Transmigrating Through the Heavens: Starting with the Silly Pillar of the Courtyard

Chapter 351 Master Wang

Despite their low social status, prostitutes can actually earn quite a bit of money in a day.

When guests come here, they usually order a pot of wine, a few dishes, and then stay overnight. They can't leave without spending several dozen taels of silver.

Take a banquet for example; in an ordinary restaurant, it might only cost a few taels of silver.

The problem is that a regular banquet requires at least a dozen ounces of food.

The main problem is that some customers only touch but don't do anything. They spend half a day with the customer, then take advantage of them and leave. Who can they complain to?

Therefore, in order to prevent guests from cheating, the first thing to do here is to make some money from the banquet.

The cost is three taels of silver. Even if you eat and leave immediately, the shop can make double the profit. The prostitutes who accompany the customers can also give a few taels of silver, so no one loses money.

If you can stay overnight, the prostitute can earn at least a dozen taels of silver.

The cheapest option is the street prostitutes, who only open their doors halfway and charge you one or two taels of silver to let you in.

In restaurants, it won't work; here, the minimum is five taels. For slightly nicer or younger people, the starting price is ten or fifty taels, and some signs even go for a thousand taels. Of course, the restaurant takes half of that.

Liu Cuihua is thirty years old this year. She entered Jinxilou five years ago. Because she served people attentively, she had quite a few repeat customers.

Liu Cuihua dared not compare herself to younger girls, but she also wouldn't lower her standards. She charged ten taels of silver every night, which initially made her disliked by many customers.

Later, some people chose Liu Cuihua out of curiosity and were impressed by her service.

Later, Liu Cuihua's customers gradually increased, and she became a minor figure in Jinxi Restaurant.

Liu Cuihua would come to Jinxi Restaurant for ten to twenty days every month. With the share of the banquets and the occasional tips from the guests, it was no problem for Liu Cuihua to earn several hundred taels a month.

If you calculate it at 400 taels a month, that's several thousand taels a year, and tens of thousands of taels of silver over five years.

Other women would work for two or three years, earn a few thousand or tens of thousands of taels of silver, and then go back to marry a good man and settle down.

Liu Cuihua persisted for five years and still had no intention of leaving.

As mentioned earlier, you can learn martial arts techniques for free in the Hanyun Continent.

However, if you want someone to teach you carefully or to constantly practice and hone your skills, you need someone to help you.

This is the purpose of a martial arts school; opening a martial arts school is the simplest thing to do on the Hanyun Continent.

Anyone with martial arts training can open a martial arts school, and can choose their fee standards based on the services offered and the courses taught.

For example, some martial arts schools only provide basic instruction and daily meals, so they might charge five taels of silver per month.

Don't think five taels of silver is a lot; a martial arts practitioner needs to eat a lot every day.

If a pound of meat is worth five copper coins, then a month's supply would be one hundred and fifty copper coins.

Adding in the cost of noodles, vegetables, and the chef's fee, five taels of silver is a fair price.

Even though this would be a huge burden for an ordinary family, it is also their only chance to change their fate.

Therefore, ordinary families often have to tighten their belts to support a martial artist.

Once their children grow up, the whole family will be fine.

As mentioned earlier, the most basic martial arts school charges five taels of silver.

Then we have to talk about the best martial arts school, or rather, the best martial arts school in this area.

For example, some martial arts schools run by innate grandmasters may have grandmasters who, after breaking through to the next level, choose to join the army or create a family.

Some innate grandmasters have long since experienced life and death and become indifferent to it; instead, they are keen to cultivate some geniuses.

If these geniuses are able to break through to the Martial King realm in the future, perhaps his name can also be passed down through his disciples.

Or it could be that a master of innate realm becomes disabled due to an accidental injury, often possessing a high level of skill but lacking the corresponding combat power.

Therefore, they also choose other ways to make a living. Thus, among the martial arts schools that ordinary martial arts masters can open, there are also martial arts schools opened by innate grandmasters.

Regardless of whether the person is disabled or able-bodied, the fees charged by these martial arts schools will naturally differ.

In addition, in order to better cultivate, obtain auxiliary medicines and better cultivation conditions, the monthly fee is naturally more expensive.

In Fengcheng, there is a Wang Family Martial Arts School, whose founder was a master of innate martial arts. No one has called him by his name for a long time.

Only some elderly people remember him and know that he had a very rustic name, Wang Daniu.

The current Grandmaster Wang is a renowned innate grandmaster who has been famous for over a century.

Master Wang is 150 years old this year. He came to Fengcheng to open a martial arts school 30 years ago.

It is said that all of Master Wang's relatives have died.

Master Wang died unexpectedly in the Monster Mountain Range because his lover, who was also a Master of the Innate Realm, was killed.

He himself became disabled, and in his despair, Master Wang chose to live in seclusion in Fengcheng.

Master Wang opened the martial arts school partly to pass the time, and partly because he genuinely wanted to cultivate a few talented disciples.

He was a Grandmaster of the Innate Realm, and in his early years, he also went on adventures in the Monster Mountain Range with his Daoist partner, earning a considerable amount of money.

The reason he chose to open a martial arts school wasn't entirely for money. If someone was talented enough, he wouldn't only not charge a fee, but he would also spend a lot of money to train them.

However, it is difficult to reach the standard of his personal disciples. He will naturally not be polite to those disciples who are only nominally his disciples.

Master Wang's martial arts school didn't just have him as the only instructor; he also recruited many martial arts masters and warriors to teach newcomers.

As the person in charge, he only needed to give a few words of guidance to those with good talent from time to time.

At least for now, he hasn't found a suitable disciple to whom he can truly be moved.

The Wang Family Martial Arts School only charges three levels of fees: ten taels, fifty taels, and one hundred taels.

Apprentices who pay ten taels of silver can receive guidance from Master Wang once every three months.

Apprentices who pay fifty taels of silver can receive guidance from Master Wang once a month.

An apprentice who pays one hundred taels of silver can receive guidance from Master Wang once a week on average.

The treatment of apprentices who paid fifty taels and those who paid one hundred taels was different.

The food they eat every day is different, and they can also receive medication as an aid.

These also cost money and are considered additional charges.

The difference between fifty taels and one hundred taels is simply the number of times Master Wang gave them guidance.

Liu Cuihua has a son named Wu Tao, whose father was once a martial arts instructor.

Originally, Liu Cuihua was living a good life after marrying him.

Wu Tao's father lost his parents at a young age and later became a martial artist through a chance encounter.

When he reached the age of forty and broke through to the Martial Master level, he became a middle-level manager in a security escort agency in Fengcheng.

At that time, all Liu Cuihua had to think about every day was how to take good care of Wu Tao and his son.

When Liu Cuihua received the news of Wu Tao's father's death, her world collapsed.

Although the escort agency sent her family a hundred taels of silver as compensation, what did a woman like her know?

My son is only ten years old, just reached the age where he can go to a martial arts school to learn martial arts.

When Wu Tao's father was alive, he said he wanted to train his son to be a powerful martial artist.

Now that he's gone, it will be incredibly difficult for Liu Cuihua to raise her son.