Fang Qiniang stayed in Changping Zhuangzi with Fang Chonggong for a while, and then returned to the city. The third day was the eighth day of the fourth month, and they went south with the ships of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In addition to Wei Hei and his wife, Cao Hao, and Chu Yu, they all prepared rituals, and Niu Niu and Tianyou were a few small ones, knowing that Qi Niang was leaving, they also gave small objects as gifts.

In addition to the Cao family's side, the Thirteenth Elder Brother's Mansion also prepared rich gifts, so that when the Fang family's father and daughter boarded the boat, they had a lot of luggage. Fortunately, there were sixteen elder brothers who said hello, and Fang Chonggong still had the name of the Tai Hospital Zhi Shi Tai Doctor on his head, and the officials on the side of the Internal Affairs Office also took care of it.

Cao Hao did not make a special trip to see him off, this kind of parting sorrow is really not suitable for him.

On the Cao family's side, Wei Hei came forward and sent the Fang father and daughter to the Tongzhou wharf.

The father and daughter of the Fang family went south for three days, and the holy car also started from Changchun Garden and went to Rehe to escape the heat. This year, the princes who followed Hu are the third elder brother, the seventh elder brother, the ninth elder brother, the tenth elder brother, the fifteenth elder brother, the sixteenth elder brother and the twenty elder brother.

Although Cao Hao is on the side of the villa, the news is not closed. When he heard about this year's entourage list, he had a feeling, isn't Kangxi already choosing the fourth elder brother now?

In the early years, Kangxi went to Saiwai, and the prince who stayed in the capital to preside over government affairs designated two elder brothers, the third elder brother and the fourth elder brother; In recent years, the third elder brother has been out of the fortress more and more times, and the fourth elder brother has become more and more relied on in the capital.

Just like this year's list, in addition to the princes who went to the outside of the city, there are only four elder brothers, fifth elder brothers, twelve elder brothers, thirteenth elder brothers and seventeenth elder brothers left in the capital. is serious in the six departments, and there is only one fourth elder brother.

Could it be that the fourth elder brother eats fasting and recites the Buddha, which makes people too impressed, why can't others see this? Or is it because the fourteenth elder brother went out on the expedition with the hat of a "great general king", covering up all the edges, making others a supporting role?

Cao Hao didn't pay attention to anything else, but he was quite attentive to Li Wei. At the beginning of the year, Li Wei was promoted to the household department and supplemented Langzhong. The fourth elder brother and Li Wei, a pair of famous monarchs and ministers in history, should also meet.

He didn't know that Li Wei's name had already appeared on the desk of the fourth elder brother.

For Li Wei, who was born in Xuzhou and was so romantic that he was also infected with a "hidden disease", the fourth elder brother didn't have a good impression at all.

The fourth elder brother had already taken his wife and concubine to stay in the Wang Garden near Changchun Garden in early April.

After the holy driver left Beijing, the fourth elder brother did not let his wife and concubine return to the city, and still stayed in the royal garden.

Nian Qianyao was already the governor of Sichuan, and he played a pivotal role in this northwest war. Although the Nian family is the disciple of the fourth elder brother, they are not loyal, which can be seen from Nian Qianyao's repeated times in the past few years.

The fourth elder brother knows very well that if he wants to tie the Nian family to his side, the side of the Fujin Nian family should not only be valued, but also "cultivated", if he has an heir, it is a big deal.

The Manchu people are different from the Han people, in addition to paying attention to "the mother is more expensive than the son", but also paying attention to the "son is more expensive than the mother".

There is no concubine in the palace, and the position of the Nian clan is second only to the Nianfu Jin Nala clan, if he gives birth to an elder brother, he is far more noble than the current elder brothers in the palace.

Although the fourth elder brother knows that the heir is important, after all, he is not confused when he is old, and he has more than enough strength but not enough strength.

All of these things are not easy to say to outsiders, so they can only make people secretly search for secret medicines.

Cao Hao didn't know the fourth elder brother's "unspeakable words", and even if he did, this was not something that outsiders could share.

On his side, because the weather is getting hotter, he is thinking about whether to continue to stay in the villa, or move his family to Haidian Garden to escape the summer.

After asking what Li meant, Li has fallen in love with the purity here. If you move to Haidian, it will be the summer garden of the mansions of various magnates in the capital, and it will be very troublesome to socialize at that time.

Cao Hao also loves the natural scenery here, although the peach blossoms are grateful, but watching the green peaches on the branches grow little by little is also a different taste.

Most of the peach trees here were planted in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of Kangxi. Compared with other fruit trees, peach trees flower and bear fruit early, usually blooming and bearing fruit in one to three years, and flourishing after four years.

Today, the peach trees are more than ten years old, and they are also considered to be in the prime of fruit trees. When it blooms, the mountains are full of sunset; As a result, it looked like the branches were heavy.

The children read with the master in the morning, practice riding and archery in the school field in the afternoon, or follow Cao Hao to work in the pastoral vegetable fields opened up in Zhuangzi.

Tianyou has read a lot, and his mind is full of ancient "six grains", "six animals", "six birds" and so on. Sometimes I come to ask Cao Hao, Cao Hao also mostly reads from the book, and the father and son have seriously discussed the issue of "agriculture".

The older Hengsheng gets, the more difficult it is for endorsement, on the contrary, pulling a bow and shooting arrows has far surpassed a few of them with Tianyou. He has risen to the tallest of the boys.

As the elder brother of the twins, Zuo Zhu is acting more and more steadily. Now, he is obsessed with reading, except for Cao Hao, his favorite one is Cao Xiang in Dongfu. I swore a few times that I wanted to learn from the fourth uncle to take the Jinshi exam.

Zuo Chengyin Fang Chonggong has prescribed medicine for several years, and his body bones have become stronger and stronger, and he looks no different from ordinary children.

Because of the winter cotton clothes over there, Cao Hao also paid more and more attention to the Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng brothers, and when he was free, he took their brothers by his side and talked about the past of Ning Chun's early years.

The two brothers were eight years old, the age at which they could understand words.

They also know that their father died early, and they have several friends of their fathers, in addition to their father-in-law Cao Hao, there are also Yongqing and Ma Jun who often come to visit them. Among them, Ma Jun is still the father-in-law of Zuozhu.

Cao Hao remembered that the children of the wealthy family did not know the difficulties of making a living, so he assigned "homework" to a few children and asked them to keep an account of the monthly silver expenditure every month.

A few small ones, just thinking it was interesting, but they obeyed orders, and each person kept a small account book, and remembered their expenses of two taels of silver every month clearly.

Unexpectedly, the best one of them is the youngest Tianhui.

Tianhui did not come to Changping with everyone earlier, and was taken over by Wang Fujin of Pingjun. In mid-April, it was sent back.

Even Chu Yu's side is a little worried, her daughter has spent most of her time in the palace in the past two years, don't alienate her parents. But thinking that the king of Pingjun was not in the capital, and the eldest brother of the palace was taken to the palace to be raised, Cao Jia's family was not easy in the house, and Chu Yu really couldn't say anything.

In the fifty-sixth year of Kangxi, when Cao Jiashi gave birth to the seventh elder brother of Pingjun Wangfu and her fourth sister-in-law, she was born prematurely and injured her body, and the imperial doctor had already said that she could not get pregnant again. Fortunately, the palace already has four sons-in-law, and he is not worried about the problem of heirs, but Cao Jia's desire to have another daughter has been completely shattered.

Cao Hao's side, after knowing this reason, was also distressed by his strong sister. In addition, Tianhui is also attached to her aunt, so even if Cao Hao is reluctant to have a daughter, it is difficult to stop the palace from picking up people.

Tianhui didn't like to take care of people in his early years because of his eye disease, and after his eye disease was cured, he was not a lively surname. has been by Cao Jia's side for a long time, but she is much more lively than before, and when the little girl puts on her face, she is also very imposing.

According to Li's words, Tianhui's style is becoming more and more like her aunt's childhood.

Seeing his daughter like this, Cao Hao and Chu Yu were pleasantly surprised, and at the same time reflected on whether their past education was improper.

Because of this, Cao Hao also made a special trip back to the city and went to Pingjun Wangfu to see his sister, talking about Tianhui's upbringing.

Cao Jiashi knew that his younger brother loved Tianhui, and he was willing to pass on his experience in raising children, and said: "Girls should be pampered, and you husband and wife are pets, but the word 'Jiao' is not very good." In addition to holding the child as a palm bead yourself, you also have to let the child be 'delicate' by himself. You have always been kind, and your younger siblings are too soft, and your ears and eyes are stained, and the child is also short of momentum. Who is she? She is the daughter of the Earl's Palace, the granddaughter of the Prince's Mansion, and the great-great-daughter of today's son. As long as the child has his own momentum and leaves you when he grows up, he can support himself alone. Otherwise, what if you develop a weak surname as a girl, leave you in the future, and be bullied? The girl is different from the boy, the boy has a future or not, and has the support of the family; If you are a girl, if you are soft, you will be angry. ”

"These words were not said by me, they were said by the old lady when he was alive in the early years. At that time, you still don't remember, but the old lady saw that my father and mother were just blindly pampering me, so I told my father and mother this. I still remember clearly, if it weren't for these words, I wouldn't have survived all these years in the house. Although I can't compare to Tianhui's noble background, I think that I am also the heart of my parents, and I am the concubine of the imperial seal, and I have enough confidence. ”

Speaking of this, she picked up the teacup in her hand, moistened her throat, and continued: "The shadow is enough, I heard that the eldest sister is not doing well in the Sun family, and Sun Jue took a concubine again last month. The eldest sister doesn't have a mother's family, she has many brothers, and she has a sister-in-law around her, so if she is someone else, she has already made trouble, who will be angry with this? But the eldest sister's surname of 'three from four virtues' will not go to her parents' house to talk about grievances. Look at the third sister again, there were twists and turns in the early years, but now that the Guogong Mansion is in her hands, no one can pick out half of it, whether it is in front of their old lady or among the clan relatives. ”

These words are my sister's experience for half a lifetime.

Thinking that she entered Beijing to marry when she was a teenager and was far away from her parents, Cao Hao also felt sorry for this sister in her heart. Speaking of his sister, in fact, he watched the little girl who grew up as a younger sister.

However, when he heard Sun Jue and thought of the Li family's flesh and blood mentioned by Li Nai last month, Cao Hao felt disgusted again.

Xu is Li Nai's concern about his daughter's marriage and does not want to publicize it. So far, I haven't heard of any movement, and it seems that the Sun and Li families are still wrestling. After all, it is a major matter related to the heirs, according to Sun Jue's lonely temper, if there are no steps, I am afraid that I will not give up easily, and I don't know what will happen.

Cao Hao just made people pay attention to the Li and Sun families, but he was not interested in getting involved.

Thinking of Sun Jue's drunken ugliness in the Li Mansion in the capital, Cao Hao really didn't respect his cousin and cousin-in-law.

He didn't know that Li Nai's side had long since stopped taking back his brother's flesh and blood as a big matter, but put all his mind on inquiring about the old things from a few years ago.

Li Nai's inquiry has been for more than ten days, and he has fallen into a strange circle.

Because he thought that it was "killing people because of annihilation", he checked in this direction. Back then, Yang Ruixue's deeds in the Li Mansion, and some of the old people of the Li family also knew a thing or two.

Since this is known as one or two, listening to it in Li Nai's ears means something else.

arranged for someone to come over as a "guest" from Li Ding, and became Yang Ruixue's colleagues, relatives and friends who did not abide by her duty and "hooked up" with her younger brother.

It was the two concubines on Sun Jue's side, and Li Nai also made people check and check. If he hadn't known that his brother-in-law was just a nerd with little courage, he would have even been suspicious of Sun Jue.

Cao Hao's side didn't know that his big cousin, who looked "honest", was now looking for enemies all over the world.

When he returned to Zhuangzi and told his wife about his sister's words, he only felt that he had benefited a lot.

Chu Yu's side, remembering that his mother-in-law raised him like this before he got married, and began to reflect on his past shortcomings.

When the boys followed Cao Hao to the vegetable field and went crazy, Chu Yu took Niuniu and Tianhui with him, or asked someone to teach them to be a female celebrity, or let them watch their housekeepers.

Tianhui is six years old, and there is still some confusion about these; Niuniu is nine years old, with big round eyes and curiosity.

Li Hanyu's wedding date has been set, and she will be married in late April, and she will marry in late May.

After all, she is not the daughter of the Cao family, and it is not good to marry in the Cao family, so after the son is decided, Li Nai will come to Changping to pick up her daughter.

Although it was ten months apart, Cao Hao obviously noticed that there was something different about his cousin.

Li Naiqing has decreased a lot, and his eyes are a lot chaotic, not like the mellow gentleman before, but as if he is full of anger. Could it be that Sun Jue is not moved by the money, and the Li family has no chance of winning this battle of flesh and blood?

"Why is my cousin so clear, this is a few days ago?" Cao Hao remembered the news he got before, and he was a little puzzled in his heart, why didn't he explain that Li Nai was abnormal.

Facing Cao Hao's question, Li Nai's expression was a little contradictory, and he hesitated for a long time, and then said: "Cousin, but you have a very good relationship with Langzhong Yiduli of the Internal Affairs Office?" ”

"Ituri?" Cao Hao didn't know how Li Nai mentioned this person, and said: "He is Cao Song's uncle, and he is also the in-law of the Cao family. How did my cousin mention him? ”

"In his early years, he was jealous of others in the market, and he once beat each other to death; A few years ago, when he was in Zhangjiakou, he also discounted a pair of legs because others teased his concubine. Li Nai said as he looked at Cao Hao's expression.

Cao Hao was a little confused when he heard it, about Yiduli's early years, there were mostly false rumors outside, saying that the other party was killed by Yiduli, but in fact, after the other party was injured, he couldn't help but be a woman, and he got the wind immediately. As for the matter of Zhangjiakou, what they encountered was a ruffian hooligan, and Yiduli's long-term guards were not vegetarians, so they had a fight.

I just don't know, why did Li Nai mention this?

Li Nai saw Cao Hao's confused appearance, and he heard these ugly things for the first time.

It's really that Cao Hao's reputation is too good, and there is no evil deeds outside, which makes Li Nai feel a little guilty, and he shouldn't suspect this cousin ...... * Rehe and summer resort because Cao Hao has a good relationship with Yidu.

The Holy Driver is now said to be in the Ture River, and there are many trivial things that the Internal Affairs Office needs to cook.

It wasn't until dusk that Yi Duli came out of the sixteenth elder brother. Walking on the edge of the sea, he only felt a chill, hurriedly tightened his clothes, and muttered: "It's strange, it's the end of April, why do you still make people chill......"

(To be continued)