"Gao Gong will come out again?" Zhao Jin took a breath. All the old ministers who were reinstated from the previous dynasty were branded as Xu Ge Lao. As long as Gao Gong came back, no one would be able to escape...

Zhao Hao couldn't say, 'Yes, I am a prophet.'

I could only say vaguely, "He is retreating to advance, and he will come back sooner or later. This is also the reason why I encouraged my brother to be sent out. You are someone that was brought up by Lord Xu, and you have to stand aside in Beijing. It is better for you to do something outside in the next few years. Then no one can stop you."

Since Zhao Hao had already accurately predicted Gao Gong's resignation, Zhao Jin also believed in his prediction this time. He shook Zhao Hao's hand gratefully and choked up, saying:

"My dear brother, you are truly my guiding light. When I return to Guizhou, I will write to you more often to ask for your advice."

"Brother, you are too polite. We are blood relatives, so why should we differentiate between us?" Zhao Hao also smiled and held Zhao Jin's hand and said, "As long as I can help my brother, that's fine."

"Well, my dear brother, there is really no need to say more about the brotherhood between you and me." Zhao Jin nodded heavily and whispered, "Before I leave, I plan to introduce you to Wang Tongnian. If you can conquer him, you know..."

"Yeah, I understand." Zhao Hao also nodded. His trip to Beijing this time was not for the purpose of accompanying his father to take the exam, but mainly to pave a good way for his father's future... To put it bluntly, it was to hug his father's thighs as much as possible, the thicker the thighs, the better.

It would be great if he could get on the good side of the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

~~

The two chatted for quite a while before Zhao Jin let Zhao Hao go back.

Zhao Hao drank a bellyful of tea from Zhao Jin and was anxious to go back to relieve himself, so he walked quickly towards the west courtyard.

Just as he saw the Moon Gate, a man suddenly jumped out from behind a tree, giving Zhao Hao a fright.

"Who is it?!" Gao Wu hurriedly protected Zhao Hao, and only stepped back when he saw that it was the young master of Zhao Jin's family.

"what?!"

Zhao Hao looked at Zhao Shixi angrily and thought to himself, if I weren't young, I would have been scared to death by you.

"Give me money, give me money, give me money!"

Zhao Shixi shouted angrily and reached out to grab Zhao Hao's collar, but was slapped away by Gao Wu.

"Ouch..." Zhao Shixi covered the back of his hand and said with a grin, "Add another twenty taels for medical expenses."

"What kind of monkey trick are you putting on?" Zhao Hao was still holding his urine, so he didn't have time to talk to him.

"Your father just had someone beat me up, so you have to pay me one hundred taels for medical expenses. And since so many of you are living in my house and eating at my place, I'll charge you twenty taels a day. Pay one month's rent first..." Zhao Shixi didn't seem to care and kept chattering on.

"Get out of here now. I'm your uncle, don't be disrespectful." Zhao Hao was fed up with seeing his scoundrel look. How could he still remember that his elder brother had entrusted him with the important responsibility of educating him?

"Here you go again, bah, I'm your uncle!" Zhao Shixi was also drunk. These country bumpkins who came out of nowhere actually took the unrelated seniority seriously.

"Slap!" Zhao Hao was not as easy to get along with as Zhao Shouzheng, and his face immediately darkened.

Gao Wu grabbed Zhao Shixi like a chicken and hit him twice in the face, making his eyes full of stars and his face swollen...

"If you dare to be disrespectful again, it won't be as simple as a slap in the face." Zhao Hao said coldly.

Zhao Shixi covered his face in fear, thinking that it was clearly two slaps...

~~

Leaving Zhao Shixi, who was in a daze, Zhao Hao ran back to the west yard and solved the problem in the toilet. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and went into the main room to wash his hands.

But inside the house, Zhao Shou was sulking. No matter how his two disciples tried to persuade him, he would not listen.

"You're back just in time. Let's find a place to live and move out."

"What's going on?" Zhao Hao looked at the two students strangely.

Wang Wuyang then told Zhao Hao about the incident when Zhao Shixi came to ask for money.

"The Grandmaster was going to give it to him, but he spoke rudely and angered the Grandmaster, so he was kicked out..."

"I hit him too lightly just now!" Zhao Hao was furious when he heard this. How dare someone scold his father? He really didn't know that Lord Horse had three eyes!

Having said that, he was going to go and settle the score with Zhao Shixi.

But Zhao Shouzheng grabbed him and said, "Forget it, forget it. It's just a waste of face to argue with a child."

"No, we can't just let this go!" Zhao Hao had never suffered any loss at the hands of the young master in Nanjing, so how could he swallow this humiliation?

"Oh, don't give face to the monk, give face to the Buddha." Seeing his son getting angry, Zhao Shouzheng lost his temper and tried to persuade him: "On the first day, you caused trouble. Where can you put your face as an elder brother?"

"We can't move out either, otherwise it will play into that kid's hands!" Zhao Hao looked like a young man.

"Okay, okay, I won't move. We'll just keep out of each other's way from now on." At a time like this, Zhao Shouzheng naturally wouldn't go against his son.

Zhao Hao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, winked at his two disciples, and leisurely went back to the house.

"Master is so cunning..." Eryang finally realized that Zhao Hao was pretending to be angry on purpose to appease Zhao Shouzheng.

~~

Zhao Hao comforted his father, and everyone went back to their rooms to rest. The long journey was very tiring, and everyone was resting today...

Zhao Shixi was originally worried that Zhao Hao and his son would complain to their father, but after waiting for a long time, he saw no one coming out of the west courtyard. He finally felt relieved and went out to have a drink with his friends.

Surrounding Zhao Shixi were not only the children of the officials of the Guanglu Temple, but also a group of businessmen who were dependent on the Guanglu Temple.

These people flattered and coaxed him, which naturally encouraged his dandy arrogance. Moreover, most of the merchants who undertook the business were born as bandits who bullied the market and did all kinds of evil things. Zhao Shixi was mixed up with this group of people all day long, so how could anything good happen?

Yesterday, he spent a whole day in the gambling house, lost all his money, and owed someone two hundred taels, so he hurried back to get the money. But Zhao Jin got angry and didn't give him any. He went to ask his mother for it, but his mother was afraid that Zhao Jin would blame her, so she only gave him fifty taels.

I still needed 150 taels, and I had planned to spend it on the two fat sheep in the west courtyard, but I didn't get any advantage, and instead got into trouble...

When he walked dejectedly into the Fengding Restaurant run by the Guanglu Temple, the group of evil young men who had been waiting in the lobby started shouting and yelling.

"Young Master, where did you get hit? You're too careless when you walk."

"It doesn't look like a collision. I think it looks more like two handprints. Did he annoy some beauty?"

"Bullshit, which woman has such big hands?" Zhao Shixi pointed at his slightly swollen cheek and cursed angrily.

It can be seen that Gao Wu was very restrained in his attack and did not beat him into a pig's head.

"Hey, who is so bold? How dare he dare to touch our great fortune? Is he tired of living?"

The evil young men were eager to see the world in chaos, so they all started to incite him, saying, "Young Master, who do you think it is? Let's go and skin him alive!"

"Hey, stop making trouble, you are my father's guest." Zhao Shixi sat down on the main seat, picked up the wine pot, threw away the lid, and drank it. Then he wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and said with a ghostly expression: "I don't know where you came from, and you still want me to call you grandpa."

ps. Chapter 10! I will update more if I get 2500 votes. I can finish work at 1am early today... Please give me monthly votes and recommendation votes!!!