Shen Kuo's military supervision is not of high grade, but the officials of the Great Song Dynasty are notoriously rich, so his monthly income is also considerable, but it is not easy to live in Tokyo City, not only the price is extremely expensive, but the land price and housing prices are also high, plus the officials are all good-looking, a good yard can't afford it, and a not very good yard doesn't want to buy, so it leads to most of the middle and low-level officials like Shen Kuo renting a courtyard to live temporarily, and they may be transferred to other places when they will be transferred. Therefore, renting a yard is also much more cost-effective than buying a yard.

The courtyard rented by Shen Kuo is located in the southeast of Tokyo City, close to the Third Sweet Water Lane, not far from Zhao Yan's county palace in the city, but Zhao Yan usually lives in other courtyards, so he went out early this morning and traveled for nearly a morning to come to Shen Kuo's house.

Shen Kuo rented a small front and back courtyard, the front yard is where guests and subordinates live, and the kitchen is also here, and the back yard is naturally where Shen Kuo's family lives. Although the whole courtyard is not large, it is quite exquisitely built, which is also very in line with Shen Kuo's identity.

Zhao Yan was visiting for a private visit this time, so he didn't let the guards come forward, but walked to the door himself, and when he was about to knock on the door, he suddenly heard a woman's crying from inside, as well as the persuasion of a group of people, among which there seemed to be Shen ∧'s voice, and there seemed to be a bit of pleading in his tone.

Hearing the sound coming from the courtyard, Zhao Yan couldn't help but be stunned, the woman who could cry in the courtyard, and also asked Shen Kuo to personally persuade her, her status was definitely not low, and she was even likely to be Shen Kuo's wife.

Although Shen Kuo has achieved amazing results in science in history, he has a problem of fear of guilt, and his wife is different from Liu's wife, but a real fierce wife. Side by side with Su Shi's friend Chen Jichang's Hedong Lion, history records that Shen Kuo's wife once pulled off his beard with flesh, and even Shen Kuo in his later years was forced by his fierce wife to be in a trance, almost mentally ill, but it is said that after his wife died, Shen Kuo wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the river. It's just that Zhao Yan would rather believe that Shen Kuo was crazy at that time, so he would do this kind of thing.

It's just that Zhao Yan soon thought with some doubts that Shen Kuo's fierce wife Zhang was actually his second wife, and he married home after Zhao Ji ascended the throne, and now Shen Kuo's wife should still be his first wife Ye, although there are not many records of this Ye family in history, but it should not be as strong as the successor Zhang, otherwise Shen Kuo will be too unlucky.

Just as Zhao Yan was thinking about the historical record of Shen Kuo's family affairs, he suddenly heard the cry of the woman in the courtyard suddenly became much louder. And it seemed that he was still accusing Shen Kuo, and at the same time, there seemed to be someone around to persuade him, and then he heard a chaotic footsteps walking towards the gate, and then as soon as the gate opened, he saw Shen Kuo, who was in the shape of a wolf, escaping from the courtyard, and it seemed that he wanted to escape outside for a while.

"County ...... The king of the county? You...... Why are you here? Shen Kuo was also stunned when he saw Zhao Yan standing outside the door, and then asked with a flushed face, the ugly thing at home was bumped into by Zhao Yan. This made Shen Kuo also feel dull on his face.

"Haha, today this king came to visit Brother Cun Zhong with some private matters. It's just that I didn't expect to encounter the restlessness of Brother Cun's family, originally this is Brother Cun's family matter, and this king shouldn't have asked, but seeing Brother Cun's appearance like a wolf, if there is anything difficult, Brother Cun will tell the truth. Maybe this king can help one or two! Zhao Yan said with a smile, the reason why he said this was because he mentioned the word money several times when he heard the woman inside crying outside, and it seemed that Shen Kuo's family had encountered economic problems.

"No, no...... ......Hearing Zhao Yan's words, Shen Kuo instinctively wanted to refuse. But soon he hesitated a little, and he didn't have any confidence to speak, and finally said with a wry smile, "The king of the county, it seems to be a bit sven to sweep the floor, but the lower official's mansion does encounter some problems, and there is still some time before the next distribution of the money, so if the king of the county wants to help the lower official, I don't know if he can lend the lower official fifty yuan, and after the distribution of the money, the lower official will definitely return it as much as possible!" ”

"Haha~, it's a trivial matter, Niu Lie, you go and ask someone to take fifty yuan and send it to Brother Cunzhong's mansion, and then go to a nearby restaurant to order a table of wine and food, I want to talk with Brother Cunzhong while eating!" Zhao Yan laughed and instructed the guards beside him, Niu Lie immediately agreed after hearing this, and then ordered the others to do it.

Seeing that Zhao Yan was willing to borrow money, Shen Kuo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, hearing that Zhao Yan invited him to drink, he didn't shirk at the moment, so the two came to the largest restaurant nearby, the previous guards had already ordered the wine and food, after the two sat down, Zhao Yan was not in a hurry to talk about business, but first asked with a smile: "Brother Cunzhong, as an ordnance supervisor, you are not a small amount of money, why do you quarrel about money in the house?" ”

Hearing Zhao Yan ask about this matter, Shen Kuo also showed hesitation on his face, but in the end he still smiled bitterly and said: "Speaking of which, the root cause of this matter is still on you, the king of the county!" ”

"Me? What's the matter with me? Zhao Yan said in surprise when he heard this.

"Of course, it has something to do with you, the king of the county, speaking of which, I didn't bring my family to the capital before, and I only let people pick them up half a year ago, and then rented this set of yards to settle the family, although I have a lot of money, but in order to settle the family, it also cost most of it, and in the end there are only a few dozen pieces left for the family, which is enough, but in order to buy a thing that the county king you made, the money was spent." Shen Kuo smiled bitterly again at this time and said.

"What I made?" Zhao Yan was stunned again when he heard this, and his face showed a confused expression, he had made a lot of new inventions, so for a while, he couldn't think of what made Shen Kuo buy it even if he didn't hesitate to spend all his money?

Seeing that Zhao Yan couldn't remember what it was for a while, Shen Kuo shook his head helplessly and said again: "I have been fortunate enough to see the microscope on your house once, and I am also extremely interested in it, and I have even hoped that I have one, but unfortunately there was only one in the world at that time, so there was no place to buy it if I wanted to, but now the Daomen has successfully imitated the microscope, although the number is very small, but I can finally spend money to buy it......"

"Huh? No, I remember that the microscope making process is complicated, and the output is very scarce, most of them are only supplied to the inside of the door, and very few are sold to the outside world, and the price of each microscope is more than 100 guan. Before Shen Kuo could finish speaking, Zhao Yan suddenly interrupted him and asked strangely.

"Junwang, you also know that the price of microscopes is more than 100 yuan, and I can't buy a new microscope with the little money I have left, but I have an old friend who happens to be a person in the Taoist Gate, and he originally bought a microscope in the Taoist temple, but he didn't use it for too long, and he was accidentally dropped by the person in the view, most of the parts are fine, but it can't be used, and if you want to repair it, you have to find a special person, and I don't know how much it will cost? So they were going to buy a new one, and as for the old one, they would dispose of it at a low price, which was a very rare opportunity for me, so I took all the money from my family and bought this broken microscope, planning to come back and fix it for myself. Shen Kuo said with a bitter face at this time.

He is a dignified court official, but he can only buy a broken microscope, and he is also disgraced when this kind of thing is spread, if he is not met by Zhao Yan today, I am afraid he will definitely not say it.

"Haha, I see, Brother Cun, you took all the money saved in the family to buy a broken microscope, but the old and young in the family will starve with you, this approach is indeed a bit too impulsive, no wonder Mrs. Zun is going to lose her temper." Zhao Yan laughed again when he heard this, he admired Shen Kuo's approach very much, but deep down he didn't agree with it, after all, for him, his family was the most important thing.

"Hehe, speaking of which, my lady is still very reasonable, although she is angry at me for spending all the money saved in the family, but she doesn't blame me much, but I did another thing to make her angry today, which triggered her previous anger, and it happened today." When Shen Kuo talked about his wife, he also showed a little smile on his face, it seems that although he was kicked out of the house by his wife, he was not angry in his heart, which shows that the relationship between their husband and wife is still very harmonious.

"Oh? Brother Cun, you did that kind of thing, you should have appeased Madame well, why did you do something that made her angry again? Zhao Yan couldn't help but be surprised again when he heard this.

"Hehe, isn't it to fix that microscope? I once asked the skillful Liu about the microscope making process, and I am also very familiar with the structure of the microscope, so after the microscope was bought, it was quickly repaired, but a reflective glass mirror was needed below, but there was really no money to buy a glass mirror at home, just my wife did her birthday last time, I bought her a small mirror, so I took the mirror from there, cut off a piece from the top and put it on the microscope, but after she found out, she cried and made trouble, but it made the county king laugh! Shen Kuo said earlier that when he repaired the microscope, he still had a smug look on his face, but when he said it at the end, he was a little embarrassed.

"Hahaha~, Brother Cunzhong, you are such a wonderful person, you can even do this kind of thing, I think it is light for Mrs. Zun to kick you out of the door!" Zhao Yan laughed again when he heard this, he didn't expect that Shen Kuo usually looked serious, but for his own interests, he was so reckless and reckless, but it is estimated that it is his attitude of study that has made such great achievements in history.

But at this moment, I suddenly saw an old servant hurriedly breaking into the restaurant, and when he saw Shen Kuo in front of the wine table, he immediately ran forward with an anxious face and said: "The master is not good, there is an accident at home, you go back quickly!" (To be continued......)