Chapter Summaries

Jingting showed off a wooden fish during a livestream and became angry when a viewer explained he wanted to buy it for its supposed protective merit. Yun Zhaozhao learned that Granny’s grandnephew planned to claim Clear Breeze Temple, and the chapter ended with him calling to announce his arrival.

• Jingting livestreamed with the wooden fish Daoist Chang Kong had made and offered it for sale to a viewer.
• The viewer said he wanted the wooden fish because Jingting’s insults seemed protected by merit, and Jingting ended the stream furious.
• Daoist Chang Kong comforted Jingting with almond milk while preparing winter drinks and planning the temple’s New Year’s menu.
• Lawyer Wang told Yun Zhaozhao that Granny’s grandnephew had learned about Clear Breeze Temple and wanted to take it back, though the temple legally belonged to Yun Zhaozhao.
• Yun Zhaozhao told Daoist Chang Kong and Jingting about the claim, and Daoist Chang Kong joked that Jingting could scare the man away.
• Granny’s grandnephew called Yun Zhaozhao and arrogantly announced that he was coming to reclaim what he believed was his.

Yun Zhaozhao deterred Granny’s great-nephew from claiming Clear Breeze Temple by revealing its restrictions and debts, and he fled without pursuing the transfer. Jingting then sold his merit wooden fish during a livestream and agreed to have more made after viewers asked for them.

• Yun Zhaozhao offered Granny’s great-nephew an immediate transfer of Clear Breeze Temple, unsettling him and his companions.
• Lawyer Wang told the great-nephew that Clear Breeze Temple was state property that could not be privately sold and owed nearly ten million in debt.
• The great-nephew ran from the temple, while Yun Zhaozhao pretended to try to stop him and the temple residents laughed at his retreat.
• Jingting listed Daoist Changkong’s merit wooden fish in his livestream, and a viewer bought it before Back to Learn How to Curse Again could.
• Back to Learn How to Curse Again rallied viewers to request more wooden fish, and Jingting agreed to their request and told Yun Zhaozhao at dinner.

Jingting sold merit wooden fish to anti-fans, and Yun Zhaozhao encountered a young herbalist who had caused trouble giving acupuncture at the market. The girl, Lin Banxia, was sent to stay at Clear Breeze Temple, where she eagerly prepared to treat Daoist Chang Kong’s sore arm.

• Jingting told Yun Zhaozhao that he had sold merit wooden fish at a markup and would split the money with Daoist Chang Kong; Yun offered to ship the orders while buying fertilizer.
• Yun spotted Lin Banxia giving acupuncture at a market stall, then watched Lin’s grandfather chase her for treating someone without permission.
• Daoist Qingxin brought Lin Banxia to Clear Breeze Temple to stay and learn not to give people acupuncture casually, and Yun put her in the guest room.
• Lin Banxia joined the temple’s dinner and told Jingting, Daoist Chang Kong, and Yun that she was heir to a traditional Chinese medicine family.
• After Daoist Chang Kong mentioned his sore arm, Lin Banxia fetched a book and her silver needles, eager to treat him.

Yun Zhaozhao put Lin Banxia to work growing medicinal herbs and helped Jingting turn his livestreams into a way to attract visitors to Clear Breeze Temple. The chapter left Jingting streaming beside Daoist Chang Kong as he fried meatballs, with the camera kept off Chang Kong’s face.

• Lin Banxia tried to treat Daoist Chang Kong with silver needles and a medical book, but he and Jingting both fled when she offered to examine them.
• Yun Zhaozhao assigned Lin Banxia the temple’s backyard and let her reserve a plot for medicinal herbs, while reminding her that practicing medicine required a license.
• Xiaojiu learned that Lin Banxia was a probationary trainee, and Jingting livestreamed indirect insults aimed at a working mother’s overbearing mother-in-law.
• After realizing livestreams might bring visitors to Clear Breeze Temple, Yun Zhaozhao told Jingting to stream by the kitchen window while Daoist Chang Kong cooked.
• Jingting adjusted the camera so it showed Daoist Chang Kong’s hands but not his face as Chang Kong fried meatballs.

Jingting’s livestream with Daoist Chang Kong drew viewers in as Chang Kong cooked and carved a watermelon portrait of Jingting. Meanwhile, Xie Yu’s relative struck sudden wealth after receiving a talisman blind box from Clear Breeze Temple, prompting Xie Yu to sell her remaining boxes.

• Jingting ate fried meatballs during his livestream, promoted Clear Breeze Temple’s food, and insulted a viewer who questioned the temple selling them.
• Daoist Chang Kong impressed the livestream viewers by making chrysanthemum tofu and carving a watermelon into Jingting’s likeness.
• As the New Year approached, Xie Yu took talisman-tube blind boxes home but forgot about her plan to sell them.
• Xie Yu gave one blind box to a relative’s daughter, and the relative later said its Sudden Wealth Talisman had foretold their house being demolished for a new high-speed rail station.
• Xie Yu sent her relative her seven remaining blind boxes, and the relative transferred her 5,000 yuan.

Yun Zhaozhao welcomed Xie Yu’s relatives and villagers from Ji County to Clear Breeze Temple on New Year’s Day, then stunned them by predicting Aunt Xie’s demolition compensation. She slipped away before anyone else could ask for a reading, leaving Jingting and Daoist Chang Kong wondering how she had learned fortune-telling.

• Xie Yu’s talisman tube blind boxes drew deposits from relatives and friends after her aunt’s demolition compensation and Xu Tingting’s cousin’s husband’s lucky night fishing.
• Yun Zhaozhao stayed at Clear Breeze Temple for New Year’s Eve, drank Daoist Chang Kong’s peach wine, and woke to a huge crowd on New Year’s Day.
• Jingting explained that many visitors had come from Ji County, and Yun Zhaozhao guessed they were Xie Yu’s relatives and neighbors from the village slated for demolition.
• Aunt Xie asked Daoist Chang Kong to tell her fortune, but he sent her to Yun Zhaozhao instead.
• Yun Zhaozhao predicted that Aunt Xie had a wealthy destiny and that her demolition compensation would soon arrive, astonishing Aunt Xie and the villagers.
• Yun Zhaozhao hurried back to the rear courtyard, while Jingting asked Daoist Chang Kong whether she had mastered fortune-telling in thirty days.

Clear Breeze Temple earned a record income on Lunar New Year's Day, and Xie Yu returned to buy more talisman tube blind boxes. As Daoist Chang Kong prepared for rainy weather by making salted fish, Jingting began a livestream and received a request about a young woman's best friend and her family of origin.

• Yun Zhaozhao sent Lin Banxia to help Xiaojiu sell goods while Daoist Chang Kong kept Jingting from asking about grown-up matters.
• Yun Zhaozhao found that donations from the demolition village helped Clear Breeze Temple earn five figures and gave each worker a 1,000-yuan bonus.
• Jingting asked Yun Zhaozhao to save his bonus, and she suggested it might someday pay for him to attend a Daoist college.
• Xie Yu heard more stories about the talisman tube blind boxes, then returned to Clear Breeze Temple and bought a larger batch from Daoist Chang Kong.
• Yun Zhaozhao explained to Xiaojiu why she kept the wholesale price low, then watched Daoist Chang Kong hang salted fish around the courtyard.
• Jingting livestreamed a request to scold a young woman's best friend and realized the issue involved her family of origin, not romance.

Jingting used a cat and salted fish to illustrate how affection was shown through actions, then Daoist Chang Kong chased him for wasting some of his fish during the livestream. The temple promoted its pastries and talisman tube blind boxes, and Xie Yu learned that a freshman’s blind box seemed to have brought her a promising romantic connection rather than better exam results.

• Jingting handed salted fish to a white cat instead of the tabby that expected it, saying that where the fish went showed where the love was.
• Daoist Chang Kong chased Jingting around the courtyard with a rolling pin after Jingting threw away some of his salted fish, while the livestream viewers watched and joked.
• Daoist Chang Kong made peach blossom cakes, and Jingting told viewers they could buy the temple’s related merchandise from student agents at University A.
• Xie Yu warned a freshman that a talisman tube blind box would not help her pass her diagnostic exams, but delivered one to her for peace of mind.
• After the exams, the freshman told Xie Yu she had passed without earning credits but had met a boy who was interested in her after asking about the blind box.

Lin Banxia’s grandfather visited Clear Breeze Temple and discovered why she enjoyed staying there, while the temple prepared and promoted its Peach Blossom Faces for Valentine’s Day. As sales grew and Daoist Chang Kong became overworked, Yun Zhaozhao considered hiring apprentices, but he warned that training them would only add to his burden.

• Lin Banxia called her grandfather to help save Yun Zhaozhao’s overfertilized peach tree, and Yun invited him to stay at Clear Breeze Temple.
• Lin Banxia’s grandfather settled into the temple, enjoyed its freedom and food, and teased Lin Banxia about gaining weight.
• Yun Zhaozhao and the others packed Peach Blossom Faces and debated slogans, settling on Daoist Chang Kong’s poetic line while displaying Jingting’s provocative suggestion.
• Valentine’s Day brought more young visitors, and the Peach Blossom Faces, flower trellises, and stray cats helped attract attention to Clear Breeze Temple.
• Daoist Chang Kong gathered peach blossoms and made peach blossom honey and drinks as his food and merchandise kept him busy.
• Yun Zhaozhao asked Daoist Chang Kong about recruiting apprentices, but he said training them would increase his workload before they could help.

Yun Zhaozhao looked for ways to increase Clear Breeze Temple’s income after limiting meals because Daoist Chang Kong was exhausted. She considered renting nearby village farmland to grow crops or tea, while deciding to keep the temple’s debts as protection against people trying to take it.

• Yun Zhaozhao limited purchases at Clear Breeze Temple, and Xu Fugui stayed for dinner only to discover Jingting’s cooking was nearly inedible until Daoist Chang Kong took over.
• Yun Zhaozhao visited Qingxin Temple to learn how it earned money, observed devotees’ donations and free meditation classes, and heard Daoist Qingxin say True Yang Temple earned far more by conducting rituals.
• Yun Zhaozhao returned to Clear Breeze Temple and discussed possible income sources with Jingting, Daoist Chang Kong, and Lin Banxia; Daoist Chang Kong rejected rituals, while Jingting offered to perform funeral music and wailing.
• Lin Banxia proposed using acupuncture on the deceased to test whether they could be revived, but Yun Zhaozhao dismissed the idea.
• Yun Zhaozhao considered renting the village’s unused farmland to grow grain, wheat, or tea, and chose not to pay off Clear Breeze Temple’s debts because she viewed them as protection against claims on the temple.

Yun Zhaozhao leased farmland for Clear Breeze Temple and put Lin Banxia’s grandfather in charge of managing it. Later, Jingting advised a girl with food allergies to scare her grandmother into taking the danger seriously, and Lin Banxia demonstrated where to prick someone with a needle.

• Yun Zhaozhao asked villagers to lease their idle fields to Clear Breeze Temple and had Lawyer Wang draft the lease.
• Yun Zhaozhao entrusted the rented farmland and Clear Breeze Tea plans to Lin Banxia’s grandfather, who returned to farming.
• Jingting practiced the suona during a livestream, alarming viewers with his terrible playing while Daoist Chang Kong cooked salted fish and eggplant casserole.
• After stopping his suona practice, Jingting took a middle-school girl’s request for help with her grandmother’s dangerous disregard for her food allergies.
• Jingting suggested using a needle to frighten the grandmother, and Lin Banxia demonstrated how to find bloodletting points, including Yintang.

Lin Banxia’s advice helped a little girl confront her grandmother’s repeated attempts to feed her mango, which triggered her allergy. Yun Zhaozhao later attended an employment seminar at her alma mater, where she promoted Clear Breeze Temple and left a student considering an internship.

• The little girl followed Lin Banxia’s advice, staged a public confrontation, and prompted her father to warn her grandmother to stop provoking allergic reactions.
• Lin Banxia told the girl not to reveal that she and Jingting had helped, explaining that her family might blame them for encouraging the needle threat.
• Yun Zhaozhao received an invitation from Teacher Chen to speak at her alma mater’s graduate employment seminar.
• Yun Zhaozhao introduced her work running Clear Breeze Temple and invited agriculture and culinary arts students to apply for internships.
• A younger male student took Yun Zhaozhao’s contact information and asked whether his ordinary aptitude suited him for an internship at the temple.

Yun Zhaozhao delivered talisman-tube blind boxes to Xu Tingting and Xie Yu at University A, where Xu Tingting argued with cafeteria worker Da Mei about Clear Breeze Temple’s cooking. Da Mei’s husband Zhang Gang then brought her to the temple to meet its chef, Daoist Chang Kong, and the chapter ended with them waiting outside the kitchen for a cooking demonstration.

• Yun Zhaozhao delivered talisman-tube blind boxes to Xu Tingting and Xie Yu and joined them for lunch at University A.
• Xu Tingting praised Clear Breeze Temple’s food to Da Mei, who argued that the university cafeteria’s cooking was just as good.
• Da Mei told Zhang Gang about the dispute, and he decided to visit Clear Breeze Temple to learn from its chef.
• Yun Zhaozhao spotted Da Mei and Zhang Gang arriving and warned Daoist Chang Kong that they might be there to challenge him.
• Zhang Gang asked Daoist Chang Kong to teach him, but Daoist Chang Kong told the couple to wait outside the kitchen.

Zhang Gang became a fan of Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking and arranged to learn one signature dish each month in exchange for helping at Clear Breeze Temple. Later, Daoist Chang Kong introduced lotus leaf tea and congee for weight loss, and the offerings sold well, including to viewers of Jingting’s livestream.

• Daoist Chang Kong’s egg fried rice won over Zhang Gang, Da Mei, and the other customers at Clear Breeze Temple.
• Zhang Gang agreed to do odd jobs at the temple four days a month for a year in exchange for Daoist Chang Kong teaching him one signature dish each month.
• Daoist Chang Kong prepared lotus leaf congee and tea, but Jingting remained hungry until Daoist Chang Kong offered to make lotus leaf chicken.
• Jingting caught crucian carp to grill while Daoist Chang Kong roasted lotus leaf chicken, and Xiaojiu praised the temple’s meals.
• Daoist Chang Kong launched lotus leaf tea and congee, and the products sold well, with Jingting’s livestream viewers placing orders.

Jingting’s livestream advice about losing weight failed to attract adult volunteers, so Mrs. Wang and Zhao Yumei arranged a two-day school trip that brought ten children to Clear Breeze Temple. Lin Banxia kept them busy with games among the orchard and medicinal herb garden, and the chapter left them eagerly searching for herbs.

• Jingting suggested that viewers volunteer at Clear Breeze Temple to lose weight through physical work, but his offer did not recruit adults.
• Mrs. Wang and Zhao Yumei arranged a weekend educational trip to Clear Breeze Temple, and Yun Zhaozhao accepted after Mrs. Wang offered generous payment.
• Lin Banxia led the children to weed the orchard, where Wang Ziyu joined in after hearing that the others had found an earthworm.
• Daoist Chang Kong’s lunch pleased the children, and Yun Zhaozhao shared photos that earned praise and interest from their parents.
• Lin Banxia got all the children to nap by playing Buddhist chants, then organized a team treasure hunt for Chinese medicinal herbs.
• The children found the herbs printed on Lin Banxia’s list, while she helped those who were struggling with quiet clues.

After the children’s educational trip, Clear Breeze Temple arranged for them to transplant rice seedlings and attracted families to preorder temple-grown rice and wheat. Lin Banxia then asked to practice a height-related acupuncture technique on Jingting, while the temple’s residents watched nervously.

• Wang Ziyu excitedly told Mrs. Wang about digging up earthworms and exploring the medicinal herb garden, easing her worries about his stay at Clear Breeze Temple.
• Yun Zhaozhao planned for Lin Banxia to take the children to Grandpa Lin’s farmland to transplant rice seedlings and proposed letting families adopt plots of rice or wheat.
• Eleven families, including the coach driver, subscribed to rice and wheat after ten families joined the activities, making Clear Breeze Temple’s first educational trip a success.
• Yun Zhaozhao offered Lin Banxia a wish, and Lin Banxia asked to try an acupuncture technique intended to help people grow taller.
• Lin Banxia persuaded Jingting to let her needle his calf, and the temple residents gathered in the back courtyard to watch as she opened her medical text.

Lin Banxia’s attempt to practice acupuncture at Clear Breeze Temple ended when Jingting fled, and Yun Zhaozhao encouraged her to pursue traditional Chinese medicine after earning money from fruit sales. Later, Xie Yu and Xu Tingting visited the temple, where Yun Zhaozhao described its growing farms and gardens before Daoist Chang Kong prepared them a seasonal feast.

• Lin Banxia tried needling Jingting’s leg, but he stood up and ran away after she twisted the needle.
• Yun Zhaozhao encouraged Lin Banxia to study traditional Chinese medicine once she could afford it by selling fruit.
• Jingting reassured Yun Zhaozhao that his leg felt fine and joked that he had learned to beware of women.
• Xie Yu and Xu Tingting visited Clear Breeze Temple to try its lotus leaf tea and congee, and Xie Yu explained how romance had helped her sell out her talisman tube blind boxes.
• Yun Zhaozhao refused Xu Tingting’s suggestion to sell weight-loss tea and listed Clear Breeze Temple’s expanding crops, gardens, and fishpond.
• Daoist Chang Kong cooked Xie Yu and Xu Tingting braised pig’s trotters, pork with spring bamboo shoots, scrambled eggs with Chinese toon shoots, and shepherd’s purse soup with shrimp.

Xu Tingting and Xie Yu enjoyed a meal at Clear Breeze Temple, and Xu Fugui recruited retired friends to transplant rice seedlings in exchange for the chance to order Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking. Xu Tingting later brought the workers dumplings, while Xu Fugui and his companions continued their work in the fields.

• Xu Tingting told Xu Fugui that Daoist Chang Kong had cooked their meal, and Yun Zhaozhao offered him the chance to order dishes if he came to Clear Breeze Temple at mealtime.
• Xu Fugui accepted Yun Zhaozhao’s farming assignment and recruited six or seven retired friends to help transplant rice seedlings with Grandpa Lin.
• Xie Yu and Xu Tingting learned that a University A cafeteria cook was interning at Clear Breeze Temple, and Yun Zhaozhao recalled nearly recruiting a student to become a Daoist priest.
• Xie Yu and Xu Tingting left Clear Breeze Temple with talisman blind boxes and lotus leaf powder, and Xu Tingting went to find her father in the fields.
• Xu Tingting brought shepherd’s purse and pork dumplings for Xu Fugui and the other workers, who ate them together beside the paddy.

Yun Zhaozhao arranged for fish fry, loaches, and possibly softshell turtles to be added to the rice paddies to entice Xu Fugui and his friends to keep working. After dinner at Clear Breeze Temple, the group agreed to return the next morning to finish transplanting rice and help promote the temple.

• Xu Fugui brought his group and Grandpa Lin to Clear Breeze Temple for dinner after a day of fieldwork.
• Lin Banxia and Xiaojiu prepared peach blossom wine and pear blossom liquor while Daoist Chang Kong cooked for the visitors.
• Yun Zhaozhao asked Grandpa Lin about raising fish and softshell turtles in rice paddies, then told him to buy stock for the paddies the next morning.
• Daoist Chang Kong served a pot of small fish with cakes, stir-fried river snails, and Indian aster with dried tofu.
• Xu Fugui and the others heard about the rice-paddy fish and turtles, agreed to return to transplant rice, and offered to help photograph the fields and tea plantation for promotion.

Xu Fugui joined Clear Breeze Temple’s publicity efforts and then began helping Grandpa Lin in the fields, while Wang Ziyu reconsidered his future after learning that becoming a Daoist priest paid poorly and required studying. Grandpa Lin bought fish fry and a hundred chicks, planning to raise them near his rented home, and explained the plan to Xu Fugui at the rice paddies.

• Xu Fugui eagerly discussed promoting Clear Breeze Temple with Yun Zhaozhao, while Daoist Chang Kong remembered how Yun Zhaozhao had once persuaded him to advertise the temple.
• Teacher Li summoned Mrs. Wang over Wang Ziyu’s essay about wanting to become a Daoist priest at Clear Breeze Temple, and Mrs. Wang told him he would still need to study hard and attend university.
• Wang Ziyu asked Lin Banxia whether priests earned 20,000 a month, and she told him the pay might not even reach 2,000; he decided becoming a lawyer sounded better.
• Lin Banxia asked Grandpa Lin about family assets, and he told her she could inherit a hundred mu of fertile farmland.
• Grandpa Lin bought fish fry and a hundred chicks after Yun Zhaozhao approved his plan to raise chickens on the mountain behind his rented house.
• Grandpa Lin released the fish fry into the rice paddies and told Xu Fugui that he would raise the chicks for eggs and to sell for money.