Changsheng: I, Cao, can see the prompt

Chapter 450 The current situation of the Cao family

While the whole world was celebrating for True Lord Xuanhong in the Baimang Mountains of southern Xinjiang, a heart-rending scream came from the ancestral home of the Cao family at Baizhu Peak of the Qingxia Sect, which was more than 100,000 miles away.

"My money!"

In the flower hall, I saw a beautiful woman with a slim figure, screaming and jumping like a madman, grabbing her hair wildly with both hands.

Suddenly she seemed to remember something, her fingers pinched quickly, and then one of them lost her balance and fell directly to the ground. Her eyes were dull and she said: "My money, the cost of this ancestor's celebration is too much, it is really too much." …”

While he was muttering to himself, Cao Gongzhuo walked slowly over, looked down at him from a high position, and said in a deep voice: "Guang Xiu, look at how well you look now, why don't you get up!"

"It's gone, it's all gone, hehe... hehe..." The beautiful woman seemed to be crying and laughing, as if she was in a trance.

"Wenling, why don't you drag your grandmother up from the ground?" Cao Gongzhuo ordered.

After saying this, he sat down in a hurry, took the tea cup from the table, and took a slow sip to moisten his throat.

On the other side, a girl reluctantly stood up from the chair. She picked up the fruit plate at hand, walked to the beautiful woman and squatted down, and kept knocking pine nuts in her mouth like a squirrel.

As she kowtowed, she said, "Grandma, don't be childish. This is the clan's money, not yours!"

As soon as she said these words, the beautiful woman's distracted eyes suddenly became solid, and she straightened up and sat up, her chest rising and falling with a sullen breath.

"It's all my money!" the beautiful woman said through gritted teeth.

"Wen Ling, you don't know how many spiritual stones my grandmother spent on celebrating our ancestor's Nascent Soul this time!" The beautiful woman took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, covered her face and started crying.

However, she cried for a long time, but no one came to comfort her. She used her handkerchief to cover up and glanced secretly. Cao Wenling was still knocking pine nuts, while Cao Gongzhuo was sipping tea calmly.

When he saw this scene, Cao Guangxiu stuffed his handkerchief into his sleeve, and his pretty face without any tears suddenly became cold.

She stretched out a slender jade finger in a daze, pressed hard on the girl's forehead, and snorted softly: "You are a heartbroken sweetheart, you have asked grandma to love you for so many years in vain. I know I should marry you off so that I don’t have to worry. I think that boy from the Liu family is very interested in you. I will marry you off on a good day in a while."

"Great-grandfather, take care of your daughter. A few days ago, my ancestor said that I would be trained according to the treatment of the people with dual spiritual roots in the clan. Will the people with dual spiritual roots marry outside the family?" Cao Wenling shouted.

"No, from now on, you will make the decision on your own marriage!" Cao Gongzhuo said slowly.

"Did you hear that, my good grandmother?" Cao Wenling said with a triumphant smile.

"Pluck a chicken feather and use it as an arrow. I don't care about you anymore." The beautiful woman Cao Guangxiu said angrily.

After saying this, she suddenly got up from the ground, walked to the main seat vigorously, grabbed the rim of the teacup with one hand and five fingers, and drank it like a hero.

After drinking five cups of tea in one breath, she said angrily: "I really spent a lot of money this time, I..."

As she spoke, she tried to smash the teacup in her hand.

But when Cao Guangxiu raised his hand, Cao Wenling on the side said calmly: "My good grandmother, what you have in your hand is the blue and white Ganoderma lucidum golden bell cup produced by the Chen family. The price is not expensive. One cup It’s just ten middle-grade spiritual stones, smash them, smash them!”

However, at this moment, the teacup had already slipped out of Cao Guangxiu's hand and was about to fall to the ground.

At this time, Cao Guangxiu's expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly activated his spiritual thoughts to catch it forcefully.

After seeing that the teacup was saved, she breathed a sigh of relief, but her face changed again like turning a book, and she squeezed out the words through her teeth: "Wenling, you have made a living, you are not willing to buy it so expensively." Tea cups, things made from clay, ten middle-grade spiritual stones, this is not how the Chen family robs money. You bought more than a dozen sets at once, why don’t I hang you up and beat you today? I don’t even recognize your mother anymore, so I will take your last name!”

As she spoke, she rolled up her sleeves and took out a bundle of rope from somewhere.

"I told you to buy something more expensive, and it will save you the trouble of throwing things around every day." Cao Gongzhuo said calmly.

Upon hearing this, Cao Guangxiu threw the rope in his hand up to the rafter, tied a knot, and cried: "One cup only contains ten middle-grade spiritual stones. If you buy a set, you will get one high-grade spiritual stone." Daughter No matter, these dozen sets of tea sets must be returned and all the money must be taken back, otherwise you, the old man, will just wait for the white-haired person to give the black-haired person away!"

As she said that, she pulled a chair over and stood on it, putting her whole head into the rope loop.

"Wen Ling, go up and pull up the chair. Next year, you can offer three sticks of incense to your grandmother. But seeing her like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to part with three sticks of incense. One stick of incense will be enough when I worship in the future." Cao Gongzhuo Said slowly.

Hearing this, Cao Wenling hurriedly put down the dried fruit plate in her hand, went up excitedly and kicked the chair over to the ground.

Just as Cao Guangxiu was kicking his feet in the air, Cao Guixiu walked in slowly and asked with a smile: "Guangxiu, what are you doing again? Do you think your neck is not long enough?"

As soon as he saw the visitor, Cao Gongzhuo stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Gongzhuo pays homage to my uncle."

"Meet my uncle!" Cao Wenling shouted obediently.

"Excuse me, Gongzhuo, how did you learn the good things I gave you a while ago? Let's go, my uncle will take you to practice together. Let's start with Shuchun Garden in the 23 border towns along the Qingyou River. Kill them one by one, then visit the 108 Paradise Towers in the seven sects and cities in the Western Region, then transfer to the 72 Magnolia Pavilions in Zhongzhou to relax for a few days, then go to the 27 Golden Jade Terraces in the North, and finally Traveling across the sea, we arrived at the thirty Ningyan Pavilions in Dongzhou and killed them until they threw away their helmets and armor and fell on their backs." Cao Guixuan said with high spirits.

Upon hearing this, before Cao Gongzhuo responded, Cao Guangxiu, who was hanging on the beam, broke the noose and said angrily: "No!"

"Gongzhuo, why are you still under the control of your daughter? If you don't have any private money, then my uncle will cover all the expenses for this trip." Cao Guixie joked.

"Oh, my little ancestor, there are so many beauties in the clan. If you don't drink good tea, why would you drink the pot water? Who knows how many people have drank from one cup, and no one knows how thick the scale has accumulated. , are you not upset? Even if you are not upset, a cup of tea in Shu Chun Garden costs sixty medium-grade spiritual stones. If you have a good appetite and drink a few more cups, you will not be able to finish the night without two or three. A hundred pieces won't do it!" Cao Guangxiu said, beating his chest and stamping his feet.

As she said that, she turned over her hand and took out an abacus, shook it, and started to fiddle with the beads: "Junior, let me calculate an account for you. If you and my father call three at a time, it will be one hundred and eighty." Ten middle-grade spirit stones..." ˆ ˆ ˆ "Wait a minute, what do you mean two people call three at a time? You are...insulting...insulting...me! I always hit ten at one go!" Cao Guixie said word by word.

"Okay, that counts as eleven!" Cao Guangxiu said lifelessly.

As soon as he said these words, Cao Gongzhuo coughed lightly.

However, Cao Guangxiu suddenly stared at him and asked with murderous eyes: "Father, do you also want to beat ten of them in one go? Does mother know?"

"Ahem... No, I'm not looking for anyone. Don't tell your mother." Cao Gongzhuo hammered his chest hard while shaking his hands to deny it.

"My poor great-grandfather is so henpecked." Cao Wenling shook her head and walked out of the flower hall.

"What do you know, little kid? I and your great-grandmother treat each other with respect and love." Cao Gongzhuo shouted.

However, the only response he received was a long "Tsk, tsk, tsk..."

"It's unbecoming, it's really unbecoming! Guangxiu, take good care of your granddaughter." Cao Gongzhuo shouted, patting the armrest.

Hearing this, Cao Guangxiu glanced at his father from the corner of his eye, and then sneered: "You old man, don't change the subject in a hurry. My daughter, just pretend that you are not out to attract bees and butterflies."

Speaking of this, she said to Cao Guixie with a smile like a flower: "Little ancestor, if you look for ten at once, you will get six high-grade spiritual stones that day. Those twenty-three Shu Chun Gardens, one hundred and eight There are seventy-two Magnolia Pavilions, twenty-seven golden jade terraces, and thirty-six Ningyan Pavilions. Then this trip..."

As she spoke, she moved her fingers very fast, causing the beads in the abacus to spin and make crisp, ding-dong-dong sounds.

After dialing the last one, Cao Guangxiu narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "I have visited all the famous romantic places in Chongwu Domain, a total of 266 places, and the cost is 1,500 One hundred and ninety-six high-grade spiritual stones can buy two corpses of great monsters in the late stage of foundation establishment. This does not include the reward you gave them. Little ancestor, what do you guess is the annual income of the clan now?"

"This..." Cao Guixie hesitated.

For some reason, he felt that the aura of Cao Guangxiu, the head of the Cao family in front of him, was getting more and more terrifying. He was obviously only at the early stage of foundation building, but he was as good as the golden elixir stage.

Seeing this, Cao Guangxiu grabbed the abacus, shook it, returned all the beads to their original positions, and then lowered his head to fiddle with it again.

"This year has just begun spring, and all the accounts from various places have not yet been reported, so we will not count this year. Last year, the revenue from the spiritual field, medicine field, beast mountain, shops and wine industry in the first year of the family were all added up. There are only 475,081 high-grade spiritual stones. After deducting the 20% paid to the sect and erasing the fraction, there are only 380,000 left."

As she said that, she raised her head, glanced at it, and said with a smile: "Little ancestor, please don't stand, please sit down quickly!"

Hearing this, Cao Guixie slowly sat down next to Cao Gongzhe. The two looked at each other and communicated crazily with their eyes.

"Two elders, the family's annual income of 380,000 spirit stones is a lot, isn't it?" Cao Guangxiu asked softly.

Cao Gongzhuo lowered his head and drank tea without saying a word, while Cao Guixiang said slowly: "Ahem, it should be quite a lot!"

Hearing this, Cao Guangxiu smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into slits, and continued: "Then I will let you two settle an account. In the past few years, the ancestor's cultivation in Tailing Mountain has required an investment of 120,000 coins every year. The top-grade spiritual stones, as well as the three elders Guimeng, Gui Ting, and Gui Hua, also need 80,000 each in the Lingshan Cave. At this time, 360,000 were gone, leaving only 20,000. Now among the clan members There are three hundred and ninety-seven foundation-building monks and one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-seven Qi-refining monks, yes or no?"

Without waiting for the two people to respond, she said quietly: "Currently, those who cultivate clan members with the four spiritual root qualifications are almost treated according to the three spiritual root qualifications. Cultivation requires not only spiritual stones, but also the assistance. Medicinal pills, talismans, spiritual wine, etc. for cultivation.”

"The juniors in this Qi refining period each have an average of forty low-grade spiritual stones per day. Last year, the expenditure on this area was 2,727 high-grade spiritual stones. Three of us, including Although the one hundred and ninety-seven foundation-building monks have a salary from the sect, and they also refine some formation artifacts, ordinary magic weapons, and elixirs as subsidies, the clan still has to spend nearly 3,000 more high-grade spirits every year. Stone. At this time, there are nearly 5,700 high-grade spiritual stones missing."

"There are also casual cultivators employed in the clan and various cities outside. There are currently 2,857 people. Most of them need a monthly payment of 420 low-grade spiritual stones. A few The salary is 840. The salary of this newcomer is not the same as that of those who have been working for more than ten years. Let’s assume that each of them has 500 low-grade spiritual stones per month. Then he will have to spend another one One thousand, seven hundred high-grade spiritual stones."

Speaking of this, Cao Guangxiu took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, covered his mouth and nose, and cried without tears:

"Well, I'll deduct some here and subtract some there. Now I'm missing a full 7,400 high-grade spiritual stones. If we add them up, we can count them as 8,000. Then there's only 10,000 left. Two thousand high-grade spiritual stones. In addition, one or two thousand high-grade spiritual stones will be spent on this ancestor celebration, so the clan only has a little over ten thousand left in its account."

"Little Ancestor, if you spend one or two thousand high-grade spiritual stones on this romantic trip, then we will have to sell everything."

Hearing this, Cao Gongzhuo coughed lightly: "Daughter, there are 10,000 high-grade spiritual stones left in the clan every year, and we, the foundation-building monks, go out to hunt a few foundation-building monsters from time to time, so there shouldn't be so few in the accounts. Bar?"

"Don't tear me down!" Cao Guangxiu said angrily.

Then she smiled and said: "Little ancestor, why don't you stay in the sect family and not go out this time?"

Hearing this, Cao Guixie shook his head slightly, and then said with great satisfaction: "Guang Xiu, you made a mistake in your calculations. That is, I never need to spend half a spirit stone to go to these romantic places."

"What?" Father and daughter Cao Gongzhuo and Cao Guangxiu asked in surprise.

Seeing this, Cao Guixie stood up slowly, raised his head and walked out with a big smile: "It's useless to care about your romantic life all your life. I'm so lonely that I don't know who to complain to!"

"Daughter, go and comfort your uncle for your father's sake. Uncle, wait for your nephew!" Cao Gongzhuo shouted.

After saying that, he took three steps as two steps and chased after him.

After catching up, Cao Gongzhuo said in a deep voice: "Brother-in-law, my ancestor has just entered Yuanying. I am afraid that his realm has not been consolidated yet. He will attract the attention of all parties now. And your cultivation has not reached the late stage of foundation building. If you go If you go to the Jiuyuan Tianjian in the Western Region, those old monsters will most likely use you as a raft and disturb the ancestor's Qing cultivation, so you can't go!"

Hearing this, Cao Guixie frowned slightly, then nodded lightly.

(End of this chapter)