Seeing the parent's embarrassment, Daoist Cen kindly comforted them, "It's alright, don't blame yourself. Many of the masters at Clear Breeze Temple are orphans. For example, Daoist Chang Kong and Daoist Priest Jingting, and Daoist Qiuting and Daoist Yiyezi from our Daoist Medical Clinic..."
The parent on the other end of the line was internally screaming: Stop talking! Stop talking! I'm so ashamed I want to kill myself by banging my head against the wall...
Perhaps to make up for this feeling of guilt, the parent changed the subject. "It's like this, we have a lot of books at home, many of them are even new. If possible, I would like to donate them to our Daoist temple."
Daoist Cen: "Sure! You can send them all over. Even if our temple doesn't need them, we can donate them to the library of the village primary school down the mountain. That would be your contribution to rural education."
After the parent went home, they actually packed a whole trunk full of books and brought them over, many of which still had their plastic wrap on.
After personally thanking the parent, Yun Zhaozhao led the Daoist priests of the temple to sort and classify the books, keeping what should be kept and donating what should be donated.
Teacher Liu probably never dreamed that just by having a slight connection with Clear Breeze Temple, a steady stream of books would start being donated. It really does prove the old saying – it's good to have a big tree to lean on.
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Previously, Clear Breeze Temple signed a cooperation agreement with the Agricultural College, stating that the school canteen would be responsible for purchasing the rice, wheat, and other crops harvested at the Clear Breeze Temple agricultural base.
So when the rice and wheat were harvested in the autumn of that year, Yun Zhaozhao Grandpa Lin everything left over except for the daily necessities for the Clear Breeze Temple canteen, and had it packed up and sent to the school.
While we could make money selling these agricultural products before, it wasn't as tangible as this. This time, because of the large quantity sold, the income is quite substantial in terms of price alone. The only downside is that the school's payment process is rather slow, so Clear Breeze Temple will have to wait a while before receiving the money.
Fortunately, Clear Breeze Temple Temple's revenue is already quite substantial, and Yun Zhaozhao has a considerable amount of savings, so even if the school's repayments are a little slow, it won't have much of an impact.
In addition to the bumper harvest of agricultural products such as rice, wheat, and corn, Grandpa Lin and the villagers also had a bumper harvest of poultry such as chickens, ducks, and geese.
More and more villagers in City A are aware that this small village next to Clear Breeze Temple has native free-range chickens and local geese. In addition, the village is not too far from the city, so many citizens will stop by the village after visiting Clear Breeze Temple to buy some live chickens and ducks to take back and improve their meals.
However, considering that buying live poultry is not always convenient, and that when Jingting was live streaming, netizens from other places often asked how to taste the delicacies of Clear Breeze Temple, Yun Zhaozhao discussed with Daoist Chang Kong whether they could find a way to process these poultry and make them into smoked chicken, smoked duck, or smoked goose for sale in Clear Breeze Temple.
That way, if netizens from other places need it, they can ask local netizens to bring it back for them.
As for the technique of making smoked meat by Daoist Chang Kong, Yun Zhaozhao had no worries at all.
After all, Xu Fugui had been craving that cured pork he made for years after just one taste!
Of course, those who can sell fresh products will prioritize selling fresh products.
We can't sell it fresh; we'll figure out a way to make it into smoked meat and sell it later.
In addition, chicken eggs, goose eggs, duck eggs, etc., can also be purchased wholesale or retail.
Many residents from nearby City A even come specifically to Grandpa Lin's place to buy chicks and ducklings to raise themselves.
If the past year or two had seen Clear Breeze Temple's agricultural base being a money-draining venture, then starting this autumn, Clear Breeze Temple agricultural base has truly begun to recoup its investment.
In Yun Zhaozhao's words, "Finally, we're starting to see a return on our investment. No wonder the textbooks always said that autumn is the harvest season."
Grandpa Lin smiled and said, "This is just the beginning! By next spring, the tea leaves we planted should be ready to be harvested. We can sell the tea at the Daoist temple, or even make tea eggs for sale. I remember you mentioned before that many Daoist temples have tea-tasting activities or traditions, so we can sell our tea to those temples, or we can even organize some similar activities at Clear Breeze Temple ourselves..."
If Grandpa Lin hadn't mentioned it, Yun Zhaozhao would have almost forgotten about the tea plantation. But as soon as Grandpa Lin brought it up, Yun Zhaozhao's business acumen instantly awakened. "Yes, the processes of picking, frying, and brewing tea are still quite novel to many city dwellers. We can organize some study tours so that children can experience the joy of tea picking. Besides, didn't the Agricultural College say they would send a group of students here for internships? Perfect timing, their first lesson during their internship can be having them pick tea for Clear Breeze Temple for free. This way, we can save on the cost of tea pickers."
Grandpa Lin exclaimed sincerely, "Master, you truly understand the importance of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure."
Yun Zhaozhao: "There's no way around it, poor people's children have to learn to be independent early!"
Grandpa Lin: "..." In the past, Grandpa Lin only felt that his granddaughter's words were nonsensical and he couldn't tell which were true and which were false. But now, looking at Yun Zhaozhao, he felt that she was actually quite similar to his unreliable granddaughter.
Is this why they inexplicably click?
In short, it's difficult to evaluate.
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Although life at Clear Breeze Temple was getting better and better, there were still quite a few things to spend money on.
Putting everything else aside, just looking at the back garden alone, we're facing a considerable expense.
After all, the expansion of the back garden left a large open space. If Yun Zhaozhao wanted to turn this open space into Clear Breeze Temple's medicine valley, wouldn't she have to pour a lot of money into it?
After all, whether it's buying medicinal herbs or hiring people to help with planting and management, none of these require money.
So when Yun Zhaozhao was doing the math, she felt both incredibly wealthy and incredibly frustrating how quickly money could be spent!
However, the money that needs to be spent still needs to be spent.
After all, when Clear Breeze Temple was in such dire straits, Yun Zhaozhao had the courage to use all the money to build an agricultural base, let alone now that things are much better than they were then.
So after settling the accounts, Yun Zhaozhao took out the money and began arranging for the construction of a medical valley in the back garden.
Previously, Yun Zhaozhao Yun Zhaozhao had entrusted Lin Banxia with the task of planting Chinese medicinal herbs in the backyard, and she still entrusts Lin Banxia with the task now.
Lin Banxia truly lived up to her reputation as someone personally trained by Yun Zhaozhao. No sooner had Yun Zhaozhao assigned her the task than she went to the Daoist medical clinic to seek help from her junior master, Daoist Yiyezi.
As for why not ask Daoist Qiuting? Of course, it's because it's such a small matter as planting Chinese medicinal herbs, and I'm embarrassed to trouble Daoist Qiuting to do it personally. After all, Daoist Qiuting has more important things to do every day.
In fact, Daoist Yiyezi didn't want to do it herself. She had been following Daoist Qiuting and was only responsible for preparing, dispensing and decocting medicine every day. She didn't need to do physical labor like planting herbs.
Lin Banxia: "How can this be considered physical labor? This is called delving into the source of Chinese herbal medicine and understanding it from the root! Besides, people should learn until they die. As the saying goes, the capable are often given more work, and having more skills is never a burden!"
Daoist Yiyezi: "Is this how your abbot is trying to fool you?"
Lin Banxia: "No, our abbot never gets people to work just by talking."
Yiyezi was quite curious. "So what does she rely on?"
Lin Banxia: "She did it by paying more money."
Yiyezi: "..."
No wonder everyone at Clear Breeze Temple works with such ferocity; there's a reason for it.
Whether it was because Lin Banxia couldn't take it anymore or because of the money, Daoist Yiyezi finally agreed to go to the backyard with Lin Banxia to work.
Fortunately, although Yun Zhaozhao entrusted the task of planting Chinese medicinal herbs to Lin Banxia, she didn't actually let Lin Banxia plant them one by one herself. Instead, she allowed her to hire people to help. So, Lin Banxia and Yiyezi ended up being responsible for technical guidance and supervision, and then they also invited some villagers from the surrounding area to help plant the Chinese medicinal herbs.
Driven by the power of money, the once empty backyard was quickly filled with Chinese medicinal herbs. Moreover, these herbs were meticulously categorized according to their medicinal properties, including those for treating bruises and sprains, allergies and inflammations, colds and flu, and even those for treating snake venom.
It can be said to be very comprehensive.
Lin Banxia and Yiyezi transformed the back garden of Clear Breeze Temple into a paradise of Chinese herbal medicines in the shortest amount of time.
Standing in the herb garden, Lin Banxia was quite moved. "Little Master, this is the first territory we've built together! Once we've harvested this territory, we can make lots and lots of money, and then we can do whatever we want. By the way, if we really make a lot and lots of money, what would you most like to do?"
Yiyezi: "They'll probably just find a new apprentice!"
Lin Banxia: "..."
Lin Banxia pretended not to understand Yi Yezi's complaints and said to himself, "I should go to school to learn medical skills and so on, and then strive to become a good doctor like Daoist Master Qiuting."
Yiyezi disagreed. "You can learn from my master, it'll be the same. Although she's not formally trained, her medical skills are amazing. As long as you study diligently, you won't be any worse than those who are formally trained."
Lin Banxia thought it made sense, so she changed her dream. "Then I'll buy a new house, so Grandpa and I will have a new home."
Lin Banxia's words didn't directly mention Yiyezi, but they did mention Yun Zhaozhao. This was because one of Yun Zhaozhao's initial goals in earning money was to buy a house.
The only pity was that the area she preferred was a village near Clear Breeze Temple, and land in the village was prohibited from being bought or sold by people outside the village.
Tang Li suggested, "Since you can't buy a house nearby, why don't you buy one in the most bustling area? Or you could consider a house in a good school district."