Li was sick, his condition was menacing, and he was bedridden after two or three kung fu.

In Cao Hao's heart, he regretted it. He only wanted to tell his mother the truth, so that she could prepare in advance, so as not to be caught off guard when he heard these things from outsiders, but he forgot that his mother was over half a hundred years old, and she was not a strong-willed surname.

Chu Yu had already learned about her mother-in-law's life experience from her husband, although her cousin and grandmother became her own aunt, she was a little surprised, but it did not reduce her respect for her mother-in-law.

The husband and wife are undressed in the Orchid Courtyard, and Changsheng and God bless them are also much more well-behaved.

Li was afraid that he would give the children too much illness and didn't let them come, but the little ones still greeted Li through the curtain every day.

Seeing that the children were well-behaved and Cao Hao and his wife were so filial, Li only felt that his chest was blocked and his nose was sore.

In a drowsy state, Li remembered a lot.

Thinking of Li Xu's daughter-in-law who was envious of him, and thinking of the princess who lived in the Li Mansion like himself, it seems that he has returned to the time when everyone was still a child.

Gao Taijun was cold to her, she had known it for a long time, but she didn't dare to complain at all. As a concubine, raised in the name of her mother-in-law, she has no short food and clothing, and no beating and scolding, which is already her blessing.

The more she thought about it, the more sad she became.

When he was a child, he was ignorant, and he was also a naughty surname, and he learned to speak with his niece who was three years older than him, calling his cousin Li Xu his father, and his sister-in-law Han calling his mother, and he didn't change his mouth until he was five or six years old. The person she envied the most at that time was not others, but her niece Li Fei.

She often thinks that it would be nice if she were Li Fei, the daughter of her sister-in-law.

When Li Fei entered the palace, the Li family secretly rejoiced in his heart, because no one would compete with him for his sister-in-law in the future. However, my cousin's concubine gave birth to a son and took it to my sister-in-law to raise her, it was Li Nai, and her sister-in-law had to stand aside, and even her favorite osmanthus soup, my sister-in-law couldn't remember to ask someone to do it.

In order to please his sister-in-law, Li saw that the heavens and the earth revolved around Li Nai's cradle and refused to leave his sister-in-law's house.

Later, I don't know if my cousin felt sorry for my sister-in-law, or if my sister-in-law was disgusted with herself, and what she said to Gao Taijun, which made Gao Taijun reprimand her with a straight face and forbade her to go to her sister-in-law's room again.

She didn't show anything in front of people, and she cried in the bed for half the night at night, she really didn't want to be alone.

Fortunately, the mother and daughter of the princess ran over, they were all orphaned daughters who had lost their fathers, and they were sympathetic to each other, and she and the princess became little friends.

Since then, the Li family is no longer "naughty", and together with the princesses, she honestly followed the grandmothers to learn red needlework and became a "gentle and virtuous" girl...... Chu Yu knew that her mother-in-law was sad, but as a daughter-in-law, she couldn't mention anything else, so she had to wait with all her heart. Li was afraid that she would be tired, so he told her to rest, but she didn't listen.

When Cao Hao was unmanned, he had to explain his mother a few words.

The past is gone, and now that the family is living in peace and stability, why be sad for others.

Whenever Li heard the words, he could only weep silently.

She has been sick for a few years, and even Gao Taijun in the Shaoyuan is not stable.

This said, Gao Taijun came to visit the patient, sent Cao Hao and his family down to rest, and she stayed in the Orchid Courtyard to talk to the Li family.

"Shuqing, what's wrong with you? Why did you get sick well, but Brother Hao made you angry? I heard that he came back from Rehe and brought a lot of luggage, did he go to his home to collect people? Gao Taijun looked at Li on the sickbed, and with a little worry, he took her hand and said.

Her eyes are full of love, even if her tone is not gentle, but with her always hard surname, it is rare to be able to speak so softly.

"Mother...... Mother's ......" Li said with mixed feelings in his heart, choked up.

Gao slapped her hand and said, "You are silent and quiet, the surname looks at Mianhe, but you have a good temper." When you were a child, Li Fei grabbed your fruit, you could cry so much that you could hold your breath, and then throw Li Fei's purse into the fish tank; Li Nai's illness was too bad for you, and he didn't let you go to your sister-in-law's house, so you didn't go for a whole year, and then you went again, and you refused to get close to your sister-in-law again. It's really a little white-eyed wolf, who completely forgot that your sister-in-law treated you like a daughter-in-law, and made her sad. It's heart-wrenching. Now that you have grandchildren, can you bear to let my wife worry about you? ”

Listening to Gao's babbling about his childhood, Li only felt that his old face was red, and his previous sentimentality was inexplicably much less.

Li shook Gao Taijun's hand back, looked at her gray-haired appearance, and thought that she would be widowed before she was twenty, which was really pitiful.

"Mother, father...... When Daddy went, you were young and you didn't have ...... under your knees If you don't have a son, why don't you remarry? After pondering for a long time, Li finally asked the question he had wanted to announce for a long time.

Hearing Li mention widowhood, Gao thought that she was sick because she missed her deceased husband, after all, it was about Cao Yin's third anniversary.

"Remarry? Your aunt has persuaded me for twenty years. Until you're out of the cabinet, she said it. Gao Taijun talked about the past and fell into memory: "When your father was gone, it was the first year of our marriage, and I was only sixteen...... He participated in the township test with great interest, but he didn't want to fall short because he wrote prohibited words. Your grandfather and grandmother didn't die early, and your father was raised by your uncle and aunt. Your uncle was serving as an envoy in Henan at that time, and when he heard the news of your father's fall, he was afraid that he would be depressed and sad, so he wrote to him and asked him to go to Henan Mansion to study. Your father failed the exam, felt that he had lost face, and was about to go out for a walk, so he listened to your uncle's arrangement and left Beijing...... I went and never came back......"

In the end, she didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and she looked scared.

Not only did he not come back, but did he leave a "concubine" for his wife?

Li still has a lot of questions in his heart, such as how did he get to the Li family? Why is she regarded as the daughter of the Li family?

But seeing Gao Taijun like this, she couldn't ask anything.

If she is said to have a point of suffering, then Gao Taijun's suffering is ten.

Compare her heart to her heart, if she is in the position of Gao Taijun, her husband is gone, and she has an extra concubine, she will also be like ashes. Not to mention raising that child in your own name, it's good not to be angry.

Although Gao Taijun treats her as not close, he also treats her as his own daughter, otherwise, with her surname, she would not have lived in the Cao family after Wen Taijun passed away.

The husband died early, and the mother-daughter relationship of more than 50 years was empty, which hit the old lady even harder.

She knows Gao Taijun's surname, she has her own style, and she is most afraid of taking advantage of others. If she knew that she and the Li family were not mother and daughter, she might have to pack up and go back to the south immediately.

In the early years, when the old lady of the Li family divided the family with his sons, he took pity on the orphans and widows of this brother and daughter-in-law, and lived with the Li family.

She sold her dowry and handed over half of the silver to Wen Taijun for the living expenses of the mother and daughter, and left the remaining half for the Li family as a dowry.

When the Li family got married, I heard Wen Taijun talk about it, and I knew about it. Wen Taijun naturally refused to ask for Gao Taijun's silver, but because her surname was stubborn, she stayed in her hand and used makeup for the Li family.

Thinking of this, Li looked at Gao Taijun's pity, and turned into a heart full of shame.

Earlier, I only felt that the old lady had a big temper and didn't kiss her, but she was blindfolded by lard, and she couldn't see Gao Taijun's kindness to herself.

No matter who gave birth to her, it was Gao Taijun who raised her, and it was the Li family.

She is the daughter of the Li family and the daughter-in-law of the Cao family.

What golden branches and jade leaves, dragons and phoenixes, all go aside.

Li Shi only felt that Daigo was empowered, sighed for a long time, and said: "Mother, in the future, my daughter will be filial to her mother and repay her mother's nurturing kindness." ”

Gao Taijun shook his head and said, "It's all your own flesh and blood, what do you say in return?" Brother Hao, the second girl, and the third girl are all filial, you are blessed with children, but I am not worried about you. It's your brother's side, who has been messing around so much all these years that it's so white that people are worried. I know that Brother Hao doesn't like to be close to his uncle's house. But as the old woman said to you in the early years, we owe your uncle too much. The grace of two generations of nurturing, if it weren't for your aunt's accommodation, how could I, a widow's family, pull you up too peacefully? In this life, no one owes the wife and son, but she owes your uncle. In the future, if you can help the lining, you can help it, in the end, it is a close relative. ”

Li Shi nodded and said, "Mother rest assured." Hao'er just doesn't like to be social, he is not a lonely person, he will not care about what should be helped. ”

After saying these words, Gao Taijun's heart was also much happier.

Seeing that Li's spirit looked kind, she persuaded: "You have to open some, don't let the people who leave uneasy, and take care of the living." If you don't get sick again, the children will fall. Brother Hao came back from the field and didn't stop for a while; The granddaughter-in-law also has her body, if there is a mistake, there is no place to cry! ”

Li nodded, and Gao Taijun accompanied her for a while to gossip, until he saw that she had used medicine, and then let her settle, and he went back to the peony courtyard on crutches.

After she left, Li struggled to sit up and called someone to ask Wutong Yuan to invite his son over.

At this time, Cao Hao was rubbing Chu Yu's calves.

In the past two years, Xu is tired of being sick, and her calves and stomach are cramping.

"Mother's side, I'm still taking care of it. You can't get sick anymore, then the house will be messed up. Cao Hao said.

"Heart disease still has to be a heart medicine, and my mother-in-law's side has to be carefully persuaded by my forehead, and my mother-in-law must think about it." Chu Yu said.

Cao Hao rubbed his forehead and said, "It's all my fault, I shouldn't have taken strong medicine directly, it's right to be a slow figure." ”

The husband and wife were talking about this, when they heard the girl from Lanyuan come over to invite Cao Hao.

Cao Hao stood up and instructed Le Chun to knead Chu Yu next, and said to Chu Yu: "Tell the kitchen to boil some big bone broth, and you use a bowl for every meal, this is a small folk remedy for leg cramps." ”

In fact, this is a recipe for calcium supplementation. Cao Hao remembered that in his previous life, he heard that if he was deficient in calcium, he was also prone to leg cramps.

Chu Yu believed in her husband, and immediately told Le Xia to go to the kitchen to spread the word.

When Cao Hao arrived at the Orchid Courtyard, there was silence here.

Li sat on the kang, leaning on the kang cabinet, looking at the several sandalwood boxes on the kang table in a daze, not knowing what to think.

Cao Hao looked at the boxes but felt familiar, they were the boxes containing Concubine Hui's "dowry" booklet.

It's only been half an hour, and the Li family is a little different, the sadness that originally shrouded her has faded a lot, and her expression has calmed down.

"Mother......" Cao Hao took two steps forward, took a piece of clothing from the clothes rack and put it on for Li: "Seeing that in September, the house is a little cold. ”

"Younger...... I am the daughter of the Li family, I grew up eating the rice of the Li family, and I came out of the door with the dowry of the Li family......" Li turned his head and looked at Cao Haodao.

When Cao Hao heard this, he didn't know what she meant, could it be that Gao Taijun said something?

I heard Li Shi continue: "God treats me well, I have a good mother, a good husband, and a good son." Be blessed. ”

Speaking of this, she paused and said, "If you ask for anything else, you will be greedy, and God will be red-eyed." ”

As she spoke, she turned her head, and her gaze fell on the sandalwood box on the kang table: "Although these things are valuable, they are not what I deserve. These things will only remind others that I am not the daughter of the Li family, but a golden branch and jade leaf of Laoshizi. Isn't that a joke? Isn't the 'golden branch and jade leaf' who can't recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors be 'illegitimate daughters'? This teahouse can add something new to talk about. Even ...... Even those who are gone may have to dig it out and say ......"

Li's voice was not loud, but his expression was firm, and he seemed to have made up his mind: "You tell your daughter-in-law, I don't care what people outside say, we can't spread gossip around in our house, and we can't spread it to the ears of the old lady." The old lady is seventy years old, and after listening to this nonsense, I am afraid that she will not be able to stand it. ”

Cao Hao nodded, his heart turned back and forth, and he directly refused the Queen Mother's "reward", which was a crime of "great disrespect", and it seemed that he wanted to help his mother think of a proper explanation.

To be honest, he was a little reluctant to do those things. Gold is still secondary, but those antique calligraphy and paintings are hard to find.

Not to mention the side, just talking about Qiu Ying's paintings, when future generations look at the auction, the price starts at tens of millions. Even if it is on the market now, it can be worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Whether it is worth or not is secondary, there are chess pieces with a pair of Hetian jade, and a chess piece with a pair of ivory, which are rare treasures in the world.

Cao Hao has nothing to do and loves to kill time with two plates, and he planned to talk to his mother earlier, take out these two and put them in the study.

However, no matter how good things are, they are not as important as the safety of the mother.

Cao Hao just wanted his mother to be happy, but he didn't want his mother to be sick because of this, so he naturally obediently followed his mother's wishes.

As for Kangxi's side, because he knew about this layer of relatives, the fear in Cao Hao's heart was reduced by a few points.

He couldn't recognize his daughter and return to the sect, he already felt guilty about the Li family, and he wouldn't be too embarrassed by the Li family.

It's just that you don't want things, can this "emperor daddy" not recognize it?

Even the chamberlain was sent, and he wanted to posthumously seal Concubine Hui, even if Kangxi couldn't canonize his daughter as a princess, he wanted to recognize the father and daughter before he died, right?

"Mother, according to the rules, since I arrived in Beijing and sent these things to my mother, I will give thanksgiving to my mother on behalf of my mother, how should I write this fold?" Cao Hao thought for a moment and asked.

Li sighed and said, "Just write that I thank the Queen Mother for her grace, I am very grateful." It's just that there is no merit and no benefit, and I really dare not worship the grace of heaven. The people around the Queen Mother, I will give birth to a good life, these things are not blessed by ordinary people, please be considerate of the emperor......"

(To be continued)