Until the beginning of the next day (three o'clock in the morning), Cao Hao got up, and the snow outside had not stopped.

Amethyst saw that Cao Hao had finished washing, and took a navy blue silk gray squirrel robe to help him change it. Seeing this, Cao Hao asked, "This was customized last month?" Why haven't you seen it before? ”

Amethyst responded: "This is sent by the Ping Wangfu, when the palace made winter clothes earlier, Fujin sent someone to ask for the uncle's size, twelve such small wool and big wool coats. ”

"My sister really thinks I'm a child!" Cao Hao smiled and shook his head, but his heart was moved. No matter what the thing is, it's this intimacy that is rare.

"Ping'er and the second brother are over there, but they also have it!" Cao Hao looked in the mirror and straightened the collar of his clothes.

"Well, but because of the winter clothes made at the end of September in the palace, the third girl and the second master have not yet come, and they have done not much than the uncle's. On the third girl's side, there are four small hairy ones and two big hairy ones; The second master has two small hairy ones, two big hairy ones, and the others are the materials sent.

Cao Hao nodded and said to Amethyst: "Ping'er is fine, she rarely goes out; On the second brother's side, every time he goes to school, he picks a few sets for his side, the capital is so cold, it is not as cold as the south. ”

Seeing Cao Hao's appearance of a father and brother, Amethyst couldn't help but smile and said, "Uncle, I have learned it, where is the second master frozen?" In October, I invited someone to come over to make winter clothes, and the second master and the third lady each had twelve sets, and the uncle forgot? ”

Cao Hao patted his head: "Yes, there is such a thing!" It's been like the two of them are the first to come! ”

Hai'er and Huan'er brought a small table and put breakfast on the kang in the east house, so that the food in the hall would cool quickly.

Seeing that Cao Hao had eaten, Amethyst hesitated for a moment, but still returned the matter of Cao Song and Fangcha.

Hearing that Cao Song was fighting in the school, Cao Hao didn't take it to heart, and when he saw Amethyst's face was worried, he comforted her: "Don't worry about this, the second brother's surname will never suffer any loss." If it's someone outside, we still have to weigh it, but it's just the powerful children of those relatives, and three or five are not the opponents of the second brother! Back then, in Jiangning School, the second brother also fought with his classmates. It's all boys, it's the age of competitiveness, so there's no need to detain him! ”

Amethyst didn't show her face, and glanced at Cao Hao: "In addition to the matter of the second master, there is also Fangcha, yesterday I was beaten by thirty boards, and the current situation is not very good!" ”

"Fangcha?" Cao Hao was a little surprised: "Thirty boards, what's going on?" ”

Amethyst smashed the hand stove with Fangcha, quarreled with Vanilla at the gate, blamed Wei Hei, was punished by Cao Song, etc., and told it concisely and impartially.

Cao Hao frowned slightly, although he didn't feel sorry for things, he was still a little unhappy to know that Fang Cha was bumping into Wei Hei. However, it is a mistake to make a mistake, and it is too much to fight like this. Therefore, I specially instructed Amethyst two sentences to ask a good doctor.

Seeing that Cao Hao didn't mention going to visit, Amethyst hesitated again and again, and asked, "Uncle, don't you remember when you were a child?" ”

"When you were a child?" Cao Hao thought for a while: "Originally, it seemed to be remembered, but for some reason the shadows and shadows were blurred!" "It's also strange in my heart, when I first woke up from this body, I had Cao Hao's childhood memories, but it was blurred after a few days. That's why when he was kidnapped, it would be so difficult for him to write a distress letter, and he couldn't remember some words he had learned before.

Although Cao Yin was kidnapped back then, Cao Yin strictly forbade people in the house to chew their tongues in order to hide from the old lady, but Amethyst also knew something about it. Thinking that after the incident that the uncle had experienced, he had behaved very differently than before, and he was so sensible that it was distressing, she sighed in her heart and didn't say anything more.

* When you go out of the house, it is a white land. Cao Hao thought of Fangcha's beating, and was afraid that Wei Bai would not be happy, so he deliberately looked at him a few more times, thinking about whether to accompany him for Cao Song.

Wei Bai just stepped on the snow on the ground that didn't pass the top of his boots, and felt rare. Although their ancestral home is Hebei, they were born and raised in the south, and it is the first time they have seen such a big snow, which can't help but add a little childlike innocence.

Xiao Man was wearing thick cotton clothes, and he wanted to be happy, picking up a handful of snow and throwing it towards Wu Mao and Wu Sheng's brothers. Wu Mao was older, so he didn't care about him, and retreated with a smile; Wu Sheng is about the same age as Xiaoman, and he is also childish, and when he saw that the uncle didn't open his mouth to blame, he also held the snow and played with Xiaoman.

In the end, Wei Hei looked at the sky and scolded a few of them with a smile: "Don't make trouble, send the uncle back, let you make trouble for a few hours, and if you don't leave now, you will delay the uncle from going to school!" ”

Everyone laughed, shook off the snow from their clothes, turned over their horses, and headed for the Forbidden City.

*When it comes to the upper study, or because of the snow, everyone wears thick winter clothes. Rao is like this, and it also makes a few little brothers shiver. The heating in the Forbidden City is based on geothermal heat, and there is a transparent compartment under the house, which is stuffed with half-pressed wood chips every year after the beginning of winter, and burns slowly after ignition for several months. Therefore, although it is not cold in the house, the temperature is not too high. The wax moon is about to begin, and there is a heavy snowfall, and there is even less heat in the house.

After the sixteenth elder brother came in wrapped in a sauce-colored Ning thin noodles and a green fox leather robe, he began to break his fingers with Cao Hao to calculate his annual leave. When you enter the month of Laba, it is Laba; After Laba, it will be twenty-three years in the blink of an eye; Staying up to twenty-six, the emperor sealed the pen, which is annual leave.

Cao Hao listened and began to envy the children of later generations, at least there were more than forty days of winter vacation, which was much happier than the prince hundreds of years ago.

After calculating, the sixteenth elder brother remembered one thing, and said to Cao Hao with a smile: "In a few days, the fourth brother's mansion will accept a side Fujin, and then we will eat and drink together, just in time to go out of the palace, and then go to Longfu Temple!" ”

Cao Hao has also heard about this, and the side Fujin that the fourth elder brother wants to accept this time is what the palace refers to in the October draft, Nian Qianyao's sister-in-law, Nian. Thinking of Cousin Chen, who was drafted at the same time as her, Nian's didn't know what happened to the chrysanthemum in the palace.

Half of the day passed in a hurry, and when Cao Hao returned home, the snow had stopped.

* Cao Hao came to Cao Song's side first when he entered the courtyard, and when he saw his little face, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Have you suffered a loss?" ”

Cao Song said proudly: "How can I lose my brother's face, naturally I didn't suffer!" Don't look at the color on my face, seven or eight of them told me to get down! You still want to bully me, hum, looking for death! ”

Cao Hao always knew that it would be good if he didn't go out to bully others, basically no one could bully him: "Who else dares to bully you?" Tell me, what's going on? ”

Cao Song said with his eyebrows fluttering.

It turned out that there were a few children in the school who had always been rampant, and they were quite a bit of a posture, and Ping Su and Cao Songjing were safe if they didn't violate the river water. Who knows what happened yesterday, a few people said that they wanted to see Cao Song's treasure knife. Cao Song unloaded it and showed it to them, but they had a great posture of not returning it. Cao Song, have we been angry? turned his face at the moment, and the two sides said stiffly, so they made an appointment to compete in the back alley of the school after class. Cao Song was experienced in a hundred battles, and where those few people were opponents, they were naturally beaten to the ground.

The two brothers were talking, and the news came from outside the door that Zhaojia Mansion had sent someone to invite Cao Song over.

Cao Song didn't know what was going on, he just felt strange, and hurriedly called the messenger to come in and ask carefully.

The man only said that the old lady had been invited, and he didn't know anything else.

Xiao Man, who was standing on the side, knew what it meant, and touched a piece of broken silver and quietly stuffed it into the man's hand.

The man took it and pressed it with his finger before he smiled and said: "Back to the young master's words, the slave really doesn't know what is going on, and he only listens in a trance and calls the fifth master of De, the sixth master of Che and the uncle of the North Courtyard." ”

As soon as Cao Song heard it, he knew that yesterday's fight had happened. The fifth and sixth masters mentioned by this person are the two sons of Cao Song's third cousin's family, Feng De and Feng Che, and Uncle Lian of the North Courtyard is the only son of Cao Song's aunt, Suo Xuanluo? He Lian, like Cao Song, was attached to the Zhaojia Sect, and yesterday they took a few children to fight with Cao Song.

Sending away the person who came to deliver the letter, Cao Song was somewhat bottomless in his heart, and shouted to Cao Hao with a weak heart: "Brother, ......" but swallowed back the last words. If you fight and find your brother to help you fight, now I'm afraid that you will be punished, how can you ask your brother to accompany you?

Cao Hao patted him on the shoulder: "Go change your clothes, my brother will accompany you on a trip." ”

Cao Song's eyes lit up, and he immediately had a backbone, nodded heavily, and hurriedly ran back to change clothes.

* The two rode out of the house, and along the way, Cao Hao told him a few words, telling him to pay attention to the words, even if he was not at fault this time, he couldn't blame each other for everything, they were all cousins, cousins, leave room for talking, and his attitude must be sincere.

Cao Song wrote them down one by one, and when he saw the gate of Zhaojia Mansion from afar, he hurriedly said to Cao Hao: "Brother, my grandfather will punish me later, and you have to intercede for me." I'm not afraid to hit my board, but ...... It's also a shame ......."

Cao Hao smiled and said, "I'm not afraid of being beaten, but I'm afraid of being embarrassed?" ”

Cao Song straightened his waist: "A manly man, a soldier can be killed but not humiliated." ”

Cao Hao glanced at him: "Don't say these two sentences later, it's really irrelevant." When you look back, your grandfather still has to scold you for not reading well, and beat you up again if you can't keep it. ”

Cao Song shrank his neck and stopped talking.

* Fangjia Hutong, Zhaojia Mansion.

In the living room, Marhan, who is over seventy years old, has white hair, sits on the main seat in a black-faced lynx gown, slowly sipping tea with a covered bowl, and kneeling side by side Feng De, Feng Che and He Lian.

Marhan didn't ask, and the three of them didn't dare to speak out, even if they didn't dare to speak out, they didn't dare to speak out, and they were uneasy in their hearts.

Cao Hao and Cao Song brothers were led to the hall and saw such a scene. The two looked at each other and saluted Marhan in unison.

When Marhan saw that Cao Hao was also coming, he put down the bowl, called out with a smile, and asked Cao Hao how he was doing, and asked him to sit down and drink tea.

Cao Hao saw that he was kneeling straight on the ground here, and his younger brother was standing in a proper manner, how could he sit on it? Therefore, he said a few polite words, and only stood aside with his hands down.

Marhan saw it, knew his thoughts, and was not reluctant, coughed at the moment, and asked Cao Song: "Song'er, what happened in the back alley of the school yesterday?" ”

Cao Song didn't expect his grandfather to come up and let him say what he had done, and he was stunned. He already hated the act of complaining, and thought of the words that his brother had told him to leave room or something on the way here, so he immediately bowed down and replied: "Back to my grandfather, my grandson and cousins were practicing Buku in the back alley after school yesterday. ”

Hearing this childish lie, Marhan didn't raise his eyelids, and asked, "But Fengde and they bullied you?" ”

Cao Song was still honest, and replied: "My grandson doesn't dare to deceive my grandfather, Cousin Fengde has always treated my grandson well and has never bullied my grandson." ”

The kneeling three listened, and the tense nerves relaxed.

Malhan was a majestic man, and his children and children feared him. Therefore, as soon as the three of them heard that the old lady had called for questioning, they were very afraid, and they asked around about what they were doing, and they were afraid that it was because of yesterday's fight. After all, it is the three of them who are at a loss, and they are bullying the small with the big and the guests with the master, no matter how you say it, it is untenable.

After inquiring around, they didn't find out, so the three of them had to go to the front hall hard, and they made up a set of words on the road urgently, and when the old lady asked, they pushed all the mistakes on Cao Song.

Unexpectedly, he kowtowed and asked for peace, but Marhan didn't scream. They knelt and didn't dare to move, just hoping that the old lady would ask a question, and they would confess and clear themselves. As a result, Marhan didn't even ask them, but drank tea slowly, and the words prepared by the three of them were useless, and they didn't know what the old lady had in mind, so they couldn't help but be terrified.

When Cao Song came, the old lady asked Cao Song first, and the three of them turned over in their hearts, only saying that Cao Song would definitely bite them to death, and they couldn't run away and beat them today. Unexpectedly, Cao Song not only did not sue, but spoke for them. In addition to their surprise, they were visibly relieved.

Marhan saw everyone's expressions in his eyes, and he had a plan in his heart. Before he called the people to come, he had already been visited, and although he did not know the details of yesterday's events, he also knew a general idea, and then he called them to confirm the intention and punish them for justice.

Right now, Cao Song, who was originally a bitter master, insisted that there was nothing to do yesterday, and praised the three of Fengde honestly and sincerely. Marhan knew that this nephew was not a cunning man with a bad mouth, and liked him for his kindness, so he did not intend to punish the three grandsons severely.

Marhan's gaze swept over the faces of his three grandsons, and he said sharply, "Don't think I really don't know what you guys have done!" Now that Song'er has said this, I will spare you once. There will be a next time, and the two crimes will be punished together! Let's go down! ”

The three of them hurriedly kowtowed to Marhan and respectfully withdrew.

Marhan asked Cao Hao and Cao Song to sit again, and then the two sat down with their guilt, said a few words with the old man, and got up to leave.

* Out of the courtyard, I turned into the hall, and saw Feng De, Feng Che and He Lian waiting for the Cao Hao brothers at the corner.

Because of his brother's presence, Cao Song was not afraid of heaven and earth, so he sneered at the moment, waved his fist, and said to the three people: "What's the matter?" Didn't you have a good time yesterday? Come on, come on, come on today, I'll be with you to the end! ”

Feng Che was the most unpopular, because Cao Song helped them avoid the board, and immediately treated Cao Song as his own person, and he didn't think he was embarrassed when he heard his words, but said with a smile: "The ribs are still green, but I don't dare to fight again." Besides, if we fight again, the old lady will have to kill us. ”

The elder Feng De glanced at his younger brother, and then said to Cao Song: "You didn't sue today, we admit your affection, and we won't fight you in the future." ”

Cao Song pouted: "Hmph, what kind of hero is the complaint?" I don't need you to admit my feelings, if you don't accept it, you will fight again! ”

Fengde terrier's neck, about to speak, but was pulled aside by He Lian: "What did you say just now?" It's not like it's okay to recognize him as a brother. If you still provoke him, do you still want to fight him? You don't know his strength! ”

Fengde remembered Cao Song's fierce fist yesterday, and he didn't speak. He Lian walked over and said to Cao Song seriously: "Look at you are also cool, let's make you a friend, and you will be our brother in the future!" ”

Cao Song once swept the gangsters on the ground in Jiangning in the south, and accepted them as junior brothers regardless of their age, and claimed to be the king and hegemon. At this time, let him be the younger brother of the three defeated generals, how can he be willing? So he crossed his arms and squinted at them: "Be my brother?" You can't even beat me, and you still want to be my brother? This is my brother! Saying that, he tugged Cao Hao, and then said, "My brother's kung fu is much better than yours!" I just learned 30% of my brother's kung fu, no, 20%! When you are better than my brother's kung fu, come back to be my brother! ”

Cao Hao originally had a bit of a parental feeling, looking at this group of children bickering with a smile, who knew that he was pulled into the battle group by his younger brother, and patted Cao Song's shoulder at the moment: "They are all older than you." In terms of seniority, you have to call it brother. ”

Cao Song waved his head: "No, they have to call me brother." Otherwise, fight again, whoever is powerful is the elder brother! ”

Feng De and the three of them looked at Cao Hao as a scholar, not like Lian Jiazi, and couldn't help but say, "Your brother is really as powerful as you say?" ”

Cao Song raised his chin proudly: "My brother is the imperial guard!" Are you awesome?! ”

When the three of Fengde heard the words "imperial guard", they were impressed. In their eyes, the master is the imperial guard in addition to the general, so Cao Hao's eyes are full of admiration, and regardless of age, he is called "Brother Cao" by Cao Hao.

Cao Hao was made to cry and laugh by a group of children, but Cao Song was very proud, patted his chest and said: "In the future, you will call me Second Brother Cao!" ”

Everyone just rolled their eyes when they heard this nonsense, no one paid attention to him anymore, and they all gathered around Cao Hao to inquire about the affairs in the palace-

(To be continued)