In early July of the 48th year of Kangxi, Kangxi Shengjia always stayed in Rehe.

Cao Hao couldn't shirk it in the end, and still accepted the land deed given by the sixteenth elder brother. It's easy to put the icing on the cake, but it's hard to send charcoal in the snow. Although the Cao family has not yet reached the time when it is difficult, it is a blessing to have such a relative. You must know that in order to avoid suspicion, the Cao family has rarely interacted with the palace over the years, but the concubine can care about Cao Hao so much, which is really rare.

Life outside the Seychelles is repeated, except for the initial novelty, what remains is boredom. In Pingyue, Cao Hao, the sixteenth elder brother and Sukhbaru ran horses and archery. Occasionally, she was pulled by Bao Ya and played two games of Go with her. Perhaps because he is often outdoors, Cao Hao's body is much stronger than in the past, and his height seems to have grown a little taller. Originally, he was only one punch taller than the sixteenth elder brother, but now he is more than half a head taller.

Because of following the sixteenth elder brother, Cao Hao and several princes of Suihu also became acquainted. In fact, there are not many Suihu princes in Rehe at the moment, and the third elder brother and the seventh elder brother returned to Beijing after the holy drive to Saiwai, leaving only the crown prince, eighth elder brother, thirteenth elder brother, fifteenth elder brother and sixteenth elder brother.

The eighth elder brother is always recuperating, rarely shows up in front of people, and acts extremely low-key. Speaking of the thirteenth elder brother and the fifteenth elder brother, they have their own origins with Cao Hao, although they are not as kind to him as the sixteenth elder brother, but they can be regarded as pleasant.

For the crown prince, Cao Hao was avoided at first, before the previous abolition of the prince, the prince regarded the Cao family as a treasury, and every year he came up with various minions sent by the head to the Cao family to ask for money. If two-thirds of the Cao family's deficit is owed to meet the holy driver, the other one-third is the credit of this prince. After the abolition turmoil, although the crown prince is still in the storage position, his henchmen have been almost disposed of by Emperor Kangxi, and he does not dare to stretch his hand so far.

In Cao Hao's view, the princes of Rehe are the most similar to Kangxi, not only in appearance, but also in their behavior. The crown prince was born from Kangxi's wife, Empress Xiaochengren, Hesheri, who was born and lost his mother, and was immediately made the prince and raised by Kangxi himself. Perhaps it was because of the power formed by the prince that affected the authority of the emperor; Perhaps it was the cultural and martial arts of other adult princes that caused the prince's sense of crisis, and after the vigorous drama called "Nine Dragons Seizing the Heir" by later generations, the relationship between the father and son became tense, and finally caused a turmoil.

Cao Hao knew the direction of history, and he was not afraid of this unlucky prince, even if he offended Honghui Baylor. The prince treated Cao Hao with a very casual calmness, and he was not particularly enthusiastic because of the attention paid to him by Kangxi and Sixteen, nor did he make a face to Cao Hao because of the affairs of the capital.

Sometimes, if there are no outsiders, the prince will gossip with Cao Hao, nothing more than Cao Yin once taught him archery or the kindness of the holy lady, etc. Cao Hao noticed that when talking about this, the prince often fell into deep thought, and his face showed an indescribable sense of remembrance. Perhaps, while he thinks of the Cao family, he also thinks of the years when father and son were together.

Listening to this, Cao Hao thought of the prince's bumpy fate, and the confined life in the second half of his life, and often sighed in his heart that the world was impermanent. The prince was born in the thirty-third year of Kangxi, and he is only thirty-five years old now, but his sideburns are dotted, and he looks several years older than his actual age.

Among the sons of Kangxi, except for the prince, the thirteenth elder brother has experienced the most ups and downs.

The thirteenth elder brother's rheumatism was committed several times outside the plug, and he was tormented to the point of pain. Because snake oil essence has a pain-relieving effect on rheumatism, Cao Hao wrote a letter to Jiang Ning's father, asking his father to send someone to collect it in Fujian. However, the road from north to south is long, and this folk elixir cannot be found everywhere, and there has been no reply so far.

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In the blink of an eye, on July 22, Cao Hao, who had been idle for most of the month, got an errand, that is, to accompany other guards to escort the thirteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth elder brothers to the Mongolian Wengniute Department to pay tribute. The thirteenth daughter of Kangxi, married to Princess Heshuo Wenke of Weng Niu's special department.

Princess Heshuo Wenke, biological mother Zhang Jia, and the thirteenth elder brother and the fifteenth princess have the same mother. Born in the twenty-sixth year of Kangxi, Kangxi was named Princess Wenke of Heshuo in the forty-fifth year, and married Borzigit Cangjin, the king of Duling County of the Mongolian Wengniute Department in the same year.

Kangxi took care of the thirteenth elder brother's body, and didn't want him to go, but because of the thirteenth elder brother's repeated requests, he agreed.

The death of Princess Heshuo Wenke was a big blow to the Thirteenth Elder Brother. Two months earlier, shortly after the arrival of the Holy Driver in Rehe, his other half-sister, the fifteenth princess, Princess Heshuo Dunke, who had married Korqintai Ji Dorji, died of illness at the age of eighteen.

The thirteenth elder brother's biological mother died early, and the three brothers and sisters have a deep brotherhood. In just two months, he lost two relatives, and he was even worse when he was riddled with illness.

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The thirteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth elder brothers escorted to Onniut, in addition to the guards of the forty guard battalion, there were also three hundred officers and soldiers of the guard battalion.

The thirteenth elder brother ordered a hurried march, hurried to Wengniute, and finally arrived before the burial of Princess Heshuo Wenke.

After the funeral of the princess, everyone stayed in the Weng Niu special department for two days, Cao Hao followed a few elder brothers to set off for the south to return to Rehe, but received a letter that the holy car had moved north on the second day of the eighth month, and Kangxi told all the elder brothers to go to the Daban Palace of the Right Banner of Bahrain to prepare for the car.

The Right Banner of Bahrain was very close to the Weng Niute Department, and the group arrived lightly and Jane that night.

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Two generations of Qing princesses married into the Bahrain Ministry, namely Princess Gulun Shuhui, the eldest daughter of Huang Taiji, and Princess Shuo Rongxian, the third daughter of Kangxi, who brought a large number of immigrants to the area—dowry slaves and various craftsmen. These people lived together in one place, forming a large settlement. The center of the settlement is the prince's mansion, the Yuanhui Temple and the palace built for Kangxi, and there are a large number of brick buildings around it, just like a small town, which is several times more prosperous than the Weng Niu Special Department, which is breathtaking.

Urgon, the king of Bahrain's right-wing banner Doro County, is the princess of Heshuo Rongxian, who is Tana's father. As early as the beginning of June, he led the crowd to Rehe to worship Kangxi, and he had seen everyone, and Cao Hao was no stranger to him. Urgon said that he returned to the tribe with his daughter in the second case of the son. Tana's departure made Bao Ya chant for a few days, grinding Cao Hao's ears calloused.

Several elder brothers were unwilling to live in the palace first, so they were invited by the prince of Wu Ergon to settle in the palace. Cao Hao and his entourage also lived in the palace with him. This is exactly what Cao Hao wanted, because he wanted to help Wenxiu redeem himself, he came to Bahrain to act. Cao Hao quietly told the sixteenth elder brother about this and asked him to find a way.

The sixteenth elder brother asked someone to inquire about the female slave named "Po Hule" under Tana, there were several in total, but there was no young woman of seventeen or eighteen years old and emaciated.

Cao Hao couldn't figure out why, could it be that he remembered it wrongly? The sixteenth elder brother advised Cao Hao to be a little restless, anyway, he would stay in Bahrain for a while, and then he would search slowly.

In the day of waiting for the holy drive, Cao Hao was pulled by the sixteen elder brothers, and he had nothing to do hunting, and he was singing and dancing at night, and he was quite carefree - if you ignore Tana Gege's endless provocations.

Somehow, this Tana Gege seemed to have made a feud with Cao Hao, and he believed that he was his own base camp, so he became more and more unscrupulous, always making some accidents, and deliberately looking for provocations.

Where will Cao Hao deal with a little girl? Besides, even if you don't mention the identity of the noble girl, now that she is on someone else's territory, what can she do? So if you can hide, you can hide, and if you can't hide, you will respond to all changes with the same, with how sarcastic and sarcastic she is, he just ignores it and lets her make trouble by herself.

At this time, Cao Hao followed the sixteenth elder brother back from hunting, and asked his entourage to take the prey to the kitchen to clean up, and the two were leading the horse to their courtyard, when they heard Tana's sharp voice roaring: "What? Hunting again? Yesterday I came, you said that Cao Hao went hunting, and now I come and you say that he went hunting, the first half of the day said hunting, and the second half of the day is still hunting? Does he want to hunt all the living creatures of my Bahrain? Or are you deliberately perfunctory? ”

Hearing the shouts of this little aunt and grandmother, Cao Hao's head "buzzed" a little, and he hurriedly whispered to the sixteenth elder brother: "The sixteenth master will take the first step, and I will go to the kitchen to see how the pheasant is cleaned up......"

The sixteenth elder brother grabbed Cao Hao and laughed in a low voice: "The kitchen is far away, and I was arrested by her after a while." It's better to go to the stable, it's close, and it's not eye-catching, Tana is the most pampered, you can't see a little pickle, and you won't look for it if you know you're in the stable. As he spoke, he handed the reins in his hand to Cao Hao, and said with a smile: "We have to brush this horse well." ”

Cao Hao saw that he was smiling thief, knowing that it was because the results of the hunting were not as good as holding his breath, and now he wanted to let himself help him brush the horse, and immediately did not care about him, took the reins, turned around and quietly slipped to the stable.

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"Chaolu!" After entering the stable, Cao Hao called out to the familiar groom to come out and help, but a maid came out of the stable, and said as he walked: "Uncle Chaolu is not ......here."

The two looked at each other and were stunned.

Cao Hao smiled, it was really "fate", that maid was the embroidery that she couldn't find for a few years.

Wen Xiu came back to her senses for a while, and then saluted Cao Hao and said, "Slave and maid, please say hello to your lord." ”

Cao Hao waved his hand, asked her to excuse herself, and then asked: "Why can't I inquire about you in the palace, don't you use the name of 'Po Hule'?" ”

Wen Xiu listened, his expression darkened, and he lowered his head and whispered back: "Gege gave the slave a new name, no need to 'Badle'!" ”