When Li Qingzhi went to see Zhu Xunmiao the day before yesterday, he brought his newly written manuscript, which contained 20,000 words and told the story of County Magistrate Gou solving a case.
After reading it that day, Zhu Xunmiao found someone to help copy it. By yesterday, that person had already copied most of it.
The manuscript should be copied this morning... Li Qingzhi plans to take the manuscript to visit County Magistrate Gou in the afternoon.
He didn't tell Jin Xiaoye and Jin Xiaoshu about this, he just said that he was going to school.
"Brother-in-law, you are so old, why do you still want to go to school?" Jin Xiaoshu asked.
“Learning has nothing to do with age. It just depends on whether you like it and whether it is useful to you,” said Li Qingzhi.
"Then what's the point of you going to school to learn things, brother-in-law?" Jin Xiaoshu asked. His brother-in-law already knew how to copy books and do accounting, so why did he need to learn more
Li Qingzhi smiled and said, "I want to take the imperial examination."
Jin Xiaoshu looked at Li Qingzhi in surprise: "Brother-in-law, can you pass the exam?"
Not only is his brother-in-law not well educated, he was also forced to do hard labor for five years... He hasn't studied for so many years, and he still has to take the imperial examination
Jin Xiaoshu thought it would be more reliable to let Li Damao and Li Ermao go to school and try to take the imperial examination in the future.
Da Mao and Er Mao are so smart!
Li Qingzhi said: "It should be possible. No matter what, it's not a bad thing to try."
Jin Xiaoshu seemed to be thinking about something.
Now it is Jin Xiaoshu who rows the boat, and Li Qingzhi is teaching Jin Xiaoye how to read on the boat.
Before we knew it, the boat arrived at the county town.
Li Qingzhi has not yet adjusted his body to the best condition, but his vision, smell and hearing have reached perfect condition. Therefore, he smelled a bad odor at the first time.
Li Qingzhi: “…” Even in Miaoqian Village, where there are many open-air toilets, none of them are so smelly!
It was still early, so Li Qingzhi did not go to school. Instead, he asked Jin Xiaoshu to take him to the vicinity of Zhu's house and went straight to Zhu's house.
Zhu Xunmiao was still eating breakfast, so Li Qingzhi went to find Chef Zhou to find out what was going on.
Chef Zhou and the Zhu family's cook both live in Chongcheng County. When they mentioned what happened in the past two days, they complained bitterly.
Previously, Zhang Chouqian didn’t collect Renzhonghuang for several days in a row, and didn’t allow others to collect it, which made everyone very uncomfortable. As a result, yesterday, Zhang Chouqian’s people told them that in the future, everyone would have to pay when his people came to collect Renzhonghuang.
It costs one cent to empty the toilet once... Rich people don't care about this little money and give it readily, but there are many families in the county who are not well-off and can hardly make ends meet on weekdays.
Even if they can maintain a basic standard of living... no one wants to increase expenses for no reason.
Many people would secretly empty the toilet in the city in the middle of the night when no one was paying attention.
In addition... Yesterday, Zhang Chouqian's people were collecting money everywhere and had conflicts with many people. Then last night, Zhang Chouqian's people threw feces in front of the homes of those who had conflicts with them or simply had grudges against them.
There was an unpleasant smell in many places in the county today. When Chef Zhou went out to Zhu's house at dawn, he almost stepped on something he shouldn't have stepped on.
Li Qingzhi: “…”
After Li Qingzhi got off the boat, Jin Xiaoshu sent Jin Xiaoye to the vicinity of Sister Wang's house.