Evening arrived, and Dong Shuijing hung up a sign to signal that his wonton shop was closed for the day. Even so, he wasn't in a hurry to pack up and close the door. After doing business here for a while, he knew that there were always worshippers who would visit the shop when climbing up the mountain and promise to buy a bowl of wonton when they climbed down the mountain afterward. These worshippers might be slightly delayed, so Dong Shuijing would still wait for an hour or so even after he put up the "closed" sign.0

However, Dong Shuijing didn't ask the two helpers whom he had hired to wait with him. When the guests eventually arrived, Dong Shuijing would personally enter the kitchen to cook for them. Even if the helpers who had come from impoverished backgrounds wanted to stay behind and help their boss, Dong Shuijing would still earnestly refuse their assistance.0

Dong Shuijing's wonton shop became more and more famous, and this caused many wealthy individuals in the newly built Dragon Spring Prefecture to invite him to open a few extra branches in the prefectural city. However, Dong Shuijing politely turned down all of their requests.0

Apart from the wonton shop located on the waist of the mountain with a mountain god temple, Dong Shuijing had also bought half a street of residences using the huge sum of money he had earned from selling one of his ancestral residences in the small town. Apart from a single residence to stay in, he rented all of the remaining residences to other people.2

Dong Shuijing was also one of the first local residents to pick up treasures for a cheap price. There were many lone elders among his neighbors where his two...0