County Magistrate's worries were well-founded.
There would have been no problem at all if Zhao An had simply bought himself an Imperial Academy student status and taken a minor post as a prefecture school instructor in the academy. Who would pay attention to a petty official of the ninth rank? Who would ever suspect that the brat was an impostor?
Even if someone had caught wind of it, Magistrate Ding's influence could have easily swept it under the rug.
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