Seeing that the two brothers had been persuaded by themselves, Zhang Zheng took a piece of gold leaf paper and wrote a New Year's greeting note to Du Shi by himself.

Due to the absence of the eldest son in the family, after the New Year's note is written, I have to take it to the Yuan family to check whether any family has been left behind, or the wording is inappropriate.

The three brothers came to the front hall together, and the Yuan family was busy in the front hall. In fact, it can't be said to be busy, the main thing is to properly send the majesty of the housemother and command the subordinates around.

Seeing his three sons coming together, the Yuan family probably said that he was tired, so he poured himself a cup of hot water and drank a few sips.

Then he asked the three of them, "Is the New Year's note finished?" The second child, Zhang Dasu, stepped forward, handed a stack of gold leaf paper in his hand to Yuan's family, and replied: "Everyone who knows each other has finished writing, and my mother will check if there are any omissions." Yuanshi stretched out his hand to take it, rolled over a rough glance and said, "It's almost the same, anyway, it's these people every year, okay, it's okay, let's go play separately." After sending away his three sons, the Yuan family continued to shake the majesty of the Duchess of the Kingdom, like a mighty general, and he didn't know where there were so many things to do in the Guogong Mansion.

It seems that the entire Guogong Mansion is busy, only Zhang Zheng and the two brothers are idle and panicked. Recalling this time in previous years, the days when I ate meat, drank wine and watched girls in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion with a group of fox friends and dogs, it was not too cool.

Zhang Zheng was thinking about whether to go out and call the brothers, where to go and have fun. Zhang Dasu Zhang Da'an is also a veteran on the Fengyue field, and he saw his little brother touching his chin and fell into contemplation.

Where would he not know what he was thinking, and suddenly his heart was a little moved, and when he came back to Chang'an, he stayed at home and did not move, and lice were about to grow on his body.

So Zhang Dasu glanced at the two younger brothers and said to the two: "The third and fourth, we can't help much at home, I think we might as well go out." ”

"Xiao Langjun...... Xiao Langjun ......! Before Zhang Dasu's words fell, a shout came from afar. The three brothers followed the voice, it turned out to be the housekeeper Lao Zhou, looking at this hurried appearance, they didn't know what was going on with Zhang Zheng.

Lao Zhou ran to the three brothers, panting and saluting to the three of them: "I've seen Erlang, Sanlang." Xiao Langjun, grandfather... Grandpa... Tell you to go to the study! ”

"Daddy is looking for me, what's the matter?" Zhang Zheng asked a little strangely. Lao Zhou shook his head and replied, "The old slave doesn't know. Zhang Zheng thought to himself, why didn't he say something on the way back from the next court an hour ago, so he had to wait for himself to pinch a little when he went out.

But Zhang Zheng at this time is not Zhang Zheng of previous years after all, if it is changed to last year, Zhang Zheng will not care what you do.

Anyway, no one can stop Childe from going out. But now, since he wants to set up a new character, he still has to listen to his father's words, so he said to the two brothers: "Second brother and third brother, you go, I'll go and see what happens to my father." Zhang Dasu and Zhang Da'an heard Lao Zhou say that their father was looking for his younger brother, so they naturally asked him to hurry up to see his father.

The two nodded, and Zhang Da'an squeezed his eyebrows at Zhang Zheng and said, "Okay, then let's go, little brother, you can come to us later." Zhang Zheng replied: "Okay." Then he walked with the study of the old Zhou Dynasty Guogong Mansion.

Zhang Zheng came to the study and saw Zhang Gongjin holding a newspaper of the day in his hand and reading it intently. The headline is that the prefectures and counties around Chang'an have been hit by a rare snowstorm in a century, which has killed many people and left thousands homeless.

"Father, what are you looking for me?" Zhang Zheng pulled out a chair and sat down, and asked softly to Zhang Gongjin, who was staring at the newspaper.

After Zhang Zheng spoke up, Zhang Gongjin's eyes still did not take his eyes off the newspaper. Seeing that his father didn't care about him, Zhang Zheng casually took a book from the bookshelf and began to flip through it.

After a few casual glances, Zhang Zheng had a headache when he saw the dense small characters, and he had no desire to read it at all, so he threw it aside and didn't read it!

Then he lifted Erlang's legs, took out a handful of dried fruits from his arms, and leisurely started to eat melons. Although Zhang Gongjin was very unpleasant to the appearance of his youngest son, how many times did Zhang Zheng say it, he didn't change it, and he had no choice but to let it go.

It seemed that he had finished reading all the contents of the newspaper, so he turned to his younger son and said, "It's nothing special, your eldest brother is not in Chang'an this year, and tomorrow you will go to your uncle's house for him to pay New Year's greetings." Hearing this, Zhang Zheng instantly stopped eating, and asked his father in some surprise: "The eldest brother is not in Chang'an, isn't there still the second brother, why do you want me to go?" But Zhang Gongjin didn't mean to explain, but after saying this, he began to pick up the newspaper and look through it.

Zhang Zheng was a little confused, what does this mean by Dad? Zhang Zheng's surprise is not unreasonable, not that Zhang Zheng is unwilling to visit his uncle's house.

It is because the Tang Dynasty is the primogeniture inheritance system, and it attaches great importance to the human ethics of the eldest and youngest children, so this kind of thing is generally done by the heads of the families.

If the eldest son is not there, it should also be the second son and the third son, and there is no reason to leave these things to the younger son to deal with.

If it were an ordinary season, Zhang Gongjin would have no problem arranging it like this. But Yuanzheng's door-to-door New Year's greetings are different, for Zhang's and Yuan's high-ranking families, New Year's greetings are not just as simple as sending a New Year's sticker to eat a light meal.

New Year's greetings are only one aspect, and more importantly, it is more important to take this opportunity to pull in the relationship between the two families. For example, the two caravans need to cooperate with each other, whether they will continue to cooperate with those who have already cooperated, or whether they need to deepen their cooperation.

Another example is whether the court needs to stand on the same side to help each other, and whether the allies of previous years need to continue to form alliances.

How to deal with the next political direction and the change of court pattern...... What sounds simple is actually very complex.

Zhang Zheng has a headache, the negotiation is the most annoying, especially between relatives. Seeing the tangled look on Zhang Zheng's face, Zhang Gongjin said without a beak: "Just go and thank your uncle for helping you stand out in the court a few days ago, I said, what can the second child say." Then he took out Zhang Zheng and picked up the books that were thrown on the desk at random, carefully smoothed the wrinkles and put them back on the bookshelf, then he didn't care about Zhang Zheng with black lines on his face, and walked out of the study with his hands behind his back.

Seeing his father walk out of the study, Zhang Zheng put down Erlang's leg and stood up and muttered in a low voice: "What opinion can the second brother have, he will not inherit your title." Then I started to have a headache again, in previous years, the eldest brother was in Chang'an, and the people were sophisticated, and these things were done by the eldest brother.

Now that it was his turn all of a sudden, Zhang Zheng felt a little helpless for a moment.