Chapter 100 Peach Garden (Part 1)

On November 26, 2018, the sage went to visit the temporary palace and Xiaoling. He ordered the Crown Prince Yinreng, the fifth prince Yinqi, the seventh prince Yinyou, the eighth prince Yinsi, the thirteenth prince Yinxiang, the fifteenth prince Yinzhen, and the sixteenth prince Yinlu to follow him. On that day, he started his journey in Changchun Garden.

Cao Yong ushered in the long-awaited holiday.

On the 27th day, Cao Yong finally slept in a slack sleep. In fact, the so-called laziness is only two hours later than when I went to school on weekdays. In modern times, it is seven o'clock to get up. After breakfast, Cao Yong played boxing, went to the study to read for a while, thinking that it would be too comfortable to live like this.

When Zhuangxi went out to listen to books, Cao Yong was idle and followed him. After hearing a period of the Three Kingdoms, he went to Zhengyangmen to cut the beef sauce from Fushunzhai as usual.

At Zhengyang Gate, Cao Yong met Ning Chun. Seeing Ning Chun's followers carrying things in large bags and small bags, Cao Yong couldn't help but laugh and joked with Ning Chun: "Brother Jingming is going to move?"

Ning Chun slapped his legs and smiled, "It's true that he is a brother. He is right. He is going to move!"

Cao Yong was stunned: "Is he really moving?"

Ning Chun came over and whispered: "I didn't find a good house in the city at the beginning, so I temporarily placed Qiu Niang outside the city. I was always afraid that something was beyond my reach here, so I kept sending people to search for it. Now that I can do it, I let her move here."

Cao Yong nodded: "It's better to be safer in the city."

"No!" Ning Chun patted his shoulder: "The house is still a little messy now, I will clean up in the next day or two. Looking back, you and Yongqing are coming to have a drink! Brother knows that you are not good at Tang Jiaojiao, and this time I will make you a stunning one..."

Cao Yong hurriedly said, "Stop, brother, if you do this, I won't dare to come to the door anymore!"

Ning Chun laughed: "You have to come and recognize the door, so I will ask you to take care of you in the future! Since I don't like that, let's go back to the suburbs of Beijing to hunt? I thought it would be only two days - the 30th day or the first day of the twelfth lunar month. Well, I'll be in front of Laba anyway, and go hunting, how about it?"

Cao Yong smiled and said, "It's great, I'm also idle!" As he said, he talked about the fact that the Sixteenth Prince took over and got a holiday.

Ning Chun was overjoyed when he heard this, and the two agreed to go hunting together.

Because he was buying something for his family today, it was inconvenient to invite Cao Yong to drink, Ning Chun sued and left in a hurry. Cao Yong and Zhuangxi bought beef and returned home on their own.

*

Cao Mansion, Kuiyuan.

Cao Yong went back to the room to change his clothes. When he saw Amethyst coming, he casually said, "I cut the beef from Fushunzhai and change it under the kitchen. I can bring it over in a while."

Zijing smiled and said, "The uncle has been bothering, but he doesn't have to buy it next time! Even Xiantao is always tired of eating it like this!"

Cao Yong nodded: "That's the case, but it's rare that you praise me. You don't eat it every day. I'll say it if you're so tired of it!"

Zi Jing smiled and asked again, "Uncle, the first day of the twelfth lunar month is the birthday of the third girl, so we have to start preparing now. Although it is not the whole birthday, it is the first time I have spent in Beijing. It is unusual. There is no precedent for us here, so we have to make an idea first."

Cao Yong patted his forehead: "I actually forgot! Ping'er is not young anymore, so he has to do a serious act. Well, it's Ping'er's birthday. Let's ask Ping'er what she means to see if she wants to watch a show or what she wants!"

The two of them came to the bamboo courtyard and saw that Cao Song was here after school. They sat cross-legged at the kang table, holding a pair of ebony three-inlaid silver chopsticks, while eating beef, shaking their heads and talking to Cao Yi.

Seeing Cao Yong and Amethyst came in, Cao Song hurriedly put down his chopsticks and stood up to say hello. Cao Yong sat down on the edge of the kang beside him and smiled and said, "Did you eat it? You'll eat it first?"

Cao Song smiled embarrassedly: "I'm hungry, my third sister asked me to eat. I'll let Yuchan bring my portion to my third sister." As he said that, he called the maid to come over.

Cao Yi waved his hand and asked Amethyst to sit down while sending the maid off, pretending to be angry: "Where did you pay it back? Is there still a few slices of beef left?"

Cao Yong said, "If the second brother is willing to do it, wait a few days before your third sister's birthday, prepare a gift with all his heart!"

Cao Song nodded repeatedly and asked Cao Yi what he liked, which means that he would buy it back after school.

Cao Yi smiled and said, "Brother is making a joke, you should take it seriously!"

Cao Yong said: "It's not a joke. We are here to make a total of your birthday. The first day of the New Year is your birthday. You need to make the decision. Should we hire a opera team or..."

Before Cao Yong finished speaking, Cao Song shouted first: "Call the opera troupe, the opera troupe! You need the kind of person who can make eighteen falls in one breath!"

Cao Yong patted his head: "This time I have to listen to Ping'er. I will give you a birthday in the first lunar month and then you will be there."

Cao Yi shook his head and said, "It's just a birthday. There are only three of us in the mansion. There is no need to invite relatives to eat and drink. There is no need to invite any opera troupe. It's better to have a quiet meal."

Cao Song's little face collapsed: "Isn't that the same as usual?" Cao Yi smiled without saying a word.

Cao Yong suddenly remembered the village on the Xiaotangshan Hot Spring in Changping. In April, he ordered the housekeeper He Maocai to go to build a house. When he came back from the grassland in September, the village had been built there. However, Cao Yong had been busy for the past two months and had no time to go to see it. Now he thought that the village over the past few days should be equipped with all kinds of facilities, and he was idle. Since Cao Yi was unwilling to have a birthday at home, it would be better to go out for a family vacation!

Cao Yong raised the idea of ​​staying in the village for two days, and immediately received a warm response from Cao Yi and Cao Song.

When I heard that I was going to go for a few days and I could take leave without going to class, Cao Song was so happy that the martial artist almost went to school on the kang and made everyone laugh.

After the brother and sister reached an agreement, they began to discuss the details of the trip.

"Brother, can Ping'er invite Baoya Gege and Sister Yongjia to go together?" Cao Yi asked.

Cao Yong nodded: "Your birthday, you can just decide which guest you want. I just want to tell you Sister Amethyst that we can arrange the yard there in advance."

Cao Yong thought about meeting Ning Chun and made an appointment to go hunting in the past few days. Since he was going out for vacation, it would be better to call a few more people to make it lively. There are barren mountains near Xiaotang Mountain, so you can also hunt. But after all, it was his sister's birthday party, so he still asked Cao Yi for his opinion. Cao Yi naturally would not object.

Cao Song listened, and widened his eyes and asked if he could take his friends. Cao Yi smiled and said of course. Cao Song happily began to count the names of Fengde and Fengche's friends who had just settled in the school.

Cao Yong smiled and said, "I'll invite you your fake. Where can Fengde and others have fake?"

Cao Song thought about it, so he couldn't help but pout and muttered, "Brother invites friends, and the third sister invites friends, but I have no friends to invite..." He hugged his head for a while, then suddenly raised his head and said happily: "I understand, I'll invite Brother Suhbaru and Brother Seshtu!"

Cao Yong patted him on the shoulder: "Suhbaru is an imperial guard and has long been guarding the sages of the Holy Governorth; but Seshtu is a foreign guard and does not follow the escort. You can ask him about his rest days and ask him to go together."

*

Cao Mansion, Kuiyuan.

Cao Yong felt particularly comfortable thinking about the hot spring trip that was about to begin. Seeing that Zijing asked the little maid to help him pack his bags, but he was still busy inside and out, he called her to stop him and ask her not to worry about this and pack her own luggage. He had planned this way, and Zijing was tired for more than half a year, so everyone went out together to let her take a good rest.

Zi Jing shook her head and said, "It's time to enter the twelfth lunar month. The affairs of the mansion are busy. Where can I have time? It's not enough for me to stay at home. The old man has a heavy school class every day, but it's the only thing he can do to rest well in the past few days."

Cao Yong knew that she was thinking about the mansion here, so he deliberately said, "Of course, you can't live without you at home. I just don't know if the mansion there can be a happy life. I invited Baoya, the lady from the Earl's Mansion, my friends, and even my second brother invited guests. After all, it was outside the city and a new mansion. I was afraid that there would be something wrong and make people laugh at it."

After hearing this, Zi Jing was worried and frowned slightly, "It's true. I was thinking about vain Zhou before. Then I should take someone over here first. I always have to look good on the face of the third girl!"

Cao Yong replied: "Well, bring more staff. Uncle Zhong is here, so it's enough to leave only those who look at the yard!"

*

The next day, the Bold Earl's Mansion was Yi Jing's residence.

This is Yongjia's small courtyard, located in the northwest of the Earl's Mansion, next to the garden next to it.

When I went to the west room, Yongjia asked someone to pick up some snacks and entertained Cao Yi and Baoya who visited the door: "This is based on the practices that were passed down from the palace. Although it is not strange, it tastes good. Please try it!"

Baoya leaned over and looked at Cao Yi, "Sister, this yellow one is crispy with golden silk and salty taste. You will definitely like it if you eat a piece!"

Baoya's maid Lingque had already been there, and Cao Yi's maid Chunya helped the two masters clean up. Cao Yi picked up a snack as big as a thumb as a dim sum, put it to his mouth and bit it, and smiled and praised: "It's really good!"

After eating, Cao Yi wiped his mouth with a veil and looked at Yongjia's injured arm: "How is Sister Yongjia's injury?"

Yongjia replied: "I have been raising it for more than a month and I have already gotten better! But the doctor is more cautious and let me pay attention for a while!"

When Baoya heard this, she immediately became happy: "It's fine, it's fine, it's fine, let's go to the hot spring together!"

"What hot spring?" Yongjia heard a little strange.

"The third sister's house has a village in Changping. I heard that there is a hot spring! Cao Yong has been on holiday these days and has been celebrating the second day of his third sister's birthday. Everyone agreed to go to Changping Zhuangzi to have fun. Today I came here to invite Sister Yongjia!" Baoya said happily.

When Yongjia heard this, his face froze, he lowered his head slightly, and there was no response.

Baoya didn't realize Yongjia's strangeness and continued, "I plan to stay there for three or two days, and I have to prepare for the luggage and changing clothes in the past two days!"

Cao Yi saw Yongjia's expression and was slightly surprised. He didn't understand why Yongjia avoided suspicion since he came back from the Cao family. It would be fine now that she was invited out, but if she touched the Cao family, she would never respond.

*

Earl's Mansion, inner courtyard, main house.

Wan Jiha's wife, Princess Fuhui, sat on the kang, thinking about Baoya and Cao Yi whom she had just met, one was cute and lively, the other was quiet and charming, and her appearance was the best choice. No matter what origin, they were worthy of their own son Yongsheng. However, Baoya was a royal family girl, and she was always the one who was married in the palace. In recent years, there were few relatives of the royal family girl of the iron-hatted princes like Baoya, and the possibility of staying in Beijing was very small. If there was no accident, she should marry the Mongolian kings. Cao Yi was good at acting, but a concubine was not good at all.

Thinking of this, Princess Fuhui sighed and pinched her fingers to calculate the filial piety period. Twenty-seven months, less than eight months have passed. It was more than a year before her filial piety was over. After all, her husband was very knowledgeable. Thinking of this early on, now, besides the Cao family, Yongjia, an old girl in her twenties, could she find a good match?

Someone circulated a message at the door: "Madam, Xiaoxi is talking back and forth!"

Princess Fuhui was waiting, and after hearing this, he hurriedly said, "Let her come in!"

Xiaoxi is sixteen years old and is Yi Jingju’s maid. Because her mother is the head washed on the main house, she is considered Princess Fuhui’s ears and god.

Princess Fuhui was impatient and asked without waiting for Xiaoxi to speak, "What did Baoya and the others come to find the girl, but they all listened carefully?"

Xiao Xi lowered her body first, and while greeting Princess Fuhui, she replied: "Reply to my wife, Bao Gege and the third lady of the Cao family invited the girl to play in Changping Hot Spring Village! It was said that the eldest son of the Cao family was on vacation, and the third lady's birthday was on the third lady, and they wanted to play in Changping together!"

Princess Fuhui said happily when she heard this: "Hot Spring Village, it sounds like a good place, can the girl agree?"

Xiao Xi shook her head: "The girl didn't say anything for a long time until she was urged by Bao Gege, and she said she would accompany the old lady to eat vegetarian food in the near future, so it was not convenient to go out!"

Princess Fuhui frowned: "This silly girl, who wants her to show her filial piety at this time? No, I have to go over and take a look!" While speaking, she asked someone to prepare some snacks and eat. She left the main hall and planned to go to Yijingju. Just as Yongsheng came back from the outside, she saw her mother rushing and asked, "Mom, where are you going?"

Princess Fuhui loved this son the most. Although he was seventeen or eighteen years old, she was still a child who had not grown up in her eyes. Seeing his ears and nose red, she couldn't help but hold his hand with heartache and covered him hard: "My son, where are you going? Why don't you wear a big sweater? How do you serve me? Turning back, my mother asked someone to hit them on the board!"

When the maids and mothers watched, Yongsheng was very uncomfortable and pulled back his hand: "My son and the Chongbao Beile City from the Shuncheng Palace were running away. They were detained in the mansion all day long, and their bones were stiff!" Speaking of this, he looked at the food box held by the maids: "My mother is going to deliver food to Yongjia?"

Princess Fuhui then remembered that there was something serious about it there and said to her son: "My son, go back to the yard first and change into thick clothes. My mother asked the kitchen to stew wild duck soup to drive away the cold! Baoya and the three girls of the Cao family are here, I'll go and take a look at them!"

"Baoge Gege and the third lady of the Cao family are here?" Yongsheng's eyes lit up: "Mom, I'll go with you. I haven't seen them for half a month!"

If it comes to this, Yongsheng and Baoya are distant cousins, and they have known each other since childhood. Therefore, when he said this, Princess Fuhui did not think much about it, and followed her son to Yijingju with a smile.

Yi Jingju, Baoya and Cao Yi advised him for a while, but Yongjia just didn't let go. Baoya blushed and pouted, looking like he was about to be annoyed. Cao Yi helped her pull her down and said to Yongjia earnestly: "If it's a normal day, I don't dare to bother my sister. It's my little sister's birthday. In the capital, there are only two friends, sister and princess."

Yongjia didn't want to go, but when Cao Yi said this, it was difficult to say anything and refuse. When he was in a dilemma, he heard someone outside the door say, "What's the third lady?" As he spoke, Princess Fuhui and Yongsheng walked in.

Cao Yi and Baoya hurriedly stood up, and Princess Fuhui said with a smile: "I just made a few new snacks in the kitchen. Thinking of your sisters' gossip, I just ate them as snacks." Speaking of this, I looked at the several snacks placed on the kang table, and held the corner of my mouth. Instead, I asked the maid to put them out of the food box, but said to Yongjia: "My mother just heard it outside the door just now. You are so useless as a sister. Even if you are busy now, it will not be a short time for these two days. Since they are the two of them who are here to invite you in a sincere manner, you will be rude if you make excuses!"

Yongjia lowered his head and said nothing. Yongsheng asked Baoya curiously: "Are you here to invite Yongjia? Should you go to incense or go to the restaurant again?"

Seeing that things had turned around, Baoya was in a good mood and replied with a smile: "It's time for my third sister's birthday. We plan to go to the hot spring village in Changping. Do you have time? Let's go together?"

Yongsheng felt that he was depressed by filial piety in the mansion, and the beauty invited him to invite him. He immediately suppressed his joy, made a serious statement on his face, and said, "Since you invite Yongjia, I will accompany her for a while!"

Baoya and Cao Yi both nodded and said goodbye, and then talked about the days of departure and return. Yongsheng heard that he would stay in Changping for a few days, and his face was covered with a smile that could no longer be suppressed.

Yongjia was by his side. Seeing that things had come to this point, there was no reason to refuse. He sighed in his heart, but there was a little joy in his eyes.
Chapter completed!