Chapter 678: The Cool Summer

On the second day of June, before Cao Yong handed over the newly written memorial, the Sixteenth Prince brought good news. Kangxi had already approved his previous memorial and allowed him to return to the capital for a while. He also had an order to ask him to go back and take people to explore the surroundings of the capital to see how the drought is.

Cao Yong was very happy and handed over all the errands at hand and asked His resignation again.

Kangxi did not summon him to meet him, but he also sent Wei Zhu out to bring an oral order, so that he could do it carefully and not fool it.

Because of a rain prayer, how many officials have been lost? Even if Cao Yong is careless, he will not be lazy on this.

Li and Chu Yu had already packed their luggage. Because all the female relatives were back, Wei Hei's wife, Vanilla, took Qi Niang, and packed up her things and wanted to go back to Beijing with them.

Just thinking that Cao Yin was left here, Li was a little worried. After Cao Yin repeatedly persuaded him, he reluctantly set out on the road.

It was still spring when I came, and it was already midsummer when I returned, and there was a unique view on both sides of the road.

The whole group was full of women and children, so Cao Yong ordered someone to walk slowly.

In addition to Tianyou and Hang Seng clamoring to ride horses every day, Cao Yong occasionally carried Tianhui to the horse's back for some breathing.

When I first came out of the Rehe River, it was fine, with green mountains and clear waters, and I didn’t feel the heat. After two or three days, I started to feel hot.

Li is old, Chu Yu has just recovered from a serious illness, and the children are also delicate, so they are afraid of heatstroke. They set off early every day and rest at the inn at noon.

In this way, I finally arrived in the capital safely on the seventh day of the sixth lunar month.

I didn’t think I had been in the capital earlier, but after going to Rehe and then returning to the capital, I felt that the heat in the capital was hard to bear.

There were already two ice basins in the upper room of Lanyuan, and Li was still so hot that he couldn't sleep.

I thought I would go to Haidian Garden to stay for a short stay, but Su Xin's affairs had not been properly handled, so Li couldn't go there and enjoy the leisure.

Zhao Jia's side has already complained twice, but it's not that she has chosen this marriage, and she also feels that something is wrong with the Dong family not accepting the girl at the moment.

After all, my mother is gone and my stepmother is not careful. If I want to go out before the end of the year, there are still many things to prepare.

Li's side was not very optimistic about her husband's decision to make Su Xin for her nephew.

A woman is already young, so finding a young husband will be difficult in the future.

Zhao Jia had long been thinking about marrying her youngest son, and Li knew about it, so she was worried that she thought Su Xin was old and it would be difficult for her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to get along with her in the future. Unexpectedly, Zhao Jia was abnormal and she was not dissatisfied with Su Xin.

How could she know that Zhao Jia now regarded Su Xin as her own person.

When Zhao Jia first entered the Cao family, she was criticized by her husband for being illiterate. Cao Quan had thought of enlightening his wife by himself, but Zhao Jia was smart about others and was not good at learning to write, so she finally left it alone.

Needless to say, Chu Yu, the younger daughter-in-law of the Cao family, is a noble granddaughter and well-known in Manchu and Chinese. Even Jinghui is also a well-educated lady.

Whether it is from a background or appearance, they are much better than Zhaojia.

Jinghui is another one that is invisible, which makes Zhao Jia have no place to show off her mother-in-law’s proposition.

Now that Su Xin has her, she has also begun to say "Marry a daughter from a high family and marry a wife from a low family". Thinking of the majesty of Old Lady Sun when she was alive, she has hope in her heart...

Li's side was a little embarrassed.

Logically speaking, the marriage between children is the order of parents and the words of the matchmaker. It is just Su Xin's stepmother Gao, not someone who can speak well in the Dong family.

After thinking about it, she still sent someone to send a famous post to the Dong family, expressing her intention to visit her.

The Dong family sent someone to reply to the post that day, saying that it was June 14th, which happened to be the "catching Zhou" of a grandson of the Dong family, and invited Li and Zhao Jia to visit.

The Li family talked to Zhaojia, which made Zhaojia much happier.

Although Xiaoding has not yet been completed, it is also meaning to be a relative in-laws now.

In a blink of an eye, on June 12th, Li, Zhao Jia and Chu Yu were on a carriage and visited the Dong family.

Because of the rain praying for, no one dared to invite a opera troupe in May. Zhao Jia hasn't listened to opera for a long time. She felt it was lively and very popular.

In addition, the Dong family has many children and grandchildren, many female relatives, and several aunts who have returned to the door have sat at several tables.

Whether it is the daughter-in-law, granddaughter-in-law's parents' homes, or the old aunts, or the young aunts' in-laws' homes, they are all well-known officials.

Zhao Jia saw it and became more and more satisfied with the marriage.

Although the Dong family is not as tall as the Cao family, the relatives and relationships of the relatives are no weaker than the Cao family. The families who have been married to each other are all real power figures in the Internal Affairs Office, and are not worse than the Cao family's in-laws, Li and Sun families.

Dong Dianbang's wife, Nara, has already entered the grade, and now most of the family's internal affairs are managed by the daughter-in-law of Dong's parents.

Li did not come here to listen to the opera, but mainly to let things go.

Shang's side had already received Dong Dianbang's instructions, and chose a good day later this month, and agreed to let it go that day.

Because the girl was old and was afraid of missing the flowering period, she was determined to make a big decision. Shang also mentioned something inside and outside.

Of course, Li's side had nothing to say, but he didn't say death if he wanted Zhao Jia to make an idea.

Kwaiyuan, go to the room.

It was silence, Changsheng had been taken back to Lanyuan by his nurse, and Tianyou and Hangsheng also went to class in the study.

In the room, Su Xin sat down with her head down, with a look of confusion on her face.

Seeing her like this, Zijing sighed in her heart, poured a cup of herbal tea with her own hands and gave it to Su Xin.

Su Xin held the teacup in both hands, raised her head and whispered: "Thank you sister."

"It's just a cup of tea, what's the heretic?" Zijing sat by the kang with a smile and asked, "The girl is so uneasy, but for the sake of her wife, what's going to the palace today?"

Upon hearing this, Su Xin nodded and said, "I'm afraid I'm leaving, so I really can't bear to part with my wife and sister..."

"In just a few months, I will be back in a sedan chair. At that time, the girl will not be able to leave even if she wants to leave." Amethyst pulled Su Xin's hand and said with a smile.

"I really envy my sister. How can I have such a comfortable life?" Su Xin bit her lip and said, "I learned the rules since I was a child. When I entered the palace, I also learned the rules, and it depends on my face. In this past six months, although I am not my own family, I am rarely quiet and free. Why do I insist on talking about others if I am a good person?"

"As a woman, I always have to find someone, and it's not easy to delay it. Besides, the girl didn't say that she would go to other people's houses. She lived in the walls behind her back and often came and went. It's great that she was said to be a wife, but she had to separate her. The second wife looked a little more powerful, but she had no bad intentions. She just had to be respectful and said a few good words to coax her. The second grandmother is gentle and you have seen her, and it's not difficult to get along with her sister-in-law. The fifth master was in the early years and raised by the wife, and was the most kind to treat others. Girl, please feel at ease, don't think about it anymore." Seeing her so uneasy, Zi Jing spoke and gave her a reassurance.

Su Xin heard Amethyst's kindness, held Amethyst's hand with her backhand, looked at her face, hesitated for a moment, and asked her what she was confused about: "Sister knows this truth, why did she miss the flowering period and be lonely until now?"

After hearing this, Zijing's body stiffened. After a while, she smiled and said, "Who knows? I thought about getting married earlier, thinking about being a good wife and mother. But who should I marry? Even if I want to marry, I have to have a man willing to marry. Since no one wants it, I can only endure it like this..." In the end, I had already revealed a little loneliness.

"Sister..." Su Xin couldn't bear it when she saw her cold appearance and said, "Why don't I talk to my sister-in-law to see if I can find a suitable family for my sister..."

After hearing this, Zijing waved her hand and said with a smile: "I appreciate the girl's feelings, so let's forget it. I don't have the blessing to be someone else's house and become a cheap mother; half-drunk person doesn't have the same face as a concubine. The girl just said that life here is quiet and comfortable and can't bear to leave. The girl has only lived for half a year, and I have lived for most of my life, so naturally I can't bear to leave..."

Although it is the hot summer now and the weather is so hot, Cao Yong has carried the Holy Destiny and is not at leisure.

From Rehe to Jingcheng, the crops on both sides are not growing well due to the low rain. You have to go down to see what the capital is like to know the details.

After resting at home for half a day, Cao Yong took several officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs out of Beijing the next day. He first went to Changping, and then went around Miyun, Yanqing, Tongzhou, Daxing, Fangshan, and Huairou before returning to Beijing.

Except for places with river channels, water diversion and irrigation, and drought conditions slightly relieved, other places look worrying.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, although there were a few rains in the capital, due to the thin clouds and small coverage, many places did not bathe in the rain.

This year is the leap month, so the beginning of autumn will be earlier than in previous years. Even if it rains now, it is too late to replant crops. It seems that the shortage of grain in the capital this fall is already a foregone conclusion.

Cao Yong carefully wrote the memorials about what he saw in the past few days and sent someone to Rehe from the cabinet ministers.

The memorial was sent back only two days after the capital was sent.

From June 15th, we will fast and pray for rain in the Rehe River. From June 15th, we will also be presided over by the Ministry of Rites to pray for rain together.

It was already sixteen days after the decree arrived in the capital. The Ministry of Rites hurriedly sent someone to inform the various yamen in the capital.

There is a lesson in the past. Now when the word "praying for rain" is mentioned, who dares to neglect it?

On the square of the Palace of Supreme Harmony, there were a bunch of Shangshu wearing third and fourth-grade clothes, looking spectacular.

The rankings of these people are based on the grade level. Cao Yong, the chief supervisor of the third-rank Office of the Internal Affairs Office, was originally behind the ministers and ministers, but now there are not many people in front of him.

The prince in Beijing is the eldest prince who is included in the first prince, the second prince, except for the eighth prince and the thirteenth prince, the remaining adult princes also come to the Taihe Palace Square to stand every day.

In the past, praying for rain was the choice of days from the Imperial Heaven Supervision, but this time it was Kangxi's intention to start temporarily.

There are unexpected storms in the sky, so this rain is not that easy, it comes at will.

It was the hot summer again. After praying for two days, several ministers fainted, and the rest were all hard. The Ministry of Rites had already asked people to prepare mung bean soup, but it was not useful. Seeing that there were more and more people swaying every day.

Although Cao Yong was young, he couldn't resist the poison of the sun. After a few days of sun exposure, he felt nauseous and dizzy, as if he was about to have heatstroke.

Because it was already the weather of the great heat, the capital was like a big steamer.

Five people died in one day at the jail of the Ministry of Justice.

The six officials of the Ministry of Justice, two entourages, and one of them died of illness and had not yet made up for the gap. The remaining three in the capital were punished for praying for rain in May. Among them, the two ministers were demoted to two levels and one minister was demoted to three levels.

He was already trembling, but now he was involved in the crime of death. He was so fooled that he could not do anything. He rushed to jointly submit a memorial to ask whether to detain the imprisoned prisoners.

A few days later, the decree was sent back. Not only the prisoners in charge of the Ministry of Justice, but also the prisoners in various places in the capital were leniently detained, and everyone was relieved.

Even so, more than ten prisoners died everywhere within a few days.

At the entrances of major temples in the capital, there are mostly mung bean soup. In the city market, the Shuntian Prefecture Office sent a water truck to allow the people to drink a bowl of cold water for free in the scorching heat...

On June 20th, God finally opened his eyes and clouds began to accumulate in the sky.

It took a long time during the day, and by noon, it started to rain.

It was drizzling at first, but then it became faster and faster. At dusk, the rain could no longer be lost in the water on the street.

Cao Yong was wearing a poncho and came back in the rain, feeling relieved.

It is better to have rain than not. The crops are reduced and the farmers can survive, but it is harder. If they have no harvest, they will be afraid of selling their children and being displaced.
To be continued...