Chapter 969: Gratitude

Chu Yu was in a little embarrassed when he held the post.

I wonder why Mrs. Ru, the Tong family, remembered the Cao family, gave a generous gift in the name of congratulating Li's birthday, and then brought her invitation to Li and Chu Yu.

In this case, Chu Yu was not good to refuse it at will.

"Eat wine?" Li frowned when he heard this, and said, "I remember Mrs. Tong was gone last year. It was not yet the anniversary of her death. How could Mrs. Ru have a banquet?"

As a maid and a concubine, you must also be filial to the mistress.

Chu Yu closed the post and said, "What can I do so impatient? I guess it was Mrs. Ru's edict. I think I will receive the post in the past two days."

When it comes to personal relationships in the officialdom, you cannot control your personal likes and dislikes.

But Mrs. Ru is too ignorant of the rules, and Chu Yu is still wearing filial piety. How can he go out to have a drink and socialize?

This was a private matter of someone else, and Li didn't want to say much. It was just that her identity was limited, which made her feel more sympathetic to her uncle's wife who died of illness and sighed.

When Cao Yong came back from the yamen, Chu Yu mentioned to her husband about Longkodo's favored concubine and giving gifts.

"Which day?" Cao Yong thought about it and asked.

"The fifth day of next month." Chu Yu replied.

"It took half a month to deliver, it was early enough." Cao Yong replied casually.

The day for the Saint-Gathering is set, it is October 20th, that is, the day after tomorrow.

Since Longkodo can set a banquet in the second half of the month, is he sure that the saint will end the tour within half a month?

Nanyuan Ranch is located in the southern suburbs of the capital, more than 20 miles away from the capital, which is closer than Changchun Garden to Beijing.

In order to show the national prestige to the Khalkha Mongol kings during this tour, in addition to the princes and princes, Beile, civil and military officials above the third rank were taken turns to follow the entourage in front of the imperial guards.

Cao Yong returned from Tongzhou office worker, so he was not on the first batch of escorts and had to take the shift on October 26th.

It is not difficult for Tianyou to go and see the hunting.

Although the ranch was the place where the saint was and the guards were particularly strict, Tianyou was the legitimate son of the Earl's Mansion and the grandson of the Chun County Prince's Mansion. He was not an unknown person. He could also enter the yard with several uncles of the Chun County Prince's Mansion or cousins ​​of the Ping County Prince's Mansion.

However, Cao Yong thought about it and decided to talk to his son.

Recently, Zuo Zhu, the Zuo Cheng brothers are a little depressed. It is the growth period from children to teenagers. Cao Yong hopes that they can grow up healthily.

"Tianyou, the journey to the Nanyuan of Shengjia is indeed a major event that the whole capital is concerned about. It is reasonable for you to experience it. However, at your age and my father, you can only beg others to satisfy your wishes. You can only take you one, Zuocheng, but Zuocheng is not possible. These days, you have become a little distant because you are not studying in the same school?" Cao Yong asked.

Tianyou nodded and said, "Since Zuozhu's meaning, the official schooling is more complicated, and the time to go to and from school every day is later than that of Qi. In addition, my second brother is now entering the palace in the early morning and returning to rest early in the evening, so everyone is not always together like before."

Speaking of this, Tianyou also noticed something was wrong and frowned and said, "Father, did you ask someone to go to the official school to ask? My son looked at Zuo Zhu. Zuo Cheng was not energetic these days. Mr. Qian once said at the time that studying should not 'pull the seedlings to help grow'. Zuo Cheng's body is not as strong as others. What should I do if I get tired?"

Looking at the appearance of the little adult Tianyou, Cao Yong said, "They are not physically ill, but heart ill. A few days ago, I told them about their life experience, as if they were deeply touched. They are not Mr. Zhuang's distant relatives, but the posthumous son who made friends for his father."

Then, Cao Yong briefly said that Zuo Zhu, and Zuo Cheng's family had a change, which made them stay in Cao's family.

"Their family is a Manchurian Banner, and their ancestors also had hereditary leaders and titles. If there was no change, they were qualified to enter the Banner School." At this point, Cao Yong sighed.

Children are the most sensitive. Although the learning atmosphere is much better than the banner, the difference is different. One requires hard study to obtain admission qualifications; the other depends on the family and is qualified to enter.

As the children grow older, the different identities and levels become more and more prominent.

"Ah?" Tianyou heard this and spoke in surprise.

Cao Yong stood up, stood in front of his son, patted his shoulder and said, "You are busy with your father's responsibilities. You are the elder brother, so it's good to take care of their brothers for your father."

Tianyou nodded, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Father, is it because of the relationship between uncle Ma's daughter and uncle of Zuo's family? If so, will the father promise his sister to Zuo's family?"

"Why did you think of asking this?" Cao Yong was a little surprised.

Tianyou hesitated for a moment and replied: "Funing said that everyone outside knew that his mother had bought a generous dowry for his sister. If his sister hadn't been young, someone would have come to the door to say hello. Those people... were looking at the money of their father and mother..."

Funing was a friend he made in the banner school. Although his family was not as noble as the Cao family, he was also a lord's house.

Seeing Tianyou talking about this seriously with a worried expression, Cao Yong couldn't help but smile, shook his head, and said, "How old is your sister? Zuo Cheng was raised in our family as a child. He is a brother and sister with Tianhui. How can he be a husband and wife?"

Tianyou then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's better not. If Zuo Zhuo was the one who lived here, his son would not be worried; Zuo Cheng loved to be sick and could not take care of his sister."

Tianyou's thoughts were all focused on sharing his father's worries, and he also took things lightly.

After leaving the study, he went directly to Fengyuan where his brother lived.

The structure of Fengyuan and Kuiyuan is similar, but the yard is larger and the main house is wider, with four or five small rooms. So the Zuocheng brothers live together.

When Tianyou came over, it was already dusk and the lights were already on the room.

There was a little maid in the yard sweeping the floor. When she saw Tianyou enter the yard, she stood there and greeted her.

Zuo Cheng heard the noise in the room, picked up the curtain and welcomed Tianyou in.

Seeing Zuo Zhu was about to lead him to the west room, Tianyou smiled and said, "Why don't you go to your room?"

"It's messy over there, how can I treat guests?" Zuo Zhu said.

Tianyou felt curious when he heard this and looked at Zuo Cheng next to him.

Zuo Chengdao: "It was only after I put it down that Mu Lian had packed some old bedding and clothes, but it was not wrapped up yet."

While talking, the three of them arrived at the west room.

"Hang Seng hasn't come back?" Zuo Zhuo asked.

"Well, I said I stayed in the palace and came back tomorrow." Tianyou replied.

The west room kang table was covered with account books, and there was an open wooden box with some silver crocks and copper coins.

"Is the official school fee big? You have been busy these days, and we have less time to speak. We are not as good as our family outside. If we don't have enough monthly money, we must not be wronged. My father knows and will allow us to increase the monthly rate." Tianyou said.

He waved his hand left and said, "It's about going to study, not about eating, drinking and having fun. Apart from buying books, where can I spend money?"

Speaking of this, he paused and said, "Today, he was to help a classmate... he was the second place in the college entrance examination this year. He had excellent academic knowledge and poor family. In winter, he only had an old jacket on his body. His mother was sick again recently, and even used an old jacket as a purchase of medicine. It was so pitiful."

"It's really not easy. If you can, please help. If you don't have enough money, send Mu Lian to where can I get it?" Tianyou said.

Although he is kind-hearted, he is not a bad person. After studying in Qi for more than half a year, he has seen a lot of cheating activities. He responded like this and thought that he would send someone tomorrow. He asked Zuo Zhu's classmate clearly so that he would not let Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng brothers be fooled.

"When I first entered the official school, my brother and I couldn't keep up with our homework. He helped us patiently. He also grew up with his widowed mother..." Zuo Zhu said this, and he couldn't continue.

Thinking about copying books and earning money every night, thinking about the two dilapidated rooms in his family's rental residence, I don't know how to describe it to Hang Seng.

They have been in the house since they were young, and they have been in contact with officials. If they had not seen it with their own eyes, they would not know what "poor people" are.

The rice I ate was sorghum and barbecue, and the vegetables were pickles and cabbage. Even tofu became a luxury.

If there was no protection from the Cao family, would their brothers be in a better situation than that classmate?

My mother had long said that when she joined the Cao family, she only had the dowry jewelry of her mother. Then, in the past decade, her adoptive father left a profit for the transaction in the south and accumulated property for the two brothers.

When they become adults and leave Cao's mansion to set up their own business, they can still have food and clothing.

Zuo Zhu, Zuo Cheng grew up in Cao's Mansion. He didn't know much about livelihood and had no idea about having an industry under his name.

In the past few months since I entered the official school, I have been in contact with most of the classmates, and many of them are from poor families. These brothers have also developed a worldly life.

After visiting the good classmate's house, they finally realized the feeling of poverty and understood how lucky they were to grow up in the Cao Mansion.

"My brother is kind, but that guy is stubborn and may not suffer. When he went back to his house, he was just about to have dinner at their house. He went to eat with me and my brother. The stick noodles and steamed buns can hurt their big teeth. I only took one bite and couldn't eat it. He even gave me a face." Zuo Cheng frowned and said.

Tianyou listened, but he felt that the person was very childish and said, "How old is that person?"

"I am two years older than my brother and I, thirteen. My homework is good, but I am a tough person and can't speak." Zuo Cheng replied.

A few people talked a few more times before Tianyou returned to Kyuyuan.

Looking at Zuo Zhu, he wanted to lend all the monthly money saved by his brothers to his classmate. What did their brothers do?

Tianyou thought about it and asked Xiaoxie to take twenty taels of silver to send it to the Zuozhu brother.

*

Outside Andingmen, Prince Yong’s Mansion.

The fourth prince stood in the study, frowning tightly. When Wei Zhu entered the palace today, when there was no one, he said something to him. The emperor seemed to be very concerned about the news from the northwest recently and asked about the memorials of the fourth prince several times.

The 14th Prince did not come up with a memorial every five days, but the emperor seemed not satisfied with the content.
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