Chapter 160: Change the buckle

“So… Master Xu, what you mean is that you want to hire me as your studio’s security consultant?”

In the small garden behind the Sanqing Hall of Yaoshan Temple, a young man in Taoist robes carrying two scriptures looked at the girl in front of him who was half a head shorter than him with a little surprise.

He originally came here to retrieve the Taoist scripture that he accidentally dropped in the temple the day before, but he was stopped halfway before he could return to the house. Xu Yichi asked him to be a consultant for their studio… This was quite beyond his expectations.

——He had been away from that extremely stressful but not stimulating working environment for nearly three years. He didn’t expect that today he would have the opportunity to relive his former hard-working career.

Although… Mr. Xu’s studio is unlikely to be more crowded than the two unfortunate places he worked in before, but no matter what, it is still a proper “class”, right?
——As long as he is in class, he is being a bushi.

“Yes, but don’t worry, our studio is not busy and will not interfere with your daily practice!” Xu Yichi raised his head and spoke confidently, his eyes bright and full of sincerity, “You don’t have to work in the office… As long as we encounter technical problems or information security-related problems that we can’t solve, you can come forward to help us solve them a little bit!”

“Of course… Based on our studio’s current capabilities, the salary we offer you is definitely not as good as the big companies you’ve worked for before, but we will still provide you with the five social insurances, one housing fund, and food and accommodation subsidies!”

“——You can think of yourself as someone who has nothing to do and took a part-time job that provides five insurances and one housing fund… Yes, that’s right, you can think of yourself as someone who just found a part-time job that doesn’t require you to work two days a month!”

“How about it, Taoist Priest Jiazi, are you willing to join our ‘Dream Maker’ and work with us to create the best ADV game in your country!”

After the little girl finished speaking, she stared at the young man’s face.

After hearing this, Lu Shinian wanted to find a random excuse to reject Xu Da’s invitation – after all, he had been away from the workplace for more than two years, and he was really not interested in going back to the miserable days of working overtime with 996 or 007 – but when he lowered his eyes and saw the bright color in the girl’s eyes, the words he was about to say suddenly changed their minds.

“…Why did you suddenly come up with such an idea?” Lu Shinian’s eyes drifted slightly, “Or, do you really want me to be your ‘consultant’?”

“How did you suddenly think of this?”

“Of course I do! If I didn’t, I would definitely not come to ask you!” Xu Yichi was anxious and immediately reached out and grabbed the young man’s sleeve.

Lu Shinian was caught off guard by the sudden force and his body tilted. He lowered his head to look at his button that was about to break, then glanced at his sleeve that was almost wrinkled by the little girl. His previously calm expression suddenly became complicated.

“… Master Xu.” The young man in Taoist robe pursed his lips and seemed to be hesitant to speak, almost turning himself into the big orange cat with a stern expression in the emoticon package.

“Ah?” Xu Yichi followed his gaze and searched downwards. In a few breaths he successfully found his own claws, which were “very scary” when encountering trouble. His eyes widened, and he immediately let out an “ow” and put his hands behind his back.

“I’m sorry, Taoist Jiazi, I’m used to catching Xiaobai and Laoliu… I know what you mean! I respect myself, I respect myself!”

“…It’s good that you know what I mean.” The young man, who had never expected that one day Xu Dazao would also learn to answer quickly, twitched his lips, and said nothing, quickly tidying up his appearance.

The key point is that this is behind the Sanqing Hall – the statues of the ancestors that they usually worship are sitting peacefully in the hall behind him.

Losing manners in front of the ancestors, this thing doesn’t make sense no matter how you think about it… It’s not that he feels a little embarrassed.

However, he would really have to talk to his master about the issue of the buttons on his robe. If it really doesn’t work, he would give the tailor more money next time and ask him to replace all the laces on his robe with small cloth buttons.

Or a sturdier beaded clasp would be fine… as long as it doesn’t slip off easily like it does now.

Lu Shinian thought so, and changed the subject seriously: “Okay, please continue.”

“Okay, well, I’ll continue.” Feeling that he had been too extravagant, Xu Yichi smiled awkwardly and rubbed his hands, “It’s like this, Taoist Master Jiazi.”

“Actually, I don’t have much else to say… I just want to find an excuse to pay you a little.”

“——One is that with our current relationship, I feel embarrassed to use your information security system and a bunch of practical gadgets for free; the other is that we used to eat for free too often, and I feel a little guilty about it.”

“Including you and the Taoist priests who occasionally come to eat and drink, there are more than ten people… This is not a small amount. It’s almost as much as making a big pot of rice and a big pot of dishes.”

“The key is that you only eat so little.” The little girl said as she stretched out her hand and made a gesture that would make her lose the Korean market. “You only eat so little – you can’t even eat as much as I do!”

“…Do you think there is a possibility?” Lu Shinian remained silent. After a while, he finally decided to defend himself a little, “I am a monk. You saw me eat less in those few times…”

“Did it just happen to coincide with my fasting period?”

“Ah, this, the Bigu period?” Xu Yichi blinked in confusion. “Bigu is something… isn’t it something that only exists in novels?”

“And doesn’t fasting mean not eating?”

——She saw that Lu Shinian seemed to still eat vegetables during the fasting period, but he ate less and was quite picky.

“…The fasting in the novel is different from the real fasting of us Taoists.” When it comes to “fasting”, Lu Shinian is quite calm, “The ‘fasting’ in the novel is an external manifestation of the cultivators’ state of cultivation, while our fasting is to assist in cultivation and health preservation.”

“The real fasting is not about not eating, but about not eating ‘grains’. Instead, you eat medicinal food or other food to fill your stomach and fast for a certain period of time. In this way, it is quite similar to the ‘fasting method’ that many people use to lose weight nowadays, but we not only ‘fast’, but also ‘submit qi’.”

“——It’s beyond the scope of this article to explain it any further. Anyway, fasting does not mean not eating anything.”

“If you really don’t eat anything, that’s called a hunger strike.” Lu Shinian wrinkled his nose deliberately. “That’s what Empress Ma of the Ming Dynasty did when she was trying to plead for mercy for the ministers.”

“Master Xu, do you understand now?”

“I think I understand.” Xu Yichi nodded blankly. She used her not-so-bright little head to think carefully for a long time, and at a certain moment she suddenly grasped the key point.

“So, Taoist Priest Clamp.”

“Are you willing to come to our studio as a consultant?”