The harder your teammates work, the easier it becomes to make yourself look like you are not putting in any effort. Seeing Li Hu already starting to stand out in front of Zhao Yan, the rest of the bailiffs were not about to be outdone. They had to fight for their own chance; what if today was the day they managed to latch onto a powerful patron? Unranked bailiffs like them had a hard time getting by in the Prefecture Office without backing. Any bailiffs with even the slightest connections had long since been promoted, unlike them, who had spent countless years doing odd jobs without a single person ever remembering their names.
Now that the new lord had arrived, they naturally had to put on a good show. Just in case they got an opportunity to rise through the ranks—after all, they had dreams too, and what if heaven finally opened its eyes one day and made them come true?
"My lord, we will help you clean up too. We guarantee we'll leave it spotless," the bailiffs said in unison.
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