Although Zhao Jia's family is used to using red plums, she is old after all, and she doesn't want to delay her. Besides, Cao Fu has the intention of telling Hongmei to He Lao Liu, if her son insists, it is not good for her to quarrel with her son because of a girl.

Let her mother take her back to match people, avoid He Lao Liu's family business, and it can be regarded as preserving the relationship between master and servant.

If Hongmei is interested, she should kowtow a few times, and go out with her mother in peace. Crying like this caused Zhao Jia's heart to be unhappy.

In her heart, she remembered what her son said a few years ago, "There are still fewer girls in this house who are concubines."

Yes, are there still few maids in this house who are concubines?

The older generation of butterflies and jadeite, the younger generation of jade dragonflies, green chrysanthemums, and purple orchids.

Isn't it that Hongmei also has the intention of climbing high branches, and is determined to be an aunt, so she is not willing to go back to match someone?

Zhao Jia's earlier reluctance dissipated, and his face had drooped, staring at Hongmei. Thinking that in the past few years, she has nothing to do, and she is always willing to run to Cao Xiang's courtyard, often playing with the rights and wrongs of Chunhua and Luju in front of herself, and this mind is already obvious.

Zhao Jia's eyes became cold, the ten taels of silver that he had planned to reward were not mentioned at this time, looking at the gilded hairpin on Hongmei's head, he snorted coldly in his heart, waved his hand, and said, "Okay, go down, and cry when you get on the sedan chair." ”

Hongmei has been waiting by her side for many years, and she is not unblind, seeing that she is unhappy, she doesn't dare to do much, she sobs and sobscures and kneels, kowtows a few times, and goes down with her mother.

As soon as I got out of the house, I saw Jinghui and Su Xin standing under the porch with their maids and mother-in-law. Hongmei's mother hurriedly walked two steps and bowed down to greet the two grandmothers.

Hongmei stared blankly, not knowing what to say.

Obviously, Mrs. said that she would give her to the fifth master, but in the end there was no movement. She still remembered that the fifth master's eyes looked at her were not all ruthless.

Could it be that the fifth grandmother is jealous?

However, there was a word that the fifth grandmother had asked someone to clean up the west wing and take a concubine for the fifth master.

Hongmei was confused, and her brain couldn't turn around.

Her mother saw that she had no rules, and was afraid that the two grandmothers would blame her, so she sued her guilt and dragged her daughter to hurry away.

Hui Tong and Su Xin glanced at each other, and they both had some doubts in their hearts.

Hongmei is the big maid next to her mother-in-law, looking at the meaning of her wife, she specified that she was going to be promoted as an aunt, but she didn't know who she meant to Cao Song and their brothers.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be her mother to take her back to match someone.

Because he was waiting by Zhaojia's side, Hongmei Pingsuri was also arrogant, and his popularity was not good. There are already people who have fallen into the well, and they inquired about Hongmei's mother's surname of Aicai, and they have everything to say.

Some say that Hongmei fills houses for landlords in the countryside, and some say that Hongmei makes concubines for Shanxi merchants.

If you want to say why Zhaojia's Hongmei and her mother marry outside, there is really no way. She had the heart to be a matchmaker for Hongmei, saying that she would be a daughter-in-law to the big housekeeper, but the big housekeeper didn't dare to agree.

It's really Hongmei's "reputation", and everyone in this mansion treats her as a future aunt. The big housekeeper doesn't want to offend any master because of a girl.

Besides, although Zhao Jia's family is a wife, the second grandmother in this house is in charge. Even if it is really for the sake of his son's future, he should ask the girl next to the second grandmother.

Whenever this man has doubts, he loves to think wildly.

Since Zhao Jia's family believed his son's words, he believed that Hongmei was "hiding annihilation", and he was not so keen on being a concubine.

When the two daughters-in-law came to greet her, she also solemnly warned a few words, which was nothing more than to let them hold the master's score, and treat the next person not too kindly. If there is any restlessness, send it away early, so that people will not be worried.

Jinghui listened and was really speechless.

If there is no big backer of Zhaojia's family behind her, even if the maid has the mind to climb the master's bed, she doesn't have the courage.

Su Xin's heart moved, thinking of the recent rumors in the house, as well as Hongmei's departure from the house, or her husband's "hard work" every night, and she didn't know whether she was sad or happy...... * Rehe, outside the summer resort.

Not long after Cao Hao waited to see him, he saw the sixteenth elder brother coming over in a hurry.

"I've finally got you...... If Fu doesn't come again, the master will be suffocated......" The moment he saw Cao Hao, the joy on the face of the sixteenth elder brother was undoubtedly revealed.

Cao Hao looked at the sixteenth elder brother's slightly reduced face, but he was a little worried, and said, "I haven't seen you in the tenth month, why did the sixteenth elder brother clear it?" Is this sick? ”

The sixteenth elder brother waved his hand and said, "No, it's just that I was sick to my stomach a few days ago, and I quit a few days of meat." Now it's good to run like this, and occasionally run a horse, and I don't feel like my stomach is topping. ”

Seeing that Cao Hao was still standing respectfully, he said, "I asked just now, Huang Ama takes a nap." Xia said that the sky was lacking, and Huang Ama did not wake up until the beginning of Shen Chu (three o'clock in the afternoon). There are very few people in the next day, and it is serious for you to hand over the sign tomorrow morning. Are you just in Rehe? Did you have lunch? I invite you to eat and drink. ”

Cao Hao didn't have to eat, and he had a lot to ask the sixteenth elder brother, so the two went down to the villa together.

Because he felt that there was chaos outside, Cao Hao still didn't let the sixteenth elder brother throw away the fee, and the two went back to the Cao family's courtyard together.

After Cao Hao arrived at the courtyard, the kitchen here had already prepared a table.

One time less, Cao Hao and the sixteenth elder brother took their seats in the pavilion by the garden.

Here, the view is open, and it is a good place to talk.

"I thought you wouldn't be able to arrive until the end of the year, how is the seventh brother's injury?" The sixteenth elder brother asked with some concern.

Cao Hao shook his head and said: "Although I don't have to worry about my surname, but I have broken bones and tendons, I am afraid that I will have to stay in bed for a year and a half to get better, and whether I can walk by then, it is still two words." I have sent people south to find Fang Zhonggong, hoping that my father-in-law's legs and feet will be better. ”

This is not a lie, after all, the seventh elder brother is middle-aged and has osteoporosis, and this leg injury is more serious than planned. This point was mentioned by Cao Hao because of Cao Hao's repeated questions, and the imperial doctor mentioned it secretly.

After all, no one dares to take the risk and say in advance that the seventh elder brother may become a paralyzed person or something.

didn't expect such an accident to happen, Cao Hao's heart was a little uncomfortable.

If the seventh elder brother knew that his love for his son might be bedridden for the rest of his life, would he still make such a choice?

The human heart is unpredictable.

Cao Hao didn't want this fatherly heart, and the torture of paralysis due to illness turned into endless remorse.

If that's the case, the seventh elder brother will be most disgusted at that time, except for his eldest son Hongshu, who is trying his best to preserve, is Cao Hao, the initiator.

The sixteenth elder brother could see the report from the Tai Hospital here, and he only knew that the seventh elder brother's injury was "stable" and "gradually improving", but he just asked casually, but he didn't expect it to be so serious.

Seeing that Cao Hao was worried, he hurriedly said: "Seventh Brother looks like a blessed one, so don't worry too much about Fu Ruo." ”

Cao Hao nodded, remembering the matter of the fourteenth elder brother's request for "peace talks", and said, "By the way, how did I hear that the fourteenth elder brother is going back to Beijing?" ”

Hearing this, the sixteenth elder brother raised his eyebrows and said, "Isn't it?" After being a general for a few years, if you don't come back to show off, won't you become a brocade night? I heard that Concubine De Niangniang is busy electing the emperor Sun Fujin for Hongming. It is also common for the royal father, who has always favored him and allowed him to come back to attend his son's wedding. ”

Originally, I was afraid that the sixteenth elder brother would be involved with the fourteenth elder brother because of the fifteenth elder brother, but seeing him like this, Cao Hao also put his mind at ease.

The two of them had a pot of lotus white, and while eating wine, they talked about the details of the month after parting.

Listening to the joy of the sixteenth elder brother visiting the temple, the encounter with the fourth elder brother, and the "like-mindedness" of the two brothers, Cao Hao couldn't help but wonder.

"The sixteenth master has changed his surname, and he dragged the sixteenth master before, and the sixteenth master is not uncommon?" Cao Hao said with a smile.

The sixteenth elder brother glanced at him and said, "Master finally understands why his uncle sent Fu Ruo to the Buddha Hall in his early years, and why the fourth brother made a posture of eating and fasting and reciting Buddha." The Buddhist room is pure, and if you want to calculate people, your mind will be clearer. ”

Unexpectedly, it was this answer, Cao Hao asked curiously: "Who offended the sixteenth master?" ”

The sixteenth elder brother picked up the wine cup and took a sip, but he sold the guanzi and said leisurely: "Could it be that the master is a stingy person who must be repaid?" Whoever says calculating, even if it hurts people, he still doesn't repay 'virtue' with virtue. ”

Speaking of the word "de" at the end, the sixteenth elder brother gritted his teeth a little, and the hatred in his eyes could no longer be concealed.

Cao Hao is not a stupid person, seeing that the sixteenth elder brother was agitated, he poured him full of wine, and said: "What the elder brother did has to do with the one in Yonghe Palace?" ”

Because this involves the pain of the sixteenth elder brother's loss of his son, Cao Hao was also a little careful.

The sixteenth elder brother had a gloomy face and said, "She didn't have the courage to murder the emperor and grandson. It's just that Li Shiping is a coward, if no one encourages him, he will never give birth to such a vicious heart. She is used to pretending to be a good person, and I also checked privately for two years before I found some clues. I'm a prince with no title and no power, and she won't take me seriously. instigated the Li family to make trouble, but because I, Fujin, was the niece of Concubine Yi, and she was happy to watch the excitement. ”

When Cao Hao heard this, he was unexpectedly nervous, but he didn't expect Concubine De to be involved in the housework of the sixteenth elder brother.

Maybe she is not as vicious as the sixteenth elder brother thinks, after all, everything has cause and effect. As the head of the harem, he has a high position in the court, and if he bothered to plan this just to fight with Concubine Yi, it is a little unreasonable.

However, Cao Hao did not argue with the sixteenth elder brother.

The human heart is like this, and it is always unwilling to admit its mistakes. Li is the first woman of the sixteenth elder brother and the mother of his eldest son, the two have been in love for more than ten years, and they are affectionate, which can not be erased with a word.

I believe that Concubine De has a "bad heart", which is much more comfortable than regretting that she "has eyes and no beads".

"Anyway, she is the mother of the two princes and elder brothers, even if the sixteenth master is annoyed, don't show her deeds...... The fourteenth master is okay, the fourth master, it's best not to be suspicious......" Speaking of this, he lowered his voice and said: "That one is not young anymore, and the sixteenth elder brother is still a little restless." ”

If he remembers correctly, this Concubine De is not a long-lived person, not long after Kangxi died, he also followed.

In the history of later generations, it is also said that she refused to be the queen mother because her youngest son lost the throne, and Kangxi committed suicide by hitting the pillar in front of her.

It's all family words, and you can't believe it. But it is also common for an elderly man in his sixties to die of depression after her husband died and her youngest son was confined in captivity.

"Don't worry, I didn't do anything, I just waited to see the excitement. Although I hated it in my heart, I was not so confused that I wanted to tear my face. Brother Sixteen said.

Seeing that the sixteenth elder brother was measured, Cao Hao didn't say anything more.

After the death of his son-in-law, the mood of the sixteenth elder brother has been sluggish, and it is good to vent the depression in his heart...... * The capital, the palace, the elder brother's residence, and the sixteenth elder brother's residence.

Sixteen Fujin's eyes were red, and the room was gloomy.

Fourteen Fujin and Seventeen Fujin were on the side, and when they saw her like this, they didn't know how to persuade each other. If it is said that in the clan Fujin, the sixteen Fujin and the sixteen elder brother Qinse are compatible, and they have always been envied.

But no matter how loving the husband and wife are, the relationship between the children is thin, and they fold three little brothers in a row.

Now, can't this half-year-old little Gege stand still?

After this little Gege was born, he never stopped taking medicine, and he was infected with a carbuncle at the beginning of the year. Although the imperial doctor didn't say it explicitly, he knew that this little Gege was not long-lived, but no one dared to say it to the sixteenth elder brother and the sixteenth Fujin.

Although Sixteen Fujin was worried about his daughter, he did not pull his husband and did not let him go on an errand. I thought that after surviving winter and spring, Xiao Gege would be half a year old, and his body would be stronger.

I never thought that since the sixteenth elder brother left Beijing, Xiao Gege's carbuncle would be committed. In addition to crying, babies in swaddling clothes are "coughing" non-stop.

In the cradle, the half-year-old Xiao Gege's face was bruised, and he rolled his eyes, and he was about to die.

The old lady doctor with white hair was already sweating, and said: "Sixteen Fujin, Xiao Gege is stuck in phlegm, quickly let people suck out Xiao Gege's phlegm, and ...... it if it's late."

The Fourteenth Fujin and the Seventeenth Fujin both changed their faces when they heard such a danger.

Sixteen Fujin didn't mean to find someone, stepped forward, picked up his daughter, lowered his head, and sucked a mouthful of thick phlegm from his daughter's mouth mouth-to-mouth.

Xiao Gege came out in one breath and began to cry "doll", because he was crying urgently, his originally bruised face turned red.

Sixteen Fujin held his daughter in his arms, and tears kept falling like beads with broken threads.

The fourteenth and seventeenth Fujin also had red circles.

At this time, Xiao Gege felt uncomfortable in his mother's arms and began to cough again.

The imperial doctor hurriedly said: "Sixteen Fujin, it's better to put down Xiao Gege and let Xiao Gege lean on it." ”

Sixteen Fujin felt sorry for his daughter, so he hurriedly followed his words and did what he said, and raised one end of the rocking car with sandalwood Ruyi and put his daughter down.

Xiao Gege was comfortable lying down, so he stopped coughing, and gradually even the crying stopped, and his little mouth yawned, and he fell asleep.

Sixteen Fujin looked at his daughter greedily, stroked his chest, wiped his tears, and led everyone to the outer hall.

"Imperial Doctor, Xiao Gege stopped the fever this morning, do you need to change the prescription?" Sixteen Fujin asked.

"Since the fever is stopped, the prescription for reducing fever can be stopped, and the prescription for coughing has to be used, and Weichen will write a prescription for clearing the lungs and clearing the fire." The old lady bowed and replied.

Sixteen Fujin nodded, asked the waiter to wrap the silver seal, and sent the old lady out ...... * Sixteen elder brother learned the news that his daughter was seriously ill, and it was already a few days later.

However, what I received was not the bad news, and then the letter of good news from the Sixteen Blessings.

In the letter, the sixteen blessings were full of joy, Xiao Gege's carbuncle has gradually improved, and several doctors have been invited to see it, and they all said that Xiao Gege's pulse has been stable, and if he takes it for ten years, he can stop the medicine.

The fact that the sixteenth elder brother went to the temple in Rehe to worship has been spread to Beijing, and the sixteenth Fujin has also heard about it. She is grateful for her husband's move.

She was deeply touched, thinking that the young girl's escape from death was all because of her husband's accumulation of merits, and she also told her mother's mother, and invited Guanyin Niangniang from the temple to worship...... The sixteenth elder brother took the letter, looked at the incense burner burning with sandalwood on the bookcase, accepted the ordinary frivolous heart, and muttered: "Merit, the Buddha blesses ......"

(To be continued)