Due to the hot weather, Kangxi stayed in the summer resort throughout the leap May and June, and only stayed in the spring of the summer resort from the thirteenth to the eighteenth of the leap May.

Cao Hao's son was extremely idle at first, and when he had nothing to do, in addition to walking around the villa with the sixteenth and seventeenth elder brothers, he occasionally mixed with Detehei and others in the school field.

Originally, he was a little rusty with his riding and archery skills, but he slowly picked it up again, and he saw that many new little guards were hot-eyed. Even Detehei and Nalan Fusen also sighed, with a high-grade position like Cao Hao, where can they be a guard?

When everyone is in good spirits, there are still people who are betting on a lottery. Cao Hao has no aggressive heart, it's really hard to push, and there are losses and wins, which makes everyone happy.

Although Li Ding has always been sleek, but on the side of the guard camp, everyone is not from a small family, and they sneak out at random, and they all have knighthoods on them. With just one mouth, where will everyone be convinced?

Li Dingsheng's surname is so strong, although his riding and archery skills are not as brilliant as Cao Hao's, but he has also practiced urinating.

When he was in the capital, he didn't know that the holy driver had been stationed in the Rehe Palace for more than two months, and he was not on duty to linger on the school side, and his skills became more and more outstanding. Even the old guards who originally called him "Little White Face" behind his back also treated him closer than in the past.

Once, when Cao Hao saw this cousin in the school field, he hesitated, not knowing whether to ask or not.

Li Ding turned out to be very elegant and elegant, liked fancy clothes, and after a few months in the guard camp, he also looked a little heroic. Seeing that Cao Hao seemed to have something to say, he joked with a smile: "What do you want Fu Ruo, but you want to compare with your cousin?" ”

Cao Hao was about to smile and wave his hand, but looked up, but saw that Li Ding seemed to be smiling, with a hint of ridicule and hatred in his eyes. Although Li Ding saw Cao Hao looking at him, he immediately picked the corners of his mouth and squeezed out a little smile to hide it, but Cao Hao was not a fool, and he could feel whether he was kind or malicious.

Although the two are cousins, the two don't have much contact. Cao Hao thought about it carefully, except for the incident of Wangfengzhuang three years ago, he did not have a grudge against this cousin. Thinking of this, his heart also sank more and more.

That incident was the Li family's loss. If Li Ding was unrepentant and resentful, then Cao Hao had no choice but to sigh and be speechless. Although he knew that the Li family was defeated, the Li family was inevitably sad and sad, but he did not want to go to the Li family to bury him.

There are more than 400 people up and down in Jiangning and the capital mansion, and he has to bear the lives and futures of too many people, so he really doesn't want to take that risk and bother to influence the Li family's relatives. It seems that when he returns to the capital, he still has to think of showing goodwill to the fourth elder brother, even if he doesn't take a stand, he can't let him misunderstand.

Cao Hao made up his mind in his heart, and when he looked at Li Ding again, he felt a little less headache and a little more calm, and said with a light smile: "It's still bothering my cousin to find someone else, my cousin is really impatient to move, hehe, it's hot!" As he spoke, he waved his hand and said, "Cousin play slowly, cousin, I'll squint in a cool place first." ”

Li Ding stood there, looking at Cao Hao's back, and only felt unspeakably hateful. But for some reason, he felt like he was negligent, and he couldn't think of the reason, so he couldn't help but feel upset and irritable. He picked up an arrow, put it on his bow, aimed at the target in the distance, and whispered in his mouth: "What kind of thing are you, what qualifications do you have to look down on the master!" ”

Cao Hao wandered around and walked away, but he couldn't hear it, and he didn't have the heart to figure out what Li Ding was thinking in his heart.

After these idle days, Cao Hao's heart was already bottomless.

After all, he is the chief official of Taifu Temple, and with Kangxi's beating last time, even if Cao Hao is lazy, he has to use his brains. Helplessly, he is really a layman when it comes to raising horses. When he didn't know the key point, he was unwilling to point fingers arbitrarily in order to show that he was the main official.

Although the Taifu Siqing is considered a close minister of the Son of Heaven, the decree under his office is no longer in vain. Most of those errands were done by the Minister of the Interior on duty or someone specially appointed by Kangxi, and it was not Cao Hao's turn to intervene.

said that he didn't want to disappoint Kangxi, or because of his sense of responsibility, Cao Hao still wanted to be a veritable servant Siqing. Therefore, he worked as a statistician for most of his stay at the lodge.

The two wings of the pasture of Taifu Temple was formerly a stallion farm, which was subordinate to the Ministry of War, and was set up in the early years of Shunzhi, mainly for the army to graze and supply horses. At that time, there was also a Shaanxi Yuan Racecourse at the same time. In the fourth year of Kangxi, the horses and herdsmen of the Yuan Horse Farm were merged into the stud farm, and the horse farm in Shaanxi was banned, but the horse farm was concentrated outside the mouth. In the ninth year of Kangxi, the stallion farm was changed from the military department to the Taifu Temple, and the national ranch was changed to the royal ranch, and the left and right wings of the ranch were divided.

He sent an official document to the capital, and asked people to send all the existing horse farm materials on the Taifu Temple to Rehe.

The members of the Taifu Temple on this side of Rehe, in addition to Tang Zhiyu, have two small histories. Those two petty officials are of low grade, and the information of Ma Zheng in the past few decades is considered a confidential document. Except for Taifu Siqing and Shaoqing, the rest of the people are only Taifu Sicheng and the main bookkeeper can consult a part of the official affairs within their duties, and these two small histories are not qualified to see these.

For Tang Zhiyu, although his personality seems a little stereotypical, Cao Hao has a little sincere admiration. Not to mention anything else, let's just say that Tang ate and wore clothes, and he was the most frugal among the officials Cao Hao had seen. And judging that he acted as a person, it did not seem to be a hypocrisy.

Cao Hao was a little puzzled in his heart, although the Beijing officials were not as good as the magistrates, and they could scrape the land or the oil of the wealthy households in Kaka, but they also had the filial piety of some subordinate officials.

But then after thinking about it, he also understood that Taifu Temple was actually a noble yamen, no wonder there were many contacts before leaving Beijing, but it was better to be a langzhong in the household department. Those newly released officials or officials who came to Beijing to see His Majesty had to send all kinds of filial piety to the officials of the six ministries. In winter, there is charcoal, and in summer, there is ice.

A yamen like Taifu Temple, naturally, no one will remember it. When the "three festivals and two longevity" are held, the subordinate officials below will give some gifts. Those petty officials are even poorer, and this gift is just a time.

Because Xiaoman and Tang Shun are also familiar with each other, they also asked a lot of questions in private. Tang Zhiyu was born in a scholarly family, and his parents have been deceased, but he now supports a widow and several cousins. Those cousins are all studying and spending more, and two of them are already showing off their talents and fame, studying in the capital and waiting for Enke this autumn. In addition, he has a lot of children in his own family, so he has a tighter life.

After Cao Hao knew this, he looked at Tang Zhiyu's gaze with more respect. With the intention of sending someone to Rehe to deliver documents, Cao Hao did not hide it from Tang Zhiyu. With this responsible Shaoqing here, there is no need to use it in vain.

In the next day, Cao Hao and Tang Zhiyu worked together to count all kinds of pasture data in the past 43 years from the ninth year of Kangxi to the present. The number of births and wastes of livestock is counted according to the data of each year and month, and the year in which horse plague occurred is particularly marked.

Although Tang Zhiyu is a bit upright, and he has been a member of the office for nearly ten years, he naturally knows that this thing is a credit given to him by the chief official.

Although he didn't say those empty words of gratitude and thanks, but just by relying on Cao Hao, a layman, to intervene in the official affairs of the Taifu Temple in this way, instead of touching the skin of the two mouths, in order to maintain the authority of the chief officer, he blindly commanded, and his impression of Cao Hao, the chief officer, was much better.

When he saw Cao Hao's full attention, the account book in his left hand and the abacus in his right hand, he crackled and calculated the data and accounts, Tang Zhiyu could only sigh.

Officialdom said that the dignity of the Cao family for several lifetimes fell to Cao Hao, so he was fortunate to enter, and he became a prominent official at a young age. Tang Zhiyu himself was born in a serious imperial examination, studied poetry and books hard since he was a child, and took the imperial examination several times, and only in his thirties did he get the name of Jinshi. Therefore, for a young man like Cao Hao who came up by the shadow of the family, he originally had a little contempt, but now he really admires it.

If you are someone else, you may want to do it yourself, earn a credit, and upgrade to a higher grade or something. Cao Hao didn't have this kind of thought, and he was quite satisfied with his current official position from the fifth grade.

Even sometimes, Cao Hao couldn't help but have the illusion that in order to protect himself and reduce everyone's jealousy of him, Kangxi took advantage of the ranch incident to downgrade his grade by three levels. Because, just like the eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother, after he was demoted, he didn't feel that he was lucky.

Kangxi is old and can no longer withstand the summer heat. Cao Hao has entered His Majesty twice in the past two months, although this emperor's face is solemn and his eyes are still sharp, but he still can't hide the twilight aura on his body.

In the past two months, Kangxi was most happy that the palace people were pregnant with the news. In the spring, a nobleman gave birth to a prince and died not long after he landed. Although Kangxi has no shortage of princesses with elder brothers, as a man, an old man, being able to make a woman pregnant can be regarded as confirming that "the sword is not old".

The side of the sixteenth elder brother, the Li family, gave birth to a son on June 19, and the mother and son were safe. When the news reached Rehe, the sixteenth elder brother was overjoyed, and while giving Kangxi good news, he asked for grace and went back to Beijing to see his son.

This is Kangxi's third grandson this year, the first is the third elder brother added the tenth son at the beginning of May, and then the thirteenth elder brother added the second son at the end of May, and now the sixteenth elder brother added the eldest son.

Before the Li family was born, Chu Yu asked Cao Hao in a letter to his family how to follow the courtesy. Because of the comparison of the etiquette of the Thirteen Elder Brothers' Mansion, it is not too heavy here, and it is not too light. Although the eldest son is not as noble as the son-in-law, because the eldest son of the sixteenth elder brother died young, this child is considered the eldest son, and the etiquette is not too light.

Cao Hao only asked Chu Yu to follow the same preparations, and not to ask people to compare who is higher and who is lower. Chu Yu's family book also tells about the recent situation of everyone in the house, and they are all safe and do not read.

Tian and the servants from Yizhou arrived in the capital in late May, and Mr. Zhuang did not accompany him. He knew the news that Cao Hao was going north, so he took his two concubines and Niuniu back to the south to visit his brother. has sent a letter to Cao Hao, saying that he will go north after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Cao Song also wrote a family letter, a bit of a man's appearance, talked about the recent situation of several younger brothers and sisters, and also focused on Cao Yi's return home.

Perhaps the knot in her heart is difficult to solve, she has returned to Cao's Mansion twice, and has never called "mother", but she treats Zhaojia's etiquette well, and treats her younger brothers and sisters very closely. On her father's anniversary, she also followed her sister and brothers to bow before the spirit.

Cao Hao sighed, this can only wait for Cao Yi to unravel it himself. Whether she wants to accept Zhaojia's family or not, Cao Hao can understand it. Although the current world pays attention to the word "filial piety", in the eyes of the world, no matter what Zhaojia's family is, as long as she bears the status of a mother-in-law, Cao Yi can only be obedient even if she is a married daughter.

* Beijing, Goldfish Alley, Thirteen Elder Brothers' Mansion.

Since the beginning of summer, a vacant lot has been split on the side of the back garden, which is half a foot square, and fine white sand has been piled up on it. Every day at dusk, when the summer heat is about to disappear, the thirteen elder brothers send people to clear the people in the garden here, and prohibit them from entering and leaving. Then, the thirteenth elder brother came here and buried his legs in the sand.

This is the method that Cao Hao specially thought of after visiting with Hu and knowing that he had committed another illness. The thirteenth elder brother only felt that it was a little child's play, but he couldn't bear the soft grinding and hard bubbles of the thirteen blessings, and finally rectified this sand pile.

Because it is really effective, and the hot sand is so hot that people iron it, the thirteenth elder brother fell in love with this mouthful. It's just that this appearance is a little ridiculous, he doesn't want others to see it, so he closes the garden at this time every day.

However, for some "uninvited guests", the password of the thirteenth elder brother to seal the garden is obviously invalid. No, the sixteenth elder brother smiled and slipped in at the gate of the garden.

The thirteenth elder brother was sitting on the small pestle, squinting his eyes to recuperate. When he heard the sound of footsteps, he frowned and was just about to train someone, and when he heard the sixteenth elder brother greeting with a smile, he could only smile bitterly and said, "Why did you come here at such an hour?" It's getting dark! As he spoke, he pulled his legs out of the sand and shook the sand from above.

The sixteenth elder brother looked at the white sand pile, very curious, squatted down, grabbed a handful of sand in his hand, and it was a little hot to the hand. He smiled and said, "The palace is in a panic, and I came to find my brother to drink." As he spoke, he sat down next to the thirteenth elder brother, lay down on the sand, and said, "Brother is really comfortable, how did he think of tinkering with this?" My younger brother is suffering from back pain, and he is also Teng Teng! ”

(To be continued)