Chapter 60: Curiosity Kills Cats
"Sixth sister, sixth sister, good news. I heard Shen Junluo's voice coming in from afar, Shen Junqian looked up and looked out, and saw Shen Junluo, who was running out of breath, enter the door, without saying a word, first picked up the teapot and poured himself a glass of water, and drank it before taking a breath.
Shen Junqian saw her running with a red face, and asked while fanning her with a fan: "What good news, I see that you are in a hurry." â
Shen Junluo seemed to think that Shen Junqian was fanning too slowly, so she took the fan from Shen Junqian's hand and fanned it "whirring", "My father is going out tomorrow, do you think it's good news?"
Shen Junqian knew what Shen Junluo meant as soon as she heard it, "Are you sure? That's great, the third uncle is too bad these days, why don't you ignore us." â
Shen Junluo also pouted, "No, I don't know what's wrong with my father, he suddenly became so stingy, really!"
If the sisters' complaining words were heard by Shen Ji'an, they would probably scoff at it, saying that they would find a way to enter the study and want him to put the water door.
Speaking of which, it was the Shen family's something that led to it. Since Shen Junqian brought back a book written by someone who doesn't know and has nothing to do with the Shen family, Shen Junqian and Shen Junluo have become more curious about the Shen family's book that is said to be stored in zĂ i.
Who knew that when Sleepy came to send a pillow, someone invited Shen Ji'an, and he also accepted the invitation.
"Fifth sister, where did you get the news, are you really sure?" These days, the battle of wits and courage with his third uncle really made Shen Junqian express deep doubts about this sudden happiness.
Shen Junluo smiled and waved her hand, and said: "Don't worry, it must be reliable, you don't know that my father drove me back to his room to sleep after eating just yesterday, I knew that something must be wrong, fortunately, I was smart and asked Tuanzi to stay in the main room for a while in the past few days, listen to what my father and mother say, and turn around to sue me." I heard that it was a gathering of some scholars before the trial, alas, the specific group is not clear, but there is no doubt that my father will go out tomorrow. â
Shen Junqian nodded, "But tomorrow we all have to go to the academy, if the third uncle happens to go out when we go to the academy, and when we come back, it is estimated that the third uncle will be in charge of the study again, so what should we do." â
"No, I secretly inquired with my mother later, saying that my father estimated that he would be able to come back relatively late. Maybe even get drunk. â
Shen Junqian and Shen Junluo exchanged a look and said, "Then let's decide to go directly to the third uncle's study when we come back from the academy tomorrow!"
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Shen Junluo stretched out her head from behind the door and cautiously glanced around, Shen Junqian said a little speechless behind her: "Fifth sister, what are you still looking at, haven't you asked, the third uncle hasn't come back yet, there is no one in this study." â
As he spoke, he walked in generously. Shen Junluo said with an embarrassed face in the back: "Isn't this for prudence, what if my father leaves something behind?"
Shen Junqian searched around with a pair of eyes, and turned her head to reply to Shen Junluo: "Fifth sister, don't worry, I think the third uncle didn't put the two of us at ease, and he deliberately teased us before." â
Shen Junluo thought for a while, and breathed a sigh of relief first, "Also, I've been beaten back by my father these days, it seems that I'm too nervous, let's find it quickly, I don't know where my father will put the books?"
Shen Ji'an's inner study is not big, at a glance, you can see a row of bookshelves full of books on the left, and there is a desk next to the window on the right, and a sword is hung on the wall of the bookshelf behind the desk, and I really don't know how to hide a book where I can see through it at a glance.
Shen Junqian and Shen Junluo turned the study up and down but didn't find a trace, the legendary zĂ i, Shen Junqian stood in front of the bookshelf, thought for a while and turned back to Shen Junluo who was sitting behind the desk and said, "Fifth sister, do you think there is no such treasure book at all?"
Shen Junluo looked left and right at the things on the desk, listened to Shen Junqian's words, and replied without raising her head: "Impossible, how could it not be, didn't my father admit that he was in this study that day?"
"The third uncle has a confession here, why don't I remember?"
Shen Junluo looked up at Shen Junqian when she heard this, thought about it for a while, and said affirmatively: "Hey, I don't remember it clearly, anyway, my father must have said that there is such a book in our family." â
Forget it, I've been looking for it for a few days anyway, let's look for it again, Shen Junqian was about to continue looking in this room, when he saw Shen Junluo holding a book and looking intently, stretching his neck to look, "What are you looking for, did you find it?"
Shen Junluo smiled and beckoned to Shen Junqian: "No, but I saw something interesting, you can also take a look." As he spoke, he turned out the cover of the book and showed it to Shen Junqian, only to see a few big words written on it, "Shen's Family Discipline".
Shen Junqian looked strange, holding the book and flipping it forward and backwards, to see what "exquisiteness" there is, for example, in addition to the cover of this serious Eight Classics, its content is actually "inside", turned it up and down, and there was nothing, it was an ordinary normal admonition book, Shen Junqian asked in surprise: "What's so good about this?"
Shen Junluo snatched the book, glared at Shen Junqian, spread the book on the desk, pointed to a certain place and said to Shen Junqian: "Look at this, this, and this ......"
Shen Junqian leaned over and looked at it when she heard this, "Hey, it's really fake, this is our family's family discipline, why is it so strange?"
Although Da Yin is not a time and space history that does not exist, Shen Junqian still knows the overall imperial examination system of Da Yin, similar to the imperial examination scholars in her previous life, and even the Four Books and Five Classics have not changed, as if the original source of history was the same, and suddenly it turned around here, and it diverged to other other and original histories out of two lines.
According to the current orthodox imperial examination requirements, the Shen family's family discipline is definitely not an ordinary alternative. The whole book does not see the requirements for the disciples of the Four Books and Five Classics, but requires some books that are not related to the imperial examination, such as poems, biographies, and even military books, Buddhist scriptures, and medical books. I don't see any diligent and inspirational words, all of which are advocating the disciples' policy of traveling more and "traveling thousands of miles". The words of the admonition written are not like the words of the admonition, many places are actually written what is what I look at the majesty of Mount Tai, and suddenly feel that the world is in mind, and you can go. It feels like a travel advertisement in later generations to encourage people to travel.
Shen Junqian and Shen Junluo flipped through the contents with great interest, originally planning to search the study, and didn't want the girl who had already arranged to warn them, the third master of the Shen family had already arrived. The sisters immediately gathered the things in the study in a hurry and stole out.
Since they hit Shen Ji'an's study, they didn't find anything, and after thinking about it for a while, Shen Junqian and Shen Junluo started the idea of several brothers in the family, thinking that it was not only a family heirloom of the Shen family, but also helpful to the imperial examination, presumably the brothers in the family at least a few brothers had read it.
So the sisters thought of a way to knock on the side with their brothers, but they didn't know that the two little girls rushed to be courteous in front of their brothers, but they didn't get half of it.
Shen Junqian and Shen Junluo tossed for a while without any results, until they tossed themselves enough.
Xiao Shi looked at the two listless little girls lying on the couch table next to him, and asked with a smile: "You two are so energetic that you can't go to the room to lift the tiles on weekdays, what's the matter with the past two days, it's like celery that has been sunburned." â
"Well, we were looking for a book and couldn't find it. Shen Junluo replied with great frustration.
"Looking for books, what kind of books, let the two of you find it like this, the study at home is not small, if you can't find it, just ask the maids to help you find it, can you still find it?"
"The two of them, they don't know what books they are looking for, it's strange that they can find them!" As soon as Shen Junchun's voice fell, he saw Shen Junxi, Shen Junchun and Shen Junrui walking in to greet Xiao.
The number of three brothers, Shen Junrui, has changed the most in the past three years, the original little chubby dun has finally grown up, and he has a somewhat tall figure, but he is more honest than the two elder brothers.
Shen Junrui asked curiously: "My sisters are looking for books, sue me, and I'll help you find them." â
Shen Junqian thought about it for a while, as if he hadn't looked for Brother Rui, and after thinking about it, he asked, "Does the fourth brother of the Shen family's exam book know?"
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Shen Junchun said coldly on the side: "What kind of exam book, don't talk about you, I haven't heard of it with my second brother, right, second brother?"
Shen Junxi nodded, and said to Shen Junqian and Shen Junluo gently: "Two days ago, my sisters asked, I was worried that this book is in the study of our academy or in the study room at home, I don't know if I haven't read it. Are my sisters misremembering?"
Xiao Shi thought about it for a while, turned his head and said to Shen Junqian and Shen Junluo: "The Shen family's exam book? That book is not a book that Sister Qian brought from outside a few days ago, just read it as a book, what are you looking for it, isn't Sister Qian dedicated to Mrs. Tai to relieve her boredom?"
"Mother, we're not talking about that book, it's our Shen family's own exam book, saying that it is because of its grandfather and uncle who won the champion, and my father who took Tanhua. â
Shen Junchun laughed on the side, "You two girls are idle all day long, I said that in the past two days, you have been muttering around us to ask what books you are, what do you think it is, I haven't heard of this book, where did you hear it, you have read too many books outside?"
"Impossible!" Shen Junluo heard Shen Junchun bluntly deny that the Shen family has this book, and defended: "My father said that there is, and he has it in his study, but he didn't show it to me and his sixth sister, saying that if we have the ability to find it, we will show it, we haven't flipped it for a long time before we thought of asking you, how can it not be?"
"Third Uncle is teasing you two little girls!" Shen Junchun said gloatingly.
Shen Junxi thought about it and asked Shen Junqian, "Third Uncle said that there is such a test-taking book that you said, are you sure it's called this name?"
Shen Junqian heard Shen Junxi's words, frowned and said: "We haven't seen it either, the third uncle seemed to only say that our grandfather, uncle and father can stand out in the imperial examination and do have some experience and methods, but he didn't say that the book is called, this is all shouted by me and the fifth sister, and the third uncle just didn't deny it." â
Shen Junchun is also a smart person, as soon as he heard it, he understood what Shen Junxi was going to ask, and after listening to Shen Junqian's answer, he pondered on the spot: "If that's the case, the Shen family does have such a book, but it's not called an exam book." â
"Ah, really?"
"Is there really this book?"
Shen Junluo and Xiao asked in unison.
Shen Junxi nodded and said, "There is no exam book, but the Shen family has a book that is of great help to the disciples' imperial examinations, and it is not called the exam book." â
"What's that called?" Shen Junqian asked.
"The Shen family learns the commandment!"
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Chapter 60 of the text Curiosity kills the cat.