Chapter 328 Arrival in Beijing

North Beijing, Changchun Garden.

The Holy Lord arrived in Beijing on September 20th. Li Ding, as an inner guard, returned with his entourage from Rehe. It was Li Ding's turn to Xiumu until September 22nd.

It was late autumn and the plants and trees were withering, but Li Ding was thinking about where Cao Yong, Detehei and others had gone.

The next day after the Emperor's residence in Kreuliyasutai, Li Ding disappeared. He inquired in front of his superiors and colleagues, saying that he was going to do his job.

Li Ding felt in his heart that Dethei and Aji did not talk about it, and they were not with Li Ding; Nalanfusen and Heshan were with him. Because of his father's relationship, Nalanfusen has always taken great care of Li Ding.

Because he was determined to investigate, he finally knew some clues and knew that these guards left the camp with Cao Yong.

Li Ding was always a little cautious about Cao Yong. This time, after he knew that Cao Yong was walking with the guards, he thought about their relationship and felt a little angry.

Although he didn't expect to borrow any light from Cao Yong, Cao Yong excluded him from everyone so much, and it was hard to guarantee that he would not have the intention to suppress him.

He still wanted to wait for everyone to come back and say something to Cao Yong. He didn't expect that they had been there for nearly two months and had no news yet. Li Ding was also confused. Where did he send him to work as a member of the service? He wouldn't have gone south to Guangdong and Guangxi?

He was also thinking about whether to ask someone to go to Cao's Mansion to explore the letter. In the north of Changchun Garden, several cavalry rushed to the official road.

The person who came was nothing but Cao Yong, Detehei, Nalanfusen and his party.

From the 15th of August to the Zasaktu Khan Banner, because there were mule carts in the team this time, it was no faster than when they came. Everyone arrived in the summer of Alxa on August 23rd.

The family temple of Ababele, the owner of Alxa Banner, is located in Xiaji Buledu Town, next to the Gri Desert. This is a small temple called Regesumu Guanbu, which is guarded by Chaogetu and his wife. The current host Lama here is named Namukaibala.

Perhaps it was because of the authentic Huang Sect Gelug sect disciple of Dangsang Wangbo, or perhaps it was inspired by him, so Na Mukaibala was extremely polite to everyone.

Abao Beile knew that monks from afar came here and came to visit him in person. Abao inherited the title of banner master and Bele in the 46th year of Kangxi, and had also visited him in recent years. He knew that the Dangsang Wangbo Lama was escorted by several imperial guards, so he was inevitably curious about his identity.

Cao Yong had to take the banner of Zhebuzundanba Living Buddha. Although he did not explain the relationship between the living Buddha and Dangsang Wangbo, the living Buddha was eighty years old and Dangsang Wangbo was less than thirty years old. Abao Beile regarded him as the beloved disciple of the living Buddha and became more respectful.

Dangsang Wangbo was calm in his appearance of honor and disgrace, and calmly accepted Abaobeile's kindness. When Abaobeile tried to keep him preaching in Alxa, he did not respond immediately, but looked at Cao Yong. Seeing that Cao Yong did not object, he nodded lightly.

Cao Yong and others stayed in Alaxa for only one day and went east. It was half a month later when they arrived in Suiyuan City.

Everyone calculated their itinerary. The Holy Lord returned to Beijing every year at the end of September. The dynasty meeting that promulgated the next year's new calendar on the first day of October cannot be delayed. If everyone goes to Rehe, it will take ten days and half a month, so it would be better to go back to Beijing directly. Therefore, everyone passed through Chahar from Suiyuan and entered Zhangjiakou.

After entering the mouth, Cao Yong asked Wei Hei to escort Hang Seng slowly, and he and Detehei and others returned to Beijing first. Hang Seng is the son of the little princess, and the little guy has been over a month old. As Lao Han said, this is a strong child. Although he has been on a mule cart, he is not sick or disaster.

In private, Dethe and others had guessed who Hang Seng's father was, but they couldn't guess it. Originally, Heshan suspected that the old Khan was unpredictable because he saw that his wife was really paying attention, but later he denied the guess.

Outer Mongolia is not as harsh as the Central Plains. If Hang Seng is really the biological son of the Old Khan, how could the Old Khan be malicious?

Cao Yong remembered his son Tianyou, and it was his birthday. He missed him very much, let alone Chu Yu. What is the relationship between who is Hang Seng’s biological father now? Since he was able to rescue him from his mother’s womb, he was destined to be with this child, just think that he had one more son.

In order to avoid future troubles, before entering Beijing, Cao Yong specially begged Nalanfusson and Dethei to keep Hang Seng's life experience secret. If someone asks about it in the future, he will only say that he was an orphan he met on the way.

In the pass, Hang Seng, the unknown widow son of his father, is a "bad breeder" without a father, and is most looked down upon. Everyone knew that Cao Yong's concerns were accepted. Anyway, everyone was doing a secret job this time, so they were not able to make a big fuss, and they would not mention this child even if they had nothing to do.

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After a few days of rapid progress from Zhangjiakou, Cao Yong and others arrived at Changchun Garden this afternoon.

After a glance at each other, no one dared to hand over the signs in such a dusty manner. After entering the garden, I cleaned up the guards' duty room and saw everyone clean up and handed over the signs to see them.

The Holy Lord was in Qingxi Study. Since tomorrow is a small court meeting, there are not many ministers waiting to meet here today, only a few cabinet ministers. After Cao Yong and his friends handed over the sign, a little eunuch told them to see him.

The room was a bit cold, and Kangxi was wearing regular clothes and looked pretty good.

Cao Yong had roughly talked about the itinerary. Kangxi nodded, thought for a while, and without asking more questions, he swept the kneeling Dethei and Nalanfusen and said, "The errand was done well. Except for Cao Yong, he will take half a month off from tomorrow, and each person will be rewarded with 300 taels of silver. In the past two months, you have been to the Alxambelle to help the big lama deliver letters!"

"Yeah! Thank you for the reward of Master Long Sui!" Everyone kowtowed in unison with Cao Yong.

Everyone has titles, and the salary is double, and the three-salary salary is large, not to mention the rewards for the Halloween Festival every year. Three hundred taels of silver are not much in the eyes of everyone, but after all, the execution of the imperial decree this time, and the silver was rewarded by the Emperor Longsheng himself, and everyone felt that there was a glory on their faces.

Although Cao Yong didn't say anything, Detehei and others also knew that he had chosen these guys to run this time. Although it was a bit harder to travel a long distance, it was something that everyone could not ask for. Therefore, after leaving the garden, Detehei wanted to take Cao Yong to have a drink.

Since May's Suihu, Cao Yong has been away from home for half a year and is just as eager to return home, so he made an appointment to have a drink the next day. Today everyone will go home.

After entering Andingmen, everyone clasped their fists to each other and dispersed first.

Cao Yong took Xiaoman and two back to Cao's mansion to calculate Wei Hei and his team's itinerary, and it would take two or three days to arrive in Beijing.

Now, it is dusk and the night is getting darker.

The gate of Cao Mansion was closed, and the two plain lanterns hanging outside the door had not yet been lit.

Cao Yong got off the horse's back and stretched out his body. He really didn't want to ride a horse anymore. In the past two months, he was almost like a band-shaped leg.

Xiaoman was already sixteen, like a big guy. Seeing that the old man had dismounted, no one came out to open the door, he knocked on the door with his arms.

Hearing a "creak", he opened the side door, and the doorman leaned out and asked, "Who are you looking for?" Seeing that it was Cao Yong, he hurriedly came out: "Oh, it's the uncle who is back, it's the uncle who is back!" The next sentence was for the servant in the door.

In a moment, Cao Zhong and Cao Fang also hurriedly came out.

Cao Yong handed the horse reins to the doorman and asked the two housekeepers: "What's good in the mansion?"

Cao Zhong said: "The ladies and grandmas are all good, and the men are good, but I haven't seen the letter from the old man in the past two months. Grandma is a little worried and asked the Sixteenth Master for several years!"

Cao Yong nodded. This was impossible. He also thought about writing letters in the past two months, but Outer Mongolia did not even have an inn. Even if he wrote the letter at that time, he might not have arrived in the capital earlier than him.

Because of the past few months of sleeping in the open, both Cao Yong and Xiaoman's face turned much darker than before. The old housekeeper was a little worried and said, "I heard that the uncle has gone to work. It seems that he is tired enough, so he needs a good rest."

Cao Yong smiled bitterly in his heart. Kangxi gave everyone a holiday, but he was the only one. After all, he was the head of Taipu Temple and he had to go to the court meeting tomorrow. I don’t know if Kangxi was really satisfied with this errand or fake.

If he is really satisfied and does not give a silver reward, he may have to restore his official position. It would be better if he, the fifth-rank Taipu Temple minister, was above the two young ministers of the fourth-rank.

After entering the gate, Cao Yong remembered Mr. Zhuang and went north after Mid-Autumn Festival, and asked, "Have you arrived in Beijing?"

Cao Zhong said: "September 18th has arrived, it has been several days!"

Cao Yong nodded and ordered: "Go and talk to the teacher, and I will go to the inner courtyard to change my clothes first, and then I will talk to the teacher later."

Cao Zhong went to answer. Cao Yong patted Xiaoman and said to Cao Fang: "Xiaoman has been running around with me in the past two months, and it is so exhausting. Please ask Sister Fang to pack some delicious food and drink for him and let him rest for a few days."

Cao Fang hurriedly said, "It is all the blessing of this kid who can serve the uncle and follow him to gain knowledge. How can he mention the need for fatigue? Don't spoil him!"

Xiaoman patted his chest and said, "Uncle, the young man is not a child. When it comes to his body, he may not be stronger than Xiaoman!"

Cao Yong smiled and said, "Yeah, I can't compare! It's the time when I grow up. I don't eat well these days. I ask your mother to make you some delicious food. I will also raise it well in the past few days, so don't ride a horse anymore!"

Xiaoman stuck out his tongue and said, "After all, the old man is polite. If you don't say anything else, the calluses in the thighs are ground out!"

While talking, Cao Yong sent Cao Fang and his son back and entered the second gate by himself.

When I passed by Shaoyuan, I saw that it was already holding a lamp inside. Cao Yong was still a little dazed for a moment. The garden was empty, so why did people live in it?

It happened that Chu Yu led Wu'er out of Zhaojia's house and saw Cao Yong standing at the door. He was a little disbelief and thought he was dazzled.

Zhao Jia followed behind and sent Chu Yu out, and also saw Cao Yong.

When Cao Yong saw Zhao Jia, he realized that his aunt was living in this yard. He hurriedly stepped forward a few steps and bowed: "My nephew has seen her aunt, please pay me a blessing to her!"

Because it was dark outside, it was difficult to talk. Zhao Jia was dark outside and it was difficult to talk. Zhao Jia asked Cao Yong and Chu Yu to enter the house again.

Due to the customs in the capital, it was necessary to burn the kang on the first day of October. Although Zhao Jia grew up in the capital, she married in Jiangnan for more than 20 years and was no longer withstand the autumn cold in the north. She burned two pots of charcoal early in the house, which was still quite warm.

Cao Yong asked Zhao Jia to sit down and greet him again. He was in the yard just now, but it was dark and it was hard to see it. Now in the room, Zhao Jia and Chu Yu were shocked to see Cao Ying's slightly dark skin.

"This is sunburned on the grassland, why do you become like a charcoal man?" Zhao Jia said a little exaggeratedly, but Cao Yong was spoiled since childhood, and this was the first time he showed such a red and black complexion.

Seeing Chu Yu being by his side, Cao Yong smiled and said, "It's not a problem, Mongolian winds are strong, so I'll recover after a few days!"

"Brother Yong is not a guard or a civil servant, why are he still under the sun?" Zhao Jia was a little confused and shook her head and said, "I heard your mother say it was hard to be a worker, but my aunt didn't believe it. Now seeing you like this is really heartbreaking."

Although she was not close to Zhao Jia before, it was for the sake of Cao Song brothers. Moreover, after all, she was old, so Cao Yong was very respectful when he was in her arms and said a few common words.

Whether it was Wu'er who had not seen him for half a year or the fourth sister who had not seen him for more than a year, they didn't remember anyone. The two little sisters followed Chu Yu with some timidity and looked at Cao Yong secretly.

It was not until Zhaojia asked the two sisters to come up and call someone that they held their hands, moved to the front, and whispered: "Brother!"

The two sisters, one is four years old and the other is three years old, and they look a little similar. Cao Yong nodded and responded, and said embarrassedly: "Aunt, my nephew went to Outer Mongolia to do an errand. He was in a hurry and didn't bring anything back!"

Zhao Jia hurriedly said, "It's all a family, why are you saying these polite words? In the past month, you have not been sent home, but you are worried about your niece-in-law. Okay, my aunt is not in trouble. You two, let's go back and talk first! When you come here tomorrow, I have something to discuss with you!"
Chapter completed!