According to the customs of the capital, "Twenty-three, sugar melon sticks; twenty-four, sweep the house." On the 24th, the housewife will lead the servants to thoroughly clean the inside and outside the yard. However, the Cao family was particularly quiet. Zhao Jia was sick, Chu Yu had a body, and only Azuki and a few wives sprinkled water to clean it.

After Cao Song came back from the front yard yesterday, he made another trouble in Shaoyuan, and wanted to kill Madam Zhang. Zhao Jia was sick, but this time she was really sick. She saw Feng in anger and had a headache since the New Year.

Although Cao Yong hired the imperial physician to treat Zhao Jia, his appearance was not as good as before. Not only Zhao Jia, but also Cao Song, Cao Yong couldn't help but kicked him hard, too lazy to pay attention to him.

Although Cao's mansion is not the most wise place, this kind of abuse and murder of people happens in his own home, which makes Cao Yong particularly annoyed.

Zhao Jia's past nonsense was nothing, but such thunderous methods made Cao Yong feel heartbroken. He didn't have the heart to coax her sooner or later, and he didn't have the heart to consider whether she was old or not.

It’s not that he doesn’t care about his younger brother or considers his future, but that Cao Song made a mistake but asked the woman to bear the consequences, which made Cao Yong very embarrassed.

If you go to the Jinshi exam and go to the officialdom in such a daze, who would have to follow him and wipe his butt every day? Rather than committing a disaster, it would be better to be punished now and be an ordinary citizen. Although you are mediocre, you can still maintain peace.

Cao Yong was too lazy to go home. He had worked hard to integrate himself into this world and this family, working hard. But he didn't know why, but suddenly he felt very uncomfortable.

He also went through the murders himself, but pretended to be innocent and said that he was a kind person. However, he did not want these ugly things to happen in his home.

Cao Song was also stupid. He really didn't expect such a disaster to happen. Sitting beside Yulong's bed and looking at the blood rafters on Yulong's back, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

Yuqing's face was filled with medicine, afraid that Cao Song would feel disgusted, so he turned his head and trembled when he heard his crying.

Yuqiong served Cao Song for five years. He had seen him laugh and was annoyed, but he had never seen him cry. She turned around, looked at Cao Song blankly, and murmured, "Is the Second Master crying spider sister?"

When Yulong mentioned the jade spider, thinking about the bloody appearance of the jade spider, Cao Song's crying became even louder.

Yuqiong's eyes were straight and he smiled bitterly: "I remember clearly that my value is forty-four taels of silver, and Sister Zhu's forty taels. I can be regarded as the second master crying. I don't know if it's the blessing of Sister Zhu."

"Stop talking, stop talking!" Cao Song hugged his head and shouted.

Yulong turned around and lay on the kang, feeling his throat was fishy and salty. She hurriedly covered her mouth with a veil, but vomited a mouthful of blood. Yulong put the veil in the palm of his hand and shed two lines of tears silently.

After a long time, when he heard Cao Song's crying gradually subside, Yuqing asked in a low voice: "Second Master, the second wife is afraid that it will delay your future. Is the second master thinking so in his heart?"

Cao Song raised his head, his face became more hatred, and said, "That is my son, my flesh and blood. I will kill the old man named Zhang and avenge his son and Yu Zhu!"

When Yuqing saw that he didn't mention the second wife, he couldn't help but feel discouraged. He was too lazy to talk anymore and lay on the pillow and fell asleep. He was in a daze and heard someone say, "I'm sorry... I didn't protect you..."

*

Xicheng, Houguangping Hutong, Sun's House.

Sun Jue went to work as a servant in the ministry and had not come back yet. Cao took his concubines, daughter-in-law, and mother-in-law to clean up the house for a long time, and his back was already a little sore. Thinking of the time when he asked someone to pay his respects to his parents' home yesterday, she was a little worried about her mother's illness.

Although my mother grew up in the capital, she lived in the south for twenty or thirty years and was unable to withstand the winter cold in the capital. However, as her daughter, she heard that her mother was sick but could not go back to visit her, which was really unfilial.

After almost the same cleaning, Cao sat in the flower hall, thinking about waiting for her husband to come back, begging for mercy, and going back to her parents' home. At this time, his daughter Sun Xian walked towards her with Zhixian's hand.

"Mother!" Seeing Cao, Sun Xian let go of Zhixian's hand and hugged him. Cao married Sun Jue in the 45th year of Kangxi. It has been eight years since then. He has given birth to a pair of children, including the eldest son Sun Li and the eldest daughter Sun Xian. Sun Li is seven years old this year and Sun Xian is five years old.

Cao hugged her daughter and saw that she had candy in her mouth. She couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm so greedy, I can't eat too much!"

Sun Xian smiled and hid her little head in her mother's arms, just giggling.

Cao pointed to the stool next to him and said to Zhixian: "Sister, sit down and talk. Have you gone to see your sister? She has eaten something today, and it's not a trivial matter."

Zhixian smiled and replied, "I'm sorry grandma, so Ye Xian ate a bowl of mixed grain rice and a small plate of sour melons. It looked better!"

Although Cao did not come from the Duke and Marquis' Mansion, he had been frugal since childhood. After hearing this, he couldn't help but wonder, and said with some concern: "Why do you eat these? I have children in my stomach, but it's not good enough. Although our family is not rich, there is no shortage of food."

Before Zhixian came to the Sun family, she stayed in Li's house for several months. She had seen the extravagantness of wealthy families. Although Sun Jue was not as good as the Li family, Cao's family was virtuous and never had any indebtedness to their sisters' food and clothing.

But it’s strange. Since Ye Xian found out that he was pregnant, he was seriously injured. He vomited whatever he ate, and sometimes he couldn’t even smell it. I don’t know why I remembered eating mixed grains and rice, but it was quite satisfying. I have been eating it for several days.

Whether it is in the Li family or the Sun family, the old people often hear the Cao family mentioned the Earl's Mansion. I know that compared with the Cao family, the Li family and the Sun family are just a fraction of the time.

First, their sisters have no foundation, second, their foundation is a bit ill, and third, they know that their kind mistress is a daughter of the Cao family, so they have been particularly peaceful in the past few months after they arrived at the Sun family.

Not only did he be gentle and obedient to Sun Jue, but he also made rules with Cao sooner or later, and refused to be rude, and he also coaxed the young lady Sun Xian to be willing to be close to them. In addition, he compared the concubine Sun Jue's previous concubine.

Although the two concubines were dissatisfied, they were favored by their sisters, and Sun Jue was a person who was just right, so he could only complain in his heart.

Sun Jue got this pair of beautiful concubines, and he had such a kind of character, and was not naughty at all. It was also too beautiful. "A harmonious family will bring prosperity." If you have such a virtuous wife and beautiful concubines around you, what is not a blessing compared to those who fear others?

When Cao mentioned food, Zhixian couldn't help but smile bitterly: "My grandma was born in a wealthy family, and she was born in chicken, duck, fish and meat when she was young, but she didn't know that it would be a blessing for the people in the world to eat a bowl of mixed grains and dry rice every meal. I was born in a miserable family. It was just because my mother was gone and I had tuberculosis and couldn't support us anymore, so I sold our sisters. We had never eaten a few meals of fine grains, and dried grains and steamed rice every meal."

Cao is a woman, and she just wants to see Zhixian and Ye Xianyuan. No matter how virtuous she is, she cannot treat her husband's concubine as a sister. However, after spending these few months together, she has a better impression of them.

Now that she heard her own life experience, Cao couldn't help but sigh again. She has never heard of selling children. After all, half of the slaves in this mansion, except for having children, were mostly sold by their parents since childhood.

Sun Xian is already five years old and can understand the words. She poked her head out of her mother's arms and asked with her neck tilted, "Mother, is my father sick? Is she going to sell Xian'er and her brother?"

Cao hurriedly patted her little head, and first said to the top: "Children's Words, Tongyan's Words, Tongyan's Words!" After that, he lowered his head and said angrily: "During the New Year, don't say it all, be careful to let your father hear it, and hit your hand!"

Sun Xian was so scared that she covered her mouth with her little hands. After a while, she whispered: "Mother, Xian'er wants to eat mixed noodles and steamed buns..."

Seeing her childish look, Cao and Zhixian couldn't help laughing.

Sun Jue came back until the night, and was smelling alcohol on his body, but his colleagues from the same department went to have a drink.

After Cao waited for him to change clothes and wash, he brought up his mother's illness. Because Sun Jue had tightly tied her up and rarely let her go back to her, she did not expect that Sun Jue responded in one go.

Sun Jue changed his clothes and lay on the bed. While Cao went forward to help him take off his boots, he was very surprised, not knowing why her husband was so happy.

Sun Jue closed his eyes, but he thought about something else. Li Xu was right. He and Cao Yong were cousins, not enemies, so why bother so distant? His colleagues made sense. His term of office will be over next year. Is it the original grade or a promotion? It is time to move around.

The Cao and Sun families are close relatives. If the old lady of Sun had not taken care of Long Live Emperor for more than ten years, how could there be the decentness of the Cao family for several generations?

Thinking of this, he opened his eyes and said to Cao: "Prepare more gifts. Since my mother-in-law is sick, I will go to visit you tomorrow!"

Cao was overjoyed and responded quickly.

Xicheng, Cao Mansion, Wutong Garden.

After Yuqing fell asleep, Cao Song came to look for Cao Yong alone. He was embarrassed to make such a thing, but he didn't want his brother to ignore him because of this.

Cao Yong worked in the yamen for a long time, and then walked around the street scene for a long time without any purpose before returning to Wutongyuan.

It's the New Year, and I really don't want to think about these troubles. When Cao Yong heard Cao Song talking in the corridor, he did not immediately call him in. Instead, he looked at Chu Yu and said, "I'm staying in the mansion all day long, afraid of being stuffy. On the other side of Xiaotangshan, we will let someone build another farm, and we will go there to avoid the cold next winter!"

Chu Yu said: "The prince-in-law has to work in the yamen. He has to go to the small court meeting every now and then. It's too cheap outside the city!"

Cao Yong nodded and said, "That's right, even if that's the case, when the New Year is warm, we will choose a good day to go around the suburbs of Beijing. Or we can go around the city and not be stuck in this yard and treat everyone bad!" Speaking of this, thinking of Zhaojia, his expression was a little cold, and said, "I am really impatient to see her. You ask Aunt Luo and Aunt Chang to send her a message. This is only one thing. According to the Qing Dynasty, what is the crime of torture and killing servants? Tell her. No one is indulging her. I am not a person who loves fiction. Next time, I must directly ask the coroner from the Infantry Division Office to come for a mortal examination!"

Seeing Cao Yong so serious, Chu Yu couldn't help but feel a little regretful. Seeing Cao Yong hates Zhao Jia so much, Chu Yu felt a little guilty. If she had reached out to help yesterday, would Yu Spider end up with "one corpse and two lives"?

Thinking of Cao Song who was still standing in the corridor, Chu Yu was quite helpless and advised: "Mr. It's cold, the second master has been standing outside for a long time!"

When Cao Song was mentioned, Cao Yong immediately became angry and frowned and said, "It's better to freeze him to death. We should not get involved in Jinghui's affairs. What kind of man is he? He is so old and heartless. If he could be stronger, who dared to deal with his room like this? He can't even protect his woman. Should he also bring Jinghui into the mansion to show his mother's power?"

Seeing that he was really annoyed, Chu Yu didn't dare to persuade him anymore. He was afraid that Cao Song would be sick and sick. His brother would still feel distressed in the future, so he went out to persuade Cao Song to go back first.

Cao Song said bitterly: "Sister-in-law, my brother knows that he is wrong. He wants to beat or scold me, but don't be angry."

Chu Yu whispered: "Your brother is really annoyed! You don't know that he really hopes you well. I'm afraid that the second wife will not allow you to marry Jinghui, so I discussed with me what kind of way. To be honest, I bought another house for you to build a new house to save Jinghui from being hard for the second wife. He is kind and never beat and scolded the servants in our mansion. Now, the New Year is dead and injured. It's all your fault that you cause. Why don't he be upset?"

Cao Song murmured, "Sister-in-law, what should I do? My brother knows that he is wrong and never dares to do it again. You and my brother, let him kick me a few more times and vent his anger!"
Chapter completed!