In truth, it was not only Zheng Qing, that irresponsible student, whose time had grown increasingly tight.
The most pressing matter at hand was the rapidly approaching Spring Festival.
As New Year's Eve drew near, Qingqiu Mansion, usually so orderly, suddenly became bustling. The fox maidservants flitted through every corner of the mansion like butterflies after spring flowers bloomed, cleaning and tidying, striving to give the enormous estate a fresh new look before the holiday.
Magic was wondrous, but it was not omnipotent.
Especially in a complex of buildings like Qingqiu Mansion, where many anti-magic zones and Magic Barriers had been set up inside and out, many places needed to be cleaned by the maidservants themselves rather than with a simple cleaning spell, lest they disturb the delicate and sensitive Detection Magic hidden throughout the mansion.
Of course, perhaps this also displayed another trait of old-school wizards. Compared with ordinary wizards who liked using magic to solve every problem, those families that devoted much of their energy to heraldry and history preferred using less magical methods for certain everyday details, setting themselves apart.
Speaking of differences.
Old-school wizards used iron-gray walls, heavy stone pillars, towering steps, and enclosed castles to proclaim their classical tastes and conservatism to their guests. Radical wizards, on the other hand, preferred living in open, lavish mansions along the streets, expressing a subtle resistance to the Wizard Conduct Management Measures.
The group caught between the two, such as the younger generation of wizards born into old-school Wizard Families, had no choice but to make certain compromises between family traditions and their own beliefs, trying to reconcile two different attitudes toward life.
Like Qingqiu Mansion.
It was both a mansion with the classical aesthetics and closed-off attitude of old-school wizards and a lavish estate built along the