Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1106
On the second day of November, Cao Yong left Beijing.

Although Baoding Mansion is not far from Beijing, since it is released to the outside world, it cannot be easily left behind without purpose.Fortunately, the governor of Zhili is in charge of Jingji, and there is no shortage of opportunities to return to Beijing to see him.

Accompanying them were Chuyu, Tianyou, Li Cheng and other family nephews, Wei Hei, Zhang Yi, Wu Sheng, Cao Man and others in charge, and Jiang Jian and dozens of staff and clerks.

The housework in the mansion was handed over to Niuniu and Tianhui.With Mrs. Li sitting in charge, he is not afraid of someone making trouble.

Someone outside had already inquired about the date of Cao Yong's departure from Beijing, but Cao's mansion said vaguely to the outside world, and only a few close ones got the news.

Therefore, at the beginning of Chenchu ​​(seven o'clock in the morning), when Cao Yong and Chuyu's carriage left Beijing, not many people came to see them off.

When everyone got the news, Cao's family and his party had already left the city and went to Baoding.

It is the severe cold weather on the ninth day, and today there are snowflakes, making the world a vast expanse.

Except for the entourage and guards of the Cao Mansion, most of the others traveled by car.There are more than [-] cars in a mighty way.

Tianyou wanted to ride a horse, but because of the snow, Chuyu ordered him to take a ride, so he and his cousin Li Cheng rode together.

Just as Jiang Jian did not bring any family members, Li Cheng did not bring any family members either.This group of aides and scribes first went to the post with Cao Yong. If they wanted to bring their family members, they had to settle in the past, and then they would come back to pick them up.

Although they are cousins, Tianyou and Li Cheng are not familiar with each other.

Tianyou was actually quite surprised, he didn't expect his father to bring this cousin of the Li family with him, and couldn't help but look at Li Cheng.

Li Cheng's complexion was pale, but his cheeks were flushed. He looked weak. He hadn't reached the crown yet, but he had already won the Juren, and he could be regarded as a young talent.Even if he fails the current exam and studies hard for another three years, there is still hope for a lower grade.

I have no choice but to wonder why he chose to come out to find an errand.

When Tianyou looked at Li Cheng, Li Cheng was also secretly observing the little cousin of the Cao family.

When Tianyou was surprised, Li Cheng was also puzzled.

Although Cao Yong's cousins ​​are all in the capital, the Cao family has long been divided into mansions. Now, on the west side of the mansion, since Cao Yong left Beijing, he should have left God Bless, the eldest son, in Beijing to support the family and serve his parents.If you want to bring your children to teach, it should be the second son, Hang Seng, who came out of Beijing with his father.

Regarding Hang Seng, the second son of the earl's mansion, there are different opinions outside, and the most guessed is that Hang Seng is Cao Yong's illegitimate son.Because of Hang Seng's background, the identity of Cao Yong, the "outsider" who has never shown his face before the world, is subject to many speculations.

Some said she was a childhood sweetheart with Cao Yong, a beautiful woman from the south of the Yangtze River, and some said she was a royal daughter of the Horqin Grassland.

Regardless of whether the woman is noble or humble, she must be Cao Yong's favorite, so the "illegitimate son" who took home, although entered the family tree in the name of the adopted son, was raised under the name of the first wife, and lived with the eldest son. I don't see the humbleness of the bastard.

Li Cheng also listened to rumors in his early years, so he thought Cao Yong was a hypocrite trying to gain fame.There are no concubines at home, but illegitimate children are raised outside. Isn't this kind of "clean and self-care" a joke?

This time when he came to Beijing, he just had so little knowledge.

When a child is young, it is not obvious, but when he grows into a teenager, his appearance and stature become clear.

Hang Seng has high cheekbones, single eyelids, and an authentic Mongolian appearance.

He was accompanied by two Mongolians.If people who don't know his identity see him, they will definitely think that he is a son of some Mongolian prince's family.

In addition, Hang Seng's companion status.

Even though he was still in Qiandi at that time, Hongli elder brother was only the grandson of the emperor, but he chose to study with him in the study.If Hang Seng is really the concubine son of Cao Yong, how can he be qualified to be a companion?

Most likely it was a child fostered by a Mongolian prince, and the palace also knew the identity, so they ordered the accompanying book.

After all, every time Cao Yong traveled to and from Mongolia, he was either a retinue or an emperor's business.

He was really smart, and he guessed eight or nine.

But this time when Cao Yong left the capital, it was not the eldest son Tianyou who left the house, but Hang Seng, which made Li Cheng confused again.

Staying in the capital is not only a matter of looking after the house and serving the elders, but also dealing with relatives and friends.

If Hang Seng is the second son, it's okay to say, but obviously not, why Cao Yong still arranges like this?Do you really regard your adopted son as your own?

If it were a few years ago, Li Cheng would have guessed Cao Yong's intentions based on the evil in his heart; now, he has experienced a lot, and his mood is much more peaceful.

There was a sound of "da da" horseshoes outside, but it was extremely quiet inside the carriage.

Tianyou thought about how to start a conversation, and it was not easy to stay bored if he had to share the car for three or four days.

At this time, someone outside the carriage said: "Master!"

The person who came was Zhao Junping, Tianyou's servant, he was the son of a family, his father was Zhao An, the porter in the mansion, and his mother was Hui Xin, Cao Yong's childhood maid.

In the early years, Hui Xin worked as an errand in the house of the old lady of the Cao family, and it was the old lady who assigned her grandson to order, so she was regarded as a close neighbor of the master.After being matched with someone and doing internal affairs, Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law also rely heavily on her, and she is one of the few housekeepers who can talk in the inner house.

Zhao Junping is Hui Xin's eldest son, two years older than Tianyou, and has been with Tianyou since childhood.

"What's the matter?" Tianyou raised the curtain of the car and asked.

"Master, Madam sent someone to bring over two foot stoves, saying that they are for the uncle and young master Biao." Zhao Junping approached the carriage and reported.

Tianyou pulled the carriage to the side and looked at the carriageway in front of him: "Leave one...the other one and send it to the master, and ask the master if it should be sent to Mr. Feng and Mr. Song's carriage."

Mr. Feng, famous biography, with the word Neyan, is the old Hanlin who served as the teacher of the Cao Mansion before.He was nearly seventy years old, and he should have been honored.After Cao Yong was promoted to governor, Feng Chuan took the initiative to ask him to follow Cao Yong to see the local style.

Mr. Song is an old friend of Mr. Feng. He used to be a screener in the governor's yamen and is proficient in local affairs.In recent years, due to his growing age, he was raised in Beijing and was hired by Cao Yong.

Zhao Junping agreed, held a foot stove, and then rode forward to look for Cao Yong's carriage.

Sitting in the carriage, Li Cheng watched the interaction between the master and the servant, raised his eyebrows, and smiled.

When traveling in winter, Cao's mansion is thoughtful, and there are hand stoves and foot stoves in every carriage.The aunt is now sending people to send, and it is also the heart of a loving son.

Tianyou was sympathetic to the elders in the same company, but he paid attention to his propriety and did not cross Cao Yong.

He is the eldest son of the Cao family and the young proprietor of all the friends and scribes. Even if he directly gave a foot stove to the two old people's carriage in his name, it would not be considered an overstep.

But he refused to stand out, just because his "sympathy" would certainly move the two old people, but it also seemed that Cao Yong had some omissions.

Such and such, but to maintain Cao Yong decent.

At this time, Tianyou had already lowered the curtain.

He took the foot stove, put it on the fur mat under Li Cheng's feet, and said with a smile: "I was thinking that the car was not very warm, and I was afraid that it would hurt my cousin, so my wife sent this thing here, it's very cheap. "

Seeing this, Li Cheng couldn't help being stunned. After a while, he leaned over, took out the foot stove, put it at Tianyou's feet, and said: "This is my aunt's loving heart. Cousin should use it for himself to show respect."

Tianyou hurriedly stopped him, and said: "This is what my mother bought for my cousin. Didn't someone send me my one just now? Cousin, don't give in to me. I have lived in Beijing for a long time, but I can't bear the cold." Tolerance to heat. Cousin came from the south, so there are some people who are not tolerant to the bitter cold in the north..."

At first Li Cheng thought that God Bless was just being polite, so it can be seen that he insisted on giving it to himself, so he had to accept it.

At the end of the day, the two cousins ​​knew each other a lot.

In Li Cheng's heart, there were all kinds of feelings that could not be expressed in words.

Tianyou is 13 years old this year. When he was 13 years old, he stayed in the capital and studied at the Ministry of Internal Affairs.Claiming to be a smart person, he doesn't take the world seriously.

He doesn't look down on the rising Cao family; he also looks down on the declining Sun family.

Behind his father's back, he made his own decisions and designed his own uncle.Now that I think about it, I really violated the principles and ethics.

Talking about people when he sees people, and talking about ghosts when he sees ghosts, how much effort he has wasted, even his own wife also planned to marry him.

In the end, after all the calculations, it didn't stop the fate of the Li family being ransacked and ruined.

The 13-year-old Tianyou is honest and kind-hearted, with warm and calm expressions in his eyes.

Li Cheng slowly closed his eyes, could it be that he has been wrong all along?

Since Cao Yong was able to gather the orphans and widows in the mansion, and took care of them for more than ten years, it can be seen that he is not a cruel person, but he has been alienated from Li's mansion so far...

Unlike Li Cheng, after this day's itinerary, the friends and scribes who first entered the Cao family felt the most about the generosity and thoughtfulness of the mistress of the Cao family.

Not to mention that each carriage has a hand stove and a foot stove, and each person also has a fur cloak.

I just said that it was prepared in a hurry, and I gave it to you gentlemen, something to keep out the cold on the road, but the cloaks in everyone's hands are different in color and style.

Just such a cloak is worth three or forty taels of silver.

For some clerks, the annual salary is only a few dozen taels.Even before leaving Beijing, the Cao Mansion paid half a year's salary in advance, but how many people are willing to spend tens of taels of silver on fur clothes?

If the family is rich it is good, but if the family is poor, it is just to add a new padded robe and replace the old jacket so that it is not ashamed to go out.

Many people in the world have a snobbish eye, and many people take clothes and hats from others.

Even if you know, the dozens of people who followed Cao Yong to the post will be colleagues in the Governor's Mansion in the future, but those who wear cotton robes and those who see fur clothes are both elegant.

Nowadays, each person wears a brand-new leather robe, and everyone feels that it should be brighter...

*
At this time, Cao Yong was not in his own carriage, nor in the Chinese carriage regulated by Princess Chuyu, and then went to the carriage of Feng Chuan and Master Song.

This Master Song agreed to follow Cao Yong as the curtain three days ago.

Today's trip is the second time the two meet.The first time we met, naturally Cao Yong followed Feng Chuan to the Song family.

In the early years, under the rule of Gali, Song Shiye was a curtain with the Yamen of the governor of Liangjiang.Seeing later that Gali's behavior was absurd, and the governor gradually became confrontational and attacking, Master Song resigned and escaped from Jiangnan.

After being introduced by someone, he went to the Huguang Governor's Yamen as a curtain.This stay lasted for ten years, during which several governors of Huguang were changed, but Master Song never moved.

Among the entourage, Mr. Song was not the only one with rich experience in acting, but Mr. Song was the only one who had been in the Governor's Yamen for these years...

*
I still wanted to ask for leave today, so I gritted my teeth and endured it. I took medicine for three days, cleaned my stomach for three days, and felt hungry.I didn't dare to eat too much, for fear of bad digestion, and I was in the state of porridge, wailing.Get excited, starting tomorrow, Xiao Jiu is alive and kicking again.

(End of this chapter)