Chapter 9: Flaw

Steam was rising in the wooden bucket, making the tent warm.

Wang Yang had just finished bathing and stood beside the wooden bucket, spreading his arms. The black man was dressing Wang Yang, and Ding Jiu was combing Wang Yang's hair into a bun.

It wasn't that Wang Yang wanted to experience the decadent aristocratic life, but for one thing, he had to fit the persona of the Langya Wang clan, and for another, he really had to learn how to dress and tie his hair.

Needless to say about tying the bun, he had never had long hair in his life.

As for dressing, ancient clothes were different from modern clothes, and the way of dressing was naturally different.

The clothes he was wearing now were new clothes that Squad Leader Xue hadn't worn yet. The top was a blue cloth short tunic, and the bottom was black crotch-covering pants. This outfit really didn't have any grade at the time, and it didn't fit Wang Yang's figure, but it was much better than the coarse hemp clothes he wore before.

"Hiss!" Wang Yang felt a pain in the back of his head, "Be gentle!"

"Yes, yes, the little one will definitely pay attention! Definitely pay attention!" Ding Jiu's large, thick fingers were tying Wang Yang's hair, and this process was not comfortable for either Ding Jiu himself or Wang Yang.

"Ouch!" Wang Yang felt his waist tighten, it turned out that the black man had tied the belt too tightly.

"What's wrong, young master?" The black man asked without knowing.

Wang Yang sighed in his heart, others traveled through time with red sleeves adding fragrance, and for him, it was two rough men adding trouble. Just as he wanted to send the two away, a voice called out from outside the tent: "Young Master Wang, our squad leader invites you!"

Wang Yang led the black man and Ding Jiu, guided by the squad leader, and walked into Squad Leader Xue's tent swaggeringly. As soon as he entered, he found the atmosphere was wrong.

Squad Leader Xue had completely lost his previous flattery, and didn't even stand up to greet him. There was also a man in his forties in the tent, with a strange face, wearing clean indigo cloth clothes, dressed as a scholar, staring at him with a half-smile.

Recalling the squad leader's attitude just now, which was also a bit strange, Wang Yang's heart sank.

Could they suspect him?

Could his fake identity be exposed so quickly?

The strange scholar smiled: "It is a great honor to see the demeanor of Young Master Wang of Langya today."

Although the words were good, the tone was very mocking. There was no respect in the tone at all.

Although Wang Yang was uneasy, he knew it was not the time to show weakness. He put his hands behind his back and walked slowly to the scholar, saying: "You, stand up."

The scholar's smile stalled.

Ding Jiu saw this and hurriedly said: "This is our team's Clerk Wang."

"Clerk? You say he is a clerk?" Wang Yang turned into an Oscar actor, holding back laughter, "Those who don't know might think it's a scholar-official from which family who has arrived, it turns out to be a clerk hahahahaha! Even the officials in the Minister Terrace don't have the reason to sit in front of this young master, you are a small official, and you deserve to sit and talk to me?"

Anger flashed across Clerk Wang's face, and he smiled: "The young master has a big tone. But that's right, since his uncle is a Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary, he naturally looks down on everything."

Not good!

The hair on the back of Wang Yang's neck stood up, and he instantly understood where his flaw was!

It was the Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary!

The central power official office of the Southern Dynasties had the so-called "Three Platforms and Five Provinces."

The Three Platforms refer to the three public platforms of the Grand Marshal, Minister of Works, and Minister of Education.

The Five Provinces are the Minister Province, Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, Secretarial Province, and Collection Province.

Among them, the Collection Province was headed by the Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary, so it was also called the "Cavalier Province."

As the head of one of the five provinces, his name would definitely be passed down to the prefectures. As long as one had the heart, it would definitely be investigated.

In order to scare those soldiers, he was too anxious and didn't think carefully, otherwise he would definitely not have given his "non-existent" second uncle such an "eye-catching" official position!

Can't panic!

Must find a way to remedy it immediately!

Squad Leader Xue was already unable to hold back, slapped the table, and was about to order the soldiers to take Wang Yang.

Wang Yang blinked, pretending to be angry:

"Why, come to mock me that my uncle is not a Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary? My family has been noble for generations, and we can advance smoothly and reach the position of the Three Dukes, so why do we need the size of an official position! So what if it's not a Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary?!"

Clerk Wang was stunned, and blurted out: "What?! Could it be that your second uncle is not a Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary?"

Wang Yang said slowly: "Who said my second uncle is a Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary?"

Clerk Wang and Squad Leader Xue looked at the squad leader together.

The squad leader hurriedly said: "I remember, I remember it was... Cavalier... what attendant?"

"Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary?"

"Oh right, a bit like."

"A bit like?" Clerk Wang frowned.

"Seems... seems to be this." The squad leader's eyes gradually became firm.

"Can you be sure?" Clerk Wang stared at the squad leader.

The squad leader nodded: "Almost."

"What's wrong? Did you find something?" Squad Leader Xue asked nervously.

Clerk Wang stared and didn't answer, then said to the squad leader: "You go down first."

The squad leader saluted and exited the tent.

Squad Leader Xue said anxiously: "If you see something, say it! Do you want to kill me?"

Clerk Wang's gaze was fixed: "This person should be an impersonator!"

"Ah!" Squad Leader Xue stood up suddenly, his eyes widened: "Are you serious?!"

"Would I joke about this kind of thing? I just came back from the prefecture, and the current Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary is the Prince of Nanping, concurrently holding the position of General of the Cavalry, Xiao Rui. It's not the Langya Wang clan at all!"

Bang!

Squad Leader Xue kicked over the table.

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Note: Actually, there are also Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary and Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary in the Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary. If the protagonist is proficient in the official system of the Six Dynasties, he can use this point to muddle through; if Clerk Wang is proficient in the upper-level official structure, he would not dare to conclude that the protagonist is impersonating just by relying on the word Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary. It happened that both were half-baked, so they were evenly matched, and there was a back and forth. ===== CHAPTER 10 =====

For instance, if the Wang surname is to be noble, it must be the Langya Wang clan or the Taiyuan Wang clan; further down, there are the Beihai Wang clan, the Shanyang Wang clan, the Donghai Wang clan, and so on. Although this Wang Luo also has the surname Wang, adding the two characters "Zhijiang" makes it worthless.

Wang Yang said coldly: "This is not a place for you to sit. Get out."

"Yes, yes, noble one, please calm your anger, noble one, please calm your anger." Wang Wenshu hurriedly stood up and left, then used his sleeve to wipe the seat and invited Wang Yang to sit.

Wang Yang sat down as if no one else were there, and Wang Wenshu asked cautiously: "May I ask, Young Master Wang, what is your uncle's name..."

Wang Yang's mouth held a sneer, imitating the Long Aotian characters in web novels, with three parts disdain and three parts slight anger in his eyes: "Do you think you are worthy of asking for my family elder's name?"

Wang Wenshu was so terrified that he dared not even raise his head, saying repeatedly: "It is this lowly one who was rude, rude."

Wang Yang glanced at the still-bewildered Xue Duizhu and asked: "Xue Duizhu, you slammed the table just now; what was that supposed to mean?"

Although Xue Duizhu did not understand the reason, seeing Wang Wenshu's attitude change so drastically, he knew there must be some hidden story, so he hurriedly said: "This lowly one was reprimanding Wang Wenshu for being disrespectful to the young master!"

Wang Yang sneered: "Xue Duizhu is indeed a man who knows etiquette. But 'scholars and commoners do not sit together'; for us to sit together like this is also contrary to etiquette."

The Northern and Southern Dynasties placed the greatest importance on lineage and family status, with the saying "the gap between scholars and commoners is as wide as heaven." This means the gap between the scholar-gentry and commoners is as vast as the distance between heaven and earth.

Never mind that Xue Duizhu is just a lowly military officer; even if he were to have a stroke of luck one day and become a high official, he would still not be able to enter the circles of the great aristocratic families. This has nothing to do with the rank of the office, only with lineage and family status.

Wang Wenshu hurriedly gave Xue Duizhu a wink, and Xue Duizhu stood up with a *whoosh*, nearly bumping into the table in his panic.

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Note: In fact, below the Palace Attendant, there are also the Regular Palace Attendant and the Supernumerary Palace Attendant. If the protagonist were proficient in the official system of the Six Dynasties, he could use this to muddle through; if Wang Wenshu were knowledgeable about the upper-level official structure, he would not dare to conclude that the protagonist is an impostor based solely on the word "Palace Attendant." It just so happens that both are half-baked, so they are evenly matched, with moves and countermoves.