Chapter 1230: Traveling again in the old place

Because he was worried about Li, Cao Yong didn't have the mood to celebrate the New Year.

Now, he just wants to wait for the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to meet the rich salt merchants in Jiangnan, and then return to Beijing.

As for the "brethrow of bandits" in Jiangnan, Cao Yong was not worried.

Under the influence of more than a thousand years of Confucian culture, the people have a kind of fear of those in power.

Even if they claim to be orthodox Han people and regard the Qing court as a foreign race, they dare not fight easily.

No one dares to rebel until natural disasters and man-made disasters are at a desperate situation.

Li Wei returned to Hangzhou. As the New Year is approaching, even if there is nothing wrong in the yamen, favors in the officialdom are inevitable.

Li Wei was extremely tough about Wan Fu's involvement in taking the children of officials and gentry in Jiangning.

Wan Fu passed the message, saying that life was exchanged for life, and Li Wei reigned the other person by his own way, and replied to the officials and gentry: "It's ridiculous to change three, it's too irrelevant, you have to change ten. Don't worry, those thieves really dare to joke with the safety of all the young masters. There are more than a hundred bandits in the prison in the north of the city to pay their lives, so you won't be wronged for nothing."

Everyone was stunned. If the hostage-hijacked nephew was killed, what if he killed ten mud legs?

Even though he was angry, Li Weiren had already left Jiangning and had no place to make any reason.

Li Wei was so relaxed because most of these gentry were not innocent. They either had children working in the yamen, or infiltrated the government office through various means, taking charge of lawsuits and interfering in local government affairs.

Although they are not thieves, few of them are good things.

It was related to Wei Wenying, but Cao Yong couldn't feel relaxed. With Li Wei's move, although Wan Fu would not kill all the gentry's children, if he was angry and killed the chicken and scared the monkey, he would not have been unlucky for any child.

How could Cao Yong allow Wei Wenying to experience this risk?

He sent someone to find Wei Ren and handed him five thousand taels of silver notes: "Why will Lord Li be held hostage by the bandits on behalf of the court to suppress bandits? No matter what others are, Wenying has to rely on you as your uncle to clear it."

Wei Ren could not accept it, and sent it out with the hot potato. He waved his hand again and said, "Xiaomin has money. The money is ready. He has already handed someone over there and redeems the person. Please rest assured."

Cao Yong was stunned when he heard this.

He remembered clearly before that Wei Ren mentioned that the reason why he was inconvenient to redeem people was because he was afraid that he would wear the hat of "breach bandit" and bury the family.

Cao Yong has already made a draft, how can he promise Wei Ren to rest?

Li Wei and Cao Song were there in Jiangnan, and it was more than enough to protect the Wei family. As long as he was willing to believe this.

Unexpectedly, Wei Ren had already decided to redeem himself.

Such courage made Cao Yong look at him sideways.

Wei Ren seemed to see Cao Yong's doubts and smiled bitterly: "What else can I do? The fifth brother's blood is the only one who stays in Jiangning. If I can't protect him, I will not be ashamed to see Lao Wu..." At the end of his speech, his eyes were red.

When Cao Yong saw him showing despair, he felt something was wrong and said, "Are you planning to redeem Wenying alone?"

The three sons and young sons of Wei Ren were kidnapped with Wenying.

Wei Ren's face turned pale, nodded, and said with his trembling lips: "With Lord Li's words, they will probably be safe."

Even if he couldn't bear to let him go, he couldn't take risks with his family.

Cao Yong sighed in his heart, and his disgust towards Wei Ren was reduced a little.

The reason why he was anxious to redeem Wenying was probably the same as Cao Yong thought of it, for fear that Wan Fu would vent his anger and kill people after listening to Li Wei's words.

It is really not easy to redeem the safekeeping of the nephew and put the biological child in danger.

"If you can communicate with me, you can redeem them all, and there is no need to be so troublesome. With Lord Li's threat, for Wan Fu, these gentry children may be hot potatoes. If you go to redeem them, it will be a step for them. I will protect you from Lord Li." Cao Yong thought for a while and said.

After hearing this, Wei Ren was overjoyed and hurriedly got up to thank him.

He sent someone to see Wei Ren away, and Cao Yong collected the silver notes. He was really curious about the "Wan Fu".

That ring...

At this moment, Cao Song came in and was wearing clothes to go out.

"Brother, even if you don't go out for a drink, you won't be able to stay in the house. Let's go out for a walk." Cao Song said with a little excitement: "If you don't go to the next place, the Weaving Mansion will always go over and take a look."

"Weaving Mansion..." Cao Yong raised his eyebrows, and was really moved: "I have said hello, it's not good to come directly to the door."

He had already had the intention to go back and take a look, and Cao Song's proposal was exactly what she thought.

Since the Cao family left Jiangnan, Jiangning Weaving has changed three people. The first one is an old man from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who ascended the throne until Yongzheng ascended the throne; the second one is Nian Gengyao's servant, who was later questioned after Nian Gengyao's fall; the third one is Gao Ban, the current Weaving Weaving Weaving Heaving, which has been in office for less than a year.

Although the Gao family is also a family of the Internal Affairs Office, they do not have much friendship with the Cao family.

"I have been thinking about this for a long time, so I sent the post three days in advance. Don't worry, brother." Cao Song returned loudly.

Cao Yong also wanted to go back and take a look, so he changed into a cloak and went out with Cao Song.

Because he received the post, Gao Ban was already prepared for the visit of the Cao brothers.

He is in his forties, not tall, and has deep head-up patterns on his forehead, which looks a bit unsatisfactory.

Before coming to Jiangning, he worked as a worker in the Office of the Interior.

To be honest, Cao Yong has also been his immediate boss.

Because of this relationship, Gao Ban was also very respectful to the Cao Yong brothers.

It’s not difficult to accompany you to see the old house, so Gao Ban handled it very well.

More than ten years have passed, and the weaving house has changed drastically.

The inside is the same as the outside, and the magnificence of the past is nothing like the past, and the houses and courtyards are extremely dilapidated. Among them, the yard where the old lady was alive was the most dilapidated.

This place was built according to the regulations of the first-rank official house. Even if the imperial plaque was taken by the Cao family, these three woven later were not qualified to place female relatives here.

The upper room was empty, there were debris piled up in the corner of the yard, and the pool in the yard was dry.

Standing in this yard, Cao Song remembered the initial panic and the love of the old lady, and couldn't tell what he felt.

Gao Ban felt a little embarrassed. Although the dilapidated yard had little to do with him, he still felt ashamed.

It would have been great if someone had to clean up earlier. This was the place where the three generations of the Cao family lived. If their brothers took their anger out of this, wouldn't they be wronged?

The Cao family brothers are not petty people, especially Cao Yong, who are still unhappy to bother others.

He felt very grateful when he saw the yard's recent cleaning.

After leaving the old lady's yard before her lifetime, Gao Ban took the Cao brothers to the east garden.

It is warm in Jiangning. Although it is the cold winter month, the garden is still dotted with a lot of green.

Cao Yong's vision naturally paid special attention to the stones written by the Holy Ancestor.

The stone stood firmly, looking at the posture, it could not be overwhelmed even if it was windy or rainy.

Cao Yong narrowed his eyes. Should this thing be dug out? What should I do if I dig out?

Seeing Cao Yong "concentrated" worshipping the imperial pen of the ancestor, Gao Ban struggled a little.

He was really afraid that Cao Yong would like to take advantage of this stone and ask him for it.

Giving or not giving is both wrong.

This stone is the treasure left by the Holy Ancestor during his southern tour. If the Cao family seized the time given, it would seem reasonable to say that it was given to the Cao family.

Cao Song was beside him, but he was eager to try. It was just a stone less than three feet away, and it didn't matter much. He really wanted to lift it up and stumble.

At this moment, Cao Yong had already taken a few steps and headed for the two magnolia flowers not far ahead.

Gao Ban breathed a sigh of relief.

After the Cao brothers came out of the garden, they returned to the General's Mansion first...

Cao Yong didn't say anything, Cao Song thought he was sad to go back to his former residence and advised: "It's just an empty house. What's the point of thinking? If you think it's good, let's build a manufacturing house in the capital in the future."

Cao Song's words were full of ambitions.

Cao Yong couldn't help but smile.

General's Mansion, front yard guest room.

Wei Hei had a gloomy face and looked at Cao Jia with a little inquiry.

Cao Jia was not moving as a mountain, holding only a cup of tea and plucking the tea leaves inside with a cover bowl.

"In three days, the master went there twice... Is it because of the orders from the master, or something else? Old Wei was just about to ask for advice." Wei Hei said slowly.

Cao Jia was finally moved, looked at Wei Ren and asked a little bit of exploration: "Manager Wei wants to interrogate me?"

Wei Hei shook his head and said, "I dare not, I am just worried that the adults are not familiar with Jiangning."

Cao Jia sneered: "Then what manager Wei means, no matter where I go, I will always keep you?"

Wei Hei couldn't tell Cao Jia, so he didn't show off his words, but instead said straight to the point: "Great worship, do you have an old friend with Hongmen?"

Cao Jia looked at Wei Hei deeply, nodded slowly, and said, "I have seen Lord Wanfo..."

Both of them are from the world, not as curves as others. From this day on, Wei Hei has been attached to Cao Jia.

Capital City, Cao Mansion.

Although it was about to be New Year's Eve, Cao Yong was not here, Li was short-sighted, and the atmosphere in the Cao family was also very bad.

After finishing the housework, Chu Yu went to Lanyuan to accompany Li. He listened to Li's nagging about ignorant things when he was a child, how to make Gao Taijun angry or something.

When talking about Gao Taijun, Li must have cried...

Chu Yu had to comfort him, so that Li could calm down.

In order to divert my mother-in-law's attention, Chu Yu said: "There is another thing to discuss with the old lady. I haven't let anyone go for several years. Should I let someone go out before the New Year? Qingmei, Qinggui, and a few in our yard are all ages."

After hearing this, Li was concerned and said, "The two Xiushou and Xiyan here are still old... Is there any suitable candidate? I have agreed to choose a good marriage for these two girls..."
Chapter completed!