When the 10 children heard that Yun Zhaozhao was going to give them extra homework and calligraphy practice, their laughter instantly turned into disapproval.
Good grief, scooping up coins is fun, but I'm never doing it again! This isn't scooping up coins, it's scooping up homework!
Chapter 91
The best calligrapher at Clear Breeze Temple is Daoist Chang Kong, followed by Yun Zhaozhao.
Because Daoist Chang Kong was too busy, the task of teaching 10 children to practice calligraphy ultimately fell to Yun Zhaozhao, the idle abbot.
Yun Zhaozhao said she would give 10 children extra homework, but it was all bark and no bite; it was more of a formality than a promise. However, she was serious about requiring these 10 children to practice calligraphy.
Except for the youngest child, Sansan, and another younger boy who are still drawing and don't need to learn to write yet, the other five- or six-year-old children are all being led by Yun Zhaozhao to practice pen control and stroke order.
These children had never been supervised before, and Yun Zhaozhao was initially worried that they would find it difficult to adjust to suddenly being supervised at Clear Breeze Temple, where they had someone to supervise their schooling, their sleeping, and now even their reading and writing. But whether it was because these children matured early or for some other reason, they were very cooperative with all of Yun Zhaozhao's arrangements.
Yun Zhaozhao was quite surprised, but in the end, it was Daoist Qiuting, who had been through it all, who said, "Children who have never been disciplined all like to be disciplined, because they know better than anyone that being disciplined is happiness!"
Yun Zhaozhao was speechless for a moment.
Daoist Qiuting added, "However, you can't interfere too much, or it might backfire. Raising children isn't easy, especially with ten of them. You've worked hard."
After Daoist Qiuting came to Clear Breeze Temple, Yun Zhaozhao didn't have much contact with her, so it was rare to hear her say something so sentimental. Yun Zhaozhao was a little flattered. "It's no trouble at all, it's all what I should do."
Yun Zhaozhao doesn't really feel that she's having a hard time, because compared to herself, she thinks that today's children are the ones who are truly having a hard time.
Yun Zhaozhao hadn't had much contact with the other children, so she wasn't very clear about Clear Breeze Temple Clear Breeze Temple.
Tang Li: "Kids these days are so tired. After finishing their academic classes, they take extracurricular classes. They're basically never idle."
Xiaojiu, standing nearby, said, "The key is that after all that hard work, you might not even get into a good high school, let alone a good university."
Daoist Cen, "Even if you manage to get into high school and then university, you might not be able to find a job after graduation."
Daoist Mao, "Even if you find a job, it will be a 996 job, and even if you work hard 996, you may still be laid off in the end."
Yun Zhaozhao patted her chest repeatedly, looking relieved. "... Luckily I don't have any children, and I can't even find a partner. Thinking about it this way really puts my mind at ease."
Others: "..."
Speaking of the people at Clear Breeze Temple, apart from Daoist Yuan and Daoist Zhu, who were already married when they arrived, the rest are mostly single. You could say that it's understandable that the Daoist priests are single—after all, they chose to become Daoist priests, so they probably aren't as passionate about relationships as others. But there are quite a few people at Clear Breeze Temple who haven't become Daoist priests yet, so why aren't they in a hurry to find partners?
Yun Zhaozhao is usually not very interested in her employees' private lives, but occasionally when she's really bored, like today, when the conversation has come to this point, she can't help but gossip a bit.
Yun Zhaozhao could roughly guess why Jingting and Lin Banxia weren't looking for partners.
As for Jingting, he was previously locked up on the mountain by his master, and later he was locked up in Clear Breeze Temple by Yun Zhaozhao. Moreover, he doesn't seem to be particularly mature. After all, how mature can you expect a chuunibyou teenager who argues with everyone and everything online all the time?
So Yun Zhaozhao wasn't surprised at all that he wasn't looking for a partner.
As for Lin Banxia, Yun Zhaozhao felt that the reason she didn't look for a partner might be because her love for traditional Chinese medicine outweighed her love for men.
So what Yun Zhaozhao was really curious about was Xiaojiu and Tang Li.
After all, these two people seem to be quite healthy both physically and mentally, and they seem like they would marry and have children early to contribute to the country.
Tang Li: "I had a girlfriend in college, but she went back to her hometown to take the civil service exam, so we naturally broke up. Since then, I haven't met anyone suitable, so I've been single ever since."
It sounds like a very ordinary and clichéd love story!
Yun Zhaozhao turned to Xiaojiu and asked, "And what about you?"
Xiaojiu: "I didn't get into high school, and the school I went to wasn't very good either. Almost everyone around me was dating. I was young and naive back then, and I changed boyfriends ten or eight times a month. Maybe I dated too many, so I quickly realized that dating was pretty boring, and making money was much more interesting! So later I became obsessed with work and lost interest in dating."
Yun Zhaozhao nodded in agreement. "Actually, I've always thought that making money is the most interesting thing in the world."
After Yun Zhaozhao finished speaking, she noticed that Tang Li and Xiaojiu were staring at her. Their gazes were so intense, it was like the ten Daoist priests of Clear Breeze Temple staring at the braised pork that Daoist Chang Kong had just cooked. It made her heart skip a beat.
Yun Zhaozhao: "... What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Xiaojiu: "We've already told you, so what's your dating experience like?"
Tang Li: "Yeah, you can't just gossip about us and not let us gossip about you, can you?"
Lin Banxia, who was watching the commotion from the sidelines, said, "You guys don't understand. Our Abbess is quite popular with the opposite sex. When our Clear Breeze Temple was first established, no one was planting or pruning the fruit trees in the backyard. Her old classmate from university even came to help us! It's just that it was a long time ago, and I've forgotten that guy's name. But this shows that our Abbess must have been very popular with boys in university."
Yun Zhaozhao: "What do you mean by being popular with boys in college? I was popular with boys in middle and high school too, okay? And I'm not just popular with boys, I'm popular with girls too. You could say that if I wanted to, I'd be the kind of person who's popular with both men and women."
Others: "..." This conversation is ruined.
A group of people gossiped for a long time but couldn't find out whether Yun Zhaozhao had ever had a romantic relationship. However, no one doubted the truth of Yun Zhaozhao's claim that she was "attractive to both men and women," because Yun Zhaozhao's appearance speaks for itself, and she is indeed quite capable, so it's no surprise that she is popular at school.
As for whether she had ever dated in school, and how many times she had, nobody really cared. After all, whatever the past was like, everyone is single now, and that's enough.
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For the people of Clear Breeze Temple, especially Yun Zhaozhao, relationships were just a diversion in life; doing business was Yun Zhaozhao's main focus.
Yun Zhaozhao had previously said that she wanted to process the poultry raised by Grandpa Lin into smoked products and sell them all over the country.
Initially, she planned to do it herself, but now that the guesthouse is about to open, there is a lot of work to do at Clear Breeze Temple, and she also has to take care of these 10 children practicing calligraphy and reading. So, she has to take time and energy to work on the breeding farm. Yun Zhaozhao herself feels overwhelmed.
Yun Zhaozhao later realized that no money should be earned by oneself alone. Some money should be earned with others, and others should also be allowed to earn some.
With this in mind, Yun Zhaozhao asked around in the village and unexpectedly found a private enterprise owner who had previously left the village and now ran his own food processing factory.
Yun Zhaozhao later spoke with the other party's boss by phone and decided to sell the surplus chickens, ducks, and geese from Grandpa Lin's place to the factory at wholesale prices. The factory would then put the Clear Breeze Temple logo on the products and sell some of them at Clear Breeze Temple.
This is somewhat similar to a partnership; it's basically about everyone making money together.
In this way, Yun Zhaozhao's Clear Breeze Temple will definitely earn a little less, but at the same time she will save on manpower and time costs. Moreover, to be honest, the processing, production, storage and transportation of these poultry actually involve many technical problems, and Clear Breeze Temple alone may not be able to handle them.
Moreover, with the factory's cooperation, Grandpa Lin can expand his operation. No matter how many he raises, he won't have to worry about finding buyers.
Speaking of which, Grandpa Lin's team is better managed than Yun Zhaozhao's team. Yun Zhaozhao's team basically revolves around her. If Yun Zhaozhao Yun Zhaozhao says she wants to open a guesthouse, everyone works with her to open one. If Yun Zhaozhao says she wants to open a Daoist medicine clinic, everyone works with her to open one.
But Grandpa Lin's Grandpa Lin was different. He recruited people from the village, and these villagers were generally capable and opinionated. Initially, they helped Grandpa Lin grow rice, wheat, and tea, and raise various poultry. Later, Grandpa Lin gave them a lot of freedom, letting them do what they were good at and raise whatever they wanted...
Gradually, people in the village started raising silkworms and growing cotton, because he said his ancestors had been making quilts for generations; if the cotton was grown well, they could make cotton quilts, and if the silkworms were raised well, they could make silk quilts...
Later, some villagers started planning to raise crocodiles.
When Yun Zhaozhao heard Grandpa Lin's feedback, she was also shocked. After the shock, she was a little curious. "Could it be that his ancestors also raised crocodiles?"
Grandpa Lin: "No, that's not it. It's purely his personal hobby; he thinks raising crocodiles is cool."
Yun Zhaozhao didn't deny that raising crocodiles sounded really cool, but she thought it was better to forget about it because it was just too dangerous. If she accidentally became the crocodile's "meal," Yun Zhaozhao worried that Clear Breeze Temple would be affected as a result.