Chapter 184 Three Lives Fairy As for the other mid-grade magic weapon, Ruan Xing planned to leave it to Xu Can. Because he completed his task well, when I went to see it a few days ago, the charity cemetery and the girls' school had been completed and put into use. Originally, Ruan Xing thought that the charity cemetery would cause resentment among many people, but unexpectedly, the people actually accepted it well. In the past, when their elders died and were buried in the mountains or in a cemetery somewhere, they had to pay a sum of money to the government and the landlord. For a family with an annual income of less than ten taels of silver, it was a huge expense. If the family had land, it would be fine, but if not, they would have to tighten their belts to let their elders die in dignity. Now the coffin cemeteries and cemeteries are free, which is good news for them. In the past, when the ancestral graves of officials and nobles were dug up and relocated, they would probably have threatened to die by banging their heads against the pillars in front of the palace gates, cursing the emperor for disregarding human ethics. However, due to the fact that water has been splashed on the ground in the vegetable market almost every day in the past few months, everyone has become as obedient as quails, fearing that they will be the next one. I don’t know whether this emperor was true or not, but it is absolutely true that he confiscated the property! Even the eggs at home had to be shaken to remove the yolks so that they could be given as a snack that night by the guards who were confiscating the house. The chain reaction brought about by the house searches even caused many institutions to fall into a semi-paralyzed state, and the clerks in the yamen had to act like three people per person. Xu Can simply reorganized all three offices, transferred the surviving officials to other departments, and separated the Household Tax Office and put it under the control of the inner court. Most of the educated and knowledgeable women in the Xumi Realm are from aristocratic families. Originally, they were not going to respond to the emperor's call due to pressure from their families or husbands. But now Xu Can has given the real power, the department framework has been established, and they were officials in the past, so they are slowly beginning to be tempted.
The first task they performed was to seize the private property of the officials whose homes had been confiscated, put it into the national treasury and distribute it reasonably. By the time those nobles who still wanted to resist and protest with a passive attitude discovered that the inner court had become increasingly perfect and on the right track, it was too late for them to get a piece of the pie. The basic team has already been formed, and even if she goes there, she can only be a minor clerk, unless other female officials in the inner court make mistakes and need to be replaced. But they were all wives of the clan who were in charge of their own families. The financial matters they seized were commonplace things in daily life, and they would not be cheated by their subordinates. They were especially familiar with matters like accounting. Of course, a noble lady from a prominent family would not want to work as a clerk for others, which was exactly what Ruan Xing wanted. She planned to wait for the first batch of graduates from the girls' school to be directly assigned to the inner court to do these jobs. This way, other people would see that the girls' school guaranteed jobs and that they could become officials for the emperor after graduation, even if they were small officials. This would attract ordinary families to send their girls to the girls' school. What these girls learned were not the profound theories, but real skills such as writing, accounting and using an abacus. After all, they were working in the Household Tax Bureau, so they only needed to learn the things that the bureau could use. In about four or five months, the first batch of students could graduate quickly. When conditions permit, Ruan Xing also plans to let them learn martial arts. This progress is much better than Ruan Xing had imagined, so of course Xu Can should be rewarded. This day, the fairy couldn't help but come to Ruan Xing, "It's been so many days, how is your reform going? When can I go to the Xumi Realm to take a look?" "Don't be impatient." Ruan Xing thought about it. Almost all those who should be killed in the Xumi Realm had been killed. Because Xu Can controlled public opinion well, the officials whose homes were confiscated that people in the streets talked about were all corrupt officials. Therefore, it did not arouse public resentment. There were only some disturbances when the girls' school was recruiting students, but they were quickly quelled. After all, the girls' school was free and voluntary, and no one was forced to go. In this case, it is almost time to put the fairy into the Xumi Realm on the agenda. Ruan Xing said: "Then you can come with me to inspect the work this time. Oh, and bring Cui Yurong along." Let Cui Yurong also see the changes in the Xumi Realm. There was no one in the dungeon and Cui Yurong was also free, so the three of them went to the Xumi Realm together. The fairy had stayed in the Xumi Realm for quite some time, and Cui Yurong was a native who grew up in the Xumi Realm, so she could naturally feel the difference between the Xumi Realm and the previous one. The three of them walked on the street wearing veils. Cui Yurong looked at the strange yet familiar place, and she didn't know what she was thinking about, and her expression became a little sad. "If only it had been like this earlier..." In this way, she would not marry. My father was obsessed with the idea that there was no one in the court. When he was imprisoned, he couldn't even find anyone to help him and speak for him. That's why he insisted that she marry a scholar.
If it were now, she could pass the exam and get a job at the Household Tax Bureau. With her abilities, she would definitely be able to provide shelter for her family. But it's all too late now. Cui Yurong shook her head and asked Ruan Xing, "Where is the Yizhuang cemetery in the capital built?" Ruan Xing replied, "It's at the location of the original mass grave. Over the years, the Yin energy there is extremely heavy. The location is remote and the place is large. Xu Can built a manor there, surrounded it with a wall, planned it, and it can be put into use directly. Do you want to go there to borrow the Yin energy to practice?" "No." Cui Yurong lowered her eyes and said, "Although he betrayed me and hurt me, my unborn child is innocent. I don't know whether the child is a boy or a girl. I want to go and take a look and light a perpetual lamp for it to bless it to be reborn into a good family in the next life." Her heart was good, but there was no underworld in this world, and no afterlife. Moreover, the child died after only a few months in the womb, and her soul had not even been fully reborn, so it was probably dissipated long ago. Ruan Xing did not break Cui Yurong's delusion, but just said: "Then go and take a look. Later I plan to send the demon-cultivating disciples and Jian Lai to live in the charity cemetery, and cultivate with the help of Yin Qi and mourning thoughts. You are a ghost cultivator, so you can live here too." The area outside the city that used to be a mass grave has now been turned into a place with green tiles and white walls. Cui Yurong had once fallen from evil and turned into a ghost cultivator in this place. When she pushed open the door, she could already smell the faint smell of blood and corpses in the morgue across the front yard. Those were the bodies that were being kept in casket. After three to seven days, they would be moved to the back for burial, with a handful of yellow earth and a tombstone carved on it. A village head and two night watchmen lived in the gatehouse. In the hall in the middle of the main courtyard, there was a faceless stone statue of a woman. Incense was emitting curls of green smoke from the incense burner, and the offerings looked fresh. Below the statue were rows of wooden plaques slightly larger than thumbs, with each name written in plum blossom calligraphy. Ruan Xing was a little confused. She remembered that there were no gods or Buddhas in the Xumi Realm. Even though there was a custom of burning incense and paper money, they only knew that it was passed down from their ancestors and didn't know why they did so. "What is this?" Ruan Xing pointed at the stone statue and asked the village head. The head of the village replied, "It was reported in the capital that a few months ago, the national teacher dreamed of an immortal who said that Ziweixing was in trouble. After waking up, the national teacher followed the immortal's instructions and rescued your majesty. When your majesty found out, he burst into tears and said that when he was trapped, he prayed every night and also dreamed of an immortal who told him that someone would rescue him soon. When your majesty and the national teacher compared the dream, they found that the immortal in the dream was the same person, but after waking up, neither of them could remember the person's face, so they could only make a stone statue like this to enshrine in the national teacher's palace to thank the immortal. Everyone followed the example of the national teacher and your majesty and also enshrined it at home. I heard from the little Taoist boy in the Imperial Master's Palace and the storyteller on the street that this fairy is a woman, named the Three Lives Fairy. The three lives are the previous life, the present life, and the next life. So there is also a fairy in the charity cemetery. The plaques below are all the deceased relatives of their families. They are placed in front of the Three Lives Fairy, hoping that the fairy will see it and wish for peace and wealth in the next life. Everyone said that it was because the fairy was a woman that His Majesty started to establish a girls' school and the inner court after he was rescued. " After hearing this, Ruan Xing's expression became a little strange. No wonder she felt that the statue's figure and dress were somewhat similar to her. It turned out that Xu Can was trying to flatter her by taking advantage of the task of making up a story that she had assigned him, but he was afraid that she would be angry and unwilling, so he did not reveal her appearance and only made up a title. This is a bit too shameful... Ruan Xing felt the breath of social death coming towards her, but she secretly looked at the fairy and Cui Yurong, only to find that the two did not react much. In the world of immortal cultivation, women with high levels of cultivation can be called fairies. She was once called Fairy Lingyun, so she didn’t think there was anything wrong with it, and she didn’t associate this stone statue with Ruan Xing. Ruan Xing often uses the magic of shapeshifting to change into various appearances. In the fairy's impression, Ruan Xing is still the small dwarf carrot he used to be. Cui Yurong stared blankly for a while, then said to Ruan Xing, "I want to write too." Ruan Xing had no expression on his face: "...Write it." It doesn’t matter, it won’t be awkward if no one finds out. But Cui Yurong picked up the pen but didn't know what to write. The fairy looked at her with a slightly sympathetic look and said, "You can give it a name." "When I first got pregnant, I thought of many nicknames for it, but now I think none of them are suitable." Cui Yurong sighed and wrote the two words "Xiao Man". "May it have a happy next life." Xiaoman, it sounds nice, as long as the last name is not Jiang. Ruan Xing complained in his heart, and after Cui Yurong finished burning incense, the few people came out of the charity cemetery.
Ruan Xing pointed to the rows of small houses on the east side of the charity cemetery and said, "Those are the rooms I prepared for my disciples. You can pick one first." However, the layout inside is the same, with a bed, a table and a futon. They are not built to be luxurious for cultivation, so it doesn't matter which one you choose. Cui Yurong nodded, "Let's go see something else." "Okay, then let's go and see the girls' school. Fairy, you can pick a few of those students to be your disciples and let them practice in the National Master's Palace first." Ruan Xing said. The girls' school is at the other end of the same street as the National Master's Palace. This was originally a mansion of a marquis who had been in the family for generations, but because they stood in the wrong line in front of the palace gate that day, their property was ransacked and the mansion was included in the national treasury. Xu Can saw that the three floors of the mansion were large enough to accommodate thousands of people at the same time, so he simply renovated it and used it as a girls' school. Looking at the San Sheng Academy on the plaque, Ruan Xing felt that he had become immune. After entering, it was class time during the day, and from several row houses, the pleasant sound of reading like a yellow oriole could be heard. There were not many students in the first batch, only about seventy or eighty in total. They were all women from ordinary or even poor families, with different ages. The oldest one looked to be in her forties, and the youngest was still drooling and in a daze. She looked like a little girl who was brought along by an older sister when she came to study, because San Sheng Academy was free and provided with meals. After listening to a few sentences, Ruan Xing realized that the school had just opened recently and these students were still in the stage of learning to read, and the books they were taught were all enlightenment books. Their progress was also different, because the previous Xumi world required all males to study, so the illiteracy rate at the bottom was not particularly high. There were always one or two people in a family who were literate and would teach their sisters and children. In order not to disturb the students, the three of them bypassed these rooms and prepared to go to the backyard to check out the students' and teachers' dormitories. Not long after they walked away, Cui Yurong's face suddenly turned ugly. Ruan Xing almost forgot that Cui Yurong was just like her when she first started practicing, and had no common sense about the world of immortal cultivation. It was estimated that her spiritual consciousness was drifting outwards at all times and places, and she might have accidentally seen something. The fairy also guessed it and frowned slightly, "It is impolite to use your spiritual sense to look at others casually..." "Bastard!" Cui Yurong cursed and rushed in one direction. She had been practicing the Netherworld Ghost Record recently and was also learning the techniques therein. She also had some knowledge of the ghost escape technique. At this moment, she seemed to flash and only a black afterimage was left in the open space. Ruan Xing was startled and quickly looked over with his spiritual sense. Then he saw a middle-aged man with a square face and a short beard, his clothes disheveled, being held in Cui Yurong's hand by his hair. There was also a girl of about fourteen or fifteen in the inner room, her face covered with tears, huddled in a corner in panic. Ruan Xing and the fairy walked over quickly. The man cursed: "Which class are you from? How dare you break into my room so rudely! Do you know what it means to respect teachers?" "Who are you and why are you bullying students in San Sheng Academy?" Ruan Xing understood what was going on as soon as he saw him and asked with a sneer. The man shouted, "I am Zhao Zhibing, the number one scholar appointed by His Majesty! A sixth-rank scholar in the cabinet! I am the chief dean of Sansheng Academy by His Majesty's order. Who do you think you are? How dare you teach me how to do things? Hurry up and let me go, or I will have the guards arrest you and throw you into the prison of the inspection department. By then, it will be useless even if you kneel down and beg me!" Xu Can’s order? How could Xu Can let such a person be the principal of San Sheng Academy? It seems that I have to think again about whether to give him that mid-grade magic weapon. The fairy said angrily: "These students come to Sansheng Academy to study and learn skills, and to become officials in the inner court in the future. Instead of thinking about how to teach them well, you take advantage of your position to treat them frivolously?" "She's just a low-class person. It's against the will of heaven for a woman to be an official. I'm just trying to make them realize the reality!" The man sneered. "Besides, how do you know she didn't seduce me? For a daughter of a low-class person, it's her greatest luck to be able to meet a high-ranking official like me in her life!" Have you watched the news? A criminal law professor raped a female student. Such a pervert can even participate in the customization of criminal law... Thanks to _Panda Jun_ for the reward~ (End of this chapter)