Chapter 110: Marriage

From the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, Cao Yong was very busy.

The twenty-two was Ning Chun's wedding banquet. Cao Yong and Yongqing, as Ning Chun's most loyal buddies, could not escape the errand of blocking wine. Both of them were drunk and were finally sent home by their entourage.

The 23rd Little New Year is a family dinner. This day is also the day when the Holy Lord returns to Beijing. So on the next twenty-four and twenty-five days, he went to the study room for two more days before he officially took annual leave.

Immediately after twenty-sixth, the fourth prince of the Pingjun Prince's Mansion was 100-day seat. Early in the morning, Cao Yong and Cao Song brothers wore dresses and came to Pingjun Prince's Mansion.

Cao Song was full of energy along the way, and sometimes he pulled Cao Yong to chat, and sometimes he hummed a small song and watched the street scene. He was so happy that he was not happy because of his majesty of destroying Madam Zhang two days ago.

It turned out that Cao Song took over the maid Yuqing in the room two days ago. He was drunk and confused, but after he woke up, he knew what he had done, so he thought of her differently. As a result, he went to school and Yuqing was beaten by Madam Zhang. When Cao Song came back, he was very unhappy. When he turned around and flipped the small ingot in the Baibao Grid, he couldn't find it. Because he asked Yuchan, he was told that Madam Zhang had come to drink.

Cao Song's anger arose from his heart, and evil arises to his courage. The little ingot was originally a rule in brothels. When a boy was picked up, he would give him a small item to the other party for good luck. This little ingot was given to Xiangqin at the first night of Cao Song. Now, for Cao Song, it is the only thought that Xiangqin left to him.

Cao Song was so angry that he was so angry that the Madam Zhang was extremely unhappy. When Cao Song came back, he came to blame him again, saying that Zhao Jia had worked hard but the Second Master was not up to his best.

Cao Song did not have a good face, so he lowered his face and said a few harsh words.

When Madam Zhang heard this, she became more angry and cursed Yuqiong again. The little prostitute was tall and the little prostitute was short. She only said that the jade dragon dressed and the fox was charming and coaxed the second master, so that the second master would not listen to her words.

Cao Song was also anxious and couldn't help but quarrel with Madam Zhang. The more Cao Song quarreled, the more angry he became. Later, he kicked Madam Zhang to the ground without thinking, and scolded: "Who has spoiled you to become an ancestor? But after a few days of my mother, I really think that he is a serious elder? An old slave who is not very obsessed is better to drive everyone out and clean!"

Cao Yong and Amethyst came after hearing the sound and pulled the two apart.

Cao Yong looked at Madam Zhang who was sitting on the ground and covered her heart and cried loudly, and pulled Cao Song out. Cao Song was still unconvinced and shouted that he would drive her out.

Zi Jing hurriedly called someone, helped Madam Zhang down, and then advised Cao Song in a gentle voice: "Second Master, she is the wet nurse of the second wife. Even if you don't look at anything else, you still have to look at the second wife's face. Besides, she is old, and it is inevitable that she is nagging. What are you, a master, and you are a woman?"

Cao Song calmed down and knew that this Madam Zhang was the most handsome in Zhaojia's side, and her mother would never be able to chase her away. Even though she was so noisy today, when he went home, he might not have to be beaten by his mother, so he felt a little regretful.

The next day, Cao Song was still a little nervous, afraid that Madam Zhang would not have a good face. As a result, Madam Zhang said she was so angry that she felt so heartbroken that she pretended not to come out of the room. She didn't know how Amethyst pressed her, so she just pretended to be sick quietly and didn't make a big fuss.

Cao Song was most impatient with Madam Zhang nagging, and now she pretended to be sick and didn't care about him. Her ears were so clear that she was naturally very happy. But at home, he was still afraid that Madam Zhang would gossip, so he would be more restrained. When he went out today, his long-depressed joy came out.

When they arrived at the Prince's Mansion, Cao Yong's brothers were first taken to the inner courtyard to see his sister Cao Yan and two nephews Fu Peng and Fu Xiu, and then they were led to the Rui Opera House by the servant.

Cao Song glanced at the stage and asked the servant who led the way what class he had invited today and whether there was any fighting scenes.

Cao Yong smiled and shook his head: "Our mansion also invites a opera troupe during the New Year. Let's order the show back. Don't lose the rules today and make people laugh."

Cao Song's eyes lit up, and he said a few martial arts plays in one breath, and said the names of two martial artists who were good at kung fu. Cao Yong invited them. Cao Yong smiled and replied, asking him to turn around and tell Mr. Zhuang that Mr. Zhuang was responsible for the troupe of the opera.

Ruixi Tower, from the first floor lobby to the second floor private room, there were dozens of tables and tables, and there were quite a few guests. Seven or eight out of ten people who attended the banquet today were higher than Cao Yong's official position. Cao Yong was really not interested in returning to greet his wife. When he went upstairs, he saw Detehei and Shuming, and went to the tables of them. The location was relatively inconspicuous and inconspicuous.

Nersu knew Cao Yong's nature, so he came over to chat with him for a while, but did not invite him to the chairman's side. Cao Song felt uncomfortable watching the show at this position, but his brother might have hired a show troupe at home in two days, so he accepted it.

Not long after the banquet started, two servants came to invite the Cao Yong brothers, only saying that the concubine was looking for them.

The two brothers followed into the inner courtyard and greeted Qin, whispering: "The old concubines inside asked us that they wanted to meet, so the concubine asked them to call the uncle and the second master."

When the Cao Yong brother heard this, he knew what he knew. He tidied up his clothes and followed Wen Qin into it.

As soon as Cao Yong entered the room, he glanced at it and lowered his head, bowed to all the ladies of concubines in a regular manner. He was busy bowing his head, although it was because of the etiquette, but because of the room full of jade, it was bright and dazzling.

There were about a dozen noble ladies sitting in the room, all of whom were in their teens to fifties, and more than half were wearing the fragrant big dresses of the prince and prince Fujin, and they were shining with golden light.

Several older concubines sat on the kang, smiled and called the two brothers to the side, looked up and down, and kept praising: "It's really the brother of Prince Ping. This looks, and this kind of demeanor is no different!" He pulled his hand and asked about his age and study. Then everyone took out the gifts to meet, which were probably gold croakers such as "the top scholar" and "the best student" and "the best man" and "the best man".

Cao Jia smiled and thanked the two brothers on behalf of the two brothers. Everyone said that it was too simple and they didn't make a gift because of the hasty arrival.

In fact, everyone gave a lot of gold and gold, which was more than a hundred gold coins, which was converted into more than a thousand taels of silver. The two brothers made a fortune in reverse.

As the saying goes, "Twenty-seven, wash away the guilty illness; twenty-eight, wash away the sloppy." The 27th day of the twelfth lunar month and the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month are the days when people in the capital bathed before the New Year. After a year, the leftover medicine bait was thrown away at the gate, and all the prescriptions were burned, taking the auspicious meaning of "don't lose all diseases". The upper and lower parts of the Cao Mansion, pasting the panes and pasting New Year pictures and paper-cuts were all the atmosphere of the festival.

In a blink of an eye, on the thirty day, Cao Yong hurried into the palace in the afternoon. This afternoon, Kangxi gave a banquet to the Mongolian princes, ministers, grand sects and guards in the Grand Historian Hall. Although Cao Yong is currently a companion to the Sixteenth Prince, his position is in the guard office, but he wants to receive the emperor's grace.

Dethei, Shuming, Nalanfusen and others had already arrived. When they saw Cao Yong, they became closer. Cao Yong was the youngest among all, and they could not help but greet them for a thousand New Years.

Cao Yong followed the grassland and saw Kangxi giving banquets to foreign vassals. However, compared with the feast of Taihe Palace in front of him, those outside the frontier were nothing but big witches. The banquets of thousands of people, the palace people were constantly coming, and various exquisite utensils that were not visible to the outside world, containing various delicacies and wines, came one after another.

Before the banquet began, guards like Cao Yong and others had another honor, that is, they were given "Fu Ke". They were boiled pork for sacrifices without a trace of salt. They were fatter and thinner, and they could hardly see red. Each guard had a large piece, not a pound, and eight taels, and they were full. Fortunately, Cao Yong was not a guard Xiaobai. Although he was the first to meet the legendary "Fu Ke", he had been famous for a long time. He had prepared fine salt bags in his purse, and quietly took them and scattered them, gritted his teeth and ate them all. When watching others, he kept making small moves.

After half a pound of fat meat, even if there were delicacies in front of me, Cao Yong lost most of his appetite. He just picked up a novelty and picked up two chopsticks. It was not easy to get to the second hour of Shen Zheng (4:30 pm). The banquet ended and everyone left the palace to disperse.

At the gate of Cao's mansion, the couplet gods were pasted early, and the servants of the gate were dressed up in a fresh manner. When they saw Cao Yong coming back, they came up to lead the horse with great sincerity.

After returning to Kuiyuan and changing into the guard uniform, Cao Yong drank two cups of strong tea to understand the greasyness. The food at this palace banquet seemed to only remember the greasy and fatty meat smell.

When Cao Song heard that his brother had come back from the palace, he rushed over with a smile and wore new clothes from inside to outside. Seeing his blushing face, Cao Yong thought that he was a "singing girl" and a "housekeeper" these days, he didn't like him. However, thinking about it, he was too lazy to talk about him for the New Year.

Cao Song sat opposite his brother and asked curiously about the palace banquet.

I heard that I was eating fat pork and the other dishes were warm and lukewarm, so Cao Song suddenly lost interest.

The family banquets in Cao's mansion were divided into two places. The tables of Cao Yong, Cao Song, Mr. Zhuang and others were set up in the inner courtyard and the main hall. The house was spacious and divided into east and west rooms. There were two tables in the west room. On the kang were Cao Yong, Cao Song and Mr. Zhuang, Cao Wu, and the floor table were brothers of the Wei family, and the manager Cao Zhong and the manager He Maocai of Changping. There were three tables in the east room, and on the kang were from Cao Zhong's family, and on the kang were from Magnolia Zhang and two older mothers. One table was Amethyst with Yulong and some managers and wives, and the other table was the maid of Kuiyuan and Huaiyuan.

The remaining maids, maids, guards and servants, and others were having a drink in the front yard. They were also divided into two places, including men and women, and each was lively.

Although the old housekeeper Cao Wu was 83 years old, he was determined to be a rude and refused to eat with his masters. Cao Yong and Cao Song brothers repeatedly persuaded him, and the old man sat down next to the kang.

As the food and food came up, the Wei brothers and others below began to change their cups. Cao Yong also raised his cups, first greeting Mr. Zhuang and Cao Wu, and then thanked the people on the ground for their hard work for half a year. Everyone raised their cups, saying that they should do it and should not thank them.

After three rounds of drinking, Cao Wu also became interested. He started with the Grand Master of the Cao family and talked about his current decentness. The old man couldn't help but wiped his tears.

Mr. Zhuang didn't talk much, and watched everyone laugh, occasionally saying a few words to Cao Yong.

The food and food in the house were just right, and Xiaoman hurriedly came in: "Uncle, the person from the palace is the father-in-law who came back with the Sixteenth Master. Please come forward to answer the order!"

The sixteenth prince is here? Is there any order? Cao Yong got off the kang and was a little confused. Is it a reward for the New Year? Gold, silver, or land, it will not be the word "blessing"?

When Zi Jing heard the movement in the east room, she knew that Cao Yong was going to receive the order, so she called Zhu'er. Cui'er and went back to Kuiyuan to change clothes together. Although Cao Yong had changed his clothes, they were regular clothes, and he looked disrespectful when he was wearing the order.

Cao Zhong and He Maocai went to the front yard first to prepare for the incense table for the order.

When Cao Yong changed his clothes and went to the main hall of the front yard, the sixteenth prince was sitting there in a new golden prince's suit and drinking tea happily. He raised his legs slightly, and it was obvious that he was in a good mood. The eunuch sitting at his head was Wei Zhu, the eunuch of the Ganqing Palace.

Seeing Cao Yong come in, the sixteenth prince raised his head and looked at him up and down, smiling a little. Cao Yong was puzzled by him, so he bowed and said hello to the two of them.

The sixteenth prince then slowly stood up, stretched his sleeves, and stretched out his hand to Wei Zhu. Wei Zhu had already stood up and respectfully presented the imperial edict.

The sixteenth prince stood in front of the south and north. After Cao Yong knelt down, he cleared his throat, opened the imperial edict, and recited it loudly.

The imperial edict was not long, but Cao Yong felt inexplicably, and he didn't know whether to be happy or sad. The first order was that Cao Yong was promoted to the third order from the first order light chariot commander to the third order male; the second order was that Cao Yong had an additional fiancée, the eldest princess of the Chun County Prince's Mansion - Princess Herui.

The Sixteenth Prince endured it for a long time. After Cao Yong received the imperial edict, he couldn't help laughing out loud and patted Cao Yong on the shoulder hard: "I didn't expect that, I didn't expect that you will call me Uncle Sixteen in the future!"

Wei Zhu was beside him and congratulated Cao Yong with a smile: "Mr. Cao, I will congratulate you too!"

The marriage event finally got a look, but why was he so sore in his heart? Cao Yong didn't show his face. He just smiled and asked the Sixteenth Prince, "Didn't you hear you're going to have a palace banquet tonight? Why are you still free?"

The sixteenth prince replied with a smile: "It's not for your great joy, but Brother Seven is quick to do it. No wonder he went to the palace to see the emperor after he returned to Beijing, but it was for this matter!" At this point, he shook his eyes and said: "I heard that my seventh sister-in-law had seen you, and I'm very satisfied!"

Cao Yong smiled and remembered the room full of jade that he saw at the Prince's Mansion of Ping County on the 26th. No wonder he felt a little strange at that time. How did these concubines think of seeing their husbands? He smiled bitterly in his heart. The Seventh Prince was only twenty-eight or nine years old, and he actually became his father-in-law? How old can his daughter be? It is related to the royal family, but the other party is the Prince's Mansion of Chun County, which is always low-key, which is considered a great blessing in disgrace.

The Sixteenth Prince did not stay much and rushed back to the palace. Wei Zhu naturally had to accept a big reward, and was very satisfied.
Chapter completed!