Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

Gu Yunji was arrested and sent to the imperial prison in early April, and was locked up for more than ten days. It was already mid-April when he came out.Su Qi's [-]-day funeral leave has already been completed, and he should have returned to northern Xinjiang a long time ago, but it is because he has been worried about him that he stayed until today.

Emperor Jingfeng knew the reason for Su Qi's reluctance to leave Beijing, so he turned a blind eye to it, but after Gu Yunji was released, he sent people to urge him several times, both overtly and secretly.Su Qi originally wanted to stay with Gu Yunji and Cheng Yan for a few more days, but now he really had no reason to stay any longer, so he had to leave immediately for Northern Xinjiang.

Both Gu Yunji and Cheng Yan are adults, although they are reluctant to part with each other, but they also know each other's helplessness, and they both hide the sadness of parting in their hearts and don't show it.

And Gu Zhaoxi is a two-year-old child, who doesn't have as many scruples as adults. Although she and Su Qi only spent three or four months together, they have already established a deep friendship.Knowing that his godfather was going to leave, Gu Zhaoxi cried heart-rendingly, chased him for a long distance, and finally calmed down until he got tired of crying.

Another half month passed, and when Gu Yunji's injury was almost healed, it was time to leave for the Xuzhou government to take up his post.

On the day of departure, relatives and friends all came to the gate of the city to see him off.

Cheng Yan still had that gentle smile, but there was deep melancholy and reluctance hidden in his eyes: "Su Qi is gone, and you are leaving too. The three of us made an appointment at the beginning to be officials in the court together, but now we are alone. They broke their promises one after another, leaving me alone in the capital."

One is in the capital, one is in the southwest, and the other is in the northern border. Now the three of them are really far away from each other, and it is difficult to see each other.

Gu Yunji smiled and comforted: "Don't look at both of us leaving. In fact, only you who stay in the capital are the most promising. Maybe we will have to rely on you to support us in the future. When you get promoted from the Imperial Academy and leave At that time, it would be best if I could be transferred to the Ministry of Households or the Ministry of Officials, so that Su Qi would not have to worry about food, grass and military expenses, and I could walk sideways outside.

"Tell me, if I have a friend who is an official in the Ministry of Officials, who is in charge of the official promotion assessment, such a hard relationship, won't others have to respect me when they see it?" Gu Yunji joked and patted Cheng Yan encouragingly shoulder, "Cheng Yan, you have to work hard, I'm still waiting for you to cover me."

Cheng Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "This time you transferred from the capital to the southwest, I was afraid that you would be decadent and lonely, and I wanted to encourage you, how did you encourage me?"

"General judgment is a real job, so why should I be lonely?" Not only did Gu Yunji show no sign of decadence, but he was full of confidence in the future, "Although local officials do not rise as fast as Beijing officials, they are also the places where they are most likely to make achievements. Afterwards, I will return to Beijing with a beautiful resume, and I am afraid that I will enter the center earlier than you."

This time Gu Yunji was demoted secretly by Ming Sheng, how many people gave up on themselves after being demoted out of Beijing, feeling that most of their official careers were ruined.Seeing that he was not affected by this, but was still very confident, Cheng Yan felt relieved, and said with a smile: "It's best if you think like this, in my opinion, His Majesty should have the intention of tempering you, maybe it won't take a few years I will transfer you back to Beijing."

Gu Yunji smiled slightly: "I don't know what Your Majesty means, in short, I just do my best at the moment."

As he spoke, he glanced at the sky and sighed softly: "It's getting late, and it's time for me to set off."

"Brother." Gu Yunqiao felt even more reluctant when she heard the words, tears rolled in her eyes, but she didn't know what to say to him.Due to her status, she couldn't even throw herself into his arms like she did when she was a child, and could only look at him with restraint and nostalgia.

Although Gu Yunqiao is already married, in Gu Yunji's eyes, she still seems to be a little girl who hasn't grown up. He reached out and rubbed his sister's head, and said in a coquettish tone, "After my brother leaves, you have to be obedient, okay?" ? If Cheng Yan bullies you, you can write to me, and I will gallop back overnight to teach him a lesson."

Gu Yunqiao immediately smiled through tears, and turned her face away embarrassedly: "Why is my brother coaxing me like a child?"

Gu Yunxiao walked over and said, "Third brother, don't worry, I have everything in the family."

Gu Yunji nodded in response, and after listening to the instructions of everyone in the Gu family, he went to bid farewell to Xu Chengyu and his son.

"Teacher, I'm leaving now."

Xu Chengyu nodded silently, watching him hesitate to speak, he seemed to have a lot to say, but in the end he just patted him on the shoulder: "Take care on the road, and write to us early when you get there."

Once out of Beijing to serve as a local official, he will be transferred between various state capitals for many years in the future. If the official himself drags his family with him, it will be extremely inconvenient when he is transferred.Therefore, many officials will choose to leave their family members in their hometown and go to the local government by themselves.

Xu Shujing didn't want his sister to suffer, and originally wanted to persuade Xu Shuhua to stay in the capital and let Gu Yunji take up the post alone.But he knew that his sister and brother-in-law had a good relationship, let alone Xu Gu Yunji, Xu Shuhua would not agree, not to mention that Gu Zhaoxi was too young to leave his father for a long time, so he had no choice but to give up.

Xu Shujing glanced at Xu Shuhua who was talking to his wife Liu Shi not far away, sighed silently, and said to Gu Yunji: "The mountain is high and the road is far away, and the southwest is remote. Take good care of Shuhua."

Gu Yunji said seriously: "Don't worry, brother, I will."

No matter how reluctant you are, you still have to leave.After Gu Yunji said goodbye to his family and friends one by one, he took his wife Xu Shuhua, daughter Gu Zhaoxi, and a few close entourages and set foot on the road to Xuzhou Mansion.

The southwestern region is mountainous, with complex terrain and little communication with the outside world. It has been a place where separatist forces are extremely easy to emerge from ancient times to the present.Fortunately, although the Xuzhou Mansion that Gu Yunji and others are going to is located in the mountains, the location of the city is close to the Yangtze River, and there are river ports, so the transportation is quite convenient.

From the northeast corner to the southwest corner, Gu Yunji's trip is equivalent to crossing more than half of the Great Xia territory, and it is extremely difficult to toss and turn along the way.First, I took a horse-drawn carriage to travel by land, and then changed to a waterway to go southward along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Some sections of the road were also silted up in the river, so I had to disembark and change trains halfway.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal came to an end, and it was time to switch to the Yangtze River to continue the river transport. During this period, Gu Yunji stayed in Songjiang Mansion for a few days, and took his wife and daughter to visit the Gu family members in the mansion, as well as several older sisters who were married in the early years.

The Yangtze River is wide and deep, so there is no silting, but it caught up with the summer floods. Gu Yunji and others took a boat upstream, and the water flow became more and more turbulent as they went up.Especially when it was about to enter Shu, the terrain was so dangerous that it was almost impossible to sail, and it was extremely difficult to go because the Three Gorges trackers had to forcefully pull them by hand.

But if you don't take the Yangtze River waterway, you can only go to Hanzhong in the Guanshan area, cross the Qinling Mountains and enter Sichuan from the north by the Shu Road.That road is even more difficult, and there are mostly cliffs along the route, and you can lose your life if you are not careful.

When Gu Yunji and his party set off from the capital, it was still early summer at the end of April, and when they were about to arrive at the Xuzhou Mansion, it had already entered late autumn in September.After nearly five months of ups and downs, the port terminal in the capital city of Syria is finally in sight.