Chapter 370: Little New Year (Part 1)

Jiangning Weaving Mansion, Kaiyang Courtyard.

Li sat on the kang outside, where Cao Fu and Tianyou's new clothes were placed on the kang, all of which were newly sewn by the tailor, and they had to wait until the New Year to wear. Her face didn't look much happy.

Perhaps because of her age, the more she missed her children as she reached this time. This capital is thousands of miles away from Jiangning, so it is really not easy to meet her.

Tianyou could already walk, running around on the kang with his calves. The Liu family was protecting his breasts with both hands, for fear that he would fall. After a while, he was tired of tossing, the little guy rushed towards his grandmother, threw himself into his grandmother's arms, and said, "Madam... Jumu..."

Tianyou is almost one and a half years old and has already started to speak, but he is not clear about pronunciation. The two words "grandmother" are called "grandmother", and the words "grandfather" are called "foot father". The two words "maid" are often explained clearly because they often hear maids and mothers say it.

Li hugged Tianyou in his arms, kissed the little guy's fat face, and said, "Grandmother's baby, grandson, you know you can speak, but you still don't know what you want to be happy!"

Tianyou was so tickled that he laughed "giggling" and reached out to hook Li's earrings. Li took the rattle from the side and put it in his hand, which was better.

I heard a maid outside the door say, "Madam, the fifth master is back!"

Li raised his head and saw Cao chuckling and coming back from outside. He hurriedly waved to him and said, "Come and see your new clothes, you have already made. Try it. Is it fit or not. If you don't fit, you can change it!"

"Yeah!" Cao replied with a smile, first wiped his hands with a towel on the ground, touched Tianyou's little head, and then he held a set of clothes and wanted to go down to change.

Li ordered the two maids to go and serve him. He touched Tianyou himself and said with a smile: "The life is so fast. Now your fifth uncle is half a boy. I remember when you were so old, you were like a little adult."

Tianyou could not understand these things. He just laughed, threw away the rattle, but grabbed his own two new clothes. Li had already tried it for him just now, and they were all very suitable. Seeing that he was playing with this now, he hurriedly asked the maid to pick it up.

Tianyou was trying to get to know Lehe. Seeing the maid taking off her clothes, her little face was gone and she looked at her grandmother with grievance, and was about to cry out loud.

How could Li be willing to do it? He muttered, "Oh, my little ancestor, can't you change something?" As he said that, he asked the maid to take the music box on the glove box and put a string to Tianyou to listen to the movement.

Tianyou immediately smiled and stretched out his arms to ask. Li was afraid that he would not be able to hold it, so he threw the thing into the kang and hugged him before giving it to him.

Tianyou held the voice box and tilted his head and listened carefully. Cao Wu had already changed his clothes and walked to the side of the kang with a smile.

Li looked at it carefully, nodded and said, "It's a clothes rack. This way, it's a comparison of your brothers!"

Cao Fu just smiled and went down to change to another set. Seeing that the sleeves seemed to be half an inch long, Li said, "This set is sewn for you first. This is when you grow taller. If you cut it, it will look shorter!"

Cao Feng nodded and said, "What's the point!"

Tianyou saw Cao Wu on the kang, put down the music box, stood up, came to the kang, and said, "Fruit Tree..."

Cao Wu hurriedly hugged him, and walked around the ground and said, "Don't Tianyou be naughty or not, do you think about Uncle Wu?"

Tianyou smiled and grabbed his braid, but did not respond. Cao Wu pretended to be angry and pointed to Tianyou's forehead and said, "I'll straighten my tongue. I've been teaching you for several days. Why is it still a 'fruit tree'?"

Tianyou put Xiaopang's hand into his mouth, but still called the "fruit tree" with a smile.

Although Cao Fu has grown a lot taller in the past six months, he is a twelve child after all. Li was afraid that he would fall to Tianyou, so he patted the edge of the kang and said, "Today's Xiaonian, do you have anything to eat? Tell my uncle, I'll let someone go!"

Cao thought for a while and said, "Uncle, my nephew loves to eat crab noodles and lion heads, but that is what our family eats, so it should have been prepared. I don't know if there are oyster sauce large abalone slices and stewed crucian carp tongues. My uncle likes to eat abalone slices, and I have also said the dish behind twice."

After hearing this, Li said with a smile: "Good boy, it's hard for you to think about it! Abalone is not a rare thing, but there are also in our mansion. Your uncle has eaten crucian carp tongue twice at your uncle's house. Although it suits your liking, it is a crime to kill. Your uncle is also afraid of killing in the temple in the past two years! After talking for a long time, it's what your uncle likes to eat. What does Xiaowu like to eat?"

Cao Feng heard this and said, "I really don't want to eat anything. I have chicken, duck, fish and meat all day long. If the kitchen is not troublesome, my nephew wants to eat shredded radish buns!"

Li nodded: "After Xiao Wu said this, my aunt wanted to eat it too! Then I asked the kitchen to prepare two buns. Your uncle likes to eat dried plums and vegetable buns!"

After Li asked the maid to send a message to the kitchen, he thought that he didn't see Cao Yin, and asked, "Xiao Wu, why didn't your uncle come back with you?"

Cao replied, "It's Mr. Zhuang who is here, as if he has something to say to his uncle, so his nephew will come back first!"

"Mr. Zhuang?" Li was quite surprised. Today is the Little New Year, why did you come to visit this day?

*

Front yard, study room.

After hearing Zhuang Chang's words, Cao Yin's face looked a little ugly and frowned: "Long live Mr.... How could he remember to investigate the Li family?"

Zhuang Chang touched his beard and replied, "It was not because of the disappearance of his son Li Ding! If it was a personal grudge, he would dare to go to the capital and attack the royal guards, then the other party would definitely not be an ordinary person. For some reason, Li Xu did not say anything to Master Wansui. Master Wansui issued an order to open the Zhengzheng Department to thoroughly investigate the movements and the people involved in the past two years."

Although the Li family has not had any great evil in recent years, they cannot say that they are all clean. Cao Yin sighed, not to mention anything else, just making friends with the prince in private is enough for Li Xu to suffer.

After hesitating for a moment, Cao Yin asked with some concern: "Tianchang, look, is there any room for maneuver in this matter?"

Zhuang always had the intention of interfering, and said seriously: "Dongting, just be sure of this matter, you can't get involved. The word "group" is the most taboo for the Lord. The relationship between Cao, Li and Sun's families has been too close over the years, so we should be careful to avoid it. The Lord can tolerate you three families to manage Jiangnan, and it also values ​​Dongting's talent, loyalty and cowardice of Sun Wenqi. If you both love power like Li Xu, Lord Wan would not value the two of them so much."

Thinking of Li, Cao Yin couldn't help but be worried about the matter of the Li family. He kept hiding Li Ding's disappearance from Li, for fear that she would think of her nephew, and for fear that she would worry about her son.

After all, she had seen the dangers of the capital. She had traveled thousands of miles to visit her son.

"Tianchang, who did this Li Ding do?" Cao Yin was really puzzled. Li Ding was a little clever and was not a reckless person. He should not easily get into trouble with others and put himself in danger.

When Zhuang Chang heard this, he shook his head and sighed, "I can't think of it. Whether it is the family feud of the Li family or the personal feud of Li Ding, the other party must have hated him to the extreme, so he would not care about his identity as a guard. Perhaps it is the common people who don't know the power of the royal family. If it is a powerful family, there should be some concerns."

It would be okay if you offend a powerful family, but there will always be some interactions and some clues left. If it were the people, it would cover a lot, but there would be no way to investigate.

Speaking of this, Zhuang Chang asked, "By the way, Dongting, can this be mentioned in the letter of the eldest son? He should know more than us in the capital."

Cao Yin said: "I mentioned that before following Hu Ji Xiaoling, he had helped the Li family to arrange a few days... Li Ding has a house outside, and the people he interacts with are relatively private, maybe it has something to do with the other end..."

There was one thing that Cao Yin did not expect, that was that Cao Yong's letter mentioned that the woman Li Ding raised in a house outside the capital was the daughter of the Yang family in Bihelou, Jiangning.

He asked his father to help check if the Li family took over the Yang family's bead factory and shop, and the Yang family had no husband, perhaps with Li Ding.

Li Ding was thinking about the matter of Pearl Prescription. Although Cao Yin had heard Cao Yong mention it, he thought that he was bewitched by Gali back then, so he didn't take it seriously. Unexpectedly, after many years, he still planned this matter, which made Cao Yin feel a little uncomfortable.

When he was in Jiangning, the Bai and Yang family, he found that he felt open and his impression of Li Ding plummeted, and he felt a little less sad.

*

Capital City, Cao Mansion.

Because it was Little New Year, Cao Yong made a move in the yamen and then returned to the mansion. Cao Quan had not yet produced filial piety, so there was no firecrackers in the mansion, which seemed a little deserted.

There is one thing that Cao Yong felt very fucked, that is, the tails behind him have increased recently, and they are still very serious today. He couldn't help but be confused. When did he become a hot commodity again? What do these people want to see?

When they left the mansion, two or three groups of people followed, which made Wei Hei and others feel as if they were facing a great enemy, and they were a little nervous. With the example of Li Ding, they would not dare to let Cao Yong be alone. If there was someone who was not open to his eyes and caused some trouble, they would have no place to buy the medicine when they regretted.

In fact, it is not just Cao Yong who has been in and out of Changsui, but also like this, the young masters and young princes from all the prefectures in the capital. No one of these families has many enemies. It turns out that they think there is no need to be afraid of the emperor's feet, but now it's really hard to say.

Mr. Zhuang was waiting for him to come back in the front yard with a smile. Cao Yong couldn't help but complain: "Sir, can you think of a way? These tails are really uncomfortable!"

Mr. Zhuang said with some gloating: "If you feel uncomfortable, just bear it first! It's better to have too many people. Anyway, there's nothing you can't know now. If they want to investigate, they will go. After a few days, they will see that you are boring and have no fun, so they will give up on you. If you want to avoid them, those villains will feel that there is a ghost and will be more concerned about it!"

Cao Yong knew that Mr. Zhuang was right and smiled bitterly: "Then I can only let them keep an eye on it for a while!"

Mr. Zhuang raised his eyebrows with a little deep meaning and said, "Furuo, I heard that the one who rushed to the Thirteenth Prince's Mansion yesterday!"

"Is that true?" Cao Yong felt strange in his heart. Yesterday he felt that the Fourth Prince said more than in the past, and his eyes looked different, so he asked Mr. Zhuang to ask for inquiries.

Mr. Zhuang nodded and said, "He left the Ministry of Revenue every day. Yesterday, the Ministry of Revenue was not idle, but he still left first. Furuo, I don't know if he was 'the drunken man's intention was not to drink'!"

Cao Yong was a little surprised. The Cao family was the direct descendant of Kangxi, so all the princes should avoid it. It was just a greedy person like the Ninth Prince. He tried twice, but he stopped seeing that he had not taken advantage of it. The Fourth Prince has always been secretive, so why did he suddenly remember to get close to him?

Mr. Zhuang couldn't figure out the reason for the moment. After all, the Fourth Prince never expressed the intention of fighting for the throne. After a few gossips, the two of them meant to be more cautious in the future. Although the prince was not easy to offend, he could not stab Kangxi in the eyes. Otherwise, let alone what happened in the future, he would be in trouble now.

The Tian family has no flesh and blood. Even if Cao Yong is the grandson-in-law, he dare not fool Kangxi like an old grandfather. The emperor, like an old lion, was sensitive and suspicious, and wanted to sing his teeth and claws at any time to prove that he was not old.

The two of them said a few more gossips. Mr. Zhuang went home to coax his daughter, and Cao Yong entered the second door.

Zhao Jia's "disease" cured last night and the whole family was happy. Cao Yong went to Shaoyuan to greet Zhao Jia as usual. Although her expression was a little stiff, her face was rosy, and it seemed that her complexion was fine.

When Cao Yong returned to Wutong Garden, Chu Yu was preparing to go to the palace to pay filial piety.

Needless to say, the emperor and the empress dowager, there are also imperial concubines and four concubines, and other lords. Chu Yu's grandmother, Concubine Cheng, Concubine Wang, the biological mother of the sixteenth prince, and Concubine Chen, the biological mother of the twenty-first prince. These three are relatives, although they are not of high status, they cannot be filial to them.

He brought Cao Yong back, Chu Yu waited for him to change his clothes, and then gave him the gift list and asked him to decide.

Cao Yong remembered the mother of the Seventeenth Prince Qin Guiren who was like he was in a cold palace, and said to Chu Yu: "Pick up something inconspicuous and practical, and add some gift list to Qin Guiren."
Chapter completed!