Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 418
After visiting Cao Yi at Jueluo's house, it was already dusk when Cao Yong returned to the mansion.

Outside the second gate, there was a carriage parked, Jinghui came out with her maid, Xiyun and Xicai sent them out.Cao Song followed behind, looking a little embarrassed.

Seeing that it was Cao Yong, Jinghui leaned down and said, "Cousin!"

Cao Yong looked at the sky and asked, "Where is this going?"

Jinghui lowered her head and replied: "Grandmother told the butler in my cousin's house that she would take me to the old house on the other side of Xinkai Hutong."

Dong E's mansion in Rongxian Hutong has been sealed up, which Cao Yong knows.However, Cao Yong was a little puzzled as to how to let a little girl like Jinghui pass, "Even if you want to go there, you don't have to be so eager. It won't be too late when the old lady comes out."

Jinghui raised her head, her eye circles were already red, and said: "Cousin, I heard that grandma has come back from the yamen, and went to the Xinkai alley first. Although I didn't ask my sister to go there today, how can I let go of it?" Live here like this!"

Out!Cao Yong was a little surprised, this was a Kouyan case, and it was closed in just two days, so fast.

Although I would like to know how the case was settled, but the people involved in the case are all Jing Hui's close relatives, it is not appropriate to ask this in front of a little girl.Therefore, Cao Yong nodded and said: "Since this is the case, you should go to serve earlier, and persuade and persuade, so as to save the old lady from feeling aggrieved."

Seeing Cao Song wearing out clothes, Cao Yong glanced at Cao Song with some doubts.Cao Song laughed twice, and without waiting for him to ask in detail, he took the initiative to say: "Sister-in-law can't send it off in person, I specifically asked my younger brother to send it off on behalf of my elder brother and sister-in-law, and let's see if there is anything that needs to be taken care of in the house over there." .”

After hearing this, Cao Yong patted him on the shoulder and said: "Since that's the case, take a few people to follow closely. If you need to invite an imperial physician, you can take the name card from our mansion."

Cao Song agreed one by one. Seeing that it was getting late, Cao Yong waved his hand and asked Jinghui to get on the carriage.

Jinghui wanted to thank her, but felt that these words were too light and tasteless to say them, so she leaned over and helped her mother-in-law get into the carriage.

When the carriage went, Cao Yong entered the second gate with Xiyun and Xicai, and came to Wutongyuan.

Cao Yong was a little worried when he didn't see Chuyu. He asked Xiyun and Xicai, and they both said they were all right, but they were heavy and lying on the kang.

Cao Yong was a little relieved, but this is not the case.

Chu Yu was fine at noon, but when she was strolling in the yard in the afternoon, her feet slipped.Although Xiyun was supporting her, the baby in her stomach was still a little startled, and her stomach hurt endlessly.Ask the imperial doctor to come and have a look, and prescribed two anti-fetal medicines, which are being raised on the kang at this time.Therefore, when Jinghui was about to leave, she didn't come out to see her off. She only called Xiyun and Xicai to see her off, and called Cao Song, and told him to go and take care of him.

Afraid that her husband would be worried, Chu Yu ordered the waiters in the yard to stop mentioning the matter of delaying the appointment of the imperial physician today.Therefore, Xiyun and Xicai kept it a secret.

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Ministry of punishment, prison.

Gali was wearing prison clothes and knelt on the ground.In just two days, he seemed to be ten years older, with his gray hair falling down.There is no shadow of a big official in the frontier, no different from an ordinary old man.

Lai Du and Zhang Tingshu, two ministers, came in person and announced Kangxi's oral order. The jailer who followed him held a cup of dove wine in his hand.

Gali listened dumbly, and couldn't see any sorrow or joy, but when he heard "Serqi and Gandu were beheaded and executed in autumn", his body shrank all of a sudden.

Although the imperial decree says that everyone has been dealt with, "the family property will be merged into the official", but there is no Jue Luo family's arrangement.Gali raised his head, his eyes were as cloudy as dead fish, and he murmured: "I..."

Things have come to this point, although there are nearly 60 years of mother-child love, but the word "Er Niang" can't say anything.

He paused, and said: "Dare to ask the two adults, old lady, how to arrange the holy will?"

Seeing that Gali was in such a mess, Lai Du felt a little sad.Thinking back when Gali was in its prime, he was the head of the governors of the world, and he was really an important minister of the emperor.Today, because of the mother-killing case, Lai Du can also think about the reason when he sees the attitudes of Kangxi and the eighth elder brother.

He sighed, and said: "According to the investigation, the old lady entered the old house once or twice in the Xinkai alley. It was the property of the dowry back then. The house over there was not confiscated, and it was used as a place for the old lady to retire."

Xu Shi was about to die, and his words were kind, and at the current situation, Ga Li had no resentment in his heart.Hearing the word "dowry", he thought of the property under the name of Jinghui's mother, raised his head and said, "My lord, the land and Zhuangzi under the name of the brother-in-law of the sin minister is also the property of his dowry during his lifetime, not my Dong E family's public property."

Lai Du shook his head and said, "Master Kar, the old lady also asked about that Zhuangzi, but that Zhuangzi was transferred to Mrs. Ling a few days ago, and now it has been confiscated into the government."

Hearing this, Kari couldn't help but smile wryly, really unhappy about retribution.Only after calculating the inheritance of the deceased, we have to go underground to plead guilty.

There was silence in the cell, and Lai Du waited for quite a while, but he did not see Garli speaking again, so he coughed and asked, "Master Gar, do you need someone to give you a lift?"

The so-called "send" is just a nice way of saying it, after all, the imperial decree is "suicide", and the decree can only be revived if he commits suicide.But if the prisoner is afraid of death, the official delivering the decree can't wait all the time, and he must be "sent away".

Gali has been an official for forty years, and he still doesn't understand the key.He raised his head and said: "Thank you, my lord, for your kindness. After the sinner has thanked the heavenly kindness, we will go on the road." Then, he kowtowed three times in the northwest direction, and then took the dove wine from the jailer.

It wasn't until the moment he took the cup that he really felt fear. With trembling hands, he said to Lai Du and Zhang Tingshu: "It's hard to be an upright official, but easy to do a corrupt official, but the sky net is restored...no one...can escape..." As he spoke, his face was full of sadness, he raised his neck, and drank the dove wine in his hand in one gulp.

Seeing that Gali fell to the ground and twitched, Lai Du and Zhang Tingshu couldn't bear to watch any more, and retreated outside the prison.After a cup of tea, Lai Du sent the jailer and his co-worker in for an autopsy, when Ga Li's voice was no longer heard.

After a while, the jailer and Wu made it up and reported that the prisoner had committed suicide.

Lai Du heaved a sigh of relief, waved his hands, called the prison chief over, told him to go to the women's prison, and ordered Ga Li's wife to die...

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Taijichang Avenue, Liambelle Mansion.

Since I will be leaving the city early tomorrow, my eighth elder brother settled early, but I can't sleep if I want to.

He had already heard about Kangxi's handling of the Gali case, but he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.If I had known that the imperial father would have another "grace", I would not follow his conclusion.

But, Huang Ama, do you know the heart of your son?
"Hundreds of goodness and filial piety are the first, and all evils are first." If you can govern the country with "benevolence and filial piety", why don't you believe that your son can also be filial and respectful?

Staring in a daze, he didn't fall into a deep sleep until the sound of the second watch's clapper was heard in the distance...

...his whole body was tightly bound and he couldn't move, and his body was also naked, only covered by a pair of obscene pants. The eighth prince couldn't help but feel ashamed and angry. He raised his head, and was surrounded by people... …

The eldest elder brother is here, the second elder brother is here, and the other prince elder brothers are all there. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Shang Shu, and Du Tong are all familiar faces.

The elder brother's face was as frosty, and he raised his chin and sneered, "Why am I imprisoned, old man, tell me about it? Where did the Taoist priests come from, and who did the witchcraft?"

The second elder brother's expression became even more ferocious, and he pointed to the eighth elder brother and said, "Who can be the crown prince? I am a king and a brother, and you are a minister and a brother, but you commit infidelity and have an unrighteous heart. Is it Brother Xian whom everyone is admiring?"

Hearing all kinds of roaring sounds poured in like an overwhelming mountain, the eighth elder brother only felt a splitting headache.He wanted to reach out and rub his forehead, but he couldn't move...

At this time, a voice was heard from the crowd saying: "As the eldest brother of the prince, Yinhu plots to reserve the throne and murders his own brother. He is extremely unfaithful and unrighteous. He should be executed by Ling Chi, Ling Chi..."

"Cut him, cut him..." The crowd echoed louder and louder.

The eighth elder brother was in a hurry, and said loudly: "I am the son of the Long Live Lord, who dares to touch me..."

The commotion subsided all of a sudden, and the crowd parted left and right to make way for a corridor, and a person walked in with a sneer, and said, "Where is I? I can't move..."

For a moment, the eighth elder brother felt that his mind was torn apart, and said sadly: "Huang Ama..."

At this time, someone said: "Master, wake up, Master, wake up..."

Brother Ba slowly opened his eyes, but felt his face was cold. He reached out to touch it, and at some point his face was covered with tears.

The Eight Fortune Jin Guo Luoluo had already got down to light the lamp, and returned to the kang, with a bit of worry, he said, "Master, is this a nightmare?"

Brother Ba sat up, wiped his face carelessly, and said, "Well, what time is it?"

Ba Fujin touched his pocket watch from under the bed beside the kang and looked at it, saying: "It's the second quarter of the first lunar month (11:30 p.m.). I have to rest for another quarter of an hour, so I should get up now."

The eighth elder brother said: "Changing clothes, I have to rush out of the city in a while!"

This time he followed Rehe, and Bafujin also went with him.She recalled the rumors she heard years ago, squinted her eyes at the eighth elder brother and said, "I'm going, will it delay my good deeds? But I heard that my master has also repaired a garden and wants to hide his beauty in a golden house?"

The eighth elder brother is still thinking about the nightmare just now, but he doesn't know what the sign is.Daomeng is the opposite, so Huang Ama hand-picked him this time to escape the summer heat, is it because he values ​​him?

After half a year of tossing, the eighth elder brother really didn't know what the emperor's father was.There was some fear in his heart, and some anticipation, all kinds of feelings mixed together, it turned out to be an indescribable gloom.

Seeing that he didn't deny it, Ba Fujin's face was a little ugly, so she snorted.

The eighth elder brother came to his senses at this moment, and said blankly: "What good thing?"

Ba Fujin wanted to slap him again, but seeing his withered face, he couldn't bear it suddenly, and said, "Hurry up and wash up!"

There was a reason why she didn't continue to ask.Although someone sent five Jiangnan girls to the eighth elder brother, but after being checked, it was found that the eighth elder brother had transferred those to the ninth elder brother.

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Eighth elder brother was not the only one who got up in the middle of the night, whether it was prince elder brother or civil and military officials, they all had to rush out of the city from Xizhimen at Chouzheng (two o'clock in the morning).

If it was late, and missed the opening and closing of the Xizhimen water gate, I wanted to hurry out of the city, but I couldn't.They all have errands, who would dare to take the guts of a leopard, and delay the errands because of sleeping late.

Xicheng, Cao Mansion, Wutong Garden.

Cao Yong had already got up, and Chu Yu followed suit.Originally Cao Yong stopped her and wanted her to continue sleeping.It's just that after all her husband is going on a long trip, so Chu Yu can't rest assured, so she naturally follows her.

Looking at Chuyu's big belly, Cao Yong recalled yesterday's visit to Cao Yi, and said: "According to the days, my brother-in-law only arrived in Beijing at the end of September last year, and Ping'er's pregnancy period is similar to yours, but her belly is a little smaller .”

Chu Yu recalled that the year before last, when she was pregnant with Tianyou, Cao Yong was always worried about her big belly, and said with a smile: "It's the older child and the younger child. I told the third sister a long time ago. The third sister is the first child, and the belly It’s not easy to grow up.”

After Cao Yong finished washing and changing his official uniform, he walked to Chuyu, touched her stomach, and said, "Whether it's a girl or a boy, this child seems to have weight, but I want to compare Tianyou to the past." , I guess it's worse than Hang Seng..." At the end, he couldn't continue.

Hang Seng was born due to abnormal fetal position and dystocia.

In this era, if the fetus is too large or the fetal position is not correct, it is fatal to the mother.

Cao Yong was afraid of scaring Chu Yu, so he changed the subject and said, "Hang Seng can already sit and climb, don't let him climb on top of you, look at that kid's weight, don't tire you..."

Chu Yu said with a smile: "When the entourage comes back, Hang Seng's birthday will be, and he will be able to walk and learn to talk by then!"

After hearing this, Cao Yong thought of his eldest son Tianyou who was far away in Jiangning.Although Tianyou's recent situation was mentioned every time in his father's family letter, but after all, he couldn't watch him grow up by his side, couldn't teach him to speak, and couldn't say that he didn't have any regrets in his heart.

Although Mrs. Zhao Jia was able to take care of Chu Yu when he came back, Cao Yong was still a little worried and said: "You are heavy now, so you should keep it in the house. It is serious to take good care of your body. Other trivial matters If you can hand it over, hand it over, if you are not at ease, let Zijing make up her mind, and don't tire yourself out."

Chu Yu nodded with a smile, and said, "Don't worry, my son-in-law, Chu Yu knows the importance, and the heirs are always the most important."

After hearing this, Cao Yong shook his head and said, "What is this? How can a child be more important than an adult? I don't worry about you. You must know that I can only rest assured if you are well."

Although there were no rhetoric, just two ordinary words, Chu Yu could hear his concern, she was very warm in her heart, nodded vigorously, and said: "Well, I understand, I will take good care of my body. Outside, it is exposed to the wind and the sun, so you should take care of yourself."

This mention of "wind and sun", Chu Yu remembered something she forgot.When Cao Yong came back last autumn, his face was sunburned, so Yu prepared a moisturizing cream for Cao Yong early this year.Knowing that my husband doesn't like the smell of pollen, someone specially made them and packed them in two small porcelain boxes.

Cao Yong was very surprised when he saw this that Chuyu sent him, and said with a smile: "This is for women, if I wear it on my body and let others see it, wouldn't it be a joke?"

Chu Yu put the two small porcelain boxes into the package containing Cao Yong's change of clothes, and said with a smile, "This is just for moisturizing the skin and has no fragrance. It's sunny on the grassland. It's okay to put some on your forehead, so you don't need to dry it in the sun." Hurt your face. Didn't the forehead come back last year and still complain about being rough and uncomfortable?"

"Last year, I was on a business trip, and I was on the road all day. On this ordinary day, I marched for only three to four hours a day. I walked for thirty to forty miles, and the days were considered leisurely." Cao Yong said.

While speaking, Xiyun had already brought the little girl to set the dinner table.Although it was late at night, there was really no appetite, but the next meal was at night, so Cao Yong still filled a lot.

This morning's red bean paste buns put fennel, with a milky aroma, it is delicious and sweet.Cao Yong ate several, lifted his chopsticks, and asked Xiyun, "Go and ask the kitchen if there is any more. If so, put it in a food box, put some cold cuts, and eat it on the road."

Xi Yun glanced at Chu Yu with a smile, and said, "You still worry about this with your forehead, Ge Ge has already asked the slaves to prepare."

Cao Yong turned his head and asked: "Since you have not been energetic these few days, why do you still worry about these things?"

Chu Yu just laughed and didn't speak.Footsteps came from the yard, it was Amethyst who had arrived.Seeing that she was in better spirits, Cao Yong felt at ease.

Because both Chuyu and Zijing were sick, Cao Yong had to explain again, so that the two could take good care of them.

After saying a few words, seeing that it was late, Cao Yong got up.Chu Yu still wanted to give it away, who would dare to torment her in the middle of the night?

It was Xicai and Xiyan who held Cao Yong's package together with Amethyst and sent Cao Yong out of the yard.

Although we should talk to Mrs. Zhao Jia before leaving, it seems a little inconvenient in the middle of the night.Cao Yong was still hesitating in his heart, so he heard Zijing say: "Master, the second wife's yard is lighting the lamp."

Cao Yong looked up, and there was a faint light coming from Shaoyuan.

When Shaoyuan went to the house, Mrs. Zhao Jia was already waiting, and Cao Song was also there.He got up early because he wanted to send his elder brother off in the front yard, but he came here when he saw his mother lighting a lamp in the yard.

When Cao Yong entered the house, Mrs. Zhao Jia had to give some instructions, and finally explained that there is her in the mansion, so there is no need to worry about the family...

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[-]D update, Xiaojiu begs for a monthly pass, and will continue to work hard tomorrow, eh. . .

(End of this chapter)