Chapter 626 Welcome Feast

The speaker was Governor Zhao Ping of the Governor Mansion, who glanced casually at the waist token before patting Tian Peng's shoulder warmly, as if the person he had just doubted was not him.

Tian Peng put away his waist token and smiled casually, "Indeed, identifying people based on portraits is not always accurate. Even with portraits, mistakes can be made."

"Exactly," Zhao Ping responded.

He sized up Tian Peng's rear, then asked, "Why doesn't General Zhu have any guards with him? You've traveled such a long distance alone on horseback."

"I was originally a commoner, used to being by myself. Besides, I'm here to assume the post of a military general, what's the issue with traveling alone? In the future, I'll have to fight alone too," Tian Peng replied.

The new appointee for the position of General who Guards the Northwest was a commoner who had become Top Scholar, which they were all aware of.