By the beginning of July, the Shen family's summer vacation was more than halfway over. Not to mention Shen Yu and his aunts, even the boys who have always jumped out have gradually quieted down, because they have played everything they can. During this period, a group of people also celebrated Shen Mi's birthday. Shen Yuxuan and Shen Yuping began to read, Shen Yule concentrated on studying his divination technique again, the young Shen Yushou and Shen Yuyi still wanted to play, but everyone was quiet, and the two of them felt a little bored after playing for a few days, and they stopped.

Shen Mi, Shen Yao and others were doing girls' things, such as embroidering and painting, etc., while the youngest Shen Wan found a rice stalk and learned to weave with the third lady. Although a grasshopper is crooked, it has charm, she took a few to give treasures to Shen Yu and Aunt He, and after receiving praise, she became more attentive, and now they are all very decent.

Shen Ning didn't do anything, he sat in front of Zhuangzi every day and looked at these distant mountains and grasses, and he also felt comfortable. Shen's manor is located in the southeast of the suburbs of Beijing, this area is the pattern of the front field and the back village, but not all of the Shen family, the Shen family only occupies a larger part of the place, and the side is spreading one after another, but also the Zhuangzi of other people's families.

Shen has been here for almost a month, and he didn't see the Zhuangzi next to him as if someone had come to escape the summer, thinking that maybe the master's family had something important, so he didn't let Shen Yuan report the visit.

On this day, a carriage passed by the Shen family's manor and drove into the Zhuangzi next to it. There are a lot of people and carriages in this line, and it seems that the Jingzhao officials should have come to escape the summer, but it is already July, and it is a little late. Shen Ning asked Xia Ci and Qiu Ge to inquire about whose Zhuangzi belonged next to them, and maybe they would have dealings with each other and so on.

Before Qiu Ge and the others could report back, Shen Yu called Shen Ning and the others over, and the answer was automatically revealed. It turned out that the Zhuangzi next to it was Cheng Fangyuan's family in Dali Temple, and today it was Cheng Fangyuan's wife who came with her family to escape the summer.

"You all give me honesty, don't run around these days, and disturb other people's homes." Shen Yu's clan knocked on these leather monkeys in advance, if there were no others, it didn't matter how wanton his family was, but if someone came in from Zhuangzi next to him, it was better to be cautious.

Everyone also said yes, in fact, there is no need for Shen Yu to say, they have also been quiet recently, after all, they are tired of it.

Hearing that it was the Dali Temple Cheng Fang Yuan's family, Shen Ning glanced at his second brother and smiled. It's really a coincidence that her mother opened the door for Qiaoqiao - it's a coincidence that it's home!

On the morning of the second day, the worship post of the Cheng family arrived, and the person who sent the worship post was the steward of the Zhuangzi of the Cheng family and the housekeeper mother of Mrs. Cheng, which can be seen to be grand. As soon as they arrived here, Steward Cheng had already told Mrs. Cheng that next to her was the Shen family's manor, and of course they knew that the Shen Yu family was in the manor, so as soon as they settled down, they came over.

Regardless of family or official position, the Shen family is above the family, so although the Shen family is the first to settle here, this worship post is the first to become a family, which is a matter of etiquette and reasonableness.

Shen Yuan and Yu's mother took the post, first asked modestly, saying that the two families should have been friendly with each other, saying that my wife also wanted to wait for you to settle down before submitting the post, and said that Shen Yu's family was idle in Zhuangzi these days, so the two families agreed that Mrs. Cheng would bring her family to visit Shen Yu's family tomorrow and so on.

The people who started a family left at this time, and Shen Yuan and Yu's mother also went to Shen Yu's family to return their lives. Shen Yushi groaned for a while and ordered: "Let the young master not be allowed to go out of the room tomorrow, and there will be female dependents in the family; Let the girls come to me early tomorrow morning, and you can't be rude. He also instructed Shen Yuan to prepare lunch, and he was not too grand, it was just an ordinary farmhouse dish, and it was also one of the sincerity of hospitality.

Early in the morning, Mrs. Cheng arrived with her daughter-in-law and daughter, accompanied by many people. The two families first greeted each other, exchanged a few words, and said that they should have come to visit early in the morning, and Zhuangzi's proximity was also fate, etc., and then they sat down and gossiped.

Mrs. Cheng is about the same age as Shen Yu, her appearance is very mellow, and she has a smile on her face from time to time, and she is a kind and easy person to get along with. She is not as easy to give birth to as Shen Yu, she only has two sons and one daughter, and there are many concubines. The eldest son has already married and has not yet given birth to children, and the eldest daughter-in-law also came to the manor to cool off this time.

After that, he called his daughter-in-law to come forward and see Shen Yu's, Shen Yu's praised a good Peugeot person, saying that his eldest daughter-in-law had just given birth to a child not long ago, and she didn't come this time, and she would bring her next time so that their young daughters-in-law would have a companion and so on.

He pulled a girl beside him, about thirteen or fourteen years old, who looked slim, asked her to salute Shen Yu's family, and said to Shen Yu's family: "This is my daughter, named Yanyan, and I am such a girl." ”

Shen Yu nodded, she only had Shen Ning, her daughter, so she could also understand what Mrs. Cheng meant, and couldn't help but look at Cheng Yanyan a few times. I saw that Cheng Yanyan was generous, and her figure was not as thin as other girls, but slightly chubby and plump, and she looked good - when she was thirteen or fourteen, there was nothing ugly. There is a vortex at the corner of the mouth, which is very gratifying to look at.

Shen Yu pulled Shen Ning on the side, introduced Mrs. Cheng, and introduced Shen Mi a few, and the two families gradually started talking, and the youngest daughters also got together and gossiped.

"Sister Yanyan, why did you come here to escape the summer at this time?" Shen Yao is a self-cooked, no matter whether Cheng Yanyan will be uncomfortable or not, she asked first in two clicks, and her eyes flashed with curiosity.

Fortunately, Cheng Yanyan is not a calculating, she raised the whirlpool at the corner of her mouth, and said: "I want to come early, there happens to be something at home, Jing Zhaoke is hot......" and beckoned her sisters to come and talk to Shen Ning and them.

"Second sister-in-law......" Shen Ning almost blurted out, the round little girl with baby fat in front of her was Shen Yuhong's wife in her previous life. She sighed at the ingenuity of the world, I don't know if in this life, her second sister-in-law is still not this girl?

personally went out to see off the family members, and Shen Yu's mind was opened. The second Shen Yuhong is almost eighteen years old, it's time to get married, Shen Yu originally planned to visit his relatives after returning to Jingzhao to see if there is a suitable girl to look at. Now, seeing Cheng Yanyan, who has a family, maybe it doesn't have to be so bothersome?

She thought about Cheng Jia and Cheng Fangyuan in her mind, as soon as she came into contact today, Mrs. Cheng was wide and fat, but it was a good match, how was Cheng Fangyuan a person, and whether this family affair could be married, or did she plan to ask Shen Zejing first.

Thinking of this, she hastily wrote a few lines and instructed Shen Yuan to send it back to Jingzhao Shen's house, so that he didn't have to worry, and waited for Shen Zejing to reply to the letter before coming back, and then stopped.

Over there, Shen Zejing received Shen Yu's letter, thought about it, and recalled things about Cheng Fangyuan in his mind. The Ministry of Officials Examination is in charge of civil official qualifications, and he also knows something about Cheng Fangyuan. Cheng Fangyuan is a Jinshi of Changtai for 16 years, first he was sent to Xin'an County as a county commander, and then several times after training, although the official position is not fast, but it has been upward, and he was appointed to the position of Dali Temple at the beginning of this year; His person, but Zhongzhong, has never heard of anything, and the reputation of the Yan family of the Yue family is not obvious. Presumably, although the family is not prominent, there is no place to be burdened. Besides, Shen Yuhong's wife will not be a clan wife in the future, and her temperament is the most important, so there is no need to be very demanding, so this family business will also be successful.

When he went to greet Shen Huashan in the evening, he told Shen Yu's family and his plans, asked Shen Huashan to make a decision, and also saw if he had any omissions.

Shen Huashan listened to Shen Zejing's words, thought for a while, and then decided: "You think carefully, this family affair can be concluded, you can go to the letter to explore the wind first, if it is feasible, after returning to Beijing, you will send a matchmaker to propose marriage." "It can be regarded as a preliminary marriage for Shen Yuhong.

He explored something about Cheng Fangyuan in his mind again, and added a few words at the end: "Although Cheng Fangyuan is a Zhongzhong, he is a fellow disciple of the Guozi Sacrifice Wine Guard, and he has a fellow villager friendship with Kong Peng, a member of the Zhongshu House, and I heard that they have a very personal relationship." Think about the sixteen years of Changtai's Jinshi, the dead died, the deposed dethroned, and how many people are still in the court today? ”

Changtai's sixteen-year unjust case, it has only been nineteen years now, and both of them are still impressed, how many scholars and literati have been ruined in that year, and they are afraid to think about it.

After listening to this, Shen Zejing nodded, and couldn't help but feel that there were still fewer places to think of, and he didn't have anything to say for a while.

"Being an official in the court, in fact, is just the context of human relations, the slightest is related, interlocking, as long as you figure out the associated silk ring, you are not afraid. You don't have to be discouraged, it's all a matter of time. He comforted him a few words, his eldest son, is also flexible as an official, but he is still young and still needs to be trained.

Shen Zejing returned to his study, synthesized his meaning with Shen Huashan, wrote a letter to tell Shen Yu that this matter was feasible, and asked her to listen to the family first, and then go back to Beijing to talk about the rest; He also explained that Shen Yuan would stay there first, and then rush back to Zhuangzi tomorrow.

Shen Zejing remembered that Shen Huashan was more familiar with the Jingzhao officials than the officials of his own department, and he was a little depressed, and at the same time he was thinking, the hundred officials of Jingzhao, not including the foreign officials of Beijing and the foreign officials, is there such a silk thread close to each person's family behind him? Although the officials have recorded the origin of officials, they are not very detailed, at least Cheng Fangyuan is Wei Fuli's fellow disciple, and he himself does not know.

Can I find someone to sort out these contexts, and even, record the affairs of all officials? The more Shen Zejing thought about it, the more he was startled by himself, and privately inspected hundreds of officials, which was a big rebellion.

He had a cold sweat on his forehead, and he didn't dare to think about it anymore. But the idea, though it seemed to be nothing, had been circling in his mind and gradually taking root......