"Don't think about it," the man looked around and lowered his voice: "Mr. Zhuang was forced to leave. That person was asked before he left. He was not allowed to be a staff member in the rest of his life. He was not even allowed to serve as a staff member.
If you do, do you think he can agree to Mr. Zhuang's appointment as chief clerk in the army?"
"How can you protect someone who has joined the army and is still struggling to make a living in the hands of others?"
Wei Shenjun's expression changed and he asked, "Okay, why are you forcing him so much?"
"Oh, it's just a quarrel between two children." The matter in the school is not a secret, and Mr. Zhuang and his wife were so anxious to go out to look for their children a few days ago, they found out as soon as they inquired.
The speaker also has a son who attends the school, so he knows very well.
Wei Shenjun was so surprised that he couldn't speak. After a while, he said: "Prince Du asked Dalangjun to humiliate Mr. Zhuang like this. Mr. Zhuang will not be able to stay here if he is bloody."
If the incident happened and Governor Du had forced his son to apologize to Mr. Zhuang, things could have easily turned upside down. However, Mrs. Du even asked people to pressure Mr. Zhuang to bow his head. However, Governor Du not only did not stop him, but went even further. This is simply a lie.
The backbones and faces of Mr. Zhuang and his son were crushed to the ground.
Wei Shenjun shook his head and said regretfully: "Then we have to forget it, but we still have to send Cheng Yi as a gift."
"I'll give you one as well."
Mr. Zhuang received a lot of greetings from Cheng Yi when he left. Everyone knew the reason for his departure in private, but no one said it in person. Although they looked down on Governor Du in their hearts, no one dared to offend him at this time, let alone
Not to mention standing up for Mr. Zhuang...
Mr. Zhuang returned to Luojiang County.
When he left, all the fields here were sold, leaving only an old house. However, the old house had not been inhabited for many years, and the house had long been abandoned. The yard was full of weeds, there were several large holes in the roof, and countless cold winds blew in.
The sound poured into the house from the roof.
Mr. Zhuang took his wife and children back to the county town, where he first found an inn to stay, and then went out to rent a house the next day.
He and his wife and children said: "The old house will be slowly restored in the future. Dalang will still study in the county town. Whether I am working as an accountant or doing other things, I have to stay in the county town. It is better to rent a house here."
Neither Lady Ji nor Zhuang Dalang had any objections.
It’s just that the house is not easy to rent. Luojiang County is too small and poor. Who would rent out an empty house?
Therefore, the houses he can rent are either very large and have high rent, or they are in a bad location and the neighborhood is a mixed bag.
Mr. Zhuang returned to his hometown just for Dalang Zhuang, so he naturally didn't want to live in a place like that. What if he learned those habits and his bad temper became even more left-leaning?
So Mr. Zhuang looked at it for a long time, finally gritted his teeth and spent almost all his savings to buy a small yard.
He had taken a fancy to that small yard early in the morning. The neighborhood was quite harmonious. Most of them were scholars or people who opened shops and did business in the county. The sellers wanted to raise money for business, so they only sold instead of renting. Otherwise, renting would be the best option.
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Mr. Zhuang bought the yard and didn't have much money left. He scraped together the rest and sent a few decent paintings he had to Mianzhou to sell them, so that he could raise enough money for Dalang Zhuang to go to school.
Mr. Zhuang then went out to look for a job. After searching for a long time, he finally became an accountant as Mr. Zhuang wished.
Naturally, the wages cannot be compared with those when working as a staff member, but it is enough to support a family of three and send one child to school, but the standard of living is somewhat worse than before.
In the past, in Longzhou, not only could they eat meat and vegetables every day, but they could always eat the next day, and there would be no shortage of snacks at home.
But back in the county town, because of limited wages, they may eat meat twice a day, and snacks are only made or bought during holidays.
But Zhuang Dalang lived a very happy life, his appetite increased every day, and he didn't mind not having meat at all.
He felt that this was quite happy. Although there was less delicious food, he lived a peaceful and comfortable life every day.
No one will bully him here, and the teenagers in the neighborhood even envy him, thinking that his father is gentle and knowledgeable, and he doesn't know how to beat his children.
Zhuang Dalang also felt that such a life was very good. His restless mood was gradually calmed down, and he no longer had the sharpness and resentment he had before.
After three or four years like this, Zhuang Dalang didn't want to go to the county school to study. He didn't want to take the exam, be an examiner, or work as an errand in the county government.
Mr. Zhuang saw that he was so repulsive to officialdom, so he simply took him with him and taught him how to keep accounts.
Zhuang Dalang learned these things very quickly. He had already mastered academic mathematics in school before. In addition, he liked his father being an accountant very much, so he often watched his father keep accounts, so he naturally learned it.
He got started quickly and Mr. Zhuang recommended him to his employer.
The boss couldn't help but like him when he saw that he could completely take over Mr. Zhuang's job, and Mr. Zhuang was willing to give up his job to his son, so the boss hired Dalang Zhuang at a lower salary than Mr. Zhuang.
Mr. Zhuang gave up his accounting job, slapped his butt, and found a school in the county to teach.
The father and son made money together, and without Zhuang Dalang's huge annual expenses for repairs, the family soon became wealthy. Mrs. Ji finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to look for ways to propose marriage to Zhuang Dalang.
In the end, Zhuang Dalang found his wife by himself, and her family was wealthier than the Zhuang family. However, their family took a fancy to the fact that both the Zhuang family and his son were scholars, and felt that their family had lost all their fortune just to study.
Now they have no one to study. In the future, they will only make money without large expenditures, and their family wealth will only become stronger and stronger, so they don't mind at all that the banker does not have two acres of land and only has a small yard.
Moreover, when they have children in the future, they don’t need to send them to school. They can teach them at home and save a lot of money. How great.
Unfortunately, their plan failed in the end.
Because after Zhuang Dalang got married, he became much more peaceful. Mr. Zhuang felt that it was already determined that his child would grow up like this. With a wife, he would have children in the future. He was already the head of the family and no longer needed anything more from his father.
A little bit of steering.
So Mr. Zhuang first worked as a teacher in Luojiang County for two years. Later, he was hired by someone in Mianzhou and the salary was relatively high. Considering that his daughter-in-law was about to give birth, and the family still only had two acres of land, the assets were too small.
, I was afraid that it would be difficult to raise children in the future, so I simply took my old wife with me to Mianzhou.
He worked as a teacher in Mianzhou for several more years and saved a lot of money. Because he was living under someone else's roof, he didn't get along very well. He was considering opening a school of his own. But should the address be in Mianzhou or Luojiang County?
Before he could make a choice, Mr. Bai, who had just moved to Luojiang County, came to his door and asked Mr. Zhuang to be a teacher at home. The salary was very high, twice as much as what he was currently earning at the school.