After traveling through time, I led the whole village to become rich!

Chapter 163 Someone stole money

The scene quieted down, and Zhang Hulan said, "I have something to tell you. I built a school on the farm, and the teacher has arrived today."

The children didn't know what this had to do with them, but no one asked. They just listened quietly.

Zhang Hulan continued, "The gentleman was invited from the capital by the county magistrate. He passed the imperial examination and is a man of great learning."

Most of the children didn’t know what a Jinshi was, but they heard that he was invited from the capital by the county magistrate, so he must be very extraordinary.

"The school will be completed in about two weeks. By then, all children under the age of fifteen will be enrolled."

The children below were in an uproar. "Madam, you want us to read?"

"Madam, I don't want to study, I want to make money..."

"lady……"

The children below were talking to each other in a chaotic manner.

Luo Changqi said loudly: "Stop making noise and listen to what Madam has to say."

The scene immediately became quiet again.

Zhang Hulan continued, "From now on, you will work half a day every day. Go to school in the morning and work in the fields in the afternoon.

The wages are not less than yours, and it will be according to what we agreed before.

But you have to pay the tuition yourself, in addition to books, pens, ink, paper and inkstone, the tuition is twenty cents a month.

Of course, I don’t force you to read it. If you don’t want to read it, you don’t have to.”

Zhang Hulan originally planned to send all her children to school, but later changed her mind.

She just needs to provide them with conditions and conveniences, and let them choose their own path.

She never thought of letting these children study for free or paying them wages. She also had plans in this regard, allowing them to pay for their own education in the future.

Free things are never cherished, and forcing children who don’t like reading to read is also a torture.

So just let them choose for themselves. Those who are willing to study can study, and those who don’t want to study can just work hard.

Most children yearn for reading. They don’t know what they can learn from reading, but they know that reading can help them become successful people.

Zhang Hulan finally said, "You guys should think carefully during this time. If you want to study, come to me."

Zhang Hulan left after she finished speaking.

As soon as Zhang Hulan left, Gouzi asked Liu Cong, "Brother Cong, do you want to study?"

Liu Cong said: "Of course you should read it. You all should read it too."

The next day, just after lunch, there was a commotion on the farm.

A child is crying loudly.

Luo Changqi stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you crying?" The child cried and said, "My money is gone..."

Luo Changqi frowned. It had only been over a month and someone was already doing something dishonest?

Nothing like this happened last month when wages were paid. This time, wages were only paid last night, and someone lost money today.

Luo Changqi asked: "Where did you put the money?"

The child said, "I have too many copper coins. It's inconvenient to carry them with me while I work, so I put them under the quilt to keep them under my blanket."

The child is already twelve years old and earns two hundred copper coins a month, plus last month's income, a total of three hundred copper coins. If he carries all of this with him, it would be inconvenient to work.

Luo Changqi asked again: "When you hid the money, did anyone else see it?"

The child shook his head and said, "No, I hid it after everyone in the house left."

When people heard someone say that their money was lost, many of them went to their rooms to check if their money was missing.

These people had no other place to hide their money, so they hid it in their houses, either in their quilts, or in their old clothes or shoes.

After a while, someone else said that his money was lost.

At the very least, those who deposited their money with Zhang Xinyao were thankful that they didn't keep it themselves, otherwise they would have lost it.

So many people's money was lost, someone must have stolen it.

Luo Changqi immediately gathered everyone together and checked to see if everyone was there.

After counting the number of people, we found that three people were missing.

Luo Changqi immediately sent someone to notify Zhang Hulan, and asked Yang Xiaohui and other women who cooked whether they had noticed that the three men had returned.

One of the women said, "I saw some people coming back, but not three people, only one."

"When did he come back? Did you see what he came back for?"

The woman said, "It should have been just after 9:00 PM when the young man came back and went into the house. I don't know what he was doing there."

Then another lady said that she also saw a boy about thirteen or fourteen years old coming back.

Luo Changqi understood that it would be too obvious if they came back together, so they came back separately.

Zhang Hulan came over quickly, and after asking about the general situation, he immediately sent someone to report the case to the county government office and asked people to chase the person immediately.

Luo Changqi said, "They've been gone for a while, and we don't know where they went. It's probably not going to be easy to catch them."

Zhang Hulan said, "They came from the provincial capital and are likely to return to it. We'll have people chasing them on donkeys. They can't get very far on foot."

Arrange people to search for the forks along the way; maybe they will go to other villages or other counties."

Luo Changqi nodded, "Okay, I'll arrange for someone to chase them right away."

There is no need to worry about not recognizing people, because the clothes they wear were all bought by Zhang Hulan, and they are the same style and fabric.

After those three people left, they would definitely run away together. If we met them on the road, we would definitely recognize them.

Zhang Xinyao and Zhang Xinyi were both furious. Their mother was so kind to these people, so why did they steal and run away? They couldn't understand.

Zhang Hulan was not too surprised. No one is perfect, and stealing is normal for people begging in the market.

Some people steal because they are too hungry to do so, but some people steal because they are too lazy to eat.

On the contrary, she was very happy that such an incident happened, as it could serve as a warning to her two daughters, telling them not to trust others easily or too much.

Gou Zi whispered to Liu Cong, "Brother Cong, it's Fan Xiang and the others. They are such bastards."

Liu Cong hummed and said, "You can't learn from them."

Gouzi said, "I won't follow his example. They are too stupid. Madam Zhang is so good to us. Only a fool would run away."

……

After receiving the report, Wu Deyong asked about the details and immediately sent yamen runners to look for the person.

The yamen runners were much faster on horses than on donkeys, and they caught up with the man before dark.

Those three people were not very smart. Just as Zhang Hulan said, they were preparing to return to the provincial capital.

The total amount they stole, including their own, was over 6,000 coins.

They were considered worldly-wise people in the provincial capital, and they had all made plans to use the money to start some small business after returning to the provincial capital.

Once they make a lot of money, they will start a big business and become bosses in the future. They don’t want to live this kind of hard life.