Then I heard a man's voice, "Have you all seen this too? Let's go check out Deputy Director Su's situation first! The plague of rotten corpse insects has been rampant recently, and the higher-ups haven't allocated any pesticides. It seems we'll have to figure things out on our own."
I saw a man in his thirties, tall and straight-backed, enter first, followed by a potbellied Liu Ke Yuan, whom Jing Shu recognized as the man who had negotiated prices behind Yu Caini during the house sale.
"Deputy Director Su, we need to present the experimental product for the competition tomorrow. How's it looking? What else do you need here? Oh, and who is this...?" The man first smiled and shook Mrs. Jing's hand, then turned to Jing Shu with a questioning look.
"This is my daughter Jing Shu, who brought frogs today to help eat the insects," Mrs. Jing introduced, then said to Jing Shu, "This is Director Zhu, who is going to be the minister once the position of the Artificial Sun is settled."
