According to the customs of the capital, "Twenty-three, sugar melons are sticky; Twenty-four, sweep the house", twenty-four said, the housewife should lead the servants to thoroughly clean the inside and outside of the house. But the Cao Mansion was extremely quiet. Zhao Jia's is sick, Chu Yu has a body, and only Amethyst takes a few daughters-in-law to sprinkle water and clean.

Cao Song said yesterday that after returning from the front yard, he made a disturbance in the Shaoyuan again, and wanted to kill Mama Zhang. Zhao Jia's was sick, but this time he was really sick, and he saw the wind in anger, and he had a headache since he was a child.

Although Cao Hao invited the imperial doctor to come over to see Zhao Jia's family, his face was not as good-looking as before. Not only Zhao Jia's, but Cao Song, Cao Hao couldn't help but kick him twice, too lazy to take care of him anymore.

Although Cao Mansion is not the best place, this kind of abuse and murder happened in his own home, which made Cao Hao extremely annoyed.

Zhao Jia's messing around was nothing in the past, but such a thunderous method made Cao Hao feel cold. He didn't have the heart to coax her to be good in the morning or late, and he didn't have the heart to consider whether she was due to her age.

It's not that he doesn't feel sorry for his younger brother and doesn't think about his younger brother's future, but because Cao Song is like this, he made a mistake, but let the woman bear the consequences, which made Cao Hao very shameful.

If you are so confused, go to the Jinshi and mix with officialdom, who else will follow his ass every day to wipe his ass? Rather than commit a catastrophe at that time, it is better to be punished now, and be an ordinary person, although you are busy, you can also keep a safe and secure life.

Cao Hao was a little too lazy to go home, he had worked hard to integrate himself into this world, this family, and he worked very hard. It's just that I don't know why, and it suddenly makes him feel very uncomfortable.

He himself went through the murder, but he pretended to be innocent and said that he was a good person. However, he did not want these ugly things to happen in his own home.

Cao Song was also stupid, he really didn't expect to cause such a catastrophe. Sitting on the edge of the jade dragon's bed, looking at the bloody purlin on the jade dragon's back, he couldn't help but cry.

The jade dragon's face was drugged, afraid that Cao Song would be disgusted, and he turned his head sideways, but when he heard his cry, his body trembled.

Jade Dragonfly waited for Cao Song for five years, and I saw him laugh and annoy, but I never saw him cry. She turned around, looked at Cao Song in a daze, and muttered, "Second Master is Sister Crying Spider?" ”

Hearing the jade dragon mention the jade spider, thinking about the jade spider's blurred appearance of flesh and blood, Cao Song's cry became even louder.

Jade Dragonfly's eyes were straight, and she smiled bitterly: "The slave and maid remember clearly, the slave and maid are worth forty-four taels of silver, and Sister Spider's is forty taels. ”

"Don't say it, don't say it!" Cao Song hugged his head and shouted.

The jade dragon turned around and lay on the kang, only to feel that her throat was salty. She hurriedly covered her mouth with a handkerchief, but vomited a mouthful of blood. The jade dragon held the handkerchief in the palm of her hand and silently shed two lines of tears.

After a long time, hearing Cao Song's crying gradually stopping, Jade Dragon asked in a low voice: "Second master, is the second wife afraid of delaying your future, is this the case in the second master's heart?" ”

Cao Song raised his head, his face was a little more hateful, and said: "That's the son, the flesh and blood of the master, the master will kill the old immortal surnamed Zhang to avenge his son and the jade spider!" ”

Seeing that he didn't mention the second wife, Jade Dragon couldn't help but be disheartened, too lazy to speak again, and lay on the pillow and fell asleep. In a trance, I heard someone say, "I'm sorry...... It's all because I didn't protect you......"

* Xicheng, Houguangping Hutong, Sun House.

Sun Jue went to the ministry on an errand and has not come back yet. The Cao family took the concubines, daughters-in-law, and mothers-in-law to clean up the house for a long time, and they already had some backache. Remembering that yesterday she sent someone to her mother's house to ask for peace, and when she heard about her mother's illness, she was a little worried.

Although my mother grew up in the capital, she has lived in the south for twenty or thirty years, and she is not tolerant of the winter cold of the capital. It's just that as a daughter, she heard that her mother was sick, but she couldn't go back to visit, which was really unfilial.

After almost cleaning up, Cao sat in the flower hall, thinking about waiting for her husband to come back, begging for mercy, and going back to her parents' house. At this time, I saw my daughter Sun Xian walking by the hand of Zhixian.

"Mother!" Seeing the Cao family, Sun Xian let go of Zhixian's hand and hugged him. Cao's family was married to Sun Jue in the forty-fifth year of Kangxi, and it has been eight years since then, among which he gave birth to a pair of children, the eldest Sun Li and the eldest daughter Sun Xian. Sun Li is seven years old and Sun Xian is five years old.

Cao Shi hugged his daughter, and when he saw that she had candy in her mouth, he couldn't help laughing and said, "It's really gluttonous, you can't eat too much of this!" ”

Sun Xian smiled and hid her little head melon in her mother's arms, just "giggled" and laughed.

Cao Shi pointed to the stool next to him and said to Zhixian: "Sister sit down and talk, did you go and see your sister?" She said that she could eat something today, and it was not a trivial matter that she had always been happy. ”

Zhixian replied with a smile: "I'm tired of my grandmother, Ye Xian ate a bowl of multigrain rice and a small plate of pickled melon, and it looks better!" ”

Although the Cao family is not from the Duke's Mansion, they have also been clothed and fed since childhood, and they can't help but wonder when they hear it, and they say with a little unease: "Why do you eat these?" I have a child in my belly, but it's not too vague. Although our family is not rich, there is no shortage of food. ”

Before Zhixian came to Sun's house, he stayed in Li's house for a few months, and he had seen the extravagance of large families. Although Sun Jue's side is not as good as the Li family, the Cao family is virtuous and has never owed their sisters anything in terms of clothing and food.

It's just strange to say, since Ye Xian found out that she was pregnant, she has suffered more serious joy, what she eats and vomits, and sometimes she can't even smell it. I don't know how I thought of eating multigrain rice, but I met my appetite, and I have eaten it for several days.

Whether Zhixian is in the Li family or in the Sun family, I often hear the old people mention the Cao family in the Earl's Mansion. I know that compared with the illustrious Cao family, the Li family and the Sun family are just a fraction.

First, their sisters have no foundation, second, their own foundation is a little unclean, and third, they know that their amiable housewife is the daughter of the Cao family, so they have been to the Sun family for a few months, and they have been very peaceful.

Not to mention Sun Jue's gentleness and obedience, even to the Cao family, he also set rules in front of him sooner or later, and refused to be rude at half a point, and coaxed Miss Sun Xian to be willing to be intimate with them. even took it, and compared the concubine before Sun Jue.

Although the two aunts were dissatisfied, because their sisters should be favored, and Sun Jue was a true surname, they could only slander in their hearts.

Sun Jue got this pair of beautiful concubines, and she has such a character, and she is not naughty at all, and she is also so beautiful. "Home and everything is prosperous", with such a good wife and beautiful concubine by his side, compared with those who are afraid of the inside, what is not blessed?

Hearing Cao's mention of eating, Zhixian couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Grandma was born in a big family, and she came from chickens, ducks and fish when she was young, but she didn't know that the people of the world could eat a bowl of multigrain dry rice at once, which was a blessing to the sky." The slaves and maids are all from poor families. It was only because the old lady was gone, and Lao Tzu had tuberculosis, and he couldn't support us anymore, so he sold our two sisters. When we were young, we didn't eat a few meals of fine grains, and we ate dry rice and mixed noodles at one meal. ”

The Cao family is a woman, and the Zhixian and Ye Xianyuan are just noodles. No matter how virtuous she is, it is impossible to treat her husband's concubine as a sister. However, after getting along in the past few months, I have a better impression of the two of them in my heart.

Now listening to her self-confession, Cao couldn't help but sigh again. She has not heard of this matter of selling children and daughters, after all, half of the slaves in this house, except for the children born in the family, most of them were sold by their parents when they were young.

Sun Xian was five years old and could understand words, poked her head out of her mother's arms, tilted her neck and asked, "Mother, is my father sick and is going to sell Xian'er and my brother?" ”

Cao Shi hurriedly patted her little head, and first said to it: "Tong Yan Wuji, Tong Yan Wu Ji!" After speaking, he bowed his head and said angrily: "New Year's Day, don't talk nonsense, be careful so that your father hears it, and beat your hand!" ”

Sun Xian was so frightened that she hurriedly covered her mouth with her little hand, and whispered for a long time: "Mother, Xian'er wants to eat mixed noodles and wotou......"

Seeing her childish appearance, the Cao family and Zhixian couldn't help laughing.

Sun Jue didn't come back until nightfall, with the smell of alcohol on his body, but he went to eat wine with his colleagues in the ministry.

After Cao waited for him to change clothes and wash, he mentioned his mother's illness. Because Sun Jue originally tied her tightly, she was rarely asked to return to the province, and she didn't have much hope, but she didn't expect Sun Jue to respond.

Sun Jue changed his clothes and lay down on the bed. Cao stepped forward to help him take off his boots, and he was very strange, not knowing why his husband was so happy.

Sun Jue closed his eyes, but thought of something else. Li Xu is right, he and Cao Hao are cousins, and they are not enemies, so why are they so estranged? Colleagues have a point, his term of office will expire next year, whether it is the original grade, or a promotion, it is time to need to move around.

The Cao and Sun families are close relatives, if there is no old lady of the Sun family to take care of the Long Live Lord for more than ten years, how can there be the dignity of several generations of the Cao family?

Thinking of this, he opened his eyes and said to Cao's family: "Prepare more etiquette, since my mother-in-law is sick, I will go over with you to visit the patient tomorrow!" ”

Cao was overjoyed and hurriedly responded.

Xicheng, Caofu, Wutong Garden.

After the jade dragon fell asleep, Cao Song came to look for Cao Hao alone. When such a thing happened, he himself was panicked, but he didn't want his brother to ignore him because of this.

Cao Hao worked in the yamen for a long time, and walked around the street scene aimlessly for half a day before returning to Wutong Garden.

For the New Year, I really don't want to think about these crooked things. Cao Hao heard Cao Song talking under the corridor, and did not call in immediately, but looked at Chu Yu and said: "I have been nesting in the house all day, I am afraid that I will stuff you, over there in Xiaotangshan, let's make someone build another Zhuangzi, and we can go there next winter to escape the cold!" ”

Chu Yu said: "I still have to go to the yamen on an errand, and I have to have a small court meeting every three or five times, and it's not cheap outside the city!" ”

Cao Hao nodded and said: "That's right, even so, when it gets warm up after the year, let's pick a good day to go to the outskirts of Beijing, or we can go around the city, we can't be bored in this courtyard and treat everyone to something wrong!" Speaking of this, thinking of Zhao Jia's family, his expression was a little cold, and he said, "I'm really impatient to see her, you let Aunt Luo and Aunt Chang give her a word, this is the only thing." In the Qing Dynasty, what is the sin of abusing and killing slaves and maids, tell her. No one indulges her, I'm not a person who loves fame, and next time I have to directly invite the Yamen of the Infantry Army to come over for an autopsy! ”

Seeing Cao Hao so solemn, Chu Yu couldn't help but regret a little in his heart. Seeing that Cao Hao was so disgusted with Zhao Jia's family, even Chu Yu was a little weak-hearted. Yesterday, if she reached out to help, would the jade spider still end up with "one corpse and two lives"?

Thinking of Cao Song, who was still standing under the corridor, Chu Yu couldn't bear it, and persuaded: "E, it's cold, the second master has been standing outside for a while!" ”

Hearing the mention of Cao Song, Cao Hao immediately became angry, frowned, and said: "It's good to freeze him to death, this scourge of people." Let's not get involved in the matter of Jinghui. What kind of man is he, how old he is, and he doesn't have a heart yet. But if Fan Su said that if he could be stronger, who would dare to clean up his room like this? can't even protect his own woman, do you want to get Jinghui into the house to play prestige for his mother? ”

Chu Yu saw that he was really annoyed, and he didn't dare to persuade him anymore, and he was afraid that Cao Song was really frostbitten, and his brother would be distressed in the future, so he went out to persuade Cao Song to go back first.

Cao Song said with a bitter face: "Sister-in-law, my brother knows that he is wrong, and my brother wants to beat or scold, just don't be angry." ”

Chu Yu said in a low voice: "Your brother is really annoyed! You don't know, but he really wants you well. I'm afraid that the second wife won't allow you to marry Jinghui, so if you have nothing to do, you will discuss with me what to do. It's really not good, so I'll buy another house for you to make a new house, so that Jinghui won't be able to do it next to the second wife. He is kind-hearted, we never beat and scold people in our house, but now in the New Year, there is one death and one injury, and it is all caused by you, why is he not annoyed? ”

Cao Song muttered, "Sister-in-law, what should I do?" My brother knows it's wrong, and he doesn't dare anymore, so you tell your brother to let him kick me a few more times to get angry! ”

Chu Yu said: "Your brother is embarrassed, and now I don't have good words to see you, but it hurts my brother's feelings." After two days, he was angry, and he was naturally fine! ”

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(To be continued)