This said, outside Changchun Garden, colorful flags beckoned.

The prince Baylor and hundreds of civil and military officials gathered outside Changchun Garden to send the saint out of Beijing. Among the entourage princes, such as the third elder brother, the ninth elder brother, the fifteenth elder brother, and the sixteenth elder brother, are often in front of the emperor, in addition, there are also ten elder brothers who have been "recuperating" for many years, twenty elder brothers at the age of fifteen, and twenty-one elder brothers and twenty-two elder brothers who appeared in front of the courtiers and officials for the first time.

These two little brothers were both born in the fiftieth year of Kangxi and are only ten years old this year. The former is from the Xi noble Chen family, and the latter is from the noble Se Hetu family.

In addition to the elder brother of the prince Suihu, several elder brothers who stayed in the capital also arrived at Changchun Garden. Among them, the thirteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother are both elder brothers who have been "recuperating" for a long time, and now although they are "recovering from a serious illness", they look a little less.

The other adult princes, most of whom have been knighted, are all dressed according to their grades. The thirteenth elder brother stood up after the age of age, but like other little princes, he wore a royal blue prince to serve, which also attracted the attention of many people.

The thirteenth elder brother only didn't see it, and his face showed a little indifference. The seventeenth elder brother has always been close to him, and he took several little elder brothers in the palace to talk to the thirteenth elder brother.

God is pitiful, of the three underage little brothers, only the twenty elder brothers saw their thirteenth brother when he was two or three years old before the "abolished prince", but he didn't remember it at that time. Like the twenty-first elder brother and the twenty-second elder brother, the two younger ones met their brother for the first time.

If it is an ordinary family, it is still a child in his teens; If you come out of the palace, ten years old is not too young.

The two little princes, looking at the middle-aged royal brother with a thin face in front of them, really can't be equated with the legendary "Desperate Thirteen Lang" who is most favored by the imperial father.

The twenty-first elder brother is still good, and his delicate little face shows a little well-behaved, and he respectfully listens to the thirteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother; Although the twenty-second elder brother is half a year younger, when he looks at the thirteenth elder brother, there is a little strangeness in his eyes.

Even if I heard people occasionally mention this "Thirteenth Brother" before, it was vague, "circle" or something, why is it here now?

Besides, since he is the "thirteenth brother", shouldn't he be about the same age as the "fourteenth brother", why do you look older than the fifth and seventh brothers?

The child just didn't hide his curiosity, but there was no malice.

fell into the eyes of the fourth elder brother who came over next to him, but there was a little anger in his eyes. He is only a twenty-two elder brother with bad conduct, and he looks at people as snobbish at a young age, and he adds a little dislike to his heart.

At this moment, the thirteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother both saw the fourth elder brother, and they were busy, turned around, and the brother had seen it.

The fourth elder brother has never liked to laugh, and he looked stern, and several little elder brothers were trembling and saluting respectfully.

The fourth elder brother swept over the faces of the twenty-second elder brother and the twenty-second elder brother, and finally landed on the twenty-first elder brother's face, and asked a few words lightly about who followed him this time, whether he was prepared to prepare a pony to ride, and so on.

Twenty-one Elder Brother was articulate and answered one by one, his voice crisp.

The fourth elder brother's face became more and more gentle, and several elder brothers were rare in their hearts, and the twenty-second elder brother was even more bold, and called "fourth brother" a few times flatteringly, and took the initiative to mix two sentences.

The fourth elder brother responded with a smile, and he had a lot of complaints about this little brother's upbringing, and he had already blamed Concubine Xuan, who raised the twenty-second elder brother; On the contrary, because the twenty-first elder brother coped with it decently, he had a good impression of the concubine.

The biological mothers of these two little princes are not of high grade, so they are raised in the palace of Concubine Xuan and Concubine He.

The sound of ritual music came from afar, and the sixteenth elder brother came over with two little eunuchs and picked up a few little princes to return to the team.

As the sound of ritual music approached, the emperor ascended, and left Changchun Garden with his entourage clan and civil and military officials......

Everyone knelt down, and when the chariot was no longer visible, then the eunuch of the ceremonial ceremony screamed with a duck.

Prince Zhuang Bo Guoduo was old, and after kneeling for a while, his legs and feet were a little numb, and his mouth kept "humming", and he was helped up by two little eunuchs.

Among the kings of the clan, he was the oldest and the most senior, and everyone had to stop and wait for him to go first. All the princes and Baylor stopped, and those civil and military ministers who came to see him off were naturally not the first to move.

Bo Guoduo was not in a hurry to leave, holding the hand of the little eunuch, he walked to the thirteenth elder brother and stopped, and said with a smile: "Oh, isn't it dazzling, isn't this the thirteenth elder brother?" Is this sick and well? Also, after more than ten years, the young man has to be raised as an old man, no matter how bad it is, I'm afraid it will be ...... Cough...... No wonder the emperor thinks about you, a precious brother, we old immortals should also make room for you. Since it is so important, the will to be knighted is also to be made, how about it? If you don't say anything, you have to be a prince and a county king, and when the time comes, the thirteenth elder brother will remember to mention me and wait. ”

It is said that "beating people does not slap their faces, and exposing people does not expose their shortcomings", but now Bo Guoduo's words are thorny, and he refuses to leave any room in front of the hundred officials of the clan.

I can't complain that Bo Guoduo would rather offend the prince, but also want to be quick for a while, but he really has a fire in his stomach.

In the first month, when the bank was bidding, the thirteenth elder brother took the Shandong Wang family to intercept the cloth of the Internal Affairs Office, which ruined the Cheng family's business and made Bo Guoduo faceless, which already made him unhappy. However, it was just a bit of a face-sweep, and he didn't let Bo Guoduo suffer in money, he just said that the thirteenth elder brother didn't understand world affairs.

In March, the thirteenth elder brother's old illness was better. Kangxi had the heart to let this son come back, and finally "sympathized" Bo Guoduo for his old age, so he ordered the thirteenth elder brother to take the errand of his household department.

For the emperor's "compassion", Bo Guoduo naturally did not dare to complain; For the thirteenth elder brother who topped him, he hated it so much that he thought that he should drink the northwest wind next year.

He didn't want to think about it, under the name of the palace, there were more than a dozen Zhuangzi and thousands of hectares of fertile land, but they were just for his family, and the cost was no worse than in the palace. In the final analysis, it is still a word "greed".

However, these emperors did not have a dynasty, and the two did not have a chance to meet.

Now, when it finally happened, the fire in Bogoduo's stomach came out "rubbing". Finally, when the holy car was gone, he didn't have a door.

An iron hat prince, a comeback prince brother, this is directly on the front. Many people secretly looked at the Thirteenth Elder Brother, some were interested in watching the excitement, and some were worried.

The thirteenth elder brother's face remained unchanged, looking at Bo Guoduo, he showed a little smile for a while, and said slowly: "The prince is not dazzled, it is indeed Yinxiang who is back......"

His voice was not loud, but because of the silence around him, it was clearly heard in everyone's ears.

There was no smugness, nor the slightest timidity, but he said this sentence in a flat tone, but for some reason, it made Bo Guoduo's heart tremble.

He suddenly remembered that more than ten years ago, even his noble prince had sent a small object twice in three days to please this prince, and he only felt a chill in his back.

He glanced back at everyone, and saw that even the good-tempered Fifth Elder Brother, Seventh Elder Brother and others frowned and showed a little dissatisfaction, knowing that he had just passed a little.

Regardless of whether the emperor sincerely wants the thirteenth elder brother to make a comeback, no matter whether the thirteenth elder brother is knighted or not, the thirteenth elder brother is the prince. The few people standing in front of him were all his brothers.

It's true that the royal family has no family affection, but not to mention the intrigue between the princes, this is watching the brothers being humiliated by others in front of everyone, and few princes can stand it.

Bo Guoduo's face was a little stiff, he squeezed out a little smile, stretched out his hand, patted the thirteenth elder brother's shoulder, and said very lovingly: "It's good to come back, the errand of the household department is trivial, don't work too hard, it's good to take care of it, and it saves the emperor from worrying." ”

The thirteenth elder brother responded with a smile, Bo Guoduo laughed twice, held the little eunuch's hand, and walked quickly under his feet, not like an old man in the past.

The kings of the clan and the ministers of civil and military affairs also left one after another this time.

The seventeenth elder brother looked at the thirteenth elder brother and originally wanted to go with him, but when he saw that the fourth elder brother was with the thirteenth elder brother, he walked a few steps quickly and talked to the seventh elder brother.

It is true that he is close to the two elder brothers, the fourth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother, but it is okay to be alone with any of them, and if the threesome falls into the eyes of outsiders, it is suspected of "forming a party", and he will not fall into the mouth.

The thirteenth elder brother followed the fourth elder brother until he got into the carriage of the fourth elder brother and his smile froze.

The bamboo curtain of the carriage was lowered, and the fourth elder brother was already furious, and said with a dark face: "This old horseman doesn't know whether he is alive or dead!" ”

Seeing him like this, the thirteenth elder brother was quite uneasy, and hurriedly said: "It's just that I lost my errand and got angry, and I can't see him a few times throughout the year, so it's not worth being angry with the fourth brother." ”

The fourth elder brother looked at the thirteenth elder brother, and said for a while: "Or, in a few days, I will have a fold?" The thirteenth brother has passed the age of establishment and should have been knighted early...... Among the brothers, even if the twelfth brother is sealed later, he will be sealed for the first time at the age of twenty-six......"

When the thirteenth elder brother heard this, he waved his hand vigorously and said, "The fourth brother feels sorry for his younger brother, and his younger brother knows everything." It's just that there are a lot of people waiting to see my brother's jokes now, and if I make a fuss, in the eyes of everyone, my brother is not only a moldy star, but also a shameless and insatiable person...... Huang Ama may not have deliberately forgotten this, but the previous knighthoods of your brothers were not according to the children of the clan, and they were knighted in the year of the weak crown, but they just caught up with it once, and it was just counted once. Now the fifteenth brother and a few of them have already passed the weak crown, isn't it not sealed, and there is no news of the opening of the mansion......"

The two brothers have always been close, and the fourth elder brother also knew that what the thirteenth elder brother said was true, nodded and said, "You are right, Huang Ama didn't just forget you...... The crown of the prince is a big deal after all, and in the past two years, the emperor has been busy with the war in the northwest, and there are some who can't take care of it......"

*

Guangzhou, Wang's Courtyard.

Looking at the blonde beauty in front of him wearing a puffy skirt, Cao Hao was a little stunned.

I think there is no feeling of thinness as beauty in later generations, this little beauty is round and jade, with two or three chins, and it doesn't look like a seventeen-year-old girl, but like a big doll.

"Your Excellency is the Earl that your brother-in-law often talks about? Zhang Yi's master? She looked immature on her face, but she was not short, and she was wearing high heels, so she was about the same as Cao Hao, and asked in a loud voice.

The voice is a little stiff, but the words are quite clear, Xu is the same Chinese as Wei Xinxue, with a bit of Jiangning accent.

It is worthy of having a pirate ancestor, and the little girl has a bit of domineering around her. It seems that this second lady of the Ai family can be her father's help and compete with several uncles for a reason. Just talking to people with the momentum is very good.

Cao Hao nodded and said, "Miss is right, it is Wei Xin's friend Cao Hao below." ”

Seeing that Cao Hao treated people warmly and did not put on a noble stand, she was a little embarrassed to raise her voice again, stretched the skirt, made a Western court salute, and said: "It's an honor to meet you, Lord Earl, my name is Gina, and Ida is my sister." ”

Three hundred years ago, Cao Hao was not familiar with Western etiquette, how to return the salute, so he nodded, regarded as having seen it, pointed to the chair next to him, and said, "Miss Gina, please take a seat." ”

While he was talking, someone had already brought tea up.

Seeing Cao Hao's immobile appearance, Gina was a little breathless, and she couldn't care about the fragrant tea in front of her, and asked, "Is the earl's visit to Guangzhou this time to prepare for the voyage of Europa?" ”

Cao Hao listened, shook his head, and said, "I don't plan to go to sea, Miss Gina wants to go to Europa?" ”

Gina looked at Cao Hao puzzled and said, "Aren't you Chinese the most particular about 'righteousness'?" My brother-in-law has lost news for more than a year, and as a good friend of his, why aren't you in a hurry? ”

Cao Hao didn't reply, to put it in reality, Wei Xin was very important in his heart, but in addition to friends, he had other morals to bear.

Cao Hao has always admired the person who sticks a knife in the ribs for his friend, but all he can do is do his best.

Seeing that Cao Hao didn't speak, Gina bit her lip and said, "I'm sorry, whether or not to go to Europa is a private matter for Lord Earl, and I was rude." I was worried about my sister and brother-in-law, and I wanted to go to Europa to find them, but I couldn't leave it, so I thought that it would be great if the Earl did. ”

Cao Hao was in no mood to explain to a little girl what he would do for Wei Xin.

"The ships coming from Europa this year will arrive in May, maybe your brother-in-law and brother-in-law will be on board. Miss Gina, it's useless to be in a hurry, so let's wait and see. Cao Hao said.

Although she knew that it was a comforting word, Gina still thanked Cao Hao very sincerely and drank the tea elegantly.

In Cao Hao's heart, He Zeng didn't know that whether Wei Xin was safe or not was in the hands of God.

Every year from May to August, the summer monsoon climate is the time when ocean-going ships come back.

If it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Wei Xin has not returned, and there is no news of him, then the boat he took last year is afraid that it will be more auspicious.

Thinking of this, Cao Hao didn't know whether to look forward to the sooner pass, waiting for the monsoon climate to come, and looking forward to Wei Xin's return; It's still late in May, so you don't have to hear bad news......

At this time, Gina had already drunk half a cup of tea, stood up, and said: "I will not disturb the Earl today, my father will come to Guangzhou in a few days, and there will be a foreign wine party. ”

Cao Hao got up and said, "I am deeply honored to be invited, and I will be bothered in the future." ”

Gina owes herself and leaves.

Cao Hao asked Zhang Yi to send it, and drank two sips of tea by himself.

It is obviously a first-class dragon well before the rain, but the entrance only feels bitter.

This kind of uncontrollable gaffe and can only resign itself to fate, is really uncomfortable......