Chapter 62.
The envelope was clean and neat, placed on the tabletop, with no signs of people coming around.
Zhou An picked up the envelope and sat on the chair, opening it by the flame of the oil lamp.
The content on the letter paper surfaced before his eyes.
The letter was sent over by Zhang Si County, and it contained the results of the recent investigation.
It was similar to what he expected, there was no progress, after all, it hadn’t been two days.
But this matter, the Great Chu Kingdom already knew about it.
The Emperor was enraged and lashed out during the morning court.
On the occasion of the inspection, the death of the official of the Inspection Division was tantamount to throwing the mouth of the Great Chu Kingdom.
Emperor Xingwu was a grassroots starter, but he was extremely forceful and had fought on the battlefield.
After learning about this matter, immediately ordered stabilized county Zhen Gui Si to investigate, and within a month must produce results, otherwise stabilized county Zhen Gui Si up and down all to jerk.
Inside, in the end, there is no Zhen Gui Division of the enemy in the fuel, Zhou An does not know.
He guessed that there was, after all, the officialdom of those meticulous, no one to speak clearly.
“Within a short period of time, there’s no way to find out.”
The other party dared to do something so desperate, so there must be a hidden backhand.
Zhou An felt that the Zhen Gui Si would have to have a headache for a while.
Burning the letter to ashes with a flame, Zhou An inwardly fought.
“As soon as possible, I’ll level up Iron Beating to Level 3 to cause a qualitative change, and then I’ll level up Bumping Objects and Swimming Dragon Steps to Level 4.”
Skills that reached level three would metamorphose, which was the reason why Zhou An learned new skills.
Bumping Objects and Swimming Dragon Steps were not far from level four in the first place, and the attribute bonuses after raising them were extremely strong.
Zhou An had filled up his time, intending to use the noon hour to practice ironwork, and the rest of the time to practice Bumping Objects and Swimming Dragon Steps.
Having sorted everything out, it was now late in the day, but it wasn’t yet time for him to sleep.
Time was short and the situation was complicated.
If he wanted to save his entire body, he still had to rely on strength.
Zhou An didn’t slack off and practiced the Swimming Dragon Steps inside the earthbag formation.
In the blink of an eye, another five days had passed.
During these five days, Zhou An lived a very regular life.
Every morning, he would go to dawn.
After the dawning, he practiced Bumping Objects.
After Bumping Objects, at noon, he would have a meal and then go over to the ironworks.
Due to the limitations of iron beating, it was only at noon that he went to practice, so five days down the line, he had just risen to the second level.
“Thumb ……”
With a puff of light smoke, Zhou An took out the iron bars from the water.
The iron bar no longer had pits on it, and the hardness had increased significantly.
Next to him, Blacksmith Zhao said in amazement, “My lord, I’ve been ironing for so many years, I’ve never seen someone as gifted as you, in five days, you were able to beat the iron bars to their first shape, if you don’t do the business of a constable, you can completely rely on ironing for a living.”
This was a sincere compliment.
As the saying goes, outsiders look at the scene, but insiders look at the doorway.
Only Blacksmith Zhao knew how terrifying Zhou An’s talent was.
Zhou An smiled and did not speak, instead looking at the text in front of him.
[Ironmaking lv.2 (Hardness +1): 1/20000]
A large amount of information poured into his mind, and after Zhou An ate the information up, he sensed the power of Level 2 Iron Beating.
There was no obvious battle power bonus, but the hardness +1 was able to bring about a qualitative change.
The reason was simple.
The Hardness +1 was specific to the object being built.
Even if he built it at random, it still possessed the attribute of Hardness +1.
Zhou An took the iron bar in his hand and picked up another iron bar, and the two iron bars collided.
“Clang!”
A crisp metallic sound came from the iron bar, one of the iron bars snapped into two, but nothing happened to the iron bar he had built himself.
Blacksmith Zhao was surprised, “Sir, how did you do this?”
Zhou An didn’t say anything, he couldn’t say that he had opened himself up, could he?
“Alright, today is almost over, I’ll continue tomorrow, one step ahead.”
The time for the noon break was almost up, he still had to go back to the government office to continue touching the fish.
Zhou An did not say anything more, leaving the blacksmith store and heading to the Yamen.
On the way back, he was also pondering whether or not to take advantage of the second level of proficiency to build what he wanted.
After thinking about it later, it was better to forget about it.
It was better to wait until after the metamorphosis occurred at Level 3 before building it, so that it wouldn’t take any other effort.
After returning to the courthouse, Zhou An didn’t go inside his room to touch the fish, but instead came to the kitchen.
Ever since taking on this job, Zhou An had the key to the kitchen, and being inside the room was just touching fish, so it would be better to come to the kitchen to practice Bumping Things for a while.
After closing the door behind him, Zhou An found the large iron pot and looked at the text in front of him.
[Bending Objects lv.3 (Strength +2, Destruction +1): 39,899/40,000]
[Swimming Dragon Steps lv.3 (Speed +2, Dodge +1): 37699/40,000]
Swimming Dragon Steps was still one step short, but Bumps was almost full.
It couldn’t be helped, who let the Swimming Dragon Steps be learned late.
“Today, I’m going to have double happiness.”
Zhou An Xin thought this as he picked up the iron pot and began to upend it.
Inside the kitchen, clanking sounds resounded, but fortunately, the kitchen was relatively remote, and the sound couldn’t travel too far.
The higher the proficiency level, the slower it rose.
Throughout the afternoon, Zhou An was like a person living in his liver, not resting for a moment.
It wasn’t until he was almost at the end of his shift that he put the iron pot aside and rubbed his sore arms.
Tired was really tired.
Even with the air in his body, this kind of intense play lately made his arms feel sore.
Playing iron and turning things upside down both required relying on his hands, and with the two stacked on top of each other, Zhou An really wouldn’t have been able to eat it if he didn’t have the air in his body.
He knew very well that a penny for every plow, a penny for every harvest.
He had traveled to this kind of place, if he didn’t work a little harder, what was waiting for him could only be grass.
The entire afternoon was rewarding.
When Zhou An put down this iron pot, the text in front of him finally changed.
[Bumping Things lv.4 (Strength +2, Destruction +2): 1/60,000]
The skill, Bumping Things, had finally reached level four, alongside the Butcher’s Sword Technique.
A large amount of information poured into his mind, Zhou An closed his eyes and ate it all up.
Opening his eyes, Zhou An picked up the iron pot and felt it become even more like an iron pot.
Not only that, Zhou An tried putting a cabbage into the pot.
He didn’t vigorously turn the pot upside down, he just gently shook it for a while, and the cabbage immediately turned into a mess of broken pieces.
Destruction +2, the terrifying destructive power had increased substantially compared to before.
Zhou An guessed that if he encountered the Beast Sect Master again, not to mention his eight-meter height, even if he added another eight meters, he would still be able to give him a living upside-down death.
“Comfortable.”
Zhou An put down the iron pot, and his heart burst with pleasure.
There was nothing more satisfying than a harvest.
Footsteps were already coming from outside, Zhou An did not continue.
Upon arriving at the door, Yu Hang was already waiting there, recently the two had been going home together.
“Let’s go Old Zhou.” Yu Hang greeted.
The two of them went out of the county office and rushed towards the house.
When they were almost home, Yu Hang opened his mouth to chat.
“Old Zhou, the Great Chu Celebration is coming up, so we’ll have to get busy again.”