Jiangning Weaving House, Kaiyang Courtyard.

Li sat on the kang outside, and on the kang were placed the new clothes of Cao Fu and Tianyou, all of which were newly sewn by the tailor and would be worn until the Chinese New Year. Her face was not very happy.

Xu is because of her age, and the more she gets to this time, the more she misses her children. This capital and Jiangning are thousands of miles away, and it is really not easy to see each other.

Tianyou can already walk, running around on the kang with a pair of small legs. **The Liu family was guarding with both hands, for fear that he would fall. After tossing for a while, tired of tossing, the little guy came directly to his grandmother, and suddenly fell into his grandmother's arms, and said, "Mrs... Sentence Mother ......"

Tianyou is almost one and a half years old, and he has begun to learn to speak, but the words are not clear, the word "grandmother" is said to be "clan mother", and "grandfather" is said to be "foot father". The word "wife", because I often hear the maid mother-in-law say, but I can say it clearly.

Li Shi hugged Tianyou in his arms, kissed the little guy's fat face fiercely, and said: "Grandmother's precious grandson, you know that you can speak, and you don't know what to be happy about!" ”

Tianyou was kissed so much that he laughed "giggles" and reached out to hook Li's earrings. Li took the rattle from the side and put it in his hand, which was better.

I heard a maid outside the door say: "Madam, the fifth master is back!" ”

Li raised his head, and saw Cao Fu coming back from outside with a smile, and hurriedly beckoned to him, saying, "Come and see your new clothes, they have been made, try it, it doesn't fit or not." If you don't get along, you can change people! ”

"Hmm!" Cao Fu responded with a smile, first wiped his hands with a towel on the ground, touched Tianyou's little head, and then held a set of clothes to go down to change.

Li Shi instructed the two maids to wait, touched Tianyou himself, and said with a smile: "This is going by so fast, and now your fifth uncle has become half a child." I think when you were so old, you were like a little adult. ”

Tianyou didn't understand this, just laughed, threw the rattle, but grabbed his own two new clothes. The Li family had already tried it for him, and they all fit perfectly. Seeing that he was playing with this now, he hurriedly asked the maid to hold it down.

Tianyou was pulling the bar, and when he saw the maid take off her clothes, her little face was no longer smiling, and she looked at her grandmother aggrievedly, and she was already about to cry.

Where is Lee's willing? muttered: "Oh, little ancestor, can't you change objects?" As he spoke, he asked the maid to fetch the music box on the Baibao grid, and put on the strings for Tianyou to listen to.

Tianyou immediately smiled and stretched out his arm to ask. Li was afraid that he wouldn't be able to hold it, so he dropped the thing and hugged him into the kang before giving it to him.

Tianyou held the pronunciation box and tilted his little head to listen carefully. Cao Fu had already changed his clothes and walked to the kang with a smile.

Li Shi looked at it carefully, nodded and said, "It's a clothes rack, this look, but it's compared to your brothers!" ”

Cao Fu just laughed, and went down to change to another set. Li Shi looked at the sleeves as if they were half an inch long, and said: "This set will be sewn for you first, when you are long, if you cut it, it will be shorter!" ”

Cao Fu nodded and said, "Uncle Niang is right!" ”

Tianyou saw Cao Fu on the kang, put down the music box, stood up, came to the side of the kang, and said: "Fruit tree ......"

Cao Fu hurriedly hugged him, turned around on the ground and said, "Tianyou is naughty or not, do you want to think about the fifth uncle?" ”

Tianyou smiled and grabbed his braids, and did not respond. Cao Fu pretended to be angry, pointed to Tianyou's forehead and said, "Quickly straighten your tongue and teach you for a few days, how can it still be a 'fruit tree'?" ”

Tianyou put the little chubby hand into his mouth, still smiling and calling "fruit tree".

Although Cao Fu has grown a lot taller in the past six months, he is a twelve-year-old child after all. Li was afraid that he would fall to Tianyou, so he patted the edge of the kang and said, "What about Xiao Nian'er today, does Xiao Wu have anything you want to eat, tell Uncle Niang, Uncle Niang will make people prepare to go!" ”

Cao Fu thought for a while and said, "Uncle, my nephew loves to eat crab roe lion head, but that is what our family eats for a long time, so it should have been prepared." I just don't know if there are oyster sauce abalone slices and braised crucian carp tongue, the uncle likes to eat abalone, and the latter dish has been recited twice. ”

Li Shi listened and said with a smile: "Good boy, it's hard to think about you!" Abalone is not a rare thing, and we have it in our house. Your uncle has eaten crucian carp tongue twice at your Li uncle's house, although it is appetizing, but it is really a murder. Your uncle has been in the temple for the past two years, and it is taboo to kill! After talking for a long time, it's what your uncle likes to eat, what does Xiao Wu like to eat? ”

Cao Fu listened and said: "I really don't want to eat, there are chickens, ducks and fish in the whole day, if the kitchen doesn't bother, my nephew wants to eat shredded radish buns!" ”

Li nodded: "Hearing Xiao Wu say this, Uncle Niang also wants to eat!" Then ask the kitchen to prepare two kinds of steamed buns, your uncle likes to eat plum vegetable buns! ”

After Li asked the maid to go to the kitchen to pass the word, he thought that he didn't see Cao Yin, and asked, "Little Wu, why didn't your uncle come back with you?" ”

Cao Fu replied: "It was Mr. Zhuang who came, as if he had something to say to his uncle, so the nephew came back first!" ”

"Mr. Zhuang?" The Li family was quite surprised, what about the new year, why did this son come to visit?

* Front yard, study.

After listening to Zhuang Chang's words, Cao Yin's face was a little ugly, and he frowned and said, "Long live the lord...... How could Long Live Ye think of checking the Li family? ”

Zhuang Chang touched his beard and replied, "It's not because of the disappearance of his son Li Ding!" If it is a personal vendetta, if you dare to go to the Gyeonggi capital and make a move against the royal guards, then the other party is definitely not an ordinary person. I don't know why, Li Xu didn't say anything to the Long Live Lord, and the Long Live Lord issued an order to the political secretary to make a thorough investigation of the Li family's movements in the past two years, and the relevant people who have interacted with him. ”

Although the Li family has not had any great evils over the years, it cannot be said that their hands and feet are all clean. Cao Yin sighed, not to mention anything else, just to make friends with the prince in private, which is enough for Li Xu.

After hesitating for a moment, Cao Yin asked with some concern: "Tianchang, look, is there room for maneuver in this matter?" ”

Zhuang often had the intention of interfering, and said: "Dongting, you can just know this matter in your heart, but you can't mix it up." The word 'party' is the most taboo, and the three families of Cao, Li and Sun have been too close over the years, and they should be carefully avoided. Long live the fact that Lord can allow the three of you to run Jiangnan, and he also values Dongting's talent and loyalty and Sun Wenqi's cowardice. If the two of you are both in love with power like Li Xu, Long Live Lord will not value the two of you so much. ”

Thinking of the Li family, Cao Yin couldn't help but be a little worried about the affairs of the Li family. Li Ding's disappearance, he has been hiding from the Li family, afraid that she will worry about her nephew, and he is afraid that she will worry about her son.

After all, she has seen the dangers of the capital, and she once traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to visit her son.

"Tianchang, who did this Li Ding do?" Cao Yin is really puzzled, Li Ding is a little smart, not a reckless person, he should not easily entangle with others, and put himself in danger.

Zhuang Chang listened, shook his head and sighed: "I can't think of it." Whether it is the family feud of the Li family or Li Ding's own personal grudge, presumably the other party also hates it to the extreme, so he will not care about his identity as a guard. Xu is a common people, I don't know the royal prestige, if it is a powerful family, there should be some scruples. ”

If it is a powerful family that is offended, it is better to say, there will always be some contacts and leave some clues. If you are a common person, it covers a wide range, but there is no way to investigate.

Speaking of this, Zhuang Chang asked: "By the way, Dongting, can this matter be mentioned in the letter of the eldest prince?" He is in the capital, and he should know more than us. ”

Cao Yin said: "Mentioned, before following Hu Xiaoling, he also helped the Li family for a few days...... Li Ding has a foreign house, and the people who come and go are relatively private, so he may have something to do with that side......"

There is one thing that Cao Yin did not expect, that is, Cao Hao's letter mentioned that the woman Li Ding raised in his house outside the capital was the daughter of the Yang family in Jiangning Bihelou.

He asked his father to help check whether the Li family had taken over the Yang family's bead factory and shop, and the other was that the Yang family had no husband, so it might have something to do with Li Ding.

Li Ding was worried about the pearl recipe, although Cao Yin had heard Cao Hao mention it, but he thought that he was bewitched by Kali back then, so he didn't take it to heart. Unexpectedly, after many years, he was still plotting about it, which made Cao Yin feel a little uncomfortable.

He was in Jiangning, the Bai family's Yang family, and when people checked it, their hearts were open, and their impression of Li Ding plummeted, but they were a little less sentimental.

* Beijing, Cao Fu.

Because it was a young year, Cao Hao returned home after taking a turn in the yamen. Cao Quan has not yet been filial piety, so there are no firecrackers in the house, which seems a little deserted.

There is one thing, Cao Hao is very tired in his heart, that is, there are more and more tails behind him recently, and it is still very much today. He couldn't help but be confused, when did he become a sweetheart again? What do these people want to see?

When they left the mansion, two or three groups of people followed, which made Wei Hei and the others feel a little nervous as if they were facing a great enemy. With Li Ding's example in front, they didn't dare to let Cao Hao go alone. In case there is something that you can't open your eyes to, figure out something that is wrong and what is wrong, and then there will be nowhere to buy regret medicine.

In fact, it is not only Cao Hao who goes in and out for a long time, but also the little young masters and little princes in all the provinces in the capital go out. These people, who don't have a few enemies, originally felt that there was no need to be afraid at the feet of the Son of Heaven, but now it's really not good to say.

Mr. Zhuang was waiting for him to come back in the front yard with a smile, and Cao Hao couldn't help but complain: "Sir, can you think of a way, these tails are really uncomfortable!" ”

Mr. Zhuang said with a bit of schadenfreude: "If you are uncomfortable, bear it first!" It doesn't matter if there are a lot of people, anyway, you don't have anything that people can't know about now, and they can find out if they want to. After a while, when they saw that your side was boring and not having much fun, they gave up on you. If you try to avoid them, but make those villains feel that there are ghosts, and they will become more and more distracted! ”

Cao Hao knew that Mr. Zhuang was right, and said with a wry smile: "Then I can only let them stare at it for a while!" ”

Mr. Zhuang raised his eyebrows with a little deep meaning and said, "Fu Ruo, I heard that yesterday that person rushed to the Thirteenth Elder Brother's Mansion temporarily!" ”

"Really?" Cao Hao felt quite strange in his heart, yesterday he felt that the fourth elder brother seemed to have more words than in the past, and the eyes of him were different, so he asked Mr. Zhuang to help inquire.

Mr. Zhuang nodded and said: "He always leaves the household department from time to time, and yesterday the household department was not idle, but he still left first." Fu Ruo, I don't know if he is 'drunkard's intention is not to drink'! ”

Cao Hao is a little confused, the Cao family is a descendant of Kangxi, and all princes should avoid it. It's the greedy person like Brother Jiu, who tried twice, but when he saw that he didn't take advantage, he gave up. The fourth elder brother has always been secretive, why did he suddenly want to get close to him?

Mr. Zhuang couldn't figure out the reason for a while, after all, the fourth elder brother had never shown the slightest intention of seizing the heir. The two of them said a few words of gossip, meaning that they should be more cautious in the future, although the prince is not easy to offend, he can't stab Kangxi's eyes. Otherwise, don't talk about what happens in the future, you will be unlucky now.

The heavenly family has no flesh and bones, even if Cao Hao is his grandson-in-law, he doesn't dare to fool Kangxi like an old grandfather. The emperor, like an old lion, sensitive and suspicious, was eager to show his teeth and claws at any moment to prove that he was not old.

The two talked a few more words, Mr. Zhuang went home to coax his daughter, and Cao Hao entered the second gate.

Zhaojia's "illness" was cured last night, and the family was happy. As usual, Cao Hao went to the Shaoyuan to greet Zhao Jia's family first. Although her expression was a little stiff, her face was ruddy, and she seemed to be fine.

When Cao Hao returned to Wutong Garden, Chu Yu was preparing a list of honors to be honored in the palace.

Needless to say, the emperor and the queen mother, there are also concubines and four concubines, and other lords. Chu Yu's grandmother Cheng Concubine Niangniang, the biological mother of the sixteenth elder brother, Wang Concubine Niangniang, and Cao Hao's cousin, Chen Guiren, the biological mother of the twenty-first prince, these three are relatives, although their status is not high, but their filial piety cannot be thin.

brought Cao Hao back, Chu Yu waited for him to change his clothes, and then gave him the gift list and asked him to decide.

Cao Hao thought of the noble Qin, the mother of the seventeenth elder brother, who seemed to have entered the cold palace, and said to Chu Yu: "Pick up inconspicuous and real things, and add some to the gift list of the noble people." ”

Chu Yu responded, Cao Hao remembered the wild food taken from the palace of King Chun before, and said to Chu Yu: "It's okay to say anything else, but these venison and roe deer meat are not prepared in every mansion. My sister's side, the Yongqing family ......" Speaking of this, she groaned for a while: "And the Li family and the Sun family will send a copy!" ”

(To be continued)