Yang Zhengshan gently stroked Chen Yan's head. The little girl was only nine years old, yet she already knew how to read people's expressions and moods. It made one find her amusing, and also pitiful.
"Wang Lei!"
"Here!" Wang Lei, standing outside the door, heard the call and immediately replied.
Yang Zhengshan instructed, "Go to the official office and inform them to register Yan'er in the household records. Then speak with Red Cloud as well. From now on, Yan'er's allowance will be the same as the Yang Family disciples'!"
After the Yang Family disciples married, they could receive a monthly allowance: five hundred taels each month. It seemed like a great deal, but in truth, it was not, because after they married, they had to live on their own. The monthly wages of the servants and maids by their sides all had to come out of their own pockets, and their children's expenses were theirs as well.
Apart from guards, every expense had to be their own responsibility.
In the courtyards of these people, which one did not have over ten maids and pageboys? And the monthly wages for these maids and pageboys were no small expense. Those with low wages received two taels of silver a month, while those with high wages received twenty or thirty taels a month. With over ten pageboys, they would have to spend at least a thousand taels of silver in a year no matter what.
In addition, there were other household expenses: clothing, food, housing, travel, firewood, rice, oil, salt, and so on. All of it had to be handled by them themselves.
Five hundred taels a month looked like quite a lot, but in reality, it could only let them live like a modestly wealthy household. It was nowhere near enough to