Gu Yunji was arrested and imprisoned in early April, and was imprisoned for more than ten days, and when he came out, it was already mid-April. Su Qi's 100-day bereavement leave has been completed, and he should have returned to Northern Xinjiang a long time ago, but it was because he couldn't rest assured that he stayed until today.

Emperor Jingfeng knew the reason why Su Qi was reluctant to leave Beijing, so he turned a blind eye to this, but after Gu Yunji was released, he sent people to urge him several times. Su Qi originally wanted to accompany Gu Yunji and Cheng Yan for a few more days, but now there was really no reason to stay, so he had to leave for Northern Xinjiang immediately.

Gu Yunji and Cheng Yan are both adults, although they are reluctant in their hearts, they also know each other's helplessness, and they both hide the sorrow of parting in their hearts and do not show it.

And Gu Zhaoxi is a two-year-old child, she doesn't have so many scruples as adults, although she and Su Qi have only been together for a short period of three or four months, they have already established a deep friendship. Knowing that his godfather was leaving, Gu Zhaoxi cried heartbreakingly, chased him out for a long time, and finally stopped crying before he settled down.

In the past half a month, Gu Yunji's injury is almost healed, and it is time to leave for Xuzhou Mansion to take office.

On the day of departure, relatives and friends came to see off at the city gate.

Cheng Yan still had that warm smile, but there was a deep melancholy and reluctance in his eyes: "Su Qi is gone, you are also leaving, the three of us agreed to be officials in the court together, but now we are breaking our promises one after another, leaving me alone in the capital." ”

One is in the capital, one is in the southwest, and the other is in the northern Xinjiang, and now the three of them are really at the ends of the world, and it is difficult to see each other.

Gu Yunji smiled and said with relief: "Don't look at the two of us leaving, in fact, only you who stay in the capital are the most promising, maybe we will have to rely on you in the future." When you are promoted from the Hanlin Academy and leave, it would be best if you could be transferred to the household department or the official department, so that Su Qi would not have to worry about the food and grass military expenses, and I could also walk sideways outside.

"You say, if I have a friend who is an official in the Ministry of Officials, and is in charge of the promotion and evaluation of officials, such a hard relationship, don't others have to respect me for three points when they see me?" Gu Yunji joked and patted Cheng Yan's shoulder encouragingly, "Cheng Yan, you have to work hard, I'm still waiting for you to cover me." ”

Cheng Yan couldn't cry or laugh: "You were transferred from the capital to the southwest this time, I was afraid that you would be decadent and lonely, and I wanted to encourage you to come, but how did you encourage me?" ”

"The general judgment is a real job, what do I have to be lonely?" Gu Yunji not only did not have the slightest look of decadence, but was full of confidence in the future, "Although the magistrate is not as fast as the Beijing official, it is also the easiest place to make political achievements. ”

Gu Yunji is Mingsheng and secretly depreciated this time, how many people gave up on themselves after degrading Beijing, and felt that most of their official careers had been ruined. Seeing that he was not affected by this, but was still very confident, Cheng Yan put his mind at ease and said with a smile: "It is naturally best if you think like this, in my opinion, Your Majesty should have the intention of tempering you, maybe it will not take a few years to transfer you back to Beijing." ”

Gu Yunji smiled slightly: "I don't know what Your Majesty means, in short, I just have to do my current thing." ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the sky and sighed lightly: "It's not too early, it's time for me to set off." ”

"Brother." Gu Yunqiao was even more reluctant when he heard this, tears rolled in his eyes, but he didn't know what to say to him. Due to her identity, she couldn't even throw herself into his arms like she did when she was a child, so she could only look at him with restraint and nostalgia.

Although Gu Yunqiao has already married, in Gu Yunji's eyes, she still seems to be a little girl who has not grown up, he reached out and rubbed his sister's head, and said in a coaxing tone: "After my brother leaves, do you want to be obedient?" If Cheng Yan bullies you, you can write to me, and I will rush back overnight to teach him a lesson. ”

Gu Yunqiao immediately burst into tears and laughed, and turned her face away embarrassedly: "Why does my brother still treat me like a child." ”

Gu Yunxiao walked over and said, "Third brother, don't worry, everything in the family has me." ”

Gu Yunji nodded in response, and after listening to the instructions of the Gu family one by one, he went to say goodbye to Xu Chengyu and his son.

"Teacher, I'm leaving."

Xu Chengyu nodded silently, looking at him and stopping, as if he had a lot to say, and finally only patted him on the shoulder: "Take care on the road, and write to us as soon as you get to the place." ”

Once he leaves Beijing to serve as a magistrate, he will be transferred back and forth between various state capitals for many years to come, and if the official himself drags his family with him, it will be extremely inconvenient to be transferred. Therefore, many officials will choose to leave their families in their hometowns and go to the local government by themselves.

Xu Shujing didn't want his sister to suffer, and originally wanted to persuade Xu Shuhua to stay in the capital and let Gu Yunji take office alone. But he knew that his sister and brother-in-law had a good relationship, not to mention Xu Gu Yunji, Xu Shuhua would not agree, not to mention that Gu Zhaoxi was young and could not leave his father for a long time, so he had to give up.

Xu Shujing glanced at Xu Shuhua, who was talking to his wife Liu not far away, sighed silently, and said to Gu Yunji: "This is a long way to go to the mountains, the southwest is remote, take care of Shuhua." ”

Gu Yunji said seriously: "Don't worry, big brother, I will." ”

No matter how reluctant you are, you still have to leave. After Gu Yunji said goodbye to his family and friends one by one, he took his wife Xu Shuhua, daughter Gu Zhaoxi, and several close entourages to embark on the road to Xuzhou Mansion.

The southwest region is mountainous, the terrain is complex, and there is little communication with the outside world, so it is very easy to break out of the power from ancient times to the present. However, fortunately, although the Xuzhou Mansion where Gu Yunji and others are going is located in the middle of a heavy mountain, the location of the capital is close to the Yangtze River, there is a river port, and the transportation is quite convenient.

From the northeast corner to the southwest corner, Gu Yunji's trip is equivalent to crossing most of the Great Xia territory, and it is extremely difficult to travel along the way. First, take the horse-drawn carriage by land, and then change the waterway to go south to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and some sections of the road are also silted up by the river, so they can only get off the boat and change the car halfway.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal came to an end, and it was necessary to change to the Yangtze River to continue to take the river transport, during which Gu Yunji also stayed in Songjiang Mansion for a few days, and took his wife and daughter to visit the Gu family in the city, as well as several sisters who married in the early years.

The river channel of the Yangtze River is wide and deep, but there is no siltation, but it caught up with the summer flood, Gu Yunji and others went upriver by boat, and the more they went up, the more turbulent the water became. Especially when it is about to enter Shu, the danger of the terrain is almost impossible to sail, and it is all up to the Three Gorges slender men to pull it by manpower, and it is extremely difficult to walk.

But if you don't take the Yangtze River waterway, you can only go around to Hanzhong in the Guanshan area, cross the Qinling Mountains and take the Shu Road from the north into Sichuan. The road was even more difficult, with many cliffs along the way, and the slightest carelessness could be lost.

When Gu Yunji and his party set off from the capital, it was still early summer at the end of April, and when they were about to arrive at Xuzhou Mansion, it had already entered the late autumn of September. After nearly five months of travel, the port terminal of the capital city of Xuzhou is finally in sight.