It has passed the winter solstice, and when it comes to the ninth day, although there is no wind, the weather is dry and cold.

Cao Hao was wearing a fur coat, a hat with ear protection on his head, and a half-foot-high fur on the collar of his coat, which was tightly covered and did not feel the chill at all.

The sky is blue and cloudless.

Although the grass and trees on both sides of the road have long since withered, the snow on the distant mountains has not disappeared, outlining a touch of white edges, flashing in the warm winter sun, which has a unique style.

The maiden of each courtyard, led by Amethyst, took the bedding of the master of each courtyard to use, and yesterday she had taken a few cars to Xiaotangshan to clean up first.

Those who came here today were Cao Yin's father and son and the daughters of each courtyard with children.

Cao Yin took Tianyou and Hengsheng in a car, Li took Changsheng in a car, Chu Yu took Tianhui in a car, Tian took Zuo Cheng and Zuozhu brothers in a car, and Lianqiu and Xiqiu took Niuniu in a car.

For others, there are three or four in a car, and five or six in a car. There were more than a dozen cars shared before and after. Together with the accompanying housekeepers, long-term attendants, guards, and servants, there were seventy or eighty people.

The internal affairs of the house entrusted Aunt Feng and Aunt Qian, and the external affairs were explained to Cao Song, and the arrangements were made properly.

Aunt Feng was born in a civilian family and is a girl from a scholar's family. His father used to be an errand boy in the Jiangning Weaving Mansion and had some personal relations with the Cao family. After Cao Yin was originally married to the Gu family and had no children for three years, she took the initiative to help her husband take a good concubine, which was the Feng family.

Qian is the son of the Cao family, and was the girl next to Sun Taijun earlier, three years after Cao Hao was born, he was assigned to Cao Yin as a concubine by the old Taijun.

Feng is in his fifties, knowledgeable, rarely out of his own yard, and is a quiet and steady person. Although Qian is young, he is also a person who keeps to himself.

In addition to the two of them, Cao Yin also has a few rooms. Among them, Xiuluan has served the Li family for the longest time, and the Li family usually relies on her. In the early years, when Tianyou was born, the Li family went to Yizhou to give milk to his daughter-in-law, which was to entrust the housework in Jiangning Fuzhong.

I originally wanted to raise Xiuluan as a concubine, but I didn't expect her to be a thin fate, Kangxi was infected with a cold in the fifty-first year of the month, and it was gone.

The remaining two rooms are not loved by Cao Yin, and the Li family is also mediocre, so they are not promoted to the title.

said that in the carriage, although it was not the first time that Tianyou and Hengsheng had gone out, it was the first time they had gone out of the city. The two brothers were also wearing big sweaters, like little balls of meat, and their faces were full of joy.

They didn't dare to be rude in front of their grandfather, so they could only endure their curiosity, stick out their little heads, and eagerly stick to the carriage window, and look out at the wild scenery.

The windows of the carriage were a foot and a half long and a foot high, and the palm-sized lattice was inlaid with glass.

"Mountain, mountain...... Brother ...... "Hengsheng saw the distant mountains, and his little eyes couldn't help but shine, and the little fat finger pointed to the distance, excitedly God blessed."

Tianyou glanced back at Cao Yin, and his grandfather did not mean to be angry, and said to Hengsheng with a smile: "It's a mountain, didn't my father say that when we arrive in Zhuangzi, he will take us to the mountain to catch birds?" I don't know if it's this mountain. ”

Hengsheng tilted his little head, thought for a while, and muttered, "Brother, can my father fly?" ”

Tianyou heard him say this, shook his head and said, "Father is not a bird, how can he fly?" ”

Heng Sheng scratched the back of his head and asked puzzledly, "If my father can't fly, then how can he catch birds?" When this man came to him, the birds flew away......"

Tianyou was also confused by Hengsheng, for the little boy who grew up in the house, this fishing and catching birds can't be regarded as common sense, and there is no knowing.

This is between Andingmen and Xiaotangshan, there was an official road, in recent years, because of the royal repair of the hot spring Zhuangzi, the official road here is repaired flat and straight. Therefore, the carriage walked very smoothly, not much worse than the bluestone road in the city.

Cao Yin originally closed his eyes to recuperate, listened to the conversation between the two grandsons, opened his eyes, and couldn't help but wonder.

Hengsheng just looked at him, obediently put down his little hand, and called "grandfather...... Outside the carriage, Cao Hao was already interested, and the two Ren brothers pointed to a junction in front of them, galloping on their horses, and tried their skills.

"Drive! Drive! "A loud voice, mixed with the sound of horses' hooves, was heard far away over the vast field.

Tianyou and Hengsheng heard this, and wanted to open the door to look, but they didn't dare, they were so anxious that they were like little monkeys.

Cao Yin didn't dare to let them see the wind, for fear of catching a cold, so he made a straight face, coughed, and took the school homework for his two grandchildren.

Tianyou is still good here, and Hengsheng is on the other side, so you have to scratch your ears and cheeks, and you can't care about watching the horse racing ......anymore * The palace, the elder brother.

Seventeen Fujin personally served the medicine, and the seventeenth elder brother took it, looking at the black medicinal soup, he frowned.

"Ye drank it early, and he sweated when he fell asleep." Seventeen Fujin said.

The seventeenth elder brother smiled bitterly: "It's been a few days, and I still don't see a good ......" Before the words fell, he couldn't help but "cough", and he didn't hold the medicine bowl for a while, and it had already fallen to the ground.

The bowl shattered, the medicinal soup spilled, and it was a mess.

Seeing this, Seventeen Fujin didn't care about the ground, leaned over, stretched out his hand, and patted Seventeen Elder Brother on the back to help him cough more comfortably.

The seventeenth elder brother only felt that he couldn't breathe, and his throat and eyes were salty, so he slowly stopped coughing.

He glanced at the medicinal soup on the ground, and Seventeen Fu Jin said, "Good medicine, let me spoil it." Don't stay up anymore, let's drink together in the evening......"

Seventeen Fujin took out a handkerchief, helped Seventeen Elder Brother wipe the corners of his mouth, and said, "Look at what the master said, this is medicine, how can it be broken?" ”

"What about the prescription in the hospital, drink less and drink more? Who would expect to be able to heal a disease with this? Brother Seventeen snorted coldly.

When he fell ill in the summer, the seventeenth elder brother already had a bad feeling towards the Tai Hospital; When the eighth elder brother passed away, he no longer expected the Tai Hospital.

What is the difference between being able to save or not being saved and killing someone?

Even if it is a prince, if he encounters a quack, he will lose his surname.

It's just that there are too many bends and curves, and although the seventeenth elder brother is uneven, it is not something that he can come forward to investigate.

Seventeen Fujin heard this, and said: "That can't be stiff, if the master thinks this recipe is inappropriate, then let's send a doctor to come and take a look?" ”

The seventeenth elder brother shook his head and said, "No need, tossing and turning, there is no difference......

As the husband and wife were talking, they heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from the courtyard, and then a waiter said through the door: "Master, Fujin, the slave has something urgent to report!" ”

Seventeen Fujin stood up, looked at Seventeen Elder Brother, and waited for him to signal. Seventeenth Elder Brother nodded and raised his voice, "Come in." ”

The chamberlain entered the room, knelt down and said, "Master, Fujin, the official mansion sent someone to the palace to spread the word, and the old man is gone......

Seventeen Fujin heard this, his body was weak, and he was already unstable, so he helped the edge of the kang so that he did not fall. The seventeenth elder brother uncovered the quilt on his body, turned over and went to the ground to ...... * Sun's house, Ya'er Hutong, and Sun's new house.

Cao Ying sat in the inner hall, holding a handkerchief in her hand, and her face could not hide her sadness.

"Uncle Feng, the eldest lord and the eldest lady are out of the city?" Cao Ying listened to her mother-in-law's warning, and she couldn't help it, and her eyes were red.

In the past half month, she has been very busy, not only to extend the medical treatment for her husband, but also to worry about moving.

Because she had long had doubts about it, suspecting that it was her cousin Cao Hao's hands and feet, Cao Ying had no fear of the "ghost hitting the wall" at home. Even in private, I have a heart of schadenfreude, and I am not happy to see my husband suffer more after being bullied by my husband for all these years.

Who would have thought that things would develop beyond her imagination.

Sun Jue's illness was more serious than expected, almost to the point of not being able to sleep at night. At the beginning, he was impetuous, and sometimes he couldn't help waving his arms and hitting his wife twice to get angry, but he didn't expect that as long as he did it, he would be "beaten" more fiercely at night.

After three times and twice, Sun Jue was also scared, and he didn't dare to do anything casually, and he was "beaten" lightly in the middle of the night.

Thinking that he had provoked something unclean, Sun Jue asked someone to invite a Taoist priest to his home to do two rituals, but it was useless.

Sun Jue couldn't hold on anymore, so he bought a new house near Guanghua Temple at a high price and moved in a hurry.

Except for the two Taipings who had just moved in, they were still "beaten" at other times. Sun Jue is just a layman in the end, and he is also afraid of ghosts and gods.

While sending people to seek the fame of the high monks, he took the silver and sent them to the nearby temple to donate incense and silver and pray for peace.

Because she was in a hurry to move, the new house was expensive, and with the silver for practicing teachers and taking medicine for most of the month, the silver was spent like running water, and Cao Ying was also anxious.

Cao Ying was also confused at this time, and she didn't know if it was her mother's brother's handiwork.

Even if it was to be punished, it would be almost a toss-up, and it would not have any effect. I'm afraid that if the son is too peaceful, Sun Jue will relapse into his old state.

If it weren't for the "punishment", it really provoked the evil thing, then Cao Ying really didn't dare to think about it.

To be honest, Cao Ying was a little afraid of Cao Hao's cousin. If she really made a big fuss about being beaten, that cousin would definitely have the ability to teach her brother-in-law a good lesson, Cao Ying always believed in this.

That's why she delayed it until now, so that she dared to ask people to find Cao Hao. Unexpectedly, fate was not enough, and Cao Hao went out of the city.

Cao Ying was full of sorrow, and she didn't know where to tidy up, so she saw her mother-in-law come in and said, "Grandma, the big housekeeper has found a Taoist master and is waiting in the front yard." ”

Before Cao Ying could speak, she heard Sun Jue's voice coming from the back room, and said, "Please, please...... Please come over here and talk......"

Cao Ying saw that her husband was like this, so she had to obey the order and ask someone to invite the Taoist priest in the front yard.

One moment later, an old man in a gray robe came in after the maid.

The old man always had a smile on his face, and his eyes were full of inquiry. When he entered the house, he didn't have time to meet Sun Jue and Cao Ying, so he looked at Sun Jue directly, his face becoming more and more ugly.

Sun Jue's scalp was numb when he was stared at, and cold sweat broke out on his back...... The old man frowned, let out a long breath, and shook his head.

Sun Jue only felt that his liver was trembling, his throat and eyes were dry, and he was speechless. After a while, he pursed his lips and said, "Venerable, what's wrong?" ”

The old man didn't say anything, he just took out a small bag from the law bag, recited words in his mouth, and walked two gossip steps before he used a peachwood sword to pick a spell, and in front of Sun Jue's eyes, he danced.

When Sun Jue saw this old-fashioned style, he didn't come up in one breath and almost fainted.

Cao Ying was beside her, and she didn't know the bottom of her heart, and whispered: "Venerable, how is my grandson's illness?" ”

The old man shook his head, and did not answer immediately, but said: "There are some words, I have to explain to my grandmother, and I bother my grandmother to come out and speak." ”

This is going to carry Sun Jue on his back, Sun Jue couldn't help but be anxious, and shouted: "If you have anything to say, just say it here!" ”

The old man still looked reluctant, hesitated for a long time, and said slowly: "This master had a violent temper in his previous life and beat his wife and concubines. In the end, the wives and concubines discussed, and a white silk ribbon ended the master. On the side of Lord Yama, he was originally going to send this lord to hell, or did this lord reluctantly reincarnate after saying all the good things in front of Lord Yama and making a good oath. ”

Speaking of this, he paused and said, "Grandpa's previous house, Xiaodao has just gone to see it with your housekeeper. Feng Shui is too evil, and Grandpa breaks his oath, which naturally leads to the invasion of foreign evils......"

Sun Jue was already frightened and bloody, and said in horror: "Then how to resolve ......?"

* Xiaotangshan, Caojia Zhuangzi.

After half a day of trekking, at noon, the Cao family finally arrived at the hot spring Zhuangzi. Amethyst has already made people prepare lunch, and when everyone puts down their luggage and finishes packing, the food and wine are arranged.

The hot spring Zhuangzi here was designed by Cao Hao himself, and he did not ask a famous artist to write it. He designed several courtyards according to the distribution of several springs.

Cao Hao and his wife occupied the main courtyard, Cao Hao and his wife occupied the east courtyard with their children, and the Tian family and Lianqiu sisters used the west courtyard.

Although it is not as good as the first Zhuangzi built at the beginning, there are four seasons of scenery, but the benefits of Zhuangzi here are not half a star.

On a spring in the backyard, a greenhouse was built, and melons, fruits and vegetables were planted in it. The supply in Caofu before, there were also hot spring Zhuangzi sent to the city here.

Cao Hao wondered if he was old, otherwise why did he have the heart of "farming" and was most concerned about the greenhouse.

After lunch, Cao Hao took a few small ones to the greenhouse. Even Tianhui, who doesn't like to move, listened to the vegetables and fruits described by her father, and also showed a sense of yearning.

When Chu Yu saw it, she was reluctant to go against her daughter's wishes, so she asked someone to hug Tianhui and followed her to the warm house.

The conservatory is made of brick and wood, only on the roof, translucent glazed tiles. Plain glazed tiles must be covered with large quilts. Because the weather is good today, it is said that the quilt will be uncovered.

The conservatory is the size of a dozen rooms, and there are stoves at both ends, making it much warmer inside than outside.

At a glance, it is all green vegetable fields, leeks, rape, cabbage, eggplant, pepper, cucumber and so on.

A few children's eyes were no longer enough, and Niuniu also stood on tiptoe to touch the cucumber flowers on the vegetable shelf.

Even Fang Qiniang, who usually lives in the market, couldn't help but be surprised when she saw the scene in front of her. Outside, it was bitterly cold, the snow on the roadside had not cleared, and the grass and trees were withered, and green vegetables were grown in this house.

Chu Yu had heard that there were warm houses outside the city to grow vegetables, but seeing it with his own eyes, this was the first time, and he couldn't help but feel a little novel.

Cao Hao sniffed his nose vigorously, smelling the smell of the soil mixed with the greens, looking at this full of vitality, he only felt a lot more relaxed......

(To be continued)