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Chapter 112 Lady, do you know what a sunk cost is?
"So, you, a lecherous fellow, were kicked out?"

Kong Qing shook the fly whisk in his hand, and looked at Ma Zhou playfully. "It's not that I'm talking about you, Brother Bin, you should get rid of your habit of talking nonsense when you see a beautiful woman. Lady Yan is a girl from a good family. ?"

"People are not rushing..."

Ma Zhou lowered his head in embarrassment. "It's just that the courtyard in Guanli is too simple to receive a distinguished guest like me."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Kong Qing laughed unscrupulously, and his sleeves were shaking. "Prince Ma Bin, now that you know how you usually act like a fool, what will a good lady think of you?"

Amid Kong Qing's laughter, Ma Zhou's expression was a bit bitter, but it was rare that he didn't speak out to refute, but said in a babble.

"Brother Qingwei, I have something to ask for."

"Brother Bin Wang, if you want to inquire about the situation and address of Mrs. Yan from Pindao, then you don't have to ask me.

Kong Qing looked at Ma Zhou with a half-smile.

"Pindao hates you a prodigal son the most in his life. If it weren't for the fact that you have been very obedient recently and didn't bother Mrs. Zhao's family anymore, Pindao would not have introduced Ambassador Li to you. From Pindao's point of view , all the mortal women in the world are not suitable for you, Brother Bin Wang."

Hearing what Kong Qing said, Ma Zhou immediately gave him a depressed look.

"Okay, don't be depressed..."

Kong Qing patted Ma Zhou's shoulder with a comforting expression.

"A man should establish a career before starting a family. For example, the renovation of the courtyard of Ambassador Li's house this time is a good opportunity. As long as it is done beautifully this time, it will be easy for other dignitaries in the future..."

"Don't worry, my dear brother."

Ma Zhou said listlessly.

"Ambassador Li's courtyard was torn down and rebuilt, so many bricks and tiles can be reused, and the reconstruction speed will be very fast."

"Then don't worry about it."

Kong Qing patted Ma Zhou on the shoulder in an old-fashioned way.

"Brother Bin Wang, do it well. Don't think that a contractor is not worth much. Think about Meng Tian when he was building the Great Wall, he was just a contractor!"

After finishing speaking, Kong Qing pulled out the dust whisk that he had inserted in his lower back, and shook it in his hand.

"Ambassador Li still has something to ask the poor, so I will resign first. Brother Bin Wang, you can do it yourself!"

As he said that, Kong Qing dusted his clothes with a dust whisk, then straightened his Taoist crown, and walked out of the door in a stable manner with the posture of a Taoist master.

After Kong Qing left, Ma Zhou sneaked up to the door and looked out, then immediately turned back to the shelf behind the futon where Kong Qing was sitting, and copied the merit book, layman list, etc. Things flipped over.

"If you don't tell me, can't I still turn it over?"

Kong Qing who walked out did not go to the main hall to look for Li Xunzhi as he said, but turned a corner and came to the nearby courtyard, where the woman in white temporarily lived.

"Miss, have you seen Brother Bin?"

After entering the door and taking a seat, Kong Qing asked directly.

"How about it, is it noble enough to be a good match for a lady?"

"The talent is really good..."

The beauty in white used the tone of going to the market to buy vegetables, affirmed lightly, and then said with some doubts.

"But I don't understand, Qingwei, why do you want me to invite Ma Langjun out as soon as I hear Ma Langjun's praise of my family? Shouldn't I settle the relationship while he is also interested?"

"No, no, no..."

Kong Qing smiled lightly and shook the whisk in his hand.

"Miss, as a god, you can live forever and see for a long time, so you can't help but be a bit inconsiderate about some things in the world. Here, the poor must popularize a word for the lady, called sunk cost."

"Sunk costs?"

Hearing this completely unfamiliar vocabulary, a curious look flashed in the eyes of the beauty in white.

"Appreciate further details."

"The so-called sunk cost refers to the completely irrecoverable cost paid by someone when doing certain things,"

Kong Qing tilted his head and thought for a while, then continued to teach the beauty in white.

"For example, my lady, you have two jade pendants in your hand. One is bought casually when you pass by the market, and the other is bought after you have chosen thousands of times and traveled to the West Market many times. Even if these two jade pendants When I bought them, they were all twenty guan, but which one do you think you like more, lady?"

"The latter piece, of course."

The beauty in white is all right.

"Oh, I understand, Qingwei, what you mean is that I put more thought into the last jade pendant..."

"That's right!"

Kong Qing said very frankly.

"Miss, the time you spent choosing the last piece of jade pendant, the time you spent going to the West Market, and the time you spent thinking about it yourself, these things that can no longer be recovered are the so-called sunk costs.

Although these things cannot be seen or touched, they do exist for you, lady, and they are also important factors when you make a decision. "

"Ok!"

The beauty in white nodded, indicating that she understood what Kong Qing meant.

"If you put this sunk cost in another way, the easier it is to get something, the less people will cherish it. This is what happened to your last husband, Lupe, my lady."

Kong Qing then said to the beauty in white.

"For Lupe, you took the initiative to deliver the lady to your door, and didn't spend any energy on him. His impression of the lady was only that of a beautiful woman posted upside down, so he would feel from his heart that you were not unimportant.

This is also the reason why you have helped that Lupe so much, my lady, but you can't get him to trust you.

Whether you saved his mother's life, helped him reorganize his family business, or provided money for him to spend, no matter what you do, it won't help...

As long as he had a little doubt in his heart, it would explode immediately. "

"Oh!"

The beautiful woman in white's eyes flickered, and she nodded thoughtfully.

"So that's how it is, I've been taught!"

"That Lupe is an ungrateful bastard..."

The girl sitting on the side gritted her teeth hard after hearing what Kong Qing said. "When I meet him someday, I will definitely bite him to death."

"Actually, if you want to deal with that heartless person, you don't have to do that."

Kong Qing shook his whisk and said leisurely.

"Now Lu Pei has already known the identity of your wife through Wang Gui, as long as you pretend to meet him by accident in a few days, and then tell him that my 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 having a husband, but it is a pity that it is a great fortune for you to marry a goddess. If you can live well with your wife , you and your mother had a chance to become gods. "

"But that's impossible,"

The girl blurted out. "My wife will leave on her own when she gets tired of seeing that guy. How could he become a god?"

"Yeah, you're right, maybe that's the way it is."

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 killing him?"

"Oh oh oh..."

The girl finally understood what Kong Qing meant, and laughed happily.

"I see, you humans are more insidious!"

"..."

Kong Qing ignored the girl who was flooded, and continued to turn her face to look at the woman in white.

"So we must let Brother Binwang spend all the sunk costs. For example, he found the lady's information with great difficulty, and the second encounter between the lady and him was the result of his hard work... and so on.

We want him to feel that every bit of progress he has made with you, my wife, has been made with great effort, so that after he finally impresses her and gets married with her, he won't make the same mistakes as Lupe did. "

After listening to Kong Qing's words, the woman in white's eyes flickered, as if she was thinking about something.

"Although the slave family is not very clear about the meaning of Qingwei's words, the slave family somehow feels that your words are still very reasonable, so let's do this."

"So good!"

Kong Qing nodded with a smile, stood up and slapped the woman in white.

"Then, the agreement between the poor Taoist and the lady is established, the lady will protect my Qingdu Temple with all her heart in the next ten years, and if the lady has anything to do, the poor Taoist will do her best."

"good!"

The woman in white also stood up and said solemnly.

"Based on the authority of the Nu family, the agreement between the Nu family and Daoist Qingwei is established. In the next ten years, the Nu family will do their best to protect the integrity of the Qingdu Temple, and you must not refuse the Nu family's own affairs, Daoist Qingwei. "

Qing Wei stretched out her hand and made a slight kiss with the woman in white.

"A deal!"

After finalizing the covenant between this place and Qingduguan, Kong Qing felt that the hidden worries in his heart were gone.

To be honest, after seeing the records of the Taishi Bureau, Kong Qing was really a little scared.

Gods, immortals, ghosts, monsters, strange beasts, dragons...

Countless things beyond the mundane are in this world, mixing with fragile human beings, forming a chaotic and extremely dangerous world.

Of course, Kong Qing, who has a system in his body, is fearless, and even a little happy that he can find so many targets to slay demons.

But these people in Qingduguan are different. They are all mortals, and they can't fight, and they don't have mana. The only way to save their lives when they encounter monsters is to tell the other party that they have poor taste due to long-term malnutrition.

Now that Mrs. Yan has joined, Kong Qing doesn't have to worry about this kind of situation.

Under Qingxiazi's deterrence, there will not be any overly powerful demons and ghosts in Chang'an City, and ordinary little monsters will not be opponents of gods at all, even if she is just a funeral director.

Having stabilized his rear, Kong Qing was in a good mood, shaking his whisk, and came to the main hall to comfort Li Xunzhi, who had been feeling turbulent and wary since the last time he caught the demon, but was surprised to hear a The news shocked him.

"What did you say, the ancient mirror of the Yellow Emperor is lost?"

PS: There is another chapter at [-] o'clock tonight

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