After thinking it over, she said, "Father is a scholar. Scholars should do what scholars do. I've already arranged something for him."
As soon as everyone heard this, they all turned to look at Su Qiao.
Zhou Lihua's eyes lit up. She tugged at her daughter's sleeve. "Girl, don't tell me you're planning to help your father open a private school?"
The old man took two puffs of his pipe. "Open a private school? That would indeed be a wonderful thing."
If his eldest son could open a private school, even the smallest kind for teaching children the basics, it would still be a very respectable thing.
"Yes, it would benefit the country and its people." Su Yaohui grew somewhat excited.
He had actually always had such an idea in mind, but the family's circumstances were poor, so he had never dared bring it up.
Su Qiao was speechless.
Were these people's ambitions a little too big?
He hadn't even passed the xiucai examination, yet he wanted to open a school?
"No, what I'm talking about is something that, if successful, would make my father—and even the entire Old Su Family—famous for all eternity."
After a pause, Su Qiao looked at everyone's expressions before continuing, "Of course, that's putting it in the grandest terms. On a smaller scale, it would still bring in a fortune."
Host, you're drawing another grand pie.
Was I wrong? Hurry up and look for the book. If you can't find it soon, things will get troublesome.
Everyone was a little dazed.
Famous for all eternity?
A fortune?
Who wouldn't want that?
Having even one of those things happen would be enough to make smoke rise from one's ancestral graves.
The old man nearly lost his balance. It was only because the old lady