The educated youths who had returned to the city and been assigned the job earlier had done well. As Liu Feng said, they had fixed up the house quite nicely. They had renovated and maintained it, redone the plumbing and electrical wiring, connected it to running water and drainage, converted one room into a bathroom, installed underfloor heating throughout, and built a boiler room.
The interior was furnished rather well too. They had procured quite a bit of Ming and Qing furniture, along with porcelain, paintings, scrolls, and other decorative pieces, most of them from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Wang Yan even spotted several items from the Song and Yuan Dynasties. There was also a blue-and-white porcelain scroll jar in the study, filled with numerous scrolls.
Overall, they had basically completed the tasks Wang Yan had assigned before, and they had done a good job of it.
As for the antiques, Wang Yan had only told them they were for decoration. In these times, anything they managed to pick up would not be a loss. He had no intention of collecting antiques for appreciation or expanding his collection. After all, he had once been an expert himself. He possessed many priceless treasures, profound historical knowledge, and superb appraisal skills. He took such things rather lightly.
"Stop messing with the fish in that jar. And those people you found too—you don't even live here, so why set up some feng shui fish tank? You're even wasting fish. When it rains heavily, or when winter comes, won't they all die?"
Watching Wang Yan feed the fish while Hao Shuwen picked vegetables beside the table, she mercilessly mocked him.
"How are your two houses coming along?"
"Pretty well. They've been very attentive with the work." Xiao Suizi asked curiously, "How did you