After Shen Kan slipped out of the second room, he immediately told the fourth uncle for two days off on the grounds that he was tired of traveling and not returning at night.

I slept all day, and the next morning, because there was no real study in his yard, I often knew a small world of scholars these days, and I was very envious.

I had nothing to do, so I cleaned it up myself.

According to local conditions, a wing room was vacated first, six pots of plum were placed outside the window, four pots of heavenly bamboo, and a pot of potted plants with mountain stones was placed on the windowsill to show the meaning of the window.

Facing the window, an ebony desk was placed, and the four treasures of the study produced in Huizhou were placed. On the left side, there is a row of bookshelves made of mahogany, three of which hold a small number of books, reserved for filling with four books and five classics in the future, and one other is reserved for tea sets, antiques, Xuande furnaces and the like.

I didn't know what to put on the right, Shen Kan pondered for a long time, ran to Shen Peiwen and asked for a simple piano table, and put a guqin that was said to be an ancestral heirloom, but it had been idle for a long time.

A mahogany couch was placed against the wall, and a landscape painting imitating Tang Bohu was hung on the wall, and next to it was his favorite peach blossom poem.

In fact, the spring painting of Tang Bohu mentioned by the boat lady that day, Shen Kan has a whole book in the house, and the character painting is called a realistic, and it is not surprising that Suzhou people do not respect him very much, and almost no local people are willing to hang Tang Bohu's calligraphy and paintings.

Shen Kan didn't care, but he still stuffed all the idle calligraphy and painting books that Shen Kan had secretly collected in the past in the drawer on the bottom layer of the desk and locked them with a secret lock.

After a busy day, I finally arranged it almost completely, and I was so tired that I had a sore back and ran back to the room to rest.

In fact, Shen Kan was not satisfied with the layout of his study and even the courtyard, but unfortunately he was not able to build a house that really belonged to him for the time being.

At noon, the sun shone obliquely on the half-open window, and a few plum trees were in full bloom. Shen Kan brewed a pot of green tea in a Yixing teapot, poured it into a dark green jade cup, the fragrance was overflowing, and sat down facing the window.

Although he was separated by a high wall, he could imagine the sparkling Dongting Lake in the distance, and he said to himself: "How can there be no wine and no poetry on such a good day?"

There is no wine, and the poems will be nonsense in the past, coupled with the influence of the environment, the whimsical interest came, and I also wanted to be vassally elegant.

So I turned out a piece of rice paper, added some water to the inkstone, grinded for a long time, and hummed and chirped with a pen for a long time, and came out of my mind for a while.

Now you can no longer make limerick poems, you have to pay attention to mediocrity, the first sentence is easy to say, whatever you want to make up, but the second sentence has to follow the rhyme of the first sentence, the third sentence at least needs to connect the previous and the next, and the fourth sentence must be neat.

Holding the pen and thinking about it for a long time, Shen Kan silently put down the pen and walked out of the study silently, leaving the snow-white rice paper empty.

Shen Kan is not a person who gives up halfway, writing poetry is the same as writing articles, if you can't write it, then let's go out and touch the scene.

Unconsciously walked out of the Shen house, and the shore in the distance was full of fruit trees, although it was a harsh winter, the leaves of the trees were still green. The length was very wide, and some of the green trees were mutilated by the weather, and the half-yellow dead grass on the ground reminded him of the bleak nature of the north at this time.

Dongting Lake is about two miles away from Shenjia Village, and the artificial canal not far away can not be seen at a glance.

The eaves of several temples float out of the low green hills, and you can see a small white pagoda that is not known for many years, with blue sky and white clouds, and they also reflect each other in winter, and the scenery is picturesque.

Shen Kan walked to a high place and looked into the distance of Dongting Lake, a ferry boat was approaching the ferry, and a group of people came ashore one after another.

It looked like a group of countrymen, and among them was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, who looked very outstanding from a distance and was tall. Two black delicate eyes, wearing a white chrysanthemum gown on a blue background, and coarse cloth pants embroidered with flowers.

The forehead was combed with a flowing sea, and a long braid was tied with a large red velvet rope, and the root was supported by a tender yellow tassel.

Even if she is dressed in the countryside, she is so fashionable in Shen Kan's eyes, the little girl is clean and very beautiful.

She held a long white plum in her hand, and walked lightly behind the old lady.

Shen Kan looked at her intently, pleasing to the eye. It seemed that the other party also saw him, and after a glance, he lowered his head, and when he was far away, he couldn't help but turn his head again and again.

This couldn't help but Shen Kan began to think crankily, thinking that his parents would give him a young lady from a Beijing official family, or a scholarly girl from a prison student, how to look is still second, I am afraid of a Beijing city philistine, disgusted with poverty and love for wealth, love vanity, and competitiveness, then I would rather marry such a girl from the countryside of Suzhou with a pure temperament, than the so-called famous lady, princess and county lord.

He couldn't help but take a few steps forward, and suddenly the old lady turned around and looked at him from a distance. Shen Kan immediately stopped and came back to his senses, what are you doing here? Then he turned around and went home with a dumb smile.

For a whole day, Shen Kan was either wandering around the outer house, or standing in the garden in a daze, and his actions happened to be watched by Shen Jiayou.

"Why is this kid so stupid today? Somewhat suspicious. ”

In order to explain to the third brother and his wife, Shen Jiayou and his wife paid attention to their nephew's every move everywhere, for fear that he would not be able to study well and would be tainted with some bad habits.

It was Shen Jiayou who didn't alarm anyone, and quietly walked into the courtyard and found that the wing room seemed to have been changed into a study.

After entering the study and looking around, he couldn't help but nod his head, although the study was ordinary, it was not tacky at all.

Walking to the desk, I looked down and saw that the inkstone was half-covered, and the sheep had not been inserted back into the pen holder, a piece of rice paper, on which a few lines of words were written.

When I picked it up, it turned out to be a poem that had just been written, and Shen Jiayou smiled and said: "This kid has a good temper with a celebrity under the spring recently."

The deep house may not be without wonders, and the sails of the shadow fall in front of the window.

Longquan has a three-foot book and a thousand volumes, can the city be green to the sky?

"Childish, childish." Shen Jiayou shook his head again and again, and casually opened the first drawer, which contained a manuscript with a tiger skin cover with three words on it.

"Yingshan set?"

If you think about it, you probably haven't heard of it, but who made the book? When I opened the book cover, I saw that a line of small characters was clearly annotated, which was an ancient work by Wu Xing Shen Dao.

Shen Jiayou couldn't help but "poof", shook his head and smiled: "This is simply a joke."

In the Mengxue Hall in the village, Shen Kan stood outside the door and quietly listened to the recitation inside.

"If you want to know the world, you must read ancient and modern books. If you learn it, you can use it everywhere, and optics don't have to be equal to zero. If you can't learn, if you don't know, you ask; Reading is all about one's own heart, and the teacher is just a guide.

Good songs are never tired of being sung a hundred times, and good books are never tired of being read a hundred times. Reading is expensive and suspicious, and doubt can be instructive. Reading silently is easy to think, and reading aloud is easy to remember. Reading a good book for the first time is like getting a good friend; Re-read good books, as if you had learned from the past. Everywhere is knowledgeable, and the three of them have my teacher. ”

This is a very popular Taoist children's enlightenment book, which is naturally disdainful of the orthodox scholarly family, but it is easy to understand and catchy for the poor children.

In short, it is a book created by a poor reader, a collection of various aphorisms and proverbs from ancient times to the present, and it is indeed a very good enlightenment book.

"Old Five, what are you doing?"

As soon as Shen Kan turned around, he saw the fourth uncle Shen Jiaji coming over and said, "Come out for a walk without anything, the yard is boring."

"Then let me socialize."

"What?"

"Seeing the Chinese New Year, Mr. Li from the village is going to come over for a walk."

In the Ming Dynasty, one hundred and ten households were set up as a mile, and a mile was subdivided into ten Jia, and the general A was equal to the Li Chang, mainly in charge of public security.

The title of General A originated from the Song Dynasty, and in the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the enslavement system, the public security system or even the commercial tax agency, there was a post of General Jia, which was probably equivalent to the head of the militia and armed forces in villages and towns.

Shen Jiaji walked forward as he spoke, and Shen Kan had no choice but to follow.

There is a land temple at the east end of the village, in addition to the three temples dedicated to the land lord and Guanyin, and the stove prince, there are more than a dozen empty houses, ready for a fire and flood or to accommodate refugees. Therefore, most of the general affairs in the village come to the land temple to discuss together.

There is a big monk and two small monks living in the temple, Shen Kan followed Shen Jiaji to gather the families in front of the temple, and seven or eight people entered the temple together to offer incense.

Shen Jiaji's prestige in the village is extremely high, almost equivalent to the village chief, and he said to the great monk who came to see him: "Wine and meat monk, you should also light the incense to be more diligent, and if you receive the filial piety of the village, you should also pray for us to bless and eliminate disasters."

Pointing to the glass cup hanging above, Shen Jiaji said again: "Everyone look, there is only half a glass of oil left." On the winter solstice, I also sent someone to send fifty catties of oil, and the three of you and your master and apprentice fried vegetables for nothing?"

"Shen Ye is here again, how dare the little monk?" The big monk smiled, "Didn't the oil be transferred to Baiyi Nunnery early the next morning, there are many orphans who have been adopted recently, and they lack everything, so if you don't believe it, you can send someone to ask." ”

Shen Jiaji said with a smile: "Ten of those sisters-in-law are your friends, otherwise why do you think about them all day long?"

"Laughing again." The great monk was very helpless.

Shen Kan, who was standing on the side, listened quietly, the fourth uncle's talent was said to be no less than that of his father, and he was also a person who was full of mouths back then.

The great monk invited them to sit down in the house and took a teapot and poured the tea himself. Shen Jiaji asked the eldest Gu family master to sit in the first place, he sat in the lower head, and Shen Kan stood behind him.

The old man of the Gu family is sixty years old this year, and he is in good spirits, so he spoke first: "This year's temple is enshrined, Shangyuan Lantern Festival, how much silver must each household in our village give?"

Zhou Lian, who was sitting opposite him, sniffed the tea, put it down again, and said, "Don't worry, I'll talk about it when my in-laws come."

The three surnames of Shenjia Village, Shen, Gu, and Zhou, this Zhou Lian is the cousin of the eldest wife of the Shen family, the Zhou family, and the master of the Gu family is the nephew of Shen Kan's grandmother.

The old man of the Gu family said, "Then wait." It just so happens that I plan to repair the house this year, but the old lady is not moving. Fourth, you also have a university question, come and plan for me, how about I reward you with fifty gold? I don't ask you to work in vain. ”

Fifty gold is fifty taels of silver, and the current Shen Kan will not be mistaken.

"This is not my specialty, you better invite another master." Shen Jiaji smiled.

"Please, I'm fine." Shen Kan took the initiative to recommend himself.

"Brother Mu, do you still repair the garden?" The old man of the Gu family was surprised.

After playing Xiao Shen Kan, he followed Shen Jiaji, everyone is familiar with him, and he has always been quite stable in doing things at a young age, so he is also the number one person in Shenjia Village.

"One of my skills is building a garden pavilion, which I haven't had the opportunity to use before. But fifty taels is too little, please let me at least have this number. Shen Kan stretched out ten fingers as he spoke.

"Don't listen to him bragging, play tricks on you." Shen Jiaji scolded with a smile.

Zhou Lian also smiled: "Xiao Wu, you lost the bet and lacked money, right?" Cultivating a garden is not a trivial matter in southern Jiangsu, and it can be done without decades of attainments? Look at your age, you haven't even seen a house a few times, have you?"

There was a lot of laughter in the room.