Southeast of the Xicheng, Rongshi Hutong, Dong'e Mansion, and the main hall of the inner courtyard.

Gali stood in front of the hall, his robe was a little wrinkled, and he no longer looked as majestic as he was in Jiangnan. The lawsuits over the past year have also made him suffer a lot. His originally rich figure was much clearer, his back was a little hunched, his face looked much older, and his face was full of gloom.

Looking at the legitimate mother Jueluo sitting on the main seat, he almost bleeding in his eyes. He suppressed his anger and did not scold him. He gritted his teeth and asked, "My mother! Good mother! But what is the unfilial thing about his son? He has neglected it and hurt his mother's heart? It makes her mother completely ignore the relationship between mother and son, and she wants to go to the imperial court to complain?"

The answer between Kangxi and Jueluo in Shouxuan Palace in Changchun Garden was not avoided. Although the palace rules were rigorous, it was the time when the prince was "two abolished" and the throne was not determined. We paid attention to it from all directions. Any movements in the palace were heard and heard from the gods, and they were transmitted to the outside through various channels.

At this time, the Ministry of Personnel and other yamen also had a result in the lawsuit against the dismissal of the Governor of Liangjiang, Gali and Suzhou Governor Zhang Boxing, who believed that the two "both were ministers from the border, and they did not want to be harmonious and respectful, and they criticized each other for their positions, which was particularly tarnished by the ministers. Gali and Zhang Boxing should be dismissed." However, considering that the local people must be clean and upright, they would not cause any burden to the people. Should Zhang Boxing be dismissed from office and remain in office? They were still "waiting for the sages"

After Kangxi met Jueluo in Changchun Garden, when he talked with several cabinet ministers about the case of Gali and Zhang Boxing, he directly said similar words, "My mother is ashamed of her actions, and her crimes are not allowed to be punished." Then he ordered Gali Zhuru to be dismissed, and Zhang Boxing was dismissed and remained in office.

In order to win the lawsuit with Zhang Boxing, although Gali was far away in Jiangnan in the past two years, she gave money to Beijing a lot. All kinds of things were calculated, and even a few golden people had them. As the saying goes, "wealth can be connected to the gods", otherwise the result of the previous two ministry discussions was that Gali remained in office and Zhang Boxing was dismissed. Even if it was the last time, both of them were dismissed, Gali was not afraid of it.

It is true that Zhang Boxing is an honest official, but he is old-fashioned and does not understand the worldly feelings. How could he tolerate such a young man in the officialdom? Even without Gali, there are many people who want to punish him. He is too famous among the scholars in Jiangnan and has a good reputation among the people, which is already a taboo of the emperor. Therefore, although Gali was caught by Zhang Boxing, he was very confident in his heart.

Gali thought that in the end, the master Longsheng would definitely be biased against himself and would not defend the Han ministers. Otherwise, wouldn’t it disappoint the officials in the court? Even though the court has introduced many Han ministers in the past two years, the high-ranking officials are still in control. After all, the master Longsheng has to rely on the Manchus to rule the world.

Who would have thought that this result would end up? The reason for the disaster was that his mother, Jueluo, who was always filial and filial, almost vomited blood after she found out.

Just as he took his brothers and nephews back to the capital, he rushed to his mother's yard to question the crime.

Jueluo held the Buddhist beads in his hand and sat steadily on the main seat. He was not panicked at the roar of Kali. He raised his head and said slowly: "Are you blaming your mother?"

Gali was covered in dust along the way, his mouth was full of blood, and his heart was filled with fire. The difference between "dismissal" and "dismissal" was very different. Although Zhang Boxing had not achieved good results now, no one could see that the limelight of the Lord Longsheng has turned. Those who "dismissal" were about to be promoted; those who were like him, who were personally told by the master Longsheng that "the crimes cannot be punished", are probably no longer likely to be reinstated.

He has been in office for nearly thirty years and has been in the glory for more than ten years. He is only one step away from being appointed as a prime minister in the court, but he ends up in this way. How could he be willing?

In the past few years, in Jiangnan, I would like to say nothing else, just for the sake of my mother's worship of the Buddha, which temple in Jiangning City has never received the incense and silver from the Governor's Office? Gali didn't dare to pat his chest and say that he was a good official, but he dared to tell anyone that he was a well-deserved filial son.

He can be honest and filial to his mother for decades, and be honest in his filial piety. How many of the Eight Banners can he find? Even if he doesn’t think about his good deeds, he doesn’t have to stab him in the back like this!

Hearing Jueluo's calm and composed question, Gali was so angry that his beard was about to rise up, and his body was trembling, and he asked with a dark face: "Mom, shouldn't you ask me? What's wrong with my son doing enough that my mother wanted to kill me? I really can't think of it!" At the end of the day, the voice became louder and louder, and he was almost about to yell with his neck.

Dong E Jinghui stood in the inner room, listening to her uncle's questioning, and was so anxious that she didn't understand why her grandmother didn't defend herself. It was not because of her grandmother's complaint, but she just happened to meet the Emperor Long Live.

He heard that Luo replied slowly, "What are the three hundred nuns in the Governor's Mansion and the golden silk bed in Dongfu Hall? What is the lie?"

Gali only felt that his eyes were dark and he almost fainted. God, his filial piety has now become his "proof of guilt". How can this be true in the world?

Dong Ejinghui couldn't listen to it in the inner room. She knew that her uncle's temper was not annoying, and sometimes it was terrifying to be irritable. If she really misunderstood, it would be a big deal for her grandmother to complain, even if the family would be uneasy in the future.

After stroking his chest and taking a strong breath, Dong E Jinghui walked out and called out softly, "Uncle!"

Perhaps it was because the movement was too small, or everyone was waiting for Gali to speak, so except for Jueluo, no one else saw Dong E Jinghui coming out of the inner room.

Jueluo frowned slightly, turned his head to his granddaughter and said, "Sir, what are you involved in every family? Why don't you go to the house quickly!"

This sentence made Gali, Seleqi, Gan Tai and others notice Jinghui.

However, Jinghui did not go back to the inner room as obediently as before, but took two steps forward and said to Gali aloud: "Uncle, grandmother did not go to the imperial court to complain! That day, grandmother took her niece to Changchun Garden to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager, and just as she was about to go to the emperor, she met Master Wansui in the empress dowager. I wonder why Master Wansui thought of asking his grandmother about his uncle..." At this point, he paused and continued: "Grandma answered a few words!"

After all, Gali was a person who was in the ups and downs of the officialdom. After seeing the legitimate mother's style, his spirit gradually calmed down. After hearing his niece's words, he was unaware of his joy and anger. He said "Oh" and asked, "What are the two sentences that answered? Could it be the two sentences that the nun and the bed curtain?"

In order to prevent my uncle from misunderstanding my grandmother, Jinghui mustered up the courage to say these words. It was not easy. How could she lie? She looked at her grandmother, but she didn't know how to answer my uncle's question.

Seeing his granddaughter in a dilemma, Jueluo stood up from his seat with a cold face and said to Gali: "Okay, OK, it's all the past. Why do you mention it? Although you are dismissed, your title is still there. Your brothers and nephews are safely back to Beijing. What else can you ask for? There are fewer scenery than you in the past years? What's the end now? You are also 60 years old. What's wrong with returning to Beijing for a safe life for two years? There is a farmhouse and land at home, and your income is enough. You are tired from coming back from all the way. Go down to wash, your mother is going to burn incense!" As he said that, he turned around and called his granddaughter and returned to the inner room.

Seleqi could no longer bear it. Thinking about the glorious days in Jiangnan, and the cold eyes that he had received during the journey, he wanted to chase after him and curse him, but was grabbed by Gali.

"Brother, this old man is immortal..." Selechi was full of resentment, but was drunk by Gali.

Gali looked at the few in the room and said, "Since the old lady is going to burn incense in front of the Buddha, let's go back first!"

Selechi was still confused and wanted to ask questions, but Gali glared back, then reached out to cover his mouth and followed his brother to the front yard.

When he arrived at the front yard, he waved his hand to send out all the waiters. Gali's face immediately showed a ferocious look and slapped the table hard and said, "I'm old but not dead, I'm old but not dead! I have such an old thing at home, I've been in trouble for eight lifetimes!"

Seleqi nodded quickly and responded: "That's it! If this old guy hadn't been like this, he wouldn't have been defeated by Zhang Boxing like this! It's so fucking hateful! The elder brother's filial piety over the years has been in the dog's belly!"

Gandu and Gantai are juniors. Although they complained that the old lady was confused, they had accumulated power for many years and did not dare to follow them. So they took a look at each other, lowered their hands obediently, and listened to their respective fathers complaining.

Thinking of his hopeless reinstatement, his brother Seleqi is not able to take care of the matter. The rise and fall of the family will fall on his son Gandu and his nephew Gantai and his cousins, Gali sighed and his expression was a little depressed. In just a short moment, he seemed to have been aging for a few years and his body was full of wiltness. He waved his hand to Seleqi: "All right, no matter what, the old lady's last words are reasonable. Things have come to this point, and it is useless to say more!"

Selechi was anxious and asked, "Brother, what do you mean? Could it be that I have accepted this? I let this old man die to act. This time I took down my position as a big brother. Maybe I will kill our lives next time!"

When Gali saw that he was in his forties, he was playing with a woman who had become flirting with her body, he was still stunned and impatient. He said, "What are the things that are useful and useless! He just doesn't like her anymore. She is showing her identity! You dare to be rude to your legitimate mother. Do you want the old lady to go to the infantry yamen to sue you for a serious crime of "disobedience"?"

"Sincere of disobedience" is a serious crime that is "unforgivable". If you really take this crime, then there is nothing else except losing your head.

Selechi was just fainted for a moment, and now he heard his brother say this and mutter a few words, but he didn't dare to respond again.

Seeing that his younger brother was at peace, Gali said to Gandu and Gantai: "No matter how much you brothers complain about the old lady in their hearts, you must pretend to be rude and annoy the old lady, but you have no place to buy regret medicine! In the future, our family will rely on you two brothers. The old lady has an old age with the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, and if you want to have a good background, you must be filial to them, huh? You know!?"

Gandu and Gantai lowered their heads and listened, and finally replied in unison: "Son knows!"

It turned out that although Gan Tai was the son of Selechi, he was recognized by Gali's wife. The reason was that Gan was born in a concubine and was not favored by his legitimate mother.

It is obvious that the eldest wife has a son, but she still thinks that she is the son. This is not in line with the rules and etiquette. Jueluo said it only once a year ago. Although Gali responded to his wife in person and wanted to explain it to his wife, he was just fooling the old lady and still called it like this in private. He secretly hated her in his heart, but there was no way.

*

At the entrance of the alley not far from Dong E Mansion, Cao Song sat on the horse and looked at the other side from a distance, with a little helplessness on his face and a vague mouth. His close servant Mo Shu followed behind, listening to his master muttering "breaking the appointment", "ugly girl" and so on, he vaguely understood some reasons and said, "Since you know that Miss Cousin's house is here, should you go and visit her old lady!"

Cao Song's eyes lit up, and he was about to show joy on his face. Then he shook his head and extinguished the idea.

In the past two days, Cao Song also knew a little about the news that Gali was dismissed from office. Not to mention the capital, the name Gali was well-known in Jiangning earlier. Cao Song knew that he was a corrupt official and cursed the Cao family in his early years, and later became in-laws with the Li family...

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a little irritable. The uncle and brother of the Gali family were both avoided, so how could he send him to the door to implicate him? That would be a mess at home! Even if he was not very promising, he could not share the worries of his uncle and brother, and he would not have to cause trouble for them.

Even though he was unwilling to break the appointment and wanted to meet that "ugly girl", he also knew the importance and knew that he could not be careless in the capital. Otherwise, if he fell into the eyes of others, who would know what was causing something.

Dong E's family said that it was not far from the Cao family, and Cao Song rode back to the mansion a little discouraged. Cao Yong had to stay in Beijing for some time because he had to wait for the official documents of the Ministry of Revenue. As a filial son, it was wrong for Cao Song to come out like this. He would go back to Jiangning tomorrow. He would probably have to wait until the filial piety period expired when he entered Beijing. At that time, the "ugly girl" had already gone out. Thinking of this, he felt a little uninspired and felt depressed.

Before he arrived at the gate of Cao's mansion, a manager came up to him, holding Cao Song's reins, and said, "Oh, good second master, where are you going? The people who came all over the room are waiting for you to come back!"

Cao Song turned over and dismounted, heard a little curious, and asked, "Who are looking for me? Are the young masters from Zhaojia Mansion coming?"

The manager replied: "Not only the Cousin Masters of Zhaojia Mansion, but also the princes of Prince Chun Mansion. Prince Ping has also come. Jueluo Mansion says that the third aunt is sick and has sent someone to deliver things. They all come to practice it for the second master, and the old man will accompany him to speak in the hall!"

Although they are not outsiders, they still have the principle of "family scandals should not be made public", so the reason why Cao Song came to Beijing was only said to the outside world that he was ordered by his uncle to come to the mansion to handle some housework.

Of course, Nersu did not hide it from it. After all, the two brothers could not stay in the capital for a long time. Since Cao Yi insisted on staying in Jueluo's family, he would have to rely on the Prince Ping and his wife to take care of him in the future.

Because they were all familiar with Cao Song, the three Hongshu and his brothers were also familiar with Fengde, Fengche, Lian and others from Zhaojia Mansion. They got together and talked in a lively manner. When they saw Cao Song coming back, they hurriedly reached out to greet him.

Cao Song glanced at him and didn't see his brother and brother-in-law. He asked everyone, but only then did he realize that the two of them had just entered the study and talked to them, so he didn't bother them and talked to the little brothers outside.

Because he returned to the south to mourn in early June, Cao Song did not know that Hongxin had acne. Now he saw that his originally fleshy little face had become thinner, but there were several more meat pits. Among them, the most wonderful one on his right cheek was three small meat pits slanted, arranged neatly, with a little funny and playful look.

Cao Song looked at it several times, but he didn't figure out why the fourth prince of Prince Chun's mansion not only grew taller, but also changed his appearance. Although it was not ugly, he was a little uncomfortable with the extra things.

After Hongxin recovered from illness, she knew that there were some more pitfalls on her face. She didn't like to meet people. Because she had always had a good relationship with this second brother Cao, she followed her brothers to practice it for him. Now seeing him looking at him so rudely, she was a little annoyed, and snorted, turned her head and ignored him.

Cao Song couldn't help but point to Hongxin and asked in confusion: "Fourth Prince, are you lazy again? Why haven't you seen each other these days, you've become much cleaner? How can you practice riding and shooting? Who has forgotten that he had sweared to win me?"

After hearing this, Hongxin realized that Cao Song smiled embarrassedly because of this.

During the funeral, Cao Song was not good for everyone to mention the wedding and wedding events according to the ceremony, but everyone was a teenager. As he talked, he didn't have any concerns.

Fengde and Helian have gotten married, and Fengche has also gotten married. He will hold a marriage at the end of the year. Cao Song has to say a few more congratulations, because everyone is wearing plain clothes, some dirty words and jokes, so everyone has saved them.

Hongshu pointed to his wife half a month ago, and Cao Song heard about it when he came to Beijing. He heard that the other party was a member of the empress dowager and the daughter of a Mongolian minister. He was of noble origin, so he also expressed his joy to him.

Hongshu is not as naughty as Fengde and the others, and is a little shy. He responds a few random words and quickly changes the topic.

*

In the small study on the west side, Cao Yong and Nersu felt much better as they listened to the faint laughter from the outside.

When the two of them spoke, they were a little public first and then private. After all, Cao Yong was outside Beijing this year. Although he learned some news about the capital through various channels, it was not as detailed as that of Nersu. He had said some of the previous letters, but some of the key things cannot be put on paper. For example, some royal secrets.

When Cao Yong heard "Gui Ren Chen", he was frightened and thought it was his "Chrysanthemum" cousin. When he found out that it was the mother of the Seventeenth Prince, he sighed again.

The prince teased his concubine's mother at the camp station. What's wrong with dying? Nersu said it was a bit heavy, and he had no intention of gloating. He thought he was confused. He could know that there was someone behind the scenes, but he didn't know which master it was.

However, Cao Yong secretly thought that with Kangxi's face-loving temperament, how could the scandal of the prince forcing the gangster's gangster's gangster's mother be allowed to spread? Even if someone had witnessed it at that time, he would have been silenced long ago.

Nersu saw that he was confused and said, "It's here that no one knows, but it spreads in private! When I got to the top, I wanted to keep my words in banishing me, but I couldn't. So I just thought that someone slandered the prince and killed a few unlucky eunuchs. It was a conclusion!"

Cao Yong thought of the Seventeenth Prince and asked, "That Concubine Chen?"

Nersu whispered, "I'm afraid it's because it spreads. This Concubine Chen has saved her life. If she really makes a mistake at this time, it will confirm this ugly thing. How could the emperor let the royal family lose this face? It's her luck!"

The older princes, Cao Yong and Nersu, counted one by one, but they couldn't see which one was. For this master of layout that could make Kangxi lose his grievance, the two of them could only admire him.

Although Cao Yong knew that the final winner was the Fourth Prince, he did not want him to be him. Kangxi had been the emperor for more than 50 years, but after suffering this secret loss, how could he stop easily? In the end, he didn't know which one would be in trouble again.

After talking about these things on the power field, the two of them talked about Seshtu again. Nersu naturally had to scold Seshtu again, and finally blamed Cao Yong for a few words.

The capital city is not a family member without the third girl. She has a sister and a brother-in-law. How can they need two brothers from thousands of miles away to fight Shandong and Jiangning? As long as you send him a letter, you will get married. If Seshtu dares to be restless and find a random reason, he can also get rid of his skin. He is really ignorant and does not spoil him. If the third girl has broken off the relationship, at most, he will be able to stay in two years and find a family to be settled.

Nersu has always been warm and looks like a good prince. This is the first time Cao Yong has seen him so ruthlessly. I don’t know if he should be relieved or something else, but he looked at his naked forehead and was a little dazed.

Nersu was puzzled by him, touched his forehead and asked, "What are you looking at, but you're touching something?"

Cao Yong raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "I'm thinking about the Qing Dynasty's laws. I don't know what the crime would be if I wrote a piece of brick for the Iron Hat Prince?"
Chapter completed!