Because it was Shen Jin who paid attention to before, not Shen Yan, so Master Qiao San didn't know much about Shen Yan, only that he lost his father in his early years, and he was in Songjiang before, and he took his widowed mother and brother to live in Nanjing before the township test this year.

Today, he called Shen Yan over just to ask Shen Yan which house the Shen family belonged to.

This marriage event is the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker. It's just that the Bai family is widowed, and the Qiao family can't directly mention this matter to the Bai family, so they want to find a clan elder from the Shen family who can call the shots.

As for the fact that Shen Yan is not a member of the Shen family, Master Qiao San has never thought about it, after all, Shen Yan's official register, three generations of great-grandfather, grandfather, and father are written, and the great-grandfather is too old to say, but this grandfather is the same generation as Master Qiao San's uncle in terms of name, and his father Shen Qing is the same as Shen Cang and Shen Zhou's brothers, and Shen Yan and his younger brother Shen are the same as Shen Luo from the side of the Xiewang. Even if it is a coincidence, it cannot be a coincidence for three generations.

"I heard that the Songjiang Shen family has divided into nine rooms, I don't know what room Songzhen is in?" Master Qiao San asked straight to the point.

As for Shen Yan's unmarried marriage, he had already inquired clearly. Even if he values Shen Yan, it is when Shen Yan does not have a marriage contract.

This is not a private topic, but for Shen Yan, it is really difficult to answer.

If he wants to take the imperial examination, he must indicate that his ancestors are three generations old. However, his great-grandfather said that they were not allowed to enter the family tree.

He hesitated for a moment and replied: "Although the student's surname is Shen, he is indeed the fifth grandson of Shen University, but the student's grandfather is not included in the family tree......"

When Master Qiao San heard this, he couldn't help frowning.

He thought that Shen Yan might be a partial branch of the Shen family, but he didn't expect it to be this answer.

He wanted to choose Shen Yan as his son-in-law before, in addition to Shen Yan's character and qualifications, as long as he also saw that Shen Yan was from the Shen family and was a scholar.

In Shen Yan's school registration, his father is a lifter, his grandfather is a student, and his great-grandfather is also a lifter. Even if there is no official who is an official, it is not a common people.

It is not included in the genealogy, and the use is different after entering the genealogy and then removing the family.

If you enter the family tree and then remove the family, there must be a place where the family rules and family laws are violated, and they are abandoned by the family; is not included in the family tree, most of them are flawed from birth.

But what did the Shen family think? This Shen Yan has been studying for several generations, so why don't you let such a motivated clansman return to the family?

However, thinking that before the township test, the Shen family sect sent Shen Qi to Nanjing, and brought a few students to visit him, but there was no Shen Yan among them.

Before, Master Qiao San thought that it was because Shen Yan now lives in Nanjing, but now it seems that there is still a saying in this.

"Where is the Shen family, can you mention the matter of your return to the sect?" Master Qiao San asked.

Shen Yan shook his head, not wanting to say too much.

He didn't know the origin of Master Qiao San and the second room of the Shen family, and he was quite strange about the fact that Master Xuezheng cared about his own affairs. faintly aware of something, but when I think of my own **, I can't be happy.

Master Qiao San was curious, what is Shen Yan's ancestor's background? However, there must be something bad to say to people, and when Master Qiao San saw that Shen Yan was reluctant to mention it, he would not ask directly, so he asked Shen Yan a few words about entering Beijing, and asked people to serve soup.

After Shen Yan left, Master Qiao San instructed someone to pass the housekeeper over and sent him to inquire about Shen Yan's life experience

Songjiang is a big house, and many students from Songjiang who came to participate in the township examination are still stranded in Nanjing. The Shen family is a Songjiang family, so there are no clues to inquire about.

Even if Master Qiao San knew that Shen Yan's life experience was different, he still didn't have the heart to give up.

In his opinion, the Shen family did not allow Shen Yan's grandfather to become naturalized, and most of Shen Yan's grandfather was an outer family. Shen Yan's great-grandmother was a woman or a prostitute, and she was not accepted by the scholarly family, and she couldn't even go to the family tree with her children and grandchildren.

Since the Song Dynasty, Confucianism has believed in Cheng Zhu Lixue, and the requirements for women's chastity are particularly strict.

Even if he was not accepted by the clan, Shen Yan's grandfather still studied for a career and became famous; Shen Yan's father is here to go one step further; Looking at Shen Yan's behavior, there is no need to worry about the tutor here.

The eldest daughter of Master Qiao San is just a maidservant's daughter, so she is picked on in every way in family affairs, and she is not high or low. Therefore, Master Qiao San is not very picky about Shen Yan's background, he just wants to find out

When the housekeeper took a look, he got the news, but the third master Qiao couldn't make up his mind.

Before Shen Yan came to Nanjing, he taught at the Shen Family School in Songjiang, and his younger brother also studied at the Shen Family School, and the Shen Yan family lived in Shenjiafang when they were in Songjiang. This is obviously the meaning of being accepted by the Shen family, so why didn't Shen Qi come to Nanjing and bring Shen Yan to socialize by his side? And Shen Yan here, when mentioning the Shen family in Songjiang, he didn't mean to return to the sect.

Nanjing is not close to Songjiang, but Master Qiao San still sent someone to Songjiang to inquire. As for Shen Yan here, it seems that he has the meaning of being ashamed of His Holiness. Shen Yan's younger brother is not very old, so he may not know the family secrets, and the only one who can inquire is Shen Yan's mother, Bai.

Master Qiao San told his wife and asked her to find a reason to meet the Bai family.

Mrs. Qiao San has a concubine who is twelve years old this year, and she wishes to marry the concubine in front of her early, so that she can concentrate on preparing a dowry for her daughter, and she happily responds to her husband's orders.

Bai is the wife and mother of the people, not an ordinary woman, and Mrs. Qiao San gave her a post, which is not too much.

Bai was really surprised and delighted to receive the invitation from Mrs. Xuezheng. However, she was a woman in the house, so she didn't dare to be self-conscious, so she called her eldest son to discuss.

Shen Yan looked at the post, remembered the conversation between the school politicians two days ago, and said, "If you invite your mother to go, your mother will go...... If Mrs. Xuezheng asks about her great-grandmother, she doesn't have to hide it......"

Bai Shi was horrified: "Why did she ask this? Didn't you find out that the eldest brother's student status was inappropriate? Or did the Shen family want to kill the eldest brother? ”

The Shen family didn't recognize Shen Yan, but Shen Yan wanted to go to school, and the name of his great-grandfather on the school registration could not be empty, and the name of the old lady in the second room was added. If you really want to think about it, it's not appropriate. If the Shen clan goes to the school administration office to complain, they can sue Shen Yan for a "fake name".

No matter how dissatisfied the Bai family was, they didn't dare to make trouble, and what they took into account was Shen Yan's school status.

Shen Yan hurriedly said: "Don't worry, mother, it's not about school status, it's mostly about asking about your son's relatives......"

When Bai Shi heard this, he immediately turned his surprise into joy: "Amitabha, it's really an eye-opener, isn't it that the master of science and politics wants to recruit the eldest brother as a son-in-law?" ”

Shen Yan shook his head and said: "Maybe it's for the sake of other people's media, except for saying that I am close, there is nothing to ask about the ancestors." ”

Bai hesitated: "Family ugliness should not be publicized, can these facts be honest?" Why don't you see who is there? If the candidate is good, should he hide it? ”

Shen Yan frowned and said: "It's not good to marry two surnames, if you hide something, won't it become a fraudulent marriage?" Mother still tells the truth. No matter who the academic and political master is to protect the media, the family should be above my family, if he offends people because of this, he will add an enemy to his son. ”

Bai Shi hated and said: "It's all because of the eldest lady in the second room, a ruthless woman...... Otherwise, if I returned to the sect last year, I wouldn't have been in such an embarrassing situation as I am now......"

Shen Yan hurriedly said: "If you complain like this, my mother can just talk about it at home, and don't mention it in front of outsiders...... The eldest lord of the second room has been promoted to Shangshu, if my mother complains like this outside, it makes people mistakenly think that my brothers have a grudge against the second room, and there is no need for the second room to speak, and someone will attack us in order to tie up the eldest lord of the second room, and the future will be ruined if I can't say it......"

It's not that he spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, but the world is like this. It's just that it may not be so serious, Shen Yan knows his mother's temperament, and he doesn't want her to talk nonsense outside, so he deliberately said it a little more serious.

Bai's face turned white, and he hurriedly covered his mouth and said, "This is too domineering, can't you even complain?" ”

Shen Yan said: "It is natural for the father to repay the debt of the son. I haven't looked for my grandfather and father all these years, and it's more or less because I'm far away. Now that my son is going to Beijing, if I get entangled in the past and annoy the other side, my son can't bear it......"

was coaxed by Shen Yanlian, and when the Bai family went to Mrs. Qiao's appointment, he was cautious in his words and deeds.

Mrs. Qiao San was surprised to see her like this. If she hadn't seen Shen Yan before, the appearance of the mother and son was indeed similar, and she would have wondered if the Bai family was the stepmother.

However, when it comes to age, knowing that the Bai family is one year older than herself, Mrs. Qiao San can only envy the Bai family's good maintenance.

In the end, Bai is the wife of a scholar and the mother of a scholar, even if he has a little childish spirit in his speech, there is nothing rude about it.

Mrs. Qiao San saw that her soft temper was not difficult to get along with, and she was a little more enthusiastic about this family business

She has always thought about it, not afraid that the concubine will marry well, but she is afraid that the concubine will marry badly. Master Qiao San is soft-hearted, if he knows that his concubine is not well married, he is afraid that he will have a lot to worry about in the future.

Mrs. Qiao San was satisfied with the Bai family, so she knocked on the side and asked about the life experience of Brother Shen Yan.

Because the Bai family was instructed by his eldest son, he did not hide it, but said it happily. And because of the eldest son's warning, the Bai family didn't say a word about complaining about the Shen family.

When Mrs. Qiao San heard that Shen Yan's grandfather was actually from the second room of the Shen family, she couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. Shen Yan's life experience is completely different from what the two of them thought before, but it is better or worse to say that it is not good.

However, because Bai is so frank, her good impression of Bai has risen a few points, and her words are still cordial and there is no change.

Bai was very moved to see that Mrs. Qiao San did not despise her because she was a descendant of a woman.

By the time Mrs. Qiao San called someone to serve the soup, the Bai family had already regarded Mrs. Qiao San as a caring person.

Mrs. Qiao San sent off a guest here, but she smiled.

When Master Qiao San came back, Mrs. Qiao San told the news that the Bai family had inquired about.

When Master Qiao San heard this, he was also surprised: "It's not the outer room, but the ...... of the Yanzhi."

Mrs. Qiao San frowned and said, "Don't say that, master, my brother-in-law's family is the second branch of the Shen family......"

Master Qiao San sighed and said, "If you want me to say, my uncle's temperament is really too strong...... In other people's families, even if the stepmother is not virtuous, there is no reason to disown the younger brother, and she allows her blood relatives to be left outside the family......"

Mrs. Qiao San hesitated: "Master, this family business is still enough...... Shen Yan is good, but the Shen family didn't recognize them when they chose their heirs, and they didn't want to let them return to the sect when they wanted to......"

Master Qiao San thought for a while, and said: "A few days ago, I read the Di newspaper, and my brother-in-law was released to Jiangxi, but I can't say that I will pass by Nanjing, and let's see what my brother-in-law says......"