Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 430: Dragon Dance Feast

Because today is the niece's full moon, Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang brothers both rushed back from Haidian.Seeing Cao Yong coming back from fighting Rehe, the two brothers were also somewhat happy.

Seeing the gift from Wanyan's family, Cao Song remembered Li Wei's visit, quietly told Cao Yong, and mentioned the 500 taels of silver.

Cao Yong heard that Li Wei was visiting, so he asked carefully, and was very curious about him.Looking at his age and temperament, this Li Wei really has a bit of chivalry, maybe he is the "model governor" of the Yongzheng Dynasty.

I heard that Dong E Jinghui's grandparents and grandchildren were living in distress, but Cao Yong didn't care about the money Cao Song took to help.It's just that with Jue Luo's temper, he may not be willing to be helped.

Cao Yong patted Cao Song on the shoulder and said: "The title of the ancestor Jinghui has been changed, and now it is just a family of ordinary people. Both of their grandparents and grandchildren have no spare money. I am afraid that you want to ask for this marriage. Two There will be even greater resistance on the aunt's side. After all, men and women are different. Before the status is determined, you should act more properly, and don't make any tongue-in-cheek, which will tarnish Jinghui's reputation."

Cao Song looked embarrassed, but couldn't speak.

Seeing that Cao Yong's face was a little pale, Cao Song was afraid that his brother would be tired, so he asked Cao Yong to sit in the front hall, and he took his two brothers to welcome guests in the yard.

Many guests also came to the front hall, Cao Yong nodded, and before he could go to the front hall, someone laughed and said: "Fu Ruo? It's really you who came back, it's just a coincidence for me to come!"

However, Yidu, the Shaoqing of Taipusi, arrived. He got off his horse, handed the reins to the boy, took two steps forward, looked Cao Yong up and down carefully, nodded and said: "It's okay, just look at it more clearly. , the spirit is overwhelmed!"

Brothers Cao Song, Cao Shuo, and Cao Xiang stood behind Cao Yong. When they saw Yi Duli, they hurriedly greeted each other and said, "Sixth Uncle, hello!"

Yiduli's first wife is Zhaojia's cousin, Malhan's sixth daughter.Speaking of which, he is the cousin of Brother Cao Song.

Yi Duli waved at Cao Song and the others, motioned them to stand up, and said to Cao Song with a smile: "Listen to your aunt, your mother will marry you when you are filial piety, haha, you are twenty, and you are old enough to marry a wife .”

Cao Song's face was red, he lowered his head and muttered, not knowing what he was muttering.

Yi Duli turned around, went into the yard with Cao Yong and said, "I thought you hadn't come back yet, so I just sent your aunt to congratulate you, but in the morning, I saw people from your house go to the yamen to get the residence report. I just realized that you arrived in Beijing yesterday." Speaking of this, with a bit of worry, he lowered his voice and said: "What's going on? I have two cousins ​​who are also in Rehe, and I wrote about this. The matter is different, but the words are different, Fu Ruo offended someone?"

Cao Yong took a look at Yiduli, and he couldn't understand whether Yiduli was kissing the thirteenth elder brother or the fourteenth elder brother.Seeing him laughing and laughing on weekdays, he is very affectionate with everyone.

Therefore, he was also vague and said: "It's just bad luck, I just happened to be dragged by the Sixteenth Lord to surround me, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten into this."

While talking, the two entered the hall.There are mostly young people in the room, because not everyone knows the news of Cao Yong's return to Beijing, so there are not as many male guests as there are female guests.

After finishing the gossip, Yi Duli remembered that he hadn't congratulated him yet, and said to Cao Yong with a smile: "Fu Ruo is only at the age of a weak crown, and now he has both sons and daughters. I really envy others!"

Brothers Fengde and Fengche saw their uncle coming, they all got up and saluted to say hello.

After waiting in front of the younger elder brothers of Prince Chun's Mansion, it was Yi Duli who came to perform the ceremony...

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Not to mention the male guests in the front yard, let’s talk about the female guests in the second gate. After seeing the children in Wutong Garden, the older and senior ones went to Zhaojia’s Shaoyuan to talk, while the younger ones stayed in Wutong Garden to accompany the children. Yu.

Except Chunjun Prince's Mansion and Ping County Prince's Mansion got Xin'er earlier, knowing that the child's eyes were a little strange, the others were all amazed when they saw Tian Hui.

Although they also said auspicious words in their mouths, many people's expressions were a little stiff.

Chu Yu accompanied the guest with a smile, just pretending not to know.

Cao Jia's three aunts, Cao Yi and Cao Yan, treated her niece differently from other relatives.

Cao Jia was afraid that Chu Yu would feel uncomfortable, so she just didn't know what was wrong with her niece, so she hugged her, kissed her twice, and said with a smile, "You are so handsome, it's only full moon, so you can see that she is a little beauty. Look at this The little mouth is pouted, we Tianhui are ashamed!"

When Chuyu gave birth, Cao Yi was confinement, so he didn't come to visit, but it was also heard that the child was born after a few days of tossing.She took Chuyu's hand and said, "Sister-in-law, Tianhui is considered blessed to have her elder brother and sister-in-law to protect her."

Cao Yan is not as eloquent as Cao Jiashi and Cao Yi, so she can only forcefully smile and say, "Third sister is right!"

Among the young women present, besides the three Cao family sisters, were Yongqing's wife Qi Jiashi, Chuyu's younger sister-in-law Borzijitshi, and the daughters-in-law of Tong Fengde and Fengche brothers.Zhaojia Ruhui was also there, following the two sister-in-laws, listening to everyone talking.

Seeing that everyone was talking cautiously, Ruhui felt a little bored, leaned over, stood beside Cao Jiashi, looked at Tianhui, stretched out her fingertips, touched her little face, and said, "My name It’s the same word as son, from now on, it’s designated to be a smart girl doll!”

Cao Jia saw that the child had dozed off, so she called her nurse over and waited for the child to nurse.

After hearing Ruhui's words, Cao Jia turned her head to look at her, and jokingly said, "Is this a compliment to my cousin's daughter, or to myself? I heard that something good is coming for my cousin, but I need to change her name in the future!"

Ruhui was blushed by the words, and said in a low voice: "I'll go and see my mother-in-law and my aunt!" Before she finished speaking, she had already rushed out.

Everyone in the room laughed, and Mrs. Fengde said with a smile: "This is to say kiss after all, I know I'm ashamed."

Cao Jia has heard people say that Zhao Jia wants to tell Cao Song about Ruhui.Although the family of the minister's family is worthy of the Cao family, this Ruhui's speech and behavior are not as quiet as ordinary ladies, and her temper is a bit jumpy. It is not appropriate for the second daughter-in-law.

It's just that, after all, this is a matter of the second wife, and Zhao Jia's family is in charge, so naturally it's not her, the married cousin, who speaks.

I heard that the Minister's Mansion didn't take a fancy to Cao Song at first, but since Mrs. Minister's wife is able to bring her daughter here, she must be somewhat willing.

Because of Tianhui's matter, Chu Yu was not in the mood to pay attention to other things, she just forced a smile and listened to everyone's words.

But Ruhui came out of Wutong Garden quickly, biting her lip, feeling ashamed and regretful in her heart.It was just because she thought she was bored in the mansion that she accompanied Er Niang over for dinner.

She has no idea about her aunt's marriage proposal.This important marriage matter, how can she have her own speech, isn't it all "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker", who can do it by himself?
After all, she didn't think too much. The relatives of the two families must have known about the marriage. Wouldn't it be shameless for her to come to drink with her mother like this?
The more Ruhui thought about it, the more embarrassed she became, and she was already a little annoyed. She wanted to go to Shaoyuan quickly, but she said she was not feeling well, so she dragged her mother back first.

Thinking of this in her heart, her steps became faster and she was about to reach the gate of Shao Yuan.Her personal servant girl followed behind, already out of breath, seeing that the young lady was about to bump into someone, she hurriedly said: "Miss..."

But it was already too late, just hearing "Ouch", Ruhui staggered and sat on the ground.She only felt pain in her ankle, which was so painful that tears were about to come out.

Ruhui raised her head, the one who was holding her nose and looking awkward, wasn't her third cousin Cao Shuo, who was it?
Ruhui was furious immediately, and said angrily, "Are you blind and hit someone?"

Cao Shuo covered his nose, but he didn't feel well either.He and his younger brother were accompanying guests in the front yard, but someone sent a message through the second door, saying that it was the second wife's intention to ask their brothers to come over to say hello to their aunts and aunts.

However, when Cao Song heard the word "aunt", his head grew big, and he sent his two younger brothers over, but he found an excuse in confusion and stayed in the front yard.

Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang, one sixteen and one fourteen, impatiently joined the group of female relatives.But there was no other way, since the mother had already spoken, they could only come here reluctantly.

At the gate of the Shaoyuan, Cao Shuo saw a girl in a flag dress walking towards her with her head bowed. She didn't know whose family it was, and was thinking about leading her younger brother to avoid him, but was bumped into his arms.

Ruhui was already tall, and she was wearing a flower pot bottom, she lowered her head and bumped into Cao Shuo's nose.

Cao Shuo only felt that his nose was sore and wet, and blood was already coming out.He was still astonished, and only when he heard the scolding sound did he recognize it was his cousin.

When he first came to Beijing last year, Mrs. Zhao Jia took his brothers to the Shilang's Mansion.Although they are close relatives, men and women are different after all, so Cao Shuo has only met this cousin.

Today, this cousin is still beautiful, but her eyebrows are erect and her eyes are fierce, and Cao Shuo only thinks of one sentence, that is, "It is difficult to raise a villain and a woman".

However, he has read sage books since he was a child, and he has no reason to care about women when things happen, so he said awkwardly: "Cousin..."

Ruhui only felt a sharp pain in her ankle, she raised her head to look at her aunt's yard, and then looked back at Wutong Garden.Now, there are customers in both places, and it is embarrassing for her to be in such a mess.

She grabbed the servant girl's hand and wanted to stand up, but how could she stand?
She stretched out her hand, pointed at Cao Shuo, and said, "You, why don't you quickly call two women to carry me, are you going to let me sit like this?"

Cao Shuo nodded hurriedly after hearing this, and wanted to go to Wutong Garden, but Ruhui immediately called to stop him, saying: "Auntie's house is full of guests, are you trying to shame me on purpose? Hurry up and call someone else to help me find a place Take a look at the wound in a quiet place?"

Cao Shuo felt his scalp tingling and was thinking where to call for someone, when two women came from the kitchen.Cao Shuo hurriedly called over and asked them to help Ruhui up.

Since they wanted a quiet place, neither Wutong Garden nor Shaoyuan could do it. Cao Shuo couldn't help it for a while, and Ruhui pressed him, so he asked the two women to help Ruhui go to Sunflower Courtyard.He and Cao Xiang didn't bother to go to pay their respects to their aunt and aunt first, so they went with them.

Hang Seng was carried by his wife to Wutong Garden, while Wu En stayed here with a little girl to look after the house.

Seeing the two masters leading a girl in, although Wu En was surprised, he hurriedly greeted Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang.

After entering the upper room, Ruhui saw the cradle on the kang, frowned and asked, "Whose room is this?"

Cao Shuo replied: "Originally it was my elder brother's old house, and later my fifth younger sister lived in it. Because my sister-in-law gave birth, my nephew Hang Seng is also in this yard now."

Ruhui heard that it was her cousin's house, so it looked better on the surface.

Because he didn't know how her injury was, Cao Shuo sent Wu En to invite Amethyst over.

After a while, Zijing came back in a hurry, saw Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang here, and said: "Third Master, Fourth Master, just now the Second Wife sent several people to the second gate, and told you to go quickly." I saw a person sitting on the kang, but I didn't see it.

Cao Shuo was also afraid of his mother's nagging, so he turned sideways and said to Zijing: "Sister Zijing, this is my uncle's cousin, she seems to have sprained her ankle, please send someone to ask a doctor to come and have a look. Go with the fourth brother to pay respects to the aunts."

Zijing has also heard about Zhao Jia's request to marry her niece from her natal family as the eldest daughter-in-law.

"It turned out to be Miss Biao!" Zijing blessed Ru Hui, and then said to Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang: "Third Master and Fourth Master, hurry up, so as not to make Second Mistress wait in a hurry, this servant will send someone to invite the imperial physician, both of you Grandpa don't have to worry."

"Yes!" Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang both agreed, and bid farewell to Ru Hui before walking away quickly.

Ruhui was already annoyed, seeing that Zijing was well dressed, Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang were still so respectful, they thought they were relatives, but unexpectedly they were slaves.

If so, Cao Shuo should have introduced Zijing to her first, so why would he introduce her to his servants first?Could it be that the servants of the Earl's Mansion are superior to others, more honorable than her, the lady of the Minister's Mansion?
Ruhui didn't know whether Cao Shuo had forgotten etiquette in a panic, or deliberately humiliated her, but felt angry and hated...

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Front yard, living room.

Cao Yong was talking with Yi Duli when the big steward Cao Zhong came in and replied: "Master, the fourteenth elder brother and the second master Tong Sheng are here, just arrived at the gate, look..."

It's not unusual for Yongsheng to come, why is he still following a fourteenth elder brother...

(End of this chapter)