The General Loves to Collect Little Red Flowers

Chapter 086

Chapter 086 - Undercurrents

Xu Yao and Le Yao were very busy for the next few days. The inspection team was divided into three groups: the first group, led by Tang Ye and Ling Qiao, had to determine a suitable geographical location for the reconstruction of the secondary home city in Huaxia; the second team, led by Yan Jie and Yang Hengtian, had to devise a plan on how to build a new civilian network; and the third, led by Xu Yao and Ye Linran, had to handle the resettlement colonies for the undead, along with supervising the construction and design of various other key projects.

Ye Linran arrived at Huaxia later, and not with the first batch of the reconstruction team. He had followed Commander Guan Xuefeng and had brought with him a number of people. There were not only mechanical designers present in his team, but also designers from the construction industry, road and bridge building experts, and many other professionals from various different industries.

Recently, Le Yao had to see new faces every few days. In the morning, he would learn from the teacher’s online class at home. At lunch, Xu Yao would pick him up to have lunch together in the cafeteria, and then he would send him home to rest. Le Yao would then spend the rest of the afternoon and the evening planning and studying for the establishment of the Huaxia Museum.

Since it was impossible for him to manage it alone, he also asked Ji Fengyu to search for spirits who had majored in history and archaeology in the Underworld, as well as to keep an eye out for a curator. Those spirits who could cooperate well and fulfill his requirements would be paid well using food and accommodation.

There were currently no transportation or communication facilities in the Underworld, but the advantage they had was that they could drift around to get to different places. In this way, news of the recruitment spread very fast and very wide, and in just a few days, a number of ghosts actually came to be ‘interviewed’. Among them was an old lady in her sixties, with short and neat hair, bright eyes, and sharp features with pronounced wrinkles. At first sight itself, her very serious personality left a strong impression on Le Yao.

“If everything here is included, which one do you think is the oldest?” Le Yao asked. The things he referred to were all those items, earned through his Underworld business, that had been used to pay for the ‘accommodation fees’, and all of these were from the Qing Dynasty. He had previously appraised them, hence already knew their characteristics. So he would be able to catch the other party’s mistakes immediately.

“Him.” The old lady didn’t point at any of the objects and instead pointed directly at Rong Gui instead. “He’s the oldest.”

“Ah?” Le Yao had already thought of the idea of including Master Rong in this question after he had peered at Master Rong’s eyes. He did this because he had wanted to confirm whether the old lady really had a good understanding of antiques, and the result was, she accurately singled Rong Gui out.

Rong Gui, quietly coiling two walnuts in one hand, was silently guarding Le Yao from the corner of the room. After overhearing their conversation, he didn’t get angry, but his frown deepened till it could kill flies.

Le Yao couldn’t resist and laughed. “Grandma He, you’re so funny.”

“Not really,” said the old lady, who was called He Shujie.

Ji Fengyu asked, “How did you know?”

Generally speaking, the spirits of the dead could sense the strength of each other’s spirit body, but they weren’t able to ascertain when someone had died or when someone had been born. How could the old lady deduce that Rong Gui had had the ‘longest life’ at a glance?

He Shujie replied, “Do you still need to ask? Young man, look at the hat on his head. It’s so new. You must have burned it for him not long ago, right? This hat is called a ‘SiFang PingDing Hat’ or ‘Sifang Hat’. This type of a soft square hat was created in the early Ming Dynasty. If he was not used to wearing this kind of a thing, I don’t think you would have burned it especially for him, don’t you think? What’s more, the clothes he wears are also typical of the Ming Dynasty style. As for those things you brought, they are all from the Qing Dynasty. Not all of them are authentic, so I won’t say much about them.”