“That’s still not cheap,” Li Yongnian said:
“But with your net worth, I guess 600,000 is just a drizzle.”
“Don’t say that, I’m just an ordinary person; the house is a bit bigger, but that’s about it.”
“Things have come to this, so don’t say anything else; he certainly won’t refund you,” Li Yongnian said:
“Nothing to do, let me show you around inside.”
Lin Yi nodded and wandered around Shangqing Palace with Li Yongnian.
Although the first task was completed, the second task hasn’t triggered yet.
According to the usual behavior of the system, more wandering is necessary to receive the task.
Shangqing Palace is not small; it took quite a while to walk through just half.
“I feel like there are still quite a few people coming here for incense.”
“It’s actually not that many.” Li Yongnian sighed:
“When the road wasn’t broken, the number of tourists here was at least three times more than now.”
“So according to you, all the lost tourists went to Zhengyi Temple?”
“That’s for sure; their marketing skills are formidable. They’ve been earning abundantly these past few years, rolling in wealth.”
“You guys aren’t doing too bad either,” Lin Yi said:
“Zhang Youfu charged me 600,000; even a top-tier MD graduate might not earn that much in a year.”
“Although 600,000 is a considerable amount, Shangqing Palace here is vast, and it takes a lot of money to maintain every year; it’s not a small expenditure.” Li Yongnian said:
“But with your 600,000, it’ll be easier this year, alas, unlike Zhengyi Temple back in the day, it has lost its former glory.”
Lin Yi smacked his lips and felt a bit of pity, just about to say some comforting words when suddenly the system prompt sounds.
[Within a month, make Shangqing Palace incense exceed Zhengyi Temple, reward: 150,000 master level driving skills.]
The long-missed system task gave Lin Yi a familiar feeling.
Lin Yi thought it wouldn’t be too difficult to make Shangqing Palace’s incense exceed Zhengyi Temple.
But the problem is, incense is quite mysterious, hard to define.
“Is the gap between the two sides big?” Lin Yi put aside the system affairs and asked.
“Previously it was about the same, but over the past year or so, since the road broke and wasn’t repaired, they took advantage to develop, building lots of things inside, places to visit also outnumbering ours.” Li Yongnian said:
“By simply evaluating good and bad, we indeed don’t measure up.”
Lin Yi instinctively nodded, then asked:
“Generally, what does incense mean in Daoism?”
“It literally means, money earned from selling incense.”
Lin Yi understood now, looking at it this way, it’s much simpler.
“Come on, it’s already noon, let’s go eat.”
The two arrived at the dining hall, which was divided into two parts.
One part was for insiders to eat, the other was open to outside tourists.
The food was very plain, the taste just passable, not bad.
“Are we renovating here?”
Seeing people coming and going, carrying renovation supplies inside, Lin Yi asked.
“Another month and it’s the local temple fair; many people will come. The master wants to tidy up well, or else tourists won’t want to come.” Li Yongnian said:
“Otherwise, we wouldn’t be in such a hurry to repair the road.”
“Temple fair…”
Lin Yi muttered, “On this Longhu Mountain, Shangqing Palace and Zhengyi Temple are the largest Daoist temples, tourists should come to these two places, right?”
“Pretty much, although there are quite a few Daoist temples elsewhere, the majority will come to Longhu Mountain, after all, it’s a breeding ground.”
Lin Yi thought for a moment, a month later will be the day of the temple fair.
If on the day of the temple fair, Shangqing Palace’s incense exceeds Zhengyi Temple, the task will be considered complete.
But there’s a prerequisite, the road to Longhu Mountain must be repaired, otherwise, everything will be for naught.
Although he wasn’t short of money and had better solutions, even could build a tourist cable car directly up the mountain, but with only a month’s time, it’s too late to build those things.
“How’s the road repair coming along? When will there be results?”
“They told me to wait for the news and said it’ll be settled within three days.”
The time left for me is one month; if repairing to the lowest standard, that is pouring concrete road, from preparation to use, it would take at least half a month’s time.
So there’s still half a month of buffer period, can wait a bit.
In the next few days, Lin Yi’s days passed quite leisurely.