Affairs Hall

As for the Jiang Household...

Mother Jiang and Elder Brother Jiang were stunned to see a ball of colorful light suddenly emerge from Jiang Youfu's body and transform into a book radiating light.

After a long while, Mother Jiang finally found her voice, pointing to the book in Jiang Youfu's hand and stammering:

"Fuzi, this... this... this book is your Immortal Method?"

Jiang Youfu quickly explained the situation to her and his older brother.

Tell them this is a new mental cultivation method I created, and it's not a bad thing.

Mother Jiang and Elder Brother Jiang finally overcame their fear and breathed a sigh of relief.

They didn't know what the mental cultivation method was, so they didn't know what it meant. As long as they knew it wasn't a bad thing, that was enough for them.

The three stayed with Grandma Jiang, and soon after, the rest of the family members returned.

After the Jiang Household had all arrived, it only took a short while for Grandma Jiang to wake up from her bed.

Seeing this, Jiang Youfu was completely relieved.

Looking at the "Original Essence Heart Sutra: Immortal Food Chapter" in his hand, he thought for a moment and decided not to go back to the sect to tell Brother Xiao right now.

Instead, she decided to stay with her grandmother all day.

I plan to talk to him about it tomorrow.

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A summer afternoon.

The cicadas were chirping incessantly.

Undeterred by the scorching sun, some young children in the village, their faces flushed and drenched in sweat, were catching cicadas everywhere.

Previously, Lin Xiao and his fellow teenagers were also members of the village's cicada-catching team.

Now, they all have their own spiritual practice.

Besides the playful children, even the usually hardworking farmers avoided the scorching sun, seeking refuge in the shade of trees or at home to cool off.

We'll wait until the hottest part of the day is over before getting up to work.

Under the blazing sun that seemed to want to melt the earth, Magistrate Wen's carriage swayed and drove into Xiushui Village.

Behind the carriage followed several servants riding ponies.

A villager who was fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan and boasting under the shade of a tree not far from the village entrance saw this and pointed it out to the people around him.

Although the villagers didn't know who was in the carriage, that didn't stop them from recognizing the clothes the constables were wearing.

Then, among the crowd enjoying the cool air, a few individuals shouted out to the nearby bushes, revealing several village children, their faces flushed, who were catching grasshoppers and cicadas.

Tell them to hurry up and inform the village chief that a policeman has entered the village.

Upon hearing this, the children wiped the sweat from their faces with their dirty little hands, and then ran off towards the village chief's house.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao, Qin Jianghe, and Liu Yunan were discussing future plans for the sect in the main hall of the sect on the North Mountain.

Qin Jianghe then said that one of his purposes in returning this time was to discuss with them the construction of another place to handle sect affairs.

He felt that with the increasing number of people in their sect, it was no longer appropriate to always have to notify them one-on-one and distribute various items.

He had discovered this problem during his previous communications with the Tuzi.

Therefore, he suggested establishing an Affairs Hall and assigning dedicated personnel there to handle the distribution of salaries and rewards for disciples and followers.

This will save a lot of time on trivial matters, freeing up the Tuzi to oversee and coordinate all affairs within the sect.

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao found it very reasonable and immediately nodded in agreement with his suggestion.

The next moment, they went out and came to the corner of the thatched shed, a place that the sect had to pass through, and built a small Affairs Hall on the spot.

Of course, to make it look less like a mud-brick house, he generously tossed in five Spirit Stone.

The Building Synthesizer even went so far as to present a plaque with the three large characters "Affairs Hall" written on it.

As for the position of manager of the Affairs Hall, Lin Xiao planned to entrust it entirely to Tuzi.

For someone who is about to go into seclusion, it would be beneficial for them to delegate some responsibilities and take a hands-off approach to management.

Otherwise, if there are any changes needed later, Tuzi Jianghe and the others will be in a dilemma, not knowing whether to make any changes or not.

Lin Xiao remembered that the new members of the sect had not yet been issued sect uniforms.

Thinking that the sect might recruit new members after he went into seclusion, he went to the fields to collect some more spirit silkworm silk, intending to make some more sect uniforms to store in the warehouse for future use.

Now, several months have passed, and the initial batch of spirit silkworms has been harvested several times over.

The amount of silkworm silk produced has now accumulated to a certain level.

The spirit silkworm is probably a little different from the ordinary silkworm.

Lin Xiao wasn't quite sure, but he figured that the growth cycle of ordinary silkworms couldn't possibly be that short.

In the end, he used these spirit silkworm threads to synthesize a total of one hundred sets of sect uniforms.

He took out several sets of uniforms and handed them to the Tuzi, asking him to give them to Liu Chun, Mo Yuanjiao, and the other new recruits when he had time. He also gave ten sets to Qin Jianghe.

When he returns to Songming County, let him take it back and distribute it to the disciples he has recruited into the sect.

The group then discussed the issue of salaries.

Now that the sect is on the right track, it is certainly no longer possible to distribute silver.

To pay cultivators their salaries, they would naturally have to give them Spirit Stone.

After discussing for a long time, the three of them finally agreed that disciples without official positions would receive five Spirit Stone per month.

Each hall manager receives a monthly salary of five Spirit Stone plus an additional thirty Spirit Stone.

Those who manage the sect's farmland are paid a stipend of five Spirit Stone for each acre of spirit land they tend, based on the land allocation.

As for Senior Liao, Lin Xiao had mentioned this matter to him before.

Senior Liao originally intended not to take a single Spirit Stone.

But Lin Xiao persisted.

Finally, he could only say that he would be fine just like Tuzi.

Liu Yunan and Qin Jianghe both insisted on receiving the same salary as the managers of the various halls.

So, everyone's salary was temporarily settled.

Because it is still in the initial stage.

Therefore, the salary was set relatively low.

However, these are all temporary. As the sect develops, if these things are gradually deemed unsuitable, they will naturally be replaced.

Lin Xiao took Qin Jianghe and Liu Yunan to see the Spirit Stone mine at the foot of the back mountain.

Then they were entrusted with arranging for people to mine.

He became a hands-off manager.

Thus, the scene inside the sect's main hall gradually shifted from a discussion among three people to a heated debate between two people, after Lin Xiao deliberately withdrew.

Lin Xiao sat in the middle, watching the two of them chat happily back and forth.

By the time the two realized that Lin Xiao had left the group chat, they had already discussed most of the matters that needed to be discussed, and they could make a decision directly.

At that moment, someone knocked on the main gate of the sect.

"Brother Xiao, hurry down the mountain and see! Officials have arrived, and it looks like the county magistrate is here too!"

The speaker was Yang Jinshu.

Now the three of them live in the sect.