Chapter 808: Snatching the Son

Li Hanyu, Li Cheng's sister and brother, Cao Yong met in his early years. Now when we see each other again, we can only sigh that life is like water and time passes. The last time we met their brother and sister was in the 49th year of Kangxi. At that time, Li Cheng was just a third-legged boy, and Li Hanyu was just a little girl about the same age as Niu Niu.

Unlike Li Nai's honest and dullness, Li Cheng is not old, but he looks so energetic. He is both polite and close to his elders, which makes Li love him so much that he wishes to hold him in his arms, just like a heart-to-heart.

The Li family will always be Cao Yong's heart disease.

However, when Cao Yong saw that Li was so happy in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a little soft.

Judging from the clues left in history, the biggest mistake of the Li family is to stand in the wrong team, right? Now that the Eighth Prince has passed away, the "Eighth Master Party" has disappeared, can the Li family escape?

Cao Yong felt quite heavy when he thought of the Ninth Prince who was messing with the water.

That night, when the banquet was held to welcome the three of Li family father and son, Cao Yong asked Li Nai indirectly. It was nothing more than which mansion to pay tribute to him, what did his uncle say?

Li Nai was not a scheming person and did not mean to hide Cao Yong. He explained the true meaning of going to Beijing on his father's order in just a few words. In addition to sending his daughter to marry, he also wanted to seek grace to become an official.

Because Li Xu is famous for his good popularity, many people have contacts with the major princes’ mansions in the capital. In addition to Jiubeizi Mansion, he also has to pay tribute to the Third Prince’s Mansion.

When Cao Yong heard this, he knew it. Li Xu still didn't give up and had the idea of ​​looking at him on the fence.

Who doesn’t know that the Ninth Prince is the spokesperson of the Fourteenth Prince; and the Third Prince has a "leader" and is also one of the candidates for the reserve position.

Cao Yong sighed in his heart, but he didn't know what to say.

Since he came on order, it was not something that he, an outsider, could change his mind by just a few words.

"Since my cousin wants to become an official, should he seek a foreign official or a capital official?" Cao Yong asked in a different voice.

Speaking of which, Li Nai is almost forty. The children of other officials, at his age, should have been promoted to the imperial examination or donated to an official position.

"My father meant that I wanted me to be the official in the capital." Li Nai said: "My father said that the Li family would not always be in the weaving office. After... there will always be a day to return to Beijing. But it is really a shortage. I don't have to wait first. I will donate my top clothes before talking about it."

This was also clear. Cao Yong hesitated in his heart, whether he had to persuade his cousin to add the Fourth Prince's Mansion when he was in the capital. However, thinking about the thirteenth Prince's mansion a few days ago, Cao Yong stopped what he said.

If you talk too much, you will lose it. The Fourth Prince is also a very easy-to-be mindful person.

A meal can be considered a meal that makes the guests happy.

In Li Nai's heart, Cao Yong's cousin was already very close, and he was grateful to his "finding people for justice" behavior in the past few years.

After dinner, the night became darker and Li Nai and his son bid farewell.

Li knew that since his nephew came to Beijing, he would not be allowed to visit relatives and friends, nor would he keep him. However, his niece Li Hanyu said that he would not let anyone go and stay in this mansion for a few days.

There was no hostess in the Li Mansion in Beijing who presided over the gift, and he kept his daughter to learn the rules in Cao Mansion, and Li Nai was also willing to do so.

In this way, Li Hanyu lived in Cao's Mansion.

This delayed the trip of the Cao family to Zhuangzi in Changping.

Cao Yan and Cao Yi have been married for many years, and there is a rare girl around her who is about to marry, and she is also close relatives. Li had to ask someone to cut new clothes for her niece, buy new jewelry, and add makeup and braised clothes for her, and she was very busy.

Cao Yong and Chu Yu were both afraid that she would be sad and felt idle. When something was diverted from her attention, they were happy to see it happen.

Li Hanyu and his younger brother Li Cheng have completely different personalities, just like his father Li Nai, who is honest and honest. For this reason, Chu Yu even loves her more.

When Li Nai went to Beijing to seek an official position, in addition to paving the way back to Beijing for the Li family, the key was also the marriage of this daughter.

Although the family where the Li family was engaged was not a prominent family in the Eight Banners, they were the family of the famous families, Fan Wencheng, the founding prime minister of the Qing Dynasty.

The Fan family is from the Han army's Huangqi Banner. They have a very good personal relationship with Li Xu. This is Fan Wencheng's grandson. He was formerly the former emperor of Zhejiang, Fujian and currently the left censor of the Inspectorate.

The person who had an engagement with Li Hanyu was Fan Shichong's second-sun Fan Yongwen. He was the same age as Li Hanyu. He was a juren in the 56th year of Kangxi. He failed the exam last spring.

The Cheng family has been prominent for several generations, which is different from the Baoyi family like the Li family. Li Xu can marry his family, which is also considered a "grand daughter".

Although Fan Yongwen's father died early and lived with his grandfather, since the Li family went to the Fan family to marry his daughter, Li Nai, a father, couldn't arrange to send a marriage under the name of a prison student.

Even if there is no real vacancies, the official title must be donated to organize a marriage.

Cao Yong had heard of the Fan family for a long time, and had heard his father talk about the "loyalty" of the Fan family's generations to the court.

At that time, Cao Yong disagreed. After all, Fan Wencheng was a Han man. As a Han man, he helped Huang Taiji conquer the world and finally seized the Han man's power. After hundreds of years, he would be called a "big traitor".

Cao Yong thought of his daughter Tianhui just because Li Hanyu was about to marry.

"Marry a daughter from a high family" and "Marry a daughter from a high family", I still don't know whose daughter will fall into in the future. Thinking about it, I feel that I can't stand it.

Li took the initiative for half a month, and the new clothes for his granddaughter were cut, the jewelry was ready, and it was early March.

The spring is bright and the weather is sunny. Li can't help but feel moved when he remembered the incident of his son and wife mentioning the fact that he had a short stay in Changping Villa.

After cleaning up here, Li Nai went to Cao's house again.

This time, we did not pay tribute to Li, but came here to find Cao Yong.

However, in half a month, Li Nai became much haggard. Cao Yong was a little puzzled when he saw this. As far as he knew, the donation of an official was quite complete, and now Li Nai is already the alternate prefect.

Although it is not a real flaw, the fourth-rank top wear is real, and the Cheng family can be considered to be able to get married.

"Cousin... Everyone says that family shame should not be made public, but now Brother Yu is really embarrassed. He has to ask his aunt and cousin to help him deal with it." Li Nai blushed, hesitated for a while, and said to Cao Yong.

Seeing that he was like this, Cao Yong did not dare to agree directly, and said, "Cousin, what else can I do to bother our wife? They are not outsiders. If they can help, they will have nothing to say."

If he couldn't help, he felt that he wouldn't be able to take care of that porcelain job.

"Hey! Hey!" Li Nai sighed twice, shook his head and said, "I really don't know where to start, it's just a joke."

Next, he said the reason.

Cao Yong was stunned when he heard this, and he really felt like a legend.

It turned out that the day after Li Nai entered Beijing, he took his son to his brother-in-law Sun Jue's house. When Sun Jue called out a few children to Li Nai to greet him, Li Nai discovered something was wrong.

Sun Jue's twin son, whose appearance is quite similar to Li Cheng.

Li Cheng is Sun Jue's nephew, and it is quite common for cousins ​​to look a little like his cousins. However, Li Cheng does not look like his mother, Sun, but like his uncle - the late Li Ding.

The twins of the Sun family have thin eyebrows and eyes, which is also the Li family.

Sun Jue may meet every day, and he doesn't think there is anything wrong with his son. However, Li Nai remembered an old incident. When Li Ding just disappeared, he had been to the capital. He still remembers that he heard the butler mention his younger brother giving his maid to Sun Jue.

When he was born, he was quite disagreeing. After all, starting from the Cao family, the Cao and Li families were much closer than the Cao and Sun families. In order to make friends with Sun Jue, it was not a good idea to make the Cao family feel unhappy.

He pretended to ask the twins about their birth dates, but they were almost the same as their niece Xiangyu, so why didn't he feel secretly shocked?

After leaving the Sun family and returning to Li's house, he asked the butler and confirmed that the two maids given to Sun Jue were indeed used by his younger brother. Li Nai could almost determine that the twins were the brother's bones and blood.

He had a deep brotherly relationship with Li Ding, and his younger brother died suddenly when he was young. The murderer still has no way to investigate, and he has always felt deeply regretful. Now, since he knows that his younger brother has blood and is wandering outside, how can he remain indifferent?

He immediately wrote a letter from his family and ordered his confidant to leave Beijing and return to Suzhou.

After waiting for half a month, I finally received a reply from my father, only a few lines, asking him to ask Li to be a member of the Cao family and recognize his relatives after bleeding.

Cao Yong frowned when he heard this. This was really a great event.

I really didn't expect that the twins of the Sun family were not Sun Jue's flesh and blood, but Li Ding's posthumous son.

Cao Yong was quite strange in his heart. After all, he asked someone to remove Li Ding. After all, things related to Li Ding have appeared over the years, so I really don’t know what to say.

However, Cao Yong was not interested in accepting the word "middle man".

In this way, the Cao family, the Li family and the Sun family are tied together. Moreover, with the dark side of this matter, even if the Cao family comes forward, they will often have to lose their sides, and they may have to bear the complaints of the two families.

Li Xu is an old fox and is unwilling to break up with the Sun family, so he thought about pulling the Cao family into the water. Cao Yong is not a fool, so how could he let him do it?

He pondered for a few words and said, "Big Cousin, this is probably inappropriate. You know the character of the second brother-in-law, and you love face the most. This confusing the affairs of descendants is not worthy of being told by outsiders. If it happens, I am afraid that the second brother-in-law will be annoyed. After all, he is the eldest cousin's brother-in-law, so it is better for the eldest cousin to whisper. The two families will discuss how to end the matter. After all, this time my cousin went to Beijing mainly to send her niece off to get married. If something bad is heard at this moment, it will be difficult for the niece to go out at her in-laws' house."

Li Nai did not agree with his father's instructions.

After all, this is a private matter between Li and Sun's families. Even if they can't hide it from the Cao family in the end, it is not easy to tell the relatives loudly.

After hearing Cao Yong's words, Li Nai felt too uneasy, and nodded, saying, "What my cousin said is exactly, Brother Yu is also so concerned. It's better not to disturb my aunt for the time being, and wait for me to find an opportunity to mention this matter with Sun Jue before watching."

Although he has no close friends, Cao Yong has some understanding of Sun Jue after his relatives have sat down over the years.

Sun Jue is an authentic Confucius and Mencius child. He is arrogant, hypocritical, and macho. Cao Ying has been married to him for more than ten years, and his children are in their teens. If he wants to return to his hometown, he has to ask for instructions before he asks for instructions, and he will give his husband the same as the sky.

And the more people are in front of him, the more Sun Jue is given a clue to the family. Even if he accompanied his wife and children back to Cao's house once, he would not be able to tolerate his wife and children. He had to scold his son before he could speak.

If he knew that he had raised a son for someone else for several years, Sun Jue would not be furious.

Looking at Li Nai's appearance, he didn't seem to be able to speak cleverly. If the matter was not handled well, he would have to worry about his mother in the end. Cao Yong could not tolerate this.

"Big cousin, my second brother-in-law has been a Beijing official in recent years, and the expenses are high and he is a little tight." Cao Yong thought about it, but decided to help Li Nai and said.

"I can't blame you. How many fakes are there in the living room?" Li Nai didn't understand the meaning at first, and then said. Halfway through, he understood the taste. He looked at Cao Yong gratefully and said, "Thank you, cousin, I know!"

After sending Li Nai, Cao Yong finally got his way, and the next day he took his family to Changping.

Although he has only been mourning for half a year, the so-called major affairs of the court seem to be far from what Cao Yong wants to go.

Cao Yong didn't care about the glory of the 14th Prince. It was just like the eldest prince, the second prince and the eighth prince. It was just a tragedy.

The initiator of this tragedy is either someone else or Kangxi.

Kangxi contributed to the fire, amplified his sons' ambitions, gave them hope to seize the reserve, and then broke this hope himself.

He was not tired of playing such a game, and Cao Yong was tired of watching it.

Life is like morning dew. I used to be too busy. Who can guarantee that I can live to the age of seventy or eighty?

Cao Yong decided to live for himself, spend more time with his mother, personally inquire about his children's education, and accompany his wife to see the peach blossoms and plum trees. This is also the pleasure of spring.
To be continued...