Among the sons of the Shen family in Beijing, Shen Li was the most familiar with the second room and the earliest, followed by Shen Ji, the eldest brother of the sect, and Shen Ying, the eldest brother of the fifth room, and Shen Qi, the second brother, also arrived.

Shen Li and Shen Qi are both over the age of standing, Shen Ying is twenty-seven years old, Shen Qi is twenty-four, and they are much older than the sons of the Shen family who entered Beijing this time, and many of them met for the first time with the seven sons of the Shen family who entered Beijing this time.

It is Shen Rui, even if he is familiar with Shen Li, Shen Ying, and Shen Qi, it is still the first time he has seen Shen Qi, the eldest brother of the sect.

Shen Ji is slightly older than Shen Li, thirty-five or six years old, the second class jinshi in the sixth year of Hongzhi, he was not admitted to the Shuchang Academy, and he entered the sixth department to listen to politics, and now he is the Langzhong of the Fifth Grade Criminal Department. Shen Ying was a second-class jinshi in the twelfth year of Hongzhi, and was admitted to the Shuchang Academy, and is now studying in the Hanlin Academy. Shen Qi was raised in the eleventh year of Hongzhi, and he stayed in the capital in the twelfth year to prepare for the next subject.

The wives and concubines of these three people are all in the capital.

The old house of the sect is in Chongjiaofang, close to Guozijian, and the second room of the Shen family is separated by a workshop, but it is not far away. Later, the Wufang brothers entered Beijing to buy property, and Shen Jian also asked someone to help them find a house in the same square.

Only Shen Li, because he is the champion and the first, has a mansion, close to the root of the imperial city, but it is in Anfufang in Xicheng, and it is a distance from Renshoufang, where the second room is located, and he needs to bypass the imperial city to come over.

Shen Li and the others were not in a hurry to gossip with the little ones, and after seeing the eldest master, they went to see the eldest lady again, and went to the second and third masters to say goodbye, and then turned around.

The third master also followed, his age was not much older than Shen Ji and Shen Li, and he was familiar with these two nephews.

On the big book case in the study, the two characters written by Shen Rui and Shen Bao have not yet been put away.

was seen by the third master, and the third master knew that one of the words was written by Shen Rui, and he was very concerned, with a little joy in his eyes; When I saw Shen Bao, I was amazing.

It was not only the third master who was amazed, but even Shen Li, Shen Ji and others praised Shen Bao, the little clansman, after seeing it.

Shen Bao was praised by everyone so uncomfortable, he wanted to avoid but had nowhere to avoid, his round face showed a little shyness.

The eldest master touched his beard and smiled: "Don't praise him anymore, Brother Bao has ......" and said to the third master: "Brother Rui and Brother Bao have some talent in calligraphy and painting, let these two little ones go to the third brother in the future, and the third brother will also point out to the nephews......"

The third master smiled and said, "That's good...... Seeing two good seedlings, my heart is also tickling......"

Shen Zhu was on the side, and when he saw Shen Rui and Shen Bao who were all focused on everyone, he regretted it in his heart.

I knew that I shouldn't have looked around, and I should have shown my strengths. can think about the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, I know everything, and I once boasted that I was proficient, but I was just a great-grandfather of my parents who didn't know how to do it, and I really couldn't get it on the table. In this way, Fang Cai was quiet and quiet, and he was not embarrassed.

Although he was proud of himself, he didn't dare to show anything in front of his uncle, uncle and several brothers.

Now the eldest lord and the Xu family seem to be paying attention to Shen Rui here, and the eldest lord seems to have the intention of pushing Shen Bao to the third master, but no one has mentioned it there.

Although the second wife's spirit is not good, and her behavior is a little abnormal, the second lady's demeanor is excellent.

Shen Zhu thought like this in his heart, and his jealousy subsided a lot, and his original impatient mood calmed down a lot.

It is rare for the nephews to be so complete, so the eldest lord and the eldest lady naturally prepared a banquet and left them for lunch.

The eleven sons of the jade generation, plus the eldest lord and the second lord, were divided into two seats.

Looking at the sons in front of him, the eldest master was both sad and gratified, and he was pleased that the Shen family's scholarly family and the Hanmo clan were prosperous from generation to generation; The sad thing is that the excellent children are all from other houses, if only Shen Luo was still there.

After lunch, Shen Ji and Shen Ying mentioned that they wanted to take their brothers home for Chinese New Year's Eve.

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, Shen Jue and Shen Quan have brothers and sisters-in-law in Beijing, and naturally they also want to reunite. As for the second room here, anyway, the first day of junior high school has to come over to pay New Year's greetings.

The eldest lord responded to Shen Ji and Shen Ying's request, and Shen Jue and Shen Quan looked at Shen Rui next to them, both a little anxious.

Shen Jue whispered to Shen Ji: "Big brother, Brother Rui lives with me, and I also picked him up, leaving him a strange and lonely one." ”

"With Uncle Cang and Aunt Cang, I will take care of Brother Rui, don't be troublesome," Shen Ji rebuked in a low voice.

It's not that he left him behind because he first saw Shen Rui and was not familiar with Shen Rui, but he actually took over his grandfather's handwriting half a month ago, mentioning the matter of choosing an heir in the second room, and the heir selected by the eldest lord and the eldest lady in the second room was Shen Rui, and told him to take care of one or two if he could take care of it in the capital in the future.

Shen Ji kept his grandfather's words in mind, and his impression of Shen Rui today was acceptable, but now that the second room was deserted, although the selected heir entered Beijing, it was the time to get along and increase popularity, and it was too boring for him to pick up someone at this time.

Shen Quan was anxious here, but when he saw Shen Li, his heart was relieved again.

After getting out of the second room, Shen Quan got into the carriage with the eldest brother and the second brother, and asked, sure enough, Shen Ying did not mention the matter of picking up Shen Rui, because Shen Li had already revealed the tone of picking up people before. Although the two brothers in the fifth room also have the heart to be close to Shen Rui, they are not bad in these few days, and there is no need to rush to pick up people with the clan brothers.

Shen Quan remembered the matter about the heir, and said with some hesitation: "I'm afraid that the six clan brothers won't be able to pick up Brother Rui......"

Shen Ying pondered for a moment and said, "The third brother thinks that the heir chosen by Uncle Cang and Uncle Niang is Brother Rui?" ”

Shen Quan nodded and said, "Most likely it will be like this, if it's just to let Brother Rui give a sacrifice to the grandson of the Sun family, why not wait for Brother Rui to be old in a few years?" Moreover, since the elders of the second room have a relationship with the Sun family, they can't bear to watch Brother Rui have a sad life in the future......"

Shen Qi nodded and said, "It's Brother Rui...... Acting steadily, studying hard, the second room is such a door, and the choice of heirs depends on qualifications...... If the qualifications are not good, and you won't even be able to pass the township test in the future, will you still be able to enter the office? Although Shen Zhu is also a reading seed, he is full of small calculations on his face, and the little family is full of anger. It's strange that Uncle Cang and Uncle Niang can value him, and the others don't look like ......"

Although Shen Quan had vaguely guessed before, he was a little uncomfortable when he heard the two brothers say the same.

For Shen Rui, it is a good thing to be able to take the opportunity to jump out of the fourth room; But for the Sun family who left, Shen Rui is the only flesh and blood after all, and if he succeeds in his room, he will not be able to enjoy incense offerings in the future.

In Shen Quan's heart, although he was partial to Shen Rui, he also remembered the Sun family: "That Yuan's aunt incense ......"

Shen Qi said: "Aunt Yuan's motherly heart must be willing to pass on Brother Rui's succession...... With Brother Rui's qualifications and diligence, if he really enters the second room, he will have a bright future in the future, and there will be no problem. ”

Shen Ying shook her head and said, "Brother Rui is the heir, and the splendid future can't be run...... But if you want to say that Aunt Yuan is willing, it may not be. The second house is thin and it is not a matter of one or two years, if Aunt Yuan really had the heart to succeed Brother Rui, she would have started to arrange it a long time ago...... Uncle Yiyuan and the four-room Lao An want to stop Aunt Yuan from planning, but I'm afraid I can't ......."

Shen House, study.

After Zongfang and the five brothers left, the eldest lord also ordered someone to send Shen Rui and the others back to the guest house, leaving only Shen Li to speak.

Shen Li couldn't help but be puzzled, and he also proposed to take Shen Rui home for Chinese New Year's Eve, but the eldest master was noncommittal. Why did this leave itself alone?

The eldest master did not sell a lawsuit with Shen Li, and directly handed a letter to Shen Li, which was the letter that Sun left to Xu before his death.

Shen Li took it suspiciously, looked at it, and set off a storm in his heart.

It turned out that there were two suicide notes left by Sun, one of which was on the surface, entrusted to the prefect's wife Zhuang, to dispose of the dowry and record the eldest son; One was secretly, left to the eldest lady of the second room, and entrusted Shen Rui and 100,000 taels of silver tickets to the Xu family.

"Three years ago, I received a letter from the Sun family, and your aunt and I sent Wang Shou to Songjiang to run to the funeral, and wanted to take Brother Rui back directly, but the name was not right, so I thought about arranging Brother Rui to succeed under the name of your third uncle and third aunt, and take him into Beijing to be raised. Because you are in Songjiang, and Brother Rui is guarding his mother's funeral, he is not in a hurry to have someone pick him up. I thought that after he came out of service, I would formally discuss the matter...... Later, when Brother Luo had an accident, it was delayed, and now although people have picked it up, it is not good to mention this for a while. "Except for the marriage contract between the Sun family and the second master, and the matter of raising in the Shen family, the eldest master didn't hide other things, and told Shen Li.

Shen Li put down the letter and said half-loudly: "Uncle Cang, do you still plan to pass Brother Rui to the third uncle?" ”

The eldest lord shook his head and said, "I discussed with your aunt and wanted to let Brother Rui come to my name." ”

The heir of the two-room small long house

Shen Li couldn't help but be moved when he heard this.

Everything is inferior, only if you read high, no matter how good you can read, you can read and study, and if you are admitted to the Jinshi, it may not mean that you have a future. Even if Shen Li was the champion and the first, if there was no Yue family to mention it, he would not have stayed up to this position at a young age.

The eldest lord is now in the squire position, and there is a possibility that Jingcha will go further next year; On the eldest wife's side, although the mother's Xu family has fallen silent, there are several capable in-laws. Such an heir will bring Shen Rui a smooth road.

"Uncle Si Zhai ......" Shen Li hesitated a little: "Brother Rui is the only sister-in-law of Uncle Yuan......

As for Shen Jin, a registered name is a registered name, and being a sister-in-law is also a "fake concubine".

The eldest lord frowned and said: "He has already married the He family, and the little lady of the He family will enter the door next year, and there should be no shortage of concubines in the future." Even if there is no son-in-law in the future, isn't there still a useful eldest son in front of him? ”

"The He family?" When Shen Li heard this, he couldn't help but feel angry, gritted his teeth and said, "Is the He family really the Shen family no one?" Is this trying to smooth out the past through marriage? It was their family who encroached on the property of Aunt Yuan's marry. He dared to call himself a scholarly man and do such an unrighteous thing."

The eldest lord frowned and said: "The eldest master of their family is now planning a way for Li Xiangmen, if there is no difference next year, I am afraid that he will also be promoted to ......."