Chapter 205 I Want to Cry
“Grandma, we’ve never been to this street before. It’s much more lively than the street we visited during the first month of the lunar year.”
"This is the main street of the south city. The east city is mostly inhabited by wealthy merchants. Although the buildings are not as good as those in the main city, the prosperity is no less than that of the main city."
Yuan Hongqu was telling the truth.
However, the biggest reason was that the street Daiyu went to in the first month of the lunar calendar had already been cleared in advance, and many vendors had taken their money and gone to other streets, so there were relatively few pedestrians on the street Daiyu went to.
Daiyu's carriage passed by Zuixianlou, but only stopped briefly. A servant went in and instructed the shopkeeper to send the wine to the Lin family.
Their carriage hadn't even arrived home yet, but the wine they wanted to buy had already been delivered back to the Lin family.
In addition to these wines, some ginseng wine infused with the original red lotus was also sent to Lin Ruhai.
Ginseng essence, as well as medicines made with ginseng, and some of the original red lotus were also brought along.
This time when Yuan Hongqu went to Yangzhou, she specially asked Jia Lian for help. He was going to deliver gifts to the Zhen family in Jiangnan and would also send the Lin family's things over along the way.
Jia Lian had set the departure date for February 16th.
Although Daiyu had already prepared the things to send to her father, she suddenly thought of something and wanted to add more.
Fortunately, the birthday banquet three days later was to be hosted by the Imperial Household Department; otherwise, they wouldn't have had so much time to register at the academy and prepare things for Lin Ruhai.
In the stillness of the night, only the moon hangs alone.
Today, Daiyu was unusually clingy, and no matter what Yuan Hongqu did, Daiyu had to follow along.
Only after Daiyu fell asleep did Yuan Hongqu finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Back in her room, Yuan Hongqu dismissed the maids who had followed her, turned off the light, and entered her spatial dimension.
She wanted to cry.
Although she is already a retired elderly person by both modern and ancient standards, she should be able to control her emotions, and nothing in the world can easily stir her up again.
Crying, laughing, getting excited, and feeling sad are things for little girls; they have nothing to do with her.
But at this moment, Yuan Hongqu just wanted to ignore everything and have a good cry.
She regained her memories today, and thought that since so much time had passed, she would no longer be sad.
But now that she thinks about it, she wasn't sad when it happened, but after so long, she still can't avoid it and she'll still be sad.
The Yangzhou Women's Academy was her life's work, and also Lin Yuanhang's.
Lin Yuanhang was once a scholar, but later became a businessman.
He was Yuan Hongqu's most like-minded partner.
As a pure ancient person, Lin Yuanhang's thinking was surprisingly in sync with Yuan Hongqu's ideas.
Lin Yuanhang's parents are both deceased, and he has no one to supervise him. He is two years older than Yuan Hongqu, but he lives alone.
The two met through the introduction of the headmistress of the girls' academy. They hit it off immediately and, having similar styles of doing things, quickly became close friends.
Not long after, Yuan Hongqu simply recognized Lin Yuanhang as her elder brother. She even wanted to follow the example in the book and burn incense and pray to the gods with Lin Yuanhang to become sworn brothers.
However, Lin Yuanhang refused...
Yuan Hongqu has no shortage of funds or ideas, but she lacks a powerful backer.
Although Lin Yuanhang is a businessman, his foundation is much more solid than that of the original Hongqu.
With Lin Yuanhang's help, the construction of the girls' academy at Yuan Hongqu went more and more smoothly...
A few years later, Yangzhou Women's Academy became a well-known academy, and Lin Yuanhang deserves at least half the credit.
Later... Yuan Hongqu raised an empress...
The girls' academy in Yangzhou was destroyed because it produced an empress...
Lin Yuanhang is dead.
Yuan Hongqu has been imprisoned.
It wasn't until after Lin Yuanhang's death that the dean told Yuan Hongqu.
The original intention of introducing them was to set them up on a blind date.
Unexpectedly, their relationship didn't turn out to be romantic, but they became like brothers.
In fact, Lin Yuanhang didn't want to be brothers with Yuan Hongqu at all; he had taken a liking to Yuan Hongqu at first sight.
Just for that one glance, he stopped and stayed in Yangzhou, serving Yuan Hongqu.
But Yuan Hongqu didn't know that!
She suffered from depression in her past life, and in this life, living in ancient times, she seems to lack emotional connection, completely unaware of what love is.
Even knowing that Lin Yuanhang was dead, she didn't shed a single tear.
But today her memory suddenly returned, and when she thought of Lin Yuanhang, she couldn't help but want to cry.
Yuan Hongqu knew that her depression had been cured without medication the first time she met Daiyu.
At this point, the memory returns.
When Yuan Hongqu thought of Lin Yuanhang, it wasn't about the academy or her former colleagues and friends; the first person that came to her mind was Lin Yuanhang.
If he were still alive, I might just think about it and let it go.
But he died.
For the sake of the academy, or more precisely, for her, Yuan Hongqu…
Yuan Hongqu immersed herself in the bathtub, with only her head sticking out, and the water kept making a "drip drip" sound.
She wept silently.
I'm sorry, Yuanhang.
Although the girls' school is our life's work, I still don't plan to go.
Yuan Hongqu emerged from the bathtub, cried this time, and buried those memories deep within her heart once more...
Today, Daiyu must have noticed that something was wrong with her, so after leaving the academy, she kept pestering her, not allowing her to be alone or have any free time.
Daiyu believed that by keeping the nanny occupied, she wouldn't have time to be sad or think about the bad things from the past.
Yuan Hongqu felt a warm feeling in her heart.
She picked up some materials that the school had given her when she registered today; these were the contents of the tenth-grade exam.
Yuan Hongqu skimmed through it, then began writing an outline and a summary of the content.
However, the exam is just one day away, and it will be difficult to memorize all of this.
She first organized it, making it easier for Daiyu to understand, just enough to get a general idea.
In just one day, no student was able to remember everything.
"Granny, didn't we agree last night that you would sleep with me? But you left as soon as I fell asleep. Granny, are you disgusted with Yu'er? You never used to do this." Daiyu tugged at Yuan Hongqu's arm, looking aggrieved.
"You don't tell me bedtime stories anymore, and you don't give me midnight snacks anymore. You don't care about me anymore!" Daiyu complained.
Tears were about to fall.
"How could that be!" Although Yuan Hongqu knew that Daiyu was acting, she still couldn't help but fall for it.
"I made this for you last night. Take a look at it today. It contains all the exam content for tomorrow." With that, she handed a stack of papers to Daiyu.
Daiyu did not accept it.
"Granny, you didn't take out the exam paper, did you?"
Daiyu stared wide-eyed, her expression serious.
"Then I'll have to go out and sell exam questions! Hehe... They're not expensive, only one hundred taels of silver per set."
"Girl, if you dare to sell, I'm afraid no one will dare to buy," Xueyan said with a grin. "It's so expensive, who would dare to buy it?"
"Don't talk nonsense, it's not an exam question. It's just a summary tailored to your study habits. You might find it useful, but others probably won't understand it."
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