"First, the innermost one will be the warehouse where the goods are stored. No one is allowed to enter without permission!"
"Second, the flowers, plants and trees in the yard must not be damaged!"
"Third, don't bring outsiders in!"
“Fourth, no more begging!”
"Fifth, you must not bully the weak or do evil things!"
"sixth,……"
"seventh,……"
It was already the morning of the second day. Yang Zhen stood in front of the hall and repeated the ten rules promulgated yesterday. Then a wooden sign was erected and nailed under the courtyard wall.
Then, he called Jiang Shun, Yang Mabu, and Liu Hao forward and took out a piece of colorful paper and a brochure.
"This is the deposit certificate of Hongfa Bank. The total is five hundred silver coins, which is enough for you to use for half a year..."
Before he finished speaking, everyone looked at the deposit receipt. Some of them were breathing heavily and their eyes were glowing green.
Yang Zhen didn't care and continued: "However, I made an agreement with the banker that I can withdraw up to three hundred copper coins every day, and they will be recorded in this small book. Each time, two people must go together before they can withdraw it."
He pointed to the people in front of him: "Yang Mabu is in charge of this account book. Liu Hao will withdraw the money, and one person will be called each time. Jiang Shun, you are responsible for supervision. Every day at You hour, you need to make the day's money usage known to the public!"
After Yang Zhen explained these things, she left. It doesn’t matter whether these people understood it or not, or how they discussed it later.
The rules are set, let them get used to them first. If they can't do it well, there are ways to get them to obey.
…
He sat in the teleportation array and came to Zhoucheng.
First go to the rented yard and put down the Xuanyang wood, then use the sound transmission stone to greet Cui Zhongjiu, tell him the quantity, and ask him to send someone to count it.
As for the transaction vouchers they need, they can be added later.
Then he came to Chen Fugui's stall and settled the accounts for the whole year.
The various spiritual plants produced in the space this year, as well as the low-level elixirs such as Qi-Returning Pill, Bigu Pill, and Zhixue Powder that he used to practice his skills, were sold through Chen Fugui's stall, earning a total of 18,000 Thousand-grade spiritual stone.
After deducting various expenses, such as stall rental, taxes, seed costs, travel expenses to and from Zhoucheng and Yunya Town, Chen Fugui's salary, etc., the profit is about 13,000.
If the profits from Xuanyang Wood are added in, he now earns 20,000 spiritual stones a year.
This is close to the one-year salary of an early cultivator in the Zi Mansion. If these people heard that a small person in the early stage of Qi training could earn the same as them, I don’t know what they would think.
However, Yang Zhen also has a lot of expenses.
Just practicing the body training technique alone would cost nearly 10,000 spirit stones this year. In addition, Yiyi consumes nearly two wood spirit stones every month, which is six thousand spirit stones for the whole year. Then there is the maintenance cost of the pond formation. The absorption speed of the innate water spiritual energy by the Han water essence is not as fast as when Yang Zhen cultivates the spiritual roots, so the consumption of this formation is also greatly reduced. Now you only need to exchange one water spirit stone every month, twelve for the whole year, which is equivalent to three thousand spirit stones.
This is 19,000. If you add in the cost of Yang Zhen learning alchemy, the cost of training Caiyun, and some of his own messy expenses, when all is calculated, it is actually a bit beyond his means.
Fortunately, I had a robbery last year and earned thousands of spiritual stones...
In the past year, he has never had more than a thousand spiritual stones in hand, and from time to time he has to find a little girl for help.
Alas, Yang Zhen sighed.
Cutting costs is not enough, we must find ways to increase revenue. This is the right thing to do.
After taking inventory, he found that the number of spiritual stones that could be taken away from Chen Fugui this time was actually less than two thousand, and the rest had been removed by him one after another this year.
He reluctantly took out fifty spiritual stones among them to reward Chen Fugui for his hard work this year, and accompanied him, he made another purchase in Fangshi. Finally, Tie Zhu was called, and the three of them sat together and had lunch.
…
After telling Chen Fugui to leave first, he left Tiezhu in the box.
The two chatted for a while, and Tie Zhu was very satisfied with his life in Zhoucheng this year. Although Chen Fugui was an immortal cultivator, he was kind to him and would not scold him casually.
Yang Zhen was also very pleased to see Tiezhu's handsome face after the birthmark was removed.
"Tell me about Taoist Master Liu," he took a sip of tea, a faint mist of water lingering in front of him:
"What was this man dressed like when he first appeared in the Taoist temple? How long did he go out each time for more than half a year? What else can you remember about him? Wait, say whatever comes to mind. You can't remember. does not matter."
"That Taoist Master Liu, what happened to him?" Tie Zhu heard that something was wrong and asked instead without answering.
"Someone from the sect is looking for him." Yang Zhen didn't hide anything and told Tiezhu something she could tell.
Tie Zhu began to rack his brains to recall, and told a lot of things about Taoist Liu one after another.
For example, he is never allowed to enter certain rooms, occasionally reads a few poems that he doesn't understand, and likes to look up at the stars at night, etc.
Most of them seem to be useless, and many of them have already been mentioned on the mountain last time.
However, Yang Zhen also made some inferences from it.
First, Taoist Liu's cultivation level is at least in the late stage of foundation building.
Monks in the early stages of foundation building must use magic weapons such as flying swords to fly into the sky. In the middle stage of foundation building, you can barely control the void out of thin air, but if you can still fly freely with a person in your hand, your cultivation level should be in the late stage of foundation building, or higher.
Secondly, this person never goes to Zhuyang County, and every time he drinks, he asks Tiezhu to buy it on his behalf. This shows that he is indeed hiding from the sect.
Every city in the Xu Kingdom has a special formation at the city gate, which can detect whether everyone entering or leaving the city gate has magic power and whether they are monks.
If he is a monk, the token he wears will echo the formation, thus recording the monk's entry and exit information. If there is no token, or the token is lost, etc., there will inevitably be some questioning.
Yang Zhen didn't feel these things when he was a mortal, and no one told him, but now he is naturally aware of them.
"A monk in the late stage of foundation building came to Xuyang secretly. What did he want to do?" Yang Zhen thought hard.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, as if he had grasped something, and then it disappeared suddenly.
There is a sudden throbbing in my heart, why is this?
"Tie Zhu, say what you just said again!" Yang Zhen grabbed her friend's hand and shouted loudly.
"Just now?" Tie Zhu scratched his head and recalled: "I just mentioned a white formation disk..."
"Yes! Then what?"
"Then the formation plate disappeared, and so did Taoist Master Liu."
"When did you not see me?"
"The day I carried you back from the well!"
"Beside the well, carry me back, he's gone!" Yang Zhen murmured.
As if a bolt of lightning exploded in the night sky, Yang Zhen looked extremely solemn.
"He is looking for Jin Qingchen, my predecessor's biological mother!"
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