Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 274 Year End (Part [-])

Although he didn't know what the Second Master Liu said to his master, but the housekeeper saw that his temper was getting more and more irritable, and his face was so dark that he almost squeezed out ink.I can't help but feel a little regretful, why didn't I be more alert when the bandit leader came the day before yesterday, and try to persuade him a few more words.Now it seems that the other party must have put forward some extraordinary conditions, which made the master so embarrassed.

On this day, Mrs. Wu and the stewards of the Wang family had just inspected the new year's goods, and when they returned to the inner house, they heard her husband's scolding: "You bastard, don't study hard with your husband, and dance around all day long, what's the point?"

Following the scolding, there was a "pop", followed by a child's cry of "wah".

Mrs. Wu was taken aback, and took two quick steps, only to see her stepson Quanguo crying on the ground, while her husband stood beside him angrily.The two servants next to him knelt on the ground, trembling.

Although he is a stepson, but he is a nephew of a direct relative. Seeing this, Mrs. Wu was very distressed. She hurriedly went up to help Quan Guo, and looked at it carefully. Apart from the footprints on her buttocks, the palms of her hands were also a little torn. The husband scolded: "Okay, what did Brother Guo do, you don't have to be so cruel!"

After Wang Lusheng kicked his son, he regretted it too. After all, he was the only son, and he was the son of his deceased wife. But seeing him cowering and hiding beside Wu Shi, he immediately became angry again, and pointed at Wu Shi. : "It's all your spoiled, good child, not carefully disciplined, seven or eight years old, and still so ignorant! You can play as you please, and you have to be the one who surrendered! Damn, why did my Wang Laoqi give birth to such a child?" Bad son?"

Seeing him stretching his neck to get angry with the child, Mrs. Wu couldn't laugh or cry, but she also noticed that he was unhappy these two days, so he didn't talk much.She knelt down and patted the dirt off Quan Guo's body, and seeing him sobbing, with a ghostly face, she led him back to the room to wash his face.

Wang Lusheng didn't go back to the house with his wife, he waved his hand and sent the two young men off the ground. He stood in the yard by himself for a while, and finally he seemed to have made up his mind, calling his adopted son Guo Quanyou, and confessed: " Set up the car, prepare the gifts, and go to Yizhou with your father!"

If you want to go to Yizhou, where else can you go besides Daotai Mansion?Guo Quan was slightly puzzled, and asked, "Father, isn't that the New Year's gift that Fang sent his son there a few days ago? Why does Dad want to go there?"

Only then did Wang Lusheng remember, and said, "I'm really confused! But it's not good to be empty-handed for the first time. I remember that Mr. Cao's eldest son will be a hundred days away, so prepare some delicate things as a hundred-day gift!"

Guo Quanyou reminded in a low voice: "Father, the hundred-day gift is also given, and it will be sent along with the new year's goods!"

Wang Lusheng is also a bold person when he is thinking about it. These few days are just because of the importance of the relationship, he is a little uncertain, so he has been irritable for two days.Now that he decided to go to Yizhou, he felt much more relaxed in his heart, waved his hand, and said: "Since this is the case, there is no need to bother, just call someone to harness the cart! Ask the stable to choose two good horses, and the pace is fast." of!"

Guo Quanyou responded and went down, Wang Lusheng went up to the room again, and told his wife that he was going out.

Wu Shi saw that his expression was not as gloomy as before. Although he didn't know the reason, he still asked anxiously: "Where are you going, master? Although it hasn't snowed these two days, it's still so cold!"

Wang Lusheng said: "Well, I know, just look for two big woolen clothes to take with you. By the way, I will find another one for Quanyou. I look at his body, and I feel a little uncomfortable!"

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Yizhou, Daotai Mansion, front yard, study.

Cao Yong's leg was fixed with a splint for a month, and now the splint has been removed, but he can still walk for a while with the support of someone and the crutch in his hand.According to the doctor, it will take another two months to return to normal.

It is already the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and in a few days it will be God Bless's Hundred Days. There are also various congratulatory gifts from the capital and Jiangning, and letters from various prefectures.

Among them, there are also letters from Brother Sixteen.After visiting the Temporary Fengdian and Xiaoling Mausoleum on November [-], Sheng Jia did not return directly to Beijing, but took Prince Baylor to Rehe, where he wanted to receive the worship of the Horqin kings.

The seventeenth elder brother of the attendant got married on the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month, so he went back to Beijing first.The sixteenth elder brother wanted to rush to have fun, so he also asked for an order to return to Beijing with the seventeenth elder brother.

Cao Yong remembers that the [-]th elder brother refers to Fujin as the daughter of the second-class public, Ling'a, and among the princes Fujin, her status is quite distinguished.I was a little puzzled in my heart, this Ah Ling is a hard-core eighth master party, why is the seventeenth elder brother not involved at all?
However, thinking of the gloominess of the seventeenth elder brother when he was in the capital, he must have been extremely disgusted with those brothers who were vying for the reserve position.

On the other hand, Mr. Zhuang was looking at the palace newspaper of the imperial court. On it was the list issued by the Ministry of Rites. The list of local civil and military officials who will go to the capital to congratulate Wanshou in the next spring. The three weaving families of Cao, Li and Sun in the south of the Yangtze River are on the list.

Looking at other provinces, most of them are governors, governors, and admirals, or old cabinet ministers, like Cao, Li, and Sun, who are only carrying errands for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so they can come to Beijing to honor their birthdays. It can also be regarded as sympathetic to the veteran.

Seeing that Cao Yong had finished reading several letters from the capital, Mr. Zhuang handed over the mansion newspaper in his hand.Cao Yong was not surprised when he saw his father's name. Not to mention Kangxi's childhood, he is also an uncle, and his children are all married to the royal family. It is reasonable to have a place in next year's Jiazi Wanshou.Besides, Cao Yin's longevity gift is well prepared, which is the smallpox prescription.

After calling Cao Yong and writing to Cao Yin to mention this matter, he found a lot of folk flower planting doctors in Jiangning. Small pox" method works.Of course, Kangxi still needs to make an order to test this piece with death row prisoners.

Cao Yin didn't want to covet the achievements of heaven, as long as he can prove that his son is not talking nonsense, but this method may prevent smallpox, he will be satisfied.The final confirmation and verification was given to Emperor Kangxi, which was also in line with the emperor's temperament of rejoicing. Isn't it just a gift of longevity?

When he saw Li Xu's name, Cao Yong remembered something. He remembered that his father mentioned it in his previous family letter. It seemed that the court had news that next year Li Xu would also serve as the patrol envoy of the Lianghuai and Huaihe Rivers. It seems that Kangxi's punishment for the Li family was similar. .In addition, Li Ding, Li Xu's second son, will also go to Beijing as an errand after the next year.

Although Li Ding helped his father with his official duties in Suzhou Weaving Mansion, he had no official status and had not officially become an official.Therefore, when you arrive in the capital, if you are a civil servant, it is just a six-part pen post.Probably, it should be the bodyguard.

"Sir, I heard that when you were in Jiangnan in the early years, you also had some contacts with the Li family. What do you think of the second son of his family?" Cao Yong thought of Li Ding's early deeds in Wangfengzhuang, Yangzhou, and felt very sorry for this man. Cousin is always on guard, so remembering the news of him going to Beijing, he asked.

"Li Ding?" Mr. Zhuang stroked his beard and pondered, "I've seen it a few times. When it comes to being smart and sophisticated, he is indeed much better than his brother. He is not inferior to Fu Ruo in terms of intelligence, and he is more courageous in his actions. Some!" At this point, he said to Cao Yong: "If Furuo doesn't seek to be famous, and acts so languidly, in the future, the three major weaving companies in the south of the Yangtze River will take this person as the leader!"

Cao Yong heard the dissatisfaction in Mr. Zhuang's words, knew that he was still worried about Liu Heng's matter, and didn't want him to be annoyed by this matter, so he argued: "Sir, I didn't accept him into the house for nothing, although he His appearance is ruined, but his voice is still there. I thought I would send him to Jiangning to teach folk art when the period of filial piety is over. My father loved to listen to operas in his early years. In the past, there was a family class at home, but it was only after his grandmother passed away that he left. Now, father and mother are also old, if there is a troupe at home, the old couple have nothing to do to compile a book, and listening to operas is also a pastime!"

Mr. Zhuang listened to Cao Yong's plausible words, looked at Cao Yong with a half-smile, and said: "Oh, I don't know, Furuo has such a plan. That's it, why do you want to find a small Zhuangzi in a hurry? Set him up?"

Speaking of it, Mr. Zhuang and Cao Yong are also the relationship between master and apprentice father and son. Although he was a little disappointed to see Cao Yong acting emotionally like this, he saw that Cao Yong had gone through a lot of things from the capital to the place, but he still had a heart. Good thoughts, I feel a little relieved in my heart.

Now, seeing Cao Yong lying like a child, Mr. Zhuang couldn't help but tease him.

Cao Yong also tried his best to recall the Hui troupe's entry to Beijing and the formation of Peking Opera, which was also what he thought of when he said he was going to send Liu Heng to Jiangning.I only vaguely remember that it was the middle and late Qing Dynasty, but I can't remember which emperor Shi was.

With my arrival, history has been deviated. My father did not suffer from malaria, and I did not marry a woman surnamed Ma. Although I have a son, it is not a posthumous child.Even if his father named Tianyou "Cao Zhan" in the future, he might not be the literary master who experienced family changes in his youth and wrote a generation of wonderful book "Dream of Red Mansions".

If you support your father and fiddle with the future of the quintessence of Peking Opera, its significance is not lower than that of "Dream of Red Mansions".Thinking of this, Cao Yong couldn't help laughing out loud.

Mr. Zhuang was baffled by his laughter, and just about to ask a question, he heard hurried footsteps outside the door. Xiaoman came in to reply, saying that it was a message from the second door, asking the uncle to go back immediately, and the fifth girl called Mao Mao was shocked.

Where did the cat come from in the house?Cao Yong was worried, got up to say goodbye to Mr. Zhuang, and went back to the second gate with Xiaoman and crutches.

In the second gate, Xiyan and Xixia are already waiting here, Da Xiaoman holds Cao Yong by the hand, and comes to the main room.

On the kang in the warm pavilion in the main room, Wu'er was lying there in a red jacket, his face was pale, his eyes were closed, he was biting his handkerchief, his whole body was twitching non-stop, his little hands exposed outside his sleeves were bloody. son.

When Cao Yong arrived at the kang and saw Wu'er, his heart tightened. He ate with her two days ago and teased the little girl to learn how to speak. How did he become like this?Looking at Chu Yu who had a shame on one side of his face, he really didn't know what to say.

Seeing Cao Yong's expression, Zijing persuaded: "Don't worry about the forehead, I have already sent someone to invite the doctor!"

Cao Yong nodded, looked at the trembling young lady Gu, turned around and asked Chu Yu, "When did the mansion raise cats? Didn't I say it a long time ago, there are many children in our mansion, and we are afraid of being frightened, cats There are no dogs."

Cao Yong entrusts Wu'er to Chu Yu to take care of him. Now that such a big incident happened, Chu Yu is most disturbed.Now, listening to her husband's words with a sense of blame, I also feel wronged in my heart, and suppressed tears and said: "Although we don't have any pets, there are still some wild cats that come to the house to look for food. Go to Wu'er's house!"

While talking, the doctor has arrived.

Fortunately, there was no serious problem, it was just that she was overly frightened. The doctor did some acupuncture and moxibustion, prescribed a few doses of soothing prescriptions, and then left.The medicinal materials commonly used at home are all ready, and after the preparation of the medicine according to the prescription, Zijing took two proper people and went to the kitchen to boil medicine and buy warming food for Wu'er.

Cao Yong sat on the edge of the kang and looked at the wound on Wu'er's hand. Because it was scratched by a cat, it must be disinfected, otherwise, if it is infected, it is not a joke.Therefore, he ordered Xiyun to fetch spirits and wipe Wu'er's wound with a clean handkerchief.

Wu'er was so frightened that he was drowsy. When the strong wine was poured on the wound, he immediately burst into tears in pain, and squeezed his little hand hard to prevent Cao Yong from rubbing it.

In the past and present, it was the first time Cao Yong took care of the child, holding him carefully in his arms, patting and coaxing him, making his head sweat, but he didn't coax Wu'er to stop.

Wu'er's sister, Gu Shi, wanted to step forward, but she didn't dare to open her mouth. She lowered her head and avoided it, for fear that the uncle and the princess' grandmother would think of it and attack him.

Wu'er cried miserably, struggled and pressed Cao Yong's leg again, Chu Yu couldn't bear to look at it, and said softly: "Forehead son-in-law, it's better for Chu Yu to come!"

Cao Yong also saw that he might be holding her in the wrong posture, which made Wu'er feel uncomfortable, and her little face was clenched into a ball, so he handed her into Chu Yu's arms and said, "It's so heavy, can you hold her? Little girl I don’t know how to grow up, and it’s several times better than our son!”

Chu Yu smiled and said, "How old is Tianyou? If at this moment, she weighs as much as Fifth Sister, how fat would she be?" As she spoke, she hugged Wu'er in her arms and gently coaxed her to talk.

Chu Yu's soft-spoken voice is much better than Cao Yong's clumsiness.Wu'er stopped talking slowly, sobbed, looked at Chu Yu pitifully, and reached into Chu Yu's arms with her little hand, seemingly ignoring the pain in her hand, muttering in her small mouth: "Hungry... eat ..."

Chuyu has also been a mother for a few months. Seeing Wu'er's anxious expression, she sensed that something was wrong. She raised her head to look at Gu Shi who was standing by the door, and asked, "What's the matter? You didn't serve the girl to eat in the morning, why is she?" Like hungry?"

Gu Shi replied stutteringly: "If you go back to the princess's grandma, the girl... pinch her milk these few days..."

"You have come to report this, and I know it, but I asked you yesterday, how is the girl's food these few days, and you said it was good, but now she seems to be in good shape. Weakness, what's going on?" Chu Yu asked while patting Wu'er lightly.

Although Chu Yu's voice was not loud, Gu Shi was so frightened that she immediately knelt down, and with a frightened face, she replied in a tearful voice, "This... grandma of the princess, the slave girl is not deliberately deceiving, the reason why the girl just squeezed her milk these two days , crying and refusing to eat, this slave girl is thinking that the girl has a stomach fire, and it is good to clear the stomach and relieve the fire!"

Chu Yu frowned slightly, and asked, "Then what about the porridge made with rouge rice that I sent someone before, and the almond tea that I sent someone yesterday? Didn't I give it to the girl?"

When Gu Shi heard Chuyu's question about food, his face turned pale, and he stammered back: "Return...to grandma's words, since...it's for girls..." At this point, seeing Chuyu looking at Her eyes were sharp, and she immediately changed her mouth: "I used a few spoons for the girl!"

"In this way, the girl hasn't had a serious meal for several days, and I can't blame the good child for being so weak!" Chu Yu was so annoyed that she looked at Gu Shi again impatiently, turned slightly sideways, unbuttoned her front, and came to breastfeed Wu'er .

Cao Yong was at the side, watching Chu Yu's interrogation of the Gu family, his face was also very ugly.Wu'er is still young, and he doesn't speak sharply. This woman is so black-hearted, she can't resist.

After Chuyu finished nursing Wu'er and saw her fall asleep, Fang asked Xiyun to call two women, and dragged Gu Shi down, first gave him a board, and then ordered him to be kicked out of the house.

The Gu family is an old man from the Jiangning West Mansion, seeing that he offended the grandpa and the mistress' grandma, she panicked. She thought they were young and kind-hearted, and she was the woman in the next room.Unexpectedly, when the board is finished, Gu Clan and Gu Clan's men will also be kicked out of the house.

Not to mention that the status of the prostitute is different from that of ordinary servants, and the monthly offerings are good. Just talking about the new year, the husband and wife went back in such a disgrace, relatives and friends looked down upon them, but Mrs. Xifu and the second master knew about their husband and wife If you don't have a long face, you're afraid you won't be able to fall, so you have to have another meal.

Gu Clan was crying and didn't want to leave the mansion, so she begged in front of Yulong in the west courtyard, thinking that she would be the second wife's aunt in the future, so she would naturally help her speak.

Yulong knew that it was because of neglecting Miss Wu, and she also blamed her for being unfaithful in her heart, but she couldn't say anything on the surface.Although he said that he was not worth a lot, so he couldn't plead for her, but he still made a bag of money to share with her.

In the west courtyard, there is also the smell of medicine every day.Yu Spider was ill for half a month. Although her life was safe, her body was so weak that only a handful of bones remained.
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