"Why couldn't it be me?"
Feng Commandant smiled when he saw Lin Hao, then looked around.
With Lin Hao, Wu Deshui, and Liu Tong's arrival, everyone was present. Yin Saide and Yang Xing had already arrived, since they had been closer.
Qin Sicheng was still recuperating at the martial arts school after losing his arm and did not need to come.
"Two Provincial Examination Laureates who towered over the other candidates of their generation, a retired veteran of a hundred battles, and two newly successful Juren. We might even see Martial Presented Scholars among you in the future, or a martial Top Scholar. You are all talents of our Hexi, pillars of the court-"
"You flatter us, Feng Commandant. We hardly deserve such praise."
Still wearing his mask, Yin Saide offered a casual response. Anyone could hear the indifference in his voice.
It drew a glance from Thousandhousehold Officer Zhang of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, but Yin Jinzhong, the Grain Oversight Circuit intendant beside him, laughed and scolded, "Behave yourself, brat. Don't interrupt the commandant."
Yin Jinzhong!
A first-class examination graduate, once the runner-up in the martial examinations!
Though still only a fourth-rank circuit intendant, he was already an expert in force gathering and embrace the elixir, and in the prime of his life.
He still had tremendous potential, both in officialdom and in martial arts!
He was also one of the Transport Commissioner's adopted sons, and Yin Saide's elder adopted brother.
For someone at force gathering and embrace the elixir to willingly remain a circuit intendant in the Grain Oversight Circuit, it was easy to imagine to whom the "utter loyalty" in Yin Jinzhong's name was directed!
Feng Commandant and Thousandhousehold Officer Zhang would have been enough for this visit, but the Grain Transport Governor's Office had insisted on