Although Cao Hao knew that since he was a messenger, Kangxi might point a few guards to follow, but when he saw Nalan Fusen and Hessen, he was still quite surprised.

Unexpectedly, Cao Hao is not the only one.

Heshan raised his eyebrows, looked at Cao Hao and said with a smile: "The emperor pointed out that we were guarded to follow, and I thought it was a Zhongtang or military gate traveling, but I was afraid that it would be difficult to wait on the road." I didn't expect it to be you, and this time the brothers don't have to panic. ”

Cao Hao looked at the costumes of these dozen or so people, one first-class guard, three second-class guards, four third-class guards, and two Lanling guards.

In addition to Nalan Fusen and Heshan, there are two or three guards who Cao Hao knows, and the rest are all new faces.

These people came out on an errand, and when they saw that Cao Hao was just wearing an embroidered white pheasant repair uniform, and he was young, he looked down on him a little.

It is decent to be able to go to the northwest, but today is a temporary errand for the emperor, and not everyone wants to go.

However, seeing that Heshan and Cao Hao were close, Nalan Fusen said that he didn't speak, but the smile on his face couldn't be stopped, and everyone was a little bottomless in their hearts.

Naranfusen looked at everyone's expressions and knew what was wrong with these people.

The errand workers in the palace, especially those who can survive the guards of the Qianqing Gate, are all children of the powerful, and no one comes out of a small family. These people, not to mention, are arrogant in their bones, and they are mostly snobbish and conscientious in their actions.

Thinking of this, Nalan Fusen smiled and said to Cao Hao: "Why did you wear this out?" Is this an addiction to being a judge? How to say hello, not very old, look at what you have tossed in the past few years, the Taoist platform has also done it, this Taifu Siqing has also done it, walked around, and came back to be an official. I don't know, but it's true that you're a newcomer. ”

Speaking of this, he said to the guards: "This is Lord Langzhong of the Military Department and Master Cao Haocao, don't look at him young, but he is your senior." Now he still has a shortage of guards, and everyone is considered a robe brother. ”

Everyone heard the name of "Cao Hao", but no one dared to slack off.

Although the Cao family was born in Baoyi, it is an upstart who has been in the limelight in recent years. The man is the forehead, the woman is the princess, this dignity is not something that anyone can catch up with.

Although Cao Hao was happy when he looked at Nalan Fusen and Heshan and the others, he was also a little unhappy to see the arrogant appearance of others.

In the final analysis, this so-called "imperial guard" is more of an honor, although it is good at horseback archery, it is useless when encountering major events.

These people followed them to the northwest, although they received the holy order to temporarily protect Cao Hao, the "Qin Mission", in fact, they couldn't expect much from them.

This greeting effort, Yi Duli has already seen it, and when he saw the dozen or so guards, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Fu Ning'an, the secretary of the ministry, went to the military of the Northwest Prime Minister, and brought only ten guards, and most of them were newly promoted. Cao Hao's side is just running an errand, and there are ten guards who go with him.

"It can be seen that you are your grandson-in-law, and the emperor treats you differently." Yidu immediately smiled on his face, but he was quite emotional in his heart.

He is also the son of a family, his father is a scholar, his mother is the daughter of a scholar, and his father and mother are extremely prominent. It's just that because his father died early and was dragged down by his maternal grandfather's family, he has not been happy these years.

Iduli and Naranfusen are the same age, and they have long been old acquaintances.

is that among the remaining new guards, there is also a third-class guard who is a side branch of the Ilgen Jueluo clan, and he is in charge of Yiduli and is called uncle.

Everyone saw each other again, and they delayed for a while.

Cao Hao looked up and saw that it was not early, and said, "Since Master Yi is also coming out, let's go." Catch up with the noon and say that you can rush more before the head and feet, and you can rest at noon. ”

Although this line is nominally Cao Hao, Yi Du Li and ten guards, Cao Hao and Yi Du Li led a long entourage of nearly 30 people.

Wei Hei and Zheng Hu's sturdiness, coupled with the sturdiness of Cao Jia's four people, saw that several new guards looked at each other. Who are the guards? With these pestles beside Cao Hao, it seems that these of them, dressed in guards, look like silver rod wax spearheads.

The moment Yi Duli saw Zheng Hu, his expression was a little uncomfortable, he hesitated, and bowed his head to signal.

Zheng Hu glanced at Cao Hao, and when he saw that he didn't say anything, he also nodded, which was considered a return gift.

Because it is a post station gallop, there is no need to prepare two horses, everyone rides one person, and goes all the way north on the official road. With the sound of horses' hooves, bring up a cloud of smoke and dust...... * Changchun Garden, Qingxi Book House.

Kangxi sat on the kang, and several university scholars bowed down to work.

Yin Haolin, the former Fengtianfu Mansion, was promoted to Zongren Mansion at the beginning of last month, and Fengtianfu Yin was vacant. The Ministry of Officials once promoted Shao Guan, the imperial historian of Zuodu, as the Yin of Fengtianfu, and Kangxi was also a quasi-player.

On the day of His Majesty's resignation, the news of the bursting of the embankment of the Huguang Yangtze River reached the imperial front.

Kangxi was already on fire, and this Shao Guan was afraid of Tianwei, trembling between the plays, and speaking was not good, so he was taken off his top on the spot.

Now it's the Zongren Mansion that is urging, and it's also complicated over there. Xinfu Cheng was stranded in Mukden because the new official had not yet arrived, and he could not leave for Beijing.

At this time, no one would think of the unlucky guy who was dismissed last month, and several university scholars proposed two candidates.

Kangxi's side would not reflect on whether he was angry, so he asked a few words about the resumes and achievements of these two officials, and finally decided that the eldest of them was the Yin of Fengtianfu.

In addition to the Fengtianfu Mansion Yin, the governor Kuraba Shilang is also vacant.

This time, the candidates recommended by the university scholars are Cao Yin, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and Jing Shan, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

The yamen of the Ministry of Rites is light, but like other yamen, there are two scholars, four attendants, and six officials. When it comes to idle manpower, half of them are enough.

The warehouse yamen is mainly responsible for the acceptance of grain, the regular management of "Jingcang", as well as the river engineering and transportation from the North Canal to the capital, and the chief official is the "governor of the warehouse".

Although the governor Kuraba squire, like the other squires of the six departments, is a second-rank official, but it is a weight.

In the words of the officialdom in the capital, although the position of these six servants is high, they are only "second room wives", with two Shangshu pressed on top, and Lang Zhong who does business in each department below.

Holding the squire's salary, doing the errand of Shangshu, he has to deal with the people in the yamen, and when he is unlucky, he has to carry the black pot for the lord above.

The Governor Kuraba Squire, but it was different.

Nominally, the Cangchang Yamen is subordinate to the Ministry of Households, but because it involves the affairs of Caoyun and is under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Caoyun, the Ministry of Households rarely interferes in the affairs of the Kuraba Yamen.

Under the yamen of the cangchang, there are eastern, western, and cao sections, which are in charge of the "thirteen warehouses" from the capital to Tongzhou. The chief official of this yamen is a first-class fat shortage.

The person who proposed Cao Yin also had the intention of figuring out the Sacred Heart and deliberately selling it well.

Kangxi heard this, but he couldn't help frowning.

This warehouse affairs involve the interests of all parties, not to mention the heavy errands, if you are not careful, it will be an abyss.

Back then, Shi Shilun cleared his name for half a lifetime and went to be a waiter in this warehouse, and he was overwhelmed by the Quartet, which was extremely embarrassing. In the end, it was Kangxi who released him in order to protect this courtier, which could be regarded as preserving him.

Treat Shi Shilun like this, treat Cao Yin, Kangxi's affection is even thicker, and he doesn't want Cao Yin to take this errand.

Maybe in the eyes of others, the waiter in the warehouse is fat and short, and he can make money with his heart, but with Cao Yin's loyalty, he will only bury his head in things.

Kangxi thought about it for a while, and said: "First of all, Jingshan, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, will take care of the affairs of the governor's warehouse, and see if it can be used." ”

After the monarch and ministers finished discussing the matter, several university scholars knelt down.

Kangxi rubbed his right hand, got up from the kang, and sat down and drove to the Empress Dowager's palace to say goodbye.

The Queen Mother had already had breakfast, and was thinking about things on the kang, and when she heard that Kangxi had arrived, she sat up busily with a kind face.

After getting along for these years, Kangxi treats this mother-in-law with sincere filial piety.

Seeing that her eyes were red and swollen, and there were a lot of red bloodshots in her eyes, Kangxi couldn't help but be a little worried, and bowed down and said, "Huang Eniang, you didn't rest well yesterday?" Do you want to send the imperial doctor to take a look? ”

The Queen Mother shook her head and said, "No, I just dreamed all night...... I also dreamed of the Empress Dowager, and her old man reprimanded me, blaming me for being useless, I didn't take good care of Yuyin back then, and now I don't take care of Yuyin's children......"

Kangxi couldn't help but be a little dazed when he heard the Queen Mother mention the past.

didn't sleep well last night, isn't it just the Queen Mother?

Even Kangxi, who was also tossing and turning, couldn't sleep, and always felt that the shadows were sufficient, as if he could hear sighs.

When the Queen Mother saw Kangxi's expression, she couldn't bear it, patted the edge of the kang, and said: "Emperor, sit down, you are also tired, it has not been easy to get up early to take care of the government for decades." ”

Kangxi sat sideways, looked at the Queen Mother's half-gray hair, and said: "Huang Eniang, even the Queen Mother is to blame, it is also strange, and it is not to blame on Huang Eniang." In the future, if the emperor wants to talk to Shuqing, she will be passed on to the palace. ”

"Shuqing?" The Queen Mother groaned: "This is the name given by her mother?" The crepe is crepe, and the bite is strange. Looking at her appearance, she is a little similar to her mother, but she is a blessed one. ”

"I took it!" Kangxi's face flashed with a look of reminiscence, and he replied in a deep voice: "Since I knew that she had a body, I circled the child's name, my son is called 'Chengzhong', and my daughter is called 'Shuqing'......" In the end, there was a look of pain.

The Queen Mother saw that he was uncomfortable, and she already regretted mentioning it a little in her heart, and said: "The past is all in the past, and the mourning family originally thought, I'm afraid that the emperor hasn't forgotten her, otherwise he wouldn't let the names of the brothers be preceded by her name." It's just that I haven't seen you mention it all these years, only when your discomfort has passed...... People can't be resurrected after death, so what's the point of mentioning it again? It won't be more than a few years, and our mother and son will finally have to be companions with them...... Now, under the Yellow Spring, the Empress Dowager and their families are reunited, and they should be happy when they look at the harmony and beauty of this child......

The Queen Mother was babbling, as if she was explaining Kangxi, and it was also like explaining herself again.

Thinking about this matter, the old man felt a lot more comfortable, looked at Kangxi and said: "Don't care about other mourning families, it's hot this day, don't toss that child anymore." How can I be so shadowy, I heard that her son was demoted. The affairs of this court, although the mourning family should not talk too much, but in the end, it is the child of his own family, and he should not be too strict if he does not look at the face of the monk and the face of the Buddha. The children's family is frizzy and frizzy, and it's nothing, but don't we have to be old and take care of it? ”

Kangxi listened to the words of the Queen Mother, a little embarrassed, and a little moved.

The Queen Mother is the most kind-hearted and anxious to take care of the short. Over the years, the clan and the Mongolian princes have used the queen mother as a shield. Because of this, the mother and son also had a time of centrifugation.

Kangxi originally didn't like to listen to the Queen Mother's tone of protecting her shortcomings, but now she only feels hot in her heart.

Although the Queen Mother said that she loved Wu and Wu in her heart, and regarded Li and Cao Hao as her juniors, when she thought of Cao Yin, she shook her head and felt quite inadequate, and said: "It's just that this family affair was knotted back then...... Not to mention, this Cao Yin's age is really older......"

* Xicheng, Caofu, Lanyuan, Shangfang.

Cao Yin changed into an official uniform, and Li took the pearl and put it on for her husband.

Cao Yin was a little reluctant to bother his wife, so he helped Li to sit down by the kang and said, "Let you sleep a little longer, and get up so early?" Now it's not as usual, even for the sake of the children, and it should be rested more. If you're still like that, then I'll go to the study tomorrow......"

"Master, it's not so expensive, and it's not the first time I've had a baby. Hao'er walked after the ugly beginning, and he also slept for two or three hours. Li Shi was a little ashamed, and said: "It's me begging the master, don't do it like this again, let the daughter-in-law see, just treat the two of us as old and don't cultivate." ”

Cao Yin smiled and waved his hand, and said, "What I said, this is at home, we are husband and wife, isn't my son okay and ask me to take care of you?" ”

Seeing that her husband didn't listen to persuasion, Li glanced at her with disgust, but she was a little happy in her heart.

Speaking of which, the husband and wife have been respectful to each other for more than 20 years, and they have never blushed, but they have never been so close.

Cao Yin looked at his wife's gentle face and said, "I haven't thanked you all these years. In my early years, I was busy with the affairs of the yamen, and I didn't take care of my family, so I was mostly bothered by you to serve the old lady and take care of the children on my behalf. Where am I worthy of you? married me, but you were wronged......" In the end, it was already a little emotional.

Li thought that her husband was talking about her yellow flower girl marrying him as her stepfamily, and said busily: "What does the master say about this, which makes people's hearts feel strange?" The old lady loved me very much when she was alive, and the old man was very sympathetic to me over the years, I was a fatherless orphan, and when I came to such a family, I was living like this, if I was not satisfied, I would be punished by God......"

Cao Yin remembered the absurdity of his youth, and his heart became more and more ashamed. He opened his mouth, and just as he was about to speak, he heard hurried footsteps in the courtyard.

"Master, madam, fourth master......" The maid had not finished reporting under the porch, and Cao Xiang had already hurried into the house.

"Uncle, uncle, uncle......" Cao Xiang entered the room, knelt on the ground with a "plop", his mouth was closed one by one, and he was already in tears, choked and unable to speak.

Li was taken aback, and Cao Yin frowned and said, "Crying and crying, what is it like?" What happened, is the second wife unwell? ”

Cao Xiang shook his head, raised his head, covered his mouth with his fist, and replied with a crying voice: "Uncle, uncle...... My third brother...... My third brother is gone......"

* East House, West Cross Courtyard, Upper Room.

Cao Shuo's body was already hard, the blood on his face had dried up, but his face was peaceful and serene.

Zhao Jiashi sat on the ground, holding his son's arm, but he couldn't cry...... Cao Fu pale faced, stood aside blankly, looked at his brother lying on the ground, and showed a little panic in his eyes......

(To be continued)