On the second day of November, Cao Hao left Beijing.

Although Baoding Mansion is not far from Beijing, it is not far from Beijing, but it is not allowed to leave the place lightly without a purpose. Fortunately, the governor of Zhili Fu Gyeonggi did not lack the opportunity to return to Beijing to see His Majesty.

Accompanying them, the family members and nephews include Chu Yu, Tianyou, Li Cheng and others, and the stewards include Wei Hei, Zhang Yi, Wu Sheng, Cao Man and others, as well as Jiang Jian and dozens of staff clerks.

The housework in the house is in the hands of Niuniu and Tianhui. With the Li family in charge, he is not afraid of being consumed.

Someone outside had already inquired about Cao Hao's departure from Beijing, but Cao Fu was vague about it, and only a few close families got the news.

Therefore, at the beginning of the morning (seven o'clock in the morning), when Cao Hao and Chu Yu's carriage left Beijing, there were not many people who came to see each other.

When everyone got the news, Cao Fu and his party had already left the city and went to Baoding.

It is the cold weather of the number nine, and now it is snowflakes, making the world a vast place.

Except for the entourage guards of the Cao Mansion, most of the others traveled by car. There were also more than two dozen cars.

Tianyou originally wanted to ride a horse, but because of the snow, he was ordered by Chu Yu to ride, so he shared the car with his cousin Li Cheng.

Just as Jiang Jian did not bring his family, Li Cheng did not bring his family either. This group of staff clerks first accompanied Cao Hao to his post, and if he wanted to bring his family, he would settle them in the past, and then let someone come back to pick them up, and wait until the spring of next year to bloom and go with the Li family.

Although they are cousins, Tianyou and Li Cheng are not familiar with each other.

Tianyou was actually very surprised, he didn't expect his father to bring this cousin of the Li family with him, and he couldn't help but look at Li Cheng.

Li Cheng's face was pale, but his cheeks were flushed, looking weak, not yet the crown, but he was already a winner, and he was also a young talent. Even if you try to fail in the current subject and study hard for another three years, there is no hope for the next subject.

I don't know why he chose to come out to get an errand.

When Tianyou looked at Li Cheng, Li Cheng was also secretly observing the little cousin of the Cao family.

When Tianyou felt surprised, Li Cheng was also puzzled.

Although Cao Hao's cousins are all in the capital, the Cao family has already been divided, and now in the West Mansion, Cao Hao has left Beijing, and he should have left Tianyou, the eldest son, in Beijing to support the portal and serve his parents. If you want to take your children to teach, it should be Hengsheng, who is the second son, who goes out of Beijing with his father.

Regarding Hengsheng, the second son of the Earl's Court, there are different opinions outside, and the most speculated is that Hengsheng is Cao Hao's illegitimate son. Because of Hengsheng's life experience, Cao Hao's "outer room" who has never appeared in front of the world, there are many speculations about his identity.

Some say that it is a Jiangnan beauty with Cao Hao's childhood sweetheart, and some say that it is a royal lady of the Horqin grassland.

Regardless of whether the woman is noble or lowly, she must be the love of Cao Hao, so the "illegitimate child" who took home is in the name of the adopted son, although it is entered into the family tree in the name of the adopted son, but it is raised under the name of the wife, and the eldest son goes in and out with the eldest son, and does not see the humility of the concubine.

Li Cheng also listened to rumors in his early years, so he thought Cao Hao was a hypocrite who sold his reputation. Isn't it a joke that there are no concubines at home, but there are illicit children outside?

This time when he entered Beijing, he saw how shallow his knowledge was.

When a child is young, it is not obvious, but when he grows into a teenager, his appearance and body become distinct.

Hengsheng has high cheekbones, single eyelids, and an authentic Mongolian look.

He was accompanied by two Mongols. If someone who doesn't know his identity sees him, they will definitely think that he is the son of a Mongolian prince.

In addition, Hang Seng's companion identity.

Even though he was still in the palace at that time, Brother Hongli was only the grandson of the emperor, but he chose to go to the study to accompany him. If Hengsheng is really Cao Hao's concubine, how can he be qualified to be a companion?

Most of them are the children fostered by the Mongolian princes, and the palace also knows the identity, so they ordered the companion reading.

After all, every time Cao Hao traveled back and forth to Mongolia, he either went on a trip or went on a business trip.

He was really a little smart, and he actually guessed eight or nine.

But this time, Cao Hao went out of Beijing, and it was not the eldest son Tianyou who left the head of the family, but Hengsheng, which made Li Cheng confused again.

Staying in the capital is not only a matter of taking care of the family and serving the elders, but also dealing with the exchange of relatives and friends.

If Hengsheng is the second son, it is okay to say, but obviously not, why is Cao Hao still arranged like this? Do you really regard your adopted son as your own?

If it were a few years ago, Li Cheng would definitely guess Cao Hao's intentions with the evil of people's hearts; Now, he has experienced a lot, and his mood is much calmer.

Outside, the sound of horses' hooves was rattling, but the carriage was silent.

Tianyou thought about how to start a conversation, and he had to be in the same car for three or four days, and it was not good to be bored.

At this time, I heard someone outside the carriage: "Uncle! ”

The person who came was Zhao Junping, the little servant of Tianyou, he was the son of the family, his father was Zhao An, the housekeeper, and his mother was Cao Hao's eldest maid Huixin when he was a child.

Hui Xin worked as an errand in the old lady's room of the Cao family in his early years, and he was assigned by the old lady to his grandson, and he was a neighbor by the master's side. After being assigned someone and doing the internal housekeeping, he was also relied on by the Li family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and he was one of the few housekeepers who could speak well in the inner house.

Zhao Junping is Huixin's eldest son, two years older than Tianyou, and follows Tianyou when he is young.

"What?" Tianyou asked, picking up the curtain.

"Uncle, Mrs. sent two foot stoves over, saying that they were adding envoys to the uncle and the young master." Zhao Junping approached the carriage and said.

Tianyou made the carriage pull over and looked at the carriageway in front of it: "Leave one first...... The other one, send it to the master, and ask the master if it is for Mr. Feng and Master Song's carriage. ”

Mr. Feng, the famous biography and the word Nayan, is the old Hanlin who was the one who was the west seat of Caofu before. He is close to old age, and he should have been the age of honor. After Cao Hao was promoted to governor, Feng Chuan took the initiative to ask for a glimpse of the local style with Cao Hao.

Master Song is an old friend of Mr. Feng, who once served as the governor of the yamen and was proficient in local affairs. In recent years, due to his growing age, he was raised in Beijing and was hired by Cao Haoli.

Zhao Jun responded, approached with a foot stove, and then rode to the carriage in front of him to find Cao Hao.

Li Cheng sat in the carriage, watching the interaction between the master and servant, raised his eyebrows, and seemed to be smiling.

When traveling in winter, Cao Fu was thoughtful, and every carriage had a hand stove and foot stove. My aunt is now sending people more, and she is also the heart of her son.

Tianyou is sympathetic to the elderly people in his peers, but he pays attention to proportions and does not cross Cao Hao.

He is the eldest son of the Cao family, and he is the young proprietor of the scribes of the friends, even if he directly sends a foot stove to the carriage of the two old men in his name, it is not overstepping.

He refused to come forward, just because his "compassion" would certainly move the two old men, but it also seemed that Cao Hao had omissions.

In this way, it is just to maintain Cao Hao's dignity.

At this time, Tianyou had already lowered the curtain.

He took the foot stove, put it on the wool mat at Li Cheng's feet, and said with a smile: "I was thinking that the car was not very warm, and I was afraid that my cousin would get in the way, so my wife sent this thing over, which is very cheap." ”

Seeing this, Li Cheng couldn't help but be stunned, leaned over for a while, took out the foot stove, and sent it to Tianyou's feet, and said, "This is my uncle's loving heart, and my cousin is still respectful for his own use." ”

Tianyou hurriedly stopped and said, "This was originally added by my mother to my cousin, didn't I just send it away?" Don't push me, cousin, I have lived in Beijing for a long time, but I am not tolerant of cold and heat. My cousin came from the south, and he couldn't tolerate the bitter cold of the north......"

Li Cheng began to think that Tianyou was just polite, but it can be seen that he insisted on giving himself, and he could only accept it.

By the end of the day, the two cousins knew each other a lot.

In Li Cheng's heart, all kinds of tastes are indescribable.

Tianyou is thirteen years old this year, and he himself was thirteen years old in his early years, staying in the capital and studying at the official school of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He who professes to be wise does not look at the world.

For the rising Cao family, he looks down on it; He also looked down on the declining Sun family.

He went behind his father's back, made his own decisions, and designed his uncle. Now that I think about it, it's really a reversal of the truth.

Seeing people talking about people, and talking nonsense when he sees ghosts, how much effort he wasted, even his wife, who also married his own family after scheming.

As a result, it was calculated, and it did not stop the fate of the Li family being raided and broken.

Thirteen-year-old Tianyou, but his surname is kind, kind to others, and his eyebrows and eyes are warm and calm.

Li Cheng slowly closed his eyes, could it be that his family had been wrong?

Cao Hao was able to collect the orphans and widows in the Manchu Mansion and took care of them for more than ten years, so it can be seen that he is not a ruthless person, but he has been estranged from the Li Mansion so far...... is different from Li Cheng, after this trip, the friends and scribes who have just entered the Cao family feel the most is the generosity and thoughtfulness of the hostess of the Cao family.

Not to mention that each carriage has a hand stove and foot stove, and each person also has a fur and fur stove.

It is only said that it was prepared in a hurry and sent to all gentlemen, and it was a cold thing on the road, but the color and style of the clothes in everyone's hands were different.

One such garment alone is worth thirty or forty taels of silver.

Some scribes only get a few dozen taels a year. Even before leaving Beijing, Cao Fu had paid half a year's salary in advance, but how many people were willing to spend dozens of taels of silver to buy fur clothes?

The rich family is good, and the poor family is just adding a new cotton robe, replacing the old jacket, and letting himself go out without shame.

The world has more snobbish eyes, and there are many people who wear clothes and hats.

Even if you know, the dozens of people who went to work with Cao Hao will all be colleagues in the Governor's Mansion in the future, but those who wear cotton robes and those who wear fur clothes are both exquisite.

Now that each person is wearing a new leather robe, everyone thinks that it is a little brighter......* At this time, Cao Hao was not in his own carriage, nor in the Chinese carriage regulated by the lord of Chuyu County, and then went to the carriage of Feng Chuan and Master Song.

This Master Song only agreed to follow Cao Hao three days ago.

Today's trip is the second time the two have met. The first time they met, it was naturally Cao Hao who personally followed Feng Chuan to the Song family.

In his early years, Master Song was under the rule of Kali and was behind the yamen of the governor of Liangjiang. Later, seeing that Kali was acting absurdly, and the superintendent gradually became a confrontation and attack, Master Song resigned and got out of Jiangnan.

Later, he was introduced and went to the Yamen of the Governor of Huguang as the curtain. This stay was ten years, during which there were several governors of Huguang, but Master Song never moved the place.

Among the entourage, Master Song is not the only one who is experienced in the curtain, but only Master Song has stayed in the governor's yamen for all these years......

(To be continued)