Chapter 148 - 146: Mental Illness Research

Chapter 148: Chapter 146: Mental Illness Research

The next morning, Lin Feng learned from Hu Zhiming that the site selection for the sanatorium at the foot of the mountain had begun.

Hu Zhiming said in a low voice, "I heard from my dad that people from the provincial capital are coming to handle the construction this time."

"Forget them. As long as they don’t build inside our village, they can develop the outside area however they want."

Lin Feng wasn’t particularly interested in the matter. The land he was currently leasing was already enough to keep him busy for a long time.

Qi Yangming walked over and said, "Lin Xiaoyou, that mother and son are back. They said they have something to discuss with you."

"I’ll go see them after I’ve eaten."

"Then I’ll inform Ms. Chu to wait for you at the Land God Temple."

Lin Feng was a little curious. To what extent could the strange fragrance inside the Land God Temple treat mental illness?

Huang Yi ran over and said, "Boss, two master bakers want to come work for us, but they want to talk to you personally."

"Hmm, are they not satisfied with the current salary?"

Huang Yi said hesitantly, "No, it’s not that. They want to leverage our Restaurant to set up a training center."

"Reject them outright. See if you can find any decent bakers. We’ll train them ourselves."

"I know what to do, then."

Huang Yi himself wasn’t optimistic about these two master bakers wanting to use the Restaurant’s platform to run a training center.

Besides, given the Restaurant’s current status, it wasn’t like they couldn’t hire chefs. It was just a matter of a gap in skill level.

As long as a chef was willing to work hard and train diligently at the Restaurant for a few months, their skills would naturally improve.

During this time, they had analyzed the results and discovered that anyone could improve as long as they were willing to learn, regardless of their natural talent.

It was just that the better one’s talent, the faster they improved with study. For example, he himself and Chen Yuyuan were considered talented.

Geng Changxin, on the other hand, was an example of someone whose talent had bottomed out, but who was still willing to learn and had managed to improve.

After leaving his boss, Huang Yi informed the two master bakers of the situation.

"Our boss has refused. Perhaps we can cooperate some other time."

"What do you mean? Your boss rejected us without even meeting us!"

"That is correct, masters."

"Fine. Lin Xian Village sure is something else. I hope you can find the bakers you’re looking for."

Huang Yi closed the chat window, ignoring them. ’These masters don’t understand the first thing about professional courtesy,’ he thought, then opened a new chat window.

"You two, you need to hurry over, or you’ll miss this opportunity."

"Master Huang, I’m almost ready. Just give me two more days."

"Same here. I can sort things out by tomorrow. Please, you have to save a spot for me."

"Alright. Just be quick about it."

Closing the chat window, Huang Yi felt much more relaxed. As for those two masters, they were completely out of their minds.

’What’s this nonsense about training? If they just focused on baking in Lin Xian Village, they’d definitely earn more than running a training center.’

Then he opened another chat window and started scheduling trial shifts for Cantonese chefs.

These days, when it came to hiring chefs, he wasn’t the one begging people to come; they were the ones begging him.

The main reason was that everyone in the culinary world knew that working at the Lin Xian Village Restaurant could rapidly improve one’s cooking skills. What chef who wanted to get better could refuse such a temptation?

On another note, he’d heard that Huang Qiuyun, the state banquet head chef who had visited last time, was interested in coming to Lin Xian Village.

For now, it was just a rumor he’d heard from someone else. He was having his master confirm it. After all, she was a master of Lu cuisine.

If she really came, given the Restaurant’s special properties, it would definitely turn Lin Xian Village into a holy land for chefs of Lu cuisine to study.

Also, he thought that if Mr. Huang came, maybe they could attract other masters as well.

Huang Yi’s heart raced with excitement just thinking about it.

’I still need to work harder!’

After breakfast, Lin Feng went to the Land God Temple and saw the little boy inside, studying diligently.

The chubby little boy looked adorable, reading his book quietly. He didn’t look at all like someone with a manic disorder.

"Boss Lin, thank you so much! Thank you! You saved my Hao Hao!" Chu Xiuhong said, about to kneel before Lin Feng.

Lin Feng quickly helped her up. "Ms. Chu, please don’t do this. I didn’t really do anything to help."

"Mom! Why are you crying?"

The little boy had come out at some point and was now staring at Lin Feng, making him feel a little awkward.

"It’s nothing, it’s nothing, Hao Hao. Mom is just too happy.

Come and thank the nice uncle. He’s the one who cured your illness."

Lü Hao didn’t quite understand, but he still said, "Thank you, uncle."

"You’re welcome. Study hard."

Chu Xiuhong said, "Mr. Lin, I’d like to donate some money to this Land God Temple. How should I go about it?"

"Ms. Chu, there’s no need to donate. You can use that money to help others in need."

"Oh! Mr. Lin, you are truly righteous. I will use this money to help more families in difficult situations, like Hao Hao’s."

She thought about all the places she had been and all the money she had donated before, only for the treatments to be completely ineffective.

Compared to Lin Feng, all those so-called masters from before seemed like such hypocrites.

She decided that from now on, if she was going to worship a deity, she would only come to Lin Xian Village.

...

The medical team from the province moved faster than Lin Feng had expected, arriving in Lin Xian Village a little after ten in the morning.

"Mr. Lin, this is Quan Liangyan, an expert in psychiatric disease research from the Provincial People’s Hospital. He’s in charge of this research project."

"Hello, Mr. Lin. Thank you for allowing us to come here and conduct our research."

"You’re too kind, Professor Quan. How do you plan to proceed with your research? You should have already reviewed the information on the Land God Temple."

Quan Liangyan said, "We have indeed reviewed it and understand the situation. The inside of the temple is certainly not suitable for treating patients.

We were thinking of first building a temporary structure nearby and channeling the fragrance into it. Would that be acceptable?"

Actually, their initial plan was to collect the fragrance directly from inside the Land God Temple, but unfortunately, that plan was completely unfeasible.

The special fragrance would disappear without a trace shortly after leaving the Land God Temple.

It was Daoist Qi who told them they could install pipes at the air vents to channel the fragrance.

They experimented with this method and found it was indeed feasible. As long as the distance was short enough, the fragrance could be diffused through the pipes.

"That’s fine. You can discuss the matter with Daoist Qi. Just make sure you don’t cause any damage to the Land God Temple."

"Rest assured, Mr. Lin. We absolutely will not cause any damage to the Land God Temple."

Quan Liangyan thought, ’Even if you told me to damage it, I wouldn’t dare!’

’With such a powerful Earth God inside, who would dare to cause any trouble? You’d have to have a death wish.’

’Besides, if I damaged the Land God Temple and its miraculous properties disappeared, I’d definitely be beaten to death by an angry mob.’

While Quan Liangyan and his team began constructing the temporary medical room, some of the professors who were studying the Arrow Tower also came over.

They had already analyzed the entire Land God Temple, but unfortunately, they hadn’t found the cause of its effects.

They had once wanted to move the statue of the Earth God and were nearly beaten up by Daoist Qi for it.

Ever since then, whenever they came over, Daoist Qi would stop his cultivation and just stare at them.

Now, more Daoists knew about the incident, so when these professors showed up, the other Daoists would also stop their cultivation and stare directly at them.

"Daoist Qi, we were just talking about it back then, we didn’t actually move anything. Why are you still watching us like we’re thieves?"

One of the Daoists said, "If you’re not planning to do anything, why are you afraid of us watching you?"

"Alright, alright, you have a point. We’ll leave, okay?"

Watching them leave, a Daoist remarked, "Looks like those guys are still up to no good."

"It’s fine. As long as they come here, we’ll keep an eye on them."

Someone asked worriedly, "The situation next door... it won’t have any negative effects, will it?"

Qi Yangming said, "Everyone, don’t worry. Since the boss agreed to it, it means there’s no problem.

If there were a problem, the boss wouldn’t have allowed them to do this."

Everyone had a moment of realization. Their various investigations into Lin Xian Village during this time had already made them understand that all the miraculous phenomena in the village were connected to Lin Feng.

At first, they didn’t know the inside story and had assumed the place itself was magical. It was only after chatting with those professors that they began to understand.

Unfortunately, asking Lin Feng was useless. They could only wait for an opportunity, hoping that one day he might reveal something.