Chapter 15 - 13: Those who insult others will always be insulted!
Ye Chen teased Huan'er, causing the maid's face to blush and her delicate little fists to wave continuously. Under her annoyed gaze, he burst out of the room with a loud laugh and headed towards the Salary Hall.
After wandering about the vast City Lord Mansion for a while, Ye Chen finally arrived at a wide and majestic room clearly marked "Salary Hall" in large, swirling characters.
The Salary Hall was where the Ye Family distributed the monthly allowances to its members.
Generally, as long as a family member reached the age of twelve, they would receive a corresponding monthly allowance, varying from person to person, as it was not possible to treat everyone equally.
Those who were valued by the family or had contributed significantly, such as those who were pinned with high hopes or possessed cultivated talents, naturally received a higher monthly allowance, while the opposite was true for others.
Although Ye Chen had fallen from grace, going from a genius to a cripple, and his future position as the Family Head was doomed to be revoked, and he could not hold important positions within the family, he was still the progeny of the current Family Head and the Lord of Luofeng City. The family could not completely ignore or suppress him, and they still issued fifteen gold coins each month.
Such an allowance was considered upper-middle-class even among the younger generation of the Ye Family, eliciting envy and jealousy from many of his peers.
When he arrived at the Salary Hall, there were already many family members queuing up to receive their monthly allowances, a few dozen people, both old and young, but mainly from the younger generation.
Ye Chen silently followed the line at the back, unnoticed by anyone else.
Behind the tall, red sandalwood desk, the Salary Hall staff was busy calculating the allowances to be distributed and handed a bag of coins to the fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy at the front of the line. The boy opened the bag and couldn't help but wail, "Oh my goodness, only five gold coins this month, how am I supposed to spend this?"
The other family members also received their money bags and found that the allowances weren't much, mostly ranging from five to twelve gold coins, and some even as few as four.