Those other villages had even banded together, wanting the Gu family to take in more of their students and train a few scholars for them free of charge.
But there was no justification for such a request. Before, they had allowed those children to enroll alongside their own village's kids for just a symbolic tuition fee. They never expected those people to get so greedy, demanding the exact same treatment as their own children.
Although the Old Clan Leader was a bit soft-hearted, he refused to indulge them. He immediately raised the tuition for the children from the other villages by a significant amount, which finally shut them up.
Wenheng was still concerned about the group that had gone to move the ancestral graves. "Has the party that went to Bainiao returned yet?"
