Su Qiao rubbed her face, tossed aside all those jumbled questions in her mind, and nodded. "It's him, all right."
"Ah?"
Zhou Lihua plopped down onto the ground.
Su Qiao found it somewhat amusing.
"Didn't you always want to become an Official's Wife and live a comfortable life with servants waiting on you?"
"Having a Regent for a son-in-law is more or less the same, isn't it?"
As the saying went, a son-in-law was half a son.
"Oh, my heavens!"
Zhou Lihua clutched her pounding chest and scrambled up from the ground.
This was far more than becoming an Official's Wife.
The current emperor was only five years old and knew nothing. Didn't that make the Regent equivalent to the emperor?
She was actually going to have the Regent as her son-in-law?
Was this real?
Why did it feel just like a dream?
Even Ernie patted her face. "Why does this feel like a dream?"
"Are we... are we really going to prosper? Are we going to have our names live on through the ages?" Su Yaohui was so excited that his entire face had turned red.
Although Old Master Su was excited as well, he was still able to keep his composure.
"Whether we prosper or not depends on ourselves. The same goes for having our names live on through the ages. We must keep our feet on the ground and not fantasize about reaching the heavens in a single step."
"Even if you want to reach the heavens in a single step, you still have to see whether you have the ability."
Su Qiao nodded in great approval. "Grandpa is absolutely right. The higher one's position, the more careful and cautious one must be, and the more one must set an example through one's own conduct."
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