In the evening, the family accompanied Shen Han and his wife to finish their meal, and then sat under the lamp and gossiped.

Shen Han took a sip of tea with a smile and beckoned to Shen Kan, who was whispering to Shen Jiaji.

Seeing this, Shen Kan hurriedly walked over, and Shen Han asked with a smile: "No one cares about you recently, you are free, what are you making trouble?"

Shen Kan replied: "When you go to Jinling, the children don't dare to mess around, and they are free every day, sitting on the boat and reading a few books designated by the eldest brother."

"And now you can fill in the words too?" Shen Han put the teacup on the table, "Today, your uncle went to your room, saw several sets of poetry books on the desk, and came back to tell me. ”

"Oh." Shen Kan secretly glanced at his grandfather, as if he was not angry, knowing that the poem he wrote today could not be hidden, and squeezed out a ashamed expression, "I try to fill in the words on the score when I am bored, but as soon as I let go of the score, I either can't remember the long and short sentences, or I can't remember the plain and the knowledge is too shallow, so I won't do it in the future." ”

"And what is this?" Shen Han took out the "Yingshan Collection" in the drawer, pointed it and asked, "These are all things you made?"

How did it even get discovered? Shen Kan suddenly felt very embarrassed, and secretly glanced at his grandfather, not angry or happy, so he replied cautiously: "It was the child who copied the poems he practiced and wrote them on it."

Shen Han shook his head and sighed: "You are just copying and scribbling indiscriminately, why are you so bold?" Write a collection of words?"

It turned out that it was for this, Shen Kan hurriedly defended: "I wrote it for fun, and I won't show it to others."

"That's it." Shen Han casually flipped through a few pages and pointed to a poem, "Let me ask you, where does the allusion to this poem come from?"

Shen Kan said with a smile: "From the West Chamber, the green mountains are separated by the send-off, the sparse forest is not beautiful, and the light smoke and twilight cover each other." No one is silent on the ancient road of the sunset, and the autumn wind listens to the neighing of horses. Did you forget?"

"I forgot, the old man forgot." Shen Han smiled and nodded, his expression suddenly changed, and he shouted: "I remember a West Chamber very well, what is the use of asking you?" If you don't read good serious books, and read these crooked books of 'talented and beautiful women' all day long, do you also want to learn from these 'talented and beautiful women'?

You still want to go to school, okay! can write a few strange words, can compose a few crooked poems, and is great to be a famous person with a vain name. Otherwise, he is just a literate scoundrel! Look at the way you are now, don't do things well, you are so ambitious, you can write a collection of poems?"

Shen Kan was naturally unconvinced, but he also knew that after all, the West Chamber Ji could not be put on the table in this era, and as a junior, he couldn't talk back to the elders anyway, so he had to stand with his hands down, looking like he didn't dare to make a sound.

The old lady Gu sat on the side, and said when she saw this: "Don't blame your grandfather for being angry, this kind of thing in the West Chamber has ruined the famous lady of other people, what are you doing reading this kind of light book at a young age?" Don't look at it from now on, your grandfather can't be angry with you for such a trivial matter. Okay, let's go sit over there. ”

Shen Han Zhengse said to his wife: "You appease them again, in fact, the old man is not angry, but he just wants to take this opportunity to ask him seriously."

Turning his head as he spoke, he said in a deep voice: "Now that you have grown up, I have thought of three ways out for you, and you can choose one by yourself."

Three ways out? Shen Kan couldn't help but be surprised, did he want to drive me back to Beiping? Busy said, "The child knows."

Shen Han said: "First, the old man personally wrote you a letter of recommendation and sent you to Suzhou College; Second, Wang Taizhou's Yangming Xinxue has recently become famous, and I want to send you to study and explore why it was denounced as heresy by Shilin. ”

Shen Kan was speechless for a moment, can he go to the academy with his own level? It's like an elementary school student going to college. And isn't Wang Taizhou Wang Gen? Wang Yangming's eldest disciple, the Taizhou School he founded had just come out, and it was the most radical school in the history of Chinese thought in terms of critical spirit and common spirit.

The old man of his own family prides himself on being an orthodox scholar, and wants his grandson to break into the interior of heresy, and with the old man's character, he naturally has no malice, but he just wants to see the purpose of Wang Gen's Yangming Xinxue.

The problem is that Wang Taizhou and his disciples have been suppressed and persecuted by officialdom one after another, and Shen Kan has no interest in being a martyr in the academic and ideological circles.

Shen Kan smiled bitterly: "People are valuable because they are self-aware, how can children be qualified to go to the academy?" As for Wang Xue, the child is also unwilling, and prefers to be a hermit who is wise and wise. ”

Today, Taoism and Confucianism have long been indistinguishable from you and me, which can be described as the same origin but different paths, the same body and different uses. Among them, Taoism can be roughly divided into five branches, the hermit school, the world ruling school, the heretical school, the love school and the immortal school.

Wang Gen's school is almost a heretical school of Taoism, characterized by an attack on rituals, Confucianism, a fierce criticism of social reality and even patriarchal culture, and an opposition to the political power system and authentic ideology.

Shen Han nodded, and said with relief: "You can have this insight, the old man is very approves, if you don't get the foundation of Confucianism right, and rashly step into the academy, it will never be possible to achieve success in the future." In this way, there is a school to be opened in the village, and since you want to learn literature, start from scratch. ”

"The village school?" Shen Kan was thoughtful.

"The old man recommended Mr. Yao in the town, that is a famous talent, although he is not a middle move, according to the old man, he is at least a Jinshi talent." Shen Han said slowly.

Alas! Shen Kan sighed in his heart, he wholeheartedly sought to study, the first was to learn something, the second was to gain respect, such as trying to get a child or even show talent, and the third was to get a lot of free time to start a business and make money.

How could he be willing to go to the hall all day long and learn to do eight things? It's a headache just thinking about it.

However, his grandfather had already opened his mouth, so he must not disobey it, and Shen Kan, who was full of reluctance, stood silently to the side with his head down.

Shen Han shook his head and said, "Look at it, as soon as he heard about reading, his fox tail was exposed, right?" It's like a disease. I'm sixteen years old this year, and I'm already a kid, don't you feel ashamed? Okay, after Shangyuan, the family will send you to school. From now on, pack up all your collections of the West and East Chambers, Yingshan and Yingshui, and take the books you read before seriously. If you go to the academy, you can't compare to the students in the village, and you lose the face of the Shen family, I don't think you are ashamed?"

When Shen Han and his sons left, the women of the family came over one after another, and they made fun of Shen Kan, who was wilting and drooping.

The eldest wife, Zhou, said: "Your grandfather said your words, and I will remember it in my heart. How can you write the words in the West Chamber? It's really hard to say. ”

Shen Kan said with a smile: "I think the West Chamber is well written, the flowers fall and the water is red, there are thousands of sorrows, and I am speechless to complain about the east wind." There is a heart to fight like no heart, but the amorous is ruthlessly annoyed. The blue sky is cloudless, and the body and mind of the tired guest are empty. ”

"Phew!" The fourth wife, Sun, scolded with a smile: "After carrying the old man, I started talking nonsense again, why didn't you say it just now?" It's no wonder that the old man doesn't give you a good color. You're always so naughty, and you're not allowed to write these idle poems in the future. ”

"People are also painstaking works, otherwise why is it a masterpiece in the boudoir? These are not taught by the elders," Shen Kan chuckled.

"Quickly slap his mouth, and don't open the roof for a day." The old lady Gu said with a smile.

The second wife, Gan, who was sitting on the side, saw that her mother and concubine were happy with Shen Kanqi, and asked her daughter in a low voice: "Is Brother Mu very favored at home?"

"Not so much to be flattered." Shen Peiwei also replied quietly, "But compared to the one-and-a-glance of several brothers, the fifth child is unscrupulous when he talks little, can do things and can be considerate, so everyone likes to talk to him." ”

"No wonder." Gan pouted, "Just like your monster-born brother, he can coax people." ”

Shen Peiwei said coldly: "It's different, the fifth child has no intention of harming others."

Shen Kan's unfavored Gan didn't care, she was worried about her daughter's relatives, and she sent Ke Wendeng away that day, and there was no movement on her sister and brother-in-law's side.

When the laughter was over, Gan called Shen Kan over with a smile and said kindly: "I want to bother you to go to Ke's house to return the gift, and you will have free tomorrow?"

"The elders have a life, and if you don't have time, you have to squeeze out time." Shen Kan said with a smile.

Gan was overjoyed, and also smiled: "Really sensible, I don't think any of the brothers can match you at this point, even if you can't study, you will have a great future in the future."

At the same time, since Ke Wendeng saw his cousin's flower and moon appearance, he thought about it after returning home, and within a few days, he secretly told his mother his intentions.

Mrs. Ke knew that her sister's daughter was both talented and beautiful, and her temperament was knowledgeable, and she was worthy of matching her son, and she was close to each other, so she discussed with her husband with great interest tonight.

After hearing this, Master Ke frowned, shook his head and said, "If you talk about my marriage with Brother Shen, I am the right person." However, that brother-in-law has always been stubborn and suspicious by nature, and he may not be able to look down on our family if he has lived in Jinling for a long time, so why bother to close his door?"

"Marriage is predestined, the Shen family may not be able to call the shots, and what kind of virtuous people are the old man and his wife? Besides, there is a sister. ”

"That's right, my Ke family is upright, and the old man of the Shen family has also praised it."

Seeing that his wife was reasonable, Master Ke nodded and agreed, and said with a smile: "Tomorrow, I will ask the county to be the matchmaker and go to the Shen family to ask for relatives."