Although I don't know what Liu Er's master said to his master, the housekeeper looked at the old man's temper and became irritable, and his face was so black that he almost squeezed out the ink. I can't help but regret a little, why didn't I be more alert when the mountain bandit leader came the day before yesterday, and persuaded me a few more words. Now it seems that it must be the other party's unbelievable conditions that make the master so embarrassed.

This said, the wife of the Wang family, Wu, and the housekeepers had just inspected the New Year's goods, and when they returned to the inner house, they listened to her husband's scolding: "Bastard things, it's not good to learn from Mr. ”

With the sound of shouting, a "snap" was heard, followed by the cry of a child "wow".

Wu was startled, and when he took two quick steps, he saw his stepson Quan Guo lying on the ground crying, and her husband standing aside angrily. The two little guys next to him knelt on the ground, trembling.

Although it is a stepson, but it is the nephew of the in-law, Wu was distressed when he saw it, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Quan Guo up, and took a closer look, in addition to a footprint on his buttocks, his palms were also a little broken, and he couldn't help but say to his husband: "Okay, what do you do with Brother Guo'er, I don't have to be so ruthless!" ”

After Wang Lusheng kicked his son, he also regretted it, after all, he was the only son, and he was born by his deceased wife, but now seeing him cowering and hiding beside Wu's side, he immediately became angry again, and pointed at Wu's and said: "It's all your pampering, good child, if you don't discipline carefully, you are seven or eight years old, and you are still so ignorant!" Just play it, you have to be the one who surrenders! Damn, how did I give birth to such a bad son? ”

Wu saw that he straightened his neck and was angry with the child, crying and laughing, but he also noticed that he was not happy in his heart these two days, and he didn't talk much. She squatted down, patted the soil off Quanguo's body, and saw him sobbing and drawing a charm on his little face, so she led him back to the room to wash his face.

Wang Lusheng didn't go back to the house with his wife, waved his hand, sent the two little guys on the ground down, and stood in the yard for a long time, and finally seemed to have made up his mind, called his son Guo Quanyou, and explained: "Set the car, prepare the gift, and go to Yizhou with my father!" ”

If you go to Yizhou, where else can you go except Daotai Mansion? Guo Quanyou was a little puzzled and asked, "Dad, isn't it the New Year's gift that Fang sent his son over there a few days ago?" Why does Dad want to go? ”

Wang Lusheng remembered only then and said: "I'm really confused! But the first time I came to the door, it was not good to be empty-handed like this, I remember that Cao Ye's eldest son is going to be a hundred days, and he will prepare a fine thing to do a hundred gifts! ”

Guo Quanyou reminded in a low voice: "Dad, the hundred gifts were also given, and the goods were sent over together in the same year!" ”

Wang Lusheng is also a bold person, but because of the important relationship, some can't make up their minds, so they are irritable for two days. Now, since he decided to go to Yizhou, he felt much more relaxed in his heart, waved his hand, and said: "Since this is the case, you don't have to bother, just call someone to set the car!" Tell the stable to choose two good horses, the foot is fast! ”

Guo Quanyou went down in response, and Wang Lusheng went up to the room again and told his wife that he was going out.

Wu looked at him, not as gloomy as Fang Cai, although he didn't know the reason, he still asked uneasily: "Where is this going, master?" Although it didn't snow, the weather was wickedly cold! ”

Wang Lusheng said: "Well, I know, just look for two big sweaters to bring with you." By the way, I'll look at all of them again, and I'm looking at him, it's a little unwarm! ”

* Yizhou, Daotai Mansion, front yard, study.

Cao Hao's leg was fixed with a splint for a month, and now the splint has been removed, but someone can support him, and then he can walk for a while with the support of the crutch in his hand. According to the doctor, it will take another two months to return to normal.

It is already the seventeenth day of the lunar month, and then there are a few days of God's blessing, and there are all kinds of congratulatory gifts sent from the capital and Jiangning, and letters from various prefectures are exchanged.

Among them, there are also the letters of the sixteenth elder brother. After the holy car temporarily enshrined in the temple and filial piety tomb on November 30, he did not return to Beijing directly, but took the prince Baylor to Rehe, where he wanted to accept the worship of the kings of Horqin.

The seventeenth elder brother of Sui Hu was married on the twentieth day of the lunar month, and he went back to Beijing first. The sixteenth elder brother wanted to have fun in a hurry, so he also asked to return to Beijing with the seventeenth elder brother.

Cao Hao remembered that the seventeenth elder brother referred to the concubine Fujin was the daughter of the second-class prince A Ling'a, and among the princes of Fujin, her status was quite noble. I was a little puzzled in my heart, this Ah Ling Ah Ke was a hardcore eight masters, why did the seventeenth elder brother not touch the edge at all?

However, when I thought of the gloom when I saw the seventeenth elder brother talking when I was in the capital, I must have been extremely disgusted with those brothers who were competing for the storage position.

Mr. Zhuang was looking at the imperial court's newspaper on the side, which contained a list of local civil and military officials who sent the Ministry of Rites to congratulate the capital on their longevity in the spring of the next year.

Looking at other provinces, most of them are governors, governors, admirals and other officials, or ministers who tell the old ministers, like Cao, Li, and Sun, who are just on the errand of the internal affairs office, and they can be regarded as sympathetic to the old ministers.

Seeing that Cao Hao had finished reading a few letters from the capital, Mr. Zhuang handed over the newspaper in his hand. Cao Hao was not surprised when he saw his father's name, it was Kangxi's hair and not to mention, how could he be an uncle, and his children were all married to the royal family, and it was reasonable to mix up a seat on next year's Jiazi Wanshou. Besides, Cao Yin's birthday gifts are all ready, which is the smallpox formula.

After Cao Hao wrote to Cao Yin to mention this matter, he looked for a lot of folk flower planters in Jiangning, and after several months of various arguments, it seemed that he could deduce that the "cowpox" method was indeed more effective than the "human pox" method. Of course, in the end, this piece is tested by death row prisoners, and Kangxi needs to make an order.

Cao Yin didn't want to be greedy for heaven, as long as he could prove that his son was not talking nonsense, but this method was likely to prevent smallpox, he would be satisfied. The final confirmation and confirmation were left to Emperor Kangxi, and it was also in line with the emperor's surname of great joy, wouldn't it be a gift of longevity?

When he saw Li Xu's name, Cao Hao remembered something, and remembered that his father's previous family letter mentioned that there was news from the imperial court, and Li Xu would concurrently serve as the salt envoy of the two Huai patrols next year, and it seemed that Kangxi's punishment of the Li family was similar. In addition, Li Xu's second son, Li Ding, will also go to Beijing on an errand after the year.

Although Li Ding helped his father handle official business in Suzhou Weaving Mansion, he did not have official qualities and had not yet officially appeared. Therefore, when you arrive in the capital, if you are a clerical worker, it is just a six-part pen sticker. Probably not, it should still be the guard.

"Sir, I heard that when you were in Jiangnan in the early years, you also had some contacts with the Li family, I wonder what you think of the second son of his family?" Cao Hao remembered Li Ding's early actions in Wangfengzhuang, Yangzhou, and always had a hint of wariness of this cousin in his heart, so he remembered the news of his entry into Beijing, so he asked.

"Li Ding?" Mr. Zhuang touched his beard and muttered: "I have seen a few times, when it comes to shrewdness and practice, it is indeed much better than his brother, and he is not inferior to Fu Ruo in terms of intelligence, and he is more resolute in acting as a person!" Speaking of this, he said to Cao Hao: "If Fu Ruo doesn't seek to be heard, he will act so tiredly, and in the future, the three major weaving in Jiangnan will be afraid that he will take this person as a bull's ear!" ”

Cao Hao heard the dissatisfaction in Mr. Zhuang's words, and knew that he was still worried about Liu Heng's matter, and didn't want him to be annoyed by this matter, so he defended himself: "Sir, I didn't accept him into the house for nothing, although his appearance was ruined, but his voice was still there." I thought that when the filial piety period was over, I would send him to Jiangning to do a quyi lesson. My father loved to listen to opera in his early years, and he used to have a family class at home, but it was only after his grandmother passed away that he broke up the team. Now, my father and mother are also old, if there is a team in the family, the old couple has nothing to do to compile a book, and listening to the play is also a pastime! ”

Mr. Zhuang listened to Cao Hao's words, glanced at Cao Hao with a smile, and said, "Oh, I don't know, Fu Ruo actually has this plan." That is the case, why do you have to find a small Zhuangzi to settle him in a hurry? ”

Speaking of which, Mr. Zhuang and Cao Hao are also the relationship between the father and son of master and apprentice, looking at Cao Hao's emotions like this, although he was a little disappointed, but seeing Cao Hao from the capital to the place, he has also experienced a lot of things, but he still has good thoughts, and his heart is still somewhat gratified.

Now, seeing Cao Hao's childlike lies, Mr. Zhuang couldn't help but tease him.

Cao Hao also vigorously recalled the entry of the Hui Troupe into Beijing and the formation of Peking Opera, which he also remembered when he said that he would send Liu Heng to Jiangning. I only vaguely remember that it was the middle and late Qing Dynasty, but I couldn't remember which emperor it was.

With his arrival, history has been deviant, his father did not get malaria, and he did not marry a woman surnamed Ma, although he had a son, but he was not a posthumous son. Even if in the future, his father named Tianyou "Cao Zhan", it may not be the person who experienced family changes when he was a teenager and wrote a generation of strange books "Dream of Red Mansions".

If you support your father and drum up the quintessential Peking Opera in the future, its significance is not under "Dream of Red Mansions". Thinking of this, Cao Hao couldn't help laughing.

Mr. Zhuang was inexplicably laughed by him, just wanted to open his mouth to ask, he heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, Xiaoman came in and replied, saying that it was the second door to pass the word, please go back immediately, the five girls called the cat to be startled.

Where did the cat come from in the house? Cao Hao was worried, got up to say goodbye to Mr. Zhuang, and went back to the second gate with Xiaoman and crutches.

In the second gate, Xiyan and Xixia were already waiting here, holding Cao Hao in their hands and coming to the main room.

On the warm pavilion kang in the main room, Wu'er was wearing a red jacket, lying there, his little face was pale, his eyes were closed, he was biting his handkerchief, his whole body was twitching, and his little hands were exposed outside his sleeves, and there were a few bloody cuts.

Cao Hao went to the side of the kang and saw Wu'er, his heart tightened, the first two were meals with her, teasing the little girl to learn to speak, how did it become like this? Looking at Chu Yu with a guilty look on his face, he really didn't know what to say.

Seeing Cao Hao's expression, Amethyst opened her mouth to persuade: "Don't worry, I've sent someone to invite a doctor!" ”

Cao Hao nodded, glanced at the trembling ** Gu Shi next to him, and turned back to ask Chu Yu, "When did you have a cat in the house?" Didn't you say it a long time ago, there are many children in our house, and we are afraid of being frightened, and we don't have cats and dogs. ”

Cao Hao entrusted Wu'er to Chu Yu to take care of, and now that such a big thing has happened, Chu Yu is the most uneasy. Now, listening to her husband's words with a sense of blame, she also felt aggrieved in her heart, and held back her tears and said: "Although we don't raise them, there are still some wild cats who come to the house to find food, and they don't take proper precautions for a while, and I don't know how to run to Wu'er's house!" ”

As he spoke, the doctor had arrived.

Fortunately, there was no major problem, but the shock was excessive, and the doctor did a few acupuncture and prescribed a few doses of soothing prescriptions, and left. The commonly used medicinal materials at home are all available, and when the medicine is grasped according to the prescription, Amethyst took two proper people to the kitchen to boil the medicine and buy warm food for Wu'er.

Cao Hao sat on the edge of the kang and looked at the scars on Wu'er's hands, because they were scratched by cats, they must be disinfected, otherwise if they are infected, they are not a joke. Therefore, he instructed Xiyun to take the liquor and wipe the wound for Wu'er with a clean handkerchief.

Wu'er was so frightened that he was drowsy, and the liquor rushed to the wound, and he immediately cried out in pain, and shrank his little hand vigorously to prevent Cao Hao from wiping it.

In his previous life and this life, Cao Hao took care of the child for the first time, carefully holding it in his arms, patting and coaxing, making him sweat, and he didn't coax Wu'er to stop his voice.

Wu'er's ** Gu wanted to step forward, but he didn't dare to speak, so he lowered his head and avoided it far away, for fear that the uncle and the county lord's grandmother would think about themselves.

Wu'er cried miserably, and under the struggle, he pressed Cao Hao's legs, Chu Yu couldn't bear to watch it from the side, and said softly: "Forehead, it's better for Chu Yu to come!" ”

Cao Hao also saw that he might be holding in the wrong position, which made Wu'er uncomfortable, his little face tightened, so he handed her into Chu Yu's arms and said, "It's weird, can you hold it?" The little girl doesn't know how to grow up, and there are several of our sons! ”

Chu Yu smiled and said, "How old is Tianyou?" If at this time, it is as heavy as the fifth sister, so what kind of fat does it have to be? As he spoke, he took Wu'er in his arms and gently coaxed her to speak.

Chu Yu is soft-spoken, much stronger than Cao Hao's clumsiness. Wu'er slowly stopped, sobbing, looking at Chu Yu pitifully, her little hand went to Chu Yu's arms, she didn't seem to care about the pain in her hand, and muttered with her small mouth: "Hungry...... Eat ......"

Chu Yu has also been a mother for a few months, looking at Wu'er's anxious look, she noticed that something was wrong, looked up at the Gu family standing at the door, and asked, "What's the matter?" You didn't wait for the girl to eat in the morning, why did she look hungry? ”

Gu Shi stumbled and replied: "If you go back to the county lord's grandmother, the girl is ...... These are the ......... of pinching milk."

"You've been here to give this, and I know it, but I asked you yesterday, the girl is good at eating these days, and it's not hard to eat, you said it's good, but now it looks like she's weak and weak, what's going on?" Chu Yu asked while patting Wu'er gently.

Although Chu Yu's voice was not loud, Gu Shi was still so frightened that he immediately knelt down, his face was frightened, and he replied with a crying voice: "This ...... The county lord's grandmother, the slave maid is not a deliberate deception, the girl has just pinched the milk in the past two days, crying and refusing to eat, the slave maid thinks that the girl has a stomach fire, and it is good to clear the stomach and defeat the fire! ”

Chu Yu frowned slightly and asked, "What about the porridge made of rouge rice that I sent before, and the almond tea that I sent yesterday?" Didn't give it to the girl? ”

When Gu Shi heard Chu Yu ask about eating, his face turned pale, and he stumbled back: "Go back...... Back to grandma's words, self-...... Naturally, it's for the girl......" Speaking of this, seeing Chu Yu's eyes looking at her, she immediately changed her mouth: "I used a few spoons for the girl!" ”

"In this way, the girl has not eaten seriously for several days, and she can't complain that the good child is like this!" Chu Yu was annoyed, impatient to look at Gu again, turned to the side slightly, untied the placket, and came to breastfeed Wu'er.

Cao Hao was beside him, watching Chu Yu's interrogation of Gu's words, and his face was also very ugly. Wu'er is still young, and he doesn't say anything, and he can't resist with such a black heart.

After Chu Yu finished giving milk to Wu'er and watching her sleep, Fang asked Xiyun to call the two mothers-in-law, pulled the Gu family down, first a meal, and then called her out of the house.

Gu is an old man in Jiangning Xifu, seeing that he annoyed the uncle and the county lord's grandmother, he also panicked, thinking that the two of them were young and kind, and she was the ** in the next room, and the top of the sky was just a board. Unexpectedly, after the board was played, the Gu clan and the men of the Gu clan would also be kicked out of the house.

Not to mention that the ** identity is not ordinary people, the monthly money is good, just talking about the New Year, they and their husbands and wives go back so disgraced, relatives and friends don't say it, that is, Mrs. Xifu and the second master know that their husband and wife don't have long faces, and they are afraid that they will not be able to fall well, so they must have another meal.

Gu Shi cried and cried, and didn't want to leave the house, so he begged to go to the jade dragon in the west courtyard, thinking that in the future, she would be the aunt in the second room, so she would naturally help her speak.

Jade Dragonfly knew that it was because of the neglect of the fifth girl, and she also complained in her heart that she was unfaithful, but it was difficult to say anything on her face. Although he said that he was not weighty, it was not good to help her intercede, but he still scraped together a bag of broken silver with her.

On the side of the West Courtyard, every word is also a medicinal smell. Jade Spider has been sick for half a month, although the surname is fine, but the body is too weak, and the whole person is thin and only a handful of bones are left.

(To be continued)