Yizhou, Daotai Yamen, the main house of the inner courtyard.

Chu Yu was holding a small jacket in his hand and was collecting the needlework on the cuffs. After putting it away, she looked at the small and cute object and couldn't help but touch her stomach. It's only been three months now, and it's not obvious, but it feels a little hard and tight, which is completely different from before pregnancy.

The two grandmothers sent by the Li family to fight Jiangning last month were Mama Zhang and Mama Wei, both of whom had been in Cao Mansion for generations. Both have given birth to many children, and they also know more clearly about the avoidance of motherhood.

Mama Zhang is Vanilla's aunt, and Mama Wei is Xiaoman's grandmother. For this reason, the two grandmothers went to Yizhou on an errand and did not feel bitter. Besides, Cao Hao is the concubine of the long house, and the eldest grandmother is in this capacity, so they can wait in front of them, which can be regarded as decent.

King Chun's Mansion also sent two grandmothers, one was Chu Yu's nurse Mama Ye, and the other was Mama Zhou, the companion of the side Fu Jin Na La.

Mama Ye was sent back to the palace by Chu Yu last year, although no one said anything in person, but she was complained by her son and daughter-in-law in private. The prince loves Da Gege the most, as we all know. Da Gege has always been a good-natured person, so when he sends the nurse back, it is not clear who is who is not.

Mama Ye felt wronged and nagged her daughter-in-law twice. Her daughter-in-law listened impatiently, and couldn't help but say: "Mother is not confused, whose nurse is not towards the girl, but the mother has soft ears, listening to the nonsense of the two old things Guerjia and Esuri!" Da Gege has only been married for a few days, and he will arrange a room, where is the master's business, where can we be slaves to be the master? It's also a big Gege with a good temper, and if you change it to a girl from another house, you don't know how to make trouble! ”

Mama Ye was not convinced, and muttered, "Isn't this what Fujin meant?" ”

Her daughter-in-law looked inside and outside, saw that there were no outsiders, and said in a low voice: "In the end, it is not biological, through the belly, when the five grids go out, you see if she will arrange a foxy dowry!" As far as you are always a solid person, what people say and believe! Obviously, Fu Jin saw that the girl of the Bai family was good-looking, and her father and mother were talking in front of the prince, so she was afraid that the prince would meet her and look at it, so she sent it away like this! ”

It's the first time Mama Ye heard this, and she still doesn't believe it. Her daughter-in-law sneered and said, "It's also a good fate for the rain!" Her sister-in-law is only fifteen, and she is also outstanding, because she was originally outside the city at her grandmother's house, and she just returned to the house for a long time before she went to the prince's study on an errand, but the 'disease' was gone after a month! ”

Mama Ye listened, thinking about Su Yue's Fu Jinci eyebrows, she only felt chills all over her body, shook her head and said, "Can't you?" If Fujin can't tolerate people, isn't it good for Fujin and a few Fujin on the side? ”

Her daughter-in-law whispered: "Mom didn't see that Xiyu's girl was like a side Fujin?" If she is like three points, then her sister is like five points! Fang Fujin is already several years older than the prince, even if he looks young, he is not young! On the prince's side, it is not uncommon to change a pet! Fu Jin is bent on promoting Fu Jin on the side of Barda, and wants to stabilize the identity of the sixth elder brother, how can he allow others to take the lead? ”

Mama Ye is Chu Yu's nursing mother, and her heart is naturally towards the side of the Fu Jin Na La, and she can't help but be a little worried when she hears it. Her daughter-in-law persuaded again: "Look, you are always blind, just Fujin's thoughts, where can you hide from the prince?" Fang Fujin has been with the prince for 20 years, and the three elder brothers have taken up the eldest brother, and the sixth elder brother is still a milk baby! ”

Mama Ye didn't know if she was explained by her daughter-in-law, or if she figured it out by herself, this time she came to Yizhou, and she didn't want to say more, but just took care of Chu Yu's body wholeheartedly.

Chu Yu sent the nurse back to the palace, but she was also afraid that Cao's mansion would be uneasy and annoyed. Now seeing the nurse like this, he also treats her very closely, and the two are reconciled as before.

Mama Zhou was just ordered by the Na La's to take care of Chu Yu to give birth, not like Mama Ye, who wanted to stay by Chu Yu's side for a long time; is not like Mama Zhang and Mama Wei, who are the old men of the Cao family, so she is even more reluctant to be bigger, and she is very cautious in her words and actions. Mama Zhang and Mama Wei were picked out by the Li family, and they were not mean and difficult surnames in the first place. Chu Yu's status is high, and it is not their turn to make irresponsible remarks.

In this way, although there are four more grandmothers on the side of Daotai Mansion, they do not dare to be like Cao Song's nurse Mama Zhang, who is a senior in front of the master. Therefore, Chu Yu's side is also extremely worry-free.

Today is twenty-seven, Mr. Zhuang is back, Cao Hao bought wine and food in the front yard, picked him up, came back to visit Chu Yu before, and asked Amethyst to accompany her to eat.

Waiting for Amethyst to come over, Chu Yu took out the small jacket he had just sewed and showed it to Amethyst. The two talked and laughed, counting the child's birth month. According to the doctor's words, it is the fetus that sits at the end of the lunar month, which is counted as the child, and it is the delivery period in September. This is half a year, but it is just a blink of an eye.

Now Amethyst is only worried about Chu Yu's body - originally she still had some meat, she returned to Jiangning with Cao Hao a year ago, and went north after the year, and the fatigue on the road has decreased a lot, and she has morning sickness a few days ago, and she has eaten very little, although she has been better later, but she has never grown meat.

While talking, several housekeepers' daughters-in-law talked back and forth, saying that the tailor over there in the silk village sent the clothes for the change of season, whether to send them according to each room today, or wait until thirty to send them.

This is half a month ago, I called the people over there to the house to measure the length of everyone's body, according to the different identities of each person in the house, ranging from one set to four sets of new clothes.

It's Chu Yu, who also made four sets. Although there are many clothes brought to the capital, they are all prepared by the palace before the marriage, and they are all cumbersome and trimmed embroidery, which looks extremely luxurious.

Cao Hao himself, but he is the master who loves to wear muslin clothes, and if he usually does not see guests, he dresses simply and plainly. When someone I don't know sees it, who would have thought that he is the chief official of the fourth grade, and he should only be the young son of which family?

When he returned to Jiangning a year ago, Cao Hao took Chu Yu out for a walk twice, and the girl who sold sugar water on the road, and the sister on the flower floor secretly sent Qiu Bo to Cao Hao. Although Cao Hao didn't pay attention to these, Chu Yu saw it, but he didn't feel good in his heart.

Chu Yu wanted to change out of his fancy clothes and please Cao Hao. Although Amethyst had already persuaded her, Cao Hao was not disgusted and picky about these things since childhood. Because it is the two aunts and grandmothers of the Cao family, before they got married, their clothes were also extremely gorgeous.

Later, Chu Yu found out that her husband did not dislike Chinese clothes, maybe it was just a habit since childhood, and he didn't like publicity. She herself is not a swaggering surname, but since she was a child, she has been favored by Amma, and her mother values her, and her food and clothing are superior. Before getting married, dozens of boxes of four-season clothes were specially prepared by the palace, all of which were made of high-quality materials and embroidery.

Hearing that the new clothes were coming, Chu Yu was very happy, and asked Cao Hao and his share to be sent, and the others were distributed today. Several summer dresses were loose and plain, and she was very happy to compare them.

When Zhu'er and Xiyun put the food on the table, Amethyst gave Chu Yu a dish and persuaded her to eat more. Chu Yu couldn't help but say angrily: "Sister Amethyst, look at herself, are you embarrassed to persuade Chu Yu?" ”

Amethyst smiled: "The county lord is a double body, how can he compare with a slave and maid?" Even the slaves and maids now have a larger amount of food, although it is not as prosperous as the capital, it is much cleaner than there! It's uncle, and you don't have to rush early! ”

Chu Yu nodded: "Isn't it?" Ping said that it was okay to say, to catch up with the big court meeting, and I would get up and prepare in less than three watches! Here, the forehead is far away from the chief officer, and he is free, if it weren't for the fact that he has been worried about the price of food for ten days, this errand would have been much easier! ”

Amethyst knew that Cao Hao's yamen was busy a few days ago, and Chu Yu was very worried, and said with a smile: "Isn't this overdone?" Besides, Mr. Zhuang is back again, and he can help the uncle, and the uncle will not work as hard as before! ”

* In the past ten days, Cao Hao is just tired, but it is Mr. Zhuang who is tired.

Mr. Zhuang lay on the kang in the main room of the east courtyard, lifted his clothes, and exposed his waist. Lianqiu took out two palm-sized plasters, put them on a small charcoal stove and roasted them, and when she saw the ointment melt, she put them on Mr. Zhuang's waist.

Mr. Zhuang turned over and sat up, raised his arm, patted his shoulder, and said to Lianqiu: "Two more stickers, this arm is also sore!" ”

It happened that Xiqiu came in with a set of clean clothes, and when she heard Mr. Zhuang's words, she couldn't help complaining: "Who called Mr. Reckless?" I don't know how to take care of my body, it's been less than half a month, and I'm tired like this! ”

Lianqiu helped Mr. Zhuang put two more stickers on his shoulders, and Mr. Zhuang changed his clothes and asked, "Where is Niuniu?" But sleeping, how is the little one lately? But will you climb? Do you need to teach her to speak now? ”

Lianqiu helped Mr. Zhuang fasten the buttons and replied, "I'm asleep in the Westinghouse!" This little guy has been fat again in the past two days, he has eaten and slept all day, slept and eaten, and he will not be able to hold it if he gets fat again! ”

Mr. Zhuang pointed to a willow basket on the table above the ground, and said with a smile: "Those are all gadgets I bought for Niuniu, it's good to be fat, our daughter is blessed!" ”

Because he wanted to go to the front yard to drink, Mr. Zhuang went to Westinghouse on purpose and touched his daughter's fat face before leaving.

When Mr. Zhuang arrived in the front yard hall, cold meat and dried fruits and fresh fruits had been placed on the round table, except for Cao Hao, Cao Yanxiao, Cao Yanwei, Master Han, Master Lu, Wei Hei and others were all sitting, and only Cao Song was missing.

Cao Hao still wanted to send someone to urge, so he saw Cao Song hurriedly coming back, and when he saw Mr. Zhuang coming back, he first said hello, and then confessed his guilt to everyone, and went into the inner house to change his clothes.

Because everyone was waiting for him to drink, Cao Song returned to the courtyard and hurriedly washed his face, changed his clothes and was about to go out. Seeing that his face was still wet, Jade Spider chased after him with a handkerchief, stood under the porch, and said with a smile: "Look at the master's urgency, I forgot to wipe my face!" ”

Cao Song stopped and let the jade spider hold a handkerchief to wipe the water stains on his face.

Smelling the faint fragrance of narcissus, he remembered something, glanced at the jade spider, and ordered: "Whether it's a flower or a powder, Ming'er will change the taste, I'm impatient with the smell on your body!" ”

When the jade spider heard this, her face turned red and she couldn't speak. Cao Song didn't stop, and had already walked out of the courtyard quickly.

Looking at the empty courtyard door, the jade spider's face gradually turned a little pale.

In the past ten years, Cao Song did not have the pampered jade spider as he imagined. Except for staying in the main room for one night that night, Cao Song never let her stay in the upper room for the night, and still waited in the room by the jade dragon as usual.

Jade Firefly and Jade Cicada, I don't know what to think. The jade dragon alone, seeing the jade spider like this, did not bear it, and pulled her to the upper room to watch the night together. When Cao Song saw it, he just frowned, waved his hand and sent the jade spider out, as if he was extremely disgusted.

Jade Dragonfly didn't know how she offended Cao Song, and asked twice in private, but Jade Spider didn't understand, but just cried "Huh", looking more and more pitiful.

Jade Dragonfly is soft-hearted, where can she be seen like this? specially asked for the two of Jade Firefly and Jade Cicada, and when Cao Song came back, he tried to give Jade Spider the opportunity to come forward and wait.

Fortunately, when Cao Song saw the jade spider, although he was not close, he was not so disgusted, and occasionally hugged him and kissed him.

The jade spider tried her best, but she was still not called to be on duty at night. If she didn't know that Cao Song's surname was irritable and not sympathetic, I was afraid that she would have to recommend a pillow and climb into bed, but she would have no guts.

The jade spider secretly hated, except for the one who left, and naturally hated the jade dragon to the head. thought that if she hadn't done it, Amethyst wouldn't have sent her a medicinal soup every other time, breaking her dream of "mother is more precious than son". Not to mention that his grandfather is sex-loving, and the bed is very tormenting, which doesn't want her to come closer, so it is naturally cheaper for the jade dragon.

Thinking that Jade Dragonfly relied on her qualifications to suppress herself like this, and with a fake posture on her face, Jade Spider wanted to vomit disgustingly. But she is not a fool, since she knows that everyone in the mansion is friendly with the jade dragon, where is it good to offend? He became more and more respectful, and he spoke and acted with great care, more gently and cautiously than before.

* While waiting for Cao Song to come out, everyone talked about these gossips. Needless to say, Wei Hei escorted Mr. Zhuang to and from Jinan Mansion, Cao Yanxiao went to Anton Wei, Cao Yanwei went to Juzhou, and Master Han and Master Lu also went to Fei County and Yishui County.

Speaking of the anger and pleading of the people in front of the rice shop in the township along the township, and then talking about the joy of sealing the pot Zhuangzi, everyone was quite interested. Although the Shandong territory is not as strict as the wine ban in Zhili, when it comes to these pots, few of them have complete procedures.

As he spoke, he thought that the current situation was only a palliative but not a cure, and that next spring or the spring after that, there might be another rise in food prices, and everyone fell silent.

Officials and businessmen colluded to sell the grain in the provincial warehouse at a low price, making a profit at a high price after brewing wine. Later, the government collected surplus grain from the people at the reserve price, so that there was less and less grain that could be circulated in the market, resulting in the evil result of the grain price rising several times this spring.

Thinking of what he saw and heard when he accompanied Wang Quantai, the general manager of Anton Weiqian, to Daxing Town, Cao Yanxiao couldn't help but look at Cao Hao with some concern. After returning to Yizhou, he shouted to Cao Hao, the steward of Zhuangzi, and reminded his uncle to be vigilant, to see if he sent letters to the capital and walked around, not to tear his face with the prince.

Cao Hao knew what Cao Yanxiao meant, and nodded to reassure him. Because there were other arrangements, I didn't care too much, but when I flashed to Prince Jane's mansion in my mind, I thought of Yongjia, who married a year ago; Thinking of Yongqing instead, I didn't know what the news about the capital was.

When Qijin left, Cao Hao deliberately asked Cao Fang to take his handwritten letter and follow him to Beijing. In addition to mediating the matter of Yongqing, he also asked him to stay in the capital to inquire about the causes and consequences of Ning Chun's father and son's crime.

* But he said that Cao Fang's head came to Yanjing on March 23. At this time, Wanyan Yongsheng had already begged to go to the Mansion of King Nersu of Pingjun.

Nersu knew that Yongqing and his wife and brother were close friends, and he was hesitant to help. After all, there are still the fourteenth elder brother and Prince Jane Yaerjianga are here, and it is not his turn to take care of the affairs of the Yan Mansion, otherwise it will not be a shame for the fourteenth elder brother and Prince Jian. If you wait for the change, this Yongqing will be removed from the family again, and it is reasonable for the fourteenth elder brother and Prince Jane Yaerjiang Aruo to stand by and watch.

It wasn't until he received Cao Hao's handwritten letter that he solemnly entrusted him that Nersu made up his mind. The reason why Yongqing was convicted, Nersu also knew a little, and he also respected this blood man. Thinking of Ning Chun, who died inexplicably in the prison of the Criminal Department, Nersu sighed.

In order not to be provoked, Nersu still decided to ask the opinions of the fourteenth elder brother and Prince Jian Yaerjianga first, if these two people are mainly based on the opinions of Wanyan Mansion and no longer recognize Yongqing's uncle, then he will come forward to talk around. It's just a lighter sentence, and it's not too difficult.

Because the fourteenth elder brother had not yet opened the mansion and was still living in the palace, Nersu went to Prince Jian's mansion first. The result was quite surprising.

Yarjianga had already greeted the inspectorate, and now he was waiting to find out whether Yongqing's complaint was true. If it is true, he will be roded a hundred times and exiled to Shengjing; If there is no truth in the matter, it will be dealt with as "vainly talking about state affairs" and "slandering ministers", then it will be said twice.

Nersu was overjoyed when he heard this, and it was a matter of concern, but when he left Prince Jane's mansion, he noticed that something was wrong.

Ning Chun's case is not as simple as it seems, on the surface, it was because of greed for ink and involvement in the "Nanshan Collection" case, but in fact, it was revealed that he secretly raised money for the prince in Jiangnan in his early years.

Yongqing knocked for the Ning family, if he checked, it would either fall on the crown prince's head or on the other elder brothers' heads, at that time, where would he still be good? Even if you go to Shengjing, you are afraid that your surname will not be able to protect your life.

The contradiction between Yarjianga and the crown prince is well known, but his intention is to add fuel to the fire, where does he care about Yongqing's life and death?

(To be continued)