The cold wind is howling, and the cold water is turbulent

At this time in previous years, except for the occasional few poor people who walked on the canal in order to make a living, the rest of the time, there were few boats sailing on the Grand Canal, after all, for the Chinese people, the idea of "thinking of relatives every festival" has been integrated into the bones.

This year, however, it is a little strange that a group of three large ships nearly ten zhang long are struggling to move forward, although the current of the canal has dropped a lot in winter, but the sails on the big boat are still several feet high with the help of the howling wind, so that the big ship is moving extremely fast.

Although the big ship is moving fast, the people on board feel as if they are on land, and they don't feel much turbulence, which makes people feel a little relieved in the difficult journey.

"Wow, whoa, whoa...."

A burst of howling and crying came from a cabin, and then I heard a boy shouting anxiously, "Hurry, hurry, Wanjun, what's wrong with Xiu'er, why does he keep crying, is he hungry, take a look, take a look." ”

I saw that in the cabin, a man dressed in home clothes was holding a baby crying wah, and asked for help from two beautiful women not far away with an anxious face.

Looking at the man's anxious appearance, one of the beautiful women laughed teasingly, "Giggles, Ah Lang, you are doing it yourself, the slave family told you just now, don't provoke this living ancestor, you don't listen, you have to say that your son is close to yourself, you see, the slave family and my sister finally put him to sleep, you are so happy, crying again, tell you, we don't care, you look at it yourself, if you can't coax Xiaolang, you don't want to sleep tonight." ”

"You just say cool things, you still praise you for being sensible on weekdays, and you will be exposed at a critical time, hum, you don't believe it, thousands of troops and horses are well managed, and a kid really can't do anything about him." The man snorted coldly as he tried to comfort the child in his arms.

Hearing the man's words, the beautiful woman who spoke before did not speak, but only wrinkled her nose with an expression of disbelief on her face.

Horizontally, vertically, and even constantly swaying around, but what made the man helpless was that the harder he worked, the more the child seemed to be encouraged, crying louder and louder, and after a while, the man could only be defeated.

"Okay, Ah Lang, hand over Xiao Lang to the slave family." Looking at the man's embarrassed look, another demure beauty finally couldn't help but speak.

"Hey, okay, hurry up, you go on."

Hearing the beautiful woman's words, the man almost jumped up as if he had heard the sound of heaven, and hurriedly ran to the beautiful woman step by step, handing the swaddling clothes to the beautiful woman's arms.

What is strange is that the child who was crying like thunder just now, after reaching the arms of the beautiful woman, quickly stopped crying and gradually fell asleep.

"Hey, this stinky boy, he actually doesn't give him Lao Tzu's face so much, and he will learn a bad lesson in the future."

Looking at the immature but ignorant smiling face of the sleeping child, the man complained in his mouth, but the smile on his face became brighter and brighter.

"Ah Lang, don't you say that you told the slave family, you know astronomy and geography, except for not being able to make the dead alive, there is nothing else you can't do, why, I didn't expect you to not even do this thing to coax the child, it really makes the slave family a little disappointed!"

Looking at the smile on the man's face, another delicate beauty couldn't help but tease.

"Hmph...... What do you know, this is just rusty, tell you Xiu'er, there is nothing in this world that can make me Duan Jian embarrassed, if you don't believe it, you wait, sooner or later, one day, I want this stinky boy to be honest and obedient. The man, or rather Duan Jian, snorted coldly.

This is called the person who ran around during the festival is none other than Duan Jian and his party, who made great contributions to the suppression of Xu Jingye's rebels and was recalled to Beijing by the imperial court.

In ancient times, every time you travel, it was a big event for a family or even a family, and they often chose a good time very solemnly, striving to win a good fortune for the traveler.

The reason why this is so, in the final analysis, is because the ancient traffic is too simple, it is good to take the waterway, to be able to go down the river, but also to save a few points, if you take the land route, it is a complete sin, whether it is walking or riding a car, riding a horse, it is a great test for people, and the people who get sick and die in the middle of the road are not known how many.

Forget about these, there are snakes, insects, rats, ants, bandits and robbers and other dangers.

Fortunately, Duan Jian is not an ordinary person, but a court official with status and status, at any time, the treatment of the high-end class is not something that ordinary people can imagine, controlling such a rich place as Suzhou, plus he has just made great contributions to quelling Xu Jingye's rebellion, and it is understandable to seconded a few big ships.

As for the child in Duan Jian's arms, it is his and Wang Wanjun's own son, born in October, and it is less than three months now, it stands to reason that such a young child cannot travel casually, but this time the imperial court is eager to recruit, and Duan Jian is not worried that his family is far away, which is why he recruited these big ships.

The son fell asleep, Duan Jian also breathed a sigh of relief, sat next to him and boiled the water with Xiaoding, and then poured it into the tea set full of tea leaves, and after a while, a few cups of tea with attractive color and fragrance appeared on the table.

"Slippery"

"Whew..."

"Ha ....."

"Cool ....."

After drinking the tea in the cup in one gulp and closing his eyes and tasting it, Duan Jian couldn't help but exclaim.

Tea is good tea, solemn West Lake Longjing, this is Duan Jian in the tea picking, specially let people pick fresh tea, personally stir-fried, according to the current price of this kind of tea, just he soaked these just now, no less than ten times.

Looking at Duan Jian, who was quite comfortable, Wang Wanjun and Su Xiu'er, who were holding the child, glanced at each other, and their faces were full of happiness.

During this time, Duan Jian was busy with official business, and he led the troops out for several months, and he was not even by his side when his son was born, Su Xiu'er was better, and many times she was able to follow Duan Jian into battle, but Wang Wanjun was not good, so although Wang Wanjun did not blame Duan Jian for this, she was also a little sad in her heart, and even gave birth to a feeling of "repentant husband looking for a marquis".

Therefore, I am extremely emotional about this rare and warm scene.

Duan Jian also had some guesses about Wang Wanjun's thoughts, but as soon as he entered the palace gate, it was as deep as the sea, since he had embarked on this road, he had to go to the end, otherwise, what awaited him, Wang Wanjun and even everyone in the Wang family would be an extremely cruel end, and that was exactly what Duan Jian tried his best to avoid.

On the thirteenth day of the first month, Luoyang ferry

As the most important ferry port on the Grand Canal, it is also the key place to connect the north and south, especially after the death of Tang Gaozong, Wu Zetian changed the name of Luoyang to Shendu, and saw that Luoyang was about to replace Chang'an as the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and it became even more prosperous here.

Luckily, it's the New Year's holiday, and it's not as noisy and crowded as it used to be.

"It's here, it's here, Ah Lang, it's time to Luoyang."

Standing at the bow of the boat, Wang Wanjun pulled Duan Jian's arm, couldn't help jumping and laughing, seeing that he was about to see his relatives who he hadn't seen for a long time, even with Wang Wanjun's steadiness, he couldn't help but abandon his nature and become active.

"Okay, it's good, you have suffered in Jiangnan with a certain in the past two years, this time you have arrived in Shendu, but you have to have a good rest, besides, this kid has been more than three months, but he still has no name, just waiting for his father-in-law to name him."

Duan Jian, who was carefully holding her infant son, also said with a smile, during this time on the boat, Duan Jian's biggest achievement was that he was familiar with his son, at least when he hugged him, there would be no crying, for this reason alone, Duan Jian seemed to have won a battle, and he was very excited every day.

"Virtuous nephew, niece, it's really not easy to finally wait for you!"

As soon as Duan Jian and the others boarded the ferry, a voice came.

"Ah, Uncle Thirteen, you, why are you here?"

Hearing the voice, when I looked up, whether it was Duan Jian or Wang Wanjun, it was a burst of surprise and surprise, and I saw the thirteenth lang of the Wang family, Wang Bingzhong was standing not far away, looking at them with a smile.

"Hmph, you still dare to say, in order to welcome you, these days can say that Uncle Thirteen is tired enough, and he hasn't even had a good New Year, so he will wait for you at this ferry early in the morning, and he won't be able to go back until the city gate is about to close at night, if he will not be able to drink two glasses with him, you don't want to have a good time." Wang Bingzhong pretended to be angry and said.

"Okay, good, good, Uncle Thirteen speaks, whoever dares to disobey will definitely have a drink with you tonight without getting drunk and not returning." For Wang Bingzhong, both Duan Jian and Wang Wanjun are extremely close, so they are a little more excited when they talk and laugh.

"That's good, that's good, hey, this is my little nephew, quick, let my uncle take a look, look at this kid, his eyebrows are clear, his body is strong, he will definitely be a good boy in the future." Looking at the child in Duan Jian's arms, Wang Bingzhong suddenly left Duan Jian and the others behind, and looked at it excitedly.

After the relatives met, after a lot of excitement, Wang Bingzhong took Duan Jian and the others to the carriage that had been prepared a long time ago, as for the other things on the big ship, there are special people in charge, this is the big family, and it is also a wealthy family that the world is extremely envious.

Wang Wanjun and Su Xiu'er got into a carriage, but Duan Jian and Wang Bingzhong took Duan Jian into another car, after so many years of experience in dealing with officials, Duan Jian is no longer the kind of hairy boy who doesn't know anything, in his place, Wang Bingkun asked Wang Bingzhong to pick them up in person, in addition to looking solemn, there must be other things to say.

"You have been single all these years, but you have worked hard, not only did you not drag down the Wang family, but helped us a lot of the Wang family, the Wang family has the current situation, thank you very much." After getting into the carriage, Wang Bingzhong said to Duan Jian with a solemn face.

"Uncle Thirteen is polite, the little nephew grew up in the Wang family since he was a child, he eats the food of the Wang family and wears the clothes of the Wang family, these are all things that should be done, why should you be polite to me." Duan Jian said with a smile.

"Hey, I know, I know, the family doesn't speak two words, I just feel it." Looking at Duan Jian's smiling face, Wang Bingzhong sighed.

"The virtuous nephew was called back to Shendu this time, and I don't know where to go next." After some emotion, Wang Bingzhong finally got down to business.

Duan Jian shook his head, and said with doubts on his face, "I really don't know this, I also asked my mentor and some friends, but they all said that the matter of recruiting the little nephew to return this time was the intention of the queen mother, and others had no way of knowing, but the teacher gave the little nephew a guess." ”

Hearing this, Wang Bingzhong's originally solemn expression burst into surprise, and he said in surprise, "Oh, guess, good or bad." ”

It's no wonder that Wang Bingzhong is so excited, the current Duan Jian is no longer the kid who relies on the protection of the Wang family, since Duan Jian arrived in Jiangnan, he has given the Wang family a lot of help, and it is these help that have allowed the Wang family to recover the previous decline, not only did not continue to decline, but rebounded a little, so if Duan Jian can save a step higher, the benefits to the Wang family will be more.

"Good thing."

Duan Jian said concisely.

"That's good, that's good, in that case, so-and-so and your father-in-law can rest assured." Wang Bingzhong breathed a sigh of relief.

"Although it's a good thing, but you still can't be careless, you have left the court for many years, over the years, the court has changed too much, you must be patient, don't think about the previous years like arbitrary, if something really happens, I'm afraid it's really going to be a catastrophe." After breathing a sigh of relief, Wang Bingzhong immediately didn't know what he thought, and solemnly persuaded him.

"Change, don't worry, Uncle Thirteen, if it's an insignificant matter, the little nephew won't take it to heart, but if it really involves the issue of principle, even if someone is willing to put up with it, I'm afraid some people won't regress." If you change people, I'm afraid you won't understand what the changes in Wang Bingzhong's mouth are, but Duan Jian, who has a nighthawk in his hand, doesn't know everything about Shendu, but he doesn't know nothing.

With Wu Zetian taking control of the power of the imperial court, her actions became more and more unscrupulous, especially after the annihilation of Xu Jingye's rebellion, it reached the extreme, and in her private life, she hooked up with Xue Huaiyi, a fake monk, and in the imperial court, not only rejected the ministers who were loyal to Li Tang, but also engaged in a lot of alliances, excluding dissidents, and a group of cool officials such as Lai Junchen, who gave Duan Jian infinite humiliation in his previous life, also began to emerge.

Looking at Duan Jian with a somewhat cold smile on his face, for some reason, a chill rose in Wang Bingzhong's heart, as if what he was doing in front of him was not a living person, but a cold war knife, so sharp and aggressive.

It was not until this moment that Wang Bingzhong truly realized that Duan Jian was no longer the Duan Jian he used to be, but a man of the hour who controlled one side and commanded thousands of troops.

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