On September 11, the fifty-first year of Kangxi, Saiwai, Boluo and Tun, camping, and accompanying the palace people to sleep in the tent.

After sending out the palace maids who were waiting beside him, the diligent nobleman sat in front of the dresser, holding a bronze mirror in his hand, and carefully decorated his face. Powder, thrush, and rouge, the originally slightly pale face immediately came to life. smiled in the mirror, but his eyes were so sour, and even the smile in the mirror was weird.

Since Kangxi was thirty-three years old, she was drafted into the palace at the age of fourteen, and eighteen years have passed, but the years have not left traces on her face. The black hair and fair face of the crow crow looked at only twenty or so, who would believe that her son was fifteen or six.

But what if your face is still beautiful? In the harem, where can there be a special room favorite? Every three years, a group of flower-like beauties enter the palace, and they are naturally more vivid than the palace women who are bound into a single appearance by the palace rules.

Diligent nobles are not the kind of people who can't think about it, they don't have any palace grievances in their hearts, and they won't think about it when they are full. The harem woman is just the emperor's collection and decoration, even if you want to win the favor, you must recognize your own identity. She is just the daughter of a second-class guard, she has been in the palace for many years, although she gave birth to a prince, but the title is still the original noble, and she has not been promoted to a single level.

She hopes that her son will grow up safely, and she doesn't attach importance to these titles and titles. In the harem, the Bodhisattva-like concubine Tong Jia doesn't care about anything, and the palace affairs are in charge of the four concubines Rong Hui Deyi, and it is not good for them to be low-grade palace people, but no one dares to bully them arbitrarily. In general, it can be regarded as an Ansheng.

Who thinks that the sky will be in trouble...... The hand of the diligent nobleman shook, and the bronze mirror almost fell. She couldn't help but close her eyes, praying that what had happened yesterday was nothing more than her own nightmare, and then, when she opened her eyes again, slowly lifted the collar on her neck, the purple mark, and told her everything that could not be erased.

Thinking of her son who returned to Beijing after the Mid-Autumn Festival, thinking about her son's slightly shy face when talking about the draft, she couldn't control it anymore, lay on the dresser, and cried in despair.

Even if you are wronged and wronged, what can you do? All she can do is dress up, wait for the emperor's "grace", and leave decently...... At the door of the tent, Wei Zhu'er listened for a while, then turned around and left.

In the camp center, the highest and largest tent is Kangxi's sleeping tent.

Although Kangxi did not see anger on his face, Ah Ling'a, the second-class minister of the guard, and his brother Yin De, the first-class guard, still felt the emperor's anger.

The two brothers were the sons of the four auxiliary ministers of Kangxi in the early years of Kangxi, the brother of the deceased Empress Xiao Zhaoren and Concubine Wen, and the uncle of the king of the Ten Agesun County. Kangxi's tone was very gentle, but the two brothers in front of the emperor couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on their foreheads. is the secret in front of them, although it will not cost their brother's surname, but it will take a while to digest; Not to mention, to delve into anything.

Even Ah Ling'a, who has always supported the eighth elder brother with all his heart, can't give birth to the slightest idea of borrowing the topic to play and fall into the ground. Obediently, after all, it is a family affair of the Son of Heaven, and his brother-in-law of the emperor has the best face, who dares to give him eye medicine?

Yin De was apprehensive, a little lucky, fortunately he was on an errand in front of the emperor today, and he happened to receive this errand; If you are other guards, just by knowing this, you should die to "reward" Jun'en. It's just that the diligent nobles are there, I'm afraid it's ...... He thought of the seventeenth elder brother who was smiling, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Long live the forgiveness of sins, it's really the incompetence of the minions!" Both brothers knelt down and bowed their heads in confession.

Kangxi squinted, looked at the two brothers kneeling in front of the imperial case, and said coldly: "That...... How long has it been? ”

The two brothers knew that Long Live Lord was trying to confirm that his hat had not changed color, and the heart that had just been put down couldn't help but lift it again.

Yin De is stupid, and he is still thinking about how to phrase it in order to save some life for the diligent nobles; Alinga had already replied obediently: "Back to the words of the long-lived lord, according to the palace maid who waited for the nobleman yesterday, the nobleman and the prince only met by chance, because the prince was drunk, his words were a little inconsiderate!" ”

Kangxi snorted angrily and sneered: "'Chance encounter'? 'Drunk'? Inconsiderate words alone? If this is the case, who is the one who grabbed the neck of the concubine and dragged it into the tent on the side? ”

Alinga didn't sound right, but he didn't expect that the Lord of Long Live would tell him that his previous approach of calming down the situation was impatient and he would have buttoned down a hat of "bullying", and he would not be able to eat and walk around.

Sure enough, Kangxi then pointed at Ah Ling'a and said, "Damn slave, I haven't collapsed yet, you have to find a good seller?" ”

Ah Ling'a was so frightened that he was shocked, and Yin De, who was kneeling next to him, hurriedly said: "Long live Lord Mingjian, the minions have been on errands in front of Long Live Lord for ten or twenty years, where can they have other thoughts?" I only hope that the Lord of Long Live will be forgiving, which is the grace of the minions! ”

Alinga also reacted to the end, and it was inevitable that he would show his loyalty again.

It just so happened that Wei Zhu came back from checking the bedroom tent of the diligent nobleman and whispered about the diligent nobleman dressed up.

Kangxi was silent for a while, and finally said to Brother Alinga: "I don't believe it, in this camp, he is not crazy or top, he dares to be so presumptuous!" A few elder brothers who followed him, the guards and entourage checked first, is there any one who wants to follow the old path of the big brother! ”

Ah Ling'a was secretly happy when she heard this, and she couldn't wait to run out immediately, talk to the eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother about this matter, and discuss whether she could take advantage of this to take the position.

Kangxi had already taken this into account, looked at Ah Ling'a, and said, "I'm too lazy to bother, but you should know my temper!" ”

Ah Ling'a lowered his head, except for nodding in response, the idea of conspiring with the eighth and ninth elder brothers immediately disappeared.

In the blink of an eye, after three days, the holy car returned to Rehe.

The affairs of the diligent nobles here have not been taken care of, and someone told them that the prince carried a whip and beat the crown princess Guerjia.

Kangxi is really angry, the prince of a country, seeing that he is not confused, he still acts so arbitrarily, it is really too perverse.

is finally old, looking at the excerpts on the imperial case, Kangxi remembered the seventeenth elder brother Yinli who has been with him in the past few years, and recalled the eighteenth elder brother Yinlu who died a few years ago, and sighed.

The excerpt is a rain period fold jointly played by several princes and elder brothers who stayed in Beijing, and it was just sent to Rehe half an hour ago.

Chen Yinzhi and other performances:

This month, it is said that the sky is cloudy at two o'clock, and it is drizzling at one moment in November, and the rain stops at two o'clock in Shen, and the sky is sunny at the beginning of the twelfth month.

Kangxi lifted the imperial pen, hesitated, and criticized after the excerpt: "Got it." The concubine's mother was very unwell, so she went home first. Seventeen Elder Brother came to pick up his mother's service! ”

Wei Zhu, the former eunuch of the imperial palace, stood beside him, only to feel that although the Long Live Lord was standing tall, he looked very lonely. Thinking of what he had seen and heard in the past few days, he couldn't help but shudder.

Perhaps because winter is approaching, the weather is getting colder and colder.

* Although the weather is getting cooler, Cao Hao's heart is warm. As a first-time father, he always feels a little trance-like and very unreal, but every time he sees his son whose skin is still a little red, he still can't help grinning the corners of his mouth and smiling all over his face.

Jiangning and the capital both sent people to report the good news. The long house has added grandchildren, and for Cao Yin and his wife, they will also be overjoyed. In addition to sharing this joy with his parents, he also hopes that his father will be able to free himself from the pain of bereavement as soon as possible.

Yesterday, an incense case was set up in the inner house, and a "washing three" ceremony was held for his son Tianyou. Although only the outsiders came with their nerdy brother Yizhou Zhizhou Ye Fu and his wife, these people in his own house got together and were also lively for a long time.

Because his son's name had to wait for his grandfather to give him, Cao Hao and Chu Yu studied the name a few months before giving birth.

According to Cao Hao's meaning, if Chu Yu gave birth to a boy, his nickname would be "Zi Ge'er", and if he had other sons in the future, he would follow the order of the earthly branches of "Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Wei"; If it is a girl, the nickname is "big girl", and if you add a girl in the future, you will follow the order of "two girls", "three girls", and "four girls".

was complained by Chu Yu well, saying that he had never seen such a father, and he didn't even bother to think about the child's nickname.

Cao Hao was very wronged in his heart, obviously he racked his brains, thought about it, but felt that it was inappropriate. He remembered his nickname "Liansheng", which meant good.

In fact, according to his original intention, he really wanted to call his son's nickname "Changsheng" or "Ping'an", which are both straightforward and auspicious. However, these two names are often used by high-ranking families as small maid names, that is, their Cao family also has a small maid called "peace", and he is the follower of Cao Xiang in the second room.

Although Chu Yu said that he listened to Cao Hao, he was slightly paranoid about the child's nickname. "Big girl" and "second girl" were immediately rejected, because Mr. Zhuang's old female breast name is "Niu Niu", which is their child's aunt. Even if a girl is born, it is not easy to choose a nickname similar to that of an aunt.

"Brother Zi'er" and "Ugly Brother" Chu Yu thought about it seriously and carefully, and finally asked Cao Hao with a little doubt: "E, if we give birth to a son and talk to him, Zi'er, Zi'er's screaming, it seems a little weird?" ”

Cao Hao couldn't help but laugh a few times, but it wasn't weird, the reading of "Zi'er" and "Zi'er" was like a mouse, "squeaky".

laughed so hard that Chu Yu's face turned black, and Cao Hao stopped in disagreement.

In the end, Chu Yu thought of a few and let Cao Hao take the idea.

"Bao'er" and "Yu'er", Cao Hao didn't want to think about them, so he denied them. If he really raised a son named "Bao'er" and "Yu'er", and he was playing with a maid in the inner house all day long, eating rouge, then Cao Hao would really die of sorrow. Whether he was envious or jealous, or tired of not being able to see it, only he could know.

Among the remaining nicknames, the two of them looked at each other, and finally circled the "God Bless" and took a lip color.

Although Tianyou is the firstborn son of Cao Hao and his wife, he is not the first child in the house. Mr. Zhuang's Niuniu has a month old; Jiang Ning brought five children to raise one year and eight months. The two little girls are only one or two years old, but they are of high seniority, and they are all from their aunts.

According to the habit at this time, Chu Yu had to sit for a month, and the cat couldn't go out in the room. Cao Hao saw the difficulties of his wife's childbirth, and found a lot of rare medicinal materials for Chu Yu to tonic.

Black chicken ginseng soup and wolfberry crucian carp soup are almost all available, but Chu Yu only drinks one or two sips each time, and then drinks the milk porridge she ordered by herself. Before giving birth, she made up for white and fat, although when she was born Tianyou, she tossed for half the night, but as the midwives said, there was less bleeding and a small wound, which was already very smooth.

Regarding the issue of breastfeeding, the young couple also discussed it properly before, and they both thought that breast milk was good, but the starting point was different.

Chu Yu loves the child so much, although it is still in the belly, but thinking that most of it will be divided by the wet nurse, she feels sad; Cao Hao didn't expect a wet nurse at all, as early as after Chu Yu became pregnant, she asked Cao Fang to buy a few cows that produced milk and raised them in the house.

However, in order to be more stable, I temporarily found a nurse to enter the house. When Chu Yu has no milk, or the child is not used to drinking milk, he will not be hungry.

Fortunately, Chu Yu had milk the next time, although several grandmothers thought it was unruly. But with Cao Hao's support, they are just two verbose sentences.

Regarding the matter of "cowpox", Cao Hao still persuaded Mr. Zhuang to use it on livestock to see the effect first. However, although the climate in Shandong is warmer than in Beijing, it is also getting cooler, and it is not a good time to study "pox epidemic" and "pox", so Cao Hao mentioned this matter in a letter to his father to report the good news, and asked his father to find a few "pox doctors" in Jiangnan to verify the "cowpox".

* In the capital, the sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother went out of the Donghua Gate and rode horses in parallel. As we talked about it, we talked about the October draft.

The seventeenth elder brother is two years younger than the sixteenth elder brother, and the virtual age is sixteen, and it is time to get married. When the sixteenth elder brother was on the side of the Fujin Li family, he was younger than the current seventeenth elder brother.

Seeing that the seventeenth elder brother was smiling and not caring at all, the sixteenth elder brother pouted and said, "Whether it is a concubine, a side, or a concubine, this draft will not be able to run away from you." Wait for Fu Jin to enter the door, see if you are still so calm? ”

The seventeenth elder brother said with a smile: "If it is really the emperor Ama and the queen mother Lafayette pointed out one to the younger brother this year, then the younger brother is looking forward to it, no matter what his identity is, he is still a concubine in terms of name!" ”

The sixteenth elder brother shook his head: "What about the grandson and the side?" It's just a name! ”

The seventeenth elder brother smiled, looked at his brother, and said, "Even if others don't know, the sixteenth brother and his younger brother should know!" It's just because our Eniang's position is low, how much neglect we have suffered since childhood! The same prince and brother, which of the brothers is not extremely noble, and there are people everywhere to greet him? Like us, to put it mildly, because of his young age, the treatment is more different from his brothers; To put it bluntly, it's just that we don't have a mother family to rely on, and Eniang is not able to speak by Huang Ama's side, so she is naturally looked down upon by everyone. If the younger brother marries Chang Fujin, then he will have a good time with her and give birth to a son-in-law, no matter how bad it is, he will be a prince of Feng'en Town, and he will not give birth to a concubine to hinder everyone's eyes! ”

Although this was true, it reminded the sixteenth elder brother of his childhood, and the brothers were silent for a while.

In the end, it was the sixteenth elder brother who spoke: "Seventeenth brother, don't be too biased, with an identity like ours, you can't marry only one daughter-in-law like a small civilian family." As a descendant of Aixin Jueluo, it is also our task to reproduce children and consolidate our Qing dynasty! Speaking of this, he couldn't help laughing, with a somewhat indescribable and inexplicable look on his face: "In this way, among our elder brothers, there are still some eldest brothers who have completed their tasks well, and in the past few years, little brother and little Gege have added nearly ten, even if there were some mistakes before, they are worthy of their ancestors after being born and raised like this!" ”

The seventeenth elder brother thought for a while and said, "It's strange to say, in my childhood impression, except that the prince is the prince, who is different from us, even the eldest brother is the most arrogant. Even if his uncle Mingxiang has fallen, he still refuses to wronged himself at all, and his words and actions are no different from before. It's not close to us, but it's not annoying. Now that I think about it, the eldest brother is like an out-and-out Manchurian hero, who doesn't play this messy showmanship, and relies on his real skills to seek military exploits! ”

Since the participation in the muddy waters of the heir, where is it easy to preserve? Keeping his surname, even though there are some father-son relationships, the main reason is that the imperial father is unwilling to bear the notoriety of "killing his son".

Thinking of this, the sixteenth elder brother and the seventeenth elder brother glanced at each other and smiled in unison.

In this way, there are no weight and no weight benefits, anyone who wants to sit in that chair will not regard these two younger brothers who have no relatives to rely on as opponents, only to win over.

If the vision is better, if it is not even, it will have the merit of "supporting"; Even if you are perfunctory everywhere, you don't rely on any of them, and in the end, when the new emperor ascends the throne, as the emperor's younger brother, this title will naturally not be low.

You must know that since beating their imperial grandfather, they have paid more attention to the set of "brothers, friends, brothers, and brothers", and the Feng brothers are all princes. In the Kangxi Dynasty, the same was true. Even if there are many brothers now, what is there, the last is a shell, and the luck is better, it is Baylor and the king of the county.

It is not much better to live a down-to-earth life than to blindly participate in cooperation. Standing on the side, not to mention the cleanliness of the body, you can still have leisure, and look at the royal brothers' "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea to Show Their Magical Powers", wouldn't it be better? Why bother to make a brother not a brother, a brother not a brother?

(To be continued)