Zhang Bianguan slowly raised his head, burst into tears, and said in a trembling voice: "Dad, you always climb high and look far away like this, saying the loudest words in the world, and doing the most courageous things in the world." But have you forgotten to look back and look down at us children?"

Zhang Julu didn't look sideways at the young son, and sneered: "What, are you afraid? That's right, no one in the world is afraid of death." Even those Qing officials who want to prepare coffins at home and then die generously at every turn are also afraid of death. I don't have a reason to think of an interesting story, some of the ministers who were thrown into the edict prison, maybe it is rare to be really not afraid of death, but even more afraid of dying in vain, almost everyone is on the wall of the prison with charcoal pen to write a desperate book, the world may not know that a charcoal pen in the edict prison can cost hundreds of taels of silver, can buy it, the poorer, but it is not difficult for them, fingers dipped in blood, can still write a bloody book that can sing and cry. Your eldest brother is a rigid person, and he can't do such things that can accumulate the most prestige, and your second brother is a little smarter, if he is really lucky enough to be a noble official, he wants to do it but he doesn't dare. As for you Zhang Bianguan, probably disdainful of it?"

Zhang Bianguan stood up and snatched the small stove from Zhang Julu's hand, and smashed it into the snow below the steps, and the raging charcoal fire that rolled out of the stove quickly dissipated.

Zhang Julu didn't care about this son's "disobedient" behavior.

doesn't say anything about licking calves, and even has to serve three bowls of severed head rice to his sons with his own hands, even if his son wants to beat him, the father who is the first assistant, a few punches, it doesn't seem to be nothing.

Zhang Julu slowly turned his head, looked at the young son with a pale face, and asked: "Do you really think that your eldest brother and second brother don't know anything about the situation of the court? Do you really think that they don't know the end of the Zhang family? Just allow you to be smart for a lifetime, and they can't be smart once?"

Zhang Julu retracted his gaze and sneered: "Then you are too self-righteous, my son Zhang Julu, count your Zhang Bian care and think the most, but your two elder brothers, pedantic and pedantic, how can they really be stupid people, they have been exposed to the current situation for so many years, and no matter how simple their minds are, they have already opened their minds." ”

Zhang Bianguan squatted down and muttered, "Back then, you insisted that our three sons marry wives and only marry small families, just waiting for this day, right? If it is a woman from the Gaomen family, there will be many people involved in the disaster. When the time comes, His Majesty the Emperor will kill people, and you will be timid, you are really a once-in-a-lifetime conscience first-in-law, and you will not embarrass the monarch sitting on the dragon chair. The eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law are considered to be well-run families, and their family has also been stained with the light of the Zhang family over the years, and they have made a lot of profits openly and secretly, and they have vaguely become the local county family, and you have made an exception to turn a blind eye to this, hey, you are trying to make your conscience feel better, right?"

Zhang Julu did not speak.

Zhang Bianguan rubbed his cheeks, looked at the small stove left by his grandfather in the snow, and said softly: "Dad, in order to be a good official, from the beginning on my grandparents' side, he should not be a good son, and then he should not be a good husband, and then he came to us, he was not a good father, and in the end, he was not even a good grandfather." Is it really worth it?"

Zhang Julu raised his hands, took a breath of mist, and said with a smile: "Good official?"

Zhang Julu was stunned, and remembered that his best friend Tan Tanong once said some drunken words, for himself, loyal ministers and traitors are easy to do, and clean officials are easy to do, but the good officials who are sandwiched between the king and the people are the most difficult to be, and it is difficult to say a word. But it is already difficult to be a king in the world, and it is even more difficult to win the name before and after death.

Zhang Julu suddenly said: "When I was young, I read an anonymous poem about Biansai, which included the sentence 'Go to the west to the sky, and go west to feel the sky low', I was particularly fascinated, and I always thought that one day if the officialdom was unhappy, it would be a big deal to put pen to paper and go to see the wild and low scenery of the border pass, and it would not be in vain to live this life." It's just that later, your career was stable, and after your mother gave birth to you, she helped you name 'Border Pass'. ”

Zhang Bianguan was much calmer for some reason, and squeezed out a smile and laughed at himself: "Because of this unworthy name, I have been ridiculed and ridiculed by the second ancestors in the capital for so many years, saying that you, the first assistant, might as well take Zhang Tai'an or Zhang Jingcheng." ”

Zhang Julu walked down the steps with a smile, bent down to pick up the small stove, picked up the iron tongs and put some charcoal in himself, handed it back to the young son, and said softly: "I know that you guys have been cold for many years, and Dad can't do anything." ”

Zhang Bianguan was stunned and forgot his words.

Zhang Julu beckoned, asked the steward to bring another small bench, sat down and asked: "The reason for this trip, is it that Man'er asked you for a letter of resignation? I feel depressed? I have been married to chickens and dogs for so many years, but I abandoned you at this juncture? There is a feeling of aggrieved that husband and wife are flying separately with the forest birds?"

Zhang Bianguan, who was asked several questions one after another, shook his head and said, "I don't mind if she does this." ”

Zhang Julu wanted to speak and stopped, and finally just said: "Don't bother her, the three daughters-in-law of the Zhang family, she is the most difficult." It's hard for her to be this wicked person, such a smart and kind-hearted woman from a good family, our Zhang family can't stand her. ”

Zhang Bianguan looked straight at this father, and the latter asked rhetorically, "Do you understand?"

Zhang Bianguan suddenly remembered something and immediately choked up.

When a woman is ruthless, she is the most ruthless.

When a woman is infatuated, it is the most touching.

Zhang Bianguan seemed to untie the knot in his heart and nodded vigorously.

Zhang Julu asked with a smile: "That Tantanweng always said that even if there is an ancient name behind him, it is better to have a glass of wine before death." I've always been unconvinced, so why don't we have a few drinks today?"

Zhang Bianguan naturally would not refuse.

So the biggest official in the capital and the most unproductive gentleman in Tai'an City, such a pair of eccentric men sat on a small bench face to face across the stove, drinking wine slowly, and the wine jug was placed on the edge of the stove.

Zhang Bianguan said: "Dad, in fact, no one complains about you. ”

Zhang Julu took a sip of wine and was silent.

Cup after cup, father and son drank like this.

The steward tiptoed to bring a second pot of wine, and brought a thick coat for Shousuke-sama to put on.

Zhang Bianguan finally staggered away drunk, Zhang Julu sent it to the door of the mansion, and finally gave the fur to his son to wear.

Zhang Julu stood on the steps, stretched out his hand to catch some snowflakes, and held them in the palm of his hand.

The world is helpless, people are helpless, they don't want to say it when they can say it, and they can't say it when they want to say it.

――――

Perhaps half a year ago, no one would have believed that the Xichu Sailor would be able to face the Guangling Sailor downstream like today, showing the posture of a lion fighting a rabbit like a rainbow.

Like an arrow on the string, just wait for the river to go down and go straight to the Spring Snow Building.

Even in the night at this moment, just under the light of the lights, the towering ships and giant ships also exude a hideous atmosphere of war, presumably every old remnant of Western Chu sees this scene, and they can't help but feel sad and joyful. In recent months, there have been elderly survivors walking or riding to the riverside to look at the scene from afar, kneeling or kneeling, all of them weeping, and then laughing like crazy and leaving, returning home to tell their fellow villagers.

Cao Changqing personally sat in charge of dispatching the water division!

The ship Shenhuang is named after the capital of Great Chu. A middle-aged Confucian man in Tsing Yi who was originally looking at the picture raised his head, gently extinguished the light, walked out of the cabin on the top floor, looked at the right bank of the Guangling River, and saw a cavalry army with a different attire from the sailor suddenly appeared, and then the first knight and several Hu Cong took a small boat to cross the river leisurely, and there was a person standing proudly on the bow of the boat, with a slender figure, probably the so-called Yushu Linfeng that the woman liked. As the boat approached, the knight's face became clearer and clearer in the lights, resolute and conceited, heroic, lacking a bit of gentlemanly gentleness, but this young man really couldn't ask for anything anymore, and he could trample the territory that the vassal king Zhao Yi had worked hard for more than ten years in three months with a horse's hooves, if he was just a gentle scholar who was kind to others, it would be strange.

Song Yuanhang, one of the deputy marshals of the Great Chu Water Division, stood beside the Confucian man in Tsing Yi, and after seeing the uninvited guest, he did not hide his displeasure. Not only him, but the sailor generals who walked out of the cabin one after another on the lower floors of the Shenhuanglou ship didn't have a good impression of this young man, and it was not a bad thing for young people to show their sharpness, but no one in his eyes was to the point of never taking the rules as rules, which was quite annoying. If you Kou Jianghuai hadn't been the one who sat in charge of the water master to help you everywhere, you would have been scolded and rolled back to the Shangyin School Palace to read your military book. I have disrupted the layout several times before, and I have advocated the deployment of troops, not to mention, when I visited the sailor tonight, you kid didn't even say hello?

The next scene made the sailors on board even more angry.

Kou Jianghuai did not board the boat to meet Cao Changqing, the commander of the three armies of Great Chu, but stood on the bow of the boat with his sword, looked up at the green clothes, called him by his name, and asked in a deep voice: "Cao Changqing, why don't you allow me to eat Song Li's 6,000 soldiers and horses that fell into his pocket?!"

Cao Changqing, who had frosty white temples, was silent and looked at the young man.

The tall Kou Jianghuai didn't have the consciousness that he was talking to Da Chu after Ye Baikui, and he was indignant and dissatisfied in his words, almost being held accountable, "The fighter plane is fleeting, then Song Li is not a stupid person who is ignorant of military affairs, and when he gains a firm foothold on the Eastern Front and straightens out the internal fighting in Chunxue Building, I want to make a big move."

"Kou Jianghuai, you are already General Kou at this time. As for the decree to dismiss you, you will receive it a few days later, but it will be the same if you arrive early or late. ”

"Cao Changqing!"

"I, Kou Jianghuai, thought that Da Chu still had two and a half people who knew how to use soldiers, enough to fight for hegemony in the world, since there was only half left tonight, then the hopelessness of recovering the country was a sure thing, it didn't matter if I was an official or not! I want to open my eyes and see if that half of it can help you lay down the Chunxue Tower!"

Kou Jianghuai angrily threw his sword into the Guangling River.

The boat turned around and left.

Song Yuanhang asked softly, "Lord Shangshu, is this kid crazy?"

Cao Changqing smiled and said: "I'm not crazy, Kou Jianghuai is very sober, and his opinion on the battle situation on the Eastern Front is also right." ”

"This ......"

"It's just that what Kou Jianghuai doesn't know is that he has been blinded by a leaf. ”

"Lord Shangshu, what do you say?"

"I, Cao Changqing, want the main general of the Eastern Front, and I shouldn't only focus on Chunxuelou and Zhao Yi. If he stops there, the so-called half of the people, Xie Xichen can do it. ”

The big official in Tsing Yi looked down at the Guangling River flowing eastward, stunned.

You Kou Jianghuai should see further, it should be that Tai'an City.