Ten Thousand Soul Banner: Deceased, do you have any unfulfilled wishes?-Chapter 869 - 866: General Dou

The traditional Underworld hierarchy is actually quite simple.

At the top naturally are the Emperor Fengdu and the Ten Halls Yama, belonging to the core leadership.

The middle tier mainly consists of judges, but there are several types of judges: rewarding the good, punishing the wicked, inspecting, and managing the book of life and death, belonging to the judicial judgment tier.

The lowest tier belongs to the functional execution tier, mainly including Black and White Impermanence, Oxhead and Horseface, ghost soldiers, Meng Po, and Ghost Messengers (Guiding Children).

In total, there are just about eight official positions.

Even when adding some external personnel like Land, Lady Yanluo, and the Bridge Guardian Ghost, it is only eleven official positions.

Therefore, Shen Siyuan had a hard time appointing Xiao Yue, Duoduo, and Dou Dou.

They are still very young, obviously not able to serve as judges.

But they have made contributions, and only appointing them as Guiding Children, which is essentially no different from Grandpa Liu, feels somewhat unfair to them.

After much contemplation, he suddenly realized that now the Underworld belongs to him, and there is no need to adhere to the traditional Underworld structure, as after all, he is the one calling the shots now.

So he first appointed Xiao Yue as the Inspection Envoy, whose main duty is to inspect ghost matters in the Underworld and the Mortal World, akin to a royal inspector.

Duoduo and Dou Dou were appointed as the Left and Right Simplicity Lords and also as Guiding Children.

The position of Left and Right Simplicity Lords is akin to Shen Siyuan’s personal secretaries, attending to him daily, only responsible for documenting the leader’s daily life and undisclosed plans, etc.

However, for Duoduo and Dou Dou at this point, this can only be considered a nominal position, as they are too young.

So they would also serve as Guiding Children, which is their main job now.

The reason it’s Left and Right Simplicity Lords and also as Guiding Children, and not Guiding Children and also as Left and Right Simplicity Lords,

is because the order matters a lot regarding their official status.

The Left and Right Simplicity Lords are like secretaries or personal assistants beside Shen Siyuan, akin to the main record official beside an ancient State Governor.

Whereas a Guiding Child is just the most ordinary government official.

However, Dou Dou was very dissatisfied with her position.

"I don’t want to be any kind of wolf-seeing, I want to be a Great General."

Dou Dou was fixated on being General Dou.

Shen Siyuan was amused by her, thinking that such a position is something many people strive for and cannot get, yet she disliked it.

However, seeing that she had been well-behaved and considerate in accompanying Grandma these past few days, Shen Siyuan thought about it, and then conferred upon her the title of Vanguard General.

As for the duties, Shen Siyuan expressed he was unsure, it was purely a position to make the child happy.

Their main work was still to lead the dead souls.

But Dou Dou didn’t care about these.

Other things were intangible to her, only the title of Vanguard General was real in her eyes.

"Hehe~, I am the Great General, Dou Dou General, General Dou..."

She intentionally protruded her belly forward, furrowed her brows, folded her arms, and paced back and forth in the establishment with a look of national worry on her face.

Shen Siyuan: ...

"Alright, that’s that for now. You all go back first."

Shen Siyuan waved his hand letting Xiao Yue lead the two little ones away.

"Dou Dou, let’s go." Duoduo, upon hearing this, stepped forward to pull Dou Dou.

"Call me General Dou." Dou Dou glared and retorted.

Before Duoduo could speak, she got a gentle tap on the head.

Looking up, she saw Sister Xiao Yue staring at her.

"I’m General Dou." Dou Dou said grumpily.

"And then?" Xiao Yue asked coldly.

"Except for you, no one else can hit me, okay." Dou Dou said softly.

Duoduo was amused, and even the cold Xiao Yue couldn’t help but show a smile.

"Let’s go, since you are a Great General, today you’ll lead the charge into battle." Xiao Yue dragged her out of the establishment.

The so-called leading the charge was to clear out the remaining Mud Worms.

These tasks were already familiar to Dou Dou, without much of an issue.

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Tao Guangsha and his wife were exhausted, having just returned from being out all day.

Seeing the quiet home, Jiang Wenxin couldn’t help but complain: "We should have eaten out before coming back."

"Have some bread to stave off hunger, I’ve already had someone deliver meals over."

Tao Guangsha being in the dining business himself didn’t need to order from outside, he could directly have the chefs from his place prepare and deliver the meals.

They used to have a housekeeper at home, so when they came back before, they could directly have hot meals.

But ever since Dou Dou returned, to avoid some negative influence, she was let go, and only an hourly cleaner was hired to come over and do some cleaning regularly.

"The lights are on at home, did Dou Dou come over?"

As Tao Guangsha entered, he noticed the lights were all on inside, knowing that there was a high chance Dou Dou had returned.

That little one would run around everywhere every day; at first, the couple was quite worried, but as time went on, they got used to it.

But as they walked into the living room, they didn’t find Dou Dou.

So Jiang Wenxin directly called out "Dou Dou."

"I’m here."

Dou Dou’s muffled voice came from the direction of the dining room.

Tao Guangsha didn’t mind, turning to the bathroom, while Jiang Wenxin walked towards the dining room.

And she was stunned, for Dou Dou was half-leaning on the table, eating a cake, her little face covered in cream, dirty, and looking like a little glutton.

Because she was too short to reach the table, she was half-squatting.

At this moment, the little one seemed to choke on something, pounding her little chest with her fists twice, quickly picked up a glass of milk, and took a sip.

Jiang Wenxin then noticed that she even poured herself a glass of milk.

Of course, now wasn’t the time to focus on these details.

"Dou Dou?"

Jiang Wenxin widened her eyes, face filled with disbelief, she could hardly believe her eyes.

"Huh?"

Dou Dou raised her head in a dumb and cute manner, seemingly asking what she was called for.

"Are you... are you eating?" She pointed at the cake on the table.

"This is mine..."

Dou Dou quickly pulled the small cake into her arms, seemingly afraid her mom would take it.

Jiang Wenxin: ...

"I’m not taking it, I’m asking, how can you eat now?" Jiang Wenxin asked.

"Because now I’m General Dou, hehe..."

Dou Dou stood on the chair, waved her hand forward, making a small mustache gesture.

"What Great General?" Jiang Wenxin was at a loss.

"Potato made me a Great General, now I can eat." Dou Dou said proudly.

Jiang Wenxin still didn’t understand, making Dou Dou feel very frustrated.

"Why are you so stupid, not as smart as Great Grandmother."

"You little thing, are you starting to criticize your mom?" Jiang Wenxin reached out and tapped her little head lightly, sitting down next to her.

"Tell mom carefully, then mom will understand, isn’t it said that ghosts can’t eat? How can you eat now?"

Jiang Wenxin said, while pinching her little cheek, finding that there wasn’t much difference.

"Potato said, I’m not a ghost now."

Dou Dou crouched down and continued eating cake, clearly more attracted to the cake than the title of Great General, especially since she hadn’t eaten in a long time, naturally indulging a bit.

"Not a ghost, then what are you? Have you turned into a human?" Jiang Wenxin was very surprised.

Could it be that Shen Siyuan can really overturn life and death? Making the line between ghosts and humans vanish?

"Of course not, Potato said I’m a god now." Dou Dou stated.

"What? A god?" Jiang Wenxin stood up in surprise.

Due to being too surprised, her voice almost cracked, causing Tao Guangsha, who had just come out of the bathroom, to turn and ask urgently, "What?"

He then briskly walked into the dining room...

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