Seeing the old parents hugging the young man’s thighs and crying, the people of Chongming on the boat and at the dock were stunned.

How old is the child, fourteen or fifteen? Do the old parents have any shame?

Well, he is usually shameless. But you represent the entire Chongming...

Well, there aren’t many people left in Chongming.

It’s really miserable when you think about it.

A strange light flashed in Shen Chen's beautiful eyes.

Although Zhao Hao had saved her and her group before, Shen Chenshi only thought that he was the son of a big military leader.

But seeing the eldest master's performance, Shen Chen realized that she had still underestimated Zhao Hao.

She knew something about Jin Xueceng and knew that although he seemed absurd, he was actually resourceful and shrewd.

To be able to make County Magistrate Jin bow down to him so shamelessly, this young man must be many times more powerful than he imagined.

'Maybe, there is still hope?' This thought suddenly popped up in her mind, but she shook her head sadly.

This place is already a place hated by gods and abandoned by ghosts, how can there be any hope? The other party has found such a powerful backer, who is willing to offend the terrible Xu family for these barbarians?

~~

Zhao Hao finally managed to get the two funny apprentices up from the ground by coaxing and scolding them, then smiled apologetically at Wang Rulong and said, "I'm sorry to have caused trouble for you, Brother Wang."

"Haha, they are usually pretty normal." Wang Rulong grinned, "Most of the time they are like this."

"Hahaha!" The two looked at each other and laughed.

At this time, Shen Chen also came down from the boat and bowed to the master.

"Hey, Mrs. Shen, why are you on my master's boat?" Jin Xuezeng widened his eyes in disbelief.

Upon hearing this, Shen Chen couldn't help but murmured secretly that this master was too young.

But how could she interfere with the relationship between her old parents and her benefactor? So she smiled generously and bowed to Zhao Haofu, saying, "Thanks to the young master's rescue, I was lucky enough to escape."

"Dayang, your law and order is not good enough. There are Japanese pirates occupying the sandbar in your county, robbing passing merchants. Is this acceptable?"

Master Zhao scolded his apprentice.

"Yes, yes, Master is right." Jin Xueceng had been left on this broken island for several months, and when he heard his master scolding him, it was like hearing the sound of heaven.

"We will definitely make corrections. We will definitely make corrections."

"It needs to be changed." Zhao Hao did not mention the prisoners. He glanced at the dilapidated docks and said, "What are you busy doing all day? You can't even do a good job of presenting yourself."

"Oh, Master, it's a long story. Let's go back and talk slowly." Jin Xuezeng asked the sedan bearers to bring his official sedan chair, and he personally lifted the curtain to invite the master to get in.

He also prepared a broken carriage for the master's wife, oh no, Miss Jiang. But the carriage was too broken, so Secretary Ma took a look and asked people to carry two sedan chairs down from the boat... This was what she prepared for the young master and Miss Jiang.

Now there is just one seat for Miss Jiang, and one for her and Qiaoqiao.

Jin Xuezeng shouted loudly: "Children, get up the sedan chair!"

The bearers quickly lifted the three sedan chairs, followed by the lanterns and ceremonial guards in front, and left the dock shouting.

~~

In the sedan chair, Master Zhao heard the gongs and shouts outside to clean the streets, so he lifted the curtain and said unhappily, "What's the commotion in the middle of the night?"

"Hehe, Master, don't worry." Jin Xuezeng, who followed the sedan chair and acted as a personal attendant, said with a smug smile, "I'm not bragging, we on Chongming Island are not afraid of noise."

Yu Shensi on the other side of the sedan also nodded and agreed: "Yes, Master, the common people can have a lively time, just like the New Year, why would they care about your time?"

Sure enough, there were a few people on the street. They were the people who had been woken up and opened their doors to look around... maybe one in every seven or eight households.

Zhao Hao only heard them shouting excitedly: "Hey, Master, are you going to put on an opera? There's so much banging and hammering in the middle of the night."

"You wish! Are you going to pay for the opera troupe?" Jin Xuezeng retorted angrily.

"Old parents, is your father here?"

"Yes, you have to call me grandpa." Jin Xuezeng bared his teeth and looked like a monkey, but he was quite familiar with the people.

The town is very small, and while we were talking we arrived at the gate of a small temple in the center of the town.

The sedan chair came down, Jin Xueceng and Yu Shensi pressed down the poles and lifted the curtain.

"Master, we are here."

When Zhao Hao got out of the sedan chair, he saw a broken wooden plaque hanging on the temple gate with three big characters "Temple of Poseidon" inscribed on it.

"Good job, Dayang, you're starting to get some respect now." Zhao Hao patted Jin Xueceng on the shoulder and joked.

"Yes, Master, if you don't come soon, my body will become a saint." Fortunately, Jin Xueceng is an optimist. If someone else had been the county magistrate, he would have become depressed.

Zhao Hao entered the temple and first went to the main hall to burn incense to the sea god Qian Liu.

When he stood up, he accidentally discovered that there was a half-length portrait of himself on the east wall. There was an incense burner underneath, and judging by the smoke, he must have worshipped a lot.

"What are you doing?" Zhao Hao was both angry and amused.

"Senior Brother taught us that we should not only keep our Master in our hearts, but also keep Him in front of us and on our lips. We should ask for instructions in the morning and report in the evening. Only by remembering the Master's kindness can we succeed." Jin Xuezeng replied solemnly.

"Master, we are just looking at the plum to quench our thirst." Yu Shensi said with red eyes: "You don't know that we have been thinking about you all the time these days."

"Alright, alright, stop it. Don't I know you? If you encounter difficulties, just say it directly. Don't talk more beautifully than singing." Zhao Hao scolded with a smile and asked the two of them to arrange accommodation first. They can talk about anything after they wake up from a good sleep.

This temple of the sea god was built in the Yuan Dynasty, when Chongming was a prefecture with three counties and was extremely prosperous. The temple was naturally built to be spacious and solid, otherwise the new county magistrate would not have moved directly into the temple after the county government collapsed.

The temple has three parts, front and back. Behind the main hall is the back hall, and behind the back hall is the incense room where the monks live.

The monks in the temple had long gone away. Jin Xuezeng and Yu Shensi used the back hall as a signing room and the incense room as their residence.

As for formal activities such as court sessions, they were all moved to the Xisha Patrol Office, which was separated by a wall.

The two of them had already cleaned the incense room in the backyard and simply painted it. They also borrowed some decent furniture from the Sand Boat Gang, trying to make the master and his mistress... it was a slip of the tongue, it was the "girls", live more comfortably.

As for the two of them, they just spent a few nights in the signing room.

~~

Qiaoqiao and Xiaoyun'er directed the guards to move all the bedding, spare clothes, and toiletries they had brought into the room.

He also took the time to help Zhao Hao and Miss Jiang wash up and go to bed, but of course they slept separately.

By the time they had put everything in order, the rooster had crowed three times.

When the rooster crows, the world becomes bright. Should we sleep or not?

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