Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 198 Qingyun Road Tianlun
According to Cao Yong's original intention, he wanted to give his parents a surprise, and he didn't intend to send the letter back in advance.Then he was persuaded by Mr. Zhuang, after all, he didn't go back alone this time, but also brought the princess with him.If the Weaving Mansion was hasty and the hospitality was incomplete, even if the princess didn't care about these things, Cao Yin and Li's elders would not look good on their faces.Cao Yong heard that it was reasonable, so he still repaired the book and went home first.

Cao Yin and his wife received Cao Yong's family letter at the end of November. After the two surprises, the husband and wife each had their own emotions.

Cao Yin was somewhat disappointed, because although Cao Yong mentioned to him before that he wanted to leave Beijing, it was just a mention.This time, everything was taken care of properly, and I just told him about being a father.Although the reason is that it is difficult to communicate with each other because of the distance, but as a father, he still feels a little uncomfortable.

Mrs. Li was looking forward to it and nervous at the same time, looking forward to her son and daughter-in-law arriving home soon, but also worried that the princess was of a noble background, not as easy to get along with as her son said in the letter.

Qiuji lives outside the second gate, and the room is not very spacious.After discussing with her husband, Mrs. Li cleared out a larger empty yard in front of Kaiyang courtyard, leaving it for her son and daughter-in-law.

At that time, everyone in the entire family knew that the uncle and his wife were coming back, and everyone's faces were filled with joy.Even Zhao Jia's mood, after being gloomy for a year, improved a lot when he got the news that his son was coming back with his brother and sister-in-law.

This year, after going through too many ups and downs, she has changed a lot, she is no longer as bitter and mean as before, and she treats concubines much more kindly.Cao Quan was not a cruel person either, although he still complained to her a little, but he eased up a lot on the surface.

It's just a husband and wife, although they look the same as before, they both have thorns in each other's hearts.

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Since the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, the Weaving Mansion sent people to guard the city gate, so as soon as Cao Yong and others entered the city, someone came up to greet them, and someone hurried back to the mansion to report.

On the weaving mansion side, Zhuang Chang came, and Cao Yin accompanied him to Qingliang Temple to teach Zen; Cao Quan went to the governor's office.Mrs. Li got the news, and hurriedly sent someone to invite their brothers back, and then sent someone to invite Mrs. Zhaojia from the Xifu. She hurriedly changed her clothes and head, and stood under the porch, waiting anxiously for her son and daughter-in-law to enter the mansion.

When Mrs. Zhaojia came over and saw Mrs. Li like this, she couldn't help smiling and persuaded: "Sister-in-law, look at you, everyone said 'new daughter-in-law sees her in-laws', it should be the new daughter-in-law who is panicking, you are only a mother-in-law. It’s enough to show the score!”

Mrs. Li smiled and shook her head: "Sisters and sisters, you will know when you have a daughter-in-law! I am looking forward to it, but also feel empty, I can't tell what it feels like!"

Zhao Jia said with a smile: "Look at what my sister-in-law said, although she always said 'If you have a daughter-in-law, forget your mother', but seeing that Brother Yong is not like that, you are not just worrying about it! The son is still your son, and the daughter-in-law here Since you married into our family, why don't you just raise her as a daughter, why are you still empty?"

Mrs. Li lowered her head and said: "That's not what I meant, I was afraid that Yong'er would wrong me for the sake of my family! Now I just hope that the princess is really as well-behaved and sensible as he said in his letter!"

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhao Jia felt a little uncomfortable. She couldn't help but swear in her heart. This is a marriage bestowed by Lord Long Live Jinkou, and the other party is an authentic imperial granddaughter. If he mentioned grievances, it should be the Princess Princess It's a grievance.Thinking about it, I still have to comfort and comfort on the face.

While she was talking, she thought of Cao Song's marriage from Cao Yong's marriage.Because Mrs. Zhao Jia and her husband have talked about this several times, the husband and wife have not yet made up their minds.

What Cao Quan meant was to choose among the daughters of the Sun and Li families. After all, the Cao, Sun, and Li families can be regarded as relatives for generations.Zhao Jia's is not the case. She was a little dissatisfied when the eldest daughter was handed over to the grandson's eldest son by the old matriarch.She had always wanted to choose a daughter-in-law from among the relatives in her natal family, but she was afraid that she would not be able to make it because of the low status of the Cao family.Now that the Cao family has raised the flag, it can be said that they are well-matched.

Cao Quan himself married a Manchurian daughter-in-law, and he didn't want his son to suffer his own crimes, so he reasoned that all the Manchurian girls in the banner were leftover from the draft. Some, it's not decent to be your own eldest daughter-in-law.

Zhao Jia heard that her husband was reasonable, so she had other plans.Because the clan and Jueluo are exempt from election, clan girls usually have to marry outside the Mongolian tribes. Even if they don’t need to marry outside, most of them marry the children of high-ranking officials and nobles. Like Cao Song, the father’s position is not obvious. Don't even think about it.But Jueluo is more broad. Although the blood is noble, not all of them are rich.In this way, being an in-law is both dignified and will not let the son be restrained.Therefore, she made up her mind to talk about a red belt daughter-in-law.

While speaking, the chariots and horses of Cao Yong and Chu Yu had already arrived at Zhizao Mansion.Chu Yu is the new daughter-in-law, and her nervousness is different from that of Li Shi.She tightly clenched the handkerchief in her hand, and couldn't help opening her mouth several times to call Cao Yong who was riding a horse outside the car, but she was afraid of being laughed at, so she had to endure it.

The car stopped directly outside the second gate, Xiyun waited over, opened the curtain, and asked Chuyu to get out of the car.

Chu Yu took a deep breath, bent down and got out of the carriage, seeing Cao Yong waiting for her beside the carriage, she couldn't help smiling.

After reaching out to help Chuyu out of the car, he felt that little hand was sweaty, and he was holding his hand tightly again. Cao Yong smiled and comforted: "Don't be afraid, mother is the most kind, father has a gentle temper, and uncles and aunts are also gentle. Not one to challenge."

Cao Yong has said these words several times along the way, and now he repeats the old words just to relieve Chu Yu's nervousness.

Chu Yu nodded with a smile, looked at Cao Yong, and thought of Cao Jia and Cao Yi sisters, who were able to teach their children so well, thinking that her father-in-law and mother-in-law are not ordinary people, so she felt more relaxed.

Cao Song was next to him, seeing his brother and sister-in-law's greasy and crooked looks, he couldn't bear it very much, and couldn't help but joked: "It can be seen that we can't leave for a moment, if we really want to be separated for three to five months, then we still need to be separated." Don't miss my brother!"

Chu Yu blushed with shame, immediately let go of Cao Yong's hand, lowered her head and smiled without saying a word.

Cao Yong knocked on Cao Song's forehead hard: "Stinky boy, what do you care about? There are times when you can't leave for a moment!"

Xiu Luan and Xiu Lu have already waited here with their mother-in-law in charge. When they saw Cao Yong and others, they rushed to say hello.Because Chuyu was wearing a big red flag outfit and had an extraordinary bearing, no one would confuse her with the others, so they all came over and bent down, claiming to have seen Grandma.

Chu Yu nodded with a smile, and then signaled Xi Yun beside her to give rewards to everyone.There is no fluctuation on her face, but she is very happy in her heart. This "big grandma" is talking about her!When I was in Jingzhong Mansion, because there were no elders around, the servants followed Cao Yong and called her "Princess Master", so although she became the mistress, she didn't feel anything, but when she came here, she heard "Big Grandma" With this title, the feeling of being a new wife arises spontaneously.

Everyone hurriedly thanked grandma for the reward, saying that the eldest wife and second wife were waiting in Kaiyang courtyard, and asked the uncle, eldest grandmother, and second master to come over.

Kaiyang courtyard, go to the room.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhao Jia tidied up their clothes and waited for the children to come.Just now I went to invite Mrs. Gao, but Mrs. Gao refused to come because he was a foreign surname after all. He had to wait until the bride had seen the family.

The maids and women in the mansion also looked eagerly, wondering what kind of beauties could be worthy of their uncle.

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Cao Yin and Zhuang Chang talked about Huichan with the abbot in Qingliang Temple, and then they got the news that Cao Yong and his wife had arrived, and they were also very happy.Zhuang Chang has already been sick, and now he has left Li's residence, planning to buy property in Jiangning and settle here for the elderly.

Cao Yin asked him to go back together. Zhuang Chang thought that it would be inconvenient for Cao's new daughter-in-law to visit today, so he politely declined his offer and asked him to go back quickly. He was not an outsider, so he could just stay at Qingliang Temple and listen. Two-day scriptures.

Cao Quan's joy was no less than that of his elder brother. Although he was mediocre in learning, he had self-knowledge and knew that the nephew of the long house was the pillar of the Cao family.What's more, my nephew, daughter-in-law and my son came back together.Immediately, he reported leave to the chief of the yamen and urged the horse to return to the mansion, which was earlier than Cao Yin.

Because he asked the housekeeper, he knew that his brother hadn't come back yet, so he waited in the front hall. When Cao Yin also arrived, Fang entered the second gate together and went to Kaiyang courtyard.

In the upper room of Kaiyang Courtyard, Chu Yu followed Cao Yong and bowed his head to salute Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhao Jia.

Seeing his daughter-in-law's appearance and the young couple's tacit understanding with each other, Li Shi's doubts just disappeared immediately, and he felt a little close to her from the bottom of his heart.Chu Yu was also used to hearing words like "mother-in-law is strict", and was full of uneasiness at first, but seeing that Mrs. Li was so young and looked kind and amiable, she felt a little at ease.

On the other hand, Mrs. Zhao Jia looked at Chu Yu for a while, then looked at Mrs. Li, and said to Mrs. Li with a smile, "I can't complain, but I can say 'it's not that the whole family doesn't enter the same family'. Looking at my nephew and daughter-in-law, I feel kind. This appearance is somewhat similar to that of my sister-in-law. If someone who doesn't know this face and eyebrows sees it, how would they think it's a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and even if they say they are mother and daughter, they will believe it!"

Everyone just thought she was flattering and didn't care too much.Only Chuyu listened and looked at her mother-in-law quietly, feeling more and more close to her from the bottom of her heart.

After Cao Yong just entered the mansion, he heard from the housekeeper that he knew that his father and second uncle were not in the mansion, so it was nothing if he didn't see these two, but he couldn't help but feel a little strange because he didn't see Mrs. Gao. Shi said: "Mother, grandma, how come you don't see me? But, what's wrong with your body, why don't we go over now to say hello?"

When Chu Yu heard Cao Yong mention that her grandmother was here, and when Cao Yong asked about it, Chu Yu also looked at Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li smiled: "It's hard for you to think about it. Your grandmother is okay, but because you are exhausted today, there is no rush to see you. Let you rest before going over!"

Cao Yong got up and said: "How good is that? Since my grandmother is fine, let's go and say hello first! Even if you are tired, it's not too late!"

Chu Yu also nodded in agreement, and heard the report from the maid at the door, saying that the elder master and the second master had returned, they had already entered the second gate, and they were about to come here.

Li smiled and said to Cao Yong and Chu Yu: "Even if you are going to pay your respects to your grandmother, don't be in a hurry. It's not too late to see your father and second uncle before going there!"

Cao Yong and Chu Yu respectfully responded, and Zhao Jia looked at this pair of talented and beautiful people, and couldn't tell whether he was envious or jealous.Because Chuyu was born in a noble family, she originally thought that she would become arrogant somehow.Mrs. Li has a good temper, so the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law might make some jokes when they get along.

In the past two years, because of Lu Mei's incident, Zhao Jia felt a little ashamed, so she secretly hoped that the elder room would make some jokes, so as not to put on airs in front of this sister-in-law.

Who would have thought that apart from her dignified manner, this bride is hard to fault.Her temper and disposition are like those of a lady from the south, not only does she not look like a prince, but she doesn't even have the aura of a Manchurian aunt.Zhao Jia couldn't help being a little disappointed. Before meeting this nephew and daughter-in-law, she thought that the new daughter-in-law should be able to show her temper.

Brothers Cao Yin and Cao Quan came in, although one was wearing civilian clothes and the other was wearing an official uniform, but the two had different dignities. Chu Yu immediately believed that the person in front was her father-in-law, Huang Mafa's former companion.

Seeing two people coming in, everyone got up starting from Mrs. Li.

When Cao Yin sat in the main seat, he pointed to the two chairs at the bottom and asked Cao Quan and Zhao Jia to do it, and Li sat with him on the chair on the other side.

Cao Yong had already heard from his mother that his father had been obsessed with Zen this year, and he had some complaints in his heart. Now he is still thin, but his spirit is much better than last year, and he is very happy.

Leading Chuyu, Cao Yong kowtowed to his father and uncle.

Like Li Shi, Cao Yin and Cao Quan were also relieved to see Chu Yu being so docile.If the person who came in was a shrew with such a noble status, it would be unfortunate for the family.

Cao Yong thought about the princess's marriage that he had heard in the capital, and began to secretly rejoice. Fortunately, Chu Yu was only a princess, and his daughter-in-law was considered to be married into the family, rather than "admired" by himself.

Otherwise, when the family meets, it is not a family etiquette, only a national etiquette.Whether you are a father-in-law or a mother-in-law, or an uncle or aunt, you have to kowtow to the new daughter-in-law.And it is not easy for a husband to enter his wife's room, and he has to wait for his summons.
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