Although Zhao Yan is like a statue these days, everything Cao Song has done for her is in her eyes, and it is engraved in her heart.

Seeing Zhao Yan's mood return to normal, Cao Song jumped around excitedly, and in the next few days, he pestered Zhao Yan every day to say this and that, as if there were endless words, just after saying what beautiful things and things did not have time for Zhao Yan to think about what kind of food would become immediately, and Zhao Yan only nodded or only said "yes" or disliked in the first few days, and gradually the longer the two got along, the more they talked. And when Zhao Yan's body recovered, she couldn't stand Cao Song's daily begging, so she played with Cao Song in the mansion, and there was the laughter of young boys and girls in this big Changqiu Mansion......

A few days later, in the Great Changqiu Mansion, a white-skinned man looked at the young man and girl playing in the garden, and his delicate face grinned slightly, but it was very strange.

"Master, it's been a long time since I've seen you feel so comfortable, young master may not have had such fun for a long time......" The two of them were really Cao Teng and Cao Fu, the head of Cao Mansion, although Cao Teng's smile was weird, only Cao Fu knew that this was the time when the master was really happy. After five dynasties, often serve the king's side, familiar with the king like a tiger, can go all the way to the clouds, but also promoted to the marquis, Cao Teng's cautious and thick is very people's ability, when Emperor Shun is the prince, it is the "gentle and cautious" selected by the Empress Dowager Deng to accompany the prince to study, when Cao Teng is just getting weaker and weaker, the caution can be seen, he is less smiling and more cold.

"The young master and Miss Zhao Yan get along very happily these days when the adults are not in the mansion, and this girl is really good-looking, but she can't tell that she is from a poor ......" Cao Fu originally wanted to say the word "countryside", but he felt inappropriate.

However, it is said that this Cao Teng, as the head of the queen's Changqiu Palace, is mostly in the palace on weekdays, and the Empress Dowager Liang's family remembered that they had merit and gave this Changqiu Mansion to Cao Teng, and Cao Teng could rest when he took leave, so he returned to the house today.

"Don't let Song'er ruin her studies since then, please ask Mr. to teach that girl together." Cao Teng didn't say much, Cao Fu already understood that Cao Teng attached great importance to this woman, thinking that it was for the young master's future......

"By the way, Song'er's illness hasn't happened again, right?" Cao Teng pondered for a moment and suddenly remembered something, and suddenly asked Cao Fu in a low voice, originally the two of them didn't talk loudly, but at this time they lowered their voices.

"Tell the master, since that rainy night, the young master has committed a crime, and there has been no ...... this month," Cao Fu said in Cao Teng's ear.

"Song'er ......" Cao Teng sighed secretly in his heart, unconsciously thinking about more than ten years ago......

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In the third year of Han Yonghe, in 138 AD, in the North Palace of the Imperial Palace of Luoyang City, a person with a long face and thin eyebrows, but a young man in his twenties was sitting in the study with a red pen in his hand, staring at the silk silk in front of him, and suddenly his eyebrows turned happy, "Okay! All right! What a Captain Guard! Good Ma Xian, it's really worthy of Ma Fubo! This person is the seventh emperor of the Later Han Dynasty, Liu Bao (known as Emperor Shun in history), who is reviewing the chapters.

"Ji Xing, come and see! This Ma Xian burned 3,000 horsemen, beheaded more than 400 horses, and won 1,400 horses, which is really a pillar of the Han Dynasty! "It turned out that Emperor Shun saw the urgent report sent by Jincheng in Liangzhou, and Ma Xian, the captain of the Qiang Guard, broke the rebellion, and he was overjoyed, and he wanted to find someone to share the joy, so he greeted to the side.

"The old slave doesn't understand these militaristic things, but this Ma Xian's ability to break the rebellion depends on His Majesty's wisdom to know people, and General Ma has the opportunity to make contributions. Your Majesty, have some tea. The person who spoke was the chamberlain who was dressed beside Emperor Shun, and he was already a middle-aged person, it was Cao Teng.

"Ji Xing, you're too ...... (Gollum) ...... Respectfully, thinking of the time when I became the crown prince, Taifu examined the matter of the court, or you reminded me by your side, you know more than anyone else, haha......" Emperor Shun took a sip of tea and said to Cao Teng.

"However, this General Fubo is really ......" Before he finished speaking, Emperor Shun suppressed the joy on his face, turned to Cao Teng in a harmonious voice and said, "Ji Xing, how long have you been dressing?" How old are you? ”

"It has been eighteen years since the time of His Majesty's crown prince, but it has just passed the year of confusion." Cao Teng returned respectfully.

"You are forty years old, and you are ruthless in your age, but you have no queen now, who will support you when you are old?" It turned out to be the descendant of Emperor Shun who just said that Ma Yuan, and he actually thought of this servant beside him.

"The old slave's broken body, how can I expect it to be able to serve and continue to His Majesty, it is the luck of the old slave, I only wish to always be by Your Majesty's side." Although Cao Teng knew that the emperor was friendly with him, he didn't know what he meant by this, and replied more respectfully.

"Ji Xing, you are the most loyal to me, when I was five years old, you were by my side, to me it was really like a brother and a father, so long since you were called, you still have an heir, I allow you to go back to your hometown clan and enter the heir and a son into your Cao Teng lineage, needless to say." Emperor Shun was very moved and said.

"The old slave is guilty of capital crimes, thank Your Majesty for your permission, and the old slave will be avenged for his death!" Cao Teng listened to Emperor Shun actually said this "like a father and brother" words and hurriedly kowtowed, feeling that Emperor Shun was sincere and sent more kowtow like pounding garlic, leading the thanksgiving, he had not expected to have descendants, at this time the emperor decreed, the heart is a hundred grateful, who does not want to spread the incense, the next day he resigned from Emperor Shun, to his hometown Peiguo County......

A few days has arrived in Qian County, thinking that he entered the palace when he was young, now he is forty years old, although the village where he lived as a child has not changed much, he no longer knows, all the way to inquire and finally found his hometown, but he is not in a hurry to enter the village, came to a wine shop at the entrance of the village, and wants to find out some news.

This is a small restaurant that his father often brought him to when he was a child, but now it is still there, but the store does not know how much it has changed, called wine and meat, and ordered some beans and small dishes with wine to sit down, and couldn't help muttering, "I still want to find an heir from this sect, but I don't know if the Cao family has a son of the right age, if it is a baby of one or two years, it would be better, but how can there be such a coincidence...... but it is the emperor's dictation that he wants to find the son of a clan to become the heir, I think it is Emperor Shun who wants to make Cao Teng more comfortable, and said "the son of the clan", If it is a foreign surname, it is the crime of bullying the king, think about the bitterness in your heart.

"Guest, you just said baby?" Bringing the wine and food that Cao Teng called for, this guy is a very good person, always likes to talk to the customers in the store, fortunately, there are not too many guests to entertain in the wine shop, so he wants to talk to Cao Teng.

"yes, what's wrong with the baby?" Cao Teng was a little disliked, and just muttered to himself, but was heard by this guy.

"To say that there is no major incident in this village, but there is one thing that has come in and spread widely, that is, it is related to this baby...... "The shopkeeper didn't care whether Cao Teng liked to listen to it or not, so he moved a bench to the side, put a towel on his shoulder, and told Cao Teng.

Cao Teng thought that he was also here to find out the news, so he stopped being angry and listened to the guy......

"There is a family in the village that has a new son half a year ago, but it is a woman from another village who is difficult to come to join the family, the husband has suffered and died, but she has a big belly, if it is not for the letter as evidence, I think the family will not recognize, I invited a stable woman to give birth, gave birth to a big fat boy, but the woman died in childbirth, the old lady of the family remembered that his family blood is still a man, so she raised the baby...... "The man's mouth is like a cannon."

"You have a drink, too." Cao Teng poured some for the guy while drinking.

"Thank you, you're welcome, you're welcome, (goo), it's strange to say, although the average baby is crying, and there are fewer hours of crying in the day, but he is crying more than not crying, and the neighbors don't sleep well. What's more strange is still behind, when you don't cry, it's the baby sleeping, at this time his family has to be quiet, but one day he found that the cry was gone, so the family was happy, and the baby was still sleeping and didn't care, who knew that there was no movement all day, only to realize that it was wrong, looking at the baby lying upright on the couch, motionless, his family was shocked, thinking that the baby was dead, and found that the child's breath was very weak, but still alive, but the old man didn't wake up, and hurriedly went to the county to ask a doctor......

After reading it, the doctor said that although his breath was weak, he was very healthy, and the family scolded the quacks, but one day at noon, the baby woke up on his own, and his breath was as usual, but he cried again...... This happened every half a month, and the family brought in a priest to exorcise the baby...... I don't know what happened later, I heard that the family's surname is Cao, and the villains are all hearsay......"

"What! You said the Cao family, but the Cao family in the middle of the village! Cao Teng was shocked when he heard this, and asked the man.

"Yes, how can there be any other Cao family...... Guest officer, haven't paid yet! Before the shopkeeper could react, Cao Teng had already picked up the burden and was about to leave, but was stopped by the shopkeeper.

"Ah, this is wine money, you can eat these dishes!" Throwing the wine money to the shopkeeper, Cao Teng had already stepped out of the wine shop and walked towards the village.

This village is where Cao Teng's family lived when he was a child, and Cao's family is his own home!