Shen Rui was beside him, greeting Chen Yan without saying a word, and also paying attention to Chen Jue's side.
Seeing Chen Jue like a little white rabbit, she pulled a lot of words from Chen, Shen Rui couldn't help but laugh. He was also in the clan school in his early years. When others saw Chen Jue having a bad temper, they thought he was straightforward, but he was raised by the clan leader. How come the older children are really out of mind?
Compared with Chen Jue, Chen is really "naive".
Shen Rui looked at Chen Yan and had to envy Chen for having a good brother. Otherwise, Chen would be so carefree if Chen protected him well?
After living in the Ming Dynasty for five or six years, the "Good Father of the Ming Dynasty" had no knowledge, but the "Good Brother of the Ming Dynasty" met several.
Chen Cang was against Chen Zhou, Chen Run, Chen Ying was against Chen Qi, Chen Quan, Chen Yan was against Chen. Even Chen Jin was like he wanted to be a good brother back then, but he had no chance later.
Chen Yan was naturally also concerned about the two young ones. He looked at Chen Jue more and praised Shen Rui: "I didn't have much contact with Brother Jue in my early years, but Brother Jue is smart. Although my younger brother is two years older, he is not as smart as Brother Jue. .”
This was interesting. Shen Rui said twice, "Hehe": "It's just a little cleverness, and it's not very useful. How can I compare to Ling Di, a young talented man, with both talent and appearance, and is the best among his peers."
The Chinese habits are passed down from generation to generation, which are to praise other people's children and to criticize their own families. Shen Rui has been socializing with Chen Cang in recent years, and is well aware of the methods. The relevant clichés can be said casually.
Chen Yan lowered his head and smiled.
It is really as Chen said before, Shen Rui's words and deeds are mature, not like a boy. Strangely, this calm style is very harmonious with Shen Rui's demeanor.
In the past three years, there have been huge changes for their brothers, and the same is true for Shen Rui and Chen Jue, but Shen Rui's calmness has been there before.
I heard that the wife of Shangshu returned to Songjiang Mansion that year, and the second son of each house, the youngest son, brought several of them to Beijing, and finally chose Shen Rui and Chen Jue. In addition to the relationship between the wife of Shangshu and Shen Rui's biological mother, Sun, Shen Rui's personality is definitely worthy of his elders.
Chen Jue and Chen and the other two were talking quietly, but they also listened to the movements of their brothers.
Seeing these two people praising each other's younger brother and demoting their own brother, Chen Jue and Chen looked at each other and felt strangely tight. What praises them? What criticizes them? Why do you hear these two people's tone? It's so wrong. What about son?
Especially Chen, thinking that Shen Rui is two years younger than him, but he looks like a parent-like behavior. He commented on others' juniors, his mouth twitched straight, and he approached Chen Jue and whispered: "Did I remember it wrong Is Shen Rui's age? Isn't he the same as you?"
Chen Jue gave a blank look, lowered his voice and said, "Do you think your brother is like you, he is only tall and not brainy?"
"You?" Chen widened his eyes and said, "It's better than you if you don't have a brain. Do you have a heart and a big body? Just now, my brother said it clearly, but he is just a clever person who can't be used to be very useful."
Chen Jue looked up, looked at the roof, and said, "You are smarter than you are not smart."
Chen Biaoyan said indignantly: "Is this saying I'm stupid? I passed the boy test last year. How can a certain in-house test be left to say "
Chen Jue held the folding fan and shook it in his hand, saying, "I'm only fifteen years old this year, and he's a young man. He has passed the county examination and the government examination. He is considered a person with status. When someone was fifteen years old, he was afraid. It’s not even a Reichon, right?”
The more these two people talked, the more naive they became, and Shen Rui couldn't stand it anymore.
Something happened to be that Shen Rui didn't want Chen Jue to hear it, so Chen Yan said, "I heard that a new book has been coming from the shop, so I would have to ask Mr. Chen to take my son over and buy some books. return?"
Chen Yan also felt that the two were too noisy and could not speak quietly. He nodded and said, "It just so happened that I want to buy books, so it's so cheap. Second brother, take Brother Jue to the book shop." The next sentence, It's said to Chen
He looked at Shen Rui with resentment. He really didn't want to move the place, but in front of others, he always wanted to save face for his brother, so he stood up and said, "Yes, brother."
Chen Jue was also very unhappy, but what he proposed was Shen Rui. Even Chen became honest. He couldn't destroy his cousin's position, so he also stood up.
After getting off the teahouse, the two began to complain to each other.
Chen Jue said, "Why don't you know that people are so old? You are just quarreling with me. They thought they were quarreling, so they drove us out."
He yelled: "What did I say? You just argue, just talking so hard, why did you just rely on me?"
The two walked to the entrance of the teahouse, stood at the same time, and looked upstairs.
The private room where they were just now was facing the street.
Chen Jue was curious and said, "Mr. Chen is going to say what he wants to say to his brother today?"
Chen looked at Chen Jue in surprise: "Isn't the host today Shen Rui? Is it Shen Rui who said he had something to tell my elder brother that he looked at you Jiao Buli Meng. Don't you know this?"
Chen Jue snorted: "I'm not asking about my brother, am I curious about what Mr. Chen would prepare for? He is a little older than his brother, so don't think about fooling him..."
The two of them quarreled and went to the bookstore.
In the private room of the teahouse, Chen Yan almost thought he had heard it wrong.
He looked at Shen Rui and saw that Shen Rui looked neither sad nor happy on his face.
"Exchange?" Chen Yan repeated.
"Yeah," Shen Rui nodded and said frankly: "You brothers want fame and fortune. If you want the Shangshu Mansion to endorse you, what are you going to exchange for it?"
Chen Yan was really surprised.
Before coming to the teahouse, Chen Yan thought about several possibilities, and even the possibility that Shangshu Chen asked them to return to Beijing was thought of, but he didn't expect that Shen Rui would come up and put on a deal-like face.
Shen Rui lowered his head, looked at the teacup in his hand, and said, "Seventy years ago, Ling Tai's grandfather passed on a message to his great-grandfather, and wanted Ling Zu to return to his hometown. Great-grandfather left a handwritten letter, saying that Ling Zu would not be related to the Shen family, and he would not be born. Entering the genealogy, but not entering the cemetery. Sixty years ago, when he was dying, he asked the elders of the Shen clan to pass on a message to his grandfather, and wanted to let Lingzu return to his hometown, but his grandfather refused this matter because his mother should not be violated. Three years ago, I asked Brother Jue to send a message to Jia Ci, saying that in order to fulfill his father's and grandfather's wishes, he wanted to return to his descendants of the Shen clan. Jia Ci told the Shen clan that those who pretended to be descendants of the second family would not be forgiven..."
Shen Rui told the story that the two families had a clear understanding of the entanglement between generations.
Even though Chen Yan is very well-educated, he couldn't help but change his face.
Although he was the eldest son in the family, he had never met his grandfather. He had lost his father at the age of eleven or two. He had known about his ancestors earlier and was not exhaustive. Even after returning to Songjiang Mansion, he listened to the words of the Zongfang. The early past is still a tactful statement. Even if he knows that his ancestors and elders have made mistakes, he would never have imagined that the tragic years were tragic.
It was not until the Xu family wanted to choose a heir that in the eyes of outsiders, their brothers were also very promising people, and they were revealed that the old things were revealed. At that time, they really talked about Shaw's evil deeds. Not to mention that others saw their brothers as if they were poisonous, they were just so sank. Yan and Chen brothers both felt guilty and uncomfortable.
Chen Yan was resigned from the Dong family, and Chen Yan took his family to Nanjing early, all for this reason.
Then Shen Rui continued, "Maybe in your brothers' eyes, the affairs of great-grandmother's great-grandmother was too long. Although it made great-grandmother wrong, she was punished and became a wife. Originally, Yiqingtang was born, but his identity was inexplicable. He was not even as good as an outdoor child. He left his hometown and worked hard to live. Even the people of that year were punished, Yiqingtang still suppressed your branch and returned to the clan. It is inevitable that this is the case. Strong force overwhelms people…”
Chen Yan heard this and smiled bitterly, "Hengyun misunderstood and never thought so. Brother used to be ignorant of the inside story because he didn't know the inside story. Since he knew the hidden story back then, he never mentioned the matter of returning to the clan again, but he still said Why do you want your surname Chen..."
Shen Rui sighed: "Thirty miles northeast of Beijing, there is a cemetery of the Shen family Yiqingtang. The spring of the previous year, I was the heir of Yiqingtang and went to the ancestral land with my elders to worship. My uncle was in his grandfather, and my second uncle was in his corpse. The second aunt died, the third aunt died... Yiqingtang's blood withered, and when his brother died unexpectedly, his blood was cut off... Although his grandfather did not recognize his ancestors, he received gifts from the Shen family and was able to have food and clothing without worries; Although Ling Zun and Ling Kunzhong did not receive the favor of the Shen family, the Shen family should not be sorry for you..."
Chen Yan sighed and said, "Hengyun said this more and more ashamed... After losing his father, I respected my mother's orders to return to Songjiang, and I was taken care of by the Shen clan. The Shen family and our brothers have the right to help. , shelter
Shen Rui said: "No matter how other houses interact with you brothers, Yiqing Hall was originally based on the plan of not breaking the river water, and wanted to be incompatible with this branch. Now it is because you have something to ask for. I had to get involved. This is not what Jia Yan Jiaci wanted to see... Jia Yan asked me to come forward to deal with this matter. I thought about it for half a month. As a scholar, I knew the difficulties of the imperial examination, but I was really unwilling to ruin the future of Kunzhong; In this way, Baoshan, who became a bad friend of Kunzhong, was just in vain. I felt sorry for my ancestors…”
"I am making Hengyun embarrassed," Chen Yan frowned and said, "It's just the so-called transaction, but it puzzles me. Compared with the Shangshu Mansion, our brothers are just ants, whether it is money, it is power. What can Hengyun value?”
"Yiqingtang is unwilling to give kindness, so Kun Zhong is not willing to benefit for nothing. What kind of transaction can be used? What kind of transaction can be used? Please think about it very much..." Shen Rui was slow road.
It’s not that he is troublesome, but he is really unwilling to give up the Chen Yan brothers in vain. But as Chen Cang suggested, what Shen Rui can conquer the Chen Yan brothers?
If you want others to be willing to bow your head, you are nothing more than moving them with emotions, imitating them with reason, tempting them with profit, and forcing them with force.
"Motivate it with emotion" is not difficult. Half of the teacher and student are named. As long as Shen Rui takes the initiative to show his goodwill, the Chen Yan brothers will definitely not be happy, but the elders of the Shangshu Mansion will definitely not accept it, and Shen Rui has no intention of this. .
"Seeking it with reason" cannot be done by Shen Rui against Chen Yan or Chen Yan against Shen Rui, just because neither of these two people are rigid and regular people, and they all have their own reasons to recognize.
The remaining two items of "induce it with profit" and "force it with force" can easily fatten the other party and be retaliated.
Shen Rui decided to pull the banner away first and explore Chen Yan's bottom...