Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 372 Visiting the Golden Gate Controversy
According to the customs of the capital, "23, sticky melons; 24, sweep the house", on the 24th, the housewife will lead the servants to thoroughly clean the inside and outside of the courtyard.However, the entire Cao residence was exceptionally quiet.Zhao Jia was ill, Chu Yu was pregnant, only Zijing and a few daughters-in-law sprinkled water to clean up.

After Cao Song came back from the front yard yesterday, he made a fuss in the Shaoyuan again, intending to kill Nanny Zhang.Zhao Jia was ill, but this time he was really ill. He saw the wind in a fit of rage, and had some headaches since he was a child.

Although Cao Yong invited the imperial physician to go to the government to see Zhao Jia's doctor, but his face is not as good as before.Not only Zhao Jia's, but also Cao Song, Cao Yong couldn't help but kicked hard twice, too lazy to talk to him.

Although Cao's mansion is not the most benevolent place, but this kind of torture and killing happened in his own home, which made Cao Yong extremely annoyed.

Zhao Jia's nonsense in the past was nothing, but such a thunderous method made Cao Yong feel chilled.He was not in the mood to coax her to say good morning or good evening, and he was not in the mood to consider whether it was due to her age.

It's not that he doesn't feel sorry for his younger brother and doesn't think about his future, but just like Cao Song, he made a mistake but let a woman bear the consequences, which made Cao Yong very shameless.

If he is in such a muddle-headed way, going to take the Jinshi examination and go to the officialdom, does he still need someone to wipe his ass behind him every day?Rather than committing a catastrophe at that time, it would be better to be punished now and be an ordinary citizen, even though he is busy, he can still be safe.

Cao Yong is a little too lazy to go back to his home. He has worked hard to integrate himself into this world, and this family has worked hard with all his heart.He just didn't know why, but it suddenly made him feel very uncomfortable.

He also went through the murder himself, but pretended to be innocent and said that he was a kind person.However, he didn't want these ugly things to happen in his own home.

Cao Song was also stupid, he really didn't expect such a catastrophe to happen.Sitting beside Yulong's bed, looking at the blood on Yulong's back, he couldn't help crying.

Yulong's face was covered with medicine, and she was afraid that Cao Song would be disgusted, so she turned her head to the side, but when she heard his cry, her body trembled.

Yulong has served Cao Song for five years. She has seen him laugh and angry, but she has never seen him cry.She turned around, looked at Cao Song in a daze, and murmured, "Second Lord is Sister Crying Spider?"

Hearing Yulong mention the jade spider, thinking about the bloody appearance of the jade spider, Cao Song cried even louder.

Yulong's eyes were straight, and she said with a wry smile: "My servant remembers clearly that my servant's worth is 44 taels of silver, and that of Sister Spider's is 40 taels. I wonder if it's Sister Spider's blessing to be the second master and cry."

"Stop it, stop it!" Cao Song shouted, holding his head.

Yuqin turned around and lay down on the kang, feeling her throat was salty.She hurriedly covered her mouth with a veil, but she vomited a mouthful of blood.Yulong held the handkerchief in her palm and shed two lines of tears silently.

After a long time, hearing Cao Song's crying gradually subsided, Yuqin asked in a low voice: "Second Master, the Second Wife is afraid that your future will be delayed. Does Second Master think so?"

Cao Song raised his head, his face became a bit more hateful, and said: "That is my son, my flesh and blood, I will kill the old man surnamed Zhang to avenge my son and the jade spider!"

Seeing that he didn't mention the second wife, Yuqin couldn't help feeling discouraged, too lazy to talk, and fell asleep on the pillow.In a daze, I heard someone say: "I'm sorry...it's because I didn't protect you..."

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Xicheng, Houguangping Hutong, Sun's House.

Sun Jue went to work in the ministry and hasn't come back yet.Mrs. Cao took the concubines, daughters-in-law, and mothers-in-law to clean up the house for a long time, and her back was already aching.Thinking of sending someone to pay her respects to her mother's house yesterday, and hearing about her mother's illness, she felt a little worried.

Although my mother grew up in the capital, she has lived in the south for 30 to [-] years, so she is not tolerant of the winter cold in the capital.It's just that, as a daughter, she heard that her mother was sick, but she couldn't go back to visit her, which was really unfilial.

After tidying up, Mrs. Cao sat in the flower hall, thinking about waiting for her husband to come back, begging for mercy, and going back to her mother's house for a while.At this time, I saw my daughter Sun Xian walking towards Zhixian holding Zhixian's hand.

"Mother!" Seeing Mrs. Cao, Sun Xian let go of Zhixian's hand and hugged her.The Cao family was married to Sun Jue in the 45th year of Kangxi, and it has been eight years since she gave birth to a pair of children, the eldest son Sun Li and the eldest daughter Sun Xian.Sun Li is seven years old this year, and Sun Xian is five years old.

Mrs. Cao hugged her daughter and saw that there was candy in her mouth, she couldn't help laughing and said, "I'm so gluttonous, I can't eat more of this!"

Sun Xian smiled and hid her little head in her mother's arms, just giggling.

Cao Shi pointed to the stool next to her, and said to Zhixian: "Sister, sit down and talk, have you gone to see your sister? She has eaten something today, and it's not a trivial matter that she has been sick all the time."

Zhixian replied with a smile: "Please worry grandma, Ye Xian ate a bowl of mixed grain rice and a small plate of pickled melon, it seems to be better!"

Although the Cao family did not come from the duke's mansion, they have been well-clothed and well-fed since they were young. He couldn't help but wonder, and said with a bit of worry: "Why do you eat these? You have a child in your belly, so don't be too vague. Let's Although the family is not rich, there is no shortage of food."

Before Zhixian came to Sun's house, he stayed in Li's house for a few months, and he had seen the extravagance of rich people.Although Sun Jue's side is not as good as the Li family's, the Cao family is virtuous and has never owed them anything in terms of food and clothing for their sisters.

It's just strange to say that since Ye Xian found out she was pregnant, she suffered from nausea more seriously, throwing up whatever she ate, and sometimes she couldn't even smell it.I don't know why I thought of eating multigrain rice, but it suits my appetite. I have been eating it for several days.

Whether Zhixian is in the Li family or the Sun family, I often hear the old people mention the Cao family in the earl's mansion.Knowing that compared with the prominence of the Cao family, the Li family and the Sun family are nothing more than a fraction.

Firstly, their sisters have no roots, secondly, they themselves are a bit dirty, and thirdly, they know that their kind mistress is the daughter of the Cao family, so they have been very peaceful in the past few months in the Sun's house.

Not to mention being gentle and docile to Sun Jue, even to the Cao family, he would set rules in front of him sooner or later, and he would not be rude in the slightest, coaxing Miss Sun Xian into being willing to be intimate with them.Even with that, he compared Sun Jue's previous concubine.

Although the two aunts said they were dissatisfied, but because their sisters should be favored, and Sun Jue has an uncompromising temperament, they can only slander in their hearts.

Sun Jue got this pair of beautiful concubines, and they have such a character, and they are not naughty at all, they are also extremely beautiful. "Family and everything prosper", with such a good wife and beautiful concubine by your side, compared with those who fear guilt, what is it but a blessing?
Hearing Cao's mention of food, Zhixian couldn't help but smiled wryly: "Grandma came from a rich family, and she came from chickens, ducks and fish when she was young, but she doesn't know that people in this world can eat a bowl of dry rice with whole grains, which is a blessing in the sky. The servants and sisters are all born in a poor family. Only because my mother is gone and I have tuberculosis, so I can’t support us, so I sold us two sisters. We were young, and we didn’t eat a few meals of fine grains, mixed grains. Zamian steamed buns are eaten every meal."

Cao's is a woman, and she only treats Zhixian and Ye Xianyuan superficially.No matter how virtuous she is, it is impossible to treat her husband's concubine as her own sister.However, after getting along with each other for several months, I have a better impression of the two of them in my heart.

Now that she heard her self-reporting, Mrs. Cao couldn't help sighing again.It's not unheard of for her to sell her sons and daughters. After all, half of the servants in this mansion, except for the children of the family, were mostly sold by their parents when they were young.

Sun Xian was already five years old and could understand words. She poked her head out of her mother's arms, raised her neck and asked, "Mother, is it because father is sick that he wants to sell Xian'er and elder brother?"

Mrs. Cao hurriedly patted her little head, and first said to the top: "Tongyan Wuji, Tongyan Wuji!" After finishing speaking, he lowered his head and said in reproach: "It's Chinese New Year, don't talk nonsense, be careful to let your father hear it." , hit your hand!"

Sun Xian hurriedly covered her mouth with her little hands, and after a long while whispered, "Mother, Xian'er wants to eat steamed buns..."

Seeing her childish appearance, both Cao Shi and Zhixian couldn't help laughing.

Sun Jue didn't come back until nightfall, smelling of alcohol, but his colleagues in the ministry went to drink.

After Mrs. Cao waited on him to change his clothes and wash his hands, he brought up the matter of his mother's illness.Because Sun Jue used to restrain her tightly and rarely let her return home, she didn't hold out too much hope, but Sun Jue did not expect Sun Jue to agree.

Sun Jue changed his clothes and lay down on the bed.As Cao went to help him take off his boots, she was very surprised, not knowing why her husband was so happy.

Sun Jue closed his eyes, thinking of something else.Li Xu is right, he and Cao Yong are cousins, but not enemies, why are they so distant?What his colleagues said made sense. His term of office will expire next year. Whether it is the original rank or a promotion, it is time to move around.

The Cao and Sun families are close relatives, if there hadn't been an old lady of the Sun family to take care of the Long Live Lord for more than ten years, how could the generations of the Cao family be as respectable as they were?

Thinking of this, he opened his eyes, and said to Cao: "Prepare more gifts, since the mother-in-law is sick, I will go with you to visit tomorrow!"

Cao was overjoyed and hurriedly responded.

Xicheng, Cao Mansion, Wutong Garden.

After Yulong fell asleep, Cao Song came to find Cao Yong alone.When such a thing happened, he himself was ashamed and flustered, but he didn't want his brother to ignore him because of it.

Cao Yong worked in the Yamen for a long time, and wandered aimlessly for a long time in the street before returning to Wutong Garden.

Those who celebrate the New Year really don't want to think about these boring things.When Cao Yong heard Cao Song talking in the corridor, he didn't call in immediately, but looked at Chu Yu, and said: "Jie has been nesting in the mansion all day, and I'm afraid that you will be bored. On the other side of Xiaotangshan, let's send people to come in again." Build a Zhuangzi, and you can go there to escape the cold next winter!"

Chu Yu said: "My son-in-law still has to work in the yamen, and I have to meet every now and then. It's too cheap outside the city!"

Cao Yong nodded and said: "That's true, even so, when it gets warmer in the next year, let's pick a good day to go to the suburbs of Beijing, or we can go around the city, and we can't stay bored in this yard all the time. There's something wrong with her!" At this point, when he thought of Zhao Jia, he looked a little cold, and said, "I'm really impatient to see her, you ask Aunt Luo and Aunt Chang to send her a message, this is the only one According to the law of the Qing Dynasty, what is the crime of torturing and killing slaves and servants? Tell her. No one is torturing her. I am not a person who loves fame. Next time, I must directly ask the footman from the yamen of the infantry to come over for an autopsy!"

Seeing Cao Yong being so solemn, Chu Yu couldn't help feeling a little regretful.Seeing that Cao Yong hated Zhao Jia so much, even Chu Yu felt a little guilty.If she had extended a helping hand yesterday, would the jade spider have ended up with "one dead body and two lives"?
Thinking of Cao Song who was still standing on the porch, Chu Yu couldn't bear it, and persuaded, "Forehead son-in-law, it's cold, the second master has been standing outside for a long time!"

Hearing the mention of Cao Song, Cao Yong immediately became angry, frowned and said: "It's better to freeze him to death, this thing that harms people. Let's not get involved in the matter of Jinghui. What kind of man is he? How old is he? How old is he?" Heartless. But if Fan Suri can be stronger, who dares to clean up his room like this? He can't even protect his own woman, so why should he bring Jinghui into the house to show his mother a prestige? "

Seeing that Chuyu was really annoyed, Chuyu didn't dare to persuade him any more, and was afraid that Cao Song would really get sick from the cold, and his brother would feel sorry for him in the future, so she went out to persuade Cao Song to go back first.

Cao Song said with a bitter face: "Sister-in-law, I know my mistake, my brother will beat and scold me, but don't get angry."

Chu Yu said in a low voice: "Your brother is really annoyed! You don't know, he is really looking forward to your well-being. I am afraid that the second wife will not allow you to marry Jinghui, so if you have nothing to do, discuss with me to find a way. He also said that it is impossible, Just buy another house for you to make a new house, so as not to make it difficult for Jinghui to be around the second wife. He is kind, and we never beat or scold the servants in our house. Now that the new year is coming, one is dead and the other is injured. It was you who caused the trouble, why isn't he annoyed?"

Cao Song murmured: "Sister-in-law, what should I do then? My younger brother knows he's wrong, so he doesn't dare anymore. Tell him, let him kick me a few more times to vent his anger!"

Chu Yu said: "Your brother is stubborn, and seeing you now is not a good word, but hurts brother's feelings. After two days, his anger subsides, and he will recover naturally!"

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Make up 700 plus more, and the monthly pass has been caught up again. Jiu bowed to ask for a monthly pass, please everyone. . .

(End of this chapter)