Floating Mist Temple closed at five, and the worshippers made their way down the mountain.
The employees recruited by Floating Mist Temple tidied and swept the temple, while Qi Gu and Huang Hongyuan finished going over the day's accounts in a side room. All told, they had taken in quite a haul that day.
Of course, that income could not go straight into Qi Gu's account. Huang Hongyuan managed it all.
Finishing the accounts left Qi Gu feeling refreshed, and he promptly decided to treat all the employees, along with Mu Xingchen, who was still at the temple, to a celebratory meal.
Pubu Gesang had intended to stay for the meal too. That was what he had come for in the first place. But Qi Gu's talismans were too important, so he gritted his teeth and gave up the meal, taking the fifty Gourd Talismans Qi Gu had drawn that afternoon back to the General Bureau instead.
He planned to put this batch of talismans into use first.
With these, his colleagues would be able to work much more efficiently!
More importantly, they would never again accidentally trap their colleagues inside the Ghost-Catching Box along with the ghosts!
As for Mu Xingchen, ever since Qi Gu had mentioned testing him the next day, he had shut himself in a side room, anxiously scratching his head as he struggled to memorize the text. The Qingjing Jing was not actually all that obscure, but Mu Xingchen had not read classical Chinese in a long time, so his memorization progressed slowly. For every three lines he memorized, he forgot two.
When he heard that Qi Gu was treating them to dinner down the mountain, he refused without a second thought. He had only just managed to memorize half of it. If he went