Li Hanyu, Li Cheng's sisters, and Cao Hao have all seen each other in their early years. Now goodbye, I can only sigh that life is like water and time is like a shuttle. The last time I saw their brother and sister was in the forty-ninth year of Kangxi. At that time, Li Cheng was just a three-year-old child, and Li Hanyu was just a little girl about the same age as Niuniu.

Unlike Li Nai's honest Mu Ne, Li Cheng is not very old, but he looks aura. Between the words, it is not only a courtesy, but also a lack of closeness to the elders, which arouses the pity of the Li family, and he can't wait to hold it in his arms, like a heart.

The Li family will always be a piece of Cao Hao's heart.

However, seeing the joy of the Li family in front of him, Cao Hao's heart couldn't help but soften a little.

According to the clues left in history, the biggest mistake of the Li family is to stand on the wrong team, right? Now that the eighth elder brother has passed away, and the "Eight Masters Party" has disappeared, can the Li family also escape?

Cao Hao thought of Brother Jiu who was muddying the waters, and his heart was quite heavy.

That night, when a banquet was held for the Li family's father and son, Cao Hao knocked on the side and asked about Li Nai. It's nothing more than which house to go to ask for peace, what does the eldest uncle have to say, Yunyun.

Li Nai is not a scheming person, he did not hide Cao Hao's meaning, and explained the true meaning of going to Beijing on his father's orders in a few words. In addition to sending a daughter to be married, he also wants to find a grace.

Because Li Xu is well-known for his good popularity, he has many contacts with the major princes' mansions in the capital. In addition to Jiubeizi Mansion, I also have to go to the Third Elder Brother Mansion to ask for peace.

When Cao Hao heard this, he knew it in his heart. This Li Xu still didn't give up, and his idea was to ride on the wall and look.

Who doesn't know that today's Ninth Elder Brother is the spokesperson of the Fourteenth Elder Brother; And the third elder brother occupies a "long", and he can be regarded as one of the candidates for the storage position.

Cao Hao sighed in his heart, but he didn't know what to say.

Since he came by order, it wasn't him an outsider who could make Li Nai change his mind with just a few words.

"Since the eldest cousin wants to become an official, does he want to seek a foreign official or a Beijing official?" Cao Hao opened his mouth and asked.

Speaking of which, Li Nai is no longer confused. The children of other eunuchs, at his age, whether he is promoted to the imperial examination or donated, he should have been out of office a long time ago.

"Father's meaning is that he wants me to seek an official in Beijing." Li Nai said: "My father said that the Li family will not always be in the weaving position, wait until ...... In the future, there will always be a return to Beijing. But it's really lacking, so I don't have to wait until I donate the top first. ”

This can be regarded as an understanding of the words, Cao Hao hesitated in his heart, no need to persuade this cousin, add the fourth elder brother's mansion when he went to the capital. However, thinking about the meaning of the thirteenth elder brother who invited him to the house a few days ago, Cao Hao's words stopped.

If you say too much, you will lose, and the fourth elder brother is a person who is very easy to be careful.

A meal can be regarded as a pleasure for both guests and hosts.

In Li Nai's heart, he was already very close to Cao Hao's cousin, and he was also grateful for his "righteous search" a few years ago.

After the meal, the night grew darker, and Li Nai's father and son said goodbye.

Li knew that since his nephew had arrived in Beijing, he had to visit relatives and friends, and he would not stay with him. It's just that the niece and granddaughter Li Hanyu said that she would not let anyone go, and she wanted to stay in this house for a few days.

There is no hostess in the Li Mansion in the capital to preside over the feed, and her daughter is kept to learn the rules in the Cao Mansion, and Li Nai is also full of willingness.

In this way, Li Hanyu lived in Caofu.

In this way, the trip of the Cao family to Changping Zhuangzi was delayed.

Cao Yan and Cao Yi have been married for many years, and it is rare to have a girl to be married around, and they are close relatives.

Cao Hao and Chu Yu were afraid that she would be idle and sentimental, but when they saw something diverting her attention, they were also happy to see it.

Li Hanyu and his younger brother Li Cheng have completely different surnames from their smart appearance, just like their father Li Nai, honest and honest. Because of this, even Chu Yu loves her a little more.

Li Nai's entry into Beijing to seek officials, in addition to paving the way back to Beijing for the Li family, the key is also in the marriage of this daughter.

Although the family of the Li family is not a dignitary of the Eight Banners, it is a famous family among famous families, and it is the family of Fan Wencheng, the founder of the Manchu Dynasty.

The Fan family is a member of the Han Army with a yellow flag, and has a very good personal relationship with Li Xu, this is Fan Wencheng's grandson, Fan Shichong, who was formerly in Fujian and Zhejiang, and is now the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Inspectorate.

The one who has a marriage contract with Li Hanyu is Fan Yongwen, the second grandson of Fan Shichong, who is the same age as Li Hanyu, and is a person in Kangxi's 56th year, and he failed to participate in the examination last spring.

The Cheng family has been noble for several generations, which is different from a family like the Li family. Li Xu can marry his family, and he can be regarded as a "high-ranking daughter".

Although Fan Yongwen's father died early and followed his grandfather to live a son, since the Li family married a daughter to the Fan family, Li Nai, as a father, could not bear the name of a prisoner Zhang Luo to send his relatives.

Even if there is no real shortage, this official title must be donated so that it can be done.

Cao Hao had heard of the Fan family for a long time, and he had also heard his father talk about the "loyalty" of several generations of the Fan family to the imperial court.

At that time, Cao Hao was unimpressed. After all, Fan Wencheng is Han. As a Han Chinese, he assisted Huang Taiji to fight the world, and finally took over the Han people's country, which was put aside in a few hundred years, and he was going to be scolded as a "great Han annihilation".

Cao Hao just thought of his daughter Tianhui because Li Hanyu was about to get married.

"Marrying a daughter from a high gate" and "marrying a daughter from a high gate", I don't know whose family my daughter will fall into in the future. When I think about it, I can't stand it.

The Li family has been in the business for half a month, and the new clothes for the niece and granddaughter have been cut, and the jewelry has been made, and it is also early March.

The spring was bright and the weather was fine, and Li couldn't help but feel a little moved when he remembered the incident mentioned by his son and daughter-in-law earlier about going to Changping Villa to live.

This side was cleaned up, and before the trip was made, Li Nai went to Cao's house again.

This time, it was not to ask for peace for the Li family, but to come to Cao Hao on a special trip.

However, after half a month's effort, Li Nai was a lot haggard. Seeing this, Cao Hao was a little puzzled, as far as he knew, the matter of donating officials was quite successful, and now Li Nai was already the alternate prefect.

Although it is not a real shortage, the top of the four products is real, and the family can get by marrying a girl.

"Cousin...... It is said that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, but at the moment, the foolish brother has one thing that is really difficult, and he has to ask his aunt and cousin to help deal with it. Li Nai's face flushed, hesitated for a while, and said to Cao Hao.

Seeing him like this, Cao Hao didn't dare to admit it directly, and said, "Cousin, let's talk about it, what else does it bother our wife?" None of them are outsiders, and if they can help, they have nothing to say. ”

If he can't help, he doesn't think he can do that porcelain job.

"Hey! Ay! Li Nai sighed twice, shook his head and said, "I really don't know where to start, it's like a joke." ”

And then he said why.

Cao Hao was dumbfounded when he heard it, and he really felt like a legend.

It turned out that when Li Nai entered Beijing, he took his son to his brother-in-law Sun Jue's house. When Sun Jue summoned several children out to Li Nai, Li Nai found that something was wrong.

Sun Jue's twin sons are quite similar in appearance to Li Cheng.

Li Cheng is Sun Jue's own nephew, and it is common for cousins and cousins to look alike. However, Li Cheng's appearance is not like his mother Sun, but like his own uncle, the late Li Ding.

The twin sons of the Sun family, with flying eyebrows and thin eyes, are also the appearance of the Li family.

Sun Jue Xu said that he would meet each other, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with his son. Li Nai's memory of an old thing, when Li Dinggang disappeared, he had been to the capital, and vaguely remembered that he heard the housekeeper mention that his younger brother gave his maid to Sun Jue.

At that time, he still disagreed with it in his heart. After all, starting from the Cao family, the Cao and Li families are much closer than the Cao and Sun families. In order to befriend Sun Jue, it is not a good strategy to make Cao's heart unhappy.

He pretended to inadvertently ask about the birth dates of the twins, but it was similar to his niece Xiangyu, how could he not be secretly frightened.

After leaving the Sun family and returning to the Li house, he asked the chief housekeeper and confirmed that the two maids given to Sun Jue were indeed used by his younger brother, and Li Nai could almost identify that the twins were his younger brother's blood and bones.

He has a deep brotherly relationship with Li Ding, his younger brother died violently at a young age, and the murderer has not been investigated so far, and he has always regretted it in his heart. Now, knowing that his younger brother has blood flowing outside, how can he be indifferent?

He immediately wrote a letter to his family, and ordered his henchmen to leave Beijing and return to Suzhou as soon as possible.

In anxiety, after waiting for half a month, I finally received a reply from my father, only a few lines, asking him to ask the Li family to be a middleman with the Cao family and recognize his relatives with blood.

Cao Hao was already frowning when he heard this, this is really a big deal.

I really didn't expect that the pair of twins of the Sun family was not Sun Jue's flesh and blood, but Li Ding's posthumous son.

Cao Hao's heart was quite strange, after all, Li Ding was removed by him. In the past few years, there have been things related to Li Ding, and I really don't know what to say.

It's just that Cao Hao is not interested in accepting the word "Chinese".

In this way, the Cao family was tied to the Li family and the Sun family again. Moreover, with the dark side of this matter, even if the Cao family comes forward, most of them will not be able to do both, and they may have to bear the complaints of the two families.

Li Xu is an old fox, and he doesn't want to tear his face with the Sun family, so he thinks about pulling the Cao family into the water. Cao Hao is not a fool, how can he be at his mercy?

He muttered two sentences and said, "Big cousin, I'm afraid this is inappropriate." The surname of the second brother-in-law, you also know, loves face the most. This is a major matter of confusing children and grandchildren, which is not enough for outsiders. If it comes out, I'm afraid that the second brother-in-law will be annoyed. After all, he is the eldest cousin's brother-in-law, and if the eldest cousin whispered, the two families would discuss how to end the matter. After all, this time my cousin went to Beijing, mainly to send his niece to marry, if he worked hard at this time, there would be something unpleasant, and it would be difficult for his niece to go out at her in-law's house. ”

Regarding his father's instructions, Li Nai's heart did not agree with it.

After all, this is a private matter between the Li and Sun families, and even if they can't hide it from the Cao family in the end, it's not good to tell their relatives loudly right now.

Listening to Cao Hao's words, Li Nai felt that he was in harmony with his heart, nodded his head, and said, "What my cousin said is right, and my foolish brother is also so scruples." Don't alarm my aunt for the time being, and wait for me to find an opportunity to mention this matter with Sun Jue. ”

Although he has no deep friendship, but after his relatives sat down over the years, Cao Hao also knew a little about Sun Jue.

Sun Jue is an authentic disciple of Confucius and Mencius, arrogant enough, hypocritical enough, and macho enough. Cao Ying has been married to him for more than ten years, and her children are all in their teens, and if she wants to return to the province once, she has to ask for instructions again, and she will treat her husband like heaven.

And the more people are in front of people, the more Sun Jue is the head of the family. Even if he accompanied his wife and children back to Cao's house once, he couldn't tolerate his wife and children being happy, and he had to scold his son before he could speak.

If he knew that he had raised a son for others for a few years, Sun Jue would not have been mad.

Looking at Li Nai's appearance, it doesn't seem like he can speak skillfully. If the matter is not handled well, in the end, he will have to say that his mother will have to come out and worry about it, which Cao Hao can't tolerate.

"Big cousin, second brother-in-law has been a Beijing official in the past few years, and the expenses are large, and the money is a little tight." Cao Hao thought about it, but decided to help Li Nai, and said.

"I can't complain, there are a few fakes in the ornaments in the living room......" Li Nai didn't understand the meaning at first, and then said. Halfway through speaking, he understood the taste, glanced at Cao Hao gratefully, and said, "Thank you, cousin, I know!" ”

After sending Li Nai, Cao Hao was finally able to make the trip, and the next time he took his family to Changping.

Although he has only been filial piety for half a year, the so-called major events of the court seem to be far away from Cao Hao's thoughts.

The scenery of the fourteenth elder brother, Cao Hao has no intention of paying attention to it, it is just the same as the eldest elder brother, the second elder brother, and the eighth elder brother back then, but it is just a tragedy.

The initiator of this tragedy is none other than Kangxi.

Kangxi added fuel to the fire, magnified the ambitions of his sons, gave them hope to seize the crown, and then personally broke this hope.

He didn't get tired of playing such a game, Cao Hao was tired of watching it.

Life is like morning dew, I used to work too hard, who can guarantee that I can live to be seventy or eighty years old?

Cao Hao decided to live for himself, accompany his mother more, personally inquire about the education of his children, and accompany his wife to see the peach blossom and plum trees, which is also the comfort of spring.

Like this mountain full of spring, the spring of Kangxi's fifty-eighth year was extraordinarily peaceful.

Although it is said that there is a eclipse on the first day of the first lunar month, it is said that there is a lunar sky, but because it is cloudy and snowy, the capital is not visible, but it does not cause any panic.

Several concubines in the harem were officially canonized by the Ministry of Rites at the end of last year. At this point, the sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother can also be regarded as relieved.

The bank has been open for a few months, and the results have not been significant, but in the lunar month, business is very good. It is not easy to live in the capital, and the cost of favors is a large amount, and at the end of the year, the number of people who go to the bank to borrow money is hundreds.

In February, the Eight Banners released the silver, and the bank lent a lot of money, and the sixteenth elder brother finally had a lot of confidence in his heart.

Living in the mountains, Cao Hao is also much more comfortable, except for walking around with his mother in the morning and evening, at other times, he begins to like to serve the vegetable garden.

Speaking of which, Changping Zhuangzi is better than Haidian Garden, the place is spacious, and the landscape is naturally interesting.

Cao Hao made people reclaim a vegetable field in Zhuangzi, and took a few small ones to enjoy the joy of farming, which just echoed this great spring.

It has only been a few days since the relaxed and comfortable day, but there is a distinguished guest in this villa.

It was the sixteenth elder brother who came with a will, and it turned out that the holy car was after the Wanshou Festival, and the palace was fortunate to be in Tangquan. I don't know how to hear that Cao Hao is here in the villa, so Kangxi sent the sixteenth elder brother over.

In addition to Cao Hao, the Li family also needs to go to the concubine to say goodbye.

Speaking of which, the last time Cao Hao saw Kangxi was when he had just returned to Beijing a year ago, and he had been ordered to see Kangxi once......

(To be continued)