The fourth day of May.

On the moat in Beijing, a grand official ship with a head and tail length of eight feet and a height of eight feet slowly traveled slowly. There were more than a dozen yellow and green banners, including "Senior Retirement", "Return to Hometown", "Empression of the Imperial Responsibility", "Welcome to the Prefectures and Counties along the way" and more than a dozen yellow and green banners.

Xu Fu, wearing a brocade robe and a big hat, stood on the deck with his hands behind his back, staring at the prosperous imperial scenery in front of him.

Since he joined Beijing with his father in the 19th year of Jiajing, he has been living here and has become a complete Beijinger.

He thought he would live in this city for a long time.

Who knew that his father, who was in full swing, had just retired in disgrace. He, the powerful and self-confident little master, could only follow him home in shame.

I wonder if I can see these scenery that I have long been accustomed to in this life?

When Xu Fan thought of this, his nose felt sore and his heart was in a mess.

He looked back at the cabin behind him, and I guess his father felt even more uncomfortable...

After saying goodbye to the officials who came to see him off at the official boat dock, Xu Jie plunged into the cabin, not wanting to take a sad look.

Mr. Xu felt very uncomfortable when he stepped down in such an indecent way.

Moreover, there are so many foolish people who don’t know the truth, who cursed outside the mansion all day long, making the old assistant completely discouraged. The rich arrangements before leaving were cancelled and left Beijing in a low-key manner.

But even today, the emperor did not let him leave. The retirement benefits he had given him were far less than Gao Gong, but before he left, he didn't even send a senior official to send him a gift.

You know, even when Guo Pu retired, the emperor sent eunuchs as representatives to give him a gift, and gave him a generous gift before leaving.

For a chief minister and a senior of the two dynasties, this was clearly a naked humiliation.

When Xu Jie thought of the sympathetic gaze in the eyes of the officials on the dock, he felt that he had become a pitiful person in the eyes of others.

"Why……"

Mr. Xu lay on the couch and sighed. How could I end up like this when I devoted my whole life to the Ming Dynasty?

In fact, what made him more worried than a mere momentary honor and disgrace was Zhang Juzheng's attitude.

Although there is no direct evidence, Mr. Xu clearly felt that this good student played a disgraceful role in a series of political trends targeting him last month.

Even if he didn't attack him directly, he would be suspected of sitting there and adding fuel to the fire.

This feeling of betrayal by his carefully cultivated disciples is really heartbreaking.

What made Xu Jie even more breathless was that he could only knock down his teeth and swallow the blood, because after he retired, he had to rely on Zhang Juzheng's protection.

Therefore, yesterday Zhang Juzheng went to his mansion to bid farewell, and Master Xu had to greet him with a smile. He begged him in a low voice, and if Gao Gong comes back in the future, please be sure to take care of the Xu family's comprehensiveness.

Zhang Juzheng naturally agreed. However, whether his promise can be fulfilled by then is not at all...

"Hey..." Xu Jie sighed again. If he had known today, why would he have to fight Gao Gong to the death?

The old man is so sad that he is so sad that he becomes a dog...

Listening to Xu Jie's sigh in the cabin, Xu Fan felt even more uncomfortable and was about to go in and comfort his father.

Suddenly, Xu Yuanchun heard the bow of the boat excitedly: "Dad, look!"

Xu Fan looked at the sound in a daze and saw that at least tens of thousands of people gathered on the Datong Bridge pier in front of him.

The poor people specially changed into clean clothes, helped the elderly and the young, carried baskets and baskets, and carried colorful umbrellas of the people gathered at the pier to see them off.

"Sir, please stay and drink this glass of wine before leaving..."

"Sir, we will never forget your kindness in our lives..."

"A good official like an adult, but was framed by a treacherous person, is really a stareless person!"

Seeing this scene, Xu Fan immediately became passionate and immediately opened the hatch door and shouted to it:

"Father, come out and see! Right and wrong are in the hearts of the people! People who think of you are more good than those unruly people with ulterior motives!"

Xu Jie had already heard the movement outside the cabin, so he quickly tidied up his clothes, put on a big black hat, and slowly came out of the cabin with the help of Changsui.

Seeing the people worshipping each other and crying reluctance, Mr. Xu immediately turned red and choked:

"It seems that I'm not too failed."

"Why did my father think so?" Xu Fan stepped forward to take his father and helped him walk towards the boat. "You are the country and the people's chief ministers!"

"Hey, I almost forgot..." Xu Jie wiped the wet corners of his eyes with his sleeves, and said a few words to the people on the shore.

But I heard someone shouting in an indifference on an official boat right in front of me.

"Good people and fellow villagers, please get up quickly, Zhao can't afford it!"

"Uh..." Mr. Xu was stunned. Could it be that the people who came to see him?

He was really right, and he heard the people on the shore shouting:

"How could Lord Zhao not bear it? If it weren't for you, we refugees would have frozen to death and starved to death!"

"Yes, we can survive, and we are all given by Lord Zhao..."

Mr. Xu felt the blood in his body pouring upwards layer by layer on his head. His fair face immediately turned red with shame.

"Lord Zhao angrily scolded the dog officials for us and even ate the emperor's court stick! If you don't come and kowtow to you, will we still call people?"

Hearing this sentence, Xu Jie's eyes turned dark and he almost fainted.

"Father!" Xu Fan didn't care about the attack and quickly supported his father first.

"Go away!" Xu Jie, who was so embarrassed that he was dying of anger, pushed his son's hand away and stumbled and hid back into the cabin.

Xu Fan felt even more uncomfortable than Xu Ge Lao. Those refugees called out "dog officials" at once, but they scolded him.

But reason told him that the public should not be violated.

Xu Fan had to suppress his anger, stared at the boat in front of him with red eyes, Zhao Shouzheng's slightly hunched back, gritted his teeth and said:

"The surname of Zhao, let's take a look!"

Then he glanced coldly at Xu Yuanchun who was frightened like a frightened deer. "The evils are all your fault, come in!"

Xu Yuanchun looked at the river behind him in fear and thought to himself, "It's better to jump down."

Coincidentally, the Zhao family and his son also set off on the fourth day of the fifth lunar month to leave Beijing.

Zhao Shou was not of the genuine rank and was demoted from Beijing again, so he naturally had no right to set out from the official ship wharf in the city and could only board the ship at the Datong Bridge wharf outside Dongbianmen.

They had a group of about two hundred people, and they needed five boats, including people and luggage.

Zhao Hao and his son got on the boat just after they opened the city gate, and they had not finished loading the boat until the sun was at midnight.

The father and son have been exhausted these days, so they didn't have to worry about it anyway, so they plunged into the cabin to take a rest.

It was not until more and more refugees came to see him off, and Zhao Shizhen had to shout the two of them when he was about to stop driving the boat before he saw Zhao Shouzheng.

Zhao Shouzheng held his waist and slowly walked out of the cabin, shocked by the scene of sending people to him.

He quickly wanted to ask everyone to get up loudly, but the sound he shouted was very false.

When the common people saw Zhao Zhuangyuan's pale face and frivolous figure, their hearts were as if they were slashed.

Lord Zhao is so hurt!

Many people started crying on the spot. Zhao Shouzheng hurriedly gave birth to comfort him and said goodbye to the victims.

Zhao Hao rubbed his sleepy eyes and was also shocked by this scene.

This was not what he arranged.

The busy two days have not touched the ground. Mr. Zhao has completely forgotten that such a farewell drama should have been completed.

It turns out that the people will never forget the people who once protected them...
Chapter completed!