"It is indeed an ordinary garment, but it's warm. Judging from your age, you should bring more clothes for going to court in the future, otherwise it would be a laughing stock if you were to freeze to death one day, haha~"

Sensing the other party's sourness, Cao Song couldn't help but laugh out loud, looking at him provocatively.

Cao Song's rebuttal left these upright officials speechless, drawing frequent glances from the surrounding officials.

Chen Fan, who was not far away, also noticed the commotion and walked over, giving Cao Song a mild but ineffective reprimand.

"Ahem~ Grand Minister of Agriculture, as one of the Nine Ministers, you should be mindful of your words and status, and refrain from speaking nonsense!"

Chen Fan's point was, what's your status? What's their status? Why bother with them?

"The Grand Tutor is right. Sigh, I was angered by a few petty people and couldn't hold back for a moment!"

Cao Song glanced at the person opposite him, shook his head and sighed, putting on an innocent look.

Seeing Cao Song's behavior, the old man angrily rebuked him: "Cao Jugao, you are rude! Today I will definitely impeach you to His Majesty!"

"Who are you calling rude? Impeach me? You're not worthy... You're blind! Bah!"

Cao Song glared at him and retorted without mercy, then spat at the old man's feet.

"What a scoundrel! This is what a scoundrel is!"

The old man couldn't help but take two steps back, his hand trembling as he pointed at Cao Song. He never imagined that the Grand Minister of Agriculture, one of the Nine Ministers, would do such a thing. How was he any different from a street ruffian?

"shut up!"

Upon hearing the old man call Cao Song a scoundrel, Chen Fan immediately rebuked the old man:

"The Grand Minister of Agriculture is one of the Nine Ministers, appointed by His Majesty himself. His status and official rank are far superior to yours. Even if his actions and words are inappropriate, His Majesty will decide, and you have no right to insult him here. You are also a scholar; do you know what it means to distinguish between superiors and inferiors?"

"Grand Tutor, I..."

Seeing Chen Fan angrily rebuke him, the old man was speechless for a moment and dared not say anything more in rebuttal.

Putting aside Chen Fan's reputation, his status as a high-ranking official was a level above the Three Dukes, and all officials were subject to his control. He was someone Chen Fan truly couldn't afford to offend.