Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 531

Cao's house, Dongfu, Xikuayuan.

Tian Xiang stood there, not daring to move.Seeing Ruhui's eyes fall on her lower abdomen, she couldn't help but tremble, her face gradually lost color, and she was a little unsteady.

With a body of more than three months, it is not obvious at all, and it is covered with a loose gown, so nothing can be seen.

Among Cao Shuo's girls, Tian Xiang is the oldest and has served Cao Shuo the longest.Her appearance is just mediocre, not very talkative, with low eyebrows, she looks like an honest person.

Thinking of the child she had lost, Ruhui gritted her teeth hard, feeling like a needle was pricking her heart.

This dispute starts with the child and ends with the child.She didn't want to be wronged and be a cheap mother, but she lost her child by accident.

Nanny Tao followed Ruhui, seeing the unpredictable changes in her face, she was a little worried, and called out in a low voice, "Miss?"

"En!" Ru Hui responded, seeing Tian Xiang's fear, with a bit of a wry smile on her face, she opened her mouth to say something, but felt her interest faded.

She turned and went out, feeling really ridiculous.

Three months ago, she boarded the sedan chair full of dissatisfaction; three months later, who else would she complain about?

Standing in the yard, Ruhui looked up at the pomegranate tree in front of the hall.

Dotted among the green leaves are delicate flower buds, and on the sunny branches, several pomegranate flowers have already bloomed, which are bright red.

Except for the 20 days when she returned to her mother's house to live in the same month, she lived in this yard for more than two months, half of which was bedridden.Mrs. Zhao Jia only thought that she was suffering from an old illness, and aside from having come to see her twice in person, she was usually greeted with greetings.

Seeing that Zhao Jia's speech is a bit confusing and forgetful, Ru Hui feels even more regretful.

Ruhui's servant girls have packed up her belongings and came out from the upper room.

Ruhui looked away from the pomegranate tree, looked at the carved window lattice of the upper room, and took Tao Nanny and two maids to Zhaojia's room.The dowry maids are four in total, two stay here to look after the house, and two serve her back to the province.

Mrs. Zhao Jia had already been waiting in the room. When she saw Ru Hui coming in, she hurriedly greeted her to sit down by the kang.Jinghui stood beside her, and when she saw Ruhui, she nodded, and Ruhui nodded in return.

Ruhui was wearing a bright red flag dress, with two pomegranate flowers inlaid with gold and coral on her head. This dress looked very festive.She entered the door in March, she is still a bride, and she is dressed like this.

However, the brand-new flag dress looked a little loose, and the red all over her body reflected the paleness of her face more and more.

Zhao Jia took her hand, rubbed it on her wrist, looked skinny, raised her head, and complained to Jinghui who was on the side: "Didn't I tell you to go through a few times, be careful, look at it Your brother and sister are skinny, you sister-in-law, you are so cruel."

Jing Hui listened, but said nothing.

Ru Hui felt a little embarrassed, and said to Zhao Jia: "Don't do anything about my cousin, who sends bird's nests to the kitchen every day, but I don't grow fat myself."

"Cousin?" Zhao Jia was startled, then shook her head, and said with a smile, "This child has been in the house for three months, and she still can't change her words. She's already a daughter-in-law. There's nothing to be ashamed of."

Ruhui didn't answer, but stood up, like a green onion, and bowed in a polite manner.

Mrs. Zhao Jia was still smiling, but seeing Ruhui's solemnity, she gave a "cough" and suppressed her smile, and brought out her mother-in-law's score, and said, "Get up, go back this time, so I can talk to your mother-in-law." Just like what I said, I haven’t seen her for a long time, so I ask her to visit her when she has time. Go early and come back early. Just now, your sister-in-law said that the kitchen has bought some new wild vegetables and came back, and she will eat shepherd’s purse in the afternoon. At that time, Ask the kitchen to wrap an extra curtain and leave it for you for supper."

The wound on her face has already healed, even the bridge of the nose, if you look at it from the front, it is not obvious.Just looking at it from the side, you can still see the ups and downs.

Ruhui's eyes couldn't help but feel sour when she heard that she was speaking in a tone at the front, but she was sincere in the back.

There are two aunts and nephews, close relatives of flesh and blood, with similar faces.For this reason, Mrs. Zhao Jia once proudly said that the two are like mother-in-law.

Ruhui couldn't help laughing, what are you doing?Have you reformed yourself?
I thought it was the Cao family who owed me, but now that I was leaving, I found that I owed the debt too.

The first two sent people to send letters to the Minister's Mansion, and the Minister's Mansion had already sent a car to pick them up, and the two nuns who followed were waiting at Zhaojia's side.

After paying respects to Mrs. Zhaojia, Ruhui didn't stay long, and went with her maid.Jinghui took several daughter-in-laws in charge and sent Ruhui outside the second gate.

There are two carriages parked here, the front one is more gorgeous.The accompanying nun has already taken the small stool in the car, and invites Ruhui to get in the car.

Ruhui turned around and bowed to Jinghui.

Jinghui hurriedly stretched out her hand to support her, and said with a bit of sentimentality: "This..."

Jinghui had already noticed that Huimeng was about to leave her mind, and she hesitated whether to tell her husband or not.

However, after more than a month of getting along, seeing that Cao Shuo and Ruhui were relatively silent, Jinghui still decided to pretend not to know.

In the past, Ruhui was wrong, but she also lost a child.

Her health is not good, and this miscarriage is a lot of wear and tear. If she can't get rid of her heart disease, she will be depressed here in the mansion, and she will be haggard.

After thinking about it again and again, Jinghui still decided to pretend not to know and didn't mention it to anyone.

Seeing her worshiping her mother-in-law and her height today, she was already in a decisive state, Jinghui felt a little sore in her heart, and her eye circles were already red.

Ruhui didn't stop, she only got up after praying.

Then, she reached out her hand from her head, took off the two pomegranate hairpins, put them in Jinghui's hands, and said with a smile: "This is my favorite hairpin, and it suits the occasion when I wear it now. Don't dislike it, cousin."

Could it be that Jinghui is willing to take away the person she loves, just about to give in, Ruhui has already grabbed her sleeve and said in a low voice: "I was wrong earlier, these days, thank you for taking care of me, I will remember this kindness. I don't want to cause Ama, Er Niang and Gu Gu to have a rift because of me, please help me keep that matter a secret." At the end of the speech, it was already inaudible.

She had already put away the smile on her face, only pleading was left on her face and eyes.

Jinghui nodded, and took off two hairpins from her head, and helped Ruhui insert them carefully.The pattern of the hairpin is a silk-wrapped golden bat holding a gourd, implying "blessing".

The mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law next to each other were puzzled when they saw the appearance of the sisters-in-law.

It's just going back to the province, go early and come back at night, why do you look so hard to part?
The two nuns from the servant's mansion looked at each other and thought about it. The girl seemed to have lost her spirit, but she was in good spirits.It seems that my wife made the right arrangement, and enjoy the blessings of being the daughter-in-law of the Cao family.

Ruhui was accompanied by Nanny Tao to get into the front carriage, and the others sat in the back. As soon as they left the mansion, someone said: "Is it time to start?"

It was Cao Shuo's voice, and Ruhui's eyes rolled down. After all, it was her husband, her first man.Non-vegetation, ruthless Practice makes perfect?

Through the curtain, Ruhui smiled and asked, "Didn't you go to school?"

Cao Shuo replied through the curtain: "I asked Mr. Rentong to ask for leave, and I will see you off before going there."

Ruhui wiped the tears from her face with her hand, and said, "What is there to give? What are you tossing about?"

Outside the carriage, Cao Shuo said after a while, "Let's go?"

Ruhui bit her lip, said "um", with a smile on her face, but it made her heart sadder.

Seeing her like this, Nanny Tao was so distressed that she took her hand and wiped her tears with a handkerchief...

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Outside the gate of Qianqing, the Great Court will be held.

Under the Qianqing sect, Kangxi sat on the throne, extremely majestic.Princes, ministers, civil and military officials all lined up according to their ranks.

Then a servant stepped forward and raised his voice: "Long live Lord, the cabinet bachelor, where are the six ministers?"

As soon as the voice fell, more than ten officials came out of the queue and walked to the middle corridor.The great scholar was in front, and the six ministers were behind. They all knelt together and said: "The minister (slave) is here!"

The servant had already retreated once, and he heard Kangxi say: "The eclipse of the sun and the moon have been eclipsed recently, and there are warnings of mountain torrents. Anything related to the national economy and people's livelihood, or something that should be done, you will discuss it with Jiuqing in detail."

The news of the flood in the Yangtze River has spread to Beijing for several days, and everyone has already thought of this festival.

Kangxi paid the most attention to reputation, so why would he write an imperial edict for this? Naturally, he wanted to shift the responsibility to the minister.

No one dares to promise. If this promise is made, he will be known all over the world as a person who "disasters the country and the people", and his future will be ruined.

Besides, everyone paid attention to it. All the regulations of the imperial court were made by the emperor.

Even if he wanted to be loyal to his subordinates and share the worries of the lord, no one dared to say that these regulations were wrong. Wouldn't this be a direct slap in the face of the emperor? Would he still want to live?

Thinking of this, everyone naturally stiffened their hair, bowed their heads and said: "Long live Lord, there is really nothing that can be changed in current political affairs."

When Kangxi heard the words, his expression eased a little, and he didn't tell these people to retreat, he said: "The world has been peaceful for a long time. Since ancient times, there will be troubles after a long period of peace. Today, the ministers of the ministries and the governors of the provinces are gradually delaying Yu..."

At the beginning, Kangxi was a little eloquent, and the more he spoke, the more angry he became, and the more he spoke, the louder he stood up from the throne: "You should all understand my intention of being cautious to the end as before, and we will share the long-term peace and long-term governance together." Karma. As for all praises, they are useless. I have seen that there are too many words of praise recently, so they should be stopped. Everything should be pragmatic, why should we advocate empty words..."

When the emperor is sitting, everyone can stand with his bow; since the emperor has stood up, the princes and officials are all dwarfed.

Kangxi didn't look the same as everyone else, and his voice became colder, scolding everything from the letters between courtiers, teachers and students, to the current fashion of annotating books.

Cao Yong knelt among the officials, but it was a bit funny in his heart.

After all, it is a place that has been in business for more than 50 years. This hand diverts attention well.First, he stated that he attached importance to "Heaven's warning", then he erased his suspicions through the mouths of academicians and ministers, and finally reprimanded several official customs in succession.

The style of chanting sages, exaggerating reputations, and annotating books are all chronic diseases in the officialdom. How can they be solved with a few sentences?
With Kangxi's reprimand, most of the courtiers were afraid that they would have no idea, wondering whether they were rejected by the emperor, and who would care about the changes of the sun, moon and stars.

In this way, the major incidents are reduced to minor ones, and according to the precedents in the early years, randomly find a few officials to have an outburst, and the incident is considered to be over.

Since I was implicated by the ranch and was going to be attacked, I couldn't guarantee it was this time...

Kangxi was still eloquent, but the courtiers below couldn't stand it any longer. They heard a "plop", and some people had fainted and fell to the ground.

Everyone got up in the middle of the night and waited outside the Taihe Gate. When the time came, they stood and knelt outside the Qianqing Gate for a long time.The younger ones are not in the way, but the older ones are all staring at each other, holding back, and finally can't help it.

The person who fell to the ground was the cabinet scholar Da Lihu, lying there, motionless, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Kangxi was speaking happily, but his interest was aroused, and his face was already ugly.

He returned to the throne, looked down at the kneeling courtiers, and whispered to the servant next to him: "Go and announce the imperial physician."

The waiter's voice went away, and Kangxi looked at his courtier again, just in time to see the third elder brother wiping his sweat with his sleeve.There was a little more mockery in his eyes, and he was afraid that this son who loves to repair books would start to sleep restlessly.

When Cao Yong heard the sound of someone falling, he glanced at his father worriedly, and felt relieved when he saw that it wasn't him.

At this time, I heard the servant shouting "Sanchao" loudly, and Cao Yong knelt down with everyone.

The university scholar who fell to the ground had already been sent away by the waiter, and the other aged adults got up unsteadily, looking very pitiful.

Compared with those seventy and eighty-year-old officials and clans, Cao Yin is still young.

Cao Yong saw that his father looked fine, so he didn't go there, turned around and wanted to go back to the Yamen, but someone laughed and said: "Cao Yong, I will work as a servant in the Yamen in the future, and I will have a good drink with my master some other day... ..."

Cao Yong turned his head back, his face was as usual, but he couldn't help being stunned...

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Quack, what's the next position, let's guess
(End of this chapter)