Sycamore's? Cao Hao thought about the maids in Wutong Garden, but he didn't think of it. It's just that seeing her is not an eye, she should be a person in the house. I also saw that she was not only dressed plainly, but also only had a moon-white silk flower in her hair, which was dressed in filial piety.

Although there is such a rule in the inner courtyard that private sacrifices are not allowed, but the laws and regulations do not hinder human feelings, and Cao Hao has no taboos, so he paused and said: "If you want to worship your relatives, just say to the county lord or Amethyst, there is a pavilion in the northwest corner of the back garden, you can burn incense and pay tribute there!" It's just that the weather is dry right now, and you need to be careful of open flames! ”

"Yes, the slave can be saved! Thank you for not sinning...... "The woman bowed her head and whispered.

Cao Hao nodded, looked at her again, turned to leave, and went to the second gate. As he walked, he thought about it, what happened just now reminded him of the situation, and he had to talk to Chu Yu when he went back, fire prevention in the house is not a small problem, dry things in autumn and winter, and once there is a fire, it is not a joke.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly remembered who the woman was, it was the maid who Mama Ye wanted to arrange for a room at the beginning of the year, but he really couldn't remember what it was called.

That Cao Hao was angry, so he said that he only needed to keep Zhu'er, Cui'er, Xiyun, and Xicai when he went to the room, and the others didn't have to come forward. When he said it, he was just angry for a while, and he didn't think about it a lot, in fact, not to mention anything else, Shan Xiyan and Xixia were both waiting for Chu Yu since childhood, and they didn't let the family continue to serve Chu Yu's Li'er. Therefore, Cao Hao explained to Chu Yu later, let everyone do as they like, but they also had to beat it in advance, so as not to have to give birth to individual thoughts and make everyone uncomfortable.

After that, although the maids didn't dare to be presumptuous, they didn't have to avoid Cao Hao. Only one Xiyu, abiding by the previous rules, never appeared in front of Cao Hao's eyes again, and this blink of an eye was nearly a year, so he didn't recognize it for a while.

*Household Department, Fujian Division.

Because it is about to be the end of the year, it is the busiest time to check all kinds of accounts, but because Cao Hao is the chief officer, and there are also the directors in charge of each stall below, he is much more economical than last year.

Because he was leisure, Cao Hao went to Shandong Division, borrowed a map of the prefecture and county, and checked the location of Yizhou, the more he looked, the more satisfied he was, this side not only borders Jiangsu Province, but also is not far from the sea.

In the previous life, every year in July and August, he or his family or friends would go to the beach to play for a few days, eat a few seafood, and bathe in the sea.

The Weaving Mansion is only busy for a few months a year, and the Li family is worried about his son when he writes back. Cao Hao began to calculate the time needed to take the carriage from Jiangning to Yizhou. If it can go smoothly, he will take half a month off first, go to Jiangning with Chu Yu, and bring his parents and grandmother to Yizhou...... Cao Hao thought about it, so he heard someone say: "Adult, adult? ”

He came to his senses, but it was the principals Fu Xiangong and Peng Zhu who came over with joy on their faces. When they got closer, the two of them hugged their fists and bowed in unison, saying, "Thank you for your humble position!" ”

Peng Zhu is young and good, but this Fu Xiangong is nearly forty years old, Cao Hao was reluctant to hold it up, stood up, and said with a smile: "Look at the two of you, Cao Hao is ashamed, this is just a gesture, not anything, and the two of them have skills!" ”

It turned out that a few days ago, Mu Helun, the head of the household department, found Cao Hao and asked him to recommend a person from his subordinates to fill the vacancy of the Fujian Division. Cao Hao thought about it, among the several directors of the Fujian Division, Fu Xiangong had the most seniority, but when it came to his ability to handle things, he was headed by Peng Zhu.

Fu Xian's functional ability is not bad compared with ordinary people, but he is less flexible, and sometimes he often has to use more effort to do errands, but he can't receive corresponding returns. Although Peng Zhu's ability is stronger than Fu Xiangong, he is a little unsteady in doing things because of his youth.

These two people have some complementary meanings, and Cao Hao didn't know that Shandong was lacking at that time. Originally, this kind of recommendation was not the turn of Cao Hao, a fifth-grade official, but Mu Helun deliberately wanted to sell favors to him.

Cao Hao is not a rigid person, if such a favor is not accepted, it will arouse resentment, so he thought that Fu Xiangong and Peng Zhu were not easy to choose, so they were both recommended. Which one can be promoted depends on chance.

Unexpectedly, Mu Helun was obedient and reported their names. Yesterday, the Ministry of Officials approved, both of them were promoted to foreign officers, Fu Xiangong stayed in the Fujian Division, and Peng Zhu went to the Shandong Division to take up a post after the year. Because Cao Hao left early yesterday, the two of them specially thanked them today.

"Shandong Division!" Cao Hao read it silently, and said in his heart: "It's really convenient for others and yourself, if you really go to Shandong Rendaotai, you will inevitably deal with the Shandong Division on the money and grain accounts!" I was thinking about Shandong in my heart, and when I heard the three words "Shandong Division", I was very kind, so I smiled and congratulated the two.

Fu Xiangong stayed in the Fujian Division, which is also appropriate, and when he leaves office, he will be able to support this mess. For a while, Cao Hao was a little sad about parting.

* At the beginning of November, the Holy Driver returned to the palace from Changchun Garden, and Cao Hao heard the sixteenth elder brother mention that he knew that after staying in Beijing for a few days, he would go to the temporary shrine and filial piety tomb, and it would take more than a month to go back and forth. Although the officials said hello, there was no reason to delay repeatedly, so he went to the meeting on November 11.

On November 15, the Taihe Hall will be held.

Those who participated in the Great Dynasty Meeting were not only the princes and officials in the capital, but also the officials from all over the country who had entered Beijing after completing their terms. This court meeting was not long, and most of them were officials who had recently been promoted. All of them are well-behaved, acting and talking like puppets, very stiff, but they still have to make a look of gratitude that deeply feels the emperor's grace. Choking in tone is basic, and those who burst into tears are not one or two.

When the dynasty was dispersed, the sixteenth elder brother patted Cao Hao on the shoulder, and just wanted to speak to him, he saw Wei Zhu, the eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, come over, and pass Kangxi's password, and the head of the household, Langzhong, and the county lord Cao Hao Qianqing Palace waited to see him.

The sixteenth elder brother saw that the two foreign governors and a few newly appointed governors were all going in the direction of Qianqingmen, so he said to Cao Hao: "I guess I have to wait for the hour, I just have something to say to you, and I will walk over with you!" ”

Cao Hao saw that the sixteenth elder brother looked a little haggard, and asked, "How many days have you not seen you?" Are you sick this time? ”

The sixteenth elder brother smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I wish I was sick, but it is difficult to get my wish, it is Li's illness!" ”

Li is Kangxi's 48-year-old show girl, and was assigned to the sixteenth elder brother last year. Her appearance and surname are all good, but because of her father's low title, she can only be a side blessing. The sixteenth elder brother has already had people in the room around him, and he has long known about men and women, but he has a deep relationship with this side Fujin.

Although he pointed to Chang Fujin again this year, the sixteenth elder brother didn't take it to heart, but paid more and more attention to the Li family, and wanted to let the Li family give birth to the eldest son before Chang Fujin.

This summer, he went to Rehe with Hu, and the sixteenth elder brother originally wanted to take the Li family there, but was persuaded by the princess. This Chang Fujin is Concubine Yi's niece, and she will enter the door at the end of the year, so she loves the Li family like this, and falls into the eyes of others, and she is sad in the end. Although the sixteenth elder brother was reluctant, the Li family also meant this, and he was unwilling to be in the limelight, so he persuaded the sixteenth elder brother.

When the epidemic broke out in the capital, Kangxi wanted to send someone to the capital to pick up the concubine and the little brother, and the sixteenth elder brother was not worried about the Li family, so he specially asked for this errand, but he didn't expect to go to the capital, and the palace concubine here had been sent out of Beijing by the ninth elder brother.

The sixteenth elder brother hurriedly asked about the situation of the elder brother, and the ninth elder brother thought that the sixteenth elder brother still had a side Fujin in the palace. Because the concubine went out of Beijing this time, the holy decree came urgently, and there was a mess here, who could take care of the prince Fujin on the side of the elder brother?

The ninth elder brother had heard that the sixteenth elder brother seemed to be quite fond of that one, so he put all the blame on the third elder brother and the fourth elder brother, he was very innocent, and he was only temporarily assigned.

When the sixteenth elder brother was worried, a little eunuch came over to spread the word, saying that it was Chen Guiren's side, and the sixteenth side of Fujin was at the nobleman's place, so please don't worry about the sixteenth elder brother.

There are many nobles in this harem, and there are two people surnamed Chen, one is the biological mother of the seventeenth elder brother, and the other is the biological mother of the twenty-first elder brother, Xi Guiren. Although Kangxi gave the title of the twenty-first elder brother's biological mother as "Xi", because it was the name of Kangxi, everyone called it Chen Guiren.

Chen Guiren is Sun Wenqi's niece, and the sixteenth elder brother's biological mother, Wang Concubine, is Li Xu's cousin, and the Sun family, the Li family, and the Cao family are all related to each other, and the two are still cousins and cousins. Both of them are Han women, and they are both from Jiangnan, so they are a little closer.

When she arrived in Rehe, as Concubine Wang had expected, Concubine Yi looked down on the Li family. Although for the sake of the princess's face, she will not be faceless in person, but there are also a lot of beatings in the conversation.

Although the Li family is not a tongue-chewer, the sixteenth elder brother also faintly heard some rumors, although he is dissatisfied with Concubine Yi, but what can he do? He had to endure until the epidemic subsided in the capital, and he thought of various ways to move the old man Kangxi and return to Beijing with the Li family first.

A few days ago, Li's body was a little unhappy, and he couldn't eat. The sixteenth elder brother was originally going to call the imperial doctor to come and see, but the Li family was afraid that it would be passed on to Concubine Yi, and he thought that he was Naqiao, so he only said that it was because of winter sleepiness, and it was not in the way.

The night before, Li's body was not clean, and at first he thought it was "Xiaoyue", but the pain was so bad that he couldn't stop bleeding for a while. The sixteenth elder brother was busy overnight and called someone to find the imperial doctor.

Looking at the lump of flesh in the blood, the doctor was so bluffed that the Li family had a miscarriage. The sixteenth elder brother listened to the conclusion of the imperial doctor, and was full of remorse, thinking that if he had invited the imperial doctor to come and see it two days earlier, maybe it would not have been so bad.

Although he doesn't have many women, he grew up in the palace and knows the filthiness in this palace. This Li Shiping said that his body and bones were all good, and he didn't bump into it. He felt tired because of the Li family, and he hadn't been close for several days, how could he have a miscarriage?

Sure enough, after questioning the imperial doctor, the sixteenth elder brother learned that the Li family had been plotted, and he was afraid that he had eaten something taboo in his diet. What about in the harem? Looking down on the Li family and not wanting the Li family to give birth to the eldest son in advance, who is there besides Concubine Yi?

Interrogated all the palace maids around the Li family overnight, even if the other party is the emperor's favorite concubine, it is impossible to leave real physical evidence, and then the only one left is the person she can buy.

In the end, there was a little palace maid who couldn't eat, and explained one thing, I had accidentally seen another palace maid named "Cailian" in the same room feed the cat something. asked her, but she only said that the little palace maid was dazzled.

As a result, Cailian's confession almost made the sixteenth elder brother angry to death, and he was even more jealous of Concubine Yi. Cailian is a palace maid who was born in Baoyi, and she was selected to enter the palace, and she has an older brother who works as an errand in the Internal Affairs Office, and found her two months ago, saying that she received a reward from the side Fujin family and asked her to help her brother. gave her a packet of medicine and asked her to pinch it, and put it in the dessert three or two days before Li's "Xiaoyue". It is only said that it is a child-seeking medicine specially begged by the side Fu Jin family.

Cai Lian didn't want to respond, but she couldn't bear her brother's begging, so she hesitated to respond. She was still not at ease, so she found a cat to test the medicine, and was relieved to make sure that it was not poison.

The sixteenth elder brother asked someone to collect the medicine in the lotus picking room and asked the imperial doctor to see it. The doctor carefully identified that it was frosting mixed with safflower.

When I sent someone to find Brother Cailian, everyone had been dead for more than half a month.

Although he killed a few palace maids with a rod, the sixteenth elder brother still didn't understand his hatred, but he also knew that things could only be like this. Even if you know that Concubine Yi asked someone to do it, if you don't have a certificate or a certificate, it won't be useful if you make trouble in front of Kangxi. Not only can he not go to the door to ask for the crime, but he also has to seal the mouth of the imperial doctor and hide the matter, otherwise he will have to be punished and reprimanded because he "accidentally" lost the emperor's grandson.

Although it is said that "family ugliness should not be publicized", the sixteenth elder brother said that Cao Hao was an outsider, and this was a matter of depression in his heart, so he said it to Cao Hao in a few words.

When Cao Hao heard this, he was also annoyed, a prince like the Sixteenth Elder Brother who didn't mix anything still had to calculate and win over? Moreover, it is used in such a way.

I heard the sixteenth elder brother sneer: "I hurt my heir, who do I care about her?" There will always be a saying, I will take revenge on this! ”

The front is Qianqingmen, Cao Hao thought that Sixteen came with him, it shouldn't be just to scratch it, so he asked: "Let's not mention these future things, what can I use now?" ”

The sixteenth elder brother nodded and said, "I just wanted to ask you for help, and I really felt uncomfortable looking at the Li family these two times." Thinking that Guo Luo Luo was about to enter the door at the end of the month, I was afraid that she would not be well maintained at that time, and she would have to make rules, so I remembered that you were in the hot spring Zhuangzi in Changping. Borrow it from me, and when it comes to the wedding, I'll send her there to raise her. ”

Cao Hao said: "Zhuangzi is nothing, but it is neither the property of the Sixteenth Master, nor the maiden home of Li Fujin. Speaking of this, he paused and said: "I was thinking about what things to prepare for the wedding of the sixteenth master, and now it seems that this Zhuangzi is ready-made!" If the sixteenth master doesn't dislike that this is not a new building, I will send the title deed over in these two days! ”

The sixteenth elder brother hurriedly shook his head: "Then how can it be done?" It's just that it takes some time, and it really doesn't work, so I'll trouble Da Gege to go over and accompany me for two! You have these two properties, how can I take yours? ”

Cao Hao said: "Because it is all barren hillside land, it was originally bought by our steward at a very low price, because I like the hot springs over there, so I built a Zhuangzi, which is also natural, not as luxurious as other people's homes, and it is not worth a few dollars!" ”

The sixteenth elder brother was still hesitating, and said, "After all, you like it, how can this be good?" What's more, I don't have much time to use! ”

Cao Hao calculated in his heart that Kangxi's construction of the Xiaotangshan Palace should also be a recent thing, so he said in a low voice: "What did I say to the sixteenth master a few days ago, and the sixteenth master forgot?" I'm about to go out of Beijing for a few years, and this is the reason why I'm driving today, so what are I doing with that Zhuangzi? Originally, I was thinking about how to deal with it, but you should have saved a lot of trouble by accepting me at this time! ”

When the sixteenth elder brother saw Cao Hao say this, he was no longer polite, and responded with a smile, but specially instructed Cao Hao: "The capital is a chaotic time, everything is wrong, and if you can't keep it, you will get into trouble one day." You go out for two years, I agree, and I don't stop you, but there is a sentence to say first, you can't go too far, we always have to see one or two times a year! If you don't leave me alone in Beijing, it's really not righteous enough! In that case, be careful that I leave you in the capital to suffer together! ”

Cao Hao smiled and said, "I know, I know, the sixteenth master, don't scare me anymore!" I will always pick a place that is near, that is, a place far away, and I am impatient to go to this carriage and horse! ”

When the sixteenth elder brother saw that he answered, Fang went back to the elder brother with a smile.

Cao Hao passed the Qianqing Gate and stood in front of the Qianqing Palace waiting for the summons. There are still a few people standing in front of them, some of them are knowledgeable, some of them are looking at the faces, and they are all high-ranking officials of the first and second grades.

Because it is forbidden to make noise here, everyone nodded to each other, which is considered a courtesy.

(To be continued)