Chapter 298 Afternoon Schedule Turns into Competition Venue
In the afternoon, the sun wasn't so strong.
After a midday rest, the students were all full of energy again.
The students, who had agreed to travel on horseback, formed a group of about twenty or thirty people.
Although the number of people was not large, there were two or three hundred guards accompanying them. This was only because they strongly requested that only half of them come; otherwise, the number would have been even greater.
The other students still rode in slow horse-drawn carriages.
However, the afternoon's itinerary was much more interesting than the morning's.
Each group had different activities, including playing chess, playing grass fighting, forming temporary poetry societies to compose poems, and even having horse-drawn carriages following along to compose couplets.
Students who prefer quiet can play chess together in the car with other students who share the same interest.
They prepared Go, Chinese chess, and checkers. Younger students who didn't like those games could also play animal chess. All kinds of games were available.
As for grass fighting, it is much more interesting than playing in the garden.
In the past, they just stayed with the same kinds of plants in the garden, and after playing with them so many times, there was nothing new to it.
Now, along this roadside, there are many plants and trees I've never seen before.
The carriage wasn't moving fast. The students playing grass-fighting games saw some unusual plants and instructed the people outside that they could pick them simply by bending down.
Then compare the novelty and uniqueness of the plants; the most unique one wins the prize.
Each activity has its own winners, and the winners receive a reward at the evening camp party.
The lowest prize was a box of thirty-six different kinds of pastries from the academy's pastry shop.
The second place went to a complete set of ginseng skincare products.
The number one product is also a ginseng series, not a skincare series, but a health and wellness series, including ginseng hydrosol, ginseng pills, and ginseng wine.
There was nothing they could do; the academy's dean was so poor that all he had left was ginseng.
These rewards will be distributed together during tonight's camping trip.
What was originally just a simple game to pass the time instantly became something special after the addition of a prize.
Each of these three prizes is rare, especially the first prize, which is something you can only come across once in a lifetime!
Yuan Hongqu truly did not expect that after Daiyu was recognized by the space, while the other crops in her yard were fine, the ginseng seemed to have been put on double speed, growing several times faster.
The original batch of ginseng that was planted earliest, Yuan Hongqu didn't dare to take out.
That's definitely a thousand-year-old ginseng, and it's already fully formed!
If she were to take this out, Yuan Hongqu feared she would be hunted down.
Therefore, she could only use the instruments in the space to make ginseng into hydrosol, ginseng pills, etc. These ginseng medicines with the character "林" on them were hundreds of times more effective than those made outside.
Even the ginseng residue after extracting the hydrosol is still more potent than ginseng from the outside, and Yuan Hongqu then made it into ginseng paste.
These medicines may be an exaggeration to say they can bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bones, but as long as there is still a breath left and the patient's organs are not completely failing due to overwork, they can generally be saved.
Yuan Hongqu was terrified by the medicinal effects. She knew that the ginseng produced in the space did not have such great effects. This was all due to the upgrade that the space underwent after Daiyu was able to freely enter and exit.
Therefore, the ginseng medicine marked with the character "林" (Lin) is currently only available to the Empress; the others are stored in the space.
The medicine used as prizes this time was the same kind made before the space was upgraded.
Even those were enough to make the wealthy families in the capital flock to them.
Now everyone in the capital knows that last year, Governor-General Lin Ruhai of Liangjiang was on the verge of death after returning to the capital.
Even the imperial physicians couldn't help him, but in the end, they managed to snatch him back from the clutches of death with these ginseng hydrosols and ginseng pills.
People say that Lin Daiyu, the princess of the Crimson Pearl family, is a fairy of a hundred flowers. This fairy of a hundred flowers and the fairy of ginseng must be good friends, which is why the effects of these ginseng products are so unique. They are all imbued with the fairy's aura.
The capital city has the most wealthy and powerful people, and these people share a common problem: they are afraid of death and a short lifespan. With these ginseng products as a safety net, they feel much more at ease.
However, this kind of thing is rare and hard to come by. Apart from Lin Ruhai, who ate these things like they were food, no one else has seen them more than a few times.
But this stuff is really effective.
Just like the grandmother of Minister Qiu, who suddenly fell ill. Minister Qiu's daughter worked at the academy and sought help from Mr. Yuan. Mr. Yuan was generous and gave her a bottle of hydrosol.
Lord Qiu's grandmother was seventy-five years old and clearly on her deathbed. After drinking a bottle of hydrosol, she was back to playing mahjong a few days later.
Tell me, isn't this medicine miraculous? Do you want it?
I heard that this thing has been sold for exorbitant prices on the black market.
Wang Xifeng approached Yuan Hongqu several times, wanting to sell her ginseng products in his family's pharmacy, but Yuan Hongqu refused each time.
However, Yuan Hongqu pointed her in a direction: the medicinal food packets and cosmeceuticals in her pharmacy now account for half of the pharmacy's total revenue.
This study tour organized by the academy was sponsored by their pharmacy.
Although it was completely unnecessary given the extravagant lifestyle of the girls' academy, Wang Xifeng still came forward.
What a great opportunity! So many wealthy girls from the capital are on study tours, and each one of them is a potential client, and a very high-quality one at that.
In addition, the supply of carriages and horse feed came from the sponsorship of the largest carriage and horse company in the capital, which was backed by Prince Zhongshun.
Other things, too, all sorts of businesses in the capital came to our door begging for sponsorship.
This study tour, including the round trip, is planned to last half a month. The fee is 500 taels per student. After deducting costs, Yuan Hongqu will have to pay 20,000 taels of silver in taxes to the Ministry of Revenue.
In fact, she didn't really contribute much to this study tour.
In the afternoon, Daiyu wanted to ride a horse, and Lansu accompanied her.
Yuan Hongqu could ride a horse, but she would chicken out if asked to ride for an hour or two at a time.
She preferred to sway around inside the carriage.
After wandering around for a while, she entered the space.
In the morning, Daiyu was not allowed to enter the space, but in the afternoon she went there by herself.
She's been feeling uneasy these past couple of days, as if she's overlooked something.
The original work has become fragmented, and she, being immersed in it, has long forgotten some of the details in the original work.
For example, some things that happened before Consort Yuan's visit to her family.
Yuan Hongqu deliberately avoided or changed those things.
But the butterfly's wings have already flapped, and it's unknown whether the course of events has changed.
For example, Qin Keqing passed away... I heard from Wang Xifeng that Qin Keqing's health had not been good recently.
Yuan Hongqu made a mark in her notebook. The You sisters, who appeared shortly afterward… all appeared in Yuan Hongqu's little notebook.
As Yuan Hongqu flipped through the original text, she made notes on parts she had missed. Once the study tour ended, she would start filling in any gaps in her knowledge and addressing any forgotten points.
Time passed very slowly inside the space, and Yuan Hongqu took the opportunity to slack off.
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