Chapter 109: Madam, do you know what sunk costs are?
"So, you, a lecherous fellow, were kicked out?"
Kong Qing shook the whisk in his hand and looked at Ma Zhou with a joking face. "I'm not telling you, Brother Bin Wang, you should change your habit of talking nonsense when you see a beautiful woman. Lady Yan is from a good family.
Girl, do you think this is the wallflower you usually spend your money on?"
"I'm not rushing..."
Ma Zhou lowered his head in embarrassment. "It's just that the courtyard in the temple is too simple to receive a distinguished guest like me."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Kong Qing smiled unscrupulously, and his sleeves trembled. "King Ma Bin, now that you know how careless you are, what will a good lady think of you?"
Amidst Kong Qing's laughter, Ma Zhou's face looked a little resentful, but he rarely spoke out to argue, but said in a huff.
"Brother Qingwei, I have something to ask of you."
"Brother Bin Wang, if you want to find out about Mrs. Yan's situation and address from Pindao, then you don't have to ask.
Kong Qing looked at Ma Zhou with a half-smile.
"Pindao hates you the most in his life. If it weren't for the fact that you have been very obedient recently and haven't disturbed the eldest wife of the Zhao family anymore, Pindao wouldn't have introduced Ambassador Li to you. From Pindao's point of view,
, all the ordinary women in the world are not suitable for you, Brother Binwang."
Hearing what Kong Qing said, Ma Zhou suddenly looked at him depressedly.
"Okay, don't be depressed..."
Kong Qing patted Ma Zhou's shoulder with a comforting hand.
"A real man should start a career first and then start a family. For example, the renovation of Ambassador Li's yard this time is a good opportunity. As long as it is done beautifully, it will be easier for other dignitaries in the future..."
"Don't worry about this good brother."
Ma Zhou said listlessly.
"Ambassador Li's yard was torn down and rebuilt, so there are a lot of bricks and tiles that can be reused, and the rebuilding will be very fast."
"The poor Taoist can rest assured."
Kong Qing patted Ma Zhou on the shoulder in an old-fashioned way.
"Brother Bin Wang, do your job well and don't think that the contractor has no future. Remember when Meng Tian was building the Great Wall, wasn't he just a contractor?"
After finishing speaking, Kong Qing pulled out the fly whisk he had inserted into his lower back and shook it in his hand.
"Ambassador Li still has something to do with Pindao, so I'll take my leave first. Brother Bin Wang, you can do what you want!"
With that said, Kong Qing dusted his clothes with a whisk, then straightened his Taoist crown, put on the posture of a Taoist scholar, and walked out of the door calmly.
After Kong Qing left, Ma Zhou first sneaked up to the door and looked outside, then immediately turned back to the shelf behind the futon where Kong Qing was sitting, and copied the merit book, the list of lay people, etc.
Things turned over.
"If you don't tell me, why can't I still turn it over?"
When Kong Qing walked out of the door, he did not go to the main hall to find Li Xunzhi as he said. Instead, he turned a corner and came to the nearby side courtyard, where the woman in white temporarily lived.
"Have you already seen Brother Bin Wang?"
After entering the door and taking a seat, Kong Qing asked directly.
"How about it? Are you noble enough to be a good match for your wife?"
"The talent is really good..."
The beautiful woman in white affirmed in an understatement like she was going to the market to buy vegetables, and then said with some doubts.
"But the Nujia doesn't understand why Qingwei wants the Nujia to invite Ma Langjun out as soon as he hears him praising the Nujia? Shouldn't it be that the relationship should be finalized while he is also interested?"
"No, no, no..."
Kong Qing shook the fly whisk in his hand with a faint smile on his face.
"Madam, as a god, you can see for a long time, so you can't help but not think carefully about some things in the world. Here, I must popularize a word to my madam, called sunk cost."
"Sunk costs?"
Hearing this completely unfamiliar word, a look of curiosity flashed in the eyes of the beautiful woman in white.
"Appreciate further details."
"The so-called sunk costs refer to the costs that someone pays when doing something that cannot be recovered at all,"
Kong Qing tilted his head and thought for a moment, then continued to teach the beauty in white.
"For example, madam, you have two jade pendants in your hand. One was bought casually when you passed by the market, and the other was bought by you after many trips to the Western Market. Even if you buy these two jade pendants,
They were all twenty pieces when I bought them, but which one do you think you like better, madam?"
"Of course it's the latter piece."
The beauty in white can get through it with just a few clicks.
"Oh, I understand, Qingwei, you mean that I put more thought into the last jade pendant..."
"That's right!"
Kong Qing said very frankly.
"Madam, the time you spent choosing the last jade pendant, the time you spent going to the Western Market, the time you spent thinking about it yourself, these things that can never be recovered are the so-called sunk costs.
Although these things cannot be seen or touched, they do exist for you, madam, and they are also important factors when you make decisions."
"Um!"
The beauty in white nodded, indicating that she understood what Kong Qing meant.
"To put this sunk cost in another way, it means that the easier it is to get something, the less likely it will be cherished by anyone. This is what happened to your last husband, Lupe, Madam."
Kong Qing then said to the beautiful woman in white.
"For Lupe, Madam, you came to his door on your own initiative, without spending any energy on him. His impression of Madam is only that of a beautiful woman who is leaning against you, so from the bottom of his heart, he will feel that Madam, you are not
unimportant.
This is also the reason why, madam, you have helped that Lupe so much but you still can't win his trust in you.
Whether you saved his mother's life, helped him rebuild his family business, or provided him with money for his expenses, no matter what you do, it won't help...
As long as he has a little doubt in his heart, he will immediately express it."
"oh!"
The beauty in white's eyes flashed and she nodded thoughtfully.
"So that's it, I've learned a lesson!"
"That Lupe is an ungrateful bastard..."
The girl sitting on the side grinded her teeth hard after hearing Kong Qing's words. "When I meet him one day, I will definitely bite him to death."
"Actually, if you want to deal with that unfaithful person, you don't have to do this."
Kong Qing shook the whisk and said with a leisurely expression.
"Now Lupe has known your wife's identity through Wang Gui. As long as you pretend to meet him accidentally in a few days, then tell him that your wife has remarried and found a man who is more handsome than him.
Of course, the most important thing is that you must make a comment at the end, saying that a goddess like my wife has no worries about being without a husband, but it is a pity that husband, you have a goddess together, which is a great blessing. If you can live a good life with your wife , you and your mother also had a chance to become gods."
"But that's impossible,"
The girl blurted out, "My wife will leave if she gets tired of seeing that guy. How can he become a god?"
"Yes, you are right, that may be the case."
Kong Qing nodded, then smiled mysteriously at the girl.
"But how did Lupe know that he would be dumped? So if you say this, he will spend his whole life in regret. Isn't this better than biting him to death?"
"Oh oh oh..."
The girl finally understood what Kong Qing meant and laughed happily.
"I understand, you humans are more insidious!"
"..."
Kong Qing ignored the confused girl and continued to look at the woman in white.
"So we must let Brother Bin Wang spend all the sunk costs. For example, he found the information about the lady with great difficulty, and the second chance encounter between the lady and him was obtained by him with great difficulty... And so on.
We need to make him feel that every bit of progress between him and your wife is the result of his great efforts, so that when he finally impresses your wife and gets married to her, he will not make the same mistake as Lupe did."
After listening to Kong Qing's words, the woman in white's eyes flashed, as if she was thinking about something.
"Although the Nu family is not very clear about the meaning of Qingwei's words, the Nu family inexplicably feels that your words still make sense, so let's do this."
"So good!"
Kong Qing smiled and nodded, stood up and slapped his head at the woman in white.
"Then, the agreement between Pindao and Madam is established. In the next ten years, Madam will do her best to protect the integrity of my Qingdu Temple. If anything happens to Madam, Pindao will also take care of it."
"good!"
The woman in white also stood up and said solemnly.
"Based on the authority of the slave family, the agreement between the slave family and Taoist Priest Qingwei is established. In the next ten years, the slave family will do its best to protect the integrity of Qingdu Temple, and you, Priest Qingwei, cannot refuse the slave family's own affairs. "
Qingwei stretched out her hand and touched the woman in white.
"It's a deal!"
After finalizing the covenant between this place and Qingdu Temple, Kong Qing felt that all the worries in his heart were gone.
To be honest, after seeing those records from the Taishi Bureau, Kong Qing was really a little scared.
Countless things that transcend the mundane are in this world, mixing with fragile humans, forming a chaotic and extremely dangerous world.
Of course, Kong Qing, who had the system in hand, was fearless, and was even a little happy that he could find so many targets to slay demons.
But these people in Qingdu Temple are different. They are all mortals, and they are not good at fighting and have no magic power. If they encounter monsters, the only way to save their lives is to tell them that they have poor taste due to long-term malnutrition.
Now that Lady Yan has joined the team, Kong Qing no longer has to worry about this situation happening.
Under Qingxiazi's intimidation, there will be no overly powerful monsters in Chang'an City, and ordinary little monsters will not be the opponent of the gods at all, even if she is just a land creature in charge of funerals.
After settling down his rear, Kong Qing was in a good mood, shaking his fly whisk, and came to the main hall to comfort Li Xunzhi, who had been feeling the noise of the wind and the roar of the sky since the last time he caught the demon. However, he was somewhat surprised to hear a News that shocked him.
"What are you talking about, that Yellow Emperor's ancient mirror is lost?"