threatened the official with this matter, wouldn’t he have to pay back the money?
After figuring out the joints, Niu Er relaxed a lot in an instant. His hands itched when he relaxed. Niu Er walked towards the gambling house happily with the borrowed silver.
The next day, he went to the Imperial College. The guardian of the mountain gate refused to let him in. Niu Er said, let them inform Lord Qian, and said that the person in Xiushui Street tea shop had something to discuss with him.
The servant at the door heard his tone of pride and thought he was some important person, so he immediately went to inform him. When Qian Jiancheng heard about this place, his face immediately changed, because this was the place where he asked him to put the seal money.
Niu Er was put in. Before he could even walk into the yard, he was hit by Qian Jiancheng who was rushing to the side. Qian Jiancheng dragged him back. After Niu Er stood still, he introduced himself and explained his purpose clearly. Qian Jiancheng looked at the so-called villain in front of him and rejected his request in one go. Then Niu Er threatened to report him to put out the money, not only canceled the account, but also got some money from him.
Unexpectedly, this money came from the money for life!
After hearing this, Chu Ci sighed, and it turned out that the net of heaven was vast and sparse without any leakage. As long as he had done something, he would leave traces.
Chu Ci blocked Niu Er's mouth and asked Zhang Hu to lock him in the kitchen. Niu Er cursed them in his heart all night, and had no idea that there was a fire in Yuchunfang at night, burning all the two rooms of Niu Er's family. If his house was not separated from other people's house, the entire house would have been burned.
Chu Ci didn't know about this yet. He wrote what Niu Er said and what he saw and heard on the complaint paper and sued the brave Qian Jiancheng.
The next morning, Chu Ci took Niu Er to the yamen, and he wanted to sue the Qian Jiancheng himself. Because he was a sixth-rank magistrate and a seventh-rank magistrate, he did not dare to neglect it, and this was related to the money for depositing seals, so he immediately sent someone to search the shopkeeper's house. After searching, he found a large box under his bed, full of strips with handprints, ranging from one to twenty taels.
After the evidence was complete, the magistrate sent someone to invite Qian Jiancheng to come. Before the court ordered the removal of the official position, he still had to give the court the respect he deserved.
Because both people and physical evidence are present, Qian Jiancheng is useless even if he says it out loud, so he has to honestly admit that he is confused for a while. Isn’t the reason why he is promoted so quickly because he has a lot of money in his daily life?
A supervisor is 45 taels a month, and only 500 taels a year! And the amount of money and all the interest added up can almost make this amount in a month.
Because the evidence was conclusive, the magistrate immediately handed over the note to the magistrate, and the magistrate uploaded the matter. After a while, the note came to the hands of the current emperor.
"Hmph! I didn't expect that there was a place where dirt was hidden in the Imperial College. As a supervisor, he actually took the lead in violating the state's ban. If such a person stayed in it, what good things could I learn from the students of the Great Wei?" The emperor was furious after reading the memorial.
"Please calm down. Although this money is bold, the net of heaven is vast, and he is finally discovered."
"Thanks to the top scholar, I'm wise, otherwise... Humph! If you send an order, you will first hit the money bar, and then throw it into prison. After three days, the whole family will be exiled to the frontier. You will not be able to return to Beijing within ten years! Perhaps I was too kind in the past and only had to be imprisoned for a few years. Let these people be lucky and continue to harm the people. Today I will kill the chicken to warn the monkeys, so that those people will not dare to take action."
"The Emperor is wise."
Chu Ci, who made contributions to the report, received a reward of twenty taels of silver, but when he returned to the Imperial College after handling the case, he found that Wang Jijiu's attitude towards him was not as good as usual.
Chu Ci didn't understand at the beginning, and when he hinted inside and outside, he understood. Wang Jijiu blamed him for not passing through his hands and stabbed the matter out.
Chu Ci thought that as the head of a department, Wang Jijiu would definitely not want the department to appear in front of the saint in this way. It is likely that big things will turn into small things. How can it be as happy as it is now? When he heard about the location of Yuchunfang on fire in the morning, he immediately understood in his heart that this was clearly trying to kill people to silence! He naturally would not leave hidden dangers for himself when he hit a snake and hit seven inches.
Unlike Wang Jijiu, other officials under the outer court were treated with Chu Ci respectfully, for fear that he would annoy him somewhere, so he caught him and sued him.
Chu Ci didn't care about these things. Since ancient times, those who want to achieve great things can be dragged down by these small things. He dealt with the borers of the Imperial College and shocked other officials, which was beneficial to his next drastic reform.
Of course, the first thing to deal with is Ban Ming’s business. Chu Ci called He Ping at the door again and asked him to find Wen Ran from Class B.
He Ping went there for a while, and when he came back, there was one more person behind him.
"Student Wen Ran, pay a visit to Chu Siye." Wen Ran bowed expressionlessly.
"Wen Ran is here, sit down." Chu Ci looked up and smiled.
"Si Ye just talk about it if you have something to do. Wen Ran has to go back to Wen Shu after he said that." Wen Ran, who looks delicate in his eyebrows and eyes, looks like a little girl, is not like a little girl. When talking to people, his body is covered with thorns.
"Okay, then I'll just say it. I have chosen the position of nine of you as a temporary acting class monitor and confirmed the class name and motto. Yesterday morning, the other eight classes had been handed over, why haven't your class handed over yet?"
"They didn't report it, how can I know?" Wen Ran snorted, feeling that Chu Ci knew the consultant.
"So have you taken the initiative to ask everyone about this?"
"Why do you want me to ask? Didn't you say that the squad leader is the squad leader? How could I ask them in a low voice?"
"It's a question, it's a discussion, it's not a humble, flattery, or a superior attitude. As the saying goes, if you want others to respect yourself, you must first learn to respect others. Today is just in a small class, and you can't learn to communicate with others. If you become an official one another day, the people below will join forces to deceive their superiors and hide their subordinates, are you waiting for them to report on their own initiative?" Chu Ciyu said earnestly.
Wen Ran lowered his head and said nothing, but looking at his appearance, he seemed to be a little touched.
"Wen Ran, you have to understand that the higher the position a person is, the greater the responsibility and the more things he has to do. If you can't even do this little thing well, how can you ask others to trust you and give you more responsibility? You are back to Class B and ask everyone's opinions. After the school is gone, hand over the note, is it OK?"
"Yes." Wen Ran replied.
After a break in school, Wen Ran handed over the class name and class motto of their class.
Chu Ci sorted out the papers, and he wanted to take them outside, replace them with wooden signs and bring them back.
On the third day, the students came outside the teaching hall and stayed at the door for a long time because a sign was nailed under the door frame, with the name of their class written on it. Two wooden signs were nailed inside the teaching hall, which wrote their class motto.
Looking at these things, the students couldn't tell what it felt, but suddenly they felt a sense of intimacy.
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After the Dragon Boat Festival, there were more snakes, insects, rats and ants. Chu Ci also imitated others and wore herbal sachets on his body, and used realgar wine to deworm.
Chu Ci sat in a remote corner of the canteen and drank early, and the complaints from the students suddenly came to his ears.
"Have you noticed these days that the dishes in our canteen seem to be much less!"
"Yes, I discovered it too! In the past, there were at least a dozen dishes, but it has gradually decreased in the past few days. Now there are only five, two left with meat and only three left with vegetarian food."
"Can't it be that the chef inside withdrew our food and asked me to go in and ask him!"
"Yes, ask them why they are like this!"
These students instantly stirred up the atmosphere, and some who had originally eaten honestly also put down their chopsticks and attacked them. At this moment, they were like the incarnation of justice.
Seeing that they were about to enter the kitchen, a voice sounded faintly: "Don't go to the kitchen to ask, I decided this, come and ask me."
Everyone looked around and saw a person standing up in the corner and turning to face them.
"Chu Siye, what's going on? Can you explain to us why we have to deduct our meals?"
"How can you say it's a deduction? Haven't you been full? More than half of the dishes are prepared in the canteen every day, and more than half of them have to be poured out, which means that everyone does not need them. Instead of waiting for waste, it's better to reduce a few dishes."
"But it's hard to match. If we don't have a few more choices, how can we eat it?" Some students were very picky, and they didn't eat one dish.
"Since it is difficult to adjust everyone, then the difficult people must learn to adapt. If you go to a remote place in the future, and do not eat or eat, wouldn't you be prepared to starve to death there?"
"Not everyone is like Chu Siye. You are from a farmer. As long as you have money, you can't buy anything?" Someone secretly said this, which was equivalent to sarcasticating Chu Ci's petty family in person.
"Yes, it is precisely because I am a farmer's son that I can more deeply understand how difficult people's livelihood is. Everyone should be able to memorize the poem "Praise the Farmer", but few people can do it as mentioned above. Because your money comes too easily, and you don't even need to speak, someone will give it to you. I don't think that a person who relies on his ancestors to shelter him and has the right to look down on ordinary people who support themselves."
"Chu Siye, if you insist on reducing the dishes, we will not eat food in the canteen in the future!" They could not say anything about Chu Ci, so they threatened themselves, hoping that Chu Ci could change his mind.
"Okay, you can avoid eating the food in the canteen. Then, I hope you can bring all the food you need in these ten days on the day of rest, because I will have someone inspect the Imperial College day and night, so that outsiders will not have the opportunity to help you." Chu Ci smiled slightly. Could it be that they thought he was the grandparent at home? When they heard that they didn't eat, they shouted with heart and soul.
To be continued...