Chapter 455: Spring Snow

A burning, wafting wisp of white smoke slowly approached the firing wire twist of a firecracker placed on the ground. Before the incense could get close to the twist, it shrank back sharply. Repeatedly, the firing twist was finally lit by incense, and it was emitting white smoke with "sneering".

After lighting the firecracker, the person who lit the firecracker took two steps back. Immediately after, the firecracker exploded.

"Smack-" A crisp and loud explosion echoed through the courtyard.

"Daddy, daddy, it's so loud!" Zhang Che's little face was flushed, and he said to Zhang Yunwen with excitement.

Zhang Yunwen looked at Zhang Che's cute appearance and smiled lightly: "Okay, you can continue to set off firecrackers, but be careful!" ”

Zhang Che answered and left. Zhang Yan, who was standing next to Zhang Yunwen, was hot and ready to move. Zhang Yunwen glanced at her: "If you want to play, go ahead!" ”

Zhang Yan let out a low cheer, rushed down the courtyard, came to Zhang Che's side, asked for a few firecrackers from Zhang Che, lit incense, and began to put them up.

Not only the sound of firecrackers sounded in this courtyard, but also in the entire Chang'an market, there were also rare firecrackers, but they were scarce. In the fluttering snowflakes, a festive atmosphere permeated Chang'an City.

It is now the end of the lunar month, and the new year will be in two days. Due to the victory on the battlefield of Goryeo, Li Shimin attached great importance to this year's Spring Festival, and even allocated some money from the imperial treasury to invite several large song and dance workshops in Chang'an to perform to the people on Suzaku Street, which is the so-called "fun with the people".

At the end of each year, it is always the time when there is the most backlog of official business. This year is no different. However, Zhang Yunwen was lazy this year, and concentrated the official business that needed to be dealt with urgently, and the rest that were not in a hurry to deal with it were dragged on, ready to wait until after the Chinese New Year to deal with it.

With the snow falling on Chang'an City, the nineteenth year of Zhenguan has finally arrived.

Years ago, Zhang Ji returned home. He went to the gendarmerie camp in the winter months, and it has been more than a month now.

Since Zhang Yunwen taught him a lesson in the gendarmerie camp that day, this little guy is much more honest. Whenever Zhang Yunwen went to see him in the gendarmerie camp, he always saw him doing all kinds of training desperately. However, his age is too young after all, not to mention half of the training volume that Zhang Yunwen said, even thirty percent of the training volume can't be completed.

Rao is like this, this Zhang Ji still insists on this training every day. And those non-commissioned officers of the gendarmerie battalion also knew that this little guy was Zhang Yunwen's son, and there were naturally many people close to him. However, Zhang Ji would always ask these people, "What were you doing when you were nine years old?" ”

After listening to these soldiers tell about their childhood, Zhang Ji was always silent.

Even once Cheng Yanjin went to wander around this barracks, he was stopped by Zhang Ji and asked, "Uncle Cheng, what were you doing when you were nine years old?" ”

Cheng Biting Jin immediately wiped the back of his head and grinned: "Isn't this a kid from the Zhang family?" You're here, still wearing military uniforms? ”

Zhang Ji took his hand and said, "Don't talk about anything else, tell me what you were doing when you were nine years old!" ”

Cheng Yanjin recalled for a long time before saying: "Nine years old? Whether it was after managing the fields at home or training the village soldiers, I don't remember exactly, anyway, it was not easy! At that time, although our Cheng family was still a big family, when the people were constantly displaced every year, thieves swarmed, and Lao Tzu used a long lance to work hard in the four neighborhoods when he was nine years old! Hey, don't believe it, when Lao Tzu was nine years old, these arms had the strength of a hundred catties, and it was effortless to use the long lance of more than ten catties! ”

Hearing Cheng Yanjin say this, Zhang Ji couldn't help but look at his thin arm, uh, yesterday I lifted a stone lock of twenty catties, and after lifting it less than ten times, I couldn't stand it.

Zhang Ji felt a little ashamed. I said that I want to compare with generals like Cheng Yanjin, even if I want to compare with ordinary soldiers, it is much worse. At the age of nine, they knew how to do household chores to make ends meet, but they only knew how to work on the streets.

Ashamed, he trained even harder. At the beginning, he was even in a coma for three days because of overtraining, which made Qu Wu very nervous! As time went on, the training of this Zhang Ji also became different. Although Qu Wu only positioned his training volume at 30% of that of ordinary soldiers.

Every time Zhang Yunwen came, seeing Zhang Ji's desperate appearance, he couldn't help but nod slightly, if Zhang Ji could persist in this military camp for two years in this spirit, and then teach him well, he would definitely be a young general in the future.

Zhang Ji went home for the New Year, and Zhang Yunwen gave twenty days of vacation. In other words, Zhang Ji can live at home for 20 days.

When he returned home, Li Yu hurriedly went up, and everyone in the family, except for Zhang Yunwen, couldn't help but reddened their eyes when they saw Zhang Ji's slightly dark face and thin face.

From the second day of the Lunar New Year to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, it is a day to visit relatives and friends. On the second day of the first lunar month, Zhang Yunwen sat at home and didn't go out. He's waiting for a gift.

Zhang Yunwen's original official title and title are slightly inferior to those of other heroes in Lingyan Pavilion, but he has a lot of power in his hands, and just an investigation institute has the responsibility of monitoring the world. I am afraid that this is also deliberately done by Li Shimin. However, in the campaign against Goryeo last year, he made great contributions, and this time, all the official titles were raised. Although Zhang Yunwen doesn't like publicity, there are still a lot of people who congratulate him, the ministers of the DPRK and the central government, the soldiers under his original command, and the people who are good friends, all come to congratulate.

And this Spring Festival of the nineteenth year of Zhenguan is a good reason.

Since the second year of junior high school, the people outside Zhang Yunwen's mansion have never been broken. The servants of the Zhang family were also busy.

New Year's gifts from these people vary in severity and need to be registered one by one, so that when the gift is returned, a gift of equal value can be presented.

In the fourth year of junior high school, Zhang Yunwen instructed the servants to return the gift according to the gift list. Of course, he had to go to some important people's homes in person.

This gift was exchanged, and it took Zhang Yunwen nearly ten days. For the rest of the time, he spent most of his time with his wife and children.

After Zhang Ji returned to the barracks, Li Yu looked at Zhang Yunwen's gaze with a particularly resentful look. Zhang Yunwen smiled faintly, took Li Yu's hand, and boarded the carriage.

"Oh, Xianggong, what are you doing here? Do you want to go out? Why don't you bring Sister Rou and Sister Yeon! Li Yu was grabbed by Zhang Yunwen is big hand, only to feel that the temperature from the hand seemed to melt him, and he said urgently.

Zhang Yunwen smiled lightly: "No need, just the two of us will go out this time!" ”

Li Yu's snow-white and pink face turned red, and then nodded slightly.

The carriage first came outside the palace, Zhang Yunwen and Li Yu got out of the carriage, and under the leadership of Zhang Yunwen, the two walked to the gendarmerie barracks. Outside the military police barracks, through the wooden fence, Li Yu could completely see the training scene in the barracks. I saw Zhang Ji and the soldiers working together to connect the knife technique. Holding the horizontal knife in both hands, chopping and stabbing, and constantly repeating the basic movements one by one, looking at the tense and serious appearance of the little face, it makes people feel a little funny.

"See? My stepsister is still doing well here! Zhang Yunwen said with a smile.

Li Yu nodded, bit his lower lip, and said, "But the concubine is still worried, just worried about what he has suffered and what crimes he has suffered!" ”

"Hmph, what other sin can you suffer, it's just that the training is harder!" Zhang Yunwen snorted lightly and said, "But he is the son of the Zhang family, if he can't even endure this hard fight, how can he inherit the title after I die?" ”

Li Yu heard Zhang Yunwen say this, and knew that he was thinking far-reaching, so he no longer said anything about this matter, but said: "I hate it, what is not dead, the New Year, say these words, the days are still long!" ”

Zhang Yunwen smiled and shook Li Yu's hand: "Okay, don't talk about this!" Since we're out alone, we're going to have to hang out! Well, how about we go out of town and see the snow? ”

Being held by Zhang Yunwen, a blush flashed on Li Yu's face, and he whispered: "In public, don't be like this!" ”

Zhang Yunwen haha, still pulling Li Yu into the carriage.

The coachman raised his whip, and the carriage moved slowly towards the outside of Chang'an City.

On the bank of the Qujiang River, Li Yu was wrapped in a fox fur, accompanied by Zhang Yunwen, standing on the bank, looking at the thousands of miles of Qujiang River.

I saw that on the vast land on both sides of the Qujiang River, there were stalls of residual snow distributed, a little east and a little west, as if it was a flying white dotted on this long scroll. In addition to this white, there is also a lush green. In the dry land on both sides, clusters of turquoise wheat stalks are drifting slightly in the cold wind. The wheat stalks are not high, and some are even buried in residual snow. The combination of green wheat straw and white remnant snow also has a unique taste.

Walking slowly along the riverbank, stepping on the soft remnants of snow and land, smelling the fragrance of the soil, blowing the cold wind blowing from the river, hugging the beautiful woman in his arms, a feeling of happiness permeated Zhang Yunwen's heart.

This is how you should live!