Haidian, Cao Yuan.

With scrambled eggs with toon, shredded cabbage, fried small yellow croaker, and mixed almonds, the sixteenth elder brother drank several bowls of millet porridge before putting down the chopsticks.

"Look at your little boy, it's really enviable." The sixteenth elder brother looked at Cao Hao and realized something.

Cao Hao leaned comfortably on the rattan rocking chair, touched his stomach, and said, "The sixteenth master is easy to deal with, and the porridge and side dishes are envious." ”

The sixteenth elder brother snorted, followed Cao Hao's example, and sat down on the rocking chair next to him.

"What do you think today?" Sixteenth elder brother said.

"Step by step" These four words flashed out of Cao Hao's mind, but what came out of his mouth was another word: "The wind and clouds will meet!" ”

"Governor Nian, I'm afraid I'm going to be busy in vain!" The sixteenth elder brother narrowed his eyes, and it was difficult to hide the sarcasm in his words.

Cao Hao was thinking about the twelve-year-old Xiao Hongli, the future Qianlong Emperor, but he was bent on emulating his grandfather Kangxi, and as a result, he made a nondescript "perfect old man".

Seeing that Cao Hao no longer answered, the sixteenth elder brother knew his concerns, but sighed in his heart. Although he knew that he was a child, he was also a prince and elder brother, and he was also divided into three, six, nine and so on, but now that the imperial father is in the twilight, the royal brothers are surging, and he is watching coldly, and the taste is not good.

"The emperor can treat his siblings well, because when he ascended the throne as a young man, he had few siblings...... Nowadays, the emperor has many sons, and if he is crowned by the prince, he can still get a shell; If it is sealed by the emperor's younger brother, the prince of the country also has it. If I really get to that point and I'm struggling to make money, Fu Ruoke will help me. I am still looking forward to the day when I will open the house and take over the support of my mother. The sixteenth elder brother sighed and said.

The sixteenth elder brother is usually very arrogant, it is rare to talk about this, and now that he mentions it, it is obvious that Kangxi has begun to choose an heir.

This time, it is no longer the brothers who enter the game to fight, but Kangxi really wants to choose one of them.

"Didn't I say that? The sixteenth master's heavenly court is full and the earth pavilion is round, which is the fate of both wealth and wealth. I'm still waiting for the sixteenth master to take care of me, and no matter how high the threshold of the sixteenth master is, I will have to be cheeky to seek refuge. Cao Hao said with a smile.

It was not the first time that the sixteenth elder brother had heard this, so he rolled his eyes and said, "When these words come out of your mouth, no matter how they sound like this; If it comes out of Luo's blind mouth, then the master will have to put three days of artillery fighting! ”

Hearing Luo Blind, Cao Hao felt familiar: "It's the one who came back to tell his fortune last year?" ”

The sixteenth elder brother nodded and said, "They all say that they are real masters, if they are not afraid of taboos, I would also like to find him." ”

Theological fate said that Cao Hao did not believe it in his previous life.

In this life, I even borrowed the corpse to return the soul, and I was afraid of metaphysics.

Cao Hao's heart moved, if this blind man is really proficient in metaphysics, then if someone uses Kangxi's eight characters to calculate Kangxi's death, wouldn't he be able to grasp the opportunity.

It's just that if you don't want people to know, unless you don't do it, then the risk is huge. But if there is any leakage, it is "rebellion", even if it is a prince, I am afraid that it will be difficult to protect the surname.

He only knew that Kangxi died this year, but he didn't know the specific month.

Just because Kangxi took Hongli back to the palace to raise him for half a year, it should be the second half of the year; Because he died in Changchun Garden, it won't be October ago, because the holy car was in Rehe before October.

And so, that is, October, November, December, those ninety days.

Thinking of Kangxi's reprimand, as well as the old age spots on his hands, Cao Hao's heart was heavy.

No matter what others say about this emperor, no matter what merits and demerits he has, he is indeed worthy of the Cao family.

Only when he is there is the Cao family standing among the magnates in the capital; His departure caused the Cao family to lose its foundation.

Only by slacking off and working hard can he make the Cao family stable...... * Baiyun Temple, outside the West Corner Gate, on duty.

Here, it was originally the gatehouse of the little Taoist priest in the view, and later the west gate was opened, and the corner door here was sealed, and the two duty rooms were idle, becoming the place where the Taoist priest of Youfang stayed.

Luo Zhenren, who is famous in the capital, lives here.

According to legend, this Luo Zhenren knows metaphysics and knows life and death, and every hexagram he says is extremely effective. Moreover, people do not have two hexagrams, and they regard themselves as outsiders, and do not accept gold and silver, but only food. No matter what others gave him to eat, he ate it all in one meal. I heard that he had a huge amount of food, and he had to eat rice at a meal, and he ate 300 eggs in one go.

Someone once played a prank, and after the hexagram, he gave him two buckets of ginger, and he ate it clean after a while.

In short, in the eyes of the world, this is a person with great powers. Behind his back, everyone called him "Luo Blind", because his eyes were closed and he never opened his eyes in front of people; In person, they all called him "Luo Shenxian" and "Luo Zhenren".

That night, there was a man sitting across from him.

Luo Blind was not interested in counting the hexagram, because his hexagram was finished today, in the early morning.

"Luo Zhenren, the villain is acting on orders, and please don't embarrass the villain." The man on the other side grinded for a long time, and when he saw that Luo Blind didn't get in the oil and salt, he obviously lost his patience, pulled out the steel knife on his waist, slammed it on the table, and said viciously.

"East seven, south three, north six, west four, southeast fifteen, northwest fourteen, southwest eighteen, northeast thirteen." Luo said slowly.

"What?" The man on the other side said in annoyance.

"Tribulation, the robbery of the layman!" The blind man spat out these words, and then stopped speaking.

The man looked at the swaying candle shadows on the table, his body trembled, and finally understood what the blind man meant.

He couldn't complete the task assigned by his master, and he didn't have a killing order for Luo Blind, but he was helpless against Luo Blind.

Luo is a "blind man", how to light the lights in this house? Obviously, he has been grinding for half a night, and he has been staring outside for half a night.

The total number reported by the blind man is eighty, that is the number of eyeliners lying in ambush around, right?

How to break through, how not to involve the master, what is this not a catastrophe?

The man slowly picked up the steel knife on the table, looked at the dirty Taoist priest in gray robe in front of him, left with a little chagrin, and quickly disappeared into the night...... The candle on the table was extinguished at once, and the room was immediately darkened.

Luo Blind got up and lay on the kang, between his left hand and right hand, his fingers flying.

Within nine days, if he can't escape, it will also be his death...... didn't wait until the ninth day, Luo Blind waited for the person he was waiting for.

This is a birthday eight characters, please Luo blind fortune telling.

The person who came was considered a regular customer, and he had been here a few years ago, and obviously he knew the rules of the blind man, "the same person is not a hexagram", so he asked a young man who came with him to come forward to ask the hexagram.

Luo Blind didn't open his eyes, so he asked people to read the eight characters, pinched his fingers and counted for a long time, and said: "Pen and ink." ”

The visitor had obviously already prepared, prepared the pen and paper, and put it on the right hand side of the blind man.

Luo Blind picked up a pen and wrote several pieces of paper in a row, and there were a few times of ink in the inkstone in the middle, and the young people in the visitors were surprised.

When he finished writing, Lao Cheng, one of the visitors, carefully put away what Luo Blind had written, and even put pen and ink paper and inkstone into his baggage, and said: "Luo Shenxian, I have already handed over the silver in Guixiang Village, and someone will send you over later." ”

Luo Blind didn't squeak, nodded slightly, and replied.

When the visitors went out, there was already a blue cloth carriage waiting outside. When the two of them got into the carriage, the young man finally couldn't help it, and asked in a low voice: "Grandpa, don't you usually dislike 'Guixiang Village' and 'Coupling Flower Village' the most?" ”

In addition to the dumplings in the imperial dining room and the dumplings outside the palace, the most respected by the palace servants is the south point of Daoxiang Village.

It's just that the palace is strictly guarded, and this eating out is a big taboo. These servants, they can only eat a few pieces after leaving the palace. As for the later shops, they don't seem to be authentic.

"Grandson, talk too much......" the old man whispered.

In the carriage, it was immediately quiet......* In the blink of an eye, it was March 18, the Birthday Day.

Because the "Thousand Suo Banquet" has been held on the sixth day of the first lunar month, this Wanshou Festival is much more deserted. In addition, from March 16, the Ministry of Rites prayed for rain, and the capital stopped slaughtering animals for three days, and the market was much quieter.

Although Kangxi ordered to stop the feast, the princes and ministers, civil and military officials still got up early in the morning and went to Changchun Garden to congratulate the saint's birthday.

Kangxi ascended to the palace, and after accepting the congratulations of the hundred officials, he dispersed the court.

Cao Hao was the first time to see the newly promoted Sichuan political envoy Dai Duo, who is the fourth elder brother's confidant and adviser, and the prototype of the second generation of the second month of the river in the future.

It's just that if this brother is really so important, why didn't the fourth elder brother keep him by his side, but let him out?

His elder brother was a subordinate official of the royal palace, but he often showed his head.

In Cao Hao's imagination, Dai Duo was a minister, so he should be a character like Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen, but he didn't expect to see people, but his perception was very different.

Dai Duo did not hold an unfathomable shelf, talked elegantly, and occasionally brought a scholarly atmosphere, if he didn't know his identity, he would be more like a learned Hanlin.

He came to Cao Hao for the accounts of the Sichuan Division, but to prepare for his own term.

He is an old man of Yongwangfu, and he has his own means of treating people, without the arrogance of Nian Qianyao, and he makes people feel like a spring breeze when he speaks.

Originally, with the relationship between Dai Duo and the fourth elder brother, even if he didn't take care of the household department, no one would pick anything on him; But as soon as he scattered these thousands of taels of silver, he sold them well, and he still lined up with Nian Qianyao who couldn't do anything.

Cao Hao didn't keep the dotted silver, and let Sichuan Shilangzhong arrange it. Those who are filial to the officials and those who are assigned to the officials are all in accordance with the rules established by the household department.

In his heart, he was extremely curious about this Dai Duo, but he had deep scruples, so he watched from afar.

The governor of Shaanxi and Sichuan is not to mention that he also transferred this old man from Yongwangfu to Sichuan, just after the Xingwang Garden on March 12, presumably the third elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother will die of acid.

Unexpectedly, after a few days, the third elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother still had no movement, and Kangxi Shengjia was lucky again.

This time, Cao Hao didn't catch up.

I heard that Brother Hongli of Prince Yong's Mansion danced the sword and won the emperor's holy praise, and then returned to Changchun Garden with this grandson. Then there was a will, Hongli raised the palace and entered the study.

The sixteenth elder brother who heard the news was not surprised, he was arranging with several heads of the internal affairs department to drive out of Beijing in April. This year's list is more than last year's, and the supply of cars and horses along the way is not fun.

It's just that he didn't expect that this Hongli was not raised by his own grandmother, Concubine De, but by Concubine He.

Among the harem concubines, Concubine He is young, a few years younger than the princess, only in her forties this year. For this concubine, the sixteenth elder brother has only met once, or in the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi, when he was a concubine and a concubine.

In the early years, this was the same as the concubine's favor, and it couldn't be compared with the princess at all, but because she was born in Manchuria, her name has always been higher than that of the princess.

It was not until recent years that few newcomers were added to the harem, and other favorite concubines grew old one after another, which made the concubines more and more favored.

There is no other reason, just because this concubine looks very young, and she looks like she is still in her twenties.

has the beauty of a young woman, and the gentleness of a middle-aged woman, which is in line with Kangxi's appetite.

Although he has seen many beauties, when he thinks of the concubine, the sixteenth elder brother still feels dry in his mouth. Thinking that he had given birth to such a flowery intestine, he couldn't help but secretly scold himself twice.

After thinking about it, it was a little abrupt.

Fortunately, the second elder brother has been abolished for many years, otherwise this concubine and his mother will not be able to escape his hands...... Although he pays attention to the trend of "history", Cao Hao's own words still have to be passed.

At the end of March, Fang Fujin passed the "May Seven" funeral, and Chu Yu's delivery date was approaching.

After more than a month of recuperation, her body looks much stronger than when she was in the first month, but her legs and feet are so swollen that she has to tremble when she walks.

Although she had spots on her face when she was pregnant with Tianyou and Tianhui earlier, they were not as powerful as this time.

This time, not only did she have butterfly spots on her cheeks, but also on her chest.

As the due date approached, the spots on her face became darker and darker.

Women all over the world cherish their appearance.

She didn't dare to look in the mirror, and she didn't dare to be too sad, for fear of hurting the fetus in her womb.

Thinking of the years of sin her daughter suffered when she was a child, she was terrified.

Now, she prays in front of the Buddha all day long, hoping that the fetus in her womb will be healthy and healthy, so that the Cao family's blood will prosper.

trembling, I survived until April, and the delivery period was even there, but the child refused to land.

I invited a few doctors in a row, and they all said that the pulse was normal, and they were not impatient.

Cao Hao followed the suspense, thinking that Tianhui was dystocia back then, and he was a little afraid of his wife's child.

After entering April, the weather became hotter, and Chu Yu began to sweat profusely, and every time he wiped his body with clean water, and so on, he also had a heat rash.

Seeing this, Fang Chonggong said his scruples to Cao Hao.

If this continues, if the child is not left behind, I am afraid that he will be sick in the womb.

Cao Hao listened to it, like falling into an ice cave.

In the years when his daughter was blind, even he, a big man, cried a few times.

He really couldn't accept that his children would suffer again.

Overnight, his mouth was full of bubbles.

If it is three hundred years later, it will only seem to be a woman's birth; At present, it is only resigned to fate.

Fortunately, God finally opened his eyes.

The next day, Chu Yu began to move.

This child is afraid that he has been in the mother's body for a long time, and now he knows that he feels sorry for his mother and refuses to toss anymore. From the fetal movement to the landing, it took only more than two hours in total.

In this way, at noon on the twelfth day of April, the cry of a baby sounded in the Sycamore Garden.

The baby who has just landed on the ground has a little red face with a little white spots, and the fetal hair is much thicker than that of other newborn babies.

The midwife's voice was loud and flattering: "Congratulations to the uncle, the wife has added a little master......"

(To be continued)