Hua Qingxue walked over and waved to one of the little girls with bun hair.
These children were obviously afraid of them and did not dare to pass by.
Hua Qingxue sighed.
Yes, if they can't come over, then she can just go over.
Hua Qingxue walked closer, took out her handkerchief, wiped the tears of the little girl with a dumpling head, and asked softly: "Whose children are you from? Why did you come here?"
The little girl looked timid and pursed her lips without making a sound.
Luo Muyu whispered to Hua Qingxue: "Despite their young age, they are actually very clever. They are afraid of causing trouble to the family and being punished, so they are definitely not willing to tell you who their parents are."
Hua Qingxue thought it made sense, so she changed her approach and asked, "Why did you come here?"
The children still didn't speak.
Hua Qingxue knelt down, looked level with the little girl in front of her, pointed to the courtyard wall not far away, and said, "Look, this is my home. You come to play in my home, but you don't greet the owner. Isn't it rude?" ?”
Maybe Hua Qingxue looked too gentle, the little girl said in a sweet voice, "We are here to see Mrs. Meng..."
Before he finished speaking, another older boy suddenly hit the girl on the head with a violent bang!
"Master said that no one should know that he is here to teach us how to read and numerate, but you actually betrayed Master! Traitor!"
The girl was beaten and burst into tears!
Hua Qingxue was shocked by this turn of events, and hurriedly picked up the girl and coaxed her: "Oh... don't cry, stop crying... Be good, stop crying..."
While she was coaxing, she felt embarrassed at the same time. A child is a child. She obviously didn't want to reveal anything, but she ended up saying it all.
It turns out that Master Meng taught children how to read and write here.
The little girl cried so hard that Hua Qingxue had a headache. Hua Qingxue asked Luo Muyu for help, but Luo Muyu had never given birth to a child and was dumbfounded by a crying little girl. She didn't know what to do.
After a while, someone among the children was crying again!
Is it contagious if you dare to cry
Several children cried so much that Hua Qingxue felt like her ears were going deaf!
"Come here and help!" She shouted helplessly to a group of guards around her.
Guards: "..."
Madam, we don’t have the skills to coax children!
While Hua Qingxue was in a panic, a guard suddenly shouted from the distance: "Madam! This man has been wandering around, sneaking around!"
The guard grabbed a man and pushed him in front of Hua Qingxue.
The man was pushed and staggered, falling to the ground and kneeling in front of Hua Qingxue, shocking her!
"Master!"
Dozens of children came rushing over with cheers! Surround the man kneeling on the ground tightly!
They asked all kinds of questions -
"Master, why are you here just now! We have been waiting for you for a long time!"
"Yes, Master, have you moved? We come here every day to wait for you..."
"Master, Master, have you really moved? Where have you moved?"
"Master..."
The young man was wearing a shabby gown and looked like a handsome scholar. The expression on his face was unclear whether he was crying or laughing. He helplessly whispered to the group of children: "Stop talking..."
Children, if you keep talking, you will almost expose me...
The captain of the guard stared at the man for a while, then suddenly understood, and shouted loudly: "Are you the person that the patrol camp is looking for these days?!"
The other party's face suddenly turned pale, and he trembled and kowtowed to the captain of the guard and Hua Qingxue, "Sir, have mercy! Madam, have mercy! I'm wronged! I really thought this place had been abandoned, otherwise I wouldn't dare even if I gave you a hundred courages. Stay here!"
He kowtowed loudly, and when the children saw it, they also imitated him, knelt on the ground and kowtowed together -
"Spare your life! Spare your life..."
The captain of the guard was indifferent and snorted coldly, "Occupying a private house and pretending to be a master, I can give you a hundred more courage!"
Hua Qingxue and Luo Muyu were both women, with soft hearts, and could not bear to see such a scene.
"What the hell is going on?!" Hua Qingxue's eyelids jumped when she saw so many children kowtowing, and she anxiously said to the man on the ground, "Please tell them to stop kowtowing!"
The man didn't dare to respond, so he immediately grabbed the child next to him and comforted him.
These children obviously listened to his words and stopped kowtowing. However, when they saw the master kneeling, they did not dare to get up. They knelt on the ground pitifully and looked at Hua Qingxue with wet eyes.
Hua Qingxue's heart was about to melt...
The chief guard told her: "When the emperor was going to reward you with this house, he personally brought the palace guards to inspect it. When the palace guards inspected this place, they found that this place had been occupied. I don't know when, someone I built a wooden house privately behind the courtyard wall, and there are all pots and pans in the house, so I have obviously lived here for a long time!"
The man kneeling on the ground cried out again: "The villain thought this place was deserted..."
"Every inch of land in the capital is precious. Where did the wasteland come from?! Even if you really find that no one lives here, you should find out first. Who doesn't know that this is Prince Qing's courtyard?!" The captain of the guard shouted, "You It’s obviously a quibble!”
The man shrank, lowered his head and remained silent.
The captain of the guard said to Hua Qingxue: "Madam, the emperor ordered the patrol camp to investigate the case strictly, but there have been no clues. Now that the man has been caught, my subordinates will take him to the patrol camp—"
Hua Qingxue was in a dilemma.
If it was an ordinary act of stealing a private house, it would be fine. However, this house once belonged to Prince Qing, so he was suspected of contempt for the imperial power.
You despise the imperial power... If you take off this hat, you will definitely die.
But, just because a cabin is built in an abandoned yard, does one have to pay for it with his life
Hua Qingxue wanted to say a few good words to this man. She always felt that people who were willing to teach children to study would not be too bad people, but the evidence was conclusive and he was completely unreasonable.
It's like there is a billionaire living near your home. The rich man's yard is too big and a piece of land is abandoned. Does it mean that just because it is abandoned, you have the right to build a house on someone else's land and live in it
This is unreasonable. After all, it is someone else's land, someone else's private property.
"Let's do it according to the rules." Hua Qingxue hesitated again and again, but finally said it, "Can you tell the people in the patrol camp that I am the owner of the house now. If the owner doesn't want to be held accountable, can the punishment be lighter..."
The captain of the guard understood what Hua Qingxue meant and replied with clasped fists, "I understand."
Two guards took the man away, leaving behind a group of crying children.
Hua Qingxue's head was about to grow. It was hard to leave such a group of children alone, so she and Luo Muyu coaxed the children into the house and provided them with food and drink to appease such a group of little ancestors.
So when Fu Tingye came, he saw children running around the room.
Fu Tingye: "..."
When Hua Qingxue saw him coming, she gave him an expression that said, "You don't need to say anything, I understand everything."
"People have been sent to find their parents, and they were all sent away soon." Hua Qingxue kept rubbing her temples and murmured in a low voice, "I almost have a neurasthenia..."
Two children ran over, holding up the black tubes in their hands, "Can you let me play?"
Another child said: "But I still want to play..."
Hua Qingxue touched the little heads of the two babies and said softly: "We want to share the toys together. You guys take turns playing with them, one by one, okay?"
The two children nodded and ran away holding the toys.
"What is that?" Fu Tingye came over and asked.
"Kaleidoscope." Hua Qingxue held her forehead, "Didn't the Emperor's mirror break last time? I made a kaleidoscope with the mirror fragments. I just gave it to these children to play with and coax them, otherwise they would all cry endlessly... "
"Where are the children from?" Fu Tingye scanned around and saw that there were children inside and outside the house. Some were running and some were jumping. For a while, he couldn't even count how many there were.
Hua Qingxue told him roughly what happened today, and sighed: "I'm really in a dilemma. The emperor wants to investigate strictly, and I can't shield him. Besides, he did something wrong in the first place. He just left these children innocent. They are all families who don’t have money to go to school. They finally have a place to study and study, but now they are like this... "
Fu Tingye said: "You have done a good job. If it were someone else, I'm afraid his life would not be saved."
He dares to occupy the royal family's land for his own use. This crime alone is enough for him to die a hundred times.
and…
"Taking students privately is also a serious crime that will lead to jail time." Fu Tingye really didn't know how to evaluate this scholar. Is he who doesn't know fearless, or is he just taking a chance
"Isn't this a good deed? Why do you have to go to a prison cell?" Hua Qingxue couldn't figure it out. If this was done in her time, it would be voluntary teaching, and she would be praised as an advanced and outstanding young man.
"He is so poor, so he must have no fame." Fu Tingye told her, "Daqi law stipulates that people without fame cannot teach students at will, so as not to fool the people and mislead the people."
After Fu Tingye explained it, Hua Qingxue realized that not everyone can be a master in Daqi. Although there is no modern and complete examination process for teacher qualification certificates, there are restrictions at each level, such as teaching primary school students. Teachers must graduate from high school, teachers who teach high school students must graduate from college, and those who teach college students must at least have a Ph.D.
After listening to it, she didn't know why, but her heart moved, and she blurted out: "What about me? I don't have any fame, can I teach students?"
Fu Tingye glanced at her and said calmly: "It is true that you have no fame, but your ability is outstanding. Naturally, there is no problem of fooling the people and misleading them. I believe the emperor will set a precedent for you, but -"
Hua Qingxue blinked, "But what?"
Fu Tingye: "But I don't agree."
Hua Qingxue: "..."
Although Hua Qingxue said nothing, the entire expression on her face was asking: Why? !
Fu Tingye only had one sentence: "Mr. Lu said that you should not let your mind wander too much."
Of course, running a school and teaching students is very taxing.
Hua Qingxue stared blankly at the man in front of her, thinking, if she can't think or use her brain from now on, will she be considered...a brainless person