When everything is on track, it feels like time flies very quickly.

Before you know it, another month has passed, and it's time to settle the accounts.

Sure enough, as the golden shopkeeper said, because Changqingfang, the largest bookstore in Suyuan Mansion in Jiangnan, wholesaled more than 15,000 new books of "Liang Zhu" and "Xianxia" from Juyazhai, and the money distributed this time was even more than last month, more than 4,500 taels.

Of course, "Liang Zhu" is not counted among them, because "Liang Zhu" was directly sold out to Ju Yazhai, and it has nothing to do with him no matter how much it is sold in the future.

Coupled with the more than 3,600 taels distributed last month, Chi Fei now has a net worth of more than 8,000 taels plus a two-entry courtyard.

Although it is less than the top and more than the bottom, he is already quite satisfied.

Compared with the life of a beggar who ate the last meal and didn't eat a meal a year ago, now he has not only successfully settled down in the capital, but also has a small asset. If that's not enough, beware of being struck by lightning.

People's desires are endless, so people must learn to be temperate, to be grateful, to learn to be content, otherwise they will never be happy.

This is the principle of life that his grandfather taught him when he was a child, and the more he grows up, the more he feels that it makes sense.

He used to know a few classmates and friends who were very well mixed, some were sales, some were lecturers, and some were financers, and their annual salaries were calculated in millions.

But these people all have one thing in common, which is that they are busy, very, very busy.

Frequent business trips are already a trivial matter, they rarely have time to rest, either to work or socialize, in short, they are almost busy all year round.

He once asked them, do they feel happy with an annual salary of one million, a car, a house, a wife and children, like they are now?

None of them replied that they were having a good time.

They feel like a spring shoehorned into a machine, tormented by various performance tasks and work pressures every day, without even respite.

But they did not dare to stop, they were afraid that if they stopped, they would lose their current resources and status and become nothing.

Seeing them like this, Chi Fei deeply felt that what his grandfather said was right.

The more a person wants, the more he needs to give.

It is understandable that people should work hard when they are young. But there is a degree to everything, and if this so-called success is at the cost of constantly overdrawing people's health and lives, then is such success really meaningful?

Chi Fei asked himself if he couldn't do it, so he would rather be a person who didn't have much money, but lived a relaxed life, just like his grandfather.

Even if he came to this strange world, Chi Fei still retained such thoughts.

In the case of worry-free food and clothing, he no longer writes novels simply to make money, but more of a kind of self-realization.

He wants to express what he knows, what he wants to express, through the form of a novel.

After handing over the manuscript to be printed and published next month to the gold shopkeeper in person, Chi Fei, who came out of Juyazhai, decided to visit Chen's tent room while it was still early.

For this old man who is sincerely good to himself, Chi Fei has regarded him as an important elder, and he will visit him two or three times a month and chat with him by the way.

As he went more and more, he and Chen's family began to get to know each other. But he knew that there was a difference between men and women in ancient times, so he tried to avoid too much contact with women.

After returning to the courtyard after visiting Chen's tent, Chi Fei called Zhang Xiao'e, who was cleaning the yard, into the living room.

"Boss, what's the matter?" Zhang Xiao'e asked a little strangely.

Chi Fei took out three taels of silver from his body and put them on the table and said to her, "These silver are for you, you can keep them yourself." ”

"Boss, do you want to invite someone back for dinner? How many people came? Zhang Xiao'e took the silver without suspicion and treated it as food money as usual.

Chi Fei knew that she had misunderstood, and said angrily: "This is not the money for you to buy vegetables, this is your monthly money, which was given to you for free, understand?" ”

"W-This is for me?" Zhang Xiao'e looked at him in disbelief.

"Yes, it's for you, not just this month, every month in the future."

"I—I don't want ...... I can't ask for it, I really can't want it! Zhang Xiao'e was so frightened that she hurriedly put the silver back on the table as if she had suddenly caught a red-hot charcoal.

Chi Fei knocked on the table and said, "Listen, anyone who works here with me will be paid, even you."

I promised to give you back your freedom in ten years, and I will not break my word.

People will grow up, and in these ten years, you always have to buy new clothes, shoes and socks, right? Towels and buckets and other daily necessities will always be used and broken one day, do you expect me to buy them for you?

Also, you are fourteen years old, and you will be twenty-four in ten years. You're going to get married then, right?

If you have no relatives and no reason, what will happen to the dowry at that time? Is it just like this to marry the past?

These are all money, so that's why I send you monthly money. In the future, you can use this monthly money to buy what you need to use, and then save most of the money as your dowry. Do you understand it now? ”

Zhang Xiao'e said with red eyes: "But I'm just a subordinate, and I shouldn't take money."

You've been very good to me, and I really don't dare to take your money. ”

"Silly girl, you are in charge and I am very rich, and I don't care about this little money at all. Obedient, take it. Chi Fei forced the silver into her hand.

Feeling the hardness in her hands, Zhang Xiao'e's tears couldn't help but flow down the ground anymore, and then dripped down her face little by little on the floor.

She was very excited and wanted to wipe it with her sleeve, but she couldn't finish it.

Chi Fei decided to let her calm herself, so she walked out of the living room alone and returned to her room.

After more than two months of getting along and observing, he saw that Zhang Xiao'e was a girl who knew how to be grateful for the pictorial, and she was also very serious and diligent.

After buying vegetables every day, she really paid back the rest of the food money, and she didn't dare to do it at all.

Although sometimes she is a little stubborn in dealing with people, she is a person who is trustworthy and worthy of giving her back.

Three taels of silver was Chi Fei's salary when he was a guy in Dongsheng Rice Shop before, so he used this as the standard to give Zhang Xiao'e monthly money.

In the future, as she works for a longer period of time, or when new people come in, her monthly income will increase further.

If she marries in the future, Chi Fei has already thought about preparing another dowry for her.

Ancient society was too harsh on women, and a trustworthy person like Zhang Xiao'e would do his best to help her as long as he had the ability.

It may be a bit nosy, but it's what he wants to do.

His life was picked up, and if he could, he wanted to live as freely as he could.

Because in his previous life, he had already had too many regrets.

One of the biggest regrets is that I didn't have time to see my grandfather for the last time.

Thinking about it now, Chi Fei realized that his grandfather made a will in advance to leave him the house and savings, and taught him everything he could.

He even let Chi Fei learn Wing Chun to defend himself since he was a child, and he did so much just so that one day after he passed away, his grandson would have the ability to live alone.

Because he knows that even if Chi Fei's parents are alive, it is actually equivalent to having no father and no mother.

Except for his grandfather, no one will really be good to this grandson. The only thing he can do is to teach his grandson to live well.

I don't want him to be glorious and rich, but I want him to be safe all his life.

It can be said that it is the misfortune of Chi Fei to have irresponsible parents. But having such a grandfather is his great luck.