Peasant Woman's Decreed Life as a Wife

Chapter 2463: Chapter 2460: Worry

“No rush, you handle the arrangements for this matter.” Ye Muyu inquired about this mainly to see if Song Hong was suited for teaching. Having gotten a satisfactory answer, she did not pursue it further.

“Is there enough silver for the accounts at the school these days?”

“Not much left.” Song Hong felt a bit guilty because this school basically doesn’t charge silver, only a very small portion of the expenses need to be borne by the parents. But these are the citizens of Jing City, the pressure isn’t really big, they can fully cover it, also making them realize, the benefits of the school have limits and they can’t constantly be demanded.

“Let me have a look at the accounts.” Ye Muyu calmly posed the request.

Song Hong quickly got up to find it on the shelf, and then handed the account book to Ye Muyu.

He had not embezzled at all, so he was not worried about Ye Muyu checking the accounts.

Ye Muyu read quickly, the expenses at the school were clearly recorded, including food, school supplies, and costs for paper and inks.

Although tuition is waived, many students are still too poor to buy paper, pens, and ink, and can only use the cheapest resources provided by the school daily, two sheets of A4-sized white paper, and a small block of Oil Smoke Ink per month.

When they run out, the students must prepare their own, and the savings naturally belong to them.

The school now has two hundred and twenty students, with a fixed monthly expenditure of forty-six taels on Oil Smoke Ink blocks alone.

Paper is relatively cheaper, costing twenty taels a month, produced by Ye Muyu’s workshop, though the paper is of poor quality, using it for students from poor families to practice writing is quite a luxury.

Aside from this, there are books at the school, prepared in varying quantities, placed in the library for students to borrow and read, but not to take home, they may copy these themselves.

“I have an idea.” While Ye Muyu could support several schools, if the number increased, it would indeed be a significant expense, considering the costs for hiring Masters, which amounts to no less than eighty taels a month.

This is just for over two hundred students; more students mean more expenses. Though she is willing to do good deeds, she needs to have silver to sustain it.

Since this is a long-term expense, not something that a donation of several thousand taels of silver will solve.

“You go to the Official Gazette Office, spend silver for a report of thanks, thanking those who have donated to the school, and by the way, promote the school, stating the school is non-profit, charitable. If a household has idle unwanted books, tattered paper, damaged inkstones, they can be donated to the school, where they will be recorded on the merit stele.” Ye Muyu wants the school to develop sustainably. By building a reputation, donations will gradually increase, and the school won’t rely solely on her to sustain itself long-term.

“Lady, did those gentlemen really donate so much in taels?” Song Hong’s initial reaction was delight at the nearly two hundred taels donated to the school, realizing Ye Muyu’s intentions, which not only thank the donors but also benefit the school.

But right after, he felt some concern: “However, Lady, if this matter is widely publicized, I fear the reputation of the students at the school may not be favorable.”