Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1316 Good News
Three days after the new year, it was the time for Xiangyu to leave the pavilion.

Although it is just a concubine's status, because it is promoted by the thirteen Fujin, even if there are no three matchmakers and six ceremonies, there are also ice men and gift lists.

Concubine Mi knew about the arrangement and was very satisfied with Thirteen Fujin.

She knew that Thirteen Fujin was like this, most of it was for her own sake.

If the name is not correct, the words will not go well. Fu Seng'a is still young, and it is rare for the queen to add concubines to the house.

If Xiangyu was carried into the mansion without a name or distinction, who knows if someone will ride on her head in favor of her in the future.

The branch of the Li family, Li Xu, is the grandson of the Wang family.

Among the younger generation of the Li family, Xiangyu is different from her cousins ​​in that her biological grandmother is the daughter of the Wang family.

Apart from the Wang family, only Xiangyu is closest to Concubine Mi in terms of blood.

In addition, in the past few years, Xiangyu has served beside Concubine Mi, she is well-behaved and sensible, and Concubine Mi also really loves her.If the niece and granddaughter around her are not valued by others, the old man will feel blocked.two
Therefore, no matter how the Li family prepares, Concubine Mi will prepare a generous dowry.

In addition to clothing and jewelry, there are two shops outside the front door.

Xiangyu was raised by Gao Taijun's side when she was young, and then stayed in the Cao family for a few years. She was not close to her uncle, uncle, aunt, and cousins.

In addition, the Li family's family is in decline, and the current thin production is still supported by Li's mother and son, so there is no need to care about Xiangyu, a married woman.

Apart from Concubine Mi, Mrs. Li was also concerned about Xiangyu's departure from the pavilion.

Not for anything else, just because Xiangyu has been by Gao Taijun's side for over ten years.

As Li grew older, she finally realized that the older you get, the more afraid you are of being lonely.When Gao Taijun was young, he had a cold temper, but when he was old, because of raising Xiangyu, he made the old man more humane.

Just because of this, and because of cousin Gu Nian and provincial cousin worrying about his granddaughter's dowry, Mrs. Li made people prepare a generous gift early on.

On this point, she agrees with Concubine Mi's thinking, that is, the preparation is simple gold and silver jewelry, and there is a shop that can be rented every year, because she is afraid that the fragrant jade makeup will be too cold, and the scholar's residence is high-end. Door, life is hard.

With Li's and Chu Yu's seniority, there is really no need to go out to drink for the younger generation to become a concubine, especially when the mainstay of the family is bedridden to recuperate.

Besides, Xiangyu being a concubine is not a wife, so it doesn't sound good after all.

The most suitable situation is for God to bless the elders.

But now that Tianyou is on vacation to "serve the sick", no one will say anything when attending funerals, and it is not appropriate to participate in weddings, drinking and dining.

If they are targeted by others, they might be labeled as "unfilial".

But if the Cao family doesn't show up, whether it's the Li family or others, they will feel that the Cao family is snobbish and alienated from their parents.

After thinking about it, Mrs. Li said to Chuyu, please Cao Xiang to go to Li's house on behalf of Cao Yong.

Seeing that no one from the long room came to visit, Li Nai looked embarrassed, and Li Xu's face also trembled.

Cao Xiang didn't want the Li family to misunderstand his cousin and aunt, so he hurriedly took out the gift list from his sleeve and said, "Uncle and uncle also know that my elder brother is ill, and my sister-in-law and nephew can't come out to socialize, so I asked my nephew to come over." Congratulations."

Li Nai has always been kind, and after hearing this, he couldn't help but blame himself: "It's mine, isn't it, Fu Ruo is sick, how can my aunt and the others be in the mood to go out for a drink?"

After saying this, Li Xu looked at Cao Xiang with concern, and said, "Your elder brother will be raised for a long time, how is his health?"

He is already very old, and his family is in decline, but after all, he is used to living a life of wealth and wealth, and the current coldness is really unbearable.

He is full of guilt for the ancestors of the Li family, and he always hopes that his grandsons will benefit in their official careers and restore the glory of the family.

Otherwise, how could he be willing to let his most important grandson sail the ocean with the merchant ship of the household department.

But because of his grandfather's burden, the future of Li Nuo and Li Yu's brothers is doomed to twists and turns.Without Cao Yong's care, it would be impossible to stop the small officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it is even more unnecessary to think about shaking the Li family.

Regardless of whether Cao Yong is willing to be close to the Li family, as long as the Li family is alive, Cao Yong will not look at the Li family in trouble.

Cao Yong is the only person the Li family can rely on.

Cao Xiang replied: "Previously, I have raised almost everything, but the weather has changed in the past few days, and I have suffered from phlegm again."

Li Xu sighed and said, "He was weak when he was young, and he suffered a lot, maybe it's the root cause of his illness."

When Cao Yong was abducted, Li Nai had already reached the crown. Hearing his father mention this matter, he remembered the little boy who came to Suzhou with his aunt, and couldn't help being stunned.

Even their father and son thought that even if Cao Yong was the eldest son of the Cao family, his achievements would not exceed that of his father and grandfather, and most of them would continue to work in weaving.

Who would have thought that after Cao Yong entered Beijing, he would rise to the top of the sky, and he would be a great official in the frontier in Li Zhinian, and he would also be a first-rank minister after returning to Beijing.

Although Cao Xiang knew about his cousin's abduction when he was young, he only knew it vaguely and not in detail.

Cao Yong was abducted, and the culprit was the Gu family.

The Gu family is not only the family of Cao Yinsheng's mother, but also the family of Cao Yinyuan's consort Mrs. Gu, so it's hard to elaborate.

In the early years, whether in Jiangnan or in Beijing, everyone knew that the three major weaving ties were relatives. How many people knew that Cao Yin was not Sun Taijun's biological son, and Li was not Cao Yin's original spouse, but just a second wife to fill in the house?
It wasn't that Mrs. Li was unhappy and deliberately obliterated the existence of Mrs. Gu's first wife, but Mrs. Sun didn't want to listen to the Gu family.

As a result, the Gu family became a taboo in the Cao family, and everyone knew nothing about Cao Yong's abduction.

Now that both Sun Taijun and Cao Yin had passed away, there was nothing to say, so Li Xu told Cao Xiang about the past.

When Cao Xiang heard this, he couldn't help being speechless.

I really didn't expect that my cousin who was treated like a darling by his parents suffered such a serious crime when he was young, and he didn't expect that the emperor and Prince Yi would save his cousin's name as early as the prince's elder brother.

What was even more unexpected was that the uncle's biological mother came from the Gu family who was once in charge of the Jiangnan Shilin leader, and his uncle was the late literary master Gu Jingxing.

Among the three, Cao Xiang was most concerned about the third one.

There are many books in the Gu family's collection in the uncle's study room. Cao Xiang originally thought that the collection was due to the decline of the Gu family, but now it seems that most of them are gifts from the Gu family.

The uncle is gentle and refined, with the style of a scholar, so he found the root cause...

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Indus Court, the upper room.

Cao Yong took a letter, showed his face and smiled, and when his wife brought the medicinal soup to his eyes, he was not so reluctant, and happily took it and drank it.

Although he was impatient to drink the medicine, but because of his severe cough recently, he could only follow the advice of Imperial Physician Chen and drink the decoction again.

"But what kind of happy event did you meet?" Seeing her husband in a good mood, Chu Yu also felt happy.

"Gu Na is going to Beijing." Cao Yong raised the letter in Yang's hand: "He is a man with ups and downs in his heart. It's just that he was bumpy when he was young, and he has been in trouble for many years. Now he has finally made some progress in his official career."

After Gu Na's famous family, the young man was admitted to the imperial examination. He was originally Cheng Sijin, but for the sake of repaying his kindness, he entered the sect of Brother Nine early.

Brother Nine is lucky to be alive, he was released first, and then returned to Beijing, his official career is fairly smooth.

After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he was implicated by the ninth elder brother. Because of his fair political achievements, he did not dismiss him from office, but was demoted to a foreign official.

Gu Na is a person who is willing to endure hardships. He has worked hard in his post in Zhizhou, but he has made a lot of achievements.

This year's plan for the world's officials, Gu Na got "Zhuo Yi". According to the news from the Ministry of Officials, after this visit to Beijing to meet with His Majesty, he will be promoted to the fourth-rank magistrate.

Gu Na was a Jinshi in the 48th year of Kangxi. In the middle of the same year, it is common to be a magistrate, like Ma Jun, who has already achieved the third rank of Dali Temple Minister.

But this promotion meant something different to Gu Na.

It indicates that the emperor no longer suppresses and discards these officials who used to be the prince's elder brother because of the Kowloon seizure of the throne, or accepts these really talented officials to serve the court again after a big wave.

With Gu Na's talent, the fourth rank magistrate is just the beginning.

In addition, he is from a professional background, and he will not be as hard-working as those miscellaneous officials, so he has a bright future.

Speaking of which, it was because of the Cao family that Gu Na joined Brother Jiu's family back then.

Although Cao Yong's approach to him is undesirable, it is inevitable that he will feel guilty.

It is also because of his care in the open and in the dark that Gu Na was less constrained in the local area and was able to show his strengths; Others took it.

But Cao Yong knew that there was only these things he could do, and the only one in the palace who really decided Gu Na's official career.

Now it seems that the emperor no longer wants to pursue the responsibility of the party officials who served the princes and elder brothers.

Thinking about it, the eighth and ninth elder brothers have passed away long ago, and the fourteenth elder brother has also faded out. The imperial power is stable, so what is there to worry about?
Chu Yu said with a smile: "This is really good news. I also entered the sixth department like Zhao Tong? It would be great if I could enter the household department. I can share some of the burden for the master."

Zhao Tong was released as a county magistrate in his early years. Because he was proficient in criminal names, he was later promoted to a general judge.

During the period, several major cases were handled, which was very brilliant.

In addition, this time the big plan was also "Zhuo Yi", so Zhao Tong was recommended to the Ministry of Punishment, and he was promoted two ranks from the sixth-rank general judge to the fifth-rank doctor.

Of course, this is due to the care of the Cao family, but the political achievements are all real.

Cao Yong nodded gratifiedly, and said: "He only studied with Feilin for two years, and he has such achievements; if Feilin is willing to become an official, his achievements must be promising."

In the end, he was quite regretful, always afraid that he would delay Jiang Jian.

Jiang Jian is good at criminal names. If he is in the right position, he will be famous all over the world even if he is not recommended to be an official. Here, he is a small and unknown scribe, who is really overqualified.

Chu Yu knows that Jiang Jian is a great talent, but the vision of a woman is not as important as her own family.

If Jiang Jian really becomes an official, where can he find a suitable staff for her husband?
The husband seems to be gentle with others, but in reality he is the most picky.

Thinking of this, Chu Yu said with a smile: "This is the so-called people have their own ambitions. Mr. Jiang has no intention of becoming an official, how can the master force him? If the master wants to repay one or two things, it is not difficult, but the time will have to wait longer."

"The lady is talking about Xiaoleiming?" Cao Yong raised his eyebrows.

Chu Yu nodded and said: "Exactly. A few days ago, Mrs. Zhong brought Xiao Leiming into the mansion to greet the old lady. It is said that she is three years old, and Mrs. Zhong is well-educated and educates her son very well. I heard that he has already started enlightenment. Can teach a great talent."

The husband and wife called "Little Lei Ming" the eldest son of Jiang Jian and Zhong's family. Because it rained and thundered on the night of his birth, his baby name was "Lei Ming"...

(End of this chapter)