As far as she knew, the tuition fees for elementary schools in various prefectures of the Beiyi Dynasty started at at least twenty or thirty taels per year.
If they said they would give her ten taels and help get other children to study with her, she would feel that this family really cared about the Su family.
Just for three taels of silver, you want her, a princess, to teach her son to read?
"Madam Su, our daughter Gui is only four years old and can barely learn a few words. How can she afford the annual salary of three hundred taels?"
She was a princess, and those who taught her to read and write were all great scholars from Beiyi. She spent more than three hundred taels of silver.
Xiao Lingyu looked directly at Wang Xiufang and said indifferently, "This is the price I charge to be a student. Since you can't spend three hundred taels, then go to the academy. As far as I know, the annual tuition fee is only twenty or thirty taels, which is not expensive at all."
Wang Xiufang's heart sank when she heard this. She had made another mistake. It turned out that Madam Su knew everything.
Zhao Mingshan suddenly felt ashamed. "Madam Su, I suddenly remembered that my daughter Gui is stubborn and disobedient. If she follows you to study, she might offend you. I'd better take her to the school and let the teacher discipline her properly. We will leave now."
"Wait a minute, take this walnut cake."
Zhao Mingshan and Wang Xiufang, a couple, left the Su family yard dejectedly, carrying walnut cookies.
Old Lady Li saw the two of them take the walnut cakes back intact.
"Why? Didn't it work? Madam Su doesn't even want to earn three taels of silver?"
Wang Xiufang was indignant. "I was genuinely thinking about the Su family, and I was making sure they had a few taels of silver a year. But the Su family's daughter-in-law actually asked for a 300-tael salary. Why didn't she just go and rob them?"
Zhao Mingshan felt embarrassed and said angrily, "Why didn't you say it in front of Madam Su just now? Huh?"
Wang Xiufang: "I..."
"They want three hundred taels, which is to make us give up. Mother, you and your mother-in-law should take a detour when passing by the Su family's yard in the future. They also want three taels of silver. They already know how much the tuition fee is. Don't forget what happened to Zhang Sanzhu."
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