Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 805
Li Hanyu, Li Cheng and Cao Yong met each other in their early years.Goodbye now, I can only feel that life is like water and time flies.The last time I saw their siblings was in the 49th year of Kangxi.At that time, Li Cheng was just a three-year-old boy, and Li Hanyu was just a little girl about the same age as Niu Niu.

Unlike Li Nai's honesty and dullness, Li Cheng is not very old, but he looks very aura.While speaking, he kept the etiquette, but also showed closeness to the elders, which aroused Li Shi's love and affection, and he wished to hug her in his arms like a heart.

The Li family will always be Cao Yong's heart disease.

However, seeing Li Shi so happy in front of him, Cao Yong couldn't help but soften a little in his heart.

According to the clues left in history, the Li family's biggest mistake was standing in the wrong team, right?Now that the eighth elder brother has passed away, and the "eighth master party" has disappeared, will the Li family also escape?
Cao Yong thought of the nine elder brothers who disturbed the muddy water, and his heart was quite heavy.

That night, when a banquet was held to welcome the three of Li's father and son, Cao Yong asked about Li Nai.It's nothing more than which mansion to go to say hello to, what does the uncle have to say, and so on.

Li Nai is not a scheming person, and he didn't hide Cao Yong's intentions. In a few words, he explained the true meaning of his father's order to go to Beijing.In addition to sending her daughter to be married, she also wanted to find a way to become an official with grace.

Because Li Xu is well-known for his popularity, he has many contacts with the prince's mansions in the capital.In addition to the Jiubeizi Mansion, I also want to pay my respects to the San Age Mansion.

When Cao Yong heard it, he knew it well.This Li Xu still didn't give up, his idea was to sit on the fence.

Who doesn't know that the ninth elder brother is now the spokesperson of the fourteenth elder brother; and the third elder brother is the "leader" and can be regarded as one of the candidates for the reserve position.

Cao Yong sighed in his heart, but he didn't know what to say.

Since he came here by order, it's not like a few words from an outsider can make Li Nai change his mind.

"Big cousin wants to become an official, do you want to seek a foreign official, or a Beijing official?" Cao Yong asked.

Speaking of which, Li Nai is almost old.Other sons of officials and eunuchs, at his age, no matter whether he was promoted through the imperial examination or donated to an official position, he should have become an official long ago.

"Father means that he wants me to seek an official in the capital." Li Nai said, "Father said that the Li family will not always work in weaving. After...then, there will always be a day to return to Beijing. But it is really necessary to wait. , donate the crown first and then talk about it.”

This can be regarded as plain words, Cao Yong hesitated in his heart, whether to persuade this cousin to add Si Age's mansion when he is in the capital.However, thinking about the thirteen elder brother's invitation to the mansion a few days ago, Cao Yong stopped talking about the meaning behind the words.

If you talk too much, you will lose, and the fourth elder brother is very easy to be suspicious.

A meal can be regarded as a feast for the guests and host.

In Li Nai's heart, he was very close to his cousin Cao Yong, and he still felt grateful for his "seeking people out of righteousness" a few years ago.

After dinner, as the night grew darker, Li Nai and his son took their leave.

Mrs. Li knew that since her nephew came to Beijing, he had to visit relatives and friends, so he did not keep him.It's just that Li Hanyu, the grandniece, won't let her go without saying anything, and wants to stay in this mansion for a few days.

There is no hostess in Li's mansion in the capital, so Li Nai is also fully willing to keep his daughter in Cao's mansion to learn the rules.

In this way, Li Hanyu lived in Cao Mansion.

In this way, the trip of the Cao family to Changping Zhuangzi will be delayed.

Both Cao Yan and Cao Yi have been married for many years, and it is rare to have a girl who is waiting to be married by their side, and they are close relatives of flesh and blood. Mrs. Li has to ask someone to cut new clothes for her niece and granddaughter, buy new jewelry, and add makeup for her, but she is very busy. It's fun.

Cao Yong and Chu Yu were afraid that she would be idle and sentimental, and they were happy to see something divert her attention.

Li Hanyu and his younger brother Li Cheng's cleverness reveals completely different temperaments, very much like his father Li Nai, honest and honest.For this reason, even Chuyu loves her a little more.

When Li Nai went to Beijing to seek an official, apart from paving the way for the Li family to return to Beijing, the key was the daughter's marriage.

Although the Li family's betrothed family is not a dignitary of the Eight Banners, it is a famous family among the famous ones. It is the family of Fan Wencheng, the founding minister of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The Fan family is from the Yellow Banner of the Han Army, and they have a very good personal relationship with Li Xu. This is the grandson of Fan Wencheng, Fan Shichong, who was formerly the censor of Zuodu in the Inspectorate of Fujian and Zhejiang.

The one who has a marriage contract with Li Hanyu is Fan Yongwen, the second grandson of Fan Shichong. He is the same age as Li Hanyu, and he was a candidate in the 56th year of Kangxi. He failed in the general examination last spring.

The Cheng family has several generations of dignitaries, which is different from the coated family like the Li family.Li Xu's marriage with his family can be regarded as a "married girl from a high family".

Although Fan Yongwen's father died young and lived with his grandfather, but since the Li family married a daughter to the Fan family, Li Nai, the father, couldn't afford to use the name of a supervisor to send off his relatives.

Even if there is no real shortage, the official title must be donated so as to make arrangements for marriage.

Cao Yong has heard about the Fan family for a long time, and he also heard his father talk about the "loyalty" of several generations of the Fan family to the court.

At that time, Cao Yong disapproved in his heart.After all, Fan Wencheng is a Han Chinese.As a Han Chinese, he assisted Huang Taiji in conquering the world, and finally took over the country of the Han people. Hundreds of years later, he would be scolded as a "big traitor".

Cao Yong just thought of his daughter Tianhui because Li Hanyu was waiting to be married.

"Golden Married Girl", "Golden Married Girl", still don't know whose family the daughter will fall into in the future.Thinking about it, I feel unbearable.

Mrs. Li spent half a month planning, and the new clothes for her grandniece were cut, and the jewelry was finished, and it was the beginning of March.

The spring was bright and the weather was fine. Mrs. Li couldn't help but feel a little tempted when she thought of the matter of going to Changping Villa for a short stay mentioned by her son and daughter-in-law earlier.

Here to clean up again, Li Nai went to Cao's house again before the trip was completed.

This time, it was not to greet Li Shi, but to come here specially to find Cao Yong.

After half a month's work, Li Nai became haggard a lot.When Cao Yong saw this, he was a little puzzled. As far as he knew, the matter of donating officials was considered a complete success, and now Li Nai is already an alternate magistrate.

Although it is not really lacking, but the top wear of the fourth rank is real, and the process of marrying a daughter can be regarded as a passable one.

"Cousin...everyone says family ugliness should not be publicized, but Brother Yu has something really embarrassing right now, and he has to ask aunt and cousin to deal with it." Li Nai blushed, hesitated for a while, and said to Cao Yong.

Seeing him like this, Cao Yong didn't dare to directly agree, saying: "Cousin, tell me, what else can we bother our wife? They are not outsiders. If they can help, I have nothing to say."

If he can't help, he doesn't think he can handle the porcelain work.

"Hey! Hey!" Li Nai sighed twice, shook his head and said, "I really don't know where to start, it's like a joke."

Next, he said why.

Cao Yong was dumbfounded and felt like a legend.

It turned out that Li Nai took his son to the house of his brother-in-law Sun Jue the next day after he entered Beijing.When Sun Jue called out his children to greet Li Nai, Li Nai realized something was wrong.

Sun Jue's twin sons are quite similar in appearance to Li Cheng.

Li Cheng was Sun Jue's nephew, and it was not uncommon for cousins ​​to look alike.However, Li Cheng's appearance does not resemble his mother Sun's, but rather resembles his own uncle - the late Li Ding.

The twins of the Sun family have fine eyebrows and narrow eyes, just like the Li family.

Sun Juexu saw each other every day and didn't think there was anything wrong with his son.However, Li Nai remembered an old incident. When Li Dinggang disappeared, he had been to the capital, and he vaguely remembered hearing the butler mention that his younger brother gave a maid to Sun Jue.

At that time, he was quite disapproving in his heart.After all, from the perspective of the Cao family, the Cao and Li families are much closer than the Cao and Sun families.In order to make friends with Sun Jue, it is not the best policy to make Cao Shi feel unhappy.

He pretended to inadvertently ask about the birthdays of the twins, but they were almost the same as his niece Xiangyu, so how could he not be secretly startled.

After leaving Sun's house and returning to Li's residence, he asked the housekeeper and confirmed that the two maidservants given to Sun Jue were indeed used by his younger brother. Li Nai could almost confirm that the twins were his younger brother's flesh and blood.

He was deeply in love with Li Ding's brother, and his younger brother died suddenly when he was young. The murderer has not been found so far, and he has always felt deeply regretful.Now, knowing that his younger brother has blood flowing outside, how can he remain indifferent?
He immediately wrote a letter to his family and ordered his confidant to go out of Beijing and return to Suzhou with his entourage.

In anxiety, after waiting for half a month, I finally received a reply from my father, only a few lines, asking him to ask Li Shi and Cao's family to be middlemen and confess their relatives with blood.

Cao Yong has heard frowning, this is really a big deal.

Unexpectedly, the twins of the Sun family were not Sun Jue's flesh and blood, but Li Ding's posthumous sons.

Cao Yong's heart is quite strange, after all, Li Ding is the one who asked someone to remove him.Over the past few years, there have been incidents related to Li Ding, and I really don't know what to say.

It's just that Cao Yong is not interested in accepting the word "middleman".

In this way, the Cao family was tied together with the Li family and the Sun family.Moreover, based on the dark side of this matter, even if the Cao family came forward, they would probably be at odds with both sides, and they might have to bear the grievances of the two families.

Li Xu is an old fox, he didn't want to tear himself apart with the Sun family, so he wanted to bring the Cao family into trouble.Cao Yong is not a fool, how could he be at the mercy of him?

He pondered for a few words, and said: "Brother, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to do this. You know the temperament of the second brother-in-law, and he loves face the most. It's not humane to confuse the important matters of future generations. If there is trouble, just I'm afraid that the second brother-in-law will be annoyed. After all, he is the eldest cousin's brother-in-law. If the eldest cousin said it quietly, the two families will discuss how to settle this matter. After all, this time the cousin entered Jing, mainly to send my niece to get married, if there is something bad news about this time, it will be difficult for my niece to go out at her in-law's house."

For his father's instructions, Li Nai did not agree in his heart.

After all, this is a private matter of the Li and Sun families. Even if it can't be hidden from the Cao family in the end, it's not good to just tell the relatives right now.

Hearing Cao Yong's words, Li Nai felt very kind, nodded his head, and said, "What my cousin said is right, brother Yu is also so scrupulous. It's better not to disturb my aunt for the time being, and I will find a chance to talk to Sun Jue about it." Bring it up and see."

Although there is no deep friendship, Cao Yong has a little understanding of Sun Jue after sitting down with his relatives over the years.

Sun Jue is a true disciple of Confucius and Mencius, arrogant enough, hypocritical enough, and machismo enough.Cao Ying has been married to him for more than ten years, and her children are all in their teens. If she wants to go back to the province once, she has to ask for instructions again. She treats her husband like heaven.

And the more people are in front of him, the more Sun Jue is placed on the spectrum of the head of the family.Even if I accompany my wife and children back to Cao's house once, I can't allow my wife and children to be happy, and I have to scold my son before I can speak.

If Sun Jue knew that he had raised a son for others for several years, Sun Jue would go crazy.

Looking at Li Nai's appearance, he doesn't seem to be able to speak eloquently.If the matter is not handled well, the mother may have to come out to worry about it in the end, which Cao Yong cannot tolerate.

"Big cousin, the second brother-in-law has been an official in the capital for a few years, and the expenses are high, and money is a bit tight." Cao Yong thought for a while, and decided to help Li Nai, and said.

"I can't complain, there are several counterfeit ornaments in the living room..." Li Nai didn't understand the meaning at first, so he continued.Halfway through the talk, he finally understood Wei'er, looked at Cao Yong gratefully, and said, "Thank you, cousin, I understand!"

After Li Nai was dismissed, Cao Yong was finally able to make the trip, and the next day he took his family to Changping.

Although it has only been filial piety for half a year, the so-called court affairs seem to be far away from what Cao Yong wants to go.

Cao Yong didn't care about the scenery of the fourteenth elder brother. It was just the same as the elder brother, second elder brother, and eighth elder brother back then. It was just a tragedy.

The instigator of this tragedy is none other than Kangxi.

Kangxi fueled the flames, magnified the ambitions of his sons, gave them the hope of winning the reserve, and then personally broke this hope.

This kind of game, he is not tired of playing, Cao Yong has been tired of watching.

Life is like morning dew, I have worked too hard in the past, who can guarantee that I will live to be seven or 80 years old?

Cao Yong decided to live for himself, spend more time with his mother, personally take care of the education of his children, and accompany his wife to see peach blossoms and plum trees. This is also the joy of spring.

Just like the mountains full of spring, the spring of Kangxi's 58th year was exceptionally peaceful.

Although it was rumored that there would be a solar eclipse on the first day of the first lunar month, it was cloudy and snowy that day, so the capital could not be seen, and it did not cause any panic.

Several concubines in the harem were officially conferred by the Ministry of Rites at the end of last year.So far, the sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother have put their minds to rest.

The bank has been in operation for several months, and the results were not significant at first, but in the twelfth lunar month, the business is very good.It's not easy to live in the capital, and the expense of favors is huge. By the end of the year, there will be no money left, and hundreds of people will go to the bank to borrow money.

In February, the day when the Eight Banners paid their salaries, the bank loaned out a lot of money to make up for it. Brother Sixteen finally felt a lot of confidence in his heart.

Living in the mountains, Cao Yong felt much more comfortable. Apart from walking around with his mother in the morning and evening, he began to like tending the vegetable garden at other times.

Speaking of it, Changping Zhuangzi is better than Haidian Garden, with a spacious place and natural and interesting landscapes.

Cao Yong asked people to cultivate a vegetable field in Zhuangzi, and brought a few small ones to enjoy the joy of farming, which coincided with this great spring day.

It was only a few days after the relaxed and carefree days, but this day a distinguished guest was welcomed in the villa.

It was the sixteenth elder brother who came with a purpose. It turned out that Sheng Jia was lucky to stay in Tangquan Palace after the Longevity Festival.I don't know how I heard that Cao Yong was on the other side of the villa, so Kangxi sent sixteen elder brothers over.

In addition to Cao Yong, Li Shi also needs to go to pay his respects to Wang Concubine.

Speaking of which, the last time Cao Yong saw Kangxi was when Shengjia had just returned to Beijing years ago, and he was ordered to meet him once...

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The monthly ticket is about to drop to the seventh place, and Little KMB asks for support from the monthly ticket. .

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