Chapter 991: Gatekeeper

In later generations, the lunar winter moon in the Guanzhong area was already frozen, but the Guanzhong during the Tang Dynasty was obviously warmer and wetter than in later generations. Halfway through the winter moon, only in the early hours of the morning a thin layer of ice forms on the surface of the gentle river, and the sun melts as soon as it comes out. As for the Yellow River, the Wei River, the Jing River and other rivers with abundant water, there is no sign of freezing.

From ancient times to the present, the climate of China is generally a curve that changes from warm to cold and then gradually warms. Some studies say that the climate was warm and humid during the Sui and Tang dynasties, but it dropped to its lowest point in the Ming Dynasty, and began to warm up gradually in the Qing Dynasty.

For the ancient agrarian peoples with low productivity, the change of climate means the suffering of people's livelihood and the change of dynasties.

On the first day of the lunar month, the first moment of Yin.

The lights are everywhere in the main house of the Fangjia farm, the servants go in and out to prepare for the hot water in the morning, and today is the last big court meeting in the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, and the father and son of the family are about to go to the court.

The servants and maids got up early at any time to prepare, but they walked briskly and looked excited.

Counting the halls of the Tang Dynasty, there are countless high-ranking people, but how many people can have such honors as father and son in the same hall? Not to mention the powerful family whose father worships the prime minister in charge of the dynasty and his son Feng Marquis Jin Jue is about to dominate the ruling party!

The lord humiliates the ministers and dies, and the lord is glorious.

Wouldn't such a man who was both a nobleman with great authority and a generous and righteous man be a slave and a slave than those who were struggling in poverty and misery? You must know that in the Fang family, even the children of servants and slaves can still study. Not only can you read it, but you can't read it if you don't want to!

In these years, if you can study, you will have a chance, if you can read the four books and five classics, basically a county lieutenant has not run away!

Therefore, the servants and slaves of the Fang family are very high-minded......

The candles in the main hall were bright, Fang Xuanling put on his official robe and sat on the Taishi chair with his boots and drank tea, squinting at Fang Jun, and his heart was even more unhappy.

It's just the last dynasty, is it a marriage?

His wife Lu, daughter-in-law Princess Gaoyang, Wu Meiniang, and four personal maids...... All of them sat in a circle, and the little bastard sat lazily, a maid fed tea into her mouth, and a maid knelt in front of her and put on her boots......

The special one is bigger than Lao Tzu's spectrum, and the posture is sufficient!

Fang Xuanling felt a strong sense of loss, could it be that this family is going to change, and he is no longer the head of the family?

Lao Tzu is not dead yet!

"Ahem! That, go first for the Father, and you will come later. ”

Fang Xuanling got up with a cold face, said lightly, and walked out of the main hall with his hands behind his back. When he arrived at the door, he remembered something, stood up and turned around and told Fang Jun: "Don't take the carriage, keep a low profile, now the reputation of Chang'an City is extremely bad for you, try not to be honest." Well, just go on horseback and look spirited. ”

With that, go out the door.

His own servants drove the four-wheeled carriage over, Fang Xuanling got into the carriage with his robe, the horse's hooves rattled, and he walked out of the gate.

Fang Jun in the house was inexplicable......

Hell, you won't let me sit in a carriage this winter, and I have to ride a horse?

Even if it's playing low-key, it's not such a low-key method!

Princess Gao Yang stopped talking, her face was a little unsightly. On this cold day, isn't it to find guilt on horseback? Even those military generals who are serious about the military will ride in a carriage......

He pursed his lips, but didn't say anything.

Fang Xuanling spoke, what can she do as a daughter-in-law?

Wu Meiniang is also a little worried, even if she is as smart as she is, she can't figure out what is the connection between horseback riding and low-key?

How did she know that Fang Xuanling was just a little jealous and wanted to fill in the blockage for her son......

Lu Shi muttered: "This old man, what is crazy for some reason? ”

But in the end, he didn't dare to ignore Fang Xuanling's words, and a room of women hurriedly ordered the maid to dig out the fur and put it on Fang Jun. Fang Jun moved, bloated like a brown bear, crying and laughing.

When I went out of the door, I was blown by the cold wind, and I was suddenly excited, and my dissatisfaction with this thick dress suddenly disappeared. To have a demeanor and not a temperature, that is not his style, and he has already reached the level of ignoring appearance and valuing the soul.

Turning over the horse, he took a few generals out of the village and went straight down the mountain along the flat cement road. The mountain wind was cold, and when it blew like this, Fang Jun was so frozen that the muscles on his face were almost frozen, and he inevitably felt guilty in his heart.

After a while, he caught up with Fang Xuanling's carriage.

Fang Jun lowered his horse's speed, leaned over to the car and said loudly, "Father, how about giving your son a ride?" ”

Fang Xuanling lifted the curtain of the car, looking displeased: "Didn't you hear what your father said just now?" ”

Fang Jun was really cold enough, so he said with a shy face: "Why didn't you hear it? However, few officials have passed on this road, so why didn't the father let his son take the car, get off the car and ride a horse outside Chang'an City? Dad, it's really cold......"

He said pitifully, but Fang Xuanling was unmoved, and said with a cold face: "At a young age, I can't bear any hardship, I have neither tenacity nor forbearance, I am impetuous and greedy for pleasure, how can I become a big thing?"

After that, he put down the curtain and ignored Fang Jun again.

Fang Jun is so angry, is this dad real?

I had no choice but to ride my horse all the way through the dark streets in the early morning...... The slower it is, the colder it gets.

Because today is the last great court meeting this year, many officials living outside the city and Xianyang, Lantian, Sanyuan and other counties have all entered Beijing, so the city gates around Chang'an City have been opened early, but the people who enter and leave are still to be checked.

There was no one outside the Chunming Gate, Fang Jun endured the cold wind blowing in front of him and howled all the way to the city gate, and several soldiers guarding the city were shaking and nesting together to warm up in the leeward place under the city wall, and when they saw a team of knights roaring, they hurriedly got up to stop the investigation.

The old veteran's eyes were particularly good, he glanced at it from a distance, and then retracted his footsteps that had just moved, and continued to nibble on half of the bun in his hand, and the hay nest under his buttocks was just hot, and it was cold again when he came back after a while. What did Fang Jun do to stop him, didn't he see the old man who was so cold that his snot came out? must be in an extremely unhappy mood, and if you are unhappy with this mallet, you have to make others unhappy. Hmph, that hairy boy just enlisted in the army with a bit of family background is like climbing on Lao Tzu's head, and he doesn't look at his own virtue, he doesn't have any eyesight, just wait to be beaten......

The young soldier who relied on his relatives to work in the county government stood in front of the city gate and shouted: "Stop! Examine! ”

Momentum!

Don't look at the city gate is an inconspicuous place, being a gatekeeper is also called by the powerful all day long, but this errand is fat! At today's court meeting, the officials who entered the city all rode in carriages, who had a brain disease and rode horses? Seeing that this group of people is either a lowly businessman or a foreigner who has joined his relatives, mother, this cold day tosses grandpa, you have to be blackmailed!

Standing at the gate of the city waiting for the knights to stop for inspection, the young soldier glanced back at the old soldier who was crouching at the base of the wall and took a sip. What is it! Just like you, being a gatekeeper is also a poor ghost all your life, and you don't know what kind of person to blackmail when you make money, what's the profit?

The sound of hooves rumbled in his ears, and the expression on the young soldier's face changed from arrogant to surprised, from surprise to fear!

The whole team of knights roared from a distance, their iron hooves trampling the frost and dirt on the ground, and the horse's mouth spewing white gas, and the indomitable momentum was like galloping on the battlefield!

And he was like a tiny piece of gravel, about to be crushed by the hooves of a horse, the mouth of the bowl......

Just as the knight galloped in front of him without slowing down, and even the two round eyes of Jianma could be seen clearly, only then did the young soldier react, and with a "whoop" voice, a lazy donkey rolled to the side.

Kenma whistled past where he had just stood, heading straight into the city.

A domineering shout and scolding came from the wind: "Lao Tzu is about to freeze to death, why can't you see it?" ”

The young soldier was so frightened that his heart fluttered and beat endlessly, sweating profusely, and his heart was afraid for a while. It's so arrogant! If he hadn't hid just now, wouldn't he have become a sparse corpse trampled by horses' hooves?

Isn't this a disregard for human life?

Or did you not treat me as a human being at all?

Either way, the young soldier said it was unacceptable.