Chapter 8: Positive Yang Power! It turns out that was not a dream!
The inner hall of the county government.
"My dear nephew, let me introduce you. This is our county magistrate's chief clerk, Lord Zhou Zezhou. He is also your senior. You can get closer to him ."
Wu Wenjing, with a forced smile, pulled Xu Chong over to introduce him to him.
"I have long admired your name. I am so sorry for my disrespect."
Xu Chong bowed expressionlessly.
"No, no, come to think of it, I have worked with your father for some years, so I am too arrogant to call you nephew."
Zhou Zhubu sighed and said, "Alas... I was too busy with official duties and didn't have time to pay my respects. Will my nephew blame me?"
"You're welcome. This is an important government place. From now on, we should address each other by our official titles. Your Excellency, where is the Dianshi Yamen?"
Xu Chong's inner depression had not yet dissipated, so how could he have the interest to practice Tai Chi with these two old foxes?
If it wasn't his first day in office, he wouldn't even bother to come to the inner hall.
"I understand, I understand. Dianshi Xu is always concerned about public affairs."
Wu Wenjing remained calm and called a yamen runner to lead the way for Xu Chong.
After Xu Chong left, Zhou Ze's expression instantly turned cold.
"This Xu Chong is really a piece of shit. He turned against me right after taking office."
"Haha, if he still looks the same as he did that day, can you and I still chat and laugh here peacefully?"
Wu Wenjing smiled nonchalantly.
"Well, that's true."
Zhou Ze thought about it and laughed, "Your Excellency, you are so insightful. I can't even compare to you."
"Don't play these tricks on me. Don't think I don't know that you are so arrogant and you may not take a useless person like me seriously."
Wu Wenjing said meaningfully.
Zhou Ze's heart skipped a beat, and he was about to open his mouth to defend himself, but he saw Wu Wenjing waving his hand.
"Don't worry, I don't mean anything against you."
Wu Wenjing sighed quietly, "I guess your contribution is enough to exchange for the subsequent skills, right? Are you saving that money to buy the medicine?"
"You're spying on me?"
Zhou Ze narrowed his eyes, and his previous humility was instantly replaced by fierceness.
"I've walked the same path you've walked, so why would I need surveillance?"
Wu Wenjing laughed at himself and said, "As someone who has been through this, I just want to give you a piece of advice."
“Only those with exceptional talents are qualified to receive the court’s kindness.”
"Can mediocre people like you and me really make a comeback?"
…
The Dianshi Yamen is located on the west side of the inner hall and has a separate courtyard.
On one side of the main hall is the registrar's residence, and to the south are the Chengfa room and the official residence.
It was not until he saw Zhao Liu outside the main hall that Xu Chong realized that this guy had also defected.
"Stay outside and report if anything happens."
Xu Chong patted Zhao Liu on the shoulder.
Zhao Liu was flattered. His back straightened immediately, and his eyes looked around fiercely like a wolf, as if he would bite anyone who dared to come forward.
Xu Chong walked into the main hall.
A throne chair, a desk, and two rows of guest seats.
It’s just a very simple office space.
"Phew...at least I have a golden finger."
Xu Chong sat down in the main seat and let out a long breath.
From the time he woke up until now, his mood had finally calmed down a little.
Indeed, compared with other time travelers, he could be considered unfortunate enough to encounter a behemoth like Daqing lying overhead, suffocating him.
But compared to the people in this world, he is already much luckier.
At least there's a chance of immortality, right?
Thinking of this, Xu Chong called up the panel to check.
Then he jumped up from his chair.
【Name: Xu Chong】
【True Method: Zhengyang Jin (not practiced)】
[Rule: Immortality (consume 10,000 spiritual energy to activate permanently)]
[Spiritual Source: 0]
[Tip: The spiritual energy concentration has reached the minimum standard, and the spiritual energy is being generated]
Zhengyang Jin???
If I remember correctly, this is something from a dream, right?
Can the martial arts techniques that I dreamed
Or... that wasn't a dream at all, but a memory? !
Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed through Xu Chong's mind.
In the dream, the man called the child "Chong'er".
Chong'er, Chong'er?
So, that was not a dream at all, it was the memory of the original body!
The man is Mr. Xu Sanye, and the bug is the childhood of the original body!
"No wonder!"
Xu Chong muttered to himself, his thoughts a little confused, "No wonder that house feels so familiar. Now that I think about it, isn't it the old house in Baiyang Lane?"
He carefully reviewed the memories inherited from his original body more than once to make sure that the scene in his dream was not there.
Obviously, this is also a part that was hidden by the obstruction of knowledge and views, and was only regained after becoming an official.
"So... Mr. Xu San started practicing martial arts more than ten years ago."
"It seems that Third Master's martial arts aptitude is a bit too poor. Otherwise, after more than ten years, he would have been promoted to a ninth-rank chief clerk, let alone a county magistrate."
Xu Chong thought with some disdain, and then his face suddenly stiffened, "Fuck, this body of mine won't inherit the Third Master's talent, right?"
As the saying goes, like father and daughter, like son. The father’s aptitude is so poor, how good can the son be?
Third Master misled me!
Xu Chong was heartbroken and it took him a while to calm down.
"Don't worry, I can live forever. Even if I have the talent of a pig, I can fly after practicing for hundreds of years."
"At least I have a martial arts technique for free, and this is the most important thing."
"Contributions can be exchanged for skills, and definitely for other things, maybe something that can change your qualifications."
"Uh...contribution?"
Xu Chong's emotions, which had just calmed down, suddenly began to surge again, and he quickly shouted to the outside of the door: "Zhao Liu!"
"Hey, sir."
Zhao Liu hurried in: "What do you want, sir?"
"Let me ask you, in which year did Xu Youan enter the county government? And in which year was he promoted to Dianshi?"
Xu Chong asked.
"I don't know about this."
Zhao Liu answered truthfully, "My family moved to the city ten years ago. At that time, the Third Master was already the Dianshi."
"Is that so?"
Xu Chong pondered for a moment and said, "Go to the archives and get all the records about Xu Youan. If Zhou Zhubu doesn't allow it, come back to me."
"yes."
Zhao Liu took the order and left.
In less than a quarter of an hour, he returned with a thick stack of files.
"Master Zhou let you take it like this?"
Xu Chong was a little surprised.
"You don't know, sir. When Chief Clerk Zhou heard what you meant, he immediately said that you can review all the files in the county office. You don't need to tell him."
Zhao Liu put down the file and said excitedly.
In his opinion, Zhou Zhubu's move represented his fear of Xu Chong, proving that he followed the right person.
"Interesting...Okay, you can go out first."
Xu Chong seemed to be thinking about something. He waved his hand to let Zhao Liu leave, and began to look through the files.
After half an hour, the review was completed.
However, Xu Chong’s doubts were not only not answered, but increased instead.
According to records, Mr. Xu Sanye took office in the county government in the second year of Yongtai, and was initially appointed as the clerk of the criminal department. In the fifth year of Yongtai, he was promoted to the clerk.
It is now the seventeenth year of Yongtai, and I am twenty years old. The original body in the dream was only about two to three years old, which was seventeen or eighteen years ago.
In other words, the scene in the dream might have happened even earlier than the Yongtai Dynasty!
At that time, Mr. Xu Sanye was not even an official, so where did he get the contributions to exchange for martial arts skills?
So it is obvious that San Ye has other channels.
Even someone with a special status like Wang Hezhi doesn't know about this channel!
Thinking of this, Xu Chong immediately stood up, hurried out of the county government office, and soon appeared in front of the study room of the Xu Mansion.
