Chapter 717: Burning Seven (Part 2)

Although it is already the end of October and the weather is getting dryer and colder, this day is a rare little spring.

The weather is sunny and cloudless.

Cao Yong looked up at the sky, hoping that his life would be like this light blue sky without any haze.

A bright future is all in imagination. He has to face more than one, but at least there are several requirements, including the one he is doing now, standing outside the gate of the Eighth Prince's Mansion to welcome guests.

Because Cao Yong had an old friend on his side, he did not wear coarse cloth mourning clothes, but only velvet bleached cloth mourning clothes. He had a stone blue jacket on the outside, a green rolled collar, and a green workout tied around his waist.

Today is the "May 7" of the late eighth son of the emperor, Prince Lianshun. According to the old customs in the capital, the married daughter or niece will come back to the presidency.

Before dawn, Cao Yong and Chu Yu got up, dressed neatly, took Tianyou and Hang Seng to the Eighth Prince's Mansion. Tianhui had eye disease, and she loved purity the most, so she didn't dare to bring it out if she was sick in a crowded place.

Tianyou and Hang Seng are considered successors. They are wearing white filial piety robe and have two blue patches nailed to their left arm.

When they arrived at the Eighth Prince's Mansion, the family of four worshiped in front of the Eighth Prince's Spirit. Chu Yu took the child into the inner house, and Cao Yong followed the officials of the Eighth Prince's Mansion and several colleagues from the Interior Affairs Office to speak in the front yard.

When it arrived at Chenzheng (8 o'clock in the morning), the Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince came first.

No matter what grudges he had, seeing that Cao Yong could come to preside over the "Shao Qi", the Ninth Prince was unwilling to make trouble. He only asked a few questions about how he was preparing for the funeral ceremony and what was going on. The Tenth Prince swallowed hard, humming twice without saying a word.

If you drink a friend, you can drink a thousand cups of wine, and you can't speak a lot without any speculation.

Cao Yong was really uncomfortable. Just as the housekeeper reported here that a guest came to the door, he started to welcome the guests.

Inner house, main hall.

Although it has been a long time since the Eighth Concubine's eyes are still stuck to Tianyou and Hang Seng and cannot be removed.

After a while, she sighed, turned around and said to Chu Yu, "You are a blessed person. These days, I can't sleep in the middle of the night, and I also wonder if I can do it. After entering the door, if I hadn't sent out a few girls around your eighth uncle, if God opened his eyes and had a good belly, he would have been seventeen or eighteen to give birth to a child. He was a prince, who could already support the door; he was a princess, and he was also out. Why was it so deserted like now?" In the end, his eyes were red.

"Don't be anxious, aunt, I'm looking at the elder brother and the princesses, and in less than two years, I should be able to share my worries." Chu Yu persuaded softly when he saw this.

The Eighth Concubine was unwilling to lose her composure in front of her children. She suppressed her sadness and said to Tianyou and Hang Seng: "Good child, why are you calling me? Call me again."

Tianyou and Hang Seng were both naughty at home, but when they were out, they were too rude. After hearing the Eighth Concubine’s question, the two of them got up from the chair and replied honestly: “Call uncle, uncle uncle and uncle uncle.”

Looking at the appearance of the two of them, the Eighth Concubine became more and more rare. She smiled a little and said, "What a smart child, I can't call you for nothing." As she spoke, the maid asked the meeting gifts prepared for the children.

Two brothers, each of them had a good set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and two purses containing gold crocks. There was also a brocade box, which contained a pearl collar. The Eighth Fool sent it to Chu Yu and said, "This is for your little princess. I'm so busy today, so I won't say anything. When I have time, I'll take it over here and walk around, so it's not easy to let the children stay at home."

Chu Yu thanked the Eighth Concubine for the reward, and also asked Tianyou and Hang Seng to thank him.

When the Eighth Concubine saw this, she couldn't help but shake her head and said to Chu Yu: "Good kid, let you teach me to be a little old man. Who would choose a gift if there are more kids?"

"It's just that I'm honest now. I'm always naughty and it makes people feel a headache. I just said that after a while yesterday, they ran to the manager's house after school, chased the other person's chickens, and ran away very much." Chu Yu said.

The Eighth Concubine has been so painful and depressed these days. After hearing the interesting things about this child, she couldn't help but be curious. She stretched out her hand and called Tianyou and Hang Seng to the side of the kang, and asked, "Tell me quickly and tell my uncle, okay, how can you chase the chicken?"

Hang Seng grabbed the back of his head and looked at his brother. Tianyou turned red with his little face and said, "I heard my father say "beggar chicken". My mother said she wanted to eat it, so my grandson and younger brother thought about it and respect her mother."

He didn't say these words when he asked him yesterday. Therefore, Chu Yu was the first time he heard them.

After hearing this, the Eighth Concubine hugged Tianyou and Hang Seng in her arms and kept praising: "What a good child, you know how to be filial to such a little bit of age." At this point, she paused and said: "Just don't think about filial piety in the future, and think about not letting your parents worry. If you want to eat chicken, you can buy it outside, how much? You still need to grab it yourself? If it hits and falls hurts, wouldn't it be so tired that your parents worry about it?"

Tianyou and Hang Seng heard this, lowered their little heads, nodded, and said, "My grandson has written down..."

Front yard, outside the gate.

Looking at the Fourth Prince and Thirteen Prince coming together, Cao Yong's throat was a little nervous. Although he came here to host the "May 7th" here, it was a helpless act forced by many parties, but whether the Fourth Prince could understand it is not guaranteed.

Different positions have different ideas about the problem.

This world does not revolve around Cao Yong, so we cannot ask everyone to consider him.

No matter how he thought about it, he still lowered his hands to greet him.

The fourth prince still looked at Cao Yong with a cold face, but could not see any joy or anger. The Thirteenth prince smiled and patted Cao Yong on the shoulder and said, "Okay, okay, finally you don't have any brains."

Speaking of this, he turned around and whispered to the Fourth Prince: "Fourth Brother, don't you know that Cao Yong refused to come before. Brother Seven, I will take turns to persuade him. He is afraid of things and is scared of Brother Ninth Prince. One code is one code. Speaking of which, he is a niece, so he should work hard for one day."

Even if the Thirteenth Prince doesn't talk about these things, the Fourth Prince will know them.

The fourth prince nodded and said nothing else.

This "May 7" is like the "Shou Qi" and "Three 7" and is the day when the official acceptance of the tribute. Therefore, royal relatives from the royal family came to the door one after another.

When the Thirteenth Prince saw that Cao Yong was busy welcoming guests, he went to the mansion with the Fourth Prince.

In the monastery, there were smoke and various sounds of chanting scriptures mixed together, making it a bit lively.

The guests who had already been worshipped were seated in the spirit shed, with the Ninth Prince and the Tenth Prince accompanying each other.

In addition to the incense, the spirit shed is full of the sweet fragrance of buns. I saw four thirteen-chamber buns placed in the four corners of the platform, and it looked like a room was more than a height.

For such a table of buns, you need to place two hundred yuan per section, and ordinary ones cost more than twenty taels of silver, not to mention that they are all produced by Daoxiangcun, and they use fine buns. Even forty or fifty taels may not be enough.

These four tables of cucumbers were Chu Yu's filial piety and were put on this morning.

It attracted many people to see that the clan elders who were aware of it were the buns from Daoxiang Village and said to the ninth prince: "After all, it is the niece, the big princess gives the buns with a decent face. I just saw Cao Efu at the door. If they could help Lao Ba cook seven, it would be considered as giving Lao Ba a face."

The Ninth Prince disagreed. There were only two nieces who had already been married in Beijing. If you don’t need a big princess, would you use the second princess from Prince Yong’s mansion?

Thinking about the Fourth Prince forcing everyone to move that day, the Ninth Prince couldn't get rid of his hatred. He was stunned and heard the Tenth Prince say, "Ninth Prince, see who is coming?"

Looking in the direction of the tenth prince's finger, the ninth prince happened to see the fourth prince and the thirteenth prince coming together.

The Ninth Prince's face turned red and white. If he hadn't been worried about disturbing the Eighth Prince's funeral, he really wanted to punch the Fourth Prince in the face.

There was no other way, so he had to suppress his anger and not look at the Fourth Prince. He said to the Thirteenth Prince: "Didn't the Thirteenth Brother go to Xiaotangshan? We'll go back many times?"

"I came back yesterday, my wife and children are there, I will go back tomorrow." The Thirteenth Prince replied.

Hearing this, he came back to celebrate the eighth prince's sacrifice. The ninth prince's face relaxed a lot, pointed to the platform, and said, "Speak for the bar first."

The Thirteenth Prince nodded, turned his head and asked the Fourth Prince to go first, and then followed the Fourth Prince to the platform to offer wine.

The Tenth Prince watched coldly, a little confused. He approached the Ninth Prince and asked in a low voice: "When will the Ninth Brother be so good with Lao Thirteen?"

"The road is far away and the horsepower is seen, and people's hearts are seen over time. I can see it clearly. Among these brothers, there is still a bit of humanity." The Ninth Prince stared at the back of the Fourth Prince and gritted his teeth and replied.

"Cao Yong gave the main priest to the starling brother, and the thirteenth elder came to worship him. Why did your brother feel so awkward? If I had known what, how could he have fought in the early years?" The tenth prince muttered after hearing the Ninth prince's words.

In addition to welcoming guests, this gift of worship is also Cao Yong's job.

On this day, those who needed to bow and return gifts, Cao Yong stood up for a while, and then knelt down again. In addition, he was so busy that he hit the back of his head and didn't take a break for a while.

After finally taking some time, Cao Yong took a secluded place on the side of the spirit shed, found a small stool and sat there, holding a cup of tea in his hand, and drank it all in one go.

Could it be that I am old and why do I feel my back pain?

Cao Yong rubbed his waist, took out his pocket watch, and looked at the hour. It was only the time of Wei, and it seemed that it would be good to dissipate by the hour of You. There were still two hours left, so let's wait.

Cao Yong was crying in his heart when he heard a woman's surprise: "Cao Yong?"

Cao Yong was stunned when he heard this.

According to the rules, all the female family members are in the back of the spirit, and they are still a little far away from here.

Looking in the sound, I saw a young woman with her head removed and her braided, standing a few steps away looking at her.

Looking at the costume, he was the niece-in-law of the Eighth Prince, but he didn't know which wife he was from.

There was a difference between men and women, and Cao Yong was not good at looking closely. After a glance, he lowered his eyes. Then, he felt that something was wrong. Although there were many young ladies in the royal palace, there were not many who knew Cao Yong and could still call him by his name.

He raised his head and couldn't help but look at it again, feeling very kind-faced.

Then he saw the young woman tilting her chin, sneering, and saying, "The noble man has forgotten everything. It seems that this is true. General Cao Daquan doesn't know me anymore?"

This posture looks even more familiar.

Cao Yong had already recognized the man as the third princess's legitimate daughter, and Tana, the wife of the eldest grandson of the emperor, Hongxi Beile.

Although Tana has been married to the capital for seven years, there is a difference between men and women. She has only seen Cao Yong from afar before. It is the first time she has the opportunity to speak like this.

Compared with seven years ago, Cao Yong has not changed much, but his skin color is not as fair as before, and he has added a bit of a mature man's heroic posture.

Tana thought of Chu Yu, the cousin of the Linghou hosting Shaoqi, and felt a little sad.

That woman was like a flower on the grassland. She had been married for many years and had children, but she was still very charming. However, on her side, she was like a dry stream and was no longer angry.

Her husband didn't love her, but because of her identity, he pretended to be deeply in love and loyal, which made Tana nauseate.

The man in front of me is still as peaceful and calm as I saw on the grassland back then. He looks easy-going, but it seems like he is thousands of miles away from him. He is like the spring water on Korqin, clear and invisible.

"It turns out to be Mrs. Er Beile. I haven't seen you for a long time. My wife is safe!" Cao Yong thought about it and said carefully.

I thought that this arrogant and domineering princess before getting married would be Hedong Shi after getting married. I didn’t expect that over the years, when people mentioned her, they were all praises and no pickiness.

There are always times when little girls grow up.

At that time, she married Hongxi with Korqin's hope, and treated her as the future crown princess; but time has changed, and I think it's not easy for these years.

Tana looked at Cao Yong's face and whispered: "Do I call your cousin-law or your cousin?"

As I spoke, my eyes were a little confused and I didn’t know what to think about anymore.

It has been a while since the rumors about her mother's life story. Now, when Tana mentioned it, Cao Yong was speechless.

Do you still want to recognize your relatives? I don’t have the “lucky” to create countless uncles and cousins ​​at once.

Although this part is not a lonely man and a widow, Tana is still following the little girl, but the atmosphere is quite strange.

Cao Yong coughed and said, "Cao still has something to do, so I'll spend less time here, so I'll go slowly."

While speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave.

"Cao Yong, when you get married, I will give you a gift alone; when I get married, you are the name of the Cao family, and you are too unrighteous." Tana frowned and said coldly: "It is said that the Han people know etiquette, why have you forgotten to exchange etiquette?"

This question was a bit childish.

Cao Yong turned his head and said, "Since the wife is picking gifts, that's not Cao. When his wife's birthday is over, Cao will take his son and prepare a generous gift to the wife."

When Tana heard Cao Yong mention "inner" mentioning "Neizi", Tana's face turned pale and sighed in her heart, feeling that what she said just now was very boring.

Is this showing off happiness?

Tana lowered her head, picked the corner of her mouth, and said, "I can't afford a generous gift. When will Baoya Ge Gui Ning be there? When you drink, don't forget to call me... This, but I agreed..."
Chapter completed!