Although he was annoyed that Cao Song didn't take it, but seeing his trembling appearance, Cao Hao finally couldn't bear it, and called two little guys to carry him to Huaiyuan.

In the end, it was the cold winter weather, in case it was not fun to sit down and get sick, Cao Hao called someone to order the kitchen to prepare ginger soup, and at the same time asked someone to pick up the imperial doctor to come over to show him.

Because he was afraid that he would become sick as soon as he was hot and cold, Cao Hao did not ask him to go to the bedroom, but only sat in the hall.

Cao Song hung his head and only said that he was fine. Seeing that his eyes were red and swollen, and he was pitiful, Cao Hao sighed in his heart, and said, "Do you know where you are wrong?" ”

Cao Song's chin was almost attached to his chest, and he whispered: "Filial piety is for unfilial piety; Jade Spider is a younger brother's woman, and it is unkind to not be able to protect the safety of her mother and son; The elder brother is working so hard outside, and the younger brother is also causing this big basket, which is for injustice. I...... I'm just a bastard...... is not worthy to be the brother of the elder brother, nor is he worthy of being the elder brother of Cao Shuo and their ......"

Cao Hao heard that he understood quite well, and was a little relieved, and said, "Little Er, what are you doing with your brother when you ask your brother!" You are not a child, you have to know what to do, and you can't be so out of tune. Because of your negligence, you lost two surnames, and you have to remember it for a lifetime. ”

Cao Song's face turned white, nodded and said, "My brother knows!" ”

Cao Hao remembered that Zhao Jia's family was coming and looked at Cao Song. After all, it is Cao Song's biological mother, and everything is right in front of him, but it seems to provoke their mother-son relationship. Therefore, he said lightly: "By the way, your sister-in-law has been lacking recently because of her body, and the housework on the second room has been taken care of by the second wife." People like ours are really nothing in the capital, and you have to take the time to persuade the second wife, even if you are waiting for someone, don't shout and kill. There is only one life in people's surname, and if it is gone, it will be gone, and everything will be rewarded in the end, so it is better to have a good thought! ”

Cao Song listened to Zhaojia's nagging many times, all because the housework in the capital was controlled by Chu Yu and Amethyst, and now when he heard Cao Hao say this, he couldn't help but blush, and muttered: "Brother, but your mother is looking for you to make trouble with your sister-in-law?" ”

Seeing Cao Hao nodding, Cao Song couldn't help frowning and complained: "Mother is not old and confused, what else should my sister-in-law do if she treats her like this?" ”

Seeing his attitude, Cao Hao was afraid that he would make a mess and make trouble again in the New Year, so he said, "How can you speak?" You must know that no matter what the second wife is, she, as a mother, is wholeheartedly sorry for your son, and she has no selfish intentions! Even if these things happen this time, she really shouldn't be so reckless about human life, but it is also for your future fame. In the mansion, if you want to take power and manage affairs, you are afraid that we, who are brothers and sisters-in-law, will be wronged by a few of you. Others can pick on her, but you can't. You have to remember these few points and persuade her to make her happy. If you say it regardless of the surname, she just thinks that you are ignorant and provoked by your brother and sister-in-law, and the knot in her heart will become deeper and deeper. ”

Cao Song listened to Cao Hao's words with concern, and said embarrassedly: "Brother, aren't you angry with your mother?" ”

"Raw! It's just that things have come to this point, and I can't blame the second wife, and it's also where I and your sister-in-law mishandled it. Just because for the sake of your feelings, you want the family to be close and comfortable. But I forgot that sometimes this person can't really get too close to each other, and if it's too close, it may lose respect. It's better not to be far away, not close, everyone has to keep a face, and have some scruples in their hearts, so it's good. ”

"Brother, will you not be close to your brother in the future?" When Cao Song heard this, he had a bitter face and wanted to leave tears.

When Cao Hao saw it, he couldn't cry or laugh, and punched him hard and said, "What nonsense is it that doesn't make sense?" That's what it means, you know it, what are you thinking? You know the temper of the second wife, and your sister-in-law is a temperless person, rather than stumbling like this, it is better to be clearer about the two, and it is also as the second wife's wish. It has nothing to do with you, you just have to be filial to your mother, and you can work hard to prepare for the exam! ”

Although Cao Hao was tired of Zhaojia's in his heart, he didn't want Cao Song to have a dislike for Zhaojia's family.

In this era, pay attention to foolishness and filial piety, if Cao Song and Zhaojia have a dispute, the final difficulty is still Cao Song's own person. Therefore, the entanglement with Zhaojia's family, he passed it off like this.

He was not afraid that Zhao Jia's words would be unreasonable in front of Cao Song, after all, he and Chu Yu really couldn't find anything wrong, and they were calm in their hearts. If Cao Song really wanted to be so indiscriminate, he would save himself and no longer have to worry about this younger brother.

One time later, the imperial doctor had been invited to Huaiyuan to diagnose Cao Song's pulse. Chu Yu also got the news and came to visit in person.

Fortunately, Cao Songsu said that he practiced martial arts, and he was strong and strong, although some cold air entered his body, it was not a big problem. The imperial doctor prescribed two prescriptions to get rid of the cold, and gave a few words of food and drink.

Cao Hao and Chu Yu both breathed a sigh of relief, this is already the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, and the New Year is about to be celebrated, and they are sick at this time.

After Zhao Jia's family went back from Wutong Garden, he was full of calculations about the monthly money supply of these subordinates in the second room, as well as the cost of Cao Song and his three brothers to study, the more they calculated, the more headaches they had, but they forgot about Cao Song in the ancestral hall.

These two rooms are three young masters, two girls, and two aunts in the capital, and these seven add up, and the monthly example is fourteen taels of silver. There are also a few young masters' little maids and long entourage, maids and mothers-in-law in the yard, ** and little girls around the girl, maids around the aunt, plus Zhaojia's companion room and the commonly used old people.

Counting up and down, there are 50 or 60 people in total. Zhao Jia's family thought about Cao Song and the maid in their brother's yard, half of them were chosen after entering Beijing, this shouldn't be a second room, right? I thought of a few around Wu'er, all of whom were arranged by Chu Yu, but I didn't know how to calculate them?

Then I thought about it, I was also confused, now that I haven't divided the family, the children of the family in Beijing are assigned to which room is counted, why should I bother because of this, but let Wutong Yuan laugh at his stinginess.

Zhuangzi is twenty hectares of land, and it is not small, but on the Gyeonggi side, the land rent is not much lower than that in Jiangnan. The rent in Gangnam is mostly 30% to 41/2, but only 20% to 31/2% in Gyeonggi.

Zhuangzi's income, a year, is only six or seven hundred taels, plus Cao Song's income, is not enough for everyone's expenses, it seems that the population should be reduced, and the monthly money should be saved. Zhuangzi is too lenient for the tenants, and we will see if the rent can be raised from five cents to one percent next year, so that the income can also increase.

Zhao Jia's original still had a headache, thinking like this, but he was much more energetic.

She was illiterate, but Lu Ju had learned "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text", so she called Lu Ju to take a pen and paper and count them item by item to see where she could be thrifty and where she could collect more.

Although Zhao Jia's ordinary people rarely pay out of pocket, the furniture is very rich. There are all kinds of things, in addition to those jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, not counting, even silver, there are also 40,000 or 50,000 taels, of which there are 20,000 taels of marriage silver left by the old lady, and the rest is Cao Quan's filial piety to his subordinates in the past few decades.

The sons will be filial piety next year, the two big ones will discuss to marry, but the two small ones will have to wait for a few years, and the silver only needs to set aside 10,000 taels to make it, and the rest of the spring will find a proper person to find Zhuangzi, and add two small villages.

Before Zhaojia's family entered Beijing, he heard Mama Zhang talk many times, saying how magnificent the dowry was when Chu Yu got married, and how rich the Zhuangzi and the shop were. Therefore, she also hopes that her daughters-in-law will bring more furniture when they enter the door. If Cao Songzhen can say that her maiden niece, then the designation cannot be wrong.

Although Cao Quan was alive in the early years, she also complained to Cao Quan, but she was the youngest who did not have the wedding money left by the old lady, and she needed to praise her, but in the past six months in Beijing, she has changed her mind.

She was reluctant to tear her face with Aunt Meng and Aunt Chang, in addition to being afraid that the two of them were from the palace, she also had other selfish intentions, that is, the fourth sister and the fifth sister, their little sisters, would be a big event in the future.

Now it is not as good as in the past, the Cao family has already raised the flag, and it is no longer the coat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the daughter of the Cao family does not need to participate in the "small election" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but directly participates in the triennial "draft".

In the final analysis, Changfang originally relied on the Pingwang Mansion to get other decency. Nowadays, the Cao family is the earl's mansion, regardless of the five sons of the concubine, it is just an ordinary thing for the four sisters to be pointed out to the clan, and if they do a good job, they will also point to the county king Baylor.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jiashi began to regret it in his heart, thinking about whether he had made too much trouble. She is not a serious mother-in-law, and Chu Yu is a noble girl from the palace, how can she be so arbitrary?

* Huaiyuan, going to the room, watching Cao Song drink the medicine and lie down, Cao Hao and Chu Yu came out of the room. There were originally four jade dragons, jade spiders, jade cicadas, and jade fireflies here, but now the jade spiders are dead and the jade dragonflies are injured, and the remaining jade cicadas and jade fireflies also show panic.

Chu Yu instructed the two good students to take care of it, and then went out of the Huai Courtyard with Cao Hao.

The two talked about Cao Ying and his wife coming over for a while, and they had to stay for a meal. Cao Hao remembered Sun Jue's ugly state in the Li family, and hurriedly told Chu Yu to put the banquet in the front yard and not arrange for the maid to serve the food.

In the past, Sun Jue was high and arrogant, although he was not liked, he would not be despised. Today's high shelves are still standing, but they are a little different, as if they are obviously covered in mud and want to say that they are a clean person, but they don't know that they are already stinking.

Chu Yu heard that Cao Hao had something else to say, and asked with some puzzlement: "E, Aunt Sun...... But the wine is not good? ”

Is it just that the wine is bad? Or is it too lowly at all? Cao Hao was too lazy to have a deep friendship with him, and he didn't want to tell Chu Yu about these things, so he nodded and said: "Sort of, anyway, it's not good to drink too much, and if you make a mess, you still lose the face of your eldest sister!" ”

Chu Yu heard it and didn't mention it in his heart. Before the two of them arrived at Wutong Garden, there was a happy report to report: "E, the big housekeeper just made the second door pass the word, saying that the sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother are here, and they have been invited to the front yard living room to serve tea, please come over quickly!" ”

"Why are the two of them here?" Cao Hao's face was a little happy, and he said to Chu Yu: "You go back and rest first, I'll go and take a look, but I haven't seen them for several days!" ”

Chu Yu asked, "E, do you want to leave the sixteenth uncle and the seventeenth uncle to eat and drink in the mansion?" Chu Yu is also good for people to prepare wine and food in advance. ”

Cao Hao thought for a while and said, "You don't need to prepare anything, isn't it already enough to prepare people for the table, and then prepare a table, with lighter elements, two more home-cooked dishes." If they are free, they will stay; If we can't afford it, let's eat it ourselves, and we won't waste anything. ”

The husband and wife said goodbye, Cao Hao went out of the second door and walked quickly to the living room.

The sixteenth elder brother sat on the chair with his body crooked, gesturing to the ground, not knowing what to say to the seventeenth elder brother. The seventeenth elder brother was beside him, just "hehe" and laughed.

The sixteenth elder brother couldn't help pursing his lips, stretched out his fingers, and shook at the seventeenth elder brother: "Look at your unproductive appearance, no wonder you were eaten to death!" ”

The seventeenth elder brother didn't know what to say, but when he saw Cao Hao knocking on the door and coming in, he hurriedly said: "Cao Hao, I came with the sixteenth elder brother to see you!" ”

Cao Hao gave a salute to the two, and when he saw the two of them giggling, he was quite interested, and asked, "What's the good thing about this?" ”

Sixteenth elder brother smiled: "Isn't it, Xiao Seventeen will be a father next year, you see that he is happy, he has not closed his mouth for half a day!" ”

Cao Hao listened to it, and he was also happy for the seventeenth elder brother. Although the Seventeenth Elder Brother and the Seventeenth Fujin are famous loves, as the prince's elder brother, giving birth to a child is also the most important thing.

"Seventeenth Master, congratulations!" Cao Hao clenched his fists and said.

The seventeenth elder brother laughed twice and said, "Rejoice and rejoice, I heard that there are also happy events in your house, but now I want to see which of the two little ones lands first!" ”

Cao Hao couldn't help but wonder, the speed of giving birth to a child is also comparable.

The sixteenth elder brother looked at the appearance of the seventeenth elder brother, couldn't help shaking his head, and said, "Tut, seventeenth brother, why does my brother look at you like you don't look like a gift, but like you're here to show off!" ”

Cao Hao listened to him, this seventeenth elder brother has not opened the mansion yet, how can he think of giving gifts?

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(To be continued)