Chapter 4 Little Star

This Chen and Li were originally Xuzhou people, Taizu built a new four years, south of Liu Song, returned from Guangling to the north, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers to attack Xuyi, Liu Song's Xuyi Taishou Shen Pu led 4,000 soldiers, held the lonely city, Taizu attacked for several months, because of the plague, then forced to withdraw in the spring of the following year, the battle of Wei suffered heavy losses. Taizu issued an edict to establish Yulindu and adopt the orphans of this war.

Since then, Yulin has been established to protect the emperor, spy on the military situation in the north and south, capture spies in the country, and monitor the minister. It's a royal minion in the first place.

Chen Li's father died in this siege battle, and the family died because of the plague, the two ancestors of the same village, and are orphans with the same disease, since childhood, they followed the army to Luoyang, two years ago, the two of them were old, and they made up for Yulindu, and now they are a small captain in Yulindu.

Liu Shaoqi's head catching is a family heirloom, the ancestors have always been the fast class head catcher in this Luoyang Shuntian Mansion, the fast class of this job, hook up and bully, black and white, is a business that can make a fortune, but it was passed on to Liu Shaoqi's generation, Lord Yin was replaced by a national Ye Luxi, looking at a group of Han officials is not pleasing to the eye, always looking for some people from the head to blame the fast class, etc., so that from Liu Shaoqi down, all the butts bloomed, crying dad and calling mom.

Liu Shaoqi is also a stubborn character, and other people send money and goods to women to Lord Yin, but he is more energetic and can't lower his head. Life is hard haha. If it weren't for some inputs on the market every day, the house would be almost unable to open the pot.

Today's matter is also discussed by the three of them a long time ago, it turns out that the shopkeeper Qin of this old store has a son, who has been weak since he was a child, in order to be happy, he bought a woman from the countryside and let the two get married, who knows that the shopkeeper's son died not long after he got married. The little daughter-in-law was widowed.

The shopkeeper of Qin is not old-hearted, and when he saw his young and delicate daughter-in-law, he couldn't help it for a while and used it to pick up the ashes. The little daughter-in-law was ruined by her father-in-law, and she couldn't think about it, so she hanged herself by pulling a rope, which made the neighborhood gossip, Liu Shaoqi walked on the street every day, and naturally knew about it.

Later, he found Chen and Li to discuss, and they acted in today's play.

After hearing this, Cao Hong nodded and smiled: "This Qin shopkeeper has a loss of personal morality, and the three of you can be regarded as doing the right thing for heaven." These hundred taels of silver are not much. ”

"By the way, seeing that you are not rich, why do you want to give the money to that sixth aunt? Aunt Six? Cao Hong said again.

Chen Xian saw that this young man, although he was not very old, but he was as careful as a hair and talked well, and knew that this young man was not a child of an ordinary family, so he replied more cautiously: "The sixth aunt is Li Zhen's distant aunt, because her husband also died in the battle of Xuyi in his early years, so he followed him to Luoyang. ”

"After coming to Luoyang, the sixth aunt took good care of the two of us, when we were children, the sixth aunt brought us up, and now the sixth aunt is old, and she has become a grandmother in the kindergarten to take care of the children who have lost their homes due to the war."

Cao Hong suddenly said: "So you use this money to subsidize and kindergarten..."

"It's not a subsidy! The two of us are just like them, if it weren't for the sixth aunt, it would have been a long time ago. In fact, we have long regarded those children as family in our hearts. Chen Xian looked at the water vapor in the bowl, a little distracted.

Cao Hong stood up, solemnly dressed himself, and said with a long salute: "Three strong men, please accept Cao Hong's worship." ”

The three of them hurriedly stood up and helped up Cao Hong, who bowed down, and the fat man Li Zhen said: "That's it, our fat master is not a person who is greedy for money and good goods, all this silver is given to my aunt." After speaking, he grinned with a painful face. The three people present laughed.

Cao Hong took out the bag of silver given by his grandfather, and handed it to Chen Hong, and said solemnly: "The world has been fighting again and again, the Quartet is not quiet, how many children have no home, the three strong men have this heart, Hong deeply admires, there is not much silver here, talk about it, pull some cloth for the children, and make some clothes." ”

Chen Hong hurriedly thanked him.

The fat man also said happily at this time: "Seeing that you are young and have a little white face, I didn't expect that you are also a righteous character like the fat man, just do it, if something happens in Luoyang City in the future, report the fat man's big number, and keep you fine." ”

"You just blow it, report your name, I don't know how many gambling houses are chasing after the debt!" Liu Shaoqi scolded with a smile.

"Cao Gongzi is kind-hearted, he must be the son of a good family, if he can afford to look down on our old Liu, if there is something in the future, let people go to Shuntianfu to inform him, the wind comes and goes in the rain, our old Liu has nothing to say."

"I know the three righteous people, Cao Mou is fortunate in his three lives, if there is anything in the future, he can also take that purse to the Han Mansion on South Street to find me. If we have the chance, let's talk about it. With that, Cao Hong stood up, waved to the three of them, and walked out of the teahouse.

"Liu Tou, Brother Li, this Cao Gongzi is probably not an ordinary person." Chen Xian sent Cao Hong away and sat down to the two of them.

"South Street is the residence of dignitaries, Han Mansion, if I remember correctly, it should be the mansion of the partial general Han Shineng." Liu Shaoqi held his forehead and thought for a moment and said.

"It's a strange thing to be an ordinary person, look at this silver." Li Zhen poured the purse given by Cao Hong into the empty bowl on the table, and filled most of the bowl with dripping silver beans. "This thing is used by big families to reward people, and then look at this color, full of snowflake silver."

The three of them looked at the silver beans in the bowl and went back.

Back in the palace, it was not early, Shuyi Pavilion had already turned on the lights, and Concubine Han saw that it was her son who came back and greeted her. After Cao Hong invited An to salute, he talked about all the excitement in the Han Mansion banquet today, and Concubine Han was also happy.

"Your grandfather is in good health, but I don't know when your uncle's marriage will be settled." Han Concubine was very worried about this out-of-tune younger brother.

"Uncle looks uninhibited, but he is actually a person with ideas, so don't worry too much about it." Cao Hong had no choice but to comfort again.

In addition to the prince, the princes of the Great Wei Dynasty are thirteen years old out of the palace to open the palace, before this every day there are masters in the palace to teach knowledge, although the Son of Heaven of the Great Wei Dynasty is the Huns, but it attaches great importance to the knowledge of the Han family, the subset of the history is necessary to learn, of course, the riding and archery on the grassland can not be delayed.

Although a group of Xiongnu nobles felt that the Han people's fart was useless, most of the Xiongnu nobles still invited famous teachers to teach their children. For more than 20 years in Dingding, many Huns have the same appearance as the Han family, they all have tied their hair and high crowns, can speak Sinicization, and can write Chinese characters.

The princes' morning class starts at Mao, and they have to get up at three o'clock to wash, and then the palace people who are close to the palace send them to the auspicious palace where the prince lives to accompany the prince to read, until the afternoon, after reading, the princes will go to the imperial garden to boil up their bodies and exercise riding and archery.

Although Cao Hong has lived like this for five years, he still can't lift his head every day, so he is carried by the palace people to the Xiangfu Palace, and several young princes are still napping on the table. Cao Hong reluctantly rubbed his face, sobered up a little, walked to the prince's seat, bowed and said, "His Royal Highness the prince is well." ”

Seeing that it was Cao Hong, the crown prince Cao Yi nodded at him, didn't speak, and picked up the book in his hand again and read it.

At this time, footsteps came from outside the temple. Cao Hong heard the footsteps and knew that this was Mr. coming, so he hurriedly sat down. The rest of the princes also rubbed their eyes and sat up straight.

Outside the door, a middle-aged man with delicate eyebrows and a beard that was as long as his abdomen came in, and the person who came was the teacher of the princes, Taichangqing Cui He, Cui He sat down, looked at the prince in the lower hall, and asked, "Why hasn't the third prince arrived yet?" ”

The palace man who served on the side replied: "The third prince is accompanying the queen to breakfast, and it is almost there." ”

Cui He didn't speak after listening, but just opened a copy of "Poems" and read it himself.

Seeing this, the princes under the seat didn't dare to make a sound, and hurriedly opened their "poems" and read them.

At this time, there was a chaotic footstep outside the hall, only to see a few eunuchs and palace people hugging a slightly chubby prince hurriedly walked in, the fat prince yawned, unhurriedly paced in front of his seat, several palace people were busy wiping the tables and chairs, placing pen and ink, all the time was busy, the noise continued, several young princes put down the book, stretched out their heads to look at the third prince Cao Fan here. The crown prince Cao Yi held the book in his hand, frowned, and did not speak, and he could see the unhappiness in the prince's heart from the pursed lips.

Cui Huan raised his eyes and looked at Cao Fan's side, knocked on the ring ruler, and those palace people hurriedly walked out of the hall when they heard the ring ruler. The third prince, Cao Fan, was still lying on the table and didn't seem to wake up.

Cui He cleared his throat: "Learn today, "Poetry" can be exciting, can be observed, can be grouped, and can be complained; The father of the long things, the king of the far things; Know more about the names of birds, beasts, plants and trees. Have you written it all down? ”

"Got it." The princes replied.

"Follow me to read "Little Star" today."

"Bi Xiaoxing, three or five in the east.

Su Su night levy, night in the office, life is different.

Bi Xiaoxing, Wei participates in the Pleiades.

Su Su Xiaozheng, hugging and wrapping, life is not still. Cui Huan said.

The princes below also read it along.

"Who can paraphrase?" Cui asked everyone.

At this time, the prince glanced at Cao Fan and replied: "Master, I have learned "Little Star" before, which roughly means that young people get up early before dawn, and the stars in the sky have not faded, so they are busy for their livelihood. ”

"Okay, the prince can still remember the paraphrase, let's learn this article today." Cui Huan's eyes closed slightly, picked up other books, and read them himself.

Everyone knows that at this time, they have to recite the original text repeatedly. The hall resounded with the uneven sound of reading.

When the third prince Cao Fan heard that he was learning "Little Star" today, his face immediately turned red, and he knew that the master was saying that he was late. It's hateful that the prince actually fell into the well. Seeing that everyone didn't look at him, he couldn't get a seizure, so he could only read the book without a word.

When Cao Hong heard the prince's explanation, he secretly looked at the three princes, and when he saw that the three princes were full of pig liver, he also secretly snickered. Xiaoxing naturally learned it earlier. Master Cui took it out at this time for everyone to read, obviously admonishing the three princes. However, the prince is usually forbearing, and I don't know why he is sarcastic about Cao Fan today. There's something going on here.