"Uncle, uncle!" Xiu Yuan saw Cao Yan sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze, and called anxiously.

"Oh, what's wrong with this, uncle!" Grandma Sun said with a crying voice.

"Why are you still standing stupidly? Why don't you go and tell your wife! If the uncle has a good one, you and I can take care of it! Cao Fang said with a little annoyance.

Cao Yan was confused when he heard this, and turned around and said, "Don't go, it's okay!" With that, he looked into bed. Wan Yunlong was like a leaky pocket, his body shrunk a lot, and his face was full of wrinkles. He smiled at the corners of his mouth, his face was seassuring, as if he had fallen asleep, but the stiff arm that hung down to the side of the bed indicated that he had been gone for a long time.

Cao Yan only felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, raised his hand and stroked his chest, and put a foreign object in the palm of his hand. He thought of the bits and pieces of Fang Cai, and it felt very unreal. This is the plum blossom wrench, the Hongmen helm token that Wan Yunlong said.

Being able to meet the legendary martial arts figures, Cao Yan faintly looked forward to it. Not to mention that every man has a martial arts dream, isn't it exactly what he is looking forward to to being able to exercise his body and bones and avoid the fate of untimely death. What kind of martial arts cheats, pass on a body of internal strength, even if you ask someone to send something, you have to give some thanks, why is this old man so polite. Forget it, the dead are greater, what do you have to do with him? Cao Yan comforted himself like this.

"Don't scare your mother, buy a coffin and bury it at dawn!" Cao Yan suppressed his melancholy and disappointment, instructed Cao Fangdao beside him, and was stunned after speaking. He touched his throat, it was still a little itchy, but it was not as swollen and painful as before, and he was still hoarse when he spoke, but he was able to speak completely.

"Da Hong Mountain, Wu Tiancheng!" Cao Yan looked at Wan Yunlong's remains, secretly wrote down the address and name he mentioned, and said silently in his heart: "You can go with confidence, although you don't know your life, you will definitely live up to your trust!" ”

In the distance, the sound of the husband's bangzi was heard, and it was already the fourth watch. Although Cao Fang was not sleepy, everyone else in the house was holding on, and Cao Fang repeatedly mentioned that someone was dead in the house, and asked the uncle to go back to the inner courtyard. Cao Yan took one last look at Wan Yunlong, nodded, and let the two servants carry him away.

Jiangning, weaving house.

The sky outside the window was getting brighter, Cao Yin reached out and took out his pocket watch from under the pillow and looked at it. Yesterday he was busy welcoming the Qincha who came from the capital to give medicine, and now he said that there are still many things to do, deal with the affairs of the yamen, and then send appropriate people to Hangzhou to send the imperial tribute snow lotus, Xuan's participation in the "tiger bone intermittent ointment" and other medicines. I don't know how my wife and children are in Hangzhou, the mother and son spent the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it was too lonely. Thinking of this, Cao Yin turned his head to look at a wisp of green silk beside the pillow, and a little guilt rose in his heart.

said before, when I went back to the house to see the old lady, it was inferred that the Li family was not feeling well, and the mother and son would come back after a while. The old lady didn't see her grandson, she was full of displeasure, and couldn't help but be angry with the Li family, just remembering that Liuli hadn't received the house yet, so she took advantage of the festival to open her face.

"Uncle, you're awake!" Liuli blushed, lowered her eyebrows and put on her clothes, and got out of bed: "The slave waits for you to get up!" ”

started as a bride, Cao Yin was ruthless after drinking last night, Liuli was a little inconvenient to walk, her brows were slightly wrinkled, and her appearance was extremely pitiful.

Cao Yin couldn't bear it, and while letting Liuli dress him, he said: "Wait for dawn, after the old lady and your sisters have seen the ceremony, just rest, and tell the kitchen to boil a black chicken soup." ”

Liuli answered in a low voice, with indescribable joy. Counting the whole house, which maid is blessed with her? The old man is dignified, the wife is a bodhisattva-like kind person, the two aunts are honest and responsible, and they are trained by the old lady. In the future, the mother's brother can also be regarded as an uncle, who dares to underestimate it. If you have a belly and a man and a woman, then the benefits in the future can be clearly explained.

Li, who is far away in Hangzhou, doesn't know that her husband has accepted a new love, and even if he does, he shouldn't feel surprised. Since it was ordered by the old lady to come down early, he had to enter the door early and late.

On August 16, Li listened to his grandmother's report that a thief had entered the front yard last night and died in the courtyard, reciting "Amitabha". Originally, she wanted to instruct her subordinates to report to the official, but when she heard that her son had said that he wanted to bury the man, she agreed.

Cao Yan tossed and turned for half the night, and did not sleep until dawn, so he did not wake up until noon. Li felt sorry for his son, so he didn't urge, but only asked someone to prepare food and prepare it in the kitchen.

Cao Yan ate lunch, remembered Wan Yunlong's funeral, and called someone to call Cao Fang over, knowing that he had been buried, and asked about the burial location, and secretly remembered it.

On August 17, the doctor in charge of caring for Cao Yan's condition returned from Zhuangzi outside the city to change the dressing for Cao Yan's wound. After carefully examining Cao Yan's wounds, the doctor was overjoyed, and said that the broken bones were healing well, and that he should be able to walk on the ground in a few days. Li was full of joy and asked someone to wrap a reward of twenty taels of silver.

Cao Yan knew that the injury was getting better, and he was very happy, his legs and feet had been inconvenient for nearly a month, and now he had an indescribable strength all over his body. In the past, I was able to sit on the chair and read and write with peace of mind, but now I want to run and jump.

Cao Yan's leg injury healed faster than the doctor expected, and by the time the imperial medicine from Jiang Ning's side was delivered, he was already able to walk two steps on the bed. Because of the throat disease, Cao Yan has been using snow lotus in this paragraph, but what is sold outside, where can it be compared to the royal tribute. According to the doctor's instructions, after eating for a few days, Cao Yan's throat recovered as before. Coupled with the external application of tiger bone cream, it is almost cured.

On August 26, Li left Hangzhou with Cao Yan and Liu Ping and returned to Jiangning. There are two rooms left here in the Hangzhou Villa, and the honest family watched, and because of the careful care of Liu Ping, the Li family ordered a few members of their family to accompany them. Although the Li family repeatedly emphasized not to be ostentatious, the maid also used five or six carriages. Cao Yan was most reluctant to give up in Hangzhou was Master Song, and he earnestly asked Master Song to accompany him, but Master Song had to take care of his father and was unwilling to travel far, so the teacher and student had no choice but to say goodbye.

The weather is getting cooler, and it is peaceful to take the official road all the way. The last time I came to Hangzhou, Cao Yan was on the waterway, but this time on the land, I was very curious about the outside world. When the carriage is tired, I want to ride a horse. Li couldn't resist him, so he ordered Cao Fang to take him. When Xiao Liu Ping saw that her brother was outside, she kept lifting the curtain and looking. Li was still worried about his son's legs and throat, but now that everything is better, his heart is much happier, and he is more and more indulgent to him.

On August 30, Li and his entourage arrived in Suzhou. Li's cousin Li Xu, a weaver in Suzhou, had already gotten the news and called his two sons, Li Nai and Li Ding, to take people out of the city to greet them. Li was originally Li Xu's cousin, but due to the early death of his father, he had no siblings and grew up in Li Xu's mansion since he was a child. The brother and sister are seventeen years apart, and Li Xu raised his sister as a daughter. Li's widowed mother, Gao, accompanied her sister-in-law Wen, to eat fasting and chant Buddha in the inner courtyard.

Li Nai is the eldest son of Li Xuyan, who was only seven or eight years old when Li got married, and now he is a twenty-year-old young man. Li Ding Eleven, although he is a concubine, is very lively and lovely because of the love of his father and brother.

After Cao Yan was kidnapped, Li Fu sent people to look for him inside and outside Suzhou Mansion, so Li Nai knew about his cousin's abduction. But when relatives reunite after a long absence, where will they say those unhappy words.

When Li and the others entered the city and arrived at Li's mansion, Li Xu's mother Wen, Li's mother Gao, and Li Xu's wives and concubines were all waiting. Li has been married for 12 years, and when he returned to his parents' house for the first time, he was also full of tears, and took his son to kowtow to his aunt Wen first, and then to his mother Gao and sisters-in-law. The first time Wen and Gao saw Cao Yan, and heard that he had suffered a major crime some time ago, they were all hugged and hugged, and they cried out "heart and liver baby", and they were distressed. It was a lot of noise, and it took a while to calm down and talk. Knowing that their grandson was fine, the two old ladies were thankful, and only then did the two of them notice the little girl with apricot eyes and a smart face following Li Shi. Because of the reputation of the Cao family, it was inconvenient for the Li family to say Liu Ping's true identity, and concealed the identity of Cao Quan's daughter, and only talked about the part where Hangzhou helped Cao Ping.

The two old ladies originally saw that this little girl was well-behaved and clever, and they liked it a little, but they heard that it was the little benefactor of their grandson, and their background was pitiful, so they became more and more pitiful, and asked someone to prepare a large bag of gifts for her.

On the same day, Li Xu set up a family banquet to catch the wind for Li's mother and son. He is a few years older than Cao Yin, his body is slightly fat, and he is more like an official than Cao Yin. A few years ago, when Emperor Kangxi was touring south, Li Xu accompanied him to Jiangning and met his nephew Cao Xu. Right now, I am very happy to see that he is healed and acts generously and properly.

When the news of Cao Yan's kidnapping reached the capital, the Son of Heaven was furious, withdrew the governor of Zhejiang, dismissed the prefect of Hangzhou, and wrote to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to crack down on Xiaoxiao and rectify public order in the province. is just a ruffian hooligan, and what is the matter of the governor's prefect, it is just anger, and it also has the intention of comforting Cao Yin. The Cao family has been in Jiangnan for 40 years, and Cao Yin is still only a fifth-grade official to the outside world. In Kangxi's companionship, Cao Yin is a well-known civil and military officer, if he stays in Beijing as an official, I am afraid that he has now entered the cabinet as a minister. Cao Yin was conscientious and conscientious, acting as the emperor's eyes and ears in Jiangnan without the slightest complaint. Although he has great power in his hands, the most valuable thing is that he remembers his duty as a courtier, and has not crossed the line for many years, even when his only son was kidnapped, he did not use the power of the general secretary.

If Cao Yan knew about this, he would definitely feel strange, isn't this the ancient "strike hard"!

Cao Fu followed his mother in Suzhou for three days, and Cao Fu, the chief housekeeper of the Cao family, took someone to Suzhou to pick up his wife and little master back home. It was really the old lady who was talking about her grandson, and she urged again and again, and ordered Cao Fu to go to Suzhou to pick up people. Cao Yin delayed for a few days, afraid that the old lady would be suspicious, so he told Cao Fu to go slowly all the way to Suzhou and wait for his wife. Because Cao Yin's injuries healed quickly, he set off from Hangzhou earlier than Cao Yin expected, so he arrived in Suzhou a few days earlier than Cao Fu.

Li was away from home for more than a month, and he was very worried, and talked to the two old ladies and cousins, and returned to Jiangning the next time.

Because of the old lady of the Sun family, Li Xu could not stay any longer, so he borrowed two official ships from Suzhou Mansion to send the Li mother and son back by water. In addition to preparing various gifts for Cao Yan and Liu Ping, there is also a copy of Cao Yan, and the gifts from the Cao family are also ready. The Wen family and the Gao family sent two decent mothers-in-law and the Li family to accompany them, and went to Jiangning to ask Sun Lao Taijun for peace, and by the way, helped the Li family to fulfill his lies.

Perhaps because she gradually understood the rules with the Li family, Xiao Liu Ping no longer stuck to Cao Yan as she did in the past, and in the past few days on the boat, she began to learn embroidery with vanilla. Vanilla is the second girl of Zhang Gen's family, ten years old, originally called Erxiang. Seeing that she was quiet and honest, Li made her Liu Ping's personal maid and renamed her vanilla.