Looking at Li Nai's gritted teeth, Cao Hao couldn't cry or laugh. At the same time, I couldn't help but be vigilant in my heart, if Li Nai wanted to check down, would it involve himself.

In his mind, he quickly went through the events of a few years ago, made sure that there was nothing wrong, and calmed down a little.

However, he really lamented for Yi Duli, just because he accepted Yang Ruixue, would he be suspected of being a murderer?

Cao Hao thought in his heart, but his face became heavy with Li Nai's narration.

Li Nai's meaning is obvious, he suspects that Yi Duli has something to do with Li Ding's death, and he also has the intention of avenging his younger brother.

Cao Hao pondered for a moment and said, "Big cousin, when Iduli Na Yang, he happened to be on an errand in Taifu Temple, and I was a colleague at that time, so I also know something. According to him, he should have met Yang after his second cousin. ”

Li Nai glanced at Cao Hao and said, "If you have a weak heart, naturally you won't let people know the real time when they hooked up." I have already checked, after the Yang family followed the second brother into Beijing, there were places of indiscretion. Among them, there are no Ituli or not. After the second brother passed, she was stranded in the capital by a woman, if it was behaving properly, and the gate was not out of the second door, how could she be honest and strong Yiduli, who was born in an official eunuch? ”

seems to be reasonable, but Cao Hao knows that this is all nonsense.

Because Li Ding's death is not "killing people because of annihilation" at all, this Cao Hao doesn't know, no one knows.

But seeing that Li Nai misunderstood, Cao Hao couldn't speak out to defend Yi Duli, so he could only think about it and said: "It's best for the eldest cousin to investigate in detail, Yi Duli's grade is not high, but the family is prominent, and there are many connections in the capital, so it's not good to act rashly." ”

Li Nai listened, only thought that Cao Hao was kind, nodded, and said, "Don't worry, cousin, I won't act recklessly." If it weren't for what Iduli did, no one would have wronged him; If he did it, even if he was noble, I wouldn't let my brother die in vain. At the end, with a little firmness.

Cao Hao heard this, but he was relieved. The temper of this eldest cousin is either to listen to the wind or rain, or to suspect Yiduli, and he will also pay attention to "evidence".

It seems that it is necessary to send some more people to keep an eye on it, and to control the actions of this eldest cousin in order to feel at ease. Otherwise, Li Nai would really investigate this "brother killer", and maybe something would happen.

Zhuangzi's inner house, Li's office.

Just when Li Nai arrived in Zhuangzi, he came over to ask Li for peace. Because Li thought that it was not early and the way back to the city was long, he left Li Nai for one night, and Ming'er took his daughter back to the city.

Li Nai went to talk to Cao Hao, and Li Hanyu spoke on Li's side.

Thinking that she has been by her side for a month, well-behaved and cute, Li is really a little reluctant. But it is also a rule to go back to Li's house to get married, and it is not easy for Li to say anything.

The new clothes that were cut before, the jewelry that was added, and the Ruyi given by the princess and the concubine, the Li family made people clean up.

"Because of our lord's filial piety, it is not easy for me to attend your wedding with your cousin and cousin, and I will not worry about seeing you in Beijing in the future. In the future, if it's cheaper, send someone over, and I'll pick you up." Li said while groping with Li Hanyu's hand.

Because of the mention of marriage, Li Hanyu blushed, lowered her head and whispered: "My granddaughter thanked my aunt and grandmother." ”

Zhao Jiashi sat next to him, watched the two of them talk, listened to this, and said to Li with a smile: "Sister-in-law, listen, they are all aunts and grandmothers, this niece and granddaughter are going to get married, and next year we will add great-nephews and grandchildren, and we will be more and more old and immortal." ”

Li Shi listened, thinking of her deceased husband, her heart was quite sentimental, but her face was not obvious, and she patted Li Hanyu's hand.

Seeing that she didn't answer, Zhao Jiashi felt bored, and said, "Why didn't the little brother of the Li family come, that child is good-looking, and he looks smart." ”

Li Nai's sister-in-law, Li Cheng, is twelve years old this year, and when he first entered Beijing, he went to Caofu to greet the Li family, and the Zhaojia family also saw him.

Because he was the same age as the fourth sister, Zhao Jia's also deliberately took a few more looks. But I also knew that it was in vain, and the two children were not of the right generation. If you are of the same generation, you are a good match.

The fourth sister is ten years old this year, and she looks like a little adult. The surname is quite generous, and there is no Zhaojia's cleverness and meanness.

What made Zhao Jia's sigh was that the fourth sister looked like Cao Quan, and she could only say that her appearance was mediocre. With the background of the fourth sister, both father and brother are not prominent, and with such appearance, it is not easy to advance through the draft.

In the past two years, Zhao Jia's has given up the idea of "looking for a woman to become a phoenix", thinking that in a few years he will find a reason to ask someone to apply for an exemption for the fourth sister, so as to save the draft from being brushed down, and then talk about the value of kissing.

In this way, Zhao Jia's family began to pay attention to the younger generations of relatives and friends who were the same age as the fourth sister, thinking that in two years, they could tell their daughter about their family affairs.

Although the fourth sister and the fifth son both grew up next to Jade, the fourth sister is her own flesh and blood after all, and she is still an old girl, and she also likes it in her heart.

"I heard his father say that he was picked up by his cousin." Li replied casually.

As he was talking, he saw Chu Yu come in with the maid and the maid, and said to Li, "Madam, where are you setting the meal?" In the wife's house, or in the flower hall? ”

When Li Hanyu saw her come in, she stood up from the side of the kang and listened while standing.

"The flower hall is cool, it's better to be over there in the flower hall, call a few small ones, and practice them for Yu'er today." Li Shi put down Li Hanyu's hand and said.

Chu Yu responded, said a few words to Zhao Jia's family, and then took someone down to set the meal.

Zhao Jia's family saw that their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law got along so kindly, and thinking about the daughters-in-law in the family, they felt a little uncomfortable.

Li Shi had already turned his head and said to Zhao Jia's family: "The children went to the back mountain yesterday to dip the birds and caught a lot of quails, remember that you love to eat, and specially asked someone to keep them for you, and fried quails at noon." ”

When Zhao Jiashi heard this, he was happy in his heart, but he said in his mouth: "It's a hot day, it's weird, who is impatient to eat that?" At this time, the rice is wrapped, and there is an appetite. ”

Seeing that the corners of her eyes were crooked, Li couldn't help but smile, and let her mouth be stiff and didn't care.

Li Hanyu lowered her head and listened to it beside her, only thinking it was funny, the second wife of the in-laws family was like a child, and her aunt and grandmother always coaxed her with food...... * The Cao family has three meals, and this is lunch.

The dining table of the ladies of the inner house is placed in the flower hall, and the dining table of Cao Hao and Li Nai is placed in front. Li Nai saw that there were no delicacies from the mountains and seas on the table, but they were also exquisite snacks, and he also felt that his appetite was greatly boosted.

He was thinking about his younger brother, and he couldn't sleep well, and he had eaten a few meals seriously.

Cao Hao's side is short of appetite because of his concerns.

After using the meal, the little maid brought tea up, Cao Hao accompanied this little half of the day, and just wanted to ask Li Nai if he wanted to go down to take a nap, he saw Wu Sheng come in and say: "Uncle, the seventeenth master is here, and he has entered Zhuangzi." ”

As early as before the sixteenth elder brother went to Rehe, he mentioned it to Cao Hao, saying that the seventeenth elder brother also wanted to come to Changping to recuperate, but he did not see the seventeenth elder brother leave Beijing for a long time.

Cao Hao was still thinking in his heart two days ago, this holy car has been out of Beijing for ten years, and it is time for the seventeenth elder brother to come.

"Seventeenth Master?" Li Nai looked at Cao Hao with a puzzled face: "Is it the seventeenth elder brother?" ”

Cao Hao nodded and said, "Well, the Seventeenth Master's Zhuangzi is near here." Since he came, my cousin would go out with me to greet him, okay? ”

Li Nai's side naturally had nothing to say, and came out with Cao Hao.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw the seventeenth elder brother coming from behind the shadow wall with a little eunuch, Cao Hao took a few steps forward and said, "The seventeenth master came here today?" Why don't you give a letter, I'll go and say hello to the seventeenth master. ”

The seventeenth elder brother already had a folding fan in his hand, and said with a smile: "Fu Ruo thinks I'm an uninvited guest?" I heard that you are at ease here, but when I see it today, it is true. ”

Cao Hao didn't wear a hat, he was wearing a new gray fine step robe, and he was wearing green cloth shoes on his feet, all of which were homely clothes, and he didn't look rude when he looked at it.

"I've been looking forward to the seventeenth master coming, and I can have nothing to do with the next plate, but the seventeenth master is calm, it's April, and the peach blossoms are gone." Cao Hao has always been familiar with him, and he is not so polite, so he said with a smile.

The seventeenth elder brother had already seen Li Nai coming behind Cao Hao, and glanced at Cao Hao with doubts. , Cao Hao had seen the seventeenth elder brother, turned around, pointed at Li Nai, and said to the seventeenth elder brother: "Seventeenth master, this is my cousin, the eldest son of Suzhou Weaving Mansion, with a single name and a nai character." As he spoke, he said to Li Nai: "Big cousin, this is the seventeenth elder brother." In his early years, his younger brother did a few months of companionship in the upper study, and he was also familiar with the seventeenth elder brother. ”

"The minion Li Nai has seen the seventeenth elder brother, please say hello to the seventeenth elder brother." Li Nai's hearing this has already knelt down to say goodbye.

Seeing him treat him so politely, the seventeenth elder brother was a little embarrassed, waved his hand and said, "Get up, don't be polite." ”

He has been recuperating from illness in the past few years, and he is impatient to deal with outsiders, and he doesn't know what to say when he says this. He coughed twice and said to Cao Hao: "Since Fu Ruo is a guest here, is it unfortunate that I came?" ”

Seeing this, Cao Hao heard what he meant, and was too lazy to deal with outsiders, so he called the housekeeper to take Li Nai to the guest room to rest first.

In Li Nai's heart, the prince and grandson are unattainable noble figures, and they are not surprised that the seventeenth elder brother is so alienated. It's just that in the guest room, he thought about the seventeenth elder brother's affection for Cao Hao, and he was a little envious in his heart.

If my father had sent me to Beijing on an errand in the early years, and I was also in the guard's office, would I have been familiar with the princes?

At that time, the younger brother was still there, and the father favored the younger brother, and it was not easy for his sister-in-law to be honest. How many tears my mother shed because of this. If it weren't for the grandmother's pressure, the aunt would have climbed on the mother's head long ago with the favor of her father.

Thinking of these, Li Nai's previous intention of wholeheartedly tracking down the enemy who killed his brother unconsciously faded a little...... * Suzhou, weaving mansion, study.

Li Xu held a family letter written by his eldest son in his hand, and his face was gloomy and uncertain. The death of his second son has always been a pain in his heart. Although he has not been to the capital in the past few years, he has always asked people to stare at the side of Shuntianfu.

However, because there were too few clues, the Shuntian Mansion Yin changed several times, and the case of Li Ding's murder was not solved.

Now, this eldest son has been in Beijing for two months, and he has done two major things. First, it was found that there was blood flowing from the bones of the Li family, and then it was found that the Yang family was related to the murder of Li Ding.

Thinking of the Yang family, who had been imprisoned by his father and son, Li Xu crumpled the letter in his hand. If the death of his son really has something to do with this slut, then he will definitely call the slut worse than death.

As for the eldest son's letter asking how to track down the old things, Li Xu squinted his eyes, and a gentle and polite figure appeared in front of him.

Is it already an earl? That's also the nephew of the Li family.

Since Cao Yin died of illness, Cao Hao is the head of the Cao family, and the relationship between the Cao and Li families should be more intimate.

Thinking of this, Li Xu smiled, picked up a pen and replied to his son, and then wrote a letter to Li.

Li Xu also knew about the rumors about Li's life experience in the capital, and he was quite shocked when he recalled the previous clues. But so what?

Regardless of whether the Li family is of the blood of the heavenly family or the clan is qualified, as long as the surname is Li, she is the daughter of the Li family. The Li family's nurturing grace for more than ten years cannot be erased.

* Changping, Caojia Zhuangzi, living room.

Cao Hao sat down with the seventeenth elder brother, and the seventeenth elder brother waved his hand and sent the attendants who followed him down. Seeing this, Cao Hao knew that he had something to say, so he sent the two servants standing at the door down.

There were only two people left in the room, Cao Hao and the seventeenth elder brother, the seventeenth elder brother restrained his smile and said to Cao Hao: "Fu Ruo, I am looking for your help!" ”

Cao Hao has been friends with the Seventeenth Elder Brother for many years, and knows that he is not a person who speaks easily, and said, "What difficulties did the Seventeenth Master encounter? ”

Seventeenth Elder Brother sighed, took out a letter from his sleeve, handed it to Cao Hao, and said, "Fu Ruo, take a look." ”

Cao Hao looked at the name on the envelope, hesitated for a moment, and did not open it immediately.

The seventeenth elder brother said: "The sixteenth brother is not here, and I can't tell others, what is Fu Ruo still taboo?" ”

When Cao Hao heard this, he didn't say anything, but opened the letter and read it.

This is a letter written by the Ninth Elder Brother from Rehe to the Seventeenth Elder Brother, which also mentions the Fourteenth Elder Brother.

The seventeenth elder brother has been recuperating in the past few years, and he has never taken on errands. Now that his illness has almost healed, Kangxi made a special trip to ask him before leaving Beijing, whether he wanted to go back to the Internal Affairs Office on an errand or go to the Sixth Ministry to practice. The seventeenth elder brother said that he was not mentally deficient and had not yet settled.

The meaning of this ninth elder brother is that he wants to recommend the seventeenth elder brother to take over the fourteenth elder brother's earlier position and go to the military department on an errand, and he also specifically mentioned that this is the meaning of the fourteenth elder brother.

"Before the fourteenth master left Beijing, did he find the seventeenth master?" Cao Hao looked at the letter in his hand and said.

The seventeenth elder brother nodded and said with a wry smile: "I have looked for it twice, and I mentioned this at the time, but I didn't let go." He has the ninth brother and the tenth brother to rely on, and he also hooks the fifteenth brother and also plays the idea of the sixteenth brother. I just thought he was casually saying that he didn't want to wade into this troubled water, but I didn't expect to bring up the old story again after half a year. ”

"What do you mean?" Cao Hao pondered and asked.

"I'm going to say that if I have an idea, I won't come to Furuo?" The seventeenth elder brother showed a little helplessness and said: "I just want to stop talking, and I don't dare to think about the credit of Qingtian's protection." It's just the fourteenth brother...... It's a grudge-loving person, and I'm really afraid of offending him...... If you follow him, I am afraid that I will offend others again...... For a while, there is no way to have it both ways......" At the end, he sighed heavily.

When Brother Seventeen was a teenager, he was also a cheerful and lively surname, and if he hadn't had the changes in his early years, he would not have developed such a heavy mind.

Cao Hao thought of the young man who bluffed himself in the dressing room of the upper study in his early years, and sighed in his heart.

"Seventeenth Master, sometimes, if you want everyone not to be offended, I'm afraid you will be offended." Cao Hao thought about it for a while, and said lightly.

The seventeenth elder brother raised his eyebrows, looked at Cao Hao and said, "Now is the time to make a decision?" ”

There was silence in the room, and after a while, Cao Hao didn't nod or shake his head, but only said softly: "Xu is, Xu is not, I'm not in the game, what I say is false, and I have to understand it by myself ...... the seventeenth master."

(To be continued)