On the night of the 30th lunar month of the eighth lunar month of Xiande, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, there was a lively and festive scene in Beiping City, full of festive atmosphere. However, the situation in the Beiping Military Festival is completely opposite, due to the influence of the Fan Wucheng incident, whether it is Wang Kunjun and several other committee members, or those who came from afar to attend the quasi-plenary meeting, and because of the long way back and had to stay in Beiping City for the New Year, at this moment can not have even the slightest interest and emotion for the New Year. The entire Jiedu Mansion was deserted, not only did the people rest early after a dull and depressing Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but even their children kept a low profile because they noticed the low mood and irritability of their parents, uncles and other adults, and no longer played crazy like in previous years, so as not to touch the moldy heads of the elders and suffer from "unwarranted disasters". The servants in the house were even more cautious, and they didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere, for fear that they would accidentally provoke which master would become the other party's punching bag and suffer from the flesh and skin.

However, no matter how bad the mood is, it is still necessary to spend time with your family during the holidays. This is especially true for members of management and decision-making levels like Wang Kunjun, who are usually busy with work and rarely have a good conversation, chat, and heart-to-heart relationship with their families. So, after spending a few days entertaining some visitors who had to be received, Wang Kunjun and Wang Wuye could finally make time to accompany their wives. On the fourth day of the first lunar month of the ninth year of Xiande, after lunch, seeing that the weather outside was sunny and sunny, Wang Kunjun accompanied his wife Zhang Xiaofei, who was pregnant with Liujia and had a big belly, to the study and opened the window to the south to bask in the sun. Although it is a cold winter, sitting in the study equipped with earth heaters developed by the Ministry of Science and Technology, bathed in the bright afternoon sun, Zhang Xiaofei not only does not feel cold, but feels warm and comfortable.

The couple basked in the sun for a while, until the sun waned and the temperature began to drop, then they closed the window and continued to enjoy the sun through the large glass window, while chatting softly. As "old husband and wife", although Wang Kunjun and Zhang Xiaofei will also engage in some romantic feelings from time to time, in order to maintain each other's attraction and enhance the relationship between the two parties. can be the head of the Wang family, the decision-maker and department backbone of the crossing team, and the two of them will inevitably involve some family or official matters when they talk in private. So, after discussing whether the soon-to-be-born child is male or female, and what kind of name should be given, Zhang Xiaofei naturally turned to family affairs and official affairs.

After a little consideration of the wording, Zhang Xiaofei asked seemingly casually: "In the past few days, those visitors who have come to pay New Year's greetings have ushered in and sent them off, and they have eaten and drunk, and they are more tired than working on weekdays. Speaking of which, I also blame me. Now that I have a big belly, not only can I not take care of your diet and daily life, but I also want you to pay attention to my physical condition from time to time, how can you sleep soundly. In my opinion, before I come to the plate, you might as well go to Sister Qingwen to rest. First, Sister Qingwen takes care of people more than me. Second, Xiao Qi now lives in a room by himself, and it will not affect your rest like the previous two years. In this way, you can also cultivate your spirit. After all, after the New Year, you still need to invest a lot of energy to preside over the affairs of going south, and the gains outweigh the losses if you are tired. ”

Although Zhang Xiaofei said it very tactfully and skillfully, Wang Kunjun immediately reacted to the reason and true intention of the other party to say this. So, he didn't wait for his beloved wife to continue to find other reasons to convince him, so he smiled and said: "It seems that Qingwen has probably been talking about sisterhood and talking to her wife and adults these days." ”

Zhang Xiaofei hurriedly wanted to explain when she heard this, but was stopped by Wang Kunjun waving her hand: "I understand my wife's intentions, and I also know that the reason why you contribute so much to Qingwen is that I hope that our big family can maintain long-term harmony and harmony." But many times, many things are not transferred by human will, and many things are easy to say, but not easy to do.

Actually, as a husband, I don't want to love Qingwen and raise my eyebrows, and I don't want to be like you and I am like Qingwen and me, you and me. But the problem is that every time I am with her, I don't wait for me to say a few words of love, express my love for her, and enjoy a romantic mood for a while, the topic of conversation will be turned to her so-called serious things, which makes people feel very uncomfortable. ”

"Isn't it true that you and I often talk about family affairs and even business affairs when we are in love, and I don't see any disgust from you. Why can't you change it to Qingwen's sister? In this case, you are still biased. Zhang Xiaofei said angrily.

Wang Kunjun couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, waved his hand, and explained: "Wife, you only know one thing, but you don't know the other. The two of us talk about business, and that's because I'm a member of the committee, and you're the head of the intelligence department, so we do have a relationship of official business, and it's normal and natural to discuss work in our spare time. The most important thing is that the two of us are talking about a veritable and serious business. But the 'serious things' and 'official things' that Qingwen and I talked about were in quotation marks, and what they told me over and over again were actually those two things.

One thing is that her father, my father-in-law, Han Deyi, Han Elder Han, was treated unfairly. said that Lord Han was obviously doing a good job in Yuyang Mansion, but before two years, Yuyang Mansion was revoked. Not only was Yuyang Mansion revoked, but the old man who was nearly fifty years old was transferred to the bitter cold land of Daning Mansion to suffer. Not only was he transferred to Daning to be punished, but he was also sent to Zhong Shiwen, who was ten or twenty years younger than him and had children and nephews, as his deputy. This not only makes our Lord Han very faceless, but also makes my face as a son-in-law dull - my father-in-law is lower than my brother's eldest brother, this is not a 'mistake' that a leader with achievements should make.

Another thing is that her younger brother and my brother-in-law Han Qingshu is not valued by my brother-in-law. Said that I arranged my righteous son Xing Zhengnan into the 'Flying Dragon Army' as an officer, and in two years, he was only eighteen years old, and he had been promoted from a small second lieutenant staff officer to a major battalion commander, and his future was bright. If it is just to arrange a Xing Zhengnan, after all, he is still my righteous son in name, and he should be taken care of. But in addition to Xing Zhengnan, I also arranged for outsiders like Chang Mao and Zhang Zheng who have nothing to do with me to enter the 'Flying Dragon Army', the 'Security Army' and even the various yamen of the Beiping Army. But she didn't care about her younger brother Han Qingshu, and she didn't even arrange a small ministry in the government or even the county government, and now she is still a white one. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Kunjun smiled bitterly again, shook his head helplessly, and continued: "But the actual situation is that the highest local official who was awarded the official was the same knowledge, whether it was the Zhong family's father and son, or my father-in-law, as well as Sun Pan and others. The reason why Zhong Shiwen and other younger generations were later promoted, but my father-in-law stood still, was because Zhong Shiwen and others worked diligently and dedicatedly, and my father-in-law considered himself superior and was not very satisfied with the position of Tongzhi, and did not pay attention to official duties, so that the old eleventh who was the prefect of Yuyang at that time had some complaints about him, and later it was I who interceded for my father-in-law that dissipated the dissatisfaction of the old eleventh and kept his position as a fellow governor in the process of this administrative division adjustment -- of course, In order to take care of Lao Eleven's emotions, I transferred my father-in-law to Daning Mansion, instead of letting him be transferred to the new Beiping Mansion with Lao Eleven. As for the child who said Qingshu, I also suggested that my father-in-law let him study in the reserve liliang training class, so that he could enter the Beiping military system as an officer more conveniently in the future. But my father-in-law rejected my suggestion and insisted on letting Qingshu receive a traditional education. As a result, they now have to compete for a limited number of positions with the vacant students of the prefecture and county schools in various prefectures and counties, and they cannot directly enter the various systems of the Beiping Army for internships and are soon awarded positions like Zhengnan, Changmao, and other young people who have studied in reserve liliang training classes. Moreover, the reason why Zhengnan, especially Chang Mao, Zhang Zheng and others were able to serve as battalion commanders and deputy regiment commanders at a young age, was because they ate and slept in the open air, fought for real military merits with a knife and a gun, and I did not fight for any of them for military ranks or positions.

In other words, the reason why the Han family father and son are in today's situation is completely caused by my father-in-law's prejudice against my son-in-law against his job arrangement and his lack of confidence in our team. Now, seeing that everyone else is on the rise, but I am still standing still in the same place or even entering the official career, I blame my son-in-law for not thinking about his own family, so he wants to use Qingwen to blow the pillow wind and nepotism for me, how can I be kind and obedient to him. If I really opened the back door for their father and son, what would the other brothers think of me, and how could I still be a member of the committee. Besides, as soon as my bad head is opened, and the other brothers also follow the same example to make profits for their own relatives in the wife's family, then it won't be long before our team will completely rot from the inside and become a meal for foreign enemies. ”

Wang Kunjun's words made Zhang Xiaofei think so, and nodded again and again in agreement - not to mention anything else, the military rank and position of the righteous son Xing Zhengnan were earned by fighting with the army and personally experiencing the war to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty and the Northern Expedition to the Khitan, rather than relying on Wang Kunjun's relationship, but she knew it very well. In fact, when Han Qingwen found her to speak for herself, Zhang Xiaofei felt that even if she could persuade Wang Kunjun to go to Han Qingwen's side often, it was impossible for the latter to fight for a higher official position and a more haode position for her father and younger brother by blowing the wind on the pillow - after all, her husband knew that after more than ten years and nearly twenty years of husband and wife, Zhang Xiaofei never thought that her husband was a person who took the interests of the team out of favor for the sake of the Pomeranians." "Faint king" type of leadership. It's just that her own sister asks for her head, and if she doesn't give it a try, she refuses, which not only makes the other party unable to get up and down, but also is not conducive to the harmony of the Wang family's back house. So, no matter how unwilling she was, she could only bite the bullet and take the opportunity to give it a try. In this way, she is also benevolent and righteous, and she will no longer feel indebted to Han Qingwen.

Zhang Xiaofei learned about a matter of her heart here, and Wang Kunjun, who understood the reason, naturally did not blame his wife for this. In fact, in a sense, the Han family's current embarrassing position is the result of Wang Kunjun's deliberate arrangement. In Wang Kunjun's opinion, once he really has the opportunity to sit on the chair in Kaifeng City that everyone wants to fight for, the stronger the strength of the Han family, the greater the threat to himself, to Zhang Xiaofei, who has no support from his mother's family, and even to the work that he and his brothers have worked so hard to achieve. From now on, there will be a step-by-step and targeted weakening of the strength of the Han family, which will be beneficial to himself, Zhang Xiaofei, and the entire team - from this point of view, he has no reason to say that his wife is not. So, after a short period of coldness, the topic between the two was quickly shifted by Wang Kunjun to the question of whether it was time to consider letting the eldest son Wang Huan, who was already six and a half years old, enter the reserve Liliang training class to study - according to Wang Kunjun's idea, as the standard for primary school students in his previous life, Wang Huan has reached the age when he should go to school seriously, and it is not appropriate to stay at home anymore, only Zhang Xiaofei or himself will educate him in a family-style manner.

In this regard, Zhang Xiaofei felt that it was not appropriate to be in a hurry. In her opinion, the youngest of the students in the reserve Liliang training class is eight or nine years old, and it is not appropriate to let her son, who is only six and a half years old, join them. Although he was the son of the highest commander of the Peiping Army, he did not have to fear that someone would bully him, but the age gap was likely to make his son be excluded by other classmates - especially when he was the only student of his age. It's better to wait another two years to avoid the adverse effects of the age gap, and to learn with more children of other team members.

Regarding Zhang Xiaofei's point of view, although Wang Kunjun also felt that there was some truth, he always felt in his heart that it was not appropriate for a child to not be able to enter the school after the age of six, so he could not fully agree with Zhang Xiaofei's opinion for a while. Just when the husband and wife expressed their opinions and discussed easily on the issue of how old Wang Huan should go to school, the guards outside the door came to report: the seventh master Zhang Weixin and the eighth master Xu Shaoan have important things to see.