Several of those villages had even banded together, wanting them to take in more students and train a few scholars for them free of charge.
But this was unreasonable no matter how one looked at it. Previously, they had allowed these children to enroll alongside the village kids, charging only a symbolic tuition fee. Who would have thought these people would push their luck, actually expecting the exact same treatment as the local village children?
Although the Old Clan Leader was somewhat soft-hearted, he would not coddle them. He immediately raised the tuition fees significantly for the children from other villages who had already enrolled, which finally quieted those people down.
Gu Wenheng was still thinking about the people who had gone back to relocate the ancestral graves. "Has the group heading back to Bainiao Valley returned yet?"
