"Your sister is talking nonsense!" Mrs. Shen persuaded Shen Wenjun, and then said to Shen Xiujuan, "Xiu'er, did you hear what your brother said? That Mr. Xia is just a businessman, how can he compare to Cui Zixuan? ! Just listen to my mother and wait at home for Cui Zixuan to come to propose marriage, right?"
At this time, Shen Pingping interrupted, "Cui Zixuan and her son said when they left last time that they don't care who the Shen family marries, only the dowry."
The word "dowry" is now a topic that cannot be mentioned in the Shen family. Mrs. Shen immediately scolded, "Shen Pingping, shut up!"
Before the three Shen brothers could speak, Shen Wenjun said, "Mom, what dowry?"
A large dowry is not enough. Most of the Shen family's property should belong to him, a scholar!
He knows that his parents favor him, but they also favor his youngest sister!
Old Shen spoke, "We want to marry Xiu'er to Cui Zixuan, and we want your sister to live a good life in the future, so we discussed a dowry of thirty acres of land and two hundred taels of silver!"
As soon as Old Shen finished speaking, the whole kitchen became noisy. Old Shen coughed twice and said loudly, "Look, look, the property in the house belongs to me and your mother. We give it to whomever we like." "
"Your mother and I are not dead yet, and these people are all thinking about my property!"
Shen Wenjun curled his lips, asking so many people to marry his daughter, did he leave more property for himself?
Old Shen's words made the three brothers of the Shen family look bad. Shen Wenjun has been in town all year round and has not come back. The old man and the old lady have a headache and a fever, and they are all taken care of by the three houses in turn. It's good now that the property has nothing to do with them!
"Mom, even if you don't agree with me looking for Mr. Xia, think about it. Mr. Xia, a rich man, personally comes to deliver goods to the Mu family. What kind of business is the Mu family doing?" Shen Xiujuan asked.
Old Mrs. Shen squinted her eyes and looked at each other. Yesterday, Old Mrs. Shen entered Mu's house openly and openly. Not only did she not find anything, she was beaten, humiliated and paid a hundred coins.
It seems that if you want to discover the secrets of the Mu family, you have to find a way.
"This matter is not urgent. After all, they are their breadwinners. As long as they are still in Qingmu Village, I will overthrow them sooner or later!"
Old Mrs. Shen gave Shen Xiujuan a chicken leg and coaxed her to eat. Shen Xiujuan was finally willing to eat, and only then others could use chopsticks to eat.
After eating, Shen Yunxi went back to bed to rest. For today's salted duck, she looked through the entire app before choosing a more convenient method.
Without soy sauce, soybean paste, and an oven, the cooking of ducks is very limited. The Mu family's current kitchen is not suitable for building an oven. When they build a new house later, she must build a good kitchen.
With the oven, she can unlock many delicious foods.
After the Shen family finished eating, Shen Xiujuan wiped her mouth with her hands and went to bed. Old Mrs. Shen took her younger son back to the room to talk. She told her younger son everything that had happened at home recently.
"Cui Zixuan is the top scholar. How can Shen Yunxi, a motherless child, be so lucky to marry him? Such a good marriage must be given to Xiujuan!"
Shen Wenjun hated it most when people said that Cui Zixuan was the top scholar, but he denied that he was jealous, so he just didn't say anything.
"But it's so unpleasant to hear that this aunt stole my niece's marriage. Just at this time, the hunter Mu Chenglin came to ask for marriage with Shen Pingping. I blackmailed her in various ways and gave me one hundred and twenty taels!"
When he heard one hundred and twenty taels of silver, Shen Wenjun's eyes lit up!
"But Ms. Liu didn't agree. At that time, I thought she was reluctant to let her daughter marry Orion. Later I found out that she also fell in love with Cui Zixuan. Bah! Shen Pingping is just like this, a dragster, and she still wants to do it. Scholar lady, what are you dreaming about?"
Shen Xiujuan loves to eat and is lazy, she is fat and her facial features are no better than Shen Pingping's, so why should she? But Shen Wenjun did not dare to say this, because he was worried that Mrs. Shen would deduct his living expenses.
"What happened next?" Shen Wenjun asked.
"Later, Mrs. Liu and Shen Pingping wanted Shen Yunxi to marry them, which broke a big hole in her head! I knew about this originally, and what I thought was that Mu Chenglin should marry Shen Yunxi instead. Send her back, and before the news spreads, we will sell her to a wealthy family as a concubine."
"Shen Yunxi's little appearance can be sold for hundreds of taels of silver! But why, this little hooves just doesn't want to come back, and he always goes against us!"
"When Cui Zixuan came to propose marriage, she deliberately dragged Shen Jiajia into trouble because she thought our Shen family was not chaotic enough!"
Remembering that Cui Zixuan came to propose marriage to Shen Xiujuan and was screwed up, Mrs. Shen hated Shen Yunxi so much that her teeth itched.
"Since it's a substitute marriage, can't it be exchanged back?" Shen Wenjun was a little worried when he heard from Mrs. Shen that selling Shen Yunxi to a wealthy family as a concubine would fetch at least a few hundred taels of silver. I feel itchy and secretly hate Shen Yunxi for not returning to Shen’s house!
"These two bitches, Mrs. Liu and Shen Pingping, wrote Shen Yunxi's name in the marriage certificate in order to prevent Shen Yunxi from coming back. Now her household registration has also been transferred to the Mu family! Except she wants to come back!"
"But after Shen Yunxi went to the Mu family, the Mu family started making candied haws. Now she doesn't know what kind of business she wants to do. She is also a Shen family, so she doesn't know how to steal some recipes to her parents' family! What a supercilious person!"
"Mom, Fangzi belongs to the Mu family. If the Mu family doesn't give it to her, there's nothing she can do about it, but I have an idea that can make some money!"
After Shen Yunxi woke up, she soaked a lot of soybeans. She memorized the steps of making tofu over and over again.
Mu Chenglin was making wooden frames. After listening to Shen Yunxi's explanation, he thought it would be better to make more.
At this time, someone knocked on the courtyard door again.
Shen Yunxi went to open the door and saw the person she least wanted to see, the shameless old Mrs. Shen, and Shen Wenjun with a fake smile on his face.
"Is something wrong?" Shen Yunxi leaned lazily against the door frame, folding his hands and asked disdainfully.
"Chen Yunxi, your fourth uncle and I came to see you, but you didn't invite us in to sit down and just blocked the door. Are you polite?" Seeing Shen Yunxi's attitude, Old Mrs. Shen cursed.
"Grandma, is it empty-handed to visit someone at home?"
"The old woman is very old. She is exhausted from climbing mountains. You still want a gift? Shen Yunxi, why is your heart so dark?"
Seeing that Old Mrs. Shen and Shen Yunxi were about to fight as soon as they met, Shen Wenjun immediately pulled the old lady's sleeve. The purpose of his visit today has not been achieved yet!
Old Mrs. Shen had no choice but to swallow her breath. Shen Wenjun put on a smile and said, "Yunxi, don't argue with grandma. Your grandma actually cares about you very much, but she has a sharp tongue and a soft heart. You misunderstood her." Got it!"
After saying that, Shen Wenjun also pulled Old Mrs. Shen. Old Mrs. Shen glanced at Shen Yunxi reluctantly, and Shen Yunxi knew that these two people came here either for money or prescriptions.
She looked back at Mu Chenglin, who nodded to her. She turned sideways and let the two of them enter the yard.
Shen Wenjun thought that the charm of his status as a scholar impressed Shen Yunxi, and he suddenly felt much more confident.
Mrs. Shen entered the yard and found that there was no jar in the yard. She looked around in disbelief. She did not see the jar, but she saw the bacon being smoked not far away.
The old lady's eyes lit up when she saw the meat.
Xia Yifan also saw the bacon when he came in in the morning, but he was not surprised or raised any questions. The bacon had not been smoked yet, so it was too early to eat it.
"So this pork is here. Oh my god, how much pork is there! Shen Yunxi, you are such a sinister person. You have so much meat and you don't even know how to give it to the Shen family!"
The same thing happened again, Shen Yunxi said expressionlessly, "Then the Shen family has so much money and fields, why don't they give some to your in-laws!"
When Old Mrs. Shen heard this, she almost jumped up again, but Shen Yunxi continued, "So what does my husband's family have, and what does it have to do with the Shen family?"
Shen Wenjun pulled the old lady again. Although the Shen family made a fortune from the Su family's dowry, the old lady's vision was still so small. This little flesh was nothing! Why bother arguing with a white-eyed wolf!
"Yunxi, Mom is kidding you. You know, we country people have no vision. We have never seen so much meat. Mom is a little excited!"
Shen Yunxi laughed mockingly. The Shen family raised a lot of pigs throughout the year. Few of them were sold, and most of them were kept for their own consumption. Old Mrs. Shen had never seen much meat!
"Tell me, why are you here?" Shen Yunxi didn't bother to chat with them and asked directly.
"Um, Yun Xi, you know that my fourth uncle has been studying since he was a child, and he has lived up to his family's expectations and has been admitted as a scholar! But it costs a lot of money to go to school. In addition to Shu Xiu, pen, ink, paper and inkstone are still Books cost a lot of money. There are also many activities between students, and it’s a bit tight for the family to support two readers!”
Shen Yunxi raised her eyebrows. Old Mrs. Shen couldn't do anything, so she made Shen Wenjun suffer miserably to get money, right?
"It turns out that studying costs so much money, and we also have a scholar in our family!" Shen Yunxi sighed, looking like he was shouldering a heavy responsibility!
"Oh, what kind of book should a sick man study? If you ask me, you might as well give all the money to Wen Jun, and he can promote you when he gets to high school!" Old Mrs. Shen muttered, with a look of disdain on her face.
Mu Chenglin's expression dropped and he clenched his fists. His younger brother was not a sick boy. How dare he pretend to be in front of him even if he was a scholar at the bottom of the list!
Shen Yunxi touched Mu Chenglin's arm and gently comforted him, "Grandma, I'm not stupid. I don't want to provide for my own family members or my maternal uncle!"
If they are here to sell you something and ask for money, sorry, turn right when you go out!
Old Mrs. Shen was about to lose her temper again, and Shen Wenjun immediately stopped her, "Yun Xi, you misunderstood. Fourth uncle is not here to ask for money from you!"
"The Mr. Xia who came to your house today must be the owner of Qingfeng Tower! Since Yun Xi is so familiar with Mr. Xia, can you help your fourth uncle get in touch?"
Pull the strings? What strings to pull? What does Shen Wenjun want to do?
Seeing that Shen Yunxi was a little confused, Shen Wenjun continued, "It's like this. Now the court has issued a policy that businessmen can help poor children study and register it with the government."
"If the number of children sponsored by this businessman reaches a certain level, or the sponsored objects obtain corresponding academic qualifications, the government will reduce taxes for these businessmen accordingly!"
I didn't expect that the emperor of the Xia Kingdom had such a mind. He talked about scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, but if he wanted to speed up economic development and couldn't do without business, the court really put a lot of thought into improving the status of merchants.
However, this has also given many children from poor families the opportunity to study.
In fact, there is another point that Shen Wenjun did not mention. Businessmen also need certain conditions to support children from poor families. That is, the children from poor families must pass certain assessments.
A few years ago, there was the white-eyed wolf incident, which chilled the hearts of many businessmen, so the court added this article on top of this. As a result, those who felt that it was natural for businessmen to fund them were not grateful at all. Students with a strong heart are excluded.
For example, Cui Zixuan, although he is at the top of the list, his reputation in the student circle is not very good. He would rather find Shen Xiujuan, who has a generous dowry, than find businessmen for funding.
As for Shen Wenjun, the conditions of the Shen family have always been good, but in his heart he looks down on those students who are sponsored.
But today is different from the past. The Shen family's wealth is almost empty, and he doesn't want to lower his living standards. The only way is to get Shen Yunxi and Xia Yifan to connect and let Xia Yifan support him.
A big boss like Xia Yifan must be extraordinary, so that he, Shen Wenjun, can live a comfortable life again.
Mu Chenglin moved the corners of his mouth contemptuously but said nothing.
After hearing what Shen Wenjun said, Shen Yunxi felt that this man's face had reached a certain level, "The conditions of the Shen family are not as good as those of poor people, right?"
There was no trace of embarrassment on Shen Wenjun's face, "Yunxi, you don't understand. It costs too much money to study. In addition to me, the Shen family also has Zhenyu studying. The expenses are really too high!"
"If that's the case, why does Shen Xiujuan still have such a generous dowry?"
Shen Wenjun was stunned for a moment. In fact, he was also very dissatisfied. His mother told him that the family did not have much money, but even so, his parents still wanted to give Shen Xiujuan such a dowry!
Old Mrs. Shen was pulled by Shen Wenjun, and she couldn't help but curse, "What does it have to do with your married granddaughter if I give my old daughter a dowry? In a word, do you hold the line or not!"
Shen Yunxi chuckled, "Grandma, is this your attitude towards asking for help?"
"Besides, Boss Xia is such a shrewd person. If he wanted to sponsor a student, would he not check the student's reputation in advance?"
"Doesn't Boss Xia really want to know where Fourth Uncle ranked as a scholar back then and how he spent the past few years in the academy?"
Shen Yunxi's words made Shen Wenjun's face look down a lot. Back then, he was in last place and almost failed to get on the list. He also knew that there was no hope for him to take the exam, and he had no intention of studying in the past few years.
They just relied on their status as a scholar to eat, drink and have fun in the town. Anyway, the old man and the old lady didn't understand. They thought every day that their son would be able to go to high school one day and lead the Shen family to honor their ancestors.
He has been held in the palm of the hand these years, and he is absolutely unwilling to let him come back to farm!
"Shen Yunxi, if you don't want to pull strings, forget it. Why are you talking about your fourth uncle like that? If your fourth uncle goes to high school one day, won't your face be disgraced as the daughter of the Shen family?"
Shen Wenjun directly transferred the conflict and could not let Mrs. Shen know what he had done in the past few years, otherwise they would definitely cut off his own living expenses and support Shen Zhenyu. This chapter has been completed!