Chapter 797: The First Fu

On the first day of July, Cao Yong rested and did not go to the yamen to serve.

He was unwilling to do it big, but when he saw his wife and mother were in high spirits, they arranged it. After all, they didn't go out all day long and didn't go in two, and their lives were too monotonous.

Early in the morning, Cao Yong wore a royal blue robe and a ten thousand silk hat on his head. He went to Lanyuan with Chuyu to pay tribute to Cao Yin and Li. Cao Yin and his wife returned home just to celebrate their son's birthday.

Thinking that twenty-five years ago, he was just in his infancy, and now his children are in full swing, Cao Yin and his wife sighed.

Cao Yong picked up the front and kowtowed his parents three times in a regular manner. Not only for the past ten years of flesh and blood, but also for his nostalgia for his parents in the previous life.

After Cao Yong kowtowed, Li stood up and helped his son up, put the eighteen-son hand beads held in his hand on Cao Yong's wrist, and said, "This is the Buddhist beads that I opened in Guangji Temple a few days ago, so that my son can be safe and happy."

The hand bead still had the warmth. Cao Yong felt warm in his heart. He helped Li sit down by the kang and whispered: "In the past, his son was unfilial, which affected his parents' concerns and felt very ashamed. In the future, he will definitely uphold the kindness, cherish himself, and let his parents show their worries."

As a mother, Li only felt that honor, wealth and honor were not as good as his children's health. He heard his son say so considerately, which was also a relief to the boss.

Cao Yin looked at his son and his face became more and more kind. He looked like a shining shining Cao's family, filial to his parents, and taking care of his brothers and nephews. There was no need to explain these words.

After Cao Yong asked his parents for peace, his breasts came in with Changsheng.

Born in the winter of the 54th year of Kangxi, Changsheng, now four years old. He is so pink and jade-like, with black eyes that are very likable. He is Cao Yong's brother and looks mostly like Xiao's mother, and looks exactly like Cao Yong when he was a child.

After he had given Cao Yin's parents peace, he walked to Cao Yong and said in a silence: "I wish my elder brother good luck, wealth and health." He said that, and bowed in a good manner.

Such a lovely look made everyone laugh.

Cao Yong bent down, picked up Changsheng, put it on his knees, and asked with a smile: "We Changsheng will celebrate our birthday, who did you learn this from?"

Changsheng just laughed, fiddling with Cao Yong's front button with his little hands, and not speaking.

At this moment, a maid came to report that several young masters and girls arrived.

A row of little heads, I greeted my grandparents and my parents (parents) and did not forget to greet the immortals in Cao Yong's arms. Then a maid brought a mat, and Tianyou and his wife knelt down to Cao Yong to celebrate his birthday.

Just after the worship here, a wife in charge came in to report that the servants in charge of the internal and external affairs were going to pay their birthday to the young master Cao Yong.

Cao Yong gave up Changsheng and first went to the front yard hall to accept the congratulations from the male servants; then returned to Wutongyuan and kowtowed by the internal managers.

Next, there is a family of greetings, and there is no rest for half a day.

Because it was Cao Yong's birthday, except for his colleagues in the officialdom, he was old or young; most of his relatives and friends came to his homes.

Several cousins ​​from the East Mansion and several brothers from the Chun Palace were all over, and they all came to celebrate Cao Yong's birthday.

Looking at Cao Fu like a little adult, he treats people with no mistakes; Hongxin, the fourth prince of Prince Chun’s mansion, is also seventeen years old, and I heard that he will be accusing him of marriage this year. Cao Yong felt a sense of vicissitudes in his heart.

Starting a family and starting a career, marrying a wife and having children, life seems to be perfect. It is going with the flow again, and it seems that nothing is done.

It was not until late at night that the guests dispersed one after another, and Cao Yong was left with only fatigue.

Chuyu served Cao Yong to change his clothes and pinched his shoulders. Cao Yong grabbed her hand and said, "You have been busy for a day, let's talk."

The couple, lying on the mat, was talking nonsense.

"My master loved listening to music when he was in Jiangnan. The team he invited today is very happy. The master looked very happy." Cao Yong said.

Chu Yu said: "I heard from my wife that the master wrote operas himself in his early years and rehearsed them in Jiangnan."

Cao Yong closed his eyes and said, "Yes, when he was in Jiangning in his early years, he had a troupe at home to take over the horse. When he arrived in the capital, everything was not cheap, but he was not as comfortable as he was in Jiangning."

Speaking of this, Cao Yong remembered the manuscripts compiled by his father over the past two years.

The troupe of buying opera looks too ostentatious, and my father will not let him go; on the other side of the manuscript, you can do your best.

Cao Yin was already in Jiazi, and he was already in the air. Every time Cao Yong saw his father, he felt uneasy, afraid that he would fall ill.

The next day, after Cao Yong got up, he sent someone to the East Mansion to ask Cao to bow.

Cao Fu is the youngest son of the second house, and two brothers on him have already taken office, so he is not in a hurry to arrange for him to take office. After the examination was completed, he still returned to the Eight Banners School to study.

According to Cao Yin and Cao Yong's idea, he wanted to wait for Cao Feng to take another exam before talking about it. He was seventeen years old this year and was only twenty years later. If he didn't win the title, it would be good to make up for the sixth department.

Seeing that his cousin called him over early in the morning, Cao Fu was very questioning.

Cao Yong explained the reason straightforwardly, and wanted to find a family workshop and print his father's early poems, which was to fulfill his long-cherished wish for his father. However, he still remembered the "Nanshan Collection Case" that shocked the government and the public in the past few years, so he had to give him a few more instructions.

In fact, he was thinking too much. Cao Yin came from a family of Baoyi and was bathing in the emperor's grace as a child. Even if he wrote poems, he was mostly grateful and praise, which was not the same as those scholars in Jiangnan.

Cao Fu's eyes were already lit up when he heard this, and he said, "Brother, how many boxes do you want to print?"

Cao Yong didn't think about it in his heart and said, "I can hear the master's opinion. One hundred boxes or two hundred boxes are fine. In addition to giving gifts to relatives and friends, the rest must be passed down to descendants. I want to be a member of the ministry and cannot serve the master. I will trouble my fifth brother in this publication."

When Cao Feng heard this, hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother, can my younger brother take a few months off from the official school? I have heard what the Master said long ago. I went to Dian Mao every day, but I just messed with everyone."

"You can take leave, but don't miss your homework. You have to deal with the annual exam. Otherwise, there will be no more long-winded words on the side of the master." Cao Yong thought for a while and said.

Cao Fuhuan responded happily. Seeing that it was getting late, Cao Yong left the mansion and went to the yamen...

This July 2nd is the opening day of the "Da Qing Bank".

Cao Yong was limited by his identity and did not go there. After all, he has left the Office of the Interior and the counselor behind him is okay, so it is a bit out of place for him to show up in front of him.

The sixteenth prince was the most monkey spirit. He pulled the fourteenth prince and the seventeenth prince to the bank gate to lift the plaque.

The four words "Da Qing Bank" on this plaque are written by the emperor and the emperor's calligraphy.

There are five spacious lobbies with five-foot-high counters. On the counter are iron bars as thick as thumbs, which separate the inside and outside. It is a bit like a traditional money house, but it is different.

The brothers were sitting and chatting when they saw Zhao Feng bowing in and saying a few words in the ear of the Sixteenth Prince.

When the sixteenth prince heard this, he couldn't help but change his face.

Seeing this, the 14th Prince asked, "Is it news from the palace? What's wrong with the Second Concubine?"

The second concubine was seriously ill at the end of May, and it was only a time to support it. When the news arrived at Rehe, Kangxi personally ordered the Imperial Hospital to treat it. After learning that the medicine stone was ineffective, he also named several older concubines in the harem to visit.

Although the second concubine's crown prince's concubine Ce Bao was destroyed when the second concubine was abolished the crown prince in the 51st year of Kangxi, she was the legitimate prince concubine selected by Kangxi himself. As the crown prince's concubine, she has been in charge of palace affairs for more than 20 years.

The sixteenth prince shook his head and said, "It's not the Second Concubine, but Li Guangdi disappeared last night. Zhao Feng just saw the Li family's children going out to report the death."

While speaking, the Sixteenth Prince couldn't help but frown.

I had never heard of Li Guangdi's illness before. It seemed that he had arrived. Li Guangdi was about to be 80 years old, which was considered a long life. However, in this way, the old ministers in front of the emperor's father died in vain.

I don’t know what the emperor thought about when the news reached Rehe...

Two days later, Rehe, the Summer Resort.

Kangxi sat behind the imperial case, looked at Li Guangdi's legacy in front of him, and remained silent for a long time. He remembered clearly that Li Guangdi was a Jinshi in the ninth year of Kangxi, and has been around for nearly fifty years.

It seems that it was all the past life to pacify the Three Feudalists and conquer Taiwan.

Li Guangdi had been begging for a long time, because he was nostalgic for his old love. He kept the memorials every time just to keep more old ministers by his side.

In early April, before the Holy Lord left the capital, Li Guangdi trembled to pay homage to the emperor. He was afraid that he would not be able to endure the hardships of the journey, so he allowed him to rest in the capital without following Hu Rehe. Unexpectedly, in this way, he would say goodbye to the king and his subjects.

Kangxi picked up his pen and wrote in a memorial to the Ministry of Rites officials: "I will pay my burial sacrifice to Li Guangdi, the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion and Minister of Personnel, and posthumously posthumously to Wenzhen."

Kangxi put down his pen and was about to ask someone to send the memorial to him when he saw Wei Zhu come in and report, "Your Majesty, Prince Kang asks for a meeting."

When Kangxi heard this, his heart skipped a beat and said in a deep voice: "Xuan."

After a while, Prince Kang Chong'an followed Wei Zhu in. He was Zuo Zongzheng of the Zongren Mansion and followed Hu Rehe, and all the reports were reported to the Zongren Mansion.

Looking at the comments that had been missed with white seals, Kangxi sighed in his heart and said, "How many have been left untold, do you have any last words?"

Chong'an knelt down and replied: "Fujin died on the second day of the first lunar month. When he was dying, Fujin kowtowed to the northeast to thank him."

Kangxi only felt his eyes sore. It was the crown princess he personally selected, which was enough for his mother to treat the world. His princely father was a failure. The crown prince he trained himself was useless. The crown prince he personally selected died of depression.

Wei Zhu was beside him, and when he saw the abnormal flush on Kangxi's face, he felt frightened. Within a day, he received two letters of destruction, even ordinary people could not stand it, let alone the emperor's health has been bad for the past six months...

Capital, Forbidden City, Xian'an Palace.

There was a plain white area in the main hall, and two rows of guards wearing mourning clothes stood on both sides of the coffin of the Second Concubine.

This was the decree that Kangxi issued by the Second Concubine after the Second Concubine was seriously ill, and ordered the Minister of the Inner Guard to take thirty guards to filial piety for the Second Concubine.

According to the etiquette system, the prince and concubines were mourning, and only twenty guards were wearing filial piety. Although Kangxi did not restore the title of Crown Princess of the Second Princess, the mourning ceremony was equivalent to the Crown Princess.

As a guard of the foreign class, Cao Song was selected for the candidates for filial piety this time.

Although I had never seen the woman in the coffin, everyone praised her kind and kind celebrity, and Cao Song also felt a little respect in his heart. If there was no storm of the second deposed prince, then this woman would be the mother of the country.

After all, Xian'an Palace is a place where the deposed prince is imprisoned. Even if the funeral is organized, the only ones who come to mourn are the older princes under the second prince's name.

Seeing the funeral so deserted, Cao Song was deeply touched.

It was the time and the momentum. The dignified former crown princess was not even as good as the ordinary people after her death.

Except for the older concubines in the harem who came to worship, there were several princes and concubines outside. However, they all left after taking incense sticks. After all, this is Xian'an Palace, not anywhere else.

The fourth concubine went out of the palace in front of the second concubine, and had some thoughts in his heart.

Before the family was divided in the early years, she also lived in the elder brother's house for a few years. As her sister-in-law, Erfujin gave her more tips on her and got along very well with her sister-in-law.

Since the end of May, the second concubine was seriously ill, and the fourth concubine has been thinking about visiting. However, in the imperial edict, only a few older concubines were allowed to visit, and others did not have the will. How could they go to and from Xian'an Palace?

In June, after Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong visited the Second Concubine, they asked the Fourth Concubine to enter the palace and conveyed the meaning of the Second Concubine. The Second Concubine only had one biological daughter, the third princess, and the wedding date was delayed due to the illness. The Second Concubine was most concerned about was this daughter. There was also a sixth concubine. This year, the Third Concubine was the most close to the third princess.

The second concubine's meaning is to entrust the two daughters to the fourth concubine's upbringing.

The fourth concubine knew that this was not something he could do, so she went back and mentioned it to the fourth prince. The fourth prince was passing a message between Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong, so she delayed it because she was afraid that there would be other connections.
To be continued...