Chapter 290: Reckoning
If you plan to settle here, you must first find out how much money you have. This is a very important thing, and Li Jingxuan's knowledge of Sun Tzu's Art of War in his previous life does not also have words: "Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles!" -- only by figuring out how much strength you have and how much strength the enemy has, can you provide the most correct information for your next arrangements.
Li Jingxuan is well aware of this. It was the old man who opened the door, that is, the housekeeper of this mansion: Hou Luo understood the land contract given to him by Li Jingxuan, and recognized the identity of Li Jingxuan, the new owner, Li Jingxuan ignored his own hunger and exhaustion, and asked Hou Luo to bring the accounts and roll call book of the mansion, ready to count the property and personnel of his mansion.
The mansion is just a simple mansion and does not have any property attached. As a result, the accounts for the expenses of the mansion are only a thin book. Li Jingxuan flipped through it slightly, looked at the contents, and generally understood the operation of this mansion: there is a rich village in the city, and this money bank is the free money village that passes through the mainland. This is the property under the name of the Xiaoyao Palace, and it is also the product of the compromise and cooperation between the Xiaoyao Hall and the sects on the mainland. The outlets of Xiaoyao Qianzhuang are all over the continent, and the city naturally has their strongholds. Every month, Hou Luo, the housekeeper, had to go to the Xiaoyao Money Village and take out a sum of money from one of the accounts to support the mansion.
"In other words, this mansion has always been supported by the martial master. Flipping through the account book, listening to Hou Luo's old voice explaining in his ear, Li Jingxuan nodded slightly, and listened quietly, until Hou Luo's voice stopped, Li Jingxuan raised his eyebrows lightly and said such a sentence.
"That's the case!" Li Jingxuan summed up the facts, Hou Luo didn't mean anything to object, just nodded heavily after Li Jingxuan finished speaking.
"And what about after that?" Li Jingxuan's voice suddenly became quiet. He was a little embarrassed, but he still had to ask what he should understand: "That...... Now that I've accepted everything, it's up to me to pay for the entire house. Li Jingxuan guessed that although such a speculation was very unfavorable to the purse on his waist, in terms of the normal development of the whole thing, this matter should indeed be like this.
"No...... Not really. Hou Luo shook his head vigorously when he heard this: "For this matter, Wu Ye originally had orders. No matter who he gives this mansion and us, the two hundred yuan stone that is supplied to the mansion every month will not change. After all, it's just two hundred yuan stones, and Wu Ye hasn't taken it into account yet. ”
"Wouldn't this be too much, it doesn't make sense to let him keep everyone. Li Jingxuan furrowed her brows, somewhat puzzled by this.
"Isn't this normal!After all, you have that identity...... Hou Luo whispered: "With that kind of identity, no matter what you need, as long as it is reasonable, Master Wu has to get it for you." ”
"This ...... I haven't skimmed it yet. Li Jingxuan shook his head gently, feeling that he just wanted it, which was somewhat inappropriate.
"Not a little bit, not all of it, but at least some of it can be obtained. Hou Luo insisted on this: "If you need anything, you can boldly put it forward, and we will definitely do it for you." ”
"This ...... Since the martial master said that everything is business as usual, then everything is business as usual!" Hearing Hou Luo's insistence, Li Jingxuan thought about his current situation, and did not dare to make more guarantees, so he could only accept it on the surface, and secretly calculated in his heart: "We must find a way to get money as soon as possible." ”
After all, in Li Jingxuan's own thoughts, his family can only be raised by himself. Although Wu Ye said that he wanted to take refuge in himself, before he entered the Baoyuan realm, this agreement of refuge did not take effect. Since it has not taken effect, then Wu Ye is not his own person - Li Jingxuan is entangled in this, and is naturally unwilling to let Wu Ye continue to support this mansion. After all, in his opinion, the mansion and subordinates supported by the martial master are still his own or the martial master's.
Li Jingxuan is somewhat obsessed with cleanliness about this, he doesn't want his subordinates to always make trouble in an unclear way.
Therefore, he could only make up his mind secretly.
This is generally the case with the cost of a home. After Li Jingxuan read this, he picked up another list, gently opened it, and looked at the various people and others explained in it. There are not many people in the list, and there are only about a dozen people. It stands to reason that these dozen names can be written down on a piece of paper, but because the list still contains the deeds of sale of these people, the whole booklet is a little later than the account book.
It was still the same as before, Li Jingxuan looked at it gently, and Hou Luo, the housekeeper, explained it.
Through such reading and explanation, Li Jingxuan gradually understood the situation of the people inside. After calling them over one by one to meet and say hello, Li Jingxuan was already very clear about the situation in the entire mansion.
The house is still quite big, at least as far as Li Jingxuan's feeling is concerned.
It is a rectangular house, covering an area of about three acres and six minutes, and there are dozens of houses in total, some of which are functional, and some of which are purely empty. There are so many rooms in the house, so naturally there must be a few people who are responsible for cleaning and serving.
At present, Li Jingxuan's house has the following staff: one housekeeper, who is responsible for the operation of the entire house, three cooks, who are responsible for daily cooking, six male servants, who are responsible for the maintenance and cleaning of the mansion, and three maids, who are responsible for serving the "master" of the mansion.
"It feels a little weird!" Li Jingxuan looked at them one by one, understood the moving and delicate appearance of those maids, and also heard about the "work" they were going to be responsible for, and at the moment his brows moved slightly, but it was very unnatural.
"What's so strange? People here are all the same. Our family has less manpower, and the left and right families have more manpower. The people who live here are rich businessmen, and their lives are all drunk. Hou Luo said with a smile. He felt that his master was young enough and a little thin-skinned.
"Is that so?" Li Jingxuan heard this, and turned his head slightly: "To be honest, I'm still not used to having someone serve me." Li Jingxuan said this, blushing half-truthfully.
"If that's the case. Seeing Li Jingxuan say this, Hou Luo's face became a little serious: "Then please get used to it quickly! After all, you are going to live here, if you want to keep a low profile, then it is best to try to be as good as everyone else." ”
"Okay!" Hou Luo had warned himself like this, so Li Jingxuan naturally wouldn't understand the objection, he nodded lightly, indicating that he had written this down.
After talking about things here, Li Jingxuan looked at the sky and it was getting late, he looked at the silver plate in the sky on Gao Gao's body, listened to the thunder in Xiao Linde's stomach next to him, and finally stood up and ordered to go down and start a gang - get something that can fill your stomach as soon as possible. After a busy day and postponing dinner, Li Jingxuan could bear it himself, but the other people in this mansion couldn't bear it at all. He clearly knew that most of the people in this mansion were ordinary people, but they had to eat three meals a day.
Li Jingxuan's order was very simple, but it was impossible for the subordinates in the mansion to simply understand and implement this order. They were all seeing Li Jingxuan for the first time, and they didn't understand what the temperament of this young new master was. So, they all rushed to get busy, and carried out this simple order as if it were a big thing.
Soon, a bowl of hot noodles appeared in front of Li Jingxuan. The face is white, the green onion is fragrant, and the side dishes are rich, looking at the white heat in front of him, Li Jingxuan's face suddenly smiled. He was clearly satisfied with the bowl of noodle soup. At that moment, he lifted the chopsticks and was about to eat, but suddenly stopped the bamboo chopsticks in his hand in mid-air.
"Why is there only one bowl?" asked Li Jingxuan strangely.
"Isn't one bowl enough?" The maid who came over seemed to be a little girl named Xia Yu and asked puzzledly, "If it's not enough, I'll let the guy make it again." ”
"It's not that I don't have enough to eat. It's ......" Li Jingxuan said and shook his head gently: "Instead, you don't have to eat, don't you?" Let the room open a big pot, let's eat together." Li Jingxuan thought about it and opened his mouth again.
"It doesn't seem to be in order. Xia Yu hesitated slightly.
"What's wrong? Behind closed doors, I'm the boss of the family...... You must obey my commands. Isn't it?" Li Jingxuan said, pretending to be serious.
"Okay!" Everyone could see that Li Jingxuan was pretending to be fiddling, but they all understood the persistence contained in Li Jingxuan's manipulation like this. This kind of persistence is just a simple little thing, and other people will naturally not be strong enough for their own masters because of this little thing. So, Li Jingxuan said that what to do, what to do, everyone has no more opinions.
The people were busy again, and soon new hot noodles were served. Li Jingxuan left one for the old housekeeper Hou Luo, and one for the little girl Xia Yu, and the last one was pushed in front of Xiao Linde.
"This ...... Is this for me?" Shawlinder was taken aback at this, and stammered a little as he spoke.
"Of course, if it wasn't for you, would you still let me eat two bowls in a row?" Li Jingxuan looked at him amusedly.
"This ...... Thank you so much. Xiao Linde seems to have never been valued so much, and at this time, he was moved by Li Jingxuan's bowl of noodle soup that was the same as his own.
"Eat! I still have something to ask you after eating......" Li Jingxuan smiled and nodded.
"Yes!" Xiao Linde didn't dare to slack off, and didn't care whether the noodle soup was hot or not, so he snorted and killed a bowl of three times divided by two, and then sat in front of Li Jingxuan like a primary school student, staring at Li Jingxuan with a loyal face: "Master, what else do you want to ask?"
"You see me right now, too. I broke my arm, you know. Therefore, you know what I have come to this city for. I'm new to the city, so I'm not familiar with all aspects of it. Yes, I want to know from you, how can I contact the people of the Medicine God Valley and obtain the Five Aggregates Shaping Body Pill from them?" Li Jingxuan bluntly said the problem that he needed to solve the most. This question is also the ultimate purpose of his coming here.
"Do you want to get the elixir to restore your limbs?" Hearing Li Jingxuan say so much, Xiao Linde's eyes lit up suddenly, and he whispered to ponder what Li Jingxuan said, and summarized the most critical issues from it. Shawlind's head spun around for this question, and he began to search for what he knew.
To tell the truth, Xiao Linde's age is young after all, he is only fifteen or sixteen years old, he is not very experienced in dealing with things, and he has no experience to solve the problem that Li Jingxuan said, so he can only sort out a set of practical methods for Li Jingxuan from the statements he has heard and explored.
“...... To be honest, I haven't dealt with anything like that. The monks who came here to ask for medicine from the Medicine God Temple and the Medicine God Temple were generally in contact with each other for a long time. They all have their own competent people here, and they usually don't ask us to mention them for anything like that. So, sir, I can only tell you based on the relevant information I have found. If there is anything wrong or missing, I hope you will bear with me. Xiao Linde is still a delicate person, he was worried that Li Jingxuan would blame himself for the problem because of this, so he gave Li Jingxuan a preventive injection first.
Of course, what he said was just for the sake of safety. Although he hadn't really dealt with it, he could guarantee that at least eighty percent of what he knew was true. This kind of truth is the existence of his current confidence.
"In the early days, everyone who wanted to come to the Medicine God Valley to seek medical advice was with a tough posture, eager to get the elixir that could heal their injuries. At that time, they were all directly in contact with the people of the Medicine God Valley. The city was only a place for them to settle down. At that time, the Medicine God Valley did not set up any institutions in the city...... None of this is the same as it is now. Now, the Medicine God Valley has set up large and small medicine halls in the city, I think you should go directly to the medicine hall to have a look. ”
Xiao Linde pondered for a long time, and finally cleaned up all kinds of memories in his mind and told Li Jingxuan what he knew:
"Now that more and more people are coming to the Medicine God Valley, in order to avoid those powerful monks from gathering together in a swarm, what embarrassing problems will happen. Therefore, the people of the Valley of the Medicine God set up relevant medicine halls in various parts of the city, and distinguished the monks who served different according to the rank of the monks. ”
"Is that so?" Li Jingxuan frowned slightly when he heard this: "Since this is the case, then which pharmacy should I find to ask for medicine?"