Besides storytelling, the second part of the Clear Breeze Temple course involves practical application.
In practice, it's even simpler. Clear Breeze Temple has its own guesthouses, museums, Daoist medicine clinics, and even its own orchards and vegetable gardens. You can drop these kids off anywhere, and it's a great opportunity for them to develop.
Besides these, Clear Breeze Temple has another crucial course: to help these children improve their physical fitness.
Many children today are spoiled by their parents or addicted to their phones, and generally don't like to exercise or go out. Clear Breeze Temple Summer Camp helps children go to bed early and get up early, and also helps them exercise by practicing martial arts. Most importantly, Clear Breeze Temple's meals are regular, healthy, and delicious. If a child is struggling with weight loss, sending them to Clear Breeze Temple for half a month of training might help them return to a normal weight.
In summary, based on the above three main points, Clear Breeze Temple Summer Childcare Program is now officially open for registration.
The first phase had a total of 15 slots, but the first batch of applications exceeded the quota by more than 100.
Yun Zhaozhao and Tang Li were sitting together when they saw the list, and they were both stunned.
Yun Zhaozhao: "You've really, really, really... completed the mission."
Tang Li: "... Do we have that many children among our employees?"
The young Daoist priest in charge of registration said, "We definitely don't have that many children internally, at most around 20. Many of them are related to the Daoist priests and staff of Clear Breeze Temple. As soon as everyone heard that Clear Breeze Temple was going to open a summer camp, especially since it was free, they all rushed to sign up."
Tang Li looked at Yun Zhaozhao with a troubled expression, waiting for Yun Zhaozhao to make a decision.
Yun Zhaozhao pondered for a moment, not speaking immediately.
Since this summer childcare program is intended to address the concerns of Clear Breeze Temple Clear Breeze Temple's employees, it should primarily cater to them. However, the large number of parents enrolling indicates that nearby villagers also face similar challenges in caring for their children during the summer.
The area around Clear Breeze Temple is now lush with greenery, clear waters, and a growing population, which has even boosted the economy. If there's any problem that hasn't been addressed, it's definitely the education of the children.
After all, apart from a rural primary school, there are almost no other decent educational resources in the vicinity.
As for other entertainment facilities, forget about them.
However, education is not something Yun Zhaozhao can improve on her own. But just as she was able to donate money to build libraries for rural primary schools back then, she can now use her own strength to help families in need of summer childcare. Thinking this, Yun Zhaozhao said to Tang Li, "Here's what you do, you contact the nearby community or village committee and see if they have any ideas about running summer childcare programs. If so, you can have them take the lead, and we'll cooperate with them."
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After listening to Yun Zhaozhao's words, Tang Li actually contacted several communities.
Surprisingly, a community is actually considering opening a free summer childcare program. The community leader, surnamed Tang, is a woman who looks as young as Yun Zhaozhao. But in reality, she is a single mother. Because she had suffered hardships herself, Ms. Tang also wanted to help others.
Her target group for this public welfare summer care program mainly focuses on left-behind children, children of dual-income families, and some outstanding students from impoverished families who are excellent in both character and academics. In other words, even if Clear Breeze Temple cooperates with the local community to launch this community public welfare summer care program, it is unlikely that Clear Breeze Temple will be able to fill its extra 100 spots.
Tang Li wasn't worried about anything else, but he was worried that these people would find out about the situation and come to cause trouble for Yun Zhaozhao or Clear Breeze Temple.
Yun Zhaozhao was very open-minded. "It's okay. If they really come looking for us, just spread the word that we consulted the oracle when we were recruiting, and both the Lord Wenchang and Manjushri Bodhisattva disagreed."
Tang Li: "... If you say that, the gods will disagree."
Yun Zhaozhao sighed, "There's nothing we can do. The blame we ordinary people can't bear has to be taken by the gods. After all, the capable are often given more responsibility!"
The gods and immortals in heaven. "... Is this how the saying 'the capable are rewarded with more work' is applied?"
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Chapter 157
Later, Yun Zhaozhao collaborated with the community to help establish a public welfare summer care program. She only contributed money to this program, without doing any work; it was purely for accumulating merit.
As for her own Clear Breeze Temple summer care program, it started as scheduled.
Although the summer camp was located in Yun Zhaozhao's own Clear Breeze Temple, it was still the same for Yun Zhaozhao: "Only paying money, not putting in any effort." After all, the effort was done by someone else, so the summer camp had almost no impact on Yun Zhaozhao's lazy life.
However, it has made a great contribution to the loyalty of the staff at Clear Breeze Temple.
The salary at Clear Breeze Temple was already quite high, and the working hours were relatively flexible. Now, Yun Zhaozhao has even helped solve the long-standing problem of internal staff taking care of their children during the summer vacation. As a result, everyone at Clear Breeze Temple is even more devoted to Yun Zhaozhao.
Not to mention the existing long-term employees of Clear Breeze Temple, even some netizens, after hearing about the free summer camp at Clear Breeze Temple, expressed their desire to work Clear Breeze Temple, and some college students even raised their hands to sign up.
You should know that summer jobs at Clear Breeze Temple are all free!
Yun Zhaozhao expressed her utter incomprehension. "I can understand people with children wanting to work at our Clear Breeze Temple, but these college students don't have kids to take care of, so what are they doing here?"
Tang Li: "You don't understand, do you? These days, many college students have to help their relatives take care of their kids as soon as they get home. Since taking care of one child is the same as taking care of a whole group, they might as well come here to work and leave their kids at our Clear Breeze Temple. I reckon that's the situation for these college students..."
As a former college student, Yun Chaochao was quite emotional. "Sure enough, every generation of college students has the same troubles as every generation of college students. Like our generation, they just have a headache and can't find a job. Unexpectedly, the new generation has started to have a headache with the problem of raising children..."
Regardless, Clear Breeze Temple's summer camp solved a major life issue for its employees. As a result, the employees had more time and energy to devote to their work, and with their morale soaring, Clear Breeze Temple's daily revenue and turnover also increased accordingly.
During this period, several business owners who had previously said they would open a zoo and invest in land to build villas near Clear Breeze Temple also took further action. One of them actually obtained the zoo's business license and began looking for a suitable site for the zoo; another also obtained the land construction permit and could start construction at any time.
Although Yun Zhaozhao later conducted an on-site investigation and found that both the zoo and the villa were a little distance from Clear Breeze Temple, it is an undeniable fact that the area around Clear Breeze Temple is developing better and better.
Moreover, Yun Zhaozhao believes that Clear Breeze Temple will continue to develop and improve in the future.
With this belief in mind, Yun Zhaozhao even considered investing in a stake in the zoo.
Tang Li felt a mixture of envy and apprehension towards Yun Zhaozhao's reckless investment philosophy. He envied her for having the money to invest freely, since ordinary people like himself wouldn't even dare to buy groceries like Yun Zhaozhao. As for his apprehension, it stemmed from the fact that Yun Zhaozhao was, after all, his boss; if Yun Zhaozhao investments failed, he might suffer the consequences as well...
So Tang Li couldn't help but advise her, "Investment requires caution! How about I find a professional financial manager to evaluate these two projects and see if they're worth investing in?"
Yun Zhaozhao waved her hand dismissively. "Why bother finding a financial manager? Why not just have the Daoist priest from Clear Breeze Temple do a divination?"
Tang Li: "..."
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Yun Zhaozhao later actually had a Daoist priest at Clear Breeze Temple tell her fortune, but she didn't know the specific result of the fortune telling. Anyway, she ended up going to both places.
Tang Li could understand investing in villas, as they seemed to have significant appreciation potential. However, Tang Li didn't really understand investing in a zoo, given that many zoos had faced closure in recent years. Moreover, the zoo that opened near Clear Breeze Temple wasn't even a large one; it was just a small one. Could this investment really be profitable?
Tang Li expressed strong doubt.
It was only later that Tang Li learned that when Yun Zhaozhao invested in the zoo, she never expected to profit from it. She simply wanted to support the zoo's owner, who was a young person like herself.
Unexpectedly, this zoo later became a popular destination for young people, much like Yun Zhaozhao's Clear Breeze Temple. This is because it's the only zoo in City A that refuses animal performances and allows animals to roam freely, but visitors must be enclosed in glass enclosures to view them – a true "wildlife park."
Of course, that's a story for another time.
In fact, at this time, there wasn't even a trace of either the villa or the zoo!
Although many people around Yun Zhaozhao did not understand her investment in the zoo, Wen Xu was the first to express his understanding. Wen Xu even took the initiative to ask Yun Zhaozhao privately if she had enough money for the investment, and if not, he had some.
Yun Zhaozhao glanced at him with a smile, "I only invest for fun, I can't guarantee a profit. Are you sure you want to lend me money?"
Wen Xu: "It's not a loan."
Yun Zhaozhao: "What is that?"
Wen Xu pretended to look up at the ceiling, but refused to answer Yun Zhaozhao's question directly, "Anyway, it's not a loan."
Looking at Wen Xu's foolish appearance, Yun Zhaozhao was at a loss for words. When Wen Xu first came to Clear Breeze Temple, he was just as foolish and indifferent to money. She never expected that two or three years later, he would still be a fool upon his return.
Even Jingting now knows to save her salary so she can buy a villa near Clear Breeze Temple in the future.
Yun Zhaozhao: "Even your own parents sometimes have to be careful with money, how can you just lend it out to others?"
Wen Xu: "I know, I'm wary of my own father too. But I'm not wary of you."