"You..." Chief Clerk Cui's mocking expression instantly froze. He laughed in fury. "Wang Shouzhe, you're merely a local seventh-rank family, yet your tone is quite grand. I'd like to see exactly how you plan to thoroughly offend me."
"You previously claimed that the notarized document was damaged in a fire over a hundred years ago, and that its writing is now blurred beyond recognition." Wang Shouzhe sneered. "If that is true, then consider yourself lucky. But if there is even the slightest trace of forgery, Chief Clerk Cui, if you can remain in your position, I'll take your surname."
Wang Shouzhe was also utterly enraged over this matter.
A dignified prefectural city chief clerk had actually twisted black and white, forged documents in secret, and remained shameless besides, narrow-minded to the extreme. If such a man continued occupying the post of chief clerk in the prefectural city, even Longzuo Prefecture's very atmosphere would be led astray by him.
Chief Clerk Cui's expression turned cold as he barked, "Boy Wang, are you planning to oppose me? Do you know—"
"Do not mention your identity to me." Wang Shouzhe's face was icy. "Let alone the fact that not a single Purple Mansion Aristocratic Clan in Longzuo Prefecture bears the surname Cui. Even if you came from a Purple Mansion family, having committed such acts of twisting black and white and fabricating evidence, I could not bear to see you remain in this position."
"Hiss—"
At those words, both the Zhang Clan and the Wang Clan drew sharp breaths.
Clan Leader Shouzhe's tone was truly domineering. Was he actually planning to bring down Chief Clerk Cui?
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