When Mu Yuanyuan turned one, Mu Xiao Tuan was already three years old.

These cousins seemed to be born in the wrong place.

Mu Xiao Tuan was becoming more and more outgoing, restless at home, and almost every day, he would ask Zhou Shi to take him to Cuiwei.

Zhou Shi would just place her among the women, and she would happily spend the whole day talking to this person, playing with that person.

Sometimes, she would even blink her dark, watery eyes and ask if she could stay at Cuiwei.

Zhou Shi, her own mother, couldn’t resist her “attack” either, and leaving her daughter with Shen Cui, she felt very reassured.

So Mu Xiaotuan would stay overnight from time to time.

Shen Cui set up a room for her in the back wing, but the little girl didn’t like to stay there; she preferred to sleep with Shen Cui.

Before going to bed, she would pull Shen Cui, her grandmother, to chat for a long time, often prompting Shen Cui to buy some snacks for her from the system.

Shen Cui really liked her.

In winter, when it was inconvenient for children to go out, there were also days when they couldn’t see each other.

Shen Cui missed her very much.

So when she had saved enough money to buy a house, Shen Cui discussed with Liu Muyue and bought a courtyard next to Mu Yunchuan’s house.

This way, the distance between the two families was reduced to a quarter of an hour.

Even in the bitter cold of winter, as long as they dressed carefully, it didn’t delay the little girl from coming over to join in the fun.

It was also thanks to this cheerful child that the atmosphere was harmonious—she talked just as much to her own father, telling him every detail of what she ate and how she was taken care of by Shen Cui.

Therefore, Mu Yunchuan’s attitude towards Shen Cui became even more gentle than before.

In contrast, Mu Yuanyuan’s personality appeared very formal.

After his first birthday, he could also speak fluently, but in daily life, he was very economical with words, speaking only when necessary.

When the little one saw his elders, he would also pay his respects in a proper manner.

Before he was even two years old, under the influence of others in the academy, he could recite some original sentences from the Four Books and Five Classics.

By the time he was three years old, Mu Yuanyuan began formal education.

Shen Cui added him to the academy’s system and checked his aptitude.

She was somewhat intimidated by his aptitude—he was a perfect hexagonal warrior, a replica of Mu Yunchuan!

Others couldn’t see the values as intuitively as Shen Cui, but a little later, when Laobuyu mentioned it, saying that Yuanyuan was extraordinarily talented, it was still acceptable for him to start his education, but in the long run, it might delay him.

So after discussions with everyone, Mu Yuanyuan became a day student—Mu Yunchuan, Mei Ruochu, Shen Aosuang, Wei Xi, and others would each spend some time every month to teach him.

Whoever was teaching him would host him for a few days.

Finally back home, Mu Er Pang, who had also been guided and taught by many people in his early years, would also take the time to help him sort things out, so that the child wouldn’t be overwhelmed and confused all at once.

Seeing that even the youngest in the family, Yuanyuan, could take care of himself without needing someone to look after him, and with the new top three scholars fresh out of the past two years, the limelight had completely passed them by.

Xiaoci had also stopped causing trouble, so Shen Cui began preparing to reopen Cuiwei.

The first issue was the location.

The small courtyard they were living in was obviously not enough, and the environment was not very peaceful.

Shen Cui had saved up a sum of money in the past two years, but the problem remained—the city was crowded and land was scarce, so the rent was not cheap.

Shen Cui was busy with this matter, and Xiaoci suggested taking him to dig up someone else’s silver.

After she rejected the idea, things took a turn.

Shen Cui first wrote to her family, asking Zheng Shi to sell the old Mu family mansion—someone had wanted to buy it a long time ago, and at that time, Shen Cui had said she would discuss it with Mu Yunchuan.

She had also asked Mu Yunchuan later, but he had let her decide for herself.

So she had been holding back and hadn’t done anything about it.

By the time she decided to sell, with the success of Cuiwei’s students in officialdom, the price had multiplied several times over, eventually selling for a high price of several hundred taels of silver.

Shen Cui only took half, the other half she insisted on giving to Mu Yunchuan.

However, Mu Yunchuan knew she needed the money urgently, so he refused to take it, saying she could have it for now.

In the end, Shen Cui still didn’t touch that half.

She planned to save it for Mu Xiutuan, and when she got married, she would add it to her dowry.

Mei Ruochu, Shen Aosuang, Wei Shu, and Wei Xi, along with Cui Fei who was still on an external mission, jointly raised a large sum of money.

In fact, when Mu Erpang got married, Shen Cui didn’t have enough money on hand to buy a house, so they had thought about this before.

But at that time, they had just entered officialdom and didn’t have much money of their own, especially Mei Ruochu, whose own house was a gift from Emperor Xihe.

And they thought Shen Cui would probably refuse, saying things like “How can peers give such expensive gifts to each other?” So they had been planning this from back then until now.

Similar things happen in modern times—graduates who are doing well contribute money to their alma mater to build buildings, so Shen Cui didn’t refuse.

There was also Xie Jiulu, who had been freeloading at Cuiwei for years. After several years, he finally successfully became an accountant.

Over the years, as he interacted more with people, he gradually became more like a “person.”

Coupled with the wisdom from a higher civilization, he was able to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

So, after gaining the trust of his employer, he went from being an apprentice without pay at the beginning, to a novice accountant with a monthly salary of two taels, to now being the most trusted accountant of that large merchant, earning a salary of one hundred taels a year.

He also contributed a significant sum of money.

With his money, Shen Cui felt even less burdened—since he didn’t need food or drink and could live in this world like a person for several years, Shen Cui was the one providing for him on a daily basis.

After accepting the money, he turned his gaze to another hill beside Xiangfeng Mountain outside the city.

There wasn’t much on that hill, just a fairly large Taoist temple in the past.

But since the rise of Qingxu Temple, the Taoist temple had been increasingly deserted.

After the Taoist temple’s abbot passed away not long ago, his secular descendants were not well off and were selling the Taoist temple and the land together.

The price of that remote place was much cheaper than in the city. Shen Cui pooled her money and after some negotiation, she managed to buy it.

After selecting the location, Shen Cui didn’t have money to renovate the buildings, so she just had them tidied up a bit.

She hung a signboard with “Cuiwei” at the entrance, which marked its official establishment.

The enrollment matters didn’t trouble Shen Cui much.

After all, the glory of Cuiwei had passed in the court but had become a popular tale of a carp leaping over the dragon gate among the common people.

Considering there was only Mr. Lao Buyu for now, Shen Cui released ten spots first.

As for the tuition fees, it remained the same as before, 240 taels of silver per year. If someone was particularly favored by Lao Buyu but genuinely had difficulties, they could apply for the academy’s assistance, which temporarily reduced some of the costs.

Xiaoci was a big help in this regard. As a law of this plane, he was best at discerning whether the other party truly had no money or was intentionally deceiving.

With his help in selecting, the enrollment proceeded exceptionally smoothly, and within a few months, Cuiwei had ten more students.

Lao Buyu finally returned to the days when he was surrounded and embraced by students, busy but joyful.

Mei Ruochu and the others not only contributed money but also helped out.

During their leisure time, they would come over as guest lecturers.

As for Xiaoci he smoothly became a conceited little senior strategist.

When Shen Cui and Lao Buyu were too busy, he was responsible for guiding the new students.

He found it quite amusing to guide others for so long, and even enthusiastically wrote a book called “Cuiwei New Student Guide.”

Later, rumors spread, claiming that reading this guide could greatly increase the chances of entering Cuiwei.

The bookstores in the capital city were quick to react and proposed to cooperate.

Shen Cui gave the exclusive publishing rights to that bookstore to represent, putting half of the money into the academy’s public fund and the other half to the original author.

Since becoming a ‘person,’ Xiaoci had never seen so much money.

He boldly bought a bunch of food and essentials, all of which were used to support his usually respectful junior brothers.

When Mu Yuanyuan grew up a bit more and could be trusted by adults to live in the Cuiwei academy, Shen Cui ended her dual life and moved to Cuiwei permanently.

It wasn’t that she didn’t trust her grandson to live in their own academy, but Shen Cui discovered something different about herself—by this time, she was almost forty, but she still looked almost the same as before.

When she was with Zhou Shi, they already looked like sisters. Now, she was even younger than Zhou Shi.

People around her didn’t seem to notice, but not long ago, when she was out shopping with Mu Xiaotuan, the shopkeeper refused to believe she was Mu Xiaotuan’s grandmother.

Shen Cui sensed something was off and asked Xie Jiulu.

Xie Jiulu said that after she completed her mission, she completely broke free from the constraints of the law, transcending it.

Although the body she was currently using was from this plane, overall, the aging of her body would be much slower compared to others.

Hardly aging at all was naturally a good thing for a woman, but Shen Cui was also afraid of being seen as a monster, so she moved out.

As Shen Cui grew older, she began using special cosmetics produced by the system to add some wrinkles to herself.

Xie Jiulu, on the other hand, still couldn’t stay away from her for too long.

So, he also quit his job in the city and joined Cuiwei as a mathematics teacher.

Nowadays, his daily routine is almost the same as Shen Cui’s.

Xiaoci has grown into a young man over time, but his consciousness from another plane will not mature in this plane, so he needs more energy to manifest as a young man.

However, Cuiwei is now growing stronger day by day, and his consumption of 200 points a day is not much for Shen Cui now.

In the blink of an eye, it was time for Shen Cui to leave this plane and prepare to go home.