Chapter 181 Extra 4: Zhang Qingyang's Day: The Current Situation of Chuyun Temple, The Ghost Postman's Child, The Slaughterhouse Transformation
When Zhang Qingyang was very young, his senior brother told him that his birth chart was extremely auspicious, and that he was destined to live a life of ease and comfort.
Zhang Qingyang didn't believe it at first, thinking that his senior brother had given him the wrong birth chart—he was an abandoned baby who was left at the entrance of Chuyun Temple, and his birth chart was calculated by his senior brother based on the time and direction of the day he was picked up.
Zhang Qingyang felt that he was more like a cursed lone star.
After the supernatural resurgence, ghosts and monsters roamed the world. His fellow disciples and master all sacrificed their lives for their cause. At the age when he should have been taking the high school entrance exam, he became the abbot of Chuyun Temple and shouldered the heavy responsibility of revitalizing his sect.
When the supernatural power of Liwan Apartment completely spiraled out of control, Zhang Qingyang knew at the moment his master decided to go to the apartment alone to suppress the ghosts that his master, like his fellow disciples, would probably not be coming back.
Before leaving, his master told him that the protection of Chuyun Temple could last for about five years. If he really couldn't hold on any longer, he should give up Chuyun Temple and seek help from the Bureau of Supervision.
But this temple was built brick by brick by his master, and it was the only memento his master left him. Zhang Qingyang couldn't bear to give up the place where he had lived since he was a child.
His master and fellow disciples had all left him; he couldn't afford to lose Chuyun Temple as well.
Moreover, there were many abandoned babies in the Taoist temple, and he was really reluctant to entrust these children with disabilities to an orphanage for care.
At that time, all the children in Chuyun Temple, including Zhang Qingyang, were under thirty years old combined.
The eldest, Zhang Qingyang, became the pillar of Chuyun Temple.
He helped people solve paranormal events by setting up a stall, and raised abandoned babies in the Taoist temple to the age where they could run and jump.
However, as time went on, the supernatural forces in the suburbs grew stronger, and the evil spirits around Izumo-kan became increasingly ferocious.
The protective measures his master had set up before leaving had almost completely failed. Although Zhang Qingyang didn't need to sleep, he still needed to meditate for a period of time. Fighting the vengeful ghosts relentlessly every night, he quickly couldn't hold on any longer.
Fortunately, he soon stumbled upon the Home Furnishings store and bought some furniture from it. The furniture enthusiasts helped him share some of the burden.
However, before things had calmed down for long, the cultists of the Bone-Bearing Society appeared next to the Taoist temple and left behind a sacrificial ritual next to the Izumo Temple that would attract evil spirits.
Zhang Qingyang was already exhausted from clearing away ghosts at night, and the cultist's interference broke the hard-won stability around Chuyun Temple.
The vengeful spirits summoned by the cult's rituals were extremely fierce. Just when he thought he was about to perish at their hands, a twist occurred—
He met the landlord.
He was very glad that he made the decision to move into Liwan Apartments.
Everything has been fine since Zhang Qingyang moved into the apartment.
Not only was Izumo Temple restored to its original state, but his master also returned.
From then on, Zhang Qingyang was no longer a wild child without a master, and he would never be bullied by other ghosts and monsters in the suburbs again!
Although his master looked a bit like a zombie, a zombie master is still a master, and Zhang Qingyang was certain that no matter what his master looked like, he would not harm him.
After he and his master moved into the Liwan Apartment, the Taoist temple became increasingly safe under the apartment's protection.
Not long after, his fellow disciples returned, and his master even gained divine status, becoming a local deity who could receive offerings like the patriarch.
Under the landlord's renovation, Chuyun Temple was transformed from a small courtyard into a magnificent Taoist temple occupying an entire mountain.
Because of the existence of Chuyun Temple, many citizens began to settle in the vicinity, and this area in the northern suburbs quickly became lively.
As the number of people increases, the amount of incense offerings the master receives also increases. The more incense offerings the master receives, the stronger his power becomes. It's a perfect positive cycle, and everything is developing in a positive direction.
After becoming the Lord of the Realm, Master was restored to his former appearance, with no more zombie characteristics. Every day during his working hours, he would sit on the altar, receiving incense offerings while cultivating.
The senior brothers were also very busy, either demolishing structures or working at the blacksmith's shop in the ghost market. Because there was so much ghost guard equipment to repair, the remaining senior brothers also acquired the [Blacksmith] skill after studying at the apartment.
The only two senior brothers who didn't randomly get the [Blacksmith] skill also had to run the Chuyun Temple—guiding worshippers to offer incense, interpret fortune sticks, draw blessing talismans, make consecrated bracelets, and sometimes go out to perform religious ceremonies.
Without the supervision of his master and fellow disciples, Zhang Qingyang was extremely happy. He no longer needed to do his homework; he spent his days eating, sleeping, enjoying the scenery, ordering ghosts and monsters to clean the Taoist temple, and occasionally beating up the disobedient kids in the temple. Life couldn't be more pleasant.
At this moment, Zhang Qingyang finally believed his senior brother's words; perhaps he really was destined to enjoy good fortune.
Now he no longer worries about reviving his sect. Even if the sky falls, his master and fellow disciples will hold it up, so he can relax and be a carefree slacker.
This afternoon, my senior brother told Zhang Qingyang that all the statues of our ancestor were finished and asked him to go to the Delicious Processing Plant to pick them up.
Before his master returned, in order to protect the ordinary people in the Taoist temple, Zhang Qingyang had moved all the statues of the patriarch out of the main hall to make room for the living.
Now that Chuyun Temple has been expanded and the crisis has completely disappeared, it is time to recast the golden statues of the Three Pure Ones to express our apologies.
The delicious processing plant that makes statues of the ancestral master is actually a delicious slaughterhouse.
Since the night of the hundred demons ended and the gods returned to their places, this factory has begun to transform, adding many production lines.
There is a production line for making statues—building statues of gods for various temples, creating trendy clay sculptures for temples, and small sculptures such as Dafu dolls.
The factory also handles the production lines for various cultural and creative products for Liwan Apartments, such as bracelets, refrigerator magnets, commemorative coins, and other apartment-related items, which will be directly listed on the apartment's online store after completion.
There are also pulp production lines that supply paper to ghost market paper shops, and production lines that manufacture medical devices needed by Liwan Hospital.
Since the delicious food processing plant successfully transformed, the rules within the factory have also changed. Because the landlord had cleared away the ghosts from the suburbs during a night of demonic attacks, the factory no longer needs security guards or workers to ward off ghosts.
Like Liwan Hospital, the Delicious Food Processing Plant now operates on a human-ghost partnership model. Workers and ghosts work together, with the more dangerous tasks performed by the ghosts, while the living workers assist them.
Not long after the expansion of Chuyun Temple was completed, Zhang Qingyang's senior brother placed an order for a statue with the factory. However, because the factory had too many orders, the schedule was very long, and the statue was only completed today.
Before coming to the delicious processing plant to move the finished statue, Zhang Qingyang hired the apartment's ghost postman as an errand boy using offering incense.
After all, there were too many and too heavy statues, making it inconvenient for him to move them all by himself.
The Ghost Postman family of four had recently reunited. The apartment's courier station currently has four couriers, and Zhang Qingyang hired the Ghost Postman's children this time.
The two children had been driven into the foundation of the apartment building and buried alive. After being rescued, they were so disoriented that they spent some time inside the fountain statue in the apartment garden.
Nourished by the yin energy of the garden, they successfully recovered and are now apartment deliverymen.
Because of their different manner of death, their bodies, while not as able to hold a large amount of cargo as the Ghost Postman, have strong supporting strength... Having once supported a building, they can easily carry even more cargo.
To prevent the statues from breaking during transport, all the statues needed to be packaged in wooden frames. However, the factory was short-handed, so Zhang Qingyang had to stay in the factory warehouse and pack the statues himself, hammering wooden frames into the statues with a small hammer.
During this time, the two deliverymen helped him.
Compared to the taciturn Ghost Postman, these two deliverymen are quite talkative.
From their conversation, Zhang Qingyang learned that when the two children had just regained their senses and emerged from the fountain statue, they happened to encounter the tenant fishing for water ghosts next to the fountain.
The water ghost that took flight from the water lunged straight at their faces, startling them into thinking they were being attacked. They retaliated by swatting the attacking water ghost back into the water.
The fountains and ponds in the apartment garden randomly connect to bodies of water outside the building with a high number of deaths and a strong sense of resentment. The process of tenants fishing for these "water ghosts" in the garden is, in effect, a process of clearing away the dangers from the surrounding waters.
This connection is very random; once the water ghost is put back, it's very difficult to find the original one again.
The water sprite that the two kids knocked back into the water was the only one the tenant had caught in recent days. That uncle had terrible luck; even with a 100% hook-up mechanism, he went home empty-handed for over half a month. His tenant's victory in the fishing competition was entirely due to his teammates carrying him.
Seeing that the old man was sitting on the ground crying with tears and snot streaming down his face, the two children, after regaining their senses, did not immediately reunite with their parents. Instead, they spent the whole day squatting by the garden fountain, catching five water ghosts to return to him.
Zhang Qingyang asked curiously, "What use is a water ghost?"
The little girl sighed, "I don't know either. It's probably for entertainment. Some tenants really enjoy the fishing process."
The little boy explained, "I know. I heard Xiao Xiaoyu say that water ghosts can be sold to furniture store owners or food processing factory owners, and then you can get nice furniture or small dolls produced by the factory for free."
The little girl's eyes lit up: "Oh, I see! I want to catch some too! Our house is decorated according to Dad's preferences. He makes it look like a post office. I was thinking of going to the furniture store after I got my first paycheck to see if I could decorate my room a little cuter."
The little boy advised, "Let's go outside and catch some. The fishing spots in the garden are reserved for the apartment tenants. If we take them, that old man will definitely cry again."
After listening to them, Zhang Qingyang looked enlightened.
He had also heard that furniture stores and food processing plants were short-staffed recently.
Furniture store managers need cleaners who can bring their own water, and food processing plants' pulp production lines also need ghost workers who can bring their own water.
Because the facilities around the apartment are now included in the Underworld's City of the Dead system, the water ghosts caught by the apartment tenants don't need to find a substitute. They only need to work enough hours at the facilities around the apartment to be able to reincarnate.
While Zhang Qingyang and the two deliverymen were packing the goods, two more people appeared at the entrance of the factory warehouse where the goods were stored—He Yansheng and his wife, who had become a ghost tenant.
After becoming a ghost tenant, He Yansheng's wife was able to leave the apartment freely. Once she was free to leave, she immediately went for an interview at Liwan Hospital and became a ghost doctor.
Because he didn't want to separate from his wife, He Yansheng returned to his old profession after abandoning medicine for philosophy and started working at Liwan Hospital.
The two of them came to the processing plant to pick up the medicine bottles that the hospital had recently ordered.
Recently, the acne treatment, hair growth treatment, and fat-reducing treatment at Liwan Hospital have been very popular, resulting in a high consumption of the bottles.
Zhang Qingyang greeted the two of them, then left the warehouse with the two child couriers carrying the statue, heading to the factory gate to take the ghost bus—these two kids weren't as mobile as their dad, so they couldn't do flash deliveries and had to rely on the ghost bus for delivery.
The ghost bus quickly arrived at the foot of the Izumo-kan mountain gate.
Zhang Qingyang looked up at the steps leading to the top of the mountain.
If there's anything bad about the expansion of Yunguan Temple, it's probably that the ghost bus only stops in front of the mountain gate, and the steps from the mountain gate to the main hall are too long.
Zhang Qingyang turned his head to look at the two deliverymen carrying several statues, paused for a moment, and then took out six incense sticks for offering: "Um, would you mind carrying a living person as well?"
Before the two deliverymen could speak, a middle-aged Taoist priest in a Taoist robe suddenly appeared behind Zhang Qingyang and slapped him on the back of the head.
"Junior brother, you're getting lazier and lazier. You're even capable of exploiting child labor like this."
Zhang Qingyang rubbed his head and muttered softly, "Senior brother, weren't you supposed to be forging iron? Why are you back at this hour..."
"If I hadn't come back now, I wouldn't have seen you slacking off." The Taoist priest snorted coldly, and a broom appeared out of thin air in his hand. "I'll watch them carry the statue up. You stay here and sweep all the fallen leaves off the steps from bottom to top. I'll come over to check in a bit."
"Oh," Zhang Qingyang replied listlessly, holding his broom.
After obediently scanning for a while, and waiting until he could no longer see his senior brother, he took out six sticks of incense for offering.
The moment the incense appeared, as if receiving a secret signal, two little devils suddenly jumped out of the bushes next to Zhang Qingyang.
Hey, you didn't expect that, did you? He had an accomplice.
These two little devils were the furniture devils who fought alongside him before; they were old comrades-in-arms and had a great understanding with each other.
This morning, the two little devils skipped school from the ghost school and were spotted by Zhang Qingyang, so he took them to Chuyun Temple.
I just wanted to catch up with some old friends and ask them to help with the cleaning, but they turned out to be very helpful.
I can be lazy again, hehe.
It's so much fun to outwit and outmaneuver my senior classmates every day, and to find all sorts of creative ways to slack off.
————————!!————————
There will be one last bonus chapter tomorrow, related to Zhou Fangdong's childhood, and then the story will be complete! [Sprinkling flowers]
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com