It's time for a showdown, all the powerful officials in Beijing are my students!

Chapter 360 Chapter 359 The Ignorant

As expected, as An Xin expected, as time went by, Liu Huai saw that the heavy rain was not stopping, and he announced that he would spend the night in the temple tonight.

Fortunately, when everyone saw An Xin and the others passing through the town, most of them bought the dry food prepared just in case.

Originally, the dozen or so exiled officials who had been in office for a long time and lacked common sense in daily life thought that they could have hot meals and dishes at the inn every night.

I don't understand why An Xin and the others still buy those dry pancakes to take with them. Isn't it too tiring to worry about it?

Now that they were stuck in the ruined temple due to the heavy rain and saw that it was getting dark, they realized how conscientious it was to remind them slowly that it wouldn't hurt to buy one or two An Xins and take them with them.

Those officials turned to look gratefully at An Xin who came out. If they hadn't encountered such an unexpected situation today, they would really be hungry.

An Xin nodded to them as a greeting and saw that the rain outside had lightened up.

I just wanted to put a big oilcloth on my head with the big oilcloth I was holding, go out and see if I could have good luck, and catch one or two prey and come back for extra meals.

"Chief Xiaoshan, we will go out with you."

An Xin turned around and saw Leng Xiangbai and the others, and glanced behind them.

If the five teachers and students leave, Dr. Su, Shan Jinzhe, Gongsun Hong, and the Chen family's second wife and family will be left here.

If they didn't want to wrong themselves every day and use food in an eye-catching way, it would be okay to keep the old and the young.

However, as the time on the road to exile became longer and longer, not much of the money everyone brought with them was consumed on the road.

An Xin had already noticed someone occasionally and inadvertently casting malicious and greedy glances.

If they all left and the old and the weak were left, An Xin couldn't guarantee that nothing would happen, so he said, "Ajing, you and An Rui stay, I'll take Abai and Jiang Zhou out to see if there's anything going on." No unexpected gains.”

Zhu Shijing turned around and saw Dr. Su and his aunt's family. He reluctantly suppressed his intention to follow and nodded. He had a keen mind. How could he not understand why An Xin asked him and An Rui to stay.

"Okay," Zhu Shijing warned worriedly: "The further south you go, the more snakes, insects, rats, and ants will be on the mountain. You and Xiang Bai Azhou must also be careful."

In the ruined temple, I originally heard that all the teachers and students were leaving the man with twinkling eyes, but when he saw that two young men who were not weak in fighting were left behind, he suppressed the little Jiujiu who had just started to feel in his heart.

Especially those whose minds are not pure to begin with. When they see An Xin and the others eating well and using food well, they have long been jealous.

I have long been looking for opportunities to steal, rob, or act rogue to get some money from them to spend.

Just after An Xin and the others left, Zhu Shijing took An Rui and his cousin Chen Runze out to pick up some firewood for the fire at night while the rain was light.

After all, no matter whether An Xin or the others had caught prey, it was still a bit cold to spend the night outside in autumn. It would be warmer to collect more firewood and light it at night.

Someone stretched out his head and saw that in the inner room separated by a wooden board, there were only two old men with gray hair, two middle-aged people in their 40s who looked frail, and mother and daughter Zhu and Chen Runzhi, two frail women. .

Those who had evil intentions could not restrain their greed and walked around the wooden wall.

Facing Zhu and Chen Runzhi, she said with a smile: "You two ladies, I saw you passing by the tea shop set up by the official road at noon today and bought a lot of cakes there. You can't finish them. You want to Why don’t you just give some to us?”

Chen Runzhi, who was taking out a small pot that was convenient to carry on the road from her bag, turned around and saw her mother looking at the old woman with a mean look on her face.

Chen Runzhi's eyes flashed with displeasure when she saw this old woman, the old woman who scolded her own wife with foul words.

"How do you know that we can't finish the food?" Chen Runzhi said with hidden sarcasm, "There are so many of us, but we are afraid that we won't have enough to eat."

"I was just thinking about going out to see who bought extra food today, so that we can spend money to buy his pancakes or other food. We can't be so shameless as to ask others for food when we don't have it ourselves."

"Who are you calling shameless?" The old woman with a cunning and mean face could hear the sarcasm in Chen Runzhi's words, and she habitually exhaled: "You little bitch, if this old woman can come and get a few pancakes from you, then... I think highly of you."

"You know, the old lady is a well-known virtuous woman in our village. Everyone praises me for being a powerful wife who went from house to house to persuade them to confess their husbands to the imperial examination with my good eloquence."

Chen Runzhi and Zhu's mother and daughter looked at each other, and both looked at the proud old woman, their eyes twitching, and at the same time showing expressions that were difficult to explain.

Even Dr. Su, Shan Yushi, Hongsunhong and Chen Erye, who came over and stood behind the mother and daughter when they saw someone coming to cause trouble, also twitched their lips.

They all felt that there was something wrong with the old woman in front of her head. This was obviously because someone was praising her for her eloquence. Maybe they meant that she was being messy.

Going door to door to persuade others to help their husbands take the imperial examinations, the villagers themselves tightened their belts and lived a life. If they had money, they would not send their children and grandchildren to school.

How could she be willing to give money to support the men in her family to study for the imperial examination? This further illustrates that the old woman in front of her is probably going from house to house, harassing and misbehaving in front of other people's houses, and those people in the same village have no choice but to give her the money. .

After all, this old woman's husband is a scholar, and the villagers are also afraid that he will become successful one day. If he does too much, they are also worried that their family will come to blame.

I was probably helpless when I took out the money to give it to her.

Old Doctor Su and the others were right in guessing that this Mrs. Ding was thick-skinned by being a scoundrel. Every time her men wanted to take the imperial examination, they would borrow money from the villagers.

But the money of every family in the village did not come from the strong wind, so how could they be willing to lend it to her.

So she would wallow around in front of other people's houses, talking about what they had and what they didn't have, and who didn't have some trouble with them. In order not to show off their bad habits, everyone would lend her some more or less, and treat them as scoundrels. .

However, when her man passed the exam and was appointed as a county magistrate, the old woman refused to pay back the money. This matter was reported to the old woman's husband's superior officer.

It had a bad influence on her originally, and later it was reported that the old woman and her husband were too corrupt and took bribes while in office. As long as no lives were lost and the amount of money embezzled was not large, such a thing could be big or small.

But a man who can open one eye or close one eye and let his wife, Huo Huo, from the village support him to study, what a good thing that can be.

Therefore, after Shangguan learned about his family's character, he was sentenced to exile for corruption and bribery, which caused serious consequences.

Seeing that Chen Runzhi and Zhu didn't give her anything, Mrs. Ding rolled her wrinkled old eyes, lay down on the ground, used her housekeeping skills, and started to behave like a rogue.

(End of this chapter)