From Tongzhou back to Beijing, all the way is an official road.

Vehicles come and go, and it is inevitable that there are family members of officials. The carriage that Chu Yu was riding in was made in-house, and the grade decoration of Shuogege.

Most of the officials and dependents encountered were avoided.

At this time, the hierarchy is strict, and the carriage here shows that it is a female dependent, since there are no irrelevant people who come to drill the camp, only two officials from the Chun Wangfu who are from the outside of the cloth are met head-on, and they recognize that it is the carriage and horse of their own palace, fly off the horse, and gallop over to say goodbye.

When they got closer, the two saw Cao Hao in regular clothes again.

can recognize Chu Yu's carriage, they often go to Prince Chun's mansion to walk around, and it is not uncommon to recognize Cao Hao, a heshuo forehead.

Cao Hao had to say a few words of congratulations, Zhang Yi was shrewd, and when he saw this, he had already prepared the next instrument and sent it forward.

The two were grateful, and watched Cao Hao and his party drift away before turning around and heading towards Tongzhou.

Zhang Yi rode a horse, followed Cao Hao's side, and said: "Master, it seems that Tongzhou is still less likely to come, which time you come over, you won't send seven or eight copies of Cheng Yi." ”

Cao Hao smiled and said: "Gifts are still exchanged, gifts are still exchanged, don't be afraid to send them out, as long as you don't take back too much." ”

Zhang Yidao: "The only master is afraid of receiving a heavy gift, and other Beijing officials are eager to give away a piece of money and come back." ”

Cao Hao smiled silently, and the Beijing official said that the poor should also divide people.

Those with low grades are filial piety to the top, socialize with colleagues, appease their subordinates, and ask for silver everywhere. In addition, the price of goods in the capital is expensive, and the officials who enter and leave the pawn shop in Pingli are not one or two.

Those of Cao Hao's grade have no such concerns, the subordinates of the yamen are filial piety to the "three festivals and two longevitys", the foreign officials enter Beijing to respect the ice and charcoal, the local taxes are paid into Beijing and the profits are shared, and the reasons for all kinds of justifiable gifts and cashiers.

At this time, I am really afraid that I will not receive a courtesy, and I am really afraid of being polite.

If you give courtesy, you will ask for something, and if you accept it, you will take responsibility, and if you refuse, you will offend people.

The career is dangerous, who knows which "small stone" can affect the old man and the head.

Like Zhang Tingyu, it is a way to directly explain to the concierge, and simply not accept the gift of more than one hundred taels of silver; Like Cao Hao, no matter how many gifts he receives, he asks people to return the same gifts.

When the outside world talks about the two Shangshu of the household, some praise them, and some of them say cool things.

It is nothing more than that the Zhang family is collectively referred to as the rich man, with hundreds of thousands of hectares of land at home, and there is no shortage of this bit of money in officialdom communication; He also said that the two generations of the Cao family's fathers and ancestors operated Jiangning weaving and saved a large industry.

After a short while, I saw a carriage parked on the side of the road. It's not like seeing a nobleman back down, but somehow something is wrong and he's already unloaded his horse.

In addition to this broken carriage, there was also a mule cart, which looked a little rougher, and should have been prepared for the subordinates.

Outside the broken carriage were several servants, a middle-aged man in regular clothes, and a young man standing beside him.

Is this a carriage that is broken?

Zhang Yi knew that his master was not nosy, so he looked away.

Cao Hao squinted at the middle-aged man in front of the carriage, with a faint smile on his face.

The man, as if sensing that someone was looking at him, looked up in this direction.

At this moment, Cao Hao and his entourage were only less than familiar with the man, and even Zhang Yi and Cao Man could see that the person in front of them was kind.

"It's the young master......" Cao Man said in a low voice.

The man also recognized Cao Hao and his party, and was stunned for a moment, then immediately walked a few steps forward, approached Cao Hao's horse's head, saluted, and said, "Nephew...... I've seen Uncle Hao, and my nephew asks Uncle Hao to ......"

It turned out that it was not someone else I met, it was Gu Na.

Cao Hao grabbed the reins of the horse, turned over and dismounted, and personally helped Gu Na up.

The handsome young man back then has become a middle-aged man.

He was only a few years older than Cao Hao, but now he looked like he was more than ten years older.

Although he already knew that Gu Na would return to Beijing to see His Majesty, it can be seen that at this moment, Cao Hao's mood was still a little agitated, and he nodded and said, "I'm safe, is Yurong also safe?" ”

"Yurong" is the word for Gu Na, which was given by his mentor and father-in-law Cai Shengyuan in his early years, taking the meaning of "generous and tolerant".

Gu Na nodded without hesitation, and said loudly: "Thanks to Uncle Hao, my nephew is living very well and living very quickly." ”

Because of the small bumps and displacement, Gu Na often had a depressed color between his eyebrows and eyes in his early years, and between his eyebrows he often frowned, with a deep "Sichuan character pattern", and he looked lacking in vitality.

After a few years of being released, although he was tanned, his body was also strong and slightly rich, and the "Sichuan character pattern" between his eyebrows was much lighter.

The temperament exuded by the whole person has changed greatly from the previous one.

Cao Hao let go twice, and he knew how comfortable "the emperor was far away". Even if the government affairs are complicated and the responsibilities that need to be borne are great, even if the people who are far away from the center of the court and away from the power dumping are tired, their hearts are relaxed.

Thinking that he had been bumpy for half his life, he was finally able to live happily, and Cao Hao was also happy for him.

Cao Hao raised his head, looked at the young man who was hesitating not far away, and said to Gu Na: "This is bringing his wife and children back?" ”

In the early years in the capital, although Gu Na had a personal relationship with Cao Hao and occasionally visited, what was revealed in front of the world was that Gu Na wanted to cling to the Cao family.

After all, one of the two is attached to the party, and the other is determined to be a pure minister, and they do not conspire with each other.

Therefore, Gu Na's wife Cai and their children never went to Cao's house to ask for peace.

The reason why Cao Hao decided that the young man was Gu Na's son was because the young man's appearance was somewhat similar to Gu Na when he was a teenager.

Listening to Cao Hao's questioning, Gu Na realized that he was so excited that he forgot to introduce Cao Hao to his son, and hurriedly said, "It's my nephew's eldest son, Peping." The mother-in-law was old and missed her daughter and granddaughter, so the nephew took their mother and son to Beijing, and the family was also good to get together. With that, he turned his head and beckoned the young man to come forward.

"Brother Ping, it's my father's cousin, your cousin, don't come forward and say goodbye!" Gu Nayang said.

Gu Boping stepped forward as he said, lifted his shirt without hesitation, knelt on the ground, and saluted the "cousin" who met for the first time: "My grandson has seen my cousin, and my grandson asks my cousin to be safe." ”

Although he saw Cao Hao for the first time, he could hear the words "cousin uncle", and he already knew who this person was.

It is the grandson of the Gu family's aunt, the head of the household, and the second-class uncle Cao Hao.

Gu Na never concealed his background in front of his family, the glory of the Gu family as the leader of Shilin in Jiangnan, the fall of the Gu family, and the boyhood when he lost his father and married his mother and was taken care of by the Cao family.

Gu Boping heard it in his ears and remembered it in his heart.

As for why the two families were estranged in the early years, there were several internal affairs, and Gu Na was not good at talking about a child in detail, only saying that there were different political views.

Gu Boping didn't seem to understand, but he only felt vaguely or like that.

When Gu Na was demoted from the capital, Gu Boping was already in his teens, and he was already a half-grown child, not only remembering, but also making his own judgments.

He knew that his father's fault was "the party attached to the elder brother", and the reason why his grandfather's reputation was tarnished during his lifetime was "flattering the powerful" and "frivolous", just because his grandfather couldn't stand the intercession of the ninth elder brother, and married a concubine to one of the disciples of the ninth elder brother as his wife.

Now, that person has long been dismissed from office, and Cai's sister-in-law has also died of illness, these are all things he has heard from him, he didn't dare to ask the reason, and he only knew what was going on after seeing him in the past two years.

No matter what the hardships of my father and grandfather were, standing in line is standing in line.

Because of the Nine Dragons, how many officials are involved.

The cousin of the Cao family, who was alienated from them, was reasonable.

However, even when the relationship between the two families was estranged, the cousin of the Cao family could still guide and take care of his father regardless of his previous suspicions, so that Gu Boping was truly grateful?

He is young in the end, even if he tries his best to restrain himself, but the look of gratitude between his eyebrows and eyes can't be hidden.

Cao Hao stretched out his hand to help Gu Boping up, and had to ask how old the two sentences were and what books he read.

The uncle and nephew met here, and Chu Yu got the news in the carriage.

Just when Gu Na proposed, first take his son to Chu Yu to ask for peace, Chu Yu has already sent her mother-in-law over, and said: "Master, Mrs. said, it is inconvenient to see the courtesy outside, and it is not cheap in the end. ”

Although the words are tactful, what do you not understand? This arrangement was only because their carriage broke down, and they wanted to piggyback on them to take them back to Beijing, and they were worried about the face of their husband and wife.

With such good intentions, Gu Na can only be grateful, where can he not appreciate it?

He sent his son over to deliver the message, and two men got out of the carriage at one o'clock, and a woman led a little girl and a little boy out of the carriage.

The woman was in her early thirties, dressed in half-new clothes, and her demeanor was elegant and calm.

The little girl is only six or seven years old, and she looks cute and pitiful; Boys are younger, three or four years old.

Cao Hao's eyes skimmed over the woman, but he was a little surprised when he saw the little girl.

As far as he knew, Guna had only two sons and a daughter, the son was the last and the daughter was in the middle. The daughter was born before she was one year old, one of the two sons was born in the capital, and the other was born in Gu Naren.

Now, how can there be an extra little girl?

At this time, Cai had already stepped forward with his two children, obeyed her husband's orders, and respectfully took her two children to Cao Hao to greet him.

Cao Hao could accept the courtesy of his father and son, but he didn't want the women and children to kneel in front of him, so he instructed the mother-in-law next to him to support Cai's and take Cai's and the two children into Chu Yu's carriage.

Uncles and nephews have the way of greeting uncles and nephews, and the same is true between women.

However, Chu Yu treats people gently, and Cai's family is from a scholarly family, and the two of them are speculative.

Cao Hao and Gu Na were already on the horse, and without waiting for Cao Hao to ask, Gu Na honestly explained the origin of the little girl.

Although this little girl is not born to Gu Na and his wife, she is raised like her own daughter. The girl's parents are Cai's sister-in-law, who married Brother Jiu, a right-hand man, to fill the house......

(To be continued)