Idle courtiers

Chapter 212 What's Wrong?

After a while, Mrs. Jia came in and yelled at Jia Xuezheng: "Uncle, what do you want me to do?"

Jia Xuezheng yelled: "The court called me Xuezheng, why don't you come here and see the three elders?"

"Aren't you my uncle? What kind of official airs are you putting on?" Mrs. Jia muttered, and kowtowed to the three people behind the long case: "Minister Luo Jia kowtowed to the three elders, I don't know why you asked me to come here What's up?"

Zhou Nan: "Luo Jiashi, you stand up and answer. The students told you that the food was so hard to eat that everyone was starving to death. Today, Master Japan sent you back to confront you in front of the students and pay everyone back. justice."

Hearing what he said, Mrs. Jia yelled: "What is hard to swallow, what is starving to death, everyone eats the food I cook for a day or two, why didn't anyone get lost? Is it the bastard? Talk nonsense."

After finishing speaking, she turned around and looked fiercely at Gu Xiucai who was standing aside: "Is that you?"

Seeing Aunt Jia's staring eyes, all the scholars felt chills when they thought of her power in the past, and couldn't help taking a step back.

Gu Xiucai: "What do you woman want to do, threaten me to wait for the seeds of study?" He waved his fists and shouted: "Everyone, Confucius said Chengren, Meng said righteousness, we all read sage books, and we have our own hearts. With awe-inspiring spirit, could it be that he was frightened by a village woman?"

Zhou Nan: "Well said, everyone just talk. Luo Jiashi, you shut up, the court will not allow you to roar."

"Yes, sir." Mrs. Jia closed her mouth and looked at everyone angrily.

Zhou Nan: "Gu Xiucai, please continue."

Gu Xiucai cupped his hands, then pointed at Mrs. Jia and asked aggressively, "You bitch, I ask you, why is there only lean meat in the meat in the cafeteria every day of the month, where is the fat?"

Mrs. Jia: "Fat meat is naturally boiled into oil and fried into vegetables and eaten into your stomachs. Didn't you see it?"

Gu Xiucai: "You talk about boiling oil, but what about the oil residue? You are blind as a scholar, and you secretly took those oil residues home."

Mrs. Jia looked a little flustered: "I didn't, you are talking nonsense."

"What, you actually stole the oil residue home, it's really hateful!" At this moment, the students were all angry.

The quality of life of the ancients was low, and poor students like them rarely saw meat a few times a year.In addition, all young people are full of dragons and tigers, and their desire for oil is extremely strong, and they all look forward to the monthly tooth sacrifice.

Just imagine, how satisfying it is to bite down a large piece of fat meat, and the mouth is full of hot oil with strong fragrance.

But ever since Mrs. Jia was in charge of the spoon, the straight mother thief has always been lean meat, and it is not enjoyable to eat it at all. It turned out that she was embezzled by her.

Seeing that the students were agitated, Zhou Nan continued to add fuel to the flames: "Everyone is still dissatisfied with the canteen of the state school, boldly say that this official, Zou Geshizhong, and Zhizhou Lu will definitely make decisions for you."

Another student jumped out, pointed at Mrs. Jia and scolded: "What a crazy woman, Bensheng asked you. Yesterday when you were frying dried tofu with spicy peppers, you scooped it down, why couldn't you keep shaking your hands, and threw my food into the mouth?" Shake half of it out? Everyone else has at least six or seven pieces of dried tofu in their dishes, why do I only have two or three pieces?"

Sister-in-law Jia retorted: "The school has no rules on how much to scoop and how little to scoop. How do I know how much to give to each person? You are still studying and looking like a mustard seed. Are you still a man?"

"Shameless bitch!"

"You are a woman!"

The two started to scold each other.

Above, Zou Yinglong was so angry that his face was livid, and he yelled at the table: "What are you making troubles about, what place is this place, absurd, absurd!" Without a few pieces of dried tofu, it's not proper to make a fuss: "Even this kind of thing is still in my heart , are you still a scholar, have you read all the books of the saints into the stomach of a dog?"

But the scholar stuck his neck and said: "Master Zou's words are wrong. He doesn't worry about being few, but about unevenness. This is not a spoonful of food, but an insult to gentleness."

"Yes, Brother Zeng is right." Another scholar jumped out, and he cupped his hands and said, "Three adults, the student suspects that Mrs. Luo Jia, the housewife, is very resentful towards my generation's students, and poisoned the vegetables. To poison me and wait."

As soon as he said a word, everyone was shocked.

Even Lu Zhizhou, who had been a spectator by the side, was terrified and hurriedly asked, "What's going on, who are you?"

"Go back to Zhizhou, this person is Kuang Sheng, a student member of the state." Jia Xuezheng next to him wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and then scolded that person: "Don't talk nonsense."

"Why am I talking nonsense?" Kuang shouted angrily: "The morning before yesterday, the student received two steamed buns in the cafeteria. The steamed buns had a strong smell, just like gardenia. After Xiaosheng ate I have been dizzy all day, and my body is weak, obviously poisoned."

"Ah... that's right, we can also taste that gardenia." All the students said at the same time.

Lu Zhizhou was shocked: "Luo Jiashi, you still haven't recruited the truth."

Mrs. Jia called out Tianqu: "My lord, I am wronged. I have no grievances with my husbands. What kind of poison did you use? Doesn't the poison cost money to buy?" .”

"Ah, the powder for wiping your hands..." The scholars looked uncomfortable, and Jier yelled: "It's disgusting, it's disgusting!"

"There are many more disgusting ones?" Gu Xiucai, who took the lead in attacking just now, shouted loudly: "Everyone be quiet, listen to me. Xiaosheng once saw this bitch step on it with her foot when she was washing bean sprouts. .I am a dignified scholar, but I eat the woman's footwashing water, which is tolerable or unbearable!"

"Yes, I can't bear it. I beg the three masters to make decisions for me and other scholars! Get rid of Jia Xuezheng, get rid of this bitch, and return my school to a bright future." At this moment, the scholars were completely angry.

Seeing that she was about to be expelled from the state school and lose her job, Mrs. Jia was also impatient.Pointing at Gu Xiucai angrily, he said: "Gu, you are trying to force my mother to death! Don't think that my mother doesn't know about your dirty thoughts. On the 21st of last month, the day it rained, my mother went to collect clothes , I heard you discussing with a scholar. You also said that the old lady has a plump body, which doesn't look good, but she is neat."

"Another scholar said to you, do you dare to touch my house, don't drink the footwashing water."

"What did you say, the peony flowers die, ghosts are also romantic, even if you eat the foot-washing water, you can get what you want, the old lady blush. What are you talking about now? Eat my foot-washing water, then It's also your good fortune. Look at your wretched appearance, I don't like sending my wife off."

Mrs. Jia's sister-in-law looked contemptuously, and glared at everyone: "You all seem to be dignified, but in fact, don't pretend that I don't know about the quarrels in private. Do you want me to say it in front of the three adults? I'm so angry, the rabbit is anxious!" Even biting people!"

Gu Xiucai was humiliated by her, her face was flushed, and her lips trembled: "****, bitch..."

Several scholars in the school who had personal affairs with Mrs. Jia felt guilty when they heard her threatening words, for fear that she would be exposed in a hurry.Quickly persuaded: "Gu Xiu, good men don't fight with women, they should be broad-minded."

Gu Xiucai: "It's hard to raise villains and women!"

Mrs. Jia: "Who is a villain and who is a villain, you can tell me clearly."

Seeing that the noise below was like a vegetable market, and they were talking about trivial things about eating and drinking men, Zou Yinglong was completely angry.He slapped the gavel fiercely, and roared: "You bastard, you are also a student who reads sage books, don't you want to be decent? Today, the official and Lu Zhizhou recruited you, and I will write a letter to the court for you Don’t talk about something irrelevant. If you have anything else to say, just say it, I will make the decision for you.”

As he spoke, he glanced at the person he had already arranged with encouraging eyes, but that person was obviously caught in anger at the poor food in the state school cafeteria, but he didn't see it.

"Yes, Lord Zou is right. If you have anything to say, speak out boldly, and the two adults and I will definitely decide for you." Zhou Nan said loudly: "Students, do you think this is good? Fine Jia Xuezheng's salary for one year , used to subsidize the meals in the cafeteria. From now on, once a month, fish and meat will be changed to twice. As for Mrs. Jia, she is a peasant woman after all, and I don’t know that we scholars are so particular. Okay!"

Gu Xiucai nodded: "That's fine too, it's all up to the adults to decide."

Now that he, the first perpetrator, did not pursue the matter, several other students who had a personal relationship with Mrs. Jia also nodded: "That's very good."

As for the other students, they can't control that much. When they heard that they could see meat twice a month, they were all overjoyed: "Okay, that's it."

Zhou Nan: "It's gone, it's all gone, we'll add some food for lunch today. Luo Jiashi, go down and cook."

"Yes, my lord." Only then did Mrs. Jia leave angrily.

In an instant, all the scholars in the hall dispersed, leaving only Zou Yinglong stunned.

Zou Yinglong was completely bewildered. He had arranged this matter well, that is, to let the scholars attack Lu Zhizhou, and then get a letter of complaint signed by the students.But from the beginning to the end, I was just a bystander, why is this, and what went wrong.

Now that the conversation with the students has ended, it is impossible for Zou Yinglong to close the official school for a long time.

In order to prevent him from playing tricks below, Lu Zhizhou sent local squires to take turns entertaining this man from the capital, so that he would have no time to make trouble anyway.

For the next two days, the food at the state school yamen was very good, and there was meat in the two meals, and the students were extremely satisfied.

Zou Yinglong got nothing, so he had to set off for Beijing wearily.

After Mr. Zou left, Zhou Nan's Confucian sacrifice ceremony was warmly and grandly completed, and it was finally able to deal with the Beijing inspection.

After finishing the errands, it's time to go home.Before leaving, Lu Zhizhou came to invite him, saying that the file of the Kongxing case had been brought back, and he also changed the verdict.

Aunt Baojie's death has nothing to do with the old monk, but Kong Xing, as a monk, behaved disorderly, beat him with fifty sticks, and fined him to compensate the family of the deceased with 100 taels of silver.

The family members of the dead got the money, and thought to themselves, since the dead cannot be brought back to life, it is better to get some practical benefits, and that's all.Anyway, the chief culprit has been dealt with, and it can be said that the great revenge has been avenged.

(End of this chapter)