Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 991 The Bell
Cao Mansion, Wutong Garden.

Cao Yong lay on the kang with his eyes open, unable to fall asleep for a long time.Sheng Jia is in the Changchun Garden, how the dragon body is beyond his ability to know.All he knew was that the account from the Ministry of Household Affairs had been suppressed for three days without approval.

The papers approved by the emperor were on the tenth day of November at the latest; after that, the papers handed over by the Ministry of Household Affairs disappeared without news.

Mrs. Li went to the Duke's Mansion a few days ago, drank a few more cups of wine, and then saw the wind, and felt a little uncomfortable for the past two days.Chuyu not only had to serve her mother-in-law, but also took care of her youngest son, Tianbao. She was exhausted and lay beside Cao Yong, falling into a deep sleep.

Is it just a few days?
Seshitu is not a stubborn person at all, and what the Duke has done in the past few years is no longer Wuxia Amon.He will take advantage of the trend, and self-protection should be no problem.

The Cao family has also eliminated hidden dangers under the careful management of two generations of Cao Yin and Cao Yong's father over the years.

Cao Yong closed his eyes, and what he was worried about in his heart was not the disaster of ransacking the family and exterminating the family that he had been thinking about before, but that there was a change in Changchun Garden, and the fourth elder brother could not be the emperor.

If the emperor is not the fourth elder brother, then the Cao family's future political career will be blackened.

The fourth elder brother ascended the throne, the biggest guarantee is Longkodo, and the biggest variable is also Longkodo.

In a daze, I heard the faint sound of a bell in the distance.

Cao Yong's heart agitated and he sat up from the kang.

He stretched out his hand to lift the curtain, and the sound of the bell became clearer.

For a while, it seems that other temples and Taoist temples have some harmony.

Cao Yong got up and got off the kang, wiped a piece of clothes from the clothes rack, and put them on his body.

He walked outside the house, and in the silent night, the melodious bell was very clear.In addition to the sound of bells, there is also the continuous ups and downs of dogs barking.

Cao Yong's heart was tense, the bell rang, and the national mourning day began.

It was windy in the middle of the night, but Cao Yong didn't feel the slightest chill.His thoughts flew to the Changchun Garden, wishing for an immediate result.

At this time, I heard the sound of hurried footsteps, from far to near.

Accompanied by the dim light coming from a distance, there was a knock on the door: "Which girl is on duty at night, open the door quickly?"

According to the rules of Wutong Garden, when Cao Yong is around, no one is left in the upper room to stay overnight.

But you can't leave someone to wait in the yard, or else you have to go to the house owner to call for someone, and you have to go to the backyard to call for someone?Therefore, a room was secluded next to the small kitchen in the east wing, and it became the value room of Wutong Garden.

Every night, a big maid leads a small maid on duty.The lights on duty are kept on all night.

So, upon hearing the knock on the door, someone answered immediately in the room, and then saw a girl come out through the curtain, ran to the door in a few steps, and asked through the door, "Nurse Wang?"

"It's me, girl, open the door quickly! The second manager is in a hurry, sir!" The man replied anxiously.

It was Le Qing who came out, she opened the door latch, and said: "Nurse said softly, Madam has been tired for the past two days..."

Today is the thirteenth day, and the moon in the sky is about to be full, reflecting a bright light all over the place.

Le Qing turned her back to the upper room and didn't see it; Wang Momo was facing the upper room, and saw the figure standing in the corridor at a glance.She jumped, but before she had time to react, the light in the upper room came on.

Now, the light in the window and the moon in the sky made Wang Mama recognize Cao Yong.

"Master, the second housekeeper has urgent matters to ask the master, and he is waiting at the second door." Nanny Wang took two steps forward and bowed.

Cao Yong nodded and said: "I see, you go back first, I will go after changing clothes."

Nanny Wang responded and went with the lantern.

When Chuyu heard her husband's voice, she also put on her clothes and came out.

The bell was still ringing in the distance, Chu Yu's face immediately turned pale, and he called out with a bit of anxiety: "Erow?"

Cao Yong turned his head back, pulled her into the room, and said softly: "Don't be afraid!"

Chu Yu just heard Cao Yong's confession to Wang Momo, took the clothes, but hesitated: "The forehead is going to enter the palace? Clothes..."

"Sheng Jia is in Changchun Garden. Even if he wants to enter the palace, he has to wait for dawn. I'll go to the front yard to have a look. Let's wear it like this first." Cao Yong said.

Chu Yu helped him get dressed, and she was full of questions to ask, but she was afraid that Cao Yong would be in a hurry, so she swallowed the words again.

It would be a lie to say that she didn't care about it, Seventh elder brother went to Changchun Garden to serve the sick before he recovered from his leg illness, and now it's time for the national funeral, so I don't know what's going on with him.

She lit the glazed octagonal lotus lamp to illuminate the road for Cao Yong.

Cao Yong waved his hand and said, "No need, it's only a few steps away, and the moonlight is shining again."

After Cao Yong left, Chu Yu had already lost sleepiness.

Huangma Fabintian...the mother-in-law's side...Chu Yu was a little worried and put on her clothes.

Le Qing heard that Cao Yong had left the yard and went to the upper room to wait on him.Seeing that Chuyu was going to Lanyuan, Le Qing found a big hairy cloak and tied it for Chuyu. The master and servant carried the glazed lamp and went to Lanyuan.

Lan Yuan's upper room had already lit the lamp, and when Chu Yu entered, Mrs. Li was wearing her clothes, sitting on the edge of the kang in a daze.

Seeing Chuyu, Li Shi was not surprised, waved his hand, and said, "Go and see Tianbao first, the child has good ears, and the movement outside just now startled him. It's time to coax him."

Tianbao was placed in Dongnuange, the main building of Lanyuan.

Mrs. Li was afraid of the cold, and originally slept with her little grandson, and they all rested in the warm pavilion; but because she was ill a few days ago, she was afraid of giving her little grandson the anger of her illness, so she moved back to the west room.

Seeing this, Chuyu originally wanted to take Tianbao back to Wutong Garden, and not let Mrs. Li move, but Mrs. Li refused, because she was afraid that her grandson would be too young to bear the trouble, and she would not be able to sleep well if she changed places.

Seeing that her mother-in-law insisted on this, Chu Yu didn't want to say much, but she was more careful when she was sick.

When they arrived at the Nuan Pavilion, seeing that Tianbao had fallen asleep under the care of her mother, Chuyu withdrew from the Westinghouse again.

"The bell is still ringing..." Mrs. Li murmured, staring at the window.

Chu Yu sat on the stool, looked at her mother-in-law carefully, not knowing what to say.

Even the common people in the capital know that the continuous ringing of bells announces the beginning of the national mourning; the mother-in-law was raised in an official's family and married into an official's family, this knowledge is still there...

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Forecourt, vestibule.

Just as Cao Yong came over, Cao Yuan, the chief manager, also heard the bell and rushed over.

Since Zhang Yi and his wife returned to Beijing from Guangzhou, Cao Fang went to Guangzhou to take over Zhang Yi's previous errand.Naturally, Cao Yong has other arrangements in Guangzhou.

Guangzhou is the back road that Cao Yong left for himself, and he can't rest assured that he can be operated by other people at will.

On Zhang Yi's side, he succeeded Cao Fang and became the Second Chief of the Fuzhong.

"There are soldiers at the entrance of the alley, and the inner city is under martial law!" Zhang Yi stated with a bit of panic.

Everyone knows that the decades of honor and disgrace of their Cao Mansion are all on the old emperor.Now, when the throne is changing, how can it not make people feel uneasy...

Cao Yong raised his eyebrows and said, "Where are the soldiers and horses, can you ask carefully?"

"The one who asked me personally was the soldiers and horses of the Infantry Commander's Yamen. The leader of the school, who was a subordinate of Mr. Fu's family earlier, knew about our mansion. After listening to the little one, he said a few more things. He doesn't know the reason, he only knows that many people have been mobilized to guard all the mansions in the inner city." Zhang Yi replied.

Cao Yong listened, and sneered in his heart.

The name "Suwei" is actually "prevention", for fear that the clan and the powerful will make trouble at this time.

But that's good too, with double insurance in this way, Brother Si's dragon chair can sit securely.

Although I don't know when Kangxi died, but the temple bell has been ringing for a long time, and martial law has been enforced in the inner city, so it may not take long for the emperor to return to the palace.

Thinking of this, Cao Yong said to Cao Yuan: "From now on, the entire family will hang white and mourn." After speaking, he said to Zhang Yi: "Let people prepare horses. I will go to the imperial city later."

He just came out in a hurry and didn't stop at Lanyuan. Now that he came back, Cao Yong went directly into Lanyuan.

At this moment Li's face was full of residual tears, seeing his son coming in, he quickly lowered his head to wipe it off.

"Mother, I am sorry for the change." Cao Yong sighed in his heart and comforted him softly.

Li's eyes were red, she shook her head, and said: "I have nothing to be sad about. I have lived for more than 50 years, and the number of times I have seen... can be counted with two slaps... I will be seventy years old, It can be considered as a young Gaoshou..."

She spoke clearly, but the sadness in her eyes could not be concealed.

In the past few years, although she has resentment in her heart, she also knows that she is an orphan girl, after all, she is related by blood, so her life is more nourishing than the daughter of a family.

Knowing the news of the emperor's death now, Mrs. Li is still in a dream and cannot believe it.

She was already ill, but when she heard the news, she couldn't bear it anymore.After talking to her son and daughter-in-law, she stopped being forceful and fell on the kang, almost knocking down the screen embroidered with bamboo orchids.

Cao Yong and Chu Yu carefully helped her and settled her down.

Mrs. Li looked at her son, then at her daughter-in-law, and said, "I'm tired, I need to sleep. Cao Yong will start tomorrow, and he's still busy, so go back and settle down early.

Cao Yong came out of the mansion at the beginning of Yin ([-] o'clock in the morning), and when he arrived at the Jinshui Bridge, there were already many princes and adults there.

Everyone is noisy like in the vegetable market.Cao Yong looked at the carriage in the distance, and it seemed that it was wise for him to choose to ride a horse.

Next, Cao Yong felt the same as watching a big drama.

At dawn, the emperor's father, surrounded by the army, came slowly.

I don't know who took the lead, everyone knelt down one after another, crying loudly.

Seeing their tears coming out of their noses, looking like mourning concubines, Cao Yong was really dumbfounded.Fortunately, he made preparations early, wiped ginger on his cuffs, tears are cheap.

When his eyes were red, he thought of the scene he saw when he first went to Beijing.At that time, Kangxi was really like a loving elder.He is not a heart of stone, and it would be a lie to say that he is not grateful for Kangxi's protection; it's just that too many things happened later, making those gratitude disappear.
Next, Cao Yong watched a big show.

Yongzheng supported Huang Yu, with tears in his eyes, and walked with him on foot.He personally helped him to the palace gate.

All the princes and ministers and the prince elder brother howled desperately.

Cao Yong's last worry disappeared when he heard that the seventh elder brother was staying in the Changchun Garden.

The fourth elder brother was beside the imperial chariot, no longer restrained and low-key as before, only an indescribable and unclear aura remained. ,
Cao Yong paid close attention to Si Age, Si Age seemed to notice, and also looked at Cao Yong.

After enshrining the Emperor Daxing in the Qianqing Palace, the fourth elder brother sent people to call officials from the Ministry of Rites to arrange for the Emperor Daxing to be wrapped up.

Because he saw Cao Yong just now, the fourth elder brother thought of Li Shi.

When the officials from the Ministry of Rites knelt down, the fourth elder brother remembered that the Ministry of Rites had just planned that when the emperor was buried, Prince Baylor
All officials, civil and military, came to express their condolences; Princess Fujin could also take care of them nearby.

Mrs. Li's identity is a married woman, so she can't come close to pay her respects...

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