Chapter Summaries

Lin Banxia insisted on becoming Yiyezi’s disciple, while Daoist Qiuting encouraged their growing friendship. Yun Zhaozhao organized staffing for Clear Breeze Temple’s new dining hall and advanced the Prosperity Spring and Prosperity Road project, leaving the stream ready for flowers and ornamental fish.

• Lin Banxia called Yiyezi her master, and Yiyezi protested that she had only been joking and was younger than Lin Banxia.
• Daoist Qiuting told Yiyezi that spending time with Lin Banxia had brought her more youthful energy, while Yiyezi complained that Lin Banxia pestered her.
• Yun Zhaozhao and Tang Li selected Daoist Long and Daoist Zhu for the new temple dining hall and discussed assigning Daoists fixed positions.
• Yun Zhaozhao urged construction on Prosperity Spring and Prosperity Road, with Qingfeng Park employees helping clear the route.
• The crew completed a clear stream from the renovated spring to Clear Breeze Temple’s rear garden, and Yun Zhaozhao scattered Xiao Yao’s flower seeds along it before considering ornamental fish.

Xu Fugui returned to Clear Breeze Temple with his wife, Li Chunhua, after recovering from surgery, and found that the temple and its visitor facilities had grown enormously. After confirming that Temple Master Yun and Daoist Chang Kong were still there, Xu Fugui headed for the new temple to see its changes and consider how things might have turned out if his daughter had accepted a job there.

• Xu Fugui took Li Chunhua to Clear Breeze Temple as soon as his doctor cleared him to go out, and they noticed the bus route and park had grown busier.
• Xu Fugui and Li Chunhua entered the temple grounds and were astonished by the grand new temple beside the old one.
• Xu Fugui reunited with Jingting, who confirmed Temple Master Yun remained in charge and explained that the temple now had two dining halls.
• Jingting told Xu Fugui that Daoist Chang Kong still cooked at the old dining hall and sent two dishes daily to the new one, while reservations were now required at the old hall.
• Xu Fugui and Li Chunhua walked to the new temple, where Xu Fugui saw the expanded staff and visitors and thought about his daughter Xu Tingting's earlier chance to work there.

Li Chunhua and Xu Fugui visited Clear Breeze Temple's new premises, enjoyed Daoist Chang Kong's food, and explored its popular back garden. As the garden and temple gained online fame, Yun Zhaozhao secured Daoist Jingyang's acceptance of their distinct roles.

• Li Chunhua and Xu Fugui ate Daoist Chang Kong's dishes and praised the meal at Clear Breeze Temple's new dining hall.
• Li Chunhua explored the back garden, planned to return with her friends for photos, and Xu Fugui claimed credit as one of the temple's original shareholders.
• Li Chunhua visited the garden repeatedly, discovered the flower-lined path and Prosperity Spring, and brought her old girlfriends along.
• Yun Zhaozhao found that the back garden had made Clear Breeze Temple popular online, surpassing True Yang Temple as City A's most worthwhile Daoist temple to visit.
• Yun Zhaozhao privately spoke with Daoist Jingyang and sent him Daoist Chang Kong's pastries, and he accepted Clear Breeze Temple's popularity as no threat to True Yang Temple.

Clear Breeze Temple established a reading room and cared for its ten young Qing-generation Daoists as they studied, practiced, and settled into school life. The chapter ended with worshippers discovering the children and learning they were orphans.

• Yun Zhaozhao set up a free reading room beside Daoist Qiuting's clinic, stocked with medical books, Daoist Chang Kong's cookbooks, and Lin Banxia's plant guide.
• Yun Zhaozhao assigned the ten young Daoists to the Qing generation and arranged extra classes, while Daoist Chang Kong and Lin Banxia supplied them with snacks and sweat cloths.
• Teacher Liu told Yun Zhaozhao that the children were popular at school partly because they brought treats to share, and Yun Zhaozhao let the practice continue.
• Daoists from True Yang Temple teased Yun Zhaozhao about using food to win them over, and she joked about making them spend their money at Clear Breeze Temple.
• On the first weekend, Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao led the ten young Daoists through martial arts practice and into the reading room, where a parent mistook them for participants in an experience camp.
• Daoist Cen told the parent that the young Daoists were genuine members of Clear Breeze Temple and that they were all orphans.

Clear Breeze Temple’s harvest and sales began bringing in substantial income, and Yun Zhaozhao used the money to establish a medicinal herb garden. As Lin Banxia and Daoist Yiyezi finished planting it, their hopes for the future turned to Yun Zhaozhao’s wish to buy a home, which Tang Li suggested she seek in a busy area or a good school district.

• A parent donated a trunkful of books to Clear Breeze Temple, and Yun Zhaozhao led the Daoists in sorting them for the temple and the village primary school.
• After a bumper harvest, Yun Zhaozhao arranged to sell surplus crops to the Agricultural College and discussed processing unsold poultry into smoked meat for sale.
• Grandpa Lin reminded Yun Zhaozhao about the upcoming tea harvest, and they discussed selling tea and organizing tea-picking activities with help from Agricultural College interns.
• Yun Zhaozhao gave Lin Banxia responsibility for developing the back garden into a medicinal herb valley, and Lin Banxia enlisted Daoist Yiyezi and hired villagers to plant it.
• Lin Banxia and Yiyezi talked about what they would do with future earnings, and Lin Banxia said she wanted to buy a home for herself and Grandpa.
• Tang Li suggested that Yun Zhaozhao look for a home in a bustling area or a good school district because she could not buy land near Clear Breeze Temple.

Yun Zhaozhao explored buying a house near Clear Breeze Temple to turn into a Taoist guesthouse, and Lawyer Wang advised her on how to secure support for the plan. She left the purchase undecided while preparing to approach the Taoist Association and True Yang Temple.

• Yun Zhaozhao asked Lawyer Wang to find property and explained that she wanted a nearby house for a Taoist guesthouse, possibly in partnership with True Yang Temple.
• Tang Li worried that Clear Breeze Temple lacked the cultural expertise to host visitors, and Yun Zhaozhao proposed working with True Yang Temple.
• Lawyer Wang found two possible properties, and Yun Zhaozhao inspected a three-story house with a courtyard near the temple; Jingting loved its swing.
• Yun Zhaozhao delayed buying the house while she considered her plans and whether True Yang Temple would cooperate.
• Lawyer Wang advised Yun Zhaozhao to win the Taoist Association's backing first, then approach True Yang Temple for cultural guidance and support.

Yun Zhaozhao arranged support for a Taoist guesthouse at Clear Breeze Temple and began renovations, while gathering everyone to brainstorm a name. She left the name undecided and used coins collected from Prosperity Spring to fund the Qing-generation children’s schooling, pocket money, and study materials.

• Yun Zhaozhao secured the Taoist Association’s backing and had its president arrange support from True Yang Temple and other temples for the guesthouse.
• Yun Zhaozhao took over the hotel, began its opening paperwork, and hired the team that renovated Clear Breeze Temple to create an elegant Taoist guesthouse.
• Yun Zhaozhao called a meeting to choose a memorable guesthouse name, but Daoist Long and Daoist Zhu offered suggestions she found unsuitable, so she asked everyone to keep thinking.
• Yun Zhaozhao recalled how visitors’ coins had blocked Prosperity Spring’s outlet, and the Qing-generation children helped fish them out.
• Yun Zhaozhao divided the recovered coins into funds for the children’s school supplies, pocket money, and extra study materials.

Yun Zhaozhao supervised the children’s handwriting practice, chatted with the people at Clear Breeze Temple about dating, and arranged a partnership to process Grandpa Lin’s poultry for sale. The chapter ended with Yun Zhaozhao objecting to a villager’s plan to raise crocodiles because of the danger.

• Yun Zhaozhao taught the older children handwriting while Daoist Qiuting praised her care for them and cautioned her not to overcontrol them.
• Yun Zhaozhao and the others discussed the pressures facing children and shared stories about why they were single; Yun Zhaozhao boasted that she had been popular with both boys and girls.
• Yun Zhaozhao decided to sell Grandpa Lin’s surplus poultry to a village-born business owner’s food-processing factory, which would package some products under Clear Breeze Temple’s logo.
• Grandpa Lin explained that villagers he recruited had branched out into their own ventures, including silkworms, cotton, and a proposed crocodile farm.
• Yun Zhaozhao objected to the crocodile plan, warning that the dangerous animals could cause trouble for Clear Breeze Temple.

Yun Zhaozhao met Wen Xu, the silver-haired son of President Wen, who had come ahead of the person handling their farm partnership. After he returned to Clear Breeze Temple craving Daoist Chang Kong’s food, Yun Zhaozhao refused to make him a late-night snack unless he paid her joking million-yuan price, and Wen Xu raised one finger.

• Wen Xu arrived at Clear Breeze Temple in cosplay while the little Daoists crowded around him, and he told Yun Zhaozhao he was President Wen’s son, not the person in charge of the partnership.
• Yun Zhaozhao took Wen Xu to Daoist Chang Kong’s dining hall, where he eagerly ate a huge tray of food and met Jingting.
• Wen Xu drove back to the city after lunch, then returned that evening because he had found the food elsewhere inferior to Clear Breeze Temple’s.
• Yun Zhaozhao refused Wen Xu’s request for a late-night snack, so he offered to pay; she demanded a million or so for golden egg fried rice, and he held up one finger.

Yun Zhaozhao hosted Wen Xu at Clear Breeze Temple before he stayed overnight and met the temple’s young Daoists. The next day, she welcomed project representatives Huang Xi and Lin Qi, whose visit to inspect the temple’s farm and discuss a collaboration began with a meal that impressed them.

• Yun Zhaozhao had Daoist Chang Kong make Wen Xu golden egg fried rice and charged him only a hundred yuan, after which Wen Xu stayed at Clear Breeze Temple.
• Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao’s young pupils woke Wen Xu and showed him their Tai Chi Chuan practice, impressing him with their skill.
• Yun Zhaozhao and Tang Li picked up Huang Xi and Lin Qi from the high-speed rail station, and Huang Xi decided to visit Clear Breeze Temple before the farm.
• Yun Zhaozhao hosted Huang Xi, Lin Qi, Wen Xu, Tang Li, and Lin Banxia for a meal made with ingredients from the temple’s farm, strengthening the representatives’ confidence in the collaboration.
• Lin Banxia served Daoist Chang Kong’s green grape wine, and Wen Xu joined the women before Yun Zhaozhao joked that the temple’s Daoists might call him Wen Ten Thousand.

Yun Zhaozhao showed Huang Xi and Lin Qi her poultry farm, securing their interest in a partnership, while Wen Xu kept returning to Clear Breeze Temple and helped drive her to inspect the guesthouse renovation. At the guesthouse, Yun Zhaozhao began discussing the courtyard design with a landscape designer whose plans clashed with her ideas for stray cats and tea trees.

• Yun Zhaozhao and Tang Li took Huang Xi and Lin Qi to inspect Grandpa Lin's free-range poultry farm, and the visitors were satisfied with its rearing methods.
• Huang Xi told Yun Zhaozhao that the Wen company was considering opening a food-processing factory in City A, partly to support the partnership and give back to its hometown.
• Wen Xu returned to Clear Breeze Temple, where the Taoist children and stray cats eagerly welcomed him, and Yun Zhaozhao privately considered him for the guesthouse front desk.
• Yun Zhaozhao asked Wen Xu to drive her to the guesthouse, where she showed him the renovation and planned layout.
• The landscape designer proposed flowers and trees for the courtyard, and Yun Zhaozhao explained that she wanted space for stray cats and two tea trees.

Yun Zhaozhao dismissed a courtyard designer who refused to respect her wishes, then arranged an unexpectedly overwhelming suona performance for Wen Xu. After visiting Clear Breeze Temple, Wen Xu realized how many businesses it ran, while Huang Xi and Lin Qi finalized factory-site candidates and returned home with him.

• Yun Zhaozhao rejected the first courtyard designer's grape-arbor plan and invited two other designers to prepare proposals.
• Wen Xu paid Yun Zhaozhao ten thousand yuan for Clear Breeze Temple's band, and the priests played festive suona music for nearly half the night.
• Wen Xu calculated that Clear Breeze Temple earned money from its dining halls, clinic, breeding base, shop, incense, candles, and donations.
• Huang Xi and Lin Qi found several possible factory sites, and Yun Zhaozhao hosted them for a celebratory meal after the cooperation agreement was signed.
• Wen Xu, Huang Xi, and Lin Qi rode the high-speed train home with local specialties, and Wen Xu hinted that Yun Zhaozhao could deter anyone trying to poach the temple chef.

Yun Zhaozhao put off choosing a courtyard designer while Clear Breeze Temple celebrated a bumper fruit harvest and sold its fruit to eager visitors. After some agricultural-base workers complained that the temple had stopped giving them free fruit, Yun Zhaozhao checked in with Grandpa Lin and reassured him she would take responsibility if he needed to dismiss anyone.

• Yun Zhaozhao found one courtyard designer’s proposal unsuitable and considered waiting for university interns to help with the design.
• Lin Banxia and Daoist Yiyezi tended the medicinal herbs while the temple’s fruit ripened, and Yun Zhaozhao had Xiaojiu and the cafeteria staff sell the harvest.
• Daoist Chang Kong turned the abundant fruit into many dishes, while some agricultural-base workers complained that Yun Zhaozhao no longer gave them free fruit.
• Yun Zhaozhao asked Grandpa Lin about the complaints and worried that he might be enduring disrespect from the workers.
• Grandpa Lin said the workers still did their jobs, and Yun Zhaozhao offered to take the blame if he needed to fire anyone.
• Clear Breeze Temple’s visitors praised the fruit’s freshness and flavor as they bought it.

Wen Xu returned to City A hoping to eat Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking, but reservation rules kept him out of the old temple dining hall until he finally secured a seat after three days. Meanwhile, Yun Zhaozhao focused on the guesthouse renovations, which felt more like home to her than the new temple.

• Tang Li proposed leasing Clear Breeze Mountain to plant trees, but Yun Zhaozhao rejected the idea because she already had major projects underway.
• Wen Xu saw Tang Li’s photos of fruit dishes and decided to fly back to City A for Clear Breeze Temple’s food.
• Song Qinglan questioned Huang Xi and Lin Qi about Wen Xu’s visits, and Lin Qi’s answers convinced her that he might be pursuing someone at the temple.
• Wen Xu arrived at Clear Breeze Temple in disguise but was denied entry to the old temple dining hall because he lacked a real-name reservation.
• Wen Xu tried the new temple dining hall, then spent three days attempting to reserve a seat at the old one.
• Yun Zhaozhao spent most of her time at the guesthouse, which she regarded as more like home than the new temple.

Yun Zhaozhao gathered gifts from temples for Clear Breeze Guesthouse while Wen Xu enjoyed Daoist Chang Kong’s food and his parents discussed sending him to City A. Later, Mrs. Wang brought her son Wang Ziyu to Clear Breeze Temple, prompting Yun Zhaozhao to post a recruitment notice requiring applicants to have a bachelor’s degree or higher.

• Yun Zhaozhao accepted the Yellow Court Classic, a potted cedar, and other offerings from temples, whose leaders were impressed by Embracing Bamboo Temple’s generosity and began sending gifts of their own.
• Wen Xu ordered several dishes at Clear Breeze Temple’s dining hall, enjoyed Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking, and asked whether the chef might work in another city.
• Song Qinglan suggested Wen Zhengrong send Wen Xu to City A as Huang Xi’s assistant, and Wen Zhengrong mistakenly thought Wen Xu had fallen for Huang Xi.
• Mrs. Wang brought Wang Ziyu to Clear Breeze Temple, where he signed up for the fruit-picking activity and eagerly ran into the orchard.
• Yun Zhaozhao asked Tang Li to post a recruitment notice near the educational activities stating that Clear Breeze Temple required applicants to hold a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Yun Zhaozhao continued developing Clear Breeze Temple, welcoming returning visitors and planning new shops and a guesthouse courtyard that linked the temple’s Daoist character with its businesses. After returning home from a difficult trip to Clear Breeze Temple, Wen Xu learned his parents planned to send him to manage a new factory in City A, and he wondered why his father had agreed.

• Xu Tingting visited Clear Breeze Temple with Xu Fugui, donated incense money, and told Yun Zhaozhao that her career and Xie Yu’s life were going well.
• Mrs. Wang’s group toured the orchard, picked fruit, and visited Prosperity Spring and Prosperity Road.
• Yun Zhaozhao expanded the temple’s shops and souvenirs and chose a designer’s plan for a guesthouse courtyard with a small lake, lotus flowers, and a tea-drinking terrace.
• Wen Xu struggled to get another dining reservation at Clear Breeze Temple, bought gifts and fruit, and returned home.
• Song Qinglan told Wen Xu that his parents wanted him to manage their new factory in City A, and Wen Xu questioned why his father trusted him with the job.

Wen Xu agreed to manage his family's new factory in City A, while Yun Zhaozhao visited Grandpa Lin's agricultural base to check on its operations and promote it through Jingting's livestream. After hearing that nearby villagers might be jealous of Clear Breeze Temple's success, she arranged surveillance cameras to protect the poultry farm and the rest of the base.

• Song Qinglan encouraged Wen Xu to take charge of the new factory in City A, and he agreed because he wanted to prove himself.
• Wen Zhengrong approved of Wen Xu's ambition and advised him that a rabbit did not eat the grass beside its burrow.
• Yun Zhaozhao asked Martial Uncle Chuli about True Yang Temple's promised treasures, and he gave her a list of more than a dozen items to consider accepting.
• Yun Zhaozhao brought Lin Banxia and Jingting to Grandpa Lin's agricultural base, where Jingting livestreamed a tour and she discussed its operations with Grandpa Lin.
• Grandpa Lin told Yun Zhaozhao that some nearby villagers might be jealous of Clear Breeze Temple's success, so she installed surveillance cameras around his house to safeguard the agricultural base.

Yun Zhaozhao used a mysterious mirror and extra guards to deter trouble at Grandpa Lin’s agricultural base, then welcomed a new group of agricultural university interns. She found a practical role for animal science student Zhao An by arranging for him to advise a villager raising pigs, with Clear Breeze Temple to receive a piglet if a litter exceeded ten.

• Yun Zhaozhao had Daoists take turns staying at Grandpa Lin’s house and arranged for one to hang up an unexplained mirror from True Yang Pass, spreading rumors about its powers.
• Clear Breeze Temple delivered grain to the agricultural university and received a list of fifteen interns, including animal science student Zhao An.
• Yun Zhaozhao assigned the interns to the temple and agricultural base, then learned Zhao An specialized in sow care and breeding.
• Yun Zhaozhao decided Clear Breeze Temple should make use of Zhao An’s skills by offering his help to local pig farmers.
• Villager Wang Dafu contacted Yun Zhaozhao, who arranged for Zhao An to advise him in exchange for a piglet if his sow produced more than ten piglets in a litter.

Yun Zhaozhao arranged for Zhao An to work with Wang Dafu and invested the agricultural base’s final payment in renovating Clear Breeze Temple’s guesthouse. She then began developing co-branded snacks with Wen Xu’s factory, and the chapter ended as temple staff gathered to taste Daoist Chang Kong’s new products.

• Yun Zhaozhao handed Zhao An over to Wang Dafu to improve the yield of his sows, and Zhao An promised to bring a piglet back to Clear Breeze Temple by year’s end.
• Yun Zhaozhao put the agricultural base’s final payment toward the guesthouse renovation and promoted Clear Breeze Temple’s planned factory partnership with Wen Xu’s company.
• After seeing online interest, Yun Zhaozhao proposed co-branded chicken feet, wings, and duck necks to Huang Xi, who passed the idea to Wen Xu.
• Wen Xu enthusiastically agreed to pursue the products and hoped Daoist Chang Kong would make them personally.
• Daoist Chang Kong developed several flavors of co-branded snacks and sampled new dishes with Martial Uncle Chuli, who suggested hand-shredded chicken breast.
• Yun Zhaozhao gathered Clear Breeze Temple’s employees after closing for the temple’s first formal new-product tasting session.

Yun Zhaozhao and the Clear Breeze Temple staff tested new chicken dishes, gathered feedback on shredded chicken breast, and prepared for the Spring Festival. The temple finalized holiday duties and held a casual annual party before the holiday.

• Jingting livestreamed the tasting as the group sampled Daoist Chang Kong’s chicken dishes, and the spicy wing tips and cold chicken feet were the most popular.
• Yun Zhaozhao sent Daoists to sell shredded chicken breast at the agricultural base, where elderly tasters liked it but balked at the price; she told them not to give away the unsold portions.
• Tang Li and Yun Zhaozhao arranged Spring Festival leave and duty assignments, with about ten people staying to cover Clear Breeze Temple, the agricultural base, and the Daoist clinic.
• Yun Zhaozhao asked Tang Li to organize a simple annual party, where the Daoists shared a meal, held a prize draw, and volunteered varied performances.