592 Spreading Prestige 4yr

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Shangying City of Chen state.
The sky was just getting bright when a middle-aged man, who could only be described as ordinary-looking, walked toward the West Gate in a hurry. He kept his back awkwardly hunched in the beginning but was soon keeping his head high and his chest puffed. He appeared fully concentrated, looking as if he was a cut above others.
He was the family servant of Minister of Justice Tian Heng, Tian Jian. He was now under his Lord's orders to investigate something in the bamboo forest.
Despite not being a famed city, there were tens of thousands of households in Shangying. The city walls ran across the land, separating palaces, aristocrat mansions, marketplaces, as well as regular households. Each district had their individual neighborhoods gathered in clusters. News of whatever happened in a particular building would not spread to the ears of those on the street across. This fact alone was enough to demonstrate just how large this city was. Even though Tian Heng