Chapter 165: Naming
Xuan Xia inspected Yan Wentao’s work progress for a while.
Seeing that he was very favored by the uncles and aunts, she confidently returned to the backyard.
Of course, it was mainly because Yan Wentao was eloquent and spoke substantively. Plus, he had clear brows and bright eyes, which made the uncles and aunts feel fond of him, naturally making it easier for him to get along with them.
After returning to the backyard, Xuan Xia didn’t idle either. She immediately took out cinnabar and yellow talisman paper, turned on the air conditioning, and began drawing talismans.
However, she didn’t only draw amulets like protective ones; she also drew quite a few lightning talismans and ghost exorcism talismans for her own use.
By the time the Daoist temple ended its daily business operations, she had already drawn quite a stockpile.
When Yan Wentao came to report the day’s results to her, he saw a table full of neatly categorized talismans, and his eyes went wide.
“Boss, these are all… drawn just now?” Yan Wentao asked with great suspicion. Who draws this fast!
As a result, Xuan Xia said, “Yeah.” Then she pointed to the amulets among them. “Count how many there are later. Enough to sell for several days, right.”
Yan Wentao: “…”
Xuan Xia flexed her wrist and saw him still staring at the talismans, so she curiously asked him, “How did you do today? How many did you sell in total?”
Yan Wentao lifted his eyes in disbelief, then remembered the purpose of his visit. “Sold a total of twenty.”
“Oh. Great job.”
Although Xuan Xia thought they could sell them all.
Yan Wentao said, “A few pilgrims also asked me if there were other talismans for sale besides amulets.”
“What other talismans?” If it was a business opportunity, she could draw some in advance.
“They didn’t specify exactly, just asked if there were house protection ones, luck-changing ones, and wealth-attracting ones like that.”
Xuan Xia had a black line on her forehead.
House protection was easy; for luck-changing and wealth-attracting, they should go pray at the God of Wealth Temple.
Yan Wentao also said, “I think we can promote house protection talismans later. As for the other two kinds, I just told them we didn’t have them.”
Xuan Xia nodded. Yan Wentao had much more experience than her, so she didn’t need to worry.
After finishing talking about work matters, Yan Wentao began counting the talismans. The more he counted, the more shocked he was. He still couldn’t believe these were all drawn by Xuan Xia today.
Are you sure they were drawn, not photocopied or printed!?
Xuan Xia didn’t know what he was thinking. While he was counting the talismans, her gaze glanced over and she spotted Daoist Master Qin passing by outside. She quickly called out to him, “Daoist Master Qin, got time?”
Daoist Master Qin stopped and turned in. “What’s up?”
“I had Daoist Master Yan promote and sell talismans today. Did you know?” Xuan Xia asked him first.
Daoist Master Qin said, “Yeah, I saw. How many sold?”
Although Daoist Master Qin was doing fortune telling, he kept an eye on Yan Wentao’s situation from time to time, so he didn’t miss Yan Wentao pulling out the payment code.
“Twenty!” Xuan Xia said proudly, then explained why she called him specifically. “Daoist Master Qin, are you free tonight? Why don’t you draw some too?”
Daoist Master Qin looked at the pile of talismans on the table, paused for a few seconds, nodded, and said, “Sure.”
Hearing this, Yan Wentao volunteered, “Then how about I draw some too.”
Everyone draws together, stock up more, no worry about running out later.
Xuan Xia turned to look at him. “You have work to do. Don’t you still need to do data entry for the notebook contents? Didn’t Daoist Master Qin tell you?”
Yan Wentao was stunned, then belatedly remembered that Daoist Master Qin had indeed assigned him that work.
However, Daoist Master Qin said he would first create the framework, so it hadn’t formally started yet.
Yan Wentao looked at Daoist Master Qin, unsure how to respond to Xuan Xia.
Daoist Master Qin caught his line of sight and followed up, “I’ve finished the framework. After dinner, I’ll teach you.”
“Hey!”
…
After dinner, Daoist Master Qin took Yan Wentao to do the data entry work.
Xuan Xia, with nothing to do, followed along to watch the excitement for a bit.
She had long known Daoist Master Qin was a modernization talent, but she didn’t know he was so skilled at computer office work.
She had only mentioned some ideas last night, and he had created a program based on her concept, and this program could sync.
In other words, as long as she installed this program, once Yan Wentao entered an entry, she could view it immediately and even search by keywords.
Xuan Xia quickly had Daoist Master Qin install the program on her mobile phone, not forgetting to remind Yan Wentao, “You have to enter it carefully. Don’t enter wrong content. This is to be passed down through generations.”
Yan Wentao: “…”
“Shouldn’t we give these notebook contents a name for easy reference?” Xuan Xia thought, starting to come up with names. “Call it Changsheng Collection? Changsheng Notes? Changsheng Handbook? Just using ‘Changsheng’ seems like it might cause misunderstandings.”
“Changsheng Temple Observations? Changsheng Temple Sights? Changsheng Temple Observations Record?”
After coming up with several names in a row, Xuan Xia looked at the two, hoping they could offer some suggestions.
For naming, Yan Wentao was very self-aware; with his seniority, he wouldn’t participate.
In the end, Daoist Master Qin decided, settling on “Observations Record.”
With the name set, Yan Wentao formally started working.
At the same time, since Daoist Master Qin had promised Xuan Xia earlier, he would draw talismans tonight, so he also set up his desk.
Before officially starting work, Daoist Master Qin asked first, “What talismans need to be drawn?”
Xuan Xia said, “Let’s start with amulets. We should focus on promoting one kind of talisman first. Wait until this business stabilizes before promoting others. Avoid promoting too many and getting chaotic.”
Daoist Master Qin nodded, lifted his brush, gathered his energy, and began drawing the incantation script of the amulet on the yellow talisman paper.
So that night, Yan Wentao personally witnessed Daoist Master Qin’s talisman drawing speed.
He was immediately stunned.
A bit of spiritual light forms the talisman; mortals waste ink and cinnabar in vain!
Now, he finally believed that Xuan Xia drawing so many talismans in one day wasn’t a lie.
Yan Wentao even thought coolly that no wonder he couldn’t compete in seniority; he really wasn’t as good as these two.
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Xuan Xia watched them work for a bit, then returned to her own room. She planned to wash up and then read the script for a while.
After being busy all day, she hadn’t had time to flip through the script yet.
Now it was late at night and quiet, perfect for her to concentrate on the script.
Once she got engaged, when she finally looked up from the script, it was already past midnight.
The reason she snapped back was because her mobile phone had popped up with multiple messages.
She curiously checked the message contents and found they were all birthday wishes.
Her birthday had already arrived!
Besides roommates and classmates sending birthday wishes, Ji Ziyao and the others had sent theirs right away too.
There were even figures like Zhou Shiqing and Jiang Feng among them.
Ji Ziyao also told her to check Weibo; surprisingly, she had quite a few fans leaving messages with blessings.
Xuan Xia checked Weibo and sure enough received many notifications.
There were even over a thousand blessing comments wishing her happy birthday.
This sudden surprise made her eyes well up red.
