I, the one in the heavens, am here to protect my bottom line in all realms.

Chapter 329 Gold Finger Daily Subsidy

Mu Xun raised his hand and clapped, and another group of servants waiting outside the door came in one after another, each holding a tray. After Mu Xun placed the dishes on the round table, she waved her hand for them to leave. She picked up the chopsticks and bowed respectfully with both hands to present them to her master.

Zhang Chengyuan took it, and Mu Xun also picked up the chopsticks and served the food to his master.

This made Zhang Chengyuan feel a little bothered and he didn't enjoy his meal as much as he did: "Mu Xun, you should go downstairs to eat as well. Report to me about the situation in the yard later."

Mu Xunying left to eat without any objection. Only then did Zhang Chengyuan feel at ease and eat whatever she wanted. Although there seemed to be a lot of dishes, each plate was only enough for five or six bites. She still wasn't full after finishing all of them.

But according to the original owner's memory, she had eaten more than others, so she could only put down her chopsticks and touch her hungry stomach. She chose to collect some food to see if she could get some. She would really be in a bad mood if she didn't eat enough.

During her ten collections, her luck was not bad, as half of the items were food, including a basket of steamed buns, steamed buns, and flower rolls (not the normal kind), ten servings of rice with pepper and pork, a gift pack of snacks, a gift pack of dim sum, and a gift pack of fruits, all of which were large in quantity and filling.

Zhang Chengyuan stood up and sat in the blind spot, took out a bowl of fried pork with pepper and started eating quickly, while at the same time sensing the entire yard to avoid being seen.

Finally she was full, she put away the "evidence" and sat back calmly. She asked someone to come in and take the plates away, and her mind was on extracting the golden finger.

As the turntable stopped turning, the golden finger in this world was also determined, and the daily subsidy was given.

The moment she got the golden finger, she understood the rules of use.

She can receive subsidies every day, but the subsidies cannot be withdrawn and can only be used to subsidize the mall, where there are three items to purchase every day and two items to be unlocked and purchased. As for what they are, it all depends on luck, and unlocking also requires money.

There are two ways to increase the subsidy amount. One is that you need loyal subordinates. Each loyal subordinate can increase the amount by ten cents. The other is that it needs to be accumulated over time. Ten cents will be increased after receiving it for a full month. As for the basic subsidy, it is only fifty cents.

Her only loyal subordinate now is Mu Xun, so the subsidy she can receive is only sixty cents.

It looked very little indeed, but when she opened the subsidy mall, she instantly realized that it was not so little. The three items were rice at two cents a pound, brown sugar at ten cents a pound, and cloth at one thousand cents a piece. The two grids to be unlocked were marked with ten cents each, which meant that all of them could be unlocked with twenty cents.

Her subsidies were more than enough. After unlocking the doors, she received ten thousand coins for a ruby ​​headpiece and six coins for a pound of cotton.

She took one look at the bed and immediately decided to buy all cotton, but she could only buy six kilograms.

Her quilt was OK, but it was really clumpy and needed to be replaced.

This quilt has been used for three years. Although this world is prosperous, it is also an ancient world with low productivity. The cotton output is not high. One pound of cotton costs 500 wen, which is half a silver coin. A quilt used in spring and autumn costs eight taels of silver, and a winter quilt costs fifteen taels of silver.

As for her current bed, because the wooden bed was very hard, she had to use two mattresses as mattress pads and a blanket, plus the sheets, pillows and so on, which cost thirty-one taels in total.

But this is only the price for one set. She has three more sets of clothes for changing, which means these alone would cost one hundred and twenty-four taels.

In the entire Xingguo Mansion, there are eighteen masters alone, some of whom have more than her, and there are also hundreds of slaves and guards. Just these will cost at least four thousand taels.

Quilts are consumables and need to be replaced every three to five years. This may not seem like a lot, but the annual salary of the Duke's Mansion is only seven hundred taels.

If it weren't for the income from the farms and shops, the huge Duke's Mansion would have been unable to make ends meet long ago.

Nowadays, if the mansion can make a surplus of 5,000 taels every year, it means that the master is good at managing the household, but it also depends on the year. If the year is not good, it will not be possible to balance the income and expenditure. In such a situation, you can imagine how difficult it is for the people at the bottom.

Zhang Chengyuan's thoughts were too divergent. She knocked her head and told herself not to think so much. Now was not the time yet. After she was done with her work, she would find someone to find crop seeds and cultivate high-yield seeds.

Now, just do your own thing first.

When the servants finished packing and left, Mu Xun brushed past the last person and came up to her and saluted: "Young lady."

"Well, tell me about our yard."

Mu Xun did not show any doubt or hesitation, and reported obediently: "There are 16 servants in the yard now, four handymen, four sweepers, two laundrymen, one cook, one steward, and four attendants.

The monthly salary for odd jobs and cleaning is 300 wen, for laundry and cooking maids it is 400 wen, for stewards it is 500 wen, and for subordinates it is 800 wen, for a total monthly expenditure of 6500 wen.

There are quotas for clothes, pens, ink, paper, and inkstones, etc. The monthly expenses for the mansion, courtyard cakes and ingredients are 1500 wen, and other miscellaneous expenses are 1000 wen.

You receive ten taels of silver a month, and you have one tael left over. You now have 2443 taels of silver saved."

Zhang Chengyuan was thinking about the source of the money. The original owner's father didn't have any savings left, but he didn't spend it on his child. All the expenses before she was four years old were taken care of by the original owner's father, so the monthly allowance had never been spent. In addition to the annual reward of one hundred taels from the lord, she had a huge sum of 880 taels when she was four years old.

Since he was enlightened, he had his own courtyard and therefore had expenses. It was good if he could save 12 taels every year. In addition, there was the annual reward of taels, which the original owner had never been willing to spend and had saved it all.

Later, the original owner's father passed away, and she became even more reluctant to spend money. She lived a very frugal life, and only now is she able to save that money.

The original owner had some savings, so she didn't want to do business. Of course, she was also afraid of losing money. She just lived on the little money she had, and had the potential to be a miser.

Now that she has changed her partner, Zhang Chengyuan does not intend to live off the fat of the land. Besides, she is not someone who is willing to compromise herself. She also has to make plans for her future with Jiang Siyou.

She thought for a long time and then said, "Mu Xun, take two hundred taels and buy some death deeds. They need to be good at accounting and business, and good at talking. They also need some cooking skills. I plan to open a food shop."

Mu Xun responded and left, and Zhang Chengyuan stood up to pay his respects to his master.

It's not that she didn't want to pay her respects to her grandmother, but her grandmother wouldn't let her. From the original owner's memory, she learned that her grandmother was a very dignified old woman who didn't like to be disturbed. She met friends for tea and fishing every day and was not lonely at all. She only allowed the younger generation to go on the first day of every month and was not allowed to go at other times.

The master also followed this custom and only allowed her to pay respects on the first day of the new year. She didn't have to go at other times. However, she had something to report today. After all, she had to act under the name of the Duke's Mansion, so she had to inform him to avoid upsetting the master.

You will have to ask others for help later, so there is nothing wrong with being a good person.

When she arrived at her master's yard, before she could say anything, a servant came to greet her and asked what she was doing before going to report.

She stood in the yard and waited for a while before being invited in.

The master was sitting on a throne, with a cup of tea on the table and an open account book next to him. Several people who looked like managers were standing there with their heads bowed.