"Liao Yong is qualified? Doesn't the Patrol Warden Office require at least First Grade?" Xu Tao raised a brow.
"Barely. Isn't he about to Enter the Ranks? I was actually hesitating over whether to take him in." Kaishan came to his senses and answered cautiously.
Everyone wanted to enter the Patrol Warden Office, mainly because it could recommend people for attached posts at the Thousand Households Office and the Assembled Sages Institute.
Most people joined the patrol inspectorate merely to go through the motions before entering officialdom.
"Dismiss Liao Yong and add my man." Xu Tao handed over a document.
"Wouldn't that violate the rules?"
The Mountain Opening Daoist hesitated somewhat. Liao Yong had given him quite a lot of money.
"Just do as I say. Return a favor." Xu Tao said impatiently.
"Fine, understood." The Mountain Opening Daoist knew that he could only hold his position securely through the Xu Family, so he could only agree.
He took a roster from the drawer, found Liao Yong's name at the very end, and drew a heavy cross over it with a charcoal pencil.
Then he added Zhang Ying's name from the document.
Night fell.
Inside the Mingjing Palace Disciple Room.
Zhang Rongfang stood in the open space before his room, tilting his head up at the bright moon.
He thought of his Master Zhang Xuan and Senior Brother Zhang Xintai, wondering how they were doing now.
Aside from Zhang Rongyu, the original body's elder sister, Master Zhang Xuan and Senior Sister Zhao Dacong were probably the only people in this world from whom he had felt even a trace of warmth.
And now that he had come to unfamiliar Tanyang, he was alone once more. "New here?"
A young woman beside him, carrying a wooden basin to pour out