On the fifth day of the first month of March, Changchun Garden, the Great Dynasty Meeting.

Because the Wanshou Festival is approaching, the governors, governors, admirals, and general soldiers of other provinces who come to Beijing to see are also listed in the court. Cao Hao, who is in the sixth section of the fourth grade, has been squeezed to the back.

The consequences of Meng Guangzu's case were revealed at this court meeting. In the past, not all courtiers had the right to play secretly, but now Kangxi has an edict to come down, such as scholars from Beijing, bachelors, Jiuqing, etc., foreign governors, admirals, and general soldiers, all of whom can play secretly.

In this way, no matter what happens in the place, Kangxi can know it firsthand.

You must know that this excerpt of the dense fold was sent directly to the imperial front without going through the cabinet.

Because someone "impersonated" the three princes of Cheng to go on patrol, Kangxi also made a special trip to mention that he would never do anything "easy to obey and micro-travel", which can be regarded as a precaution.

Cao Hao remembered that hundreds of years later, the "Kangxi Private Interview" that filmed the sequel one and then the sequel two or three, compared to the present, I only felt extremely ridiculous.

His gaze fell on several imperial historians of the Imperial Procuratorate.

The "bloody case" at the door of Cao's house has passed for two days. The time of the two days, whether it is long or not, has been able to make the Beijing teahouse more talkative, and it has also enabled Cao Yin's father and son to investigate the matter.

Next, let's look at the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Emperor Kangxi is full, does he still want to take the opportunity to "knock" the Cao family?

Cao Hao sneered in his heart, it was really ridiculous. He is not the material to be a "loyal minister", and the reason why he occupies his position and does his things is just to survive in accordance with this social standard.

Finally, Kangxi was not old and confused, and nothing happened to the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Otherwise, Cao Hao, a Taoist official, would have to eat and be impeached.

Cao Hao's gaze moved from the imperial historians of the Imperial Court to the side of the clan relatives, and finally fixed on Beile Honghui.

I heard that when Kangxi met with Zheng Zailun, a Korean courtier, yesterday, he was accompanied by Honghui.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty has been in the customs for less than a hundred years, and it has been very seriously sinicized. From the royal family to the royal palace, Baylor House, to ordinary people's families, they all pursued the primogeniture inheritance system.

Even if there is a law that "all sons are equally divided" when the family is divided, in fact, the treatment of sons-in-law and concubines varies greatly.

In their eyes, even if the crown prince is deposed, Honghui, the eldest grandson of the emperor, has more inheritance rights than other concubines.

There are some old Confucians in the court, and they treat it the same way. In addition, after the crown prince was deposed, Kangxi was still affectionate to the eldest grandson of the emperor, and stayed in the palace to support this rumor.

But I don't know how much grievance this Honghui young master has with the Cao family, and at this time, he uses unpopular means to calculate the Cao family.

Cao Hao remembered that Nalan Chengping calculated his own affairs many years ago, and it seems that this Honghui Baylor could not ascend to the storage position, and it was not without reason. Even the fourteenth elder brother, who thought that he had been damaged by Cao Hao, could let go of the grievances in front of him and pretend to be smiling to win over the Cao family, why was he still at the critical moment of seizing the heir, and made a feud in vain, I always felt that there seemed to be something unclear in this.

After the end of the court, Cao Hao came out with the civil and military officials.

At the gate of the garden, I happened to meet the sixteenth elder brother. The sixteenth elder brother was also going back to the city, and the two walked together.

"What the hell is going on? For the rich or not, I don't believe it. said that I don't know that you are the most benevolent woman, and my aunt and He Rui often do good deeds. When he left the garden, there was no one left and right, and the sixteenth elder brother asked.

"Who knows, I'm afraid it's people who are good and are bullied." Cao Hao glanced at the scenery along the way and replied self-deprecatingly.

Seeing Cao Hao like this, the sixteenth elder brother lowered his voice and said: "If you don't worry, Huang Ama knows it." Yesterday, there was an excerpt in the imperial history, and he was left by the emperor Amma. ”

It turned out that there were really kittens and puppies stretching out their paws, and Cao Hao glanced at the sixteenth elder brother.

Just like when they first met many years ago, the eyes of the sixteenth elder brother were jet black, and it was difficult to hide the concern inside.

Cao Hao's heart warmed, everyone seems to have changed over the years, but there is always something that has changed.

"Are all the errands for Halloween arranged?" Cao Hao asked with a smile.

"Well, this year is not a full birthday, plus the war in the northwest, it's just a formality." The sixteenth elder brother replied: "It's Lao Yi's side, and the ninth brother is tossing and turning, but after a few kung fu, the silver is like flowing water." If this continues, it won't be long before the price of silver in the capital will be expensive. ”

Brother Jiu's gold shop, Cao Hao thought of the iceberg face of the fourth elder brother. Even if there is no eighth elder brother, in the eyes of the fourth elder brother, these ninth elder brothers must be cleaned up.

Buying officials and selling knights, silverfish in the court.

As for who issued this decree, the face of the royal family and the court must always be cleaned up, and that's not it.

Thinking of this, Cao Hao's fear of Kangxi and the fourth elder brother has decreased a lot...... In his heart, he suddenly remembered a sentence, "All opposition is a paper tiger" ...... * Brother Sho, the residence of Honghui Baylor.

His wife, Borzigit, sat on the throne and listened to the imperial doctor's reply. Among the inner house women, one is about to give birth, and one is pregnant.

The imperial doctor said that he came over today to check the pulse of the two of them.

As a descendant of the Aixin Jueluo family, it is Honghui's responsibility to reproduce children. Tana, who married into the court from Korqin, is also becoming more and more a "good wife".

A few years ago, she was still jealous of the newcomers who came over after each draft, and after all these years, she was able to deal with them calmly.

Before she got married, Honghui had a side room concubine by her side, but it wasn't until she didn't come out for three years that someone gave birth to her husband's eldest son.

This girl who grew up on the grassland was originally a little pampered, but she was not a fool who didn't understand the world. For that alone, she was grateful to her husband's cousin.

Coupled with the second elder brother's "two wastes", the situation here is also embarrassing, Tana doesn't want her husband to be distracted by the affairs of the inner house, and she is becoming more and more a "good wife".

Although there is a mother-in-law on it, she is imprisoned in Xian'an Palace with her father-in-law, and she does not need to serve day and night; The other concubines in the harem rarely interact with this side; There are only a few princes who have not yet been divided.

Now that Tana is coming, Tana's words are more leisurely and more leisurely.

After sending the doctor down, she walked to the door and looked at the pots of plantain and oleander in the courtyard. The palace is fireproof and anti-theft, and there is no big tree in the elder brother's house.

It's already March, and the ice and snow on the grassland are melting, and there should be some spring.

Thinking of this, the expression on her face softened a lot, revealing a little loneliness. Although she knows that once she enters the palace gate, she has been deeply imprinted in her bones by missing the haunting grassland.

She really wanted to be a wild goose on the grassland, flying freely, instead of withering slowly in this red wall.

When Honghui stepped into the courtyard, he happened to see this scene. From the flattered eldest grandson of the emperor, the future crown prince, to the son of a sinner, this huge gap has changed a lot for this young man who was originally surnamed swagger.

"Ma'am." Honghui smiled a little and said, "This is enjoying the flowers, otherwise Ming'er will make someone get a few plates of flowers from outside?" As he spoke, he looked at his wife's expression.

"Lord is back." Tana had already collected her thoughts, and her face was full of grace.

Carrying the blood of the Golden Family and Aixin Jueluo, she also has her own pride and will not show her fragile face in front of others.

Seeing this, Honghui secretly frowned.

The human heart is like this, fragile and vulnerable, but when the seeds of doubt are planted, ugly jealousy can be born.

"Congratulations, the Zhang family also has it, and the Qiang family's fetus is also stable, I hope they can give birth to two little brothers for the master this time." Tana calmly congratulated her husband while calling for someone to change her clothes.

She would never call her husband's concubine "sister" like other people's main houses, and no one dared to call her "sister".

Seeing her so calm, Honghui was not happy at all, but only hated the imaginary enemy in his heart more and more.

He couldn't help but want to ask his wife, whether he looked down on him because he was no longer the prince's son, otherwise why could he be so calm, was it "generous", or because he had no heart.

"Ah......" I heard Tana whisper, "What's wrong?" ”

It turned out that Honghui had already grabbed Tana's arm with both hands, and the force was a little stronger, which made Tana frown.

"It's okay, hard madam." Honghui came to his senses at this time, hurriedly put down his hand, and squeezed out a little smile.

"If you are free, go and look at the Qiang family and the Zhang family. Especially Zhang, who is the first child, seems to be panicked and looks strange and pitiful. Tana said.

Honghui nodded chaotically, walked to the door, stopped again, and turned around, "Madame, do you remember the horse race that spring?" Gege of the Pingjun Wangfu found many children with red flags...... Or lost to you......"

"Bao Ya ......" Tana fell into a memory: "That was forty-eight years...... At the beginning, Baoya also complained that Mongolia was useless. Unexpectedly, now that I am in Beijing, she has gone to Mongolia...... How did you think of this......" At the end, she raised her head and looked at her husband.

Honghui didn't know why he thought of this, long before the two officially referred to marriage, he knew that the fierce little cousin of the third aunt's family was his fiancée.

At that time, he still looked down on this Mongolian Gege who didn't understand the world, and only felt that his wife should be a graceful and luxurious woman like his mother-in-law, Guerjia, so that she was worthy of herself and worthy of the words "mother's honor in the world".

As the years passed, watching this woman transform little by little in front of his eyes, he was stunned.

The husband and wife looked at each other like this, and the atmosphere was a little strange, but fortunately, there was an inner servant who came to tell him that the third elder brother was here.

The "third elder brother" here is, of course, not the third prince of Prince Fengcheng, but Hongjin's half-brother Hongjin.

When the "second waste" prince, Hongjin also got married and lived on the side of the elder brother, so he was not imprisoned with his parents. He is two years younger than Honghui, his biological mother has a low position, and he has been Honghui's little follower since he was a child; When he grew up, he lost his father's protection, and he became more and more dependent on his brother.

Honghui went to see her brother, and Tana felt tired and went back to her room to rest. The husband and wife, back to back, drifted apart.

Hongjin's face was a little ugly, and when he saw his brother, he stood up and looked at the little eunuch standing at the door.

Seeing this, Honghui knew that his brother had something to say, waved his hand and sent people down, leading his brother to turn the screen and go to the quiet room to talk.

"Brother, there is news from outside the palace, there is something wrong with Lao Junguan, there are many faces outside the two temples, I don't know which house it is." Hongjin said with a little eagerness.

At all times, there is no shortage of gamblers, especially in the field of power.

Although the crown prince was abolished, the tide stall seemed to have disappeared on the surface, but I don't know when, around Honghui, there was also a "Huangsun Party".

The high palace wall can't cut off the heart of the conspirators. Just as the fourteenth elder brother began to have his own power outside the palace, the real scope of Honghui's activities will not be this small elder brother.

The Western Suburbs Daojunguan is a stronghold of forces outside the Honghui Palace.

When Honghui heard this, his heart sank, and he asked, "...... the Dutong Yamen?"

"Du Tian originally had a son and a daughter, and they both sold their sons last winter. The son is young, and he died of illness in the first month of this year, and this time it was his daughter Du Mei who came forward to be the sufferer. Hongjin heard his brother's question and replied in one breath.

Honghui raised an eyebrow and didn't say anything. He knew the general situation of Du Tian's family, so he made people add fuel to the fire and lured Du Tian to sue the Cao family.

Who would have thought that this Du Tian was a dead brain, and he would even come to a corpse to "avenge his grievances". But in this way, it seems that the better it works.

Regarding what his younger brother said about Lao Junguan, Honghui didn't dare to slack off. After all, he was in a place of suspicion, and he didn't dare to expand his power like other princes over the years, and the manpower under his door was really limited, and he couldn't afford to lose it.

"Let Li Heng's kid pay attention to it and see who the manpower is, if it really doesn't work, he will think about leading people to withdraw from the western suburbs." Honghui pondered for a moment and said.

Hongjin responded, went out to send a message outside the palace......* In a blink of an eye, it was twilight.

Cao Hao had dinner, only to feel that tonight was very long. He accompanied his wife to say a few words, and taught Tianhui to memorize two long poems, but he was still a little apprehensive.

In this world, who deserves to die, who is truly innocent.

The so-called "lawsuit", Cao Hao does not need to worry. This time the incident was the damage to the reputation of the Cao family, if according to the law, the Cao family did not violate the law, and the housekeeper of the Cao family came forward and took care of the matter.

Chu Yu saw that her husband was absent-minded, called **, and carried Tianhui to the east house to settle down.

"Eh, tired from errands?" She asked, with some concern.

Cao Hao raised his head and looked at his wife, but he couldn't speak. I don't want to scare her by telling the truth, and I don't bother to lie to her. He rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Xu got up early in the morning, and he was a little tired, so let's settle it." ”

When Chu Yu heard this, he asked people to wash their feet.

At this time, I heard someone under the corridor say: "Uncle, the master sent the slave and maid to pass the word, and asked the uncle to go to the study in the front yard to talk." ”

Cao Hao was stunned when he heard this, and he had already gotten up from the kang.

"Forehead...... Take two sips of tea to refresh yourself. Although I didn't know what my father-in-law was looking for Cao Hao, but thinking of her husband's tiredness, Chu Yu hurriedly poured half a cup of strong tea and sent it to her husband.

Cao Hao brought it to his mouth and drank it, although it was a little bitter, but it did make people feel a lot more sober.

It was the beginning of the month, and there was only a shallow crescent moon in the sky.

When he arrived at the study, Cao Hao saw Cao Yin sitting cross-legged on the kang, with a chessboard in front of him, not the Go game he often played, but chess.

"Father." Cao Hao bowed.

Cao Yin pointed in front of him and said, "Come, kill a game." ”

Seeing that his father didn't mean to speak, Cao Hao sat opposite him. Father and son were silent, focused on the chessboard.

If it is said that in Go, Cao Hao can still give it a try; For chess, he is an authentic "stinky chess basket".

In my previous life, when I occasionally played with my dormitory classmates, I was the one who couldn't win when the other party let a set of cars and horse cannons; In this life, the vassal elegance of this powerful family is mainly based on Go, and the contact with chess is even more limited, and the level is not good at all.

Speaking of which, the father and son have played countless games of Go, and it is the first time that they have played chess.

Compared with Go, Xiangqi is much more lethal and gives the opponent more time to defend. Although Cao Hao didn't care about winning or losing, since his father wanted to play chess, he concentrated on facing the battle, wanting to lose more slowly, which swept away his father's interest.

Although he is not good at attacking, he is better than being thoughtful and very strict in defense. If Cao Yin wants to win, he has to be entangled for a while.

Unexpectedly, Cao Yin looked beautiful at the beginning, but after half the game, he made a stupid move, revealing a big flaw.

Cao Hao stared at the chessboard, looked at the overall situation, and saw that it was indeed not a trap, and he went through with a cannon and won the red horse. The situation on the chessboard has been reversed, and with Cao Yin's next consecutive defeats and retreats, Cao Hao is approaching step by step.

After a game, it was Cao Hao who won.

Cao Hao put down the chess pieces and stared at the chessboard, only feeling incredible.

Cao Yin had already raised his head, looked at his son, and said after a while: "Cao Jia and Cao Yi are available, I have already ordered them to go with Wei Hei." ”

Cao Hao was stunned when he heard this, but he really didn't know why his father knew about it.

"It's rare that you take the initiative to take action, it's itchy for your father, and you can't help but want to sweep the battle for you, Hao'er won't dislike being a father for a lot of things." Cao Yin looked at Yue Yi's mature son, and felt a little proud in his heart.

"A father wouldn't blame his son for being reckless, would he?" Cao Hao saw that his father knew about his arrangement, and asked with some trepidation.

Cao Yin shook his head and said with a smile: "I can think of leading the people from the Third Elder Brother's Mansion to the western suburbs as cover first, which is very good." Even if something happens over there, Honghui will not be able to make up his mind, and he will tremble and be overpowered. ”

Cao Hao smiled bitterly, how could he not want to be happy and revenge.

Such twists and turns are not for Meng Honghui, but for the one on the dragon chair. Even if the Cao family is bullied, Honghui is the identity of the emperor's grandson, and it is not a subservient move to want to take revenge on the other party.

"You're not good at attacking, but you're good at defense. In the future, you should calm down and think about it. Whether it's a chess game or a battlefield, sometimes it's not about winning or losing, it's about who has the right concentration. If you have good concentration, when your opponent has a flaw, it will be your chance to win. This is the trick that Honghui used this time. Cao Yin looked at his son and said, "Have you learned a lesson?" ”

Seeing his father's teaching, Cao Hao stood up, listened carefully, and nodded heavily.

Sometimes, if you don't want to be peaceful, if you want to be comfortable, you can be peaceful, you can be at ease, and if you can't keep it, there will be some accidents. But there's nothing annoying about it, because when the other party makes a move, it's when the flaws are exposed.

On this night, the sky in the western suburbs was lit red by the firelight......

(To be continued)