In the afternoon, Zhou took the shop and returned home. Li had already instilled thoughts on Shen Mingjun for nearly a moment. Before entering the room, Shen Mingjun looked clear and hesitant, and seemed to be still worried about whether he should ask Li to run the tea shop by him or Zhou, but when he came out, he was completely timid and timid.

"I won't keep you for a long time today. I'll live with your cousin. The old house there is spacious. In two days, your elder brother will be in the exam for the year. I'll be there to urge you and your wife. Don't be too busy waiting for your elder brother to finish the exam, and then take your mother to the tea shop for a walk."

Shen Mingjun wanted to escort Li to Chenxi Hall. Zhou went out and watched Li leave and then turned back. This time Li came, which was not as domineering as she thought. After all, she and Shen Mingjun made a name for themselves in the city and had a certain voice at home.

In the past, Shen Mingjun was the youngest at home, neither Li nor Shen Mingjun's brothers and sisters-in-law would have given them too many opportunities to talk to their husband and wife.

"Mom, it seems that my father has been brainwashed by his grandmother. The shopkeeper who returns to the tea shop must be replaced."

"What is brainwashing if you are old or young?"

Zhou shouted in anger: "If the tea shop is gone, it will be gone. My mother can still do things at the pharmacy. Can you starve you? Just take care of your own business. You have to study hard these days. When my grandmother comes, she will definitely come to the school to ask the teacher to take your studies. If you are compared by Liulang, you will be so stupid as to have no books."

No matter how aggrieved Zhou felt, he didn't want the little one to see why she was disrespectful to her mother-in-law. After all, filial piety in this era was deeply rooted in people's hearts, and people who were unfilial were not tolerated by the world.

Moreover, according to the Ming Dynasty law, parents have the rights to educate and punish their children. If the children take inappropriate actions, parents can use family law to punish them. In severe cases, they are sent to the government for imprisonment of more than two years. The property should be controlled by the parents. If the descendants establish a separate household registration and privately deposit their assets, they will be sentenced to three years in prison.

When Shen Mingjun came back, the couple discussed in the room again. When Chen Xi woke up in the middle of the night, the lights were still on the main room. The couple probably didn't find a proper solution.

Chen Xi probably understood Shen Mingjun's difficult situation. His cheap father was the most filial in daily life. He was my mother's teachings, but his wife's hard work. At this time, he would rather not run a tea shop, which would save him from being upset now.

Two days later, Li did not come to disturb him.

In Li's mind, no matter how important the tea shop is, it is just a means of livelihood, and Shen Mingwen's fame is the hope for the family's rejuvenation.

In Shen Xi's eyes, his uncle is already a thirty-six-year-old man, and his son is not young. He has to take care of his mother when he goes to the city for the exam. I'm afraid he will feel embarrassed even when meeting classmates.

On March 24, Fujian academicians sent to select academic officials to assess Ninghua County students in Ninghua County, and finally determine their merits and disadvantages based on their grades. This is the annual exam that scholars must go through.

The city was very lively this day. After all, it was a major event for scholars in the city. Even the school teacher Su Yunzhong had to take the assessment.

However, for older scholars, they usually do not make it difficult to get promoted to a school official. If they get a second grade, they will basically be able to pass the title without any promotion or decline.

But for those like Shen Mingwen who must take the exam under my mother's supervision, they are not that easy, and they need to excel among hundreds of new and old scholars in the county.

The annual exam will be held for two days. The exam will be completed at the age of 25 in March. The next day, the government will announce the test results to the public.

That afternoon, Chen Xi finally saw his uncle who had not seen in nearly a year. Later generations were young, but at this time, his uncle had white hair on his temples and crow's feet were climbing on the corners of his eyes. Although his face had been carefully repaired, he still looked old. He followed Li and was silent, with helplessness and sorrow in his eyes.

When he entered the yard, Shen Mingwen did not even say hello to his younger brother and his sister-in-law. In the end, Li explained: "This is also considered to be at home, just sit down."

Shen Mingwen cleared his throat a little and said in a thick and hoarse voice: "Mom, before returning to the village, the child wants to visit his classmates."

"Go, go, just pretend to give you a half-day vacation. I will definitely come back on time before tomorrow." Li waved his hand and spoke to Shen Mingwen as if he was teaching a lesson to the child who had not grown up.

Li asked Shen Mingwen to visit his classmates on vacation, so he wanted to stay and discuss the tea shop with Shen Mingjun.

In the old lady's heart, the eldest son is the backbone of the family. In the future, the Shen family will be on the list. As for things such as making money in business, she does not want Shen Mingwen to come into contact with.

Scholars should not be as ambitious as the world, and stay away from ordinary people like making money to support their families. Chen Xi thought about it and thought that this theory was too absurd. Everything is inferior to studying. Only those who study hard should eat grains and grains?

"For my mother, go back to the countryside first, settle down, bring your second and third brothers to the city, and see who is suitable to be the shopkeeper of this tea shop. As for the youngest, you should stay at the Wang family to work, which is not bad for you." Li finally smiled and said what she was about to say in front of the four of the youngest house.

Zhou gritted his teeth and argued: "Mom, this tea shop was founded by my husband himself, and the shopkeepers were invited by my husband himself. Now that the business has just improved, the shopkeeper said he would change it. I'm afraid those people won't do their job well."

Li was a little dissatisfied. She talked to her son. Logically speaking, her daughter-in-law was not qualified to interrupt. If she had said she would not have been able to slap her mouth directly. But seeing that the couple had created a good business in less than a year after entering the city, she still said patiently: "If you don't do things well, what's the use of keeping him? Just quit. If the Shen family was in Ninghua City back then, it was a wealthy family, and it was always the only one who could be the only one."

Maybe Li is old and always likes to mention things from that time, especially when she first married into the Shen family, the scenery at that time was in sharp contrast with her current downturn. As she talked, she always complained that the people in the long house were not good, which is basically an old routine.

Chen Xi knew that Shen Mingjun could not keep the tea shop, but according to fact, it was not much different whether the tea shop had Shen Mingjun, the shopkeeper.

Since Li said this, she didn't want her son and daughter-in-law to refute her. She was determined to take the tea shop into the family, which would save Shen Mingjun and his wife from opening a small treasury to discuss the potential for family division in the future.

Then Li stood up and prepared to go back to the Bo's house in Shenxi Lobby. Although the Shen family was in a downturn, the old house was still preserved. Li had extraordinary feelings for it. Shen Mingjun wanted to keep up with him but was rejected. It seemed that he wanted the couple to have a good talk. When Li left, Shen Mingjun and Zhou were silent.

Chen Xi saw this situation and knew that the couple was unhappy. Zhou was very dissatisfied with her husband's permission to let him go. Shen Mingjun felt ashamed of his wife and son's good intentions, but he did not dare to disobey his mother, so he was so frustrated.

Chen Xi saw that the tea shop could not be kept, so he could only plan other businesses. The issue of publishing and publishing that he had thought about before should be put on the agenda.

But this time, if you have to do business again, you may have to take some money from the tea shop as business expenses. However, according to Shen Mingjun's obedience to Li's words, he may not have the courage.

Chen Xi also fell into silence.

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