Chapter 44, Let's Go Out and Have Fun
"Besides having a photographic memory, I can also read ten lines at a glance!"
Jiang Ruanruan simply continued to boast. Anyway, she had plenty of points now, and she could use them to redeem a two-hour photographic memory trial card at any time. It was only 200 points, which she could easily afford.
So, rounding it off, she's not exactly lying, is she?
"See? This girl is the legendary genius that ordinary people can hardly reach. Just admit it, I'm not like you. Admit defeat!" Jiang Ruanruan said smugly.
The surrounding instructors were all talking about it.
"Could this child really be a genius?"
"Can you memorize a book in half an hour? I certainly can't..."
"Don't even mention half an hour, it might take half a month to memorize a whole book!"
"So this world really does have the ability to remember everything at a glance. What about all my hard work and study over the years?"
Even the old scholar was a bit withdrawn, looking at Jiang Ruanruan with envy, jealousy, and hatred.
"Of course it's because you're diligent! Why compare yourself to one child? Such children are one in ten thousand. You should compare yourselves to the remaining 9,999!"
The emperor stepped forward at this moment.
"Your Majesty, what brings you here!" The chief priest quickly stepped forward.
"What? Can't I come? The Imperial Academy is a place to cultivate talents for our Great Xia. Today, I am fortunate to know that there is such a young genius. This is a blessing for our Great Xia!"
"Jiang Ruanruan, tell me, with such talent, have you ever thought about how you can serve the court and bring blessings to the world?"
The emperor stepped forward happily.
"Your Majesty, Ruan Ruan is just a woman. Reading books is just a pleasure for her. I will never be able to become an official, so how can I bring blessings to the world? This ability of mine would mostly be wasted."
Jiang Ruanruan was truly terrified. If she were to make some grand vow at this moment, outlining what she would do in the future, it would be a disaster for her, especially since she was about to leave soon after completing her mission.
Everything she's doing now is to live comfortably and complete her mission.
Ultimately, she wanted to travel on public funds.
She had no ambition to benefit the Great Xia.
“That’s right. No matter how talented you are, you’re just a woman. What great things can you achieve in the future? You’ll still have to stay at home and be a wife and mother!” Lu Ziyuan suddenly became arrogant.
"Exactly! So what if I'm a little less mediocre than you? How will I be any different from other women in the future?" At this point, Lu Zirou felt confident. Although she couldn't study as well as Jiang Ruanruan, Jiang Ruanruan wouldn't become an official in the future, so what use was she?
On the contrary, she will be participating in the Linglong Pavilion's apprentice selection in two days. Once she learns the skills, members of the royal family will be vying to marry her.
At that point, Jiang Ruanruan's status was incomparable to hers.
"This..." The emperor was speechless for a moment. After all, apart from a few female generals like Xia Yurou, there were really no female officials in the court. There were only a few female officials in the harem, but in the end, such people did not need much knowledge.
The Jiang family would never allow their eldest daughter to enter the palace to serve the concubines.
Moreover, what concubine would like someone smarter than herself? Such an outlier would find it even harder to climb to a high position.
However, the Crown Prince has already chosen Jiang Ruanruan, who will be his daughter-in-law in the future.
As the Crown Princess, having such abilities will surely enable her to better assist the Crown Prince.
"Very well, no matter what, I will reward you, Eunuch Fu..." The emperor waved his hand.
Grandpa Fu came over directly and brought out a tray.
The note above contains one hundred taels of gold.
"Your Majesty, you are such a kind person! These are all to be given to Ruanruan!" Jiang Ruanruan's eyes widened, her gaze becoming lively and bright.
"Yes, this 100 taels of gold is to encourage you. Study hard in the future and strive to become a learned person. Even if you can't enter the imperial court, look at the Imperial Academy, it has female instructors. Ruan Ruan, you must not slack off in your studies just because you have talent!"
The Emperor was incredibly kind, patting Jiang Ruanruan's head with the affection one would show to their own child.
"Wow, thank you so much for the scholarship, Your Majesty! I will definitely work hard!"
Jiang Ruanruan, who was just putting on a show, should have said she wanted it earlier. If she had been offered money, she should have talked about her grand ambitions and made a few more promises to the emperor. She might have been pleased and received even more rewards.
"Good, good, good, the word 'scholarship' is quite fitting. No wonder you're a little genius, your brain works so well!"
The emperor was very happy. He had previously thought that his crown prince should find such a companion and even wanted her to be his future crown princess. This was far too rash.
Now it seems that his son probably saw Jiang Ruanruan's uniqueness long ago.
Ding dong, congratulations host, you have gained 400 points from the Lu siblings' envy, jealousy and resentment in their debt collection efforts, with a balance of 15400.
Jiang Ruanruan laughed even harder, then bit down on the gold ingot with a loud thud, looking at the teeth marks on it and laughing like a fool.
"Chancellor...I have something else to tell you!" The emperor then left with his entourage.
"Oh, and remember those punishments must be repeated every time..." The emperor turned to look at the Lu siblings.
Lu Zirou and Lu Ziyuan, their faces grim, collapsed to the ground, on the verge of tears.
"Yes..." Siye stayed behind.
"You two, according to the bet, for the first two chapters, you must submit the first chapter five times in three days and memorize it. If you can't memorize it completely, you must continue copying the book, and so on, until you finish the first chapter, then the second chapter, and the third book..."
Siye looked at the two children and thought, "What does it mean to be both incompetent and playful?"
Because of the two people's previous accusations that he was biased towards Jiang Ruanruan, Siye felt no sympathy for them whatsoever, only disgust.
"Yes..." The Lu siblings said weakly.
Jiang Ruanruan carried a book on her back, and by then it was already time for school to end, and the class even went on for a while longer.
Many students from the intermediate and advanced classes next door came to watch the spectacle, knowing that a genius had actually emerged from the junior class's top class.
"Little sister, aren't we being a bit too high-profile today!" Jiang Huai'an looked out the classroom window at the people staring at Jiang Ruanruan as if she were a monkey.
He had never seen anything like this in his two lives.
"It's alright, Twelfth Prince, and all of you. I've made quite a bit of money today, and I can't keep it all to myself. How about I treat you to a meal today?"
Jiang Ruanruan was overjoyed. She probably wouldn't be able to take the money with her after completing the mission, so she might as well spend it all.
He invited the six boys who had visited the Prince of Ning's residence yesterday.
The Prince of Ning was overjoyed: "Where are we going? You have a huge sum of money; it's enough for us to live a life of extravagance..."
Even as the heir apparent of the Prince of Ning, he didn't have that much pocket money, especially since his mother was very strict with him.
"Can we go? I'd like to see the place you guys went to last time!" The Prince of Ning's eyes sparkled.
He had heard some rumors from the 12th Prince and Chen Zihao.
They said they went to a brothel, and they were really curious about how these kids got into a brothel.
They also wanted to broaden their horizons.
"Yes, yes, I want to go too!" Zhu Xiaobao was also very curious.
"Can I go?" Zhang Zichen stared at Jiang Ruanruan with his big, wet eyes.
"What's wrong with him? Why did you come over when I was talking to the six of them? Don't you hate me?" Jiang Ruanruan asked, puzzled.
“He has already surrendered and is now the 12th Prince’s underling. He won’t help the Lu siblings bully you anymore. How about that? Aren’t we awesome?” Chen Zihao said.
"Oh, sure, you really want to go. Zhang Zichen, I'm worried you'll tell on us..."
"I won't tell anyone, I really want to be friends with you!" Zhang Zichen looked at Jiang Ruanruan with pleading eyes.
Jiang Huai'an expressed his doubts: "My sister is no good..."
“Cousin, you’re really saying that? We’re real relatives, and I’ve never done anything to wrong you. Those rumors are my parents’ ideas, which I don’t agree with at all. I originally thought you thought the same way, but now that I find out you don’t, I’m so happy!”
"Weren't we very close when we were kids? I've always considered you my own little sister!" Zhang Zichen said, indicating that as long as Jiang Ruanruan didn't pester him or ask him to be her childhood sweetheart, his attitude towards her underwent a complete 180-degree turn.
Jiang Huai'an... that seems to be the case. In my past life, it was always my younger sister who was always trying to get close to this person.
However, in this life, my younger sister already has a little prince.
Zhang Zichen is the grandson of Xia Yurou's great-aunt. He and Jiang Ruanruan are childhood sweethearts and have a very close relationship, having grown up together since they were little.
Hearing Zhang Zichen say this, Jiang Ruanruan frowned and carefully began to recall the original owner's past life storyline.
The original owner's death in his previous life was also related to Zhang Zichen.
Although Zhang Zichen was also drugged and forced to spend a night with the original owner of the body.
However, because the original owner had always liked Zhang Zichen, Zhang Zichen always believed that he was framed by the original owner when he was given Chinese medicine.
Therefore, he was very cold to the original owner and never cared about her again after that incident. He even moved into the Imperial Academy and devoted himself to studying. He only returned after the original owner died.
It wasn't until years later that he realized all of this was orchestrated by his own aunt.
He presented himself as a victim, yet in the end he still reaped considerable benefits.
He got a son by taking advantage of others, received the original owner's dowry, and later remarried and had children.
Although later, when no one offered sacrifices after the original owner's death, it was he who took the original owner's child to offer sacrifices.
Therefore, from these perspectives, Zhang Zichen is not a true enemy.
After learning everything his aunt had done, Zhang Zichen took the child and left the Jiang family, never to have anything to do with them again.
So perhaps this person isn't entirely beyond redemption.
If the two had started as friends, none of the tragedies that happened to the original owner would have occurred.
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