Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 40
Pingjun Palace, study room.

The atmosphere was a bit dignified, Naersu asked Lu Dai about Na Wu's identity, and Lu Dai frowned and replied, "Na Wu is the prince's disciple."

Ne Ersu was slightly startled: "The prince's disciple? How could he be the prince? No matter how arrogant he is, he wouldn't be so arrogant. He just resumed his position in the morning, and at night he arranged for someone to take revenge."

Lu Dai nodded: "The lord is right. The grievances between the prince and the lord are well known. Even if the prince wanted to take revenge on the lord, he wouldn't just reset him. He couldn't wait, so he sent his own disciples."

The grievances between the prince and King Pingjun mentioned by Lu Dai refer to the whipping of Naersu before the prince was abolished last year.Speaking of the root cause of the incident, it still lies with Lu Dai and Lu Yunniang.

Last year, a large number of officials were sacked because the Ministry of Household Affairs pursued the treasury bank.The light ones ransacked the house, and the serious ones distributed.Lu Yunniang was originally the daughter of an official, but after her home was ransacked, she lived in a brothel called "Begonia Pavilion".Eight years ago, Lu Dai had been the teacher of the Lu family and Lu Yunniang's mentor.Hearing that his disciple was in trouble, he entrusted King Pingjun to help Lu Yunniang get out of school.Yunniang admires Mr. Lu, but Mr. Lu never accepts her because of his status as a teacher and a student.

But who knows who is talking too much, and praised Lu Yunniang in front of the prince as the oiran of "Baitang Pavilion", a natural beauty with a natural charm.prince

After thinking about it, he asked someone to send a message to Naersu, implying that he wanted Yunniang as a gift.Naersu only did the unknown, and prepared a large number of rare treasures for the prince.The prince became furious and whipped Neersu on the pretext that Neersu's gift was too light.

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Inside Deshengmen, there is the mansion of Maliandao, the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

After going to the former Minister of the Ministry of War, Marhan, and the current leader of the Zhenghuang Banner Guard, Fu Ding, to ask for peace, Cao Yong went to Malian Taoist.

Malhan is the uncle of Cao Yong's second aunt, Zhao Jia. He is 76 years old this year, and will retire after the next year.Now I don't see foreigners very much, so Cao Yong is greeted by his eldest son.The relationship between Malhan and the Cao family is not considered close, just because of his seniority and age, so Cao Yong came to see this old man first.

Fu Ding, a native of Xianghuang Banner, whose old surname in Manchuria was Fucha, served as Kangxi's bodyguard with Cao Yin, Li Xu, Nalan Rongruo and others when he was young, and later married Cao Yin's younger sister, Cao, as his wife. Is Cao Yong's pro-uncle.Cao's eldest son Changling had dystocia and died shortly after giving birth.After Fu Ding continued to marry his wife, his relationship with the Cao family gradually faded.After Cao Yong remembered the incident, the two families hadn't moved around for a long time, and Cao Yong had only vaguely heard of this relative in the capital.

Fu Ding actually came out to see Cao Yong in person, but his expression was a little faint. He asked about the situation of Cao Yin and his wife in Jiangning, and asked about the errands in Beijing.Finally, he looked at Cao Yong again, and served tea to see off the guests.Cao Yong was a little strange, this uncle was not as indifferent as he showed, when he looked at himself, there was inadvertently showing kindness and sentimentality.Presumably he and his aunt also had a strong relationship, and he was afraid that seeing his nephew reminded him of his dead wife.

Ma Lian Taoist specially set up a family banquet to welcome Cao Yong.

The Ma and Cao families are considered good friends, so they don't shy away from female relatives.Ma Liandao's wife, Tian Shi, is a very talkative woman, and she chatted with Cao Yong about the daily life with a smile.

One of Maliandao's two sons works in the household department, and the other is a guard in the military camp.Maliandao's two daughters are still young, the older one is no more than thirteen or fourteen, and the younger one looks about ten years old.The two daughters-in-law also seem to be from the family of Bannermen, they are both dignified, courteous and generous. After seeing Cao Yong, they smiled at the sisters-in-law and took them down to prepare the banquet.

Although Cao Yong had a smile on his face, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.Ma Liandao and Tian's couple seemed to regard him as a prospective son-in-law, and their eyes were unusually hot.However, although the Ma family's house is not small, it does not accept wives and concubines as widely as other big families.The Tian family was notorious for being "jealous". Ma Liandao only had his first wife and no concubine.Perhaps because of the family tradition, the two brothers of the Ma family also only have wives and no concubines.

If it weren't for the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words in the marriage, the Ma family would probably pull Cao Yong to finalize the marriage.Cao Yong is willing to accept the goodwill of the Ma family, but cannot willingly accept this marriage.

During the meal at Ma's house, Cao Yong made up his mind that after returning home, he should repair the family letter to his father, expressing his determination not to marry early, and imploring his parents not to help him get married at will.If the Ma family knew that this was the result of their hospitality, they would be dumbfounded.

After eating this meal for nearly an hour, Tian's chattered again after the meal.By the time they let Cao Yong leave, it was already dark.Cao Zhong, the housekeeper who followed Cao Yong, went to other houses to give gifts. Here, only Xiaoman and the newly elected two long-term followers are left with Cao Yong.

Ma Liandao was worried about Cao Yong, so he sent his eldest son Ma Xinyu to take two people to send Cao Yong back.

On the road, Cao Yong and Ma Xinyu rode side by side on horseback.

Ma Xinyu asked: "I heard that Brother Cao once studied under the son of Song Binchen, is there such a thing?"

Cao Yong nodded: "It's true!" But he sighed secretly in his heart. It seems that Ma's family should not pay attention to him for a day or two, because Master Song resigned and returned to Hangzhou after he went to Qingliang Temple.

Ma Xinyu said with a smile: "The third elder brother has always loved calligraphy, and he especially respects Song's calligraphy. He knows that you, the reintroduced disciple of Song's calligraphy, will go to Beijing as an errand, and he has been looking forward to it for a long time. I heard that our family will have a banquet today. Guest, let me send a message that you go to his mansion, probably to discuss calligraphy with you."

"I don't know any calligraphy. I just studied with Master Song for a year. How can I show off in the name of Master Song, which makes people laugh." Cao Yong naturally understood what a drunkard didn't mean to drink, and politely refused.

"Brother Cao, anyway, brother brought it here, it depends on your decision whether to go or not!" Ma Xinyu said: "It's just that the master is the master after all, Brother Cao should think carefully, so as not to offend the nobleman unintentionally and not know."

Although Ma Xinyu's words were sincere, Cao Yong didn't sound right. There was a hint of threat in his words. It seemed that the third elder brother's invitation could not be refused.

Cao Yong glanced at Ma Xinyu, feeling a little sorry for the Ma family.I knew that the Ma family was the third elder brother's in-laws, and Tian's niece was the third elder brother's side Fujin, but Cao Yong did not expect the Ma family to be so short-sighted.Even if the crown prince's reserve position is unstable, he should not climb up to the third elder brother.Although the third elder brother is well-known for his talent, he is neither a direct wife nor an elder, his mother and concubine are not favored, and he has no powerful relatives to support him. How can he fight for the throne?

I don't know if Ma Xinyu sent the message on his own initiative, or if Ma Liandao already knew about it.It seems that the Ma family should keep a distance in the future. If they are involved, it would be wronged.

Before entering Beijing, Cao Yong had thought about where the discerning prince would notice the power of the Cao family and pay attention to him, the son of the Cao family.He thought it would be the prince or the eighth elder brother, but unexpectedly, the first one who noticed Cao Yong turned out to be the third elder brother.Judging from what that said, this attention has been going on for a long time.

Ma's house is not far from Cao's house, within two quarters of an hour, they will arrive.

Ma Xinyu looked like a big brother, watched Cao Yong enter the mansion, and then took him away.

Cao Mansion, side hall.

Cao Yong went back to the courtyard to change his homely clothes, and then went to the front yard to meet Cao Zhong. He had to consider how the gift-giving houses responded today and which ones he would go to tomorrow.Obviously, these sons of Kangxi are not fools, and the third brother is not the only one who pays attention to Cao Yong.

On the side of the prince, not only did he accept the gift from the Cao family, but he also sent a message that Baylor Hongxi was choosing a companion to read. Since Cao Yin’s son had been praised by Shengkou himself, he had his own merits. Let him go to the Qing Palace hello.

The eighth prince, because of the selection of the prince at the beginning of the year, is being ignored by Kangxi.The one who came forward was Gu Na, brother Jiu's disciple.Hearing this name, Cao Yong thought of Lin Xiazhai.

After Cao Yong went to Qingliang Temple, Gu Na, who had been away for two years, returned to Jiangning.In addition to visiting his mother, he also went to see Cao Yin and delivered a letter from Brother Jiu to Cao Yin.The letter was very polite and didn't say anything else. It just mentioned that in order to celebrate the birthday of the mother and concubine, I had to borrow two cooks from the Cao family, namely Lin Xiazhai and Yutian.

No matter how heavily Kangxi relied on the Cao family, they were nothing but servants of the royal family.Now that the little master has spoken, Cao Yin has no reason to refuse.

Guna did not go to see Cao Yong, and Cao Yong did not want to see him.For him, Lin Xiazhai is just a tool to make money; for Gu Na, it is a shortcut to earn money.However, if it is false to say that he is not lost, the stubborn and proud child back then has disappeared.

Lin Xiazhai, in fact, Cao Yong wanted to close it a long time ago.If you want to maintain high vegetable prices there, you must continue to introduce new dishes and dim sum.He just relied on the hobby of eating in his previous life, and introduced the food hundreds of years later to the two masters of Yutian, and then developed it by the two masters.He is not a cookbook, and his knowledge is limited after all. After a few years of tossing around, the stock in his stomach is almost the same.

Both Cao Song and Cao Yi were furious, especially Cao Song, who rolled up his arms and sleeves, wanting to teach that guy a lesson.Because Lin Xiazhai is his son's property, Li's family is also extremely annoyed that it has been destroyed like this.It's just because Gu Na was a relative of the previous wife, she couldn't complain, so she had to endure it.Mrs. Zhao Jia felt sorry for Cao Song's share of dividends, such as "little white-eyed wolf" and "ungrateful", and nagged for several days.

Regardless of the mood of the members of the Cao family, Lin Xia Zhai was still closed with the departure of the two masters of Yu Tian. One month later, Tao Ranju was added to the capital.

Today, Gu Na came to visit in the afternoon and knew that Cao Yong was going out, so he waited for more than half an hour until it was almost dark before leaving.Before he left, the housekeeper Cao Zhong had already returned home.He asked Cao Zhong to tell Cao Yong that Brother Nine wanted to ask him about business.

The prince, the third elder brother, the ninth elder brother, Cao Yong is really flattered.However, he knew that these princes would never treat him like a dish.What they valued was the Cao family behind him, the Li family and the Sun family who shared weal and woe with the Cao family.

The three major weaving families in the south of the Yangtze River are connected and related, and the Cao family is the core of the three families.Controlling the Cao family is the same as controlling a bank.All three elder brothers had accompanied the emperor on a tour to the south, and had seen the wealth and grandeur of the Cao family.

(End of this chapter)