Seeing each other this time, Sun Jue is no longer what he used to be.

Seeing Sun Jue like a spring breeze, Cao Hao couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth. was calculated by the Li family like this, and he didn't notice it at all, but it was so chaotic, this cousin and cousin-in-law was really more straw than it looked.

Although Sun Jue was smiling in front of Cao Hao and Seshtu, he was a little bottomless in his heart.

Yesterday, I asked for five hundred taels of silver tickets from Cao Ying, and I spent sixty taels of silver, paid a year's rent, rented a small courtyard to house Xia Cicada, and spent dozens of taels to buy a few new pieces of furniture.

As for the people who waited, because they had scruples, just in case, it was not good to get on the side of the Sun family, and they couldn't come forward to buy people, so they could only spend a dozen taels of silver to hire people.

It's just self-deception, this renting a house, shopping, how can you leave the Sun family?

In addition, I bought new clothes for Xia Cicada, and left some silver and spare flowers, seven, seven, eight, eight, and some more.

Although the Sun family is not rich, Sun Jue has never suffered hardship.

It cost more than two hundred taels to settle an outer house. There were more than two hundred taels left, thinking that Cao Ying mentioned that he had recently gone to the Guogong Mansion to visit relatives, Sun Jue asked someone to redeem a few pieces of head jewelry, and went to more than one hundred taels.

According to the rules, the silver rice of the Beijing officials is issued in January and July. Like those Jingtang's silver, naturally no one dares to delay, and the officials below have to wait. Until the end of the month, those little ghosts in the household department will not let them get their wish.

As a result, Sun Jue's expenses for the two houses outside the house in July have to be kept.

This can buy Cao Hao's birthday gift with silver, and there are a few counts. Sun Jue arrived at the Liuli Factory early, picked up the quaint chess pieces, bought a pair, and spent dozens of taels of silver.

He really felt that he couldn't do it, so he asked someone to buy a few boxes of longevity peaches in Daoxiang Village.

Speaking of which, buying things from the Cao family's shop and sending them to the Cao family is also ridiculous. A box of two taels of silver for a high-grade longevity peach, and it is also decent to bring a few boxes.

The birthday gift is here, and he came to congratulate him in person, so he shouldn't be able to pick out anything.

Unexpectedly, but when he met Seshtu, Sun Jue naturally wanted to mutter.

Seshtu is the prince of the country, and he deigned to come to congratulate his brother-in-law on his birthday, so it doesn't show the weight of Sun Jue coming in person.

Where would Seshtu think so much, looking at Sun Jue, thinking of Nersu, and said to Cao Hao: "If the prince is also here, it will be complete today." ”

Cao Hao said: "The prince has always wanted to go out to have a look, and this time he has fulfilled his wish." It's just that the northwest is bitterly cold, the prince is already in March, the weather is getting warmer, and when it comes to autumn and winter, it is bitter cold, and then he will think about the good of the capital. ”

Sun Jue was beside him, disapproving, and said: "The household department, the military department, and the official department, how many adults are staring at the military supplies in the northwest. There is a prince here, and no one dares to slack off. Although the prince is not as good as the prince, he is also the king of Doro County, and he can't endure hardships. ”

Cao Hao listened, but smiled silently.

The bad lies in these three departments, and if one ministry is in charge, they are afraid of being involved, so they will naturally do their best. There are more people who mix, more people who dare to fish, and fewer people who really do things.

What if you are a prince? When the emperor personally conquered Galdan, didn't he almost starve to death outside the fortress because of the lack of military food supply?

The king of a country has people who dare to calculate, not to mention that the fourteenth elder brother is just a prince and elder brother, and it is when the throne is undecided.

Seshtu is obviously more transparent than Sun Jue, but he doesn't say much about his surname, so he doesn't speak.

Sun Jue was beside him, and seeing that the two of them did not refute, he was a little proud, and sold all the news he had heard in the yamen again.

It's really like a clown, Cao Hao held the teacup, thinking about the nine thousand taels of silver that Sun Jue was cheated of. Even if he said that he would pay it back in three months, I don't know what excuse he would use to let the cousin in Hangzhou send the silver to Beijing.

Hangzhou is the place where Cao Hao fell when he was a child.

Even after many years, Cao Hao didn't want to think of that place. The sequelae of the nightmare back then was that when others mentioned West Lake, he would feel soreness in his knees.

Therefore, for the cousin who was in charge of the Hangzhou Weaving Mansion, Cao Hao rarely took the initiative to inquire. However, over the years, I have heard a lot of news.

I heard that Sun Wen was a person, and he was cautious and cautious. In the past ten years, although there is no great credit, but I can't find faults.

Unlike the prominence of the Cao family and the shine of the Li family, the Sun family has been very low-key over the years.

When Cao Ying got married, the objects and silver coins totaled five or six thousand taels of silver, and Sun Wenqi bluntly said that it was too much.

From the cost of Sun Jue after entering Beijing, it can also be seen that the Sun family style.

Nine thousand taels of silver, after all, is not a small amount, this cousin and brother-in-law are officials in the sixth department, don't take these nine thousand taels of silver seriously?

Sun Jue put on a show and had nothing to say, only to remember that he had not yet visited his mother-in-law and mother-in-law, which was quite rude.

He told Cao Hao, and Cao Hao sent someone to spread the word to the Li family.

One time later, a mother-in-law came to pass the word, saying that the second wife was taking a nap, and the wife said that they would meet together at dinner.

Cao Fu came out of Master Qian's side, and he had already gotten the news and knew that his eldest brother-in-law was coming. Although he didn't like this brother-in-law, he couldn't be discarded, so he still went to the living room to meet him.

Sun Jue saw his brother-in-law, picked up the score of the elder, and asked a few words about the schoolwork or something.

Cao Fu listened, bored, looked at Seshtu sitting next to him, and sighed in his heart. This eldest brother-in-law, who was fine in his early years, has become more and more unbearable in recent years. If you can have half of the third brother-in-law, you won't be so annoying.

It seems that people still respect themselves first, and then they can be heavy...... * Shichahai, Cheng Zhai.

Cheng Mengxian sat in the pavilion, looking at the pond full of lotuses, but he had no time to enjoy.

When his niece came to visit, he felt uneasy and began to ask people to inquire about the news of Cao, Li, and Sun. Although on his side, there are also introductions from the Cao and Sun families, but because the most contact is with the Li family, it turns out that he knows more about the Li family.

Now, after two days of hard work, he collected all kinds of news related to the Cao family, and Cheng Mengxian had a kind of onlooker's awakening.

The Cao family is not like relatives with the Li family.

The rumors of Mrs. Li's life experience are very subtle. The rumors are widespread and long-lasting. The Queen Mother's favor for Mrs. Li during her lifetime is also true.

At the feet of the Son of Heaven, the capital is important, this kind of discussion of royal secrets, the royal family can tolerate it?

If it was groundless, I am afraid that the crime of confusing the royal blood and discussing the royal family would have been investigated long ago, but no one from the emperor and the Zongren Mansion would have been held accountable.

This is not pursued, but also a statement.

No matter how beautiful the Li family is in the south of the Yangtze River, they are just slaves of the Son of Heaven in the capital. Although the Li family's second son died violently in the capital, the Li family is hidden, but well-informed people also know what they should know.

Even if the Li family has no power in the capital, there is an in-law Cao family.

The Cao Mansion itself is nothing, but there are many amazing people who come and go. If the Cao family is willing to help, how can Li Ding's death become an unsolved case?

Li Nai began to re-investigate the matter in the past few months, and did not borrow the power of the Cao family, and the two families had already been separated.

If the rumors of Mrs. Li's life experience are true, Cao Hao is not the nephew of the Li family, and the estrangement from the Li family can be explained.

No matter how unbearable Sun Jue is, he is also the uncle of the Cao family, not to mention that the Sun family is still the cousin of the Cao family.

Is it really the right choice for the Cheng family to attach itself to the Li family?

Cheng Mengxian remembered that in addition to giving gifts to Prince Zhuang's mansion, he also sent filial piety to several princes on behalf of his brother, and he only felt a chill in his back.

The Cao family's "tea boy", who presided over the Cao family's tea garden and pearl field in his teens, paid off millions of taels of deficits for the Cao family. Under the age of 20, he is a Taoist platform to keep the peace of the party and curb the spread of civil unrest.

Then for the Taifu Temple, protect the Taifu Temple Ranch.

and then for the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a bidding for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which attracted the world's emperors and businessmen.

When he knew Cao Hao's resume, Cheng Mengxian felt embarrassed.

He is twenty-three this year, he was promoted by his cousin, he worked as an errand in the Cheng family, and he was leaned on by his cousin as an arm, and he was already proud.

These, compared to Cao Hao, what are they?

As long as Cao Hao's resume has been studied in detail, who will regard him as a son-in-law who only relies on the shadow of the family?

Such a person supports a Cao family, who dares to find fault with his bad vision?

His vision ...... The princes he came and went, the seventh elder brother of his father-in-law, the sixteenth elder brother of his cousin, the seventh elder brother of his classmates, and the life-saving benefactor...... Thirteen Elder Brothers...... Fourth Elder Brother ...... Fourth Elder Brother ...... Cheng Mengxian only felt that he was empowered, and stood up suddenly...... His face was blue and white for a while, and he couldn't tell whether he was frightened or happy.

"I see...... My cousin has committed a big taboo......" Cheng Mengxian muttered.

He couldn't stay still for a moment, walked quickly to the study, picked up the pen, and wrote a letter to his cousin Cheng Mengkun.

Even if he knew that his cousin's decision was wrong, he would not be clever enough to remedy it without asking for advice. There is only one head of the Cheng family, and there is only one person in the Cheng family who can be the master.

After writing, Cheng Mengxian sealed the letter with wax, called his confidant Yu Kui, and asked him to send it back to Yangzhou in person.

From Yangzhou to the capital, even if the horse is fast, it will take more than a dozen days to go back and forth, and it seems that this time I will stay in the capital for a long time.

He slowly pulled open the drawer of his desk and pulled out a page of paper.

If Sun Jue and Li Cheng meet, they will definitely feel familiar, this piece of paper is the same as Sun Jue's personal letter, and the note that Li Cheng received is generally the same...... This, can be used as a meeting gift...... * Dongzhi Gate, Li Zhai.

After thinking for a while, Li Nai still called Qian Zhongrui to discuss the disposal of the nine thousand taels of silver that was stored in the warehouse yesterday. Yesterday, Cheng Mengxian sent the silver from the next day, and the chief housekeeper only said that it was the silver returned by someone else's family.

Li Nai was not suspicious, because he knew that his father's surname was generous, he treated his relatives and friends very well, and helped many families.

However, thinking that before coming to the capital, he had brought almost all the silver in the treasury in the house, and Li Nai was a little worried about his home.

"The big housekeeper, I was about to ask you to help send the two nephews back to Suzhou, and the big housekeeper also transported this batch of silver back to Suzhou." Li Nai said.

When Qian Zhongrui heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, and said, "Uncle, you are in short supply, don't you just need silver, how can you transport it back?" ”

Li Nai took a long breath and said, "There are times in life when you have to have it, and there are times in life when you don't force it." These people have always run to the officials' department, and they have also heard the stories of others running for officials. Some have been stranded in the capital for more than ten years, and they are still a waitlist. The reason why I stayed in the capital was just to take the opportunity to find out about my second brother, and it could be regarded as fulfilling my father's wish. As for the future, let's go with the flow......"

*Ahem, Xiao Cao is a lucky star......

(To be continued)