In the three spring seasons, the willows shake gently, the Qingjiang River is covered with green, the Nanshan flowers are red, and the yellow orioles are clear. Hit Daxing Town to board the ship, and after seven days, the Cao family arrived at Changxindian Wharf by boat.

There were already two Zhang Yi and Zhao Tong, who took their families to go by land and send letters to the capital. Here in the capital, I have been calculating the itinerary. Therefore, when the boat stopped at the dock and Cao Hao disembarked with his father, Cao Zhong had already prepared a carriage and horses waiting here.

Cao Hao first went to take care of Chu Yu and Li and waited for the carriage, and then came to ask his father whether he was riding in a car or on a horse. But an acquaintance came, it was the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Guangchu Shilang Zhongma Liandao.

He has not been very happy in the past few years, and he had the opportunity to be promoted to deputy director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but he was put down by life.

Originally, he asked his daughter-in-law to go to Prince Cheng's mansion to find his niece's niece on the side of the Fujin Tian Jia family, and wanted to take the path of the third elder brother. However, Tian Jia's family is already old, although he has already sealed the side Fujin, but there is a husband and wife who respect each other like a guest, and there are newcomers who are like flowers and jade, so there is no room to speak in front of the third elder brother. Therefore, Ma Liandao is still hanging from Lang Zhongren, but it is too difficult to take a step forward.

Cao Hao had heard about the Ma family when he was in the capital, and he didn't pay much attention to it. Since Kangxi pointed out the marriage to Cao Hao, the Ma family can't wipe off their faces, and they rarely move around with the Cao family. Although the Cao family did not allow it, the Ma family had already regarded Cao Hao as an uncle, that is, Ma Liandao's wife Tian had also shown off a few times in front of relatives, but unexpectedly, it became a joke.

Ma Liandao's eldest daughter participated in Kangxi's 50-year "small election", made money, put off the brand, did not go to the palace on an errand, married an outgoing guard last year, and followed to the post.

Seeing Cao Yin's father and son, Ma Liandao was very enthusiastic, as if he had never been estranged in the past few years.

Cao Yin is not a stingy person, and he has been an old friend for many years, so he is also smiling and socializing, and there is no impatience.

Ma Liandao secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he was envious and jealous of Cao Yin, the two of them were the same Geng, both from the family of the Internal Affairs Bureau, he is still in Langzhong, but the other party is already a dignitary. However, when I heard the news this time, I deliberately looked for an opportunity to come over, just as a "chance encounter", but not for Cao Yin, but for Cao Hao.

He was a little panicked in his heart, his expression was a little stiff, and he wanted to call him "nephew", but he couldn't speak cheekily, so he just said to Cao Hao with respect: "The forehead has also entered Beijing, this is really the grace of the Lord of Long Live!" ”

Cao Yin saw his discomfort on the side, waved his hand and said, "Brother is polite, just call him by name!" ”

Cao Hao is not a person who puts on a show, but he did not take the initiative to greet Ma Liandao enthusiastically, but just stood behind his father and watched all this. Waiting for Cao Yin to speak, Fang said: "What my father said is true, it is okay for Shibo to call the name of his little nephew." ”

Having said that, Cao Hao's attitude is only mediocre, and there is no affection. "Nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace", although Ma Liandao only said that it was a chance encounter, but looking at him talking and acting was more like coming prepared.

Ma Liandao smiled and said: "Since this is the case, then I will take it and call it Fu Ruoxian's nephew!" ”

After saying two more words, Cao Zhong came to say goodbye, saying that his wife and grandmother had asked when he would start the process. Ma Liandao didn't want to delay any longer, so he immediately opened his mouth and invited Cao Yinming to bring his family to the Ma family for a banquet.

Cao Yin hesitated for a moment and said embarrassedly: "Brother Ma, I will hand the fold to the palace tomorrow and wait for Your Majesty to see you; If Brother Ma doesn't bother, he will come to visit the door instead! ”

Ma Liandao made a little calculation, but he was in a hurry for quick success, and forgot about the word matter that His Majesty saw; Counting the Cao family's relatives in the capital, it will be five or six days later when it is the turn of the Ma family. There are still seven or eight days to go to the Wanshou Festival, and it is estimated that the Cao family father and son will leave Beijing in late March, and the son is still rich. Thinking like this, Ma Liandao was no longer reluctant, and only said that he would hand over the errand and say goodbye to Cao Yin's father and son.

It was in vain that he bothered to investigate, so he resumed contact with the Cao family without a trace, and it seems that he can also do errands on his wife's side.

Three years ago, there was a seventh elder brother who inserted a lever, which made the marriage of Ma Cao's two families come to naught. Now, the Cao Mansion has been built here, and people have inquired about it, knowing that the second room of the Cao family is going to Beijing, and Ma Liandao's thoughts are alive again. Although the eldest daughter is married, the second daughter is also fourteen, and she sees the age of the family.

Although Cao Quan in the second room of the Cao family has died of illness and has no man in charge, several sons will reach the age of talking about marriage. When the period of filial piety expires, it is necessary to marry in Beijing.

Although the children of the Cao family in the second room are not as noble as Cao Hao, the concubine of the long house, as long as the girl marries in the past, she will have a relationship with the Cao family, the Pingjun Palace, and the Chun Palace.

has Cao Yin's title, married to the Earl's Palace, and his daughter is a concubine with the county lord, and it is also decent to say it. It is always a hundred times stronger than the garrison son-in-law who came out of a small family, and the eldest daughter's dissatisfaction with the marriage made the Tian family talk for several years, and Ma Liandao's ears were not less offended.

With his friendship with Cao Yin, and how much the Cao family has a loss if the previous family affairs are not successful, if this is a marriage, it is not a piece of cake!

Thinking of this, Ma Liandao couldn't help but be a little fluttering, and his steps were immediately much lighter.

Waiting for Ma Liandao to leave, Cao Hao saw that his father was tired, so he asked Cao Yin to get into the carriage and got up and accompanied him.

Before and after, the Cao family and his party, seven or eight carriages, up and down fifty or sixty people, went into the city.

* In the front hall of Cao's Mansion, Pingjun Wang Nersu and Seshtu are sitting and gossiping.

Nersu had already asked someone to inquire from Cao's house, knowing that the Cao family's ship was going to Beijing today, and it was supposed to go to the dock to meet his father-in-law and mother-in-law, but he was delayed by the ministry's errand, and it was not too early to come out, so he went directly to Caofu. I happened to meet Seshtu coming, and they talked together in the hall.

Cao Jia's was just diagnosed two days ago and became pregnant. Narsu already has two sons-in-law, and is looking forward to adding a daughter-in-law, what is the joy of something. When Cao Yi heard the letter, she also went to the palace to visit her sister, and she only envied her sister's good fortune in her heart. Not to mention the palaces in the capital, there are few people who are so favored; is favored, and there are only a handful of people who can give birth to a son-in-law smoothly.

Although there are two brothers-in-law in the hall, Seshtu is the brother-in-law and Nersu is the brother-in-law, but when it comes to the age, Sestu is one year older.

Nersu thought that he already had four sons and one daughter under his knees, and that Seshtu had been married for three years, but there was no news of Tianding, and that the filial piety of his sister-in-law would have to be kept for another three or four months.

Seshtu lowered his head and drank tea, remembering his family's tea garden in Yizhou.

In May last year, the tea garden that Cao Hao bought in Yizhou was divided into six parts, in addition to sending it to Pingjun Wangfu, Chunjun Wangfu, Fourth Elder Brother, Thirteenth Elder Brother, and Sixteenth Elder Brother, he also kept one copy and gave it to his sister Cao Yi, which was regarded as a dowry added later.

Last year, this winter tea was so fried that it was difficult to buy, the threshold of those princes and elder brothers was high, and the Jueluo family had a declining red belt, and everyone had fewer scruples, and they came to the door to ask for tea, and there were many people who wanted to take over the tea garden.

There is an old county king, who is the most generous, so that the housekeeper sent the land deeds of several properties outside Beijing, and wanted to exchange the tea garden with the Jueluo family.

In recent years, although the Jueluo family has said that it is better, it is better because of the small population, and the Hitara clan does not care about money. Moreover, this garden is a dowry field given by the daughter-in-law's family, and there is no reason for the mother-in-law's family to dispose of it.

But it's not good to offend people for the tea garden, the Jueluo family's social contacts are not as extensive as other palaces, and the high-quality winter tea is not willing to give away, and there are a few catties in his hands, Cao Yi has divided the small bag, but a few decent county kings and Baylor mansions are filial; The rest of the people who asked for tea, those who could push it were pushed, and those who couldn't be pushed were only Daoming Good Tea was gone, and the rest of the poor ones were sent out.

said that Cao Hao was a "tea boy", Seshtu also heard about it, and when he went back, he said that he would tell his wife. The husband and wife just laughed, not believing these increasingly strange words.

Of course, it can't stand someone from taking it seriously. Seshtu's eldest brother-in-law, the concubine of a large family, has been in charge of the public and middle school industries in recent years, and the family elders also remember the tea garden. Thinking that among the children, there were still people who could climb into relatives with the Cao family, so he handed over this matter to Seshtu's brother-in-law.

Seshtu's brother-in-law came to Jueluo's house and repeatedly begged his brother-in-law to help introduce him after Cao Hao entered Beijing. When Seshtu got married, he happened to go to another place, and he didn't see his in-laws when he met them.

Seshtu lost his father as a young man, and was taken care of a lot by this eldest brother-in-law, although he was impatient to get involved in such a thing, he really couldn't say no, so he had to vaguely agree.

Now, sitting on the Cao Mansion Hall, Seshtu regretted a little, he shouldn't have done such a thing, there was a joke last winter, and he didn't have to make his uncle look down on him for mentioning these things like this.

The two of them didn't talk much, and the atmosphere in the hall was a little weird.

Seshtu was thinking about what to say to say goodbye to his brother-in-law, when he heard Nersu say: "In the letter to the south of the house a few days ago, it was mentioned that the second aunt and cousins were going to enter Beijing in the summer, what did the third sister say?" ”

Although Cao Yi kept filial piety for his father, he did not recognize the second room. How to get along in the future, there is also a need for a charter.

Seshtu also knew that his mother-in-law and brother-in-law would come to Beijing in two months, and he also asked his wife privately how they would get along with each other. Cao Yi didn't make up his mind, but said that he would talk about it then.

"What does the prince mean? Is there any argument from Fujin's side? Seshtu asked, after a moment's consideration.

Nersu laughed and said, "On one side is her sister-in-law, on the other side is her aunt, what does she have to say." In the final analysis, it is still the third sister's own idea. Regardless of who is right and wrong, it has been a long time, and there is no need to mention it again. After all, the third sister is now out of the house, no matter how close or distant she is, she can do whatever she wants! ”

Seshtu smiled and said, "It's really good for the second sister to treat her sister!" If the other brothers are like this, it is also a blessing, even if the father-in-law knows underground, he is also at ease. ”

The two were talking, and the steward came to report that the Cao family's convoy had entered the alley and was about to arrive.

Narsu and Seshtu got up and went out of the house to meet them at the gate.

When everyone got out of the carriage, they had to meet again.

Amethyst and Xiulu, with the others, waited for Li and Chu Yu to go to the inner house. After Cao Yin, Cao Hao's father and son changed their clothes, they talked to Nersu and Seshtu, which was nothing more than news related to the upcoming Halloween.

Cao Yin saw that there was a scar on Seshtu's forehead, and he looked at it carefully, thinking that it was left by the army when he was fighting, and he didn't pay too much attention to it.

Seshtu's face was flushed when he was watched, thinking about how Cao Yin would go over if he opened his mouth to ask.

Seeing that Cao Yin didn't ask, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he happened to see Pingjun Wang Nersu looking at him narrowly and smiling, and he couldn't help but feel a little upset.

This prince's brother-in-law is too unkind, not to mention the beautiful concubines in his own house, and he has also given birth to several concubines. Just because it has always sounded good, it coaxed Fujin around, and said that he was very comfortable and beautiful. On his side, he was just drunk and immoral, but he made trouble in front of his wife's family and made out the rest of the matter.

However, when it comes to it, he is not reasonable. Although he knew that his brother-in-law was filial and might not mention the old things in front of his relatives, he still looked at Cao Hao with a hint of pleading.

Cao Hao noticed Seshtu's gaze, and didn't understand the intention for a while, until he saw him touch the scar on his forehead, he guessed his intention, and nodded slightly while Cao Yin didn't pay attention.

*Orchid Courtyard is the main courtyard of the inner house, and the Li family is located here. The utensils in the room have been prepared a long time ago, the windows are bright and clean, and they look very neat. Due to the long-term inhabitation, the house here was originally a little damp, and it was smoked with charcoal for a few days, but now it is better.

Chu Yu took people back to Wutong Garden to freshen up, and after the Li family freshened up, he took the eldest grandson in the hands of the ** Tian family, and coaxed him with a smile. In her heart, she couldn't help but feel a little angry with her daughter-in-law.

These sons came down and went on the same boat, and the Li family looked at it, and Chu Yu treated Wu'er more kindly than Tianyou.

Although Wu'er has a poor background, she is well-behaved and clever, and it hurts more as a sister-in-law; But after all, Tianyou's side is also smaller, no matter how you let go of your hands, you can take care of it.

Li thought about it, and didn't need to talk to his daughter-in-law about it, and then remembered that Wu'er would stay in the capital to follow his mother-in-law in the future, even if Chu Yu was in more pain, it would only be a few months. She kissed her grandson and put the matter aside.

But he said that Chu Yu returned to Wutong Garden, and the two who were watching the house here, Xiyu and Xixue, came together to greet the master.

Seeing the two, Chu Yu was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that he had been negligent.

Xiyu and Xixue are both older than Chu Yu, they were seventeen or eight years old when they got married, and now three years have passed, and they are both about to be twenty. Stranded in other mansions, it was time to release them with people, because there was no master in the Cao family's capital mansion, and they didn't mention this matter, so they delayed it.

Seeing that Xiyu's appearance became more and more gorgeous in the previous two years, Chu Yu couldn't help but feel a little weak. Although she didn't mean anything else, she just thought that a few girls were too big to delay their marriage, but if her parents-in-law knew, would she think that she was a jealous woman and couldn't tolerate it. My mother-in-law went to Yizhou last year and saw that Zhu'er and Cui'er were no longer waiting in the house, and she asked a few questions.

After three years of marriage, there was no one in the house on her husband's side, and Chu Yu was naturally willing. The little couple has passed by, where is it good to insert into others? But now that she has entered Beijing with her parents-in-law, she is a little nervous. There is only one male in the long house, Cao Hao, as a son, he also has the responsibility of marrying wives and concubines and reproducing heirs.

Although thinking of this, Chu Yu could not be a "virtuous" person, and took the initiative to arrange a concubine for her husband.

After sending Xiyu and Xixue down, Chu Yu sat on the kang and touched her belly, waiting for her husband's filial piety to expire, so it would be better to add some blood and bones as soon as possible. God bless ...... Chu Yu thought of his son and gritted his teeth.

At first, although she had an idea in her heart, she thought that her son was not in front of her, and she would not be able to see each other in three or five months, which was also uncomfortable; However, when he saw Li and Tianyou together, it was like ten years younger, and he couldn't close his mouth happily, which made people look very moved.

Xiyun grew up with Chu Yu since she was a child, and she also saw that she was uncomfortable after seeing Xiyu, and persuaded softly: "If Gege looks at her...... If you don't feel comfortable, you just send it out. ”

Chu Yu glanced at Xiyun, saw that she had a worried look on her face, shook her head with a smile, and said, "What's uncomfortable?" Speaking of which, in the past few years of marriage, she has also suffered grievances. It's just when I think about marriage, but I'm old! ”

Xiyun listened and said with a smile: "But I don't know which one is blessed?" Although I don't like her very much, but according to the slave maid, in our house, in addition to Sister Amethyst, she is the best-looking. ”

Chu Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly, she was quite embarrassed about Xiyu, just for the words "the best". To say that she was unguarded was a lie, and she didn't believe it herself.

Although two and a half years have passed, Chu Yu still remembers that she "saw red" for the first time after marrying into the Cao family, and Mama Ye wanted to arrange Xiyu to do the work of having sex according to Fujin's intentions.

At that time, she was young and a new bride, and there was still a mother-in-law's meaning in it, where was there room for refusal? However, the heartache and humiliation of her husband being divided in half, she has never forgotten it.

(To be continued)