Chapter 97.

Sheriff Sun really felt like he had beeped a dog.

For no reason at all, he had to be beaten up again.

He just wanted to show off in front of his superiors, but now this is happening again.

But he didn’t even ask why, because it was too late.

Two constables had already dragged him outside.

Soon, the sounds of screams and beating on the board rang out.

“You, lead the way!”

Order of the Sun Mansion pointed at Wu Youde.

Wu Youde didn’t dare to slow down and hurriedly led the way in front.

Soon, they bypassed a noisy street and finally came to the secluded alley.

At this moment, there were not many people in the alley.

The doors of each household were tightly closed.

Wu Youde pointed to a place, meaning that there was Zhou An’s room.

Order of the Sun Mansion looked up at the outdated house, his brows slightly furrowed.

He was not expecting how such a character could be in such an outdated place.

But he was at least sitting in the position of the Prefectural Order, so he had seen a lot of things anyways.

He knew that some people had some minor fetishes, and these fetishes were considered idiosyncratic in the eyes of ordinary people.

But in the eyes of those of them, it was extremely normal.

Let’s say he had met an expert before who was particularly fond of food, and also loved spicy tofu brain.

A heretic like this, even if he had seen it, he would have frowned straight away.

“Go, knock on the door.”

After drifting off for a while, the Sun Prefecture Order had Wu Youde next to him go and knock on the door.

Wu Youde had a bitter smile on his face, he was not expecting things to develop like this.

A small constable, someone he hadn’t even looked at with his eyes, at this moment, there were big shots trying to come to his door one after another.

This kind of situation was really a lifetime rarity.

Wu Youde even regretted a little.

He shouldn’t have underestimated Zhou An.

At this time, there was nothing he could do, as the Prefectural Orders had already given their orders, so he could only walk to the door with a stiff upper hand and raised his hand to knock gently.

Soon, a sound of footsteps came to mind.

Accompanied by the creaking of the wooden house, the door was opened.

Zhou An stood at the door with a calm expression.

“A few adults have come to my humble abode, I wonder what they have to say.”

At least he was an expert who was about to cross over into the Second Stream, and he was certainly aware that someone was at his door.

Just with his sharp five senses nowadays, he was also able to sense it, but he didn’t know why it had come to him.

Thinking about this, Zhou An’s eyes wandered over Wu Youde with a contemplative look.

“If this guy is looking for trouble, isn’t it a good idea to find a way to solve it?”

This was his true thought.

His character had always been like this, to get rid of all hidden dangers so that he could feel at ease.

When thinking this way, his gaze naturally carried a bit of a creepy feeling.

Wu Youde only felt a layer of goosebumps on his body.

It always felt like he was the prey, being targeted by the hunter.

“Zhou …… brother, this is Lord Prefect of Yunlai Province, he came over to find you for something.”

Wu Youde even changed his address.

Zhou An nodded, “I don’t know what the Prefectural Order Lord is looking for me for?”

At this time, he seemed to understand a bit of what Blacksmith Zhao meant, when a person’s identity shifted, the people around them would shift their attitudes.

He recalled a saying he had heard in his previous life.

When you’re down and out, the people around you are bad people.

When you are developed, the people around you are good people.

This world is so realistic.

Sun Fu Ling looked at Wang Mang next to him.

Wang Mang nodded imperceptibly, indicating that he didn’t recognize the wrong person.

“This brother, can you please ask me to go in, there is always something wrong with talking about things here.” Order of the Sun Mansion laughed.

When these words were spoken, Zhou An felt that something was wrong.

The person in front of him, who was in a high position, should himself be for a scholar, but between his words, he carried a jianghu aura.

The Sun Prefecture Order seemed to have gotten used to it a long time ago, and knowing what Zhou An was thinking, he even explained.

“Coming from a poor background, halfway out of the country, he is also considered to have been in the jianghu for some time, so he naturally carries a jianghu tone.”

Zhou An stroked his chin, “Lord Sun, halfway out of the gate, all able to achieve this position today, truly is overly talented.”

This was not meant as a compliment, someone like this who came out halfway and was able to reach a high position, must have talent.

“Where where, brother Zhou, can you let me in for a chat?” Order of the Sun Mansion continued to smile.

Zhou An thought for a moment and made way, bringing the Sun Fu Order few people inside.

Inside the room, there was still enough light.

Zhou An made them a pot of tea and sat down in his seat.

To come to the door was to be a guest, and to come with a smiling face, there was no reason to drive them out with a broom.

In Zhou An’s values, there had always been a phrase upheld.

People respect me a foot, I respect people a foot.

Using a cold ass to stick to someone else’s hot face, it was hard for such a person to survive.

“Not bad, brother Zhou is good at picking tea, something like clear tea, it doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad.” As expected of someone who had been in the jianghu, the Sun Prefecture Order was not the least bit restrained.

On the scene, only Wu Youde was standing.

He didn’t dare to sit.

He had offended both of these people in front of him, and if he blatantly sat down at this time, he was afraid that he would be put in small shoes.

“Lord Sun, let’s get back to the topic, what exactly is it that is bothering a great person of noble stature like you to come to my place?” Zhou An asked.

The Sun Prefect Order was just being polite just now, knowing that it was time to get down to business, there was no unnecessary nonsense, pointing directly at Zhou An’s waist.

“Brother Zhou should be a person of the Casting Dao, the thing around your waist is not too simple.”

Hearing this, Zhou An looked up to his waist.

There was a pink money bag tied there, and inside the money bag were his various equipment.

Let’s say a pan, and a long knife that he had built himself.

This money bag was given to him by Ye Frost, and the person who cast the money bag was one of the handlers of the Crafting Supervisor, and was also Blacksmith Zhao’s senior uncle.

According to what Blacksmith Zhao had said, it seemed to be the original blacksmith of the Casting Dao branch, which was concerned with maximizing the characteristics of the things cast.

Zhou An raised an eyebrow and said, “Lord Sun is overthinking, this item is a gift from my friend, I myself am not a person of the Casting Dao, so I might disappoint Your Excellency.”

At this time, Wang Mang, who had been silent, spoke.

“This item is extremely precious, how could someone give it away indiscriminately?” Wang Mang said, “This is the practice of the original blacksmiths, within the two existing branches, the original blacksmiths and the spirit blacksmiths are very different from each other, one can tell at a glance.”

“Oh?” Zhou An became interested and asked, “This brother is?”

Wang Mang arched his hand, “My name is Wang Mang, I am also an Original Blacksmith, and I once had the honor of being under the apprentice of the Head of the Supervisor of Crafting.”

Supervisor?

Zhou An was slightly surprised.

The so-called Supervisor, that is, the hand of the Crafting Supervisor, was the uncle of Blacksmith Zhao.

In other words, this Wang Mang was the apprentice of the Supervisor’s apprentice, and was considered to be Zhao Blacksmith’s nephew.

“This world is small enough.” Zhou An thought.

Order of the Sun Mansion smiled, “Brother Zhou, the brightest of the bright, now that the Foundry Competition is in full swing, you have this kind of strength, why don’t you take part in it?”

His trip over was actually for this purpose.

To be honest, when the higher-ups enacted a task down, you had to be able to figure it out.

It was only when you could speculate well that you could accomplish it well.

The Great Dao Casting Competition was obviously valued by the higher-ups, so it had to be accomplished well.

How do you do it well?

In addition to ensuring fairness, but also to ensure quality.

Quality is a big head, not a joke.

Let’s say, you organize the place finally selected some talents, but these talents are actually crooked, then what to do?

Although the higher-ups will not blame you, the image of your inaction will be remembered by the higher-ups.

Don’t want to be promoted and get rich, if you run into something, let the upper head is not happy, then there is fruit to eat.

Therefore, Sun Fu Ling feels that the key to improving the quality is to let more people with real skills come to compete.

The hotter the fight, the better, so that they could be noticed by the higher-ups.

Zhou An was a smart man, of course he knew what Sun Fu Order was planning.

He pointed to Wang Mang next to him and said, “With a status like Brother Wang’s, his skills must not be small, and he will definitely be able to shine when the time comes, so a nobody like me doesn’t have to participate.”

Still the same, Zhou An didn’t want to get into any storm at all.

With the Golden Finger in place, he was truly a salted fish.

If no one came to mess with him, he was a decent person.

If he came to mess with him, he would cut down those who messed with him.

“It’s not the same, a few more people will liven things up, not to mention that Wang Meng doesn’t care.” Order of the Sun Mansion still didn’t give up.

Wang Mang nodded, “Casting the Dao, is a path to be practiced for a lifetime, people of my generation are bound to cut through the thorns and defy the difficulties, so how would they be afraid of a big competition, the more experts there are, the more they will be able to cut through the competition, and allow themselves to soar high!”

Zhou An touched his chin, “But, I’m really not an expert.”

Those few words from Wang Mang just now were quite well spoken, but they could not shake his heart in the slightest.

Order of the Sun Mansion was still thinking of saying something.

Zhou An waved his hand and said, “Lord Sun, I’m just a nobody, I really don’t want to go and show my face, if this is really the case, you don’t have to say anything.”

People living in this world should know how to refuse.

Don’t be some ingratiating personality.

The word rejection is very good to write, but it is very hard to learn, and once you learn it, life will go much smoother.

Sun Fu Ling chose to keep his mouth shut.

After so many years of dealing with people, he was able to sense that Zhou An seemed to have made up his mind.

“Alas ……,” Sun Fu Ling sighed.

“Since this is the case, I don’t want to persuade more, if Brother Zhou really wants to participate, he can go to Yunlai Mansion to enroll at any time.”

A strong twisted melon was not sweet.

Knowing that the other party really didn’t want to go any further, Sun Fu Orders didn’t try to persuade him any further.

He was pressed for time and had still found time to come over this time, so he did not intend to stay much longer and left Zhou An’s room.

Zhou An kept sending Sun Fu Ling and the others to the door before closing the door of the room and continuing to go to the Liver Butcher’s Knife.

On the way back, Wu Youde kept greeting them with a smiling face.

Sun Fu Order, however, was silent, as if he was thinking about something.

“Lord Sun, why don’t I come every day then and try to persuade Zhou An to attend?” Wu Youde felt that this was the time for him to perform, and hurriedly said.

Lord Sun’s order came back to his senses and shook his head, “You don’t understand.”

Wu Youde couldn’t hear what it meant and expressed his confusion.

“Those who are able to pull their weight within each line of work, those are all immersed for many years, other things aside, they definitely have a resilient heart, when they decide on something, ten oxen can’t pull it back.”

Order of the Sun Prefecture sighed, “I can only say that I don’t have this blessing, without further ado, I have to go, you remember, the places under your jurisdiction must be managed properly, let me find any laziness on your part again, I will make you eat your words and walk away!”

Wu Youde shivered, indicating that he knew.

He remembered something else, it was Qi Shuo who told him about the expert inside that blacksmith store.

So, with a pleasing tone, he told him about it.

Of course, he concealed Qi Shuo, after all, he still had to rely on the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce to move up the ladder.

So he just categorized this matter to himself and said that he found it himself.

The Sun Fu Order was originally planning to go back, but when he heard this, he was a little bit more interested.

The casting expert just now was unwilling to participate, so let’s replace him with another one.

This matter was also able to be resolved partially, at least it was rewarding.

It wasn’t as if every expert was Zhou An’s temperament, was it?

Well, it shouldn’t be so.

Thinking of this, the Sun Prefecture Order hurriedly asked Wu Youde to lead the way.

Wu Youde thought to himself that if he was able to get it done this time, he would definitely reverse his image in the mind of the Sun Prefecture Order.

He did not hesitate and immediately led the way.

Soon, they arrived at Blacksmith Zhao’s smithy.

Sun Fu Ling naturally walked in.

As a result, he saw a very unexpected scene.

“Disciple Wang Mang! Greetings to Master Uncle!”

Wang Mang reacted very quickly and with a flash, he arrived in front of Blacksmith Zhao.

Master …… Master Uncle?

What kind of strange operation is this?

Order of the Sun Mansion felt as if there were too many surprises in this trip to Anding County today.

Blacksmith Zhao put down his hammer and was also very surprised.

“Wang Mang, aren’t you kid staying in Yunlai Mansion? Why did you run here today?”

They were all from the same sect, although their own teacher and master teacher were not quite on the same page, but that was all in their own homes, outside everyone was still a family that loved each other.

Wang Mang explained in simple and appalling words, and only then did Zhao Blacksmith realize.

He also thought that this was specifically to find himself, did not expect to come to this.

“I, Sun Zhiju, have met Senior Zhao.” Order of the House of Sun arched his hand and said.

The seniority of the Crafting Supervisor’s hand was very high, and the seniority of his master’s disciple was naturally not small.

These days those who mix with the officialdom always have a little bit of eyesight, not to mention that Sun Fu Ling comes from the jianghu body, and also carries a jianghu qi.

However, Sun Fu order is still a little regret, because this casting competition, mainly for young people.

This person in front of him was no longer considered a young person.

Blacksmith Zhao was actually a pretty good person, as long as he wasn’t allowed to do things he didn’t want to do, he was usually quite kind.

Therefore, facing the smiling face of the Sun Prefecture Order, he reported the same kindness.

“Lord Sun, it turns out that you’re also here for that Zhou An kid, but you’ve come to the wrong place, that kid is a stubborn donkey that can’t be persuaded back.”

When Blacksmith Zhao said this, he looked like he was gnashing his teeth.

In his entire life, he had never seen such a person who didn’t even want to go to the smithy supervisor.

Order of the House of Sun sighed, “Yes, I think that with him going, this match will be wonderful.”

This was his true thought.

But before he could finish this sentence, he was interrupted by Blacksmith Zhao.