"Ci Liang, you should save up this money."
Grandma Su's sudden remark left Su Ci Liang stunned.
"Look, your sister already has her own house. You're not young anymore, shouldn't you be preparing to buy your own property?"
Grandma Su was talking about such a major matter, how could it not be surprising?
Moreover, to immediately tell her grandson to prepare to buy property seemed rather unbelievable.
After all, this grandson was still in university!
Su Taohua, Yu Ruiyuan, and others looked at Grandma Su in surprise.
Had the old lady lost her mind?
"I've been hearing people say that housing prices in the capital have been rising recently, so I figured money just sitting around won't grow, might as well spend it on assets."
Grandma Su's words were sincere.
With so many grandsons in the family, they would need more properties in the future. Even if they couldn't buy a house for each grandson, they couldn't all rely on Su Xiao Tian's house.
It would be good for a grandson to buy his own house if he became capable.
Su Ci Liang, who had previously felt wealthy, instantly felt like a pauper after hearing Grandma Su's words.
A house cost over twenty thousand yuan. What could he do with the little money he had?
Was it enough to buy a gate?
It seemed he still needed to make money.
But apart from the small business he started with Chi Yi Yuan some time ago, he had no source of income, which was a real problem.
The other elder brothers in the Su family all posed soul-searching questions.
If Ci Liang needed to buy a house, did they also need to?
Especially Su Shou Wen, the eldest, felt that he hadn't done well as the eldest brother, not being able to be independent yet.
Currently, the money he had combined only amounted to a few hundred yuan. Buying a house in the capital was a long and arduous journey, and he still needed to work hard to earn money.
Su Xiao Tian hadn't expected that Grandma Su's words would make all the brothers in the family start considering the issue of making money.
The Su brothers weren't people who would just lie around and depend on the family. They each had their own ideas and had secretly been doing things.
After listening to their grandmother's teachings, they were all fired up about making money.
Seeing her brothers having less and less free time, Su Xiao Tian was curious why her brothers were getting busier.
Could it be that university courses were increasing?
That shouldn't be the case. Although her brothers weren't top students in university, their grades were above average.
This thought flashed through Su Xiao Tian's mind and was then discarded.
She was busy too, so busy that she didn't have much time to think about these irrelevant matters.
Every day she had to study textbook knowledge, find time to read, draw various designs for Su Taohua to expand her scale, and also take on translation work.
Ever since the translation for the Qili Silk Factory last time, Su Xiao Tian's reputation in the translation circle had grown immensely.
Almost everyone in the translation community knew of a young girl, no older than ten, who spoke fluent German and French with perfect pronunciation.
News also spread that this young girl was Chi Ge's disciple. Those who wanted Chi Ge's help with translations but couldn't get it, settled for Su Xiao Tian.
When encountering French translation manuscripts, Su Xiao Tian would directly give them to Su Shou Wen to translate first, and then she would revise them. This way, the speed increased, and both siblings could earn money.
What made Su Xiao Tian happiest was that with the increase in translation volume, Su Shou Wen's French proficiency could be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.
Su Xiao Tian sighed, realizing that extensive practice was indeed very effective.
Having found the knack, Su Xiao Tian immediately set about increasing the practice volume for her brothers.
As for the practice questions, she could simply redeem them from the system, which wouldn't cost many points.
Su Xiao Tian redeemed the most for Xiao Liu and Xiao Qi.
These two would be taking the college entrance examination in a few months, so if they didn't hurry now, when would they?
The unfortunate duo were not only running a small braised food business but also receiving special attention from Su Xiao Tian, which was an experience beyond words!
Just as Su Xiao Tian was flourishing, people from the neighborhood committee found her.
The person from the neighborhood committee was a middle-aged woman in her forties, wearing a blue military uniform and a bob haircut, looking very capable.
Su Xiao Tian was very surprised that people from the neighborhood committee had suddenly found her.
She couldn't think of any reason why the neighborhood committee would need to find her.
The middle-aged woman frowned when she saw that it was a young girl.
Then she tentatively asked, "Are you the owner of the house at number thirty-two, Drum Lane?"
Su Xiao Tian nodded, "Yes!"
Although she didn't understand why the owner of such a large house was a young girl, since the person was the owner, it proved she hadn't come to the wrong place.
"I'm here today for something."
The middle-aged woman quickly stated her purpose.
This reason seemed very amusing to Su Xiao Tian.
If she hadn't retained some reason, Su Xiao Tian would have burst into laughter.
It turned out that the middle-aged woman had heard that Su Xiao Tian owned a vacant house in Drum Lane and wanted her to rent it out to people who didn't have a place to live.
"Young girl, you're not living in that house, and it's just sitting there empty. Why not offer it so that people in the neighborhood whose families don't have enough housing can live there temporarily? It would be considered helping others and doing a good deed!"
Su Xiao Tian didn't want to speak. How could she say it so reasonably?
Seeing Su Xiao Tian remain silent, the woman's expression turned displeased, and her tone became less polite.
"Young girl, don't worry, you'll be paid rent. It won't be for free!"
Su Xiao Tian was dumbfounded when she heard this.
Could the neighborhood committee even say such things at this time? Rent? Did she not know the current rent prices?
Renting out an entire house would only fetch thirty to fifty yuan a month at most.
She had spent twenty thousand yuan to buy the house. Thirty to fifty yuan a month, how much was that a year?
She didn't want to waste any more words, so she simply shook her head.
The middle-aged woman immediately put on a stern face.
"You, young girl, how can you be so cold-blooded? Do you know how many people don't have houses to live in right now?"
The middle-aged woman now felt that Su Xiao Tian should take care of those who didn't have houses.
But Su Xiao Tian didn't think that way. Why should she contribute her good house to unrelated people?
How much rent could they possibly give?
Besides, if she really rented it out, she didn't even know if they would pay the rent.
Su Xiao Tian understood very well that people in these years were not like in later generations. If they lived in the house for a long time, they might not even feel that it was their house.
"Sister, other people not having houses to live in doesn't have much to do with me!"
"You, young girl, how can you be so cold-blooded?" the middle-aged woman was furious!