In a blink of an eye, everyone was aroused by the gambling game, and one by one they stopped talking, and they all looked this way.

Caiyun in the private room asked, "Brother Mu, he can also divination?"

"I don't know! Anyway, I can't see through him more and more. Shen Peiwen's expression was complicated, and he shook his head slowly.

Shen Peiwei said: "I think it's okay, he has a lot of knowledge, and it shouldn't be difficult to solve a word."

Shen Yuqin clapped her hands with a smile and said, "I can earn twenty taels by saying a few words, I want to ask the fifth brother to buy me candy to eat, and I have to ...... And a jasper bunny. ”

As Shen Peiwei said, Shen Kan is confident that by observing the other party, combined with his experience and insight, even if he doesn't win, he will not be far away. However, divination is not what he is good at, whether it is the Book of Changes or King Wen's divine lessons, etc., it is only superficial.

So he first glanced at the middle-aged man sitting next to Mr. Hu, with a white face, medium build, wearing an old silk robe, and a long cloth bag that was originally fried beige but now gray-black was placed beside him.

"I'm not good at starting classes, so let's break down the words." After Shen Kan sat down, he looked at the other party's hand intentionally or unintentionally.

Mr. Hu kept staring at him, and chuckled when he heard the words: "This word splitting is just a chance to try ...... luck."

Without waiting to finish speaking, Master Gu said: "But there are often miraculous experiences, isn't it divination to interpret words?"

"Then split the words." Mr. Hu smiled, looking too lazy to argue, but in fact he was worried that he would be more serious with a child and be said by everyone that he was bullying the small.

"The young master of the Shen family really knows how to tell fortunes?" One of the villagers muttered quietly.

"How can people who read books not know how to split words?" Another said.

While sorting out the four treasures of the study, Shen Kan said to the middle-aged man, "Uncle, please write a word."

"Okay." The middle-aged man's face was honest, and he wrote a word on the note casually.

The others didn't feel anything, but Shen Kan's heart instantly hung up, and he was still not too sure in the end.

Reaching out to take it, Shen Kan pondered for a moment and said, "It's the word 'beginning', the beginning of the beginning." What do you want to ask?"

The middle-aged man first glanced at Mr. Hu, saw Mr. Hu's forehead lightly, and said loudly: "I want to ask a child in the family who wants to go to school, I don't know what his future is?"

Several women in the private room suddenly thought about how to decipher the words.

Shen Peiwen frowned and said: "Everything has a beginning and an end, the beginning is nothing more than the meaning of raising your head, if it is me, I will say congratulations, your child has a difficult start, and then it will gradually get better."

"Anyone can say this, but they can't show their ability." Shen Peiwei said.

At this time, I saw Shen Kan speak: "The ancients said that the beginning was simple, and the end was also huge, so I should have said good to my brother...... You can disassemble the word 'beginning', this female character can't help but make you hesitate, may I ask what Guilang has learned?"

Before the words fell, the big guy was in a commotion, and it turned out that Mr. Hu's face changed slightly, and his eyes turned from contempt to surprise.

Shen Yuqin wondered: "Studying is studying, what do you ask?"

Shen Peiwen and Shen Peiwei's eyes lit up at the same time, and Shen Peiwei said happily: "Look at that person's appearance, it's clear that he is not a scholar!" I really didn't expect the fifth brother's eyesight to be so clever and observant. ”

"Oh." Shen Yuqin seemed to understand a little, but Caiyun was still confused.

The big guys muttered in whispers, and some people who knew each other explained it, and they all understood, and then they saw that the middle-aged man didn't care at first, and at this moment he said with a happy face: "It's not a secret, our family has been playing the violin for generations, and the little one is going to send him to learn Kunqu Opera."

Shen Kan slapped the table vigorously and said, "Great! You see, although the word 'beginning' has a female character next to it, it cannot be mixed with the woman's pile, which shows that although it is related to women, it is not a woman. And this is the word 'Taiwan', this word is connected with the stage, you said to send your child to sing, I think it's great! However, since it is a female character with a stage next to it, I think it should be inclined to the feminine side. ”

"I don't quite understand, please advise." The middle-aged man said sincerely.

Shen Kan glanced at Mr. Hu, who was becoming more and more surprised, and said with a smile: "Let's look at this first character, don't you look like a girl's aunt character?" A lot of people tend to get confused. I'll take this word apart again, the top is a triangle, and the bottom is a square mouth, and the square mouth shape is not the meaning of singing? The triangle is pictogram, and the famous drama recently also calls it a 'horn'.

Let's look at it again, if you stretch out a little bit of this character and skim it to this side, wouldn't it become a 'name' character? Therefore, I dare to predict that your son will not become famous in the first few years, but for the sake of the beginning, he will become famous if he is skilled in his skills in the future. ”

In the teahouse, Shen Kan held a broken pen, made random gestures on the table, and talked nonsense, bluffing everyone who couldn't read a few big characters.

Shen Peiwen chuckled and scolded with a smile: "Crooked."

Shen Yuqin said unconvinced: "Crooked reasoning is also reasonable, the fifth brother is really powerful."

Probably Shen Kan also knew that Mr. Hu would not be convinced, so he asked, "Your old surname?"

The middle-aged man hurriedly said, "Don't give your surname Mei."

Shen Kan said with a smile: "A good surname has a lot to do with the first word, Mei accounts for a hundred flowers." According to me, Ling Lang should be sent to learn Tsing Yi. ”

"Okay, okay." The middle-aged man became excited, got up and arched his hand again and again, "Learn Tsing Yi, learn Tsing Yi, the child was born with clear eyebrows and clear voice, borrow your auspicious words, I hope to become famous in one fell swoop in the future." ”

Master Gu laughed and said proudly to Mr. Hu: "Old Hu, get the money quickly."

"It's just nonsense." Mr. Hu snorted coldly.

The two of them pinched each other again as they spoke, and the others hula and surrounded them, chattering with each other to ask Shen Kan to explain the words to them.

Shen Kan was dizzy from the noise, and hurriedly shouted: "I can't solve it, I can't solve it, it's easy to lose my life when I tell fortunes, and besides, I was just a fluke just now."

It was easy to say that he broke free, and when he looked again, the two young men had already left.

Outside the teahouse, the sky darkened, and Shen Kan looked at the intersection and sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity."

It's a pity that he missed out on the two trend-setters during the Jiajing period. The young martial artist was the famous general Yu Dayou, who had been dismissed from his post and was ready to look for opportunities to seek reinstatement, while the young merchant was Wang Zhi, a famous pirate leader in history.

Yu Dayou served as a soldier in Kinmen, and after his dismissal, he planned to go north to Jinling, passing through Shenjia Village. Wang Zhi is a native of neighboring Huizhou, so it is not surprising that he appeared here.

At this time, Wang Zhi was thinking about secretly going to sea, according to legend, when he was born, his mother Wang had dreamed that a big star fell from the sky into his arms, and there was a crown next to the star, Wang was surprised and said: "This lone star is also, when it shines in Hu and not in Hu."

Of course, this is made up by Wang Zhi later, but his mother should have had a similar fetal dream, so when Wang Zhi was a teenager, he was often complacent about this, thinking that he was born with a vision and could do a great career in the future, so he was chivalrous when he was a child, liked to help others, fought unevenly, and was very famous in his hometown.

In the nineteenth year of Jiajing, that is, last year, the imperial court's maritime ban policy was somewhat relaxed, and Wang Zhi immediately found a few fellow villagers to prepare to sell prohibited goods such as saltpeter and yellow silk cotton, and plan to go to sea for trade.

Shen Kan naturally never expected to meet these two, and after regretting it for a while, it was not a matter of fact, in the final analysis, he was too young and not strong in his ability to attract really capable characters.

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At the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth watch, the sky brightened slightly, and people slept the deepest at this time.

The Shen Mansion was located in a small courtyard not far from the large kitchen, and the deep sound of grinding tofu kept sounding in the house.

The house was not high, with a few beams exposed, and a round shelf hung from the eaves, on which were dried louvers.

There is a bluestone mill in the house, and there are soymilk jars, dried tofu shelves, low stoves for burning soy milk, large vats and small buckets, and a large amount of thatch fills the small room without any gaps.

There was no other light except an oil lamp with a flickering fire.

Fifty-year-old Shen Ping, the cousin of the steward Shen An, stopped pushing the grinder, poured a pot of bean dregs into the cloth bag used for straining slurry on the low stove, and began to prepare the sifting slurry.

On the thatch at the mouth of the stove, sat Shen Dazhu's cousin Shen Dashan, Shen Ping is old and has a son, and his son is just fourteen years old this year.

The light of the fire in the stove made his face red, his sparse yellow hair, his bare forehead, his eyes were half-open, he held a bunch of thatch in his hand, and he stuffed it into it by habit, and from time to time his head leaned forward and snoozed.

Shen Ping asked, "Dashan, haven't you slept enough today?"

Shen Dashan stretched his head up suddenly, opened his eyes and said, "The water is boiling?"

"The water is not boiling, and the wood is almost finished." Shen Ping said angrily, "Young people can't keep up their spirits, how can they eat together?" Well, it's not too early, let's go and call the fifth young master up. ”

"Why did you call me to go? Isn't Shen Jie back?" Shen Dashan lifted his dirty cuffs and wiped his eyes.

"Silly boy." Shen Ping smiled, touched his beard and said, "Lao Tzu finally persuaded Shen Gui that old thing to continue to follow the fifth young master to the academy in the morning." You said you should go quickly, serve the young master and he will be comfortable, be diligent and help Cai Dong fetch water, and deliver it early, this errand is not easy!"

"I see." Shen Dashan stood up excitedly, patted his buttocks, and ran away.

"This stupid boy."

Shen Ping scolded with a smile, stepped on the edge of the stove, held his pocket with both hands, and sifted left and right repeatedly, sifting the white soy milk into the pot little by little.

Listening to the sound of soy milk tumbling in the pot, it seems to be celebrating......

Shen Ping said to himself alone: "Son, you listen to more knowledge, and when you have the ability, you will be promoted to a steward in the future, and it will not be in vain for your father's hard work."