Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1215 What is a family, what is a descendant

For Gao Taijun, the Cao family is just the son-in-law's family and relatives, and the Li family is the main family.

The arrival of Mrs. Gao, living with her daughter, has already made the always rigid old man feel bad. If he dies in Cao's house, he may not be able to close his eyes after death.

Life is the Li family, death is the ghost of the Li family.

For women in this era, life and death is a lifetime.

"How does the old lady say?" Cao Yong asked.

"Of course I stopped, but the old lady's temper has always been rigid. If she opens her mouth again, the old lady may not be able to stop her. Does the Li family want someone to deliver a letter?" Chu Yu replied: " This is a big event, and we need to be more or less prepared.”

Gao Taijun's birthday material was prepared by the Cao Mansion a few years ago, and it will be placed in the Haidian Garden.This is also an old custom in the capital. If there are elderly people in the family, they usually have to prepare birthday materials, and usually the coffin must be laid first.After that, repaint every year.

Cao Yong nodded and said: "Ming'er will send someone to call Li Nuo over to discuss this matter with him."

Li Nai is not in Beijing, the current director of the Li family is Li Nuo, the grandson of Li's parents.

A few years ago, Li Nuo accompanied his grandfather to Shengjing, acting as a filial piety by his grandfather's side on behalf of his father.Later, he was replaced by Li Nai, supported by Cao Yong, and entered the Ministry of Internal Affairs as an errand.

Because of his honesty, diligence, and careful handling of errands, he fell into the eyes of the sixteenth elder brother, and he was appointed as the head of the commission last year.Although he only receives the salary of Cong Qipin, as long as he is steadfast and does not make mistakes, it is not difficult to lose the word "Commission" within a year or so.

Because of Gao Taijun's matter, the husband and wife felt a little uncomfortable, and when the dinner was set, they only put it down after eating two chopsticks.

Chu Yu was about to call someone to remove the table, when she heard footsteps from the yard and the little maid's greeting.

She looked out the window, and saw Tianyou and Hang Seng brothers coming together.

"The son is back..." Chu Yu's eyes were bent, and his brows immediately relaxed.

"Father, mother!" Hang Seng's voice was a little excited, and he looked greedily at his adoptive father and mother.

Although it was only a day apart, the miss has been engraved in the bottom of my heart.

Cao Yong nodded, Chu Yu's eyes were already red, she stood up and looked at Hang Seng from head to toe.

Seeing the oppressive atmosphere, Tianyou glanced at the kang table and said with a smile, "Chrysanthemum shredded lettuce and almond tofu are what my son and his second brother love to eat. Please ask father and mother to give your sons a bowl of rice."

Being interrupted by him, the originally somewhat sad atmosphere dissipated.

Chu Yu felt a little distressed, and said: "This is dinner, have you eaten yet? Didn't Daoxiang Village send the pastry over there? Why are you still hungry?"

"Where is the hunger? The fourth elder brother and the fifth elder brother have gone to the palace. In order to entertain guests, they asked someone to order a table of noodles from the restaurant. It seems that Defengtang has changed the cook. The taste is good, it is heavy oil. It's greasy, and I want to eat something light right now." Tianyou replied.

Hang Seng looked at the dishes on the table that had hardly moved, and said, "What brother said is exactly, my son is thinking about these two dishes."

When Chu Yu heard this, although she felt sorry for her sons, she was reluctant to ask them to eat leftovers. She said, "Take a sip of hot tea first, and press down on the air conditioner. This will make people go to the kitchen to order food for you."

Tianyou saw four dishes, two bowls and six dishes on the table, and a pot of green rice, and said, "That's enough, I just need to trouble Sister Le Lan to add some extra bowls and chopsticks for me and my second brother." The last sentence was right. Le Lan who was standing at the door said.

Not long after the food was served, it was all hot, so Chu Yu nodded and ordered Le Lan to add more bowls and chopsticks.

The two brothers got on the kang with clean hands, Tianyou sat on the east side of Cao Yong, and Hang Seng sat on the west side.

Hang Seng had already taken the rice spoon first, picked up the bowl in front of Cao Yong, filled a full bowl, put both hands in front of Cao Yong, and said: "Father, please use it."

Although Cao Yong didn't have much appetite, he didn't want to show his son's filial piety, so he took the bowl.

"Mother, I'll serve." Tianyou sat next to Chuyu, saw Hang Seng's intentions, and also took Chuyu's job.

With Tianyou and Hang Seng, the two and a half young men, although they couldn't say that the wind was blowing away, they were completely overwhelmed.

If it wasn't for the arrival, Le Lan brought two more stir-fried dishes from the kitchen, maybe the two brothers wouldn't have enough to eat.

Cao Yong and Chu Yu, husband and wife, were taken by their children, and their appetite improved a lot.

After removing the table and rinsing his mouth, Cao Yong asked about the details of the fourth elder brother and the fifth elder brother going to the palace.

Tianyou said with a smile: "Just as I was about to announce the good news to my father and mother, I heard from the two elder brothers that the second brother's order to be the eldest son of the county prince and the Shang Lord's will will be issued together in a few days."

Although they knew that such a day would come, Cao Yong and Chu Yu were both very happy when things came to an end.

With the title of the eldest son of the county prince, Tianyou's status became more and more legitimate.Even if King Khan's mansion wants to cause trouble, they still have to be cautious.

However, when Chu Yu thought about the matter in the palace, she remembered that there was one more thing that hadn't been arranged yet.

Hang Seng will be fifteen in the next year, and if the three princesses really marry in the next year, they will have to wait until the next year.

For more than a year, Hang Seng lived alone in the palace. He was a young man full of vigor and blood, and he had no elders to watch him around. If something bad happened, it would be a big joke.

She wanted to ask Hang Seng a few words, but it was not good to mention this little privacy in full view, so she got up and said to Hang Seng: "You left in a hurry this morning, I prepared something for you this morning, but I pulled it down. Alright, you follow me to have a look."

Hang Seng didn't doubt that it was there, he got up and responded, and followed Chuyu out of the west room to the study in the east room.

Tianyou turned his head when he saw them going out, and asked in a low voice: "Mother's eyes are red and swollen, and father is also worried, but he is still worried about the second brother? Father, don't worry, the second brother will be on duty in the palace tomorrow. The sixteenth uncle and the fourth elder brother will take care of her and will not be wronged."

Cao Yong shook his head and said: "The old matriarch is ill. The imperial doctor said that he is afraid that it is not very good. He will not make it to spring. Your mother and I are worried about this."

Tianyou was taken aback when he heard this.

There is an old saying in the folks, which is called "the end of the year is sad".

In addition to being in debt and needing to repay the debt years ago, it is also because of the elderly, who are most sick and weak at this time.

"Early tomorrow morning, you go to Li's house. No matter what, the old matriarch is like this, so you must let me know." Cao Yong said.

Tianyou got up to answer, and then he heard Cao Yong say: "Recently, I can't show up at Hang Seng, so I can only let you take care of these things, will it delay your study?"

Tianyou shook his head and said: "Don't delay, father's work is heavy, and his son is now grown up, so it's time to share his worries..."

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East room, study room.

Chu Yu said in a low voice: "You are an adult now, so we should listen to what you have to say. Even if we are parents, we are only for your own good, but we can't make you feel uncomfortable."

Hang Seng was a little confused when he heard this, and said: "Both father and mother love their son. If there is any arrangement, it is naturally for the son's benefit. Why is the son still uncomfortable?"

Beside Hang Seng, there are two maidservants now, Le Lan is from Wutong Garden, and Xiao Xie is the granddaughter of Cao Zhong, the old housekeeper of the Cao family.

From Chu Yu's point of view, even if there are people waiting in Hang Seng's room, neither of them are good candidates.

Le Lan is her maid. She is nineteen years old. It's time for Ben to be released. However, Hang Seng has just moved, and it is safe to have an old man by his side. The little servant girl of the province is neglected, so Chu Yu ordered her to come and serve her.

Xiaoxie is two years younger than Lelan, she has been serving Hang Seng since she was a little girl, and it has been ten years so far, and she has the deepest bond with Hang Seng among all the maids in Songyuan.

If Hang Seng married someone else instead of the third princess, Chu Yu would not feel embarrassed.

It is also common for young masters of rich families to take in maids as servants.But if the third princess is arrogant and angry with Xiaoxie, it will hurt the relationship between husband and wife.

On Le Lan's side, because she was her maid, she was afraid that the three princesses would feel disliked.

After thinking about it again and again, Chu Yu would rather pick two ordinary sons-in-law to serve Hang Seng than let Hang Seng take the two around him before the third princess got married.

According to her idea, it is best to discuss with Shiliu Fujin and let Shiliu Fujin make the decision for two people.In that case, when the third princess gets married, whether to stay or send her away, you don't have to care about the Cao family.

But now, seeing the adopted son is out alone, pitiful, the balance in Chu Yu's heart inevitably favors the adopted son again.

"You live there alone now, and we can't even take care of you... Le Lan and Xiao Xie are getting older and can't serve you for two years. Do you want to add someone to your room?" Chu Yu asked.

"Add someone?" Heng Sheng listened, shook his head vigorously, and said: "Even if Sister Le Lan and Xiao Xie have gone out, there are still several of them. There is no shortage of people around my son."

After hearing this, it was obvious that she had no personal feelings for Le Lan and Xiao Xie, Chu Yu was secretly relieved, and hesitated to say what to say next.

I heard Hang Seng say naively: "Mother, although it's not easy for my son to live here, I only consider this place as my home. Even if we don't live in the same mansion, it's only three miles away, and we can get there in a quarter of an hour by riding a horse. What does mother have? Where there is discipline, it is all about direct discipline. My son is not a wolf-hearted dog, so why would he feel uncomfortable?"

Hang Seng's nature is pure and good, and he doesn't know much about men and women, so Chu Yu swallowed the words on his lips, and said: "If you are sincerely filial to me and your father, remember to take good care of yourself, don't just because we are no longer around Go out and hang out with other people. Later, ask your brother to copy a copy of the Cao family's rules and family laws for you to see what can be violated and what should be avoided. Otherwise, if you have something wrong, the saddest thing will be your father. I."

With Hang Seng's current status, Chu Yu said that these things have passed, but he did not mean to treat Hang Seng as an outsider.

Hearing the words, Hang Seng nodded vigorously and said, "I will not dare to commit a crime, otherwise, without father and mother telling, the son will kneel...just kneel..." At the end of the speech, it was still unavoidable to be sad.

The family rules and laws of the Cao family were written by Cao Yin.It was originally after Cao Shuo's accident in the Eastern Mansion in the early years that he was taken as a policeman, so he wrote down the family rules in detail, and even drew up family laws, which were used to restrict and teach the descendants of the Cao family.

Nowadays, the family rules and family laws are engraved on the east and west walls of the ancestral hall. If any descendants violate the family rules and disobey the family rules, they will be punished, including kneeling in the ancestral hall.

When Chu Yu saw her, she sighed, and said softly, "You child, why did you start to be so stubborn? Even though you left this mansion, you are no longer a descendant of the Cao family? If you think that way, your father and I really have no place to complain. Go, I have worked hard for more than ten years, not to raise a son, but to be the nanny and babysitter of King Khan's mansion..."

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Recommend a masterpiece of officialdom, "Official God", ISBN: 1517362
To be an official is to be an official god if he can lift weights lightly, touch stones into gold, and reach the state of perfection.
Seeing the world of mortals with wise eyes, being an official is like having a god.

The day before yesterday, I went to visit Weifeng MM, who was attending a writer training course in Beijing. Xiaojiu just caught a cold, crying.

(End of this chapter)