Chapter 816 Childhood Heart

Seeing Li's hesitant appearance, Cao Yong knew that he had to say something to make her give up.

"Mother, this time my cousin came to Beijing. In addition to donating officials to organize Hanyu's marriage, he also gave me favors for his uncle." Cao Yong said carefully.

Li nodded and said disrespectfully: "Your uncle hasn't been to Beijing for several years. It's rare for your cousin to come once. Naturally, everyone has to do it."

"Mother, my uncle asked my cousin to give me a great gift to the Ninth Prince's Mansion!" Cao Yong said.

Li was a little hesitant when she heard this. After many years of entering Beijing, even if she no longer paid attention to foreign affairs, she knew that her family had a stronger relationship with and which family she had a estranged relationship with.

"Although the Ninth Prince is not a member of the Sixth Division, everyone knows that he is the Fourteenth Prince." Cao Yong continued.

When Li heard about the fourteenth prince who was in the limelight, he couldn't help but frown.

Li knew about her son's cold and afraid of trouble. Regarding her husband's decision to sit down and move to the grave during his lifetime, Li knew that the truth was not as mentioned by her husband. It was because her son was impatient to socialize with the old family.

Although the 14th Prince is glorious, he has never had much contact with the Cao family.

Although Li was a woman with little knowledge, he also knew that this royal matter was not something that his ministers could join. Otherwise, he could win great wealth and glory.

Not to mention other people's families, they are the powerful and powerful in the capital. Because of the robbery, there are fewer families who have confiscated their families in recent years?

As a mother, Li has no idea of ​​hoping that his son will become a dragon or a daughter will become a phoenix. He only wants to have a safe and sound family.

"After all, I am a close relative, otherwise I would have sent a letter to your uncle and persuaded me very much?" Li said with some anxiety.

"Mother, why did my father get away from my uncle during his lifetime? Isn't it because he didn't make plans? My uncle is stubborn by nature, and even if his father advised him, he wouldn't listen at all, let alone me as a junior." Cao Yong said.

Li sighed and said, "No matter what, he is your uncle. Even if what he does is not in line with your heart, he should not hurt the relationship between relatives."

"Mother, it's not that my son stops his mother and does not allow her to interact with her uncle's family more. But at this time, the 14th Prince is in glory, and her uncle is already standing with her. Our family has had close contacts with her uncle's family, and in the eyes of outsiders, it has become the 14th Prince's faction. Even my brother-in-law's side, I'm afraid I'll be implicated. I can't explain it clearly and I can't explain it clearly. If the 14th Prince inherits the throne, it's okay if another prince takes office, even his son will be lost by then." Cao Yong looked at Li and said.

It is true that Li misses his mother's family a little, but no matter how close his family is, they are not as good as his children.

Hearing that not only his son will fall into trouble, but even the prince and son-in-law will be implicated. She has changed her face and said repeatedly: "Your uncle is so confused. How rich is wealthy is when will it end?"

Cao Yong didn't want to scare her and comforted her: "My uncle is not an ignorant child. Maybe he has his own thinking, so his mother doesn't have to worry too much. Maybe his uncle is lucky and can't guarantee the credit for protecting the sky. But his son has always been lazy and impatient to participate in this. He is afraid that his mother will suffer grievances. In the past two years, it's better for us to keep some contact with my uncle's family. When the royal affairs are settled, my mother wants to return home or take her grandmother over, and it's up to her mother."

After saying this, Li nodded repeatedly and said, "Well, yes, I'm all listening to you. We don't learn from your uncle, don't worry about the wealth that is so sensible, and just let the wife live a peaceful life, which is better than anything else. I'll reply to your uncle now. There are so many things at home, and I'm not in good health. I really can't get rid of it. It's your father's filial piety period again..."

Finally, Cao Yong breathed a sigh of relief by persuading Li to stop returning to Suzhou.

I vaguely remember that in the Redology Forum in my previous life, I mentioned the Cao family's second house search. I had a crime, that is, when the Li family was raided, I hid the property for the Li family. Although I don't know whether it is true or false, I have to pay attention in advance.

I thought that since the Eighth Prince died of illness, the "Eighth Prince Party" disappeared, and the Li family could escape. Who would have thought that Li Xu would not give up and would have to go to the 14th Prince through the Ninth Prince.

The Fourth Prince was not a generous person. The Li family made two and three choices, and they were all at his hostility. It would be strange if they could fall well. Not to mention that the Li family still has hundreds of thousands of deficits that have not been filled.

Even though he knew that his mother was soft-hearted and thought of the Li family, Cao Yong never really regarded the Li family as a relative.

Whether it is said that he is selfish or that he is cold-hearted, from the day when Li Ding plots against the Cao family, the Li family is just a difficult problem for Cao Yong.

However, thinking that after his father passed away, his mother was in a bad mood and was always lonely. Cao Yong told Chu Yu that the couple took more time every day to accompany Li.

Li has no hobbies, she only likes embroidery. In recent years, she has a lot of things at home and doesn't like to use needlework, but she also likes it very much when encountering good work.

Seeing this, Cao Yong chose a clean and honest embroidered girl from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to hire him to the Cao family with a honest and honest courtesy.

The embroiderer was only thirty-seven or eight years old. She was a childless widow. Her husband's surname was Liu. Due to years of hard work, she looked older than Li, and looked like a person in her fifties. The servants of the Cao family called him "nanny".

She doesn't like talking, but she is very good at embroidery.

With her accompanying him, Li also relieved his loneliness.

Zhao Jia was impatient with these things, but when Li saw Li paying attention on Nu Hong, he remembered that the fourth sister and Wu Er were two, so he half-jokingly asked Li to teach their sisters needle and thread.

Li thought about the fourth sister and Wuer and both of them were in their teens, so he should learn these things. In addition to them, there was also Niu Niu.

As for granddaughter Tianhui, although her blind eyes are cured, her eyes are not good, and she is not able to take care of her. Who would have to let her take care of her?

Niu Niu is the same age as Wuer, one year younger than the fourth sister, and is nine years old this year.

Niu Niu is her nickname, and it was not decided before Mr. Zhuang's death; later Mr. Zhuang's brother Zhuang Chang knew about this and named her niece Shuping according to the example of her two half-sisters.

Everyone in the Cao Mansion is used to calling Niu Niu's nickname, and few people mention this big name.

Li also had to take care of his young son's immortality, so he naturally had no time to teach a few girls to needle and thread. Therefore, she discussed with Mama Liu and asked Mama Liu to be a needle and thread nanny for a few girls.

Every morning, Mama Liu talks with her in Li's house, appreciating the embroidery products that Cao Yong sent to others to buy. In the afternoon, Mama Liu guides several girls and children at her residence.

Niu Niu only loves reading and does not like these. She can't help but ask Sister Lianqiu and can only respond.

Since moving to Changping, Cao Yong has discussed with Master Qian and arranged the children's class time in the morning. In the afternoon, the children learn to ride and archery, or follow Cao Yong to get familiar with farming in the vegetable garden and farmland.

In this way, Niu Niu's experience of being a girl-red girl will not delay going to school.

Although Mama Liu is just an illiterate embroiderer, she comes from a female Hong family and has her own rules for taking up her apprentices.

When the three little girls were brought to her for the first time this day, she asked a few questions about whether they had learned female red or not, and how long they had learned, she did not teach them the skills of female red immediately. Instead, she took out more than a dozen embroidery patterns and put them on the kang table, asking the three of them to choose one and learn embroidery.

Among the three, the fourth sister and Wuer learned about the girl's red with jade. Although they were not skilled, they could usually make small objects such as purses and handkerchiefs; Niu Niu had only seen Lianqiu and the others embroidered them, and she had never even taken a needle.

Among these dozen embroidery patterns, there are flowers and birds, with bright patterns and bright colors.

A few girls picked up this and looked at that, and they only felt that each was good.

Until Mama Liu coughed twice, the girls looked at me and I saw you and knew that they should pick one out.

For a moment, all three of them put down their hands, and no one was willing to choose first.

The fourth sister is still older and looks like a sister. She smiled and said to Niu Niu: "Sister Niu Niu, you are the youngest, you can choose first."

Niu Niu refused to take action and looked up and said, "It's better for the fourth sister to choose first, then the fifth sister. Niu Niu is the youngest, and it's the last one."

One of the two people thought about "old and young" and the other thought about being a sister and taking care of the younger ones, but they were in a stalemate.

Seeing them two giving in, Wu'er sat aside and just laughed.

Seeing this, Niu Niu wrinkled her little nose and said with a smile: "The fourth sister gave in to Niu Niu, it was 'friendly'; Niu Niu asked the fourth sister first to be 'respect', which made sense. Otherwise, I would give it a compromise and let the fifth sister choose first. This not only fulfills the fourth sister's 'friendly' heart, but also fulfills Niu Niu's 'respect' meaning. Wouldn't it be both good?"

After hearing this, the fourth sister smiled and nodded and said ok.

When Wu'er saw that he was talking about him, he wanted to wave his hand and say no, but when he saw that there was still Madam Liu watching coldly, he was afraid that she would be impatient, so he had to take the closest embroidery sample to her under the gaze of the fourth sister and Niu Niu.

"What is it? What is it?" Niu Niu leaned over and looked in Wu'er's hands.

When the embroidery pattern was opened, a peony with flowers blooming and rich. The fourth sister and Niu Niu couldn't help but talk. The peony petals were stacked, making it the most complex embroidery of flowers and plants.

The fourth sister was afraid that Wu'er would be embarrassed, so she looked up at Mama Liu, thinking about how to plead for her sister to change the embroidery pattern. Then she saw Mama Liu said lightly: "Since the fifth girl can choose, you can hurry up, both girls."

In one sentence, blocked the fourth sister.

The fourth sister could only look at Niu Niu and said, "Sister, there are many embroidery samples left on both sides, let's choose them together."

Niu Niu nodded and responded, and her subordinates were already looking at each embroidery pattern. She was choosing the colors of the patterns, but not choosing the one with the best embroidery and the brightest color, but looking for the one with the simplest embroidery and the least color matching.

Finally, he got an orchid embroidery pattern in his hand. Niu Niu was happy and was about to say that he wanted this. He looked up and saw Wu'er holding the peony pattern, frowning slightly.

Niu Niu's heart moved, thinking that the second wife had always been mean, and if Wu'er was really told by the nanny for embroidery, she still didn't know how the second wife would squeak.

Thinking of this, she put down the embroidery pattern of orchid and chose the embroidery pattern of "Pine Crane to prolong life".

In addition to the peony embroidery pattern that "flowers bloom and bloom" is the most complicated one among the remaining embroidery patterns. Even if Niu Niu wants to accompany Wu'er to be scolded, she dare not take that picture. This "pine and crane prolongs life" has trees and birds, which is also a complex embroidery pattern.

At this moment, the fourth sister also chose the embroidery pattern, which was a picture of "magpies climbing the plum blossoms". Although the plum blossoms are easier to embroider than peonies, the vivid magpies are also difficult for beginners.

Mama Liu watched coldly, which was quite touched.

Before coming to Cao's family, she also taught several girls among her relatives. When picking up embroidery patterns, either show off the sharpest ones or pick the brightest ones; or be lazy, pick the simplest ones.

Although these little girls in front of me are also a little clever, they are rare friendship and make people feel heartwarming.

She nodded and asked the little girl to hand them the prepared embroidery support and asked them to start embroidery according to the embroidery pattern.

The fourth sister and Wuer are still good, and they can do needles with wires, but Niu Niu can't even get needles.

Seeing that Mama Liu had no intention of teaching, the fourth sister and Wuer came to Niu Niu, took out a thimble from the sewing box to put it on, and whispered to her how to match the colors, how to sew the needle and thread, etc.

Niu Niu listened carefully and saw the demonstration of the two people again. Looking at the embroidered brace in her hands, she smiled and said to them: "Fourth sister, fifth sister first, Niu Niu looks beside her for a while, and then moves the needle and thread."

After hearing this, the fourth sister and Wuer and the other two were sewn with colorful threads and embroidered them one by one.

Niu Niu looked at the one in her hand, looked at the one again, thought for a while, then went to Mama Liu and whispered: "Mama, can you borrow Niu Niu's pen?"

Mama Liu glanced at Niu Niu, called the little maid beside her and took it to Niu Niu.

In addition to the Dai Pen, there is also half a piece of paper wrapped in the Dai Pen.

Niu Niu picked up the black pen, painted it on the paper, ground out the tip of the pen, then lay on the kang table, facing the embroidery pattern, and outlined it on the embroidery support with the black pen.

Madam Liu looked at the little girls who were fully focused on the kang, and she raised her lips and showed a smile...

Caojiazhuangzi, schoolyard.

The seventeenth prince stood beside Cao Yong, looked at the little boys running around the field, and asked Cao Yong in confusion: "Isn't it riding and shooting? Why did you run on the road?"

Cao Yong smiled and said, "This is the foundation, strengthening the body. When I was a child, I was extremely weak. I ran like this for a few years before I stopped giving up the tonic. It was just like ordinary people. I can't cultivate them all into little nerds. Strengthening the body is more practical than riding a horse and shooting archery."

The Seventeenth Prince is three years younger than Cao Yong, and is twenty-three this year, and has no son or half daughter yet.

Looking at the energetic little boys in front of him, the seventeenth prince showed a bit of envy on his face.

Seeing this, Cao Yong knew his thoughts and felt a little unbearable, saying, "This good doctor may not be in the Imperial Hospital. Otherwise, people would ask around to find out if there is any good doctor? The Seventeenth Master and the Concubine are still young. As long as you find a good doctor, check it carefully, prescribe the right medicine, and adjust your breathing."
To be continued...