After the first lunar month, the Sun family returned to Suzhou. Jiangning Weaving Mansion is still busy, because February 12 is the hundred days of Cao Shun, the second son of Cao Yin. Don't dare to be coincidental, Li is sick at this time.

Cao Yan originally thought of mentioning Cao Yi to her mother in the first month, and drove those few mothers-in-law who didn't open their eyes, but seeing that Li was sick in bed, it was not good for her to be too annoyed, so she had to put this matter aside first.

Seeing that Li Shi was losing weight, Cao Yan was anxious and uneasy. In the past few years in the Cao family, he is very grateful to the Li family for his love. If it is said that the old lady's love for Cao Yan is fire, it makes people's hearts warm; Then Li's love for Cao Yan is a drizzle and breeze, which makes people indulge in it. Moreover, Cao Yan can see from Li's eyes that Li regards himself as the root of his life. The greatest thing in the world is the mother, and the most pitiful is also the mother.

Cao Yan asked the doctor who treated Li's illness, but he only said that his heart was depressed, his blood was unbalanced, and he needed to be regulated, and his diet should be light. The heart is on fire, is it because of the new son of Aunt Liuli? There are not one or two people in the house who speculate like this, even the old lady faintly heard the rumors, but he didn't believe it in his heart. Li's family is from a good and virtuous family, and he also took care of Liuli before, and the nurse and midwife are all hand-selected, and if they are jealous, they will not be revealed at this time.

Cao Yin invited Song Fuzi, who had taught Cao Yin for half a month, from Hangzhou to be a gentleman in the mansion to teach Cao Yin and Cao Song brothers to study. Cao Yan was worried about her mother's condition, so she hurried back to the house every time she got out of class. Master Song understood his filial piety and did not blame him much. Only Cao Song sighed that he was unlucky, and was often left in the hall by his master and punished for writing big characters.

Weaving House, Kaiyang Temple.

Cao Yan carried a bowl of Sydney white fungus, sat on a small stool in front of the bed, and fed Li himself. Although Li had no appetite, he was unwilling to go against his son's wishes, so he coped with two sips. The white jade Ruyi that was originally hanging at the head of the bed is gone, and it seems that the quarrel between the wife and the old man is true.

Cao Yan was thinking about it, so he heard the little maid at the door say, "Mrs., Aunt Zhang is here to ask for peace." ”

Li wiped his mouth with a handkerchief: "Come in!" ”

This aunt refers to Liuli, wearing a royal blue shirt and skirt, and walked in with a little maid. Due to the recent birth, the glazed body is slightly plump, which is more elegant than in the past. Seeing that Cao Yan was also there, after Liuli saluted the Li family, he gave Cao Yan a half-salute and said, "Uncle is also here!" ”

Cao Yan got up and leaned over slightly to return the salute: "Aunt Ann!" ”

"Uncle is tall again, isn't he, ma'am?" Liuli chuckled and took out a bowl of soup from the food box held by the maid: "Knowing that my wife is tired of being greasy, the slave maid boiled this ham and winter melon soup, and she didn't put a little oil star, and the wife drank two sips, even if the filial piety of the slave and maid arrived!" ”

Li Shi looked at Liuli's Qianqianyu finger: "Don't do it next time, I admit your affection, it's not good to bother you to do this!" ”

"The slave maid is from a poor family, and she doesn't hide it from her wife, and before she is selected to enter the old lady's yard, she washes and fetches water, and she has never done anything. Now it's the old lady and the wife, and the glass doesn't dare to forget its roots, where is it so expensive! Liuli's expression was a little uneasy and panicked.

"I know you're not that frivolous. Don't worry about it, I'm an old disease, and I fell when I was a child. In the first month, I was tired of entertaining guests, so I committed it. Seeing Liuli's expression, Li couldn't bear it, and comforted softly.

Cao Yan was a bystander, and when he saw that the expression on Liuli's face changed too contrivedly, he didn't like it. If she hadn't deliberately shown this fear before and after others, she would not have made her mother bear the name of jealousy. Seeing that the mother is no different from the past for Liuli, it seems that the heart knot is not in the birth of Liuli.

After Liuli left, Cao Yan asked softly, "Mother gave birth to an old disease?" Is it dystocia? ”

Li listened to his son's questioning, remembered the past, and talked leisurely: "Although you were full-term when you were born that year, it was a difficult birth, and I gave birth for three days and three nights, and I passed out several times. Speaking of this, looking at his son, infinite love: "God is pitiful, you were born safely, five catties and five taels, although the body is a little weak, the weight is really enough." ”

"Five pounds and five taels?" Hearing this data, Cao Yan couldn't help but be a little surprised. You must know that at this time, one catty is sixteen taels, and five catties and five taels are converted into eight and a half catties in that world. An eight-and-a-half-pound baby, such a fat boy, how can he be in such poor health? Is it because the mother has a difficult birth and stays in the mother's womb for too long?

Li nodded, with a little sourness in his smile: "Twelve years in the blink of an eye, twelve years have passed!" ”

"The grace of mother's nurturing, the child will remember it forever, and he will be filial to his mother, and ask his mother to be forgiving and take good care of his body!" The saddest thing in the world is that "the son wants to raise but does not treat", Cao Yan thought of this sentence, I don't know whether I miss my parents in my previous life, or feel sorry for the Li family in front of me, and her voice was slightly choked.

"Ahem, ahem!" The deliberately aggravated cough was Cao Yin's return to the room.

Cao Yan got up: "Father is back!" ”

"Hmm!" Cao Yin said: "Go to the old lady's side and take a look, don't let your grandmother worry about you!" ”

"Yes!" Cao Yan responded and exited the room, but did not leave immediately. Even if the Li family is not sad about Liuli's birth of a child, it must have nothing to do with Cao Yin. A noble lady who doesn't go out of the door and doesn't go out of the second door, apart from her husband and children, what else can she care about like this.

"Shuqing, get better as soon as possible, so that the old lady and the children don't have to worry!" Cao Yin shouted his wife's name and whispered softly.

"I'm just wronged for Yan'er?" Li said with a choked voice.

"Back then, we were just in time for the Holy Expedition to the West, and it was not easy for us to set up a banquet as courtiers, so the hundred days of the horse would be over!" Cao Yin's voice was a little heavy.

"The Holy Expedition to the West did not prohibit the joy of the people. Sheng Yan'er caught up with the old lady in the palace, and she didn't live in a hundred days, and Yan'er was like this. Li said: "It's just a hundred days, why do you sacrifice your ancestors when Shun'er is full moon." It's not the first son, even if you hurt the little one, this is too much! ”

"This is my no, Shun'er was so happy after she was born, and she didn't worry so much!" Cao Yin said wistfully.

"Is it better than his little brother? When he was born, you were busy with affairs and were not close to him; Why is Shun'er born now, and the master is happy? Where do you want to put our mother and soul like this? Li asked repeatedly.

Cao Yin didn't say anything for a long time, and after a long while, he sighed and said, "I will know the destiny of heaven next year, my father and grandfather didn't live to fifty and went west, who knows how many years I can live." Others are my age, and they are already full of children and grandchildren. I didn't have a child until I was young, and I only added Shun'er more than ten years later, and I was a little confused with joy! I'll pay attention in the future, Shuqing don't be angry anymore! ”

Li Shi listened to her husband's bitterness, and her original dissatisfaction had already disappeared, and she hurriedly said: "The master is kind-hearted, and he will live a long life!" ”

"Is the heart kind?" Cao Yin was a little self-deprecating: "There are many people who have died in the hands of their husbands in the past ten years, and where are they all damned?" If there is karma, I only hope that it should come to me and bless both Yan'er and Shun'er safely. ”

When Cao Yan left, his steps were a little heavy. The ancestors of the Cao family died before they were fifty years old, and the historical record of Cao Yin's death was six years later, but who can guarantee that history will not deviate. If history has not changed, Cao Yin should only have one son of Cao Yin, or only this one son will live to adulthood, otherwise there will be no stepson Cao Fu to inherit the family business after Cao Yin dies of illness. Cao Fu, the fourth son of Cao Quan in Xifu, is four years old this year. If history has not changed, then Xiao Shun'er will die young; If history changes, it is unknown whether Cao Yin can hold on to it six years from now.

Xuanrui Hall, west side.

The old lady leaned on the soft cheek, hugged Cao Shun in her arms, and listened to Cao Shun's mother: "Brother is well-behaved, he doesn't cry or make trouble, and when he is hungry, he waves his little arms violently." It's really a blessing for the old lady, who can have such a well-behaved child! ”

The old lady said with a smile: "Although the face is more like Liuli, this Xijing's surname is the same as his brother's, and he was also well-behaved when he was a child!" ”

Seeing Cao Yan come in, the maids and women all leaned down to say goodbye. The old lady hugged her little grandson for a while, so she handed Cao Shun to his wet nurse, greeted Cao Shun herself, and asked him to sit down on the edge of the kang: "Your mother has been better in the past two days, has I used the wild mountain ginseng that I asked someone to send before?" ”

Cao Yan replied: "It's much better, it looks like you can get up after a few days of conditioning, grandmother don't worry." The ginseng is still useless, the doctor let the stomach and intestines be cleared, and then nourished! ”

The old lady nodded, reached out and touched Cao Yan's little face: "My good grandson has worked hard these days, and his face is so tired that his face is thin." With your filial piety, it is not in vain that your mother loves you! As he spoke, he pointed to Cao Shun, who was held in the arms of his nurse: "Go and see your brother, it will be a hundred days in two days, and the small appearance can be liked!" ”

"Yes!" Cao Yan got up in response, walked to the nurse, and stretched out his hand to take Cao Shun.

The nurse was afraid that Cao Shun would not hold the child, so she looked at the old lady in embarrassment, and when she saw the old lady nodding, she reluctantly handed Cao Shun into Cao Shun's hands.

Cao Yan has never eaten pork, but he has seen a pig walking, and the posture of holding a child is decent. Cao Shun's little face was pink, with a pair of big eyes, and when he saw the substitution hugging him, he didn't recognize him at all, and stretched out his little arm to touch Cao Yan's body.

Cao Yan and Xiao Cao Shun looked at each other, but they had another thought in their hearts. Cao Yin loves his young son so much, could it be that he died of illness in the end, not because of the deficit of the treasury, but because of the death of his young son? If this is the case, many things that we have not understood in the past will be cleared. Although the Cao family has a lot of deficits, it is protected by Kangxi, and Cao Yin does not have to end up depressed.

How can we keep this lovely baby in front of me from dying, and how can we let Cao Yin live a few more years. Cao Yan had a headache when he thought about it, and began to regret for the nth time why he didn't study medicine in his last life.