Chapter 639: Extortion

“What’s your name, bro?” Xu Tingsheng asked the research student who was gazing puzzledly at him, not knowing which expert might have brought him as an assistant.

“I am surnamed Zhao, Zhao Gongzhi. My friends usually like to call me Young Master Zhao.”

“Oh, hello, Young Master Zhao.”

Xu Tingsheng chatted with him quite a bit during the remainder of the journey.

When they were about to reach their destination, Young Master Zhao suddenly raised his voice and said, “My Dad is a higher-up in the bureaucracy at the neighbouring county. You can look for me if there’s anything. Also, if you want to go out to play or whatnot, I can be your bodyguard and guide.”

From this tone and level of voice, as well as bodyguard and whatnot, Xu Tingsheng knew that these words definitely weren’t meant for him. They were meant for the girls on the bus.

The bus stopped at the excavation site. There wasn’t a forest of steles or tall hills as there was only a small earthen slope and a few narrow caves. The students, the reporter squad included, were all a bit disappointed.

Still, this matched with the description of Cao Cao in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It seemed more reasonable that the suspicious Cao Mengde did not want to make his mausoleum too conspicuous.

In truth, some of the experts had already come over beforehand to review the site. The initial preparatory phase had already long since begun too.

The locally employed workers and personnel had already cleared the surrounding area of extraneous things and erected a big metallic structure around the entire mausoleum, to protect it while making it convenient to work on rainy days.

There was a very large difference between the excavations of Cao Cao’s mausoleum in this life and Xu Tingsheng’s previous life: They had...