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Regarding Wang Xiaorui's inquiry.
Wang Shouzhe naturally didn't put on airs and instead asked seriously, "Our Longzuo Wang Family's main residence has several hundred courtyard houses and thousands of side rooms. The annual maintenance costs must not be low."
Upon mentioning this matter, Wang Xiaorui's face turned sour as he said, "Shouzhe, you are also the clan leader, so you naturally understand the difficulties. Even if we save on maintenance costs, the main residence still requires a thousand or two Qian Gold every year."
"If we were to do major renovations every ten or twenty years, how could we manage without ten or twenty thousand Qian Gold?"
These maintenance costs are indeed much higher than those of the Ping'an Wang Family. But that's normal; this is the Commandery, and naturally, everything here is more expensive.
