The three hundred and sixty-first chapters are indistinguishable (1)
It snowed all night, and until the next day, the sky was still covered with red clouds.
As every time Shen Rui was used to wearing short-dressing clothes to practice boxing in the yard, it was only dawn and the snow in the yard had not yet been swept. When he stepped on it, he "kick" and lost his ankles.
When Shen Rui finished practicing a set of boxing, he felt hot all over.
It was getting brighter just now, and two little maids wrapped in thick cotton jackets, yawned, and came out to sweep the snow with brooms. Seeing Shen Rui was there, they stood there a few steps and saw him bent their knees.
Seeing that the snow was not stopping, the two maids were only in their teens and were not much taller than the broom, Shen Rui said, "Just sweep the way first, and wait for the snow to stay in other places before sweeping."
The two maids agreed honestly.
Shen Rui turned around and entered the room.
Liuya had already prepared hot water, and Chunmei packed up a new set of clothes and came out.
Unlike the usual Confucian uniforms, they look more dignified and elegant. The outside is also a cloak with a sable inside. A hollowed-out gold scented bag was hung around her waist and a thick-soled official boots were replaced under her feet. It looks like a jade-faced young man
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Yesterday, Shen Rui sent someone to take leave at the residence school. This morning he was going to visit his teacher Wang Shouren's family. Wang Shouren's family of three arrived in Beijing yesterday afternoon. After going to the Wang family, Shen Rui had to go to Yang Tinghe's house.
After breakfast, Shen Rui went to the study to practice calligraphy for half an hour and wrote a essay. Seeing that the time was almost over, he went to the main courtyard to meet Xu.
Shen Cang had already gone to the yamen. Sister Yu followed the third wife to take charge of the business, but the main house became quiet.
Xu was sitting on the clinical bed, teasing a sen brother.
Shen Jiayuan also had cats and dogs. Later, the third wife became pregnant and gave birth to the fourth brother, the cats and dogs were sent away.
This sen brother is a filial piety man from a village outside the city, and his words are full of auspicious words, which is lively.
Xu's face was very good. Although there were a lot of rain and snow this winter, Shen Cang did not suffer from a chronic disease due to good maintenance. Although the third master and Shen Jue were sick before, they were still having a small fight and were not seriously injured.
I am not worried about my family's health, and I handed over the complicated housework. Xu's body has been almost done.
Wang Shouren's wife He was raised by Xu for several years in her early years. In Xu's heart, she also acted as a niece like her biological daughter. This time, He returned to Beijing with Wang Shouren, and Xu was also thinking about it and told Shen Rui: "
If you see your cousin, ask them when they will return to the province. After these days, our family will also set up a table of wine and invite their family of three to come and visit."
Shen Rui agreed.
Xu remembered something and said, "Brother Jue is only sixteen years next year, so you can't delay this marriage anymore. After the service is over, you may decide that you are the best brother Jue. Please ask carefully in private what kind of temperament he likes.
A woman is very good at picking in these six or seven months, and she always has to choose a talent and beauty that suits her wishes."
After the death of the clan leader, Shen Cang and Xu, saying that Shen Jue would accept his filial piety for the rest of his life. In this way, it would not be until June next year. Taking advantage of the time when there were too many social engagements before and after the New Year, take a look at each other.
If the ladies at home carefully inquire about their parents’ character, they will be almost the same.
Shen Rui smiled and said, "Brother Jue has also said this before, and only said that the color is definitely good, and he has to have something to say to him. Brother Jue said it before, and what he feared most is the dull woman with a virtuous reputation.
...If you are relatively speechless, if you are facing Dabin, you will be suffocated to death."
Xu shook his head and said, "All the words of children are all children. Is it bad for girls who have been taught from the Three and Four Virtues?" At this point, he sighed, "Listen to Brother Jue's tone, he likes lively and cheerful women, but the master and My original intention is to choose a sensible and steady eldest daughter for Brother Jue, and to support her second wife when you enter the door.
It is both lively and refreshing and good at the housekeeper. Shen Rui suddenly thought of Feng Lazi and said, "Or I would find a lady from a military official. I would say that it would be in line with Brother Jue's heart, and it would be like the hearts of his father and mother."
After hearing this, Xu hesitated and said: "Most military officers have inherited their ancestors, most of whom are from nobles. Isn't it said that there are no marriages with civil servants, but there are only a few?"
The most important thing is that there are different paths in civil and military affairs. Chen Jue will enter the official position in the future, so he will not be able to help him find a military officer.
After Shen Rui finished speaking, he also thought of this and said, "It's my son's simple thought."
It can only be said that the strange thing about the Ming Dynasty court is that civil officials absolutely control politics and the nobles and military officers cannot get in. Similarly, in terms of military power, they are also firmly controlled by the nobles and military officers, and civil servants cannot speak.
As for the emperor who is arrogant, it seems to be overshadowed by civil servants, but because he has factory guards in his hands, he can turn the world upside down at any time, it depends on whether he is happy or not.
"A lively and cheerful woman may not have to look for her military officer's house. The young girls in the civil servant's house are more pampered and their temperaments are inevitably naive. However, such women are likable but not suitable for home. Your second aunt was back then. A romantic and lively little girl. Forget it, watch it slowly..." Xu said.
Shen Rui said: "It would be great if the Yang family's cousin was born in the legitimate family..."
Xu said: "Who said no... Your uncle also intended it, but it was a coincidence. A few days ago, he told the master that even if you are not good for this generation, the younger generation will have to kiss you..."
Although Yang Zhen is a family member, his family has lost its power. Today, he has received more support from the Shen family. Not only is the Shen family's in-laws, but also a political ally of Chen Cang. The reason why Chen Cang can maintain a "neutral" position is not much The old master of the court crushed him, and because he was related to Yang Zhen and helping each other, it was not to be underestimated.
Yang Zhen is quite nostalgic and is really good to the Shen family.
The reason why I never forget to "get more and more" is that I am afraid that the elders of the two families will die and the younger generation will lose their closeness. After all, Shen Rui, Chen Jue and others are just honorary cousins, not blood relatives. It's just a coincidence. The Yang family has no legitimate daughter, so it is difficult to get down on their face and use the concubine daughter to marry the Shen family; and when Yang Zhongyan talked about marriage, Sister Yu was just a concubine daughter of the second wife, and she was not worth enough.
The third-generation marriage between Yang Zhen and Chen Cang naturally does not mean a branch, but rather a lineage between Shen Rui and the Yang family.
Shen Rui thought of Yang Zhongyan, who was full of playboy habits, and hurriedly said, "It's okay for the eldest cousin. If he is in-laws with his second cousin, he will really respect him."
There was no such thing as "love" at this time, marriage is a favor between two surnames. Shen Rui did not accept that Chen Cang and Yang Zhen had the intention to decide on the marriage of their children. He also turned around in his heart. I think it's best to marry a daughter of the Yang family.
Although the wife of the Yang family is the second wife, she is a very virtuous woman. Her children are not divided into legitimate and illegitimate, and they are well educated. Only Yang Zhongyan is an alternative. However, compared with those big playboys who are good at eating, drinking, gamblers and gambling outside, Yang Zhongyan's style of eating and clothing, likes to call friends, and eat and drink is nothing.
Xu smiled and said, "How many years will this wife have to enter the house? You are worried too early."
Seeing that it was getting late, Shen Rui came out of the main room with Xu.
Because the snow outside had not stopped, Shen Rui asked someone to take a carriage and brought Changshou and Changfu to come out of his home.
The road was covered with snow, but the carriage took two quarters of an hour to walk from the front and back yards.
The concierge met Shen Rui and hurriedly came up to him: "Young Master Rui is here."
Shen Rui is not only a disciple of Wang Shouren, but also a cousin of the Wang family's eldest grandmother. The two relationships make the servants more respectful.
Changshou stepped forward to give the reward, and Shen Rui kept Changshou and Changfu two, and directly followed a servant from the Wang family to the house.
Wang Shouren was wearing homely clothes and met Shen Rui in the study.
When the master and apprentice met, Wang Shouren did not forget his identity as a "teacher". He asked about his knowledge and even asked Shen Rui to solve the problem on the spot.
Although the master and apprentice have been having letters in the past two years, they have traveled thousands of miles away, so it is inconvenient to send letters, only one letter every two or three months.
Shen Rui was preparing for the exam all day long, so he naturally said it casually about the Four Books and Five Classics, but he did not disappoint Wang Shouren.
Wang Shouren smiled and nodded and said, "It's much better than the previous year, and I can't take a try next year."
The provincial examinations are different, and it is inevitable that they will be embarrassed to fall into the third grade of the National Academy of Sciences. Even in the future, they will give up the first two grades in their careers. The provincial examinations are different, even if they are the last juren, they are still juren. As long as they are on the list, they will succeed.
In Wang Shouren's opinion, although Shen Rui's scores are not outstanding now, he has taken advantage of the exam in Beijing. He can get a better or worse position on the list, and it's nothing to try.
Shen Rui touched the calluses on his hands and said, "Teacher, students now think that learning is the same as selling oil, but they are only familiar with it."
Wang Shouren smiled and said, "It's not bad to say this, but it's much more worrying to do academic research than to serve oil..." Speaking of this, he calculated the days and said, "When the appointment of the chief examiners of the provincial examinations in various places after the New Year, he should come down.
I spent half a year thinking about the examiner's preferences, which is another convenience in Beijing..."
Shen Rui remembered that Wang Shouren had returned to Beijing now and had his "sick leave" and said, "Does the teacher still return to the Ministry of Justice to serve as a job?"
Before Wang Shouren "retired due to illness", he was the head of the sixth-rank official of the Ministry of Justice.
Wang Shouren shook his head and said, "Although the Ministry of Justice is not a hot stove, the Beijing officials have always been a carrot and a pit. I have been away for two years, so where can I still be empty? What's up depends on the arrangements of the Ministry of Personnel..."
Shen Rui did not ask about this again. Although Wang Shouren said this, Wang Hua, a close minister of the emperor, urging his son to return to Beijing, did he have no backup plan at all? It may have been a proper arrangement long ago.
"I thought you should come, but I want to see your junior brother?" Wang Shouren finished his homework and thought of his son, and said.
After two years of Wang Shouren's career, I wonder if he is more warmer than before. His original sharpness is hidden. Compared with the fact that he often frowns and worrys two years ago, the current one is
Wang Shouren was happy and peaceful.
When he mentioned his son, his face shone brightly, like an ordinary father. His previous "sage" of inhumane and non-human fireworks was reduced a lot, and he became alive.
"Of course I want to see since my little brother landed on the ground, my mother kept muttering that my ears were calloused. But I was waiting to arrive in the capital." Shen Rui said.
Shen Rui was not an outsider and was a cousin with He. Wang Shouren sent someone to the inner courtyard to report, and then took Shen Rui directly into the inner courtyard.
Wang Shouren's stepmother came in two years earlier than He, and was no older than He. As a mother-in-law, she was somewhat lacking in confidence in front of the eldest daughter-in-law and did not ask her daughter-in-law to serve her like ordinary people.
He only told him to take good care of his husband.
Therefore, when Shen Rui came with Wang Shouren, in addition to seeing his junior brother, he also saw his cousin He.
Compared with the thin and depressed girl a few years ago, He is now like a pearl, radiant and round and smooth.
"Yuyao is really a blessing for nurturing people. If I meet outside, I really don't dare to recognize him." Shen Rui bowed to He and said.
He glared at her husband and said, "It's all your good gentleman. I've been replenished every day. Now I've become a big fat man..."