Chapter 116 Changing Name

Wang Feiyin raised his eyebrows, "How old are you if you are so confident?"

Pan Yun raised his chin and said, "I was born knowing this."

Wang Feiyin snorted, "I often hear you say that we are born with knowledge, and there is always a limit to what we know. Can you know everything?"

Pan Yun was silent.

Only then did Wang Feiyin feel satisfied.

He taught her how to calculate the eight characters. "The eight characters of birth are also called the four pillars, which are the year pillar, month pillar, day pillar, and hour pillar. The four pillars are composed of the heavenly stems and earthly branches. There are ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches. The four heavenly stems and earthly branches combined together are a person's birth characters."

Pan Jun nodded. She understood permutations and combinations.

Wang Feiyin told her the meaning of different combinations of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.

Pan Yun was good at arithmetic, but at this moment a large amount of half-baked knowledge poured into her brain, which still slowed her down a bit.

The knowledge Wang Feiyin had given her was enough, so he let her memorize it by herself, and then he got up and left.

Pan Jun was just digesting these knowledge points with his head down when he heard footsteps, but the sound only reached outside the door. Pan Jun lazily raised his eyes and looked outside.

A young scholar stood outside the door, looking inside the mountain temple.

His eyes fell on Pan Yun, he nodded slightly and walked into the mountain temple, "Is the young Taoist priest the temple keeper?"

Pan Yun sat still and nodded, saying, "It is me."

Seeing that she didn't say anything else, neither inviting him to sit down nor asking him if he was praying to the gods, he couldn't help but frown, "Is this how the temple keeper usually receives guests?"

Pan Yun said lazily: "Guests? We don't have guests here, only believers."

“Can’t you come if you’re not a believer?”

Pan Yun: "Isn't the good man standing in the temple right now?"

The young man opened his mouth, and finally looked at her seriously. After a moment, he bowed and said, "My name is Mo Jidi. A few days ago, my brother asked the temple priest to tell my fortune. I wonder if the temple priest still remembers it?"

"I remember," Pan Yun couldn't help laughing, "Even if I didn't remember it before, I remembered it after hearing the kind-hearted person's name."

Mo Ji was stunned for a long time before he asked with trembling lips: "It's difficult, is it because my name is not good that I failed the exam?"

Pan Yun: "If I say it has an impact, will good people believe it?"

Mo Jidi was silent for a long time and then said in a deep voice: "I believe it!"

Pan Yun burst into laughter and asked him to sit down.

Mo Jidi quickly lifted up his robe and sat down opposite her, looking at her expectantly.

Pan Yun said seriously: "Yes, the good man failed in the exams repeatedly because of his name."

Mo Jidi swallowed and asked, "What name should I change to?"

Pan Jun remembered the birth data she had seen that day. Although she only glanced at it, she still remembered it.

Combining the superficial knowledge she learned today, she lowered her eyes and thought for a while before saying, "A kind person lacks wood in the five elements, and he is also determined to be a pillar of the country. There is no better name than 'Zhen'. If a kind person changes his name to Zhen, he will surely pass the exam if he fails the exam again."

Mo Jidi murmured, "Fail again? Why must I fail again?"

"Good man has carried this name for twenty-one years. How can it be possible to change the feng shui immediately by changing it overnight? Naturally, it takes time to slowly adjust. Three years is not a long time, and it is just enough to eliminate the previous bad luck." Pan Yun said, "Take the exam again to eliminate the bad luck. Then your luck will be high in the next exam. Not only can you pass the autumn exam, but you can also pass the spring exam in one go."

Mo Jidi pursed his lips and said, "Since it is bad luck, with the power of the temple priest, it should be possible to eliminate it, right?"

In three years, he could accomplish so many things. He really couldn't afford to waste any more time.

After hearing this, Pan Yun carefully looked at his facial features and raised an eyebrow, saying, "You can give it a try, but there's no need to go through the trouble of performing a ritual. I'll draw a few talismans for you. They should be able to dispel your bad luck."

"What talisman?"

"Evil-clearing charms, calming charms, and good luck charms."

Mo Jidi lowered his eyes and thought for a while before nodding and asking, "How much money do I need to donate to buy these three talismans?"

Pan Yun said: "Sixty taels."

Mo Jidi knew what was going on. He stood up, bowed deeply and said, "Please help me draw the talisman. I will be grateful."

Pan Yun agreed.

Mo Jidi took out ten taels of silver and placed them on the table, saying, "Temple Master, this is to thank you for calculating my name."

Pan Jun nodded and continued to sit there without moving.

Mo Jidi bowed again and then retreated respectfully.

After Mo Jidi walked away, Pan Yun hummed, stood up, lit a stick of incense for her master, and then said, "Master, when he comes to ask for the talisman, you can go to his house when you have nothing to do and urge him to study hard. If he puts aside his worries and works hard, there is still hope that he will pass the exam in three years, right, Master?"

Her master ignored her.

Pan Jun didn't mind. After burning incense, she continued to sit and memorize what Wang Feiyin taught her. When Wang Feiyin came back from wandering around the village, she had already memorized everything she had learned that day.

Seeing the ten taels of silver on the table, Wang Feiyin was surprised, "Where did such a large incense come from? When did such a rich person appear in our Leping Township?"

Pan Yun: "The Mo family."

"Oh, that's okay." Wang Feiyin calmed down.

Pan Yun was curious, "Is the Mo family very rich?" "Just so-so, second in the whole township."

Pan Yun: "Who is the first?"

"Then it's naturally my Wang family."

Pan Jun looked at him quietly.

"You don't believe it?" Wang Feiyin said, "You can ask around to see if my Wang family is number one in Leping Township. Of course, my branch is not included. Alas, you also know that my branch is now in decline."

Pan Yun: "Is it after you became my disciple?"

"Junior sister, why don't we discuss this topic somewhere else, in front of Master."

Pan Yun: "Big Brother, Master is the God of Mount Sanqing. He is everywhere. If we go to the top of the mountain, won't we be in front of Him?"

Wang Feiyin looked up at the statue and couldn't help but give her a thumbs up, "You are the bravest one."

"Yes, I started squandering money after I became your disciple," Wang Feiyin said without hiding anything, "It cost a lot to build the Sanqing Temple on the top of the mountain, and then the road and alchemy room. So I didn't notice anything wrong at first. After I finished building all these and wanted to practice in peace, I realized that I was unlucky."

"My family fortune has been lost slowly. Fortunately, our Wang family has divided up the family and divided the branches. If I lose, it's only my family that loses. The Wang family is still the best in Leping Township."

Pan Jun's heart moved, "The school in the village..."

Wang Feiyin smiled slightly and said, "I asked Wang's for help. They paid half of the money, and I earned the other half myself."

Pan Yun said: "It's not enough to just open a school. To maintain it, you need continuous investment."

"I still have this little bit of confidence."

Pan Yun: "Big Brother, you don't have to work so hard. Let's do this. Our mountain temple will contribute part of the school's upkeep."

She handed ten taels of silver to Wang Feiyin.

Wang Feiyin took it with a smile, raised his head and glanced at the statue sitting on the stage, "Alright, you can change your luck after doing good deeds and accumulating merits, so should my master and I. We will invest in the mountain temple, and this merit will belong to the mountain god. If my master's bad luck is reduced by one point, our luck will be better."

Pan Jun nodded, "That's right, I thought so too."

Pan Yun did not intend to put all his eggs in his own basket. Since their bad luck came from the mountain god, he would try to solve the problem fundamentally.

Even if what they can do now is just a drop in the bucket, but they have taken a step forward, haven't they?
Taking a small step today, a small step tomorrow, one day, they will be able to go a thousand miles.

Pan Yun started drawing talismans when she returned. She decided that all the talismans sold in the Mountain God Temple would be counted as the Temple’s accounts, and would be used as investments for the Temple - investments for charitable deeds!
Pan Yun and Pan Xiaohei said, "Come, open a separate account for my master."

Pan Xiaohei had been used as an accountant and clerk, and had long been numb to it. He calmly followed her instructions and opened a separate account for her in the spiritual realm to record today's income.

Pan Yun washed his hands, dried them, closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing. After his breathing was adjusted, he began to dissolve the cinnabar and draw talismans.

There are three talismans, and each one is drawn with one stroke.

The spiritual power floated and was finally imprisoned in the rune. Pan Jun put it aside, spread out another yellow talisman, and began to draw talismans as usual.

Pan Jun decided that she would not send money to her father next time. She would send talismans instead, and also stock up on some miscellaneous talismans. Isn’t the Sanqing Festival about to begin? A lot of talismans will be needed then.

Moreover, in addition to her own talismans, she also received tasks from the temple.

In preparation for the Sanqing Festival, Pan Yun was tasked with drawing twenty peace talismans and twenty fortune talismans. Wang Feiyin and Xuan Miao had to draw more. Even Tao Ji, who was not very good at talismans, received a task of drawing fifty talismans. He has been in seclusion these days drawing talismans.

Miaozhen also received the task of drawing ten talismans, but her success rate was low, so she had to practice first and only start when her spiritual power reached its peak. If she could succeed in drawing one talisman a day, she would win.

Miaohe and Tao Yanbai prepared various pills, potions and ointments, all of which would be sold at the event.

Sanqingshan is so attentive that Pan Yun is a little scared. "What if we can't sell them all?"

Wang Feiyin said: "If you can't sell them, use them yourself. These things are all things you can use. Use the talismans to stick on yourself to be healthy and safe. You can also use the medicine yourself. You usually practice martial arts and collect herbs, and you also do a lot of throwing."

"What kind of good person would stick hundreds of talismans on his body?" Pan Yun asked, "How long would it take to stick so many talismans? And there are so many medicines."

Wang Feiyin: "Don't worry, we have your third and fourth senior brothers and sisters. If they really can't sell it, let them go out and gain experience for half a year."

Pan Yun was stunned and asked, "The last time Third Senior Brother and Fourth Senior Sister went out for training, why was it..."

"To bring you back."

Pan Yun: "What about one more time?"

"Oh, of course, it's to sell the things that were accumulated last year."

Pan Yun: ...She said, why would Fourth Senior Sister, who stays at home and indulges in cultivation every day, go out and get to know the former Shaoqing of Dali Temple?

Pan Yun looked at the calm Wang Cong and said, "Nephew, why don't you try to stop him?"

Wang Cong: "It's okay. My caravan is still there and I can always make money. The expenses of the Taoist temple are not a problem. If the elders like it, just do it."

Xuanmiao and Tao Ji: ...Except for the eldest senior brother, no one likes him.

However, at the annual Sanqing Festival, Sanqing Mountain does sell a lot of talismans and medicines, but they make so many that there are always a lot left over.

Maybe a little less this year?
The two of them couldn't help but look at Wang Feiyin.

Wang Feiyin said loudly, "With the joining of our junior sister this year and the completion of the mountain temple, our Sanqing Mountain has become more famous, so we need to prepare more talismans and elixirs to prevent believers from returning disappointed."

Well, reducing it is impossible, but not expanding it is good enough.

　Tail number 7
　　(End of this chapter)