Cao Mansion, Wutong Garden.

Cao Hao lay on the kang, his eyes open, and couldn't sleep for a long time. The saint is in Changchun Garden, and the dragon body is not something that he, a courtier, can know. He only knew that the household fold had been pressed for three days without approval.

The excerpt approved by the emperor is at the latest on the tenth day of the first month of November; After that, the fold handed over by the household department sank into the sea and there was no news.

Li went to the Guogong Mansion a few days ago, ate a few more glasses of wine, and then saw the wind, and these two days were a little uncomfortable. Chu Yu not only had to serve his mother-in-law, but also took care of his young son Tianbao, who was already extremely tired, lying beside Cao Hao and falling into a deep sleep.

Is it just a few days?

Seshtu is not a stubborn person, and what Guogong has done in the past few years is no longer Wuxia Ameng. He should follow the trend, and it should be no problem to protect himself.

Over the years, the Cao family has also eliminated hidden dangers under the careful management of Cao Yin and Cao Hao's fathers.

Cao Hao closed his eyes, and what he was worried about was no longer the disaster of raiding the family and destroying the clan that he was worried about before, but that there was a change in Changchun Garden, and the fourth elder brother could not be the emperor.

If the emperor is not the fourth elder brother, then the future political career of the Cao family will be black.

When the fourth elder brother ascended the throne, the biggest guarantee was Long Keduo, and the biggest variable was also Long Keduo.

In a daze, I heard a faint sound of a bell in the distance.

Cao Hao's heart was agitated, and he sat up from the kang.

He stretched out his hand to lift the curtain, and the bell rang more and more clearly.

One less time, like other monasteries and Taoist temples have been harmonized.

Cao Hao got up and got off the kang, wiped a piece of clothing from the clothes rack, and draped it on his body.

He walked outside, and in the silence of the night, the melodious sound of the bell was very clear. In addition to the bells, there is also the undulating barking of dogs.

Cao Hao's heart was tense, the bell rang for a long time, and the national mourning began.

The wind was strong in the middle of the night, but Cao Hao didn't feel the chill at all. His thoughts flew to Changchun Garden, and he couldn't wait for an immediate result.

At this moment, I heard the sound of hurried footsteps, from far and near.

With the dim light coming from afar, there was a knock at the door: "Which girl is on duty at night, open the door quickly?" ”

The rules of Wutong Garden, when Cao Hao is there, no one is left in the room to be on duty at night.

But you can't leave someone to wait in the yard, otherwise the owner of the house will have to go to the backyard to call someone? Therefore, next to the small kitchen in the east wing, there was a secluded room and made the duty room of Wutong Garden.

Every night, a big maid takes a turn with a small maid. The lights on duty are not extinguished all night.

Therefore, when I heard the knock on the door, someone immediately answered in the house, and then I saw a girl come out with a curtain, ran to the door in a few steps, and asked through the door, "Mama Wang?" ”

"It's me, girl, open the door! Second, the manager has an urgent matter, please sir! The man replied with some anxiety.

It was Le Qing who came out, she opened the door bolt, and said, "Mama whispered, Mrs. is lacking these two days......

Today is the thirteenth, and the moon in the sky will be full, reflecting the clear light of the earth.

Le Qing carried his back to the upper room and didn't see it; Mama Wang was facing the upper room, and at a glance she saw a figure standing under the porch. She was startled, and before she could react, the lights in the upper room came on.

At this moment, the light in the window and the moon in the sky made Mama Wang recognize Cao Hao.

"Master, the second housekeeper has something urgent, please sir, and he is waiting at the second door." Mama Wang took two steps forward and bowed.

Cao Hao nodded and said, "I know, you go back first, and I'll go over after changing my clothes." ”

Mama Wang answered and went with the lantern.

Chu Yu heard her husband's voice and came out with her clothes on.

The bell in the distance was still ringing, and Chu Yu's face immediately turned white, and he called out with a little uneasiness: "Forehead? ”

Cao Hao turned around, pulled her into the house, and said softly, "Don't be afraid! ”

Chu Yu just heard Cao Hao's sentence about Mama Wang, took the clothes, but hesitated: "You want to enter the palace?" Clothes ......"

"The holy car is in Changchun Garden, even if you want to enter the palace, you have to wait for dawn, I'll go to the front yard to have a look, let's wear it like this first." Cao Hao said.

Chu Yu served him and dressed up, and he wanted to ask each other when he had a stomach, but he was afraid that Cao Hao would be in a hurry, so he swallowed the words again when he came to his mouth.

To say that she is not worried is false, the seventh elder brother's leg disease has not healed, so he went to Changchun Garden to serve the disease, and now he has caught up with the great mourning of the country, and I don't know what happened to him.

She lit the glazed octagonal lotus lamp and wanted to use it for Cao Hao to illuminate the way.

Cao Hao waved his hand and said, "No need, just a few steps, the moonlight is bright again." ”

After Cao Hao left, Chu Yu had long since lost his sleepiness.

Real Madrid Fabin ...... Mother-in-law's side...... Chu Yu was a little uneasy, and she also put on her clothes.

Le Qing heard Cao Hao go out of the courtyard and waited in the upper room. Seeing that Chu Yu was going to the Orchid Garden, Le Qing found a big wool cloak and tied it to Chu Yu, and the master and servant carried the glass lamp to the Orchid Courtyard.

The upper room of the Lan Courtyard was already lit up, and when Chu Yu entered, Li was wearing clothes and sitting on the edge of the kang in a daze.

Seeing Chu Yu, Li was not surprised, waved his hand, and said, "Let's go and see Tianbao first, the child's ears are smart, and the movement outside just now shocked him." It's time to coax it. ”

Tianbao is placed in the East Warm Pavilion of the main house of the Orchid Courtyard.

Li's was afraid of the cold, and he originally slept with his little grandson, and they all rested in the warm pavilion; However, because she was sick a few days ago, she was afraid that she would give her little grandson a bad illness, so she moved back to Westinghouse.

Seeing this, Chu Yu originally wanted to take Tianbao back to Wutong Yuan and not let the Li family move, but the Li family refused, for fear that his little grandson would be small, and he couldn't afford to toss, and he couldn't sleep well if he changed places.

Seeing that her mother-in-law insisted on this, Chu Yu didn't say much, but she became more and more careful when she was sick.

When he arrived at the warm pavilion, he saw that Tianbao had fallen asleep under the care of **, and Chu Yu withdrew from the Westinghouse again.

"The bell is still ringing......," Li muttered, staring at the window.

Chu Yu sat on the stool, carefully looking at her mother-in-law, not knowing what to say.

Even the people of the capital know that this continuous bell announces the beginning of the national mourning; Mother-in-law raised in the eunuch's house, and married into the eunuch's family, this knowledge is still there...... * front yard, front hall.

Just when Cao Hao came over, the chief manager Cao Yuan also heard the bell and rushed over.

Since Zhang Yi returned to Beijing from Guangzhou with his wife, Cao Fang went to Guangzhou to take over Zhang Yi's previous errands. Naturally, Cao Hao still has arrangements in Guangzhou.

Guangzhou is the back road left by Cao Hao for himself, and he can't be completely relieved if he is run by someone else at will.

Zhang Yi's side succeeded Cao Fang and became the second head of the house.

"There are soldiers at the mouth of the alley, and martial law is in the inner city!" Zhang Yi's statement was a little frightened.

Everyone knows that the honor and disgrace of their Cao Mansion for decades are all on the old emperor. Now, when the throne is changing, how can it not make people worry...... Cao Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "Where are the soldiers and horses, can you ask carefully?" ”

"The little one who went to ask in person was the soldiers and horses of the infantry army who commanded the yamen. The leading little school, who had been a subordinate of the Fu family earlier, knew about our house. Listening to the little question, he said a few more words. He didn't know why, but he knew that many people had been mobilized to guard the official residences in the inner city. Zhang Yi replied.

Cao Hao listened and sneered in his heart.

The name "Su Wei" is really "prevention", for fear that the clan and the powerful will make trouble at this time.

But it's okay, with the double insurance, the fourth elder brother can sit on the dragon chair steadily.

Although I don't know when Kangxi died, the temple bell has been ringing for a long time, and martial law has been implemented in the inner city, so I am afraid that it will not take much time for the emperor to return to the palace.

Thinking of this, Cao Hao said to Cao Yuan: "That is, from the beginning, the mansion will be white, and the upper and lower mourning." After speaking, he said to Zhang Yi: "Let people prepare horses, and I will go to the imperial city later." ”

Fang came out in a hurry, did not stop in the Orchid Courtyard, and now when he came back, Cao Hao directly entered the Orchid Courtyard.

Li Shi's face was full of tears at the moment, and when he saw his son coming in, he hurriedly lowered his head and wiped it clean.

"Mother, the festival is good." Cao Hao sighed in his heart and comforted softly.

Li Shi shook his head with red eyes, and said, "I have something to mourn about." Counting, I have lived for more than fifty years and have seen ...... The number of slaps was counted...... The year is about to be seventy, which is also considered a small longevity......"

She said it clearly, but the sadness in her eyes couldn't be hidden.

In the past few years, although she has resentment in her heart, she also knows that she is an orphan girl, and in the end, she is related by blood, so she can live a more nourishing life than the daughter of the family.

Now that he knows the news of the emperor's death, the Li family is still in a dream, and he can't believe it.

She was already sick, and when she heard the news, she couldn't support it. After saying a few words to her son and daughter-in-law, she no longer wanted to be strong, and fell crookedly on the kang, almost knocking down the interstitial screen embroidered with bamboo orchids.

Cao Hao and Chu Yu carefully helped her to settle her.

Li Shi looked at his son, then at his daughter-in-law, and said, "I'm tired, I want to sleep." Cao Haoming'er started, you still have to be busy, you go back and settle down early.

Cao Hao came out of the mansion at the beginning of Yin Chu (three o'clock in the morning), and when he arrived in front of Jinshui Bridge, there were already many princes and princes.

Everyone is like a vegetable market, making a lot of noise. Cao Hao looked at the carriage in the distance, and it seemed that it was wise for him to choose to ride over.

Next, Cao Hao felt the same as watching a big play.

At dawn, the imperial opinion of Emperor Daxing came slowly under the embrace of the army.

I don't know who took the lead, everyone knelt down one after another, and immediately cried to the sky.

Seeing their noses and tears coming out, like mourning and examining, Cao Hao was really dumbfounded. Fortunately, he prepared early, rubbed ginger on his cuffs, and it was cheap to want tears.

When his eyes were full of red, he thought about the scene he had seen when he first went to Beijing. Kangxi at that time was really like a loving elder. He is not stone-hearted, and it is false to say that he is not grateful for Kangxi's protection; It's just that too many things happened later, so that those gratitudes were gone, and then, Cao Hao watched a big show.

Yongzheng supported the emperor, with tears in his eyes, and accompanied him on foot. Personally helped to the palace gate.

The princes and ministers and the prince and brother all howled desperately.

After hearing that the seventh elder brother stayed in the Lip Changchun Garden, Cao Hao's last worries disappeared.

The fourth elder brother is next to the imperial chariot, and there is no longer the restraint and low-key he had earlier, only an indescribable and unclear momentum remains. , Cao Hao paid attention to the fourth elder brother, and the fourth elder brother seemed to notice it, and also looked at Cao Hao twice.

After enshrined Emperor Daxing in the Qianqing Palace, the fourth elder brother summoned the officials of the Ministry of Rites to arrange for Emperor Daxing's dressing.

Because he saw Cao Hao just now, the fourth elder brother thought of the Li family.

When the officials of the Ministry of Rites knelt down, the fourth elder brother remembered what the Ministry of Rites had planned, and when the emperor was buried, the prince Baylor and hundreds of civil and military officials came forward to send their condolences; The princesses can also take care of it nearby.

Li's identity is a foreign woman, and she can't look forward to mourning......

(To be continued)