Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1191

At dawn, the room was dark and a bit cold.

Tianyou squinted his eyes, sat up, took out his pocket watch from under the pillow, and looked intently, it was already the second quarter of the eighth day (05:30 in the morning).

Hearing movement in the room, someone lifted the curtain and said with a smile, "Master woke up..."

It was a maidservant wearing pink clothes and silver-red bijia. She was fourteen or five years old, with a small pink face and a small red beauty spot on the corner of her mouth, which made her look even more playful and pleasing.

When Tianyou saw it, he wondered, "It's not that you are on duty at night, why did you get up so early? Could it be that the sun came out from the west?"

After hearing this, the servant girl felt annoyed, and said with a small mouth: "Look at what the uncle said, everyone else is diligent, so the slave girl is just playing tricks and being lazy?"

Before the words fell, someone said softly: "It's early in the morning, before doing serious things, you start to grind your mouth, are you noisy or not?"

After hearing this, the servant girl gave a playful smile, turned around and stretched out her hand to open the door curtain, saying: "It's just that I was wronged by the uncle, so I made some excuses."

Behind the door curtain, several maidservants filed in.

The leader is an elder, eighteen or nine years old, wearing lilac-colored clothes, covered with a snow-green bijia, with an oval face, and a gentle expression; the two fifteen or six-year-olds following behind are similarly dressed, but one is wearing a dark green bijia , one with the moon white Bijia.

In the hands of the three of them, they all carried trays, which contained brand new clothes, shoes, socks and hats.

Tianyou had turned over and got off the kang, and said with a smile, "It's just a birthday, so I'll trouble you guys to follow along."

The elder maid is Le Qing.She used to be Chuyu's big maid, and she was assigned to Sunflower Courtyard a few years ago to serve Tianyou in daily life.

Except for Le Qing, the three maids named Bai Xuan, Hong Qing, and Lv Yi are all second-class maids in Sunflower Courtyard.Ben also has a man named Moyu, who got sick a few days ago, moved out to recuperate, and has not come back yet.

At this moment, Le Qing had already put the tray on the table, and brought the other three servant girls to worship God, saying birthday congratulations in unison.

Tianyou listened with a smile, and thanked the four of them again.

After celebrating the birthday, Tianyou was groomed by Bai Xuan and Hong Qing, and changed by Le Qing and Lu Yi.

After tidying up, Tianyou said to Le Qing: "I'll go to pay my respects to the old lady, and have breakfast there directly. In the past few days, a lot of birthday noodles have been delivered outside, and the house has prepared a lot. I heard from Sister-in-law Wu that the kitchen is ready. I bought a dozen or so kinds of stew, but my sister can send the little girl to ask for it."

Le Qing said with a smile: "But thanks to my uncle, I was thinking about eating a bowl of noodles refreshingly these two days."

Do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequity.

Bai Xuan and Lu Yi stood beside each other quietly, Hong Qing was the youngest, snorted softly, and muttered in a low voice: "Master is also biased, it's just a bowl of noodles..."

Tianyou stretched out his hand, tapped her forehead, and said: "You talk too much. Sister Le Qing is not comfortable these days, she has no appetite every day, and the number of people has decreased, so I asked this more. Hundreds Jinshou noodles, can you shorten yours?"

Hong Qing had never had any intentions, and when she heard the words, she immediately blamed herself, and took Le Qing's hand to flatter her, and said with a bit of guilt and worry: "It's all my fault, I only care about my size and I'm greedy, but I forgot My sister has lost her appetite recently. Do you want to ask the uncle to call a doctor? If you are really sick, you are not stubborn."

Le Qing squeezed out a bit of a smile and said, "It's just that I'm a little tired, I can't do anything, I don't need to make such a fuss..."

Even so, there was still a gloomy look in his eyes.

Tianyou took a look at Le Qing, his eyes were deep, and he didn't say anything more, he picked up the curtain and went to Lan Yuan to pay his respects to Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li has always been a light sleeper, and at this moment, she has finished grooming and washing, and she is burning three sticks of incense to burn incense on the gilt Tathagata statue in the main room.

Hearing that the eldest grandson was coming, Mrs. Li hurriedly called in with a smile.

Although 15 years old is not a whole birthday, it is not a small birthday either.

Only because he was afraid of ruining God's blessing, Li didn't make arrangements.

She still didn't know that her son was waived from the governor of Zhili and returned to Beijing for use. Tianyou had already heard about it from Cao Xiang, but she also heard from her uncle that her father's career would be fine.

The reason why I didn't tell my grandmother was that I was worried that the old man would think wildly.

After greeting Mrs. Li, Tianbao also got up, and Tianyou accompanied his grandmother and younger brother to eat a bowl of birthday noodles before coming out of Lanyuan.

The birthday of the son is the day of the mother's death.

Mother was not in the capital, so Tianyou bowed three times in the direction of Qingyuan before returning to Sunflower Courtyard.

At the gate of the courtyard, brothers Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng were already waiting.

Seeing Tianyou, the two congratulated in unison, another string of auspicious words.

Tianyou accepted it with a smile, and stretched out his hand to invite the two of them into the courtyard.

Looking at the several towering sunflowers in the flower pond in the southwestern corner of the yard, Zuo Zhu stopped in his tracks, and said in surprise, "How did they grow? This year's sunflowers are so tall? In previous years, three to five catties of melon seeds were produced, so this year they will be doubled." gone?"

Tianyou shook his head, and said: "Moyu stayed in the yard to look after the house. He didn't know how to take care of these things. He just thought it was better to water more. As a result, these sunflowers only grew taller, and the flower pots were not as good as before. Not to mention doubled, a lot Half are good."

Talking and laughing, he led Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng brothers into the upper room.

Le Qing and Lu Yi were there, seeing Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng coming in, they called "Uncle Song, Second Master Bai", and bowed down to greet them.

Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng dodged sideways, and returned a half salute.

Le Qing served tea, and retreated with Lu Yi, leaving only the three brothers talking in the hall.

Zuo Zhu saw Le Qing's back going out the door, Fang turned around, and said to Tianyou: "A few years ago, I didn't realize that Le Qing's sister has grown up in the past two years, and she looks more and more like a person."

The words were endless, Tianyou turned his head and said, "Which one is it like?"

Zuozhu looked at Tianyou, then at Zuocheng, and said in surprise: "Could it be that you didn't see it?"

Tianyou shook his head, Zuo Cheng raised the corner of his mouth, and said, "Brother, could it be that you are talking about Aunt Zi?"

Zuo Zhu nodded and said: "Exactly. I still remember clearly that Aunt Zi likes lilac-colored clothes, and acts as gentle and careful as Sister Le Qing."

Zuo Cheng didn't take it seriously, and said, "It's just that they resemble each other. Aunt Zi's appearance and character are so good that even her stepfather and adoptive mother should praise her."

He didn't say the remaining sentence "How can anyone compare?"

After all, Le Qing came from Wutong Garden and served the elders, so they should be respected as juniors.

As long as Tianyou can remember, he and Hang Seng lived in Sunflower Courtyard and grew up beside Zijing.

The title is "aunt", but in fact Zijing can be called his half adoptive mother.

Comparing the living to the dead not only wrongs the living, but also desecrates the dead.

Tianyou broke the conversation and said: "Father and mother will return to Beijing soon, but they can catch up with the appointment of Zuo Zhu."

After Mrs. Li returned to the capital the day before yesterday, Mrs. Tian took the selected days to the Orchid Court and asked Mrs. Li to choose a good date for her appointment.

The 22nd and 28th of this month are good days.

Mrs. Li asked about the construction of the new house, and about the preparations for the dowry gift. She knew that the preparations were almost the same, and she could choose any date calmly.

So Li sent people to Dongfu to invite Cao Xiang and asked him which day was cheap.

Although Tianyou is in Beijing, he is of the same generation, and needs an elder to come forward.Cao Yong had written his trust to Cao Xiang before, and Li Shi sent someone to invite him to come and ask him.

Cao Xiang's two days were not holidays, but he could change shifts with his colleagues, so he asked Mrs. Li to make a decision.

In the end, Mrs. Li and Mrs. Tian discussed and set the date of employment on the 28th of this month.

Zuo Zhu listened, "hehe" smiled, nodded and said: "Very good, very good..."

Zuo Cheng said: "It's very good. If you don't say goodbye to your adoptive father and adoptive mother, you just move out of the house like this, it will always make people feel uncomfortable."

In a word, I heard that everyone is sad about parting.

As early as a few years ago, Cao Yong helped Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng buy real estate in the inner city, which were two adjacent houses.

It's just thinking about the two brothers living together after they get married and start a business.The location is not too far from Cao's Mansion, but it's only two streets away, and it takes a quarter of an hour to ride a horse.

A few years ago, it was vacant, and only the two servants were sent to look over the house; now it is almost tidied up, and the appointment period for the left to live has been set, so there are many things that need to be arranged.

The house over there also needs a warm house.

In a few days, it will be the time when the results of the township examination will be released. Tian Shiyuan discussed with his son that after the release of the results, he wants to move out of the Cao Mansion and go to the new house to prepare for his marriage.But there are no elders in Cao's house, so it's not good to move away rashly.

When Mrs. Li arrived in Beijing, Mrs. Tian mentioned the matter to Mrs. Li.

Although Mrs. Li was very reluctant, she also knew that there was no reason to stop her.Earlier Tian took the children to live in the Cao Mansion, which was a helpless move for the orphans and widows.

Now Zuo lives, Zuo grows up, and is about to get married and have children, and there is no reason to continue to live in the Cao family...

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Qingyuan, outside the city, Jieguan Pavilion.

This is where officials are received and sent off.

Cao Yong stood outside the pavilion, looking at the Wanmin Umbrella with a diameter of half a foot in front of him, he was quite touched.

From receiving the official document from the Ministry of Rites to leaving Qingyuan, it took me only three or four days. Qingyuan officials and gentry were able to prepare such a "ten thousand people umbrella", which also gave themselves a strong appearance.

Under the "Wanmin Umbrella", hundreds of officials and gentry gathered together, regardless of whether they had friendship with Cao Yong or not, they all looked reluctant to leave.A few emotional ones already covered their faces with their sleeves, shaking their bodies with the sound of crying "woo woo".

In front of the crowd, stood the new peak of the crowd, who appointed Tang Zhiyu, the governor of Zhili.Next to him is a respected local elder.

Seeing the red-faced old men with white beards who looked like birthday stars in the painting, staring at his boots with sparkling eyes, Cao Yong hastily raised the wine cup prepared beside him, and thanked all the adults for their friendship and everyone Thank you to everyone for your kindness.

Forget about dramas like the "boots off ceremony", under the watchful eyes of the public, even Cao Yong has a thick skin and is impatient to appear on stage...

Amid the crying of the crowd, Cao Yong finally got on his horse, waved to the crowd, turned his horse's head, and took a dozen young men and long followers to the Cao family's convoy that was parked in the distance...

(End of this chapter)