Jingbei, Changchun Garden.

The holy driver arrived in Beijing on September 20, and Li Ding, as an inner guard, returned from Rehe with Hu. It wasn't until September 22 that it was Li Dingxiu's turn.

It was late autumn, and the plants and trees were withering, but Li Ding was thinking about where Cao Hao, Detehei and the others had gone.

Li Ding has not seen them since the Holy Driver was stationed in Kleuliyasu Taitai, and he inquired in front of his boss and colleagues, only saying that he was going on an errand.

Li Ding wondered in his heart, Detehei and Azi didn't talk about it, and they didn't have the same thing as Li Ding; Naranfusen and Heshan are the same as him. And because of the relationship between his parents, Nalan Fusen has always taken care of Li Ding.

Because he had the heart to investigate, he finally knew some clues, and knew that these guards had left the camp with Cao Hao.

For Cao Hao, Li Ding was always a little guarded in his heart. This time, after knowing that it was Cao Hao and the guards, thinking about their relationship, he also felt a little resentful.

Although he didn't expect to borrow any light from Cao Hao, Cao Hao excluded him from everyone so aggressively, and it was hard to ensure that he didn't suppress his thoughts.

I still wanted to wait for everyone to come back and say a few words to Cao Hao, but I didn't want them to go for nearly two months, and there has been no news so far. Li Ding was also confused in his heart, where was this sent to be an errand, it wouldn't be the south to Liangguang, right?

He was still thinking about whether to make a person go to Cao's Mansion to explore the letter, and in the north of Changchun Garden, several horsemen galloped on the official road.

The person who came was none other than Cao Hao, Detehei, and Nalan Fusen.

Since August 15, the Zasaktu Khan banner set out, because there were mule carts in the team this time, it was not faster than when they came, and everyone arrived at Alxa Xia Buldu on August 23.

The family temple of Abaole, the lord of the Alxa banner, is in the town of Xiayubule, on the edge of the Geri Desert. This is a small temple called Regesumu Guanbu, which is guarded by the Chaogetu couple, and the current presiding lama here is called Namu Kaibala.

Maybe it was because of the identity of the authentic disciple of the Yellow Sect Gelug sect of Dangsang Wangpo, or maybe it was inspired by him, and Namu Kaibala treated everyone very politely.

Ah Baobao knew that there were monks from afar here, so he came to pay a visit in person. Ah Bao inherited the title of flag lord and Baylor in the forty-sixth year of Kangxi, and he has also been to the court in recent years. Knowing that this Lama Sang Wangpo was escorted by several imperial guards, he inevitably became curious about his identity.

Although he did not explain the relationship between the living Buddha and the living Buddha, the living Buddha was eighty years old, and the appearance of the living Buddha was less than thirty, and Ah Baole regarded him as the beloved disciple of the living Buddha, and became more and more respectful.

Dangsang Wangbo was not shocked by the honor and disgrace, and calmly accepted Ah Baole's favor. When Ah Baole kept him to preach in Alxa, he did not respond immediately, but glanced at Cao Hao. Seeing that Cao Hao did not say anything against it, he nodded lightly.

Cao Hao and the others only stayed in Alxa for a while, and then went all the way east, and when they arrived at Suiyuan City, it was already half a month later.

Everyone calculates the itinerary, and the holy driver returns to Beijing at the end of September every year, and the great court meeting that promulgates the new calendar for the coming year on the first day of October cannot be delayed. If everyone goes to Rehe, it will take ten days and half a month, so it is better to go back to Beijing directly. Therefore, everyone passed through Chahar from Suiyuan and entered Zhangjiakou.

After entering the mouth, Cao Hao asked Wei Hei to escort Hengsheng slowly, and he and Detehe and others returned to Beijing first. Hengsheng is the son of the little princess, and the little one is more than a month old. As the old Khan concubine said, this is a sturdy child, although he has been on the mule cart, he is not sick or sick.

In private, Detehei also guessed who Hang Seng's father was, but they couldn't guess. Originally, Heshan suspected that the old Khan was inappropriate, because he saw that his daughter-in-law was really concerned, but later denied this speculation.

Outer Mongolia is not as harsh on etiquette as the Central Plains, if Hengsheng is really the biological son of the old Khan, then how could the old Khan have bad intentions?

Cao Hao thought of his son Tianyou, who happened to be in his life. I miss this father very much, let alone Chu Yu. Who is Hang Sheng's own father now, and what does it have to do with it? Since he can rescue him from his mother's womb, he can be regarded as having a fate with this child, and he should only have one more son.

In order to avoid future troubles, Cao Hao specially implored Nalan Fusen and Detehei to keep Hengsheng's life experience secret before entering Beijing. If someone asks about it in the future, they just say that they met an orphan on the way.

Resting in the pass, Hengsheng, the son of a widow whose father is unknown, is the "wild seed" without a father, and is the most despised by others. Everyone knew Cao Hao's concerns, and they happily accepted them. Anyway, this time everyone is doing a secret errand, and they can't make a big deal about it, and they won't mention this child if they have nothing to do.

* From Zhangjiakou, after traveling for a few days, Cao Hao and others arrived at Changchun Garden in the afternoon.

glanced at each other, and no one dared to hand over the sign so dustily. After entering the garden and doing a simple grooming on the side of the guard duty row room, everyone cleaned up neatly and handed over the sign to the driver.

The holy car is in the Qingxi study, because it is said that it is a small court meeting, and there are not many ministers waiting to see here, only a few ministers. Cao Hao handed over the sign for more than half an hour, and a little eunuch passed them to see them.

The room was a little cold, Kangxi was wearing regular clothes, and his complexion was not bad.

Cao Hao roughly talked about the itinerary before and after, Kangxi nodded, thought about it, didn't ask more, swept the kneeling Detehei and Nalan Fusen on the ground, and said: "The errand is done well, except for Cao Hao, everyone will be on vacation for half a month from tomorrow, and each person will be rewarded with three hundred taels of silver." In the past two months, you have been to Alxa Belle to help the Great Lama deliver a letter! ”

"Huh! Long live the reward! Together with Cao Hao, everyone kowtowed in unison.

Everyone has a knight, and there are many double and three taels on the side of Yulu, not to mention the silver reward for Halloween and Halloween every year. Three hundred taels of silver is not much in the eyes of everyone, but after all, this time it is the order of the Qin, and this silver is personally rewarded by the Lord of Long Live, and everyone feels that there is light on their faces.

Although Cao Hao didn't say anything, Deteblack and the others also knew that he had picked a few of these guys to run away from this. Although the long journey is hard, it is impossible for everyone to have a long face in front of the Long Live Lord. Therefore, out of the garden, Detehei wanted to pull Cao Hao to eat wine.

Since the beginning of this May, Cao Hao has been away from home for half a year, and it is like an arrow to return to his heart, so he made an appointment to eat and drink, and now everyone goes home first.

When they entered Andingmen, they clasped their fists with each other and dispersed first.

Cao Hao took Xiao Man and the two back to Caofu, calculating Wei Hei's itinerary, and it would take two or three days before they could arrive in Beijing.

Now, it's dusk, and the night is getting darker.

The gate at the entrance of Cao's Mansion was closed, and the two plain lanterns hanging outside the door had not yet been lit.

Cao Hao got off the horse and stretched his body, he really didn't want to ride a horse anymore. In the past two months, the journey has been nearly 10,000 miles, and it is almost a lap of legs.

Xiaoman was already sixteen, like a young man, and when he saw that the uncle had dismounted, and no one had come out to open the door, he knocked on the door with his arms.

I heard a "squeak", opened the side door, and the porter came out and asked, "Who are you looking for?" Seeing that it was Cao Hao, he hurriedly greeted him: "Oh, it's the uncle who is back, it's the uncle who is back!" The latter sentence is for the little guy in the door.

In a moment, Cao Zhong and Cao Fang also hurriedly greeted them.

Cao Hao handed the reins to the porter and asked the two housekeepers, "Is everything okay in the house?" ”

Cao Zhong said: "The wives and grandmothers are all good, and the ladies are good, but I haven't seen the uncle's letter in the past two months, and the grandmother is a little worried, so people have asked the sixteenth master several times!" ”

Cao Hao nodded, this is also a helpless thing. In the past two months, he also wanted to write a letter, but there was not even a post station in Outer Mongolia, and even if he wrote a letter at that time, he might not have arrived in the capital earlier than him.

Because of the wind and food in the past few months, whether it is Cao Hao or Xiaoman, their faces are much darker than before. The old housekeeper was a little worried, and said, "I heard that the uncle went on an errand, and he looks tired enough, so he has to rest." ”

Cao Hao smiled bitterly in his heart, Kangxi gave everyone a holiday, but he was the exception. After all, he is the chief official of the Taifu Temple, and he will go to the court meeting in the future. This errand, I don't know if Kangxi is really satisfied or falsely satisfied.

If he is really satisfied, if he does not give a reward, he may have to restore the goods. If you don't let him, the servant Siqing from the fifth grade, go above the two young ministers of the fourth grade, it is not like that.

Entering the gate, Cao Hao remembered that Mr. Zhuang said that he would go north after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and asked, "Has Mr. arrived in Beijing?" ”

Cao Zhong said: "September 18 has arrived, and it has been several days!" ”

Cao Hao nodded and ordered: "Go and talk to Mr., just say that I will go to the inner courtyard to change clothes first, and talk to Mr. in a while." ”

Cao Zhong responded, Cao Hao patted Xiao Man, and said to Cao Fang: "Xiao Man has been running around with me for the past two months, and he is tired enough, you ask Sister-in-law Fang to pick up some delicious food and drink for him, and let him rest for a few days." ”

Cao Fang hurriedly said: "Being able to wait for the uncle and follow the uncle for a long time is the blessing of this kid, where can I mention that I am tired or not, uncle, don't get used to him!" ”

Xiao Man patted his chest and said: "Uncle, the little one is not a child, when it comes to body bones, the uncle may not be stronger than Xiao Man!" ”

Cao Hao smiled: "Mmmm, it can't be compared!" In the end, when you grow your body, these people don't eat well, so ask your mother to get you some delicious food. Take care of yourself these days, and stop riding! ”

Xiao Man stuck out his tongue and said, "In the end, it's the uncle's compassion, don't say anything else, the cocoons in the root of this thigh are grinded out!" ”

While talking, when he arrived outside the second gate, Cao Hao sent Cao Fang's father and son back, and entered the second gate by himself.

When passing by the Shao Courtyard, he saw that the lamp was already in charge inside, and Cao Hao was still in a trance for a while. This garden is empty, how can it be inhabited?

It happened that Chu Yu came out of Zhaojia's house with Wu'er, and when he saw Cao Hao standing at the door, he was a little incredulous, and thought he was dazzled.

Zhao Jiashi followed behind, sent Chu Yu out, and also saw Cao Hao.

When Cao Hao saw Zhao Jia's family, he reacted to the end, it turned out that his aunt lived in this courtyard, and he was busy taking a few steps forward, and Shi Li said: "My nephew has seen my aunt, please say hello to my aunt!" ”

Because it was dark outside, it was difficult to speak, and Zhao Jia's family was not easy to talk because it was dark outside, so Zhao Jia's invited Cao Hao and Chu Yu into the house again.

Due to the custom in Beijing, the kang is burned on the first day of October. Although Zhao Jia's family grew up in the capital, he has been married to Jiangnan for more than 20 years, and he has long been intolerant of the autumn cold in the north.

Cao Hao invited Zhao Jia's to sit down and gave him a new salute. In the courtyard just now, it was dark and it was not real, but now in the house, Zhao Jiashi and Chu Yu were frightened when they saw Cao Hao's slightly dark complexion.

"This is sunburned on the grassland, how did you become a charcoal man?" Zhao Jia's words are a bit exaggerated, but Cao Hao has been pampered since he was a child, and this red and black complexion is the first time to appear.

Cao Hao saw that Chu Yu was already showing concern beside him, and said with a smile: "Don't get in the way, the Mongolian wind is strong, and you can ease up with some words!" ”

"Isn't Brother Hao not a guard and a civil official, why are you still basking under your head?" Zhao Jiashi was a little confused, shook his head and said: "Originally, I heard your mother say that the errand was hard, and my aunt didn't believe it, but now seeing you like this, it's really distressing." ”

Although she was not close to Zhaojia earlier, after all, it was for the sake of Cao Song's brothers, and after all, she was old, so Cao Hao treated her very respectfully and said a few common words.

Whether it's the fifth sister who hasn't seen him for half a year, or the fourth sister who hasn't seen him for more than a year, he doesn't remember anyone. The two little sisters followed Chu Yu a little timidly and secretly looked at Cao Hao.

It wasn't until Zhao Jia's family asked the two sisters to come up and call someone that the two held hands, moved to the front, and whispered, "Big brother!" ”

The two sisters, one four-year-old and the other three-year-old, looked somewhat similar. Cao Hao nodded, answered, and said with some embarrassment: "Auntie, my nephew went to Outer Mongolia on an errand, and he was in a hurry, and he didn't bring anything back!" ”

Zhao Jiashi hurriedly said: "It's all a family, why do you still say these kind words?" For more than a month, you haven't come back with a letter from home, but you can worry your niece and daughter-in-law enough. Okay, the aunt is not in the way, you two go back and talk first! When Ming'er is free, my aunt still has some things to discuss with you! ”

Cao Hao also told Chu Yu in his heart, and the two went back to Wutong Garden.

(To be continued)