Xicheng, Caofu, antechamber.

Cao Yin wore official clothes, prostrate on the ground, kneeling to listen to the holy decree. The one who came to deliver the decree was Yin De, a first-class guard in front of the emperor.

It's not just Cao Yin, who received the order, is a little ignorant, but even Yin De, who passed the order, is also confused. The holy driver was still on the imperial boat, and it would take a few more days to return to Changchun Garden, but it was Baba who asked him to deliver the decree.

Along with the holy decree, there was also a red tweed rain coat and a grape green tweed rain coat.

Cao Yin took the will and bowed his head again.

After the decree was completed, Yin De helped Cao Yin up and said: "Lord Cao, get up quickly, the emperor has already spoken, and Lord Cao doesn't have to kneel to take it." ”

Cao Yin bowed down and said: "The emperor lifted up, but Cao didn't dare to mess with the rules." Running all the way, adults have also worked hard, please sit down and eat tea. ”

While talking, the two sat down separately, and the little servant served tea.

Yin De took the teacup, sniffed it under his nose, and said with a smile: "It is said that there is good tea in the adult's house, but now it seems that it is not a rumor." Sure enough, the fragrance of tea is fragrant and refreshing. ”

Cao Yin said: "It turns out that adults are also tea lovers, but they borrow flowers to offer Buddha, please don't dislike meager." As he spoke, he sent someone down to prepare tea bags for Yin De.

Yin De just praised it casually, and when he saw Cao Yin being so polite, he was a little embarrassed, so he hurriedly put down the teacup and said: "Adults don't have to be like this, good tea and me are also ruined." Today, it is said that it has been a long time in the world. ”

Cao Yin waved his hand and said, "Don't shirk yet, my lord, it's not a valuable thing." It's only in the past few years that the world has touted it, and its value has doubled. To tell the truth, Cao is still used to drinking group tea, and he thinks it is the most suitable for the spleen and stomach. ”

When Yin De heard this, he couldn't help but smile, and said with a smile: "Don't hide it from Lord Cao, I also think that the group tea is full of flavor and can relieve greasyness." Although this green tea is fragrant, it is a little lighter. ”

After a few gossips, the atmosphere was much more harmonious.

Yin De remembered something and said, "By the way, the emperor asked the lower officials to tell the lord that the sixteenth elder brother went to Rehe on an errand." ”

When Cao Yin heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned: "The sixteenth master went to Rehe? ”

"Well, the boat that got off the circle three days ago, counting the days, is almost going to Rehe." Yin De replied.

Cao Yin's eyes looked at the two rain coats, but his body couldn't help but tremble a little.

Kangxi's summoning edict is a disguise, in fact, what he wants to tell him is this sentence, the sixteenth elder brother has gone to Rehe...... * Wang Xiying, the emperor is here.

This morning, Kangxi got off the imperial boat from Yuanjiakou, traveled by land, and stationed in Wang Xiying.

In the evening, it was raining heavily.

In Kangxi's imperial tent, the lamp was already in charge, and there were two charcoal basins lit in the corner, but they could not dispel the chill brought by the spring rain.

Kangxi sat on the soft couch, listening to the sound of raindrops outside, and suddenly felt lonely. He raised his head and said to Wei Zhu, who was standing on the side: "Little Sixteen, why haven't you seen him for a while?" Pass him over! ”

Wei Zhu was surprised in his heart, but a smile appeared on his face, and he bowed and replied: "Master, the sixteenth master went to Rehe." ”

When Kangxi heard this, he remembered that he had sent the sixteenth elder brother to Rehe, waved his hand, and said, "Pass the twelfth elder brother over." ”

"Huh!" Wei Zhu responded and withdrew to summon the Twelve Elder Brothers.

This time, the holy car toured Gidian, and only the twelve elder brothers and the sixteenth elder brother accompanied him. Because the twelfth elder brother is a little wooden, he is not more favored than the sixteenth elder brother, so he is also self-aware, and he is not summoned, so he is not easy to go around with Kangxi's eyes.

Seeing Wei Zhu coming to summon him, although he didn't know what was going on, the twelve elder brothers still followed him tremblingly.

On Kangxi's side, he glanced at his son, pointed to the stool in front of him, and said, "Come close, grind the ink." ”

"The retainers obey." The twelfth elder brother responded, walked to the front of the palace, sat on the side with his head down, and the hand holding the ink strip trembled slightly.

Kangxi glanced at his son a few times and saw that he was dotted with braids hanging down the back of his head (what are the dots?). Raindrop? I couldn't help frowning.

The twelfth elder brother was already trembling, and when he noticed that the imperial father was looking at him, he became more and more nervous, and with a flick of his wrist, ink splashed out, staining the folds spread on the case.

"The son is a capital offense!" The twelfth elder brother turned over and knelt down and kowtowed.

Kangxi was quite surprised when he saw it, looked at the twelve elder brothers for a long time, and said, "Am I a tyrant?" Why did you make your son so afraid of me? ”

When the twelfth elder brother heard this, he shook his head hurriedly and said, "The emperor's elder brother is the most benevolent, but his sons are dull and useless. ”

Kangxi looked at his face and asked, "I ordered to kill your uncle, do you complain about me?" ”

The twelfth elder brother's face showed a look of pain, and his lips trembled, but he couldn't say a word.

Kangxi sighed, but he was interested and said, "Kneel down!" ”

The twelfth elder brother raised his head and said softly: "Huang Ama, it is the uncle of the sons and daughters who have failed the grace of the saint and died innocently, how dare the sons dare to resent?" Erchen, Erchen is afraid...... Erchen was afraid of being rejected by Huang Ama...... "In the end, he was already choked up.

Listening to his son's suppressed cry, Kangxi's face softened slightly, and a poem suddenly came to mind in his mind:

Under the stage of planting melon yellow, the ripe seeds of melons are separated.

One pick makes the melon good, and then the melon is thin, the third pick is still acceptable, and the fourth pick hugs the vine.

Other people's sons have ten sons in one race, but on their own side, they have ten sons, and they don't seem to be useful.

The best sons, the sons whom he had taught with his own hands, were rejected by him. The rest of the sons were only afraid of him and had less closeness.

Although I have been a lonely person all my life, I feel more and more lonely as I get older.

"Relax your mind and be an errand well, you are my son, my flesh and blood. Wan didn't alienate his own flesh and blood because of a minion. Kangxi rubbed his forehead and said to the twelfth elder brother: "In the future, abide by your duty, what should not be mixed, just don't mix......"

* Rehe, Chunwangfu Garden.

Cao Hao looked at the sixteenth elder brother in front of him, and he was really overjoyed.

The sixteenth elder brother raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand and slapped Cao Hao vigorously, and quipped: "Why, I haven't seen you for half a month, so I miss my master like this?" ”

Cao Hao asked with a smile: "There is no news coming, but it is surprisingly tight." ”

The sixteenth elder brother turned sideways, pointed back, and said, "Who else do you see?" ”

Cao Hao looked up, but saw a person coming out of the accompanying guards, stepping forward and kneeling down on one knee, which one is not Cao Song?

Cao Hao hurriedly stepped forward to pull him up, and looked at him carefully, but he was covered in soil: "Is this in a hurry?" ”

"Isn't it! From the head of the circle to the hot river, it took less than three and a half days of effort. In such a hurry to change horses and not people, they are about to catch up with the northwest. Cao Songhan smiled and replied.

Cao Hao listened, and looked at the sixteenth elder brother with a puzzled look.

The sixteenth elder brother looked down at his body and said, "It's dirty, Cao Hao, quickly make people boil water, the master has to change this clothes before he can be in the mood to speak." ”

When Cao Hao heard this, he hurriedly asked people to boil water and prepare food.

Cao Song stuck out his tongue and said, "Big brother, the sixteenth master has washed once on the road, but we haven't changed our clothes for three days, and the big guy is also looking forward to hot water." ”

The guards who followed the sixteenth elder brother to come, there were those around the sixteenth elder brother, and there were also those from the guards, Cao Hao exchanged a few words with everyone, and asked Cao Song to take everyone down to bathe and change clothes.

Qin Gui, Cao Fang and the others were all relieved.

Although these two are safe and sound, in the end it is suspenseful.

Cao Fang arrived yesterday, and he came with him, as well as Suo Qi, the steward of the Pingjun Palace. It was inconvenient for the Cao family to go out of Beijing, so Cao Yin told the king of Pingjun Nersu about Cao Hao, and this was why Suo Qi went out of Beijing.

Suo Qi is the old man of the Pingjun Palace, and he can go out of Beijing with the handwritten letter of the Pingjun King, not only to call the manpower of this garden, but also to borrow people from other palaces.

Even so, it is still uneasy, for fear that there will be negligence and something that cannot be taken into account.

This has one more prince and brother, but it is different.

Not to mention anything else, as long as the sixteenth elder brother is here, the security guards around him will be a little tighter.

At one o'clock, everyone had already finished bathing and changing clothes, and the wine and food were also purchased. Cao Hao asked Cao Song to accompany the guards to have a drink, and he was in the upper room and accompanied the sixteenth elder brother to eat and drink.

The sixteenth elder brother Zhao Feng wanted to wait with him, and the sixteenth elder brother saw that his little face was pale and he couldn't stand steadily, so he said: "Okay, okay, I still want to drink two cups with you Cao Ye, look at your bitter gourd face, but I am unappetizing." Let's go down and eat! ”

Zhao Feng went down now, Cao Hao saw that his walking posture was wrong, and asked Xiaoman to send some medicine over.

There were only two left, the sixteenth elder brother and Cao Hao in the room, the sixteenth elder brother tilted his neck, looked at Cao Hao twice, reached out and touched his head, and said, "Come, let the master see what is so valuable about this head worth ten thousand gold!" Tsk, but I was so moved by what I heard. One tael of gold, ten taels of silver, that's a full 100,000 taels. Even if he is a prince of Peshuo, he will have to stay up for ten years to get these silver coins. ”

Cao Hao's scalp was numb when he was touched by the sixteenth elder brother, and he hurriedly pushed his arm away, and said with a smile: "What a good rich boy, the sixteenth master is willing to cut off his head, isn't that killing chickens and taking eggs?" ”

The sixteenth elder brother glanced at him and said, "Look at you, isn't it because you, a good money boy, have a golden surname, and you have come to be the protector of the Dharma?" ”

When Cao Hao heard this, he was quite surprised.

The sixteenth elder brother was not in a hurry to say, picked up the chopsticks, sandwiched a chopsticks of roe deer meat, put it in his mouth, and said: "It's all the same mountain delicacies, and when you eat it here, you always feel that it is more authentic than in Beijing." ”

Cao Hao touched the wine jug, and saw that the temperature was almost there, so he poured a glass for the sixteenth elder brother, and said: "The sixteenth master came galloping, and he was tired, so drink two glasses of wine to relieve his fatigue." ”

The sixteenth elder brother picked up the wine cup, took a sip, looked at Cao Hao curiously, and said, "Is this the first to hit the west and come out?" In the past, you were a strong adviser not to be greedy. ”

Cao Hao also filled himself up, and then shook the wine pot in front of the sixteenth elder brother, and said: "A total of four taels of wine, which can be used to relax muscles and invigorate blood." ”

The sixteenth elder brother stretched his body vigorously, leaned back in the chair, and said, "What the hell is going on, do you have eyebrows?" Huang Ama said vaguely, only saying that there is a villain who wants to murder you and make a farce of a reward of ten thousand gold, and I am still confused. ”

Cao Hao smiled bitterly, how much more does he know here than the sixteenth elder brother?

He told the sixteenth elder brother everything he knew and guessed.

The sixteenth elder brother listened carefully, but his face was also angry.

After Cao Hao said this, he said to the sixteenth elder brother: "I just sent out the excerpt yesterday, but it happened that you came, but it was just right." Everything else is easy to say, just as it is a lively scene, Chu Yu and Tianhui's side, I am really a little worried. If it scares them, how can they live? The sixteenth master came this time to live in the palace, can you find a reason to let the two of them live in it? ”

When the sixteenth elder brother heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Cao Hao, and said, "Look at your mother-in-law, you can't be cool, but let Huang Ama guess it." Huang Ama said, when you encounter this kind of thing, the most worrying thing is the safety of your wife and daughter. But you don't know how to be flexible, even if you know that sending them to the palace can keep them safe, you won't send them until you get the holy order. You are really, even if you send it first, and then write a letter to Huang Ama asking for sin, isn't it the same? ”

What does it mean to be pampered and arrogant? Cutting first and then playing, is to be pampered and proud.

Those once powerful favored ministers, who did not cut first and then played, but later became a lifeline for asking for guilt.

"Anyway, with the sixteenth master here, I can sleep peacefully." Cao Hao drank the wine in the cup and said with a smile: "Now, it's good to enjoy the shade with your back against the big tree." ”

"Huh, can you still laugh? Aren't you afraid that you will be unlucky with you? The sixteenth elder brother couldn't see Cao Hao's pride, and said angrily.

Cao Hao held the wine jug, poured him full of wine, and said with a smile: "The sixteenth master is my lucky star, the lucky star has arrived, and the sun is shining brightly, isn't it unfounded to be afraid of the sky?" ”

The sixteenth elder brother also laughed, glanced at Cao Hao, stretched out his hand, made a grasping posture, and said: "Let's look at the master's methods, discipline those murderers and never return." Don't be complacent, if you want to call people, silver is indispensable, otherwise those soldiers who are willing to do their best. The master is only responsible for calling people, but the silver for the reward is for you to prepare. If you know which villain is worried about you, it is worth the amount of money. Otherwise, when will you be hit by a dark arrow. ”

Cao Hao listened, nodded, and said: "I know, I know, in this way, they are making this 'reward' to show their own feet, tracing back to the source, they can always find something." It's as silent as before, but it's nowhere to start. ”

The sixteenth elder brother's face was a little more combative, and he said: "Yes, this time we should also be the murderer, not self-defense." It seems that before the saint drove to Rehe, we had to make a contribution first. ”

While the two were eating and drinking, they were talking when they heard a dog barking and a noise in the distance.

The two put down the wine cup and listened attentively, the barking of the dog had stopped, and the noise had not subsided, accompanied by footsteps, from far and near.

"Childe, Sixteenth Master, someone on the West Wall has just stepped on it, and the medicine has overturned two dogs." Wei Hei's voice came from outside the door.

Cao Hao stood up, called Wei Hei in, and asked, "How many people are here?" Can you catch up? ”

Wei Hei replied: "There are two here, it seems that they are familiar with the terrain in front of them, and it is cloudy and dark, so I chased two streets or lost them." ”

Today is the sixth day of the first month of March, and it has been half a month since the so-called "bounty order" was issued.

Cao Hao didn't dare to be as casual as before, who knows how many gangsters are hidden in this city.

He turned around and said to the sixteenth elder brother: "Sixteenth master, the hour is not early, the sixteenth master should go back to the palace as soon as possible to settle down." ”

When the sixteenth elder brother heard this, he couldn't help frowning and said, "What is this called?" You're still in the palace garden, and the guards are all eggless guys, can't they? Three or five thieves can make people and trees soldiers. I want to sleep with you tonight and say goodbye. Speaking of this, he untied his waist card, threw it into Wei Hei's arms, and said: "Go to the chief yamen, and say that the lord is on an errand, and now he will temporarily live in the palace garden. ”

Wei Hei took the waist card, but his face was already filled with joy, but thinking that the identity of the sixteenth elder brother was too precious. Although it is good to take advantage of the situation, but there is a mistake, it is Cao Hao's side who is also responsible.

Thinking like this, he couldn't help but hesitate, glanced at Cao Hao, and didn't go out immediately.

Cao Hao turned around and said to the thirteenth elder brother: "The son of a daughter, you can't sit down." The identity of the sixteenth master is precious, and it is not suitable for child's play, so let's go back to the palace to settle down. ”

The sixteenth elder brother ignored Cao Hao, waved his hand to Wei Hei, and said, "Old Wei, go quickly, don't listen to your son-in-law's ramblings." I don't believe it, a reward order is down, can this hot river become a tiger's den in Longtan? ”

Wei Hei answered and went out, Cao Hao saw that the sixteenth elder brother was cheating, and he couldn't do anything about him.

The sixteenth elder brother had already drunk all the wine in the pot, but he was not happy, and held the wine pot and said: "Although Huang Ama asked me to come to Rehe, he didn't say how long I would arrive." Ye keeps hurrying all night long, and he doesn't think about you, but you are stingy, and you don't drink enough. No, it's good to have another pot......"

Although it was lonely in the middle of the night, watching the sixteenth elder brother in front of him lose his temper, Cao Hao suddenly felt much more lively, and he was no longer as lonely and lonely as before.

Yi Duli is too, and so is the sixteenth elder brother, although he didn't say it, Cao Hao could still feel their concern.

In my heart, there seems to be something more, which makes people's chests hot.

There is not much left of the previous worries and anxieties, and it seems that the burden on your shoulders has suddenly become much lighter.

Seeing that Cao Hao didn't answer, the sixteenth elder brother raised his arm sorely, and couldn't help complaining: "Okay, is it that the master wants to scatter wealth for you, and you deliberately do the right thing with the master......"

Cao Hao smiled: "But I want to get drunk and rest, does the Sixteenth Master dare to fight?" ”

When the sixteenth elder brother heard this, his eyes were already bright, he stood up, stepped on the stool, laughed twice, and said, "What's the matter?" Isn't it three times that you don't see each other? Or is it a few days before you have no lesson, and you have to go to the house to uncover the tiles? I know how much alcohol you have, but I didn't expect to have the courage to challenge you and carefully lose your share in front of the little ......one."

Cao Hao smiled and had already ordered Xiao Man to serve wine.

The sixteenth elder brother couldn't help but rub his hands, and he was already eager to try.

"Stick stick tiger ...... Stick stick ...... Drink ......"

"Stick Stick Chicken...... Stick Stick Bug ...... Drink ......"

Chu Yu walked to the porch and listened to the sound in the house, but it was rare to see her husband so free and easy, so she couldn't help but stop and listen.

Xiao Man just came out, saw Chu Yu, and just wanted to say hello, but was stopped by Chu Yu with a gesture.

Xiao Man hurriedly covered his mouth and said in a low voice: "Grandma, do you want to go in and tell you?" ”

Chu Yu shook his head with a smile and said, "Uncle Sixteen is here, I'm happy, let them drink well." ”

Xiao Man hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Grandma, the sixteenth master said that he would not let the uncle go back to the inner courtyard tonight, and he would sleep with the uncle......

"Uncle Sixteen is really ......" Chu Yu listened, couldn't help but think, and said to Xiao Man: "I'll send the uncle's bed to the front in a while, it seems that both of them have drunk too much, you have to take care of it more carefully......"

(To be continued)