Shen Zai, the second room of the Shen family, has a son and a daughter under the knees of the whole couple, and his son Shen Sanlang opened a foot shop in the town to provide some simple food for diners.

Her wife only married into the Shen family last year, and she was the cousin who saved Shen Mengxi in the first place, and her mother's family also lived in the town.

Aunt Santang's eldest brother works as a servant in the county government, and I heard that he was just promoted to the head of the team not long ago. Daughter Shen Sanniang is only in the prime of her life now, and she is still waiting to be married at home, and the family who is married is the Zhang family in Xiangfu Village.

The Zhang family is a big surname in Xiangfu Village, with a total of more than 200 people in seven rooms, and Shen Sanniang is going to marry the son of the Zhang family's five rooms.

Shen Zailin and his wife have four daughters in the third room of the Shen family, and they also have only one son. Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Shen have already married, and the family they married to is far away from Xiangfu Village, so it is rare to go back to their parents' house on weekdays.

Shen Siniangzi and Shen Wuniangzi, one is twelve years old this year, and the other is only eight years old, after the two sisters got married, these two little sisters took over their work and helped their parents do all kinds of farm work.

Shen Shilang is fifteen years old this year, and he has not yet said that he is married, and he has been studying with Shen Zaishi in the private school in the village, but he is diligent and studious, but unfortunately his qualifications are ordinary, and it is difficult to make progress in the imperial examination.

When the Shen family was divided, the three brothers of the Shen family divided the family property equally. Originally, Shen Zaishi, who was the eldest son, should have taken the lion's share, but he spent a lot of money in his family for many years of studying, and even bought half of the field because of the handing over repairs.

After the remaining 50 acres of land were divided equally, each house only got a dozen acres. The big house and the second room are better now, Shen Zaishi and Shen Zhixin are talents, they don't have rice to receive, and Shen Zaishi has a private school to cultivate, so life is not difficult.

The population of the second room is not large, and there is a subsidy from the income of Shen Sanlang's foot shop in the town, and life is still passable.

The Shen family has the most children in the third room, and they have to provide for Shen Shilang to study, and they only rely on the harvest of more than ten acres of land to live.

However, Shen Zaishi and Shen Zaiquan will help Sanfang from time to time, not only do they help them with the work in the field, but they will also think about sending a little to Sanfang when they get something delicious.

The relationship between the three Shen Zaishi brothers is not bad, although they split up because they didn't want to study for Shen Zaishi, but after the separation, they all thought about Shen Zaishi.

It is also because Shen Zaishi has taken care of them over the years, and when they split up, Shen Zaishi took the initiative to divide the family property equally, and after he was admitted to Xiucai, he put the land and property of the two rooms under his own name, saying that it was just to avoid the taxes of the imperial court, and Shen Zaishi did not want anything from their houses, so that they saved a lot of taxes every year.

Shen Zaishi's approach made the two younger brothers respect him even more, appreciate his generosity, and obey this eldest brother.

It can be said that Shen Zaishi is indeed a very wise person, he can see the contradictions and shortcomings in the family in time, and he does not hesitate to cut through the mess quickly and solve everything.

If Shen Zaishi hadn't insisted on separating the family at the beginning, and took the initiative to back down when the family was separated, maybe the Shen family would not be so harmonious now.

Not long after, Shen Zhixin came back in the mule cart borrowed by Baozheng's family, and as soon as he met the two uncles, Shen Zhilei brought Shen Sanlang and Shen Shilang over.

Shen Zaishi saw that everyone had arrived, so he beckoned everyone to the ancestral hall in the backyard. In ancient times, women in the ancestral hall could not step further, even when worshipping their ancestors every year, they could only kneel outside the door of the ancestral hall and kowtow.

Although Shen Mengxi really wanted to see what it was like for ancient people to open an ancestral hall, she also knew that she was not suitable in the past at this time, and she would definitely be scolded.

So she secretly cursed in her heart: The evil old society! followed Wu to the kitchen to make morning food for everyone.