someone under me

Chapter 464 Good business

When they returned to Town God's Temple again, Li Yi was alone. Fang Ting and Han Ying went to the orphanage. Their original plan was to go to the orphanage after burning incense in the morning. After all, they had to organize the children to celebrate the new year play games.

However, Zhou Xiaoyan was forced by Li Yi to deliver food to Yan Ming. Li Yi even suspected that she would not go home during the Chinese New Year, so what's the point of pestering herself?

So Li Yi could only drive the F egg and go to the Chenghuang Temple again.

It was already afternoon, and there were no more pilgrims in the temple. The Taoist priests were cleaning up the rubbish all over the floor after eating, and pouring out the fire with water pipes.As soon as Director Li saw Li Yi, he was very enthusiastic, and dragged him to the wing room in the backyard to ask how the investigation by the Municipal Bureau was going.

Li Yi didn't say much to him, he only said that the money had been dispersed and it would be difficult to recover it unless the liar himself could be found.

Host Li looked disappointed, and muttered that it was his fault for not noticing this situation.

"Don't worry, aren't the police still watching the surveillance? Maybe you can find the guy who posted the QR code." Li Yi said, "Now the police can use face recognition. As long as there is a frontal photo, the liar will I can't run away from him!"

"Oh, I hope I can find it..." Host Li was not very confident.

"By the way, I'm so busy today, do you have enough manpower?" Li Yi asked obliquely, because before the inner ghost was ruled out, everyone in the Town God's Temple was suspected, even the host, Li Yi, had to be suspicious!
"If there are only a few people at ordinary times, it will definitely not be enough." Host Li said, "Fortunately, on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, there are some familiar pilgrims who volunteered to help, and the temple owners and shareholders will also arrange for people to call Helper, barely able to survive..."

"Temple owner shareholder?" Li Yi blinked, this was the first time he heard of it.

"Oh, Mr. Li doesn't know about this situation?" Host Li said with a smile, "How to put it, the current temple is like a company. They were all funded and led by others when the temple was built, and of course they can get dividends of the incense money collected in the temple..."

"Uh, is there such a saying?" Li Yi smiled wryly, "This is a good business."

"How can this be considered a business? It's all for supporting the gods and Buddhas." Host Li said with a dry smile, "Besides, there are people who invest in building temples now, but they are there for money, and the gods and Buddhas are not willing to bless them. If there is no efficacy in the temple, naturally there will be no pilgrims, not to mention making money, and there will be no money left!"

Li Yi nodded and smiled, but he was thinking in his heart, this job can't be done by others, but we have this condition, if the incense is to be effective, the big deal is to send old masters and shadows to sit in the town?One is an old Taoist with Taoism when he is alive, and the other is formed by the shadow of the Buddha for hundreds of years. Among other things, let them send a spiritual lottery to be sure...

"Mr. Li?" The host called out softly when he saw Li Yi lost his mind.

Li Yi came back to his senses and laughed dryly, then turned back to the topic and asked, "What about the temple's finances? Who is usually in charge of the merit box?"

"The financial manager of our temple is the daughter of one of the shareholders. Usually, it is collected once every three days. If it catches up with the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, it will open the box to collect the money in the afternoon." The host said, "Do you suspect that it is The QR code posted on the merit box by finance? This is impossible. Before I opened the mountain gate this morning, I checked it specially, and found nothing wrong. Well, there is still monitoring. The police who checked the monitoring just now said Yes, although many people can’t see it clearly, but the QR code should be pasted after 07:30 in the morning and before 08:30, when the pilgrims in the temple were too crowded to walk..."

Li Yi thought about it for a while, and through this conversation, the host Li didn't seem to be acting abnormally, and his suspicion can basically be ruled out.So he spread it out and said: "I analyzed it, you see, the scammer can think of posting a QR code in the temple, obviously he knows that there are many pilgrims in the temple today, and there are also a lot of merit money, otherwise it would not be so laborious. , and the plan is so precise, it is very likely that the ghost did it, after all, who would think that ordinary people can earn so much from the incense money in the temple..."

"I can't," Li said in a dumbfounded tone, "Everyone in the temple is a believer, so they wouldn't do such a thing..."

"Hehe, don't worry, I'm just guessing." Li Yi said, "Let's analyze and analyze together. Is there anyone who knows the income of the temple but doesn't know the basics?"

"I can't say that well..." Host Li said, "There are many people who know the income of the temple. Apart from the Taoists in our temple, the shareholders also know it, and the people in the management bureau also know it, let alone anyone else. If you go out and talk too much, it will be even more futile..."

Li Yi also had a hard time hearing this. Although most people might not think of how much money the temple makes, it's not a secret.As for choosing to do it on the first day of the new year, as long as the pilgrims know that there are the most people on this day...

Just thinking about how to narrow the scope of suspicion, two Taoist priests and a Taoist nun came to the door.

The daoist nun was young, only in her thirties, but the two taoist priests were carrying a huge cloth bag, which was thicker than the two of them combined.

"Oh, this is the accountant in our temple." Host Li said, looking outside the door.

Li Yi stood up as soon as he heard it, and went out to see that the Taoist nun was holding the key to open the door of the opposite wing.

"Xiaozhen, are you finished?" Host Li greeted the nun.

"No," said the nun, "this is only for the main hall and the courtyard on the east side. I haven't gone to the west side yet, it can't fit anymore..."

"Hehe, there are more people this year than last year. Alas, if it weren't for the QR code, maybe we could have charged more..." Host Li sighed.

"It's already quite a lot, and it feels like it's even more than last year." The nun said, and asked the two Taoist priests to help carry the cloth bag into the house.

Li Yi also realized that the bag was full of money, how much money can such a big bag hold?Even if the amount of money donated for incense is generally not large, it still can't make up for the fact that this cloth bag is big enough...

"Hurry up, you two don't dawdle..." The nun urged the two Taoist priests to leave quickly, took an empty cloth bag and went to the west side hall to continue emptying the merit box.

But one of the Taoist priests was fooling around and said, "Sister, can you rest for a while? There is no one else here, let me smoke a cigarette before going..."

Li Yi frowned, but the host Li explained in a low voice: "They are not Taoist priests in the temple, they just wear Taoist robes temporarily for convenience."

Li Yi frowned even more when he heard this...

(End of this chapter)