Chapter 174 Yunsan

Fortunately, it rained for two consecutive days on May 24th and May 25th, which made the people in the capital feel much more at ease. Three days from the 24th, it was the third time that slaughtering animals and praying for rain, but the rain fell as timely. The drought has eased, and everyone's fear of the epidemic has faded a little. More and more people began to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha to pray that the epidemic would pass as soon as possible, and pray that the Buddha would bless the safety of the family.

It is also that there are small Buddhist temples in Cao Mansion, Wutong Garden and Kuiyuan.

Cao Yong originally wanted to advise Chu Yu and Zi Jing not to believe these gods, Buddhas and ghosts, but the two of them used the matter of praying for rain to explain that "the sincere heart will make the spirit", but he really could not refute it for the time being.

Speaking of this, Cao Yong was also puzzled. He prayed for rain three times, twice, and once, although the rain had not fallen, the sky was cloudy. Is there anything involved? It is really because the person who prayed for rain was sincere or not? This is really too incredible.

Kangxi naturally would not take the responsibility on himself. This prayer for rain was originally the responsibilities of the Minister of Rites. The first time he was the Minister of Rites Bei Henuo. As a result, it was cloudy for a while and the rain had not yet fallen. Then the imperial edict scolded him as a "lazy and relaxed person". When he prayed for rain again, he ordered the Minister of Revenue Mu Helun to pray for him.

Although he had experienced the resurrection from the dead, Cao Yong was still unable to convince himself to believe these gods and ghosts. Later, as Mr. Zhuang asked for advice, he confirmed that it was indeed the Imperial Heaven Supervision made a "forecast" of rain, and then the imperial edicts set rain prayers based on these forecasts. It was just a means of fooling the people, but it was of great benefit to stabilizing the people's hearts.

On May 26th, after being sealed for twenty days, Dun County Prince's Mansion was lifted, which also appeased many people. In just over half a month, there were more than 30 servants who died suddenly in the tenth prince's mansion, so he naturally had nothing to say. Moreover, compared to Prince Cheng's mansion, which had broken the little prince's mansion and the East Palace, which had died young prince's mansion, it was a blessing that he had just died of some servants.

The Ninth Prince had been depressed for more than ten days. When he escorted the concubines to Rehe, he met the Sixteenth Prince who was ordered to return two days after leaving Beijing. He had no reason to follow him, and he did not dare to stay outside the capital without a grace, so he had to return to Beijing again.

Outside the Dun County Prince's Mansion, the Fourth Prince, the Ninth Prince, the Thirteenth Prince, Tuoheqi and Cao Yong were all there. When the surrounding officers and soldiers retreated, when the gate of the royal palace opened, everyone looked at the door.

The tenth prince came over leisurely with a few followers, clasped his fists at the princes and said, "Thank you three brothers and thirteenth brothers for coming to see me!" He was already a little thin, his eyes were sinking, and he looked really haggard.

The Ninth Prince frowned and said, "How did these slaves serve? Is it that the tenth brother is missing? Hurry up and invite the imperial physician to see what is going on?"

The tenth prince waved his hand quickly: "Good brother, please spare me! Although my brother has not been infected these days, I have been drinking a lot of anti-epidemic medicines, which can not be used every meal, which affects my appetite and eat less! This Imperial Doctor brother is considered to be fed up, and it is best to stay away from you in the future. You can never see the prescription for ten or eight years!"

Seeing that everyone except the Ninth Prince had lost weight, the Tenth Prince felt a little balanced, but the eyes looked at Cao Yong were a little complicated.

The Fourth Prince looked over the gate, looked at the Tenth Prince again, and said with a little deep meaning: "Tenth Brother, I heard that many servants have died suddenly in your mansion in the past twenty days. The records of this person's name are all on the side of the burial ground. Should I call an official from the Interior Office to register the population in the Tenth Brother's Mansion again?"

The tenth prince raised his eyebrows: "Of course I want it, but there is no hurry at the moment. I have to wait a little longer. The epidemic is over. Brothers are not like the third brother's mansion. They have not yet been 'released'. The brothers are all dead. If something is spread by outsiders, how can they be?"

The ban on the Third Prince's mansion was made by the Third Prince himself. He said it very righteously. In fact, it was just because he felt that the epidemic errand was hot. Even after finishing, he offended too many people and did not get any benefits. So he hid in the mansion like this.

This is extremely unfavorable to the Fourth Prince. If you don’t know the details, you might think that he had just captured his younger brother and his older brother in order to seize power.

The Fourth Prince also heard some of these rumors. Now that the Tenth Prince had just come out of the mansion, he knew about the matter outside the mansion, and there was another source of information. Thinking about the more than thirty corpses sent out from his mansion, they were all young and strong. Although they all had names and surnames, they still felt that something was wrong.

In addition to the incident at the beginning of the month, he also inquired about some information and knew that there seemed to be many young and strong people in the Tenth Prince's mansion. All kinds of clues pointed directly at the Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince. How could he not suspect that the Tenth Prince was killing someone to silence him?

But there is a lot of things right now, and it is not the time to pursue this. The Fourth Prince suppressed the disgust in his heart, responded to a few more words, and took the Thirteenth Prince away. After asking Heqi and Cao Yong to pay tribute to the Tenth Prince, he also returned to the Infantry Office.

Looking at their backs, the Ninth Prince glanced at the Tenth Prince and said, "Did you see, the most treacherous person is the fourth brother! Who doesn't know that this epidemic is difficult to prevent, why the third brother hides? If it is really a good job that has made merit, even if he is really sick, he will not be willing to let go. It's just that he knows the difficulties, so just this is the case! The fourth brother is cruel, even if he wants to make merit, he doesn't complain. When the thirteenth person cuts his head, who will still think about the mistakes of the fourth brother!"

The tenth prince shook his head: "No! Thirteen has been following the fourth brother since he was young, and it seems that the two of them are really good!"

The Ninth Prince glanced at the corner of his mouth: "If you don't believe it, just wait and see, see what the fourth brother has to do, what will happen to Thirteen? What kind of brotherhood is just a bullshit, so I'll scare Thirteen that stupid boy!"

The tenth prince looked at the ninth prince, but did not respond. He looked at the direction of Cao Yong and Tuo together, and fell into deep thought.

In June, as the ban was lifted from one household after another, the capital, which had been shrouded by the shadow of the epidemic for a month, gradually recovered from the vitality. In mid-June, fewer and fewer people died of the epidemic in the outer city and the inner city had died suddenly due to the epidemic, and it had lasted for many days. By the end of June, several heavy rains came, and the earlier drought had long disappeared.

No one would notice that the Thirteenth Prince returned to his mansion and started his "rest" career without leaving the house again; Cao Yong took off his errands of epidemic prevention and returned to the Ministry of Revenue and continued to serve as a qualified chief of the department.

The third prince did not know whether to gloat or feel sad, because Kangxi ordered the third prince and the fourth prince to take strict supervision on the memorial to him and the fourth prince, and ordered the third prince and the fourth prince to take strict supervision, and ordered: "Yinxiang is a person who is not very diligent in learning loyalty and filial piety. If you let it go, you must meet him in the same place, so you must be careful!"

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On the first day of July, early in the morning, the inner and outer city gates, which were blocked due to the epidemic, finally slowly opened under the anticipation of the people, announcing that the epidemic in the capital had become history.

Someone had already prepared gongs and drums, and the gongs and drums were sounded together, and the sound of firecrackers was very festive and lively. Although some families had lost their relatives due to the epidemic and hung white lanterns, they were still grateful that they were able to survive the disaster.

He Maocai arrived at Cao's mansion at noon that day when he opened the city gate. He had no news for two months, and all kinds of rumors outside the capital were strange and strange. He was really worried. Until he saw Cao Yong and knew that everyone here was safe, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Cao Yong asked about the crops there. Although the wells were dug, the drought was only relieved and yield reduction was inevitable. Even so, it was much better than those crops without well water. Because it was raining in mid-May and watering in the late month, the land without well watering did not have time to grow grain, so they could only grow crops that were ripe quickly.

Fortunately, because the countryside is not as good as the capital, there is no epidemic.

After the gossip, Cao Yong remembered something was wrong: "Uncle Cai, is there a notice outside the city? Did the notice tell me about opening the city gate today in advance? Otherwise, why did you enter the city so early?"

He Maocai slapped his forehead: "Look at my memory, I've been nagging these people, and I've forgotten the serious business!" As he said that, he asked the servant who came with him to hand over a basket: "It's the old man's birthday today. The old man and the family have prepared it a long time ago. Although he knew that the city gate was closed, he still wanted to try his luck. This is just a coincidence. It shows that the old man has a deep blessing and will definitely be extraordinary in the future!"

Cao Yong was moved and thanked him, asking someone to take him to the guest room to take a rest.

It was my birthday again, and Cao Yong stretched his body. He couldn't blame Chu Yu for the past two days. He asked him what food he liked, which showed that he had prepared it with care.

Because Fujian was hit by disasters this year, and the hungry riots, their Fujian Branch has been a little busy these two days. Today, because of the city gate, everyone was happy and finished their chores early and returned home.

If I remembered it as soon as possible, I would invite some friends to come and have fun. In the past two months, the epidemic has caused a lot of trouble. Except for those who have jobs in Beijing, everyone has closed their doors and has not been able to see each other for a long time. I also thought of Ning Chun, because he was busy with epidemic prevention, even though he was at Ning Chun's door twice, it was difficult to get in.

I don’t know if I’m lucky, but I thought of Ning Chun. Ning Chun arrived. Yongqing, who had not seen him for more than two months, was still there. When the two saw Cao Yong coming out to greet him, they both smiled and clasped their fists: “I’ll give you a greeting to the birthday boy!”

Ning Chun raised his head again and said with a little dissatisfaction: "But there is not even a post. We who want to drink your birthday wine have to come to the door with our face licked our face!"

Cao Yong smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I'm not meant to be lazy. I'm really busy these days and never thought of the birthday!" Seeing Yongqing wearing blue clothes, it seemed that he had finished his mourning period, I was happy for him.

Yongqing raised his face and pointed at Cao Yong and said, "Since I found out that you were transferred by the Fourth Prince to prevent the epidemic, I have been worried about you. I also thought that you are a young man and should know the degree, but I have made a comeback in Prince Dun's Mansion!"

Cao Yong knew that he was treating himself sincerely and was not annoyed, so he argued: "At that time, I just wanted to curb the epidemic as soon as possible, and I didn't think so much!"

Perhaps because they heard the two of them talk about the epidemic, they remembered the deceased Qiuniang, and Ning Chun's expression was a little dim. When Cao Yong and Yongqing met, they tacitly changed the topic.

Now that the rain is enough, there is no need to continue the work of drought resistance. Ning Chun is also very excited when he starts his future. Although the contribution of the Ministry of Works to resist drought is not as great as Cao Yong, it is beneficial to the national economy and famous students after all, and it is more or less a political record. If the three years of responsibilities are over, this will be very beneficial.

As he was talking, Ning Chun envied Cao Yong again. He was the youngest among the three, but now he is a fifth-rank official. Now he has made great contributions to the fourth prince's epidemic prevention. If he can't protect him, he will have any rewards.

Cao Yong knew in his heart that even if he had worked hard for the past two months, the court could not have any rewards. Even if the epidemic situation in the capital was in trouble, they would be afraid that they would turn big things into small things, and finally whitewash the peace, and just pretend that nothing had happened. After working for more than half a year, he actually realized this point. It was a bit ridiculous, but it was the fact that it was.

Yongqing felt a little embarrassed when he listened to the two of them. He was the oldest and came out to work early, but he had not made any progress for many years and was delayed for filial piety for twenty-seven months.

He was originally a guard of the guard camp of the Red Flags. Unlike the guard camp of the upper three flags stationed in the palace, the lower five flags were also in the capital, but they were guarding the gates of the prince's mansion.

The royal residence has its own guards, so why do outsiders need to be stationed at the gate? They are just dealing with responsibilities and patrolling near the royal residence on time. They are very leisurely, but they have no chance of promotion.

Cao Yong also thought of Yongqing's job and asked, "Did you have any worries on my uncle? Do you still go back to the guard camp directly? Do you need to talk to the Tongping Palace?"

Yongqing shook his head with a wry smile: "My mama is busy with his own recovery. My second brother is also going to be a job this year, and there is also my girl's business. I am afraid that after this busyness, I will not care about my side for the time being! I originally thought that I would either ask the 14th Prince or ask the Prince to Ping, but now these two men are in charge, so I can only wait and see!"

"Next year is the year of the draft. Your girl is preparing now, is it too early?" Ning Chun said in confusion.
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