Early in the morning, Shen Kan squatted in the open space outside the courtyard, kneading the soil in his hands.

In ancient times when we relied on the sky for food, the most important thing to guard against was famine, don't underestimate that there is no food to eat, people are driven by hunger, and they can do all kinds of evil things.

"People who have no long-term concerns must have near-term worries." Shen Kan let go of his hand with a mutter, and the dirt fell.

He was almost ignorant of agriculture, could not improve species, could not develop chemical fertilizers, had no interest in inventing so-called high-grade wine, glass, perfume, etc., and could not make guns and cannons, but he had his own way of growing pumpkins.

Pumpkins are easy to serve, and they don't need to occupy arable land, just in front of you in this large open space, and the best place is the roof. Plant for a few years, and when it matures in late autumn, the big one should be thirty or forty pounds, and the small one should not be less than ten pounds.

The Shen family has a way of storing grain, but Shen Kan still wants to try it.

In fact, almost every household in the village grows pumpkins, but in Jiangnan, the land of fish and rice, people with similar harvests will not eat pumpkins as rice, vegetables or snacks, and they can't eat much, so they don't plant much every year.

According to the ancient books he had read before, Shen Kan planned to peel the ripe pumpkin, cut it into pieces, boil it in a large pot, and then paste it on the bamboo fence, as if he were painting dust on the wall.

Every year after that, when the pumpkin paste became thick and hard, it was picked off piece by piece and stacked in the warehouse. In the unlikely event of a famine in a certain year, you can cook it into porridge with a little rice and eat it.

Of course, this is just an idea that Shen Kan is prepared, and he didn't expect to save many people, and he was even more uncertain whether he would succeed, but he always felt uncomfortable if he didn't do it.

He was not going to tell anyone about it, and it was a pastime in his spare time. Because the villagers are superstitious, if they really succeed, they will not only be able to buy people's hearts, but also use the Bodhisattva's manifestation as a name to calm the panicked victims at that time.

Doing good deeds, and at the same time preserving the safety of the Shen family and enhancing his reputation, this is one of Shen Kan's calculations these days.

"After the first month, let Aunt Jin toss." Shen Kan clapped his hands, turned around and walked back.

Shen Shi's matter has come to an end for him, just like the eldest sister said that paper can't hold the fire, it is absolutely impossible to help conceal it, and the longer the time, the greater the trouble.

Now it's okay, through a play with Yuqin, all rooms know about it, which means that the whole family has been pulled into the water. No matter what Shen Jiayou and his wife will do, even if someone runs out to expose it, anyway, Shen Kan is just a part of it, the culpability is minimized, and he can not offend Shen Shi and Jin Feng.

After all, Jinyiwei is not Shen Kan's nonsense, it turned out that Sun Wengan of the Sun family was not at ease the day before yesterday, and sent someone to send a letter.

Shen Kan kept the heavy human affection in his heart, and stayed at home honestly in recent days, not giving Wang Laosan a chance.

As he walked, he suddenly saw the little maid in the big house running over with a smile, and shouted from afar: "The old lady invites my brother."

"Nonsense, I just went to say hello before I went to say hello. Did the boss order you to let me go?"

"Why does the eldest young master want to talk to you?"

Shen Kan observed his expression, which didn't seem to be deceitful, and asked again, "What's the matter?"

Shui Sheng'er said excitedly: "It's the county master who is here, our master doesn't want to come forward, this old lady wants to ask my brother to go to the study to see why the county master is here."

"The county master has come to our house?" Shen Kan was very surprised, in this one-acre three-point land in Songling, Qipinzhi County was no less than the Emperor Tu, and he still didn't even know what the county master looked like.

Of course, as an old man, you don't need to care about backwardness, you can use old age and weakness as an excuse to avoid meeting, and it doesn't seem rude. Question: If you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, what are you doing when you have nothing to do with the county?

"The big man is ahead?" Shen Kan pulled out his feet and left.

Shui Sheng'er chased after him and replied, "It's the second master."

"Second master! Where's the big man?"

"I'm also at home, but the county master wants to see the second master by name."

"No wonder." Shen Kan nodded, no wonder he sent a small servant from the big house to call him.

The front hall of the Shen family.

The magistrate and Shen Jiamo sat as guests, and the family brought tea. It turned out that this magistrate's surname was Pei, and in his early years, he went to Beijing to catch the exam in the same year as Shen Jiamo and Master Ke, and lived with each other for two whole years, so they were also friends in the same year.

This time, Pei Zhixian was entrusted by a friend, and readily agreed, and came to Shen's house in a sedan chair early in the morning.

They are very familiar with each other, they have read books together and gone to the Qinglou together, so they don't need to be polite, so Shen Jiamo asked straight to the point: "Hehe! What does Brother Nian care about? Forget to beg for advice. ”

"I haven't seen you for many years, but I still don't change this roundabout temper."

Pei Zhixian smiled, put down the teacup gently, and arched his hand, "Then I won't be verbose, I'm here today to fight for Brother Nian's Ling Yuan." ”

Shen Jiamo didn't have to guess, as soon as he heard it, he knew that Zhun Bao was the Ke family, otherwise who would be able to move the dignity of a county to the countryside early in the morning?

"Female nature wants to get married." Shen Jiamo deliberately agreed, and his tone changed, "Choosing a son-in-law is also necessary to be equally talented and good-looking, and the younger brother can only allow marriage." But I don't know which family Brother Nian is the matchmaker?"

Pei Zhixian said with a smile: "I guarantee that the man is good looking, everyone is friends in the same year, and they are relatives, so they took the errand without saying a word." Brother Nian, is this family business good?"

To Pei Zhixian's surprise, Shen Jiamo just smiled slightly, and said slowly: "It turns out that Brother Nian is here to be a matchmaker for Brother Ke's son, I'm sorry, I have three can't."

One must be enough to kill, let alone three? Shen Kan, who arrived in time, stood outside the door, and after listening to it, he secretly said, is Ke Wenden so unbearable?

Pei Zhixian in the hall was also quite surprised, and asked, "There are three musts?" I want to ask my brother. ”

Shen Kan secretly probed, and saw the second uncle said slowly: "Brother Nian doesn't know, the little girl is still young, she has not learned the training of her parents, and the way of female precepts, if she marries early, she will lose the joy of her aunt, and this is indispensable."

It's really fucking hard, Shen Kan is really fed up, you just say bluntly that the little girl is not yet skilled in the training of her parents, and she has not yet learned the three virtues and four virtues, if she marries out too early, she will definitely lose the love of her parents-in-law and even her sister-in-law, won't you?

However, the things created by the ancestors are indeed refined and have to be served, of course, this is also forced out by the underdeveloped environment.

"Hmm." Pei Zhixian groaned.

Shen Jiamo continued: "I look at the nephew of the Ke family, although he has a considerable appearance, he has no real knowledge inside, and his demeanor is frivolous, not like the bearing of a scholar, these two are indispensable; The two aunts are relatives, and they are even more suspicious, once they don't take precautions, they will become big talkers in the future, and these three can't be done. The younger brother can come to be a matchmaker for the younger brother's daughter, but the younger brother doesn't know what to do, just for these three can't, you can't bend it. Don't be surprised. ”

Shen Kan couldn't help but laugh at it, what are the three must-haves? Co-authored my second sister still has to continue to practice at home? Is the show in Ke Wendeng's examination fake? The two aunts and cousins are not Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai living in the same Grand View Garden, what is there to be suspicious?

When Pei Zhixian heard this pedantic remark, he also laughed, and said again and again: "Based on Brother Nian's discussion, I think I can be a matchmaker for Ling Yuan in the future, I'm afraid it will have to be Brother Nian to go out in person!"

Shen Jiamo's old face flushed, and he also smiled: "Brother Nian is talking about fun again, how can he be a father who recommends himself?"

Although the Wuxing Shen family is famous, Shen Jiamo is just an old prisoner, and so is the Ke family.

Pei Zhixian immediately got up and said lightly: "Don't argue with Brother Nian at this moment, there will be fulfillment in the future." Say goodbye and go back to tell your brother-in-law that it was rude. ”

Shen Jiamo stood up and didn't keep it, so he sent the person out.

Shen Kan at the door hurriedly stood up, and when he saw Pei Zhixian, he didn't even look at this side, and walked over.

Because Shen Jiamo was there, Shen Kan had to follow him all the way, and watched the county magistrate sit in a sedan chair, and his friends said goodbye for many years.

Suddenly, Shen Jiamo said to him: "You are also an adult now, and without permission, you are not allowed to step into the inner house for half a step in the future." Not only Pei Wei, but also any sisters in the family are not allowed to get close, after all, men and women are guarded, and the second uncle is also for your own good. ”

"Nephews are taught." Shen Kan replied with low eyebrows, and said in his heart that it was fortunate that you would go back to Jinling after the New Year, otherwise there would be no way to stay in this house.

Compared with the second uncle's unruly food, the old man and the uncle are really open-minded.

In this way, he stood under the sun and was taught for half an hour.

As he landed in the mansion, Shen Kan finished speaking to the old lady and the others, and suddenly sighed.

The second wife, Gan, gritted her teeth angrily, and really wanted to fly back immediately to reason with her husband, and she was so disturbed by kissing and kissing.

The old lady Gu frowned and said: "Playing small is this pedantic character, the more I read, the more stubborn I look." That's it, his daughter has what he says, and I can't control it. Fortunately, Peiwei is still young, but I want to see what kind of son-in-law he can find. ”

The eldest lady Zhou said: "It's not small, Peiwen is nineteen, Peiwei is seventeen this year, how can I delay and go again?"

"It doesn't matter, the daughters of our Shen family are like this, they married before Double Ten, their poems and books are unstable, their hearts are undecided, and their minds are not open." The old lady didn't care.

Shen Kan couldn't help but admire it very much, or it would be said that women have to be educated! With all kinds of books covered, it is easy to conclude that women marry too early.

Generally speaking, in ancient times, men and women got married early, and it was too late to be ten years old. But there are no absolutes in the world, in ancient times, there were actually many people who got married in their twenties, because both the parents of both men and women had to find suitable candidates for their children, and if they didn't meet them, they could only drag it out, and the law didn't stipulate how old they had to be to get married?

Gossip is just a deaf ear to parents who truly love their children.

In fact, what Shen Kan admires most about his family is not this, but that the Shen family does not advocate foot binding, it is nothing more than symbolic entanglement.

Shen Kan probably will never be able to accept the so-called three-inch golden lotus!

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