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In Linjiang Station,
"Master Five is going out again?"
Chief Clerk Yang's hair had turned half white, his face etched with exhaustion as he said helplessly, "You see, this place is the Southern outpost of the Observatory located outside the city, stationed at Linjiang Square—a minor station!
"I'm just a chief clerk of a local station, earning only a few silver taels each month. I'm neither the head of the Outer South Bureau nor the chief of the Observatory Headquarters. Why do you always lay the burden entirely upon me?"
"Even the chief of the Observatory in Qifeng Prefecture City, the highest authority, is not as busy as I am.
"I have to monitor the entire outer city and oversee the expansion of the new city. I'm being buried by you at least twenty years ahead of my time!"