The old man said meaningfully: "Although the process is a bit complicated, the result is the same. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info silver, not only to buy goods, but to raise the value. Sometimes, it can also be used to smash people. ”

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Cui Ji, the teacher, is really in place. For several days in a row, the Cui Mansion would send a personal attendant every day to tell Yang Tianhong whether he would be able to return to China to attend classes that day. Lu Hongzhi's serious injury obviously did not have an impact on Guozi Prison, and those students who witnessed Yang Tianhong's violent injury at the scene were interviewed by Cui Ji one by one. I don't know how he used to suppress the whole thing. According to the person who came to report to the Cui family, the situation in Guozi Prison is now calm. It's just that if the Yang family sisters and brothers really want to go back, they will have to wait a little longer.

Life at home for long periods of time is very boring, and it is no different from meditating and meditating in the ashram of the Qing Ling School. If it was changed at another time, Yang Qiurong would not feel irritable. But the current location of Chu State Kyoto, not to mention the surrounding aura, the outer courtyard of the Yang Mansion and Pingkangfang Street are separated by a wall. From morning to night, selling candy people, sugar gourds, cooking cakes and pot helmets, soup noodles chaos, kites and fruits...... All kinds of businessmen gathered here, bargaining, and even shrews scolded the streets, fancy sisters solicited customers in the streets, ruffians and hooligans fought with each other, and all the chaotic voices converged, disturbing people's minds and disturbing their hearts.

In fact, these sounds did not reach Yang Qiurong's residence, at most, they disturbed near the partition wall of the outer courtyard. It's just that Lu Hongzhi's matter really made Yang Qiurong unable to calm down, so he instinctively felt that there was noise everywhere around.

Therefore, when Yang Tianhong appeared and invited her to go outside with her, Yang Qiurong immediately agreed.

As soon as the sister and brother walked out of the back room, they saw the old servant Yang Dahai hurrying towards them. His brow furrowed. The voice was very hurried: "Young master, miss, the Lu family is here again." ”

It was a rather obese middle-aged man, wearing a blue-gray shirt, with an almost fixed smile on his face all the time, but he looked kind. It's hard to get people to feel disgusted and resistant.

"Hehe! The villain is the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion. ”

The fat man nodded and introduced himself, took out a letter from his arms, and handed it to Yang Tianhong with a sweet smile.

The letter is long, but the content is simple. It lists in detail all the items that the hussar general Yang Jing consumed at the border pass that year. Clothing, weapons, food, herbs, medicines...... No matter how big or small is missing.

The housekeeper of the Lu Mansion turned sideways, laughed with him, pointed to various details on the paper, and said cautiously: "My master instructed the little one to bring this list to General Xiao Yang." The lord also said. The silver coins on the list were all borrowed from the hussar general and our Lu Mansion back then. If it weren't for these money and materials, the hussar generals would not have been able to win battles at the border gates. It is said that the draught does not forget to dig wells, and the hussar general agreed to the family affair between Miss Yang and my young master, but this kind of thing also requires mutual affection, isn't it? Hehe! My master is reasonable, and knows that my son has a lazy temperament and a bad temper, and he cannot fall into the eyes of a fairy figure like Miss Yang. That's why I sent this list over. The old man said, the public is the public. Private is private and should not be confused. Since the Yang family and the Lu family have no marriage contract, then ask General Yang Xiao to return all the silver coins on the list, and by the way, return the bride price given to the Yang Mansion that year. This kind of thing is actually very normal, if General Yang Xiao and Miss Yang feel that there is any problem, they can disclose the details of the marriage book and money. Find a few more trustworthy people. Anyway, it's clear at a glance. ”

Yang Tianhong slowly frowned, his eyes gloomy. He stared at the numbers on the letterhead, and muttered to himself: "The bride price plus various consumptions, a total of 800,000 taels of silver?"

Yang Qiurong's face was already covered with a layer of frost. She sighed softly: "Regarding the bride price, I have also heard the master talk about it on the mountain. The Lu family did not deceive, and the 300,000 taels of silver were indeed sent to the Yang Mansion that year. However, how many of them were really used by his father, or were some misappropriated by the Xu family? ”

After a pause, Yang Qiurong continued: "Then again, the reason why the Lu family was willing to give so much silver as a bride price back then was largely because the Xu family was in the middle of it. I heard that a part of the silver was sent back to the Marquis of Guangping by my father to be used as a daily subsidy for the old man. ”

Yang Tianhong nodded slowly, sighing secretly in his heart.

The Marquis of Guangping's mansion is actually an empty shelf. Even for the family banquet during the Chinese New Year, the meal is very simple. Although there are a lot of chicken, duck and fish, it is definitely not exquisite. That kind of method has the feeling of another world army canteen, the quantity is sufficient, but no matter how you eat it, all the dishes are the same taste.

Not to mention anything else, just grandma Gan gave her a string of jade pendants, which will attract envy and jealousy from everyone. Yang Xiong, that bastard, rolled up his sleeves and came up to grab it. If the family has a lot of money, how can they do such a thing?

Maybe he was in a hurry, and the fat face of the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion was full of beads of sweat. He observed the faces of the Yang family siblings, his smile became sweeter, and he moved closer to Yang Tianhong, not quite sure, plucked up his courage, and said, "General Yang, that ...... The matter of silver money is actually not 800,000 taels. ”

"Oh?" Yang Tianhong turned around and looked at him suspiciously.

No one would feel comfortable staring at them with such sharp eyes. The housekeeper of the Lu Mansion only felt that his entire back was soaked, and his mind was full of all kinds of legends about how fierce and murderous the Yang family was. He secretly cursed tens of thousands of times in his heart for arranging his damn errand, but he had to bite the bullet and say: "According to the law of Great Chu, once the marriage contract between a man and a woman is decided, it is strictly forbidden to change it. If one party wants to repent of the marriage, he must go to the local government to be judged by the official. That one...... In particular, the party who takes the initiative to repent of the marriage must come up with ten times the amount of silver equivalent to the bride price as compensation, so that the official can judge the annulment of the marriage contract. ”

"Ten times?"

Yang Qiurong's eyes sharpened, and his beautiful face suddenly showed a bit of hideousness, and even the air around him instantly dropped several degrees, exuding a terrifying chill: "Ten times the compensation? The Lu family is afraid that they are crazy about money, and they can even say such things! Could it be that his Lu Hongzhi's dog life is really worth eight million taels of silver?"

Yang Tianhong was also shocked by this huge astronomical number. Instinctively wanted to be angry, but still kept a trace of calm. He thought for a while, raised the letter in his hand, and said coldly to the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion: "Are you sure that this is really written by your master?"

Although the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion was terrified to death, he still mustered up his courage. Swallowing his throat, he nodded again and again: "When the master wrote the letter, the villain stood by and watched. How can someone pretend to be this kind of thing? General Xiao Yang, look at it, there is also our master's big red seal underneath, which no one can fake. ”

Yang Tianhong did not continue to investigate this matter, he continued to ask: "Do you really think that my Yang Mansion can get eight million taels of silver?"

The voice of the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion was obviously trembling: "I, my lord said it." General Xiao Yang is a cultivator, and there must be a lot of elixirs in his hands. Yangfu ...... If the Yang Mansion didn't have enough money and couldn't take out so much, it could also be replaced by the elixir refined by the Immortal Family. Or, or the kind of medicine that General Xiao Yang gave to my young master to treat his injuries before, it's okay. ”

Hearing this, Yang Tianhong and Yang Qiurong looked at each other, from each other's eyes. I saw the clear gaze.

The Lu family went around in a big circle, it turned out. The purpose is for the elixir.

Worldly people, although they are rich, can hardly buy elixir with gold and silver. What the Lu family did can also be understood. The word "pill" also connects things before and after, the goals and requirements of the Lu family. It couldn't be clearer.

"Want an elixir?"

Yang Tianhong showed a smile on his face, and asked lightly: "So, how much does your master ask for the Immortal Family's elixir?

The head of the Lu Mansion sighed. The Yang siblings were unexpectedly not angry, which seemed to him to be a good sign, and they hurriedly took out another letter from their arms. He handed it over respectfully, and said in his mouth: "It's not that the villain deliberately concealed it, but that my lord repeatedly instructed that if it weren't for General Xiao Yang or Miss Yang taking the initiative to mention the pill, the villain would never open his mouth, and he couldn't take the initiative to take out this letter." Otherwise, the villain will have his leg broken alive by the master's family when he goes back. ”

Yang Tianhong snorted coldly, faced the wind, and shook the letter hard.

The letter was short, with only a few lines.

Forging body Dan, a single piece as a price pattern of five thousand taels of silver.

Yuanqi Dan, a single piece is worth 30,000 taels of silver.

Pei Yuan Dan, a single piece of silver for the price of 100,000 taels.

If it is deducted from muscle-building and osteo-building powder, the price of each penny of medicinal powder is 200 taels of silver.

Looking at the words on the letterhead, the expression on Yang Tianhong's face became more and more strange. He kept sneering, and in the end, it turned into a laugh.

"Hahahaha! The old ghost of the Lu family, you're afraid you're crazy about money!"

What is the concept of Forging Body Pill?

Although it was only the most basic general ammunition issued by the major cultivation sects to the Qi Refining Disciples, the Body Forging Pill also required the consumption of a large amount of medicinal materials. The point is that not just anyone can refine the Body Forging Pill. Qualified monks must memorize thousands of relevant items such as fire control, picking up medicines, dividing medicines, cleaning, drying, and preserving them, and be recognized by their masters before they can become alchemy apprentices. Under normal circumstances, only apprentices who have been cultivating for more than two years are qualified to refine the Body Forging Pill. Moreover, the process of refining elixir is extremely boring, and the success rate is also extremely low, about five to seven percent. In this way, the consumption of medicinal materials is extremely wasteful. Therefore, no matter what sects or factions, at least a first-grade alchemist is qualified to refine medicine.

When he was on Mingfeng Mountain, Yang Tianhong once had the idea of selling the Forging Body Pill. He calculated the cost of various consumables and labor. After deducting various examples, a forging body pill must be sold for at least 7,000 taels of silver in order to truly generate profits.

Please note that this is only a cost price that does not make a profit. Considering the scarcity of pills, as well as the secular circulation of gold and silver, the true price of a forging pill will not be less than 50,000 taels of silver.

That's just the ideal price. If it really wants to be sold, someone will buy it for 100,000 taels of silver. From this, it can be imagined that Yang Tianhong's Yuan Qi Pill was valued at 400,000 taels and handed over to the Meng family's father and son to deal with it on their behalf, which indeed showed great sincerity in cooperation.

The list issued by the Lu family is indeed very impressive.

"A forging body pill costs five thousand taels of silver, and a vitality pill is only thirty thousand taels of silver...... Does he, Lu Baoye, think that the Immortal Family Pill is a cabbage placed on the side of the road for people to buy?"

Yang Tianhong slowly crumpled the letter paper in his hand, and stared fiercely at the trembling housekeeper of the Lu Mansion with a cannibal gaze, grinning, revealing Bai Sensen's teeth: "Tell me." How many years have you been a housekeeper in Lu Mansion?"

The fat housekeeper was stunned, obviously not expecting Yang Tianhong to ask this question. After thinking about it, he said tremblingly: "The villain only rose from the position of steward six years ago. If you want to calculate accurately, it should be six years and two months. ”

Yang Tianhong shook his head and continued to sneer: "In my opinion, you should be very popular in Lufu. Even your lord doesn't have a good impression of you. Otherwise, he wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of you, so he deliberately asked you to deliver the letter. I don't know if you know, but it's just a head-off errand. ”

The fat butler was stunned for a long time, his eyes were full of disbelief, and he shouted screaming: "This, this is impossible! My master said, as long as this errand is done well, I will be rewarded when I go back." ”

Yang Tianhong licked his lips. The eyes were fierce: "Your master asked me to use the immortal elixir to deduct the silver." He knew it would infuriate me, but I had to accept his offer. Anyone who reads this letter will be furious, and cutting off your head is light. I'm not going to kill anyone, though. Keep your head and go back, since your lord said that he would give you a reward, he shouldn't be in debt. It's just that you can hide this time, but you can't hide from the next time. Do a good job of checking your family. Let's see if anyone around you says bad things about you. Help me bring a message to your lord: people are too greedy and will be punished. ”

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Two hours later. Meng Qi, who got the news, hurriedly walked into the living room of the outer courtyard of the Yang Mansion.

Yang Tianhong put the two letters in front of Meng Qi and said straight to the point: "You take a look at this first, help me come up with an idea, how to solve it?"

Meng Qi hurriedly read the letter, thought for a long time, and frowned. Said seriously: "There are no more than two ways to solve this matter. ”

Yang Tianhong said: "Let's hear it." ”

Meng Qi said: "First, he refused to recognize the marriage contract of the Lu family, and refused to pay any silver. However, after all, the Lu family has a marriage certificate in hand. If there is a disturbance, the master you can only give up all the inheritance in the world, return to the mountain gate of the Guiyuan Sect, and from then on close the door to penance, devote yourself to the Tao, and do not ask about the world. ”

Yang Tianhong smiled: "I once vowed that I would regain the position of Yiyong Marquis in my lifetime." I don't need to consider this suggestion, let's talk about the next one. ”

Meng Qi held up two fingers and said, "If the second method is adopted, the master, you must fulfill the marriage contract, or pay no less than eight million taels of silver according to the price offered by the Lu family." After all, the marriage contract of the eldest lady was made by your father himself, and it has been filed with the government. In this matter, the Lu family has a firm grip on you. ”

Yang Tianhong's face gradually became gloomy, he stood up, walked back and forth in the room for a long time, and asked unhappily: "Do I have to do what the Lu family asks?"

Meng Qi nodded seriously: "This matter is not negotiable. The tenfold compensation is prescribed by the law of our Great Chu Kingdom. From the common people to the dignitaries and nobles, they must obey. If you forcibly refuse, you will also be bound by the rules of heaven and earth, and it will definitely have an impact on your future Taoism. ”

As he spoke, Meng Qi picked up the letter paper placed on the coffee table next to him, and sneered sarcastically: "Then again, this Lu family is also a real lion, and he actually marked such a low price for the immortal family's elixir. Hmph, they are pinching your weakness master, thinking that the Yang Mansion does not have so much silver taels anyway, and they force you to use the Immortal Family Pill as a deduction. Their real purpose was not for the silver, but for the master's elixir. ”

"Of course I know what they're going to do. ”

Yang Tianhong's expression was gloomy, and he said fiercely: "Even if I throw the pill out to feed the dogs, I will definitely not give the Lu family a pill and a half." Want an elixir...... Dreaming!"

Taking a deep breath, Yang Tianhong's mood calmed down a lot, he turned around and asked Meng Qi: "How much silver can you call there, can you make up the number of eight million taels?"

Meng Qi thought for a moment and replied, "I may not be able to make up so much cash for a while. However, if it is within three months, there should be no problems. Master, the Yuan Qi Pills that you gave me before were only sold for one, and they were still sold in the Black Market Auction House of the Western Regions, and they were sold for as much as three million silver. If it is in the territory of Chu State, although it can also be sold, it will definitely not get this figure, and it will attract covetousness from all parties for no reason, and there will be a lot of trouble. ”

Yang Tianhong was very smart and heard another layer of meaning in Meng Qi's words: "You mean, don't just give the silver to the Lu family?"

Meng Qi smiled and asked rhetorically: "Master, you have just been awarded the title of General Xuanwu, and your annual salary is only a few hundred taels of silver. There are so many family backgrounds up and down the Yang Mansion, which is almost an open secret on the table. If you suddenly take out eight million taels of silver, you're bound to get everyone's attention. Needless to say, the Lu family's purpose was originally an elixir, not a silver tael. There are many voices of suspicion, and when they reach the ears of His Majesty, it is not good for you, master. Therefore, directly paying the Lu family's bride price is the next policy. ”

Yang Tianhong smiled: "This is also what I am concerned about. Now that we've all thought of it together, you must have something to do. ”

Meng Qi nodded and smiled: "Of course there is a way, it depends on whether the master is willing to do it?" )