In Jiangnan, when it comes to the Cao family, everyone may not think that it is Jiangning Weaving Mansion, after all, there are many people surnamed Cao in the world. But when it comes to Jiangning Weaving Mansion, everyone knows that it is the Cao family, one of the most prominent families in Jiangnan.

From the second year of Kangxi, the Ministry of Internal Affairs set up a weaving house in Jiangnan, and the first weaver Cao Xi has served in Jiangning, and thirty-nine years have passed. Ten years ago, Cao Xi died of illness, and his eldest son Cao Yin inherited his father's business and succeeded Jiangning Weaving.

The Jiangning Weaving Mansion is similar to the ordinary yamen, with the public government in front and the private house in the back. The difference is that the main hall in the middle of the backyard is empty, the garden and several courtyards on the east road are also there, and only the fifth entrance on the west road lives Cao Yin's family.

Because of the heavy yard and the yard, it doesn't look crowded.

The innermost courtyard on the west road is the residence of Cao Yin's mother, Cao Sun's old lady.

Entering the courtyard is the shadow wall with thousands of "longevity" characters written on it, behind the shadow wall is a spacious courtyard, in the middle of the courtyard is a rockery piled up with lake stones, and the rockery is surrounded by shallow pools.

The golden scales swam in the pool, and two big white cranes stood proudly on the water, occasionally bowing their heads and eating the fish in the pool.

The main house of five high ridges and green tiles and gray stones, the three big characters of "Xuanruitang" are hung at the door. The main house is flanked by a long corridor that leads to a small garden in the backyard on one side and a courtyard gate on the other.

It was the height of summer, the masters of each courtyard took a nap, and the maid and the maid naturally turned off the sound, only a few little girls who were glued to the yard finished their work, leaned crookedly under the west corridor, dozing off.

No one noticed that a boy in a silver robe walked out of the room lightly and stood under the east porch, staring at the white crane in the water.

If any maids and daughters-in-law see it, they must step forward and stammer, because this boy is the heart and soul of the old lady in the house, and the only son of the old lady.

In fact, this Cao is no longer the other Cao Xuan. Three days ago, the soul of a man named "Li Yong" who had been hundreds of years later awakened in this body. Although the names of the two sound similar in pronunciation, they are thousands of miles apart. One is a seven-year-old boy born in a wealthy compound in the Qing Dynasty, and a twenty-six-year-old office clerk in a modern law firm.

Cao Yan woke up three times, and he was also confused three times, whether he was Li Yong or Cao Yan, although he had never forgotten his experience in that life, but he also had various pictures in his mind from the memory of this life.

The kindness of the family elders and the flattery of the subordinates and mothers-in-law are all spinning in my mind like a slide. And when I saw Sun (Cao Yin's grandmother), Li (Cao Yan's mother), Cao Yan (Cao Yin's sister), and even Cao Yin, I was a little close, as if he was Cao Yin and Cao Yin was him, but he was just a big dream, and now he is sober.

San, first anxious, then sad, and then desperate, it seems that he has encountered the legendary crossing, and he has crossed into a family that is not a stranger, the Cao family where Cao Xueqin is located. Although he is not a fan of popularity, because of the fever of Red Mansions in the past few years, he knows a little about the Cao family.

It is said that the ancestor of the Cao family was a general of the Ming army, who surrendered after losing the battle in the northeast and became the white flag of Manchuria. Later, he entered the customs from Long and worked as an errand in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Then, Cao Xi's wife and Cao Yin's mother Sun was selected as Kangxi's nursing mother, and Cao Yin grew up with Kangxi since he was a child.

Cao Yin's father Cao Xi served as Jiangning Weaving, and then Cao Yin, Cao Yin's son Cao Yin, and Cao Yin's step-son Cao Fu successively held this position, until Kangxi died and Yongzheng ascended the throne The Cao family began to fall. The reason seems to be that the Cao family and their in-laws Li family are both involved in the royal battle for succession, and they are on the wrong team, first supporting the crown prince, and then supporting the eighth elder brother, but they did not identify the fourth elder brother as the hidden dragon.

As a result, after Yongzheng came to power, the Cao family and the Li family were raided successively, the Cao family was okay, Yongzheng was still a little decent, although the house was raided, but the capital also left two properties for the orphans and widows of the Cao family to move in. The Li family did not have such a big face, and the wife and maid sold it on the spot in Suzhou, and no one dared to buy it after selling it for ten days, and the miserable scene was indescribable.

Thinking of these, Cao Yin only felt chills, and now he has become Cao Yin's biological son, although he doesn't know how old he lived, but in short, he died of illness at a young age, and left a posthumous son, and then there is Cao Yin's step-son to inherit the family business. Thinking of this, I couldn't cry or laugh a little, I accidentally became Cao Xueqin's elder, and it was very likely that it was his father, even if it was not his father, it was also his uncle...... Belch...... It's also his uncle.

Although three days is not a long time, Cao Yan knows a lot about the Cao family through his body memory. knew that Lao Taijun was sixty-eight years old, although he worked as an errand in the palace when he was young, he was not the legendary nurse in later generations, but had been Kangxi's nanny.

The royal nanny is not the kind of old mother who waits for the child as everyone thinks, but a senior caretaker also known as "Jingqi Mama", who is the general manager of life around the prince and the princess, and can be regarded as the actual adoptive mother.

From entering the palace in the spring of the eleventh year of Shunzhi to the wedding of the emperor in the fourth year of Kangxi, Sun has been serving as Kangxi's "Jingqi Mama", and the relationship with Emperor Kangxi is no less than that of his own mother and son. Therefore, after Kangxi was in power, he would be awarded the title of "Mrs. Fengsheng", a first-class order, and his husband Cao Xi was awarded the title of first-class baron. In addition, in the third southern tour of Emperor Kangxi two years ago, he settled in Jiangning Weaving Mansion, so Jiangning Weaving Mansion was called "Daxing Palace" by Jiangning people.

In order not to overstep, Cao Yin took refuge in the west courtyard, and emptied the main house and the east courtyard to show respect. It was during that southern tour that Kangxi mentioned the three big characters "Xuanruitang" for the nanny Sun's residence, and called Sun "This is my old man" in front of the accompanying officials. Or it is precisely because he has been on an errand in the palace for too long that he has been separated from her husband and has not had a biological son of her own. Cao Yin is actually the eldest son of the Cao family, his biological mother died early, and he was raised under the name of the Sun family as a son-in-law.

Cao Yin has been smart since childhood, able to speak in October, literate at the age of three, and able to write at the age of five. Although he is four years younger than Kangxi, he did enter the palace as a companion, and after the age of sixteen, he was a royal guard, and since then he has been a close minister of the Son of Heaven. It wasn't until his father Cao Xi was old that he was sent to Jiangning to take over. First for Suzhou weaving, Cao Xi died and took over Jiangning weaving, Suzhou weaving was taken over by Kangxi's other henchman, Cao Yin's brother-in-law Li Xu. Li Xu's mother, Wen, also served as Kangxi's nanny at first, but she was not on duty as long as Sun's.

Cao Yin's first wife was Gu, the daughter of a big family in Jiangnan, and the husband and wife were very affectionate, but it was difficult to have children, and they never had a son and a half daughter. Later, Gu died of illness, Emperor Kangxi pointed out marriage, and Cao Yin married Li Xu's cousin Li as his stepfamily.

When Cao Yin married the eighteen-year-old Li, he was already over thirty years old. In the first year of marriage, the eldest daughter Cao Yan was added, and a few years later, the eldest son Cao Yan was born. Because Cao Yan has been weak since he was a child, he is afraid that he will not be able to raise it, so he has not been named, and his milk name is "Liansheng". When Emperor Kangxi toured the south the year before last, he lived in the weaving mansion, personally gave the name of the word "顒", and enshrined the title of "first-class light car captain", which was only four levels lower than the second-class son of his father Cao Yin, and he also took the imperial court two hundred and thirty-five taels of silver every year. Because it is a big name given by the Son of Heaven, the milk name "Liansheng" is put away and not used, and the size of the family has been changed.

Cao Yan is the eldest son and grandson of the house, and naturally became the top son of the old lady of the Sun family, and he was raised by his side at the beginning of the landing, until he passed the seven-year-old half a month ago, and then moved to his parents under Cao Yin's good words, and was sent to the clan to study. Unexpectedly, after only ten days, he fell ill. Cao Yin and his wife still wanted to hide it from the old lady, but they didn't want to have an incident. It turned out that the old lady saw that the weather was hot and dry, and she was afraid that her grandson would get angry, so she sent someone to the school to deliver herbal tea, so she got the letter, and knew that Cao Yan was sick, so she hurried to the front yard, and after reprimanding her son and daughter-in-law, she asked the maid to pack her grandson back to her yard with those bedding.

Thinking of this, Cao Yan squinted his eyes, didn't he say that the crossing carried the wings of a butterfly? Since you know that your little body is not good and you will not live long, you won't prevent it in advance? Now it is only 40 years of Kangxi, and the tragic "Nine Sons Seize the Inheritance" has not yet been staged, as long as the Cao family avoids this catastrophe and makes up for the deficit of those who are driving, Yongzheng still has no reason to take the house.

Thinking about this, Cao Yan's heart relaxed for a long time, and he missed his family in that life more and more. He is the old son of his parents, and he is also raised by a sweetheart, so he will indulge himself in the mess of not being high or low. My brother's niece is only four years younger than herself, and my brother and sister-in-law treat me as if they were my own children. Before he had time to repay these close relatives, he inexplicably wore it more than 300 years ago, how could he not make people regret it. Before I knew it, the circles under my eyes were already red.

"Why are your eyes red, is your uncle's body still fine?" With a thin and soft voice, a pair of small hands touched Cao Yan's forehead.

Cao Yan heard the familiar voice, raised her head, and came a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, wearing a milky white silk gown, with purple shoulders on the outside, and her lips and teeth were white. Cao Yan secretly praised in his heart, if an outsider saw such a decent appearance, how could he think that he was a young lady, but in fact she was a second-class maid in the old lady's house, named Amethyst.

Amethyst saw that Cao Yan was not as lively as before, and there was a little more worry in her eyes. Although Cao Yan's body is small now, he is a person in his twenties inside, where can he bear to let such a young child worry, so he has to follow the appearance in his memory, holding the corners of his mouth, and calling "Sister Amethyst", when he said it, he was about to be soured.

Amethyst saw Cao Yan's appearance in the past, so she put her mind at ease, leaned over, and wanted to tease him, when footsteps came from behind her. Amethyst and Cao Yan both turned their heads to look, the thin bamboo curtain at the main entrance of the hall was opened, and a teenage little maid wearing goose yellow clothes and combing two buns walked out, saw the two, and said with a smile: "The old lady is awake and looking for the uncle!" "What came out was also the second-class maid in the old lady's room, named Citrine.

After hearing this, Amethyst leaned down to help Cao Yan tidy up the front and back plackets, and then took a step back and said, "Uncle, go in quickly, save the old lady from waiting!" ”

Being treated like a child like this, Cao Yan was very uncomfortable, but helpless. The old lady regarded him as a treasure, and the people in the yard were staring at him with their eyes up, and if they behaved slightly differently from the past, they would frighten a group of people, so that he had to learn to play a "child" according to his memory.

Sighing in his heart, Cao Yan walked up to the room with his short legs. Over there, Cha Jing had already taught the ears of the little girls under the corridor, her voice was low, but her hands were full of strength, and the little girls were all teenagers, their ears were red, they didn't dare to cry, and they were very pitiful when they knelt on the ground. Although Cha Jing is about the same age as them, she has been trained by the old lady since she was a child, and she took the monthly example of a second-class maid last year, and of course these little girls who are cleaning outside dare not resist.

Cao Yan frowned slightly, and couldn't help but look over there a few more times, and then Cha Jing stopped and rushed over to lift the curtain. Seeing Cao Yan looking at her, she smiled brightly, revealing two small dimples, and said, "It's better, just run to the yard and stand, and teach the old lady to worry!" ”

Just being cared for by a little girl, and being taught a lesson by another little girl, Cao Yan couldn't help but have a headache.

No wonder "Dream of Red Mansions" mentions that Baoyu is messing around in the maid's heap all the time, not messing around, can't do it, since he entered the old lady's yard, except for Cao Yin and himself, he didn't see the second man. There are some big and small maids walking around in front of me, just talking about the old lady's courtyard, there are four first-class, eight second-class, and there are more than 20 people who are not in the stream. There are also those who often come to the wife's side, the aunts' side, and the young lady's side, all of whom come to visit with the owners of the house. Cao Yan is just helpless, fortunately, he is the surname of a person in his twenties, and he is an ordinary child, growing up in such a fat powder, it is strange if he is not a sissy.