After Resigning, I Entered Taoism Through Literature

After serving as prime minister for forty years and tutoring two generations of emperors, Zhang Henian resigned. Back in his hometown of Tongxiang, the archway at the entrance of the village was erected when he won the national election, and no old man sitting underneath knew him. The old house was demolished and a tea shed was built. The new owner asked him: "Whose house are you looking for?" He said: "I'm not looking for anyone." After drinking a bowl of chrysanthemum tea for half an hour, I listened to the table next to me talk about "Prime Minister Zhang from the capital", and then changed the topic. No one knew he was sitting nearby. He put down his tea bowl and continued on his way. After walking fifty miles, he lived in a dilapidated temple and scratched a word on the wall with his fingernails. That wall started to grow grass the next day.