Three hundred and fortieth chapters tired birds know also (a)
Tongzhou, wharf.
"Yohe is finally back." Chen Jue got off the boat and stepped on the ground hard, bringing some joy on his face.
Chen Quan and Shen Rui were in a good mood. After walking for two months, they could occasionally get down to stroll along the pier, but most of the time they were still confined to the boat.
Chen Huan followed everyone with a little curiosity and looked around. For a fourteen-year-old boy, the capital was a mysterious and solemn place, and he was both nervous and excited.
Chen Yu looked hesitant, wanting to speak but stopping. He naturally wanted to go to the city with his nephews, but since he had to do errands, he was not easy to put aside.
Chen Quan saw it and smiled and said, "Uncle will go to work on official duties first. Brother Huan will follow us into the city first. When my uncle finishes his errands here, it will be cheaper to go to the city..."
Chen Yu smiled and listened, but did not answer, but looked at Shen Rui with the corners of his eyes.
Chen Yu's little thoughts were long in Shen Rui's eyes. However, in terms of distance, Chen Huan was Chen Jue's cousin, and Chen Yu was Chen Jue's cousin. Since Chen Jue was in Beijing, there was no five houses who came forward to entertain guests. reason.
In addition, along the way, Chen Huan was a clever and sensible person. When Chen Jue's cousin was also a little sincere, Shen Rui said quickly: "Brother Huan will follow me and Brother Jue to the house first, and the clan uncle will get along with him. After finishing his choreography, he also went around... It was rare that the uncle of the clan came to Beijing, and his father and mother would definitely meet the clan relatives..."
Chen Yu then felt relieved and nodded, "Brother Huan, please help me take care of you brothers. I will follow Zheng Sili to do my job first, and then go to see the second house brother..."
Shen Rui said: "My father was an official in the Ministry of Revenue in his early years, and there were some favors there. If the clan uncle had something to do here, just send someone to say it."
Chen Yu responded with gratitude, but did not intend to use this relationship. It was something that only a fool did for business. Besides, the favors of the Shangshu Mansion are so owed? He knew his weight.
When Shen Rui and Chen Jue brothers left Beijing, it was midsummer, but now it is early winter.
Although the canal did not freeze, there was ice floating in Zhili.
Shen Rui, Chen Jue, Chen Quan and Chen Quan entered Beijing three years ago in the twelfth lunar month. No matter how cold he was, he had experienced it. However, Chen Huan was stunned for a while and couldn't stand it. He tightened his robe and said, "This is it." It's really to the north, it's so naive and cold, it's all in the twelfth lunar month of Songjiang..."
Shen Rui and Chen Jue did not send someone to Beijing to deliver the letter in advance, so naturally there was no one here to pick him up.
However, Tongzhou is an important water and land transportation route with developed transportation capacity. When Shen Rui and others ate a pot of tea in the teahouse in front of the dock, Changfu had already brought people to hire a carriage.
Although Shen Rui and Chen Jue went south, they took a few things back when they came back, including the "benefaction" of Chen Jue by the clan leader, the "yicheng" given to Shen Rui's brothers by the tribesmen, and the second house. The hometown of "Tuyi" and the luggage items of the clan brothers and several other tribes were filled with four or five large trucks.
Two more carriages were carrying people. Everyone left Lu Sanlang and Chen Yu, so they came out of the dock. Chen Quan and Shen Rui sat, and Chen Huan followed Chen Jue to get on the carriage.
"I'll go home first, and I'll go to my uncle tomorrow, and I'll pay my respects to my uncle..." Chen Quan said.
Shen Rui glanced at Chen Quan and smiled and said, "Don't the third brother go to his sister-in-law's house first tomorrow?"
Chen Quan's wedding date was originally scheduled to be the end of this year. Because Chen Hong and his wife returned to their hometown to attend the funeral, they were not in Beijing and could only be postponed until the end of the New Year.
Chen Quanfeng glanced at Shen Rui and said, "Brother Rui, don't laugh at me for whom I have been running to Mr. Yang's house in the past two years?"
"I'm going to ask for a lecture, and I'm not going to ask for a lesson, but I can't wait to welcome my sister-in-law into the door..." Shen Rui said with a smile.
Chen Quan gritted his teeth and said, "What's wrong with the worry? I'm twenty-one the next year. If I don't talk about others, I just say that Brother Jia is younger than me, and now I have both children..."
Looking at the shiny acne on Chen Quan's forehead, Shen Rui twitched his mouth and whispered: "This is true, the harmony of yin and yang is also the right thing to do..."
Chen Quan had a room a few years ago, and he brought it to Beijing. It was not until he got engaged that Guo was sent back to Songjiang. This time he returned to Songjiang, Shen Rui heard the servant beside Chen Quan mention it. , said he had already married in the village.
Chen Quan didn't listened sincerely and said, "What did Brother Rui say?"
Shen Rui shook his head and said, "I didn't say anything. Will the third brother continue to study in Chunshan Academy this time?"
Chen Quan nodded and said, "Of course I want it. Although there are stricter controls there, there are many famous teachers... If I hadn't been there for two years, I would have been stuck in the hospital examination... But Brother Rui It’s a pity that I have to go to the prefectures? It seems that most of the teachers in Chunshan Academy are from Jinshi. After getting tested one by one, how can they compare to other places?”
Shen Rui said: "I prefer the freedom in the home school..."
Although both brothers of the clan are now students, Chen Quan is different from him. The number of admissions to each subject in the northern and southern Zhili provincial examination is the same, but the bases of scholars in the northern Zhili and scholars in the southern Zhili are different. Students in the northern Zhili province It is not difficult to take the provincial examination. In addition to the students in Nanzhili, other students in the annual examinations are a big challenge.
Since Chen Quan was studying in the capital, Chunshan Academy was indeed the best choice, so Shen Rui didn't say anything.
In another carriage, Shenhuan lifted the curtain of the carriage from time to time and looked out.
The grass and trees outside are withered, and the fields are golden, which is very different from the winter scenery of Songjiang River. While Shen Huan was curious, he also felt a little uneasy and hesitated: "Third brother, is it cheap to take me back like this? Otherwise, I will follow the whole thing first The third brother goes to the fifth-room big brother to live there?"
Chen Jue gave him a blank look and said, "What are you so polite? What's wrong with me? Uncle, uncle, aunt has always been kind to the younger generation, just live down to the ground..."
"That's the Shangshu Mansion..." Chen Huan said astonished: "As long as you think about it, it will be scary..."
Chen Jue laughed and said, "There are too many Dukes and Lords in the capital, and the Shangshu Mansion is just an ordinary family. You will be free to think about it like this. When you meet uncle and uncle, you must not be so stingy, just be an ordinary family. Dear elders and respect it is…”
Chen Huan widened his eyes and said, "Is Uncle Cang a second-rank official? There are not many people with higher ranks than Uncle Cang, right?"
Chen Jue thought for a while and said, "You can't say that. There are also masters in the civil servants, and the nobles and princes are all super-grade, and I am also from the first-grade..."
Chen Huan said disappointedly: "What's so? I thought Rui's second brother and third brother were the top young masters of Yanei, and could walk sideways in the capital..."
"If that were the case, I would have to study hard, and I would have lost my books and become a playboy..." Chen Jue snorted: "A family like ours, the future of our descendants is in the imperial examination. My father and grandchildren are prominent, and no one will be defeated after all. Yes, there are many people... In this way, I really envy those meritorious families who have taken on their own positions and don’t have to seek fame and fortune by themselves..."
Speaking of this, Chen Jue pressed his arm and said with a loss of regret: "I can't say that I was a general in my previous life, but I was reborn in the wrong family in this life..."
It took a dozen miles from Tongzhou Wharf to Beijing. The carriage walked for more than an hour and entered the city from Chaoyang Gate.
Since Changfu had already returned to Beijing to deliver the letter, Xu ordered the second housekeeper to bring people outside Chaoyang Gate to greet him.
Seeing this, Chen Huan stopped looking around and sat honestly in the carriage.
Because Chen Ying lived in other workshops, Chen Quan wanted to separate from everyone, Shen Rui got off the carriage over there and got on the Shen Jue and Shen Huan.
The luggage of both families was packed at the dock. When they arrived at the intersection, Chen Quan took a luggage cart away, and the remaining cart continued to go to Renshoufang.
There was already a noise of pedestrians outside the carriage.
Seeing Chen Huan uncomfortable, Shen Rui said: "Compared with Songjiang, the capital city has more people and more cars... When Brother Jue and I first came, we also felt that the capital city was intimidating, and then after staying for a long time, it was just that. What’s going on. Although there are many noble officials here, the people are still not as rich as Songjiang..."
Chen Huan said in surprise: "Isn't this the capital city? Is there still poor people under the feet of the emperor?"
This is really a child's words.
Chen Jue laughed "puffy" and pointed at Chen Huan and said, "Why not eat meat minced? What you are talking about is Brother Huan..."
As the clan brothers spoke, the carriage slowly drove into Renshoufang. Everyone lives here, and there was no noise outside, and it seemed to be quiet all of a sudden.
"The second brother is back, the third brother is back..." The servant outside the doorman was circulating all the way inside.
Shen Rui, Chen Jue and others got off the carriage, and the butler was already waiting at the door.
"I have met my second brother and my third brother, but I've been back. Master, my wife, I'm talking about some days..." The housekeeper stepped forward and said.
Shen Ruixu helped him and said, "Madam, I'm a little kangtai, where is the master?"
The housekeeper bowed and said, "It's okay for the wife. The master suffered from a chronic illness after the Double Ninth Festival. He coughed for a few days, but he gradually got better a few days ago..."
Shen Rui sighed in his heart, pointed at Chen Huan and said, "This is Brother Huan from the uncle of the Zongfang clan. Come with me and my third brother to visit the house. Let's go to see the wife first. The things on the carriage behind are all Changfu. Let him tell the butler…”
The butler responded quickly, and Shen Rui took Chen Jue and Chen Huan and went directly to the second door.
At the second gate, there were maids from Xu's room waiting. When they saw Shen Rui and Chen Jue, they had to say hello diligently.
Chen Huan followed Shen Rui, behind Chen Jue, looking at the warmth of the servants along the way, he looked at Shen Rui's back with a strange look. When he was in Songjiang before, Shen Rui did not show off, but this time he was Shangshu Mansion It is clear which one is the master of Shen Rui and Chen Jue. No wonder he had to see Shen Rui express his opinion when he was at the dock, and Shen Rui took him over with openly and took him over, without any difficulty. Looks like.
Thinking about it, Shen Rui is the son of the young chief and the owner of the Shangshu Mansion. Although Chen Jue lives here now, he will be separated from the second house in the future. The two cousins have different identities.
Thinking about the good name of Sun's family, Chen Huan inexplicably had the idea of "good will be rewarded with good deeds."
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Needless to say, Shen Rui was already a little adult after he left. Before Sun passed away, everyone was also classmates in the clan school. Although Shen Huan was only seven or eight years old at that time, I remember that Shen Rui was really true. The look of being gloomy, having a violent temper, and having a quarrel with someone else is really different from the moment.
The tribe members all said that Shen Rui was abused by his parents after his mother's mourning, and his temperament changed drastically. This change was really different. If it weren't for the fact that he was still young, Chen Huan would have suspected that he had changed his own person.
In the main room, Xu was already waiting, Sister Yu was sitting by her side, and the third wife and fourth brother were also there.
"I finally got home, and this makes people feel uneasy on the road," Xu said to the third wife.
The third wife looked at the fourth brother softly and said, "It's not that. I can't see it at first sight, and I feel uneasy..."
The fourth brother celebrated his birthday last month and was already two years old. Xu Sui was three years old. He walked very steadily and didn't like to sit. He came down from the third wife's knees, came to Sister Yu, and looked at her and said, " Sister Flower
Sister Yu smiled and picked off the red velvet flowers on her temples, pulled the needle, and handed the flowers to the fourth brother.
The fourth brother Xiaofa grabbed it with his hands and put it in his mouth.
Sister Yu hurriedly stopped him and said, "This is not something to eat, the fourth brother just needs to play with him..."
The fourth brother looked at the velvet flowers in his hand and squeezed his face into a ball.
Xu glanced at it and said, "Is this a snack that I ate the flower mold in the morning?"
The third wife said laughing and crying: "Isn't that the case? The fourth brother loves to eat kidney bean cakes. It just so happens that there is a silver mold at home, so I asked someone to make some for him... He forgot the taste of the cake and only remembered the flowers..."
Xu said disrespectfully: "Children love bright colors, don't treat them... But at the age when he likes to send things to his mouth, he still has to be watched at any time, so that the children will suffer if they are stuck, and the adults will follow him. Suspension
The third wife was still scared and nodded, "That's not the case. Two days ago, I went to the Third Master's study and saw the red paint. The fourth brother also gave it to his mouth. He was so serious that he was shocked..."
The sister-in-law and sister-in-law were talking, and a maid came in and reported, "Madam, third wife, second brother, third brother is back."
Xu couldn't help but show joy on his face. The third wife also looked at the door. Sister Yu stood up and pulled the fourth brother to stand beside her.
When Shen Rui saw Shen Jue, the brothers Chen Jue picked up the curtain and followed by a 14- or five-year-old boy in plain clothes.
When Chen Huan first arrived in the capital, he was not resistant to the cold in the north. When he entered the house, he felt the heating coming towards him.
Here is just a little while, next to the window, two women wrapped in silk and sat on it. The older one is Xu, the second wife who had returned to Songjiang to visit her relatives a few years ago. A man was in his thirties, and a young man in red was standing next to him.
Chen Huan didn't dare to look at it anymore and quickly lowered his head.
Xu had already looked at Shen Rui and Chen Jue.
After Chen Jue returned to Songjiang, although he was very thin, he was detained on the boat for two months and was inconvenient to move, so he raised his body. As for Shen Rui, although he studied hard, he learned some "miscellaneous studies" along the way with Lu Sanlang. But he has always paid attention to health preservation, and his daily life has not been reduced.
Xu felt relieved, but he couldn't help but feel distressed: "Traveling thousands of miles, thank you two for your hard work."