This is the second time Cao Hao has accompanied Hu to Rehe, but the feeling is different from the last time.

Raising his head and looking at the plaque with gold characters on a blue background, and the four traditional characters of "Summer Resort" written from right to left, Cao Hao couldn't help but have the illusion that he had returned to a few hundred years later.

I listened to the sixteen elder brothers beside him: "This is the summer before last, the emperor Ama Yubi personally wrote, and at the beginning of the circle of thirty-six scenes, this year it seems that they have all been built." Let's go! ”

The holy driver left Beijing on the tenth day of the fifth month, and arrived in Rehe today, and the princes who accompanied him were the third elder brother, the eighth elder brother, the ninth elder brother, the fifteenth elder brother, the sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother.

Cao Hao, as a servant of the temple, traveled with the emperor, and together with Luan Yiwei, he was responsible for miscellaneous matters such as Kangxi's change of sedan chair and wheel.

After entering the garden, Cao Hao and the sixteenth elder brother walked around, and stopped for a moment when they saw the beautiful scenery. Although the name of the summer resort and the name of the 36 scenic spots were just drawn up the year before, some of the buildings were built in the early years.

The two looked at a few places, and then talked by the lake.

Seeing that there was no one around, the sixteenth elder brother said to Cao Hao: "Fu Ruo, why did you offend the fourteenth brother?" I looked at him as if he was very dissatisfied with you. ”

Cao Hao listened, and remembered the complicated look on his face when he asked about Ning Chun at Yongqing's house. Fourteenth brother, is it really you? He remembered the past three years ago and asked, "Sixteenth Master, do you still remember the prince of Wuliji?" ”

"The prince of Uliji?" The sixteenth elder brother thought for a while, nodded and said: "Well, I think about it, it is the son of Zhu Muqin and Shuo Chechen Prince Sedendun Dob, the year before last...... The one who had his head cut off in the Karaqin camp the year before last! How do you think of him......" At this point, he couldn't help but widen his eyes and asked, "How do you think of him...... Could it be ...... Fourteenth Brother ......"

Cao Hao shook his head and replied, "There is no evidence, but I suddenly remembered the fourteenth elder brother." Perhaps, his power is greater than we imagined, and there are more than two elder brothers who have the heart to seek a big position. ”

"They are all the sons of Huang Ama, even if they have that thought, it is ordinary, but look at him who follows the starling's buttocks, it is not obvious." The sixteenth elder brother replied: "The thirteenth brother has been silent in the past few years, but it has given him a advantage. Concubine De can speak well in the palace, and she has a lot of grievances with him outside.

"That time when the prince of Wuliji was killed, the second elder brother and the eighth elder brother did not fall well. If the third elder brother had such a strategic talent, he wouldn't ......" Cao Hao said this, but stopped. I think of a person, among the princes, he is known as the fifteenth elder brother who is the most inconspicuous and undewy. According to the information he found here, the fifteenth elder brother is somewhat close to the third elder brother, and the relationship with the fourteenth elder brother is also good.

The sixteenth elder brother smiled and said, "I also think that it is not him, don't look at his age, look at the things he does." The fourth brother was raised in Tong Niangniang's palace since he was a child, and under the influence of his mother, he believed in Buddhism, which is a well-known thing. The third brother jumped up and down a few years ago, who doesn't know what his ambitions are, but now he is putting on the appearance of being a pair of sentimental landscape knowledge, but he is just deceiving himself. Speaking of this, he touched his chin: "Fourteenth brother...... He has always been diligent in the army, and it is really his ...... if he can't keep it even" Speaking of this, he frowned and said: "If that's the case, then everyone really underestimates him!" ”

Cao Hao vaguely remembered that the eighth elder brother later lost Kangxi's favor and was completely depressed, and the fourteenth elder brother took over the "Eighth Master Party". It seems to be a "killing eagle" or some kind of eagle incident. The eighth elder brother paid tribute to Kangxi and a Haidongqing, but I don't know if he was dead or dying, anyway, he committed Kangxi's taboo and reprimanded the eighth elder brother Duojia.

The fourteenth elder brother didn't like him, but he was only dissatisfied with Cao Hao because he helped Yongqing hurt his face, or because he was the person behind the "Killing of the Prairie Prince" and "Qianmen Bombing"?

Although it is said that these days are only more than 40 miles per day, because he is always on the horse, the sixteenth elder brother is also lacking. He rubbed his neck and said, "After standing up for a few days on the horse, my body is stiff, and I will go back and ask Yuehua to rub it later!" ”

Yuehua is the palace maid that Cao Hao saw in Changchun Garden two months ago, and she is somewhat similar to the appearance of the Sixteenth Elder Brother's side Fujin Li. has been accepted by the sixteenth elder brother and has become the concubine of the sixteenth elder brother. This time, the sixteenth elder brother followed, and the Li family was pregnant and waiting to give birth in Beijing, and the female dependents who came with him were the sixteenth Fujin Guo Luo Luo and the newly acquired Liao Yuehua.

Cao Hao stood by the lake, only to feel that the heat was completely gone. After listening to the words of the sixteenth elder brother, he couldn't help but feel envious. He is a courtier, and he is a lawyer, not to mention a daughter-in-law, even a combing maid can't take it, he can only bring a few long-term servants.

However, even if he was allowed to take his family, Chu Yu would not be able to get away for the time being. At the beginning of May, Cao Hao received a letter from Cao Yin and his wife, knowing that Zhao Jia and Cao Song had set off from Jiangning on April 25 and had gone north. At the same time, Mr. Zhuang's reply also arrived, only saying that he had packed up properly and left for Beijing in the near future.

The second aunt and a few cousins and cousins, as well as Mr. Zhuang's Tian mother and son, must be properly settled in the house. These things have to be handled by Chu Yu and Amethyst.

Zhao Jia's family is an elder, but because the main courtyard, Lan Yuan, is the residence of the Li family, he can only clean up another courtyard. Then, according to the furniture and objects of the Orchid Courtyard, clean up the house.

Not to mention Cao Song, even Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang are also half aged. How their brothers were settled, the yard and the house had to be repainted.

Tian's identity is special, and he is a widow, and the house is not well arranged, too fancy, and not too deserted, which needs to be taken care of.

There are also the servants who came with the second room, these people who came back from Shandong, carefully calculate the population, and the house is a little spacious. Now I live in a house left by my great-grandfather and grandfather, and even Cao Hao can't say that if you change your house, you will change your house.

For a while, there will be no one to sell the house, and there is no land to expand. In the end, Amethyst suggested that a row of back cover rooms should be built in the back garden, and if you are waiting in the house, it is appropriate to live there.

After the sixteenth elder brother finished talking about Yuehua, he remembered Cao Haolai, squeezed his eyes, and smiled sheepishly: "You are not as good as back then, you are a person with a daughter-in-law." It's going to take months, what can you do? ”

"What to do, cold salad!" Cao Hao only felt that he was full of righteousness, and couldn't help but glance at the sixteenth elder brother with disdain, and said: "Some people can't afford to straighten their waists, it seems that the 'hot mix' is making a fuss!" ”

"Okay, you're hurting me!" The sixteenth elder brother touched his chin with a smile, squinted his eyes and asked, "It is said that there are no concubines in your house, only one daughter-in-law, and she is a bad woman." You tell me honestly, are you afraid of damaging the skin of the seventh brother, or is that not good? ”

Cao Hao was angry for a while, and stretched out his hand to give the sixteenth elder brother a punch: "It's not good to learn, the learner's mouth is broken, and he still cares about this!" ”

The sixteenth elder brother laughed twice and said, "If it's okay, let's compare the two of us, and when we get to Naadam, let's see who 'opens the meat' first." The one who loses, please eat and drink......"

Cao Hao hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Okay, my sixteenth master!" Your daughters-in-law and palace maids are all there, why are you still worried about the outside? I'm going to be a monk here for a few months! Don't do this in front of me, doesn't that make people angry? ”

As soon as the sixteenth elder brother wanted to make fun of him again, he saw the eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother coming together not far away, as if they were also browsing the scenery. He closed his voice and whispered to Cao Hao: "Eighth brother, ninth brother is here." If the ninth brother picks you and stings, you can endure it, let him get over it, and save yourself from hating you in your heart. ”

Cao Hao nodded in response, and retreated sideways behind the sixteenth elder brother.

The eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother also saw the sixteenth elder brother and Cao Hao, the two glanced at each other, and came over here with a smile.

The sixteenth elder brother went up to meet him, although Cao Hao didn't like these two, but he had to follow hard.

"Starling, Ninth Brother, are you two also enjoying the scenery?" Sixteen Elder Brother asked with a smile.

Eighth Elder Brother smiled and nodded: "It's okay after dinner, come out for a walk, and now this garden is completed." Speaking of this, he glanced at Cao Hao and said, "You haven't been here for several years, have you?" Although you have now been downgraded, you have become a close minister, and the holy family is still there, you must not be presumptuous, and you need to be cautious about being an errand. ”

No wonder everyone praises him as "Brother Xian", just listening to these words, how "sincere" he said. Cao Hao listened, and hurriedly leaned over and replied: "Thank you for the teachings of the eighth master, the minister must keep it in mind, work diligently, and dare not forget it for a moment!" ”

I saw Brother Jiu snorting coldly, pursed his lips, and wanted to say something. However, he glanced at Cao Hao, turned his head away, and said to the sixteenth elder brother: "This time, my brother is next to the residence of a few of you, and you can play tricks on my brother's side if it's okay!" ”

Among the princes who came with Hu, the third elder brother and the eighth elder brother had their own gardens outside the villa and did not live in the villa. The fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth elder brothers have not yet opened a mansion, let alone built a garden.

Although Brother Jiu has opened a mansion, he loves to run it the most, and he doesn't like to cultivate gardens like other princes. Therefore, I also live in the mountain villa.

The sixteenth elder brother smiled and said: "Brother Jiu, you are the God of Wealth, why are you reluctant to make a few small dollars to build a garden or something?" ”

With a little pride, Brother Jiu shook his head and said, "Brother, I only love real money and silver, and it is not uncommon for those imaginary scenes!" Speaking of this, his eyes swept to Cao Hao, and he immediately felt disgusted as if he had eaten a fly, and he had no interest in showing off to the sixteenth elder brother.

If it weren't for the eighth elder brother who had instructed him, don't talk about Cao Hao to his face. Even if the seventh brother is nothing, there is still sixteen elder brothers, which will hurt his face to some extent. Brother Jiu endured it at this time, but when he thought of the land in Cao Hao's Xiaotang Mountain, it really hurt so much. The Cao family is an old man, even if he itches in his heart, he doesn't dare to stretch out his claws.

The eighth elder brother saw that the ninth elder brother was wrong, and he was afraid that he would not be able to bear to talk about Cao Hao, so he smiled and said to the sixteenth elder brother and Cao Hao: "You guys go shopping first, let's go ahead and then stroll around!" As he spoke, he beckoned Brother Jiu to leave.

When the two of them drifted apart, Cao Hao and the sixteenth elder brother breathed a sigh of relief. Sixteenth elder brother said with a smile: "Last year, I said that the land price of Xiaotangshan had increased several times, and you didn't pay attention to it at that time, now let's see how it is!" The palace of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is repaired, who doesn't want to occupy a place? You also talked to the person in charge, and the price that was almost the same was also released, so that you didn't get stuck too much, and you offended people in vain! ”

Cao Hao nodded with a smile and replied: "I know, a lot of money has been released at the end of last month, and now that the money has arrived, I really made a small fortune." If the Sixteenth Master has money, don't be polite to me. ”

The sixteenth elder brother waved his hand: "I have no other thoughts, only to pick up the filial piety inside, and not to throw silver outside, I am very rich." It's you, didn't you say that your uncle's family is going to Beijing, I heard that there are a lot of brothers over there, and your silver is a kilometer, or is it in your own name? Don't have silver, and then calculate and hurt your feelings! ”

Cao Hao replied: "Although it is under my name, I can't look at them tightly." Originally, my family had two Zhuangzi and several properties in Beijing, but they were all dealt with because they were still in deficit a few years ago. The uncle died again, and the younger brothers were still young. I thought about buying a Zhuangzi outside Beijing, which could be regarded as making my aunt's side have some interest. ”

The sixteenth elder brother nodded and said, "You are the elder brother, this is also a matter of no way!" It's just a matter of buying land, if someone comes to you to buy the land of Xiaotangshan, you can change to a Zhuangzi and it will be over. It saves the need to re-establish a small village and find tenants, which is trivial and troublesome. ”

Cao Hao wondered in his heart, the sixteenth elder brother is a prince of the deep palace, how can he know these?

Seeing his surprise, the sixteenth elder brother said with a smile: "I helped Yuehua's family buy one last month. Although her family is also a banner person, it is very poor. has an older brother, but it's not promising. I thought about buying a Zhuangzi for them, which was used for her family, so that I would have nothing to do and send a message to the palace and ask for money from my daughter. I wanted to entrust you, and I caught up with you to go outside the mouth, so I made two rounds of my own, which can be regarded as a great insight. ”

* Beijing, Caofu, Wutong Garden.

Chu Yu combed her hair, wore a snow-blue flag suit, stepped on the bottom of the flower pot, sat on the edge of the kang, and said to Wu'er: "These sister-in-law taught Wu'er, can Wu'er remember?" ”

Wu'er was wearing an ivory-white silk gown, sitting there very obediently, and said angrily: "Wu'er remembers, I want to call my mother, kowtow to my mother, and the second brother, third brother, and fourth brother...... Belch...... And the four sisters......"

Chu Yu touched Wu'er's little face, took out a moon-white purse from her sleeve and tied it to her wrist, which contained some candied fruit to eat, and said with a smile: "This is Wu'er's favorite food, when my sister comes, don't forget to give it to my sister." Sister-in-law still keeps a lot of it for you, don't be reluctant to do it. ”

This trick is taught by word and deed, Chu Yu grew up next to Chang Fujin when he was a child, and he listened to the words of his nurse and used this trick to get along with his sister.

The father and biological mother of the five sons have passed away, and they will live with their mother-in-law in the future. Although Chu Yu is a sister-in-law, there is Zhaojia's family, and it is not good to talk more about Wu'er's affairs. Therefore, Chu Yu prepared these, thinking that Wu'er and the fourth sister would get along well. In that case, Zhao Jia's face looked at the children, and it was not good to snub this concubine too much.

Remembering what happened when she was a child, Chu Yu turned around and said to Mama Ye who was sitting in the chair: "At that time, I thought Mama was nagging, but now it is a good word." ”

Mama Ye knew that she was not worried about Wu'er, sighed, and said, "Who would have thought that such a little girl who is carved in pink and jade and looks like a porcelain doll would have such a hard life." It's better when I'm younger, and I'm going to be a relative in the future, this identity, and this appearance, but it can't be worry-free. ”

"With my grandfather here, can you still watch her suffer?" Chu Yu said.

"A woman's life is not good, just say that the third girl, the lord and Pingwang Fujin are also like sisters, and they deliberately found a simple family, and the mother-in-law is still good-tempered, not still have to eat grievances!" Mama Ye shook her head and said.

"Mama!" Chu Yu whispered in disgust: "What are you doing talking about in front of Wu'er?" Children are not conscious, and they will learn it one day. Not many people know about the three girls, so why bother to make a fuss and make the three girls faceless? ”

Mama Ye sneered: "Look at the slave maid is confused, why do you think of this." In the future, there are many people in the house, and some people are making waves, and in the future, the slaves and maids still bolt the door to their mouths, and they don't dare to say anything anymore. ”

As he was talking, he heard footsteps outside, and then Xiyun came in and replied: "Gege, there is a letter from the front yard just now, the second wife's carriage has entered the city, and it is about to arrive in this mansion!" ”

Chu Yu hurriedly stood up, let ** hug Wu'er, and went out of Wutong Garden together, taking Cao Fang's family, Zhao An's family, and Qian Kang's family to wait outside the Yimen. Amethyst went to the dock with Cao Zhong's family to pick up Zhaojia's family.

* Cao Song rode with his two brothers on horseback, Zhao Jiashi wore plain clothes, sat in the carriage with his little daughter in his arms, and the group went to Cao's mansion.

Cao Song knew that his brother was officially the Taifu Siqing, and he was very happy. Originally, he was worried that his brother was just a temporary generation, and he would return to Shandong later, so he panicked. It's just that he was born and went with Hu, which is really not beautiful.

Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang are still entering Beijing for the first time, but they feel that their eyes are not enough. Afraid of showing timidity and making people laugh, the two sat upright on the horse, with small faces, looking at it with a bit of the majesty of the son of the family.

(To be continued)