Seeing Zhuo Jingning looking speechless, Monk Huai smiled and said, "Senior Brother Abbot, you came from the Qing court, but you don't know that there is also a saying in the Song Dynasty that there is a concubine."

Zhuo Jingning thought about it carefully and remembered what happened to the so-called concubine.

He saw in a book that this concubine is equivalent to a concubine, but the difference is that this concubine has a time limit. Usually, a three-year contract is signed, how the woman serves the man within three years, and the man provides accommodation, money, food and drink, servants who serve, etc., and then when the time comes, the two parties peacefully terminate the contract or continue to renew the contract.

The saying of a contracted concubine came from this, and then evolved into the term "concubine".

Women who have been concubines did not find it difficult to get married in the Song Dynasty. In fact, it is not only not difficult to get married, but are also very popular. Because such women have been with wealthy families, not only know the etiquette, but may also be a little literary and literary, and they seem very well-educated in managing the family. In addition, even if the dowry is often very generous, there are still many men who are willing to marry.

In some areas of the Song Dynasty, there was even a custom of women born in poor families as concubines for wealthy families.

A woman who has never been a concubine is considered to be uncharming, not beautiful, or even has misbehavior.

Only such a woman will find it difficult to get married.

"I have heard of the saying of "Qi Meng". Could it be that my junior brothers have gone to collect the concubine? This ghost is a bit different from a mortal?" Zhuo Jingning asked out loud.

Monk Huai nodded and said, "The senior brother of the abbot is extremely intelligent, and it is indeed so. A mortal takes a concubine for three years at a short time and ten years at a long time. However, we are a ghost for a lifetime. Not only are we live, but we are a concubine for a concubine, and even if we die, we become a ghost."

"So, this silver is expensive, right?" Zhuo Jingning asked. The contract signer was bought for the rest of his life, even after he died. The money spent was not a little.

"It is naturally much more than mortals, but it is not unreasonable for us to wait for ghosts. During the time of the Qiyue period, if the woman likes any mortal, she can still get married, but after she dies, she has to go with me." Monk Huai explained.

Zhuo Jingning was a little calm, but when he thought that the ghosts and monsters had different values ​​from people, he decisively changed the topic and asked: "There is one thing that I have always been a little strange. If you want to become a ghost after death, you still need to spend money to buy a place for a ghost, otherwise you can't even think of a ghost. The number of ghosts is controlled. But for some reason, if you don't become a ghost after death, you don't have to suppress them after death, but this number is not necessarily greater than that of the Qing court?"

Monk Huai shook his head repeatedly and said, "Senior Brother Abbot, you are wrong. The number of ghosts in the Qing Dynasty is not small, but it is still too many to scare ghosts. As for why there are not many ghosts in the Song Dynasty, this is related to those ghosts and gods."

Zhuo Jingning thought for a while and said, "That unique ghost with the power of a weird image but does not form a ghost?"

"It is. The appearance of this kind of ghost requires a large amount of ghosts as sacrifices. Therefore, even if the Song State does not have the restrictions formed by this ghost, as long as there are ghosts that want to become such special ghosts, a large number of ghosts must be reduced to sacrifices and their souls will be scattered. Therefore, the senior brother of the presidency, in fact, the number of ghosts in this Song State is far smaller than that of the Qing court!"

"So where are the ghosts of the Qing court?" Zhuo Jingning asked. He had some guesses in his heart, but he still wanted to hear them with his own ears.

"Inside the Gate of Hell."

Zhuo Jingning nodded, and as expected, he said: "Then the Qing court in the future will probably lead to an extremely huge disaster."

It is better to be clear than to block the enemy. The Qing court just "blocked" these ghosts, but there is no such thing in this world that can be completely blocked by blocking it?

In the future, the Qing court could be foreseeable that ghosts would be overwhelming.

It's a completely hell scene on earth.

Monk Huai nodded. Any ghost who lived long enough could be seen. But by that time, maybe they could get a share of the pie.

"Speaking of this, there is one more thing I want to ask my junior brother." Zhuo Jingning said.

"It's okay to talk about it with the abbot," said Monk Huai.

"As a demon king, I want to take out 20 million taels of silver. It's easy, why...

"So my senior brother is strange about this." Monk Huai interrupted Zhuo Jingning before he finished speaking, and then said: "The existence of Lanruo Temple does not last a year or two. And there are not only Lanruo Temple like Lanruo Temple. In the early years, Lanruo Temple donated silver once every six months, but later it was difficult to obtain the silver, so it was changed to one year, then two years, three years, four years, and now..."

Monk Huai didn't finish speaking, but Zhuo Jingning understood it completely.

At his place, 20 million taels of silver could serve as the abbot of Lanruo Temple for seven years, but because most of the silver in the Song Dynasty was consumed by the ghosts, the value of this silver was gradually increased, and at the same time, these ghost monks extended the reign of the time limit for donating silver to obtain the position of Lanruo Temple.

However, this is also something brought by the merchants of the Styx, which is enough to fascinate these ghosts.

People can play with things and lose their ambitions, but this ghost didn't expect to play with things and lose their ambitions.

"Since the abbot wants to go to the three underworld places to see, I will make arrangements for the senior brother, as long as three days, as long as half a month. The senior brother will wait a moment." Seeing the little fox here, Monk Huai said goodbye and told Zhuo Jingning with great meaning that before leaving, the monks from Lanruo Temple would not come back for a while. He is the abbot here and can do his best.

As for the ghost monk who disappeared by Zhuo Jingning, Monk Huai didn't even ask from beginning to end.

But Monk Huai is not without completely responding to this.

That sentence Zhuo Jingning is the abbot and can do his best. It is not just saying that Zhuo Jingning and the little fox can be freely romantic here, but it is hinting that Zhuo Jingning - if the monk in Lanruo Temple offends him, he can deal with it at will.

After all, this is not a serious temple.

It is a temple of a ghost monk.

Zhuo Jingning was not in the mood to continue staying in Lanruo Temple. This was not a place where living people should stay. It might be too late for him to return to the cruise ship at this time. He thought about it. Those ghosts who wanted to blackmail Wang Shengyu and other prominent tribes would probably arrange a reason for him to leave, so he directly asked the ghost technique used by the little fox to send him back.

The ghost is cunning. Since he can see that he is mixed among a bunch of mortals, he should be seen that he does not want to be squeezed out.

Sure enough, after a while Zhuo Jingning returned to the house in Guobei County, a servant came to report that the local prominent family Wang Shengyu and others wanted to visit him outside, so they came over with gifts, saying that they wanted to thank him.

Zhuo Jingning asked his servants to invite Wang Shengyu and others in.

"Thank you, Mr. Thank you, Mr. I thank you for your face last night, so I told you that I did not suffer any pain. Just a little gift, please accept it with a smile."

Wang Shengyu said respectfully as soon as he came in.

Zhuo Jingning asked: "I am ashamed of being aware of being aware of being aware of being aware of being aware of being aware of being aware of being aware of being aware of them, but I am so scared."

"A mere scare is nothing. Especially...ah." Wang Shengyu sighed and said with a look of fear: "I am lucky to be compared with Che Xiucai. Che Xiucai died was really miserable."
Chapter completed!