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After another two days of discussion, the Yang family bought nine more recipes for dishes and pastries from Goodford, but none of them were buyouts. Buyout dishes must be strictly guarded against others stealing, and the prices are much higher. , generally speaking, buyers rarely choose to buy out. Although there was no buyout, this wholesale purchase method allowed Goodford to get a lot of spiritual stones at once, making him very happy every day.

But Su Shiman said that Yang Yuyao had made great contributions to this transaction. Yang Yuyao didn't understand. Apart from bringing Goodford over, he didn't participate in the entire purchase and sale negotiation stage. How could he have made great contributions?

Until Yang Ningxiu explained to Goodford that although the subsequent recipe recipes were for sale and no longer given away, the bidding price for each recipe was extremely low. It was obvious that Yang Yuyao was given a huge discount for his sake. Of course, the Yang family also gave some benefits to Goodford in return.

For example, when Gudefu was in the summer capital, he was free of charge to live in Wankelai. In addition, the Yang family also specially set aside a restaurant near Wankelai so that Gudefu could freely use the boiler and other items there. Continue his practice of the Imperial Food Path. He can run it again if he wants. Such preferential treatment touched the point that Goodford looked forward to most. For him, this was more attractive than money.

The only problem with this arrangement is that Yang Yuxuan and Yang Yuwei always want to go to Goodford's to eat, and they have to take Yang Yuyao, who doesn't like going out, with them. It wasn't until Yang Yuyao said that looking for Gudefu so often would disturb Gudefu's practice and business that they had to give up.

Today is the largest court meeting of the Xia Kingdom. Such meetings are usually held twice a year, once during this period and once in winter. At this time, not only officials in the Xia capital, but officials from various places also have to go to Xia. All report their duties. Therefore, all the people in the Yang family who had official positions went to the court meeting, and He Qianqing also had something to deal with and left the general's mansion. Suddenly, there were almost only five members of Yang Yuyao's generation left in the Yang family in the General's Mansion.

Today's weather is cloudy and not too hot. Yang Yuyao noticed that the servants in the mansion were very happy because today was the day when monthly payments were distributed. Although as a servant, he rarely has the opportunity to leave the house, so he cannot go out to spend money on his own. However, the General's Mansion has people who are specifically responsible for purchasing. The General's Mansion allows these servants to inform the person in charge of purchasing in advance every month about the items they want to buy, and let the person in charge of purchasing record it, and the General's Mansion will advance the purchase. I will give you the money after the purchase comes back.

Such restrictions can reduce the possibility of servants coming into contact with enemies of the Yang family and being incited to rebel. If they are undercover agents trying to sneak into the house as servants, their information transmission can also be blocked to a certain extent. Of course, no approach can be guaranteed to be foolproof, but such strict control can indeed significantly reduce the probability of success for people with evil intentions.

The person who can be assigned to be responsible for purchasing is naturally the person most trusted by the Yang family. When they register the things that the servant wants to buy, they are actually checking the categories of these things to see if there is a possibility of exchanging information. Generally speaking, the maids mostly buy some rouge and gouache, while the servants buy some food.

Of course, I don’t buy anything and save a lot for later when I get older and can’t do anything anymore. After all, when you work in the General's Mansion, you are provided with food and accommodation, and the clothes you wear are also provided by the Mansion, which can meet the basic needs of a human being. Of course, it is impossible to say that it is good. Only the closest maids and servants can be lucky enough to receive the food and other treasures given by the masters. But if you can endure the temptation of this desire, you will definitely be able to save money.

But there are also those who use it if they have money. Yesterday, Yang Yuyao heard these servants mention a boy whom he did not know, whom they jokingly called Brother Roast Chicken. This boy really loved roast chicken. After he came to the General's Mansion, he was given a monthly payment and was determined to buy a roast chicken every month. This was true even when he had just entered the house and had the lowest monthly income.

Not only the servants, but also the Yang family's monthly payments were distributed on this day. The person in charge of the monthly payments was Tao Yulian. However, apart from Tao Yulian, only five of Yang Yuyao's juniors were left in the mansion, so Tao Yulian asked them to come in one by one in the main room. Originally, according to the order, Yang Yuyao should be the first to pick it up, but he likes to sleep in and doesn't get up as early as others. So when he got up, Yang Yuxuan, Yang Yuwei, Yang Yixin and Yang Yihua had already received their monthly payments.

Yang Yuyao saw Yang Yixin and Yang Yihua still a little confused in the main courtyard, and then he was surrounded by the four of them in a daze, holding his hand in front and pushing his back in the back, and sent him into the main courtyard. In the house.

"Good morning, Xiaoyao." Tao Yulian, who was sitting in the main room, looked at Yang Yuyao's confused expression and said with a smile.

"Good morning, mother." Yang Yuyao, who came back to his senses, responded with a slight smile.

Soon Yang Yuyao received his monthly money, a hundred ordinary spiritual stones, two taels of gold ingots, ten taels of silver and a sling of copper coins. This amount may not seem like much, but if you look at the average income of monks in this world and the exchange rates of various currencies, it is a lot.

In the Xia Kingdom, one thousand copper coins is equal to one tael of silver, that is, one thousand taels of silver is equal to one tael of silver, ten taels of silver is equal to one tael of gold, and a standard ordinary spiritual stone is equal to approximately ten taels of gold. The reason why it is approximately equal is because the value of spiritual stones will only be higher and not lower. After all, monks would never exchange spiritual stones for gold and silver under normal circumstances. This makes the exchange ratio of gold and spiritual stones only as a reference. In fact, you have to raise a price for how much you want to exchange before the other party may agree.

As for a standard ordinary spirit stone, this one only exists in concept and is almost impossible to exist in reality. Because the definition of a standard ordinary spiritual stone is that after the spiritual energy value contained in it is absorbed into the body of a monk, the spiritual power it can produce is equivalent to the spiritual power produced by a monk in the golden elixir stage in one day.

This concept cannot define an exact quantity at all, but a rough range of values. Because almost every condition here is not a fixed value. For example, when it comes to absorption, some monks can absorb 100%, while others can only absorb 80 or 90%. The rest of the spiritual energy value will be consumed in the process of absorption. Next is the process of converting spiritual energy into spiritual power, which is also different for each individual.

As for the amount of spiritual power that Golden Core Stage monks can produce, the difference is even greater. First of all, there is a big difference in the spiritual power that can be generated in the early stage of the Golden Elixir and the Great Perfection in the Golden Elixir stage. There is also a gap in the spiritual power of individuals in the same realm. I don’t know which monk came up with such a concept back then, but it is still used today.

However, even though this concept is so vague, the monks all have their own standards for what a standard ordinary spirit stone looks like, and they are very similar to each other.

Therefore, it can be roughly estimated that a standard ordinary spirit stone is equivalent to about one hundred taels of silver. For ordinary mortals, the value of a spirit stone is a huge amount of money that a family needs to work hard for several years to earn. One hundred spirit stones is also a huge sum of money for a monk whose average monthly income is around twenty spirit stones.

The point is, the monthly money given to Yang Yuyao is pocket money that does not include other living expenses, and it does not even include resources for practice. It is purely for them to use to buy whatever they like. This is like, when most people's monthly income is only 3,000, the monthly pocket money given by the rich to their children is as high as 15,000. Moreover, if those monks in this world with a monthly income of "three thousand" have children, they may not even be able to provide them with a pocket money of 50 cents.

Yang Yuyao didn't ask Tao Yulian whether his peers had that much monthly income, because after helping Yang Ningxiu handle family affairs, he knew that he had the most monthly income among his peers. He had been missing for so many years in the eyes of the Yang family, but Yang Yuxuan always received the monthly payment from his second son. Yang Yuyao guessed that for the Yang family, unless they could be 100% sure that he was dead, Yang Yuxuan would not be able to replace him.

In this world, it took Yang Yuyao a long time to understand how much care was given to eldest and younger concubines. Even if they preferred younger sons, people usually would still give resources to the eldest son to ensure the status of the eldest son. The royal laws of various countries even intentionally stipulate some matters to enhance the status of the eldest son.

Being so concerned about the elders and younger ones and establishing prestige for the eldest son will make it easier for the eldest son to manage his younger siblings and make it easier for the younger siblings to convince him. Of course, the investment of resources will also help the eldest son grow up more quickly and generate value for the family. In this world where people are so capable, they will definitely have many children. The difference between the oldest child and the youngest child may be more than 20 years. However, human life span is short, and the parents may die not long after the youngest child is born. .

Then at this time, the eldest son will definitely have to take on the responsibility of raising his younger siblings. Parents are also afraid that if they neglected and mistreated their eldest son in the past, the eldest son will seek revenge on the most favored child. Even if they are still alive, it is hard to say whether they will die well, not to mention that they are unable to stop it because of their aging. In this world where criminal investigation science is not developed, it is not easy to want an old man to die quickly.

The problem with concubines is that the children born from concubines may not be their own. It’s okay to raise him as an adopted son, since he can still bring value to the family anyway. As for inheriting the family property, that is absolutely impossible. Although male cultivators can confirm whether the child is theirs through weak induction of blood, this is not completely impossible to fake.

He Qianqing once told Yang Yuyao that there was a concubine of the patriarch of a monk family named Yan who colluded with his lover in order to rise to power. The story begins when the monk named Yan met another monk and regarded him as a close friend. When the monk came to visit, he also asked his concubine to sleep with him. As a result, something went wrong just this time.

One night, the concubine and the monk met each other and had an affair. Of course, it is possible that the concubine was just wishful thinking and the monk was interested in the Yan family's property from the beginning. In short, the concubine was pregnant with the monk's child, and with the monk's help, she concealed the truth, allowing the monk surnamed Yan to perceive that the concubine was indeed carrying his child. Because the monk surnamed Yan only has one legitimate daughter, and his wife has not yet given birth to a boy. The concubine began to try to help her and the monk's son to become the young head of the family.

However, this monk surnamed Yan was weak-tempered and did not dare to make up his mind at all. The clan members objected, and he did not dare to really help his concubine's child to rise to power. Besides, his wife's natal family was not easy to mess with. So the matter was delayed until the concubine's child grew up to be a teenager, and then he finally had a legitimate son. But at this time, the concubine's child looked more and more like his friend, and he suddenly realized that he had been deceived.

If the concubine was not her own child and had not been concealed by the concubine, the matter would not be so serious. Not only did this concubine hide it, but she also always wanted to push the child into the position of the heir to the family head. The nature was different. The monk surnamed Yan was weak-tempered but not stupid. He immediately understood that the person he once thought was his best friend and his concubine were colluding to gain access to their Yan family's property. Once the concubine becomes the head of the family, he can transfer their family's property bit by bit.

So the monk named Yan drove away the concubine and his son, and broke off all relations with the monk. But he and his tribe wanted to know what means the monk used to conceal this matter. It happened that one of their ancestors was friends with Nanshan Immortal, so they contacted Nanshan Immortal to come to their family to help investigate. At that time, He Qianqing had just become a disciple, so he visited the Yan family with his master, Nanshan Immortal Master, and learned the whole process of the matter together.

He Qianqing and Yang Yuyao said that learning about this matter shocked him a lot at the time. He used to trust the intuition of these so-called monks, but after this incident, he knew that people who want to make fakes will always find ways. Counterfeit. Yang Yuyao was shocked when he heard this story. He felt that people in this world are really having fun.

It was also this story that made Yang Yuyao gradually understand why these people cared so much about the distinction between direct descendants and concubines. After all, it was a dish that they themselves sent to others to take over voluntarily. Monks can be deceived, but mortals are even more confused. In addition, Yang Yuyao also gradually understood that in this world that values ​​well-matched families, as long as the wife does not marry high, the woman's words must be listened to. If a concubine is promoted to the throne, his wife and her natal family will definitely not agree. Many countries even use royal laws to protect the status of the first wife and legitimate son.

So after He Qianqing heard about You Shuangjiang's experience, he said that the reaction of You Shuangjiang's mother's family was too strange. Even if the other party was the crown prince, there was no need to be so humble as the daughter of a minister. What's more, this was a gifted marriage. If the information about You Shuangjiang asking for help was really sent back. At home, the family should not sit idly by. Marrying someone as a wife but being reduced to a concubine is no different from being directly demoted to slavery. If You Shuang gives birth to the eldest son Han Jin in the future, and his child is also a bastard, it will not be of any benefit to their family.

Therefore, He Qianqing speculated a possibility for Yang Yuyao. First of all, the You family had some fatal clues in the hands of the crown prince, so the You Shuangjiang family did not dare to make trouble at all. Secondly, Youjia is afraid that if he knows that the prince has committed a serious crime that requires beheading, his family will be implicated. If You Shuang becomes the head wife, even her natal family will be implicated. If she is a concubine, she is exempted from the concubine. Even if You Shuangjiang was executed because she was not investigated clearly, her natal family would still have the opportunity to use the proof of the request letter she sent to save the family.

Yang Yuyao had to be grateful that at least the Yang family did not have such problems with concubines, so it could save a lot of trouble. However, the intrigues of this kind of forces still made his hair stand on end. Fortunately, for now, the Yang family and his body were Tao Zhengxi, the emperor, and Tao Yeshuo, the prince, have a good relationship. As long as they don't make big mistakes, the Yang family should be able to be stable for many years.

"Well, are they Huang Ya and Shen Ming?" Yang Yuyao, who had not thought about what to do today, was walking around the house. Just as he was about to go back to the house, he saw Huang Ya and Shen Ming coming back after finishing their martial arts practice, but did not look at them. When I arrived at Teng Yu, I didn’t know where he had gone. Huang Ya and Shen Ming were whispering something. However, their voices were not lowered very low, so Yang Yuyao could hear them clearly without any difficulty.

"Should we start paying money to the family members who come to collect monthly payments now? Your father should also come back. Huang Ya, why don't you go and see him? I think you can tell the eldest young master, and he will definitely agree." Shen Ming said.

"No, I think it's better to forget it..." Huang Ya said with a serious expression. "Good day, young master!"

"Good day, young master." The two people who saw Yang Yuyao hurriedly saluted.

"Good day, you two just said that Uncle Zhou has started to pay monthly payments to the family members who come to collect them on their behalf?" Yang Yuyao asked curiously.

"Tell me, young master, yes, every month starts at this time." Huang Ya replied.

"I want to go over and have a look, Huang Ya, can you accompany me there?" Yang Yuyao asked, and Huang Ya opened her eyes in surprise.

"Okay, I take the order." Huang Ya responded with a quick salute.