Making money, taking exams and supporting the family

chapter 61: Village's Heated Discussion

After sending off Li Guangcai and Mr. Guo, Lin Ze closed the door and finally let out the laughter that had been building up in his stomach.

This person, Lin Ze, had quite a few shortcomings. The most prominent one was that he always seeked revenge. He hated it most when someone tried to outsmart him.

When Li Guangcai visited last time, although he could not be considered scheming, he tried to cleverly make Lin Ze feel embarrassed to refuse to take his son as a disciple in public. This made Lin Ze very unhappy.

If it were not for Li Guangcai’s genuine love for his son and the fact that Li Sheng, the child, had won his heart, Lin Ze would have completely ignored him.

Setting a difficult problem was indeed a test of Li Sheng’s aptitude. Moreover, it was also intentionally making things difficult for Li Guangcai, showing some authority, and letting people know about his temper.

Fortunately, Li Guangcai was quite clever and sensible. After letting out his anger, Lin Ze did not make things difficult for him anymore and gave him the prepared hints.

He would stop there. If he gave hints and Li Sheng still could not complete the exam, then the matter of taking him as a disciple would be out of the question. At most, he would accept him as a student.

In this era, when a disciple went out, they represented the reputation of the master. If a disciple did something wrong, the master might be implicated, so strict assessment was necessary. Lin Ze dis not want to be wrongly implicated in the future.

There was still half a month left before the deadline Lin Ze gave to Li Guangcai. After sending the people away, he stopped worrying.

The good news brought by the two visitors made Lin Ze very happy. As long as the private school could be opened, their family could soon live a comfortable and well-off life.

For this reason, their current plans needed to be adjusted, and the opening of the private school had to be advanced.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of this renaming banquet, Lin Ze planned to promote the opening of his private school. Strike while the iron was hot!

With the plan set, he delegated all the tasks of selling bread for the next half month to He Xiangfeng’s two mothers*. Lin Ze would personally oversee the production of sugar from beets, but since he would have time freed up from selling bread, he could manage it.

*HXF’s father married 2 women. It was mentioned before.

The banquet arrangements were already discussed and settled, so it was no problem for Zhang Xiu to handle it alone. Lin Ze quickly drew up the plan and regulations for opening the private school.

In short, the sooner the private school opened, the better.

Before drafting the regulations for the private school, another guest arrived at Lin Ze’s house.

It was also an acquaintance, a former schoolmate of the original owner, the scholar Fang Shanyuan who had previously borrowed money from him.

“Brother Lin, I’ve thought it over. I can accept the conditions and requirements you mentioned before. Do you, do you still need someone now?”

Having not seen each other for a while, Fang Shanyuan looked even worse than before. His whole appearance showed a particularly desolate and impoverished look.

Previously, Fang Shanyuan was at least wearing a long gown made of cotton fabric. Now he had changed into the coarse cloth short jacket worn by the villagers. It was easy to imagine that he must be at his wits’ end. Otherwise, a proud and resolute scholar like him would never agree to a job that, despite its high salary, lacked freedom.