Rebirth, guarding the mute at the tip of my heart

The dean, who also came to the court, also had a rather unhappy look on his face. In recent years, he had focused more on the candidates in the academy and paid little attention to the situation of the tongsheng class and the xiucai class.

He never thought that there would be such a student from a poor family in the class for young students. If he had known this earlier, he would never allow such a student to enter their academy.

Lu Wuliang wanted to stay in Baishan Academy so much that he could not accept the possibility of leaving. As a result, he was particularly sensitive to the dean's cold gaze. When he realized the meaning in that gaze, he was completely panicked.

Especially those ignorant people at the gate of the government, they don't know anything, what right do they have to say that he is unfilial? !

"I live frugally and never spend a penny. Even for the jade pendant, it was definitely not something my mother had to pay for..."

Xie Ze looked at Lu Wuliang's expression and sneered:

"You said that you bought the jade pendant with the money you earned from copying books, and did not use your mother's household expenses. Can it be said that you used your own money to buy the jade pendant and used your mother's hard-earned money to provide you with food and clothing? Does that mean your mother did not pay for these expensive things for you?"

Lu Wuliang: “…”

Everyone: Oh, today I have a new understanding of the word shameless.

"Or do you mean that the little money you earned from copying books can not only allow you to afford the jade pendant, but also just cover your food, clothing and daily expenses, and even pay your tuition?"

Lu Wuliang: “…”

"Someone come here!" Xie Ze did not give Lu Wuliang a chance to speak. He waved his hand and said coldly, "Go and ask the owner of the bookstore where Lu Wuliang usually copies books to come over and ask him to calculate how much silver Lu Wuliang has earned from copying books these days. Is it five taels?"

"Yes!" The two yamen runners responded and prepared to leave.

Lu Wuliang immediately became anxious and shouted, "Wait! That's not true! I didn't earn much money from copying books, but I didn't use my mother's hard-earned money. Some of the money for the jade pendant was given by friends!"

As he spoke, as if he was afraid of being accused of being unfilial, Lu Wuliang was so anxious that he almost cried, and kept emphasizing: "It's true! The silver was really a gift from a friend. My mother worked hard to support my studies, how could I bear to let her suffer again?!

It was because of my friend’s help that I was able to get by these days, and I gritted my teeth and bought a jade pendant…”

As he spoke, somehow, Lu Wuliang's voice gradually became lower, and he glanced in the direction of Jiang Xin with a guilty look.

However, Xie Ze was not going to let it go so easily. He continued to ask like a mad dog staring at its prey, "Which friend is it? As far as I know, you are not popular in the academy, and it seems that you have no friends."

Lu Wuliang: “…” It hurts.

Where on earth did this prince come from, and why did he know so much about what happened in the academy? !

And his intuition was right, this madman was targeting him! Why?! He had never had any contact with this madman, and he had never offended him, so why did this madman have to keep biting him?!

"Your Highness! I am Lu Wuliang's classmate. Several of us can testify that he has no friends in our academy!" Nan Yuanzhou, the son of Duke Wu Bo, came with a few of his friends to watch the fun. Upon seeing this, he immediately raised his hands at the gate of the yamen and shouted as if he was watching a good show.

Others may not know that Jiang Xingyu is a narrow-minded person, but he knows it very well.

This guy has long wanted to get rid of his troublesome eldest brother, but unfortunately he never had the chance. If Jiang Xin is successfully kicked out of the Jiang family this time, it would be too easy for Jiang Xingyu. It would be better to stir up trouble as much as possible. After all, he can't let that kid live too comfortably.

Seeing this, the others quickly echoed: "That's right! This Lu Wuliang is shabby, we don't want to associate with him!"

Xie Ze raised his eyebrows and sneered: "Are you lying?"

"I didn't! Yes, yes..." Cold sweat had already seeped out of Lu Wuliang's forehead. He knew very well that if he said it, he would be despised by others and no one would be willing to be friends with him anymore. But if he didn't say it, he would be completely ruined if he was branded as unfilial.

Thinking of this, Lu Wuliang gritted his teeth and finally told the truth in frustration:

"It was Jiang Xin. Jiang Xin and I are friends. He, he sometimes gave me wood carvings that he made. I saw that those wood carvings were exquisite and made of good materials, so I... I sold them and exchanged some silver to supplement the family income. The money for buying jade pendants was also... saved in this way."

Jiang Xin had no other hobbies except tinkering with these little gadgets, and he used the monthly money he saved to buy high-quality wood.

Lu Wuliang also saw it by chance and praised it once. Jiang Xin was very happy that someone appreciated his wood carvings, so he gave some to the other party.

Unexpectedly, Lu Wuliang was not a good person, but he had some business acumen. Seeing that Jiang Xin's carvings were different from the standardized ones made by ordinary carpenters, and were quite ingenious and childlike, he tried to find the cloth shop where his mother often worked.

The cloth shop owner may have felt sympathy for the orphan and his widowed mother, or perhaps he wanted to do a good job for Lu Wuliang, the boy, so he put those little gadgets in the shop for sale. Unexpectedly, these small items were exquisite and cute, and they were liked by many girls, and some of them were sold.

Lu Wuliang tasted the sweetness and asked Jiang Xin for more of these little things. Seeing that he liked these things, Jiang Xin happily gave him more, which made Lu Wuliang get a windfall.

With some spare money on his side and having discovered Jiang Xin's good qualities, Lu Wuliang's mind naturally became active. He gritted his teeth and used the money he had saved for several months to buy a jade pendant in the hope of taking a closer look at Jiang Xin. However, he not only failed to please Jiang Xin, but ended up messing things up.

Hey!

So, the truth is that this scholar surnamed Lu used the money he had stolen from Jiang Xin to buy the jade pendant, but the jade pendant disappeared, and he then blamed Jiang Xin for stealing the jade pendant he bought with Jiang Xin's money? I have never seen such a shameless person!

And from what Lu Wuliang said, they were friends before, or Jiang Xin treated Lu Wuliang as a friend, which is why he gave him so many small things that can make money. How unlucky must he be to have such a friend!

For a moment, the people who were watching the excitement at the yamen gate were all shocked by Lu Wuliang's shamelessness.

However, before everyone could get indignant and ask the prince to teach this shameless guy a lesson, they saw that their prince's eyes suddenly turned red, as if he had heard their voices, and before anyone could react, he kicked Lu Wuliang two meters away.