Chapter 928: See you (Part 2)

What is the usual situation of recognizing each other?

If Li was ten years old, he might have asked timidly, "Are you really my father?"; if he was twenty, he would have asked him why he ignored himself back then with anger and grief.

Now, she is over fifty years old and has a lot of children and grandchildren. Even though she was shocked and wronged at first, her mood gradually calmed down after more than a month.

It turned out to be, relatively speechless.

Except for the initial kneeling of Concubine Wang and Li, Kangxi ordered the two to stand up and never said a word.

He couldn't say it. He wanted to ask Li what he wanted, but he swallowed it back when he said something.

This meeting was boring. It would be weird if an elderly emperor and a fifty-year-old woman were crying with her head in her arms.

Concubine Wang sat on the stool with her eyebrows down, as if she was sitting on pins and needles.

She thought that after the priest arrived, she would withdraw, but she witnessed this "father-daughter meeting".

"Raise your head." After a while, Kangxi said quietly: "Call me to see you."

Although he did not name the name, Li also knew that he was talking about himself.

Her heart trembled slightly, but she slowly raised her head and looked at the old man sitting a few steps away.

The unconcealed old age made her heart tremble and she felt a little sour inexplicably.

Kangxi also looked at her, as if trying to find the shadow of his lover on her face.

The more you are on the verge of death, the clearer everything you have when you are young.

He looked back on his life and realized that he was immersed in the glory of the emperor and forgot a lot. Until the emperor's supreme power could not stop the gradual death, he realized that he was missing a lot.

He wanted to explain and told Li that she was a noble princess with golden branches and jade leaves. He also wanted to say that the reason why he was raised among the people was not that he, the emperor, was ruthless, but that he followed her mother's wishes.

In the end, Kangxi said nothing, Li said nothing, and in most of the hour, the room was silent.

Seeing the emperor sitting in the distance in the carriage, Li felt his eyes were sore and hard to stop.

Wang Pin was beside him, sighed quietly, reached out and held Li's hand, and said, "Think about it, you are a blessed person, and think about it."

Mrs. Li turned her head, looked at Wangpin, and nodded slowly...

Li did not stay in the palace for a long time. After Kangxi left, she would say goodbye.

Princess Wang was worried and asked the little prince to find the sixteenth prince, wanting to ask the sixteenth prince to send Li out of the palace. It just so happened that the sixteenth prince was coming here and praised the little eunuch.

Therefore, the sixteenth prince sent Li to Shenwu Gate. The Cao family's carriage was waiting outside Shenwu Gate.

On the way, I passed Chuxiu Palace and saw a team of girls entering Chuxiu Palace. The eunuch who led the team recognized the Sixteenth Prince, gave way, and paid respects to the Sixteenth Prince.

Those girls who are waiting to be selected have a little tender face, but they have lowered their eyebrows and are not sure which one is particularly outstanding.

The sixteenth prince glanced at him and felt it was troublesome, so he took big steps to lead Li away.

Li was curious and looked at the girls more. Because they were all lowering their heads and wearing the same clothes, they couldn't tell anything.

Back then, Yan'er also entered the palace like this? In three years, the two nieces from the East Mansion would also enter the palace to select them.

Thinking of this, the speechless sadness of the father and daughter meeting just now faded away.

Next year, my grandchildren will send them to the official school. I heard that the master of my family wants to replenish his official position, but I don’t know what kind of personality Mr. Xin is. Changsheng’s ears have frostbite last year. Don’t commit it this winter…

The old folk saying, "The old son, the eldest grandson, the lifeblood of the old couple." As Wang Meng said, she is a blessed person. Not only does she keep her lifeblood, but her older children are not unfilial...

A little smile was squeezed out on his face, but when he lowered his head, tears fell all over his collar...

Outside Shenwu Gate, Cao Yong, wearing a replenishing uniform, stood in front of his carriage, whispering to Cao Yuan.

Today, Li entered the palace and was escorted by the chief supervisor Cao Yuan. Chu Yu was originally going to come with his mother-in-law, but was left by Li.

Seeing Li come out, Cao Yong and Cao Yuan all came forward.

The sixteenth prince and Cao Yong were common, and there was nothing to say. Seeing Li getting on the carriage, he left Cao Yong.

Cao Yong's guard waist card was handed over to the guard office when he left his post and was mourning. Therefore, if he wanted to go back to the Ministry of Revenue, he had to go around.

However, he was worried that his mother would not have the heart to go to the yamen, so he had already made arrangements with the yamen and went back home directly.

The carriage rushed directly outside the second gate, and Cao Yong personally helped Li get off the carriage.

Seeing the familiar hanging flower door, Li exhaled a breath of turbid air and his tense spirit, he finally relaxed.

"Mother..." Seeing that she was so simple, Cao Yong was afraid that she would feel sad and called out in a low voice.

Li raised his head, patted his son's arm, and said, "Nothing is wrong."

At this moment, Chu Yu also received news and took two girls to the second gate quickly.

Mrs. Li had seen the second family and saw her wife in a hurry, she said, "Walk slowly, don't be shocked by the child in her stomach."

Chu Yu slowed down obediently and said, "I have been waiting for the news from the second gate, but I fell asleep."

Li had approached her, held her wife's arm, and said, "I'm already showing my conceit. It's time to sleep thirsty. What should I do?" As she spoke, her eyes fell on her belly, her face full of kindness.

Chu Yu and Cao Yong looked at each other and were surprised by Li's calm reaction.

When he returned to Lanyuan, Chu Yu avoided it and left the house for them and their son to talk.

"Mother, in the palace..." Cao Yong asked.

Li raised his head and said, "I saw the emperor... The emperor looked older than before..." Speaking of this, he paused and said, "I thought he would ask me what kind of grace I asked for, and I had thought about it. If he wanted to ask, let's hand over the things Korqin and the wishes given by the Empress Dowager back then, so as not to keep them in his hands to cause trouble... He didn't say anything until he was old... I didn't say much..."

After saying this, she was not very sad, but instead worried about her son and said, "Will these golds be peaceful in the family? Will there be trouble?"

"At the beginning, the sixteenth prince spoke and said that the gold was 5,000 taels, and the rest were all silver. However, the weight of gold and silver was different. If someone was interested in investigating it, he would probably not be able to hide it. But it was nothing. This was given by the Empress Dowager's legitimately, so my mother would take it with peace of mind. But we should prepare some gifts for the two princes in the Empress Dowager's family. They also built a royal palace in the capital, but they didn't have to send it outside the pass." Cao Yong thought for a while and said, "There is the Empress Dowager's side. In more than a month, it will be the day when the Empress Dowager's sacrifice. My mother took out a few hundred taels of gold and gave it to the temple to pray for the Empress Dowager. It is better not to move other property for the time being, and our family does not lack this."

After hearing what his son made appropriate arrangements, Li nodded and said good things.

She came back from outside and had not changed her clothes and washed her clothes, so Cao Yong had not sat for a long time and returned to Wutongyuan.

Chu Yu was still worried, and after hearing Cao Yong's words, he felt relieved.

Cao Yong had to go to the front yard to look for Zheng Xie, so he changed into a refill, and in half-old home-cooked clothes, he came to the front yard study.

In his study, Zheng Xiezheng taught children the painting skills.

When Qian Chenqun was in Cao's mansion, his favorite disciple was Niu Niu; now Zheng Xie is in Cao's mansion, and the most proud student is Zuo Cheng, the younger brother of twins.

The reason is nothing else, just because Zuo Cheng is quite talented in painting, he caught Zheng Xie's eyes.

From this we can also see that these two people do have their own Confucian style. They will not curry favor with Tianyou just because they sit in the Cao Mansion. Hang Seng’s disciples surnamed Cao are despised by others.

Cao Yong stood at the door and looked at the head of the carrot leaning over in the room to paint.

Since Changsheng came to school for a while, Tianhu from the East Mansion also began to enlighten.

According to Cao Yong's original intention, he did not want to divide his children into different levels, and wanted them to grow up safely.

However, things went against my expectations.

Take the Eight Banners Official School as an example. Only children of the Eight Banners with titles or hereditary titles can enter the school. Children of the civil servants with fifth rank and third rank or above can enter the school.

The restrictions on the collection of students there are ten to eighteen years old. Each year, each flag can only collect forty to sixty people, including full flags, Mengqi, and coated flags, and the competition is fierce.

Cao Fu barely entered the school back then because the Cao family was in a prosperous and he was the only one in the generation who entered the Eight Banners Official School.

When Sun Li entered the school, he occupied the light of the Baoyi Banner. Just like his gangster Sun Chu, he was not qualified to enter the Eight Banners Official School, and he studied in a private school outside the Eight Banners Official School.

Cao Yong originally wanted to send Tianyou and the others to the official school next year so that they could also contact some friends and friends of the same age so that they would not be strong in the house. However, this admission has become a hurdle.

Tianyou has a title and is the eldest son of the Earl's Mansion, so his identity is enough. Hang Seng has no title, but with Cao Yong's identity, it is not difficult to walk around and send a son to the official school. It is difficult to live on the left and form two left.

Not only are they two not qualified to enter the official school when Tianhu grows up.

Thinking of this, Cao Yong couldn't help but frown. But for the sake of "fairness", he could not keep Tianyou and Hang Seng in the mansion.

Where is there real fairness in this world?

At this moment, Zheng Xie had already seen Cao Yong. He handed the children to draw first, and he came out to talk to Cao Yong.

He heard that the actual vacancies had been filled, and the seventh-rank magistrate was very excited. He looked at Cao Yong. He didn't know how to make a statement about these words of thanks.

After living in the capital for several years, he also knew that it was not easy to replenish officials. It was easy to receive donations, but he had to spend money on the actual vacancies.

Not to mention these miscellaneous brands of donating officials, they are just Jinshi who came from the right path. If they don’t have money to manage, it would be normal to wait for three or five years.

This seventh-rank magistrate is also a regular seal official. According to the rules, only those who are from Jinshi are awarded a Jinshi. It is even more difficult to make up for it.

Even if the Cao Mansion comes forward, the various money to replenish officials is indispensable.

Thinking of this, he was already solemn and bowed to Cao Yong, saying, "My dear kindness is the heartfelt thought of the students. If you can get the students to deal with each other, it is the blessing of the students. How much money is spent? Please tell me. One day, the students will return it as much as possible."

The salary of this seventh-rank magistrate is only a few dozen taels of silver. Cao Yong spent more than 2,000 taels of money to make up for Zheng Xie's vacancies. It was just that this year was not a year of donations and there were new Jinshi, so the cost of making up for the vacancies also increased.

However, Cao Yong did not intend to explain in detail with Zheng Xie.

He thought about it and said, "Ke Rou, I also served as a foreign official in my early years. It is not easy for foreign officials. The filial piety of the superiors of the 'three festivals and two lives' would have to spend money on all their transactions. The court's salary was low, and corruption in the officialdom became a trend. The capital was a little dilapidated, and the family was really short of silver. So I borrowed some silver and donated one official to save a rich family fortune in three years. How could Ke Rou do this with Ke Rou's character? I did throw some money on Ke Rou, but for me, it was just a chore. If Ke Rou wanted to return it, I would pick a few calligraphy and paintings with me. Ke Rou was very talented and would always make a name for himself. I would still take advantage of Ke Rou."

At the end of the day, there was a smile on his face.

Without a moment of contempt, there was certainty in my eyes. Looking at Zheng Xie's eyes, it was not like looking at a devastating scholar, but like looking at Shilin everyone.

Of course, Zheng Xie didn't know that he had left a mark in history, and he thought that Cao Yong had "a wise eye" and not only believed in his character, but also affirmed his paintings.
To be continued...