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#640 - Student Apartments

After receiving Seniheus and his group, Ruephil took them to visit the student apartment buildings as the first stop.

According to the original promise, the first phase of this new university would include four buildings: the teaching building, the library, the plaza, and the student apartments.

However, so far, the library is only half-built, the plaza is only one-third completed, and the teaching building has been barely finished, but the interior is still under renovation.

In the end, the only thing she could take them to see were these student apartment buildings.

Passing through the tree-lined path along the river, Ruephil led them from the hostel by Clock Square to this campus by carriage.

The new campus was not built on the south bank of the Para River, but on a flat wasteland separated from the research area by ruins.

This location is not ideal, because it is a long walk from here to the wooden bridge across the river, and one of the two new bridges connecting the north and south will be directly facing the main entrance of the campus.

These so-called student apartment buildings are, in the end, based on the Insula apartment layout, but the wooden floorboards have been replaced with wooden boards and mortar.

The first floor has toilets, bathrooms, and common activity spaces, the second and third floors are student dormitories, and the fourth floor is too low and is generally used for storing sundries.

Seniheus, Leonardo, and Sylvanic led a dozen students and stepped into the courtyard in the middle of the Insula apartment.

In the center of the courtyard was a narrow well, with a hand-operated water pump installed on it. Leonardo stepped forward and pressed it a few times with great interest, watching the intermittent water flow from the brass pipe with shining eyes.

"Can I take this apart and have a look?" he asked Ruephil impatiently.

Ruephil looked at him blankly: "What's the point of taking this apart?"

Instead, the guide laughed: "You don't need to take it apart. The engineering design drawings for this thing are available at the city hall. If you join the new university here, you can access them as scholars."

"Hey, don't talk nonsense, this matter hasn't been decided yet," Sylvanic quickly interrupted.

He didn't want to take classes in this broken place. It was too remote, and if the Laya people invaded, they might be implicated.

Several college students looked up at the blue sky, stepped on the solid and tidy stone slab mortar ground, and looked around to find toilets, bathrooms, and clotheslines.

This was much better than living in the attic of a farmer's house, but they wondered how much the rent would be.

Following the guide to the second floor, Seniheus casually opened a room and walked in.

"This is much bigger than I expected," he looked around the room, and after a long while, he turned to Ruephil and exclaimed, "Does every student have such a room?"

"Of course," Ruephil confirmed with the guide before nodding, "If you want, you can move in tonight."

Following behind Seniheus, Leonardo was the second to enter the room. He stood at the door and looked at the entire room inside and out.

The apartment room was not large, about 40 square meters, with two wooden louvered windows, and window panels were also equipped to block the wind.

Facing the window were four wooden four-poster single beds, and by the window were four standardized desks placed close together.

On the side of the room was an embedded dressing table-sized fireplace stove. In the middle of the stove was a bowl-sized hole, with a small iron gate that could be opened and closed, and a tin kettle was placed on the hole.

Meeting Leonardo's questioning gaze, Ruephil explained with a smile: "This is an embedded coal stove. It burns peat, and three briquettes will be provided free of charge to each room every day in winter.

If you use it sparingly, it can probably burn all night, but I still recommend heating water and pouring it into a leather water bag for warmth at night.

If these peat coals are not ventilated in time, the fumes may be too heavy and cause poisoning. There was a tragedy not long ago."

"You provide free heating?!"

The students following behind Seniheus rushed into the room like a tide, and as soon as they came in, they heard a piece of great news.

"Of course, we don't even need 1 denarius for 100 briquettes. Isn't it easy to keep warm in winter?" Ruephil said with no small amount of pride.

The students who came along walked around the new room, touching it up and down.

Especially those soft single beds, which would definitely not creak when you sleep on them.

"What about the rent for these houses?" With a heavy heart, a student tremblingly asked the question that other students wanted to ask but dared not ask.

Although the other party promised to provide cheap accommodation, cheap is relative, and obviously this accommodation is not cheap.

"No rent is required, but a maintenance and wear fee must be paid, up to 30 denarius per year," the guide patted the newly made single beds. "But you will have to pay for any damage to the furniture."

Thirty denarius per year? The eyes of those commoner students flashed with a strange green light.

You know, they used to rent the cheapest huts in the college street of King's University on River Island, where housing prices were relatively low. A house with only two floors and four compartments cost 5 gold pounds per year and housed more than a dozen people.

Several students who were good at arithmetic quickly calculated in their minds, and then they were surprised to find that they could almost finish university without debt!

"Teacher Seniheus, I think this place is pretty good."

"Yes, Teacher Seniheus, why don't we settle down here? You can be the principal."

"Students, don't be defeated by money," Sylvanic said with heartache, looking at the increasingly excited students, "Don't forget, there are the Laya..."

Speaking of this, Sylvanic realized he had misspoke and immediately shut his mouth.

"Although it's all-inclusive, it seems that prices are quite expensive here," Leonardo quickly changed the subject.

This was indeed a big problem. Yesterday, when they went out to eat and shop, they secretly recorded the prices.

According to statistics from several scholars afterward, the prices in the Holy Machine Court were 40 to 50 percent higher than outside, and even twice as high in some cases.

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This problem immediately dampened the students' original enthusiasm, but they looked at Ruephil as if asking for help.

"In addition to accommodation, we also signed an agreement with the restaurant owner across the street," the guide struck while the iron was hot. "Before the student restaurant next to the square is completed, you can get a free lunch every day, but you can't choose the dishes."

"Moreover, although prices are expensive, there are many job opportunities here and you can earn a lot, especially since you are literate," Ruephil glared at Sylvanic dissatisfiedly. "Temporary scribes earn 2 denarius per day. With the students' knowledge, can't they work as elementary school teachers?

There are adult literacy classes here, two classes per week, 6 denarius per class, which is 12 denarius per week. If you teach well and more students pass the adult literacy exam, there are additional bonuses.

Or, you can be like me and submit dramas to the theater. I can sell a trashy comedy for 2 gold pounds!

Don't you like fighting? The semi-circular theater holds sword fighting competitions every week. The reward money and other miscellaneous things from one competition can even be four or five gold pounds. Those who are confident can try it.

Even if you are focused on academics, the school will hold exams every quarter, and those with good grades can get a full scholarship of 2 gold pounds."

After listening to Ruephil's words, several college students once again quickly calculated in their minds.

"Holy Lord!" A commoner student couldn't help but exclaim in失态, "Not only don't I have to be in debt, but I can actually make a small profit!"

They hadn't even visited the teaching building and the library yet, but these commoner students had already recognized that this was their alma mater, which was even closer than their own mothers.

Don't write letters to Flower Hill New Bridge University, for fear that the new alma mater will misunderstand.

Their own parents hadn't even paid their annual tuition and miscellaneous fees of at least 4 pounds, and sometimes they needed to work odd jobs or even rob to barely make ends meet.

"Dean Seniheus..." Several scholars also stopped talking.

Under the eager gazes of the college students, Seniheus helplessly waved his hand and gathered several accompanying scholars together to whisper.

After chatting for four or five minutes, Sylvanic straightened his back with a forced smile: "Sorry, we can't decide for the time being. Can you give us a few more days?"

"Of course, but..."

"But what?" Seniheus quickly caught the unfinished meaning and embarrassment in Ruephil's words.

Before the echo of Seniheus's words disappeared from the room, a neurotic laughter came from outside the house.

"Oh, it's really nice, it's really nice to live in the city! ... Who are you? What are you doing in our school building?"

Hearing this familiar voice, Seniheus slowly turned his head. When their eyes met, Seniheus and Scholar Kerben pointed at each other and exclaimed at the same time.

"Arthropod!"

"Old Baldy!"