Cao Mansion, Bamboo Courtyard East Warm Pavilion.

"Ping'er, brother is back!" Cao Hao touched Cao Yi's hair and whispered.

I don't know which word touched Cao Yi, her brows furrowed slightly, her eyes seemed to have focus, she slowly tilted her head, looked at Cao Yi seriously, and called softly as if she was tentative: "Brother? ”

This scream made the eyes of the whole room red, Zhang Genjia wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and reluctantly smiled: "The third girl has refused to speak for several days, but now she still recognizes the uncle, but it is better." ”

Zhang Gen's family was the subordinate of the Cao family in Hangzhou, and was later brought back to Jiangning by the Li family because of his ability to take care of Cao Yi. Her daughter, Vanilla, is one of Cao Yi's personal maids.

Cao Hao was extremely distressed when he saw Cao Yi's appearance, and responded in a low voice.

"Brother? Brother......? Cao Yi still didn't dare to be convinced, and called twice in a row, and after getting Cao Hao's answer, her little face suddenly wrinkled, stretched out her little hand and timidly grabbed Cao Hao's sleeve, with a little trepidation, a little grievance, and repeatedly called: "Brother...... Brother ......" became more and more sharp, and finally he was about to shout hoarsely.

The maids in the house were all shocked, and even Zhang Gen's family was frightened, only to say that the girl was stunned again. Just when everyone was about to come over to break up the two, Cao Yi suddenly burst into tears, as if he was venting his long-standing grievances, crying so sadly.

Everyone was in a state of distress and wanted to come forward to persuade them, but they were stopped by Cao Hao waving his hand.

Cao Hao knew that Cao Yi encountered this change and needed a big cry to vent, otherwise she would be bored if she kept holding it back, so she cried, and the free hand gently patted her back to show comfort.

After a long time, Cao Yi's crying gradually weakened, only to hear the suffocation, Cao Hao turned around and asked Zhang Gen's family in a low voice: "Has she eaten today?" ”

Zhang Genjia nodded and said, "I didn't want to touch the rice when I woke up in the morning, but after entering the house in the morning, I thought I was hungry, so I coaxed me to eat two spoons of red date porridge." ”

Cao Hao said to Amethyst: "Let the kitchen take some more, and then bring a cup of white water with some salt." "It's very easy to get dehydrated if you don't get wet rice and cry like this, and your mentality can only be adjusted slowly, and your body must be cured.

After a while, the porridge and water were served, and Cao Yi was unusually obedient to be fed by Amethyst, but he always stared at Cao Hao, and his hand was also tightly grasping Cao Hao's sleeve and refused to let go, as if he was afraid that he would disappear.

Cao Song muttered in a low voice on the side: "Does the third sister only have one brother?" I've never seen her so close to me along the way. ”

Cao Hao knew that Cao Song had treated Ping'er since he was a child, otherwise the Li family would not have agreed to let him escort Ping'er north, and he didn't care when he saw him angrily talking about a child.

Cao Yi obediently finished eating, and Amethyst coaxed her to lie down and sleep, so that she could let Cao Hao wash and change clothes. Cao Yi said nothing, didn't let go and didn't say a word.

Cao Hao coaxed her a few words in a coaxing tone, and saw that she had the intention of loosening, and just wanted to pull out her sleeves, but Cao Yi grabbed it tightly, looked nervous, and said timidly: "Brother...... Don't drive Ping'er away......"

Cao Hao was sad when she heard this, her eyes were red, she patted her head, and coaxed: "I'm your brother, how can I drive my sister away?" Be obedient, sleep well, take care of your body and bones, brother will take you to play everywhere in Beijing, there are many ways to pass the overpass, all of which are not available in the south......"

Cao Hao coaxed while motioning for Amethyst to come over and serve her to lie down. Cao Yi listened to him, gradually put his mind at ease, and finally let go of his hand and fell into a deep sleep.

Cao Hao listened to Cao Yi's breathing evenly and long, and knew that she was asleep, so he gently pulled out his sleeves and whispered to the maids to serve well, and to report anything in time, and then called Cao Song, Amethyst and others out of the warm pavilion.

Cao Hao asked as he walked, "Doctor, please?" What did the doctor say? ”

Amethyst said: "I invited a doctor, saying that it was a weak heart and a fire, Qingyang did not rise, the clear mind was not nourished, the slave and maid did not understand, and it was not very reasonable, and the prescription was handed over to the vanilla, and the slave and maid would bring it to the uncle later." ”

Cao Song interjected: "The family invites a doctor to say this kind of thing, and it is also said that he is crazy." ”

Cao Hao listened, and the situation in front of his eyes came to mind that in the broken temple in Hangzhou many years ago, Ping'er bravely grabbed steamed buns for her sick self. At that time, although she was dirty and miserable, her clothes were ragged, but she was infinitely sharp, and even the group of scoundrel beggars could be shocked by it. And now, he took her home, hoping that she would have a good life, but he didn't want the rich nest he thought was actually her prosperous tomb. The brocade clothes and jade food smoothed out her sharpness alive, and finally fell like this.

Amethyst saw that Cao Hao had a sense of chagrin on his face, and hurriedly said: "It is a good sign that the third girl knows the uncle today, and she will be cured in time." The uncle just came back from outside, so let's go back to the room to wash and change clothes first, and then talk to the second master. ”

Cao Hao nodded, just about to talk to Cao Song, when he suddenly heard someone calling him behind him, and when he turned around, he saw that it was Fangcha who was panting and chased after him. Amethyst and Cao Song both frowned.

Fangcha didn't look at the two, and said hurriedly: "Uncle, our girl is wronged!" Obviously, it was the sixth master who took a candle to burn Aoshuang's tail, and Aoxue turned around to bite him when he was in pain, and he couldn't complain about my girl! As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to pull Cao Hao's sleeve.

Cao Hao turned sideways to avoid it, and Amethyst had already lowered his face and said, "Fang Tea!" Hugh is rude! ”

Fangcha ignored her at all, and said: "Aunt Zhang killed Aoshuang in front of the girl, and she also beat the girl to death, which scared the girl like this, and she was clearly dissatisfied with the lady's arrangement of the girl's housekeeper, and wanted to use the introduction to deal with ......."

Amethyst frowned and shouted, "What are you talking about?" Don't stop talking! ……”

Cao Hao was so noisy that his brain hurt, and he waved his hand at Fangcha: "Go back and wait for the third girl!" After saying that, she turned to leave, and Amethyst and Cao Song both glared at her and left.

Looking at the backs of the three of them, Fangcha looked unwilling, gritted her teeth and wanted to catch up, but remembered that this was Jingli and couldn't compare to Jiangnan, so she stomped her foot and turned around and returned to the bamboo courtyard.

*

Cao Hao went back to Kwai Yuan to change his clothes and came out, and Cao Song waited for him to speak in the front hall. Because the will of the knight is still on the way, Cao Song didn't know the letter, but now after listening to Cao Zhong and others, he knew that there was such a happy event. But because of Cao Shun's untimely death, Cao Yi's illness was really not happy.

Cao Song brought Li's family letter, and Cao Hao took it and read it carefully. As early as five or six years ago, he knew from his mother that Cao Yi was his cousin, and now he saw that there was such a mess in the family, but there was no news that Yi'er's identity was revealed, so he was somewhat puzzled. Li solved this doubt in the letter, she had already told Cao Quan about Cao Yi's life experience, but Cao Quan was unwilling to admit her daughter back, saying that she should only let her brother and sister-in-law deal with it if she didn't have this daughter. In addition, Li also mentioned in the letter that it was his parents' intention to arrange for Cao Song to go north, and they wanted him to study in the Zhaojia clan. When the time comes, Cao Song is willing to stay in the mansion or go to live at his grandfather's house, it is up to him, don't interfere too much.

Cao Hao saw it, and he was angry in his heart, but he was just afraid of himself, and he didn't even recognize his own flesh and blood, this uncle really didn't say anything. But now, it's not the time to take care of this uncle's face, Cao Yi's heart knot is mostly because she is not the flesh and blood of the Cao family, and she thinks that she has caused a monstrous disaster.

A monstrous disaster? Cao Hao thought of Cao Shun's death, and his heart felt like a ball of cotton. Although there is an occasional mention in later history that Cao Yin had a son who died young, who would have thought that the child would be raised safely until he was four years old, and finally died because of a puppy. If she hadn't given Cao Yi that puppy, she wouldn't have suffered this unwarranted disaster. For his little brother, Cao Hao has seen him less than ten times in total, and his feelings are far less profound than those for Cao Song, Cao Shuo and others, but after all, it is a fresh little life, and it is really uncomfortable to suddenly disappear like this.

Before Cao Hao could open his mouth after reading the letter, Cao Song muttered beside him: "It's all mother's, isn't it, if you are willing to take the third sister home to raise it, you won't have to let a patient toss so far!" ”

Cao Hao glanced at Cao Song: "Do you know about the three girls?" ”

Cao Song's expression was a little complicated, and he nodded: "That day, I went to the room to pick up something, just in time for the quarrel between my father and mother. My father wanted to recognize my third sister and take her home to recuperate, but my mother cried, but she didn't follow it, saying that she was guilty of doing something wrong when she was young, but she really couldn't afford this notoriety! ”

Cao Hao thinks about the pungency of the second aunt and can't afford the notoriety? This is the bullshit theory, is it possible not to recognize Cao Yi, her reputation is good?! Keeping her husband submissive, teaching her concubine to be as docile as a kitten, cowering, not like a boy at all, that's a good reputation! Thinking about her careful thinking, she can also guess that it is nothing more than because Cao Yi is older, and she will be a relative in the past two years, although the old lady left several granddaughters and grandsons with wedding silver before his death, but the Cao family is a big family, and there is no reason to send the girl out of the house for a few thousand taels.

Although he was not angry with Cao Quan's cowardice and Zhao Jia's selfishness, Cao Hao was still a little lucky. Cao Yi's current situation, if it is sent to the name of the husband and wife, it may not be a blessing, it is better to come to the capital to his side.

"Brother, if the third sister complains about her father, will she get tired of carrying me?" Cao Song asked with some concern.

Cao Hao shook his head: "How come?" Ping'er has been kind-hearted since she was a child, and she treats people well, where will you be blamed! ”