On the first day of the Lunar New Year, her apprentice greeted her and gave her a red envelope. After breakfast, she didn't have any classes today. She decided to take a break for the next two days of the Lunar New Year. Around nine or ten o'clock, the children from the foot of the mountain came up to wish her a Happy New Year.
Jiang Yue gave each of them a red envelope after they lined up. Before leaving, Jiang Yue asked her little apprentice to go down the mountain with them to play. After all, the mountain was deserted. When Jiang Yue was a child, her master would send her down the mountain to play for a few days during the New Year.
After sending her apprentice away, Jiang Yue sent Bai Ze out to record the real New Year celebrations of people in the Tang Dynasty. It might be useful in the modern world.
When Bai Ze returned, the puppet that had gone out to search for minerals also returned. Because spiritual energy was detected in this world, Jiang Yue checked if there were any minerals that could expand space, but she was disappointed again. However, Jiang Yue was used to this kind of result.
The puppet that went out to collect the ancient texts has returned. All the knowledge of the entire planet has been collected and categorized, which has greatly reduced Bai Ze's workload. He only needs to store it.
Two more days passed, and Bai Ze had finished analyzing these classic texts. Strangely, there were no truly usable cultivation methods. Jiang Yue became interested. This didn't make sense. This world had spiritual energy, but it was constantly decreasing. So maybe there was an era when spiritual energy was abundant.
Then there must be some cultivation method. Even if there isn't anything particularly outstanding, there must be some basic way to utilize spiritual energy. Now there isn't even a breathing technique. This is obviously a problem.
Unless there's another possibility, that the spiritual energy on this planet isn't from the local planet, but rather something brought down by a meteorite, which doesn't have much spiritual energy to begin with. Thinking of this possibility, Jiang Yue took out the Wizard Tower and probed it.
After adding it to the task list, Jiang Yue ignored it. She knew she would have to search for it inch by inch and didn't know when she would find it, not to mention that she might have to try all the possibilities.
Afterwards, Jiang Yue went inside the mountain to check the star-finding instrument to see if there were any blessed lands or small worlds, but she found nothing. Jiang Yue thought for a moment and increased the power, just in case there really was something there. Jiang Yue always felt that this spiritual energy didn't seem to come from outside.
Of course, it's also possible that the spiritual energy in this world was not strong to begin with, and its duration was short, so no one discovered or was able to use it. Although this possibility is low, it's the only one that makes sense if we rule out the first two possibilities.
After Jiang Yue finished her busy work and the New Year was over, the academy had already started a new round of enrollment. Unlike the first few years after the academy opened, the competition between the male and female departments was now very fierce.
Jiang Yue contributed some prescriptions that allowed the academy to admit one more person, so there was no question of her taking someone else's spot. This would save the child from being harassed by crickets later on. The main reason is that, in my memory, the students from the previous years all achieved great things later on, and it wouldn't be worth losing a talented person by taking someone else's spot.
Jiang Yue thought she had only added one more apprentice, but in fact, she had added four more people. The classroom was four people per row, and the dormitory was four people per room. It would be difficult to arrange one more person, so she simply recruited three more people. Not only did she not take other people's spots, but she also changed the fate of three more people.
After the Qingming Festival, it was time for new students to enroll. Jiang Yue took her apprentice, who was clearly still sleep-deprived, to the academy early in the morning. Perhaps she was excited because it was her first time attending school.
The academy was packed with parents who had come to send their children to school. Instead of telling their sons to eat more if they didn't study well, the parents were telling their children to study hard so that they could bring honor to their ancestors and achieve great things in the future.
Two tents were temporarily set up at the entrance of the academy, similar to those in later military academies. There were people specifically assigned to check what the students brought. The checks were very strict; nothing was allowed except for personal clothing. Even the writing implements, such as pens, ink, paper, and inkstones, were provided by the school.
The academy had been open for several years, and everyone who came to study had inquired about the academy's rules, so the process was quite fast. Before long, it was Jiang Yue and her apprentice's turn. After checking their personal belongings, they began to distribute dormitories, clothes, toiletries, etc. After receiving their items and signing the forms, they could enter the academy. Jiang Yue couldn't get in even after being dropped off here.
"Master..."
Only then did the young apprentice realize that he was about to part with Jiang Yue. His eyes were filled with tears, and he couldn't speak. Almost everyone around was like that; who could bear to part with someone like that?
"It's alright. The academy has holidays every month. The Taoist temple and the academy are close by, so you can go home when you have your holiday. Study hard and make some friends. The food in the cafeteria might not be as good as what your master cooks, but you still have to eat. You'll be hungry if you don't..."
"Master! I'm not a picky eater!"
"Heh~"
If you're not picky about food, who is? Jiang Yue raises her apprentices like she raises her daughters. Saying you're not picky about food might fool others. Just as Jiang Yue was about to retort, the little apprentice hurriedly said, "Goodbye, Master. I saw Xiao Wu. I'm going to meet up with her. I'll miss your Master."
After saying that, he waved goodbye to Jiang Yue, slung his luggage over his shoulder, grabbed his toiletries, lunchbox, and other belongings, and ran off with a clatter. Once he was gone, Jiang Yue put his hands down and felt a little melancholy. She figured she wouldn't see him for a while, and she felt a little uneasy and reluctant to part with him.
After walking out of the college gate, Jiang Yue saw street vendors and looked at the parents eating. Jiang Yue felt a little hungry, and after wandering around for a while, she had quite a few things in her hands.
Jiang Yue remembered that when she first came to the Tang Dynasty, there weren't so many different kinds of food. The stalls only had pancakes and noodles. Look at the barbecue skewers, milk tea, wolf tooth potatoes, fried chicken wings, etc., and if you go further in, you can even find pancakes. Damn, if archaeologists dig this up, let's see how confused they are. They'll probably think that tomb raiders have come to the tomb for a feast.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yue couldn't help but smile. Luckily, she was eating with her head down and no one noticed. If someone had seen her, and she suddenly smiled while eating, people would have thought she had mental problems.
After eating and drinking her fill, Jiang Yue bought a cup of milk tea. The milk tea was a bit expensive, but it was made with high-quality ingredients and tasted better than the ones she had stored in her space. She bought several cups and then went to a less crowded place to put them in her space.
After browsing around for a while, the parents who had come to drop off their children for school gradually left. Jiang Yue checked the time and realized it was time to return to the Taoist temple. Now that there was a cement road leading to the academy, the round trip would take much less time than before.
When she returned to the Taoist temple for evening prayers, she felt a little unaccustomed to being alone. After the prayers, she exercised a bit more and ate a vegetable salad and some fruit for dinner. She was worried about gaining weight because she had eaten a little too much that day.
Another week passed before Jiang Yue got used to being alone. The power of habit is too strong. She had lived with her apprentice for three or four years, and she could hardly find the state of mind she had when she lived alone before. She wondered how her apprentice was doing. She thought it must be much more tiring over there, and she probably didn't have time to think about her.
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