As Mrs. Bai finished her words, the three Yuan family members looked at each other in dismay and fell to their knees.

"Mother, are you going to chase us away? I am afraid. Fame, wealth and honor are fleeting. Father and mother have always treated me like their own daughter. If you want me to be an ungrateful and ungrateful person, it would be better for me to cut my hair and go to the temple to be a nun."

Yuan raised her head and tugged at Bai's clothes, her shoulders shaking slightly, her gentle and dignified face and long eyelashes covered with crystal tears.

"Mother, I will not leave. It doesn't matter if you are rich and famous, with fine clothes and delicious food, or if you are poor and destitute, with coarse clothes and coarse food. I will go wherever you are. Don't think I am a burden to you."

Xue said in a decisive tone with red eyes.

"I won't leave either. I am the eldest daughter of a general's mansion. How can I be such a coward with no sense of shame? Not to mention that I am not such a person. Even if my parents knew, they would strangle me to death with a three-foot white silk."

Bai helped them up with relief.

"Good! Good! Good! Good boy, I really didn't make a mistake! Go back quickly and pack up the gold and silver. We will set off tomorrow."

Early the next morning, the General's Mansion dismissed the slaves and only kept some trusted people. Together with the people from the mansion, a total of more than 50 people, they left the capital in more than 20 carriages.

Zhang Shiping, who rushed over after hearing the news, could only stand in the empty general's mansion and rage.

"Damn it! Damn Zhang Shizhong, he just said he was going to retire and leave, but he didn't even think about how I was going to live."

Zhang Shiping is Zhang Shizhong's half-brother. He lived separately a few years ago. He was uneducated since childhood and often frequented brothels, where he was a whore and gambler. Although he became more restrained after marriage, he did not make much progress.

Even at his old age, he was only a ninth-rank clerk in the Ministry of Works. He could not even support his own family, so he came to the general's mansion every few days to beg for money.

When Zhang Shizhong's motorcade arrived at Shili Pavilion outside the city, he suddenly found many familiar faces waiting outside the pavilion.

They are all the three daughters-in-law’s family members, as well as the Bai family, and some colleagues with whom they have a good relationship.

"parking!"

Seeing Zhang Shizhong getting off the car, several families hurried forward and bowed to him.

"I'm sorry, General, for not speaking up for you yesterday. We both had our own reasons. I'm sure you know that the Emperor has long been dissatisfied with you. You should never have gone to Yinzhou to provide disaster relief and done such a thankless job.

Long before you came back, the emperor had summoned us and forced us to make our position clear.

In recent years, Your Majesty has relied heavily on the Left Prime Minister, and he has great power in the court. In fact, most of the civil and military officials in the court are his people. We all need to stay away from his edge.

The emperor allowing you to retire and return home is actually the best outcome. You are too popular. Since ancient times, the court has always been afraid of being too successful to be a threat to the emperor. The Cheng family a hundred years ago is the best example.

Zhang Shizhong finally understood their difficulties. Yesterday, when he was alone facing the groundless frame-up by a group of treacherous villains, none of his former friends and relatives stood up to speak for him. He was truly heartbroken.

He had made a rough guess last night, and their words today confirmed his guess.

"No problem. I am old and weak. It has always been my wish to be a leisurely farmer. I can also take advantage of the remaining time to walk around and see the country that I have protected for my whole life."

"General, rest assured. I will try my best to get our people to take over the position of Yinzhou County Magistrate. This way, we can't say that we can take good care of you, but at least we can prevent those people from taking advantage of their power to trip you up."

The Grand Secretary of the Cabinet spoke.

"Grand Secretary, you have the intention, but do it within your ability. Don't force yourself, lest you anger the emperor and bring disaster to you."

Zhang Shizhong looked at the people coming and going on the official road. Many of them had flickering eyes, and it was obvious that they were sent to follow him.

"Well, it's getting late, and we still have to go on our way. You should go back soon too. Don't worry, we'll meet again someday."

"Okay, the road is long and the mountains are high, take care!"

The women over there also wiped their tears, said goodbye to their mothers and sisters, and got on the carriage.

The convoy slowly left as everyone watched.

In Pingyang County, Boss Cheng has already reunited with the Liu family and obtained the opinions of the two families. The men in the Wang family are good at carpentry, so they will go to the construction site to do carpentry work.

The Liu family followed Boss Cheng to collect tea oil seeds. Once they were able to do it, Boss Cheng planned to give them the job of collecting tea oil seeds in Pingyang County.

It was because there was not enough manpower in the village at that time, their houses had not yet been roofed, and the rice was about to be harvested.

Everyone in Chengjia Village wishes they could split each person into eight parts. Of course, it would be best if they could entrust their work to someone they can trust. After all, they will have more and more money-making businesses in the future, and the manpower in Chengjia Village alone will be far from enough.

The fifty iron hoops that Cheng Laoer customized from Xiong Tiesheng last time have been completed. He has also taken over the work of thresher parts and asked him to pick them up this afternoon.

It was just right. He could take it back tomorrow and try it out. His third brother Cheng Zeli said that with this thresher, harvesting rice would be much easier and the speed would be several times faster.

He was really curious about how to save effort. In previous years, they cut the rice seedlings, carried them back in bundles, and threshed the rice manually. Not only was it inefficient, but it was also tiring. After each busy farming season, they would lose several pounds.

On the construction site, Old Sun and his apprentices had already marked the foundation lines of a street. The handymen were digging the foundation along the lines, and workers of other trades followed behind to continue their work.

Cheng Laoer also bought a medium-sized mountain outside Pingyang County, planning to build a brick factory there.

At this moment he was leading hundreds of people to dig the soil.

He was so busy that his heels hit his head and he didn't even have time to drink a sip of water. There were still not enough people to deal with the incident, so he had to ask the village to send more people.

Boss Cheng went to the blacksmith shop in the afternoon. Looking at the parts that were exactly the same as the ones on the drawings, he was very satisfied and praised Xiong Tiesheng's superb craftsmanship.

Let him make as much as he can according to this instruction, and then come back to pick it up in a few days.

There are now thirty-seven households in the valley, and each family grows a lot of rice. Naturally, it would be better for each family to have a thresher. After all, the rice will not wait for anyone to mature. If the harvest is late, the rice seedlings will age and fall to the ground when the wind blows. The rice grains will sprout as soon as they come into contact with water.

Xiong Tiesheng accepted the deposit, said "OK", and said nothing more. His face was hidden under his beard, making it impossible to see his expression.

As long as the customer pays, he will do whatever the customer asks him to do, and he never asks the customer what the customized item is used for.

What's more, he is a member of the Cheng family. Even if someone with ulterior motives comes to investigate, he will only help to conceal it.

Because protecting them is his mission.

The next day was the day for the brick factory in Cangwu Town to raise the beam.

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