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He Lingchuan’s voice had been thunderously loud. And just as he had spoken, a gust of wind swept past, carrying his words downwind for several hundred meters.
Every single group waiting at the checkpoint heard it, and heads turned in unison.
Disputes at border checkpoints were nothing unusual. Whenever there was clearance to be had, there was bound to be friction. However, scenes on this scale were rare.
The others immediately wondered which official, this time, was trying to take advantage of their authority.
He Lingchuan had stopped his men from unloading the cargo partly for safety reasons. With more than a hundred pairs of eyes fixed on them, it would be far harder for these yamen runners or constables to tamper with the goods or plant evidence the way they had before.
Sure enough, he noticed several soldiers’ gazes flickering uneasily. They kept trying to sidle over to block the cargo, but each time, a member of the caravan stepped in to glare them down, leaving them no opening.
Zhongsun Mou, of course, had heard everything. He sized He Lingchuan up and sneered. “And who the hell are you?”
“Me? I’m nobody,” He Lingchuan replied with a shrug. “I sit straight and walk upright. I don’t rely on framing others to climb the ladder.”
A touring commissioner’s duty was...
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