After returning to the capital, the eldest daughter saved her entire clan with her medical skills.

The ointment Xue Ruanruan gave was very effective; when Xue Li woke up the next morning, he felt no pain at all.

He still clearly remembers the excruciating pain last night, as if a million ants were gnawing at his body, almost unbearable.

Unexpectedly, the tear stains on my wrist were reduced to a faint red mark overnight, barely noticeable unless you looked closely.

The old lady and Princess Lingjun really didn't see it coming, and didn't even have any doubts about what happened last night.

Luming Academy is not far from the General's Mansion. In order to train Xue Li, he was not picked up by carriage and had to walk to the academy by himself.

However, a carriage was specially sent to take him to the academy today, so as not to worry his family like yesterday.

After Xue Li left, Xue Ruanruan went to the space. Since she planned to go to the academy to settle accounts with those children on behalf of her younger brother, she had to bring some gifts for the dean and teachers.

The teachers who could teach at Luming Academy were all second-class Jinshi (successful candidates in the highest imperial examinations) of that year. Their talents were beyond question, and they certainly wouldn't be interested in ordinary things.

In particular, the headmaster, Ren Hetang, was the top scholar in the imperial examination back then. He was exceptionally talented and learned, but he was unwilling to serve as an official in the imperial court and requested to go to Luming Academy.

Xue Ruanruan also put a lot of effort into preparing the gift, vaguely remembering that Ren Shanchang had no other hobbies but loved food and wine.

She has fine wine, and it's a rare delicacy that can't be bought anywhere else—monkey wine.

Although I felt a little heartbroken, I had to make the sacrifice so that my younger brother wouldn't be bullied by bad kids in the future, and so that the headmaster could take good care of Li'er.

As the saying goes, if you are reluctant to let go of your children, you will not be able to trap the wolf.

As for the headmaster's favorite foods, especially seafood, they are no problem for her.

Coincidentally, there were seafood and vegetables in the jade pendant space, so I personally cooked a few seafood dishes: steamed sea bass, salt and pepper shrimp, spicy orchid crab, and braised sea hare with mushrooms.

In addition to seafood, we also specially prepared sweet and sour pork with pineapple, stir-fried beef with green peppers, dry-fried green beans, pickled fish, and several vegetarian stir-fries, catering to all tastes.

As for the scholars, although there was no monkey wine, they had carefully prepared other gifts: a hundred-year-old wild ginseng grown in the space for each person, ten apples and ten pears that are extremely hard to find in winter, and a beauty and skin care cream specially prepared for the women.

"What's that smell? It smells so good. I just had breakfast not long ago, how can I be hallucinating?"

The old lady had just finished offering incense to the ancestors of the Xue family in the ancestral hall when she smelled a fragrant aroma wafting towards her.

Thinking that lunchtime was still far off, I wondered who would be cooking at this hour. I must be hallucinating because my nose wasn't working properly.

"My lord, this old servant can smell the aroma too. It seems to be coming from our kitchen."

Granny Fang took a deep breath, quite certain that the aroma was coming from the kitchen, but the rich smell of rice didn't seem like something a cook could make.

That's strange. If the cook can't make it, how can there be such a fragrant aroma?

"The kitchen in the manor? I'd like to take a look."

The old lady immediately became interested. She had never smelled such a rich aroma of food before. For the first time in her life, she was so tempted that she almost drooled.

Xue Ruanruan was busy in the kitchen at the moment, and all the ingredients were freshly picked from her space.

Each dish was prepared in ample quantity, with one portion set aside for the grandmothers and the rest to be packed into a food box by the cook to take away.