At dawn, the room was dark and a little cold.

Tianyou squinted, sat up, took out his pocket watch from under the pillow, and looked at it, it was already the second quarter of the first month (half past five in the morning).

Hearing the movement in the house, I saw someone pick up the curtain and said with a smile: "Uncle is awake......

It was a maid wearing pink clothes and silver-red armor, fourteen or five years old, with a small pink face and a small red beauty mole on the corner of her mouth, which became more and more playful and pleasing.

When Tianyou saw it, he was surprised and said: "It's not that you are on duty at night, why did you get up so early, could it be that you came out of the west?" ”

When the maid heard this, she was angry, and pouted: "Look at what the uncle said, everyone else is diligent, but the slave and maid are lazy?" ”

Before the words fell, I heard someone say softly: "Early in the morning, I didn't do anything serious, so I started grinding my mouth, is it noisy?" ”

When the maid heard this, she smiled playfully, turned around and stretched out her hand to open the curtain, and said, "It's just that I was wronged by the uncle, and I confessed a few words." ”

Behind the curtain, Yuguan walked into a few maids.

The eldest of the head, eighteen or nineteen years old, wore lilac-colored clothes, covered with snow blue armor, goose egg face, and a gentle expression; The two fifteen or sixteen years old who followed behind were dressed similarly, but one had a dark green armor and the other a moon white armor.

In the hands of the three of them, they all brought trays, and inside were new clothes, shoes, socks and hats.

Tianyou had already turned over and got off the kang and said with a smile: "It's just a life, but it's bothering a few of you to follow." ”

The older girl ring is Le Qing. used to be the big girl ring by Chu Yu's side, and a few years ago, she was transferred to Kwai Courtyard to wait for Tianyou to live.

In addition to Le Qing, the three maids are called Bai Xuan, Hongqing, and Green, all of whom are second-class maids in Kwai Yuan. There was also a man named Motaro, who was sick a few days ago and went out to recuperate, but he hasn't come back yet.

At this time, Le Qing had already put the tray on the table, and took the other three maids to bow down to Tianyou, and said a congratulatory message for his birthday in unison.

Tianyou listened with a smile and thanked the four of them again.

After congratulating his birthday, Tianyou was served by Bai Xuan and Hongqing to freshen up, and Le Qing took the green two to serve and change clothes.

After cleaning up, Tianyou said to Le Qing: "I'll go and say hello to the old lady, and have breakfast directly over there." In the past few days, a lot of longevity noodles have been sent outside, and many have been prepared in the house. I heard Sister-in-law Wu say that there are more than a dozen kinds of marinade prepared in the kitchen, and my sister can send the little girl to ask for it. ”

Le Qing said with a smile: "But with the light of the uncle, these two days are thinking about eating a bowl of noodles refreshingly." ”

Do not suffer from few, but suffer from unevenness.

Bai Xuan and Luyi stood quietly aside, Hongqing was the youngest, snorted softly, and muttered in a low voice: "Uncle Tai is also eccentric, but it's just a bowl of noodles ......."

Tianyou stretched out his hand, nodded her forehead, and said, "You talk a lot." Sister Leqing's seasons are not comfortable, there is no appetite in every day, and the people have also been reduced, so I will tell this sentence more. Hundreds of catties of longevity noodles, can you still shorten your failure? ”

Hongqing has always been scheming, and immediately blamed herself when she heard the words, and took Le Qing's hand with flattery, with a little guilt and a little worry: "It's all my fault, I only care about my own greed, but I forgot that my sister has no appetite recently." Do you want to ask the uncle to ask the doctor, if you are really sick, you are not stubborn. ”

Le Qing squeezed out a little bit and smiled: "It's just a little lacking, it's nothing, you don't need to toss like that......"

Having said that, it is still difficult to hide the gloom between the eyebrows and eyes.

Tianyou glanced at Le Qing, his eyes were gloomy, he didn't say anything more, picked the curtain and went to the Orchid Courtyard to greet the Li family.

Li has always slept lightly, and at this time, he has finished freshening up, and is putting three sticks of incense on the gilded statue in the hall.

Hearing that the eldest grandson was coming, Li hurriedly called in with a smile.

Although fifteen years old is not a whole life, it is not a small life.

It was only because he was afraid of the well-being of God's blessing that the Li family did not do anything.

She didn't know that her son had been exempted from the governor of Zhili and returned to Beijing to be used, Tianyou had heard about it from Cao Xiang, but she also heard from her uncle that her father's career was fine.

The reason why I didn't tell my grandmother was because I was worried that the old man was cranky.

Asked the Li family to say goodbye, Tianbao also got up, and Tianyou accompanied his grandmother and younger brother with a bowl of longevity noodles before coming out of the Lanyuan.

The birth of a son is the suffering of the mother.

The mother was not in the capital, so Tianyou rushed to the direction of Qingyuan and bowed three times before returning to Kwai Yuan.

At the gate of the courtyard, the brothers Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng were already waiting.

Seeing Tianyou, the two congratulated in unison, and it was another string of auspicious words.

Tianyou smiled and stretched out his hand to invite the two into the courtyard.

Looking at a few towering sunflowers in the flower pond in the southwest corner of the yard, Zuozhu stopped and said in surprise: "How long is this, this year's sunflowers are so tall?" In previous years, three or five catties of melon seeds were produced, is it going to double this year? ”

Tianyou shook his head and said: "The taro stayed in the yard to watch the house, and he didn't wait for these, he just thought that it was good to water more, and as a result, these sunflowers only grew taller, and the flower plate was worse than in the past." Not to mention doubling, no less than half is good. ”

Laughing, he led Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng into the upper room.

Le Qing and Lvyi were there, and when they saw Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng coming in, they called "Uncle Song, Second Master Bai", and leaned over to say hello to the two.

Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng avoided it sideways, and returned the half-salute.

Le Qing served tea and retreated with greenery, leaving only the three brothers to speak in the hall.

Zuo Zhu watched Le Qing's back go out, Fang turned around and said to Tianyou: "I didn't think it a few years ago, but in the past two years, Sister Le Qing has grown up, and she looks more and more like a person." ”

There was no beginning or end to this, Tianyou turned his head and said, "Which one is it like?" ”

Zuo Zhu looked at Tianyou, looked at Zuo Cheng again, and said in surprise: "Haven't you seen it?" ”

Tianyou shook his head, Zuo Cheng picked the corners of his mouth, and said, "Brother, are you talking about being like Aunt Zi?" ”

Zuozhu nodded and said, "Exactly." I still remember clearly that Aunt Zi likes lilac-colored clothes, and she acts as gently and carefully as Sister Le Qing. ”

Zuo Cheng disagreed, and said, "It's just a look." Aunt Zi's appearance and character are praised, even by her father-in-law. ”

The rest of the sentence "Can anyone compare", he did not say.

After all, Le Qing came out of Wutong Garden, and he had waited for the elders, and as juniors, they should be respected.

Since Tianyou remembers, he has lived with Hengsheng in Kwai Courtyard and grew up next to Amethyst.

is called "aunt", but in fact, Amethyst can be called half of his adoptive mother.

Comparing the living with the dead is both a grievance to the living and a blasphemy of the dead.

Tianyou diverted the conversation and said: "Father and mother are going back to Beijing without saying it, but they can catch up with the matter of Zuo Zhu's appointment." ”

After Li returned to the capital, Tian took a few selected sons to the Orchid Courtyard and asked Li to choose a good son.

The twenty-second and twenty-eighth of this month are all good days.

Li asked about the construction of the new house, and then asked about the preparations for the dowry, and knew that they were all about the same, and they were calm in which one to choose.

The Li family sent someone to Dongfu to invite Cao Xiang and asked him which one was cheaper.

Although Tianyou is in Beijing, he is an equal, and an elder is still needed. Cao Hao had written a trust to Cao Xiang before, and the Li family would invite him to come over and ask questions.

Cao Xiang and his sons were not Xiu Mu, but he could change shifts with his colleagues, so he asked Li to decide.

In the end, the Li family discussed with the Tian family, and the appointment was set for the twenty-eighth of this month.

Zuozhu listened, "hehe" smiled, nodded and said, "Great, wonderful......"

Zuo Cheng said: "This is very good, if you don't say goodbye to your father-in-law and mother-in-law, it will always make people feel uncomfortable when you move out of the house like this." ”

In a word, everyone was saddened.

As early as a few years ago, Cao Hao helped Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng buy real estate in the inner city, which are two adjacent houses.

I thought that after the two brothers got married and started a business, they lived together. The location is not very far from Cao's house, but two streets away, and it takes a quarter of an hour to ride a horse.

A few years ago, it was empty, and only two people were sent to watch the house over there; Now that it has been cleaned up, the appointment period has been set, and there are many things that need to be done.

The house over there also needs a warm house.

A few days later, when the township test list was released, Tian Shiyuan discussed with his son, and wanted to move out of Cao's Mansion and go to the new house to prepare for marriage after the list was released. But there are no elders in Caofu, so it's not good to move away so rashly.

When Li arrived in Beijing, Tian mentioned the matter to Li.

Although the Li family is very reluctant, they also know that there is no reason to stop each other. Earlier, Tian took his children to live in Caofu, which was a helpless move for orphans and widows.

Now the left lives and the left grows up to be Chengren, and he is about to marry his own son, and there is no reason to continue to live in the Cao family...... * Qingyuan, outside the city, the official pavilion.

This is the receiving office and the sending office.

Cao Hao stood outside the pavilion, looking at the Wanmin umbrella with a diameter of half a zhang in front of him, and was quite touched.

From receiving the official letter of the Ministry of Rites to leaving the Qing Garden, it only took three or four days to gather together, and the Qing Yuan officials and gentry were able to prepare such an "umbrella for all the people", which also strengthened their face.

Under the "Wanmin Umbrella", hundreds of officials and gentry gathered, regardless of whether they had friendship with Cao Hao or not, they all looked like they couldn't leave. A few of them were emotional, and they were already hiding their faces with their sleeves, and their bodies shook with the cry of "woo".

In front of everyone, there was a new peak of everyone, and Tang Zhiyu, the governor of Zhili, was appointed. Next to him is the respected place of the elderly.

Looking at several white-bearded old men with red faces, like the birthday star in the painting, staring at their boots with bright eyes, Cao Hao hurriedly raised the wine cup prepared next to him, thanked all the adults for their friendship, and thanked everyone for their love.

Even if a drama like "take off his boots ceremony" is forgotten, in front of everyone's eyes, even if Cao Hao is thick-skinned, he is impatient to appear on the stage...... In the midst of everyone's crying, Cao Hao finally got on the horse, waved at everyone, turned the horse's head, and took a dozen or so small servants and long-term followers to the Cao family's convoy parked in the distance......

(To be continued)