In the face of the wolf-like poor person, the older and the thief glanced at each other with a tacit understanding, and honestly did not resist.

These pimples know very well that as long as they are caught, at least they will not be able to run away after a beating, so they are sad. It's Wang Laosan's good life, whether it's them or the poor people, they turn a blind eye, after all, they are squires with status, and all parties value his money rather than people.

In this way, they obediently entered the yamen, and the officials who arrested the yamen immediately ascended to the court, and directly ordered everyone to be beaten with twenty boards, and asked them to recruit the main envoys.

The pranksters were very righteous at first, but the old man was ruthless, and threw down a stick casually, and ordered to play ten more boards.

Crackling! Crackling!

There is no need to send someone to make a heavy hand, when the momentum is not good, a group of splashes suddenly cry wolf, who told us that we can't stand it? It's not that he is unjust, and quickly confessed Wang Laosan's name.

"Arrest someone." The official quickly wrote down the signature.

At this time, Wang Laosan had already hidden, and he sent someone to pounce.

The officials immediately sent another wave of people to arrest them, and when they arrived at Wang's house, they kept saying that you, Wang Laosan, were in trouble this time, and gathered scoundrels to hurt and rob people in the middle of the night, and the new county magistrate was furious.

Wang Laosan was taken aback when he heard the news, because the crime was not small, and he was not familiar with Pei Zhi County, he quickly took out two hundred taels of silver, and begged several Xiucai to jointly go to the arrest office to intercede.

Who knows the official's official tone: "How is it different from robbers in the dark?" The owner is not only a scholar, but also a local family, and the official is worried about complaining to the new county honor, but it will be inconvenient for him to be with his brother. Okay, don't blame you, I don't dare to specialize in this case, so I can only do business. If people don't come, they will go to the county hall and wait for the delivery. ”

A few shows saw that they couldn't talk about it, so they had to go home in a huff. Wang Laosan refused to surrender when he heard that he was alive or dead, and gritted his teeth and gave out another three hundred taels of silver.

Sun Mansion.

Shen Kan walked around the yard with a concerned face, and Shen Qi, who was sent back, was lying in the house, inviting a doctor who specializes in treating 'incurable diseases' in Liuxiang, Flower Street, and was healing the buttocks.

Suddenly, Shen Kan hummed in a low voice: "The chrysanthemums are broken, the ground is full of wounds, your smile has turned yellow, the flowers are broken, the beautiful ...... in my heart"

"Brother, what are you singing?" Sun Cheng walked in.

"Nothing." Shen Kan smiled weirdly, turned around, and his expression became sad, "It's all my fault, and my brother has suffered a great humiliation." ”

Sun Ji showed a strange look on his face and said, "Actually, it's nothing, I've seen a lot of this kind of thing, and it will be good to raise it for a few days."

Shen Kanqi said: "How do you say this?"

"Alas!" Sun Jian shook his head, "Nowadays, there are many good men, and the same is true for Shilin, I have long been surprised." ”

Seeing Shen Kan's mouth open in surprise, Sun Jian said helplessly: "It's because you are lonely and unheard, you are still young, I won't talk about it."

"Oh." Shen Kan secretly said, this Ming Dynasty is too open, right?

In fact, it is far more open than he imagined, the Ming Dynasty scholars and doctors have formed a kind of atmosphere, among which the Fujian good male style is famous since the Song Dynasty, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places are also the hardest hit areas, the local custom "multi-dragon - yang fetish", there is no shortage of famous people in Jiangnan who like to break sleeves in history.

Since the Xuande period, after the imperial court strictly banned official prostitutes, the upper class society could not entertain, so "small singing" gradually became popular. The so-called small singing, that is, the boy who sang the song, in the late Ming Dynasty, the small singing was very prosperous, there are many relevant records to prove.

In addition, there are some things that are a last resort, such as officials who are ordered to run errands abroad for a long time or work as officials in other places, and there is no wife room around them, or students who travel abroad to study, or monks who are monks, or teachers who teach abroad, prisoners in prisons, etc., these people have various unavoidable reasons, and there happen to be scholars and small servants around them, after all, men and women in ancient times had great defense.

The society maintains a tacit attitude towards this, and the government is helpless about it, which is an alternative vent under strict etiquette. Of course, this cannot be equated with the homosexual community of later generations, it is completely the product of two natures.

The two waited in the courtyard for a while, and when the doctor came out, he went into the study.

Shen Kui, who was lying on the kang, was covered with a blanket, and choked up: "Fifth brother, you want to avenge me!"

Shen Kan smiled bitterly: "How can I have the ability to avenge you?" I also have to ask Brother Wen Geng to come out. ”

"Brother, please." Shen Qi shed tears of grievance, in the end, he was young, and he was inexplicably bloomed with chrysanthemums.

Sun Cheng said softly: "Those wicked people who bullied you have been beaten with thirty boards again, and now they are all flailed on the street for public display, and when the yoke is full, they will ask for their guilt."

"It's better to offend a gentleman than a villain." Shen Kan said, "Since those bastards have been punished, I think I will spare them." If you ask about the sin again, Wang Laosan is stingy by nature, and he will definitely not pay for them to atone for them, this revenge has to be counted on the heads of our brothers, and it is difficult to prevent hidden arrows. ”

Sun Jian thought for a moment and proposed, "Why don't you send these people to the border to join the army?"

"It's even more inappropriate." Shen Kan sighed, "It's lazy by nature, and when you become a soldier, you are also a soldier and a ruffian of the common people, maybe you can't stand it, you either surrender to the Tartars or go up the mountain to become a bandit." What's more, many people have old and young families, and the villagers still have to be forgiving and forgiving. ”

"It's up to you." Sun Jian breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said in his heart that he was still the fifth old man who was skilled and reasonable.

Even if the two families are in-laws of each other, and openly rectify so many hometown people for the sake of one Shen Kui, the Sun family will inevitably bear the name of bullying people afterwards.

Although Shen Qi was unwilling, he didn't feel anything, all he cared about was Wang Laosan, who bullied him.

I didn't want Sun Ji to say: "Wang Laosan has lost a total of five or six hundred taels of silver, and then asked him to send one hundred taels, so forget it."

"How can you forget it? No, that wicked man insulted me too much, hey......" Shen Qi was so excited that he accidentally touched the wound.

Sun Jia hurriedly explained: "It's because of the face of his ancestors, now that he has spent so much silver, it is more uncomfortable than killing him." There are also those splashes, the fifth is right, everyone has been beaten by dozens, if you don't stop, I'm afraid that people will be forced to be anxious, and we will suffer in the future, after all, you and my brother still have to take the imperial examination in their hometown, and it is difficult to prevent it in the night and day. ”

"What my brother said is that if you are not afraid, you will be afraid of 10,000." Shen Kan helped to speak, "Shen Qi, don't be childish, be obedient." ”

Two to one, Shen Qi was unwilling and couldn't do anything, so he turned his head angrily, lying on the pillow and sighing.

Shen Kan sneered in his heart, how rude are you Shen Qi to the second sister? That night, Lao Tzu swore to make you suffer.

In the evening, Shen Kan said goodbye to Sun Wei and left Shen Wei at Sun's house to recuperate, he went back to see the second uncle Shen Jiamo, and lied that he took Shen Wei to Sun Mansion to meet the text.

Shen Jiamo was very relieved to hear this, he was suspicious of his daughter all day long, and he was strictly guarded, but he trusted his son very much, and besides, the Sun family was not an outsider, so he had no suspicion.

Speaking of which, Shen Wei didn't suffer too much, although the chrysanthemum was disabled, fortunately, he got a compensation of one hundred taels of silver, which was enough for him to go to Na Cuiyun.

For three days in a row, Shen Kan hid in the study to avoid the limelight, and by the way, he designed a sketch of the garden for Master Gu.

On the evening of this day, Shen Kan went to the main house to greet his grandparents, and after finishing the matter, he walked to the eldest sister and sat down.

It seems that Shen Peiwen and Shen Peiwei are arguing about something.

I heard Shen Peiwei say: "The first to bloom in the world is the plum blossom, if the order of flowering is to determine the dignity, then the plum blossom should be the king of flowers, and the plum blossom can be called the head of the group of flowers, I think my sister has no objection, right?"

"I beg to differ." Shen Peiwen disagreed, "In "The Origin of Things", it is said that Wu Zetian visited the imperial garden in winter and saw that all the flowers were competing to bloom, but the peony flower had not bloomed for a long time, so he relegated the peony to Luoyang. Thinking that the peony can not be afraid of power, it is naturally a well-deserved Kao. ”

Shen Kan suddenly laughed and said, "It's all apocryphal, it can't be true."

"Yes." Shen Peiwei grinned, "You asked someone to bring back a few peonies from Gansu, I wanted to laugh at you." ”

Shen Peiwen's face flushed, and he seemed to be a little unhappy. Seeing this, Shen Kan hurriedly said: "Actually, it's not all made up, probably those flowers grew against the season due to the underground hot springs, and the peony could only bloom towards the south and the sun, and Wu Zetian was wrong."

"Is there any basis for this?" Shen Peiwei didn't believe it.

"Of course there is a basis." Shen Kan said with a smile, "Li Taibai's 'famous flowers' are all over the country, and they are often seen by the king with a smile; Explain that the spring breeze is infinitely hateful, and the agarwood pavilion is leaning on the north of the agarwood pavilion', and the person who wants to lean on the railing is facing north, so isn't Du Dan facing south?"

Shen Peiwei smiled: "There are some crooked reasons, count it on you."

"Clever." Shen Peiwen also smiled and said: "I remember that you and I have liked daffodils the most since I was a child, and daffodils are my life." My four flower gods each rule a season, daffodils in spring, lotus flowers in summer, begonias in autumn, and plum in winter. ”

What a coincidence, Shen Kan was very surprised, he really loved narcissus very much, he remembered that he used to live in Nanjing-Beijing for a period of time, and Nanjing narcissus is the best, in order to buy flowers, he really spent a lot of wages.

Shen Peiwei asked, "Why does the fifth brother also like narcissus?"

"Different." Shen Kan replied without thinking, "A woman's face is like a peach blossom, her waist is like a fine willow, or she is plump and round like a peony, she is gorgeous like a peony, and she is slender like an autumn chrysanthemum, and she is everywhere." But it can be as elegant and colorful as a narcissus, but it can be intoxicating, except for narcissus, I have basically never seen it, so I use the word "narcissus" to call it, and the real image is to the extreme. I just wanted to know who named Narcissus, and I must have bowed down to him willingly. ”

"I see." Shen Peiwei smiled, "Jinling Narcissus is the first in the world, wait for me to send you a pot." ”

"Thank you very much." Shen Kan said with a smile.

Shen Peiwen glanced at him strangely and said, "Why did you change your rhetoric?" Obviously not like that. ”