Moreover, the Discipline Hall on Jiannan Road had clearly caught a whiff of something promising, and had taken the reaction of the Discipline Department in Huaixi Prefecture as a barometer.
At this juncture, if Han Xuedao reported Xu Yi's transfer to the Discipline Hall, they would most likely intervene.
What was more, Xu Yi was the top scorer of the imperial examination, a status that represented the dignity of the prefectural court itself.
Xu Yi had chosen to join the Discipline Department in the first place, and that choice had been one of the benefits awarded to the top scorer.
Now, Xu Yi had barely worked at the Discipline Department for any time at all, and they were already trying to move him elsewhere, without even a remotely respectable reason. It would be child's play for the Discipline Hall to step in and stop them.
At the end of the day, neither the Discipline Department nor Han Xuedao wanted to take the blame for Xu Yi. They needed to push him out and quell the gathering storm.
"What do you plan to do, then? Kill Director Hu, fight me to the death, and flee for your life?"
Han Xuedao's expression changed abruptly. Now that his hidden face had been exposed, he simply put on another one. That was child's play for him.
He had thought it through as well. Since Xu Yi was a clever man, he wouldn't take the extreme route. The situation had come to this, and Han Xuedao found himself feeling rather emboldened.
Xu Yi said, "What do you think I should do? Old Han, you owe me an explanation."
Though Xu Yi's tone remained hard, Han Xuedao could hear that he had softened at last. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief. "Things have come to