Chapter 1359: The Farewell Ceremony (Part 1)

The distance from Beijing to Shengjing is not as far as the south of the Yangtze River, and it is actually not close, more than 1,300 miles.

There are official roads all the way, and there are small posts and 120 miles a day.

Cao Yong and Yiduli are good friends again. They have something to say together, but they don’t find it difficult to bear.

But the two of them were used to being pampered and were a little sad, so they couldn't bear the wind and sun. After riding for two days, they hired a carriage on the way.

As a result, the time spent together was more, and the two of them began to do this trip.

Cao Yong had seen floods when he was in Jiangnan. It was really a natural disaster, so he was very careful about this job. Even though he had not arrived in Shengjing, he had already drawn up several plans for flood control in Liaohe River.

Although Yiduli was a deputy, he didn't care. He also explained the situation of garrisoning the Eight Banners around Shengjing for his reference.

There are many tributaries of the Liao River, divided into four major tributaries, the East Liao River, the West Liao River, the Hun River, and the Taizi River, and the main stream of the Liao River.

In addition to some of the water sources in Zhili, most of the others are in the Korqin tribe, where the people also live by water and plants and live by nomadic people.

The Dongliao River is close to Wula, Jilin, and the mountains and forests are closed there. Most of the land is under the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It has a large land and is sparsely populated, but there is no need to worry too much.

The Hun River, the Taizi River, and the Daliao River are like big branches that surround Shengjing.

Although both Cao Yong and Yiduli thought that the focus of flood control could be placed around Shengjing.

But the focus of the two is very different.

Yiduli felt that it should be the main moat and focused on the nearest river in Shengjing.

Cao Yong believed that when focusing on the area of ​​Shengjing's military farm, the losses of the dealer should be reduced.

After all, this year, the ten-year-old southern region is a year of flooding, and the number of military farms in the northeast is not small. Ensure this season's harvest. If there is a shortage of grain in the capital next year, you can also transport grain to the south.

When the two of them said it, all they left was looking at each other, and in the end they both smiled bitterly.

It’s not that they wanted to convince each other, Cao Yong’s thinking was based on the overall situation; Yiduli was not wrong, after all, the main thing that the two ministers came out of seclusion was to ensure peace in Shengjing.

Cao Yong is not a naughty man, and he will not disobey the king by shouting the great principle of "for the country and the people". Yi Duli is not a bad heart, he only cares about his own good work and ignores the lives and death of the people.

In this way, the military farms must be protected and Shengjing must be protected, but the flood season will be reduced.

The two of them could no longer feel comfortable. They both felt heavy on their shoulders, and they wanted to fly to Shengjing immediately and start preparing.

The time I spent on the road every day was getting longer and the road was bumpy. Finally, on May 29th, the group finally arrived in Shengjing...

*

The capital city, the new house in Cao's mansion.

There were many cars and sedans parked in the Lion Courtyard, and the east-west row rooms of the Lion Courtyard were filled with managers and guards who were waiting for their masters to travel.

They are all in-laws in the Cao family and they are all waiting for their masters to travel. Most of the big guys can meet each other and know each other.

Even so, everyone greets and talks, and the weather is good. No one dares to talk about his master's gossip.

However, the servants next door were young and had to whisper a few words.

This said: "Why do you think there are more visitors than the time when Yuechu? In addition to the birthday of my cousin, will there be other happy events in my uncle's family?"

This is probably the servants from several aunts.

That reply: "The first time is a family banquet. Apart from my family, there are only a few aunts who go back to the greenhouse. Today is different. The eldest girl, the hairpin, the concubine, and the concubine are all here... The concubine of the Zhuang Prince's Mansion is also here..."

This is either from the East Mansion, or from the left, or from the left.

Another servant said: "The eldest girl of the Cao family and the hairpin will be ready to marry. It is said that Daoxiang Village is the dowry of the eldest wife of the Cao family. Will you go out with the eldest girl of the Cao family..."

This is the servant brought by a foreign guest...

*

Fuyuan Hall, go to the room.

The house is full of flowers and the fragrance of rouge is everywhere.

The Concubine Mi sat on the upper head, and Li sat aside. Other princes, Prince Zhuang, Prince Ping, Prince Yu, several princes, wife of Prince Chun's mansion, Cao Ying, and Cao Yi and other female guests were seated on the left and right.

Zhaojia is also there, and is located below Prince Zhuang Fujin, and above Prince Ping and Yu Fujin.

Her waist was straight, and she glanced at Prince Ping Fujin, who was in the head, and felt very proud.

Although she is an aunt, she has become a concubine since Cao Jia became a concubine, and when relatives meet, they can only talk about the national ceremony.

Cao Yin and his wife are not bad, and their parents are still able to talk to their concubine's daughter at home; she, the aunt in the neighborhood, can only be respectfully treated.

Now, her daughter has become the prince and concubine, and she has also been granted an imperial edict, and her identity is already extraordinary.

Could it be that in front of her concubine's daughter, everyone still wants to tell the national gift?

When he was proud, when he saw the eldest daughter Cao Ying who was sitting at the end, Zhao Jia felt lost.

Even these nobles "discuss family etiquette" were in front of Li. Because of Li's identity, it would be a mistake to be proud of her.

I just took the lead and moved my seat up high, which did not make people look up to me...

Seeing the concubines and wives, they all cater to Concubine Mi and joked, but Cao Ying sat behind like a wooden man. Zhao Jia felt very unhappy and couldn't help but complain about Chunhua.

Thinking that the fourth wife was indeed treacherous, she knew that a fourth-rank respectful man had no say in front of these nobles, Yuko avoided her by helping her cousin-law, but she didn't want to pull her elder sister-in-law off.

Even if Cao Ying confessed to a Hanlin son, Sun Li was only the seventh rank and was not qualified to ask for a title for his wife and mother.

Therefore, Cao Ying did not have the imperial edict.

Cao Yi also noticed Cao Ying's quietness and couldn't help but take a few more glances.

Although Cao Ying's clothes were 80% new, the patterns on the material looked old; he wore some green jewelry on his head, and the green color was not good.

In this way, she seemed out of place in this house of wealth.

In addition, she had her eyelids drooping and there was no smile on her face, which made people look sideways.

Prince Yu Fujin was sitting diagonally opposite. Seeing the elder sister's posture, she knew that it was inappropriate, so she quickly turned her eyes to Cao Yi sitting beside Cao Ying.

Cao Yi sighed in his heart, got up and went to Li and whispered a few words.

Li turned around, looked at Cao Ying's direction, nodded, and waved his hand to Cao Yi.

Cao Yi then stepped back and whispered to Cao Ying, and the two sisters retreated together.

"Where is this going?" Cao Ying asked with a frown.

"I haven't talked to my sister for many days. It's a mess here. Find a quiet place and let our sisters talk." Cao Yi said.

Cao Ying snorted lightly and said sarcastically: "What's there to say? It's just that I'm shabby, I'm afraid of losing the face of you, the Duke's wife!"

Cao Yi was choked, but it was not easy to argue with her on the road, and she still kept her feet.

Although Cao Ying was unwilling to do so, she was following Cao Yi.

Cao Yi went around the main room and went to the back building behind him.

There were two maids in the corridor, knowing Cao Yi, and quickly picked up the curtains.

Cao Yi directly led Cao Ying to the east room. Although there were not many furniture in the room, it was also elegant and neat.

Cao Ying couldn't help but take a few more glances. Although she also came over at the housewarming banquet at the beginning of the month, she just followed everyone around the garden and several important yards. The back cover here was the first time she came back. She couldn't help but look at it, then walked to the central hall and looked at the west room. The furnishings were similar to those on the east side. She couldn't help but ask curiously: "Whose house is this?"

Cao Yi smiled lightly and said, "The old lady is afraid she is looking forward to her granddaughter. In the future, the seventh brother has a daughter, so maybe she will keep it here..."

Cao Ying didn't ask more questions, but she felt uncomfortable.

The back cover of the eldest uncle is more elegant than the main house of his home.

Before my cousin got married, my niece's boudoir was ready; my eldest granddaughter landed, but three generations of grandparents were still crowded in a cross-yard...

Although Cao Yi had a lot of words to say to this elder sister, the two of them were not the same mother after all. They helped all those who could help over the past decade, and the relationship between the sisters was still acceptable. But since the fourth sister became Prince Yu's concubine, the little warmth between the sisters was also broken.

Cao Ying rarely returns to her parents' home in recent years, and she is also indifferent to her sisters.

Cao Yi rubbed the tea lid and knew in his heart that some words were probably still spoken by the fourth sister, but he couldn't say them. After all, the fourth sister and Cao Ying were the sisters of the same mother.

As she was thinking, she heard something outside the house, it was the fourth sister who came.

The fourth sister's face looked a little ugly. Seeing this, Cao Yi stood up and said, "The fourth sister talks with the eldest sister first. I'll go and see the one on the other end of the eldest sister-in-law..."

The fourth sister nodded and said with a forced smile: "Sister, let's go and do your business. I'll take a break here with my elder sister..."

Seeing that the fourth sister was like this, Cao Ying became embarrassed, moved her butt, laughed twice, and said, "Fourth sister..."

The fourth sister didn't sit there, stood there, looking at Cao Ying with frosty face: "Sister is dressing up again, who will I show you? After the housewarming banquet at the beginning of the month, I didn't give the materials to my elder sister? Second sister, third sister did not give the materials? After half a month, all the clothes were not well-tailed, and I had to wear old clothes?"

Cao Ying lowered his head and whispered: "There are few people in our needlework..."

The fourth sister gave up her good temper and was also a little annoyed at this moment, saying, "If you don't talk about clothes, what about the jewelry? Since the eldest sister gave all her jewelry to her niece, we sisters felt sorry for the eldest sister and gave them many gifts. Not to mention others, I just added four sets of jewelry to the eldest sister; two sets of gold, one set of green, and one set of gems. Why don't the eldest sister bring them?"

Cao Ying was guilty, but now she raised her head and said with red eyes: "My sister is grateful for the gift from the fourth sister, and I received my sister's affection... I gave those jewelry privately to Sister Xian... I am useless to be a mother, so I can't prepare a generous dowry for her. If you can subsidize it, you can get one or two..."

The fourth sister laughed in anger: "Xian Jie'er's dowry is shabby? Even if the Sun family didn't leave her, the eldest granddaughter, the uncles and aunts of the Cao family were slow to treat her? Even if the second brother, the fifth brother was not in Beijing, he did not forget to send someone to give him a makeup gift; if the second brother is not counted as the materials and jewelry prepared by the second sister-in-law, the second brother's niece's box of silver was given 1,000 taels of silver..."

Cao Ying said stubbornly: "But the dowry is carried for sixty-four, and there are fewer shops, so there are not many places... Not to mention that compared with the younger sisters, even Ping Jie'er, not even Cao's adopted daughter, they are more decent than Xian Jie'er..."

The fourth sister frowned and said, "Xian Jie'er is the daughter of the Sun family. How can she compare with the girls of the Cao family? If I remember it well, Xian Jie'er's aunt also went out last year, so why is she different from her own aunt..."

Cao Ying said shyly and angrily: "Why can't you compare? Although Sister Xian is not surnamed Cao, she is the granddaughter of the Cao family and is still not as good as the daughter of a master..."
Chapter completed!