Chapter 172: Difficult to solve

The entire Duke's Mansion was dead, and along the way, he only saw three or two servants and servants. Although Cao Yong knew that the royal family was not as powerful as the Prince Ping's Mansion, he was still surprised by such a bleak scene.

E Fei was receiving Cao Yong in the inner hall, wearing only a home-cooked dress and leaning against the half-old indigo satin backrest. His face was very bad, pale and gray, and he looked very tired.

Cao Yong stepped forward to greet him. E Fei reached out and shouted, pointing to the chair on the ground and let him sit: "It's not suitable to see guests so much. I just heard that you were busy with the Fourth Prince's errand recently and I felt a little worried, so I invited you in!"

Although Cao Yong had been E Fei's subordinate, the two were just nodding, and E Fei's words obviously caring for his elders were extremely natural and without any falsehood.

Cao Yong thought that the impression he left on people was that he was rigorous in his work and was responsible for his sensibility, but now he was like an old man in the evening, which made people feel lonely and sad. He was also worried about his words: "It's good for me to be a humble person, but you should take care of yourself."

E Fei saw the concern on Cao Yong's face and couldn't help but lose his mind. Finally, Fang smiled and said, "I'm not a big problem. I'm all troublesome. I have to report to the Ministry of Internal Affairs! It's just that I'm old and I'll be fine. I'll be fine after two days of rest!"

Cao Yong was stunned when he saw that E Fei's sleeves were worn and damaged. He thought that he was not thinking about food and asked a few more questions.

E Fei nodded or shook his head, not thinking about taking his physical condition to heart. Seeing that he was so casual, Cao Yong wanted to persuade him a few more words, but when he thought of the relationship between the two, he was a bit overbearing and not very appropriate, so he swallowed the words to his mouth.

He said a few words about the situation in the capital in a casual and unrestrained manner. Seeing that his face became more and more gentle, Cao Yong couldn't help but ask for the doubts buried in his heart for two years: "I still remember that I first met the lord, and the lord looked a little strange. Could it be that the lord knew the lord's elder?"

E Fei was stunned when he heard this. After a while, he reacted and couldn't help but cough, his face flushed, looking really uncomfortable.

Cao Yong quickly got up and approached him to pat his back.

E Fei's body stiffened, and then gradually stopped coughing, but because of the coughing, tears came out. He tried to calm himself down, but his slightly trembling hands still revealed the tension in his heart: "Why... remember to ask these? Ling Zun often came to Beijing in his early years, and he knew it!"

Even if Cao Yong had doubts in his heart, he couldn't ask him directly if he knew his mother. He just said politely: "My uncle is from the Li family in Suzhou, I wonder if he can recognize him?"

E Fei's expression changed a few times. He was silent for a long time, but in the end he just closed his eyes slightly and sighed. He sat there, revealing endless sadness from the inside out.

Seeing his situation like this, Cao Yong couldn't continue to ask. No matter what happened back then, just looking at E Fei's expression, you will know that it must be a painful memory.

Even if he was curious, he shouldn't have asked these questions at this time. Cao Yong took a deep breath, stood up, and pretended to be casual: "I was worried when I heard that the adult was sick, but now it seems that it is not a serious illness. It's so lucky! Because I still have errands, I won't be able to stay for a long time. I'll have a good rest and come to visit the adult next day!"

Cao Yong waited for a long time, but he didn't hear E Fei's answer. He couldn't help but call again: "Sir..."

E Fei felt as if he woke up from a dream, and said slowly, "That's been twenty-eight years. At that time, I was just a teenager, and I was about the same age as you now, working with Master Long live. I was just on the second southern tour of the Holy Divine..."

It is a cliché story. E Fei, a guard who worked at Kangxi, met a beautiful and gentle lady when he followed the throne to Suzhou. This lady was neither the arrogance of a Manchu aunt nor the cowardice of a Han girl, and was generous and polite.

E Fei's father died in the quelling of the Three Feudal Rebellion, and his biological mother died early. Therefore, Kangxi treated this nephew very differently and had a strong desire to cultivate his mind.

Perhaps because of his lack of parental care since childhood, E Fei was particularly cautious in marriage matters. He once asked for grace and chose his beloved woman as his wife. This lady in Suzhou was so easy to see E Fei.

E Fei asked carefully. This lady lost her father as she was like herself, and now she lives with her mother at her cousin's house. Because the lady is a lady from a family and has a self-respecting identity, she rarely appears in front of others. E Fei has just met her inadvertently. Although he has the heart to "enjoy Ai", he cannot do anything to teach her privately, so he made up his mind to get close to her cousin.

The lady's cousin is older and treats this little sister like a daughter. Now that she is at the age of marriage, she also wants to find a suitable marriage for her. After knowing the little duke's wishes, he looks very satisfied. After all, this little duke is a serious yellow belt and taught by the Lord Long live with him, which shows that his future is bright.

Because he was worried that his family was a little humble, his cousin was still suspicious, fearing that his cousin would be wronged after the Duke had a noble family.

The little duke swears that he will be kind to this lady in his life, otherwise he will not die well. The little duke's sincerity touched the lady's cousin, who agreed to the marriage. The duke treats his father's relics and a dagger as Xiaoding and handed them over to the lady's cousin.

The little duke was thinking about how to ask for the long live emperor, but he took on an errand the next day and was sent to Shandong.

When the Holy Lord returned to Beijing and the Duke of the Little Kingdom had the opportunity to mention it, he caught up with the death of Empress Xiaoyi. During the national mourning period, where could he propose marriage? He had to wait patiently. After finally waiting for the national mourning period, he caught up with Galdan invading Wuzhumuqin and launched a rebellion. Kangxi personally fought for the expedition and stationed in Boluohetun, and later returned to the palace due to illness. In this way, time slowly passed by in a wave of things, and it had been more than a year since he agreed to a marriage with the young lady cousin.

During this period, the little duke also sent someone to Suzhou to send a letter, but the cousin's reply was just silent. When the little duke finally couldn't help but ask Kangxi to give him a marriage, he received another amazing news. The young lady had already married Jiangning Weaving Mansion as her second wife after the national mourning, and this marriage was exactly what the emperor pointed out.

The little duke was inexplicably sad and angry. He couldn't understand why Kangxi, who had always loved him so much, made such a random match. No one told him the reason, no one gave him an explanation. Kangxi asked someone to give him the dagger he left in the Li family and pointed him at a decent marriage.

Speaking of this, E Fei stopped. Cao Yong also sighed when he heard this. You can imagine how enthusiastic the young man was looking forward to this marriage with such a passionate mood, and how sad he was after learning about the incident.

These dusty past events must have been under E Fei's heart for more than 20 years, and were extremely heavy. After saying this, his expression became calmer than before. Seeing Cao Yong's face feeling quite touched, he couldn't help but shake his head and smiled bitterly: "After that people are old, they have to be more verbose and weird, and they actually tell you these things!"

Because it was involved in his mother, Cao Yong said somehow to comfort him. After a while, he said: "Since I was knocked down, I grew up next to my grandmother. At that time, I was not very close to my mother. Then, I became older and realized that I was grateful for my parents' grace for raising me.

"My mother doesn't see any preferences on weekdays. She is not outstanding in needlework and thread. Her talent in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting is just mediocre. She is just because of her good temperament and smiles on her face. She rarely has troubles. Although her grandmother is a little harsh, she is also very kind to her mother. Even in front of me, she often teaches me to be filial to her mother in the future.

"I remember, when I was ten years old, somehow, someone remembered to propose marriage for me. I still remember clearly that my grandmother called me aside and told me earnestly that although my mother was kind-hearted, she was too generous. No matter when she was a mother or married, she had never had any quarrels with her.

"I am a little older, and my grandmother has been warning me again and again. No matter what kind of wife I will marry in the future, it doesn't matter whether my appearance is good or not, nor is it picky about family background. I only need a girl to be good-natured and know how to be filial to her parents-in-law. My grandmother said that my mother has never been angry since childhood. If she gets old and depends on her daughter-in-law's face, then she, the mother-in-law, is not at ease.

"My father... My father is a little busy with his job. He stays in the mansion for half a year every year. He has a mother in charge at home. My mother never complains more than half, nor does she blush with her father. My sister and I are both a little mature and not as coquettish as ordinary children in front of my mother. This is also a mother's regret!

Although my family is not a prominent and powerful, it has been considered a wealth of food and clothing over the years. If I hadn’t been in poor health and had been sick a few times, my mother would have been in peace for more than 20 years…”

Cao Yong recalled, and his longing for his parents and grandmother surged in his heart, and his emotions became a little excited. He couldn't continue to talk later. After closing, the house fell into silence.

After a long time, E Feifang breathed a sigh of relief and said to Cao Yong: "You are a good child, I envy Ling Zun very much! With a sensible son like you, you can imagine how relieved your parents should be!"

"There is a saying that I don't know how much I can say?" Cao Yong couldn't bear it for a moment when he saw the sad and lonely loneliness in his smile.

When E Fei nodded, Cao Yongfang said, "The past is gone, and the deepest knot in my heart should be solved in twenty years! Sir, you are only half of your life in a hundred years!"

E Fei did not respond for a while, and after half a quarter of an hour, he nodded.

The atmosphere was really depressing. Cao Yong knew that he could do it, so he had to figure it out.

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After leaving E Fei Mansion, Cao Yong looked at the blue sky and couldn't help but feel a little grateful. If he met a woman who was moved before getting married and could not get it, what would it look like? If the woman he married was not Chu Yu, but a person who had no temper at all, what would it look like?

He sighed a little, and then he put away his emotions. Now it was not the time to sigh. Cao Yong asked the soldiers from the infantry yamen who came with him: "I have seen it everywhere on the road outside the mansion, and have lime sprinkled?" After getting the affirmative answer, he waved his hand: "Go, go to the next house!"

Xiaoman led the horse and was about to turn over the horse, and when he heard someone calling out, "Young Master!"

It was Wei Bai Fengchen who arrived in a hurry. When he saw Cao Yong, he quickly said, "Young master, it seems that someone is going to leave the city from Xizhimen!"

"What?" Cao Yong was shocked when he heard this: "What's going on, who is it?"

Wei Bai shook his head and said, "I don't know this, because there are officers and soldiers there, and they are like some great figure. I wanted to find out clearly, but I couldn't go there at all. Looking at the dress of those people, they looked like they were guarding the military camp!"

Cao Yong called Wu Mao and Wu Sheng and ordered: "One of you goes to Prince Yong's mansion, the other goes to the infantry yamen, tell the prince and the admiral..." At this point, he suddenly thought of something and stopped.

Seeing that he stopped talking and was not a sure thing, Wu Sheng asked, "Master, what do you want us to tell?"

Cao Yong shook his head: "No need to go!" He remembered clearly that the lieutenant in front of Fucheng's gate that day said clearly that without the joint signature of the third prince, the fourth prince and the admiral of the ninth sect, no one could leave the city. At this moment, it must be these people who compromised, but they didn't know who they were, so that they could forget the dangers of the capital.

Cao Yong called the two leaders of the infantry officers and soldiers, explained it, and then took Xiaoman and Wei Bai to Xizhimen.

In the Xizhimen, the third prince and the fourth prince stood side by side at the gate tower, looking at the vast team in front of him, and were speechless. The imperial edict was issued two days ago, saying that the sixteenth prince was sent back to welcome the palace concubine to Rehe to escape the summer heat. Unexpectedly, two little palace maids were killed in the palace yesterday. If something happened to the concubines or the little prince in the harem, then neither of them could bear it.
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