Although she did not recognize herself as a righteous daughter and became a nephew and daughter-in-law, the Li family still prepared all kinds of generous gifts. When the Dong family sent the Gao family and the Shang family to pick up people, there were several more carriages with the return carriage.

In addition to the Cao family's side, the Internal Affairs Office also came down to Kangxi's reward.

Cao Yin's surname is the most stable, how could he say that he decided on family affairs without Kangxi's consent, and he had already reported it in front of the emperor, so Kangxi also knew about it.

The Dong family is extremely decent, on June 24, the Cao family released Xiaoding, and the Cao family began to prepare the dowry of Su Xin.

Before Su Xin went back, Cao Fu finally seized the opportunity and met.

But the factor core dodged in a hurry, and Cao Fu didn't see it seriously.

But looking at such obedience, Cao Fu also looked a little higher on his side. And because Li talked about Su Xin here, it was all good things, and he finally had some thoughts about this family business.

The Li family originally wanted to wait for the two Cao Dong families to be arranged, so they took their grandsons and granddaughters to live in Haidian Garden. Before the trip was made, he caught up with the old lady of the Gao family, who was not feeling well.

On the Li family's side, if you want to serve the sick, you can't do without your body, so you will stay in the mansion and send Amethyst to take Tian and Lianqiu over, and you should also be distracted. Amethyst was reluctant to go first because of something in the house, and it was Chu Yu who repeatedly persuaded her to go to Haidian Garden.

On Zhaojia's side, he also plans to take the fourth sister and five sons to accompany the Li family to Haidian Garden for summer vacation. Seeing that Li Shi was not going, she naturally did not want to go in a hurry.

It's just that she began to mutter, she wants to repair the garden, so she doesn't have a garden at home, and on a hot day, she can only work hard in Beijing.

Jinghui just listened and didn't answer.

Nowadays, the expenses of the government are Cao Song's income and Zhuangzi's income.

Zhao Jia's side held the money tightly, and even thought about being frugal when adding new clothes to the fourth sister and fifth son. From four sets per quarter to two sets per season. It is rare for the people in the house to have a reward, and most of them use old clothes and old clothes.

Cao Hao, on his side, also lived outside the city, waiting for the will to come down. See if you want to go to Rehe, or continue in Beijing.

Because there is Changchun Garden here in Haidian, the middle of Haidian to Dongzhimen is an official road of bluestone slabs. Xu has a long time, some places have been dilapidated, and now there are servants building roads, and there are officials from the Ministry of Industry following.

When Cao Hao went in and out of the capital before and went to various places in Gyeonggi, he felt a little strange when he looked at this posture.

This year, there is a severe drought in Gyeonggi, and even if the Ministry of Industry has surplus silver, it should think about opening canals and repairing waterways. There is little rain in the north, and there will be five or six years of drought in ten years. If the canals are unblocked, irrigation will be increased, which will be beneficial to the country and the people.

To be asked clearly, Cao Haoshi didn't know what to say.

The Ministry of Industry is having a big project, in fact, it cannot be said that it is the Ministry of Industry, it is a project invited by Zhao Hongxie, the governor of Zhili, to build a bridge in the territory of Zhili.

This territory is actually the official road from the capital to Rehe, plus the road from Changchun Garden to Dongzhimen.

The cause of the incident was only because when the holy driver went to Rehe this year, he asked about the road on the way.

As for the Ministry of Industry sending people to follow, nominally "jointly supervising the construction of bridges and roads with Xiangdao officials and others, not only will the money and food not be wasted, but the husbands and servants will also benefit", but in fact it is just this big project, which is rich in oil and water, and it is just a handful of them.

Cao Hao's side, thinking about the sixteenth elder brother's investigation of silverfish in the Internal Affairs Office, is also over, and then looking at the scene of the officialdom in the capital, he can only sigh in his heart.

Although it is not to the point of anger and resentment, there is a miasma of smoke in the officialdom, even if it is a person with a noble surname, in order to protect himself, he can only be with the light.

Just waiting for the holy decree of Rehe, Cao Hao ushered in his twenty-three-year-old birth.

When he got up early, as soon as Cao Hao opened his eyes, he saw Chu Yu dressed in a new dress, and Tianyou, Hengsheng, and Tianhui were lined up on the side. The three little guys are also like Chu Yu, dressed in new clothes, and look very happy.

Cao Hao got up, and Chu Yu hurriedly patted Tianyou.

Tianyou took the lead, and the three brothers and sisters knelt down together, and said: "The child wishes his father (Daddy) happiness like the East China Sea, and the moon is prosperous. As he spoke, he bowed his head to the ground.

When Cao Hao heard this, he was also ironing in his heart, and he got up hurriedly and beckoned the children to get up.

Chu Yu had already brought new clothes, a lake-blue robe and a moon-white horse coat, and served Cao Hao to change into.

There is no need to ask for rain, Gyeonggi has also seen it, Cao Hao rarely rests, and he doesn't need to go to the yamen.

Xicai had already taken Tianyou out to wait for them, Cao Hao smiled and said to Chu Yu: "Didn't you say that you didn't show it, and you still tossed them up?" ”

"I told my wife, but the kids were clamoring to come." Chu Yu said with a smile.

"The kids are coming? Who taught the auspicious words, strange and smooth? Cao Hao asked.

"It's Niu Niu, and I don't know when I heard the words of others, so I wrote them down and taught them God to bless them for a long time." Chu Yu said.

After the husband and wife said a few words, they went out of the house, took the children, and went to the Orchid Courtyard together.

Li had already gotten up, and when he saw his son and daughter-in-law coming over with their grandchildren, his face showed kindness.

Cao Hao helped Li sit on the kang, then took two steps back, lifted his front placket, knelt down on his knees, kowtowed, and said: "The birth of a son is the suffering of a mother." The son is here, thank the mother. ”

"What are you talking about? It's weird and poignant. Hearing this, Li Shi turned red, helped Cao Hao up with his own hands, looked at his face carefully, and said, "When you just landed, you were not much bigger than a kitten." Now in the blink of an eye, they are all fathers. ”

After saying a few words, Li made the table be set and the family had breakfast.

As soon as the table was removed, Amethyst, Tian and Lianqiu brought their children to celebrate their birthday.

Cao Hao's side is still a little strange. From what Chu Yu said on the side, I realized that in order to give him a life, everyone went back to the city last night.

Cao Hao's side has to return the salute one by one.

After seeing the inner house, the front yard is also waiting. Jiang Jian, Li Wei, Qian Chenqun, Wei Hei, Zheng Hu and others all came over to pay tribute to Cao Hao.

Cao Hao here, this is constantly leaning over to return the salute. After tossing around, there was already a housekeeper to pass the word, and the third girl and Grandpa Guo came.

Cao Hao listened and went out to greet him in person.

Seshtu rode a horse, Cao Yi rode a car, holding Shou Ge'er in his arms.

Seeing his nephew, Cao Hao was also too close to him, so he took it from Cao Yi and kissed him fiercely.

Brother Shou folded his fingers, turned to look at Cao Yi, pouted, and called pitifully: "Eniang......"

"I haven't seen you for half a year, I don't know my uncle?" Cao Hao smiled and touched Brother Shou'er's hair and asked.

Cao Yi took a step forward and said to his son: "How to teach you at home, call someone quickly." ”

Brother Shou hesitated for a moment, and Fang said in a low voice: "I wish my uncle good luck and good health." ”

Looking at his well-behaved appearance, Cao Hao was also distressed. Thinking that his mother got up early and talked about her grandson, Cao Hao asked her sister to take her nephew to Ermen first. On the side of his brother-in-law Seshtu, Cao Hao personally led him to the living room to talk.

"Big brother, is this going to be an errand in the capital, or is he going to go to the front of the palace?" Seshtu took half a sip of herbal tea and asked.

"Who knows, there is no decree yet, I just want to enjoy leisure." Cao Hao replied.

"Big brother, I may be going to the Zongren Mansion on an errand, I met Prince Jian a few days ago, and said that there was a vacancy in the right sect of the Zongren Mansion." Seshtu hesitated for a moment and said.

"Zongren Mansion?" Cao Hao listened and said with a smile: "Then congratulations." The Zongren Mansion is above the cabinet and the six ministries, and most of the errands under the ordinary jurisdiction are idle, that is, decent and comfortable, how good. ”

Seeing Cao Hao's reflection, Seshtu was a little strange and asked, "Isn't the eldest brother Pingsu unwilling to make friends with the imperial family?" Because the storage position has not been determined, I was worried that I would come, afraid that I would be accidentally implicated. ”

Cao Hao shook his head and said, "It's not the same thing. It's just that you're an upstart, and it's rare that someone beats your idea and wants to win you over or something. On the emperor's side, he is most disgusted with forming a party, and he can't tolerate the prince's party. Alinga and Xu, why are you 'recuperating', I want to come to your side to know some rumors. As for the Zongren Mansion, you went on an errand, and you are justifiable, what else is there to avoid? ”

Seshtu nodded as he listened, and only then did he know Cao Hao's true intentions.

The two were talking, and Cao Song had already brought Cao Fu over. The two congratulated Cao Hao on his birthday, and met his brother-in-law Seshtu again.

"Isn't it an errand today?" Cao Hao was quite surprised when he saw Cao Song.

"I know it's the eldest brother's birthday, and the central people have changed shifts." Cao Songhan said with a smile.

Cao Hao nodded, glanced at Cao Fu and said, "It's not early, isn't it time to go to the academy?" ”

"I made a special trip to pay my eldest brother's birthday, so I'll go." Cao Fu said with a smile: "Big brother, I heard that there is a play at home today, can my brother bring his friends back to listen to the play?" ”

"What's not to do, bring it back and play. Just don't delay your schoolwork and come back after school. Cao Hao replied.

Cao Fu responded with a smile and went out to school.

For a while, there is an endless stream of people who come to pay their birthday in person, or who are ordered to give gifts.

Cao Hao is already a Sanpin Jingtang, and the subordinate officials of the Internal Affairs Office are naturally reluctant to come to the door to congratulate. Even the newly appointed acting head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dong Dianbang, came over in person.

Although the two are at the same level, from Cao Fu's side, Dong Dianbang is an elder.

Others, the Yamen of the Household Department, the Yamen of the Military Department, the Yamen of the Taifu Temple, and the Guard Office, all have Cao Hao's colleagues in the past. If the relationship is good, congratulate him in person; The relationship is more distant, and there are also human contacts.

On the in-laws' side, King Pingjun, Seventeen Elder Brothers, several Elder Brothers of King Chun's Mansion, and Fu Ding also came one after another.

As the eldest aunt of the Cao family, Sun Jue is a little late.

It's not that he was deliberately late, and there was an errand in the yamen, so he went home and changed his clothes, so that people came over with a birthday gift.

Looking at the carriage outside the gate of Cao's house, and the sound of the tent man singing in the gate, Sun Jue couldn't help but feel a little envious.

After a few years of training in the capital, he is no longer the rotten Confucian he was when he first entered Beijing, and he hung everything on his face. Therefore, thinking in his heart, but his face was not obvious, he ordered the little servant to present the birthday gift, and followed the housekeeper to the living room.

Most of the relatives of the Cao family have been seen by him, but only Dong Dianbang is the first time he has seen them.

Speaking of which, he and the Dong family are both in-laws of the Cao family's second room, and the relationship should have been better. Thinking like this, Sun Jue was extremely close to Dong Dianbang.

Dong Dianbang's side is an old fox who has been on an errand all his life in the Internal Affairs Office, and his eyes are the most poisonous.

Sun Jue's face was tense, but his attitude towards the clan was completely different from that of other officials, and he was not a person with backbone.

The Sun family is different from the Cao and Li families, and they are not the old households of the Internal Affairs Office, but it is because of Sun Taijun's light and the support of the Cao family that they have the scenery they have today.

For Sun Wencheng, who speaks and does things, Dong Dianbang looks down on him a little; Now that I see Sun Jue's style, I also shook my head in my heart.

However, no matter how unbearable Sun Jue is, he is also a close relative of the Cao family, and he, an old fox, has a smile on his face. Occasionally said a few words in his mouth, all of which were the old days of the Dong family, the Cao family, and the Sun family.

came and went, but Sun Jue felt that he was a year-old friend with the new head of the Internal Affairs Office in front of him, and said that he wanted to find a place to invite him to drink.

Dong Dianbang's side responded with a smile, Sun Jue looked at the prosperity in his eyes, and his heart had already opened a small abacus.

What did you do when you went to the capital to be an official? It's just a human relationship.

In the officialdom, if there is no one to support it, it will be served once every three years, and only after several terms can it be promoted. In the six departments, how can there be fewer directors at the age of fifty or sixty?

Thinking about this, Sun Jue had no choice but to put down his stinky frame and get close to the Cao family.

Although he was close on the face, he was already very annoyed in his heart, and he only felt that he was smiling with the Cao family, which made him look down on himself. The Cao family is just a good family, so they tremble. If it weren't for Sun Taijun's more than ten years of upbringing, would the Cao family be a fart?

I was depressed, so I used a few more cups and vomited a few times during the banquet, and when I got home, Sun Jue was already drunk and dazed. When he entered the house, he tilted himself on the kang and did not move.

Cao saw that there was filth on her husband's clothes, and hurriedly asked her husband to get up and change his clothes.

Sun Jue was in a daze, he was already Meng Zhougong, wearing a lucky dress and a red hijab to worship the bride. This just worshiped heaven and earth, was sent into the cave room, and when he wanted to remove the hijab, he was awakened by the Cao family.

Sun Jue couldn't help but be furious, sat up, stretched out his legs, and kicked Cao's body.

Cao Shi couldn't dodge, kicked his crotch, "oops", and squatted on the ground.

"Master......" Cao said with a pale face and trembling lips.

Sun Jue drooped his face and said, "Is it cool to sit on the ground?" Don't roll up yet? ”

Cao knew that her husband was in the nest, and she had seen his methods, and when she heard the excitement on her body, she got up from the ground with her crotch covered.

Sun Jue rubbed his brows, sobered up a little bit, and thought about what he said before that he wanted to invite Dong Dianbang to drink. He looked at the house, as well as the small courtyard outside, couldn't help shaking his head, and said to Cao's family: "How much silver is left in the account, so that the housekeeper can find a real estate economy, and we should also change to a bigger house." ”

Cao Shi listened and was a little surprised. He whispered: "Master, the silver sent by the master at the beginning of this year has been almost spent." There are only a few hundred taels left in the accounts. ”

When Sun Jue heard this, he couldn't help frowning, and said, "Don't you have a lot of jewelry, and I don't see you wearing it, go pawn some silver first, and then redeem it when the master sends the silver......"

* Rehe, Cao's Courtyard, Front Yard Study.

Cao Yin looked at the chessboard, smiled on his face, put down a black seed, and ate a big dragon with a white seed.

Zhiran, who stayed in Rehe, did not return to Beijing with Cao Hao, but stayed here to study Buddhism.

The ladies here are gone, and they are very quiet. In addition to going to the temple to learn Zen, Zhiran stayed here for other kung fu, sometimes accompanied Cao Yin to play chess, and sometimes the two also talked about Buddhism, but they became a pair of old friends......

(To be continued)