The position of the east of Shenjiafang is where the ancestral hall of the clan is located.

On the "Daming Collection Ceremony" given by Emperor Taizu, there are ritual regulations for the family sacrifices of scholars and ordinary people, "the right to imitate the system of Zhuzi's ancestral hall". The ancestral hall of the house of the official, the four generations of worship, the lord of Gao, Zeng, Zu and You IV, the four middle moons and the sun are sacrificed; Shu people are not allowed to set up ancestral halls, but are only allowed to worship grandparents and parents for two generations in the living room or other rooms.

Although the law stipulates this, the law is nothing more than human feelings.

The local surname gathers and lives in the clan, does not move for many generations, depends on the clan, not one household or two households, and the sacrificial matter, there is a policy and a countermeasure. In addition to the family ancestral hall set up in accordance with the imperial court etiquette, there is also a large ancestral hall left in the clan, which is actually the "ancestral ancestral hall".

The sacrifice of the main ancestral hall is different from the fourth mid-moon of the ancestral hall, but the sacrifice of the beginning of spring, the east solstice, the season of autumn, and the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the sacrifice of the death day.

The ancestral hall of the Shen family is 12 zhang from east to west, 18 zhang from north to south, covering an area of three and a half acres. Due to the etiquette system, only three rooms are allowed in the ancestral hall of scholars, but there is no restriction on the layout of other side rooms and halls.

The whole building is four-entrance, and the courtyard is extremely wide. The outermost worship pavilion, the second into the public hall, the clan meeting is where it is, the third into the original is the temple of the gods, now enshrined is the "Dacheng to the holy Wenxuan King", the fourth into the ancestral hall.

Other people's ancestral halls, except for the opening of the day of sacrifice, are mostly closed and solemn. The ancestors of the Shen family were education-oriented, and the most important family studies in the family were set up in the ancestral hall.

Even if it is a childish who has just entered the school, in such a solemn environment, he does not dare to have a playful heart, otherwise he will not be able to spare his parents when he goes home without being taught by his husband. But the boy is lively and romantic by nature, and he can't always be restrained, so next to the ancestral shrine, an attached garden was expanded, named Yingyuan, so that the boy could play in this school.

The combination of dynamic and static teaching methods and the perseverance of poetry and ritual inheritance have made the descendants of the Shen family talented and talented, and also made the Shen family famous in Songjiang Mansion.

For this reason, in addition to the children of the Shen family studying here, the children of the in-laws are attached to the scholars.

In addition to teaching the Four Books and Five Classics, there are also gentlemen and six arts, and a school has also been opened in Yingyuan, as well as a grain garden for students to experience the people's livelihood.

Now the person in charge of ethnology is Dong Juren, the son-in-law of the Shen family. The two generations of the Shen family's three rooms do not like to study, and the children have a lot of economic affairs and have accumulated thousands of family wealth. In the end, they remember that their family is a scholarly family, not a merchant, and they only marry with a scholarly family, so they are not vulgar with merchants.

This Dong Juren was born in a scholarly family, and he was lifted in the year of the weak crown, and then experienced setbacks, failed four times, lived in the capital for more than ten years, and finally died and returned to his hometown to live in peace.

In order to occupy a place in the clan, Sanfang sought to take care of the errand of the Shen clan for Dong Juren. But after all, Dong Juren is a foreigner, and the Shen family does not have a lot of people and talents, where is this errand so resourceful?

is still the Sun family, which coincided with Shen Jin's enrollment, and he was quite concerned about the news in the family science. Hearing that Dong Juren is indeed literate, although he himself has entered the ranks, but the sons and nephews who have been taught by him have many fame and can be good teachers, so Sun facilitated this matter through several good friends. If you really want to talk about it, Sanfang still owes the Sun family a favor, but Sanfang has always put interests first, and he has long left this favor behind.

Now, Dong Juren is sitting in the wing room of the clan study, looking at the handsome young man in front of him, touching his beautiful beard, and said with a gratifying face: "Very good, your homework has improved a lot in the past few years, and you can give it a try next year...... Speaking of this, he said regretfully: "It was a pity that it was two years ago." ”

Hearing this, a white young man next to the handsome young man couldn't help but roll his eyes secretly.

What do you mean by pity? Does this mean that it is not the right time for Sun to die, or should Shen Yu not keep filial piety to his mother-in-law? No wonder Dong Juren has been stumbling for half his life, he can only be a master, this guy is too bad at talking.

The young man was Shen Jin, and after listening to Dong Juren's words, he also knew that it was inappropriate, and reminded with embarrassment: "Sir, today's student is sending his younger brother to school......

When Dong Juren heard this, his brows furrowed, and he glanced at Shen Rui.

At the end of the three-year period, Shen Rui had been removed from his service and returned to the fourth room of the Shen family from Xilin Zen Temple.

A twelve-year-old boy, because of his size, has a thin face, peaceful eyes, and a childish face.

When Dong Juren saw it, he was a little stunned. In my impression, Shen Rui's appearance is a little vague, I only remember that he is a very loose child, often fishing for three days and skipping school for two days with drying nets, and conniving at the scholars and servants around him to treat their classmates rudely, which is extremely unpleasant. Xue Xiucai, who was in charge of the Mengtong class back then, often complained about the stubbornness of this student.

Now looking at the young man in front of him, is he really the arrogant and careless child in his memory?

Thinking that this young man was valued by Shen Zhuangyuan and taught him personally for two and a half years, Dong Juren felt suffocated. A Mengtong, the champion taught by himself, and he couldn't teach the flowers; If the champion is willing to teach Shen Jin in person, let alone two and a half years, even three or five months will make Shen Jin infinitely useful.

The exploration in his eyes, but it's a pity, where can he hide it from Shen Rui.

Shen Rui's impression of Dong Juren is even worse, a teacher who chooses to be close to students or cold students because of his own preferences, even if he has a little golden hand, he is not a qualified teacher.

Dong Juren didn't know that he had annoyed people, and when he thought of Shen Li, the champion Gong, he took away the dislike in his heart a little, and said lightly: "Can you learn the four books and five classics?" ”

Shen Rui replied: "I have listened to the first lecture. ”

Dong Juren calculated Shen Rui's age, but this progress is not much better than others. It can be seen that the qualifications are limited, otherwise guarding a champion will have learned more than he should have learned.

He casually took a few passages of the four books and asked Shen Rui to memorize, and then drew two more scriptures for him to explain, then nodded and said, "You can enter the Xia Yun class." ”

After that, Dong Juren took Shen Rui out and went to the main hall of the clan to meet the portrait of "Dacheng Most Holy Wenxuan King"; He sat down in front of the portrait of "Dacheng Most Holy Wenxuan King", and a small servant had already served tea, and Shen Rui performed an apprenticeship ceremony.

After watching his younger brother finish worshipping his teacher, Shen Jin left. He is a student, his student status is in the government, and after his filial piety is completed, he will also enter the government to study and sell his leave to prepare for next year's township examination.

Shen Rui followed behind Dong Juren and came to the "Xia Yun Class".

The middle school students range from five years old to teens, and according to different learning progress, they are divided into three classes, "spring ploughing", "summer yun", and "autumn fruit". "Spring Ploughing" is the Mengtong class, "Xia Yun" is the students who are preparing to take the children's examination or have participated in the children's examination but have not passed the college examination, and "Qiushi" is the students who have passed the children's examination and have taken the reputation of showing their talents, but they have not been admitted to the official school.

The ancestral hall where the ethnography is located is second only to the fourth, covering an area of one acre, in addition to the main house of three and four ears, there are five wings in the east and west.

Regarding the layout of ethnography, on the way here, Shen Jin had already talked to Shen Rui.

The west chamber is where the spring ploughing class is located, and the east chamber is the summer class; The main landlord's ear room is the resting room of several masters, and the west ear room is the location of the seven or eight Xiucai of the autumn real class. As for the three main rooms, in addition to the middle hall dedicated to the "Dacheng Most Holy Wenxuan King", the east room is the library room, and the west room is Dong Juren's study. Between the west ear room and the west chamber, there is a corner door, and it is Yingyuan when you go out of the room.

Today, with Shen Rui going to school, there are scholar Liu Cheng and Xiaowu who live a long life. Liu Cheng is ten years old, Liu Ya's younger brother, and he went to Shen Rui's side before Shen Rui was removed; Longevity fifteen years old, accompanied Shen Rui for two and a half years, was given by Wang Shouren, although he was born to the Wang family, but his parents died, there was nothing else to worry about, and Shen Rui was extremely dedicated to Shen Rui in the past two years.

The two of them carried bookcases and followed behind Shen Rui.

At this time, it was a recess break, there was no master in the east chamber, and there were more than a dozen teenagers sitting inside, several of whom were Shen Rui's acquaintances. When these people saw new classmates coming, some were surprised, and some were curious. However, with Dong Ju here, no one dares to be presumptuous in the end, and they all sit down in a proper manner.

Dong Juren stood at the door, hesitated, pointed to the only empty seat in the corner, and let Shen Rui sit.

At the same table with him was a thin young man, in his teens, who was slightly frightened when he saw Shen Rui coming, and cautiously avoided the side.

Dong Juren left, and Shen Quan rushed over all of a sudden, complaining: "Okay, you second brother Rui, there was no movement before, I thought you were going to enroll in school next year." ”

Shen Rui listened with a smile, he was really helpless. He didn't want to come to the clan study, but Zhang Lao'an kept making small moves, and he really didn't want to entangle, so he avoided it.

Shen Quan saw the helplessness in Shen Rui's eyes, thinking of the entanglement in the fourth room, and hurriedly said: "There are many brothers and classmates in the clan study, but it is more lively than at home. ”

A young man in brocade clothes walked up to Shen Quan, raised his chin, and snorted lightly: "Brother Rui is afraid that his homework will be too far behind, and he will not have the face to see people, so he will not dare to delay for a day." ”

Shen Rui nodded and said, "Brother Jue still understands me, I am really afraid that I will fall too far, and I need to make progress with Brother Jue in the future." ”

The young man in brocade choked when he heard this: "I know that you have six clan brothers as teachers, but don't be too proud." Wait for next year's county test and government test to see who is the straw bale! ”

Shen Rui said with a smile: "It's a pity that there will be no college exam next year, otherwise looking at the appearance of Brother Jue, the fame of talent is within reach." ”

The young man in brocade clothes was Shen Jue, the youngest son of the eldest man of the sect, and said proudly: "Then it goes without saying, after studying for several years, if you are afraid of a college exam, then you are not a child of the Shen family!" ”

Shen Jue is an old enemy with Shen Rui in the past, and his temper is not compatible with the current Shen Rui. However, in the past few years in Xilin Zen Temple, among the Shen family, in addition to the five rooms, only Shen Jue often comes to the door. Shen Rui had no intention of competing with him, and sometimes he just deliberately teased this little boy to blow up his hair.

Shen Rui had no intention of mentioning the college exam, but when he heard Shen Jue's sentence, he felt bad, and couldn't help but glance at Shen Quan.

Shen Quanhongzhi ended up in ten years, passed the county test and the government test, and unfortunately lost the hospital test; There was no hospital examination in the eleventh year of Hongzhi; In June of the twelfth year of Hongzhi, the fifth grandfather died, and Shen Quan was in mourning; This time in June this year, Shen Quan took the hospital examination for the second time and fell out again. There will be no hospital exam next year, and Shen Quan will have to wait until the year after next if he wants to participate.

Ordinary cultivators and scholars, the children of the eighteenth and ninth middle schools show their talents, it is not too late, and they are still young. But the Shen family is a scholarly family, and their children started to study at the age of five, and Wufang is the best among them.

Shen Quan's two brothers, one is the Shu Jishi of the twelfth year of Hongzhi, who returned to his hometown to guard filial piety for a year because of the loss of his grandfather, and now he is full of filial piety and has returned to the Hanlin Academy; One is the eleventh year of Hongzhi, who went to Beijing with his eldest brother and waited until the next year's examination.

Shen Quan, who is a younger brother, is inevitably under pressure, not to mention that there is another Shen Jin living next door.

is in this ethnology, Shen Quan's former classmates either rose to the "Qiushi" class, or felt that the imperial examination was hopeless and looked for another livelihood; At his age, there are not many people who are still stranded in Xia Yun's class.

Shen Quan's expression really darkened, and there was a hint of self-deprecation on his face.

Shen Quan and Shen Jue came up to talk, squeezing the table next to Shen Rui aside.

The young man frowned and tried to move his chair to the side. But his seat was next to the corner, and there was no way to avoid it.

At this time, a young man in red stepped forward and said in a loud voice: "This is a class, but not someone's living room?" If you choose another place to go to catch up, don't delay others from studying! ”