Even if Shen Huan was curious, it was impossible for Lu Sanlang to take him to see "color".

Not to mention that everyone is a scholar, and they need to be heavy, even if the boat is not cheap on the river, everyone laughs and laughs, and they return to the "right road".

The dynasty banned gambling, from the time of Taizu's founding of the country, the prohibition of drugs was written into the "Da Ming Law", but then the law became more and more relaxed, the folk atmosphere was extravagant, and the law of prohibiting gambling has become a virtual reality.

Especially during the Xuande Dynasty, because the emperor in the palace gambled heavily, the upward and downward effects, and the scholars and the common people were involved. Since then, the scholars have no longer completely shy away from gambling, half-concealing and half-concealing, and occasionally acting elegantly.

Nowadays, the popular gambling on the market, there are Pu opera, Shuanglu, as well as dominoes, leaf cards and other ways to play, as for directly playing dice than points, that is the way to play in the market.

What Lu Saburo and everyone know is the knowledge of dice.

Shen Rui has come into contact with this for the first time in his two lives, and he is really interested.

Seeing Shen Rui like this, Shen Quan couldn't help but worry when he saw this. He remembered clearly how stubborn Shen Rui was when he was a child, and his temperament changed greatly after he lost his mother, and he suddenly became stable.

Other children, even if they study between the ages of nine and fifteen, will not be like Shen Rui who is ignorant of everything. Shen Jue and Shen Huan were able to play at home in their early years, and they were exposed to these gambling games, although Shen Rui did not study before the age of nine, he could be on the same page as his brother, and no one taught him to play these.

"Brother Jue is okay, he also saw a little bit of this in his early years. Brother Rui hasn't been exposed to these, so he won't be hooked out of curiosity, right? Shen Quan muttered in his heart, and also had some opinions about Lu Sanlang. Why is it no longer stable when you are older?

What do you do with these? The teenagers in front of them looked like they had grown up, but at the age of fourteen or fifteen, it was the time to be curious.

It's just that Shen Rui is in high spirits, and Shen Quan is not good at this time, just waiting to wait and see what happens.

After an afternoon of hard work, seeing that Shen Jue and Shen Huan were too energetic and had lost interest, Shen Rui's eyes were still bright, and he grabbed a few mercury-filled dice in his hands, throwing them to find the feel.

Shen Quan's heart became more and more uneasy.

As it was getting dark, the fleet anchored at the nearest pier.

Lu Saburo still had a lot of errands to support, so he had to show up and left the cabin. Shen Huan also said goodbye to everyone and went to look for him.

Only then did Shen Quan speak: "Brother Rui, this likes to play dice......

Shen Rui said: "The world is full of knowledge, it's not that I like it, it's just that I'm curious......"

Shen Quan thought about it, and still said: "This knows a little bit of fur, just don't be deceived in the future, it's boring to think about it......"

Shen Rui glanced at Shen Quan, and saw that there was worry between his eyebrows, so he couldn't help but smile and said, "Third brother, don't worry." I don't gamble, I have this opportunity, I want to learn a little more with Brother Lu, but I have time to relieve boredom, and I have never fallen behind in my daily homework......"

Learning is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat.

When I went south, because of the tight distance, I didn't have time to study. When they returned, Shen Rui and Shen Jue consciously returned to the state of daily practice, endorsement, and writing. Shen Quan was not surprised, when they went north three years ago, Shen Quan had seen Shen Rui's learning style, and he really didn't need to be supervised, and he didn't stop for a day.

Shen Quan has worked hard for several years, and finally passed the hospital examination this year, and he does not plan to participate in next year's township examination, he is in a very relaxed mood, and he is no longer as active and diligent in reading as before. Now comparing Shen Rui and Shen Jue, it makes him feel embarrassed, and he immediately picks up the book.

There are four brothers in the same clan, and the three of them live by guarding books every day, and the rest of Shen Huan, even if he is unwilling, can only follow the reading.

Shen Yu saw it, and he was honored.

Shen Jiashi lived up to the name of the scholarly family, and among the four people in front of him, there were two students and two children. Seeing the sages, he brought his youngest son over, not to mention what will happen in the future, and he will gain a lot in front of him.

In Lu Sanlang's opinion, he couldn't help but be amazed in his heart.

Young people are lively, if there are elders to watch, teenagers are also the age of reading.

Now although there is an elder of the Shen clan, Shen Yu, who is in the same company, Lu Saburo can also see that this elder cannot subdue people; But the sons of the Shen family can not let go of the scroll and read it day and night, this diligent qualification is really admirable.

In addition, the family background of these young people is not that they can't afford to be a scholar, so if you read it carefully, there will always be a time when you are in the spring and enter the department, and Lu Sanlang will have the heart to make friends, so he will come to get close. Otherwise, he has an errand and is a lot older than everyone else, even if he has an old relationship with Shen Rui, he can't treat everyone so thoughtfully.

Shen Rui said clearly, and his expression was clear, and he didn't look addicted, so Shen Quan's heart was put down.

Shen Jue was beside him, shook his head and said, "Will the third brother still worry about the second brother's greed for fun?" As far as the second brother's reading is the most important and temperamental, I really can't imagine what it will be like one day when he throws away his books and concentrates on playing."

Shen Quan smiled when he heard this, and also felt that he was making a big fuss.

In the following days, in addition to simply playing dice, such as dominoes and leaf cards, Lu Saburo also talked about some skills passed down from within the casino.

Domino is the prototype of later generations of pai gow, as for the leaf card, now only popular in the south, is the predecessor of later mahjong.

When the one-day grain ship was moored at a rich Dafu wharf, Lu Sanlang asked the little guy to go ashore and find a few pairs of crickets to come up.

Since Emperor Xuanzong still promoted the weaving play, fighting crickets has become a common folk play.

Crickets are summer insects and rarely have a winter. Now it's September, and the southern crickets have become extinct, and this is the one who has reached the north to pick up this leak.

Although Shen Rui has never played with insects, he also knows why. The growth of this northern and southern cricket is related to temperature, the warmer it is, the faster it grows, and the faster it dies; Where the temperature is not high, the growth is delayed, and the life span is slightly longer, but the difference is half a month and a month.

Seeing that these two people regarded folk gambling as a serious matter, the Shen Fishery Committee couldn't sit still.

He made a special trip to exchange favors for this errand, just to form a good relationship with the second room, not to offend the second room. He could only knock on Lu Sanlang twice, and Lu Sanlang listened to it with "Ha Lu Ha", but then when Shen Rui asked him earnestly, he was still very "dedicated".

Shen Yu stomped his feet angrily, secretly saying bad luck in his heart, and felt that Lu Sanlang was simply a fool, even if he wanted to befriend Shen Jue, he should not use such a method.

How did he know that Lu Sanlang treated Shen Rui so attentively, except for the initial overture, he also had some like-minded interests. It's just that this "interest" is not the gambling game that everyone sees in their eyes, but a set of methods for calculating probability summarized by Shen Rui according to the general rules of dice, dominoes, and leaf cards.

For Shen Rui, these are just skins, and for the Ming people five hundred years ago, this is like Fenglun

Lu Sanlang saw that Shen Rui did not hide his selfishness, and in addition to serving the treasure, he also admired Shen Rui more and more.

After getting along for more than a month, even if he knew that Shen Rui was fifteen years old and had not yet become a child, he could no longer treat Shen Rui as a teenager. There were even times when he felt that Shen Rui was more mature than himself. In the process of getting along, his title in his mouth also changed from "Brother Rui" to Shen Rui's word "Hengyun".

In Shen Yu's eyes, this is Lu Sanlang's abduction of Shen Rui and his learning.

He knew his identity and was quite self-aware, but he didn't go directly to Shen Rui to preach with his uncle, but privately pulled Shen Quandao: "Brother Quan, don't stop this, let Brother Rui go all the way to the capital?" What is this called? Lu Sanlang was confused, but in the end, he was a foreigner, and he really wanted the second clan brother to blame, and I was afraid that he would still anger my clan relatives......"

Shen Quan hurriedly said: "Uncle, don't worry, Brother Rui is just more curious, and he doesn't delay studying on weekdays...... I saw that he asked almost all the questions he should ask, and what Third Brother Lu could teach over there was also almost the same......"

Shen Yu was skeptical, but Shen Quan and Shen Rui had such a good relationship that he would not be hindered, and he naturally had no room to stop him.

Shen Rui is as Shen Quan said, he is almost interested, he just regards gambling as a new knowledge, plus some obscure and careful thinking, so he pays extra attention, and he doesn't really want to be a gambler. I almost knew it, so I put it down.

When Shen Yu saw it, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Sanlang admired Shen Rui's mind more and more, and looked at his fine appearance before, as if he wanted to study the gambling game as a general study, and also made a probability table, and the probability of each card in each position was calculated clearly, and the arithmetic was used in the game; Now that he said that he would leave it down, his interest would turn to food and people's livelihood

Lu Saburo, as the secretary of the household, is in charge of these, so he naturally speaks of the Tao.

Shen Jue and Shen Huan felt that Shen Rui's curiosity was a little heavier, and they felt that Lu Sanlang deliberately showed off that Shen Rui was attracted to pay attention to what he was good at.

Shen Quan watched from the sidelines, but he heard that something was wrong.

Shen Ruichu asked about "the number of acres per capita", "the yield per mu", "how much grain is given", and "how is the civil service"; After asking these questions, Shen Rui asked about Songjiang objects, long-term wages, firewood, rice, grain and oil, meat, eggs and vegetables, and asked whatever he wanted.

This is the livelihood of the people.

Lu Sanlang seemed to be aware of Shen Rui's intentions, and he didn't feel impatient, but explained more and more carefully. However, he was born rich and grew up in fine clothes and food, and some of Shen Rui's questions were known, and some of them really didn't know the truth

It attracted Shen Jue and Shen Huan to be interested.

"I know the price of horses, eight taels of silver, and my father bought a new gelding at the beginning of the year......" Shen Huan said.

Shen Jue said: "During the Dragon Boat Festival, I went to the stationery shop with my third uncle to buy paper, and the rough-edged paper was worth four taels of silver."

Shen Huan said: "Sixteen for soju, sixteen for honey, twelve for salt, four for soy sauce and vinegar, forty for sesame oil, one hundred and twenty for good tea, and thirty for ordinary tea......

Hearing him say all this in one breath, everyone was stunned.

Shen Quan remembered something and suddenly realized: "By the way, you have a grocery store at home......

Shen Huan nodded with a smile and said, "My second brother takes care of it, I was naughty when I was a child, and I often used to eat together, and I listened to the guys selling, but I remember the price more......

Shen Jue said: "I heard that one or two pieces of silver are worth eight hundred now, and they can buy these many things......

Shen Quandao: "Songjiang is rich, six cents of silver for a short working day, ten taels of silver for a long working year, one person works, saves food and frugality, it is enough to feed a family......"

Shen Jue calculated and felt that something was wrong: "Short-term workers can get one tael or eight dollars of silver per month, and long-term workers can get less than one or two taels of silver per month, why is there such a big difference?" ”

Shen Quandao: "Short-term work is one day at a time, except for a lunch, you don't have to worry about anything else; However, long-term workers need to provide food and shelter, and also provide clothes for the four seasons...... Besides, short-term workers are more tired, and long-term workers are more or less light-free."

Regarding the wages of the husband and servants, Lu Sanlang knew more about it, and said: "That is, Songjiang Mansion, it cannot be said that it is rich in the world, and it is also the richest place in the world, so there is such a salary, and other prefectures and counties, but three or four cents of silver a day." A few years ago, I went to Fengyang Mansion with the elders of my family, and the poor people there were not good, and the land was also poor, but when it was windy and rainy, the people would not be able to eat. In the land of Longxing, the government can't watch the people starve to death, except for the soup kitchen, it is to work for relief, but it is only two dollars of silver a day, so this may not be able to reach the hands of the people...... Many fortifications are done, the river workers are the hardest, you have seen along the way, now it is late autumn, there are fewer sins, in the middle of summer, the servants who died on both sides of the canal are not one or two......"

Shen Jue tossed around last year and knew the taste of freezing and hunger.

He sighed a little and said, "In this way, we should be glad to be reborn in a wealthy family, and we don't have to work hard for Shengmi anymore......"

Lu Sanlang nodded and said, "So, silver money is a good thing." With that, everything else is trifle. You are still young, you don't know how hard life is, and you can't learn from those nerds, what is 'money for dung, style... Those who are poor and sour, who seem to be quite virtuous, are nothing more than 'self-deception, and if they have no money, they can naturally pretend to be high and despised; I really want to have a chance to make money, but I am more greedy than ordinary people...... Most of the troubles in this world are due to money, whether it is a wealthy family or a common people......"

He just said it casually, but he talked about Shen Jue's heart disease.

Shen Jue returned to the cabin with a gloomy expression, lay on the bed, and looked at the tent with a blank expression......

Beijing, South City, Jinyi Weiyi training station.

Jinyiwei is a hereditary position, many sons inherit the father's position, younger brothers inherit the brother's position, these people have a lot of new or young children, before the official duty, it will go through months or years of training.

Jinyiwei is also the personal guard of the Son of Heaven, he has always been powerful, even if the family with a job was poor in the early years, several generations have accumulated a family foundation, and most of the children are rich.

Drill is practice, but in leisure time, there is also a need to have fun.

Although gambling is prohibited in the imperial court, it is common for three or five friends to have fun in private.

On this day, Jinyiwei was stationed, and everyone got together and started a small game.

This presiding over the east is a brocade guard young man who has just come to the station, but he is only thirteen or four years old. The people who were pulled over to make up the game were a few newcomers who came to the station a few days ago, all of whom were sixteen or seventeen years old, and they spoke with a Baoding flavor, but their momentum was not weak, and there was a bit of arrogance between their eyebrows.

Even if everyone can't see it, they are just muttering in private, just because these people have a lot of backgrounds, so even a few rural teenagers who have just entered Beijing are so confident......