One hundred and ninetieth chapters where the profit (five)
The next day, Shen Juren got up early.
Thinking of Shen Zhou's gentle and elegant appearance, he looked in the mirror and felt that his outfit was not pleasing to the eye.
The clothes he was wearing were Confucian clothes specially made by someone for getting married. Looking at these brand-new clothes, he always felt that they had a village spirit.
Shen Juren put down the mirror, went to the study, dug out all the clothes in the suitcase, found an 80% New Confucian suit that had only been wetted once, and put it on, feeling more comfortable. He also felt the color of the Confucian scarf on his head. It was too light and looked unstable, so I changed it to something darker.
Naturally, he would not wear a gold ring or gold hairpin as an ornament like the old rich man in the country. A gentleman is as good as jade, so he found a mutton-fat white jade happy eyebrow sign and hung it on his belt.
Shen Zhou was the same Geng as him, only a few months older than him, but he was a 16-year-old Juren, a 20-year-old Jinshi, and now he is a bachelor's student in the Imperial Academy, which is the most noble and noble place; he is sixteen years old At that time, he was also a scholar. He failed the provincial examination for the first time, and failed the fourth time in a row. He passed the provincial examination only after the new year. It was not that he had never thought about the examination of the Ministry of Rites. He also went to Beijing twice, but every time The first time the capital was famous, it was Sunshan. By the third time, he no longer had the courage to go to Beijing.
He has accomplished nothing, and facing the successful Shen Zhou, how can Shen Juren not feel sad?
I remember that when he was a teenager, he passed the college examination at the age of fifteen and was hailed as a talented young man by his tribe. Several famous families in Songjiang also had rumors from them, but those people looked down upon others because they were poor and poor at that time. , so he just wanted to marry the daughter of his concubine to him.
No matter what, he is the eldest son of the fourth family, how can he be careless in marrying a wife?
Later, the patriarch of the clan acted as a matchmaker and told the Sun family that even though they were merchants, they would have a generous dowry and be prudent in their actions, and there was nothing bad about them.
Mr. Sun has a gentle and gentle temperament and good looks. I was really happy at that time... If Zhang Laoan hadn't made troubles one after another, which caused the breakup of their husband and wife, it would not have upset him and prevented him from concentrating on his studies.
Thinking of this, Shen Juren couldn't help but complain a little more about Zhang Lao'an.
On this day, Shen Zhou hosted a banquet for Shen Juren, not at the old house of the clan, nor in a restaurant or teahouse outside, but in a separate courtyard of the clan master.
The eldest son of the clan is the eldest son of the Shen family and the future patriarch. He will not be like Shen Juren and have a prostitute who is a "golden house". It is just a clean place. Occasionally, if you have friends who are not convenient to entertain at home, you will come here to eat. liquor.
Shen Zhou had asked the clan elder to find a quiet place to talk, and the clan clan elder provided this courtyard.
Shen Juren had been close to the clan clan in his early years and had a deep friendship with the clan master. He knew this place well and did not need someone from the clan clan to guide the way.
The time appointed on the post was already at ten o'clock in the morning. Shen Juren was afraid that he would be looked down upon by others if he left early, and he was also afraid that he would appear unruly if he left late. He estimated the time and found that he had arrived just after it had passed. Instead of going in immediately, I found a teahouse at the corner of the street and spent two quarters of an hour before strolling over.
Shen Zhou and the clan elder have already arrived and are sitting in the hall eating.
The tea soup is clear and fragrant. It is the Mingqian Longjing tea this year.
The eldest son of the clan had an old acquaintance who was a tea merchant, and the Longjing tea that he gave as gifts was specially made privately, and was different from the Longjing tea that was commonly seen outside.
Shen Zhou is a tea lover. He tasted it slowly and felt the fragrance of tea filling his heart.
When the clan leader saw this, he smiled and said, "Doesn't it taste great? Do you want to buy a piece of tea garden for you?"
Shen Zhou smiled and shook his head: "It's just a matter of words, so don't worry about it."
Salt tea has always been highly profitable. Where can I easily get good tea gardens?
There is no such thing as a free dinner in this world, and people must ask for their courtesy. Even if a tea merchant wanted to use the clan elder to get the second wife of the Shen family, Shen Zhou did not want to take this trouble for his brother.
I don’t have a few coins at home, so why bother?
It is better than anything else for my brother to be successfully promoted to the position of Minister of the Sixth Ministry; unless he does not move his place, he will not be promoted to a capital official. Apart from becoming the second-rank chief envoy, there is another possibility: to go to Nanjing to be a minister of the Sixth Ministry. Tea
At that time, it will not be easy to stay employed and provide for retirement.
Among the ministers and ministers who were assigned to the Sixth Division of Nanjing, except for those who were still young and waiting for the opportunity, the others were looking forward to becoming official officials at the original level as soon as possible. It was better to return to their hometowns to teach their children and grandchildren than to live in tea and idle life in the Sixth Division of Nanjing.
The clan elder just mentioned it, but Shen Zhou didn't answer and changed the subject.
While the two were talking, the steward led Shen Juren over.
The three clan brothers met again and took their seats again.
Seeing that old Shen Zhou was at ease and not in a hurry to speak, the elder clan master knew what was going on and said with a smile: "Zhuangzi has sent some river fresh food. I'll go take a look. Let's add some food at noon... Two brothers, please wait and chat..." "
There were only two people left in the hall, and Shen Juren couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
He originally thought that Shen Zhou was warm and kind in front of others a few days ago, but this time he "came here with a request", he would be very close and warm to him, and he didn't want to call him over, but Shen Zhou looked very cold.
As the patriarch of the clan left, Shen Zhou's face became more and more ugly, and the atmosphere in the room became more solemn.
Cold sweat broke out on Shen Juren's forehead, as if he had gone back to the scene when he faced the second wife years ago.
It suddenly occurred to him that the second wife was not only a member of his clan, but also half of the Sun family.
There was only one old man in Sun's natal family, but at that time, the eldest wife of the second wife came down to marry him personally. The two families had a lot of friendship.
But Mr. Sun... thinking about the "torture" Zhang Laoan had done to Mr. He yesterday, and then thinking about what Mr. Sun had suffered when he entered the family as a junior, Shen Juren felt inexplicably guilty.
Could it be that Erfang didn't just "come with a request", but instead "raised an army to investigate the crime"?
Shen Juren swallowed his saliva and felt a little panicked. He could only secretly hope that Shen Zhou would skip this incident.
Seeing the hidden pride disappear from Shen Juren's face, Shen Zhou asked, "How did Mrs. Sun die?"
"Of course he died of illness..." Shen Juren secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this question. However, under Shen Zhou's gaze, he still stumbled in his answer.
"Died of illness? Really died of illness? I heard that Brother Rui also fell ill during the first seven days of the Sun family. Only later did the tribe find out that he had been beaten first, and then cold and hungry, which almost cost him his life." Shen Zhou There was a bit of chill in the voice.
In the past, his guilt towards Mrs. Sun was only five points, but after learning more about the days when Sun and her son lived in the fourth house, it became ten points.
When Shen Juren saw that Shen Zhou was leaving no room for anything and directly revealed the past, he could only bite the bullet and said: "It's all a trick of a cheap concubine. It almost killed my second brother."
"Concubine? Mrs. Zheng, the biological mother of your eldest son Shen Jin? Since she is guilty of the following crimes, she will be sent to the Yamen? Or she will be sent to the family temple because she doesn't want to make the family scandal public?" Shen Zhou said calmly.
Shen Juren looked stiff and said: "Such a wicked woman, the Shen family cannot tolerate her. I have already given birth to a concubine."
Shen Zhou couldn't help but laugh when he saw Shen Juren's boastful appearance.
With Xu's temperament, even if she had already intended to adopt Shen Rui, how could she fight an unprepared battle?
Although she took the Shen clan members away from Songjiang years ago, she left behind two stewards. They were nominally to accompany the clan master to buy a second room for the family, but in fact they were just to inquire about the fourth room.
Because the fourth house had no control from the mistress, Shen Juren treated his subordinates harshly, which made the servants complain. Even if no one dared to deliberately publicize the master's fault, no one would deliberately hide the scandal of the fourth house.
Regarding Shen Juren's prostitution and his prostitutes and maidservants, they were just a shadow outside, but the second-room manager checked the authenticity here, and even the most important thing, the prostitute niece, was not left behind. The matter of Zheng's selling the Zhang sisters was also investigated clearly. Clearly.
Shen Juren behaved so badly that Shen Zhou's guilt towards Sun increased from ten to twelve.
If it weren't for Shen Rui, Shen Zhou would have written to his brother-in-law right away, in addition to Shen Juren's reputation; but with Shen Rui around, the matter could not be handled this way, so he wanted to put a rope on him.
Just for the sake of Shen Rui, Shen Juren, the biological father, must behave well and deny that outsiders care whether you are Xiao's father or Xiao's mother. You should only treat it as "dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, and mice's sons can dig holes." Even Shen Rui will be punished. People should be despicable people.
However, in order to prevent Shen Juren from "getting to Longwang Shu" and thinking that he could "arbitrarily demand" the second wife based on Shen Ruiben's biological father, Shen Zhou Shao had to beat him first.
Shen Juren put all the fault on the Zheng family who had already left, and felt a little more confident.
Shen Zhou didn't bother to argue with him, so he directly took an origami and threw it on the table next to Shen Juren.
The origami looked thin, but Shen Juren didn't dare to pick it up.
"Qiao Lingse, do you think you can hide the good deeds you have done?" Shen Zhou snorted coldly.
Shen Juren is not a white man. He is also familiar with the "Da Ming Law". He naturally knows that his behavior has been imprudent in recent years, and now he has begun to restrain himself.
After listening to Shen Zhou's words, his heart trembled. He suddenly thought of Fourth Sister Zhang, and taking a chance, he took out the origami paper, opened it, and looked at it. The more he looked at it, the paler his face became...
Beijing, Changping.
A sacrificial table was set up in front of Mr. Sun's tombstone.
Shen Rui, dressed in plain clothes and holding sacrificial wine in his hand, made a living sacrifice for Mr. Sun. Shen Jue, Shen Qin, Shen Bao and others, after paying homage to Shen Rui, also came forward to accompany him in the sacrifice.
Looking at the graves of several generations of descendants in the Shen family cemetery, and looking at the solitary one in the Sun family cemetery, Shen Rui called Zhou Zhou to come forward: "My grandfather doesn't have any close branch clan members, nor any distant branch clan members?"
People at this time were very particular about offering incense. The eldest man and his wife respected the Third Grandpa’s order to offer incense to Mr. Sun. They were in favor of human sentiments, but it was not in line with the legal principles. After all, the eldest man and his wife were from two different surnames. For a person like Mr. Sun who had no heirs, they had to find one from the Sun clan. It is only proper for a man to carry on the incense.
When Shen Rui asked about this, it was not because he wanted to find trouble and get himself an uncle or cousin, but because he wanted to find out if there were any old people in the Sun family in Beijing.
Even though he believed in Xu's character and knew that she would not tell lies about the past, Shen Rui still wanted to hear what the Sun family would say.
If you listen to one side, it will be dark; if you listen to both, it will be bright. It is nothing more than this.
Zhou Zhou shook his head and said: "I came to pay tribute to Zhuang Xiao ten years ago, but I have never heard that there are clansmen on Mr. Sun's side... maybe they are in the south, and maybe I haven't been to Beijing..."
Based on the friendship between the Third Master and the Sun Master, if the Sun family really has clan members, they will definitely make arrangements for heirs and grandchildren.
The father and son of the second wife did not mention this matter for two generations, which shows that Mr. Sun is really like a lone star in the sky. Except for his daughter, half of his clan members can't find him.
"Grandpa's old servant, has anyone come to pay homage?" Shen Rui asked unwillingly.
Tuesday shook his head and said: "This little guy has never heard of it... The sacrifices here for Mr. Sun have always been made by the master, and the wife personally organizes them. I didn't know this before. In the years that I have been here, I haven't seen anyone come to pay homage to Mr. Sun."