Sun took the maid down, and he was still a little worried about his brother. At this moment, she realized that her brother was dressed incorrectly.

Thinking of this, she couldn't sit still, and ordered someone to look ahead, and when her husband returned to the inner house, she asked someone to come over.

"Why did he come back to the south at this time? But what's wrong at home? Seeing her husband come in, Sun waved her hand, sent the maid out, and asked.

Li Nai accompanied his brother-in-law to drink wine for a long time, his mouth was a little dry, and he asked his wife for a cup of tea to drink, and then said, "Do you have any silver in your hand, prepare two hundred taels." ”

"Silver?" Seeing that her husband answered the question, Sun frowned and said, "Now that my wife is in charge of the house, where do I have the silver here?" Brother Cheng sent a letter, saying that he might not be able to come back before the year, and I also wanted to discuss with my grandfather, whether I could talk to my lord and send some money to the capital, so as to save Brother Cheng and his brothers. ”

Li Nai waved his hand and said, "Housework, talk to your wife, what do you bother the old man to do?" Didn't I hear you mention it a while ago? Why do you still want to send silver to Beijing? ”

Mentioning this, Sun couldn't help complaining a little more in his heart, and said: "Since the uncle brought the two little ones back, the wife changed her old surname, held the silver in the palm of her hand, and couldn't wait to break the penny in half and spend it." This year, I turned out a lot of old clothes to reward people, saving the silver for cutting new cotton clothes, and I didn't even want to be decent. ”

Li Nai knew the recent situation at home, but he didn't think much about it, and said: "In the past few years, the house has been short-lived, and it is also appropriate for my wife to be thrifty and spend some money." ”

Sun was choked and speechless, and it was not good to complain to her husband about Wang's stinginess, so she had to say: "If the uncle wants to make the silver, he should directly tell the master that it is cheaper to pay from the account than to the wife." ”

Li Nai was a little drunk, pressed his temples with his hand, and said, "It's not good to pay from the account, it's for my brother-in-law." You first come out of the private money, and in a few days I will make it up to you. ”

Seeing that her husband was uncomfortable, Sun walked behind him, stretched out his hand, and asked while helping him press his head, "Okay, why did you remember to go to our house to borrow money?" ”

Because there were too many involved, Li Nai didn't want to say more to his wife, so he said: "Xu is not cheap for a while, he came to the door and opened his mouth, so it is not good to tell him to leave empty-handed." ”

Sun pursed his lips, although he was a little reluctant, but after all, he was his maiden brother, so he didn't say much.

Li Nai remembered his two nephews, who were raised at his brother-in-law's house earlier, and if they accidentally bumped into them, it would be embarrassing. It seems that it is only right to send the silver early and send the brother-in-law out of Suzhou...... The next time, when Sun Jue saw the two hundred taels of silver handed over by his brother-in-law, his face was not good-looking. He originally opened his mouth to borrow 500 taels, but he didn't expect to get only 200 taels.

He snorted coldly and said, "Brother-in-law, is this a send-off?" I came all the way, and my brother-in-law took out two hundred taels of silver, but I was embarrassed? Now it's time to see that I'm down, and my sister and brother-in-law don't want to see me, forgetting when I begged me last year? ”

Last year, Li Nai begged him for the sake of the twins.

This is not a glorious thing, Sun Jue also took it out and said, Li Nai felt a headache, and said: "Now our house is not well-off, and we still owe hundreds of thousands of deficits to the household, and we are tightening our waists up and down." These are still your sisters, who became their own heads and made them for you. ”

This is not an excuse, most of the silver that the Li family has received from the salt tax in recent years has made up for the shortfall that fell when they took over the car.

Sun Jue's face turned red and he was indignant.

Li Nai was afraid that he would hold on to the twins' words, and lose the dignity of the two families, so he diverged and said: "It's not good to always live outside, and when the father-in-law is angry, Yushu should go back to Hangzhou as soon as possible." It's really not good, it's better to be near Hangzhou than in Xuzhou. ”

When Sun Jue heard this, he was also stunned, and said: "If you go back to Hangzhou, with your father's temper, you can directly kill me." Although it was a little bitter outside, I finally held on to this rotten life. ”

Hearing him say pitiful, Li Nai lowered his head, covered the guilt in his eyes, sighed in his heart, and already thought about whether he would come forward by himself, so as to persuade his father-in-law to ...... * Beijing, Changping, and Caojia Zhuangzi.

In the afternoon, the weather was fine, and the Ren brothers took the children to practice archery in the school field. Cao Hao was fine, pacing over to join in the fun, and just happened to see that the Li brothers were also there.

Li Cheng was afraid of the cold, wore cotton clothes, and covered with a lynx skin vest, looking still weak.

Seeing this, Cao Hao frowned secretly.

Before, before the Li family wanted to bring the Li brothers to Zhuangzi, Cao Hao asked the imperial doctor who treated Li Cheng, saying that Li Cheng's cold had been cured and he would not pass the illness to others.

However, these days, seeing that Li Cheng's symptoms were gone, even if he occasionally coughed, Cao Hao was worried that he was pneumonia.

His symptoms are not obvious, he does not have a high fever, and the adults are fine, and he is not afraid of infection; The children are weak in the end, and Cao Hao doesn't want him to get too close to the children.

Seeing Cao Hao coming, the Ren brothers put down their bows and arrows and brought the children over to greet them. The Li brothers also paced over and met Cao Hao.

Cao Hao waved his hand and told the children to continue, then turned his head and said to Li Cheng: "It's winter, looking at the warm weather, the wind is also hard." You're still resting, and you're only stable when you come out again. ”

"My nephew is already doing his best, but he is really stuffy in the house, so he came out to dry his head, and he will go back now." Li Cheng looked very well-behaved and replied in a proper manner.

"If you get bored, read more books, and then I'll send someone to bring you more." In terms of knowledge, you can also go to Zheng Xie. Cao Hao said.

Li Cheng bowed and answered, and the two brothers left together.

Cao Hao looked at their brother's back, and his heart sank.

According to later generations, the fall of the Li family was at the beginning of the Yongzheng Dynasty. Because of the Li family, the relationship between the Cao family and the Li family can never be broken cleanly.

Regardless of the true identity of the Li family, in the eyes of the world, the Li family is the maiden family of the Li family and the mother family of Cao Hao.

The Li family is in trouble, and others can watch coldly, but Cao Hao, the "nephew" of the Li family, cannot, otherwise, he will be regarded as a "mean and ruthless" person by the world.

Instead, the Cao family took care of the defeated Li family, but Cao Hao sincerely hoped that there would be people in the Li family who could support the door.

In the earlier history, the decline of the Cao family was defeated by Cao Yin's short life. Although they are all copying the house, Yongzheng's attitude towards the Cao and Li families is completely different, otherwise the Cao family will not continue to jump to the Qianlong Dynasty and raid the house for the second time.

Now, the Cao family has Cao Hao, as long as history has not changed much, his son is quite stable. The Li family, on the other hand, was defeated by Li Xu's "longevity".

Cao Hao thought very unkindly, if Li Xu's longevity died early, with Li Nai's generous surname, he took over the Li family, and An An shared the responsibilities of the courtiers, maybe the fate of the Li family would not be so miserable.

Li Cheng is not right, but Li Yu has a restrained temper.

Cao Hao squinted his eyes, if the Li family can't get rid of the mud, it is better to support a Li family disciple to take over.

Just as he was thinking about it, he felt his sleeves move, and someone said, "Father, father......"

It was Hengsheng who came over, with admiration on his face, raised the small bow in his hand, and said: "Father is the most powerful, shoot arrows to the child......"

His own son, no matter how he looks at it, is pleasing to the eye, Cao Hao listened to this childish words, and his expression softened.

At this time, God blessed a few of them to come over and surround Cao Hao.

The Ren brothers were compared with Cao Hao in archery in their early years, although the two of them were better than Cao Hao, and they were serious in riding and archery, but they were not as good as Cao Hao.

Seeing that Cao Hao was in a good mood, the two brothers also had fun, and took the bow and quiver in their hands and came over, saying: "Since the uncle is here, show his hands to the young masters." ”

The one said, "Yes, yes, I haven't seen my uncle shoot an arrow for a long time, and I just opened my eyes today." ”

Cao Hao took the bow and straightened his back.

If there were other people in the family who were in charge of the court, he would have wanted to be a military attaché. Instead of intriguing in the six yamen, being a military attache is at ease.

After all, the few who can lead troops to the battlefield to experience dangers, and most military attachés are just leading troops to train soldiers.

Seeing his father holding the bow, Tianyou took the quiver from Ren Jiyong's hand and hugged it, and followed behind his father.

Cao Hao entered the school field, looked at the target in front of him, made a visual inspection, and stood eighty steps away from the target. Then, he lowered his head and drew a feathered arrow from his quiver.

Fortunately, others have all seen Cao Hao shoot arrows, Sun Li and Sun Chu are the first time they have seen each other, and they are even more stunned. Especially Sun Chu, he was still strange in his heart.

In his heart, Cao Hao, his uncle, is a civil official, and he should be like his father Sun Jue, eager to incarnate as Confucius and talk about etiquette, where can he do martial arts?

Nine were shot in a row, except for one, because the arrow feather was broken, lost the head, missed the target and fell to the ground, the remaining eight were all on target, and some of them had two hearts.

The children stepped forward and cheered.

They now shoot arrows from ten paces away with small bows; Cao Hao stood eighty steps, and in their opinion, he was a powerful figure.

Without a wrench, Cao Hao's thumb was strangled by the bowstring. He handed the bow back to the Ren brothers, satisfied with his results.

Eighty steps is the distance during the martial arts exam, and the nine arrows and three middle schools are considered to be combined.

Cao Hao thought of Li Cheng who fell into the first place, and thought of a few children of the Wei family in Jiangning, and said to the Ren brothers: "Prepare a few more stone piers and give them to practice their strength, and it can't be all tricks." ”

In martial arts, in addition to riding archery and foot archery, there are also three items of "skill and bravery", all of which are compared to strength.

Cao Hao hopes that the children will be able to cultivate both civil and military, so that when they grow up, if they don't want to rely on the family to take care of them and want to go on the right path in the imperial examination, they can also have multiple choices.

Ren Jiyong heard Cao Hao mention the stone pier, and said: "I was trying to discuss with the master, whether to ask someone to buy some unedged swords for the masters, or wooden swords." In addition to archery in the past few years, I have taught the young masters a few sets of long boxing. It is enough to strengthen the body, if it is self-defense, it is serious to learn one or two weapons. ”

Cao Hao nodded and said, "Then tell the big housekeeper and go buy it for them." It's just that God bless them when they are still young, and if they learn weapons, they will have to bother your brothers to keep an eye on them. Otherwise, my wife will know it, and I'm afraid she won't follow it. ”

Speaking of this, he paused and said, "Even if you buy it once, you can also buy some hard bows and big knives back." ”

The Ren brothers listened to Cao Hao's words, glanced at each other, and their hearts were quite agitated. They have already heard that this is all needed for the "skill and bravery" of martial arts.

They left their hometowns and threw themselves into the Cao Mansion, first for the long followers, and then for the martial arts masters of the little masters.

Two years ago, when the imperial court made donations, Cao Hao asked their brothers what they meant, whether they wanted to become officials. The two brothers are accustomed to seeing wealth and nobility in Cao Mansion, and they are not keen on being a sesame petty official outside.

It's just that the world values literature over martial arts, and these two martial arts masters are not as confident as the Wen masters in the house.

Now that they have listened to Cao Hao's words, they want the little masters to cultivate both civil and military, and they also have some hope in their hearts. If the young masters have martial arts and martial arts, they can also make some contributions, and their status in Cao Mansion will be different in the future.

God bless them in the end, compared with the boring Four Books and Five Classics, they prefer the martial arts on this side of the school, and they are all excited when they hear that they are going to add weapons.

Only Sun Li was beside him, and he was a little confused.

There is only half a day of class every day, and the rest is to play in the school field, is this considered "not doing business"?

Why is my uncle still so indulgent and join in the fun?

Leaving the school, Cao Hao remembered the matter of martial arts, so he asked people to find Wu Sheng.

Some time ago, he instructed Wu Sheng to find a martial artist in Beijing, which was prepared for the Wei family in Jiangning.

Now half a month has passed, and I don't know if I have found it?

"Master, the little one inquired about these words, and there were a few good ones, but when I went to meet, they didn't work out." Wu Sheng replied.

Cao Hao listened, frowned, and said, "Why not?" If you really encounter good riding and archery skills, it is good to add more silver. ”

This time I was looking for a martial master, and I took riding and shooting well as the standard. With a big squire like the Wei family, there is no shortage of family guards, three "skills and bravery", and the kung fu of practicing strength is not to worry about the master, mainly to pick a person who is proficient in riding and archery.

"The silver is enough, but when I heard that I was going to go out of Beijing, no one was willing to go. Uncle, it's not easy to find it in Qiding. Banner people don't have to be ordinary people, ordinary flag men have two taels of silver every month, enough to chew, who is willing to leave their hometown to dig food. ”

"How's that good?" Cao Hao thought of finding a good master for Wei Wenzhi, so that the kid could fulfill his wish and take the road of martial arts.

The reason why he wants to find it in the flag and does not want to find people outside is because he is afraid that he will not know his family background and be unstable.

The Wei family is a big family on the land of Jiangning, if the people sent by Cao Hao have bad intentions, it is a good intention to do bad things.

Wu Sheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Uncle, from a small point of view, it is better for the uncle to borrow a good subordinate from an acquaintance, which is more appropriate than the person hired outside......

When Cao Hao heard this, he understood that what he was talking about was referring to the Pingjun Wangfu and Chunwangfu.

The palace has men and slaves, many of whom are outstanding, serving as guardians and long-term followers.

With Cao Hao's relationship with these two royal palaces, let alone borrowing people, even if he directly asks for it, it is just a trivial matter.

Thinking of this, Cao Hao nodded, and after thinking about returning to the city for a few days, he went to his father-in-law's mansion to say goodbye.

The brother-in-law is not there, and the eldest nephew is tied up in the palace again, Cao Hao is reluctant to go to his sister's house to dig up the corner, and he is still a good picker in the Chunjun Palace.

While the two were talking, they heard the footsteps of "Tata" outside.

"Uncle, the seventeenth master sent a letter, the sixteenth master is not good......" Zheng Hu hurriedly came in, didn't care about slowing down, and said to Cao Hao......

(To be continued)