The Lin family is one of the top businessmen in Yangzhou City, and its main business is winemaking, tea and salt.

The Song Dynasty crossed to the south, making the south of the Yangtze River the most developed place in the whole Chinese science and technology civilization, the handicraft industry of the Song Dynasty developed very fast, and Yangzhou was the largest city in the north of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the prosperity was comparable to Lin'an City.

Lin Yao, the head of the Lin family, will be over 60 next year, in good spirits, and is sitting on the main seat of the Lin family's main hall, with a plaque on his head that reads "Knowing Etiquette and Knowing Filial Piety".

In the positions on both sides of him, there were several people who were now in charge of the Lin family.

Sitting on one side are Lin Yaoming's two younger brothers, the third Lin Yaohong and the fourth Lin Yaojian.

On the other side sat Lin Yaoming's two sons, the eldest son Lin Tingguang, and the second son Lin Tingxuan.

Lin Tingguang is also Xu Siye's nominal father-in-law, Xu Siye has seen Lin Tingguang several times during the period of recuperation, and his only impression of Lin Tingguang is that this person is very honest and submissive to the head of the family, Lin Yaoming, and is not an assertive person.

It is also because Lin Yaoming started a business for half his life that the Lin family has become the pillar of Yangzhou's commerce, and the younger generations of the Lin family are living in his shadow, and it is difficult to make a difference.

"Father, Xu Siye is here."

Lin Tingguang saw Xu Siye come in and reminded Lin Yaoming of the main seat.

Xu Siye is not as old as a weak crown, and he has no words, and he has not integrated into the Lin family, and this father-in-law is also a great name for him.

Lin Yaoming stood up from his seat and looked at Xu Siye with a complicated expression.

Xu Siye sent someone under the fence in the end, bowed respectfully, and said, "I've seen the master." ”

Lin Yaoming sighed and said: "I never thought that it would only be five years since I said goodbye to Lingzun Yangzhou, and he would ...... It's a pity, it's a pity......"

When Xu Youcheng was transferred to the Jiangbei Garrison Military Administration, he had a final meeting with Lin Yaoming, and it was this meeting that confirmed the marriage between Xu Siye and Miss Lin.

"Father, the deceased has passed away, I can't help but sigh, Xu Siye turned the danger into a disaster in the catastrophe, and it was with the blessing of the ancestors of the Xu family." Lin Tingguang persuaded him.

Lin Yaoming was extremely helpless, so he sat down again.

Xu Siye sat at the end of the seat under Lin Tingguang's orders in order to listen to the old lady's teachings.

"Is there a cure for illness? Do you take daily medications? Yangzhou is still used to ......"

Lin Yaoming showed his concern for Xu Siye, and asked for warmth.

seems to be intimate but is just a perfunctory question, Xu Siye can see that the Lin family is cold to him, and he still answers seriously.

"The girl is going to Huzhou for a trip, and she will be back in four or five days, and then she can let you have a round house." When Lin Yaoming mentioned his granddaughter, he was ashamed.

Although it was a happy marriage, as soon as he got married, his granddaughter ran away, leaving a groom official at his wife's house, and it was never good to spread the word.

Lin Yaojian said suddenly: "The body is also well-maintained, should he be allowed to go back to the old mansion of Xu Mansion, and the water spilled by the married daughter is not a profit, and he can't stay in the Lin family for a long time, right?" ”

"Ahem." Lin Yaoming coughed twice.

Obviously, the head of the Lin family has an opinion on his younger brother's words, but what Lin Yaojian said is also the truth.

The Lin family not only took care of Xu Siye and helped him treat his illness, but also married his granddaughter to Chongxi, so that Xu Siye could pick up a life, which was benevolent and righteous for the Lin family.

Even if they know that the people in other rooms are wary of Xu Siye, but the daughter of the Lin family is not a son, and Xu Siye is not a troublemaker.

Lin Tingguang shook his head and sighed: "The old house of the Xu family has been in disrepair for a long time, and many houses have collapsed in recent years...... Alas! ”

With Xu Youcheng becoming an official in the court, the Xu family had already moved their family to Lin'an.

Moreover, before Xu Youcheng was in high school, the Xu family was just a small family, and it was difficult to support themselves, otherwise there would be no help from the Lin family.

"Let's stay."

The old lady Lin Yaoming spoke, "Everything is good here, it's more convenient to study and take the exam, don't you think about the night and take the exam?" In the coming year, if you go to Lin'an to take the exam, you may be able to rank high school. ”

The old lady's words worked, and his words were equivalent to a holy decree in the Lin family.

He let him stay, and the rest of the people had no objection.

As Lin Yaoming said, Xu Siye took the Liberation Examination in Lin'an, and was eligible to take the provincial examination, that is, the Ministry of Rites examination.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this was equivalent to lifting people.

However, in the Song Dynasty, there was no qualification to be an official, this was only a primary imperial examination, and the qualification for the examination was not valid for life.

But now Xu Siye is qualified to go to Lin'an to take the exam.

Moreover, Xu Youcheng was once a servant of the Ministry of Officials, and there were many protégés and former officials, and he stepped down because of the fight with the powerful minister Shi Miyuan, and there were many ministers in the court, if Xu Siye went to the exam, it was very likely that he would get "special care", and he was more likely to pass the provincial examination and enter the court as an official.

This is probably the reason why after the Xu family was in trouble, the Lin family still did not abandon Xu Siye.

Lin Yaojian said: "That's to let him continue to study? Not working? ”

Lin Yaoming slapped the table, and said with anger in his tone: "Is the Lin family missing those bowls of rice?" How many of the children of the Lin family are studying? Even your children and descendants are studying, why don't you talk about them? ”

"Brother, those children are surnamed Lin." Lin Yaojian said.

Lin Yaoming said coldly: "Even if Siye is not surnamed Lin, he is also my Lin family, as long as I am here for a day, he can study here and take the exam with peace of mind." ”

Then he looked at Xu Siye and said, "Siye, don't treat yourself as an outsider, you have been a famous teacher since you were a child, and you have learned a wide range of things, some of the nephews of the Lin family are studying and studying, and now none of them can pass the exam, if you have time, you can teach them more, you can go in and out of the study room of the East Cross Courtyard at will, and the younger generations in the clan who are studying are all your students for the time being, you can teach as you like." ”

It sounds like a favor to Xu Siye, but it still lets Xu Siye do things to "repay" the Lin family.

Xu Siye knew very well in his heart that he had inherited this body and skin, but he had not inherited his memory and knowledge, and with the mathematics, physics and chemistry he had learned in his later life, it was obviously impossible to compete with students who had studied hard for more than ten or even decades in this era.

Let him write a word, he can definitely write neatly, calligraphy is his strength.

But let him write a longitude and weft article, but he must not.

And he couldn't settle down anymore to pick up a book and read.

After 20 years of putting down books, do you still have to pick up books again and learn the four books and five classics?

Even if you learn, how many years will it take to achieve something?

"The juniors remembered." Xu Siye could only agree.

Do you tell them that I just stayed to eat and wait for death, and I don't even want to read books, I just want to fish every day, watch river boats, and look up at the sky at a 45-degree angle?

"Okay, you're still recuperating, you don't need to worry about it these days, everything will wait until you're well. Wait for the girl who didn't make it to come back in a few days, and then make up some ceremonies for you, the Xu family can't be cut off from you, otherwise I'm sorry for Ling Zun's expectations of you. When Lin Yaoming mentioned Xu Youcheng, he sighed lightly, and his face was indescribably desolate.