Sun Wencheng was very moved when he saw that Cao Hao was not behaving as an earl, and there was no shortage of courtesies.

Although he doesn't love to ask for help, but this big family is always not good to sit and eat, and his sons always have to support themselves.

Therefore, he hesitated for a moment, but still spoke: "I shouldn't have troubled my nephew, it's just that this big family is not good to be idle." I'm old, and your second and fifth cousins are not young. At this time, it is difficult for me to come forward to investigate, can I ask my nephew to help ask, if my dismissal is related to their brothers, if not, can they let the two brothers go to the examination of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. When the two of them were in Hangzhou, they helped me deal with paperwork, and I was fluent in Chinese and Mandarin. ”

This is talking about his second son Sun Jin and his fifth son and grandson, Sun Jin is okay, three years older than Cao Hao, and has passed the age of standing; Sun Ban was only eighteen years old.

"Cousin, this year's Kaienke, next year will also be the year of Dabi, the fifth cousin is still young, and he is on an errand, so it is better to end up with Brother Li'er." Cao Hao said.

Although Sun Wencheng now has five sons, only the eldest Sun Jue and the fifth son and grandson Ban are descendants, Sun Jue has no hope for the future and has become a wasted person; In the future, the one who will support the door of the Sun family is the fifth grandson class.

Sun Wencheng shook his head, sighed, and said, "I also hoped that he would be able to advance to the imperial examination, but he was just a little clever, and he was really not a material for learning." Although it is not the right way, it can be a future after a few years. ”

He was all decided to be a parent, so Cao Hao nodded and said, "Since this is the case, my nephew Ming'er will send someone to the Internal Affairs Office to inquire about it." ”

Cao Hao did not come empty-handed, and he had the title deed of a small village in his purse. Although the Zhuangzi is not big, it is all ripe fields, 20 hectares, and the annual yield is 1,800 taels of silver.

This is what he prepared for the Sun family.

It's just that seeing all of Sun Wencheng's plans, it hasn't been to that point, and Cao Hao has nothing to do.

He was willing to help the Sun and Li families, but he had no intention of tying the three families to the same boat.

"Ascend to Mien, fight Mi Qiu", he still knows this truth.

Originally, because they lived far away, the three families were not close, and it made no sense that he had a big deal at this time, creating an illusion for the Sun and Li families.

After seeing Sun Wencheng, he didn't stay long, stayed for two quarters of an hour, and then got up to say goodbye.

Sun Wencheng personally sent him out, and as soon as he came out of the living room, he saw Sun Jue walking around in front of the shadow wall like a headless fly.

Seeing Cao Hao come out, he was a little excited, stepped forward, and said, "Fu Ruo is here, I am thinking about looking for you." ”

Sun Wencheng saw that his eldest son was in his thirties and still frizzy, so he couldn't help frowning and snorted coldly.

Seeing this, Sun Jue couldn't help but shudder, and said with a sneer: "Master, my son does have serious things to do." ”

Sun Wencheng glared at him, stopped his words, and said to Cao Hao: "Since the virtuous nephew is busy, I will not leave the virtuous nephew and say hello to your mother on my behalf." I should have gone over to say goodbye when I arrived in Beijing, because now I am avoiding suspicion, and it is difficult to move around at will. ”

Cao Hao listened, answered, hugged his fists at Sun Jue, and turned to leave.

Sun Jue wanted to open his mouth to stop him, but his father was beside him.

When Cao Hao rode away, he complained a little: "Why didn't the master let me say that I wanted to borrow a garden for Li'er." Li'er is going to end in April, the house is messy, and I can't read well......"

Sun Wencheng had a sneer on his face: "Borrow a garden for Li'er? Didn't you say that there are many people in the family, and it is inconvenient to go out, so you want to go to the suburbs to live for a while? ”

In the past few days when the Sun family has been in Beijing, Sun Wencheng's son has been very uncomfortable.

He lost his official position because of his "lack of morality", which was unknown to outsiders, but known to his family. Not to mention a few brothers, even the brothers of the same mother saw him, but they were just passable on their faces, and there was a little less respect in their eyes.

Coupled with An's nagging, Sun Wencheng's scolding, and Cao Ying's alienation, Sun Jue was embarrassed.

Now, when his father told him, he blushed his face and said, "The left and right are empty, and what is there to borrow for a while?" ”

Seeing him so faceless, Sun Wencheng was annoyed, and said with a straight face: "Your surname is Sun, why do you care about taking advantage of your relatives?" If you want to be quiet, go to your own Zhuangzi to live, and don't mention these unobtrusive words! ”

Sun Jue lowered his hands and listened, not daring to refute.

The Zhuangzi outside the Sun family has a courtyard, but it is larger than the courtyard of the Zhuanghu, and now the Zhuangtou lives. Even if Sun Jue wants to hide in the quiet, he can't stand the loneliness of the mountain dwelling.

The garden of the Cao family is different, although it is in Haidian, it is near Changchun Garden, where the powerful gather. If you can meet noble people and make friends with one or two, maybe you will have a future.

Sun Wencheng saw that he responded in his mouth, but he didn't think so in his eyes, he became more and more annoyed, and immediately raised his eyebrows, and said: "I have been pondering these crooked ways all the time, and I have lost the foundation of being a human being, what kind of system has I become?" ”

Sun Jue didn't know why his father suddenly came to the evil fire, and he was a little confused, so he heard someone say: "Big brother, what's the matter, training people at the door?" ”

It was Sun Wenqian who came, followed by Sun Wencheng's second son Sun Jin.

Seeing that his brother was coming, Sun Wencheng's expression eased slightly, and he beckoned to the front hall to speak: "How is it, is there a suitable yard?" ”

"I saw three places, two in the inner city and one in the south city. The courtyard in the inner city is too expensive, and the courtyard in the second entrance also costs thousands of taels of silver. Nancheng, in the nine-bend alley, two into eighteen rooms, five hundred and fifty taels. Sun Wenqian replied: "If the eldest brother doesn't object, Ming'er will pay the money." ”

Sun Wencheng heard this, and hesitated: "The southern city is mixed, where is the inner city quiet?" ”

Sun Wenqian glanced at him and said: "There are two alleys in front of it, that is, the vegetable market and the fruit market. It is a house that has only been built for three years, and the furniture is complete, and you can get by when you go in, and this price is also rare. ”

Sun Wencheng was reluctant to let his brother rent a house to live in, thinking that he would follow him for 20 years, help him take care of his housekeeping, and have no merit and hard work, so he took out a thousand taels of silver from An Shi and asked Sun Wenqian to buy a yard.

Today, Sun Wenqian took his nephew to look at the house with the real estate economy.

Hearing Sun Wenqian say this, Sun Wencheng nodded and said, "Even if you are satisfied, you will buy it, and the yard will be bought for you." The rest of the money will be given to the younger siblings. You know that there is not much money in the family, and I, as an elder brother, can only go so far. ”

Sun Wenqian bowed his head in response, but his chest was jammed.

My brother has been cautious over the years, and there can still be a deficit of eight thousand taels in the accounts, and the culprit is not someone else, but his own brother.

Although he did not be greedy for a large amount of money like others, but through the past ten years of warehousing and warehousing, he took advantage of the convenience around him to embezzle dozens of taels or hundreds of taels while helping his brother.

Some of this silver covers the expenses of the Sun Mansion, and some of it allows him to save for private housing. Because they are a family of four, their expenses are all in the public middle school, so they have saved a lot of silver, totaling nearly three thousand taels.

Because of this, his brother was dismissed, and he was ashamed, but he did not have the courage to admit his mistake.

He knows the surname of his brother and sister-in-law, his brother is not troublesome, and his sister-in-law is a little mean. If things are said, I am afraid that brothers will become enemies.

Sun Wencheng looked at him with a complicated gaze, but he didn't say anything in the end, and sent Sun Wenqian back first.

Only Sun Wencheng and his son were left in the living room, and he explained to Sun Jin: "Every year, the Internal Affairs Office has a pen-post exam. You read the book well, and after some words, you will take the pen post style with the old five. ”

The style of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is also graded, and according to different qualifications, it is divided into seven, eight, and nine grades.

Although the grade is not high, but the qualifications are enough, it is very easy to be promoted, and it is not worse than the imperial examination.

When Sun Jin heard this, he was overjoyed and hurriedly responded respectfully.

Sun Jue was uncomfortable, he had been a five-grade langzhong, and his future was immeasurable, but he was defeated by a woman......* When he returned home, Cao Hao handed over the deed to Chu Yu to collect.

Chu Yu was a little surprised when he saw that he didn't send it out: "Uncle Sun didn't ask for it?" ”

"It's okay to look at the Sun family, but it's just a dismissal, not like a broken one. Let's see, it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish. Cao Hao said: "It's the eldest sister's side, I changed my name to find a reason, take her home, and ask carefully, what grievances have you suffered?" If you are not used to getting along with Sun Jue, don't hide it, let's think again. ”

Chu Yu hesitated a little and said, "Brother Li'er has to prepare for the exam, and Sister Xian'er should also be a parent." Now burdened by her grandfather's dismissal, she is afraid that she will not be able to participate in the general election. The small election has already been reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for exemption, and the rest must be chosen by the family to marry each other. Even if Sun Jue has a wrong place, for the sake of her children's relatives, most of the eldest sister will not come out. Besides, there are father-in-law and mother-in-law above, if people misunderstand and spread the gossip of 'unfilial piety', it will also affect Brother Li'er and Sister Xian'er. ”

Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, this is Cao Ying's life, and in the end, Cao Ying has to choose by herself.

However, Cao Hao believes that the current Sun family is too late to confront Cao Ying, and he will not embarrass Cao Ying.

For the matter of the written post of the Internal Affairs Office asked by Sun Wencheng, Cao Hao made a special trip to Prince Zhuang's mansion.

A few more times, it is the funeral of Prince Lao Zhuang "Qiqi", and the sixteenth elder brother is now taking care of the funeral affairs, except for occasionally entering the palace, he will stay in the palace.

The royal treasury silver, a few years ago, was "dedicated" to Yongzheng by the sixteenth elder brother.

Finally, the emperor still knew how to be considerate of the sixteenth elder brother, so he only took away the gold and one million taels of silver, and the remaining more than 200,000 taels of silver and tens of thousands of copper coins were left for the sixteenth elder brother to spend.

The sixteenth elder brother is very satisfied, and now the side branch of Prince Zhuang's mansion also has a knighthood, so he doesn't have to worry about it anymore. Lao Zhuang's funeral was arranged by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he didn't need to pay out of pocket.

The only thing I was worried about was Lao Fujin's side. Afraid that Lao Fujin's hands were not spacious, and his heart was unhappy, the sixteenth elder brother put 100,000 taels of silver into two large boxes, so that people could send them directly to Lao Fujin's room.

Lao Fujin said that "there is no need to be like this", but he was somewhat moved.

She was originally worried that she would have to live by looking at the faces of her heirs from now on, but the sixteenth elder brother is filial piety and courtesy, and he can coax people and make people closer.

Before, the sixteenth elder brother had five sons and three daughters, and many of them died young, leaving only two elder brothers and Da Gege. Da Gege moved to the palace without his parents, and directly let the Nala clan stay in the palace to raise him.

The two elder brothers, Hongpu is eleven years old and Hongming is five years old, both of whom were born by the late Li family of Side Fujin and raised by the side of Sixteen Fujin.

Hongpu is big and sensible; Hong is young next year and can't do without someone to take care of him, but Sixteen Fujin has a big belly, and the delivery period is approaching, so Lao Fujin will take his little grandson to her for placement.

Hongming was just when he was naughty, but Lao Fujin felt that there was life in the house, and the pain of his deceased husband was also reduced.

Sixteen Fujin moved to the palace and gave birth to a small Gege a few days after moving to the palace.

Lao Fujin has been married to the palace for more than 50 years, and he has heard the baby's cry, and he is still his granddaughter, and he has a different taste in his heart.

Unconsciously, she and Sixteen Fujin naturally became close.

In this way, there is a lot less friction, and even the sixteenth elder brother feels that he has been too lucky recently.

The family is harmonious, the house silver is solved, and the same mother and brother got the news that they are about to recover from illness and return to the palace; On the side of Concubine Mi, Yongzheng also explained that although he was in the palace for a good year, he could be reunited outside the palace from the winter solstice to the fifteenth every year.

Although the sixteenth elder brother knows that he cannot receive the palace of Prince Zhuang, as long as the fifteenth elder brother opens the mansion, there will be a place for mother and son to reunite.

All the worries have been solved, the Heart Cultivation Hall has also been replaced with glass windows, and the great cause of enriching the inner library is about to begin.

The sixteenth elder brother is just waiting for the funeral, so he will do a big job.

Seeing Cao Hao come to the door, he was a little happy, and said with a smile: "Could it be that I got the news, and I came here to ask for a reward and thank you?" ”

I was confused by Cao Hao, and I didn't know what the sixteenth elder brother said.

The sixteenth elder brother smiled and told the matter of the glass window, and said: "The emperor said that he would replace the Queen Mother's Palace and the Middle Palace." Now the craftsmen stopped everything else and burned only the glass. There are few new imperial concubines, and there are only a few places that need to be replaced. After half a month, it will be able to supply ...... outside the palace."

"Is it expensive?" Cao Hao asked.

The sixteenth elder brother shook his head and said, "It's not expensive, twenty taels of silver is enough for the window of a room." ”

Cao Hao was stunned when he heard this, this is not expensive, it is all the money of half a room. However, this is only for ordinary people; In the eyes of the powerful, this is really nothing.

The powerful families in the capital love to chase the fashion, wear clothes, eat a glutton, and respect the appearance of the palace.

When the glass windows in the palace were installed, the outside naturally began to follow suit.

Seeing that the sixteenth elder brother was in a good mood, Cao Hao's heart was also much more relaxed. He asked about the examination of the Internal Affairs Bureau, and the sixteenth elder brother said, "Why did you think to ask this?" The new emperor is asking me to sort out the list, remove those famous pen post styles, and let them participate in the township test, so that I will have to make up a batch of pen post styles. ”

Cao Hao said about Sun Wencheng's request, and the sixteenth elder brother raised his eyebrows and said, "It's rare at that time, if you don't pester, please hold it up." Ask them to take the test, look at the emperor's meaning, or prepare to use Sun Wencheng, a few days ago, he asked me if there was a shortage of Wupinlang in the Internal Affairs Office. ”

Cao Hao listened, and his heart was much more steady.

Compared with those corrupt officials who believe in "three years of Qing Governor's Mansion and 100,000 snowflakes of silver", Sun Wencheng has been in charge of Hangzhou weaving for 20 years, and only found a deficit of more than 8,000 taels.

I believe that Yongzheng also sees this......*

(To be continued)