Cao Hao was beside him, watching the development of the world as he expected, and Ben was still faintly happy; But looking at the pity in the imperial doctor's eyes, he almost got goosebumps.

A few old ladies swept at Cao Hao's crotch with a glance and a glance, and when he woke up, his face immediately turned red, and he almost vomited a mouthful of blood.

Why is there such a misunderstanding? In the early years, I didn't take a concubine, so I had such gossip, and now I want to escape from illness, why do I get involved with this again?

Such a look, falling into the eyes of others, has become evidence that Cao Hao is really not good.

Yongzheng looked at Cao Hao, wondering if to give some secret medicine. Being a man, sometimes there is weakness, everyone understands. He blamed Chu Yu in his heart, even if his husband had something unspeakable, he should appease his husband well, and he forced his beloved capable minister to be like this.

Although Cao Hao was full of shame and anger, he still took advantage of this east wind to kowtow and ask for retirement.

Yongzheng was angry, seeing Cao Hao like this, he wanted to scold, but after all, he was a little pitiful, and said, "What did you say? You are in the prime of life, where do you need to retire? Give a vacation for ten years, so that you can recuperate, and don't think nonsense. ”

Cao Hao knows that this can only be the case at present. For a strong emperor, it is more appropriate to take a gradual approach.

However, coming out of the Old Summer Palace, Cao Hao was still a little helpless. When will it be so procrastinating? In order to meet the symptoms of "insomnia and headache", he also tossed himself enough, otherwise how could he hide it from the doctor.

It's fine, I can't stay up. In addition to those inference strategies related to the West, he was summing up his experience as an official over the years.

The relief of the people in the Shandong period, the "captive house feeding" during the Taifu Temple period, the "bidding" during the internal affairs government, the road construction and agriculture and trade promotion during the governor's Zhili, and the open source and throttling of the household department.

After a month of hard work, I have already written. I don't plan to spread these around, and leave them for my brothers and nephews to learn from.

Take a vacation to recuperate these days, just enough to finish writing the rest.

He can't say that the Quartet is alarmed, but there is an endless stream of relatives and friends who come to visit him. Cao Hao used the excuse of "inconvenience in his illness", and everything that could not be seen was gone, but the sixteenth elder brother has always been in the house.

Although there have always been many sieves in the palace, and there are eyes and ears in all directions, but Yongzheng is an emperor with a very strong sense of control, and Cao Hao's illness involves the dignity of men in his opinion, so he opened his mouth to warn. Therefore, there is no wind going out.

The sixteenth elder brother has also seen Cao Hao recently, and he saw that his face was reduced, but he was a bitter summer, but he didn't expect that he would need to "take sick leave".

He didn't think that Cao Hao was seriously ill, but was worried about whether Cao Hao was ordered to "take sick leave" because of something that angered the emperor.

The emperor's surname is not lenient, as Cao Hao's best friend, how can he not worry?

The Cao family's free card is useless to him. The sixteenth elder brother left the attendants outside and went directly into the inner house of Cao's mansion.

In the inner study, Cao Hao finished writing the last word and put down the brush.

He raised his eyelids and looked at the half-foot-high scroll on the upper left side of the desk, and his twenty-year career was like a movie, dangling in front of his eyes.

Thinking of the immaturity when he entered Beijing at the beginning of that year, Cao Hao not only thanked Mr. Zhuang again in his heart. Without Mr. Zhuang's teaching and guidance, he would have had to fall a few times to be fully considered.

There is also Jiang Jian, who has also done his best in the past ten years since he entered the Cao Mansion, saving him a lot of effort.

Cao Hao told Jiang Jian that he wanted to retire from illness, and Jiang Jian also had his own arrangements. Although Cao Hao had already purchased an estate for him in the suburbs of Beijing and moved his family's household registration to Shuntian Mansion, he still planned to take his wife and children back to his hometown. After a few years, Xiao Lei Ming will return to Beijing when he is older.

For a while, he was a little stupid, and he didn't even notice that the sixteenth elder brother came in.

The sixteenth elder brother glanced at Cao Hao, his face was gray, his complexion was really not good, and his expression was sluggish, what was wrong?

He was worried in his heart, and hurriedly shouted: "Cao Hao, Cao Hao......"

"Sixteenth Master......" Cao Hao woke up at this time, and hurriedly got up and said, "Why are you here......"

The sixteenth elder brother was not verbose, and asked directly: "Why is it okay to be 'sick and rest'?" I heard that the emperor will keep you in front of the palace yesterday, did you have something wrong in front of the palace that annoyed the emperor? Speaking of this, he hesitated a little: "Or did you not show up because of the funeral in the Thirteenth Brother's Mansion?" ”

Facing the sixteenth elder brother who has been friends for half his life, Cao Hao did not lie and say anything "unspeakable", nor did he outline the beautiful idea of traveling in the mountains and rivers like in front of Li and Chu Yu, but said bluntly: "Sixteenth master, I'm tired...... In officialdom, what if you are a minister? It's just that the position is high, and there are many interest disputes, and it will become a luxury to want to retire at that time. Although my position is more important now, it is not necessary for me...... Now that the court is peaceful, and the children in the family are taking care of similar affairs, I decided to retire ......"

He didn't admit that he was pretending to be sick, nor did he deny it, he just told the sixteenth elder brother that he had decided to retreat.

How did the sixteenth elder brother know that Cao Hao was just a modern person's lazy disease, and he was afraid that he would be dragged into the soon-to-be-established military aircraft department to "sell his life", so he made a decision to retire early. He only thought that Cao Hao was touched by the loss of his son by the thirteenth elder brother, so he was like this.

Not to mention Cao Hao, the situation of the thirteenth elder brother, even he is a little blind.

On the bright side, many important things in the court are pressed on the thirteenth elder brother, but the thirteenth elder brother is the one to be most wary of. Even the eldest son of the concubine was enshrined as Baylor, and the concubines who were killed were buried in the grade of Baylor, but they did not seal the eldest son of the prince as the son of the prince.

The sixteenth elder brother thought for a while and said, "It's okay to retreat, you sit in the household department, how many people's financial roads have been blocked." Even Zhang Tingyu played a trick and pushed all the errands of the household department clean up under the pretext of being in charge of the government department, which shows that the villain is difficult. ”

Seeing that the sixteenth elder brother did not persuade himself, Cao Hao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Exactly." It seems to be calm and orderly in the government office, but who knows when there will be a disturbance? In the early years, when the treasury was empty, everyone couldn't help but stretch out their hands; Now tens of millions of taels of silver, how many people are red-eyed, but it is just in the way of me, and I dare not speak for a while. ”

Although the sixteenth elder brother also knew that for the imperial court, Cao Hao was a capable minister; But from the position of the sixteenth elder brother, the affairs of the court naturally have the emperor's heart, he is Cao Hao's friend and relative, and he naturally has to think about Cao Hao.

He stood up, circled around Cao Hao twice, and then reached out and rubbed Cao Hao's face.

With such an action, Cao Hao hurriedly stretched out his hand and pushed it away: "What is the sixteenth master making trouble?" ”

The sixteenth elder brother looked at Cao Hao's sallow face and bloodshot eyes, which didn't seem to be fake, but the meaning of Fang Cai's words was obviously to "escape from illness".

Real disease, fake disease, very confusing.

He glanced at Cao Hao twice, but still didn't see any flaws, leaned over and whispered, "How did you get out of your weak and bad appearance?" ”

"Tossing and turning every night without sleeping, it will be like this after a few days." Cao Hao also whispered back.

The sixteenth elder brother gasped, and then said: "No, you have slowly cleared down, this has been for a while." If you don't sleep all the time, where can your body survive? What's the trick for me? "Speaking of which, I was already a little excited.

Seeing this, Cao Hao knew that the sixteenth elder brother had taken a fancy to his "method" of pretending to be sick, and he did not hide his selfishness, and said: "In three nights, one night slept steadily, and two nights stayed up." It doesn't hurt the roots, but it looks really unenergetic. ”

The sixteenth elder brother has always been smart, and immediately thought of the key to it, and said happily: "That must be that Xiao Chao slept soundly that night, and then stayed up for two days, and when he arrived at Xiao Chao, he looked the most haggard." ”

Speaking of this, he went to the joy on his face again, frowned and looked at Cao Hao and said: "This method, if you want to be lazy temporarily, it is not easy to take advantage of this 'serious illness'." If you really want to survive, you don't just look seriously ill from the outside, and you can't hurt the inside, you can't do it! ”

This is just talking about Cao Hao's worries, he sighed and said: "I can't be ruthless, but if the illness is mild, there is no reason to resign." The emperor has always been suspicious, where is the past so vague. ”

Others are reluctant to let their children fight wolves, he is reluctant to give up his body, and he can't exchange for freedom.

The sixteenth elder brother snorted lightly, raised his chin, and said proudly: "What a big deal, it makes you embarrassed so much, wouldn't you get everything if you came to discuss it with your master earlier?" Have you forgotten that Prince Zhuang Jing likes to collect folk apricot forest masters and refine all kinds of small pills? ”

Cao Hao raised his head and looked at the sixteenth elder brother...... The heritage of King Zhuang's Mansion is really not something that ordinary people can afford.

With the "help" of the sixteenth elder brother, Cao Hao's next things were much smoother.

When the tenth day was full, Cao Hao still went to the yamen on duty. When colleagues and subordinates saw it, they couldn't help but congratulate Cao Hao on his "recovery". After all, his face seemed to be much better, and he was also refreshed.

Cao Hao accepted everyone's congratulations and went to deal with the official documents.

Although Yongzheng said that he had a lot of opportunities, he did not forget to pay attention to Cao Hao, an important minister.

The sticky rods of Caofu have resumed the habit of retribution, and Yongzheng also took a look at it every once in a while, knowing that Cao Hao was recuperating at home, eating a lot of tonics, and doing good work and rest, and he was very satisfied with his heart.

When he arrived at the small court, seeing Cao Hao's improved face, Yongzheng was relieved again.

After all, Cao Hao is different from those courtiers in their seventies and eighties, and with the blood relationship, he is really reluctant to fold this courtier.

Just look at Cao Hao's appearance, the symptoms of lack of sleep should be alleviated, as for the "lack of essence and blood" or something, let's take a look. If there is really something wrong, give two palace ladies to go down. Chu Yu, as the lord of the county, has an identity and refuses to take the initiative to serve her husband.

Yongzheng had a conclusion in his heart, so he put Cao Hao's matter aside first, after all, he had to bow down to everything, and there were too many things that needed attention.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Chaohui said that Cao Hao fainted in the yamen.

This time, the news that Cao Hao, the head of the household department, was "seriously ill" was no longer a rumor, but what everyone saw with their own eyes...... The household errand was once again handed over to several waiters, and Cao Hao, the household secretary, began to take sick leave again.

After this repetition, even Yongzheng was a little frightened. Judging from the pulse case of the imperial doctor, Cao Hao's health is getting worse and worse. looks like the complexion is better, but it's just made up by these words, and the inside is still not solid.

At the end of June, Cao Hao took the fold and asked for his resignation as the secretary of the household department.

Yongzheng stayed in the middle and did not send it, but only sent the attendant to Cao's Mansion to pass on the message, ordering him to recuperate in peace.

At the beginning of July, Mrs. Li's wife was on the fold, and in the excerpt, she asked her son to resign from the Ministry of Households, and Yongzheng still stayed in the middle school.

By mid-July, Cao Hao had already sorted out and chanted sutras in front of the Buddha statue, so that he could barely sleep comfortably.

Mrs. Lee's fold, please see your majesty.

Yongzheng sighed, put down the fold, and asked people to pass on the Li family to meet ...... * July 18, the household department Shangshu Cao Hao resigned due to illness in the household department Shangshu, and said that Yongzheng listed Cao Hao in the household department of the twelve merits, Jin Cao Hao's second-class uncle was the third-class marquis, and ordered him to be honored.

Before the congratulatory guests arrived, they got the news that the newly released third-class Hou Cao Hao, accompanied by Mrs. Hou's wife Li and eldest son Cao Zhan, took the ship of the Ministry of Internal Affairs out of Beijing.

Isn't it a seriously ill person? Why are you still tossing like this?

All of a sudden, speculation was rife.

In the end, there is a well-informed person, and after a few days, I found out one or two.

What Cao Yin's fate should have been childless, the two Cao Hao brothers were both asked for by the late Sun Taijun and Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who had been fasting and reciting Buddha for many years.

What Cao Hao has a lot of fate, if it is not for the care of God and Buddha, it is two things to say whether he can raise or not.

It is also said that Cao Hao was a monk in his last life, and in order to repay the kindness of the Cao family's ancestors, he was reincarnated in the Cao family.

Those with noses and eyes are more and more like that. Even Cao Hao's refusal to accept concubines and maids has become evidence of his reincarnation as a monk.

There are those who are not convinced, and they can't stand the praise of others as Cao Hao's "Buddha-hearted good man", and they want to catch his little tail, but they check the things that have been his office for 20 years, and turn them around, all of which are Cao Hao's various good deeds of caring for the people, but there is no greed for ink and bending the law.

Worthy of the king, worthy of Li Shu, and never quarreled with his colleagues in the middle, Cao Hao, an official, can be called a model, not inferior to the "three model governors" publicly commended by the imperial court.

Everyone has a problem, that is, they can't see the good of others. Even if Cao Hao himself can't find fault, what about the Cao family?

As a result, Cao Song's "greed for money and lust" is well known, Cao Xiang has become "pedantic and inflexible", and Changsheng has become a gentleman.

There are few shadows, and most of them are eggs and bones. But true or false, there are still fewer words praising Cao Hao.

Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the holy driver moved back to the Forbidden City from the Old Summer Palace.

In order to prevent the leakage of military aircraft, a military machine room was set up in Longzong Gate, thinking that it was a place to deal with urgent military affairs and assist the emperor in handling military affairs.

The Minister of Military Aircraft was selected from among the scholars, Manchu Han Shangshu, and Shilang, and the military aircraft Zhang Jing was selected from the cabinet book.

The officialdom of the capital was boiling immediately.

Cao Hao's illness and retirement have long been old news, and the powerful people of the clan have set their eyes on the military aircraft.

Inside the Longzong Gate is the Qianqing Palace, and the military aircraft department is located under the emperor's nose. When the army was used in the northwest again, everyone knew that as long as they entered, they didn't need to make any achievements, and when the northwest was decided, they would not be able to run away from rewarding meritorious deeds.

It is said that "a companion is like a tiger", but everyone is willing to go to the emperor.

Even if he only mixes with Xiao Zhangjing, after a long time, there are more opportunities than the officials outside to show up in front of the emperor.

Everyone's eyes were hot, pinching their fingers, counting which one might enter the military plane. Under this calculation, some people couldn't help but feel a little happy when they thought of Cao Hao.

Cao Hao is in his prime, and he is good at guarding, if he is in the position of the head of the household, most of them will enter the military plane. His departure from Beijing can be regarded as giving everyone one more opportunity...... By the time Cao Zhan, the son of the Cao family, returned to Beijing, the candidates for the Military Aircraft Department had already been decided.

Cao Hao's illness and retirement have become a yellow flower in the past, and others are too lazy to pay attention to it; But relatives and friends, but they are really worried about Cao Hao's condition, and they rarely have to be inquired about.

Tianyou didn't hide it, he said that his grandmother and father were recuperating in the Qingliang Mountain Courtyard, and he also mentioned that the host of Qingliang Temple had sent a letter to Master Wu, the abbot of Lingyin Temple. When my father's health improves next year, he will go to Hangzhou Lingyin Temple to study Buddhism.

Although Cao Hao has resigned, the Cao family is the Hou Mansion after all, and Mrs. Cao's identity is different, and Changsheng, a newly released student, has naturally become a good son-in-law candidate for many official eunuchs.

In addition, the young concubines of the Cao family's house are famous, and many people who feel sorry for their daughters and have no intention of clinging to the clan have spread the word that they are about to be drafted, and everyone wants to get married after the draft.

The Li family is not in Beijing, and Chu Yu, the eldest sister-in-law, of course, will not make her own opinions, so she has to ask Changsheng. Although the Li family has handed over the longevity of the family to the eldest daughter-in-law, Chu Yu also wants to ask the little uncle what kind of wife he wants.

Changsheng only said that he was not in a hurry, and he would wait for two years, so he took Hengsheng out of Beijing to change Tianyou, but Chu Yu couldn't, so the matter had to be put on hold for the time being.

After all, Hengsheng is the prince of the vassal king, and it is not suitable to live abroad for a long time, so in the spring of the eighth year of Yongzheng, Cao Hao and Li sent his party to Hangzhou for settlement, and then returned to Beijing.

Most relatives and friends in Beijing know that after half a year of recuperation, Cao Hao's condition has improved slightly.

But Prince Yi, who has been sick since last winter, has not been able to survive.

On the fourth day of the fifth month of Yongzheng, Prince Yi was born. Before his death, Prince Yi was given a testament, and he asked his nine-year-old son Hongxiao to inherit the title.

The emperor was very sad, and issued an edict to restore Prince Yi's name "Yinxiang", worthy of enjoying the temple, and nicknamed "Xian".

After the funeral of Prince Yi, Yongzheng ordered his youngest son Hongxiao to take the title of prince according to the prince's will, and the eldest son Hongdun was the king of Fujun, and the second son Hongjiao was the king of Liangjun.

So far, Prince Yixian has four surviving sons, one prince, two county kings, and one Baylor.

The clan was in an uproar, and all kinds of envy and jealousy were not told one by one.

No matter how much jealousy there is, no one dares to show it at this time. For Prince Yi's funeral, the emperor has fewer ministers in the clan?

Cao Hao got the news after Prince Yi said a few words.

He has settled down in the courtyard next to the Lingyin Temple, entering the Lingyin Temple every three days to listen to Zen, and accompanying the Li family to travel every five days, and he has lived a quiet and peaceful life.

The news was sent by Li Wei.

After Li and Cao Hao arrived in Hangzhou, Li Wei visited the door.

Cao Hao only saw it once, and the two didn't know what to say. Li Wei never came to the door again, but he didn't mean to cut off the contact, and sometimes asked someone to send some reports from the palace.

Among the sons of the Holy Ancestor, except for Prince Zhuang, who is closest to the Cao family, Prince Yi has a deep relationship with the Cao family.

If he was in front of Lingyin Temple back then, without the help of Prince Yi and Jinshang, Cao Hao would be able to save his life and say nothing.

Listening to his funeral letter, Li and Cao Hao's mother and son were both uncomfortable. The mother and son went to Lingyin Temple, donated a sum of sesame oil money, and asked the temple to chant 7749 Sutras, which is also considered to be this cause and effect.

In the blink of an eye, another year has passed.

Hengsheng's wedding date is approaching, and Cao Hao is also a little tired in Suzhou and Hangzhou. After receiving a letter from Tianyou and knowing that the annex of Wutai Mountain had been properly built, Cao Hao left Hangzhou with his mother and sailed south.

When the ship arrived in Texas, Cao Hao and the Changsheng brothers parted ways. Changsheng Feng Li continued north to return to Beijing, while Cao Hao went northwest to Shanxi.

The news that Cao Hao was included in the discipleship of the monk by the abbot of Lingyin Temple, Wu, is no longer news in the capital. For Cao Hao did not return to Beijing, but went to Wutai Mountain to study Buddhism, everyone listened, but they only sighed twice.

In July of the ninth year of Yongzheng, the prince of Khalkha Khan, Meng Ke, married Princess Duanrou, and after the marriage, the princess lived in the palace of the capital with the prince, and there was no princess mansion.

In September of that year, the queen and the biological mother of the four princes, Xi Guifei, took the sixth palace...... Everything in Beijing seems to have nothing to do with Cao Hao.

He sat leisurely on the recliner in the courtyard of Wutai Mountain, talking about flying in the sky and running on the ground, a bizarre world.

Tianbao, who is already a half-grown teenager, sits on the side, holding pen and ink in his hand, listening with shining eyes, and keeps writing records.

"Is my father talking about fairyland? Thousands of miles away, a few hours away...... Man can go to heaven and go to sea...... Maxima doesn't eat grass and eats oil instead? Listening to his father's vivid description, Tianbao was almost fascinated by it.

But no matter how real the illusion is, it's not a fact, right?

Not far away, a small guy was bowing down and sweeping the floor. If you look closely, you will find that his ears occasionally move unconsciously.

Cao Hao glanced at it with a smile and said, "Buddhism is boundless, for the Buddha, these are just small tricks. ”

Tianbao listened to it bluntly, and couldn't help but yearn for the gods and Buddhas, but he loved to eat dried meat the most, and he thought about the hardships of learning Buddhism, so he finally retreated.

However, this did not affect his curiosity and incomprehension of the "Western Elysium" in his father's eyes.

Cao Hao is also willing to tell him about the "Elysium" in his leisure time, in the child's expectation.

The excerpt that recorded Cao Hao's "gibberish" also arrived in front of the emperor half a month later.

After losing his brother and wife, Yongzheng became more and more old.

He can understand Cao Hao's difficulties, because he can't do it anymore. Now, every time a person in the palace is in the palace, he needs to use secret medicine.

For an emperor who looks down on the world, this blow is not insignificant. He somewhat understood Cao Hao's feelings of escaping from the world through Buddha and not wanting to face his wife and children.

Even, in his heart, there was a faint anger at Chu Yu. I feel that it is because of her inconsiderate attitude as a wife that Cao Hao left home so disheartened.

Since he heard that Cao Hao's health is getting better, he has the idea of reviving Cao Hao.

However, after reading the excerpt of the conversation between Cao Hao and Tianbao, Yongzheng understood that Cao Hao had been deeply obsessed with Buddhism and had lost his usual prudence and reason.

Where can such a courtier, who is so confused by the teachings of Buddhism that his mind is not clear, still be useful?

Two months later, the Cao family in Wutai Mountain lost a small house.

Cao Hao sat on the recliner, and this time he really smiled...... * Guangzhou wharf, a big ship came from afar.

On the dock, the crowd surged and cheered loudly.

At the bow of the boat, one person put down his clairvoyant eyes and said to himself: "I, Wei Wu, have finally returned......

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Bow and thank you, for three and a half years, I have been with each other, except for gratitude and gratitude, there is nothing else to say. In the past three and a half years, a lot of things have happened to Xiao Jiu, and there are many shortcomings.

Xiao Jiu has already explained, but maybe everyone hasn't paid attention to it, or maybe they think it's an excuse. Again, Xiao Jiu didn't lie. In January 2011, Xiao Jiu was diagnosed with something in the breast in the hospital, and the doctor said that it was very serious, and he should take medicine to control it, and if the control could not be eliminated, he would need surgery. Then I started taking medicine, and it was fine at first, and I took it until March. After the results were rechecked, the effect was not great, and the dressing was changed. The reaction is strong, in addition to dizziness, it is a great stimulation of the stomach and intestines. The stomach is full of claws, and I need to keep eating, and I need to stuff my stomach slowly to feel comfortable. Not only for hormonal reasons, but also for gastric mucosa reasons, Xiao Jiu is obese all the way.

Xiao Jiu really couldn't stand the toss, and the update was out of style.

When you have a cold and fever, Xiao Jiu has no burden to take sick leave; But maybe when the consequences would be unimaginable, Xiao Jiu really didn't want to say anything.

At this time, I don't need or want to be comforted, I always feel that if I say a word, I will become like a crow's mouth, and I am very taboo in my heart. It's very evasive.,Don't log in QQ.,Don't even answer the editor's phone.。

In July, I still had surgery, but fortunately, the result was Liang's. Escaped.

In September, the mental state was much better, because he went to Jiuzhaigou with Futian and Liu Dian Huaming, but he was weak and lay in the hotel for three days, living up to the beautiful scenery.

After coming back, he was still weak and lacking in spirit, and Xiao Cao, who had been working for a few days, broke again.

It wasn't until December that the update began to resume.

Everyone's tolerance made Xiao Jiu ashamed. Xiao Jiu is still wrong, as early as when the body finds that something is wrong and there is no mind to code the text, it should be ended, instead of delaying it like this, starting and ending well, it is really worthy of everyone's love for this book.

The old book is over, and the past is over.

At the beginning of the new book, Xiao Jiu said that in addition to code words, he also began to exercise. Now the weight is straight to seventy kilograms, which is a terrible number for Xiao Jiu, who is only 160 tall. Think of a ball sweating there all the time.

Now that it's in good shape, it's starting to speed up the update.

The new book is to tell the story of a modern man who was reborn in the Ming Dynasty, from the small novice of the mountain temple to the official residence, the little monk climbed up step by step...... Everyone is welcome to sign up......

Again, bow and thank you!!

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