Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 241 Chill
At the end of autumn, there is no cloud and little rain, the sun is shining brightly during the day, and the sky is clear, but it lacks a little warmth.Winter is coming gradually.

As the strong wind blew, the frost-stricken leaves on the crabapple trees in the yard suddenly separated from the branches, and flew one after another, circling in the air, and then leisurely falling to the ground.In the garden, the vegetation is withered, only a few chrysanthemums, which are resistant to frost and cold, bloom more delicately.

Or because of the proximity to the sea, although the temperature in Yizhou is warm in autumn, it will be another kind of damp and cold in winter.I just feel that the gust of wind blowing on my face is full of greasy moisture, which is very different from the dry and cold capital.Even in the room, it's not very comfortable, I just feel that I can't stand the cold.

However, the houses here don't have geothermal heating like in the capital, and they only rely on kangs and charcoal basins for heating.When Cao Yong considered the heating problem, it was already after Chu Yu gave birth, and the big project could not be started.Just a few months ago, the fire kang in the warm pavilion in the east was demolished during the filial piety, so Cao Yong led people to simply rebuild it, leaving a few tunnels underground, and building a fire kang on top.

In order to get rid of moisture, Cao Yong asked people to start burning the kang after building it to remove moisture, and stuffed sawdust and other things into the underground corridor to light it up, thinking that Chu Yu and his mother would come to live here after the beginning of winter.

After all, it was Jiang Ning who was closer, sent someone to announce the good news on September 21, and returned on September [-]. In addition to bringing back the congratulatory gift from the clan over there, there was also a letter from Cao Yin and his wife's family.

The old couple was overjoyed when they heard that they had a grandson. They wanted to come to Shandong to celebrate the full moon ceremony for their grandson, but because the weaving government office was busy accepting tributes in early October, it was hard for the chief officer to leave, and Cao Yin couldn't get away, so Only Mrs. Li came over.Those who set off on September 23 will arrive in Yizhou on September [-].

Mother came here on a special trip, how could Cao Yong wait in Yizhou?Early the next morning, he brought people along and rode south along the official road, waiting in Daxing Town.After reuniting with Mrs. Li, he did not rest in Daxing Town, and turned back to Yizhou that day.

Several courtyards in Daotai Mansion are occupied, only Cao Song's courtyard is empty.Cao Yong didn't want his mother to live in the side courtyard, and wanted to make their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law closer, so he left his mother to live in the main courtyard and settled himself in the study.

Mrs. Li has always been a good-tempered person, Chu Yu is also a sensible and filial person, and both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talk about God's blessing all day long.Occasionally talking about Cao Yong's childhood, because he was not raised by Li's side, Li somewhat regretted it.

For Chu Yu's breastfeeding the child herself, Li shi also agrees very much, but because she is worried about her daughter-in-law's health, she personally arranges for Chu Yu to have some breastfeeding food.

According to the customs of the world, a child cannot be given a big name before the full moon, for fear that the impermanence of black and white will arrest the child's soul, but a small name is fine.Therefore, Cao Yong, the father, still doesn't know what name the old man will give Tianyou.I asked my mother twice, but Li's side didn't know.

Wouldn't it be "stick"?Whenever he thinks of this, Cao Yong feels like being struck by lightning, but he is not so taboo in his heart.After all, I did not marry a daughter-in-law named "Ma", nor did I die when my daughter-in-law was pregnant.History has undergone slight changes, at least the fate of this little man has changed, but what is recorded in history is the emperor's family affairs, who would care about the life and death of an unknown person?Even if there is a son named Cao Zhan, he may not have experienced the decline of his family business and wrote a book on the Red Chamber.

Cao Yong looked at the room, his mother and wife were coaxing Tianyou, their faces were full of joy, and they couldn't help but taste a little bit.

This little guy, not even a month old, is much fatter than when he landed, soft and tender.Although Cao Yong would pinch his son's face or butt every day, he never dared to hold him in his arms.Because I felt that he was too small, I was afraid that the force would be wrong, which would make him stretch his waist or arms or something.

Cao Yong was a father at the beginning, and everything was strange, but unconsciously, his mentality gradually changed. "If you don't raise children, you don't know your parents' kindness", this sentence is true.

After having his son Tianyou, he seemed to be able to understand Cao Yin's mood when he scolded him with a straight face.It was himself, seeing Tianyou, who was not yet a month old, being so spoiled by his wife and mother, he thought in his heart that he would play the role of a "strict father" in the future, so as to prevent his son from being spoiled, disobedient, and infected with bad habits. Become a dude or something.

Unlike Cao Yong who wanted to be a "strict father", the thirteenth elder brother in the capital was smiling at this time, and he looked very loving. He put his son Hong Tun on his knees, and used the tip of his chopsticks to dip a drop of wine into the wine cup. The son licked it.

Hong Tun was less than two years old, with small arms and legs, and wearing a neat little robe. After being spicy by the wine, he stuck out his tongue and "giggled".

The thirteenth brother looked at his son's thick head and thick head, it was really cute, and he couldn't help laughing.

The thirteenth Fujin Zhaojia couldn't help but glared at her husband reproachfully, and said, "Master, look at you, feed this to Hong Tun every time, be careful to raise a drunkard son!"

Elder Brother Thirteen didn't take it seriously, smiled and touched his son's bald forehead, and said, "My dear son, come on, I'll give you some wine if you're so loud, Mama!"

Hong Tun put his two chubby little hands together, arched them, and said milkyly in his mouth: "Ah... Ama, good..."

Manchu people pay attention to "caring for grandchildren but not children". It is rare in the world to treat sons like the thirteenth elder brother. , already has a lot of gray hair; the forehead lines on the forehead are getting deeper and deeper, but he is only 26, but he looks like a middle-aged man, where is the vigor of a young man?
Zhao Jia's nose was sour, and she almost shed tears.

The thirteenth elder brother fed his son another drop of wine with the end of chopsticks, then smiled and said to Zhao Jia: "You have a cup too. I am very happy today. I hope to add a little brother to Hongtun this time, so that the two brothers can have a good time." A companion. After the new year, Hongchang will go to study in the study, and Hongtun is boring without his brother."

Seeing Brother Thirteen's kung fu, Zhao Jia drank several cups of wine, touched his stomach, and said with a smile: "I know I'm happy, but I have to drink it leisurely, and put some food in my stomach first. Save yourself the pain for a while."

Elder Brother Thirteen nodded, first picked a taro cake for his son, and then he picked up a thumb-sized golden silk roll, put it in his mouth, took two bites, put down his chopsticks, and said to Zhao Jia with a smile: "Forget it!" Counting the days, Cao Yong's eldest son is about to be full moon, and he really can't figure out what he will look like, just don't be as dull as his old man."

"Master, look at you, you don't have to arrange people like this. Didn't you praise Cao Yong a few days ago? He and Da Gege are both good-looking, so you can't go wrong!" Zhao Jia said.

Brother Thirteen laughed twice, and said: "Didn't you just receive the money a few days ago? I'm happy, and the complaints against Xiao Cao have been reduced by two points. I have eaten up all the scorpion wine in the past two days, and I also drank Mengshan tea It's gone, I'm not thinking about it!"

Zhao Jia couldn't help laughing when she saw Elder Thirteen acting like "I'm a rascal".

The thirteenth elder brother picked up the wine pot, poured a cup for Zhao Jiashi, and filled his own. He picked up the wine cup and wanted to say a few auspicious words for his wife's pregnancy.However, until this moment, he noticed that the five-color auspicious flower porcelain wine cup in his hand was a gift from the emperor's father when he was in elder brother's place, his heart was blocked immediately, and tears immediately fell down one after another.

Huang Ama, have you completely abandoned your son?But he couldn't bear to see him even once.

Today, it is September [-]th, Shengjia returned to Luan, and the Empress Dowager returned to Changchun Garden.The princes in the capital, except for the thirteenth elder brother, received the order yesterday, and today they all went to the Changchun Garden to greet him.

Although Zhao Jia knew that her husband was not happy, but it was rare for him to lose his composure, she was very worried, frowned and said in a low voice, "Master..."

Elder Brother Thirteen only felt an indescribable pain in his heart, which was so painful that his body felt stiff, as stiff as a stone.There was a salty taste in his mouth, he really wanted to yell twice, spit out the petty things like "sadness" and "self-pity" in his heart, and then still be a handsome old thirteen.

In a trance, I just felt a warm little hand caressing my face, "Good Ama..." Hong Tun's voice was very crisp.

Elder Brother Thirteen came to his senses, pulled down his son's little fleshy hand, and saw his wife looking at him worriedly, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he said with a smile: "It's okay, this wine is a bit high, it makes people feel confused !"

Zhao Jia wanted to hand over a handkerchief to ask her husband to wipe away the tears on his face, but knowing that he was very strong-willed, he didn't touch it, so he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up half a fish, put it on the plate in front of him, and lowered his head to give it to her. Picking out the fishbone, he said with a smile: "Hong Tun can't say anything else, but just saying that he likes fish, it can be regarded as a true biography of the master!"

Brother Thirteen only felt his face was cold, and he stretched out his hand to touch it, only to realize that tears were streaming down his face before he knew it.Thinking of showing such a useless look in front of his wife and children, he felt a little uncomfortable, so he wiped his face carelessly, and laughed "hehe".

The atmosphere was a bit cold for a while, and Elder Brother Thirteen asked, "Didn't you go with Fourth Sister-in-Law to visit the nobleman in the palace yesterday? I forgot to ask, is it okay?"

Mrs. Zhao Jia replied: "I am taking medicine. According to the Tai Hospital, it seems that there is no serious problem. Maybe it's just because of the change of seasons. It seems that the number of people is a little less, and the energy is not enough."

The thirteenth brother nodded and said to Zhaojia: "Didn't Cao Yong send some money last month, and sent people in our house to buy two high-quality old ginseng regardless of money. Wait for the seventeenth brother When he comes again, ask him to bring it to Qinguiren. Qinguiren's tablet is low, and he is not as favored as Concubine Wang, so I'm afraid he won't get any good things in his turn!"

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Changchun Garden, Arrow Hall.

Except for the thirteenth elder brother who did not get the edict of summoning, the eldest elder brother who has been imprisoned for many years, and the second elder brother who is the crown prince, all the other senior princes were ordered to wait here to see him.

The sixteenth elder brother thought about what he had heard recently, that the crown prince was in a dire situation, as if he had been reprimanded by the emperor's father before returning to Luan.

Look at the behavior of the other brothers in the hall—the third elder brother stroked his beard, trying to calm himself down, but he couldn't hide the joy in his brows; But with a smile, he listened to the ninth elder brother, the tenth elder brother, and the fourteenth elder brother saying goodbye to each other, and he said a few gossips to the fourth elder brother next to him; You guys, never get involved in anything, and the conversation is just about the upcoming birthday, what kind of birthday gift will be prepared for the Queen Mother, Lafayette; The crown prince became a brother-in-law, and those princes and elder brothers who had wooed him earlier were all at ease, and they ended up at a leisurely pace.

Just as he was thinking about it, he felt that someone was pulling his sleeve. Elder Sixteen looked back and saw Elder Seventeen with a troubled face.

"What's wrong?" Elder Sixteen saw that Elder Seventeen hesitated for a long time and did not speak, and asked in a low voice: "But what's wrong with you, do you ask Brother to help you?"

Elder Seventeen nodded, and said in a low voice: "My younger brother wants to ask Sixteenth Brother to speak to Mrs. Wang Pin, and ask her to take care of my younger brother Er Niang. The soup is being prepared. Those people in the Tai Hospital are the most snobbish, and the ones sent to Er Niang are not old and have lost their effectiveness; they are some ginseng whiskers, and they have been boiled for half a day without any ginseng flavor!"

Brother Sixteen listened, annoyed in his heart, frowned, and said: "These dog slaves are nothing, not to mention anything else, the nobleman is the mother of the seventeenth brother, how dare they be so negligent! No more, ten Seventh brother, let's go to the imperial hospital to have fun, brother wants to see how good they are!"

Brother Seventeen shook his head hurriedly: "Brother Sixteen, please don't! My mother-in-law has always been timid, if my younger brother really does such a thing, I'm afraid I will cry all day long!"

While talking, I heard the sound of whips cracking the road, and Kangxi arrived.

The princes are in front of the imperial court, leaving a place for the crown prince, and then they are divided into left and right according to their age.Seeing that the crown prince did not come with the emperor's father, some people were secretly happy, some were very surprised, and some people "had nothing to do with themselves".

Kangxi is seated, and all the princes greet him.After getting up, everyone listened to Kangxi's way: "Emperor Prince Yinreng, since he was restored to power, his madness has not been cured, and he has lost people's hearts. The ancestor Hongye must not entrust this person. I have heard about the Empress Dowager, and I will write Yinreng Detained and guarded. I will issue an edict tomorrow and show it to the kings and ministers!"
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