Yao'er was puzzled, and asked carefully, only then did she understand the reason.

It turned out that this Zhong Yuan was the head chef of the Kou Qing Palace Chef, responsible for the supply of lunch for the whole ya.

The officials in the yamen enjoy a free lunch, who pays for it? Of course, it was the imperial court, and the daily lunch expenses of the officials were called "food materials", and the corresponding money allocated by the imperial court was called "food books", that is, the imperial court allocated a huge amount of "food books" at one time, and the yamen used this money to lend money to earn interest, and the profits generated were used for daily food expenses.

Are you afraid that you won't be able to recover the principal and interest when you lend money? Therefore, this money will properly produce a stable income, and it is a very rich income.

Every day's lunch, everyone eats openly, and it is impossible to eat it all, so what about the rest of the money? The remaining money is called "food tail", and the kitchen officials distribute it to the whole government and others every day during the settlement of expenses, so that everyone can share the benefits.

Yao'er listened to Zhong Yuan's explanation, and couldn't help but smile and said: "I see, this official has just arrived, and Yu Lu hasn't received it yet, but he got a lot of extra money first, haha, how much money do you have?" ”

Zhong Yuan smiled and took out a heavy string of big money from his waist, put it on the table in front of Yao'er, and said: "This is today's food tail, a total of eight hundred yuan, this food tail is uncertain every day, and we will not know how much we can leave until after the day's expenses, and then distribute it to the big guy." ”

Yao'er was taken aback, and said in a lost voice: "There are so many food tails in a day?" ”

At this time, prices are cheap, and although they often fluctuate, they are generally available. At that time, the money was still very valuable, according to the price of Lin'an City at this time. One dollar is equivalent to our current dollar, how much does this extra income have to be a month?

Seeing that she was surprised, Zhong Yuan smiled and said, "That's not much. The villain remembers that the most one day last month was 1,300 miles. ”

Speaking of this, he took a step forward and lowered his voice: "Of course, it is impossible for everyone to take so much. The villain is based on the actual head plus some imaginary heads, calculating how much a meal tail should be, and the officials add it according to the size of the official position, and Cui Shilang takes ten times. Eight times for each of you, six times for outsiders, and so on. ”

Zhong Yuan said this. sighed and said: "The villain is doing this errand, everyone says that he is full of oil and water, but the villain is not good at doing this errand." The tolerance officials often say that those who are big officials are good and have a field. Numerous. The salary allowance has long been paid according to the rank, and the lunch is better than everyone's, so why share the food tail several times?

They all said that the surplus of this meal money should be divided equally regardless of the position. But they only talked about it in private, and none of them dared to talk to their bosses, so they often came to bully the villain. The villain is just a powerless and powerless man, what can he do? Don't talk about being bullied. They also pointed out that the villain made a profit from it, and that the yamen had to take stock every month, so what could the villain do? Hey, I'm angry......"

"Oh?"

Yao'er's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked him carefully about the food tail, Zhong Yuan spit out a lot of bitterness to him, then slapped his forehead, and exclaimed: "Ouch, why did the villain patronize and talk to Changshi, those little officials naturally went to the kitchen to get the food tail, and the officials need the villain to run errands to send them one by one." Kou Qing Gongsi is the first place where the villain comes, and Lord Changshi is the first copy sent by the villain, and there are many places to go, and it has been delayed for a long time, and the villain has not had time to send it before the ya. The adults are busy, and the villains still have to do things. ”

Yao'er smiled and said, "Okay, you go and get busy." ”

Seeing Zhong Yuan leave, Yao'er looked at the string of big money on the table, thought silently for a while, and suddenly smiled mysteriously......

……

Yao'er walked out of the office with her hands, stood under the laurel tree, stretched her fists and feet from time to time, and moved her body, there was the public who went to Cui Langzhong to do things, and those who didn't know Yao'er's identity were okay, and there were those who knew that he was the new chief of the company, and the top leader in charge of the division couldn't help but cast strange eyes on her.

Yao'er is peaceful, turning a blind eye, only taking a leisurely walk in the courtyard, sometimes walking to the wall, leaning over to see the water lilies raised in the jar, sometimes walking to the wall carving, carefully admiring the image of the pigg's Weitian, caressing the delicate and mellow lines of the carving, and the expression is extremely leisurely.

Cui Langzhong's eldest follower Ling Fox Prison hid in the door and quietly paid attention to her movements, the more he looked at it, the more puzzled he became, he couldn't help but come out, pretended to patrol at the door for a while, and then greeted her, greeting with a smile: "Lord Changshi!" ”

Yao'er was holding her hands, looked up at the pig, turned her head to look at him, and smiled: "Ah! It's Linghu Prison, you look at this hedgehog, this pattern, this eyebrows, eyes, scales, the carving is really extraordinary, look at it, it should be from the hands of a famous artist,"

Ling Fox Prison hummed and agreed, wanting to trap her words and probe her thoughts, but he didn't know how to speak for a while. Yao'er seemed to have seen enough, turned around and walked to his official room, and said to Linghu Prison as she walked: "This official is very bored, if you have nothing to do, you might as well come and talk about things with this official." ”

These words were exactly what Ling Fox Prison wanted, and Ling Fox Prison hurriedly agreed, and accompanied Yao'er into the signing room. The two entered the room, Yao'er sat behind the case, and said to Linghu Prison, who was standing there: "It's just nothing to talk about, you don't have to talk so many rules, you can sit too." ”

Ling Hujiao agreed, sat down opposite her, and saw two strings of yellow and clear money on the case, and couldn't help asking, "Uh...... Long history this is ......"

Yao'er looked at the table, and said complacently: "Before this official came to Kou Qing Palace, he still felt that this yamen must be very boring compared to doing things in the palace. I didn't expect this place to be really good, this is the food tail that the official just received, and there are such benefits to serving here, and the official really didn't know it before. ”

Ling Fox Prison looked at the amount of money on the table, and said hesitantly: "Changshi is the official of our Kou Qing Palace, and he gets more food than others. In the case of a villain, it's just an ordinary tolerance, but it's far from being comparable to the long history, yo! Lang Zhong's share of this food tail, I'm afraid there is not a thousand dollars, right? ”

Yao'er glanced casually at the table and said, "Oh, it's two thousand dollars in total." You can have these many additional benefits in one day, and in a month, it is a lot of income. ”

When Ling Fox Prison heard this, his expression froze, and his eyes widened. Quickly made a calm expression again, and hurriedly calculated in his heart: "Two thousand dollars? Why did my family get a thousand dollars? Zhong Yuan's guy, the first rat at both ends, what did he say that he didn't take this new official in his eyes at all, and the food tail he gave her was far lower than that of my family's Lang Zhong......" (to be continued......)