I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With

Chapter 1043: Taking Sides Chapter 1043: Taking Sides Editor: Atlas Studios Since Fan Zijin could not convince Mu Yangling, he naturally could not control the children either.

At dawn, the four boys got up and wanted to continue their great undertaking.

However, the children they led yesterday were all grounded.

After collectively skipping class, they collectively took leave from the academy’s junior class.

Seeing this, the academy’s director simply granted the entire junior class three days off to prevent them from constantly receiving leave slips and having to approve them.

The senior students were extremely envious.

They secretly wondered if they could also have a holiday if they followed the four Young Masters of the Prince’s estate to the streets.

The four little ones stood alone at the entrance of the academy.

Little An said, “We can’t place all our hopes on others.” Tiger Head scratched his head.

“Then shall we go by ourselves?” Little Lion glanced at him disdainfully.

“Brother Little An is saying that we need to save our companions.

How can we give up on them?

That’d be too disloyal.” “How?” Qi Wensu looked at his three brothers.

Tiger Head had a flash of inspiration.

“Climb the wall!” The four children gathered together and discussed rescuing their little friends.

Their little friends were also fighting for their ideals.

Those who were pampered directly rolled on the ground and asked the adults to pay taxes.

Between tears, the children said, “The adults have always asked us to be good children.

Now that we want to be law-abiding good children, you’re stopping us.

Are we still good children then?” The more sensible ones, however, stood rationally in front of the adults and said, “You’re evading taxes now and not being good people.

What if I learn from you when I grow up?

When the time comes, don’t say that I’m an unfilial son because I learned everything from you.” Regardless of whether it was the former or the latter, the fathers were so angry that he fell to the ground.

However, because the children were still young (even the oldest was only eight years old), there was no way to reason with them.

When the father hit them, the child simply howled, “Huh, so it’s right to break the law.

I’ll learn from you in the future.

You’re not allowed to beat me up anymore!” The fathers were so angry that they swung their whips, but they could not bear to hit them anymore, afraid that they would really lead the child astray.

On one hand, they couldn’t bear to part with the money; but on the other, they couldn’t very well lead their child astray just for the sake of money.

Who wouldn’t want to teach their child to be good?

No matter how wicked and unfilial the adults were, they would always teach their children to be good and filial.

Now that they heard their children link this matter to education, they really could not bear to hit them.

Seeing that this move was indeed as useful as Little An had said, the children clung to this point.

Seeing the family head hesitate, the mothers quickly took their son away to comfort him.

The fathers had no choice but to gather together and discuss a solution.

“They won’t understand even if we talk to them about the big picture.

What do you think we should do?

The house is so noisy there’s never a moment of peace these days.” Governor Zhou gritted his teeth.

“Prince Rong and Magistrate Fan seem quite relaxed though.

After making use of their sons to cause chaos in our homes, they’re now washing their hands off of the matter.” Governor Yan said after some pondering, “This matter might not have been instructed by Prince Rong and Magistrate Fan.

After all, Guangdong is under their rule.

They have nothing to gain by pushing Guangdong to the center of the storm.” Governor Zhou snorted.

“Ever since Liu Yu went to the Prince’s estate to press for taxes, Prince Rong has been in the limelight.

He took the opportunity to push Guangdong out to block the windaEUR|” “Lord Zhou, be careful with your words.” Governor Yan interrupted him and said in a low voice, “The most important thing now is to resolve this matter.

We can’t ignore it.

Now that the children have taken 50 steps, if we retreat, not only will we offend the entire Great Qi bureaucracy, but we will also offend His Majesty.” Governor Zhou’s face was ashen.

Of course, he knew this.

That was why he was even angrier.

It was all thanks to Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin that they had fallen to such a state.

Governor Yan stroked his beard and pondered for a while before saying, “Since we can’t retreat, why don’t we move forward?

Perhaps there’s a bright path ahead of us.” Governor Zhou snorted coldly, clearly disagreeing.

Officialdom emphasized stability.

If they advanced rashly like this, they wouldn’t even know how they died.

Seeing that their views conflicted, Governor Yan stopped talking, bade farewell, and left.

The rest of the people looked around.

Most of them followed Governor Yan and left.

The rest also bade Governor Zhou farewell.

Even if they couldn’t make up their minds yet, they only planned to watch from the sidelines because they didn’t want to offend Prince Rong and Governor Yan.

Governor Zhou had become a jinshi through the Imperial Examinations two rounds earlier than Governor Yan.

Despite having six more years of experience, he was suppressed by Governor Yan.

It could be seen how capable and knowledgeable the latter was.

How could the rest be willing to follow Governor Zhou?

Governor Zhou had always thought highly of himself.

When he saw that only two people were left in the room, he was so angry that his expression darkened.

He felt that the others were simply stupid.

What good ending could one have if they blindly curried favor with the powerful?

The people who followed Governor Yan all asked him for ideas.

Governor Yan said, “His Majesty is talented and strategic.

Ever since he ascended the throne, there hasn’t been anything he wanted to do but couldn’t do.

Revising the merchant tax is just a matter of time.

Although Guangdong is a poor and remote place, with Prince Rong and the Duke of Peaceful State around, it’s difficult for the officials in the court to touch us.

Instead, it’s easier for people who sway left and right to fall off their horses.” When everyone heard this, they nodded and said, “When we go back, we’ll get our shops to pay taxes accordingly.” Although their hearts ached for the money they were parting with, at least they could keep their positions, right?

Governor Yan nodded slightly.

After bidding farewell to everyone, he returned to his residence first.

Before the carriage reached home, his attendant said in a low voice, “Sir, there’s someone in the alley.” Governor Yan’s expression changed.

He couldn’t help but lift the curtain and look into the alley.

However, because the weather wasn’t good today and it was dark, he couldn’t see clearly into the depths of the alley.

“Can you see who’s there?” “No, but I heard something.” Governor Yan knew that this attendant had some martial arts skills, and his hearing was much more sensitive than ordinary people.

His mind raced, and the possibilities ran through his head ranging from thieves to enemies.

He said to his attendant, “Get someone to go back immediately and inform the servants to lie in ambush by the wall.

Let’s go in and take a look.” “Sir, if there’s any dangeraEUR|” “It’s fine.

This alley isn’t wide.

I’ll stand at the back and immediately flee at the first sign of danger.” The attendant: “aEUR|” The houses in Guangdong were not as big as the ones in the north and also didn’t have wide alleys between the houses.

Here, the alleys were so narrow that they only allowed one or two people to pass through.

Thus, no one usually walked through them.

A path that normal people did not take was naturally favored by thieves.

Therefore, when Governor Yan heard that there was movement in his alley, he immediately thought of the worst.

Governor Yan was right.

There were indeed people who wanted to climb the wall into his house.

Tiger Head and Little Lion had already sat on the wall and were whispering to Little An and the Second Prince to speed up.

Little An leaned against the wall and moved up bit by bit.

Tiger Head and Little Lion quickly grabbed his hand and pulled him up the wall.

However, Qi Wensu was completely helpless.

He jumped for a long time but still couldn’t get the grasp of it.

He could only blame Tiger Head for only bringing him to climb trees and not developing his ability to climb walls.