Chapter 221 222 The County Magistrate Who Was Crying About Poverty Wanted to Raise Funds

"Caidie (Cai Feng) has met your lords and met all the masters." After the two of them greeted everyone with crisp voices, Cai Feng began to sing.

The song of the colorful phoenix was as melodious as a lark, and the colorful butterfly danced like a butterfly in the song. After singing the song, everyone applauded.

Xu Jinlong smiled at Zhou Jia and said, "Master Zhou, do you think the singing of Cai Die and Caifeng is still to your liking?

Everyone looked at Zhou Jia with a smile, and Zhou Jia nodded and praised: "The two girls are really outstanding in singing and dancing."

Cai Die and Papilio Butterfly both thanked them: "Thank you for the compliment, sir!"

Xu Jinlong pointed at the two girls and said with a smile: "Sir, Brother Wu and I intend to ransom the two girls and give them to you for your entertainment!"

Zhou Jia cupped his hands and said, "Thank you very much, Boss Xu and several other bosses for their kindness. I am too short of money to support these two girls."

Cai Die looked at Zhou Jia's handsome face and shyly walked towards Zhou Jia, "Sir, we sisters are very well-raised. We can live with simple things, and it doesn't cost much money! Sir, do you dislike us and look down on us?" "

Cai Die walked up to Zhou Jia and leaned toward him. Zhou Jia dodged and waved his hand: "My official salary is meager, and I even rely on my wife to support me! I don't mean to look down on the girl!"

When Cai Die saw Zhou Jia running away like the plague, she covered her face with tears and turned around, pulling Feng Die and running towards the inner hall.

Yu Xianwei looked at Zhou Jiawei's fearful way of avoiding him, and thought to himself: Mr. Zhou may be a little henpecked!

When Zhou Jia saw Caidi sisters returning to the inner hall, he bowed his hands to a few people apologetically and said, "I'm sorry to disappoint you all. Alas! It's just that my salary is meager and I really can't afford to support those two girls. I will do it myself." One drink as a penalty!"

Xu Jinlong and several wealthy businessmen stood up and saluted: "Sir, we are just two dancers. It is their honor to be favored by you! Why don't you keep them here to entertain yourself!"

Zhou Jia faced a few people with a bitter face and began to cry about poverty, "Boss Xu, Boss Wu, you don't know something. Although Qingchuan is better than before, compared with other counties, our Qingchuan is really too poor. Qingchuan doesn’t even have a private school, and the children are all blind and can’t even read a single Chinese character. This will be bad for Qingchuan in the long run!”

Zhou Jia sighed and continued: "After discussing with Mr. Yu and Tu Dianshi, I decided to build a new county school just outside Dongcheng. Now it is half built and the county government has no money. Boss Liu has an official Please ask Boss Liu to agree."

Xu Jinlong thought to himself: It seems that Mr. Zhou is not here to drink, but is here to collect donations from us.

Xu Jinlong cupped his hands and said, "Sir, you can defeat us. If you have any questions, we will do it."

Zhou Jia cupped his hands and said, "To be honest, bosses, I would like to ask you to donate the money you used to redeem the two beauties to build the county school, so that our students in Qingchuan can also be named on the gold medal list in the future."

After Xu Jinlong and several wealthy businessmen heard this, they thought to themselves: Your majestic magistrate, if you don't want Meiji to cry to us about poverty, how can we not donate? Several people stood up and cupped their hands and said, "Sir, we are willing to donate the money to build the county school."

It cost a total of two thousand taels of silver to redeem the two dancers. Several bosses donated three hundred taels of silver each, raising a total of 2,700 taels of silver.

Zhou Jia cupped his hands and thanked: "I and your Excellency, on behalf of the students of Qingchuan County, would like to thank several philanthropic merchants."

Several wealthy businessmen returned the gift and said, "Sir, this is what we should do. It will make it easier for our descendants to study in the future!"

Tu Dianshi also smiled and agreed, "Yes! That's the truth!"

Zhou Jia asked Mr. Qian to collect the banknotes and write down his name. He took out the two hundred taels of silver banknotes given by Li Yu and placed them on the table. He said, "This is the personal money my wife gave me when I mentioned raising funds to run a school. I asked him to Donate to build the county school.”

When Yu Xianwei saw this, he also said: "Sir, I will also donate one hundred and eighty taels of silver on behalf of my wife."

Then Tu Dianshi and Mr. Qian also donated fifty taels of silver. Zhou Jia said to several wealthy businessmen: "Boss Xu, Boss Wu, please rest assured. I will ask Tu Dianshi to record every expenditure clearly. , let the money donated by everyone be used in practical ways.”

Everyone praised in unison: "Your Excellency is upright and honest, and we, the people of Qingchuan, are blessed."

Lieutenant Yu Xian raised his glass and said, "Let's toast your lord!"

"Yes, here's a toast to you, sir." The atmosphere of the banquet was getting better and better.

Li Yu waited for a while and saw that Zhou Jia hadn't come back yet, so he went back to his room and slept. Zhou Jia returned home from Liu Jinlong's house and saw that Li Yu had fallen asleep and went to take a shower in the bathroom. After returning to the room, Li Yu opened his eyes in a daze and said with a smile: "You're back!"

Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu's dazed and naive look, leaned over and kissed Li Yu's red lips, went to bed, held Li Yu in his arms, and said softly: "Well! Xu Jinlong and several wealthy businessmen donated a total of More than two thousand taels, Yu Xianwei also donated more than one hundred taels, and Mr. Tu and Mr. Qian also donated. There are more than three thousand taels of silver, which is more than enough to purchase and run a school."

Li Yu snuggled into Zhou Jia's arms and whispered, "Xiao Xi, go to sleep! You are tired too!"

"Hmm!" Zhou Jia kissed Li Yu's temple and thought: More than half a month into the third trimester of pregnancy, I have to ask my husband tomorrow.

When Yu County Lieutenant returned home and told Mrs. Qin about Zhou Jia's rejection of Meiji at the Xu family's dinner, avoiding Cai Die, and crying for donations for the poor, he smiled and said, "Madam, why do I feel that Mr. Zhou is a little henpecked this week!"

Mrs. Qin looked at Yu Xianwei and said pointedly: "Master Zhou, you are just keeping yourself clean! Do you think you are like some people? You can drag all the smelly and smelly things into the house, and you are not afraid of damaging the courtyard!"

Yu County Lieutenant remembered the origin of his concubine at home, and said sarcastically: "Madam, it's been so long, the child is grown, and you still won't let me go!"

Mrs. Qin rolled her eyes at Yu County Lieutenant, "I'm warning you, ask her to take good care of that girl. Don't shy away from taboos and run towards the county government office at every turn. If a joke happens, our Yu family can't afford to lose that person!"

Yu Xianwei looked at Mrs. Qin with some displeasure, "Yan'er is also filial to me. She was afraid that I would be hungry, so she gave me some cakes. By the way, she also gave some to Mr. Zhou and others. We are all colleagues, how could there be such a fuss? Are you kidding me?"

Mrs. Qin glanced at Yu Xianwei, "I am filial to you. Only a blind person like you can think so!"

"Sending cakes, does a lady like her need to deliver them in person? What does a maid do to eat!"

Seeing Yu Xianwei's impatient look, Mrs. Qin sighed inwardly, "Anyway, as my aunt, I have already said what I need to say. If you make a joke, don't look for me."

Yu Xianwei rubbed his forehead and said impatiently: "Madam, don't worry, I will tell Mei Niang tomorrow to let her restrain Yan'er and don't let her go out! You go to bed first, I have a headache after drinking, go and let her go Aunt Yang, press the button for me." After saying that, she turned and left.