Chapter 90.

After Zhou An returned the word there, the constables present all cast their eyes over.

The expressions on everyone’s faces were not quite the same.

Some carried surprise, some carried doubt, and some were watching the show.

This new official had three fires, and the first fire had already begun to burn.

What Zhou An was doing at this time, in their eyes, seemed to be messing things up.

This was the same as the workplace, when a person started messing things up, the other coworkers would look at him with gloating eyes.

“If you have any comments, you can raise them.”

Wu Youde tried to make his expression as kind as possible, but in his heart, he had already started to sneer.

His first step in coming over was to fix all these crookedness, especially this group of sneaky people.

He was satisfied with the performance of this group of constables just now, meaning that his first step had already been achieved.

However, he did not expect that at this time, Zhou An showed a different attitude, which made him a little angry, yet very happy.

The anger lay in the fact that Zhou An dared to raise his opinion at this time, while the reason he was happy was that he could use this to kill the chicken to honor the monkey.

No matter what Zhou An said later, he would not be able to avoid a scolding himself.

“It’s like this, I was forced to make a living, that’s why I went to the kitchen to become a chef.” Zhou An said.

Wu Youde sneered in his heart and said, “Is that so? The court didn’t give you enough bong pay? As far as I know, the salaries given to constables by the imperial court are above the pass line of Anding County.”

How could Zhou An not be clear about what Wu Youde meant, but he already had an idea himself.

“Enough is enough, but I think the money is too little.”

When Wu Youde heard this, he immediately became furious: “How dare you, as a court constable, you even have such thoughts!”

Good, it was just too good!

He had originally thought that Zhou An would stop talking after he had been told twice, so that the meaning of killing the chicken to honor the monkey was there, but not deep enough.

He didn’t expect Zhou An to talk back to him, which was meaningful enough.

Since you’re going to talk back to me, then don’t blame me for being unforgiving.

“Zhou An, do you realize that what you just said is already challenging this official’s bottom line.”

“I don’t know.” Zhou An shrugged his shoulders and said, “Lord Wu, since you think that I have challenged your bottom line, then this matter will be resolved.”

“Oh? How can it be resolved?” Wu Youde slowly said, “How about this, first deduct your salary for two months, and this matter will be settled ……”

“I quit.”

Before Wu Youde could finish his sentence, Zhou An was the first to speak.

Wu Youde was about to say the following, Zhou An opened his mouth with these four words, and he was blinded.

Not only him, the constables present were also baffled, all betting their eyes over.

All of them were echoing, the four words Zhou An had just said.

“What did you say, you quit?” Wu Youde wanted to confirm if he had heard wrong.

Zhou An laughed, “Since Lord Wu won’t let me do this, I’ll quit, there’s no point.”

He thought clearly just now.

This Wu Youde obviously, did not want the constables to continue to touch the fish.

Perhaps for the constables, not touching the fish would just be slightly more tiring, and their salaries would remain as usual.

But for Zhou An, there was no need.

The reason why he continued to work as a constable was mainly due to two considerations.

First, naturally, there is an official status.

Secondly, it was because he was living a good life now and could touch the fish liver proficiency.

The second of which, is the main event.

If you keep yourself busy and don’t have time to liver proficiency, then what’s the point of keeping it?

To make himself give up the opportunity to liver proficiency just based on a lowest level official status?

All he wanted to say was, you’re thinking about fart eating.

As for where the money came from, there were ways to do it, and one could continue to consider it later.

When Wu Youde heard Zhou An’s reply, his face quickly became incredibly gloomy.

“Zhou An, are you sure?”

He realized that his ploy did not work, and did not achieve the effect of killing the chicken to honor the monkey.

This was because the chicken had now flown out of the cage.

It was not killed at all.

More crucially, the chicken had also cut his eyes blind while flying out.

Now it was the time when he was building up his prestige, suddenly Zhou An quit, wasn’t that a living slap in his face?

“My lord, quitting is quitting, I’m pretty sure.” Zhou An shrugged his shoulders.

Wu Youde’s face became even more somber.

But he also knew that Zhou An had said so, there was really no need for him to say anything further, and to say anything further would just be more humiliating.

He could even feel that there were a few constables who were holding back their laughter.

“Good, you go find someone, collect this month’s salary, and then roll up and leave.” Wu Youde waved his hand and said.

“Okay.” Zhou An did not have any regrets, and also agreed happily.

From now on, he was a free agent, and had plenty of time to liver proficiency as much as he wanted.

Moreover, if anything happens in the government office, it has nothing to do with him.

Thinking like this, it was beautiful.

“Is there anything else? If there is still something you don’t want to do, hurry up and say it, I’ll say it here first, if you don’t say it today, you won’t have this chance in the future!”

Wu Youde felt that he had to make up for it, so he said what he just said.

His meaning was that it was his loss if he Zhou An didn’t do it, so don’t think about it.

He thought that no one in this group of constables would dare to risk their heads in front of him for the sake of their salaries, but he never thought that the words would fall just before another hand was raised.

Wu Youde cast his angry eyes over, “You don’t want to do it either?”

Yu Hang raised his hand and said very frankly, “I have to study, I don’t have time to be a constable every day, not to mention that my brothers have quit, so it’s not fun for me to work here.”

Just now, when Zhou An said he would quit, Yu Hang also had this intention.

If his own brother had quit, why would he still do this?

What’s more, if he really followed Wu Youde’s method, what time would he have to read books?

The selection won’t take long to finish, and then it will be the imperial examinations, time can be very tight ah.

“Well well well, you go with him too!” Wu Youde waved his sleeve angrily.

He felt that this first fire of his today had only burned a head before it was extinguished by a large pot of water.

But the key was that he couldn’t reason yet, after all, what’s the use of reasoning when others quit?

Do not do, on behalf of a common people, they really do not dare to take the power to press people.

The emperor of the Great Chu Kingdom has said a sentence.

It means that no matter if it is people in the line or the four major categories, they are not as important as the common people, who are the foundation of the Great Chu Kingdom.

At that time, there was an official who thought that this was just speaking in a superficial manner and did something to oppress the people.

It was fine for this to be done in secret and no one found out, but he did it openly and reported it to the capital.

This guy thought he was a second-rate scholar, so he thought that His Majesty would punish him at most.

But I never thought that after hearing the news from the capital, His Majesty, who was sitting in the palace, issued an imperial decree.

Not long after, this official was beheaded.

Since then, everyone knows that it’s okay for these people to commit crimes, but if they don’t, and you dare to mess with them, they will really get their heads chopped off.

Wu Youde felt that his face was disgraced today, and after waving his sleeve, he left and didn’t bother.

Zhou An and Yu Hang both looked at each other, silently did the formalities to leave, put down all those of the official uniforms, and only then went out the door in a casual dress.

Before doing it, Zhou An went back home, changed the knife he fought with the ordinary long knife he kept at home, and put the knife and the pan into the money bag sent by Ye Frost, which made all the formalities done.

Having left and quit, the words of the constables became correspondingly fewer.

These things are like that, no matter how long you have been working in a place, the relationship between coworkers always stops at coworkers.

Of course, there are exceptions, but most of them are like that.

Let’s say right now, the big guys talk quite well on weekdays, but when Zhou An and Yu Hang left, they didn’t want to talk.

When they went out, they mostly just said hello on the way.

After leaving the county office, Zhou An asked Yu Hang what his recent plans were.

“Reading, recently still saved a lot of money, enough for me to read until the imperial examinations, if I really did not pass, I will find another job to do, continue to test.”

Yu Hang was very spontaneous, in fact, he had always been a spontaneous person.

“By the way old Zhou, what kind of work are you going to do, you don’t want to do anything that breaks the law, or else the brothers won’t be able to cover it.”

Zhou An laughed: “Old Yu, you don’t not know me, I’m a person who will do illegal things, let’s just idle for a while, then we’ll talk about it.”

He had plans for that.

From now on, the entire morning can go to the blacksmith store to make iron, then in the afternoon and evening, stay at home and practice the Butcher’s Sword Method.

After he raised the Fusion Casting Method to level four and the Butchering Sword Technique to level five, he would then engage in a few other level four skills.

According to his current speed, he estimated that it wouldn’t take long, after all, he was now a full-time liver proficiency.

When you think about it, you have to do it.

Zhou An was a man of action.

“Old Yu, you go back first, I have to go shopping.”

Yu Hang didn’t ask anything, he knew that this brother of his family was probably quite busy right now.

Although he didn’t know what he was busy with, but these things were less prying.

Even if they were good brothers, sometimes there had to be a sense of boundaries, didn’t they?

Yu Hang said, and left directly.

After Yu Hang left, Zhou An headed to the blacksmith store.

It wasn’t far from the courthouse to the blacksmith store, but on the way, Zhou An really encountered something.

On the wide and clean street, a carriage was traveling slowly.

There were also horse-drawn carriages crossing the road in Anding County, but there were very few encounters, after all, it was a small remote county.

Zhou An stood by the side, waiting for this carriage to pass, subconsciously sizing it up, and immediately realized something was wrong.

This carriage was very luxurious, not so much the size, but the various decorations on the outside, just the horse pulling the carriage, it looked oily and shiny.

Moreover, around the carriage, there were ten or so people in uniform, with weapons in their hands.

Next to them were the small traders, and Zhou An also heard their exchanges.

“Our small county, how come there are such big families coming over?” A citizen whispered.

Even the common folk could tell that this carriage was different.

Another citizen said in a very gossipy manner, “I heard that inside this carriage, the people living there are the people from the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce.”

“Yo, if it’s really someone from the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce then that’s something, it’s one of the top chambers of commerce in our Great Chu Country, why would it come to our place?”

“This you do not understand it, this is also our county official master brought, I heard that our county official master in the capital, behind the back of the people of the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce backing.”

“So it is so, we this adult seems to want to make a big deal in stabilized county ah …… chamber of commerce will have circulation ah!”

“No matter what, if because of this Hengtong Chamber of Commerce, Anding County prospers, we can also get a few more dollars.”

Listening to the words of the surrounding people, Zhou An also heard a generalization.

The Hengtong Chamber of Commerce was one of the top two chambers of commerce in Da Chu Kingdom.

The Chamber of Commerce is described by two words.

–Rich.

They also have a very wide range, doing everything, as long as there is money to be made.

Of course, these were not last night’s main concern, he was feeling that there was still a reason for what Wu Youde had gotten up to.

“It seems that he is not willing to be in this small county, and wants to make Anding County better, and then pull it upwards.” Zhou An thought.

This thing think all think understand, after all, is from the capital fell down, explicitly is a promotion secretly is depreciation, who will not be convinced.

Just he did not expect, this guy in the capital inside the operation is quite good, even there is Hengtong Chamber of Commerce in giving him backing.

But these things have nothing to do with himself.

He was also just thinking about it, he had more important things to do.

“It’s still proficiency that matters.”

Zhou An didn’t stay much longer, he probably just understood a little bit and headed towards the blacksmith store.

There were still more things to do, he didn’t have time to waste here.

Without the position of constable, Zhou An was in turn quite relaxed.

After leaving the street, Zhou An walked towards the blacksmith store without stopping or inking in between.

“How come there’s the imprint of a wheel?”

On his way to the blacksmith store, he noticed traces of wheels on both sides of the road.

The marks were very much like a carriage.

Having encountered a carriage just now, and now seeing the wheel marks of a carriage, Zhou An associated it with the sight he had just seen.

However, he didn’t think much about it and continued to rush towards the blacksmith store.

The wheel prints went all the way forward.

Zhou An also went all the way forward and finally arrived at the blacksmith store.

At the entrance of the blacksmith store, not far away, he stopped.

Outside the blacksmith store in front, a carriage was parked.

The guards around the carriage blocked the entrance of the blacksmith store.

There was quite a feeling that there was a major secret.

“This Old Zhao fellow is not simple, but he has a relationship with the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce?” Zhou An thought in his heart when he saw this scene.

With this scene in front of him, even a fool would be able to tell that it was not simple.

Zhou An tried to walk to the door, and before he could get close, the two guards reached out to stop him.

“Brother, there is something going on in the blacksmith store, please come back later.”

The guards were polite and did not clash with Zhou An.

Zhou An stroked his chin.

It was not a good thing for him to go up and slap him twice when everyone else greeted him with a smiling face.

He planned to wait outside for a bit and see what happened later.

But without thinking, just as he had this thought, a voice came from the house.