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Shen Xi has entered the state of comprehensively preparing for the township examination, under this premise, he tried his best to abandon distracting thoughts, not only no longer asked about the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce, but even "Golden Vase Plum" and landscape paintings were temporarily shelved by him.

Participating in the township examination means that Shen Xi will take the same exam as the students of Fujian Province, and it is not easy to stand out among so many people.

Shen Xi is a human being in two lifetimes, and the amount of knowledge is relatively extensive, but he still needs to add a lot of knowledge, fortunately, he reads books very quickly, Feng Yanqi will send a few books every two or three days, Shen Xi can basically read them on the same day, and memorize them by heart, and then write a few current texts according to his own experience, just like writing a diary and reading notes, every day.

After more than a month, Shen Xi had read sixty or seventy books, and Feng Huaqi had nowhere to borrow books from Shen Xi.

In order to let Shen Xi learn more knowledge, Hui Niang even used the power of the Chamber of Commerce to buy books from Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places. In addition to the first time, she also made friends with the academies in Fucheng, in order to lend back the books of the various academies to Shen Xi to read.

In this year, the academy and the school hall basically have their own library pavilion, although most of the books are the same, but each family still has a few "treasures of the town", which will not be easily taken out to show people, Hui Niang spent a lot of silver to let Shen Xi borrow it, and when he encountered an out-of-print book, Shen Xi even had to come to the door in person, and return it immediately after reading.

After Shen Xi went back, he wrote them down one by one.

Shen Xi felt that he had never studied so seriously, he got up early and went to bed late every day, and he could fall asleep instantly when he lay on the pillow after the third watch, no matter whether it was thundering or raining outside, or being pestered by Lin Dai to tell stories, he could not hinder him from communicating with Zhou Gong. Lin Dai has grown up a little bit in the end. is not as pestering as when she was a child, Shen Xi doesn't tell her stories, she doesn't bother herself, and she is a little bolder. I also dared to sleep alone.

At the end of March, Shen Yongzhuo, the eldest man of the Shen family, came to Fucheng to participate in the government test, and Shen Xi got a little leisure.

Shen Xi and Shen Yongzhuo were studying in the same study, and by the way, Shen Yongzhuo was instructed in his studies.

Shen Yongzhuo didn't put on a big brother's shelf, as long as he met someone he didn't understand. will always ask Shen Xi, and Shen Xi will stop at this time and know everything.

Shen Yongzhuo felt very curious about the books that Shen Xi read on weekdays, but after he read the content of the books Shen Xi read, he knew that he did not have such a high level, and many of them could not be understood, so he had to continue to study his knowledge.

Not long after Shen Yongzhuo arrived in Fucheng, Wang took his daughter-in-law and rushed over in the name of urging his son to study, but he was actually afraid that his son would be wronged in Fucheng.

Shen Yongzhuo is over 20 years old. was stared at by the Wang family like a child all the time, which made him feel extremely ashamed. The family of three moved to the courtyard where they lived when they went to the Fucheng Examination Institute before, and the Zhou family would find a maid to send them the firewood, rice, oil and salt they needed for daily life.

Shen Yongzhuo originally wanted to learn more from Shen Xi, but because of the arrival of his wife and daughter-in-law, he once again became a closed-door book, and the effect was not much worse.

"Really, my Han Wa'er won't harm her son, and now our Han Wa'er is a talented man, it's better not to disturb him to study!"

Zhou was indignant. Originally, she didn't support Shen Xi very much to teach Shen Yongzhuo from time to time. Because she saw that although the Shen family was old, he was not a little worse than Shen Xi in terms of knowledge, and she had delivered meals or occasionally went over to take a peek before. I always saw Shen Xi explain to Shen Yongzhuo, she couldn't understand what was said, but she felt that Shen Xi taught too carefully, so that it affected his own learning.

When the Wang family came, he brought a message from the old lady by the way, saying that he was going to find someone to send Shen Mingwen to Fucheng at the end of May. Then let Shen Mingjun accompany Shen Mingwen and Shen Xi to Fuzhou to take the township test.

As for the dual-use of silver, the old lady didn't say anything, but Zhou knew that the old lady meant to let her come out.

Zhou didn't care much about spending a little silver, but her husband and son went to the provincial capital three months in advance to prepare for the exam, which was not something she could bear.

The township test will only be held in August, and you will leave for the provincial capital in May, saying that you will perform better in the early adaptation to the climate and environment exam, but you can't let me stay at home and be widowed!?

When Zhou told Shen Mingjun her opinion, Shen Mingjun stood on the side of the old lady: "Lady, my mother is right, it's rare that there are two people in our family who take the exam this time, if they can be lifted, then won't our family be able to live a good life in the future?" ”

Zhou frowned: "Isn't our life good now?" ”

Shen Mingjun couldn't answer again, because the old lady instilled in him since he was a child, someone in the family is called a real good life, and now the family background looks good, but when you go out, others still treat you as a businessman, and your social status is there, how good can it be?

Seeing that her husband was silent, Zhou was a little annoyed: "Just go, it's a big deal, I'll go with you." ”

Shen Mingjun was shocked: "Ah, lady, you ...... You're going to a provincial capital too? ”

Zhou snorted angrily: "You are allowed to go, but I am not allowed to go?" The younger sister of the Sun family said that there is a branch of the Chamber of Commerce in the provincial capital now, and there will be a place to settle down after we go over, and someone will take care of it. Besides, we tried to open the printing workshop to the provincial capital, haven't we been printing "Golden Vase Plum" before, this book is selling well, the provincial city has not yet been distributed, if we can sell it, we can make a lot of money. ”

Shen Mingjun nodded: "Yes." ”

Zhou took out a book from his arms with a smile and said, "Xianggong, take a look, this is the "Golden Vase Plum" printed in our workshop, let's take a look?" ”

Shen Mingjun's old face flushed: "He'er, you and I are illiterate, what's so beautiful?" ”

Zhou took a sip and said, "Phew, what are you pretending to be serious?" You've been in the workshop all day, and dare you say you haven't looked at the paintings on it? This time it's a new version.,It's not the same as the previous one.,The villain drew it.,Tut...... Just like the real thing. ”

"yes, I'll take a look at ......"

The husband and wife almost quarreled, but with a good thing like "Golden Vase Plum" to spice up the atmosphere, the husband and wife immediately became happy.

Zhou now has sons and daughters, the eldest son is still so promising, and her husband is dedicated to her, which can be described as a double harvest in love and career, plus there are two good sisters in the boudoir, and life feels complete.

With the illustrations on "The Golden Vase of Plums" to help the fun, the two were hearty. It seems that he has suddenly regained the passion of his youth at the age of sixteen or seventeen.

After everything calmed down, Zhou put his pillow on the warm quilt and said with a smile: "Sister Xie will get married in a few days." ”

"Huh?"

Shen Mingjun was a little surprised, and immediately lowered his head. "Hmm."

Zhou didn't know what her husband was thinking, so she just said her own: "The younger sister of the Xie family is not old and young, and she hasn't married yet...... If she doesn't marry, the government may have to find the official media to marry her. ”

"Huh!?" Shen Mingjun's face was even worse.

In this evil feudal society, women don't marry as young as they want. The government has a clear stipulation, and in the Jin Dynasty, there was a stipulation that "if the parents of the seventeenth year of the female are not married, the chief official will be matched." "It means that if your daughter's family is not married until she is seventeen years old, the magistrate will find someone to marry you, and point you to whoever you are.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, if a girl did not marry at the right age, the family would be imprisoned, according to the "Book of Song: The Biography of Zhou Lang". "If a woman doesn't marry at fifteen, her family sits on it."

Although the "Great Ming Law" was not so harsh, in view of the significant decrease in population in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, promulgated the "Hongwu Order", stipulating that the legal age of marriage for men and women was 16 years old for men and 14 years old for women. Until the Chenghua and Hongzhi years, the government still had specific requirements, if a woman did not marry by the age of fifteen, she had to pay an additional tax, more and more every year. And from the age of 20 onwards, the yamen will find three aunts and six mothers-in-law to forcibly marry and marry off the woman.

With the situation of more people and less land in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, this law was gradually abandoned during the Zhengde and Jiajing periods. It has been unheard of in the Wanli period.

But even in the early Ming Dynasty, where enforcement was stricter, this law was only aimed at women from common people's families, and the government took a blind eye to the eunuchs, women who were sold into slavery and degraded to lowly status.

Women who are forcibly married usually don't have much of an opinion. He was not married at the age of twenty. Either it's so ugly that you can't see it, or your family background is so bad that you can't open the pot, or you have a hidden disease, and it's good to have a man. The daughter of a good family, who would not marry at the age of twenty?

Xie Yun'er is twenty years old this year, because there is no one in the family to be an official, it is not a gentry family, she is very worried that the local government will interfere with her marriage, it is really better to find a mother-in-law by herself, at least she can have a choice, so as not to be forcibly assigned to some shabby household.

Therefore, during this period of time, Zhou and Hui Niang are helping Xie Yun'er Zhang Luo, and the matchmaker in the city has also introduced a lot of son-in-law brothers, who have a good net worth, mainly because Xie Yun'er has a great reputation around Fucheng when she was treated by the disaster two years ago.

Shen Mingjun knew that he was to Xie Yun'er, just like outsiders described him as Hui Niang before, belonging to "a toad who wants to eat swan meat", he was illiterate, and he had married a wife and had children, his sons were already twelve years old, and he was stupid, every time he saw Xie Yun'er, he felt red in the face and red in his heartbeat, and he couldn't speak.

This is at most unrequited love, and Shen Mingjun feels that having a virtuous wife like Zhou who can run a family by his side is already a blessing from his previous life, and he can no longer think crankily, and he feels very guilty and self-blame when facing Zhou.

When Shen Xi heard Zhou tell Xie Yun'er about which sons and sisters in the city were worth marrying, Shen Xi asked in surprise, "Is the sister of the Xie family going to get married?" ”

Zhou scolded: "Bastard boy, what does it have to do with you, go upstairs to study." ”

Shen Xi pouted and said, "What's the hurry, the sister of the Xie family is in her prime, isn't there still a Hong Gongzi who said that he is going to come back to marry her?" ”

Zhou said: "Why are you mentioning that Hong Gongzi?" I've never seen that kind of wretch, and even if he came back, I'd kick him out with a broom. What the hell! ”

Zhou scolded happily, but the smile on Xie Yun'er's face quickly dimmed, no matter what, Hong Turbidity was a thorn in her heart.

When she was thirteen or fourteen years old, her family had already cultivated her as the wife of the Hong family, and she was also like Lin Dai, waiting to be Mrs. Hong. If it weren't for a series of changes in the family later, she would not only have married into the Hong family, but she might have given birth to children for Hong Xun a long time ago.

Shen Xi suggested: "Sister Xie, why don't you wait for another two years, or next year, Hong Gongzi really wins the champion?" ”

Zhou scolded: "Bastard boy, if you say these words again, see if the old lady doesn't beat you...... Sister, don't listen to this kid's nonsense. ”

Xie Yun'er smiled generously, but she was in no mood to talk about her marriage again.

When Shen Xi finished reading in the afternoon, he came down from the second floor of the pharmacy, the shop was already closed, and Xie Yun'er was the only one in the main hall. Shen Xi greeted with a smile: "Sister Xie." ”

Xie Yun'er originally turned her back to Shen Xi, but when she heard Shen Xi's words, she hurriedly stuffed the things in her hand into her arms, looking a little nervous. Shen Xi saw Xie Yun'er as if she was looking at a page, and thought, "Could it be that Hong Xun wrote a letter to her?" ”

"Xiaolang, come here, my aunt has something to ask you."

Xie Yun'er beckoned Shen Xi to sit down on the chair where the guest was inquiring, and she sat upright by herself, "I used to help you write a book, and later I published a book...... Lanling smiled and smiled, who is it? ”

Shen Xi was stunned by this sudden question, and then understood in his heart, it turned out that Xie Yun'er had just read the poem "Peach Blossom Nunnery" written by "Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng".

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