Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 236
The capital, where the elder brother resides, where the sixteenth elder brother lives.

In the main bedroom, Di Fujin Guo Luoluo was lying on his back on the bed, his nose and temples were sweaty, his eyes were closed tightly, his long black hair was scattered on the pillow, and his innocent face became paler against the background.

In front of the bed, a middle-aged woman wearing a flower-blue flag dress, with a worried face, stretched out her hand tremblingly, and gently brushed away a lock of wet hair stuck to Guo Luoluo's forehead, looked at it carefully, and then Carefully tucking her quilt away, she stepped out of the bedroom.

In the outer room, the woman couldn't bear it anymore, her body softened, and she sat down on the chair next to her, covering her mouth tightly with one hand, not wanting to cry, while wiping her tears with the handkerchief in the other hand.

There were two maids standing beside her, one of them was younger, with red circles around her eyes, she persuaded in a low voice: "Madam, I would like to express my condolences, and the master needs to be merciful, and Madam needs to take care of herself!"

The other older one, with a more beautiful appearance, also persuaded: "Yes, ma'am, Fujin has been looking forward to it for more than half a year, isn't it just waiting for the little elder brother to be born? Who would have imagined that it would be like this, Fujin knows , I don’t know what it will be like! At that time, I will have to rely on my wife to comfort me!”

This middle-aged woman is the wife of the third-rank sensuality, the Shu Mulu family, the mother of the Guo Luoluo family.

Guo Luoluo's family married Sixteenth Elder Brother in the twelfth lunar month, and found out that she was pregnant after the new year. Everyone thought it was in early September, but who knew that the labor pains started early in the morning yesterday.However, it was a dystocia. After a day and a night of tossing, the baby brother was not born until 45:[-] a.m. this morning.Because the day didn't arrive, the child was very weak, and died after landing on the ground for half an hour.

Mrs. Shu Mulu got the news and entered the palace at noon yesterday to accompany her daughter to give birth.After giving birth to a little elder brother, he was still like this before he could be happy in the future.Although she felt uncomfortable in her heart, she knew that now was not the time to cry out.Now her daughter is falling asleep due to overwork after giving birth, and she still doesn't know the news of the child's death; if she wakes up now, she will have to find ways to comfort her.

Mrs. Shu Mulu was suffering, when the little palace maid outside replied that both Empress Concubine De and Concubine Rong had sent people to come and see.

Today, the holy driver is outside the Great Wall, and the sixteenth elder brother is also accompanying him, and he is not in Beijing.

In the Forbidden City, Concubine De and Concubine Rong are in charge of palace affairs.Guo Luoluo is the sixteenth elder brother's direct wife Fujin, and she gave birth to the sixteenth elder brother's first child. As mothers and concubines, they dare not be negligent.The experienced midwives of imperial physicians had already prepared for it. Even the nurses had to choose and find a few suitable ones. They were all perfect, but unexpectedly, Guo Luoluo suddenly had a baby yesterday. gas.

After all the troubles, at least a little elder brother was added. The hearts of everyone hadn't settled down for a long time, even before the person who wanted to send the good news to Rehe had left the Forbidden City, the newborn little elder brother died.A good emperor's grandson just disappeared like this, and everyone was very sad when they got the news.

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The joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys in this world are unclear, at the same time, some people are sad, some people are happy, and the days pass in tears and smiles like this.

Sitting on the kang, Tian touched her stomach and felt a little hungry. She couldn't help laughing at herself, she really became a big belly woman. It took only half a day, and she ate two meals, and now she still feels hungry.

She put down the half-sewed clothes in her hands, got off the kang, left the room, and went to the kitchen in the east wing.

In the kitchen, a woman in her thirties and a young girl in her teens were sitting on a small bench picking vegetables. Seeing Mrs. Tian come in, she stood up quickly: "Why are you here, girl? You are so dirty. I have orders." Yes, just shout it in the house!"

Tian said with a smile: "It's not that I'm hungry, I don't know why, I just want to eat! I also sat in the room for a while, so I came over to have a look! Sister-in-law Yang, is there anything to eat in the kitchen?"

Sister-in-law Yang wiped her hands with her apron, walked to the stove, lifted the lid of the pot, and said with a smile: "I have two bodies and a mouth in my stomach, so I'm so hungry? When I was pregnant with walnuts, I was four or two weight I can eat four or five pancakes a day!"

Lift the lid of the pot and open it, and some heat comes out, it seems that the flame has not been turned off.On the bamboo curtain in the pot is half a plate of dumplings.Sister-in-law Yang took it out, found a bottle of vinegar, and said to Tian: "Young lady, use it in the house, there is no proper place to sit in this kitchen!"

Seeing the dumplings, Mrs. Tian looked behind Mrs. Tian, ​​stared at the little girl on the dumpling plate, and said to Mrs. Yang with a little reproach: "Isn't this what I left for the little walnut in the morning? Why doesn't Mrs. Yang ask my daughter to eat it?" ?”

Sister-in-law Yang smiled heartily, and said: "Her children's family, so what if she eats it or not? Seeing that the girl eats deliciously in the morning, she thinks she likes it, so she heats it up in the pot. Isn't it just right?"

Tian looked around and saw the cupboard next to the kitchen. He took a plate and two pairs of chopsticks, and then went to the stove, divided the half plate of dumplings into two portions, poured vinegar on one portion, and picked it up by himself. The other was pushed to the side of Little Walnut.

Sister-in-law Yang hurriedly said: "This is only a few, the girl may not be tall enough, what can I leave for her?"

Tian looked at the few dumplings left on the plate, and said with a smile: "It's just a couple of bites, that's enough! Sister-in-law Yang is really too, but it's just pork and cabbage dumplings, not delicacies from mountains and seas. Don't do this next time, it's better to have more dumplings." Let’s pack some! There are only four people in this family, and we have to buy two kinds of food, it’s a lot of trouble, if you don’t have enough money to buy vegetables, just ask Big Brother Chen!”

Sister-in-law Yang touched her apron shyly and said: "Master and servant are different, we are servants, how can we eat in the same pot with the master's family? That's not a violation of the rules!" In fact, besides this, there is another reason for her Didn't say it, it just looks like Tian's master and servant don't seem to be rich, so it's not easy to waste.

It has been more than half a month since I came to Yizhou, and I said that I came to visit relatives and friends, but the Tian family only lived in this courtyard.Although there was a butler following him, those who came out and went in all day did not look like they were looking for someone.

Mrs. Tian said: "This rule also deserves others? It's the bun on my head, isn't it that Sister-in-law Yang helped to comb it? In the past few months, Sister-in-law Duo Meng has taken care of her, and Brother Chen and I have never treated Sister-in-law Yang as an outsider." Yes! Otherwise, I wouldn’t have brought my sister-in-law and Little Walnut all the way from Hejian Mansion to Yizhou!”

Sister-in-law Yang looked at the white velvet flowers on Tian's head, with a worried expression on her face: "Girl, although it is also a way to go to relatives and friends, but the girl is going to the relatives of her husband's family, not her natal family, and she is young. , but it’s easy to guard? How will you live in the future?”

Tian rubbed her belly and said with a smile: "How can I live, I only ask the Buddha to bless me, and give birth to the child safely. Whether it is a boy or a girl, it is my blessing!" He took the plate containing the dumplings by himself, and said to Sister-in-law Yang: "I'll eat it in the house, and Sister-in-law Yang doesn't have to come with me. It's time to cook lunch, and Sister-in-law Yang will go on her own!"

Seeing Tian's going out, Little Walnut immediately reached out to grab the dumplings on the plate.Sister-in-law Yang quickly stopped her, pulled up her apron, wiped her hands, and put the chopsticks in her hands: "Eat with this, slow down, and be careful not to choke, mother will get you a bowl of water!"

With the chopsticks in her hand, Little Walnut was not in a hurry, reached out and grabbed the corner of her mother's clothes, and said with a smile: "Mother, you eat first!"

Sister-in-law Yang touched her daughter's little face and said, "Good girl, eat this by yourself, mother is impatient to eat this!"

Little Walnut's small face curled up into a ball: "Mother, before father died, didn't our family eat this every year? Why does my daughter remember, mother likes to eat it?"

Sister-in-law Yang was touched by her daughter's words, and was stunned for a while, then Fang squatted down, stretched the gown on her daughter's body, and said, "Mother liked to eat it earlier, but now she doesn't like it, just like you used to love pears, That year, I lost my teeth, so it makes sense not to like it anymore!"

Hearing this, Little Walnut put down her chopsticks, but didn't even look at the dumplings, and whispered: "My daughter doesn't eat dumplings anymore!" Then, she raised her head to look at her mother: "Mum, eat it, it's hot, If it is broken, it will not be in vain!"

Seeing how well-behaved her daughter was, Mrs. Yang was so sad that she burst into tears before she knew it.

Hearing the sound of the door, someone knocked on the door "dong dong", sister-in-law Yang wiped away her tears, went out, and asked through the door: "But Mr. Chen is back?"

Someone answered outside the door. After hearing this, Mrs. Yang pulled the latch and opened the door.A man came in, with a beard and wearing a coarse coat, and asked Sister-in-law Yang: "It's already the beginning of autumn, and Sister-in-law Yang also puts more meat in her dishes. The food these days is too plain, and it tastes bad in my mouth!" He took out a few pieces of broken silver from his pocket, about two or three taels, and handed it over.

Sister-in-law Yang picked it up, but she sighed inwardly. As early as in Hejian Mansion, she was hired by this "Master Chen" and signed a contract of living for half a year.At that time, although the status of "Master Chen" was not high, he was clean and tidied up neatly.In the past six months, it has been worse than every day. Presumably, this small amount of money was earned with blood and sweat.

Not to mention Sister-in-law Yang's sobs, Wei Hei looked at the family outside the door, and he didn't know what he was thinking.Just now, he and the brothers from the Ren family split up to follow this guy.It seemed that this guy was very vigilant, going around on purpose, going around twice intentionally or unintentionally.

Fortunately, Wei Hei was working as a dark dart beside Cao Yong in the early days. There are ten or eight methods of tracking people, not to mention thousand or eight hundred.No matter how vigilant the person in front is, to Wei Hei, it's just a child's play.

Wei Hei remembered the signboard of Daotai Mansion pawn in his arms, knocked on the neighbor's house, and asked who lived there.

Knowing that the courtyard was rented by a pregnant young widow and three servants, Wei Hei was really surprised, but couldn't figure out the other party's intention for a while.Originally thinking that it was the eyeliner sent by someone who is not open, but I don't know what the intention is.However, if you have a bad heart, where would you bring a woman with a big belly out?Moreover, among the three servants, there is only one man, and the rest are mother and daughter.

Apart from eyeliner, what other reason is there to stare at the gate of the Daotai yamen?Wei Hei came out from the neighbor's house, pondered for a while on the side of the road, then went to the house where the man had just entered, and knocked on the door a few times.

"Who is it?" A man at the door asked. Hearing the voice, Cao Wei thought it was very familiar. He frowned and thought about it, but he responded, "The yamen, check the population!"

Immediately there was no movement inside the door, and Wei Hei was thinking whether to shout again, when he heard the movement of pulling the door latch, and a slightly trembling voice: "But Master Wei?"

Hearing this, Wei Hei couldn't help but widen his eyes, pushed the door open and went in, looked at the man carefully, the more surprised he looked, the more surprised he was, just about to ask a question, a servant woman in a blue coat came out from the side room, and looked at the door. After one glance, he took the food and went to the upper room.

The man also knew that the door was not a place to talk, so he led Wei He into the wing room where he lived.

"Lin Ding, it didn't mean that you followed Lord Ning... No wonder I saw you familiarly. I didn't think about you because I didn't expect you to be still alive! I came to Yizhou to join my lord? I wandered around the gate of the yamen. Two days, why didn't I see you go in?" Wei Hei said.

Lin Ding added a sad look on his face, and nodded emphatically: "The little one was ordered by my grandma to join Master Cao, and he arrived in Yizhou half a month ago, just in time for Master Cao to go south. Going to the funeral. I got impatient waiting here for the past few days, so I went over there for a stroll!"

Wei Hei recalled what he had just asked next door, raised his eyebrows and said: "My lord is back, he came back at noon, it has been nearly two hours now!"

Lin Ding was shocked immediately: "Master Cao is back?"

Wei Hei still didn't answer, but asked instead: "Could it be that Master Ning's Mrs. Ru lives in the main room?"

Lin Ding hesitated for a while, thinking that Wei Hei was Cao Yong's confidant, so he stopped hiding from him, and told everything about his master's sudden death five months ago and his mistress sending him out to protect Ruqiu.

Because time was short at that time, it was not possible to confirm whether Ruqiu was pregnant, so she temporarily stayed in Hejian Mansion.A month later, when Ruqiu was found out, the doctor told her not to act rashly, and she had to wait three to four months to conceive, so she stayed in Hejian Mansion until the end of June.It was not until July that I hired a carriage and drove slowly all the way to Yizhou.

Hearing this narration, Wei Hei sighed endlessly.He knew that Cao Yong and Ning Chun were friends, so he didn't delay any longer, and went directly to the Daotai yamen to report to Cao Yong.

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Cao Yong said goodbye to Chuyu, and talked about taking his cousin Wu'er to Yizhou to raise him, and then persuaded Hongxin a few words.It will be the Mid-Autumn Festival in about ten days, and there will be a festival gift from the capital, and there will be news at that time.Besides, Hongxin is sensible and well-behaved, and he treated his servants generously since he was a child, as if he had a deep blessing, and tomorrow he will send people to donate more sesame oil money to various temples and Taoist temples to pray for him.In addition to temples and Taoist temples, even the Puji Hall and the Yuying Hall also sent rice, meat, and vegetables.

Chuyu met Wu'er during the Chinese New Year, liked her very much, and felt sorry for her loneliness. When she heard that she came, she was really happy.After hearing the arrangement of praying for Hongxin and giving alms, she was very moved, but she knew that her husband didn't pay too much attention to Buddhism and Taoism, so she said: "Puji Hall and Yuyingtang are here, temples and Taoist temples are not necessary, Zi A few days ago, Sister Jing helped Chuyu invite Guanyin Bodhisattva back to worship!"

Cao Yong shook his head: "It's just to spend some money. It's inconvenient for you and me to go back to Beijing right now. Please pray a lot here. If the fourth son still stays on the bed and can't get up well, then let's write a letter and discipline him! "

In a word, Chu Yu even laughed.Cao Yong saw that her expression was not as depressed as before, so he said to Zijing: "You two have a good discussion, list the money that needs to be donated everywhere, and send Cao Fang to do it tomorrow!"

Cao Fang came back from outside the customs at the beginning of July, and Yongqing had already been assigned to the local army. It happened that Zuo Ling was a member of Prince Ping's mansion, so he greeted him well, and the arrangement was considered proper.

Amethyst was persuaded several times by Cao Yong in the past, because of the cause and effect of the Buddha, knowing that her uncle does not believe this, she did so just to divide the mind of the princess, so that she would not worry too much about the capital.Therefore, he responded with a smile, and said to Chu Yu: "After all, it is the uncle who thinks carefully. If the charity continues like this, whether it is the Buddha or the Sanqing, how can there be anyone who does not know the piety of the princess?"

Because Cao Yong thought of "cowpox", he wanted to discuss with Mr. Zhuang, so he asked Zijing to accompany Chuyu to draw up a donation list, and he went to the front yamen to have a look.

In the 42nd year of Kangxi, after Suo'etu was executed, Mr. Zhuang left the capital and lived in seclusion in the countryside of Wuxi for several years.Now, listening to Cao Yong mentioning that people who raise cattle rarely have acne, Mr. Zhuang also has some impressions in a trance.

If this kind of "vaccinia" is really rare, it can replace "human pox" and be widely planted.If so, this is a major event that benefits the country and the people.Mr. Zhuang also had a lot of anticipation on his face, but after thinking for a while, his brows wrinkled again.

It is not difficult to go out of the city to the countryside to find cattle, but it is difficult to experiment with living people. After all, it is a matter of life and death.In addition, what people have to worry about is that if it is feasible, planting "vaccinia" can prevent smallpox, so how can this prescription be presented?And who sent it up?Is it Cao Yin, the head of the Cao family, or Cao Yong?

After all, this prescription is a matter of "living the people of the world", who can guarantee that it will not arouse the fear of the emperor?Even if the old man Kangxi is still very kind to the Cao family, he won't do what he thinks, so what about the next emperor?
It's done, although it's a great credit, but it's a bit tricky?However, this opportunity should not be let go in vain. After all, with Cao Yong's age and qualifications, if he did not make some achievements, he would have to go through two or three terms before he could be promoted to the third rank inspector.Mr. Zhuang stroked his beard and began to think carefully.
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