Chen Chuan also followed the eyes of the fourth uncle and looked at the dungeon passage.

"Is Aunt Meize still in the dungeon with Uncle Fourteen?" Chen Chuan sighed.

"I've always been with you, and since she came back from Beishang City six years ago, she hasn't left your fourteenth uncle. Chen Xingze shook his head helplessly.

Six years ago, after Chen Meize ate the Bear Bone Quenching Pill given by Chen Chuan, his body returned to its original state, and even his cultivation was one step closer.

Under the urging of Chen Chuan and Chen Feng, Chen Meize, who had not recovered for a long time, took Chen Zhen to Silverstone Waterfall.

After coming back, Chen Meize was depressed, no longer had the strength he used to have, and he no longer paid attention to his appearance, and devoted himself to his fourteenth brother, that is, Chen Jinze.

Six years have passed in a blink of an eye, and he is still quietly accompanied.

"Fourth Uncle, after we get the thousand-year-old snow lotus, we will immediately find an alchemist to refine the Hallucinogenic Pill for the fourteenth uncle. Chen Chuan said reluctantly.

Chen Xingze nodded, agreeing with what Chen Chuan said, if he had put it in the past, he might have to hesitate, after all, Chen Chuan's growth is the most important.

But now it's different, after several years of development, the Chen family can be regarded as having some savings and sources of income, if Chen Jinze can recover, he will naturally not be reluctant.

"Fourth Uncle, how many spirit stones do we have now?" Chen Chuan asked the most critical question.

Chen Xingze thought for a moment and pointed to the passage next to the Pavilion of Everything: "Let's go to the main hall and say, I will also tell you in detail about the development of the family in the past few years." ”

The passage next to the Pavilion of All Things is engraved with two words 'main hall', which is where the Chen family deals with daily affairs, and Chen Xingze basically lives in the main hall, because he has to deal with the affairs of the clan.

Walking into the passage of the main hall, this passage is relatively deep, about fifty or sixty zhang, before coming to the core of the main hall.

A boxy underground room, without opulent ornamentation, with four pieces of silverstone inlaid in the corners of the top, and on the wall in front of it, hung a tall portrait of a woman with a blurred face.

The woman stepped on the lotus flower, hanging in the clouds and mist, she seemed to look down on the mountains and rivers, and felt that her eyes were closed.

Below the portrait are two rows of eight bamboo chairs, the only decorations in the dimly lit main hall that appear empty.

Chen Chuan walked to the portrait, bowed down, and said to himself reverently: "May the Lotus Fairy protect my Chen family in peace." ”

That's right, this portrait is the portrait of the Lotus Fairy, and almost all the Xiliangzhou families worship the immortal this one.

The Lotus Fairy, which is once in the Nether Realm once in 10,000 years, will always bless the entire Xiliang Prefecture every time it appears, not only giving lotus seeds, but also filling the Lotus Mountain Range with spiritual energy countless times.

Chen Xingze also bowed slightly to the Lotus Fairy, but did not speak to the portrait like Chen Chuan, because he had said this to the portrait countless times, but the Lotus Fairy never responded to him.

Slowly, he stopped talking to the portraits, and he always felt that the Lotus Fairy couldn't hear what they said.

And at the moment when the two of them bent down at the same time, the corners of the lotus fairy's mouth on the portrait raised slightly, and there was an invisible aura above the heads of the two of them, which penetrated into the portrait.

Chen Chuan and Chen Xingze were completely unaware of all this, and after straightening up, Chen Xingze took a few steps forward and lifted the portrait of the Lotus Fairy.

He lifted the portrait with one hand, and gently pressed the rock behind the portrait with the other hand, and this press actually pressed a one-person-high stone cave.

"This is the secret room I built last month. Chen Xingze motioned for Chen Chuan to enter the secret room.

Chen Chuan nodded, looked up and down with interest, and raised his feet to enter the secret room.

The secret room is not large, but it is inlaid with a lot of silver stones, and it is not as dim as the main hall outside.

Inside the chamber was a table with a number of book scrolls on it.

There were also some wooden shelves around, but they were empty and there were no objects on them.

Chen Chuan walked to the table and took a general look at the book scrolls on the table.

They are: Chen family genealogy, Xiuzhen Xinyi biography, Chen family general ledger, Chen family memo, clan biography, etc.

Chen Chuan knew that these things were the core of the family, which was more important than any cultivation resources, and they were things that had been passed down from generation to generation.

Picking up the thick Chen family's general ledger, Chen Chuan read it carefully.

Turning to the last few pages, there is a detailed record of the income and expenditure of the Chen family in the past ten years, judging from the handwriting, it should be written by the fourth uncle himself.

The record more than ten years ago, there are almost one or two lines of words on it, and the general description is: "This year, one hundred and seven spirit stones were accumulated, and thirty were spent." ”

Because more than ten years ago, the family's source of income was only the spirit stone mine under Zhaobi Mountain, and the four acres of spirit field under the mountain, and the accumulation of spirit stones was to buy ice attribute exercises for Chen Chuan.

The large record began with Chen Xingze and Chen Yan going to Chang'an City to purchase ice attribute exercises.

In the winter of 338762 in Xiliangzhou, Chen Qingze spent 1,118 spirit stones to purchase Chen Chuan's ice attribute exercises.

In the spring of 338763 in Xiliangzhou, there were fifty-six spirit stones left in the family, and Chen Chuan cultivated the Cold Ice Technique, spending twenty.

In the spring of the same year, Chen Hengze sent five hundred and twenty-two spirit stones, six second-grade low-grade spirit runes, four second-grade intermediate spirit runes, five first-grade high-grade spirit pills, three second-grade low-grade spirit pills, one first-grade intermediate spirit weapon flying sword, one first-grade high-grade spirit weapon Dan furnace, and a set of second-grade intermediate psychedelic arrays.

In the summer of the same year, 340 spirit stones were harvested from the silver stone mine.

In the autumn of the same year, the silver stone mine was mined and 1,200 spirit stones were harvested.

In the spring of 338764 in Xiliangzhou, there were 3,100 spirit stones left in the family......

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In the spring of 338776 in Xiliangzhou, the family had 56,53 spirit stones left, and Beishangcheng sold silver stone mines to harvest 780 spirit stones, sold spirit cores to harvest 300 spirit stones, and sold animal skins to harvest 63 spirit stones...... The total balance is 57,024 pieces.

Chen Chuan looked at the detailed numbers on it and gave Chen Xingze a thumbs up.

Chen Xingze smiled and said: "Over the years, mining red copper ore and silver stone mines, you can probably earn seven or eight thousand spirit stones every year, Qing Yao took Chen Leopard and Mingyue to hunt, and you can harvest spirit beast resources worth four or five thousand spirit stones every year, and the more than 50,000 spirit stones you see now are the balance after three or seven points with the Baili family." ”

Chen Xingze roughly summed it up, if you talk about it in detail, the family also has a lot of expenses every year, such as issuing monthly examples to the clansmen every month, and also buying various reserve spirit runes, spirit pills and other cultivation resources.

Chen Chuan nodded, thought for a while, and then shook his head again.

"The snow lotus in this auction should be a thousand-year-old snow lotus, these spirit stones are probably not enough, it seems that it is necessary to use it. ”

"With what?" Chen Xingze said puzzled.

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