Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 896 "Beware"

When facing Cao Yong, Li Xu's mood was quite complicated.

Although the Cao family has lost Cao Yin, it has Cao Yong as the pillar. At the age of 28, he became a second-rank servant, 30 years earlier than Li Xu.

He left Beijing in the 31st year of Kangxi and worked in Jiangnan for 20 years. Only in the 51st year of Kangxi did he get the title of Minister of the Household Department.It's just a name, it's the emperor's grace; Cao Yong is a real lack, a second-rank official who holds great power.

On Cao Yong's side, he also looked at Li Xu.

He is the same age as Kangxi, already 68 this year, but now he looks much less happy than Kangxi.Perhaps the Li family members all have longevity genes, and Li Xu doesn't look old, but is in good spirits.

He looks like a sensible person, but he is obsessed with power and does stupid things.

Thinking of this, Cao Yong didn't bother to deal with it, and after a few pleasantries, he offered to greet Gao Taijun.

Gao Taijun traveled all over the world with a dull expression on his face.I don't know if it's because of her age, when she was facing Cao Yong, she was also a bit kind, but not as sharp as in previous years.

Seeing this, Cao Yong sighed secretly.

Even if he couldn't treat her as a relative, it was not difficult for him to respect her as an elder.I just hope that she will save trouble in the future and not cause troubles and make mother sad.

Perhaps, Gao Taijun's affection for his adopted daughter is also limited, otherwise why is he closer to his nephews and grandnephews than to his daughter and grandson.

After saying a few words about homework with Cao Yong, she asked someone to bring Xiangyu to present to Cao Yong.

Although before coming to Li's house, Cao Yong had listened to Zhao An's family's reply and knew that Gao Taijun had brought Li Ding's posthumous daughter with him when he came to Beijing, but when he saw Xiangyu, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

Unlike when she was a child a few years ago, Xiangyu is already eight years old, and Li Ding's appearance can be seen in her eyebrows.

Seeing Cao Yong looking at Xiangyu without speaking, Gao Taijun said: "Can't you recognize me? This is my little niece, the daughter left by your second cousin..."

Cao Yong nodded, and said: "Yes, I almost didn't recognize it. When I followed my grandmother to Beijing that year, I didn't know how to call people. In a blink of an eye, I am so old."

Won't there be a bloody "Bao Dai Love"?Thinking of a bunch of naughty boys at home, don't have another "childhood sweetheart", then Cao Yong will be disgusted.

The Cao and Li families, apart from their relatives, also have unknown blood debts.

Of course Cao Yong will not feel guilty, and he will still make the same choice when he comes again.Perhaps it was because of this choice that he was able to see clearly the relationship between the Cao and Li families and make a clear decision.

And the Li family, which lost Li Ding, has indeed weakened a lot in destructive power.

Even if the third generation has Li Cheng, a boy full of heart and eyes, but after all, he is young, and he won't be of much use for a while.

After returning home, seeing Mrs. Li, and talking about Gao Taijun's complexion and which temple Wen Taijun stopped, Cao Yong went back to Wutong Garden.

"Shaoyuan are packed out?" Cao Yong asked.

"Ever since I sent people to Suzhou years ago, my wife has ordered them to come down. Naturally, I have already sent people to clean up." Chu Yu replied with a smile.

Shaoyuan was the residence of Zhaojia's family before the second family separated in the early years, and it was second only to Lanyuan and Wutongyuan in the mansion.With Gao Taijun's status, it is considered appropriate to live there.

"Didn't you say you bought some little girls today? Pick the clever ones and add some to God Bless them." Cao Yong said: "So as not to have friends of the same age."

Cao Yong has always seldom talked about the inner house, this time he gave an order...

While serving Cao Yong, Chu Yu ordered the clothes, while thinking about the incomprehensible points.

Seeing that his wife did not speak, Cao Yong said: "Is there no one who is young? Just as old as Cao Yuan's granddaughter. Cao Yuan mentioned several times that he wanted his granddaughter to work in the mansion. If there is really no young one, let his granddaughter come in." I'm on errand. Anyway, I don't have to do any work."

Cao Yuan's eldest son, Cao Lichun, was sick and recuperated at home all the time, and did not work in the mansion.The granddaughter born of the eldest son is Ruixiang who lost her front teeth mentioned by Tianhui.

What Cao Yuan meant was that the eldest son could no longer serve the family, and if the granddaughter could work in the mansion, whether it was serving the young men or Tianhui, she would be able to look decent in the future.

"Why not? They are all little girls in their teens, and they were sent to Madam Liu to learn sewing. I have already told Aunt Luo and Aunt Chang, and I asked them to teach them how to behave, and then assign them to each courtyard. Forget about the chief executive's granddaughter first, Cao Fang's family also hurts like an eyeball, I can't bear to order her around." Chu Yu replied.

Cao's servants married Chu Yu as a dowry, and there were a total of 200 to [-] people in total. Now those who are looking at God bless them and want to send their daughters to serve in the inner courtyard are not just one or two families.

But Chu Yu was the least willing to be in charge of the mansion, so she stretched out her arms to the inner courtyard.For these girls who are housekeepers and housekeepers, if a girl wants to have other thoughts about her son, she is not allowed to be a mother.

Cao Yong didn't think about anything else, and when his wife said that there was no shortage of people, he nodded and said: "It's good to have people. The children of this family in the capital are greedy, lustful, debauched, and there are few who have ruined their reputation? Our son, but You can't act like you've never seen a woman before, and when you see a girl, you can treat it like a baby bump."

When it came to the end, Cao Yong thought of Tianyou's name, which was the same name as Cao Xueqin, and couldn't help touching his forehead.

He hadn't died yet, and the Cao family didn't give Tianyou a rough childhood. This "Dream of Red Mansions" was destined to be stillborn.

To put it bluntly, even if he died young, had a biological mother like Chuyu, and the Chunjun Prince's Mansion was his wife's family, Tianyou would not suffer much.

I was a little dizzy, Xiangyu was only eight years old, and Tianyou was only ten years old.Even if you want to fall in love early, it's not too early.

It is rare for Cao Yong to say these words, Chu Yu already sensed that something was wrong, he hesitated and said, "Isn't it too early to say this now? Even in the early years, Hong Shu and the others were only fourteen or five years old before they first learned about human affairs. Son."

Cao Yong was drinking tea and almost choked after hearing what his wife said.

He "coughed" a few times before he regained his breath. He couldn't laugh or cry and said, "That's not what I mean, it's just in case they don't have friends of the same age, so they can make friends with Xiangyu. After all, they are cousins, unlike Tianhui, who is her own sister." , if there is something wrong in a few years, it will be boring." Speaking of this, he took a little seriously, and said: "There are many marriages between other people's aunts and cousins. When I was in Guangzhou, I heard from Westerners that blood relatives are too Being close is not good for the heirs. Although the Li family and our family are distant relatives, they are not blood relatives, but I have no idea of ​​getting closer."

Seeing Cao Yong's orders, Chu Yu quickly nodded and said, "I understand. Don't worry, the niece of the Li family's cousin will be elected. I won't let the children break the rules."

When mentioning the children's marriage, Cao Yong and Chu Yu looked at each other and smiled.

Unexpectedly, I felt that I was still a small child, but in a blink of an eye, I became a half-child.

"Your son-in-law is really worrying too much. Tianyou and Li's cousin and niece have different identities, so they can't get along anyway." Chu Yu said with a smile.

Even if you really want to "get closer and closer", it's not the Li family's turn.

Every time Hongzhuo met Tianyou, he said that he wanted Tianyou to be his son-in-law, and that was Chuyu's real niece.

"It's not the name, it's because the children are ignorant, and if they are always together, they will inevitably develop feelings." Cao Yong lay down on the kang, his mind was full of the plot of the Red Mansion, and he laughed too.

Tianyou and Baoyu don't go this day, if Tianyou dares not to study hard and hang out with maids all day long, then he would have been taken care of by his own family. The refined beauty of "Pearl Fairy".

And because Tianyou was raised by his grandfather when he was a child, he was the most disciplined and polite, so he was a little worried.

When watching "A Dream of Red Mansions" in his early years, Cao Yong still felt that it was not a thing for Jia Zheng to reprimand Baoyu at every turn and beat the board.Now that I am a father, I understand Jia Zheng's heart for being a father...

*
Early the next morning, Mrs. Li and Chuyu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took a carriage to Li's house to visit Mrs. Gao.

Mrs. Li still wanted to pick up Mr. Gao first.This seems to be the Dragon Boat Festival, and it's hard for the mother and daughter to reunite, and it's not easy to celebrate the festival in two places.

Gao Taijun couldn't bear her torment, finally nodded, and agreed to rest for two days and move there before the Dragon Boat Festival.

Hearing that she brought a lot of old things that she was used to, Li said with a smile: "Mother, your granddaughter-in-law has asked someone to clean up the house a long time ago, pasted the wallpaper, replaced the furniture, and even gave the clothes to you." I have prepared a lot of tricks, so where do I need my mother to bring?"

Gao Taijun nodded when he heard the words, and said to Chuyu, "My grandson's wife is troubled."

Chu Yu said: "It's all done by the granddaughter-in-law. If the old lady can come, it will fulfill the filial piety of the juniors."

In fact, according to Gao Taijun's intention, he also didn't want to bring the old things of the Li family into Cao's mansion.According to her point of view, she came to Cao's residence as a guest, and brought daily household utensils and so on, so it seemed troublesome.

After hearing what Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law said, it was exactly what she wanted.

When Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law left, she asked people to sort out the luggage, and asked people to sort out the unused things into a book and hand them over to the big housekeeper for storage; for the things that were needed, they picked out a few and placed them here In the house, it's a thought.

Only Xiangyu's things are clothing items. Gao Taijun didn't let anyone touch them, and directly sent them to Cao's mansion first.

On the third day of May, Cao Yong brought Tianyou and Hengsheng over, and took Gao Taijun and Xiangyu into Cao's mansion.

Gao Taijun was placed in the upper room of the Shaoyuan, and Xiangyu's room had three rooms in the west wing and three rooms in the east wing, serving as the servants' rooms.There are also two side rooms, one for a small kitchen and one for sundries.

There are a total of four servants who followed Gao Taijun into the mansion. There is a mother Yan who is used to serving Gao Taijun; there is Xiangyu's nanny Qian Si's family; Jinzhu, and the youngest is Yinzhu, who is the granddaughter of Yanmao.

Seeing this, Mrs. Li was afraid that there were not enough people around Gao Taijun, so she asked Chuyu to pick two suitable women and add a few young girls to go there.

Gao Taijun is used to being clean, impatient with many people, leaving only one woman and two little maids.

So far, Gao Taijun has settled down in the Cao Mansion.

Not to mention other people, it was the East Mansion, and several aunts of the Cao family who had left the cabinet, got the news, went to the mansion one after another, and brought the children to pay respects to Mrs. Gao.

For a while, Shaoyuan added a lot of hustle and bustle.

When looking at his nephew's grandson Li, Gao Taijun thought of his nephew Li Cheng.

According to Li Xu, Li Cheng's marriage has already been agreed with his old friend. If there is no funeral for Wen Taijun, he would have been hired this year...

*
Ba Age Mansion, side hall.

Li Xu waited for a while, feeling a little apprehensive.The eighth elder brother has passed away from illness for several years, and the house is very deserted. It is said that the furniture in this side hall is a bit old, as if it has not been tidied up for many years.

Thinking of how the He family's daughter had been raised by Fujin's side in the early years, Li Xu's intention for Fujin to invite him here became a little more clear...

(End of this chapter)