Otoharu

Chapter 227

After they finished their meal, they sat down to eat for a while, and then prepared to go to Qingfeng Academy.Perhaps because she was full, Li Meier became a little lazy, and couldn't walk halfway through.

"Father, mother, let's rest for a while, I can't walk anymore." Li Meier supported her waist and said out of breath.

"It's coming soon, hold on for a while." Jiang, who was walking in front, turned around and said to Li Meier.

Li Meier gritted her teeth, and continued to walk forward. When she walked downhill, her legs suddenly became weak, and she almost fell off the slope. Fortunately, Jiang Shanqing, who was walking behind her, had quick hands and supported her. She, that didn't let her fall.

Seeing that his daughter almost fell down, Li Yan was very worried, so he walked over and knelt down and said, "Come up, Daddy will carry you."

Li Meier thought that she was already a big girl, so she had the nerve to let her father carry it, so she blushed and shook her head, "Father, it's okay, I can go by myself."

"Uncle, don't worry, I will hold my sister and promise not to let her fall." Jiang Shanqing also assured him.

"Let Mei Mei'er go by herself, she's grown up too, you can't always spoil her." Jiang Shi also said beside her.

The group continued on the road. After the episode just now, Jiang Shanqing kept holding Li Meier's hand tightly. The two walked forward in a tacit understanding. After walking for another quarter of an hour, they finally reached the gate of Qingfeng Academy .

The gate of the academy is a single door with double-layer cornices, and a banner of "Qingfeng Academy" written by you in Ming Shanzhai is hung on the door.The old trees in front of the gate hang down, and the stream sings softly.From near to far, you can see five tall courtyard gates.

"Hey, the gate of this academy is even more magnificent than the one of the county school." Looking at the single door with cornices, Jiang couldn't help admiring.

"That's for sure. I heard that this Qingfeng Academy was jointly built by the Lu family and several squires from the state capital. It cost a lot of money. It is the Bailu Academy, and it is of this scale." Jiang Youzhi laughed aside said.

"Tsk tsk, the Lu family is really rich!" Li Meier once again lamented the wealth of the Lu family, this is a real aristocratic family, if they open a restaurant, they will open a restaurant, if they want to build an academy, they will build an academy.

"However, Shuxiu in Qingfeng Academy is not cheap. I heard from my classmates who have younger siblings that they get 50 taels of silver a year, and they still have to pass the assessment. How much money does it cost?" Jiang Youzhi said again, obviously having some complaints about the high cost of repairing at Qingfeng Academy.

"That's why it has always been difficult for poor families to get into school. If the family is poor, let alone this kind of academy, they can't even afford ordinary private schools." Li Yan also expressed his feelings and sighed.

"I heard from Brother A Yi that his father donated the shirts of all the students so that he can come to this academy to study." Li Meier also said, thinking of what Zhou Muyi had told him before.

"The Zhou family's business is not small, and Ah Yi is the youngest son, so the money is nothing to them." Li Yan said with a smile, as if he felt that Master Zhou's donation of school shirts was not a loss.

The few people were talking, and they had already reached the gate of the academy. Inside, there was a servant in gray clothes sweeping the fallen leaves. When he saw someone coming, he asked aloud, "Who are you? Who are you looking for?"

"My little brother, we are relatives of primary and middle school students in the academy, and we are here to visit Siming Mountain today, so we can visit the children." Jiang Youzhi said to the servant, clasping his hands.

"What's the name of the student you are looking for?" The servant seemed to be used to seeing visitors.asked directly.

"My surname is Zhou, and my name is Mu Yi." Jiang Youzhi replied.

"You guys wait here, I'll go in and ask for you." The servant nodded, turned around and entered the academy.

Several people waited for about a quarter of an hour, and saw the servant come out together with a middle-aged scribe in blue shirt.

The middle-aged scribe glanced at Jiang Youzhi and the others, and asked, "Are you Zhou Muyi's family?"

"It's a relative, Ah Yi's sister is my sister-in-law." Jiang Youzhi replied.

The middle-aged scribe nodded, and said just now: "Zhou Muyi was expelled from the academy two months ago, don't you know?"

Everyone in the Li family was shocked when they heard the words. They looked at each other for a while, but it was Jiang Youzhi who reacted first, and hurriedly asked: "We really don't know. May I ask why he was fired?"

"Picking quarrels and provoking trouble, disturbing the order of the academy." The middle-aged scribe replied coldly.

Jiang Youzhi frowned slightly, but soon smiled again: "Thank you sir, we know."

The middle-aged scribe nodded without saying anything, and turned back to the academy.

When he was far away, Mrs. Jiang frowned and said: "A Yi has been expelled from the academy for two months, why didn't he go home? When I went to Zhou's house to give the gift in Chongyang, Mrs. Zhou complained to me that Ah Yi was too busy during the festival. Didn't go home."

"Perhaps he is a young man, and he doesn't want his family to know that he was expelled from the academy. After all, it took Master Zhou a lot of effort to send him to the academy." Li Yan said with a sigh.

"Then if he doesn't go home, where can he go? His family is in the state capital and he has no relatives." Jiang said with some concern.

"As long as you have money, you can't go anywhere. I know that Aunt Zhou gave Ayi a lot of money. As long as he doesn't squander it, it will be fine for a few months." Li Meier said beside him.

"No, we have to search in the state capital. Even if Ah Yi has money, he is just a child. It is too dangerous to be alone in the state capital." Jiang shook her head.

"Auntie, don't worry, you give the servant some money and ask him to ask a classmate who is close to Ah Yi, maybe he can get some clues." Jiang Shanqing has always been calm when encountering problems, and quickly came up with a solution.

"That's right, it's still Shanqing's brain!" Jiang clapped her hands, and immediately took out a piece of loose silver, and gave it to Jiang Youzhi, asking him to bribe the servant to help.

The servant apparently did not take bribes less on weekdays, he collected the money kindly and helped them go in to find someone.Fortunately, it was the noon break, and if the students were all in class, it would be difficult for him to go in and find someone.

The little servant came back faster this time than the last time. After a while, he led an eleven or twelve-year-old student out.

The student was ordinary-looking, wearing a moon-white school shirt, saw the Li family members, and looked them up and down carefully.

"Talk with yourselves, and call me if you have anything to do." The servant brought him there, left behind these words and left.

"Are you A Yi's family?" the elementary school student looked at Jiang Youzhi and the others and asked.

"I'm his brother." Jiang Youzhi said directly without bothering to explain.

"Ah Yi told me that he has an older brother." The elementary school student nodded.

"We heard from the gentleman here that Ah Yi was fired two months ago, do you know where he went?" Jiang asked anxiously.

(End of this chapter)