Xu Qing: "Commander Zuo really honors me too highly."
Magistrate He: "How is it honoring you too highly? Could it be that you think Mr. Wu calling you the fledgling Phoenix of our times is incorrect or that Mr. Zhou's phrase 'In future days, he shall be a great scholar of the world' is just spouting nonsense?"
Xu Qing could not help but smile awkwardly.
Today, Magistrate He has been speaking with words within words.
Ah, the old fox must have figured something out. Testing me.
Pretend to be confused, even though I understand.
Yet Xu Qing couldn't outright expose it.
Magistrate He pretends to be confused, to make Xu Qing "understand" in his heart.
If he was to break the true nature of reality, that would be really "confused."
From this, it is evident that Magistrate He's control over the government is much deeper than Xu Qing had presumed.
Fortunately, the two are like-minded and on the same boat.
