While Governor Ren was regretting his actions in the Tongzhou government office, Ji Changying and his group had already set out on the official road to Guanzhou.

On the way, some of them had happy faces, while others were so ashamed that they could not raise their heads and wanted to bury their necks in their chests.

It all started when they were saying goodbye outside the Shili Pavilion in Tongzhou. The Tongzhou officials, Sitian, Yuan Sixian and others had eight horse-drawn carriages full of things waiting there.

When they saw Ji's people coming, they gave each of them a pair of brand new shoes, a stack of pancakes, a set of clean clothes and five taels of silver.

All the people of Ji family were stunned by such treatment.

After Yuan Sixian had distributed the items, he stood in front of everyone and bowed:

"Master Ji has been kind to me."

"But I am of low rank and have no chance to return the favor. Today, I'm doing a little favor on Lord Ji's behalf. He has lived up to the imperial power and the people throughout his life! But I think he has also had regrets towards his people."

"Please don't blame him!"

The people of Ji's family did not expect that they could still be protected by him even though Master Ji was gone. Someone spoke up at that time:

"How can I not understand what you are saying? When Master Ji was doing well, I enjoyed the good things with him. So when he was in trouble, I was implicated. This is normal. There is no question of whether I blame him or not."

"That's right! Even though I haven't read much, I'm a reasonable person!"

"Of course not! It's just a change of place to live, what's the big deal!"

The people of Lotus Village had come all the way here with a clear conscience, and they said this with great confidence. Even when they held the things given by others in their hands, they didn't feel hot, but only felt warm.

I feel it's worth it for Lord Ji and I feel proud to be a member of the Ji family.

But the people from the two families in the capital blushed, feeling that those words were like a slap in the face, burning.

Halfway through their journey, they still felt the things in their hands were a little hot, but they were reluctant to give them up or give them to others.

They could only walk with their heads down, wishing that no one would think of them.

But who cares?

No one noticed them at all.

Looking at Ji Changying riding the black horse with such heroic spirit, Ji Fengshou felt that the mule in his hand looked shabby no matter how he looked at it.

"Daughter! Daughter!" Ji Fengshou waved his hands with a flattering look on his face.

"What's wrong?"

Ji Changying gripped the reins tightly, turned the horse's head and looked at him.

"Get down and let Daddy ride you."

Seeing his father eager to make a move, Ji Changying quickly dismounted from the horse: "Alright! If you can ride this horse today, I'll give it to you!"

"Really?" Ji Fengshou looked surprised.

"When have I ever lied? This horse has a very bad temper. I don't think anyone can ride it except me. If you don't believe me, try it."

Ji Fengshou didn't believe this at all: "Then you, don't cry if you lose!"

Ji Changying had an expression that said 'come on, come on'.

Ji Fengshou took the reins and patted the horse's head lovingly: "Follow me and you'll have a good life! You better be sensible."

When he patted its head, the black horse looked obedient and let him pat it, but when he held the horse's back and wanted to sit on it, the black horse became unhappy.

He raised his hindquarters and jumped up, knocking Ji Fengshou to the side.

He refused to believe it and tried to get on the horse again.

This time the black horse was very uncooperative. It pulled the reins out of his hand with its head force and ran to Ji Changying's side.

"You are just a horse, but you look down on others! Do you know who I am? Even your master has to listen to me, but I am her father!!" Ji Feng pinched his waist and cursed in anger.

Ji Changying jumped on the horse and said, "You can continue to curse here. I have to chase my mother and the others."

The team had already reached the front early. Originally, two people were fiddling with the horse in the back. Now, seeing Ji Changying was about to leave, Ji Fengshou hurriedly followed behind:

"Wait a minute, Dad—"

Ji Changchuan turned his head to look at his father, raised his whip and hit the mule: "Go!"

You Tianming, who was in the car, was puzzled when he saw this scene: "Master Ji, don't we have to wait for your father?"

It’s bad enough that you don’t wait for people, but why are you speeding up?

Ji Changchuan chuckled: "My father has been weak recently and needs to exercise his physical strength. We don't need to wait for him, we will catch up in a while."

You Tianming had cold sweat on his forehead. Although he didn't know why the father in this family was not like a father and the son was not like a son, he wisely kept his mouth shut.

Ji Changying rode his horse at a moderate pace and soon caught up with the team.

Looking at Xie Siheng riding ahead, she asked curiously, "Where's your bird?"

Xie Siheng glanced at the sky and said, "It's called Black Jade."

"Tsk tsk tsk, they're both black, but look at his name, and then look at you, the monkey."

Mr. Huang shook his head regretfully.

The black dog sitting on the horse's head bared its teeth at him angrily.

"What do you know! My black dog loves this name! You don't have the ability to appreciate it."

Pointing at the black dog with bared teeth, Mr. Huang asked seriously, "Does it like it?"

"Of course I like it! Look how happy he is, his teeth are showing."

Huang Lao and Xie Siheng were both silent...

As soon as we arrived at our resting place at night, Mr. Huang brought us the bear skin and said, "I've already tanned it. Let's see how it goes."

Seeing his confident face, Ji Changying praised him before even looking at the items: "Needless to say? Your items must be top-notch!"

Mr. Huang smiled with satisfaction.

Ji Changying was also grinning.

She planned to find an opportunity tomorrow to take all the wolves to Mr. Huang and ask him to help nitre them.

It's not a waste of time to ask for help, just give him a few skins.

You Tianming felt a little guilty about eating and drinking for free, so he insisted on going to the woods to find food at night.

Not long after, he came running back with a panicked look on his face: "There's a group of refugees running over there! They're all holding knives!"

Ji Fengshou immediately jumped up from the ground: "There are refugees! Everyone, pay attention!!"

Zhang Ziwei and his yamen runners quickly took up their weapons and fought.

Ji's people hurriedly packed up their things and held them in their arms.

"Take whatever weapons you need!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of people rushed out of the woods. They all had disheveled hair and pale faces. When they saw the bonfire here and the faint smell of food in the air, their eyes seemed to be shining.

"Food, there's food here! Hahahaha!!"

I don't know who shouted, but this group of people rushed up agitatedly.

"Kill!" Zhang Ziwei shouted and took the lead to meet them.

The two sides soon started fighting each other, and Xie Siheng aimed his crossbow at the two craziest-looking people in the crowd.

It shot directly through the necks of both men.

Ji Changying stayed by her family's side and was willing to guide her three older brothers and younger brothers.

"When you hit someone, you close your eyes. Are you hitting them or waiting to be hit?"

"Don't use those useless tricks, aim at his vital points!"

"Raise the stick up! Poke him in the neck!"