Chapter 6 Family Status
The Li family has been based in the past three hundred years. According to Li Qingxiao's imagination, there is no more than this wealth, but it turns out to be unexpectedly poor. When they think of the big and small things in the clan, they feel relieved.
The Li family and the foundation-building ancestor Li Yaowen also have thirteen Qi training monks. Mortals need gold and silver to maintain their lives, and monks naturally need spirit stones to maintain their own cultivation.
Not to mention the best among the mortals, they also need a lot of gold and silver to maintain a decent life. As a family of monks, Li's family is very noble in the eyes of nearly 100,000 mortals in Yulin Town.
But according to Li Qingxiao's memory, the Li family can be said to be at the bottom of the monk family and cannot be at the bottom anymore. They are probably a little better than the Qi training family that has just entered the ranks of monks.
The Qi-training cultivator in the family can only receive ordinary spiritual rice once every half month, only one pound at a time. Li Qingxiao, as a family seed, can only get one pound of spiritual rice every ten days as a special care of him.
It seems that it is no wonder that the Li monk's cultivation progress is extremely slow and he lacks resources.
What’s even worse is that my grandfather Li Yaowen, as a famous mid-stage foundation-building monk in Black Valley City, was not a guest of honor at all. In the family, there were only twelve kilograms of Five Elements Spirit Rice supplied every year, which is one kilogram per month.
You should know that, even the Wang family and Liu family, who are the monk family in Yulin Town, have a quota of 100 kilograms every year.
Although spiritual rice is not a necessity, it has no doubt about its benefits for qi training. As for other spiritual objects and treasures, you don’t have to think about it.
But it is no wonder that although spiritual rice is good, the price is also amazing. The price of ordinary spiritual rice is one spirit stone per kilogram, and the five elements spiritual rice that can affect foundation-building cultivators is even more expensive, with the price per kilogram of as high as ten spirit stones.
In other words, according to the current more than 400 spirit stones in Li Qingxiao's storage ring, it is only enough to last for one year with this current supply standard!
This is no longer poor, it’s almost dirt.
Although monks are superior to the eyes of mortals, since they have formed a family, they are only higher-level humans and cannot escape the many troubles of the world.
Mortals have the firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, and monks also have the firewood, rice, oil, salt, and monks.
Increase revenue and reduce expenditure
Gently write these four words on the table with a brush, and then Li Qingxiao gently crossed out the two words "throttling".
The current supply of cultivators in Li's family is already at a reduced risk. In the early years, Li also had many vassals of Qi training monks, but with the continuous supply of resources over the years, only the children of their own clan remained.
In other words, the cultivation resources are only enough for their own children.
It's a destructive appearance!
Putting aside these negative thoughts, Li Qingxiao continued to take stock of the family industry.
Currently, the Li family has three stable family operations.
1. The fishing grounds at Baiming Ferry have an annual income of about 300 spirit stones, and most of them are concentrated in the autumn fish tide, with a monthly income of 70 spirit stones, and a monthly income of about 10 yuan in the rest of the seasons.
2. The Li family fish stall in Yulin Town, all the acquired fish are sold, with an annual income of about 3,000 gold, and basically do ordinary business.
3. The clan guards totaled 100 people. They received help from villages outside Yulin Town to help solve the problem of monsters, with an annual income ranging from 8,000 gold to 10,000 gold.
Why are there spirit stones and gold?
This is also Li's helplessness. Baimingdu Fishery can often salvage some medium and low-level water monsters in the water, or some beautiful innate fish species, and can also be sold directly to the monks in the Black Valley City.
But Yulin Town basically sells acquired fish, so it can only be traded with some ordinary gold and silver. The clan guards help the mortal villages near Yulin Town to solve the problem, and can they still expect mortals to use spirit stones to settle the bill?
But the fishing grounds are not enough to make ends meet, so I had no choice but to give these ordinary gold and silver items a premium to Heigu City to become a spirit stone.
It usually takes 120 taels of gold to exchange for a spirit stone, and it is often priced but not in the market.
Li Qingxiao put down the pen in his hand, walked a few times, and quickly walked out of the door.
Judging from the current situation, the most valuable thing in Li's family is the Ten Mile Fishing Farm of Baiming Du. The other two items cannot be solved for the time being. Li Qingxiao is no longer confused. After giving a message to the servant, he rushed to Baiming Duke and left.
Baimingdu is extremely lively. Since the blue-eyed and golden-eyed beast was killed, the Li family fishing ground has regained its previous vitality. There are 30 fishing teams, all of which are mortal masters from the innate realm. Most of them can deal with them without encountering monsters in the water. They will spread one by one and gain a lot of rewards.
After watching for a long time, Li Qingxiao found that on average, he could catch about one or two fish in Qi training realm every five or six times. He shook his head and thought that his heart was too low.
He casually released a trace of momentum, and the third uncle Li Jinzhai, who was sensed in the cabin, immediately stepped on the water surface.
"I have met the clan leader in Li Jin's house!" The rules of the Li family were strict. When Li Yaowen personally enthroned the enthronement, Li Jin's house was also present. Now he naturally cannot be casual, so he bowed with his fists with his hands.
"Uncle San doesn't have to be too polite. Just call me Qingxiao. I just want to see the situation in the fishing ground." The rules were necessary. Li Qingxiao did not stop Li Jin's house from saluting, but just stepped forward to help the other party up and asked him to change his name.
Li Jinzhai felt a little more relieved when he heard this, and then a hint of sorrow appeared in his eyes and said, "For some reason, in previous years, those Qi training monsters should have floated to the shallow water to lay eggs, but today, they only caught three of them throughout the day, and the rest were all ordinary fish."
After saying that, he pointed to a storage area on the shore. Three similar qi-training fish were lying quietly, with wounds on their bodies, obviously all of which were Li Jinzhai's hands.
While observing the three fish, Li Qingxiao said, "The blue-eyed and golden-eyed beast is a foundation-building monster. In addition, the ancestor fought with him yesterday, and his momentum was too fierce. I guess a large number of Qi training monsters were scared to hide at the bottom of the water, so it became more difficult for you to catch them."
After hearing Li Qingxiao's words, Li Jinzhai woke up, but he still couldn't think of a solution.
"Uncle San, why should we kill these three fish first? Aren't the fresher the fish, the better?"
Li Jinzhai suddenly looked at Li Qingxiao like a fool, and he didn't speak slowly when he saw Li Qingxiao's whole body began to feel uncomfortable.
"Of course, the fresher the better. Live fish can be sold at least five times higher than dead fish in Black Valley City. However, these monsters in the Qi training realm live in deep water, and most of them like cold. Once they leave the water and have no ice to cool them down, they will die in a short time. It's better to slaughter them first."
After saying this, Li Qingxiao immediately knew that he had asked a very stupid question.
No wonder Uncle San just looked at him like this. After a little mobilizing the memory in his mind, Li Qingxiao woke up.
The monsters in the water in Qi training realm are different from the great monsters who have successfully built foundations. They are still very dependent on cold water. Once they are completely separated from the cold water environment, they will die immediately.
The only way to preserve fresh fish is to constantly cool them with ice, but the climate in Blue Sand Island is humid and hot all year round, and there is no ice at all.
Of course, there is another way, such as a cultivator with ice spirit roots, but this kind of alien spirit root is the same as Li Qingxiao's own thunder spirit roots. Even if you search the entire Lansha Island, it may be difficult to find several.
In this way, no matter whether it is the three tribes of Li, Wang and Liu, after catching these Qi training monsters, they will kill them as soon as possible, seal them up, and quickly transport them to Black Valley City for sale, and the speed will be very fast. Otherwise, these Qi monsters will be almost dispersed and it will be difficult to sell at a good price.
"That is, as long as I can take out the ice, can all the qi-training fish we caught sell for five times the price?"
Li Qingxiao's voice was faintly excited. Li Jinzhai was a little puzzled, but he still answered with certainty: "Yes, it must be possible, and there is still no market. As soon as it is released, it will definitely be robbed wildly, and it may be even higher."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qingxiao quickly returned to Yulin Town without looking back. Li Jinzhai was a little confused, but he also had some guesses in his heart. Then he shook the unrealistic thoughts in his mind and smiled slightly.
"How is it possible? It's impossible to find ice in Blue Sand Island."
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The conscience of heaven and earth, Li Qingxiao really didn't know how to make ice with saltpeter, but because he had read too many novels, too many protagonists traveled over and used this method to make ice with them. Li Qingxiao just happened to remember it.
Looking at the ice cubes gradually condensed in the water tank, Li Qingxiao breathed a sigh of relief.
The price is five times, based on the annual revenue of 300 spirit stones at the Li family fishing ground last year. If this year goes well, as long as the supply of ice is enough, the revenue from the fishing ground alone will be five times this year.
Five times, the pattern is too small!
A trace of splendor flashed in Li Qingxiao's eyes. The fishing season has not passed yet, so we must hurry up.
Currently, only a monk from the third uncle Li Jinzhai is in charge of the fishing ground. The harvest is as much as in previous years, but what if all the monks of the Li family have gone there?
Baimingdu is just a branch basin of the Jingluo River. Although this ten miles are called the Li family fishing ground, it is just a wild fishing ground after all.
The fishing season lasts for three months every year, but it is only because a large number of fish in the water deep in the river have to be briefly released and reproduced. After all, it is just a wild fish farm.
But since Li Qingxiao has mastered the ice making method, why don’t he build a cold pond to raise fish by himself?
If this is possible, Li will have a continuous path to wealth, and the joy in Li Qingxiao's eyes becomes stronger and stronger.
The next day, Li Qingxiao asked the fourth uncle Li Jinhu to lead the clan guards to secretly go to all parts of Yulin Town to collect a white floc crystal, and he repeatedly told him not to leak it.
He even forced him to make a poisonous oath to the clan history in his ancestral house, and asked Li Yaowen to come out to testify, which made Li Jinhu a little angry and felt that Li Qingxiao did not trust him.
However, Li Yaowen understood what he was worried about at once. After Li Jinhu left, hesitated for a moment and said to Li Qingxiao: "Qingxiao, your fourth aunt is not a bad person.
Her father Chen Xiantang also met me in his early years. He was only one step away from building a foundation, but he was not lucky. He was injured by the foundation-building monster in the Whale River and was poisoned by the demon. He was also tortured over the years after hearing about it.
Before the door was over, your fourth aunt asked me to help her father treat the poison. Unfortunately, the poison of the monster has penetrated into the bone marrow and I can do nothing.
Chen Xiantang had ambition to die early, but your fourth aunt had always had hope and told me many times that she wanted to take his father to Heigu City to find someone to heal his wounds. But now I, Li, cannot protect myself, and I have no face to ask for an acquaintance in Heigu City again."
After hearing this old story, Li Qingxiao was finally puzzled. Logically, although Li Jinhu had no relationship with his father, based on Li Jinhu's straightforward personality, he had long guessed that it was instructed by Aunt Four.
Thinking of this, Aunt Fourth has her own difficulties. Since she understands it, Li Qingxiao has no grudges in her heart.
"Great grandpa, I understand. It's just that what I asked the fourth uncle to do is too important. Qingxiao can only be a villain first and a gentleman later."
"That's good, go busy! Although I don't know what you're trying to do, just do it with confidence. With me here, Li can't fall down."
Chapter completed!