Li Wei was already a little drunk, looked at Hengsheng, and talked to Cao Hao about his eldest son. His son and his original partner lived in the countryside of Xuzhou and were raised in front of their old lady.

A few years ago, he wanted to pick them up, but the old lady didn't like to leave her hometown. In the past two years, he took a concubine, and the old lady was worried that she had a son here, and she had wronged her eldest grandson, so she sent several letters, wanting Li Wei to take her eldest grandson into Beijing.

Li Wei had a lot of scruples, but he hesitated and dragged it out until now.

He took the empty wine cup, poured a cup, pushed it in front of Hengsheng, and said with a big tongue: "But in a blink of an eye, the second young master has become a young man, come, if you are a master, drink a cup!" ”

Hengsheng looked at his father, and Cao Hao couldn't cry or laugh.

"When you're a few years old, it's not too late to ask him to drink with you." Cao Hao smiled and picked up the wine cup from in front of Hengsheng, asked Hengsheng to pour Li Wei full of wine, and the two drank to each other.

Li Wei took one bite and sighed: "My lord is like this, I am the right father, and I Li Wei is a bastard." ”

This involves Li Wei's family affairs, and Cao Hao didn't want to ask too much, so he diverted the conversation.

Li Wei drank a few more cups and got up to say goodbye.

Seeing that he was drunk, Cao Hao was a little uneasy, and told Xiaoman to send him back.

There were only two fathers and sons left in the tent, and Hengsheng was afraid that his father would feel uncomfortable drinking, so he asked someone to serve strong tea and sent it to his father with both hands.

Cao Hao drank half of it and put it down, and asked Hengsheng about what he had seen and heard about the pasture.

"The child has seen the living Buddha, it is the Hutu Ketu sealed by the imperial court!" Heng Sheng said excitedly: "Father, is he really a Buddha, and he doesn't look like him?" ”

When Cao Hao heard this, he couldn't help but ask Hengsheng about the meeting with the Great Lama.

Hearing that Kangxi passed on Hongli to enter the account to see the great lama, Cao Hao thought about it in his heart, could it be that Kangxi has chosen the emperor and grandson now?

There is also the fourth elder brother who pays attention to Hongli's driving, and at this moment he has returned to his account and listened to Hongli's words. Hearing that the Great Lama praised Hongli quite highly, the fourth elder brother's expression became more and more serious.

The Great Lama is not only the uncrowned king of Khalkha, but also a living Buddha recognized by both the [***] lama and the imperial court, and the human reincarnation of one of the five hundred disciples of Shakyamuni, and his status in the Yellow Sect is extraordinary.

Hongli was approved by him, what is the intention of the imperial father to arrange it like this?

His heart was turbulent, but Hongli seemed much quieter. At this time, an attendant came in to tell him that Wei Zhu, the eunuch in front of the emperor, was here.

The fourth elder brother and Hongli got up and asked someone to invite Wei Zhu to come in and meet them.

"I've seen the prince." Wei Zhu saluted: "The emperor wants to find Brother Hongli to watch chess, so that the slave maid will come to find Brother Hongli to go over." ”

The fourth elder brother nodded, and Hongli was a little strange: "Huh? Isn't Huang Mafa going to eat vegetarian fasting with the Great Lama today, why is he going to play chess now? ”

Wei Zhu replied with a smile: "The emperor is also on a whim, the disciple of the great lama came to see him, and I heard that he was a master of chess, and the emperor rose up and said that he would play a few games with him, and asked Brother A to come over to watch the battle." ”

Grandfather has a life, Hongli is naturally duty-bound, turned around, and wanted to say goodbye to the fourth elder brother.

Without waiting for him to speak, the fourth elder brother said: "Your eldest mother is afraid that your clothes are thin, so I sent a few sets of new clothes yesterday, and you go back to change a set of clothes and come back." ”

Hongli was stunned for a moment, these two were "Xiao Yangchun", and he didn't feel cold, and his mother-in-law didn't send clothes over.

However, he is a villain sperm, and he knows that his father will not tell this sentence for no reason, so he obediently responded, turned around, and said to Wei Zhu: "I'll go add clothes, and I'll bother Wei Yanda later." ”

"Brother, go, the slave is waiting for Brother." Wei Zhu bowed slightly and said with a smile.

Hongli's tent is near the royal tent, and it is some distance away from the fourth elder brother's royal tent.

The fourth elder brother invited Wei Zhu to sit down and made someone serve tea.

When the servant who served the tea went down, Wei Zhu turned pale, stood up, and said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, the slave maid has something important to tell." ”

The fourth elder brother also got up, and the two walked to one place and exchanged words.

"Lord, the emperor seems to have drawn up some kind of will these days." Wei Zhu said in a volume that the two of them could hear: "It's useless Zhang Tingyu to make Zhao Chang." The emperor called the servants several times, and Zhao Chang had cinnabar ink on his hands. ”

"Will?" When the fourth elder brother heard this, he only felt his heartbeat racing, and said in a hoarse voice: "Is there any sign of it...... What is its purpose? ”

Wei Zhu shook his head, he really didn't know. It's just that even he, a close attendant, can't hide it, which can be seen to be the real secret.

After the fourth elder brother asked, he also thought of this.

Such a confidential matter, could it be that it is a relationship with the reserve?

The fourth elder brother's eyes showed a little heat, and for a while, he didn't know whether he was happy or worried. The fourteenth elder brother's life is not good, Hongli's life is good, in the will of the imperial father, which is the name of this prince?

Wei Zhu was not so optimistic, and frowned: "Lord, in the eyes of the emperor, the slave and maid are just a dead waste, and the emperor even hides the slave and maid, and this secret decree may have another purpose." This made the slave feel uncomfortable, if there was any will to send it out of Beijing...... But it's amazing......"

He has been on an errand in front of the emperor for many years, and he knows that Kangxi treats the fourteenth elder brother differently.

Before the abolition of the prince, he was just a little eunuch who cleaned the Qianqing Palace, and he couldn't get to the palace, but I heard that in addition to teaching the prince personally, he also doted on the eldest brother and the thirteenth elder brother; After the abolition of the crown prince, he listened to the messenger in front of the emperor and saw with his own eyes the difference between the emperor and the princes.

Although the fourteenth elder brother followed behind the older elder brothers, in Kangxi's eyes, he still regarded him as a little elder brother.

The emperor is on guard and on guard against his older sons; For the little brothers, it is a little more reassuring and spoiled.

In addition, the fourteenth elder brother is the youngest son of Concubine De, who is both civil and military, and treats his siblings affectionately and righteously, unlike other princes who treat their brothers as enemies, the emperor is very satisfied with this little son.

Even if the fourteenth elder brother has left the palace in recent years, the emperor has exchanged letters with him several times a month, and the father-son relationship is also closer than that of the prince and elder brother next to him.

When the fourth elder brother heard this, his face immediately changed.

was born from the same mother, but the treatment in front of the emperor was completely different. One bothered and labored, but could not get a good one; One can only play tricks and sell well, but he is favored by his parents.

For the fourth elder brother, the partiality of his biological mother and the other way the imperial father treats his half-brother are a thorn in his heart.

Wei Zhu's words obviously broke his previous composure and made him frightened.

After Wei Zhu finished speaking, he said, "Lord Wang, you should pay more attention." If there is a will, someone will go out. Unless there is no decree, there is always a trace. ”

The fourth elder brother glanced at Wei Zhu and said, "Thank you for your trouble, this king will accept your affection." ”

Wei Zhu hurriedly said: "It was supposed to be a slave and maid, but the prince killed the slave and maid." The slave and maid went to wait for the elder brother first, saving the emperor from waiting for someone to urge. ”

The fourth elder brother nodded and asked someone to send Wei Zhu out.

The fourth elder brother paced around the tent, and the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, so he called someone in and told him to invite Long Kedo.

The waiter answered, and was just about to go out, but was stopped by the fourth elder brother: "Forget it, let's go in person from this king." ”

When I arrived at Long Kedo's tent, there were many guests, and Long Kedo was entertaining guests.

The guests on the table were not bystanders, they were the sixteenth elder brother, the seventeenth elder brother and Cao Hao.

It turned out that the tens of thousands of taels of silver that the Zili Fan Yuan had paid from the household department some time ago had already been spent. Long Keduo and the seventeenth elder brother thought about coming out of the household department with another piece of silver.

There are also a number of silver coins in the household department, such as the winter siege and the gold given by foreign vassals, there is no lack of precedents, but it is difficult to have this idle money.

Even if it is in front of the emperor, the emperor has to consider whether the household has silver. There are two Shangshu in the household department, one is a decoration, and the other is sick again, Long Keduo and the seventeenth elder brother want to find Cao Hao to find out.

Everyone knows that Cao Hao has not made any political achievements over the years, and he still has a hand in accumulating wealth. As long as Cao Hao is moved, even if the household has no silver, it is estimated that he can think of some silver to spend.

So after the discussion, Long Keduo invited Cao Hao to come over, and the sixteenth elder brother met the seventeenth elder brother by chance, and when he heard that Cao Hao was coming, he came to join in the fun.

Speaking of which, Long Keduo has not inherited his father's title of duke, but he is just a first-class military attaché, and his title is lower than Cao Hao, not to mention the two princes.

But he is the emperor's cousin, the younger brother of Empress Xiaozhao, and the cousin and maternal uncle of the princes, so this identity is naturally unusual.

Don't talk about Cao Hao, you have to give face to this nine-gate admiral and the secretary of the Imperial Court; Even the sixteenth elder brother is not easy to be casual, sitting upright, like a big guest.

Cao Hao knew in his heart that the person in front of him was hot, and he would be in the limelight for several years, and he could not afford to offend; But it is easy to promise, and it is treated as a soft persimmon, and it is difficult to do it yourself if there are two openings in the future.

"Since the lord has ordered it to come down, the subordinate will receive the order." Cao Hao thought about it properly, pondered for a while, and said, "But the treasury is empty, and my lord knows it." The lord and let the officials say that the officials will go and summarize this year's account books to see if they can serve the adults. ”

Although he did not agree immediately, his tone was humble and he did not mean to refuse.

Long Keduo was quite satisfied with Cao Hao's reaction.

He is one generation higher than the sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother, and two generations higher than Cao Hao, with a smile on his face, looking at Cao Hao a little more warm, he actually put aside his official duties and started gossiping. For Cao Hao's eldest son Tianyou, he asked a few more questions.

Cao Hao's mouth responded, and his heart was straightforward.

Tianyou passed the hospital examination and won the fame of Xiucai, but he didn't publicize it to the outside world, how could Long Keduo know?

In the homes of ordinary people, Xu will take the fame of talent seriously; In the eyes of the Eight Banners magnates, Xiucai is nothing at all, and if he wins the promotion, he has fame. How many children's children have been admitted to the prison students, and how many are willing to pass one pass at a time and are impatient to take the test for Xiucai?

It was at this time that the fourth elder brother entered the account, and Long Keduo got up to greet him, thinking of his own inappropriateness.

The fourth elder brother is in charge of the household department, and if he wants to circulate the money in the household department, he should not go past the fourth elder brother. The fourth elder brother's surname is strict, and he is not a generous person, if he knows, maybe he will have to be careful.

The fourth elder brother rushed over in a hurry, just because he had something important to look for Long Keduo, where did he have the heart to care about these.

But no matter how anxious he was, it was not easy to mention it in front of everyone, and after he sat down, he listened to everyone with a drooping face.

The sixteenth elder brother, the seventeenth elder brother and Cao Hao are all people of interest, and when they saw this, they found a reason to quit Long Keduo and came out...... * roar, small

(To be continued)