Shen Rui said that he had an appointment with "classmates", not a lie, but a real thing, but the time agreed before was tomorrow, not today. There is a classmate of the Fuxue, who wants to travel away from Beijing because of something at home, and takes a long vacation in the Fuxue, and everyone makes an appointment to set up a drink tomorrow for its practice.

After coming out of Qiao's house today, seeing that it was not early, Shen Rui didn't go elsewhere and went home directly.

Shen Rui didn't mention Qiao Yongde's rudeness, but he only said: "It's almost prepared over there, and my son can't bear to be busy, so he hid out first." ”

Xu didn't ask what was going on, but he knew that Shen Rui would not come out early for no reason, and it must be the Qiao family's negligence.

When Shen Cangluoya came back, Xu couldn't help but complain to her husband: "The Qiao family is very rude, and they sent the post over, but they still have to treat Brother Rui slowly...... It's really intimate, so it's better to stay away in the future. ”

Shen Cang frowned and said, "Maybe it's angry, listening to Qiao San's meaning, I was looking forward to you and me going over." ”

Married, faint. Now the marriage is all dusk sedan chairs, even if Shen Cang is not a day off, he is on duty in the yamen, and if he wants to go over to eat and drink, it is too late to come out of the yamen in advance.

If it weren't for Shen Cang or the Xu family's personal visit, Master Qiao San would not have personally made two trips.

Xu Shi became more and more displeased when he heard it: "It's just that I want to pull the old man to be a big banner, this is still two years away from filial piety, is this a decision to make the master?" ”

Shen Cang said: "How can you look at the second child's face, how much you have to help, and there are others watching."

The Shen family is not just this kind of in-law, but the Qiao family is the first of all in-laws because of two generations of in-laws, if the Shen family ignores the Qiao family, it will be considered in the eyes of other relatives.

Xu sighed and said, "What is this called?" If you are begging for someone, you have to look like a begging person, and you will hold the shelf with gold and dignity, and look down on this and that. I used to be very picky about the Qiao family's third uncle and third aunt, and in the past two years, I have been playing in front of Brother Rui and Brother Jue, and one by one my eyes have grown to the top of my head, even relatives have no reason to communicate like this......"

The husband and wife were gossiping here, and Shen Jue over there also got the news and knew that Shen Rui was back and took Shen Huan to Jiuruju.

"How did you come back so fast? Is the groom visible? As soon as Shen Jue saw Shen Rui, he said curiously.

Shen Rui nodded and said, "I didn't wait for the banquet, and when I saw the sedan chair arrive, I came out...... Seeing the groom's official, the gong and drum sedan chair was decently cleaned up, and there were only eight concubines who accompanied the past, and it looked quite magnificent......

Shen Jue nodded and said, "Shen Yan is older than the third brother Quan, this year is either twenty-two or twenty-three, and it is long overdue to marry a wife...... I heard Sister Yu say that the eldest cousin in the third room of the Qiao family is very good-looking and docile......"

Shen Rui smiled lightly.

Now the corporal doctor pays attention to "good wives and beautiful concubines", and the little Qiao family is the concubine of the third master of Qiao, and the appearance is naturally not bad; However, the identity of the concubine is pressed, and there is a mother-in-law pressing on it, and it is difficult to be rebellious if you want to be rebellious.

It's not that Shen Rui is prejudiced, it's just that with Mrs. Qiao and Qiao's in front, Shen Rui is really not optimistic about the character of that little Qiao.

Shen Huan hesitated beside him: "What is the same ...... What about the same surname, and then I became an in-law again, do I have to communicate with that side here? ”

Shen Jue shook his head and said: "Although marriage is good for two surnames, Shen Yan is the son-in-law of the Qiao family, and the correspondence is naturally the Qiao family...... We're here, we've gone far away, and it's okay to be willing to nod and say hello when we meet, and it's ......okay if you don't want to just don't know each other."

"But the Nancheng Academy where the third brother is going, doesn't it mean that the two Shen Yan brothers are also there? You have to look up and not look down, right? Shen Huandao.

Shen Jue smiled and patted Shen Huan on the shoulder and said, "Brother Huan is too underestimated to look down on Nancheng Academy, since it is one of the best academies in the capital, is it still like our Shen family, as long as it is such a big place?" Nancheng Academy covers an area of thirty acres, and even if you are in the same academy, it is not easy to meet each other. ”

Shen Huan's eyes widened and said, "Isn't it said that the third aunt's family is a private school, the teaching conditions are limited, and the students can't accept much?" How is it so big? ”

Although Shen Jue has not yet entered Nancheng Academy, he is also a little proud at the moment, and said, "How else can it be compared to Chunshan Academy?" If you really want to talk about qualifications, Chunshan Academy is even better, Chunshan Academy is only twenty or thirty years, but the history of Chunshan Academy has been a hundred years, but Nancheng Academy is the same as Chunshan Academy, although the area is not small, but the teachers are limited, and the number of students is also limited, otherwise the scale has already doubled. ”

Shen Huan was puzzled: "Nancheng Academy is outside the city, how can it survive a hundred years?" It is said that when Emperor Yingzong hunted in the north, the Mongol soldiers came to the city, burned, killed and looted, and there was no tile outside the city? ”

Shen Jue's little face was heavy, and he said, "Rebirth from the fire is nothing more than that." At that time, the Mongolian cavalry came quickly, and countless people in the city did not have time to enter Beijing...... At that time, in order to let the old and young women and children enter the city, the students of Chunshan Academy were also stranded outside the city, eight ancestors and grandchildren of the Tian family, and sixty-four apprentices...... If it weren't for the fact that the grandchildren of the Tian family were still young and stayed in the old house in the city with their daughters, there would be no Tian family now......"

Shen Huan was a little dumbfounded when he heard this: "God, this sounds like a script......"

Shen Rui added: "It has only been more than 50 years since the events of that year, and now the grandfather of the Tian family is the grandson of the Tian family back then, who was only a teenager back then, and there are a few immature cousins below, which makes the Tian family's bloodline not broken off." After the defense of the capital, the imperial court showed the folk righteousness, the ancestors of the Tian family and the students of the Nancheng Academy were among them, repaired the tomb and erected the monument, and the people of the capital called the "seventy-two sages of Yanjing, in order to show the loyalty of the ancestors and grandchildren of the Tian family, the court also gave the plaque of the "teacher of the hundred generations." Now the royal pen is hanging in the lobby of Nancheng Academy

Even if Emperor Yingzong was restored later and destroyed the decree of Emperor Jingtai, he did not recover the reward of the Tian family. However, it was to take back the imperial pen of Emperor Jingtai and give a new imperial pen.

The story of the Tian family is indeed like a storybook, but in addition to the loyalty of men, there is also the loyalty and martyrdom of the Tian family's wife.

After the defense of the capital, three generations of the ancestors and grandchildren of the Tian family died in vain, leaving a family full of widows and orphans. There is also the fiancée of the grandson of the Tian family, who hugged the tablet and entered the door, and there were seven widows. Except for the older Tai Confucian, who won the imperial court because of the loyalty of his children and grandchildren, the other six people were all lifelong and got the archway of chastity.

Even if there were only old and young women and children left in the Tian family, no one deceived each other, and there was also this reason.

Confucianism only admires loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and the Tian family can occupy a place in Beishilin, and it is inseparable from the loyalty of this ancestor.

When the Tian family grew up, he rebuilt the academy, and after decades of hard work, he had the current situation.

Shen Huan said with a staggered voice: "Although it is the glory of the ancestors, it is also more miserable......

Shen Jue glared at him and said, "When you encounter a foreign barbarian, you are not loyal to the country, and you have to lose your backbone and join the enemy?"

Shen Huan shrunk his neck and said, "I didn't mean that, I just think it's so decent, it's okay if you can't touch it." It's okay to be a small citizen, as long as the wife is peaceful...... How can anyone be a saint or a sage? ”

The Tian family has a low-key temperament and does not like publicity, that is, Shen Rui and Shen Jue, even if they knew that Nancheng Academy was famous, they only thought that they relied on the name of the Tian family's grandfather in the capital, and they didn't know this history.

It wasn't until Shen Yan and Shen brothers enrolled in Nancheng Academy last year that Shen Cang ridiculed Shen Yan for having a "speculative heart", and Shen Rui knew that the Tian family's fame in Shilin was greater than he imagined. The name of the Tianmen disciple is almost as gilded in the North Shilin.

Shen Jue now chooses Nancheng Academy instead of Chunshan Academy, in addition to liking the relaxed teaching atmosphere of Nancheng Academy, he also admires those ancestors of the Tian family in his heart.

Shen Huan has always been curious, even if he was glared at by Shen Jue just now, he still couldn't help but be curious in his heart: "The Tian family is a scholarly family, and it is such a door, the daughter must be a hundred families, why did the third aunt promise it to the third uncle."

Shen Jue frowned and said, "The third uncle is a young man, where is it not good?" ”

Shen Huan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I'm not saying that the third uncle is bad, isn't it, isn't it that the third uncle is not good."

Shen Jue knew that he had no intentions, and said: "The grandfather and the old lady went early, the third uncle was brought up by the uncle and the eldest uncle, even the second brother and I should let the third uncle be a stone's throw away at home, Brother Huan must not show this meaning in front of the uncle and the eldest uncle, and the uncle and the eldest uncle can taboo the words of the third uncle who is not in good health......

Shen Huan has been in Beijing for six days, and he can also see that the two rooms are harmonious, and they are close to each other, and they don't see the intrigue of ordinary people. And because the age difference between Shen Cang and the third master is about to be twenty years old, the third old man and his wife are extremely deferential in front of their brother and sister-in-law, not like a younger brother or sister-in-law, but more like the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law.

After listening to Shen Jue's words, he was not surprised, and hurriedly nodded: "Zhilu Dao, Zhilu Dao, I am just chanting in front of the second and third brothers, and I am not a fool......

In order to understand Shen Huan's curiosity, Shen Jue still talked about the reason for the marriage between Shen Tian's two families and said: "The matter of marriage was originally the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker, but when the third uncle discussed the marriage, the grandfather and the old lady had already passed away, and it was the eldest uncle who chose the relatives for the third uncle, as for why it became a marriage, Xu is Tian family and the eldest uncle's family have an old ......."

Chengxiafang, Tianjia Academy.

Mrs. Tian was calm, holding a bowl of Gu Zhu purple bamboo shoots, tasting them one bite at a time. Sitting opposite was a middle-aged man, who was Tian Shanchang, the second son of Mrs. Tian.

"But what's up? Aren't you afraid to walk away? Now Shen is just a student, and the Nanzhili Township Test is unusual. The old man said calmly.

Tian Shan said: "The temperament is simple and pure, the talent is also good, the reading is also diligent, and the title of the gold list is also a matter of time ......"

Old lady Tian still showed a little disapproval and said: "Is the background a little complicated...... Why bother making such trouble, I can't say that I have to offend my relatives, the fifth sister is young, and there are still a few years before Ji Lu......"

Tian Shan said: "I was also afraid of trouble before, thinking that I would wait for another two years, and the fifth sister of the left and right is not very old...... But the prince is getting older, and there are rumors of the prince choosing a concubine, so I can't wait. Looking at the meaning of his sister-in-law, he has no hatred for Brother Shen Yan. The Qiao family is also the in-laws of the Shen family, and they can marry their daughters, so it should be ...... no hindrance."

The daughter of the Tian family is ranked with her brother, and the fifth sister is the eldest daughter of Tian Shan's eldest son, who is thirteen years old this year, and happens to be the same as the prince.

The Ming Dynasty is a commoner concubine, and the concubine is in the land of Gyeonggi, and the Tian family is a scholarly family, even if there are children, they are also small officials and are being selected.

At that time, Tian Shanchang's sister got married in a hurry and married Shen Run, a young man who was not in good health, just to avoid the prince's choice of concubine in the last years of Chenghua......