Chapter 168: Violent

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Gu Yundong asked Liu Yi to stand where he was, instructed the coachman to keep an eye on him, and squeezed into the crowd.

The people outside were all people who lived nearby. All of them looked at the two parties who were confronting each other inside.

One of them stood at the entrance of the school. There were four people. One was a young woman with a maidservant beside her. She was carrying a young girl in her arms. The last one was the gatekeeper that Gu Yundong had seen before. historical

Standing opposite them was a middle-aged man who looked a little old. He was wearing a neat long robe and a square scarf. He looked like a scholar.

There were three youths and two children standing beside him. It was obvious that they were coming aggressively.

Gu Yundong frowned and asked the people around her what had happened.

The onlookers at the side kindly explained to her, “These people are the teachers and students of our county’s Dongyi Academy. I heard that yesterday, a few students of Dongyi Academy were discussing some knowledge loudly in the teahouse. In the end, Master Qin was also in the teahouse with his wife and daughter. When he heard the wrong knowledge they said, he pointed it out and corrected them. In the end, today, the teachers of their academy brought people up to argue that what Master Qin said was wrong.”

Gu Yundong had asked around before and knew that Dongyi Academy was the largest academy in Fengkai County other than the county school. The dean of the academy was a High Scholar, and five of the students had Elementary Scholar titles.

Compared to it, Qin Wenzhong’s school was much weaker.

Not to mention that it had only been opened for a year or two, even the students he had taken in were all children, and there were only a dozen of them. Not to mention Elementary Scholar, there was not even a Preparation Scholar.

Moreover, Qin Wenzheng was really low-key. Only people like the Liu family, the Peng family and the county magistrate knew his identity.

For example, more than half of the families of the students in his school had only sent their children over when they heard that there was a school here. The teacher was kind and knowledgeable and the tuition was affordable.

In Dongyi Academy, only the Dean who was the High Scholar knew who he was. However, this High Scholar was already on the way to the capital for the examination because the new emperor had ascended the throne.

Today, the person who had brought a few students to look for Qin Wenzheng was just an ordinary teacher.

Madam Ge, who was at the door, was also annoyed by these people, but she still said patiently, “My husband is not at home. If you have something to ask him, come another day.”

The teacher standing in front sneered when he heard this. “Not at home? I’m afraid he knows that he said something wrong yesterday and doesn’t dare to come out, right? To think that he’s still a teacher who teaches and educates people. He doesn’t have literature in his heart, but he has to pretend to be knowledgeable. A person like him doesn’t deserve to be a scholar at all. Teaching and educating people is misleading them. I think if he doesn’t become a teacher, there’s no need to open a school.”

Madam Ge’s expression changed, but the students behind the master also echoed. Their words were each sharper than the other, and the onlookers began to whisper.

This was clearly ruining her husband’s reputation.

Madam Ge couldn’t help but take a step forward. “My husband doesn’t have literature in his heart? What a joke. Why don’t you go back and ask the dean of your academy if my husband is knowledgeable?”

“Who doesn’t know that our dean is not at the academy but has left for the capital for the examination? Don’t talk about other stuff. We don’t talk to a woman like you. Call Master Qin out. Don’t hide inside and not make a sound.”

As the teacher spoke, he approached. Madam Ge could not help but take a small step back..