Saint Laurent Prison Warden

Chapter 53 Another Funeral (First Update)
"The sky is clear, white clouds are floating, and the melody is drifting away with the wind. Happy notes are jumping in my chest, and every breath is full of sunshine~~~"

Diana, with a scarf wrapped around her head, was humming a little tune while happily cleaning the room.

Although it is inappropriate to laugh so happily in an Oxford professor's home, but, but!
She couldn't help it!

I made lunch with Teacher Chad and talked about many, many things together. Our relationship improved by leaps and bounds.

whee!

"Cuckoo~Cuckoo!" Just then, a puppet bird delivering newspapers outside the window made a sound and knocked on the window.

"Here it comes! Here it comes!" Diana immediately lifted her skirt and trotted over, opened the window and took the newspaper in.

Silver Age Weekly Special Supplement

front page headlines
"Golden Glory Mage Academy·Passing on the Torch·Eternal Life of Heroes"

Subtitle: "The City Lord and Her Civilian Confidant"

Headline Photography: The Lord of Xingge City lowered his head slightly, stretched out his hands, and gently wiped away Richard's tears with his sleeves.

Richard looked up in astonishment and stared at the Lord of Xingge City with disbelief.

The sunlight was shining, but it was completely blocked by the Star Song City Lord. Her shadow was like a broad chest, tightly wrapping Richard.

Taking care of a child is not easy, there are many things to be responsible for, which is very tedious. But even if she is busy with work, Diana still has a happy smile on her face.

But the moment she saw the photo, her smile suddenly disappeared, as fast as the face-changing in Sichuan Opera.

whee!

No hehe.

……

Richard didn't know that his every move could irritate a young girl, even his every move in the photo.

He is doing something very important now.

If you want to have magic again, you need to construct a spell slot, and if you want a spell slot, you must first drink the Soul Shaping Potion.

Richard already has the materials and crucible needed to make the soul-shaping potion, and all he needs is an opportunity.

The mysterious organization behind Teacher Kappa also revealed the tip of the iceberg in front of Richard. As long as he found the cookbook, there was a high probability that he would be able to get some clues about the mysterious organization.

Everything is moving in a positive direction and a temporary victory seems to be within reach.

But the closer it got to this point, the more cautious Richard became.

The long history and countless celebrity cases in his previous life made Richard deeply understand what it means to fall short at the last moment.

It also made him understand that before victory is actually achieved, all advantages are just illusions.

Therefore, even though victory was within reach, Richard still showed extreme strategic determination and was not in a hurry at all.

He did not try to ask the Star-Moon Society for permission to visit the cleaner Olivia Dell, nor did he try to go too far and ask Princeton to take away the herbs and crucible. Instead, he leisurely wandered between Saint Laurent Prison, the First Affiliated Hospital, and the Mage College.

At Princeton, Richard repeatedly tried to make all kinds of strange potions. Bottle after bottle of strange products came out freshly. Whenever Richard tested a potion, he would take the potion and ask Princeton for the effect and ask Princeton for guidance.

On the first day, when Richard gave Princeton the finished medicine, Princeton would carefully check it and give a conclusion on the type and effect of the medicine. Then he solemnly warned Richard to give up the path of alchemist.

The next day, when Richard took out the finished medicine, Princeton still carefully checked it and criticized it, but he didn't like to talk about Richard anymore.

On the third day, Princeton only roughly checked the finished medicine that Richard took out, said a few words about its effect, and then threw it back to Richard.

On the fourth day.

Princeton had already begun bringing his research material on Richard to the pharmacy.

While Richard was making medicine, he was slacking off on the side and reading research materials.

Faced with the finished medicine made by Richard, he just said a few perfunctory words and did not check it carefully at all.

Richard could make whatever the hell he wanted, he didn't care, as long as Richard didn't drink the hell out of it.

Just like that, the fifth day, the sixth day, the seventh day. After a week, Princeton's attitude towards Richard Pharmaceuticals had become very casual.

Sometimes when he was busy, he would ask his younger brother to help look after Richard while he would go somewhere else.

Richard knew that even if he made the soul-shaping potion in front of Princeton now, he would not react.

Seeing that the time to create the soul-shaping potion was completely ripe, Richard still did not let down his guard.

He just kept adjusting the formula of his randomly made potion, moving it closer to the soul-shaping potion little by little.

He first replaced the bamboo leaves of Lengyouzhu with red spider lilies. He replaced the ghost powder used to corrode the soul with ginkgo powder. He observed the reaction effects of these potions and filled the waste area and finished product area with all kinds of strange potions. On the eighth day, Richard used the same potion formula as the soul shaping potion. However, because the manufacturing method was different, these potions were still defective products that would not produce any effect.

ninth day.

Various news newspapers intensified their publicity about Dean Hank's impending death, and some disgusting newspapers even spread rumors that Dean Hank was actually dead, but chose to keep the news a secret for fear of causing turmoil in the Mage Academy.

On this day, Richard did not go to the First Affiliated Hospital.

He stayed with Tiny and Diana the whole day and attended their teacher's funeral in Oxford with them.

At the funeral, Richard finally met the aunt Xiaoxiao had mentioned who was so kind to her.

……

The cemetery behind the Jinhui Buddhist Academy.

Not everyone can be buried in this cemetery. Only those who have made significant contributions to the Mage Academy are qualified to be buried here.

Under normal circumstances, Oxford would not be eligible to enter the cemetery, even if he worked diligently for the School of Mages for the rest of his life. It would be unlikely unless he could produce some major scientific research results.

But now, he is a hero who once blocked an assassination attempt for Dean Hank.

He did the same thing as Richard, so he received similar praise. However, Dean Hank's status was much lower than that of the Lord of Star Song City, so the praise Oxford received was also much lower than that of Richard.

But this award is quite considerable compared to the average person's lifetime income.

The nobles of the Silver City-State have always been generous in rewarding those who are willing to take the knife for others in their bravery.

Whenever such behavior occurs, the other party will be highly praised and widely publicized as a role model for the entire society.

Therefore, Oxford was also sent to this cemetery for burial as an exception.

This is a great thing. As long as Oxford is buried here, it means that Niu Xiaoxiao will have a smooth life in the future.

The Jinhui Mage Academy, which attracts countless students but fails to get in no matter how hard they try, will open its doors to Niu Xiaoxiao.

As long as Xiaoxiao studies hard and gets into Magic High School, she can be directly admitted to Jinhui Mage College even if her college entrance examination results are terrible.
In the Golden Glory Mage Academy, she can study whenever she wants, and she can give up whenever she wants if she doesn't want to. As long as she graduates, she will get a job at the school. If she studies hard and gets good grades in magic, she can become an assistant or even a teacher.

If she just wanted to get by and knew nothing about magic, she could become a clerk in finance or administration.

Even if Niu Xiaoxiao is really so destitute that she can't even be a clerk and can only lie down and eat and drink, she can still receive a pension every month that is enough to guarantee her basic survival, and she can receive it for the rest of her life.

Therefore, at the funeral, many teachers looked at Niu Xiaoxiao with envy, even though Niu Xiaoxiao was already in tears.

"Brother Niu, Brother Niu, tell me, no matter how old I am, it's not too late for me to learn magic.

But you see, it’s too late. You’re gone. What’s the point of me learning magic?
After that dead man of mine left, I never thought about looking for another man. Until I met you.

I finally fell in love with you, but you made me lose so completely.

You are such a good and kind teacher. Why did you leave like this?

You're gone just like that, what should I do? What should Xiaoxiao do? Wuuuuuu."

At the funeral in Oxford, even Xiao Xiao just shed tears silently, but Olivia Dell collapsed on the ground and cried loudly. Her voice was sad, tears were pouring down, and when she cried out with emotion, she even cried so hard that her whole body trembled. It was like a cuckoo crying blood, which made people look sideways.

Richard couldn't help but admire it.

At this point, it seems that Olivia Dell is not acting.

No matter how close Oxford and Ovilia Dell were, they had never registered their marriage with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so theoretically Ovilia Dell had no relationship with Teacher Niu Jin. She also could not enjoy all the treatment that the family of Oxford teachers should enjoy.

No matter how sadly she cried, she couldn't get any benefit. So she cried so sadly, it could only be because of love.

Even if Olivia Dell was acting out her love for Oxford, she had done her best.

Just in time. Above the funeral, a drizzle fell, soaking the hillside.

Richard opened a black umbrella and walked behind Olivia Dell, tilting the umbrella to block the slowly falling rain for her.

"Mrs. Dale, you have passed away. I am deeply saddened. Your Oxford teacher can no longer accompany you, but you still have a long life ahead of you."

Olivia Dell cried and asked:
"Wow, Mr. Richard, what do you think I should do from now on?"

"You'll do what you did before. You'll just be missing your Oxford teacher."

"I was... you mean..."

Olivia Dell was very panicked when she heard Richard's words.

"T-This...then...what about Xiaoxiao? She's still a child."

(End of this chapter)