Chen Ying was always socializing outside, while Chen Qi came back in the afternoon. Just as the meal was coming, Grandma Ying asked him to come and accompany the guests.
Looking at the table full of delicious food, but there was no wine, Chen Jue shouted, "Brother Qi, why are there any food or no wine? Brother Rui and I are both thirteen, not milk dolls, and the New Year is not something that is delicious It's delicious. My elder brother has always had a strict temper and is not allowed to eat wine. It's so easy to come out. Brother Qi also asked us to eat two cups to satisfy our cravings."
Chen Qi looked like a person who had experienced it and nodded, "It's my sister-in-law who is too careful. You are not a child. What's the point of having a few cups of wine? Now that I'm here, I'm not here, so we're having a drink." Having said this, He also said: "A friend from Guanzhong sent a few jars of wine before the New Year, and we will also try the wine from the northwest." After that, he ordered the servant to go to the wine cellar to pick up the jars.
Chen Quan was fine, he was already eighteen years old, and his brothers and sisters-in-law couldn't help but drink; Chen Jue was a little greedy for wine, and was caught with wine bugs and waited happily.
Seeing Chen Qi laughing secretly, Shen Rui couldn't help but smile.
Shen Rui knew of Guanzhong wine, which was the thick wine that had been passed down until five hundred years later, with a degree similar to that of the common wine brews in Jiangnan, less than one degree. However, the wine brew was made of glutinous rice or japonica rice, with a milky white color; thick wine Most of them are made of cereals and other grains, and the color is yellow.
Sure enough, as soon as the wine jar was opened, Chen Jue noticed something was wrong, and sniffed and said, "What kind of wine is this? Why can't the wine smell smell so light?
In winter, cold wine hurts the body, and a small stove with warm wine has been prepared next to it. What is prepared is not a wine cup, but a small bowl with a diameter of three inches.
After the wine was warm, Chen Jue didn't care about picking on the color, so he couldn't wait to taste it and said astonished: "The taste is so light, is this called wine? Are you embarrassed to give gifts?"
Chen Qi smiled and said, "This is a thick wine. The favorite Xiangyi of Guanzhong officials, I heard that it is extremely cheap in Guanzhong. If you ship it to the capital, you will need one tael of silver for this jar."
A whole jar, two pounds of thick wine, four people, several bowls of each person, and all ate Yu Jing. Although Chen Jue's noodles were not visible, he had some intention of "using wine to relieve his sorrows" earlier, so he took the initiative to ask for it. I ate the wine, but after the hot and thick wine, I didn’t feel drunk, but I just sweated after eating it.
Because Chen Li had already set up a banquet for the fourth day of the New Year to host the brothers in Beijing, we would see each other again tomorrow. After Shen Rui and Chen Jue finished their meal, they returned to Shen Ji's house without waiting for Chen Ying to come back.
There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, Shen Rui and Chen Jue went to the Shen Li family with Shen Ji's family.
Chen Li, in addition to the fifth brothers coming here, the third wife Shen Ling also came, and Chen Qin, Chen Bao and Chen Lin were also taken out from the second wife. Only Chen Zhu was in good condition, and although his condition was better, he didn't dare to make trouble. , so I didn't go out.
Brothers from the Shen family name Yu gathered together in Beijing.
Among them, Chen Li, Shen Machinery, Chen Ying was a Jinshi, and now he is an official; Chen Qi is a juren and has entered the official position; Chen Quan is a Tongsheng, and the rest of the rest are also studying except for the third wife Shen Ling. .
Let’s mention the other juren and student of the Yu generation in Songjiang each house, and the generation of the Shen family has already shown its prosperity.
These young men who had not yet become officials still couldn't think of these, but they were secretly happy.
Things are precious when they are separated from their hometowns, but people are humble when they are separated from their hometowns.
Only by experiencing wandering outside can you deeply understand the peace of mind when you are at home.
In the officialdom, although there are fellow villagers, in the same year, fellow classmates, teachers and students and other relationships as links, forming various networks of personal feelings, but this is mostly due to interests. When encountering the ups and downs of officialdom, you can turn against others at any time. In contrast, the clan If you are personally connected by blood, you are the best ally.
In the end, the Chen Can brothers took office, and the Shen family's children passed down their families. People have served in office throughout the ages. However, except for the second family's legitimate branch, the other houses are all small officials, and the highest one is the late old man in the clan's house. Retired from the third rank political participation position.
Looking at this momentum, there are not only one or two outstanding children of the Shen clan. Even if they have a career in the imperial examination and great waves, as long as they can go to school for two or three more, the Shen family will have relays in the officialdom, and they can wait until the generation of Chen Dong grows gradually Even if you fail to gain the reputation of a juren or a Jinshi in the end, as long as you have the desire to learn and pay attention to raising your children in the future, you will only have more and more seeds of reading.
Chen Li did not take the matter of the second house heir to everyone, but when talking to Chen Ji and Chen Ying, he mentioned Chunshan Academy. How Chen Quan, Shen Rui, and Chen Jue enter the school, we must first look at the elders of the second house If you arrange it, don’t worry too much.
Although more than a dozen brothers were sitting in the same room, they sat in several places due to different ages. There is no need to mention Shen Ji, Chen Ying, Chen Qi, and Chen Quan. Chen Quan was accompaniment. He talked to Chen Lin in the third room; Shen Rui and Chen Jue sat with Chen Qin and Chen Bao.
As for the younger generation of Brother Dong, Sister Ning, Sister Hui, etc., they are also hosted by the same generation of clan brothers and clan sisters.
Chen Qin and Chen Bao, I heard that Shen Rui and Chen Jue went to Longfu Temple the day before yesterday, and they were all envious.
Chen Qin complained, "Brother Jue is not loyal... he doesn't say anything and calls us."
Chen Jue secretly pointed to the direction where the sinking machine was sitting and whispered: "I went with my elder brother, burning incense and worshiping Buddha in a regular manner, and just turned around at the temple fair..."
Judging from his appearance, he just added a sentence, "Whoever goes will regret it."
Although we are brothers of the same generation, because the age difference is too big, we are very respectful of the Shen family's future leader.
Chen Qin shrank her neck: "Forget it this time, Brother Jue will remember to call me and Brother Bao next time."
Several young people were gathering together to talk. The third room Shen Ling walked over with a little care on her face.
If only Chen Quan came and everyone who was familiar with each other was naturally not polite. But everyone was really unfamiliar with this brother Shen Ling of the Sanfang clan, but they were all polite. Seeing him coming, they all stood up to greet him.
Shen Ling is Chen Zhu's cousin and the eldest son of the second prince of the third house. She studied in the clan for two years. After learning about her words, she went to the shop to learn to manage business. She was sent to the capital two years ago. Take care of a cloth shop in Nancheng.
The three houses have a lot of grandchildren and have a lot of business at home. In addition to the legitimate son and the legitimate son and the legitimate son and the legitimate son and grandchildren are mostly like Shen Ling. They take on errands early and treat them as shopkeepers or friends, and are also guarding against the shopkeepers hired outside to make trouble. Only then do you like to use your own family to manage the industry.
In terms of age, Shen Ling is two years older than Chen Quan. It is probably because he has been a classmate with Chen Quan. But because he studied for two years, he went to the shop to study errands, and Chen Quan just missed it.
Shen Ling is already in her prime, but in front of all the clan brothers, he did not show off his clan brothers' prose, but was very polite.
Seeing everyone getting up, Shen Ling hurriedly said, "Sit quickly, there is no need to do this. I am disturbing you..."
Among the four little ones, Chen Qin was the oldest and said, "Brother Ling is so polite... We are just chatting in the east and west..."
Shen Ling came here and came to find Chen Qin.
"Brother Qin, I heard that Brother Jiu is sick, I want to go and see. Do you see the elders of the second room are cheaper?" Shen Ling said with a little restrained look and said with a little restrained look.
When Chen Qin heard this, she was stunned at first, then laughed and said, "Why did Brother Ling ask me? Uncle Cang and uncle are both very kind people. Uncle and uncle are kind to others. Where is there anything wrong with others? However, Brother Ling, as a junior, hasn’t been here to pay New Year’s greetings? What a lot of heretics are all members of the tribe? I’m afraid that Brother Zhu Jiu also thinks of Brother Ling’s second brother.”
Shen Ling said embarrassedly: "I didn't know that you came to Beijing before and have never been to the elders of the second house. I'm afraid it's inconvenient to visit the door."
Why doesn't he want to go? He didn't have any contacts before, but now the relationship between the second house and the clan is eased, so as his clan nephew, he should go to see him. Not to mention that his cousin came, he lived in the second house. He came out to fight when he was in his teens. When dealing with business, you know the best of the level of human relationships, how could you be so rude?
He wanted to go, but couldn't.
Before Chen Zhu arrived in Beijing, Shen Ling received a letter from the old man in the third room. The old man in the third room did not allow him to go to the second room, for fear that he would not like the elders of the second room to be happy about business affairs and would implicate Chen Zhu's head.
Shen Ling couldn't do it, and she could only do it.
Now that the Shen family brothers are gathering, Shen Ling can no longer pretend not to know; let alone Chen Zhu is sick, his cousin must not ignore him, otherwise it will be his fault to pass it back to Songjiang.
The old man from the third house changed his family. The descendants who studied were treasures, and those who did not study were like grass, and those who were biased were unpredictable.
However, there was a letter from the old man, and Shen Ling was afraid that she would be really disgusted by the elders of the second house, so she had to come up to find Chen Qin. The Chen Bao brothers asked about the elders of the second house.
Although the second wife had already spoken with Chen Li, Chen Ji and others on the first day of the first day of the lunar calendar and decided to choose the heir, Chen Qin and Chen Bao did not know.
Seeing that the second master was warm in Chen Zhu, the second too big was quite concerned about Chen Zhu's condition. Chen Qin and Chen Bao thought that the second wife had a crush on Chen Zhu. As for the little eldest wife, it goes without saying that the one who valued Shen Rui Although Shen Rui went out to visit, the eldest wife had already started to clean up another yard because Chen Zhu lived in Shen Rui's previous living yard. It was not the front living yard, but a side yard outside the second gate, right in front of The cross-yard is much spacious.
As for Chen Qin, why Chen Bao knew that the new yard was prepared for Shen Rui? It was because there was no need to guess that the eldest lady took Shen Rui and two maids to clean up the yard, and she knew which new owner was.
In this way, in Shen Qin and Chen Bao's view, the second house chosen by the second house is the eldest house Shen Rui, the second house Shen Zhu, and the third house Shen Jue. Except for Chen Zhu who was slightly surprised, the other two also thought it was As expected.
For this reason, Chen Qin and Shen Ling were polite and began to regret it.
Everyone arrived in Beijing on the 28th day of the 12th lunar month, and they stayed for several days before and after the New Year. Chen Zhu never mentioned Shen Ling, a cousin. Maybe for the sake of the eyes of the elders of the second house, he wanted to be distant from his cousin, and he was like this. If you talk too much, you can't say that Shen Zhu's previous plan was ruined.
Chen Quan has always been enthusiastic. Seeing that Shen Ling was born in a villain and was engaged in business business, the clan brothers were unconfident and couldn't bear it. He said, "I'm also planning to visit Brother Zhu at Uncle Cang's house. If Brother Ling is worried about Brother Zhu, Just follow me to go there.”
When Shen Ling heard this, she said gratefully: "That's good, I'll bother Brother Quan..."
Chen Quan thought of Shen Rui staying in Shen Machinery for two days and said, "Brother Rui sometimes returns to Uncle Cang's house? If you are not in a hurry, go with my house for two days?"
"I will go out with the teacher in the sixth day of the lunar month, so I should go back tomorrow." Shen Rui said.
He followed Chen Jue out and only brought a set of clothes to change his clothes. If he followed Wang Shouren out, he would have to go back to change clothes.
Chen Quan nodded: "In that case, my second brother Ling and I will go there tomorrow, so as not to go there to hand in the post..."