Chapter 152: Foundation Building Family
Hearing Song Qingming's question, Huang Siyuan shook her head and said:
"I do regret it a little, but it has nothing to do with you. Even if I don't come to the Song family, I will be sent to other families in the end. In comparison, marrying you, a foundation-building cultivator, is indeed my best choice now."
Hearing this, Song Qingming really looked at her with a new eye. Huang Siyuan, a woman who looks very gentle on the outside, has indeed long been indifferent to the ups and downs of the cultivation world and knows how to fight for the greatest benefits for herself.
Even when facing Song Qingming, a foundation-building cultivator, she was a little nervous, but she was not stage-frightened at all. She said what she wanted directly and directly, without hiding her purpose of coming for the spirit stone. Even when facing Song Qingming's doubts, she was still able to respond calmly. This courage alone was far beyond most of the Qing-generation cultivators in the Song family.
After sending Huang Siyuan away, Song Qingming did not rush to deal with the matter of the spirit beast egg, but called his sixth uncle Song Changfeng in again.
"Sixth uncle, when the eldest brother and the others arrive, you should go back first. We can all feel more at ease when you are at home.
Song Changfeng nodded and said, "Qingming, after we take over the two shops of the Qian family, should we rent them to others first or keep them for ourselves?"
"It's better to keep them for ourselves first. I'm just making a suggestion. Let's discuss this matter with the second sister later. After all, she has the final say on matters in the market. "
During the Qinghe meeting this time, according to Lu Yuanfeng's allocation, the Song family not only obtained 10% of the shares in Qinghefang City, but also the three shops originally owned by the Qian family in Qinghefang all belonged to the Song family. The five Qi-refining families near the Song family in the northwest corner of Qinghe County were also assigned to the Song family. The Song family was officially promoted to a foundation-building family.
For the next five years, Song Qingming will stay in Qinghefang to assist Lu Yuanfeng in guarding the market. Unless there is an emergency at home, he will not be able to get away easily.
Soon, under the leadership of his thirteenth uncle Song Changxiong, a team of Song family cultivators came to Qinghefang. The reason why they appeared here was that Song Qingming and his sixth uncle Song Changfeng discussed and transferred them to help guard the market.
In addition to the two foundation-building cultivators Lu Yuanfeng and Song Qingming, the entire Qinghefang now also has Qi-refining cultivators who are responsible for patrolling and guarding the market on a daily basis, a total of forty or fifty people, Half of them were independent cultivators recruited by Lu Yuanfeng in the market, and the other half were Song family cultivators and Lu Yuanfeng's disciples transferred by Song Qingming.
The four major foundation-building families in Qinghe County rotate every five years and appoint at least one foundation-building cultivator and ten Qi-refining cultivators to help guard the market.
In addition to daily patrols and guards, the biggest advantage of the cultivators stationed in the market is that they don't have to spend spirit stones on daily expenses. The second-level middle-grade spirit vein in Qinghefang is very rich in spiritual energy, and it will not delay their daily practice here.
Song Qingming quickly moved his cave to the cave with the best spiritual energy in Qinghefang. The spiritual energy here is more than twice as rich as that of Fubu Niushan, which is completely enough for his daily practice. He finally said goodbye to the days of consuming spirit stones for practice every day. Speaking of this, he still has to thank the Huang family for taking the initiative to exchange the garrison The order temporarily helped him solve this problem, but each rotation only lasted five years. After five years, he still had to leave Qinghefang. At that time, Song Qingming still had to find a way to solve the problem of his daily practice.
After building the foundation, the few remaining spiritual stones were almost spent by returning to Funiu Mountain. The remaining ones were earned by Huang Siyuan. If he hadn't made some spiritual talismans recently to subsidize him, he would have asked his sixth uncle for spiritual stones.
Qinghefang is relatively peaceful. Although the major foundation-building families will fight secretly, once someone dares to touch the common interests of Qinghefang, everyone will consciously put aside their conflicts and unite against the outside world. Lu Yuanfeng has been stationed in Qinghefang for decades. Several disciples under him are very familiar with various things below, and generally things will not alarm the two of them. As a foundation-building cultivator, Song Qingming also had a few years of carefree cultivation.
After agreeing to the marriage, although the Huang family agreed to postpone the marriage for two years, Huang Siyuan would occasionally ask the servants to send some spiritual food to Song Qingming's cave. Song Qingming was not so polite about this and accepted all the food. Anyway, for him, it would be a waste not to eat it, and it was rare to taste such good craftsmanship.
Except for one store that was rented out in a bad location, the other two stores were taken over by the second sister Song Qingwan. The Song family's business in Qinghefang also expanded a lot immediately. In addition to refining pills, the second sister had some talent for business. With the help of the fourth uncle's family, the business of several stores of the Song family gradually got on the right track, making the Song family's reputation in Qinghefang gradually popular, and it was also gradually becoming a foundation-building family.
The 10% stake obtained from Qinghefang can bring the Song family an income of more than 500 spirit stones every year. After deducting the expenses of the stationed monks, there will be at least a surplus of more than 200 spirit stones a year. These spirit stones are a fixed income that can be obtained every year. A little bit accumulates into a lot, which is very important for the long-term development of a family.
Although the Song family has been established for two hundred years, the population has been expanding very slowly because of the limited living space for mortals in the early days. Therefore, there have not been many cultivators in the family. It was not until the last few decades that they accepted some of the mortals from the Liu family and rebuilt the living space for mortals in Mugu Town. This gradually increased the number of mortals below, and now the number of cultivators in the family has also increased a lot.
I remember that when Song Qingming went down the mountain, there were only 20 cultivators in the family. Now, after more than 20 years, there are more than 30 people. However, compared with the other foundation-building families in Qinghe County, their foundation is still far behind.
Among the original several major foundation-building families in Qinghe County, the Huang family, which ranked first, has more than 200 cultivators, and there are more than 20 Qi-refining families below. Its strength is placed in the dozens of foundation-building families in the entire Jiangling County. The Huang family is ranked first.
The Gao family also has more than 100 cultivators, and there are more than a dozen Qi-refining families under their command, but they are still much inferior to the Huang family. The Lu family, which ranks last, also has more than 60 cultivators. Although their family has a shallow foundation, it is still stronger than some foundation-building families that have just been promoted. Even the Qian family, which was just promoted to a foundation-building family more than 20 years ago, is much stronger than the current Song family.
To be honest, the Song family is ranked at the bottom of the nearly 100 foundation-building families in Qinghe County, not to mention in the entire Weiguo. That is why Song Qingming and Song Changfeng had to continue to choose to rely on the Huang family.
However, they still have an advantage in one thing. Compared with some families that have already fallen and cannot cultivate new foundation-building cultivators, Song Qingming is less than 50 years old now. It is a great time to develop the family. As long as they are given more time to cultivate new foundation-building cultivators, the Song family will sooner or later become a foundation-building family with a deep foundation like the Gao family and the Huang family. The entire Song family, including Song Qingming, is very much looking forward to this future scene.
To be corrected later