"Hey! Guest, how did you go?"

"Oh, come back soon, I haven't looked for your money yet."

At the small dock of the dock, the boat lady shook her hands and stomped her feet, holding a string of Yongle treasures tied with hemp rope in her hand, roughly counting about ten cents, which was more than one-third more valuable than the current official money.

Compared with the joy of the guests' generosity, it is more regrettable that they have not been able to 'get close'.

Looking at the young man who strode out without looking back, the boat lady could only shake her head helplessly, regretful, and grateful in her tone.

"For tonight's winter solstice dinner, you can buy an extra pot of osmanthus wine for your father. Thank you, little guest officer. ”

Tomorrow is the winter solstice, the people in Suzhou have always called themselves Wu people, most of the customs of Wu pay attention to the solstice, that is, the spring solstice, the summer solstice, the autumn solstice, the winter solstice is called the "fat winter and thin year", is the most important festival of the year.

The night before the winter solstice is called the night of the winter solstice, the people will give each other gifts such as winter solstice plates, and then the family worships the winter, worships the ancestors, eats the winter solstice reunion dinner, drinks the winter osmanthus wine, eats the winter solstice dumplings, and the juniors give the elders a festival, all the etiquette is almost the same as the New Year, so the local proverb cloud "the winter solstice is as big as the year".

Legend has it that the winter solstice is as big as the year, and the festival is full of fresh clothes.

The customs of Wu are beautiful, and the young family worships in front of them.

The green-shirted man walking on the street had a smile on his face, and he knew that the boat money was too much, which was rewarded by the clan when he went to the patriarch's house a few days ago.

Because of his own branch and himself, most of his peers in the clan can receive fifty yuan, but he only has a mere ten yuan, so although he is short of money, he is no longer angry when he understands the reason, but he still doesn't want to see this ten Wen Yongle treasure, so he threw it to the boat lady casually.

At the same time, a milky appearance can attract the favor of women comrades, and the mood is very sunny, and the habit of spending money and lavishly in the previous life has not changed in this life.

The surname of the Qingyi guest is Shen, and his name is Shen Kan, who is a well-known member of the Wujiang Shen clan in Suzhou.

Wujiang Shen has a long history, according to genealogical records, the ancestor of the Shen family is the tenth son of King Wen of Zhou, the second ancestor Bohuan, inheriting his father's fief in Runan, and the country name is Shen.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the State of Cai destroyed the State of Shen, and the descendants also took the country as their surname. Later, the Qin State began to become stronger, and the Central Plains were frequently wars, so the Shen family moved to the south of the Yangtze River.

Celebrities on Shen Kanzu, such as the 51st ancestor Shen Yue and the 70th ancestor Shen Kuo, are all famous for literature.

The Shen family has multiplied for generations in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, with many hall names, most of which are heirlooms with poetry and rites, and since the Tang and Song dynasties, they can be called one of the famous families in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng according to the land of Sanwu, sent the people as soldiers and Zhu Yuanzhang as enemies, even if Shen Kan's ancestor Shen Ziwen ran to live in seclusion in Wujiang County, he was still identified as a squire after ascending the throne as a squire to support the traitor Zhang Shicheng, and the whole family was conscripted to Danwei in southwest Guangxi.

On the contrary, the Shen people in their hometown's former residence were strictly forbidden to read because of the Yuan Dynasty, unlike Shen Ziwen, who secretly studied, and had already become a group of farmers who did not know a few big characters, and were all pardoned by the imperial court.

Then the ancestral property of the ancestral hall and so on all lost Shen Kan's share, and the clansmen were afraid of being implicated.

It is said that although the Shen family had a hard time as a military household in Nandanwei, the 'ingredients' changed from being rebellious to guarding the border for the country. Shen Ziwen's son Shen Hao inherited the military status, and was appreciated by his boss for his meritorious service in suppressing bandits with the army, and he was transferred to Maoshanwei in Zhending Mansion with his boss.

Soon Emperor Yongle captured Jinling, distrusting the original Praetorian Guard system, Shen Hao, who was a talent, was selected as a wrestler in the palace layer by layer, and the whole family also moved to Jinling City.

Shen Hao has been a wrestler for Emperor Yongle for many years, and accidentally injured his colleagues during a martial arts practice, and Emperor Yongle didn't have anything to say to his subordinates, but just ordered to remove Shen Hao's military status, sit in prison for a few days, and return his hometown to the people.

In this way, the Shen family was a blessing in disguise, and they were able to return to their hometown after many years. In the future, the family can be re-inherited with poetry, and children and grandchildren can be allowed to participate in the imperial examination in order to revitalize the lintel.

However, the old family only recognized their genealogy, and never mentioned the return of the ancestral property that belonged to the Shen family, and even most of the clansmen regarded the Shen family as a foreigner, and the clan did not agree with the Shen family settling in the village.

Shen Hao had no choice but to settle in Wuxing County with his family. Many years later, he died of illness with his eldest son.

Shen Jing is the second son of Shen Hao, smart and resourceful, inheriting the family business and running the family frugally, relying on the family's savings and hard work, the Shen family gradually became a wealthy family.

Shen Jing never forgot his father's dying words, and made a fortune from the fields all his life, never set foot in business, and put all his efforts on his sons' studies.

When it came to Shen Kan's great-grandfather's generation, the three brothers read sage books since childhood, but they were not good at managing property at all, especially Shen Han's great-grandfather Shen Chi, ranked first, and his family tree was called forbearance, to put it bluntly, he was a cowardly and honest man, who couldn't stop those tenants, and only knew how to read all day long, so the family business declined.

Fortunately, Shen Chi's younger brother competed for luck, and Chenghua's four-year-old tribute student, that is, a college student who escorted the capital. Since then, the Wujiang Shen clan has finally restored its good reputation as a family of poetry and comity.

At that time, the Shen family built a famous library building in Wujiang in the city, called "Lansheng Building", and there were hundreds of acres of land outside the city.

Don't underestimate these hundreds of acres of land, farmers in Shandong and other northern regions often own ten hectares and eight hectares of land, the problem is that the input and output are not proportional, barely making a living, and the land of fish and rice is not in vain.

In Shen Kan's great-grandfather's generation, Shen Chi's eldest son was named Shen Kui. Sincere and charitable, filial piety, brother love, the four brothers also live together after marriage, get along day and night, support each other, but the same can not manage the industry well, the family is declining.

In the Ming Dynasty, the taxation of Jiangnan was the highest in the world. Many years later, he couldn't live in the city anymore, so Shen Kui simply ruled the "Fan Garden" in Liuxu Village, three miles away on the outskirts of the county.

During the Zhengde period, Shen Kui died at the age of 57 and was buried in the West Mountain of Liuxu Village. Because of the literary style "pure and ancient, close to the Han and Wei dynasties", the official of the same township, Shangshu Zhouyong, wrote the epitaph himself.

Shen Kui has only one son, named Shen Han, whose name is Zonghai. When he was a teenager, his family was already poor, he was dedicated to studying, and he was very famous among the local students, but he studied for a full 20 years, and only in the 11th year of Zhengde that he won the township examination, and in the 16th year of Zhengde, he was admitted to the Jinshi and did the criminal department to give the matter, and he was already 42 years old at that time.

Shen Han has an upright and upright temperament, refuses to bow his head to the powerful, and once disobeyed Emperor Jiajing because of the impeachment of Wuding Marquis Guo Xun for sheltering Li Fuda, and was imprisoned in the edict of Jinyiwei by the court staff, and soon cut his nationality to the people.

Later, the imperial court intended to recommend him to be reinstated, and Emperor Jiajing was also happy to approve it, but Shen Han was no longer accustomed to the dim officialdom, so he resigned, and lived in his hometown for many years.

Since Shen Han became an official, the Wuxing Shen family, which has a long historical heritage, is also qualified to be called a Suzhou family. However, Shen Han was an honest official, and he did not accumulate any silver, and it was an indisputable fact that his family lived a poor life, so he was ridiculed as a poor family by many jealous people in Shilin.

What is a humble door? What is a noble family?

Generally speaking, a poor family refers to a poor family, while a noble family refers to a prestigious bureaucrat or a large family of dignitaries.

However, in the minds of Jiangnan Shilin and ordinary people, those so-called noble families, that is, the famous families of the founding of the country, or the hairpin families who dominate one side, or the wealthy and powerful squires and bureaucratic landlord families, may be called famous and wealthy families, but they are not the real noble families in southern Jiangsu.

The famous family in southern Jiangsu must have four unwritten conditions, first of all, all members of the family must be literate, everyone must take reading as a lifelong pursuit, all family members must make a living from literature, and no one is allowed to engage in occupations such as businessmen and butchers.

This is also the reason why several generations of the Shen family would rather spend their lives idle, and refuse to find another way out of the middle of the family.

Second, the family should have a good literary atmosphere and rules of poetry and etiquette, and both men and women should have a chapter.

Thirdly, the family must have considerable literary accumulation, and the members of the past generations must create a certain number of books on qin, chess, calligraphy, painting, etc., as well as a large number of documents to prove that they have a good reputation in the local Shilin.

Fourth, there is a wide range of cultural exchanges between family members and with their peers. His family's cultural achievements in Shilin have deeply influenced the development of each family member's life, and also influenced the development of the literary scene in southern Jiangsu and even the cultural development of China as a whole.

To sum up, only such a family is worthy of the prestigious family recognized by Suzhou people, called the old family, to put it bluntly, it is the imperial examination family with the goal of becoming an official.

In ancient China, there were many Jiangnan wang clans whose goal was to make a name for themselves or to make achievements in literature.

There are many sayings in China, such as the rich can not be more than three generations, and the gentleman Ze is cut down for the fifth generation, which family can keep the foundation forever?

Only the long-standing cultural inheritance is the secret of a family's blessing for future generations for thousands of years!

Because of this, Shen Kan did not dare to talk about doing business lightly, even if the social concept has changed, even if everyone in the family is thinking about how to develop, it seems that after thinking about it, being an official is still the only way out.

Tomorrow's Winter Solstice Festival, today Shen Kan took the initiative to invite Ying to run to the town, first, to invite his brothers home for the holiday, and secondly, to take a break by the way, to see if he could find a way to make money secretly.

As for studying, he has not yet made up his mind.