Chapter 153: "Cave House" and "Servant"

"Giggles, you can spare it, but you have to learn to be obedient in the future, don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't say what you shouldn't say, don't think about what you shouldn't think, otherwise you won't fight!" As soon as the words fell, Li Mei raised her small fist and slapped it in the other party's face, although it was a gesture, but it also made the deacon disciples cry bitterly.

After getting the new "Identity Token", "Elder Token" and "Cave Mansion Token", Li Mei happily put away her things, and at the same time did not forget to check the two large "storage bags" in her hand, which contained all kinds of cultivation resources that the sect uniformly distributed to the "elite disciples" for a year.

These include two sets of "standard magic robes" per person, an ordinary "flying sword" at the level of a "low-grade magic weapon", two bottles of "pills" suitable for the "Dan period", three "high-level talismans" and one hundred "medium-grade spirit stones". In addition, the new "Identity Token" contains 1,000 "Contribution Points" from the sect.

The former is convenient for the disciples of the sect to move freely in the sect, and the latter is helpful for the disciples to upgrade and transform the "original prohibition" of their own caves, after all, the "sect" only provides the most basic "forbidden law and prohibition".

The so-called "forbidden law and prohibition" is to prevent birds, beasts, mortals, demon beasts and other birds in the mountains from straying into the "fog" or "phantom array", which is not harmful in itself, but only traps the "intruder" in it and slowly guides it to get out of it, and at the same time can force the "intruder" spells and supernatural powers to fail.

As for some "outer disciples" who are dedicated to serving the "inner disciples", since their cultivation is only in the "Qi refining period", once they strayed into the "forbidden law and forbidden system", they will also be trapped, unless they can be picked up with a "transmission note", otherwise they will still be trapped. Therefore, the "prohibition of laws and regulations" is also important.

In fact, when receiving the "Cave Mansion Token", the cave house of each "Jiedan Monk" is automatically forcibly equipped with thirty servants by the "sect", mainly responsible for cleaning, responsible for living, managing the medicine garden, raising spirit animals, running errands and other miscellaneous chores, and these "servants" are the descendants of the "inner disciples", because once the descendants of some "immortal cultivators" do not inherit the "spiritual root", they cannot gain a foothold in the sect, unless they voluntarily apply to be "servants".

In the same way, the "Zhuji Monk", as the lowest-status "inner disciple", each of his "cave mansions" has also been arranged by the sect with at least ten "servants". As in the case of the "cave house" of the "monk Yudan", these "servants" were both men, women, and children, and they all existed in the situation of "family".

Half of the income (including cultivation resources) of these "mortals" comes from the unified regular and fixed rations of the sect, and half comes from the rewards and alms of the "cave masters" they serve on weekdays. At the same time, these "servants" will not be expelled by their masters as long as they do not make any serious mistakes.

However, if the "master of the cave" abused these "servants", once discovered by the "law enforcement hall" of the sect, the "master of the cave" would be punished, with a deduction of salary and a fine, or confiscation of the "cave" and expulsion from the sect, and demoting them to serve in foreign institutions. Therefore, the "servant" cannot be easily offended.

However, there are also some "monks" who like to be quiet and do not need "servants", so they can only pay the "reverse poll tax" to the sect, which is usually calculated according to one lower grade spirit stone per person per month, for example, if a "monk who is a knot" wants to be a "light pole commander", he must pay at least 360 spirit stones to the sect every year.

The "spirit stone" handed over at this time is called "cave rent", which is actually used by the sect to house the descendants of those "inner disciples" who have no support. However, if the entire family of these "servants" cannot give birth to a "spiritual root owner" within a single jiazi, the whole family will be banished to the "outer gate".

In other words, these "mortals" can only be servants of "outer disciples" at this time, farming for them, carrying water and cutting firewood, washing and cooking, sleeping and giving birth to babies, guarding shops and other work. In particular, if a female mortal can give birth to a descendant with a "spiritual root" for a "Qi Refining Period" monk, her status will increase dramatically!

However, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. When some "servants" have served the "outer gate" for several generations and have not been able to give birth to the "spiritual root owner", as long as the time exceeds two jiazi, they will be cruelly swept out of the house and become mortals in the red world, and there will be no chance to cultivate immortals!

Therefore, in the cultivation realm, low-level disciples below the "Qi Refining Period" are the most "involuted", and sometimes they have to "roll" with "mortals", all kinds of "rolls", "rolls" to despair! However, women always have an advantage over men, because there is a chance to sleep with the "immortal cultivator", and it will be good to have a baby once they have a baby!

These are also the various "unspoken rules" that Zhou Jun saw from the "Dongfu Token". Fortunately, Zhou Jun had the foresight to deliberately put "Zhao Zhenyan" and "Li Mei" next to his own "Dongfu" when selecting "Dongfu" to facilitate development and management, because each "Dongfu" occupies a hundred miles of land!

Relatively speaking, within the sect, the "cave mansion" of the disciples of the "foundation building period" generally covers an area of only ten miles, and at most it can only reach a radius of thirty miles, while the "cave mansion" of the "monk of the Jiedan" does not have so many restrictions, but at most it does not exceed a radius of thousands of miles, after all, the total resources of the sect are limited.

Zhou Jun thought to himself, since he alone accounted for the quota of three people, then there were at least ninety "servants" under his hands, and it was not bad to use them to run errands for himself, the key was that once he concentrated on "alchemy", "refining", and "talisman making", then there must be a supply and marketing to turn over.

So, according to the map of the sect, Zhou Jun turned into a ray of light and flew to the vicinity of his "cave house". This is a large valley "surrounded by mountains and rivers", and it is also where several "small spiritual veins" meet underground. The "Dongfu" is located halfway up a mountain, but the large valley below is a supporting "medicine garden".

Zhou Jun was covered in white robe at this moment, silently appearing in the air, seeing that the "Cave Mansion" and "Medicine Garden" below were shrouded in a layer of white mist, so he dodged and flew into it, but was unexpectedly blocked by the "forbidden law", so he took out the "Cave Token" and entered the mana to open a passage.

"Huh? May I ask this 'Immortal Master', are you the new 'Mansion Master'? I am the 'servant' assigned here by the sect......" Just as Zhou Jun was slowly descending into the void, an old peasant-like man in light clothes and short sleeves greeted him with a group of men, women, and children, old and young, and asked questions.

Zhou Jun didn't know how to answer, so he had to take out his "Dongfu Token" and "Identity Token" and throw them over for them to check for themselves. I saw the old man and several middle-aged men holding two "tokens" in their hands and turning over and over, and after looking at them for a while, they were sure that they were real, and they knelt down to meet them.

"Hehe, old man, everyone get up. Zhou is indeed the 'owner' of this new cave mansion. Zhou Jun smiled and helped up a few people, so he smiled: "You have a lot of people here, I'm afraid there are two or three hundred, right?" How can there be so many? Didn't you say thirty? ”

"Hehe, the villain enlightens the 'Mansion Master'. There are only 30 people in the cave you are talking about? That's just the least case, and there are nearly 1,000 people at most! Hey. The old man and a few middle-aged people saw Zhou Jun's surprised face, so they explained with a smile: "Our family has been guarding here for fifty-six years!" ”

"Fifty-six years? What do you mean? Zhou Jun was puzzled, but he glanced at the men, women, and children around him, and they were all full of strange joy.

"Ahem, 'Lord of the Mansion', don't you know, if you come five years later, the whole clan will have to move to the 'Outer Gate' to serve collectively! Is that 'bitter'? Woo woo......" The old man cried as he spoke, and suddenly thought of something, and burst into laughter: "However, there is no need to move now!" ”

"Oh? Don't need to relocate? That's good! Zhou Jun saw the intimacy on the faces of everyone surrounding him, and suddenly felt strange in his heart, especially when he saw some young girls, especially young women, pointing at him from a distance and giggling, he immediately understood what these mortal women were thinking.

"Uh...... This is good, but ...... In this way, half of the elixir produced in this medicine field must belong to you, and half of our income must be borne by you, because the sect does not have all the income of the medicine field, so it will pick a mule and not guarantee each of our clansmen. ”

"Oh? I see! That's all trivial, but the point is where so many of you live in your entire family? What do you usually eat? What to drink? ”

"Hehe, you don't know that, do you?" Lord Xinfu, haven't you seen that the area outside this 'medicine field' is a hundred miles away, and it is all our family's territory? Ploughing the fields, raising fish in the barrage, raising chickens and ducks, raising pigs and cattle, self-sufficiency, communicating with each other, chickens and dogs smelling each other, old and dead do not get along, hehe. ”

"Oh? It's a 'paradise'! After hearing this, Zhou Jun couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It stands to reason that your family's population should increase dramatically, why is there only more than a hundred people in a few decades?" Besides, the 'aura of heaven and earth' here is strong, and mortals can live a long life, so it stands to reason that it won't be like this? ”

"Uh...... This...... To tell the truth, in order to facilitate the management of various 'ownerless cave mansions', the sect strictly ordered us and other 'servants' between neighboring cave mansions not to intermarry with each other to prevent the population from surging, and there was no place to settle them. Otherwise, once someone violates the rules, the whole clan will be expelled from the sect, so they have to marry close relatives. ”

"Uh...... How so? Wouldn't it be easy to cause 'genetic defects'? As soon as Zhou Jun thought of this, he hurriedly released his spiritual power, covering an area of three hundred miles in an instant, and he was able to cover part of the two nearby "cave mansions", and sure enough!

I saw that many of the children in this group of people had cleft lips and crooked eyes, and they didn't feel normal! Some are either deaf and dumb, or demented, laughing all day long when they see a living person, and calling them home for dinner but not responding for a long time, it seems that they are hopeless! The sect is also ruthless enough!

After Zhou Jun looked around at everyone, he saw that everyone was looking at him with a blank eye, thinking that there was nothing to explain, so he asked them to go home first. However, just when Zhou Jun turned around and flew to the gate of the cave, he was about to use the "token" to open the door, but was stopped by the old man and a few middle-aged people.

"Lord of the Mansion, slow down! I'll let these girls serve you tonight. As soon as the words fell, the middle-aged men each led two or three young girls up, and said as they walked: "The sect has a rule, if the 'servant' wants to have a secure life, he must take the initiative to have a good relationship with the 'new mansion master'!" ”

"This ...... What kind of rule is this? How did I not know? Seeing this, Zhou Jun couldn't help but plush and said: "I am a 'person who cultivates immortals', how can I be in the same stream as ordinary people like you?" Why don't you go back quickly? Do you want me to drive you away? As soon as the words fell, he didn't look back and was about to leave.

"Immortal Master, slow down! Little old man has something to say! The old man was anxious, trembling with his cane, fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowed and cried: "We are born as people of the sect, and we are ghosts of the sect when we die!" Today, there is an 'immortal master' coming, and he should be loyal to the 'mansion master' in exchange for the family's chance to survive! ”

As soon as the words fell, this stubborn old man took out a dagger out of nowhere, stabbed it fiercely into his heart, and spurted old blood and fell down!

"Daddy! You're ......"

"Grandpa! Grandfather! Woohoo......"

"Great-grandfather! You can't die! ”

"Uh...... What's going on? How so? ”