Jiangning, Cao's Western Prefecture.

When Cao Feng heard that his brother summoned him in the side hall of the front yard, he felt very nervous and asked in a low voice: "Fourth brother, do you know why?"

Cao Xiang turned around, looked at his handsome brother, and said, "What else can I do? I didn't listen to you before. My second brother has a good temper. You just recognize more later. Don't talk back. You are not aware of this."

Although the two brothers are not the same mother, they are only half a year apart and have been together since childhood, so they are closer than other brothers.

Cao Feng stuck out his tongue mischievously and said with a smile: "It's not Madam He, I feel sorry for my brother wearing coarse cloth clothes that he had been wearing for four months. Now the season is changing. I remember that it's okay inside and others can't see it, so I found the fine cloth underwear!"

Because there were also his legitimate mother and two brothers, Cao Xiang would not talk to each other at this time, but seeing his younger brother as he did not admit his mistake at all, he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, and stopped and said seriously: "'Filial piety is the first of all virtues. My father gave birth to us. As children, what can be rewarded is to keep filial piety! Even if you hide it from everyone, you can hide it from yourself? Is it from fine cloth or soft silk? Are you the only one in the mansion?"

Cao Fu was speechless, smiled twice, and said, "Okay, Fourth Brother, I know you're wrong! These etiquette rules are very complicated, but they are just things on the surface and may not be followed. They are filial sons, all in their hearts, all in their hearts!"

Cao Xiang shook his head and disagreed with his younger brother's words. If he could not even keep the filial piety on his face, what would the filial piety look like? For the sake of his younger brother, Cao Xiang still couldn't help but ask him to put away the purse at his waist. Although this was also made of white and made of muslin, the lace was embroidered with silver thread.

Cao Feng followed the advice and took it down and copied it into his cuff.

It is hard for the two brothers to wait for a long time, so they walked a few steps and arrived at the front yard.

The front yard is filled with Cao Quan's spiritual seat. Now, he does not speak there in his daily life, but only in the West Hall.

In addition to Cao Song, Zhaojia and Cao Shuo were also present. Cao Fu felt more at ease. Since his mother was there, his brother was just scolding him.

Cao Xiang did not expect that his brother would invite his mother to come. Although he was a little surprised, he still invited An in a regular manner. Cao Feng was the same and greeted his mother and two brothers.

Zhao Jia originally wanted to speak, but before he opened his mouth, he closed his mouth. Cao Songhan looked at Cao Feng, then pointed to Cao Shuo's seat at the bottom of his head, and said to Cao Xiang: "Fourth, sit down!"

When Cao Xiang sat down, Cao Song looked at Cao Wu and said nothing for a while.

Cao Fu was so guilty that he squeezed out a smile on his face and said, "Brother!"

Cao Song snorted coldly and asked, "What kind of clothes are you wearing under your jacket?"

Even though Cao Feng was prepared, he felt uncomfortable when he was treated like this by his elder brother in front of his mother and other brothers. He lowered his head and said, "Mindcloth clothes!"

"What a fine cloth dress! You've gone to the jacket outside. See if everyone is wronged or not!" Cao Song was very angry when he saw his younger brother's appearance.

Zhao Jia felt sorry for her younger son and whispered to the eldest son: "He is still young. Even if he wears bad clothes, let him change it. Let's say less!"

"Mother, the fifth brother is twelve, and the next year is thirteen, so where is they still young? Over the years, my uncle and the uncle have to bear any problems at home, so our Western Mansion will just live with him. Now, my uncle is old, and my brother is working outside for the future of the family, and he has to wait for his younger brother to become a playboy. Will they worry about it before they are tired?" Cao Song said.

Cao Feng was listening, disagreed and couldn't help but interrupt, "It's so big of a big deal if you wear silk clothes? If you keep the ancient rituals, everyone should build a hut in front of Fengrun's cemetery. How could you come back to Jiangning? According to my second brother, it was unruly for my mother to use chicken soup when she got sick in June..."

Seeing that his brother was already full of anger, Cao Xiang still said unconsciously, he knew that he wanted to get a bad vegetable. As expected, Cao Song said "scarlet", stood up from his seat, and before everyone could react, he rushed over and kicked Cao Feng.

Cao leaned over and was not prepared for his lack of defense. He was kicked to the ground by his brother, and said "Ouch" with fear on his face.

After Cao Song kicked him impulse, he felt a little regretful when he saw his fearful look. He even thought of scolding him a few more words and ended up. Unexpectedly, he happened to see the silver thread falling out of Cao Feng's sleeves embroidered with lace purse, and immediately frowned again, and had the urge to hit someone.

Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang both left their seats and went to help Cao Feng. Zhao Jia was frightened and came over to hold Cao Song, and kept saying, "Just say it well, just say it well!"

Cao Fu was so aggrieved that he pouted his lips, tears rolling in his eyes, muttering: "If you can't say it, just do it..." Cao Xiang covered his mouth with his hands.

Cao Shuo hurriedly advised: "Brother, calm down. Although Xiaowu is not young, he shouldn't remember to change this. Maybe it was a slave who instigated him, which made him lose his composure!"

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Cao Feng. Cao Feng was already afraid, but he was unwilling to say that Madam He came to be punished by everyone. So he glanced at the fourth brother Cao Xiang with a slight pleading, and whispered behind him: "No one urged me, it's... I thought it was because I was so coarse cloth clothes that I wanted to change it while the season changed! I... I knew I was wrong, and I didn't dare anymore!"

Cao Song heard that his face was so dark that he couldn't help but complain to his mother: "It's all you spoiled, and he was spoiled, and he didn't even have the heart of etiquette and shame!"

Cao Fu didn't dare to talk back. Seeing that his brother had always been careless and was afraid that he would suffer from bad words, he advised him: "Since Xiaowu knew he was wrong, my brother would spare him and let him copy the "Book of Filial Piety" ten times!"

Although Cao Song was upset by his younger brother's ignorance, he really didn't think of any way to punish him. He just wanted to beat him and scold him. When he heard Cao Shuo's suggestion, he was very satisfied. He nodded and waved his hand to ask the brothers to go down first.

After leaving the room, Cao Fu couldn't help but wrinkle his nose and twitched twice. Cao Xiang was a little worried and asked, "But where did he fall to the ground just now?"

Cao Fu just sat down and squatted, and it was indeed a bit painful, but because he was so strong, he shook his head and said, "I didn't kowtow, I was just not prepared, I didn't stand firm! I was thinking that the second brother was not treating us like this. He often took us to play tricks a few years ago, but now he is a pedantic old master, and he said..." When he said this, he felt that he was speechless and looked back, and saw Cao Shuo looking at him coldly.

Cao Feng couldn't help but want to slap himself, why did he feel so owed so much? He just complained a few words in his heart, but he wanted to say it out.

Cao Shuo no longer looked at him and said casually: "Fifteen times of the Book of Filial Piety, can it be made?"

Cao Fu would not find any more troubles? Just fifteen, so he replied obediently: "Yes, third brother!"

In the side hall, when Cao Songfang saw his younger brothers go out, he sighed relieved and returned to his seat. When Zhao Jia was still annoyed, he said good things to his younger son: "Cao Fu was the most well-behaved since childhood. These are also children. If you don't know the importance of it, you can't blame him! Your father is not a regular person..." When he mentioned her husband, he couldn't continue and his eyes were red.

Seeing that her mother, who had always been so refreshed, was now depressed and lacking in energy all day long, Cao Song felt sorry for her, and said, "My son is also for his own good. He is easy to talk about at home. If he is close relatives, he will still harm him? It's so big. If he doesn't stay at home in the future and acts like this, it will not affect his mother's worries even more!"

The mother and son were talking about family matters, but a housekeeper came to report that it was the wife of the East Mansion who had returned from Shandong.

*

Weaving Mansion, Kaiyang Courtyard.

After riding in the carriage for six days, Li felt soreness. After changing out her clothes, she turned on the side kang. Xiuluan helped Li pinch her shoulders while roughly explaining the housework in the mansion these days.

Xiuluan is in her twenties and is a girl from Li's side. She has always been a steadfast person. Although Cao Yin has two concubines, they are both indifferent. In recent years, Xiuluan has helped Li's side a lot.

This time, Li went to Shandong to see his wife and grandson, but Xiuluan did not follow him, so he asked Li to stay and take care of Cao Yin's daily life.

When he heard that his wife was back, Cao Yin also came over to the front yard. Seeing her tired face, he said a little angrily: "I've been away, why have I been back in the past few days? I've been traveling back and forth, how can I have a good life if I'm tired!"

Li sat upright, rubbed his arms, and said with a smile: "After all, I'm old, I feel sore after only a few days of travel! Master, don't be upset. You don't know what kind of character our son is. Even if I want to stay again, I'm afraid I'll urge me to come back to serve the master!"

When Cao Yin heard this, a smile appeared on his face. In recent years, Cao Yong has paid great attention to his health and found various medicinal herbs; every time he wrote to his family, he mentioned this matter for half a month. Even now he sent Wu Sheng to Jiangning to work as a job, in order not to let his parents get sick and hide it from him.

Li remembered his son's name that he was looking at his grandson's name a few days ago, and couldn't help but smile and said to her husband: "The master is also very patient. Didn't he start reading books when he knew his wife was pregnant? Why didn't Tianyou's name be better yet? You don't know that Yong'er would read it all these days sooner or later, and he couldn't guess what name he would make!"

Cao Yin shook his head, gloating, and said, "What's the hurry? I'll be anxious if I think about it before entering school!"

Li remembered that when his son was born, his father-in-law had passed away for many years. Her husband thought of a name, but it was still undecided. In the end, it was a name given by the emperor's grace. He had to admit that he really did not have the talent to name.

The maid came to report, and the second wife and the second master came. Li smiled and said, "Come in quickly, I'm about to send someone to invite me!"

Before Cao Yin finished his errands, he greeted Zhaojia and Cao Song and went back to the yamen first.

*

Jinan Prefecture, outside the yamen of the governor and envoy.

Cao Yong left the yamen and the governor Gan Guobi personally sent it out. Although Cao Yong was his subordinate in terms of official positions, he was a subordinate; but in terms of the identity of the lord and the princess, he was much higher than that of Gan Guobi. Therefore, although he did not deliberately flatter him, he was unwilling to be negligent.

Gan Guobi is naturally even more difficult to stop Cao Yong from coming to the ranks of the ranks of the ranks of the ranks of the ranks of the ranks of the ranks of the ranks of the ranks of the ranks, and he agrees very much.

On the beginning of the month, Kangxi issued an edict to the Ministry of Revenue to "lead the local people and be anointed". In addition to provinces other than Zhili, Fengtian, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, and Hunan, all the land and grains in the 50th and 51st years of Kangxi were exempted. The old owed money and grains in the past years were also exempted. In addition, for the four provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong and Jiangxi, which had frequent drought and floods, in addition to the grains, the land and silver that were expropriated in the 52nd year of Kangxi, all the land and silvers in the 50th year of Kangxi were exempted. The old owed money and grains in the past years were also exempted.

After this exemption, even if it benefited the Shandong people, it would have suffered from the government office. The government and the government office was short of money, and some government orders would be implemented next year, which would be inconvenient.

The expenditure budget for the coming year was reported to the Ministry of Revenue, but I still don’t know how much it can be approved. Gan Guobi has encountered this big problem after taking office for a few months. He is thinking about his staff these days and how to act.

Cao Yong came just in time, not only the elderly from the Ministry of Revenue, but also the noble status that cannot be easily prosecuted. If he returns to Beijing to the Ministry of Revenue, there is not everything. Therefore, he reasonably gave Cao Yong the opportunity to go to the Ministry of Revenue.

Cao Yong was naturally very satisfied with it and said that he was grateful for the care of the adults. If he had the opportunity to repay him, he would definitely serve him.

When he was far away from the yamen of the governor's corps, Cao Yong's face looked ugly and he couldn't say anything. Although it was true that Cao Yi was his cousin, he looked more like he treated this little girl as a daughter.

Regardless of blood relationship or love that has been with each other for more than ten years, just talking about the days of care in Hangzhou back then. In this world, it is not only the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Prince who owe his life to save his life, but also the Ping'er who stood in front of him and confronted others for a steamed bun.

Cao Yong really loved this girl who was kind and miserable to him from the bottom of his heart. When he accidentally heard the old things in the capital in the gossip of the servants of the Daotai Mansion and continued to ask, he had the intention to kill Seshtu after that.
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