In the twelfth lunar month of the 56th year of the Kangxi reign, Cao Yong spent the white space.

Cao Song was a guard and a retainer of the emperor. He had no rest. In addition to being on duty, he was guarding the spirits with his relatives. The four masters of the Cao family's western prefecture also entered the palace to mourn according to the rules.

There is the inner butler of Amethyst in the Western Palace, and the two concubines of Feng and Qian, who are not at all confused. Cao Song in the Eastern Palace is in the palace, and Jinghui has a body, so Su Xin is temporarily butler. Cao Feng comes out to deal with the matter outside.

Cao Xiang came back to take the exam, and the imperial examination period was not long, so Cao Yin ordered him to study hard.

In the cold winter, I have been queuing up in the coffin for most of the day, let alone ventilating everywhere in the palace. Even if there is geothermal heat, this is not a place for people to live, and it can be warmed up anywhere. Young people have fallen sick a lot, let alone those who are older.

Originally, Cao Yong and Chu Yu were both worried about Li, afraid that she would be sad and hurt. In addition, she was tired of mourning and exhausted, but she didn't expect that Cao Yin would fall ill.

The imperial physician has visited him and only said that it was an external wind evil and needed rest.

At this time, Mr. Fang Zhong had already been sent by the Thirteenth Prince in Beijing and was sent by the Thirteenth Prince, confirming that Cao Yin was indeed not seriously injured before he returned.

Cao Yin was only sixty years old during the Chinese New Year, and he was not considered an elderly person among the powerful and powerful people. Many of those relatives and ministers were trembling in their seventies.

I heard that a few of them have fallen ill, and when the Queen Mother’s funeral is over, they may die.

When Cao Yong thought of this, he quietly mentioned this matter to the Sixteenth Prince.

The next day, the clan ministers who came to the palace to mourn were treated with new treatment, with a cup of honeysuckle herb tea in the morning and evening. The clan ministers over 60 also set up warm room seats in the side hall.

These small measures were all praised by everyone in the name of the Twelfth Prince.

Although the Twelfth Prince felt decent, he was already over the age of the year and had experienced ups and downs over the years, so he did not dare to be silly at all.

He knew that the Sixteenth Prince mentioned that he was giving the credit to him, and thanked him privately.

Seeing his cautious appearance, the sixteenth prince asked for two pots of orchids when he was afraid that he would be too careful.

Before going out to hold the funeral, the twelfth prince was idle. His leisure was really idle, which was different from the third prince and the fourth prince. He had completely lost any errands. This time, he was bored. I don’t know when I was fascinated by the waiter and even built a warm room in my own house.

Those two plates of orchids are also famous. I heard that a beef had to spend 1,000 taels of silver to buy with the twelfth prince, but the twelfth prince didn't give up. It was really a beloved thing.

Unexpectedly, the Sixteenth Prince asked for it this time, but the Twelfth Prince did not frown and responded quickly.

Seeing this, the sixteenth prince sighed in his heart. He knew that it was not easy for him, the twelfth brother. He was born in the royal family and grew up in the palace, so he could not have any pure people. Is this preference really a preference or a self-deception? I am afraid that he would have made too many acts and be confused.

The sixteenth prince did not keep these two pots of orchid grass by himself, so he directly transferred them to the seventeenth prince. One pot was in his own name and the other pot was directly in the name of the twelfth prince.

Half a month after the Queen Mother's funeral was held, the prince fell ill, one was the fifth prince who was raised by the Queen Mother, and the other was the seventeenth prince.

Kangxi had issued an order to order the seventeenth prince to return to his grandson to recuperate without having to schedule a shift in the coffin every day; but the fifth prince didn't say much.

After all, people pay attention to filial piety. The Queen Mother and the Fifth Prince are not only grandparents and grandchildren, but also kindness of raising him. When he gets sad, he only seems to be more filial. Besides, the Fifth Prince is no more ill than the Seventeenth Prince.

Since the seventeenth prince has been seriously ill last fall and winter, his bones have been weak, and he has been sick several times this year.

The Empress Dowager's Codon was located in Ningshou Hall. After Cao Yong arrived here, he felt familiar. Isn't his cousin the teahouse here just as the chief executive?

Ningshou Palace is a place for sacrifices, which is a place where princes and ministers share their food and sacrifice meat after sacrifice. The pork is greasy and does not have a salty taste, so you have to drink tea to relieve greasyness, so a tea room was set up in Ningshou Palace.

Cao Yin and his son have been favored by the emperor over the years. This is the first time that Cao family, the son of the family, has attracted everyone's attention.

Cao Qi is five years older than Cao Yong, twenty-eight years old this year. He has short beards and always has a down-eye eyebrow. Anyone who sees him thinks he is an honest person.

Cao Yong had to take a few more glances when he saw this clan brother because of the sixteenth prince's words. Perhaps because people have to pay attention to fate, Cao Yong would not be able to get close to him no matter what.

It was not intentionally prejudiced, but when he looked at his clan brother's respectful appearance, he felt that he was acting too hard. If he was a person who had no desires and no desires, he would not have squeezed his head and went to Beijing to work, and he would still be in this position steadily.

The Sixteenth Prince wanted to see the sky guarding the Ningshou Palace. He had to meet Cao Qi several times every day, but he didn't expect to find a big discovery.

The sixteenth prince and Cao Yong talked about it, which made Cao Yong laugh and cry.

"Furuo, although your clan brother is different from you, he is like a six or seven-point act. You really don't look like a clan brother, but more like a brother or cousin." The Sixteenth Prince said with a smile.

When Cao Yong heard this, he felt chills and whispered: "Master Sixteen, do I pretend like this?"

The sixteenth prince raised his eyebrows, looked at Cao Yong, and said, "Do you think? You are still more comfortable in front of the master. You are not so 'respectful' and 'humble' in front of others!"

Cao Yong laughed awkwardly and said, "You won't pretend to be so clumsy, right? This is from my heart. I have been traditional virtues for thousands of years, and I accidentally concentrate a few things on me."

The sixteenth prince waved his hand and said, "Besides, I will vomit. I don't know whether it's virtuous or not, but I know that Furuo's face is getting thicker and thicker."

Cao Yong joked with him, but was a little worried. He sighed and said, "If it is true as the Sixteenth Master said, we should look at him pretending to be ridiculous, then why don't others look at me like a clown? If there are people with wise eyes in this world, it would be really uncomfortable."

Seeing him like this, the sixteenth prince couldn't help laughing out loud and said, "Don't worry. Your brother is just like you six or seven points, and most people can't see it. He can see the traces, but you are ten or ten like real. What he wants is fame and fortune, and what you want is free. No matter how carefully you are, everything in this world is lost to nature. People like Furuo are born with two minds, which is rare. If I didn't know how old you are, and if you look young, you would be like his brother."

This is a praising, or a loss?

Cao Yong thought it was just a compliment. How could he say he had two scruples? He never dared to underestimate these royal people. He just lived for two lifetimes and became calm.

Not only Cao Yong and the Sixteenth Prince paid attention to Cao Qi, but others also paid attention to Cao Qi.

Some people despise him, thinking that he is just a coat slave, but pretending to be cute and not as a slave. Some people who are attracted by him, think that Cao Qi is quite talented and diligent in his work.

The one who likes this is the Fourth Prince.

People's hearts are biased. If you look at them, you will be happy no matter how you look at them. If you look at them, you can even find faults if you don't.

The Sixteenth Prince was biased when comparing Yi Cao Qi and Cao Yong. After all, Cao Yong was his relative and close friend, and Cao Qi was just a passerby. So for the same behavior, he only thought it was ridiculous when he looked at Cao Qi, and when he looked at Cao Yong, he felt it was natural.

The Fourth Prince was also biased, but he looked at Cao Qi even more liked. Although Cao Yong was respectful in his behavior, he was in a situation and had no sleek relationship with powerful people from all walks of life. Cao Qi was a few years older and much more stable.

No matter how capable this person is, his character is good and can be driven.

Behind Cao Yong, there were seven princes, Pingjun Prince's Mansion, the thirteenth prince and the sixteenth prince, which were both pros and cons.

The fourth prince gently stroked Cao Qi's information booklet and truly developed a love for talent.

However, Cao Qi was a servant in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and was in Ningshou Palace where the emperor and princes and ministers were so easy to win over. If he didn't have much trouble, he would be suspicious.

The Fourth Prince was very concerned, so he threw the book aside and temporarily put out this thought...

Cao Mansion, Lanyuan, Shangfang.

Cao Yin was lying on the kang, and Aunt Qian sat on the little mat beside the bed, holding a bowl of medicine in her hand, serving Cao Yin and taking medicine.

When Li wanted to enter the palace, he gave the matter of serving Cao Yin to Aunt Qian. Cao Yin's other concubine, Aunt Feng, was not idle either. Because she was afraid that Changsheng would be out of breath, Amethyst wanted to take care of Hengsheng, Tianyou, and manage the internal affairs, so Changsheng was sent to Feng's room with Tianhui and was taken care of by Feng.

Changsheng is already three years old, and he is the age he loves to move the most, and he is becoming naughty. Fortunately, Aunt Feng is a talented woman and usually likes to read stories. She tells stories to Changsheng and Tianhui and asks them to count a few, so she gets along well.

Aunt Qian was originally a girl and was the most considerate in taking care of people. Because of her, Cao Yin's condition has also improved much faster.

Chu Yu saw it and told his mother-in-law that he had prepared for the two aunts to buy a new pair of heads and a few good large pieces of wool.

Because of his age, Aunt Feng looked at it all indifferent; Aunt Qian was very happy and respectfully thanked Li and Chu Yu for their rewards. When she put them on, she looked younger and more pretty.

If a family is harmonious and everything goes well, and if a wife and concubine are in harmony, it is also a blessing for the family members of the house.

When Chu Yu and Cao Yong and his wife talked privately, they could only admire the old man's picky eyes. Both concubines were easy to deal with. Otherwise, with their mother-in-law's soft temperament, they might suffer any grievances.

When Cao Yong heard this, he remembered the young brother who died and the once watery Aunt Liuli. He really felt that Jiangning's life seemed to be very far away...

No matter how mourns in the palace, this family of ordinary people is concerned about the reunion year.

Therefore, after the fifteenth day of the 12th lunar month, the small private school in Cao's mansion was closed. The old master went back to Fangshan's home to celebrate the festival, and waited until after the fifteenth.

The people who are most happy about this closing of the store are these little ones. Some are talking about Master Qian, and some are thinking about playing with ice trucks.

Cao Yong had already splashed water into ice in the open space in the Cao Mansion and made a playground for his children. There were ice cars and ice tops, but he was afraid that the children would be bored in winter, so he found them some fun.

I was busy with homework and didn’t have time to come to play every day. Now that the store is closed, the elders in the family are not here, Tianyou can have fun all the time.

In addition, I recently got a college trip, and there was a pile of snow in the garden, and everyone wanted to hang out here and play with it all day long.

It was cold, and Amethyst was afraid that they would freeze, so she tightened her restraint. She only allowed her to play for an hour at noon every day. She was afraid of knocking and touching, which made many people watch.

Even so, the interest of several children has not been reduced.

On that day, at noon, the weather was sunny. After greeting Amethyst, Niu Niu and the four boys, Hang Seng and Qi Niang, went to the ice rink to play.

After finishing the ice car and the ice gyro for a while, everyone was tired of it, so Niu Niu suggested playing snowball fights.

The six people took wooden signs and divided them into two groups to play snowball fights. Niu Niu took Zuo, Zuo Cheng, and Qi Niang took Tianyou and Hang Seng.

You can neither get snow nor slip, or even lose, and you will fall aside.

The first one to come down was Zuo Cheng.

With Qi Niang's skills, she can't compare to her by avoiding snowballs or throwing snowballs. However, she was entrusted by Amethyst to take care of a few young people, so she naturally would not compete with them for the winner or lose.

Seeing Zuo Cheng go down, Qi Niang sacrificed her "accidentally" and stepped down. She walked to Zuo Cheng and squatted down. She looked at his thick cotton jacket trembling and said with a smile: "Look at this little body, it's almost like a little girl. When the weather gets warmer, my sister will teach you how to punch and kick, and you must always be stronger."

After hearing this, Zuo Cheng pouted, "I'm not like a little girl, I'm a man..." Before he finished speaking, he couldn't help but tremble again.

Seeing this, Qi Niang was a little worried. She stretched out her hand to touch Zuo Cheng's head, frowned and said, "Didn't you get hot? I've been playing outside for a long time? Sister will send you back first."

Zuo Cheng turned away, looked at the people playing in the ice rink, and said, "I won't go, I'll see my brother and the others playing."

Qi Niang knew about Zuo Cheng's weakness. She had been to the yard of Sister Tian's side, and had also diagnosed Zuo Cheng's pulse, knowing that he had no fear of chills.

Could it be that it is the sequelae of congenital deficiencies, but it has been treated for many years and has been cured.

At this moment, Tianyou was also hit by the snowball and stepped down, leaving only Hang Seng alone against Niu Niu and Zuo Cheng.

Tianyou also looked at Zuo Cheng's strangeness, looked back at the field, turned to Zuo Cheng and said, "Is the third brother cold? I'll take you back first. I won't be frozen, Aunt Tian is thinking about it."

Logically speaking, Zuo Cheng is just Cao Yin's adopted son, and he should not be like Tianyou and Hang Seng's order, but the children are old and this is very difficult to call. It's not good to call them all. After all, after entering school, they all have great names, Zuo Zhuo is Yuan Song and Zuo Zhuo is Yuan Bai.

Later, when Tianyou saw the play "Three Jeals in Taoyuan", he shouted that he wanted to invite a few younger brothers to become sworn brothers. According to the age, Tianyou stayed at the top and lived at the top, Zuo Cheng was the second, and Hang Seng was the last.

Seeing that they were so lively and interesting, Niu Niu wanted to get involved, but she was of great seniority and could not be a boss, so she could only watch.
To be continued...