The book has no strength, the female supporting role just wants to survive

Chapter 273 Regulations

When Xiao Mingrui and Xiao Mingxu arrived at the Discipline Hall, Jiang Tunan was standing in the hall with a wounded look on his face, confronting Zhang Qi.

"I am ignorant and I deserve death. Today I learned that the uniforms prepared by the girls' school for each student cost fifty taels of gold..."

Jiang Tunan's voice was choked with sobs, and the corners of his eyes were red. To others, it seemed that Zhang Qi had bullied Jiang Tunan, but Xiao Mingrui saw it at a glance.

She is pretending.

"How can this Zhang Qi bully Xiao Nan Nan? I'm going to punish him..."

Xiao Mingxu, who was standing next to him, rolled up his sleeves and was about to rush forward, but was stopped by Xiao Mingrui.

"Let's take a look first. This is the Discipline Hall, not some other place."

The Discipline Hall is the place in charge of the discipline of the students of the Imperial College. No matter if they are from the male or female colleges, only students who have made serious mistakes will be called here. There are two top managers in the Discipline Hall, who handle the affairs of the male and female colleges respectively. The manager of the female college is Nanny Yi.

Although everyone called her "Mammy", she was different from the teaching mammies in the palace because she was not a real teaching mammy. She had always followed Princess Guangping.

At that time, the princess was fighting in the front with Prince Guangping, and she was in charge of a group of female soldiers in the rear military camp. Later, when Princess Guangping retired from the battlefield, she took over the management of the servants in the mansion for Princess Guangping.

Maybe it was because Nanny Yi had been on the battlefield, but every time her gaze swept over me, I always felt oppressed.

"Miss Jiang, be careful with your words. The current emperor advocates going from extravagance to frugality. How can a girls' school be so extravagant?"

Nanny Yi refuted Jiang Tunan with a hint of displeasure between her brows. Princess Guangping smiled and said,

"Miss Jiang really thinks highly of me. I don't have that much money to let each female student wear a dress that costs fifty taels of gold."

Princess Guangping's words made Zhang Qi's face turn pale. She had realized that something was wrong. Jiang Tunan's ready agreement to give money at the beginning might be a trap.

"If that's the case, then why does Miss Zhang's skirt alone cost fifty taels of gold?"

Jiang Tunan pretended to be surprised and gently covered his mouth.

"Miss Zhang is still seeking special treatment at the Girls' School?"

There is definitely special treatment in girls' schools. For example, the princesses and daughters of important officials in Yuehua Courtyard cannot enjoy exactly the same treatment as the people in Yuhua Courtyard. It's just that these are unspoken rules and no one will talk about them openly.

At the beginning of the establishment of the girls' school, the emperor issued a clear order that all students in the girls' school, regardless of their background, must receive the same learning resources. If anyone in the girls' school dared to use their status to snatch other people's resources, or blatantly privileged others, even if they were princesses, they would be punished.

But it does not mean that some tricks cannot be done in other aspects, for example, Yuehuayuan's position is always at the front, the desks used in class are replaced with ones brought from home, or the candidates for each royal poetry gathering are selected from Yuehuayuan and Xinglanyuan.

Jiang Tunan knew that it would be difficult to change things after all because of the class gap.

Even Jiang Tunan himself benefited from the Xiao family.

But today Jiang Tunan brought this matter to light, also betting on the attitude of Princess Guangping, to see whether she would condone these things or abide by the rules.

"Oh? Miss Zhang's student uniform actually cost fifty taels of gold? Could it be that someone under my command embezzled money and dared to offer such a high price?"

Princess Guangping tapped her fingers lightly on the armrest, again and again, and everyone's eyes were now focused on Zhang Qi's skirt.

Zhang Qi's face turned pale with fright. Where did she get fifty taels of gold? This dress only cost a little over five taels of silver. She just wanted to scare Ye Ruzhen and the others, so she offered fifty taels. But Ji Lingyue and Jiang Tunan wanted to stand up for Ye Ruzhen, so she changed the amount to gold.

When she saw several people giving money obediently, she thought they were stupid and had a lot of money, but it turned out that she was the stupid one.

Xiao Mingxu, who was outside the Discipline Hall, laughed unconsciously when he saw the situation improve.

"So Xiao Nannan is trying to praise someone by first criticizing him. This Zhang Qi seems to be the daughter of a minister in the Ministry of War. I was wondering why she is so rich, but she is not from the Ministry of Revenue."

Yan Wanqing, the daughter of the Minister of Revenue, who was watching the play:?

Yan Wanqing gritted her teeth and held back from saying anything. Xiao Mingxu was the son of the Minister of Rites, and the Second Prince was trying to win over the Xiao family recently. Her father was in the Second Prince's faction, so she naturally could not offend the several young masters of the Xiao family.

Meng Yao stood beside Yan Wanqing and saw that Yan Wanqing's face was twitching. She asked in confusion,

"what happened to you?"

"It's okay. I just thought Jiang Tunan was really bold. He actually came to the Discipline Hall just for this matter."

Meng Yao looked at Zhang Qi and Jiang Tunan in the Discipline Hall and snorted coldly.

"I've never seen anyone pretend better than me."

Meng Yao's armband was light purple, while Yan Wanqing's was light red. Logically, Meng Yao's grades did not meet the standards for entering Yuehua Courtyard, but she had the support of the Rong Mansion, so even though she and Yan Wanqing were both daughters of Shangshu, she easily entered Yuehua Courtyard.

Yan Wanqing looked at Meng Yao's armband, then looked at her own armband, and said nothing.

"What are you pretending to be?"

A male voice sounded behind Meng Yao, and Meng Yao immediately stood up straight with a perfect smile on her face.

"Brother~"

"Shut up."

"okay."

Meng Jingchen turned away from Meng Yao with disdain. He had always been wondering where Meng Yao learned all these stupid noises from.

If Meng Yao wasn't his biological sister, he would have slapped her away long ago.

"What's going on? I'm still in class and I heard that the Discipline Hall is very lively today."

Meng Yao lowered her head and dared not speak nonsense, so she had to tell the whole story.

"It seems that the people who were taking the etiquette class today had a quarrel over a skirt. One of them was Zhang Qi, the daughter of the Minister of War. She said that Jiang Tunan and his gang had soiled her skirt, which was worth fifty taels of gold. Finally, they came to the Discipline Hall to make a scene."

Meng Jingchen frowned fiercely.

"Did someone from the Discipline Hall ask them to come over?"

Meng Yao shook her head.

"It was Jiang Tunan who called everyone over."

Meng Jingchen looked through the crowd into the Discipline Hall and saw Jiang Tunan pretending to cry. His crying was quite loud but there was no tear in his eyes.

"madness."

Meng Jingchen uttered two words lightly, and Meng Yao nodded flatteringly.

"Yeah, yeah, I also think that Zhang Qi is stupid. Who would believe it if he told others that the skirt cost fifty taels of gold? Even the Wanqing family didn't use such expensive fabrics. A minister of the Ministry of War, huh~"

Yan Wanqing: It’s none of my business.

"I mean Jiang Tunan is stupid."

Meng Jingchen's eyes were dark, and a trace of worry flashed across his eyes.

"She probably doesn't know the rules of the Discipline Hall."