Chapter 225: 136 A Family Unites (First Update)_3
Gu Jiao heaved a sigh, “What on earth do you want?”
The scholar boy giggled, “You finally remembered me, didn’t you?”
Gu Jiao responded flatly, “Our Medical Hall hasn’t opened yet. If you’re ill, you’d better go somewhere else.”
“Oh, so this is a Medical Hall, huh? Are you working here on a permanent basis?” The scholar boy probed, clearly assuming from Gu Jiao’s attire that she couldn’t afford to open a clinic herself, and was likely employed by someone else.
Gu Jiao responded casually with a hum, and continued sweeping the floor.
The scholar boy exclaimed excitedly, “So, we’ll be seeing each other frequently!”
Gu Jiao looked at him oddly, “You’re seriously ill?”
The scholar boy, like a bobblehead, shook his head. For sure, she had a good temperament. Anyone else would have been nettled by being questioned this way, but she didn’t get irritated at all.
She inquired, “Do you know what the several mansions beside your place have been bought for?”
“I don’t know,” Gu Jiao replied.
“It’s for an Academy!” the scholar boy revealed.
“Oh,” Gu Jiao replied, coolly.
The shopkeeper, who was discussing cabinets with a carpenter, became flustered. He walked over quickly and asked the scholar boy, “What did you just say? What Academy?”
“Haven’t you heard? The Princess is opening a women’s academy! It’s on this very street. A few mansions to your west, along with the large plot of land behind them, have all been bought by the Princess.” The scholar boy spoke, pointing at their clinic, “Originally, I remembered that this shop was also supposed to be bought, but the homeowner could not be found, so they didn’t rent it. By the way, how did you get it? How did you find the homeowner whom even the Princess couldn’t locate?”
The shopkeeper considered that because the homeowner was a little monk in a temple, they couldn’t find him!
If there was a women’s academy opening nearby launched by the Princess, could their clinic still lack business?
Suppressing the excitement rising within him, the shopkeeper asked, “Are you sure about this? We didn’t hear anything about it!”
The scholar boy stated, “It’s an internal news. Of course, you wouldn’t have heard about it!”
Internal, Gu Jiao gave the scholar boy a look.
The scholar boy clapped her hands, “Alright, I’m leaving now. Once the academy opens, I’ll come to find you. The Princess is truly a great woman, to actually establish the first women’s academy since the founding of Zhan Country, despite opposition. In the future, women will be able to study at academies just like men. Isn’t such a Princess remarkable? A hundred years from now, the Princess will surely be recorded in history, her name will be legendary!”
As for who would become legendary or not, Gu Jiao didn’t care about that. But with the establishment of the women’s academy, their clinic would indeed gain business.
The shopkeeper couldn’t help but grin from ear to ear.
Such a prime location, how wonderful!
He could already see piles of glittering silver rushing towards him!
The news of the Princess establishing a women’s academy quickly spread among the nobility. Even though Zhan Country does not follow the old stipulation that women ought to be uneducated to be virtuous, women could only receive education from private tutors at home.
The former Princess was , and the present Gu Jinyu was also .
However, today, Gu Jinyu received an admission letter.
Only then did Gu Jinyu learn that the Princess had opened a women’s academy near the Guozijian.
“It seems that the gifts she sent on my hairpinning ceremony were not because the Emperor had granted me the title of a county princess, but because she wants me to study at her academy,” Gu Jinyu deduced.
She had wondered why such an elevated personage as the Princess would pay attention to a minor county princess like her.
The women’s academy had just been established, and those willing to send their daughters there were, after all, in the minority. Considering her good reputation in the Capital City, if she were to join the academy, many would follow suit.