"Then, Magistrate, please receive the official document from the Prefect. I'm busy and don't have time to watch you show off your official power."
As he spoke, he pulled out the documents from his pocket, slammed them on the table, and strode away.
Leaving behind a room full of shame and silence!
After a while.
"My lord... are you alright?" Li Jin looked at Rong Bai, who was trembling with anger, and asked worriedly, "How about we have the servants add some hot water so you can soak in it again?"
"No need!" Rong Bai closed his eyes, suppressing the boundless anger in his heart.
When he opened his eyes again, everything was calm inside: "Uncle Li, take the official documents and wait for me in the study. I'll get ready and come right away."
Li Jin nodded with satisfaction: "Okay!"
Many people say that the adult is a spoiled brat who only knows how to eat, drink, and have fun, but they don't know that the adult is not just good at playing.
"Did you read it? What's written inside?" Li Jin had only been in the study for a short while when Rong Bai walked in with her hair still wet.
"Bad news!" Li Jin exclaimed, his face full of worry.
"Alright then." Rong Bai was in the mood to joke again: "Is it that Du Hong, that money-grubber, is dying and wants us to go and pay our respects, or has his treasury been robbed and he wants me to help catch the thief?"
Li Jin chuckled: "My lord, please don't joke. If that were true, it wouldn't be bad news."
"It's about Chaoyang Manor."
"Lady Luo?" Rong Bai's mind raced, and he understood: "He wants me to go and suppress the bandits?"
"Not bad!" Li Jin nodded, and handed over the official document: "And you're not giving us a single soldier, leaving it to us to handle?"
Rong Bai chuckled, too lazy to even open the document, and simply tossed it onto the table: "It's true what they say, 'One word from above, and those below run themselves ragged.'"
"Our Tongning County has only a hundred or two minor officials who have never even been on the battlefield. How can we possibly suppress them?"
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