The middle-aged man leading the group furrowed his brow slightly and stepped forward with a clasped-hand salute:
"May I inquire what brings the two lord officials here?"
Though Chen Yuan's attire was somewhat different from that of a regular government official, he really was somewhat too young. Guo Xu was not clear about his rank and thus dared not address him rashly.
"I have come to pay a visit to the venerable Zhao Nanshan," Chen Yuan raised his hand to indicate politeness, as he had come to seek favors and naturally could not afford to carry himself too arrogantly.
"I am the arrest officer..."
Guo Xu squinted, sizing up Chen Yuan with a sense of unfamiliarity.
In the county government, he might not know every old official, but he had seen most of them, yet he had never seen this person before.
Wang Ping stepped forward at the right moment and said:
"This is Chen Yuan, the new arrest officer of our Ping'an County Government!"
"Chen... Arrest Officer!"