The day before Zhu Tongzhi's birthday, the prefecture academy let out for a holiday, and all the students whose homes were in the Prefecture headed home.
Zhao Jing and De'an stood at the academy gate. When they didn't see the servant woman who was supposed to pick them up with the oxcart, they thought their family had forgotten to send someone.
Just as they were about to take a ride back in Wang Jun's carriage, they saw a one-armed man standing on the shafts of a cart under a nearby locust tree, waving at them.
"Young Master! Young Master Chen! I'm over here!"
This was none other than the man Chen Wanqing had brought back to her home in Qingshui County to make incense.
The man was around forty years old and had a military background. Although he had lost an arm, he still retained his martial arts skills.
