The stone stele is sent by the Hundred Flowers Palace, so naturally it's just for show and won't be easily damaged like a newly unearthed stone stele; even cleaning the soil off requires careful handling.
Chen Dagou quickly found the tools Chen Han needed, and Chen Han picked up the garden hose and started pouring water on the stele, beginning the cleaning process.
It didn't take long for him to realize this was indeed the case.
The stele sent by the Hundred Flowers Palace is not that fragile, after all, it's bearing a Dust-removal Array, though the array seems to have some issues, as he didn't feel the slightest fluctuation from it.
Still, he decided to put on a show first; in front of people like Chu Ping, he'd clean up the stele and address the matter later.
Chu Ping and Chen Kai watched the Patriarch Chen's actions and felt that his method of handling the stele was rather rough and aggressive, as they had seen videos of historians handling unearthed steles.
