(These chapters are a bit abusive, please bear with me and don’t curse.)

"Master Lin has left, so I will resign. I, Du Weijian, was also involved in this matter, so I can't escape the blame. I think it's just a demotion, so if I don't resign today, it can be regarded as an apology."

I'm sorry. You two adults, take care." Du Weijian suddenly said.

"Ah?" Fang Dunru, Yan Zheng, Tian Muyuan and others all said in shock.

Tian Muyuan asked in shock: "Master Du, are you leaving too?"

Du Weijian snorted and didn't answer.

Yan Zhengsheng frowned and said: "Du Weijian, I have no intention of punishing you. You don't have to take the main responsibility for this matter. The Ordinance Department needs people like you. You don't have to resign."

Du Weijian said in a deep voice: "Thank you for your forgiveness, sir, but I have made up my mind. I came to the Ordinance Department just to avenge my defeat and do something to change the current situation of Dazhou. But... I just now

I found that this is not what I imagined. Mr. Lin is dedicated to reform and the sake of the two adults. I completely agree with his idea. But what did he get? The two adults are so heartless, which makes people feel cold. My hope is shattered, no

I wish I could stay here. Besides, how can I, Du Weijian, associate with someone like Liu Xiding? Wouldn’t it be an insult to me? The two adults will wait a moment. My words will be sent to the two adults soon. No further persuasion is needed.

"

Fang Dunru said coldly: "Okay, you're right. Could it be that without Lin Jue and Du Weijian, the Regulations Department can't operate? You guys are too arrogant. Liu Xiding, from now on you will preside over the inspection.

Regarding the school's public housing, I will send people over to fill the vacancies in the near future."

Liu Xiding couldn't help being happy and hurriedly bowed and promised.

Yan Fang and the other two walked away in a hurry. Du Weijian wrote his resignation quickly, took off his official uniform, packed his parcel and carried it out.

Tian Muyuan pulled his sleeve and advised: "Master Du, think twice, Master Du, think twice. Don't act out of emotion."

Du Weijian smiled and said: "Without me, Du Weijian, the Regulations Department will still be running. Why should Mr. Tian do this? I have long wanted to travel around the world as a casual person, but later someone told me that serving the country is the right way. It is suitable for me.

When Mr. Yan and Mr. Fang returned to serve in the imperial court, I thought about doing something with the two adults. However... things backfired. Things are often not as imagined, so there is no need to say more. Mr. Tian, ​​I'll say goodbye.

, we will meet again later."

After Du Weijian finished speaking, he put the package on his shoulder, turned around and walked away.

Tian Muyuan looked at the back of Du Wei gradually leaving gracefully, and murmured with a sad face: "It's over now. Without Mr. Lin and Mr. Du, what else can the office of the Provincial Literary Examiner do?"

From one side, a cold voice came: "Master Tian, ​​what are you talking about? Are you looking down on me, Liu Xiding? I, Liu Xiding, am also one of the top three, can't I do anything? It's hard to find a toad with three legs, but two

Are there not many people with two legs? Without him, Lin Jue Du Weijian, the sun will still rise and set tomorrow, and we will still eat and drink water. Go and tidy up the inner room. From tomorrow on, I will work alone in the inner room."

…

Lin Jue returned to the house in a daze. On the porch of the back house, Lu Wu was teaching Bai Bing how to be a nv. When Lin Jue came back, the two girls hurriedly put down their needlework and stood up.

"Huh? Why did you come back at noon? Didn't you say you couldn't come back?" Lu Wu came forward to greet her.

Lin Jue said in a daze: "Did I say it? Oh, I should have said it. I forgot."

Lu Wu smiled and said, "I forgot about it. Have you eaten yet? Bing'er and I were too lazy to bother at noon, so we put a few snacks on the table and didn't let the kitchen cook. If you haven't eaten, I'll go get it for you."

Just do it.”

Lin Jue waved his hands and said: "No need, I'm not hungry. I'm a little tired and went back to my room to rest."

Lu Wu frowned and looked at Lin Jue: "What's wrong, Master? Why do you look so listless? Are you sick? Let me see if you have a fever?"

Lu Wu put her little hand to Lin Jue's forehead and touched it. Lin Jue reached out and grabbed her hand and said with a forced smile: "I'm fine. Maybe I got up too early in the morning and I feel a little dizzy. Just go back to the room and rest for a while."

"

Lu Wu said hurriedly: "Oh, then go and get some sleep."

Lin Jue nodded and walked slowly to the corridor. Bai Bing stood there and looked at him with concern. Lin Jue forced a smile and said: "Want to learn needlework? Okay, you go on, I'll go take a nap."

After Lin Jue returned to his room, the two women stood in the corridor and looked at each other. Lu Wu frowned and said, "There seems to be something wrong. The young master looks listless today. I'm afraid he is really sick."

Bai Bing shook his head and said: "It doesn't look like he is sick, but something happened. If he is sick, I can tell at a glance. He is in a bad mood."

Lu Wu said: "Not in a good mood? Who made him angry? I'll go ask."

Bai Bing said: "Don't ask, he doesn't seem to want to talk. If he wanted to tell us, he would have just told us. Something must have happened. Let him be quiet and ask again later."

Lu Wu frowned and thought for a while and said, "That's fine. I'm really worried. The young master is not usually like this. He doesn't look like this even in big things. He still talks and laughs. What happened?

Ah, it’s so annoying.”

Lin Jue fell on the bed, his mind in chaos. Lin Jue's heart was filled with anger, grievance, confusion, sadness and other emotions. The moment he walked out of the door of the Ordinance Department, Lin Jue truly realized that he had been kicked out by Fang Dunru.

.Lin Jue was not too nostalgic about his official position in the Ordinance Department, nor did he care about the incident that was about to spread throughout the city. In fact, what he couldn't stand the most was the emotional hurt.

Lin Jue really saw Fang Dunru as his father, but the father suddenly kicked him away, and he was really thinking about him, so he did so many things that made Fang Dunru dissatisfied.

The feeling given to Lin Jue was that all his emotional efforts were in vain, and his sincerity was abandoned by Fang Dunru as if it were worn out shoes, which caused an extremely strong sense of frustration.

Lin Jue admitted that he went too far and was a little self-righteous. But Lin Jue knew that what he did was right, so he did it. Lin Jue also thought that Fang Dunru said several times that he would be kicked out of the door, but

It was to scare himself into submission. It was a kind of restraint behavior by a father to his naughty son. He would not really do it. Facts have proved that he was wrong. Fang Dunru was more ruthless than he thought.

Lin Jue felt unhappy, unwilling and angry, but all these emotions were actually mixed with a sense of relief. He originally did not want to participate in this reform, but he was forced to do so by Yan Zhengsu and Fang Dunru.

He was dragged in. But Lin Jue's character is that once he gets involved, he will take it seriously. However, now in the middle of the matter, not only has he been kicked out of the door, he has also been kicked out of the Ordinance Department. Then, he has no

I have no reason and obligation to participate in it. Everything has nothing to do with me, and I can be out of sight and out of mind. This sense of relief comes from this.

However, Lin Jue understood that he could really let go of everything and be liberated? I'm afraid he still couldn't do it. Lin Jue didn't care about the success or failure of the reform, but the success or failure of the reform was related to the fate of Mr. Fang and Yan Zhengshen.

It is related to the fate of his wife and junior sisters. To a certain extent, Lin Jue's persistence in this stems from his worry about the fate of his family if the reform fails. This is what he really cares about.

Lin Jue didn't know what to do. His mind was in chaos, his heart was empty, and he felt unspeakably uncomfortable. In a daze, Lin Jue fell asleep. When Lin woke up in the evening, he felt light-headed and light-headed.

My nose was blocked, my throat was sore, and my body was burning. I stood up and walked a few steps, but suddenly I fell to the ground and passed out.

Lin Jue really fell ill. Even though he showed some carefreeness and nonchalance, this heavy blow still knocked him down.

…

The night in early February was still as cold as ice, and the north wind was blowing, blowing on the bare branches and making a whistling sound.

In the Fang family's courtyard on Yulin Lane, in the cold room, under the dim candlelight, the three members of the Fang family were sitting in the room like clay and wood sculptures without saying a word. The food on the table was already cold, and Fang Dun was eating half of it.

Ru's words were interrupted, and from then on, the three members of the Fang family sat there without saying a word.

Fang Dunru stared at the dancing candlelight with a gloomy face, his face full of frustration. Mrs. Fang looked at Fang Dunru's face bitterly, her eyes full of disappointment. Fang Huanqiu, who was sitting next to Mrs. Fang, was full of disappointment.

Their faces were stained with tears, their expressions were desperate, and they kept sobbing softly. The three of them sat like this for a while, and no one said anything.

"Your heart is really too cruel. You just kicked Lin Jue out of the door? That child can't help you? You can't give him a chance? You kicked him out of the door like this, and then kicked him out again."

How do you expect him to gain a foothold in the future if he leaves the Yamen?" Mrs. Fang finally spoke, with a very dissatisfied tone.

Fang Dunru frowned and said in a deep voice: "Do you think I am willing to do this? If he hadn't been so outrageous, how could I have done this? Once upon a time, I had such great expectations for him, I thought he could succeed me

But who would have thought that he would let me down more and more, so that this time I could no longer forgive him."

"Your heart is as hard as iron and as cold as ice. I don't know why you, master and disciple, turned against each other. I only know that Lin Jue treated us with filial piety and took good care of us. He didn't feel sorry for us at all. You only said that he did something wrong.

It's over, but ask yourself, what have you done for him? Did you, the teacher, pave the way for him as a student? You were not in Hangzhou when he took the exam in the autumn of the year before last. You knew clearly that his autumn was about to come, so you were in a hurry to come to the capital.

.Are you, a teacher, competent? Not to mention that you and Mr. Yan insisted on investigating the Lin family, which almost destroyed their family. When he appointed officials, it was obviously unfair. You, a teacher, say a word for him.

Is that so? You only asked him to do things according to your ideas, but what did you give him? What did you make Lin Jue think? "

Mrs. Fang started to criticize her like a barrage of words. Now that she had started, she was no longer polite in her words and vented all the resentment in her heart.

Fang Dunru obviously couldn't stand it anymore, he frowned and shouted: "What do you know about a woman? I have my own rules for how I behave, and it's not like you don't know it."

Mrs. Fang sneered and said: "What bullshit rules are there? Don't use these words to excuse yourself. You are just doing it for yourself. I am a woman, so naturally I don't understand any big principles. But I know that a person must always be humane and cannot just care about others."

Myself. If this is the case, sooner or later everyone will betray their relatives and leave."

"Shut up!" Fang Dunru shouted angrily: "What do you know? I am now entrusted by the emperor and shoulder the important responsibility of reforming the law to become stronger. My every word and deed is in the eyes of everyone. I must uphold my integrity and not be selfish. And in the reform process

How can we care about these trivial matters when it is related to the safety of the country? I cannot tolerate him going against me on this matter. This is a matter of great importance and is not a child's play. You woman,

How come I don’t know the importance?”

Mrs. Fang sneered and said: "Oh, that's amazing. When you were teaching at Songshan Academy, why didn't you say that I didn't know the importance? Now that I'm back as an official, I'm more arrogant. I, a woman, don't understand what reform means to become stronger. I just

We know that no matter how much we change, some things cannot be changed. The king, minister, father and son, benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom, and trust cannot be changed. If the reform is to make people impersonal, then what is the use of the reform?"

"It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous, I have nothing to say to you. I'm already so upset, and you still come to make me angry. I won't eat, I'll go back to my room to sleep." Fang Dunru stood up and left.

Mrs. Fang shouted: "You know you are in the wrong. Anyway, I told you that you expelled Lin Jue from the school, but I still treat him as a member of the family. I am still his master. I am not as ruthless as you."

Huanqiu and I will go to see him tomorrow. You don't want him, we want him."

Fang Dunru shouted angrily: "You are not allowed to go."

Mrs. Fang sneered and said: "You see if I dare, I want to see how powerful your master Fang is. Do you think that we, my mother-in-law, are hindering your reform and development? You can put us

The two of you will be swept away, just like you did to Lin Jue."

Fang Dunru gritted his teeth and shouted angrily: "You..."

Mrs. Fang was happy and unafraid, she frowned and looked at him without giving an inch. Fang Dunru shook her head and sighed, "It's unreasonable." After saying that, she stamped her feet and walked away with a flick of her sleeves.

…

The sun was scorching, and there was an endless desert as far as the eye could see. Lin felt his mouth was dry and his skin was burning and stinging under the scorching sun. Fire seemed to be erupting from his thirsty mouth, and his body felt as heavy as lead.
To be continued...