Chapter 348 Condolences (Part 1)

The sun sets and the night is getting darker. Cao Yong and Chu Yu who went out to pay their respects have not returned home yet.

After Mr. Zhuang finished his supper, he was idle and walked outside the gate.

If it gets colder today, he is really impatient to go out and coaxes Niu Niu in Rongyuan all day long. Or he will guide the two homework of Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang brothers. If he occasionally goes out of the house, he will not be able to delay much time when he is out.

I heard the sound of horse hooves on the ground, and a fast horse galloped towards the entrance of the alley.

Mr. Zhuang stood outside the gate, holding his hands behind his back, and watching with a smile.

It was no one else right away, but it was Wei Hei who went out early and returned late these days alone.

Wei Hei tied the reins of the horse, turned over and dismounted. Seeing Mr. Zhuang looking at him, he asked with a smile: "Sir, I'm so leisurely, is this a walk?"

Mr. Zhuang smiled and waved his hand, saying, "You guessed this wrongly. It was just to catch you!"

Wei Hei's expression did not change, and he smiled with a shy face: "Sir, I want to Lao Hei, so we have to have a good drink!"

Mr. Zhuang said, "Stop messing around, talk to me in the study!" At the end of the conversation, he had already brought some seriousness.

Wei Hei had no choice but to avoid it, but he had no choice but to hand the reins to the doorman and follow Mr. Zhuang in.

After entering the study room, Mr. Zhuang looked at Wei Hei and said, "Come on, tell me, what errands Furuo will give you?"

Wei Hei scratched his head and said with a smile: "Nothing is there any errand? What's the matter with sir?"

Mr. Zhuang frowned and said, "You are still pretending to be confused with the old man! Since last year's death, you have rarely been away from him. Now there is no wind or rain, why are you willing to leave him? You must have a more important errand!"

After all, Wei Hei was impressed by the fact that he was a grown-up spirit.

Cao Yong did not intend to tell Mr. Zhuang when he wanted to solve Li Ding's affairs. He was not afraid that he would sue him and convict him. After all, there were serious crimes like giving the tenth prince a medicine to kill his son and grandson. Even if he killed someone and set fire, it would be a trivial matter in front of Kangxi. Although Cao Yong did not hide anything from Mr. Zhuang, he was unwilling to say more about the Li family.

Mr. Zhuang is like a teacher or a father to Cao Yong. Therefore, Cao Yong does not want his most vicious side to be exposed in front of him.

Seeing Mr. Zhuang asking tightly, Wei Hei suddenly realized, "Oh, that's the case! Hasn't this Hang Seng Master been for a hundred days? The young master was thinking about the matter of deregistration for Hang Seng, so he asked Lao Hei to go out and inquire!"

Mr. Zhuang frowned and said, "Okay, you are going to hide it from me. Is this what Furuo asked you to lie like this?"

Wei Hei ran outside for a whole day and was tired. He sat on the chair opposite Mr. Zhuang and said helplessly: "Sir, don't ask Lao Hei anymore. Isn't this a difficult task for Lao Hei? Mr. went to Changchun Garden, Lao Hei didn't talk much!"

Mr. Zhuang was so choked that he couldn't speak. Instead, he was waiting for Cao Yong to come to find him. The boy pretended to be generous and didn't mention it.

Seeing that Mr. Zhuang was not talking, Wei Hei was afraid that he would be annoyed, so the servant came in to hold the lamp and gave him tea. He poured a cup of tea in person, served it with both hands, and said, "Old Hei is a rough man, don't blame him, but he always respects him in his heart!"

Mr. Zhuang calmed down and smiled a little more. When the servant went down, he said with a little pride: "Forget it, Lao Xiuyuan still wants to show off. Since you two are twisting together to hide it from me, who arranged the matter at the foot of Yimeng Mountain in Shandong? I will know it myself!"

"Sir, did you really find out?" Wei Hei got up from the chair excitedly.

It has been nearly a year since Cao Yong fell off a horse and was injured, but the murderer still doesn't know who it is. Wei Hei has been holding his heart to anger.

Mr. Zhuang took a sip of tea and said, "Master Wei, don't make things difficult for me. Isn't this a difficult time? Master Wei has gone out early and returned late these days, but I haven't talked too much!"

Seeing that Mr. Zhuang's original words were returned, the child was so angry that he couldn't laugh or cry, and begged: "Sir..."

Mr. Zhuang put down the teacup, but did not look at him.

Although Wei Hei wanted to know who the person behind the plot to plot against Cao Yong was, he was not good at telling him what happened recently. After all, the young master wanted to hide it from his husband, and he was not good at self-dedication.

Seeing that he couldn't tell him, Mr. Zhuang thought about it for a while and asked, "Is it something related to Li Ding?"

When Wei Hei heard this, his face was a little stiff, and he squeezed into a smile and said, "What do you mean by sir? What can you have any entanglements with him?"

Seeing his expression, Mr. Zhuang felt confident and said slowly: "You went to the Li family to help you a few days ago, and the fourth update will come back. I saw you something wrong the next day! It's not related to him, but which one does it have to do with?"

Wei Hei couldn't speak in a silly way, and he heard someone outside the door say, "Sir, don't make things difficult for Brother Wei, I'll tell you!"

It was Cao Yong who came back and saw the lights in the study room, so he came over to take a look. According to etiquette, he had to stay at the bereaved house until dark. Although the meal was also started, he sat foolishly for a while and did not move his chopsticks much.

When he saw the study, Cao Yong had met Mr. Zhuang and Wei Hei, he found a chair and sat down.

"Young Master, take a break!" Wei Hei stood up and poured a cup of tea for Cao Yong.

Seeing that he was still wearing outing clothes, Cao Yong asked, "Brother Wei has just arrived home now? Then I am a little hungry when I send two side dishes here!" He said to Mr. Zhuang again, "Today, we are a few of us, have a good drink!"

Seeing that Cao Yong was exhausted and looked a little gloomy, Mr. Zhuang nodded and said, "Well, I am also greedy for wine!"

Cao Yong called the servant to pass the message to the second gate, saying that he would be quick and he chose a few foods to deliver to the study room in the front yard.

After a while, a food box was delivered. Four side dishes, smoked sausage, shredded sausage, white mutton trotters, sugar and radish skin, and a hot pot with sauerkraut and white meat.

Cao Yong asked Mr. Zhuang to sit on the kang in the study room, and he and Wei Hei also crossed their legs to the kang. The three of them gathered around the hot hotpot and all took the meat to eat.

Inside is a broth made from chicken and duck. Shredded sauerkraut and thinly sliced ​​cooked white meat are hot, not oily or greasy, and it is very appetizing when eaten.

Needless to say, Wei Hei and Cao Yong were bothered for half a day, and they didn't bother to drink. They waved their chopsticks and ate half full. Even Mr. Zhuang, who had already used supper, tasted two slices of white meat and drank a few spoons of hot soup.

When the wine became warm, Cao Yong brought out the wine pot, poured it for Mr. Zhuang and Wei Hei, and finally filled it with him. He raised the wine glass and said to Mr. Zhuang: "Cao Yong is grateful for his care and teaching since forty-eight years!"

Seeing that he looked wrong, Mr. Zhuang wanted to ask questions, but when he saw that he was holding the wine cup and drank it all.

Cao Yong picked up the wine glass again and said to Wei Hei: "Brother Wei, since Cao Yong was seven years old, Brother Wei and Brother Wei have been protecting Cao Yong. In this blink of an eye, it has been more than ten years, and Cao Yong is very grateful!"

Wei Hei hurriedly said, "Young Master, don't be polite to the old hacker. This is really what Lao Hei should do!"

However, Cao Yong did not put down the wine cup and said firmly: "Whether you repay your kindness or respect your teacher's fate, these are old sayings. Brother Wei has treated me sincerely over the years, and I am also a brother in my heart!"

Wei Hei was speechless, raised the wine cup and drank it all with his neck.

Cao Yong put down the wine cup and looked at Mr. Zhuang and said, "Sir, what is my mother's identity? Why is the emperor so kind to the Cao family?"

Although Mr. Zhuang has been hesitating whether to tell the truth to Cao Yong these days, he didn't know where to start when he saw him asking him so bluntly.

Cao Yong took out a dagger from his arms, put it on the table, and asked Mr. Zhuang, "Look at the appearance of the teacher, there is no surprise. I think I should be clear about the reason, and I hope I will tell you."

Mr. Zhuang was the first to see the dagger and said in surprise: "What is this?"

Cao Yong replied: "This is a bequest for Duke E's death... It is also the little Dinger left by him in the Li family in Suzhou more than 20 years ago!"

This was the first time Mr. Zhuang heard about this. However, thinking of Li's identity, he also knew the reason for the failure of the marriage.

If the same surname does not marry, since Li is the blood of Aisin Jueluo, how can he marry the royal family?

"But, don't marry the same surname?" Cao Yong said a question.

Mr. Zhuang touched his beard with a serious expression. He was really sensitive to the identity of Cao Yong's grandmother. If this layer of window paper was pierced, it might not be a blessing for him.

It was only because of E Fei that Cao Yong was doubting the matter of Kangxi's random matchmaking that he remembered to ask this. Unexpectedly, looking at Mr. Zhuang's meaning seemed to be serious.

"Is my mother really a royal family girl... but grandmother... grandfather..." Cao Yong was a little confused, only knowing that his grandmother was a widow and took his mother to live under the care of the Li family, but he didn't know anything else at all. If his mother was really a royal family, then grandmother...

In my mind, the scenes of Prince Beile bullying the young widow; and the grandfather died young and prematurely, it would not have anything to do with this, right? Cao Yong was imaginative and began to run away.

Mr. Zhuang sighed, and decided to let the flow, and said, "Fruo is right, but Lingtang is a noble daughter of the royal family who is raised among the people. If the same surname is not married, the emperor will naturally not be able to agree to this marriage. Because your father and grandfather are close to the emperor, the emperor will entrust the noble daughter of the royal family to your family, and he will feel at ease!"

Cao Yong thought that Kangxi had also made a trip to the south in his early years, and he wondered if it was because of the romantic emperor who had a relationship with Gao when he was young. Then he thought that if he could not hide it from the Li family, Li Xu would not dare to make any decisions to get married to his cousin in private.

Now, listening to Mr. Zhuang's "Rule Family's Noble Girl" all the time, his cheap grandfather thought he was a yellow belt. However, the age of the royal family could be Cao Yong's grandfather. All the living and dead were counted, and there were dozens of them.

Seeing that Cao Yong wanted to ask questions, Mr. Zhuang sighed: "He is no longer in the world!"

Although Cao Yong was a little disappointed, he was somewhat relieved. It was not that he was cruel, but that he was just a headache for his relatives. If he added a few more uneasy things, it would be even more troublesome.

Li is over forty years old, and even the emperor Kangxi knew about his identity, but he still did not return to the clan. Obviously, there is something unspeakable. Cao Yong had no intention of competing with the dragon and phoenix, and was unwilling to have any trouble to damage his mother's reputation and make his family uneasy.

He poured a glass of wine with him, raised it to the west, and sprinkled it on the ground. Well, this glass of wine is for the cheap grandfather in the underworld. I just hope that your father will not be in vain and that the sin of not raising his daughter will not be pursued. Please bless him with peace and joy after death.

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Inside Dongzhimen, Li’s House.

Because Li Ding was on duty these afternoons, after handing over the errands, he did not stay in the palace for the night, but returned to his home.

The one who stayed in his room tonight was Miaoyun, the daughter of the Guo San family, whom Xiangtong mentioned a few days ago. Because she escorted the sage to the Duke's Mansion during the day, when she saw Cao Yong, Li Ding remembered what happened a few days ago, and sent someone to spread this Miaoyun.

It was a phoenix flying out of the chicken coop. The Miaoyun looked fair and tender, not like a maid at all.

Miaoyun was fifteen years old and knew some people. Although she was afraid, she did not dare to disobey her master's order, so she had to let him do it shyly and endure the pain.

When the clouds disappeared and the rain disappeared, Li Ding felt something was wrong. According to the butler, when Cao Yong went out that night, he looked very clear and not like a drunk person. There were a few Cao Mansion Chiefs who had already left the mansion.

Could it be that he had seen through his layout?! Li Ding thought of this and immediately got up on the bed.

Thinking of Cao Yong nodding with a smile during the day, Li Ding couldn't help but stand up with some hair. Do you know this Cao Yong or don't know?

If he had seen through the layout that night, he could still be so sucked in spring breeze, which shows how persevering his mind was; if he had not seen through it, then he hurried back home, could he have encountered some trouble?

Li Ding was just thinking about it and heard the soft sobs of Miaoyun beside him.

Li Ding has always been the most sympathetic. How could he bear to be sad for his new love? He hurriedly reached out and held it in his arms, and coaxed Wen Yan: "Stop crying, your eyes hurt carefully, I will love you later..."

Although Miaoyun is the daughter of a servant, she has been lucky in recent years and has not been seen by the father and son of the Li family, so she has to protect her innocence. Now, there is nothing left. What else can the little girl do, so she has to cry and nod timidly.
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