The silver-haired Wang Chong spoke these words with earnest emotion, as if each word and phrase came straight from the heart.
When Chu Ge first pushed the instance to the second stage, he indeed was confounded by Wang Chong's words, incapable of thinking of a rebuttal, leading to the instance's failure.
But this time, the situation was obviously different.
Chu Ge couldn't help but sneer, "Mr. Wang speaks as if he truly is a loyal and devoted official who has the nation's and the people's best interests at heart?
"Could it be that I, Yang Yan, have misunderstood Mr. Wang?
"Although my own official rank may be humble, I have witnessed the hardships of the common folks, and am not so easily deceived. Mr. Wang, you need not bother trying to fool me with the same old tricks you use on naive scholars—it would only add to the ridicule.