Recently, the court has become very quiet, and no matter what Xu De's forces do, that group of loyal ministers are silent and give up confronting Xu De. Those who don't know think that Zhang Qianfu's death and Xu De's domineering in the court deterred this group of people, but only Xu De himself knows that the reason why these people are so silent is because they are waiting for someone to come back, and that person's name is Wankefa.

October has just arrived, although Tianjing City is located in the south, but the temperature is still down, and the night is even cooler, if you are on duty in the door of the imperial court, you have to prepare a thin coat to prevent cold. In addition to the change in the weather, the division of days also began to change, the days became shorter, and the nights became longer, which led to the fact that every day when the ministers went to court, they had to touch the dark.

If the family is wealthy and the officials who have the means can still find a carriage to go to the court, while some officials who have always kept the so-called integrity can only fail or learn from Guo Yi and ride an old donkey.

At this moment, there was a man riding an old donkey, slowly moving towards the imperial city. His old donkey did not have a lot of steps, his ribs were clear and countable, and he was thin and pitiful, and the people on the old donkey were not too much, with pale hair, white beard under the chin, an old official uniform, which had been washed and discolored, and a cloak with four or five patches on it.

This person is the editor of the Hanlin Academy, Xue Fan, although this person is poor, but he is indeed an old minister of the Three Dynasties, but when Emperor Wu was the emperor, he was already the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and decades have passed, and he is still the editor of the Hanlin Academy. Now he is not young, but he still guards his identity as a Hanchen, and there is no oil and water in the position of the Hanlin Academy, and at this time, he has to ride a donkey to the court.

A gust of wind blew, and the flags fluttered by the doors of the unopened liquor shops on both sides of the road. Xue Fan's beard was also rippling in the wind, he reached out and wanted to hold his beard, but he didn't think about raising his hand, but the cloak that was originally draped on his shoulders was brought to the ground. He hurriedly patted the old donkey's neck, and the old donkey cherished the opportunity to rest, and immediately stopped.

Xue Fan sighed, held the donkey's back, and slowly stretched his foot down, one foot was firmly stepped on, and the other foot hit the ground again. There were many passers-by, ranging from hawkers who had prepared their stalls to city guards who got up early to patrol. But everyone ignored the old man's slow movements and walked past him.

Xue Fan bent down, and at the moment when his hand was about to touch the cloak on the ground, the other hand preceded him and picked up the cloak.

Xue Fan raised his head, it was a familiar and unfamiliar face, it seemed that he had lost a lot recently, but the aura on his face was even more abundant. The man put the cloak on Xue Fan's shoulders, bowed his hand, and said, "Xue Bianxiu, don't come to harm." ”

Xue Fan is an old man, who has been in three dynasties, and his qi cultivation kung fu is already good, but at this moment, his lips are shaking, he looked at the person's brand-new official uniform, and wanted to open his mouth to call out the person's name several times, and finally it was the old tears that rolled out of his eyes before the words, and then he knelt on the ground and shouted: "Wan Shangshu, you can come back." ”

Hearing this Wan Shangshu, the pedestrians on the road looked sideways, only to see Wan Kefa standing next to the carriage, wearing a brand-new official uniform to set off the people in high spirits, he wanted to go to court quietly, but was called out by Xue Fan's voice, and finally there was no way to hide it anymore. There were people crying and running around, kneeling down beside Wan Kefa, and the adults looked like they had been bullied and went home to find their mothers.

Wan Kefa was a little embarrassed, he just wanted to help Xue Fan pick up a cloak, but he came to such an end, Wan Kefa could only help the adults around him up one by one, and kept saying: "Everyone get up first, get up ...... everyone"

Thus, what was originally a solitary carriage became a carriage, plus a herd of horses, plus an old donkey. And their owners are all walking in front, surrounding Wankefa. They rushed to explain to Wan Kefa how strong they themselves were when Wan Kefa was not in the court these days, and counted Xu De's dozens of crimes.

In the distance, the two knights stopped, it was Yu Yan and Liu Xian. Looking at the large group of people in front of him who almost blocked the road, Yu Yan glanced at it a few times and asked, "What's the matter?" Why are you walking? ”

After all, Liu Xian calmed down, and quickly recognized Wan Kefa in the middle of the crowd, and said, "Wan Shangshu is back." ”

"Wan Shangshu?" When Yu Yan heard this, he tried his best to see a back in the dimness, which was indeed very similar to Wan Kefa, and said, "Really, he actually came back so soon?" Xu De just put people back? ”

Liu Xian thought about the rumors in the court a few days ago, and said: "This Wan Daren doesn't know if it's still the Wan Shangshu of the past. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Qin Sanxuan went to Wanjia a few days ago, and the emperor's edict came down the next day."

"He voted for Xu De?" Yu Yan looked shocked, he couldn't figure it out, Wan Kefa had been persisting all his life, why did he want to give away his reputation when he was old.

"It's hard to say, maybe it's a plan." Liu Xian looked at the slow pace of the group of people again, and said, "This road is not passable, let's take another way to bypass." After that, he signed the reins of the horse and went to the trail, and Yu Yan looked at Wan Kefa's back, suddenly spat on the ground, and said in a low voice: "Old man does not cultivate." After that, he followed Liu Xian from the side road.