The Li family was questioned about the crime, and after two rumors in the elite circle, it was replaced by two new incidents. After all, in the eyes of the powerful in the capital, the Li family is nothing.

Li Xu sat in Suzhou for 30 years, although he showed the favor of the previous emperor, but it also kept the Li family away from the center of power. In addition, although Li Xu has many brothers, there are no people who can support each other, and the children and grandchildren are withered, and there are few talented people, which makes the Li family more and more thin.

These two things are that Chen Menglei, a great Confucian under Prince Cheng, was convicted and exiled to Heilongjiang; The new emperor decreed that Jiubeizi was sent to the front of the army and stationed in Xining.

This involves the real power prince of the former emperor's period, and the two siblings of the new emperor, which naturally attracted the attention of the government and the opposition, far from being comparable to the influence of the Li family.

The reactions of the third elder brother and the ninth elder brother are different.

Chen Menglei is nominally a member of Prince Cheng's family, but in fact, he served Prince Cheng to study in his early years, and he is actually a royal teacher.

He became famous at a young age, at the age of 12, at the age of 19, at the age of 20, he was the same year as Li Guangdi, the famous minister of the Kangxi Dynasty, and then the two entered the Hanlin Academy together.

After entering the Hanlin Academy, he returned to his hometown in Fujian Province and caught up with Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingnan, to raise troops in Fuzhou to oppose the Qing Dynasty, snaring the scholars, and forcing him to enter the Fuzhou military tent.

Because his father was arrested, Chen Menglei had no choice but to enter the scene, but he was unwilling to be a thief.

He said that he made an appointment with Li Guangdi, who was also forced into Fuzhou, and the two of them were one inside and the other outside, in an attempt to ask the imperial court to send troops to quell the rebellion. He also drafted an excerpt asking the imperial court to send troops.

Then, Li Guangdi played the watch alone, so he heard in front of the emperor and began the road of fame; Chen Menglei was rebellious and beheaded by the Geng clan after the pacification of the three feudatories.

Chen Menglei asked Li Guangdi to testify for him, but Li Guangdi refused. The lawsuit between the two came to the front of the king, and which was right and which was wrong became an unsolvable mystery.

Kangxi valued Li Guangdi's talent and defended his courtiers; Among Shilin, there are more people who sympathize with Chen Menglei.

Chen Menglei stayed in prison for two years, and Xu Qianxue, who was the secretary of the Criminal Department at the time, was his same year, and he worked for him, got rid of the capital crime, and was assigned to Fengtian.

He spent nearly twenty years in Mukden, writing prolifically.

In the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi, when Kangxi was touring the north, he loved his talent and summoned him to Beijing.

In the past 25 years in Beijing, in addition to serving Prince Cheng to study, he has been repairing books in the book repair office, away from the government.

It is really unkind for the new emperor to take this unlucky guy under the knife; Prince Cheng's response was even more chilling.

For such a great Confucian who has no name of teacher and student, but has the reality of teacher and student, Prince Cheng, as the emperor's brother, is not a difficult thing to come forward to ask for a favor.

No, not only did he not help, but he was also afraid that he would be involved, so he cooperated with the investigation of the Criminal Department and added several charges to Chen Menglei, saying that Chen Menglei was a "heinous" sinner.

Poor Prince Cheng, after decades of studying, the little good reputation he accumulated in Shilin has disappeared.

He fell into the well like this, not only the officials of the Criminal Department were surprised, but even Yongzheng couldn't look at it a little, and crossed out several unacceptable charges, exempted Chen Menglei from the death penalty, and only sentenced him to exile in Heilongjiang.

Poor Chen Menglei, in his old age, began to embark on the road of exile again.

Everyone said that they mostly felt pity for this Chen Menglei, and they were ashamed of Prince Cheng's actions.

If you have a clear mind, think about Prince Cheng's embarrassing situation, and you can understand why he is so careful, like a bird with a bow.

Unlike Prince Cheng's caution, Jiubeizi's side did not mean to restrain his surname at all.

Even if the new emperor ordered him to go to Xining, he couldn't delay, and only said that he would wait until the first emperor was filial piety.

There is a word "filial piety" on the top, which is also justified, and after a hundred days, will he go to Xining?

Now everyone is waiting to see if Jiubeizi will leave Beijing in February.

There are bored people who have secretly set up a game to bet on the outcome of the game between the new emperor and Jiubeizi.

I believe that Jiubeizi can win, and I feel that Jiubeizi is unbearable, and there is a concubine mother, and the prince's brother; No matter how much the new emperor doesn't like it, he has to leave some leeway.

is sure that the new emperor will win, but he feels that the current situation is in line with the old saying, "the new official takes office with three fires".

A few years ago, when the new emperor first ascended the throne, there was the funeral of the former emperor to be taken care of, and there were hundreds of officials of the clan who needed to be appeased.

Now, more than two months have passed, and the new emperor has almost calmed down the situation, and some actions are normal.

Since it is a holy decree and a golden mouth, how can it be easily changed, can Jiubeizi be allowed to push it once, and can he be allowed to shirk it again?

Unexpectedly, the new emperor agreed to delay Jiubeizi's departure from Beijing, and he made someone arrest Jiubeizi's close attendant eunuch He Yuzhu; At the same time, there were eleven people including Zhang Qiyong, the chief eunuch in the Yifei Palace.

There are many crimes involved, going to the Northeast to dig ginseng, colluding with foreign ministers, and seeking financial gains.

In the end, these twelve eunuchs had no property and were exiled outside the customs.

The magnates in the capital, no one will pay attention to the fate of a few eunuchs who have lost power. In their opinion, this is a lesson from the new emperor to Jiubeizi's rebellion.

In addition to these dozen eunuchs, Qin Daoran, the chief housekeeper of Jiubeizi Mansion, was also questioned, and Yongzheng issued an order to order the governor of Liangjiang to investigate Qin Daoran's family property in Jiangnan and recover 100,000 taels of silver for military expenses in the northwest.

In Yongzheng's eyes, in addition to the inferiority of Jiubeizi, what he saw was the wealth of Beizi Mansion. He Yuzhu is just a lowly eunuch, with hundreds of thousands of family assets under his name, and the wealth of Jiubeizi Mansion can be seen.

The people who are waiting to see the excitement of Jiubeizi are going to be disappointed.

Just as Prince Cheng did not come forward to protect Chen Menglei, Jiubeizi did not come forward to protect Qin Daoran, but only "complained" at home, and did not fall into the well like Prince Cheng.

At this time, Brother Jiu held a wine jug in his hand, and looked at the empty courtyard with drunken eyes.

With He Yuzhu's questioning, Qin Daoran was detained, and the atmosphere in this Beizi Mansion became depressed.

The masters didn't have a smile on their faces, and the minions were naturally cautious.

Brother Jiu sat on the steps in front of the corridor, looked at the two slippery pomegranate trees in front of him, sprinkled the wine jug in his hand on the ground, and muttered: "Huang Ama, Xiao Jiu can only be a turtle now!" With that, he lifted the jug and poured half a jug into his mouth.

Some of the wine flowed up to his front and suddenly added a stain of water, and some of it flowed down the corner of his mouth and into his neck, but he didn't realize it.

Look at this down-and-out appearance, where is there still the stubbornness and arrogance of half a month ago.

The fifth elder brother stood a few steps away, looking at his appearance, and couldn't help but redden.

When Brother Jiu heard the movement, he raised his head and felt that the sun was dazzling.

He raised his arm, covered the light, squinted at the fifth elder brother, got up and said, "It turned out to be the fifth brother, and I thought it was the tenth brother...... Yes, the tenth brother has already gone to Mongolia and is not in the capital......"

Seeing that he was full of alcohol and his body was unstable, the fifth elder brother took a few steps forward, held his arm, and frowned: "Why are you eating cold wine outside and ruining yourself like this, what's it?" ”

Brother Jiu laughed at himself twice, and said in a low voice: "It's not my wish to live like this, if I just go like this, it's my ......."

"Ninth brother!" Seeing that the more he talked, the more unscored, the fifth elder brother interrupted him sharply: "The mother concubine is going to be in the house next month, you don't want to think about how to accept Huan's knees, but instead say such ominous words, what kind of system!" ”

The ninth elder brother raised his head and looked at the fifth elder brother fixedly, his face was already solemn: "Fifth brother, why should you deceive yourself, the new emperor will exile me to Xining, do I still have room to go?" 'All are extremely evil, and all are rich. If they refuse to go away, they will be ordered to commit suicide, and the escort will report to the local magistrate to inspect and burn them, and still send the bones to the place where they are dispatched', who are these words for, and the fifth brother still doesn't know? ”

When the fifth elder brother heard this, his face turned pale, and he sighed faintly, as if he was more than ten years old, and said, "Since it is for you, you can go." After two years, when he is discouraged, I will ask for a decree to bring you back......"

Looking at his loyal and slightly cowardly brother, Brother Jiu felt that his throat was salty.

Ever since the new emperor ascended the throne, he knew that he would not end well. He is not afraid, he is ready not to lose the dignity of the prince, even if he wants to die, he will vent his evil anger and detain two basins for Yongzheng.

However, just when Yongzheng couldn't wait to clean him up, his stupid brother ran to the front of the palace and knelt all day.

Brother Jiu knew that he couldn't die.

Even if life is more difficult than death, for the sake of his brother and Eniang, he is not qualified to die with his surname......* Compared with the gloomy clouds of the Nine Elder Brothers' Mansion, the words of the Cao Mansion are not shocked.

Chu Yu got Cao Hao's instructions and paid more and more attention to Li's diet and daily life.

I asked a few Xiuhe privately, and knew that Li had been worried about sleeping and had no appetite recently, so Chu Yu arranged medicinal meals for each meal and personally served Li's meal.

Seeing his daughter-in-law like this, Li knew that he had made his son and daughter-in-law worried, so in addition to using the meal, he also took the initiative to ask the imperial doctor to go over and prescribe a prescription for a peaceful sleep.

I don't know if it's really relieved or because of the power of medicine, Li slept a few times and gradually eased up.

Even when Gao saw it, he was a little relieved.

She thought that Li's previous haggard was caused by hard work, and advised her not to be too pampered, and not to always think about tying her little grandson Tianbao in front of her.

The Li family was also haggard, and after listening to Gao Taijun's words, he said to Chu Yu that he asked her to take Tianbao back to Wutong Garden to raise, and asked her to pick an empty yard to come out, preparing to let Changsheng move.

Chu Yu was pleasantly surprised, but when she thought about it, there was a child in front of her, and her mother-in-law didn't have time to think nonsense; If the children all move out, it will not be good if the mother-in-law is worried and sick.

Thinking like this, Chu Yu pressed the idea of picking up his son to his side, and said: "Uncle Seventh has been talking about wanting his own yard since last year, and the old lady may be more happy when she speaks at this time." Tianbao's side, also asked the old lady to take pity on her daughter-in-law and take care of her son more. Our eldest girl is beginning to learn to be a housekeeper, and she follows her daughter-in-law like a little tail. I don't have to take care of her, I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of Tianbao......"

In Li's heart, Ben was reluctant to Tianbao.

When people get older, they are afraid of being lonely.

This big empty room, with the movement of a baby, also adds vitality.

Therefore, after instructing her daughter-in-law, she regretted it a little.

After listening to Chu Yu's words, he hurriedly said: "Since this is the case, let Tianbao still be raised in my house...... The eldest girl is ten years old, and she should learn to know the world......" Speaking of this, she was interested: "What is she learning these days?" ”

"I'm learning to make clothes and embroidery. She has bad eyes and can't hold needles and threads, but she doesn't know anything about female celebrities. Chu Yu said with a little distress.

Li knew that she was worried about her daughter's future, and comforted: "With you and the old man in pain, the eldest girl will definitely be blessed." ”

"Cheng old lady Ji Yan." Chu Yu said: "The master's side has already drawn up a teaching list and asked the daughter-in-law to act according to the list. He thought it through and drew up a lot of rules, if the eldest girl had learned according to the list, she would not suffer in the rest of her life. ”

"Oh?" Li Shi listened and was a little curious: "It is the mother's responsibility to raise her daughter, why does he still think of mixing it as an old man?" What are they all written? ”

Chu Yu smiled: "There are many of them." The daughter-in-law made a special trip to bring it and asked the old lady to look at it. As he spoke, he took out a paper fold from his sleeve and handed it to Li with both hands.

Li Shi opened it and looked at it, looked at it and nodded with a smile, but then his expression became strange, pointed to one place, and said, "Ask the girls to read the "Hu Law" of the "Great Qing Law"...... How so? ”

"The master said, girls like us who go out are all knowledgeable and etiquette, and they have rules and regulations. The national law and family rules, the national law is in the front, and the family rules are in the back, so that the girls know the national law, and only then can they act in a proper way, even if they are confined to the inner courtyard, they can have more vision. Chu Yu replied.

Because in the study room in Wutong Garden, there is a set of "The Law of the Qing Dynasty", which is a book that Cao Hao often reads.

So after Chu Yu read this, he specifically inquired about the content of "Hulu".

The content of the "Household Law" is huge and complex, and they are all laws and regulations that are closely related to life. From the household registration of the population, to the taxation of the land, to the marriage business, it is all mentioned.

If a girl who marries out of the house, is familiar with the "Household Law", and increases her knowledge, she will not be easily deceived by her servants in the future.

Li listened to Chu Yu's words, nodded, and continued to read.

Although there are a lot of things to learn in this excerpt, reading them one by one shows Cao Hao's love for his daughter. For example, the method of bookkeeping and auditing, the art of health preservation, and the tricks of slaves.

"It's hard for him, the yamen has a lot of things, and he can still think about the big girl's affairs so carefully." Li Shi closed the fold and said.

Chu Yu smiled and admitted: "Yes, compared with the master, the homework set by the daughter-in-law for the eldest girl seems to be a little childish." The old man said that in the future, the daughters of the Cao family will teach them like this, and they will be self-respecting and self-reliant, so that they will not suffer in their in-laws' family. ”

Speaking of this, she paused and said, "It's over there in Dongfu, there are several girls now, but now that the family is separated, it's not good to say anything." Old lady, do you want to send this fold to Dongfu? ”

Li thought for a while and said, "The fourth sister and the fifth son, your aunt is bent on sending it to the general election, and now I have made a special trip to teach the grandmother, if we have a lot of things, we will cause your aunt to make a fuss...... It's the second girl and the third girl, you copy a copy of Jinghui, and you will definitely accept your affection......"

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were talking, when they saw Cao Hao pick up the curtain, with a little joy on his face: "Mother, there is good news today!" ”

Li Shi stopped talking and said with some expectation: "What news?" ”

"The emperor has officially decreed that the sixteenth master will attack the prince of Heshuozhuang!" Cao Hao said with a smile.

The sixteenth elder brother's mother and son have a close relationship with the Cao family, and when the Li family heard this, they were really happy for it, and said with a smile: "Amitabha, this is really a great joy, it has been boiling for half a month, and the dust has finally settled......

(To be continued)