I Get A Random New Occupation Every Week-Chapter 2595 - 2596: A Long-Awaited System Task

"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.

But for Lin Yi, this new profession seemed to have its special traits.

Every day sitting on the empty mountain, meditating and looking far, the inner gains grew richer, invisibly, the realm too had some escalation.

"How’s the road repair going?"

Three days later, Lin Yi, Li Yongnian, and Zhuang Xiaoyun sat together for a meal, asking about the road repair.

"Damn it, don’t mention it, let’s eat first."

Li Yongnian cursed resentfully, his face didn’t look good.

"Got cheated, huh," Lin Yi laughed, such a result was within his expectation.

"Not really cheated, just made a few calls, always delaying, no definite news."

"Senior Brother Li, in more than twenty days it’ll be the temple fair, if the road isn’t repaired, we’ll have to drink northwest wind later." Zhuang Xiaoyun said.

"I know that, I’ll find time to push again."

"Don’t drag it anymore, repairing the road will still take time," Lin Yi said:

"Even if they deal with it in a few days, if the road isn’t repaired by the time of the temple fair, it’ll have no effect." freeweɓnovel.cøm

Li Yongnian and Zhuang Xiaoyun didn’t speak, they also anticipated this.

"But at this moment, I have no other way; the money is already given to them, we can only wait."

Lin Yi smiled, Li Yongnian is a person with quite a lot of chatter, but he’s still honest and decent.

After all, this operational mode is problematic from the start.

Getting scammed is naturally expected.

It just now confirmed his perspective.

"Uncle, why are you smiling, help Senior Brother think of a way."

"According to my experience, he definitely got cheated."

"No way, isn’t it said it was contacted through acquaintances?" Zhuang Xiaoyun said.

"Nowadays, it’s the acquaintances that trick you; if it’s strangers, they might be more restrained."

"Then it’s over." Zhuang Xiaoyun said:

"That 50,000 dollars, was squeezed out by the master; if it goes down the drain, later we’ll probably have to eat cabbage and potatoes."

Having lived here for a few days, Lin Yi understood some of the situations in the Taoist temple.

That 50,000 dollars indeed could serve a significant role.

"Damn it, I have to think of a way to get the money back."

Seeing Li Yongnian take out his phone to make a call, Lin Yi held his hand and said:

"If you ask for money like this, you certainly won’t get anything back; calm down."