Cao Mansion, Wutong Garden.

After sending Li back to Lanyuan, the couple returned to Wutongyuan. After leaving early and returning late for a day, Cao Yong was so hungry that he immediately called someone to serve food.

The couple, while having supper, talked about the situation in the palace during the day.

Chu Yu weighed it and told Cao Yong the Empress Dowager's last incomprehensible words.

Cao Yong was also confused. He looked only one step away from the truth, and there was no reason not to explore. Moreover, only by knowing the reason can he know where the abnormality between the Queen Mother and the Emperor came from.

But the empress dowager said that sentence urgently. Cao Yong had spoken Mongolian in Shangshu Room earlier. It sounded like "five aunt" and it didn't sound like it. He was unsure of his mind.

Seeing that her husband was not sure, Chu Yu ordered someone to go to Kuiyuan and pass on Wuen.

Chu Yu recalled the scene when he was in the afternoon and learned half of the Queen Mother’s last sentence that she didn’t understand, and asked, “Maybe I didn’t learn it like it, the middle is like ‘ancient’ and ‘tiger’. What do you think about this?”

Wuen was a Mongolian person, and he only started to learn Chinese after following Cao Yong. In addition to the Mongolian nurse beside Hang Seng, the mansion was the best to count her Mongolian language.

She was brought back to the capital by Cao Yong in the 48th year of Kangxi. Six years have passed and she has grown from a yellow-haired girl to a girl. She wore a thick whip, a snow-green jacket, and a purple-pinned bia on the outside, which looks pretty.

Her round face and cheekbones are slightly raised, and she can still see that she looks different from others.

She was born into a Mongolian slave. She was not old when she entered Beijing with Cao Yong, but she knew how to look at people's faces.

In addition, she has a good personality and is honest in people, and has a good reputation in the mansion. Everyone in the family likes this simple Mongolian girl very much.

The Mongolian saying that Chu Yu accompanied his mother-in-law to the Empress Dowager's harem to pay tribute this time was learned from Wu En.

When he was in the palace before, Chu Yu had also entered the palace, but he spoke Mandarin. This time, because he accompanied his mother-in-law to the palace, he became more and more serious in his heart, so he made a special trip to learn this sentence, hoping to please the Queen Mother's joy.

"He Bogu can be used to... He Bohu can be used to..." Wu En saw Chu Yu ask a special question, but he didn't dare to neglect it. He repeated it again, and there was indeed no ambiguity, so he said: "This is to say 'five aunt'... 'gu Nengge' is 'aunt'..."

Chu Yu and Cao Yong and his wife heard this and looked at each other, they knew the affirmative answer.

It was really a "five aunt". When the couple thought of the one who could be called the emperor's "five aunt", they felt a little uncomfortable.

Chu Yu turned his head, thought for a while, and said to Wuen: "When you go back today, you will cook the errands and tell your sister Amethyst to ask her to find someone to take on your errands. From now on, you will be here."

Wu En has been in the Cao family for many years. Because of her young age, Cao Yong had already said that she would not have to send her a job.

However, she refused to eat idle food. Although it was not the same, she ran around Amethyst and did some light work of passing messages and passing things.

The year before yesterday, when Hang Seng entered the mansion, Wu En was already fourteen and was working with Tianyou.

In a blink of an eye, it has been two years. She was grateful to Cao Yong and his wife for their kindness, paid special attention to her errands, and devoted all her thoughts to her little master Hang Seng.

She couldn't bear to say that she wanted to change her job, but she didn't say much and responded respectfully.

Although Chu Yu only told her to change her job and did not say anything else, the little girl realized the importance of the matter from the solemnity of the two masters.

She didn't ask much or say much. After answering the instructions, she told her to go back to the Kwaiyuan.

When Wu'en went out, Cao Yong turned his head and asked Chu Yu: "You can call Wu'en girl over, but you want to learn Mongolian language with her? Although you didn't understand that sentence today, it would not be a blessing. If you want to learn this, I will also say a few words here."

When Chu Yu heard this, he thought about the panic that Concubine Wang had inadvertently revealed, but this is the reason.

She sighed and said, "Madam, let's not talk. I should have learned it here long ago. Although the Queen Mother can understand Mandarin, she speaks little. Those palace relatives who want to please the Queen Mother and the concubines outside are mostly used to flatter each other in Mongolian. It turns out that there are few people walking with the Queen Mother's harem. During the holidays, they just follow the others. Later,... if you go there to pay tribute, you will still say a few words. The prince is busy every day, and the key is that his wife is around him..."

Speaking of this, she hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr., the fifth aunt of the Emperor Mafa mentioned by the Empress Dowager should be Princess Gulun Shuhui? There is no sect girl who is close to the older generation in the sect..."

When Cao Yong thought of E Fei, he shook his head and said, "If it were the princesses's birth... why couldn't he marry the royal family back then? Maybe there was something else in it. This eldest princess is just her adoptive mother, but she can't take care of it."

Cao Yong said this because he had heard of the eldest princess and knew that she died in the capital more than ten years ago. Before, what he and Mr. Zhuang heard was Wu Sangui's granddaughter.

He was a human being in two lives, but after all, he had never been in the palace, so he had no way of knowing the story of the door decades ago.

Although Cao Yong was very curious about his mother's life experience, after listening to Chu Yu's story and knowing that the sentence was "the daughter of his fifth aunt". With Kangxi's previous attitude, I think this really involves the secret Xin in the palace.

If the princess who was raised in the palace in the past had a secret marriage and was left to give birth, but he didn't know whether the child belonged to Kangxi or Prince Yu Fuquan, then it would be too unbearable.

Zhou Xuan and the Tian brothers played with the emperor and the prince in the malfunction, perhaps the reason why Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was incompatible.

If this is not the case, the news from Mr. Zhuang is wrong. Li is the daughter of Princess Gulun Shuhui, then this is also an absolute "scandal" of the Tian family.

The eldest princess Gulun Shuhui started to travel between the capital and Mongolia after she became a widow for the second time.

If Li was really her daughter, the widow would be even more unbearable.

No matter which truth is, since it is a "secret" covered by the royal family, there are things that cannot be said to others. Even if it is investigated and the trouble will come out, how will Li deal with it in the end?

Thinking of this, Cao Yong no longer had the desire to explore and his heart couldn't help but sink.

The palace was full of eyes and ears. Today, my mother's entry into the palace and the empress dowager's insecurity caused some people's attention.

If someone finds something wrong and continues to investigate, what should I do?

Cao Yong is not a vain person. No matter who Li comes from, he is the biological mother of gratitude and filial piety from the bottom of his heart.

He was just worried that when the truth was revealed, his mother would be implicated innocently. Wouldn't that be depressing?

At this moment, Cao Yong missed the Li family a little.

Although Li Xu was too self-righteous and not easy enough to save trouble, and became more confused as he grew older, if his mother was from the Li family, and was not as confused as she is now, and would be entangled with the royal family, it would be much more worry-free.

Chu Yu felt very regretful in his heart and blamed himself for not having to investigate curiously.

In her heart, after the clues before and today's trip to Changchun Garden, she has regarded her mother-in-law as the bloodline of Princess Gulun Shuhui.

Princess Gulun Shuhui is the first emperor of the Empress Dowager and the legitimate aunt of Huang Mafa.

If the mother-in-law had her bloodline and was trampled among the people, it would be reasonable to treat the Emperor Ma's method effectively.

This dynasty advocates Confucianism. When the royal family taught the princess, they always used "faith, wise and quiet" to ask for it. They started to be sensible and learned various rules.

There are always more than a dozen chastity arches ordered by the imperial court to build every year...

Both husband and wife are a little heavy.

Seeing Chu Yu’s little face bitter, Cao Yong smiled happily, and said, “Look at what we are doing? It’s a good thing to say. No matter what, the empress dowager thinks of the old friend’s feelings and takes good care of her mother. She doesn’t think that she will make things difficult for her after getting along..."

Chu Yu knew that he was talking about the two boxes of jewelry given by the Empress Dowager, and said with a smile: "Well, I have heard that the Empress Dowager likes to be at will. When she meets someone she really likes, it's really good. Those things look like they are not ordinary things, and the wife is also shocked..."

When the Lanyuan went up the room, Li was still a little uneasy. He looked at the two boxes of jewelry placed on the kang and frowned slightly, saying, "Master, as the saying goes, you will not receive any reward without any merit. Look at the Queen Mother's meaning today, he mistakenly recognized me for someone else. He gave these things to the house and the land of love. How can this be better?"

Cao Yin also looked at the two boxes of jewelry for a long time, took out one of the pair of bracelets inlaid with gems, and looked carefully at the yearbook in the hidden place.

It is exactly what I think in my heart, so exquisite, but it is an internal creation.

Just looking at the age, it seems that there is a period of time, Cao Yin also felt unwilling.

Logically speaking, giving jewelry from outside the palace is nothing, but the empress dowager seems to be too serious.

He sighed in his heart. Although some things were not confirmed, he could guess some clues over the years.

He put the things back into the box and said, "Since it is given by the Queen Mother, please keep it. Let's see a lot, but it is nothing to the Queen Mother."

In order to calm his wife's anxiety, Cao Yin said lightly.

After all, Li was a woman from the inner courtyard. When she saw her husband saying she was not involved, she felt a little relieved.

But she came from a wealthy family. When she grew up, she married into the Cao family, which had no name as a prince but had the reality of a prince. She did not care about external things.

Since her husband said she should take it away, she waved her hand and called the girl Xiuying to collect the two boxes and put them on the kang in the inner room.

"In just half a day, I got these things back. If it weren't for the cumbersome clothes and the rules, I would have to walk around the palace more often." Li's heart was hung up for a long time, and finally let it go, saying: "When the Ming Fujin and the third girl returned to the province, let them choose some, and then share some for the child's second aunt and nephew's wife, and leave the rest to Tianhui to add a dowry."

Seeing her face showing fatigue, Cao Yin asked the maid to take a pillow and put it on the kang in person, saying, "Since you are tired, you are tilted, and you have used supper on your left and right. If you are tired, you will rest early tonight."

Her husband is rarely warm. Although Li felt happy, he looked at the sky and said embarrassedly: "It's not dark yet..."

The couple were talking when someone replied in the corridor: "Master, Madam, Princess, Princess is here. The uncle is drinking tea in the living room of the front yard, please come over."

Although there was no mention of which prince it was, the only one who did not nominate the title in the mansion was the Cao family's son-in-law, Nersu.

Cao Yin was a little surprised. Will there be anything important to do when this skill comes?

Li also sat up and said, "We have come here to get my skills, it won't be the concubine..."

After hearing this, Cao Yin waved his hand and said, "What are you thinking about? If something is wrong, can you still have the leisure to accompany you to drink tea? I'll take a break, so I'll go to the front yard to take a look."

Li didn't know why he said something bad, and he regretted it.

She covered her mouth with a veil and said, "The master goes over, I'll send someone some refreshments."

Cao Yin nodded, looked at Li, and said, "You are an open-minded person, but when you have a body, you have changed your temperament. This is the blessing of our old couple. Whether it is a man or a woman, it is the grace of our ancestors. Don't worry about it, eat more and sleep more, and raise your body bones. When the son was in a bad state, it was because you were very happy. In addition, you were worried. I forgot about the lessons of the past..."

When Li heard this, he nodded, but his heart was still "bounced" and kept jumping.

When she sent her husband out, Li stood in the corridor and reached out to touch his eyelids. This old folk saying goes, "The left eye twitches wealth, the right eye twitches disaster", but both of them jump.

Li frowned slightly, and when he thought of this, he was shocked.

In fact, it was just because she learned the Mongolian saying of greeting last night, and she had rested late and had not had a good sleep.

If it were ordinary, she wouldn't take this to heart.

Today, she was like a big show. She was tired from entering and leaving the garden. She was exhausted and her energy was a little lacking.

She only felt dizzy in front of her eyes and a little unstable. Fortunately, she didn't fall after holding on to the door frame.

Xiuying saw her, almost frightened her soul, and hurriedly stepped forward to support her and said, "Madam, I've been tired all day, so why are you standing like this?" As she spoke, she helped Li into the room...

Front yard, living room.

After listening to Nersu's relay, he knew that he had been arranged to go to the Great Lama in Outer Mongolia and was about to set out tomorrow, and Cao Yong's brow frowned.
To be continued...