Beijing, Dongjiang Rice Lane, Chunjun Palace.

Chunwang Fujin and Fang Fujin Na Lashi are preparing a gift list, because they received the good news that the Cao family has returned from Yizhou, and they know that Chu Yu has added a man on September 11, and the Chunwang Mansion is really happy here.

King Chunjun specially explained that he would buy a rich full moon ceremony and a hundred gifts for his little grandson. This hundred gifts are good to say, to the wax moon, it is still too late to organize slowly, but the full moon ceremony is to hurry, this capital to Yizhou, even if it is fast, it will take half a month.

After opening the mansion for many years, the princes and elder brothers in the capital have already paid homage, and there have long been regulations, just like the fourth elder brother of Prince Yong's mansion in August, all kinds of objects and utensils are purchased with reference to the grade of Prince Yong's mansion and the grade of the fourth elder brother's biological mother. A few days ago, it was said that the six elder brothers from the Tang Jia clan on the side of Yuqing Palace were Bai, and the gift was a few points of the prince's mansion.

Chu Yu's side is different, it is his own family's character, and the congratulatory gift should be both heavy and practical.

As he was talking, two squares and five grids came together, one of them was fourteen and one was twelve, although the size was not enough, but they also looked like a bit of a big girl. Especially Ergege, although he looks a little similar to his sister and looks gentle, his speech is very refreshing.

After saying goodbye to Fu Jin and Fang Fu Jin, Er Gege smiled and said: "I heard that Eniang prepared a gift list for the eldest sister, and the daughter and sister couldn't sit still, so they had already prepared the objects for the little nephew!" ”

Although Ergege and Da Gege have the same mother, they are from the side Fujin Nala clan, but when Chunwang Fujin and Nala are both there, this "Eniang" is called the mother.

Chunwang Fujin put down the list in his hand and said with a smile: "Look, Xiao Tianyou is really a blessing, the two aunts here are naturally not ordinary things." Tell me, what did you two little sisters buy, to offer treasures like this? ”

Ergege and Wugege are a little embarrassed, you look at me, I look at you, and finally Ergege took a foot-long pear wooden box in the hand of the maid who came with him, and put it on the kang table, Chunwang Fujin opened the box, saw the objects inside, couldn't help laughing, and said to Nalashi: "Come and see, these two little sisters are not less prepared!" ”

Nara leaned over and looked inside, and there were several kinds of colorful inside. A palm-sized cloth tiger, with a dark blue muslin as the base, is embroidered with purple, garnet red, autumn fragrance, green onion, pine color, crab shell green, and ivory white silk thread.

A pair of fist-sized hydrangeas, one is red, all kinds of broken silk cloth cut into triangular pieces and then sewn together according to the color transition, pink, pink, begonia red, silver red, big red, jujube red, rouge, etc., and then at the joint of the three pieces of cloth, there are willow yellow, tender green, bamboo green, green onion and other colors of the wind, and the middle of the line is also strung with a silver bell the size of the thumb cover, which moves lightly and makes a crisp sound; The other hydrangea is green, the same style as the red one, but the upper string is red.

There is also a pair of auspicious knots made of crimson velvet, with inch-long silver longevity locks falling below, which looks delicate and cute.

Things are good things, and sending these to children also makes it, but looking at the fabric pattern, it has reached the embroidery thread on the top, and it looks a little familiar. Chunwang Fujin thought that he had also noticed, covered his mouth with a handkerchief, and looked at the two little Gege and chuckled.

The two Gege were embarrassed, and after getting up and whispering goodbye to the two Fujin, they flew down.

Chunwang Fujin and Nala laughed out loud, Nala was fine, while chuckling, he picked up those few small things and carefully looked at the female red embroidery on the top.

Chunwang Fujin laughed so much that tears came out, gently wiped the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, and said to Nala: "Originally, when they became big girls, they also learned some red needlework for women in the past few months, but now it seems that they are still children!" I can't complain that these two sisters are the most impatient female red, and they can honestly learn these words, they are all preparing these gadgets for their nephews! Speaking of this, he paused, and showed a wry smile on his face: "That year, the master wanted to marry the Cao family, and I was still aggrieved for Da Gege, thinking that Da Gege was the eldest daughter of the master after all, although the forehead was good-looking, and the Cao family's family was also wealthy, but it was still too low." Now it seems that the master is still highly knowledgeable, and I want to envy you for your good fortune! ”

Knowing that King Chun Fujin was worried about the fate of her marriage to Mongolia, he comforted: "Don't worry too much about Fujin, after all, she is the granddaughter of the emperor, and not everyone has to send it to Mongolia." The second grid of Prince Yong's mansion is not pointed out to Jingli! ”

Chunwang Fujin smiled lightly and said, "Isn't it? Besides, she is still young, although the daughters-in-law of various palaces enter the door early, there are not many Gege who go out early. Like our Da Gege, it's still too early to get married at fifteen! Amitabha, originally worried about not being conducive to fertility, is now so smooth is really lucky! ”

Nara smiled, but his mind ran thousands of miles away, not knowing what happened to his daughter and grandson.

mentioned the marriage of the palaces, King Chun Fujin said: "It's been drafted in less than two months, the eldest brother is sixteen years old, I don't know if I will point one over this time?" Let's also pay attention to it first, if it's a side room, there's nothing to pick; If it is a main room, it must be a good match for the quality of the door! It's inconvenient for me to ask here, after all, you are the eldest brother's mother, chatting with him to see if there is a girl who has a good eye, knowing the root is better than not seeing it. ”

This sounds like nothing at first glance, but I can't help but wonder, it seems to mean that Hongshu is misbehaving and is suspected of having a secret affair. Nala was unhappy in his heart, but he still said with a smile on his face: "Fu Jin is really joking, he likes to dance with knives and guns all the time, where can he have the heart to think about this?" As the eldest son and eldest brother, if Hongshu does something unqualified, let alone what happens in the palace, even our lord can't spare him. There is a master town in this house, and they can't learn how to do it! ”

Hearing the words "eldest son and eldest brother", King Chun's expression was a little stiff. In July, the fourth elder brother Hongxin "had a pox", which was very dangerous. In addition to Prince Chun and Nala taking care of them at night, even Hongshu also looks like the eldest son and eldest brother. Not only did he take turns taking care of his younger brother with his parents, but he also assisted his father in some foreign affairs, which was praised by King Chunjun. Hongshu didn't care at all, and still told him some stories of "generals" and "chivalrous" at his brother's bedside every day, encouraging him to get better as soon as possible.

Originally, he was in danger as the fourth elder brother, but under the general care of the whole house, he gradually got better. Several elder brothers, the brotherhood is getting deeper and deeper, and even the king of Chunjun is becoming more and more important to Hongshu. King Chun Fujin's heart was a little uncomfortable, and the matter of the draft at the end of the year was also the same, for fear that a high-ranking daughter-in-law in the palace would enter the door, and the sixth elder brother would have no chance to compete with the eldest brother for the position of the son.

*Full moon gifts are usually given with silver or jade longevity locks. Although he thought that other mansions were also full of these things, Cao Yi still prepared carefully.

This piece of silver, sent the steward to the silver building in accordance with the most fashionable exquisite style in the capital, played two pairs. For this piece of jade, a piece of good seed material was selected from the dowry and a pair was played. The Hitara clan added another pair.

With these four pairs of longevity locks, plus two jackets and two small padded jackets sewn by Cao Yi himself, this full moon ceremony is complete. In addition, I also prepared some tonic herbs and Beijing flavor food for my brother and sister-in-law.

Although compared with the Chunping Palace, the etiquette on their side must be thin, but Cao Yi knows that his brother and sister-in-law don't count these things. She just acted with her heart, and the affection in her was real, and it was not a little less than others.

Because Yizhou is thousands of miles away from the capital, it is inconvenient to go back and forth, so most of the people sent there are sent to the Pingjun Palace, and then the steward over there makes a special trip to Shandong.

Although I haven't seen Wang Fujin for more than half a year, I miss it very much, but because I am in the mourning period, it is not easy to go out casually, so Cao Yi wrote a letter of greeting to my sister and sent the steward to send these gifts together. I also thought of my sister Cao Ying, who married into the Sun family, although the two sisters have also been together for many years, perhaps because of the seven-year age difference, they are very polite to each other.

After Cao Ying entered Beijing, when he visited the Pingjun palace with his husband, he only beat Cao Jia's mouth and knew that Cao Yi was his half-sister. She wanted to talk to her husband Sun Jue, but she knew that he was the most rigid, and she had always been a little slanderous about her father-in-law's "husband is not happy", and if she knew about Cao Yi, she was afraid that she would look down on her mother's side. Therefore, I didn't talk much, but thought about finding a suitable opportunity and then told him.

The next time, after going to the banquet in Cao's mansion, Sun Jue returned to his home and provoked reason. The eldest cousin Cao Yin was lustful for power, the eldest daughter of the big house entered the palace, and the eldest son married the county lord, who was a wild girl who was picked up, and was also sent to the capital to befriend the powerful, which was really too literati. Then, after the eldest cousin was in poor health and gradually lost his sacred heart, he was still unwilling to let go of the power in his hands. The Li family originally worked on some errands in order to help him, but his eldest cousin "lived the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain", and he didn't know what means he used, so tired that the Li family was reprimanded by the Lord of Long Live and ended up being not a human being inside and out.

Although the people who don't know the inside story of the Cao Mansion in Jiangning regard Cao Yi as a cousin of the Li family; But the Sun family already knew that Cao Yi was the orphan girl who saved Cao Hao back then. Sun Jue's eldest sister is the main room of Li Xu's eldest son Li Nai, who had seen her as early as the 40th year of Kangxi when Li took Cao Hao and Cao Yi, who was still "Ping'er", through Suzhou, so she knew the inside story.

Perhaps it is precisely because the Sun and Li families think that they "know" Cao Yi's "origin" and know that it is not the bloodline of the Cao family, so although both families have sons of appropriate age, they did not marry the Cao family and seek this "third lady".

After Sun Jue arranged Cao Yin's desire for power, he said that although the eldest cousin was the head of the family, his behavior was too unfair, and he was very snub to the nephew in the second room. Cao Song is seventeen or eighteen, and he has not yet made a serious name, and his marriage has not been settled. Changfang's son was sent to the capital at fifteen or six, and he started as a third-class guard of five grades. The comparison between the two is really eye-catching.

Although Cao Ying's surname is a little cowardly, he has been influenced by his father since he was a child, and he respects his uncle and aunt the most, and he can't listen to these derogatory rebukes of her husband. not only said a lot of good things for his uncle and aunt, but also said Cao Yi's life experience, and even thanked the two elders for taking care of his sister.

This "good word" came into his ears, and Sun Jue couldn't help but snort coldly twice, and said: "Long hair, short knowledge, you are a woman, what do you know?" I can't complain that my eldest cousin kept the life experience of the third sister so tight, and he didn't even know that he was a close relative like us, and he already had the idea of clinging to the powerful in his heart! Although the Ping Wangfu is prominent, it is just a palace, what can it do? There are Chen Guiren in our family palace, and there are Wang concubines in the Li family palace, and only the Cao family is relied on, but it is the aunt and grandmother who take care of the long live lord. Now that my aunt and grandmother have been gone all these years, what does the Cao family still have to rely on? Bao Buqi's eldest cousin had this idea and wanted to use his third sister to exchange for power! The appearance of the third sister...... That's right! Even if you can't enter the harem, where can you give the prince to be a concubine! Hehe, in the end, it was 'a bamboo basket for water', and in the end there was only a red ribbon, and the grade was not high! In the end, it's all mockery.

Cao Ying was dumbfounded when she heard it, although she faintly felt that it was wrong, but her husband's words were so conclusive that it was impossible to refute them.

* Yizhou, Daotai Yamen, Inner House, Main Courtyard.

When Cao Hao returned to the room, Chu Yu was sitting on the kang, holding Tianyou to breastfeed. Seeing her husband come back, she was very embarrassed, turned over slightly, and wanted to tie the placket, but she ate so well that she couldn't bear to stop breastfeeding. She hesitated, glanced at her husband, and then at her son, who couldn't make up her mind for a while.

Cao Haoyuan didn't care, and when he saw Chu Yu dodging, he thought that his son was breastfeeding, sitting by the kang, and couldn't help but look twice. There is a little fever on the body, which is considered a child, but the husband and wife have not been intimate for a long time. Looking at Chu Yu's body, after all, it is because of childbirth, and the feeling of being more and more round and jade makes people want to hold it in their arms and kiss them twice.

"Forehead!" Chu Yu couldn't help but blush and sneer when he saw him looking at him like this.

Cao Hao stretched out his hand, pinched his son's face, and couldn't help but pull Chu Yu, kissed him twice, and then sighed and said: "When you are out of confinement, I will go to Mengyin for official business, and you will have to take care of it here in the house at that time!" ”

Chu Yu calculated in his heart that his son was full moon on the ninth day of October, and there was still half a month, and it would be cold by then, so he persuaded: "Don't worry about Chu Yu, if you have to go, while it is not yet winter, it is not cheaper to go for a trip!" ”

Cao Hao shook his head: "I can't wait for half a month, you have suffered a great crime for the sake of God's blessing, if I can't even accompany you in confinement, then what kind of husband is it?" ”

(To be continued)