Chapter 996 Missing Case

The next day, Cao Yong and Chu Yu were about to enter the palace, and the couple got up early.

I didn't feel anything yesterday. When I woke up, I felt my bones all over my body sore. Cao Yong rubbed his waist and asked Chu Yu to find a box of tiger bone paste, baked two pieces of plaster, and put them on his waist and eyes, and then he felt better.

Cao Yong looked at the box of tiger bone ointment and remembered his father-in-law, the Seventh Prince.

The Seventh Prince was originally staying at Changchun Garden, but he also returned to the palace to mourn his filial piety yesterday afternoon. His legs and feet were inconvenient, so he was afraid he was more tired than ordinary people.

And the Thirteenth Prince...

The tiger bone paste in Cao Yong's family is a man of Tongrentang and is very useful.

Speaking of tiger bone paste, it is not a rare thing, but a common plaster. It can be sold in a slightly larger pharmacy in the capital. However, this tiger bone is hard to find. Most of the fish-like beads on the market are made of leopard bones, yellow pine bones, and even beef leg bones.

Even if there is an occasional real tiger bone paste, it is mostly made of old tigers or bones from sick tigers. The efficacy of the medicine cannot be verified.

Anyway, no matter whether it is true or not, the tiger bone paste on the market is mostly mixed with musk and borneol is expensive, which is enough to be intimidating.

It is rare that Tongrentang acquired a top-notch tiger bone in the autumn, which is the complete skeleton of adult male tigers hunted by hunters in the mountains.

Tongrentang of the Lejia family is not as famous as later generations, but Cao Yong was convinced. When he was working in the Internal Affairs Office, he once brought Lejia, making Lejia a supplier of raw medicine at the Internal Affairs Office pharmacy.

The head of the Le family is grateful to Cao Yong for this kindness. During the years, he has brought his nephews to Cao’s mansion to pay tribute to Cao Yong.

Cao Yong reciprocated his favor and introduced the Le family's father and son to the Sixteenth Prince, which was to find a big backer for the Le family in the Internal Affairs Office.

When making tiger bone ointment, the Le family left their tibia and skull and made several boxes to the Cao family. Taking into account Mrs. Cao Yong's youthfulness, the musk was not good for the offspring, so they gave it up and added a few more gentle medicinal materials to neutralize the medicinal properties of the tiger bones and cover the fishy smell of the tiger bones.

After making it, I put it in a jade box the size of a palm, but I only got four boxes.

It was delivered a few days ago. Cao Yong originally planned to send someone to send two boxes to the Thirteenth Prince, but then rushed to Tongzhou to investigate the Guan Cang, and then went to Nanyuan. After busy all the way, he forgot about this.

Thinking about it today, the Thirteenth Prince can’t give it to him.

How to get up to the 13th Prince is the most taboo when it is necessary.

The fourth prince is willing to respect the Thirteenth prince, but may not be willing to meet the Thirteenth prince with a private minister.

"Look for two boxes to come out and give my father-in-law a box... I'll find a chance to give the Sixteenth Master..." Cao Yong said.

Chu Yu was a little surprised when he heard this: "Don't the prince think it's good to use it? Let's not leave a box?"

Earlier, Cao Yongti mentioned to her, saying that he would give half of it to the Thirteenth Prince.

Cao Yong said: "Thirteenth Master, I won't send it to you for now... The remaining two boxes are left, so we can use them ourselves..."

Chu Yu already knew that the Thirteenth Prince was appointed as the prince and appointed him as one of the ministers of the Prime Minister. After hearing her husband's words, he thought of the key, so he didn't ask much questions.

After a while, the couple spent breakfast and went to Lanyuan to pay their respects.

Mrs. Li had already gotten up and sat in front of the Buddha's silhouette and recited the Diamond Sutra. It was not until her son and wife came in that she put down the Buddhist beads in her hand.

She is a lifelong wife and wants to mourn the Emperor Daxing, take off makeup and cut her hair, and keep her body clean.

I don’t know if she really thinks up, but she looks better than yesterday.

She asked a few questions, knowing that Cao Yong was just crying in the morning, afternoon, and evening, and then returned to the office of the Ministry of Revenue. She didn't say much, so she turned around and asked Chu Yu, saying, "Tianyou, his father, can still leave the palace, you have to stay in the palace all day, right?"

Chu Yu nodded and said, "It should be true, it's all female family members, and there are many places to avoid taboos, so it's not easy to toss three times a day."

Li nodded, took out two purses, and handed them to Chu Yu and said, "This is a pack of malt sugar and a pack of fruits. Take it with you. Fill it when you are hungry, so as not to hurt your stomach."

Chu Yu didn't expect her mother-in-law to be so considerate and took it with a little gratitude.

Li looked at his son warmly, and his wife said, "Leave the family affairs to me, don't worry. Just remember to cherish yourself. As cold as the cold land is cold today, if you are sick, you will suffer."

Cao Yong and Chu Yu agreed, and said a few more gossips with Li before leaving the palace and entering the palace.

The early sacrifice was at Mao (six o'clock), and the process was much easier than when the funeral was yesterday. Cao Yong finished his errand in just two quarters of an hour.

If it is ordinary, the foreign ministers will search their bodies when they enter the palace, and they will not bring prohibited items.

In the past two days, many officials from the capital entered the palace, so the search became vague. As Cao Yong was the one who searched the guards, it was just a formality. No one would turn his eyes over and turn them over.

Therefore, he directly put a small box of tiger bone drafts in his arms, finished the early sacrifice, and went directly outside the prince's office to wait for the sixteenth prince.

When Cao Yong saw the Sixteenth Prince come back, he was shocked.

The Sixteenth Prince's face was pale, his eyes were covered in blood, his chin was covered with stubble, his eyes were hunched over, and his eyes were black.

Cao Yong knew that people's customs are more important than red weddings, especially the royal family.

"Sixteenth Master should be a little more at ease. This great funeral is still long, so I have to endure it." Cao Yong couldn't help but comfort him.

The sixteenth prince squeezed out a little bitter smile, sighed, and said, "Furuo, since he is here, he will come into the house and talk."

Seeing that his expression was strange, Cao Yong was surprised in his heart and followed him into the prince's office.

Zhao Feng and a few eunuchs were waiting. When the Sixteenth Prince came back, he brought three small bowls. One bowl was filled with thick black medicine juice and two bowls were steaming ginger soup.

Zhao Feng served the Sixteenth Prince for many years and was familiar with Cao Yong, so he said to the Sixteenth Prince: "Since Master Cao is here, I will take the initiative and send someone an extra bowl of ginger soup."

The sixteenth prince drank the medicine, then drank the ginger soup, and smiled at Zhao Feng and scolded: "You are smart and you are just stingy, are you so stingy, can't bear to give up a bowl of ginger soup?"

Zhao Feng just laughed and brought the remaining bowl of ginger soup with his own hands and delivered it to Cao Yong.

Cao Yong took it and said, "I'll worry about me. Next time I leave the palace, I'll invite you to eat the swallow wing mat."

Eunuchs are different from ordinary people and have some hobbies to vent their dissatisfaction.

Wei Zhu loves money, but Zhao Feng is a foodie. If he gets grace and leaves the palace, he will wear regular clothes and stay in the restaurant in Sijiu City.

After hearing Cao Yong's words, he said with a shy face: "If Master Cao really loves me, Yan Chi Shi will be spared. I will give me two cups of 'Five Blessings' in the mansion to satisfy my cravings."

"What's the difficulty? You can ask someone to take it except for the submission. Not to mention two cups, even two jars will have yours." Cao Yong said.

After hearing this, Zhao Feng hurriedly said thank you.

Before Cao Yong said anything, the sixteenth prince waved his hand and said to Zhao Feng: "Go out and take care of me and ask me to be calm for a while."

Seeing this, Zhao Feng knew that the Sixteenth Prince was going to talk to Cao Yong, so he responded and took the eunuch down.

Only Cao Yong and the Sixteenth Prince were left in the room. The Sixteenth Prince stood up and walked to Cao Yong in two steps, not caring about the top and bottom of the head, and sat down.

Seeing that his face was heavy, Cao Yong became nervous.

"Furuo, I'm in a mess now and want to discuss kindness with you." The sixteenth prince lowered his voice and said sideways in Cao Yong's ear.

Cao Yong couldn't help but be stunned, and felt his back stiff. He turned his head and said softly: "Master Sixteenth... Could there be something wrong with it..."

He felt tightly in his heart, and he was holding the words to his mouth, and he didn't dare to ask. If it was involved in royal secrets, the more he knew, the faster he would die.

What is the most worrying thing about the new emperor of Daxing now? It is just whether the emperor of Daxing "deadly died" and whether the new emperor ascended the throne is "righteous".

Things have developed to the present. Although the Fourth Prince has not ascended the throne, he has now organized the national funeral as the heir emperor. Tomorrow, the emperor's will be promulgated to the world and ascend to the throne in a few days.

Even if the Sixteenth Prince finds something inappropriate now, the safest way is to rot in his stomach, so as to avoid being told and causing trouble.

Seeing that Cao Yong had a wrong thought, the sixteenth prince shook his head and said, "It's not a major national event, it's related to the fifteenth brother."

This was the first time Cao Yong heard about it, and he said carefully: "Is the Sixteenth Master worried that the Fifteenth Master will be implicated by the Third Master and the Fourth Master? Although the Fifteenth Master has something to do with those two, he is a subordinate after all. Even if the Fourth Master wants to take his anger, he should not be too strict."

When the sixteenth prince heard this, his face became pale and his eyes were filled with anxiety, saying, "I'm afraid it's not only implicated! The day before yesterday, the fifteenth brother was reported to have been sick, and then the fifteenth brother disappeared... At the same time, there was also the eunuch Wei Zhu, the chief eunuch in the Qianqing Palace. Now, Wei Zhu is well filial to the Qianqing Palace, while the fifteenth brother is 'ill' and is 'reated' in Changchun Garden... I have asked someone to check it, and he is not in Changchun Garden at all."

Cao Yong was surprised when he heard this.

The fifteenth prince is not always visible, but Cao Yong really couldn't imagine what role he would play in the critical moment before Kangxi's death.

However, with the temper of the fourth prince, even the third prince, who has always been against tit, was awarded the title of Prime Minister at this time. If the fifteenth prince had no mistakes, he would not bear the reputation of "treating brothers and sisters" and attack the fifteenth prince.

"Sixteenth Master, please be careful not to be impatient." Cao Yong calmed down and said: "Now, what's going on is still speculating, and he took action rashly, which made the Fourth Master angry."

"I can wait, but my 15th sister-in-law can't wait. She has cried to her mother. If it weren't for the strict guards of Yonghe Palace, she would have asked the Empress Dowager." The Sixteenth Prince frowned and said, "Now the Empress Dowager and the Fourth Brother are froze. I know about the Fifteenth Brother, I'm afraid I'll take the opportunity to have another chance. The one who is unlucky at that time will be the Fifteenth Brother."

Cao Yong listened carefully and said, "What did that concubine say?"

The sixteenth prince sighed and said, "My mother's meaning is the same as Furuo. She warned me not to act rashly and let me wait and see... Not to mention the close relatives, I have no reason to watch... Even in the eyes of others, my brothers and sisters are both prosperous and loss..."

Speaking of this, his face showed a gloomy look and said, "I am a man, so I'm not afraid of anything. But my mother and the concubine will suffer in the future... If I were granted a title in the early years, it would be fine if I had a title, and I had a property to guard it, and there was a place to be catered. The new emperor would not like it, so I would stay away from the court... I and the fifteenth brother didn't even have a title, and it was time to open the palace again..."

It seems that in addition to the "whereabouts of the fifteenth prince", his anxiety is also pessimistic about his future.

When Cao Yong heard that the fifteenth prince was "missed", his first feeling was that he had gone to the northwest with a secret order? Then he felt that something was wrong, and this involved Wei Zhu.

Wei Zhu was able to stay in the Qing Dynasty to keep mourning, which shows that even if he was not the Fourth Prince, he had never done anything that would harm the interests of the Fourth Prince.

The two of them disappeared at the same time, one of them was "missed" and the other appeared. It is not a matter of the Sixteenth Prince's concern, but ninety-ninety percent of the fifteenth Prince fell into the hands of the Fourth Prince.

If it weren't for some private matter, the Fourth Prince wouldn't have let the Fifteenth Prince go to the coffin to pay a sacrifice.

Before Kangxi's death, the privacy involved was probably something that could never be spoken to in this life.

Even if the Fourth Prince doesn't kill the Fifteenth Prince to silence him, he will probably not let him appear in front of others easily.

The Sixteenth Prince is not a fool. He should be able to think of what Cao Yong can think of, so he is so anxious.

Cao Yong thought for a while and asked, "Master Sixteen, what do you want to do?"

The Sixteenth Prince was very decadent and said, "If there is a way, I will not worry. After thinking about it, there is no feasible way. If it really doesn't work, I can only ask the Thirteenth Brother and ask him to plead with the Fourth Brother."

After hearing this, Cao Yong shook his head and said, "No! The Thirteenth Master suddenly showed up, and it seemed as if he was walking on thin ice. If he was not at all, he would be charged with the crime of "being favored and being charmed"..."

The Sixteenth Prince was already red in his eyes and said, "Although I blame the fifteenth Brother for being troubled, I can't stand by and watch at this time..."

Cao Yong frowned and pondered for a moment, and said, "Maybe the Sixteenth Master is thinking about it. If you say you offend the Fourth Master, the Third Master, the Ninth Master, and the Fourteenth Master, you can all be called the Fourth Master's mortal enemy. Even if the Fourth Master wants to have an attack, you will not use the Fifteenth Master as a raft. Even if the Fifteenth Master is in the hands of the Fourth Master, it will not be a big deal... If he is really cruel and does not care about his reputation, he will not arrange for the Fifteenth Prince to call him sick... Now that he still lets the Fifteenth Prince live, it is not a huge sin... The Concubine is right, and the Sixteenth Master should just wait and see. Even if the Fourth Master wants to vent his early resentment, there are still big men in front of him, and it is not the turn of the Fifteenth Master..."

When the sixteenth prince heard Cao Yong say this, he felt a little hope, looked at him with a beacon and said, "Really?"

Cao Yong thought about the history he knew. According to past history, the Fourth Prince vented his resentment, but only vented it on the Eighth Prince and the Ninth Prince. The other princes seemed to have nothing to do with it. Now the Eighth Prince died early and did not have the chance to restrain the Fourth Prince after he came to power. The Ninth Prince's fate has become unpredictable. The Fifteenth Prince's weight is not as good as the Ninth Prince.

"Don't worry, Master Sixteenth, after thinking about it, the safety of Prince Fifteenth is not a problem at the moment..." Speaking of this, Cao Yong said seriously: "It's just Master Sixteenth, you must remember that you are not only Master Fifteenth, but also the Emperor Daxing, all brothers and brothers of Master Sixteenth. In the future, if you prosper and lose both of them, Master Sixteenth, please be careful!"

The Sixteenth Prince was stunned by the words. After a while, he realized Cao Yong’s intention and said helplessly: “In the future, can we not be casual in our brothers’ interactions?”

"If the Sixteenth Master is still thinking about the concubine and the concubine, I'm afraid I have to remember this." Cao Yong said bluntly.

With such a storm, even if the fifteenth prince does not die, he will lose his holy heart. The sixteenth prince is too close to him, which will only make the fourth prince disgusted. Although they are from their compatriots, there are examples of the fourth prince and the fourteenth prince. Even if they are a little distant, the fourth prince will not make the fourth prince feel that the sixteenth prince is weak and ungrateful. On the contrary, if he gets closer, he should be suspicious of the sixteenth prince.
Chapter completed!