Chapter 302 Fireflies
After being rejected by the academy last year, Xue Baochai had no hope of being able to enter the academy again.
When Xue Pan told her that he absolutely had to let her in, she felt that her brother was just trying to coax her and was just making empty promises.
Unexpectedly, she actually received an acceptance letter from the academy.
This time, there wasn't even a home visit.
Later, she saw an expenditure of 50,000 taels of silver in the family's account books, and also saw the Xue family's donation of 50,000 taels of sponsorship on the academy's bulletin board. Only then did she understand how she had been admitted to the academy.
Indeed, money can buy anything; even someone as aloof as Yuan Hongqu is not immune to worldly temptations.
Because of this exception, Yuan Hongqu's image in Xue Baochai's eyes plummeted.
In Xue Baochai's mind now, Yuan Hongqu, like Wang Xifeng, is a greedy and avaricious person, and is no longer worthy of her respect.
Now that things have come to this point, even if Xue Baochai doesn't want to go to the academy, the 50,000 taels of silver have already been spent, and it's impossible to get the academy to refund it; the Xue family can't afford to lose face like that.
After all, the sponsorship fee of 50,000 taels of silver, once publicized on the academy's bulletin board, made many families in the capital aware of it and the wealthy Xue family. As a result, the Xue family's business has even improved slightly recently.
Xue Baochai simply went to the academy.
The girls' academy used to be sacred in her mind, but now she felt it had been tarnished, even though it was the Xue family who had put that tarnish on it.
However, a month after entering the academy, Xue Baochai's thoughts changed again.
The more you know, the more you realize how insignificant you are.
She even felt ashamed of her previous misunderstanding of the academy and of Yuan Hongqu.
The academy publishes its financial expenditures every month, and Xue Baochai only then learned that the academy also had a branch academy that was charitable, and the girls' academy would allocate a sum of money to the branch academy every month.
Xue Baochai applied to work as a teaching assistant at the branch campus. Teaching assistants could earn extra credits, but they were required to dress simply and not wear expensive jewelry.
After working as a teaching assistant, she suddenly understood the significance of the girls' academy.
It turns out that "a woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent," that being a good wife and mother is not a woman's only path, and that the saying that women are inferior to men is not just empty talk.
From then on, she no longer clung to her identity as a woman and stopped concerning herself with the family business. Since her brother's ambitions lay elsewhere, she might as well let him marry early and continue the family bloodline. As for the Xue family business, she, Xue Baochai, would handle it!
This study tour was the best opportunity for her to deepen her relationship with the girls at the academy.
Xue Baochai would not miss this opportunity, so even if she couldn't keep an eye on the Xue family's business every day, she would still follow along.
As long as she's shameless enough, these will all become valuable connections for the Xue family.
The Xue family cannot afford to collapse in their generation.
Unlike Lin Daiyu, who had a teacher who planned everything for her and a father who cherished her dearly...
It turns out that she admired Lin Daiyu, and even envied Lin Daiyu.
But now she can only look up to Lin Daiyu.
This study tour was reportedly spearheaded by Lin Daiyu, who, along with several other high-achieving students, planned and organized it.
Xue Baochai believed that she did not have such ability.
Under the hazy moonlight, Daiyu carried a lantern and walked along the riverbank with Lansu.
The occasional croaking of frogs echoed from the river, mingling with the chirping of insects along the banks, creating a delightful and pleasant sound.
Besides the two men, they were accompanied by several guards, and they walked directly along the riverbank.
Daiyu found it difficult to even catch a glimpse of the water's surface, which made her somewhat disheartened.
This is not the scene I wanted at all.
They walked under the moonlight, searching for fireflies, catching the little insects and putting them in gauze bags to make firefly lanterns.
With so many people around, the atmosphere is completely ruined!
But she couldn't just send these guards away.
Granny Yuan said that if she didn't allow the guards to accompany her, she wouldn't be allowed to come out.
"Sister Susu, where are the fireflies?" Daiyu was getting increasingly impatient.
"Look, there it is. There aren't many here, but there are more up ahead." Lan Su pointed to the scattered bright spots above the river.
"Is that a firefly?" Daiyu asked, gazing at the faint, almost invisible light.
"When I passed by here before, the entire river was covered with fireflies, like a river of fireflies. Could it be that there were too many people, disturbing the fireflies, so they didn't appear?"
Lan Su also found it a bit strange.
They walked a little further and were almost at the campsite, but the river of fireflies that Lan Su had mentioned still hadn't appeared.
However, Lan Su did manage to catch some fireflies, put them in a bag, and make a small lantern for Daiyu.
They had already gone too far, and now that they were going back, they would have to walk the same distance again. Daiyu felt that the road was so long and she was really tired.
"Sister Susu..."
"Hmm." Lan Su seemed a little absent-minded.
"Let's go back." Daiyu stopped and wondered how she had ever had the courage to follow Lan Su here.
She's a martial arts master, how could I, a little girl who's only practiced Baduanjin and Wing Chun, possibly compare?
"Are you tired, young lady? Let's rest at the nearest tent and borrow a carriage to go back."
Lan Su then noticed that Daiyu seemed to be trying her best to keep up with her.
Seeing the place she had visited before today stirred up a deep emotion within her, so she didn't notice Daiyu's condition.
Seeing that Daiyu was already panting and looked quite disheveled from the journey, he felt a little guilty.
"It's so late, they're probably already resting. Shouldn't we be careful not to disturb them?"
Having walked quite a distance, Daiyu was truly exhausted.
She exercised much more than usual today.
“Miss, you’re not afraid of heights, so I’ll take you back first!” Lan Su said, suddenly picking up Daiyu and lightly touching the ground with her toes. Before Daiyu could react, she felt her body lighten and her feet feel empty, as if she were flying.
A gust of wind blew past her ear, and Daiyu lowered her head, letting out a startled cry.
"Sister Susu, let's fly on the water!"
Lan Su didn't speak, but led her, occasionally touching the water with her toes, and then moving forward several feet.
Beneath their feet was water and fireflies, and Daiyu felt as if she were flying in a star-filled galaxy.
Fortunately, she was well-informed and had long since developed the ability to remain calm in the face of unexpected situations within the space, which is why she did not cry out in surprise.
Daiyu knew that Lansu was skilled and had witnessed her lightness skill, but she truly did not know that it was this powerful.
Looking at Lan Su's smiling face, calm and composed, as if she had gotten what she wanted, Daiyu suddenly felt a little flustered.
This is the real Lan Su, isn't it?
Lan Su shouldn't just be her own bodyguard.
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