Generally speaking, no one is able to actually buy a house in Yujing. Because nominally, all the houses and palaces in the entire Yujing are owned by the Daomen, and the Tianji Hall in the Nine Halls is in charge, and the Tianji Hall corresponds to the Ministry of Works in the imperial court.

Including the great real people, there is only the right to use, not all the power, so everyone is leased, but the lease term is very long, the longest can be as long as a hundred years, and the Taoist priests habitually call this kind of lease for hundreds of years as a purchase of property.

This is somewhat similar to the secular "one field and two masters", where a piece of land can be divided into the bottom of the field and the surface of the field. The bottom of the field and the surface of the field are held by two people respectively, and the bottom of the field and the surface of the field are two parts that do not interfere with each other, and can be bought and sold, pawned, and given away at will.

The owner of the bottom of the field cannot farm, only collects rent, and if he wants to cultivate himself, he must buy back the field from someone else. The owner of the field can plow, but he has to pay rent. At the same time, he can buy and sell the land at will, and even build houses and graves on the field, and the owner of the field has no right to interfere. If the owner of the field owes rent, the owner of the field can try to collect the debt and use other things to pay off the debt, but he cannot drive people away from the land, unless the owner of the field sells the land himself, which is one field and two owners.

In the same way, the residents of Yujing do not own their houses, but they can transfer the lease period of their houses at will, and if Daomen wants to repossess the house, they must return the corresponding rent.

At the beginning, Qi Xuansu's master rented a small courtyard in Haichanfang, spending 1,000 yuan in Taiping money, and the lease period was 20 years, and now there are ten years left, and it has not been taken back by the Daomen.

Qi Xuansu can go there and stay there for a month. Although it is a sad place, Qi Xuansu is obviously not qualified to touch the scene and hurt now, and the pressure of survival makes him have to temporarily abandon these emotions and concentrate on solving the matter in front of him.

As for a month later, if he successfully enters Tiangang Hall, then Tiangang Hall will issue a settlement fee to help him settle down in Yujing. If something happens, such as being brushed down by the new deputy hall master at the last moment, then there is no need for him to continue to stay in Yujing, he can go home, and he doesn't even have to take a flying boat anymore, he can go back slowly by land, and enjoy the scenery along the way.

Qi Xuansu wants to go to Haichanfang, the nearest distance is to pass through Taiqing Square, and then go to the southeast, that is, from the upper left corner of the "Tian" character pattern, to the lower right corner.

This time, Qi Xuansu did not take a sheep cart or an ox cart, but walked unhurriedly, admiring the suspicious scenery along the way, which was both familiar and unfamiliar.

The sky soon entered dusk, the sun set, and a large area of fire clouds burned at the end of the sky, and the blood-red sunlight was no longer sprinkled overhead, as if it was coming horizontally, and the Yuqing Street along the east-west direction fell on Qi Xuansu's body, pulling the back behind him long.

Qi Xuansu suddenly felt a little lonely.

In the past, Qi Xuansu would deliberately suppress this emotion, because he believed that the feeling of "loneliness" was the beginning of weakness, and the really strong people would not care about loneliness, let alone feel lonely, and even they would enjoy loneliness and refuse others to approach themselves.

However, today Qi Xuansu did not deliberately suppress this emotion, allowing himself to immerse himself in this kind of emotion that is always associated with a little sadness, and correspondingly, the memories buried in his heart began to pour out and fill Qi Xuansu's mind.

Qi Niang once said that after leaving the Vientiane Dao Palace, where the unified Dharma is taught, and entering the Daomen, the identity will automatically change from a Taoist child to a Jiupin Taoist, and then there will be a three-year assessment period.

Before talking about the three-year assessment period, I have to talk about what kind of place the Vientiane Dao Palace is.

This place was the first Vientiane Shrine built by the Empress of the Ming Sky, and later was rebuilt into the Vientiane Palace by Confucianism, after Xuansheng led the Daomen to defeat the Confucian Gate and become the orthodoxy of the world, the Confucian Gate ceded the Vientiane Palace, and the Daomen rebuilt it into the Vientiane Dao Palace.

Vientiane Dao Palace has two palaces, the lower palace has two functions, the first function is to adopt orphans, abandoned babies, and raise these orphans and abandoned babies to adulthood, without charging a penny of fees, which is regarded as doing good deeds and accumulating virtue.

Many people can't support their children, or for other reasons, they don't want to keep their children with them, so they send their children to Taoist temples in various places, and Taoist temples will send these children to the Taoist Palace in Vientiane.

From this point of view, Vientiane Daogong is really a place similar to Puji Hall or Nursery Hall.

Because of this, many people in the Daomen are fatherless and motherless, they were born in the Daomen, grew up in the Daomen, and most of them died in the Daomen, and they have been Daomen people all their lives.

Qi Xuansu is also one of these people.

Therefore, Qi Xuansu couldn't quite understand what his parents meant, and since he could remember, he had played, lived, and studied with other peers in the Vientiane Dao Palace, and only an elderly female crown was responsible for their usual daily life.

To be sure, the crown was a good man, a loving mother, but it was a pity that she was alone in charge of fifty children, and her love was very thin when it was distributed among each child.

The second function of the lower palace is to train these orphans and abandoned babies to become talents and become the fresh blood of the Daomen.

The Vientiane Dao Palace adopts a unified teaching method, which is generally taught by a teacher to teach dozens of children, similar to the private schools in the past, but on a larger scale.

Before the age of ten, students are taught the most basic breathing and breathing skills, as well as literacy and arithmetic. After the age of ten, there will be an assessment, and the children who pass the assessment will obtain the status of a Taoist child, and begin to study the Tao, Buddhism, Confucianism, Mo, Dharma and other hundred classics, and add elementary courses in astronomy, geography, organs, and talismans, as well as be taught more advanced cultivation methods.

Children who fail to pass the assessment become Taoists and begin to learn various craftsman skills.

When they are eighteen years old, there will be a second assessment, and after the Taoist children pass the assessment, they will leave the Vientiane Dao Palace, enter the Daomen, and become a nine-grade Taoist priest from the Taoist children. Dao children who fail to pass will continue to study in Vientiane Dao Palace until they pass the assessment, and these Dao children will lose their qualifications for the three-year assessment period, and it will be difficult for them to become a four-grade Taoist priest in this life.

The difference in this is like the difference between Jinshi and Juren, both of which are considered official bodies, but Jinshi is extremely noble, and the release starts from the Qipin County Order. On the other hand, if you can't enter the cabinet in this life, even if you are released as an official, you can only start from Bapin County, which is a huge gap.

Qi Xuansu is the former, who is regarded as a "jinshi" in the Daomen, and left the Vientiane Dao Palace with excellent results to enter the Daomen, and became a nine-grade Taoist, and then was favored by the master during the three-year assessment period and became a disciple of the four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist.

With the help of his master, he soon became an eight-rank Taoist priest, and he did not dare to say that he had a bright future, and it was also smooth sailing.

Until the master died.

Every time Qi Xuansu thought of this, he would feel a faint pain in his chest, which was not an emotional or psychological feeling, but a real pain, a real feeling from his body.

Qi Xuansu, who was walking on the streets of Yuqing, reached out and pressed his chest, skipping this memory and returning to his teenage years.

His master also has the surname Qi, or rather, he follows the master's surname Qi.

Because many people in the Daomen were adopted and raised by the Daomen, for them, the Daomen is home, and the concept of a small personal family is very weak. Many people in the Taoist sect do not start a family or have children, but accept an apprentice as a son to cultivate and inherit the mantle. The reason is also very simple, the son can't choose, the apprentice can.

Qi Xuansu's master is such a person, there are no parents, no children, no wife in the middle, alone, at the age of forty, he accepted Qi Xuansu as a disciple and named him "Xuansu".

The word "Xuansu" has many meanings, and the meaning of Qi Xuansu's name is very simple, that is, "black and white", Xuansu is black, Su is white, and Xuansu is different, that is, black and white.

The master gave him another table word "Tianyuan", which sounds domineering, but the meaning has nothing to do with domineering, "Tian" is heavenly, and "Yuan" is the abyss, which means the difference between heaven and abyss, corresponding to the difference between Xuan and Su, black and white.

During that time, Qi Xuansu and his master lived in the small courtyard of Haichanfang, for Qi Xuansu, this small courtyard was undoubtedly more able to be called home than Vientiane Dao Palace, but it was a pity that this home was no longer there.

When Qi Xuansu recalled this, he didn't have much anger, more sadness.

Because the revenge has been avenged, Qi Xuansu took matters into his own hands, and in the name of the Qingping Society, Qi Niang cleaned up the mess.

The price was that Qi Xuansu became a member of the Qingping Society from then on, and had to obey the orders of the Qingping Society and do something that Qi Xuansu didn't like very much and couldn't refuse.

From the day he entered the Qingping Society, Qi Xuansu was like a pawn and could never turn back. Fortunately, in addition to moving forward, the pawn after crossing the river can also sway from side to side, and maybe when it comes to the endgame, he can still walk sideways?

In any case, this made Qi Xuansu gradually deviate from his original trajectory and embark on the current path.

In fact, whether it was when the master was alive or before revenge, Qi Xuansu had a clear goal, but after revenge, he was a little at a loss.

During this time, Qi Niang gradually took the place of the master, teaching him and guiding him. Qi Xuansu cheered up again, after all, life had to go on, he was still very young, and there was still a long way to go, so he began to think about how to break away from the Qingping Society.

Qingping will not embarrass him, and nine thousand meritorious deeds will be counted as two Qing.

Merit is the unique bookkeeping method of Qingping Society, according to the difficulty of the task, the higher the merit, the greater the danger, take the Fengtai County party not long ago, Qi Xuansu entered three hundred merits at a time, which is the sum of Qi Xuansu's small fights in the past few years, but Qi Xuansu almost died under Zhuge Yongming's fist.

Even if the appearance of Qi Niang is inevitable, it is Qi Xuansu's luck that the four-grade Taoist priest in Qi Niang's mouth did not make a move, if the four-grade Taoist priest personally makes a move, I am afraid that Qi Xuansu is already a corpse.

It is precisely because the matter of Fengtai County involves Qingluanwei, Taiping Dao, Quanzhen Dao, and Zhengyi Quartet forces, as well as a four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist priest from Taiping Dao, and even a real person standing behind this four-grade Taoist priest, Qingping Society gave a high price of three hundred meritorious deeds, if it was just one Zhuge Yongming, it might only be less than a hundred meritorious deeds.

At this moment, Taiqing Square arrived.