Inside the Dongzhi Gate, Li House.

Since the battle was said to have come back from the Changchun Garden, Li Xu has not left the house. Even if he had the heart to drill into the camp, after being reprimanded by Kangxi, he didn't dare to act arbitrarily. He contracted a cold under the pretext of illness and did not go out.

He can't leave a woman for a while, and the best color in the house here is Xiangtong. Xiangtong has been by his side for several years, and he trained it single-handedly, where is there still any interest? It wasn't until he sent the butler to call someone to buy two fourteen or fifteen virgins, and put them in the house to wait, that his mood was better.

The father and son of the Li family are both in the capital, and since Li Xu can't go out to socialize, then Li Nai can only do it for him. Poor Li Nai, just in time for the New Year's festival exchanges, often have to run three or five people at a time.

Some relatives and relatives of the Li family heard that Li Xu was sick, and they also came to visit the patients one after another. If the relationship is close, Li Xu will come out to meet him in clothes and crutches; If the relationship is average, he will send the housekeeper to accompany the tea and send it off.

It is Li Nai's brother-in-law and Sun Wenqi's eldest son Sun Jue who came over today. The two families have interacted with each other, and they are in-laws, so Li Xu has no outside ways, so he asked someone to take him directly to the inner hall to meet.

Among Cao Yin, Li Xu, and Sun Wenqi, Li Xu is the oldest, Cao Yin is the second, and Sun Wenqi is the youngest. Therefore, after Sun Jue entered the house, he saluted and said, "The little nephew has seen Shibo, please say hello to Shibo!" ”

Li Xuyuan looked down on this grandson and felt that he was too pedantic. Now, looking at it, I don't know if it's a stupid person who has a stupid blessing.

Cao, Li and Sun all had children in Beijing, and Cao Hao died nine times and almost died; Li Ding has been missing for many days and has no life; There is only Sun Jue, but there are no twists and turns.

He pointed to the chair on the ground and said, "Sit down, how have you been doing in the past six months?" It has been nearly three years since you entered Beijing the year before last. ”

Sun Jue sat down in response and replied: "Back to Shibo, the little nephew is okay here." I just hope to stay up until the end of my term next year and see if I can find a vacancy for release! ”

When Li Xu heard this, he couldn't help frowning, why did one or two of them think about going back? He glanced at Sun Jue, and saw that his expression did not seem to be fake, and sighed in his heart, it seems that Sun Jue's son in Beijing is not good.

Li Xu thought for a moment and asked, "I heard that you rarely have contact with Cao Hao, what's the matter, but what kind of quarrel?" Talk to the old man and see if you can solve one or two things for your cousins. ”

Where is there any quarrel? It's just that Sun Jue's frame was too good at the beginning, and Cao Hao coaxed him impatiently. He couldn't get off the stage, he just felt shameless.

Hearing Li Xu ask this, Sun Jue's face turned red and said, "Cao Hao is beautiful, how can he put his nephew's cousin in his eyes?" Besides, he and the Sun family are not flesh and blood, and it is also possible to be estranged from his nephew. The nephew just wants to be honest and does his duty, and he doesn't have the heart to cling to power. ”

When Li Xu heard this, he couldn't help frowning, and his heart was so tired that he couldn't do it. It seems that this kid from the Sun family just looks at the rules, and he is still a nerd who doesn't understand the world inside.

Although Cao Yin is not the biological son of the old Taijun of the Sun family, he is raised under his knees and raised by his son-in-law, which is no different from his own son. Over the years, Cao Yin has also taken care of Sun Wenqi's cousin. If Cao Yin hadn't bothered to go around, the lack of weaving in Hangzhou would not have fallen on Sun Wenqi.

Sun Jue, a kid, can say such things now, which is really chilling.

Although Sun Jue's sentence belittled Cao Hao, he also talked about Li Xu's heart disease. Li Xu's father, Li Shizhen, was the adopted son of the Li family, so he was able to enter the Eight Banners and became a coat.

The identity of this adopted son is a small sect in the clan, and the big sect is regarded as a family slave, and even the family tree has taken a lot of twists and turns to write a pen. Because of this, Li Xu and his family were not less squeezed by the Li clan. It wasn't until later that Li Xu's father, Li Shizhen, was promoted to the governor of Guangdong and became a pastor.

Sun Jue didn't realize that he was speechless, and said to himself: "Not everyone has such a cultivation and courtesy as a new virtuous brother!" In the past six months, my nephew has been very close to Xinchengxian. Speaking of this, he paused and said: "The matter has come to this, I still hope that Shibo will mourn, and you still need to take care of your body!" ”

Although in Li Xu's heart, he didn't expect his son to survive, but when he heard Sun Jue's words, he still felt that something was wrong.

This kid's mouth was too stinky, Li Xu frowned secretly, a little too lazy to deal with him, so he sighed, and said weakly: "I was tired of my nephew coming to see the old man, and I should have left you to eat and drink, but the old man tossed and turned last night, and now he is a little tired." If the nephew is not to blame, let the old man rest first. As he spoke, he picked up the teacup.

Sun Jue saw that Li Xu's face was pale, and he was wearing a bun and a cane, looking very weak. He didn't want to stay long, got up and said a few polite words, and then said goodbye.

Li Xu "couldn't move", Li Nai was not in the house, so Li Xu called the housekeeper to send Sun Jue out of the house.

Li Xu's face was gloomy, and when he saw Sun Jue's back going out of the door, he snorted coldly, and instructed the maid waiting next to him: "Call someone to sprinkle water and mop the floor!" ”

He sat on the kang, thinking that Sun Jue was so ignorant of the world, and his remaining son Li Nai lived honestly, and among the three younger generations of Cao, Li and Sun, there was really only one Cao Hao who had a future.

Earlier, whether in front of Cao Yin or in front of his son Li Ding, Li Xu praised Cao Hao a lot. However, it is just lip service, but in my heart I don't think so. He always thought that the Cao family was so decent because of the light of the old lady of the Sun family, and he had no real skills.

Now it seems that Cao Hao is still underestimated. Although he was not very old, he was very disciplined. I heard that the release was his own lack of begging, although the local officials are more bitter than the Beijing officials, but they also have more opportunities than the capital. No, but after a year and a half of being released, he was promoted to Jiuqing when he came back. If you are in the capital, you will be able to boil in the six departments, and it is impossible for a five-grade lang to be promoted to three levels in a row, and you will have the shortage of Taifu Temple.

Li Xu thought of the princes Cao Hao befriended, the sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother, the two younger ones, one has kinship and the other has the friendship of classmates. The fourth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother, one is a prince and the other is a down-and-out prince, and Cao Hao has the grace to save his life. The seventh elder brother is Cao Hao's father-in-law.

The more he thought about it, the wider Li Xu's eyes opened, and he was secretly surprised in his heart, but he really didn't expect that Cao Hao had cultivated these relationships unconsciously. Don't talk about the prince in a grand way, you can still leave a good impression of affection and righteousness in front of the long-lived lord.

I can't complain that he dares to go out of the place, and he is not afraid of the overthrow of officials in Beijing, how can this one or two speak for him?

How could such an old-fashioned and spicy layout come from the hands of a child? Li Xu narrowed his eyes, and felt a little blame for Cao Yin in his heart. This old fox, who put on a posture of pure heart and few desires in Jiangning, indulged his son in the layout of the capital, and hid everyone to death!

He cursed secretly, and heard footsteps in the courtyard, and Li Nai came back from outside.

Because he was worried about his father's body, Li Nai did not go back to the room to change his clothes, and went directly to the inner hall to say goodbye.

Li Xu looked at the eldest son's obedient and honest appearance, and his face also showed some kindness, and said, "After running for a while, you are also tired, go back and rest!" "In my heart, I can't say whether I regret it or not.

I knew that my second son Li Ding was restless and had always liked to be smart. As a father, he does not wake up, but is complacent, thinking that his son is wise. If things can be started all over again, replaced by the eldest son to enter Beijing, with his honest and steady surname, plus his mention behind his back, things will be very different.

Li Nai didn't go out in response, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "Father, there are rules for giving gifts to several elder brothers' mansions every year, and this year, the eighth master will ......."

Because he remembered that his father was rejected by the eighth elder brother a few days ago, he was indignant in his heart. Not to mention anything else, the "three festivals and two birthdays" gift that the Li family sends to the Eighth Brother Mansion every year will cost tens of thousands of taels of silver. Now, the younger brother's life and death are uncertain, and he is obviously implicated by that side. Otherwise, Brother Jiu wouldn't be like a cat with a burning tail, scurrying around Sijiu City.

"Eighth Master?" Li Xu listened to his son's words and groaned, but he finally didn't have the courage to tear his face. In addition, he was unwilling to let his previous efforts go to waste.

Judging from the current situation, the power of other elder brothers is not obvious, and the most likely to seize the throne is this "virtuous elder brother". Thinking of this, Li Xu said: "Let's follow the example of previous years!" ”

Although Li Nai was reluctant, he had always been obedient, so he responded casually. Li Xu thought for a while, and then said, "Did you give the New Year's gift from Cao Fu?" ”

Li Nai replied: "Not yet, the first ones to send are all distant friends." If Fu Ruo is not an outsider there, his son didn't bother to send it first. ”

Li Xu nodded and said, "That's the case, this year's New Year's gift will be added to thirty percent...... Well, let's just say that it's because of the large population of Cao Mansion this year......"

* Xicheng, Caofu, Wutong Yuan upper room.

The second and fifth grids of Chunwangfu then sent the errand of "New Year's gift" and came here to visit my sister. Because we were worried about seeing Hang Sheng's three spins, Chu Yu instructed ** to carry Hang Sheng's rocking cart to the west side.

The second and fifth grids sat on the kang, around the rocking car, looking at the Hengsheng inside full of strangeness. It's been four and a half months since Hang Seng sits, but he will turn over.

Chu Yu laid out the mat and asked ** to carry Hengsheng to the kang. At this time, I saw Xiyun coming to report, and the internal steward of the Thirteenth Elder Brother's Mansion came to give a New Year's gift.

Chu Yu asked her sisters to sit down first and go to reward herself.

Ergege leaned down and looked over Hengsheng's head. Because Hang Seng's hair will be an inch long, it will not be real. Ergege reached out and gently tugged at Hengsheng's hair.

Hengsheng was looking up at her, and when he saw her approaching, he stretched out his hands to ...... Ergege was touched, and he was so frightened that he immediately blushed and avoided it.

Hengsheng Xu was hungry, and when he saw Ergege dodging, he immediately grinned and cried, "Wow Wow".

Although Hang Seng's ** was standing at the door, he didn't dare to step forward when he saw Hang Seng crying. She was originally a slave girl in the south of the Outer Mongolian Khan, and she was most afraid of the powerful masters.

Now, in March in the capital, she has also learned simple Chinese with Wu En and knows the rules. Now, the two gorgeously dressed little Gege in front of me are the sister of the heroine and the extremely noble granddaughter. They didn't give orders, and naturally she didn't dare to step forward.

Ergege saw Hengsheng's little face crying, looking very pitiful, he couldn't bear it, he stretched out his hand and patted it, and coaxed: "Oh, oh, don't cry!" Good nephew, stop crying! ”

She is only younger than Chu Yu and Hongshu in the palace, and there are a bunch of younger brothers and sisters below, and she also has a set for coaxing children.

She slapped and coaxed, and listened to Wugege covering her mouth with a handkerchief to eat and laugh. Thinking about Fang Cai's embarrassment, Er Gege couldn't help but be a little annoyed, glared at her and said, "What's so funny, he's still a nursing child, what do you know?" ”

As he spoke, Hang Seng's little hand was up again. Although Ergege avoided it quickly and was not touched, the incense string that was originally hanging on the front placket was grabbed by Hengsheng in his hand.

Wugege laughed so much that tears were about to come out, rubbed his stomach, and stopped laughing for a long time: "Second sister, why doesn't he touch somewhere else, and he touches it there?" Do you treat your second sister as a mother? ”

Ergege saw that Hengsheng was holding the incense string and did not let go, so he untied the incense string from the button.

Hang Seng took the incense string and put it in his mouth. Ergege hurriedly stopped his little arm and said softly: "Hengsheng, this is made of warm jade, not for food!" ”

Seeing that Ergege was so close to Hengsheng, Wugege couldn't help but feel a little surprised, and pouted and said, "Second sister, even if you are so close to Tianyou, I haven't seen you so close?" What's the matter, these three little boys are right for your temper? ”

Ergege touched Hengsheng's head and said in a low voice: "Three spins, you will become a hero!" This little guy is also a Mongol...... I'm looking forward to ...... The guy I'm going to meet...... A hero, not a scoundrel......"

Wugege was beside him, and he couldn't help it, and his eyes were red. She didn't want her sister to see it, so she hurriedly turned around......

(To be continued)