Shuo Zhizhi stayed in the governor's yamen, and lectured to Mrs. Shi day and night.

Shi Kefa is extremely contradictory.

When he saw the pious and happy appearance of his old mother, he was very relieved.

His mother was very old, and every day he was worried, wishing that the sun would never set.

It was his greatest wish to be able to make his mother happy.

He doesn't believe in Buddhism, but he respects Confucius, he abides by etiquette, and he abides by etiquette from the heart, which is also a kind of practice, the practice of Confucianism and Taoism.

Wang Xiao began to act in Huai'an, and these days, he had already prepared 10,000 loads of rice and began to give to the poor in Huai'an.

Huai'an is a prosperous metropolis along the canal, and this era is called Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Yangzhou, and it is a prosperous city in the entire Ming Dynasty.

But there were also a lot of poor people in the city, many of them refugees, who had fled because the peasant army was ravaging the world, some from Anhui, some from Henan, and even further from the northwest.

Wang Xiao's charity to these poor and refugees, of course, is not in the name of the Wang family, if in the name of a wealthy businessman, if he does not fall into the charge of inviting people to buy people's hearts, it will be good to be punished by the government, and there will be nothing good at all.

Wang Xiao is in the name of Mrs. Shi, and every time she sends rice, she says that Mrs. Shi has a birthday, and she is merciful and gives to the poor.

Pai rice was distributed for a total of ten days, and almost every corner of the city, there were poor people, refugees and beggars who ate the rice distributed by Wang Xiao, but everyone knew that this was the rice given by Mrs. Shi.

When Shi Kefa walked on the street in irritation, he would meet poor refugees kowtowing to him to thank him, but when he asked, he found out that 'Mrs. Shi' had helped tens of thousands of poor people these days.

The more he met someone to thank him, the more confused Shi Kefa's heart became, and he couldn't even handle official business.

The old monk in the family preached the scriptures every day, and the mother listened to them very seriously and religiously, more religiously than before.

The old mother even said that she had the opportunity to go to Lingyin Temple to offer incense.

Shi Kefa finally couldn't bear it anymore, called Wang Xiao to the governor's yamen, and scolded him fiercely.

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The days passed quickly, and Yang Chao spent the second month of coming to this world.

In the first month, he met Zhou Rui, met Wang Xiao, helped Zhao Rui to see Liu Rusi, helped Wang Xiao send Shi Kefa a gift, was energetic and high-spirited, but suddenly suffered a blow, his father was arrested, the blacksmith shop was robbed, and he owed someone a thousand taels of silver.

That Xu Baihu didn't come to collect debts, and I heard Hu Quan, who came to the Yang family every once in a while, said that the Xu family was busy decorating the blacksmith shop, specifically it was now the Xu family's pawnshop. The location of this blacksmith shop is excellent, at the southernmost point of the ironworks, with Sanfang Lane to the east and the Paint Mill to the northwest, which is the meeting point of three streets and alleys.

The iron workshop is not a blacksmith shop, it is a blacksmith workshop, the pigment workshop is either a pigment shop, or a pigment workshop, and Sanfang Lane is a street, which is connected with many lanes. It is indeed a great place to open a pawnshop here.

My father's health recovered quickly, and he did suffer a lot and suffered a lot in prison. But he always insisted on refusing to sell the shop, so he was covered in bruises, and he didn't eat a meal for seven or eight days. It was precisely because of his strong body that he was not seriously injured, at least not his internal organs, so that he could recover.

But the man recovered, but he lost his spirit, and the few things in the blacksmith shop, such as the blacksmith's furnace, the sledgehammer, the big iron tongs, and other tools, were taken home, but more tools were lost, and all the people who could use them were taken away by the neighbors near the blacksmith shop.

My father didn't stay at home, but went to work as an errand in the war bureau. Without the blacksmith shop, there is no source of livelihood, so you can only go to help the government to do things, otherwise you will not be able to pay the monthly service silver, and the government's silver is not so easy to rely on.

Every day is still the same as before, leaving for work at dawn and returning in the evening.

My mother started doing needlework again, otherwise there would be no rice to eat.

My sister continued to help people with their laundry.

Yang Chao's mood is very complicated, but in the eyes of outsiders, he has restrained a lot these days.

Stay at home every day to practice calligraphy, Yang Chao's words are not good, to be precise, the original Yang Chao's words are average, and the rules are not good or bad. The current Yang Chao has inherited the body of that Yang Chao, and the memory of the body is still there, so the calligraphy is still written in the notes of the scholar.

However, Yang Chao's memory still remembers the situation of practicing his own words before, unfortunately, Yang Chao has not practiced calligraphy, but a fountain pen and hard pen font writing is very good, in high school participated in the district hard pen calligraphy competition, won the third prize. This time to practice calligraphy, Yang Chao intentionally or unintentionally talked about the pen skills of hard pen calligraphy, integrated into the brush characters, and felt that his font had some changes in temperament and became sharp.

Hu Quan still sent a return of meat in three days, according to the price of meat in the Ming Dynasty, a pound of meat is two cents of silver, Yang Chao gave five taels of silver, you can buy twenty-five pounds of pork, each time Hu Quan sent two taels of meat (one catty is sixteen taels), five taels of silver, you can let him send two hundred times, three days to send once can send two years.

However, since my father's accident, the family has not eaten meat, and my mother has cured all the meat, saying that it will be sent to my husband as a bundle at the end of the year.

When Yang Chao was five years old, he was studying in a private school of an old Xiucai on nearby Gulou Street.

The Yang family is a craftsman, and the reason why Yang Chao was allowed to study was because he had an old acquaintance who was also a craftsman that year, because his son passed the exam, not only changed the household registration of the craftsman, but also the family followed his son to other places to do county orders.

Yang's father had an idea in his heart, so he sent Yang Chao to a private school, and hoped that Yang Chao would be lucky enough to get a fame.

At the beginning, Yang Chao also worked hard, passed the county examination at the age of eleven, and passed the government examination at the age of twelve, but he did not pass the college examination in the twelfth and fourteenth years.

The imperial examination is divided into four levels, the children's examination, the township examination, the meeting examination and the palace examination, and the first level of the children's examination has three stages, which are the county examination, the government examination and the hospital examination.

It's a pity that Yang Chao has failed the hospital examination twice in the past three years, but his family is still full of confidence, because he is still very young, so he still has to go to school, and his mother has urged him several times to go back to the private school as soon as possible.

Yang Chao also agreed, but he didn't leave until one day, Wang Xiao came back from Huai'an, and came to Yang's house as soon as possible.

Wang Xiao also brought a guest, a middle-aged Confucian with a thin beard and a thin figure.