I Materialized the Cultivation Game

Chapter 80: Chapter 74: The Chen Family Is Too Old—Worried It Might Be Unsafe!

Upon hearing Little Uncle’s words, Chen Han smiled and said, ”Once the Five Offerings Flower Sea is developed, besides the ticket checkers, we’ll need about 10 more people for maintenance. Let’s have them all under Little Uncle’s Workshop Hall. Gather these people, and if you’re short of planting hands, hire some temporary workers.”

”No problem, but you have to tell me where to plant.” Chen Lin’s face was beaming; with more than 10 people added to the Workshop Hall, it would soon be booming, and his role as Work Hall Elder was becoming more enjoyable.

”Let’s go, take a look.” Chen Han nodded.

The location truly needed to be assessed.

Whether it was planting within the Chen Family flower beds or the 2000-square-meter Flower Sea location.

Xiaomi and Xiaoyu were also looking forward to the Five Offerings Flower Sea, after all, what girl doesn’t love a Flower Sea? They even volunteered to handle the flower ordering.

Chen Han took the three of them for a walk around,

and called over Little Uncle to stroll around inside the clan, looking for suitable places. In the end, Chen Han chose a 2000-square-meter piece of vacant land at the back of the Chen Clan Ancient Building Complex to plant the Five Offerings Flower Sea.

This piece of land was all Chen Family-owned, so it didn’t require village processing. The flower bed positions among the ancient buildings were also confirmed, and once transformed with Spirit Plant Dew Water, passersby would surely be attracted by the flowers’ appearance and fragrance.

After finalizing the locations, Chen Lin immediately recruited people in the Patriarch group, recruiting over 10 people once more, causing a stir in the group as everyone began to inquire, especially the older members left in the clan and those working in the county.

Chen Han wasn’t concerned about this matter, he trusted Little Uncle.

By the afternoon, his junior sister hurried into his courtyard: ”Senior brother, hurry to welcome the people coming from the county, they are about to arrive at the village entrance, and it’s the County Cultural Tourism Bureau director himself. It was him who initially approved the funding for tourism development, which led to the Chen Clan Ancient Building Complex tourism.”

Chen Han was a bit surprised to hear this.

But for an inspection of such an activity application, there was no need for a Culture and Tourism Bureau director to come in person, right?

Thinking about it, he was already being pulled by his junior sister, heading towards the outskirts of the Chen Clan, waiting by the roadside.

A white-haired dog and several stray dogs were playing by the roadside, and upon seeing Xiaoyu, the white-haired dog barked twice and ran over, rubbing against her feet.

Chen Han recognized it; wasn’t this guy the unlucky one during the Dog Demon battle? Every time there was a brawl between two groups of dogs, this guy was always the first to get beaten, and crucially, despite being beaten, it never learned its lesson, acting like an idiot.

”Xiaobai, go play somewhere else!” Xiaoyu laughed and gently kicked it with her foot—after all, they were expecting guests, and stray dogs hanging around wasn’t appropriate.

To Chen Han’s surprise, the little white dog actually obediently ran off after hearing his junior sister.

So obedient?

He curiously tried, ”Xiaobai, come here.”

The little white dog seemed to react, glanced back at him, wagged its tail straight, and immediately ran away, barking twice, prompting the other stray dogs to run off in a swarm.

”???” Chen Han was embarrassed.

This idiot dog, which never learns, just ignored him?

At that moment, he saw two cars approaching.

”It’s the county people,” his junior sister immediately said.

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In the car not far away.

Chen Kai also saw the Chen Clan Ancient Building Complex from afar. He had decided to come personally after seeing videos of the Chen Patriarch and the event application recently.

Now is the era of the tourism economy, with cultural tourism efforts underway everywhere. Some directors are even cross-dressing for promotion.

In Linhe County, there wasn’t much to promote in terms of cultural tourism, just some ancient buildings. It was, after all, one of the five major ancient counties.

Thinking of some people from previous terms, when other major ancient counties developed tourism vigorously, maintaining the originality of ancient buildings and leaping from being backward counties to affluent ones.

Linhe County alone, some from previous leadership thought the county lacked any modern architectural traces and even planned to apply for city status, vigorously developing real estate, which ended in chaos.

Key was failing to obtain city status, and the county accrued over 15 billion in debt, becoming a backward county.

Now, with the booming cultural tourism economy, and Linhe being a major agricultural product-growing county, they wanted to benefit from it, but the county, in its mess, neither ancient nor modern, couldn’t do what the other four ancient counties did.

Despite efforts in recent years, results were negligible. So, seeing the Chen Patriarch suddenly prosper, now sparking Feng Shui Room interest, it was crucial and within their county, like a beacon, especially seeing the National Style Event applied by the Chen Family—if successful, it would be a great help for the county.

His personal visit was for two reasons: first, his connection with the Chen Family, being part of the initial tourism support fund allocation within the county.

Initially, the Chen Family wasn’t planned, given its remote location, and the supported spots were mostly county-invested tourism projects. For a family-style external project like the Chen Family, though there were slots, everyone knew that those spots were already spoken for.

But, back then, somehow, he was convinced by the Chen Patriarch.

The words seemed magical, leading him to sign, and later hearing the Patriarch encountered a mudslide disaster, he felt a bit emotional.

Unexpectedly, that signature back then turned into a benevolent bond now.

Another matter was that he reviewed the Chen Clan Ancient Building documentation, finding its existence dating way back to past dynasties.

Therefore, they are truly ancient buildings.

Because of the historical span, the buildings likely had many issues, even with generation after generation’s restoration, yet modern factors caused gaps for the Chen Family.

The one-time free tourism support fund was insufficient for restoration.

In simple terms, discussions within indicated potential safety issues with some Chen buildings, at least showing potential risk.

Under normal scenarios, given Chen Family’s situation, not many tourists visited, but an event changes things—risk buildings, even with potential risk, could be problematic with large crowds.

Such a massive scandal would not only tarnish the Chen Family but affect the county as well.

The booming Chen Family, however, presented an opportunity the county couldn’t miss.

He had to personally evaluate: if not reaching risk structure levels, even if just potential risk, he could bravely cover up and pass it through.

As long as preparations were in place, it should be fine. After the event, the county would allocate more funds for Chen’s restoration.

With this thought, he instructed a person beside him, ”Xiaokang, when we reach the Chen Family, let me see the data immediately after the test, and don’t show it to others.”