When facing Cao Hao, Li Xu's mood was quite complicated.

Although the Cao family has no Cao Yin, it has Cao Hao as the pillar. At the age of twenty-eight, he became a second-grade waiter, thirty years earlier than him Li Xu.

He went out of Beijing in the 31st year of Kangxi and operated in Jiangnan for 20 years before he was awarded the title of Hubu Shilang in the 51st year of Kangxi. It's just a name, it's the emperor's grace; Cao Hao is really lacking, and he is a second-class member who holds great power.

Cao Hao's side also looked at Li Xu.

He is the same age as Kangxi, and he is sixty-eight this year, but now he looks much less happy than Kangxi. Xu is the Li family has the gene of longevity, Li Xu does not see old age, and he is in good spirits.

looks like an understanding person, but he is lustful for power and does everything he can.

Thinking of this, Cao Hao didn't bother to deal with it, and after a few words of greeting, he proposed to ask Gao Taijun for peace.

Gao Taijun traveled on a busy journey, with a dull face. I don't know if it's because of her age, when facing Cao Hao, she also brought a little kindness, but it was not as sharp as in previous years.

Seeing this, Cao Hao sighed secretly.

Even if he can't treat her as a flesh and blood relative, it is not difficult for him to respect her as an elder. I just hope that she will save trouble in the future, and not lead to trouble and make her mother sad.

Perhaps, Gao Taijun's feelings for his adopted daughter are also limited, otherwise why would he be closer to his nephews and grandnephews than to his daughters and grandchildren.

After saying a few words to Cao Hao, she asked someone to bring Xiangyu and give Cao Hao a courtesy.

Although before coming to the Li family, Cao Hao had already listened to Zhao Anjia's reply and knew that Gao Taijun had entered Beijing and brought Li Ding's widow with him, but the moment he saw Xiangyu, he was still a little uncomfortable.

Unlike when she was young a few years ago, Xiangyu is eight years old, and Li Ding's appearance can be seen between her eyebrows.

Seeing that Cao Hao looked at Xiangyu and didn't speak, Gao Taijun said, "Can't recognize it?" This is the little niece, the daughter left by your second cousin......"

Cao Hao nodded and said, "Yes, I almost can't recognize it." When I followed my grandmother into Beijing that year, I didn't know how to call people, but I was so old in a blink of an eye. ”

It won't stage the bloody "Bao Dai Love", right? Thinking of a bunch of boys at home, don't have another "childhood sweetheart", then Cao Hao will be disgusting.

The Cao and Li families, in addition to relatives, also have unknown blood debts.

Of course, Cao Hao will not feel guilty, and in the next time, he will still make the same choice. Perhaps it is precisely because of this choice that he can see the relationship between the Cao and Li families clearly and clearly.

And the Li family, which lost Li Ding, has indeed weakened a lot of destructive power.

Even if the third generation has Li Cheng, a kid full of heart, but after all, he is young, and he will not be of great use for a while.

After returning home, seeing the Li family, and telling Gao Taijun how he looked and which temple Wen Taijun had stopped, Cao Hao returned to Wutong Garden.

"The peony courtyard has been cleaned up?" Cao Hao asked.

"Since I sent people to Suzhou a few years ago, my wife ordered them to come down, so naturally I have already made people clean up." Chu Yu replied with a smile.

Shaoyuan is the residence of Zhaojia's family before the two rooms were separated in the early years, and it is the residence of the house second only to Lanyuan and Wutong Garden. As Gao Taijun, it is also appropriate to live there.

"Didn't you say you bought some little girls today? Pick the clever ones, and add a few to the side of God bless them. Cao Hao said: "I don't have friends of the same age." ”

Cao Hao has rarely spoken about the affairs of the inner house, so this time he gave a command...... Chu Yu served Cao Hao and called for clothes, while thinking about the incomprehension.

Seeing that his wife didn't speak, Cao Hao said, "There is no one who is young? It's like Cao Yuan's granddaughter. Cao Yuan mentioned it a few times, and wanted to let his granddaughter go to the house on an errand, but there was really no young one, so he asked his granddaughter to go to the house on an errand. I don't have to do much work anyway. ”

Cao Yuan's eldest son, Cao Lichun, was a sick boy who had been recuperating at home and did not go to the house on an errand. The granddaughter born of the eldest son is Ruixiang, who lost her front teeth mentioned by Tianhui.

Cao Yuan's meaning, the eldest son can no longer serve the main family, if the granddaughter can enter the mansion as an errand, whether it is waiting for the young masters or waiting for Tianhui, she will be able to be decent in the future.

"Why not? They are all teenage girls, and they are sent to Mama Liu to learn needlework. I have already told Aunt Luo and Aunt Chang that I will ask the two of them to train the rules and then distribute them to each courtyard. The granddaughter of the chief manager will be counted first, and the Cao Fang's family is also like an eyeball, and I am reluctant to call her. Chu Yu replied.

The Cao family and Chu Yu were married, and there were one or two hundred people in total, and now they are staring at them and want to send their daughters into the inner courtyard to wait, not one or two families.

Chu Yu was the most reluctant to take care of the affairs in the house, and stretched out his arm to the inner courtyard. For these housekeepers and housekeeper girls, if a girl wants to have other thoughts about her son, she, a mother, is not allowed.

Cao Hao didn't think about it, and when he heard his wife say that there was no shortage of people, he nodded and said, "It's good to have people." This child of a family in the capital is greedy and lustful, debauched, and has a bad reputation? Our son can't be like he has never seen a woman, and he will be a baby bump when he sees a girl. ”

In the end, Cao Hao remembered the name of Tianyou, which was the same name as Cao Xueqin, and couldn't help touching his forehead.

He is not dead, and the Cao family did not give Tianyou a rough childhood, this "Dream of Red Mansions" is destined to be stillborn.

To put it mildly, even if he died early at a young age, with a biological mother like Chu Yu, and Chunjun Wangfu as a foreigner, Tianyou can't suffer anything.

I was a little dizzy, Xiangyu was only eight years old, and Tianyou was only ten years old. Even if you want to fall in love, it's not too early for this time.

It was rare for Cao Hao to say these words, Chu Yu had already heard that something was wrong, and hesitated and said, "E, is it too early to say this now?" Even in the early years, they were fourteen or fifteen years old, and they only knew about people for the first time. ”

Cao Hao was drinking tea, listening to his wife's words, and almost choked.

He coughed a few times before he came back to his senses, and said with a smile: "That's not what it means, it's to prevent them from having partners of the same age and making friends with Xiangyu." After all, it's a cousin, unlike Tianhui who is a sister, if there is something to make a mess in a few years, it won't be interesting. Speaking of this, he was a little serious, and said: "There are many marriages between other people's aunts, and when I was in Guangzhou, I heard Westerners say that blood relatives are too close, and it is not good for their heirs." Although the Li family is a distant relative of our family, and they are not blood relatives, I don't have the idea of kissing and adding relatives. ”

Seeing Cao Hao's order, Chu Yu nodded hurriedly and said, "I know." Don't worry, the Li family's cousin and niece are going to be selected, and I won't let the children break the rules. ”

When it came to the children's family affairs, Cao Hao and Chu Yu glanced at each other and smiled.

I really didn't expect that I felt like a little old child, and in the blink of an eye, I became half a child.

"I'm really worried, Tianyou and the niece of the Li family have different identities, so they can't get together." Chu Yu said with a smile.

Even if you really want to "kiss and kiss", it will not be the turn of the Li family.

Every time Hongzhuo saw Tianyou, he said that he wanted Tianyou to be his son-in-law, and that was Chu Yu's niece.

"It's not a name, it's because I'm afraid that the children are not sensible and are always in one place, and it is inevitable that they will have feelings." Cao Hao lay down on the kang, and in his mind he knew the plot of the Red Mansion, and he laughed along.

If Tianyou dares not to study well, and he is talking to the maid all the time, then he would have been waiting for Xiangyu to look better and be a beautiful girl, but he does not have the unearthly appearance of Daiyu's "Zhuzhu Fairy".

And Tianyou was personally raised by his grandfather when he was a child, and he was the most disciplined and polite, so he was a little worried.

When watching "Dream of Red Mansions" in his early years, Cao Hao still felt that Jia Zheng reprimanded Baoyu at every turn, and he had to play the board, which was not a thing. Now that he is a father, he understands Jia Zheng's heart as a father...... * The next morning, Li and Chu Yu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took a carriage to Li's house to visit Gao Taijun.

Li's meaning is that he still wants to take Gao Taijun over first. This is the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is not easy for the mother and daughter to reunite, and it is not easy to celebrate the festival in two places.

Gao Taijun couldn't bear her grinding, and finally nodded, promising to rest for two days and move over before the Dragon Boat Festival.

Hearing that she brought a lot of old things that she was used to, Li said with a smile: "Mother is really, your granddaughter-in-law has already made people clean up the house, pasted wallpaper, replaced new furniture, and even prepared a number of sets of clothes, where do you need your mother to bring anything over?" ”

When Gao Taijun heard this, he nodded, and said to Chu Yu: "My grandson's daughter-in-law is tired. ”

Chu Yu said: "It's all done by the granddaughter-in-law, and if the old lady can come, it will fulfill the filial piety of the younger generations." ”

In fact, according to Gao Taijun's meaning, he didn't want to bring the old things of the Li family into the Cao Mansion. According to her meaning, she went to Caofu's guest house, and she brought household utensils and objects, which seemed to be a lot of events.

listened to the words of Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, which was exactly what she wanted.

When Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law left, she asked someone to sort out the luggage, and asked someone to sort out the things that were not needed, and handed them over to the chief housekeeper for storage; If you use it, you will pick out a few pieces and put them in this room, which can be regarded as a memory.

There are only fragrant jade things, all of which are things to wear, and Gao Taijun did not let people touch them, and directly sent them to Caofu first.

On the third day of the fifth month, Cao Hao brought Tianyou and Hengsheng over and took Gao Taijun and Xiangyu into Cao's mansion.

Gao Taijun was placed in the upper room of the peony courtyard, and Xiangyu's house was three rooms in the west chamber and three rooms in the east chamber, which was the house of the next person. There are also two ear rooms, one for a kitchenette and one for sundries.

With Gao Taijun's subordinates entering the mansion, there are four in total, and there is one Yan Mama, who is used to waiting by Gao Taijun's side; There are Xiangyu's nanny Qian Si's family, and there are two girls, two sisters, the older one is called Jinzhu, and the younger one is called Yinzhu, who is the granddaughter of Mama Yan.

Seeing this, the Li family was afraid that there would not be enough people around Gao Taijun, so he asked Chu Yu to pick two proper mothers-in-law and add a few little girls to the past.

Gao Taijun is pure and accustomed to it, impatient and annoying, leaving only a mother-in-law and two little girls.

At this point, Gao Taijun settled down in Caofu.

Not to mention others, it is Dongfu, as well as several aunts and grandmothers of the Cao family who came out of the cabinet, got the news, and passed through the house one after another, bringing the children to Gao Taijun to say goodbye.

For a while, the Shaoyuan added a lot of hustle and bustle.

When looking at his nephew's grandson, Gao Taijun thought of his great-nephew Li Cheng.

Listening to Li Xu's meaning, he has already agreed with his old friend about Li Cheng's family affairs, if there is no funeral for Wen Taijun, it would have been hired this year in the ...... * Eighth Brother Mansion, a partial hall.

Li Xu waited for a long time, a little apprehensive. The eighth elder brother has been sick and died for several years, and the house is very deserted, so he said that the furniture in this side hall is a little old, as if it has not been cleaned for many years.

Thinking that the daughter of the He family had been raised by Bafujin's side in her early years, Li Xu was a little more clear about Bafujin's intention to invite him......

(To be continued)