It was the end of autumn, there were no clouds and little rain, the sun was shining, and the sky was clear, but there was a little less warmth. Winter is coming.

The wind blew, and the frosted leaves of the begonia trees in the yard suddenly broke away from the branches, flew one after another, spun in the air, and then fell to the ground leisurely. In the garden, the grass and trees are withered, and only a few chrysanthemums, which are frost-tolerant and cold-resistant, bloom more and more delicately.

Or because of the proximity to the sea, although the temperature in Yizhou is warm in autumn, it is about to be winter, but it is another kind of wet and cold. I only feel that the wind blows on my face, and it is all with greasy moisture, which is very different from the dry and cold in the capital. Even in the room, it is not very comfortable, and I just feel that I can't withstand the cold.

However, the house here does not have geothermal heat like the capital, and the heating only depends on the kang and charcoal basin. When Cao Hao considered the heating problem, it was already after Chu Yu gave birth, and the big project could not be moved. It happened that the fire kang in the east warm pavilion was demolished a few months ago when he was keeping filial piety, and Cao Hao led people to simply rebuild this side, leaving a few roads underground, and building a fire kang on it.

In order to get rid of the moisture, after the construction was completed, Cao Hao asked people to start burning the kang, and the underground corridor was also stuffed with sawdust and other things to ignite, thinking that after the beginning of winter, Chu Yu and his mother would come to live here.

In the end, Jiangning was closer, and on September 11, he sent someone to report the good news, and he came back on the 21st, in addition to bringing back the congratulatory gifts given by the clan relatives over there, as well as a letter from Cao Yin and his wife.

The old couple heard that the eldest grandson had been added, and they were overjoyed, and they wanted to come to Shandong to celebrate the full moon ceremony for the eldest grandson, but because the Yamen of the Weaving Mansion was busy collecting and inspecting the tribute in early October, the chief official was not good to leave, and Cao Yin could not get out, so only the Li family came over. On September 18, he set off on September 23 and arrived in Yizhou on September 23.

Mother made a special trip, how could Cao Hao wait in Yizhou? The next morning, he took people with him, rode along the official road to the south, and waited in Daxing Town. After meeting with the Li family, he did not rest in Daxing Town, and returned to Yizhou on the same day.

Several courtyards in Daotai Mansion are occupied, and only Cao Song's courtyard is empty. Cao Hao was reluctant to let his mother live in a side courtyard, and also wanted to make their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law closer, so he left his mother to live in the main courtyard and settled in the study by himself.

Li has always been a good-tempered person, Chu Yu is also a sensible and filial person, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have God's blessing in their mouths all the time. Occasionally talking about Cao Hao's childhood, because he was not raised by Li's side, Li was somewhat regretful.

Li also strongly agreed with Chu Yu's personal breastfeeding of the child, but because he was worried about his daughter-in-law's body, he personally arranged some milk for Chu Yu.

According to the customs of the world, the child cannot be named before the full moon, for fear that the impermanence of black and white will detain the child's soul, and the nickname is not hindered. Therefore, Cao Hao, who is a father, still doesn't know what the old man will name Tianyou. I asked my mother twice, but Li didn't know.

It can't be "haze", right? Every time he thinks of this, Cao Hao feels like he has been struck by lightning, but he is not so taboo in his heart. After all, he didn't marry a daughter-in-law surnamed "Ma", and he didn't die when his daughter-in-law was pregnant. History has undergone subtle changes, at least the fate of this little person has changed, but all the records in history are the emperor's family affairs, and who cares about the life and death of an unknown person? Even if he has a son named Cao Zhan, he may not have the experience of withering the family business, and he wrote a strange book of red mansions.

Cao Hao looked at the house, his mother and wife coaxed Tianyou, his face was full of joy, and he couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

This little guy is less than a month old, and he is fatter than when he landed, soft and tender. Although Cao Hao pinched his son's little face or little buttocks every day, he never dared to hold him in his arms. Because he felt that he was too small, he was afraid that the force was a little wrong, so he stretched his waist or arms or something.

Cao Hao was a father for the first time, and everything was unusual, but unconsciously, his mentality gradually changed. "If you don't raise children, you don't know the kindness of your parents", this sentence is good.

After having his son Tianyou, he seemed to be able to understand Cao Yin's feelings when he spoke to him with a straight face. It's himself, watching Tianyou, who is not yet a month old, being doted on by his wife and mother like this, thinking in his heart that he will put on a "strict father" spectrum in the future, so as to save his son from being accustomed to being dirty, disobedient, infected with bad habits, and becoming a gentleman or something.

Unlike Cao Hao, who was thinking about being a "strict father", the thirteenth elder brother in the capital was smiling at this time, very loving, and put his son-in-law Hongjun on his knees, and dipped a drop of wine in the wine cup with his chopsticks, and let his son lick it.

Hong Jun is not yet two years old, with small arms and legs, wearing neat and neat little robes, and when he is spicy by the wine, he sticks out his tongue and "giggles".

The thirteenth elder brother looked at his son's tiger head, which was really funny, and he couldn't help laughing.

The Thirteen Fu Jin Zhaojia couldn't help glaring at her husband with disgust, and said, "Master, look at you, feed this to Hongtun every time, and be careful to raise a drunkard son!" ”

The thirteenth elder brother didn't care, smiled and touched his son's light head, and said, "Good son, come, call good Amma, I'll give you wine to eat!" ”

Hong Jun put the two fleshy little hands together, arched them, and said with milk in his mouth: "Ah...... Amma, what a ......"

Manchurian people pay attention to "hugging grandchildren but not children", treating their sons like the thirteenth elder brother is also rare in the world, Zhao Jiashi smiled, wanting to make a joke, but seeing that her husband was dotted with stars, there were already a lot of gray hairs; The forehead lines on his forehead are getting deeper and deeper, but he is twenty-six, but he looks like a middle-aged man, where is there still the sharpness of a young man?

Zhao Jia's nose was sore, and he almost burst into tears.

The thirteenth elder brother fed his son a drop of wine with chopsticks, and then said to Zhao Jiashi with a smile: "You also eat a cup." I'm very happy today, I hope to add a little brother to Hong Jun this time, so that the two brothers can have a companion. After the New Year, Hongchang is going to go to the study to study, and Hongjun is not accompanied by his brother, which is strange and boring. ”

Zhao Jiashi saw that the thirteenth elder brother was working hard at this time, so he ate several cups of wine, touched his stomach, and said with a smile: "I know that the master is happy, but I also have to drink leisurely, and use some food pads in my stomach to save me from discomfort for a while." ”

The thirteenth elder brother nodded, sandwiched a taro cake for his son first, and then sandwiched a thumb-sized golden silk flower roll, sent it to his mouth, ate two bites, put down the chopsticks, and said to Zhaojia with a smile: "Calculate the son, Cao Hao's eldest son is about to be full moon, I really can't think of what it will look like, don't be as sullen as his old son." ”

"Master, look at you, you don't have to arrange people like this, didn't you still praise Cao Hao a few days ago? He and Da Gege are both good-looking, and they can't be wrong when they think about it! Zhao Jia said.

The thirteenth elder brother laughed twice and said, "Didn't you just receive the silver money a few days ago?" I was happy in my heart, and my complaints about Xiao Cao were two points less. These two scorpion wine have been eaten, and Mengshan tea has also been drunk, this is not just thinking about it! ”

Zhao Jia's family couldn't help but laugh when he saw the thirteenth elder brother putting on a "master is a scoundrel".

The thirteenth elder brother picked up the wine jug, poured a cup for Zhao Jia's family, and filled it himself, and picked up the wine cup, wanting to say two auspicious words for his wife's pregnancy. However, until this time, he noticed that the colorful auspicious flower porcelain wine cup in his hand was still given by the emperor's father when he was a brother, and his heart was suddenly blocked, and tears immediately slipped down in strings.

Emperor Ama, have you completely abandoned your son? But even when I saw the previous face, I was impatient to see him.

Today, it is September 30, the holy car returns to Luan, and the Empress Dowager returns to Changchun Garden. The princes on this side of the capital, except for the thirteenth elder brother, all received orders yesterday, and today they all went to Changchun Garden to greet them.

Although Zhao Jiashi knew that her husband was unhappy, it was rare for him to have such a gaffe, so he was very worried, frowned and whispered: "Master......"

The thirteenth elder brother only felt an indescribable pain in his heart, and the pain made people's bodies feel hard, and they stiffened into a stone. There was a burst of saltiness in his mouth, and he really wanted to shout twice, spewing out the petty things such as "sadness" and "self-pity" in his heart, and then still be a dashing old thirteen.

In a trance, I only felt a warm little hand caressing my face, and the voice of "Good Ama ......" Hongjun was very crisp.

The thirteenth elder brother woke up, pulled down his son's little hand, and saw his wife looking at him with a worried face, the corners of his mouth were picked, and he smiled: "It's okay, this wine is a little top, it makes people confused!" ”

Zhao Jiashi wanted to hand over a handkerchief and ask her husband to wipe the tears on his face, but knowing that he was so strong in his heart, he didn't break it, so he stretched out his chopsticks and grabbed half a tail of fish, put it on the plate in front of him, and said with a smile while lowering his head to pick fish bones: "Hongjun doesn't say anything else, just saying that he loves to eat fish, it can be regarded as the true inheritance of the master!" ”

The thirteenth elder brother only felt that his face was cold, and he reached out to touch it, only to realize that before he knew it, he had burst into tears. Thinking of showing such a appearance in front of his wife and children, he was a little uncomfortable, wiped a handful on his face indiscriminately, and laughed twice, "hehe".

The atmosphere was a little cold for a while, and the thirteenth elder brother asked, "Didn't you go to the palace with your fourth sister-in-law to visit the noble people yesterday?" I forgot to ask, right? ”

Zhao Jiashi replied: "Eating medicine, listening to the meaning of the Tai Hospital, it seems that there is no big problem, maybe it is just because of the change of seasons, looking at the people are a little reduced, and the spirit is not enough." ”

The thirteenth elder brother nodded, and said to Zhao Jia's family: "Didn't Cao Hao send some silver money last month, and sent the people from our house to buy two good old ginseng plants for no silver money." When the seventeenth brother comes again, ask him to bring it to his diligent nobles. The tablet of the diligent nobles is low, and they are not as favored as the princesses, so I am afraid that it will not be the turn of any good things! ”

*Changchun Garden, Arrow Hall.

Except for the thirteenth elder brother who did not receive the summons, the eldest elder brother who has been imprisoned for many years, and the second elder brother who is the prince, the rest of the older princes are all ordered to wait here to see the driver.

The sixteenth elder brother thought about what he had heard recently, the crown prince's situation was worrying, as if he had been reprimanded by the imperial father before returning to Luan.

Let's look at the behavior of the other brothers in the hall - the third elder brother touched his beard and tried his best to calm down, but the joy between his eyebrows couldn't be hidden; Although the eighth elder brother was slightly reduced, he had a smile on his face, listening to the ninth elder brother, the tenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother saying goodbye to each other, and he said a few gossips to the fourth elder brother next to him; The fifth elder brother, the seventh elder brother, and the twelfth elder brother have never been involved in anything, and the conversation is just about to prepare what kind of birthday gift for the Queen Mother Lafayette on the Holy Birthday Day; The fifteenth elder brother married the princess's sister-in-law as a concubine, and became a brother-in-law with the prince.

Just thinking about it, I felt that someone was pulling his sleeve, and the sixteenth elder brother looked back and saw that it was the seventeenth elder brother with a difficult face.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that the seventeenth elder brother hesitated for a long time and did not speak, the sixteenth elder brother asked in a low voice, "But what is the difficulty of asking my brother to help you?" ”

The seventeenth elder brother nodded and whispered: "The younger brother wants to ask the sixteenth brother to talk to the princess and ask her to take care of the younger brother's mother." Although E-Niang is fine, she doesn't think about eating and drinking, so she relies on ginseng soup to recuperate. Those people in the hospital are the most snobbish, and those who are sent to Eniang are not those who have lost their effectiveness for a long time; It's just some ginseng, and after boiling for a long time, there is no ginseng flavor! ”

Hearing this, the sixteenth elder brother was annoyed, frowned, and said: "These dog slaves, they are not things, don't say anything else, the noble person is the biological mother of the seventeenth brother, they dare to be so lazy!" If it doesn't work anymore, the seventeenth brother, let's go to the Tai Hospital and have fun, but the elder brother wants to see how big they are! ”

The seventeenth elder brother hurriedly shook his head: "Sixteenth brother, don't!" My mother has always been timid, if my brother really does such a thing, I am afraid that he will cry and wipe his tears for the rest of the day! ”

As he spoke, he heard the sound of a whip opening the way, and Kangxi arrived.

The princes were in front of the emperor, reserved a seat for the crown prince, and then divided the left and right according to the year. Seeing that the crown prince did not come with the imperial father, some people were secretly happy in their hearts, some people were very confused, and some people "didn't care about themselves".

Kangxi sat down, and the princes asked for a salute. After getting up, everyone listened to Kangxi: "Crown Prince Yinren, since his reinstatement, his madness has not been eliminated, and he has lost people's hearts. The ancestors have a great career, and they must not be entrusted to this person. I have heard of the Queen Mother, and I will detain Yinren and guard her. I will issue another edict to the king's ministers! ”

(To be continued)