Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 517
Although the snow on the side of the road has only melted for a few days and it is still a little cold, walking on the road no longer makes people feel winter cold.

Although it has not yet reached the time when "the willow wind is not blowing on the face", the winter jasmine flowers on the roadside have opened buds, and the willow trees can be seen from a distance, adding a lot of freshness to the gray and gray city. live.

The spring of Kangxi's 54th year came quietly.

People in the capital are most particular about solar terms when they live their lives. Dressing, eating, living, sitting and sleeping all have their own rules and regulations, and there is no chaos at all.

It was warm and cold in the first month, so everyone changed from the big woolen clothes in the twelfth lunar month to small wooly clothes like ermines and squirrels.To eat this piece, you have to eat dumplings with vegetarian fillings, rice cakes, and shredded radish pancakes.

In February, the weather is getting warmer, and the officials, guests and female family members of various prefectures have changed their small woolen clothes and put on "Na silk" or thin woolen clothes.When it comes to food, we also choose to eat fresh and tender ones.

On February [-]nd, when the dragon raises its head, it is time to pay attention to eating spring pancakes.

Han Jiangshi is from the south, and he is used to the lightness of Jiangning cuisine, but he is not used to the greasy food here in Beijing.Even if she went to Beijing, she would bring a cook with her, and she really didn't want to treat her tall stomach badly.

Now, my uncle's house burned down, and I took two maids to live in Cao's mansion, and the other servants stayed in the house over there.The back room was far away from the front, so it was not affected by the fire, and the remaining servants lived there temporarily.

Han Jiangshi had just recovered from her illness in the past few days, Chu Yu made people prepare light side dishes, but seeing that she still had no appetite, she lost weight quickly.

Speaking of age, Han Jiangshi is two or three years older than Chuyu.

Although the two have met several times in the past, they only talked about business and shop, and they have no personal relationship.

Living here now, the Han Jiang family was not at ease at the beginning, always felt that the family of the rich and powerful, even servants and servants would be arrogant.

After all, in this world, doing business is regarded as a cheap profession, and even farmers who plan food in the fields are respected more than their people.

Peasant children, after ten years of poverty, still have a chance to stand out by studying sage books; businessmen, however, are not eligible to take the imperial examination at all.

Although there is no shortage of money in hand, it cannot erase the contempt in the eyes of others.

When she was in Jiangning City, she was still young and saw few outsiders.Although she also suffered a lot due to the property dispute between the Han family and the Jiang family, it was different from the capital city.

In the year in the capital, Han Jiang's family has gained a lot of insight, and the originally aloof and exposed temperament has gradually subsided, and the whole person is much softer.

If you want to talk about the difference between the capital and the south, except that there is more soil and sand in spring and autumn, and it is freezing cold in winter, what makes Han Jiang's most uncomfortable is the increasingly severe cold.

After living in Cao's house for a few days, Han Jiangshi sincerely envied Chu Yu.

Watching her get up early every day, go to greet the elders, and then come back here for dinner, either to deal with housework, or to coax her daughter, do needlework, and gossip with Han Jiangshi.

Today, after she went to greet her father-in-law and mother-in-law, she returned to Wutong Garden.Seeing that Mrs. Han Jiang was staying in the east room, and did not come out to make a living, she invited him to the west room to talk.

Tianhui is already eight months old, just the age to be able to crawl.

Because the eyes can't see, the little guy can't be naughty even though his hands and feet are dishonest.

Most of the time, she stayed there with her hands and feet on the ground, her little head raised, and she was babbling, as if she didn't dare to move her place.

Han Jiangshi sat on the chair on the ground, looked at Tianhui who was like a dough ball on the kang, and then secretly glanced at Chuyu.

Chuyu was sitting on the edge of the kang, looking at her daughter with only joy on her face, and coaxed cheerfully, "Come on, baby, come here, there is something interesting here." As she spoke, she picked up the small rattle that was on hand , shaking from side to side.

In the early days, Cao Yong and Chu Yu sometimes called their daughter "Tianhui", "Huihui" and "Hui'er".

When Jinghui and Ruhui entered the door, it was somewhat inconvenient to talk.

So the husband and wife changed their name and called it "Baby".

The sound of "dong dong dong" rattle drum sounded, and Tianhui's upturned little face also had a smile on her face. Following the sound of the drum, she tentatively crawled towards Chuyu.

Although she crawled slowly and was no more lively than other children, Chuyu was only happy.

When her daughter crawled to her side, she stretched out her hand to hold her daughter in her arms, kissed her, and said, "That's amazing, my good girl, today she crawled faster than the previous two days."

Tianhui was tickled by the kiss, stretched out her little hand, grabbed Chuyu's clothes and laughed.

Seeing their mother and daughter being so close, Han Jiangshi sighed inwardly, but couldn't move his eyes from Tianhui.

Small hands and feet, white and tender, who don't cry or make trouble, are really rare.Even people like Han Jiang who have never had any contact with children are born to like it in their hearts.

Chu Yu finishes coaxing Tianhui.I'm afraid I'm neglecting the guests.

She turned around and said with a bit of guilt: "Look at me, I invite you to come and talk, but I don't have time. After this day, I don't know what I'm busy with, and I will never be free."

Before Han Jiangshi could speak, he heard "dumping" in the outer room.

Han Jiangshi was terrified, and saw the curtain at the door slightly lifted, and two little boys came in, they were Tianyou and Hengsheng.

Han Jiangshi went to Lanyuan with Chu Yu yesterday and met these two little boys.I know that one of them who doesn't like to talk is the adopted son of Cao Yong and his wife; the other who likes to laugh is Cao Li's legitimate son.

The two younger brothers entered the house, paused in front of Han Jiangshi, and looked at their mother with a bit of confusion on their faces.

When Chu Yu saw her, she smiled and said, "What are you still doing, call someone? This is Aunt Han, didn't you meet yesterday?
Tianyou and Hang Seng greeted Han Jiangshi, although they were two brothers who were only three or four years old, but their identities were different, Han Jiangshi couldn't bear it, so he got up to avoid it.

After performing the ceremony, Tianyou and Hang Seng threw off their calves and ran to Chuyu's side to see her sister.

Tianhui was in Chuyu's arms, unaware that she was already so tall that her brothers were watching, she stretched out her arms, and grabbed the air indiscriminately.

When Tianyou saw it, he stretched out a finger and placed it in his sister's palm.

Tianhui clenched her small fists and pulled her brother's fingers as if she had exerted all her strength.

Hang Seng was originally lying on the edge of the Kang, and couldn't see Tianhui in Chuyu's arms, so he couldn't help feeling a little anxious.Tianyou saw him by the side, and tried to pull Hang Seng with his empty hand.

The two little brothers looked very close.If Han Jiangshi hadn't heard about the Cao family, he would have thought they were brothers.

Chu Yu hugged her daughter for a while, her arms felt a little sore.Seeing that Tianhui's strength was also getting weaker and weaker, and she wanted to yawn, she got up and put her daughter back in the rocking car.

Looking at Chuyu's back, Han Jiangshi felt a little empty in his heart.

It seems that everyone else is living a life of hope, but I am thinking about the abacus and account books all day long. Is it possible that I am going to become a miser...

At this time, there was another person coaxing the child in the house, and that was the one who was lying on the kang, resting the child on his belly, asking questions about this and that.

That was Naersu, the king of Pingjun. He left the mansion after breakfast, went to the yamen and ordered a hour, and then came back first.

Seeing her husband's lazy appearance, Cao Jia asked with a smile, "Who is it that you are annoyed with? I am more interested in seeing you in the morning. It's not that I want to exercise my muscles and bones, and I want to take a few children with me." Walking around town?"

After hearing this, Na Ersu waved his hand with a wry smile, and said, "Why are you still strolling around? Now those idle princes and generals, Duke and Duke of Baylor, are preparing to join hands to impeach the eighth prince. If you see someone, you will be dragged away. I am impatient. It’s really meaningless to mix this up.”

About the eighth elder brother, Cao Jia has heard her husband mention it.

It's just that the relationship between the two prefectures is normal, and Cao Jia's family just treats it as a show, and there is no sympathy for it.

It is puzzling why the husband is not on good terms with the eighth elder brother on weekdays, so why he still sighs?Thinking of this, he looked at his husband with some worry.

Seeing that his wife was worried, Neersu rubbed his forehead and said, "It's okay, don't panic, don't worry. I just got the news this morning, and I feel a little uncomfortable.

Seeing what her husband said, Cao Jia said, "Look at how worried the prince is, could it be bad news?"

Naersu sighed, and said: "Although it's not related to us, it's really not good news. I heard that Shuntian Mansion got a secret report and went to Shichahai to arrest people in the middle of the night. It seems that there are more than 20 people, all of whom are young and strong. This morning, Lord Long Live ordered that all these people go to Taiwan."

This can be troubled by the Yamen servants of Shuntian Mansion to come forward, and it will not be a small case. These people are gathered in the inner city, why are they here?
Naersu felt his brain hurt from thinking about it, and then he couldn't help laughing, and said to his wife: "You said I was worried for a long time, is this not worrying about it?" He picked up his daughter on the kang, and lifted it into the air. Lift, and kissed hard twice.

The husband and wife broke the conversation and started talking about today's lunch.

Today, February [-]nd, the dragon raises its head, which is considered a small festival, and the palace has prepared spring dishes.

The Palace is called Spring Pan, but it is actually spring pancakes made by ordinary people outside, but they are made more delicately, and they prepare more meat and vegetable dishes...

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Zhangjiakou, post station.

From the ranch to Zhangjiakou, it took three days of fast horses. Because the weather was fine for the return journey, Cao Yong arrived last night.
After driving for three days, everyone was tired, and the return journey did not need to be that fast, so Cao Yong rested in Zhangjiakou for a day.

When he arrived at the post station, Cao Yong was not in the mood to rest, so he immediately sent Xiaoman to find Cui Fei, the foreign steward of Prince Jane's mansion.

Cui Fei was flattered to hear that Cao Yong personally intervened and sent someone to call him over.

When he came out of Cao Yong's room, he was in a daze, as if he couldn't make up his mind.

Cao Yong was the only one left in the room. He was sitting on a chair, blaming himself for being "unkind" in his heart.

Although it is a profitable business, it can be regarded as eating from the bowl of the Mongolian prince, and those who offend will go to sea.

Cao Yong has always had a bad heart, but he has no bad courage.I sympathize with the suffering of the herdsmen in Chahar, but I have no thought of sacrificing myself for others.

There is an iron hat on Prince Jane's head, like a tortoise shell, naturally it is not comparable to Cao Yong's weight.

Looking at Cui Fei's appearance, he doesn't look like a straightforward person. He is afraid that he dare not make up his mind and wants to go back to Beijing to ask his master.

Cao Yong is thinking.Then I heard Xiaoman say outside: "Master, the food is ready."

Besides Xiao Man, there was also Wei Hei carrying a huge cooked pig's head, who seemed to have just returned from a trip.

He held up the pig's head and said with a smile: "My lord, it's February [-]nd today, I can make do with everything else, why do I have to eat two bites of this pig's head?" Saying this, he handed the pig's head to Xiao Man, Let him take it and cut it cold.

"It's the second day of junior high school. I'm living a good life. If Brother Wei doesn't mention it, I'm afraid I won't remember it." Cao Yong replied.

Cao Yong estimated the date in his heart, since he left Beijing last month, more than half a month has passed.

The Taipusi Ranch is farther than the Eight Banners Ranch. Cao Yong has come back from the Taipusi Ranch. Why haven't the people from the Ministry of War come back?

Others don't know that Taipu Temple is similar to Baqi Ranch, and they are all insiders.

Speaking of the Eight Banners Ranch, the most difficult thing now is to hand over the more than half-damaged booklets, right?

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Capital City, Changchun Garden, Qingxi Bookstore.

In addition to Kangxi, there were several great scholars who stood up with the Minister, and there was a complete silence.

Yesterday, the Governor of Water Transport.The news of Lang Tingji's death spread to the capital, and now these courtiers are summoned, and Kangxi is for this candidate for the chief Cao.

Kangxi sat on the kang, with the officials' documents in hand.He just wanted to be recommended by the ministers, but when he thought of the word "recommended", he felt uncomfortable, so he lowered his head and continued to look at the file in his hand...

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Tears, the second watch tomorrow, with a fever of 37:2, still 0:3 away from the warning line, if it doesn’t come down tomorrow morning, I will go to eat a national meal on the [-]th. . .

(End of this chapter)