In most cases, people, even villains, are more naive and innocent than we imagine. In fact, so are we.
——Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"
"The Im...Imperial Envoy stayed in the small inn for five days and nights?"
The Mayor heard this news as if struck by lightning, he originally planned on how to please the Imperial Envoy, to let the envoy see the newly revitalized Druiysk under his governance.
But if the envoy had already arrived here, then all the recently arranged surface work had lost its meaning.
The Mayor, thinking of this, began to sweat even in the cold weather, and his voice involuntarily lowered as he attentively poured tea for the old gentry: "Grigory Nikiforovich, what kind of person is the Imperial Envoy, what does he look like?"
The old gentry rudely grabbed the teacup from the mayor's hand, sipped some tea, and his mouth was full of sarcastic cold laughter.
