The capital, the elder brother's office, the residence of the sixteenth elder brother.

In the bedroom of the main room, Chang Fujin Guo Luo Luo Luo was lying on his back on the bed, his nose was sweaty and his sideburns were sweaty, his eyes were closed, and the long hair of the black crow was scattered on the pillow quilt, reflecting the plain little face becoming more and more pale.

In front of the bed, a middle-aged woman wearing a cyan flag suit, with a gloomy face, stretched out her hand tremblingly, gently brushed away a lock of wet hair stuck to Guo Luoluo's forehead, looked carefully and looked, and then carefully tucked her quilt before leaving the bedroom.

When she got outside, the woman couldn't bear it any longer, her body went limp, and she sat down on the chair next to her, covering her mouth tightly with one hand, not wanting to cry, but the handkerchief in the other hand kept wiping away her tears.

There were two palace maids standing next to her, one of them was younger, with red eyes, and persuaded in a low voice: "Mrs. please mourn, the master still needs Mrs. pity, Mrs. needs to take care more!" ”

The other older one, who was more beautiful, also opened his mouth to persuade: "Yes, madam, Fujin has been looking forward to this half a year, isn't he just waiting for the little brother to be born?" Who would have thought that it would be like this, Fu Jin knew, and he didn't know what it would be like to be uncomfortable! When the time comes, you will have to rely on your wife's persuasion! ”

This middle-aged woman is the wife of the Sanpin Functional Special, and the mother of Guo Luoluo's family, Shu Mulu.

Guo Luo Luo's Layue and the sixteenth elder brother got married, and after the New Year, they found out that they were pregnant, and everyone thought that it was a birth in early September, but who knew that they began to have labor pains early yesterday morning. However, it was a difficult birth, and I tossed for a day and a night, until three o'clock in the morning (8:45 a.m.), I gave birth to a little brother. Because the child did not arrive, the child was very weak, and he died after half an hour on the ground.

Shu Mulu got the news and entered the palace at noon yesterday to accompany his daughter to give birth. gave birth to a little brother, and before he could be happy, he was like this again. Although she felt uncomfortable, she knew that now was not the time to let out her sorrow. Now my daughter is asleep due to overwork after giving birth, and I don't know the news of the child's death; If she wakes up at this moment, she will still think of comfort.

Shu Mulu was uncomfortable, and the little palace maid outside replied, saying that Concubine De and Concubine Rong had sent people to take a look.

Now, the holy car is outside the Saiwai, and the sixteenth elder brother is also with him, and he is not in Beijing.

In the Forbidden City, Concubine De and Concubine Rong were in charge of palace affairs. Guo Luoluo is the sixteenth elder brother's concubine, and the first child of the sixteenth elder brother was born, and they were the mothers and concubines, so they didn't dare to be negligent. The experienced Taiyi midwife has been prepared for a long time, and even **, I have found a few proper ones to come out, and I didn't think that Guo Luo Luo suddenly had fetal gas yesterday.

After this toss, a little brother was added, and everyone's hearts didn't land for long, and even the person who was going to send the good news to Rehe had not left the Forbidden City, and the newborn little brother died. A good grandson of the emperor is gone, and everyone is embarrassed when they get the news.

* The joys, sorrows, and sorrows in this world are not clear, but at the same time, some people are sad, and some people are happy, and this is how the children pass in tears and smiles.

Tian sat on the kang, touched his stomach, felt a little hungry in his stomach, and couldn't help laughing at himself, he really became a pot-bellied woman, this is only half a day, he ate two meals, and now he still feels hungry.

She put down the half-sewn little clothes in her hand, got off the kang, went out of the house, and went to the kitchen in the east wing.

In the kitchen, a woman in her thirties and a teenage girl were sitting on a small bench picking vegetables, and when they saw Tian coming in, they hurriedly stood up: "Why did the girl come here?" It's weird and dirty, there is an order, just shout it in the house! ”

Tian smiled and said, "It's not that I'm hungry, and I don't know why, I just want to eat!" I also sat in the room for a while, and then came to take a look! Sister-in-law Yang, do you have any food in the kitchen? ”

Sister-in-law Yang wiped her hands with her apron, walked to the stove, lifted the lid of the pot, and said with a smile: "Double body, there is still a mouth in the stomach, aren't you hungry?" When I was pregnant with walnuts, I could eat four or five cakes a day! ”

Lift the lid of the pot and open it, emitting some hot air, it seems that the fire has not been turned off. On the bamboo curtain in the pot, there is a half plate of dumplings. Sister-in-law Yang brought it out, looked for a vinegar bottle again, and said to Tian: "Use it in the girl's room, there is no serious place to sit in this kitchen!" ”

Tian saw the dumplings, looked behind Tian, stared at the little girl on the dumpling plate, and said to Sister-in-law Yang with a little disgust: "Isn't this what I left for the little walnut in the morning?" Why doesn't Sister-in-law Yang ask her daughter to eat? ”

Sister-in-law Yang laughed heartily twice and said, "What if she has a child's family and doesn't eat it?" Seeing that the girl ate sweetly in the morning, she thought she liked it, so she heated it in the pot, isn't this just right? ”

Tian looked around, saw the cupboard on the side of the kitchen, took a plate, two pairs of chopsticks, and then went to the stove, divided the half plate of dumplings into two parts, one poured vinegar, picked it up by himself, and pushed the other to the small walnut.

Sister-in-law Yang hurriedly said: "There are only a few, the girl herself may not be enough, what to leave for her?" ”

Tian looked at the few dumplings left on the plate, and said with a smile: "It's just two bites, it's enough!" Sister-in-law Yang is really, but it's pork and cabbage dumplings, not delicacies from the mountains and seas, don't do this next time, let's pack more! There are only four people in the family, and they have to buy two kinds of food, which is a lot of trouble, if the money to buy vegetables is not enough, just find Brother Chen to squeak! ”

Sister-in-law Yang touched her apron very ashamedly and said: "There is a difference between master and servant, we are subordinates, how can we eat in the same pot with the master's family, it's not a mess of the rules!" In fact, in addition to this, there is another reason why she didn't say it, that is, looking at the Tian family's master and servant, it doesn't look like they are rich, and it's not good to waste.

It's been more than half a month since I came to Yizhou, saying that I came to join relatives and friends, but Tian was only in this yard. Although there was a butler who followed, the people who came out and went in the whole day did not look like they were looking for people.

Tian said: "This rule also points people's families? It's the bun on my head, isn't it still combed by Sister-in-law Yang? In the past few months, my sister-in-law has taken care of me, and Brother Chen and I have not treated Sister-in-law Yang as an outsider! Otherwise, I wouldn't have brought my sister-in-law and little walnuts from Hejian Mansion to Yizhou! ”

Sister-in-law Yang looked at the white velvet flowers on Tian's head, and her face showed some worry: "Girl, although it is also a way to join relatives and friends, but the girl is going to her husband's relatives, not her mother's family, she is young and young, but she is easy to keep?" What will happen in the future? ”

Tian touched his stomach and said with a smile: "What else can I do, I just ask the Buddha to bless me and raise the child peacefully." It's just a blessing for me to be male or female! As he spoke, he brought the plate with dumplings to himself, and said to Sister-in-law Yang: "I'm going to eat in the house, Sister-in-law Yang doesn't have to come with me, and it's time to cook the next meal, Sister-in-law Yang is busy with herself!" ”

Seeing Tian go out, Xiao Walnut immediately stretched out his hand to grab the dumplings on the plate. Sister-in-law Yang hurriedly grabbed it, pulled up her apron, wiped her hands, and put the chopsticks in her hand: "Eat with this, take it slowly, be careful not to choke, my mother will give you a bowl of water!" ”

When the chopsticks arrived in her hand, the little walnut was not in a hurry, reached out and grabbed the corner of her mother's clothes, and said with a smile: "Mother, you eat first!" ”

Sister-in-law Yang touched her daughter's little face and said, "Good girl, you eat by yourself, my mother is impatient to eat this!" ”

Little Walnut's little face shrunk into a ball: "Mother, before my father, don't we eat this every year?" How can my daughter remember that my mother likes to eat? ”

Sister-in-law Yang was touched by her daughter's words, and was stunned for a while, Fang squatted down, stretched the gown on her daughter's body, and said: "My mother loved to eat before, but now she doesn't like to eat, just like you used to love to eat pears, but you ate bad teeth that year, so it's a reason that you don't like to eat anymore!" ”

When Xiao Walnut heard this, he put down his chopsticks, but he didn't look at the dumplings, and whispered: "My daughter doesn't eat dumplings anymore!" As she spoke, she raised her head and looked at her mother: "Mother, eat, it's hot, and if it's broken, it's not in vain!" ”

Sister-in-law Yang was so sad when she saw her daughter so well-behaved, and before she knew it, tears had come out.

Listening to the sound of the door, someone knocked on the door, Sister-in-law Yang hurriedly wiped her tears, walked out, and asked through the door: "But Chen Ye is back?" ”

Someone outside the door answered, and Sister-in-law Yang listened, so she pulled out the latch and opened the door. A man came in, with a beard and a coarse cloth coat, and asked Sister-in-law Yang: "It's already autumn, and Sister-in-law Yang also puts more meat in her dishes. As he spoke, he took out a few pieces of broken silver in his arms, about two or three taels, and handed them over.

Sister-in-law Yang took it, but sighed in her heart, as early as in Hejian Mansion, she was hired by this "Chen Ye" and signed a living contract for half a year. At that time, although the identity of this "Chen Ye" was not high, it was white and clean, and it was neatly cleaned up. In the past six months, it has been worse than one day at a time, and presumably this bit of broken silver has also been earned with blood and sweat.

Not to mention that Sister-in-law Yang was embarrassed, Wei Hei looked at this family outside the door, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Just now, he and the Ren brothers followed this guy separately. It seems that this guy is very vigilant, deliberately going around and around, intentionally or unintentionally going around in two circles.

Fortunately, Wei Hei was doing a dark dart by Cao Hao's side earlier, and this method of tracking and searching for people is not only a thousand eight hundred, but also ten or eight. No matter how vigilant the person in front of him was, for Wei Hei, it was just a child's game.

Wei Hei remembered the sign of the Daotai Mansion warden in his arms, knocked on the house next door, and asked who lived there.

Knowing that the courtyard was rented by a young widow with a big belly and three subordinates, Wei Hei was really a little surprised, but he couldn't guess the other party's intentions for a while. I thought it was an eyeliner sent by an eyeless person, but I don't know what the attempt was. However, if you have a bad heart, where will you come out with a big-bellied woman? Moreover, among the three subordinates, there is only one man, and the rest are mother and daughter.

In addition to eyeliner, what other reason should you stare at the gate of the Daotai Yamen? Wei Hei came out of the house next door, pondered on the side of the road for a while, and walked to the house where the man had just entered, and knocked on the door a few times.

"Who?" A man in the door asked, Cao Wei only felt very familiar when he heard this voice, frowned and thought, but said in his mouth: "Yamen, check the population!" ”

There was no movement in the door immediately, and Wei Hei was about to shout again, when he heard the movement of the door latch, plus a slightly trembling voice: "But Wei Ye?" ”

When Wei Hei heard this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, pushed the door in, looked at the man carefully, the more he looked, the more surprised he became, and just about to open his mouth to ask, a servant woman in a blue cloth gown came out of the side room, glanced at the door, and went to the room with food.

The man also knew that the door was not the place to speak, so he led Wei Hei into the wing room where he lived.

"Lin Ding, didn't you say that you followed Ning Ye...... No wonder I saw you familiar, just because I didn't expect you to be still in the world, so I didn't think about you! This is from Yizhou, are you here to join my family? I wandered around the entrance of the yamen for two days, why didn't I see you go in? Wei Heidao.

Lin Ding's face added a little sadness, and he nodded heavily: "The little one was ordered by my grandmother to come to Cao Ye, and he arrived in Yizhou half a month ago, but unfortunately he was just in time for Cao Ye to go south to mourn." I've been waiting impatiently here, so I've gone over there! ”

Wei Hei remembered what he had asked next door just now, raised his eyebrows and said, "My family is back, and I came back at noon, and it's been nearly two hours now!" ”

Lin Ding's spirit was suddenly shocked: "Cao Ye is back?" ”

Wei Hei still didn't answer, and asked instead: "Could it be that Ning Ye's wife lives in the main room?" ”

Lin Ding hesitated, thinking that Wei Hei was Cao Hao's henchman, so he no longer hid it from him, and told him everything about the violent death of the master five months ago and the fact that the master mother sent him to protect Ruqiu.

Because it was still a short time at that time, it was not possible to confirm whether Ruqiu was pregnant, so she temporarily lived in Hejian Province. A month later, when Ruqiu found out her body, the doctor instructed him not to act rashly, and to wait for three or four months to sit on the fetus, so he was delayed until the end of June in Hejian Mansion. It wasn't until July that I hired a carriage and drove slowly all the way to Yizhou.

This narration made Wei Hei sigh. He knew that Cao Hao and Ning Chun were in love, so he didn't delay any longer, and went back to the Daotai Yamen directly to find Cao Hao to report the news.

* Cao Hao and Chu Yu said goodbye, and talked about taking his cousin Wu'er to Yizhou to raise him, and then he also persuaded Hongxin a few words. This is about to be the Mid-Autumn Festival in another ten years, and the capital will have to send a festival gift over, and there will be news at that time. Besides, Hongxin is sensible and well-behaved, and he has been generous to his subordinates since he was a child, as if he was deeply blessed, and he sent people to donate more sesame oil money to various temples and Taoist temples to pray for him. In addition to the temple and Taoist temple, even the Puji Hall and the Nursery Hall also sent rice, grain, meat and vegetables over.

When Chu Yu was celebrating the New Year, he saw Wu'er, he liked it very much, and he pitied her loneliness, and he was really happy to hear that she was coming. After listening to the arrangement of praying for Hongxin, she was very moved, but she knew that her husband Su said that he was not too serious about Buddhism and Taoism, so he said: "Puji Hall and Nursery Hall make it here, the temple Taoist temple is not necessary, Sister Amethyst helped Chu Yu invite Guanyin Bodhisattva back to worship!" ”

Cao Hao shook his head: "It's just a matter of money, you and I are now inconvenient to go back to Beijing, pray a lot here, if the little fourth son still has to lie on the bed and not get up, then let's go to the letter and train him!" ”

In a word, Chu Yu laughed. Cao Hao saw that her expression was not as depressed as Fang Cai, so he said to Amethyst: "You two have a good discussion, list the money to be given everywhere, and send Cao Fang to do it!" ”

Cao Fang came back from the gate in early July, and Yongqing had already been arranged in the local army.

Amethyst was persuaded by Cao Hao a few times in the past, and it was the cause and effect of this Buddha, knowing that his uncle didn't believe this, so he just wanted to divide the mind of the county lord, so that she would not worry too much about the capital. Therefore, he responded with a smile and said to Chu Yu: "In the end, the uncle has thought about it thoroughly, and if he continues to give in this way, whether it is the Buddha or Sanqing, where can he not know the pious heart of the county lord?" ”

Cao Hao remembered the "cowpox" and wanted to discuss with Mr. Zhuang, so he asked Amethyst to accompany Chu Yu and the two to draw up a charity list, and he went to the front yamen to take a look.

In the forty-second year of Kangxi, after Suo Etu was executed, Mr. Zhuang left the capital and lived in seclusion in the countryside of Wuxi for several years. Now, hearing Cao Hao mention that people who raise cattle rarely get pox, Mr. Zhuang is also in a trance.

If this kind of "cowpox" really rarely kills people, then it can replace "human pox" and be widely planted. If this is the case, this is a major event for the benefit of the country and the people. Mr. Zhuang's face also had a lot of anticipation, but after thinking about it for a while, his brows furrowed again.

It is not difficult to go out of the city to the countryside to find cattle, but it is difficult to experiment with a living person, after all, it is a matter of life. In addition, what makes people have to worry is that if things are feasible, but planting "cowpox" can prevent smallpox, then how can this recipe be offered? And who sent it? Is it Cao Yin, the head of the Cao family, or is it Cao Hao's side?

After all, this recipe is a matter of "living all the people in the world", who can guarantee that it will not arouse the jealousy of the emperor? Even if the old man Kangxi is still kind to the Cao family, he won't think about him, so the next emperor?

It's a big credit, but it's a bit of a big one? However, this opportunity cannot be let go in vain, after all, with Cao Hao's age and qualifications, if he does not make some achievements, he will have to stay up for two or three terms before he can be promoted to the third rank and be the inspector. Mr. Zhuang touched his beard and thought about it.

(To be continued)