Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 171 Under the Rain
On the tenth night of the first month of May, the weather in the capital turned cloudy, with a burst of light rain at the first quarter of the day ([-]:[-] p.m.).Both the officials and the common people are looking forward to the rain to ease the drought and heat in the capital.But God tends to play tricks on people. The next morning, the sky cleared up, how can you see it raining?
Because the prayer for rain from the sixth to the eighth day of the lunar new year was not effective, the Ministry of Rites still followed the previous oracle to pray for rain without killing animals for three days from the eleventh to the thirteenth.It's just that the lamas who were praying for rain in various monasteries stopped praying for rain, and started chanting scriptures to pray for the early dissipation of the epidemic.

On the night of the [-]th, just like the tenth day of the new year, the weather turned cloudy at night, and it rained for a while.

After the rain, the capital immediately added a lot of freshness.Standing in the yard, Cao Yong looked up at the two sycamore trees. Although they were washed by heavy rain, they seemed to be much greener than they were carefully taken care of every day.

This soaking rain dispelled the heat, and it was also of great benefit to the early elimination of the epidemic. Cao Yong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Because of the drought, Chu Yu was worried about the people in Gyeonggi, but now that it is raining, she is also in a good mood: "My father-in-law, the past few days were really difficult, now that it is raining, you don't have to ask your household department again if you think about it." So busy!"

These days, Cao Yong led the people from the infantry yamen to follow the fourth elder brother to prevent the epidemic. He went out early and returned late, so tired that he lost a lot of weight.In order not to let Chu Yu worry about it, he lied that Si Li was busy counting the reduction and exemption of money and food in Zhili over the years.

Chu Yu managed to get all kinds of supplements, but since Cao Yong saw corpses and patients every day these days, how could he have any good appetite?Anything with a meaty smell will make you sick when you see it.Chu Yu was secretly anxious, so she studied vegetarian dishes in different ways every day, which was better.

Hearing Chuyu mention the errand, Cao Yong said with a smile: "Whether it is a rain can solve it, I guess I will have to be busy for a while, and it should be better by the end of the month!"

When Chu Yu heard that she would be busy for more than half a month, she couldn't help worrying about Cao Yong's body, and her brows were furrowed tightly.

Cao Yong patted her on the shoulder and said: "I'm fine. It was a bit of a bitter summer due to the heat a few days ago. Now that the rain is coming down and the sky is cooler, it will be fine! I'm so tired, eat with me." I have been vegetarian for several days, and I don’t have to eat like this from tomorrow!”

Chu Yu nodded meekly, Xi Yun and Xi Cai set up breakfast in the room, and came out to invite the two masters.

In addition to a few small dishes and two plates of pastry, there are also two kinds of porridge, one bowl of emerald green and one bowl of golden yellow.The green one is spinach porridge, which is made by grinding rice into powder, adding spinach juice and salt, and it is fragrant.The golden one is that the spinach juice is replaced with pumpkin puree.These two porridges were developed by Chu Yu during this period of time. The spinach porridge just suits Cao Yong's appetite, and the pumpkin porridge is sweet and glutinous, which she likes very much.

Cao Yong thought that Chuyu was fine at home, and was afraid that she would be bored, so he pointed to the two products of porridge and said, "These are really good things to feed people, and it would be a waste for us to eat them alone! If Chuyu In your spare time, you can organize these developed dishes and porridge into a book, and we will send a copy to Chunping Palace, Third Sister, and parents in the south. The same goes for other good friends. If they don’t keep them all, they like to eat Yes, let everyone see our Chu Yu's virtuousness!"

Chu Yu was still listening and nodding in front, but at the end she blushed when she heard the words of praising herself, and after a while she said, "It's okay to talk about the palace, the third sister, and the south. Will other families be a bit ostentatious? Although we Good intentions, but I don't have to make people laugh!"

Cao Yong said with a smile: "Then we won't give it to them, only to the family members! Even if we don't give it to anyone, it's good to keep it for our sons, daughters, grandsons, and granddaughters! It's called "Chuyu Recipe". A family heirloom!"

Listening to Cao Yong's son, daughter, grandson and granddaughter coming out, although Chu Yu was blushing, she asked with bright eyes: "Is this appropriate? Aren't these heirlooms all antique calligraphy and paintings, rare treasures? "

Cao Yong shook his head: "It's so vulgar, what we want to pass on to our children must be unique and unique in the world. Every dish and dim sum in this recipe was developed with painstaking efforts by your mother and grandmother. Whether it is the daughter or granddaughter who comes out, or the daughter-in-law or granddaughter-in-law who comes in, let her copy it!"

Chu Yu couldn't help touching her belly, her face was a little lonely, and she immediately remembered what her husband said to her, whether a woman's belly is conceived is not a woman's decision, it depends on the man's side.A man who is physically strong will naturally allow his wife to conceive earlier; if a man is physically impaired, his wife can't help.I also remembered what my husband said, first adjust for a period of time, and then have a child after a while.

In order not to make Cao Yong "sad", Chu Yu's lonely expression turned away, and in a blink of an eye, he changed into a smiling face and asked, "How can I use Chu Yu's name? In this way, it will be inconvenient for them to talk about it in the future!"

The names of the elders in the ancients were taboo, Cao Yong nodded: "That's right, I was careless, but I didn't notice these! Chuyu think about it again, is there any suitable name!"

Chu Yu looked at Cao Yong with a smile: "If Chu Yu did it all, wouldn't it be impossible for the father-in-law, who is a father and a grandfather, to do his best?"

"Be a father, be a grandpa!" Cao Yong couldn't help but also laughed. The two young couples were newly married, and when they talked about things in the future, they were promoted two generations in a row.Thinking of the image of himself with white beard and hair, leaning on the recliner tremblingly, chatting with Chu Yu, he couldn't help but yearn for it again.

Cao Yong raised his head and saw the phoenix trees in the yard through the window screen, and said, "Why don't we use the name of our yard and call it "Tongyuan Recipe", does Chuyu sound okay?"

Chu Yu thought for a while: "Listen, it's not gorgeous, but it's just right for the occasion!" Speaking of which, she looked at Cao Yong with some embarrassment: "My son-in-law, Chu Yu is not proficient in cooking, I don't know when Only then can this recipe be written!"

Cao Yong couldn't help smiling: "It's not necessary, what's the rush? You add two dishes every year, and in the past 50 years, there will be hundreds of dishes!"

Chu Yu nodded quickly: "Today, Chu Yu will write these two porridges and the 'Breezy Buddha Willow' the night before yesterday!"

After eating, he came out of Wutong Garden. Cao Yong looked at his pocket watch. It was already the second quarter of Maochu (07:30 in the morning).

Perhaps it was because of the effectiveness of Fengdun County's palace, or maybe the princes and nobles also realized the seriousness of the situation, and the inspections and epidemic prevention a few days ago went smoothly.The mansions where someone died suddenly due to the epidemic were all supervised by the infantry yamen; even those who were not sick, they cooperated with each other to minimize going out.

When we arrived at the front yard, we happened to see Wei Bai coming in from the outside. When he saw Cao Yong, he clasped his fists and said, "Master!"

Seeing that his body was dry and there was little mud and water on his shoes, Cao Yong remembered the rain last night and asked, "Is this morning?"

Wei Bai nodded with a smile: "I came back before dawn, found some things, and added fuel to those bastards!"

"The left and right are dead, why do you bother? You need to pay attention to some things. The epidemic is not a joke at this time. The palace guards also have vigilant people. Don't take you in!" Cao Yong knew that they were brothers. Afraid that he would make mistakes because of this, he couldn't help but ask again.

Wei Bai's face was a little more hostile: "Since I hurt my brother and made trouble for the young master, if he died so easily, it would not be cheap for them! Don't worry, young master, Lao Bai knows it well, and he will not dare to do it like usual. Arrogant. We are not afraid of real swords and guns, but we still need to beware of those dirty methods!"

Cao Yong knew that if Wei Bai was not allowed to express his anger, he was afraid that he would not be able to calm down, so he stopped talking, and still handed over the safety of the mansion to him, and took Xiao Man and the Wu brothers to the Bujun Yamen .

Originally, according to Tuo Heqi's meaning, it was not easy to bother Cao Yong to go there every day, so he proposed to ask the teams of officers and soldiers who followed Cao Yong to prevent the epidemic to wait at Cao's mansion.Cao Yong didn't like to make publicity, and he didn't want to risk the people in the mansion to get sick, let such officers and soldiers enter the mansion, so he politely declined Tuo Heqi's kindness.

I think it's because of the fact that Cao Yong led people to seal the dunjun palace. Now the infantry yamen treats him differently than in the past.Not only did Tuo Heqi appear more courteous, even the soldiers below treated him more politely.Many people have witnessed the events of that day. Cao Yong's fearlessness of the rich and powerful was just for the sake of the people in the city.

Only Changling, who was somewhat wary of Cao Yong's kindness, privately asked carefully the soldiers who followed Cao Yong to Shichahai that day, but found nothing unusual.What's more, in the past two days, news has spread from the Dunjun Palace that many people have symptoms of the epidemic, and several nurses have died.

Changling really couldn't figure out Cao Yong's intentions, even if he looked good, but he came from a family and had been influenced by him since he was a child, he should know something to be afraid of.What is the purpose of doing this now?Is it really so selfless, so harmless?For some reason, he always didn't believe it, and had been wary of his cousin since the first meeting.

Changling also had doubts about the relationship between the Fucha family and the Cao family, who were not like relatives, and strangers were not like strangers.Because his mother left early, he basically had no impression of his uncle's family, and he seldom heard his father mention it.

Today, when Cao Yong came to step into the Yamen, Tuo Heqi was a little more courteous, but he had a plan: "Erfu, if I inspect the nine gates today, I'm afraid I won't be able to go to each mansion with my son-in-law! "

Cao Yong looked at Tuo Heqi with a bit of a smile, wondering if he should praise Tuo Heqi for his "knowledge of practical affairs".

Seeing Cao Yong's strange smile, Tuo Heqi couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and said: "It's really not that I deliberately evade, this... this... is indeed somewhat inconvenient. Fuguo Gong E Fei reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs because he was unwell. I went to seek medical treatment. I went to the imperial doctor in the palace, but it didn’t look good. The third elder brother and the fourth elder brother confessed, and I’m afraid I’m going to go to their house to deal with it today. I had some misunderstandings with Duke E in my early years, so I came to the door like this But it's inappropriate!"

"Fuguo Gong E Fei?" Cao Yong pondered for a moment, and the middle-aged man who was slightly thinner and lost his composure after hearing his birthday appeared in his mind: "Isn't Mr. E the Minister of the Interior? Why didn't you follow Rehe?"

Tuo Heqi smiled and said: "It's just a temporary replacement. The minister in charge of the bodyguard was originally the younger brother of Empress Xiaozhaoren, Duke Guoyi, Ling'a. Two years ago, Ling'a Yin... was punished because of the party-affiliated prince brother, that's all the minister. E Gong temporarily took over the post. Years ago, A Ling'a was reinstated, and E Gong was relieved of his errands!"

It's the family of Empress Xiaozhaoren again, so isn't Ah Ling'ah also the uncle of the tenth elder brother?Cao Yong couldn't help but feel a little headache. He really didn't expect that the power behind Brother Ten was so powerful.Perhaps, the reason why the eighth elder brother wins over the tenth elder brother is not because of pure brotherhood, maybe there is some scheming involved.

Efei's Guogong Mansion is near Fangjia Hutong, not too far from Chongwenmen.

I have seen Prince Beizi's Mansion in the past two days, the Duke's Mansion here is very inconspicuous, if it wasn't for the signboard of the Duke's Mansion, it would be just an old mansion.

The man who came out to answer was the housekeeper of the government, a middle-aged man in his 40s.Cao Yong asked a few words about the Duke's illness, and replied that he was "full of qi and swollen, and he didn't want to eat", which was different from the current epidemic symptoms of other people.Even the imperial physician diagnosed it and said the same thing. He only said that it was due to the heat and prescribed some medicines to calm the mind and calm the mind.

For some reason, Cao Yong was secretly relieved.Most of the people who died of the epidemic recently were the old, the weak, women and children, and they seemed to be ordinary young and strong, even if they were sick, they would not be bedridden, and there was room for medical treatment.There are very few people who are as lucky as Mrs. Jueluo to recover.

In order to prevent problems before they happen, Cao Yong inevitably explained the epidemic prevention to the housekeeper again, and finally proposed that he wanted to visit the Duke of Xia.The housekeeper was a little surprised and didn't dare to make up his own mind. He asked Cao Yong to wait for a while, and went in to ask the master for instructions.

Cao Yong was a little nervous. Although he had spoken to his former boss twice, he didn't seem close.But I don't know why, I just want to see him in such a strange way.
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