Scholar Wan had recently taken a strong disliking to He Jinseng.
He Jinseng, for some reason, had announced that he would no longer be staying at the private school and instead would return home.
Half of Wan's Private School's revenue came from the students' lodging fees: each student paid a hundred copper coins per month, plus thirty kilograms of rice and a load of vegetables.
However, He Jinseng had been residing properly and suddenly stated that he wouldn't stay anymore, which infuriated Scholar Wan. Lately, he had been giving He Jinseng strenuous and dirty tasks to perform frequently.
"Yes, I will move the rice to the backyard right away," He Jinseng, being an honest boy, knew that as a student at the private school he shouldn't be doing such menial tasks suited for servants, but he did it anyway, carrying bags of rice to the backyard.
He had moved about half of it when he was about to turn back to the front of the private school and heard a burst of teasing laughter.