Why did Zheng Sen suddenly slip away on his own initiative, this matter had to start two days ago.

After Zhang Xuezeng was pressured by Zhu Dadian, he naturally notified the Shen family as soon as possible, and asked Shen Shuren to prepare to leave for Nanjing to be interrogated by the Criminal Department.

And Shen Shuren took semi-secret measures for this news, that is, he only revealed it to those close to him.

Zheng Sen was sent to Suzhou by his family, but he had a good relationship with Shen Shuren.

Zheng Sen is only fifteen years old now, and he is still at the age when he is determined to forge ahead, and he is still a little impulsive to do things. He saw that Shen, Gu, and Zhang were all people who were eclectic in learning, and who were strategic, strategic, and open-minded, so he had a special conversation with them.

The day before leaving, Shen Shuren quietly invited Zhang Huangyan, Gu Yanwu, and Zheng Sen to have a drink together, which can be regarded as practicing for himself.

Zhang Huangyan and Gu Yanwu were naturally a little indignant about his transfer.

They felt that this case couldn't be clearer, Shen Shuren just let the family defend himself, and there was no fault at all, just let the Nanjing Criminal Department directly review the file materials, why drag people to insult Sven?

Shen Shuren was very generous: "Several brothers think about me, and Shen understands it, but the state has national laws, and this time it is not considered a detention, just an interrogation."

It is estimated that this case is too typical, and the plot is relatively novel, and the Nanjing Criminal Department wants to sort it out and summarize it, so that it can teach all places, and it will be fine. ”

Gu Yanwu was impressed when he heard this: "Brother Shen Xian is really open-minded, then don't say much, it's all in the wine, I hope Brother Xian has a smooth journey, and it will not affect his career in the future." ”

When everyone drank dry, Shen Shuren immediately put on a guilty expression and took the opportunity to apologize to Zheng Sen:

Shen has a clear conscience in this matter, but he is sorry for Brother Zheng Xian. The gentleman should have made a promise, but Shen broke his trust in the end, the foolish brother respects you with a cup, if you are willing to forgive the foolish brother, you will drink this cup. ”

Zheng Sen couldn't help but be surprised: "Why did Brother Shen say this?" What do you have to do with me when you go to Nanjing? ”

Shen Shuren's acting skills were just right to show a surprised expression:

"What? Don't you know the arrangements in your brother's house? Your fourth uncle came to my house several times before and asked me to pretend to be sick and not go to Nanjing. Now I can't help myself and can only break my promise, but I'm not sorry for you. ”

Shen Shuren guessed correctly, Zheng Zhilong really didn't thoroughly analyze the twists and turns that he was worried about with the young Zheng Sen.

It is estimated that Zheng Sen only knows that his family does not want him to go to Nanjing, but he never knows how much his family has paid and how much attention he has paid for this bureau.

Zheng Sen was really stunned, and hurriedly asked, and Shen Shuren also pushed the boat down the river, and told the Zheng family's rhetoric and his follow-up reasoning.

After hearing this, Zheng Sen felt a bit of faith collapse in his heart. The image of his father in his mind is not as "loyal" as he originally thought.

“…… It turns out that my father has always been suspicious of the imperial court? He was afraid that the imperial court would let me wait to go to Nanjing to study, and wanted to take me hostage? Our Zheng family has done our duty since Zhao'an, why should we be so suspicious? Just because our family, like Zhang Xianzhong, was ordered by Xiong Wencan?

If the imperial court really has this meaning, but I don't go away from illness, doesn't it make the Zheng family more suspicious? No, I'm just a boy, what's the big deal about my personal safety, if because of me, let my father and the court have a dislike for me, wouldn't I become a disloyal and unfilial person! ”

After all, he was young, and when he thought of this, his blood surged, and he felt that as long as he acted right, how could the imperial court attack him, a fifteen-year-old boy? That's too cheap.

It's no surprise that he would think so.

The main reason is that his father Zheng Zhilong knows Chongzhen's temper of "can't rub sand in his eyes", and he can't handle it with common sense.

And Zheng Sen didn't know how suspicious Chongzhen was at all, and fifteen years old was not yet old enough to come into contact with the political struggle of the imperial court.

Shen Shuren has been secretly observing from the side, and when Zheng Sen suspected that life was almost doubtful, he was embarrassed to "think about Zheng Sen":

"The virtuous brother deserves to be a person of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness! But don't misunderstand Ling Zun and Uncle Ling, they didn't blatantly disobey the imperial court. I guess I just hoped that the Shen family would be the first bird, and then your family would follow the flow and mud, and the law would not be held accountable.

It's a pity that my father offended Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun, because of his initiative to change Caoyun to the sea, and Zhu Dadian took the opportunity to make a raft this time, so he had to disgust us, but he beat the virtuous brother ......"

Shen Shuren spoke very measuredly, he knew that he had been close to each other since ancient times, and if he directly said that the other party's father and uncle had sinister intentions, it would definitely attract Zheng Sen's instinctive resistance.

But he mainly praised Zheng Zhilong's plot as "extenuating", which increased the credibility of this set of arguments.

In the end, Zhu Dadian's "accidental force majeure" was foreshadowed, so that the Zheng family was no longer embarrassed to blame the Shen family for not cooperating.

Everything is so in line with the character of the Shen family's father and son.

Zheng Sen struggled for a banquet, and finally took advantage of the strength of the wine to impulsively: "Brother Shen, I won't cooperate with the fourth uncle to pretend to be sick, the matter has come to this, if our Zheng family is a shrinking turtle again, it will be to pour dirty water on their heads!"

Isn't it just going to Nanjing to study? I'll be on the same boat with you, sneak over first, and I'll report to Nanjing Guozijian by myself!" When the wood is ready, it is too late for my father and fourth uncle to stop it. ”

Shen Shuren pretended to be shocked, with an expression after Zhuge Liang recited "Tongque Taifu" in front of Zhou Yu: "Think twice, virtuous brother!" It's all to blame for Shen's gaffe, but don't damage the relationship between father and son because of this. ”

Zheng Sen persuaded more and more, and sighed: "My father came from a humble background and read less books of sages, but as a son of man, I saw that my father was inappropriate in serving the king, and I should make up for it."

Brother Shen, it's not that I don't have a boat to sit on, I'm just afraid that I will be sent back if I take my own boat. That's why I want to borrow your Shen family's boat to avoid people's eyes, this little favor is nothing to you, right? ”

Shen Shuren just rightly showed off a little: "Although my Shen family is not as good as your family, there are still hundreds of sea boats, and such a trivial matter as taking a boat is not enough." ”

Zheng Sen: "Then it's decided, when you set sail for Nanjing tomorrow night, I will secretly come to meet you." But I will leave a letter to the fourth uncle, explaining the reason, so that he should stop thinking about resisting the imperial court, so as not to cause more trouble, and he will understand.

By the time he saw the letter, we were already far away, and where could they find it? And I will explain that I made all this on my own, and I think this is the best for the family, and they won't blame you Shen family. ”

Shen Shuren also put on a heroic look of being excited:

"What are these words! I didn't want to take you just now, but I was afraid of damaging your father-son relationship, and I was afraid of causing people to blame! Although my Shen family is poor, I can still afford this grievance! That's it! ”

……

Zheng Sen was deceived by Shen Shuren in this way, and was imperceptibly deceived to Nanjing.

Zheng Hongkui didn't find out that his nephew was no longer there and had secretly run away with one or two henchmen after Zheng Sen set off on the boat, so he couldn't catch up.

The waterway from Suzhou to Nanjing, taking the Yangtze River upstream, took five or six days to arrive.

It was the end of June when Shen Shuren set sail, and the day he went ashore was the third day of the seventh month.

Shen Shuren specially did not dock at the crowded wharf, lest the Zheng family send a family member on a fast horse to intercept the wharf by land, after all, the waterway countercurrent must be much slower than that of horseback.

In the past few days along the way, I have had a good time, Zhang Huangyan and Gu Yanwu are also going to participate in the township test, they can come early or late, this time they happen to be on the same boat.

Everyone drinks and chats together every day, talking about politics and history, and is so happy.

In particular, Zhang Huangyan was both civil and military, and he was not too idle, and he thought that the amount of exercise on the boat was too little, so he actually set up a few temporary targets on the deck of the ship, and archery every day for exercise.

The Shen family's Dasha is about eight zhang long, and after removing the head and tail cabins, the middle deck is only five or six zhang, and it is not difficult to shoot fixed targets. In order to prevent accidents, they all knocked out the metal arrows and only used wooden poles to shoot the haystacks.

Now that Daming has reached the autumn of critical survival, there is also an additional test for riding and archery in the Wenju exam, but if you can't shoot, it will not affect the middle lift, which is an extra plus.

Zhang Huangyan was very satisfied with this year's new policy, and he shot up, and occasionally called Shen Shuren and Zheng Sen to exercise and compete together. Only Gu Yanwu has no power to restrain the chicken, so he will not participate in this kind of activity.

Shen Shuren's sports in his previous life were also good, and he went to those specialized sports venues to play horseback riding and archery, so it was not very rusty to take a bow and arrow.

It's just that the bows and arrows of later generations have professional arrows and sights, but the bows of the Ming Dynasty are bare, and it took him several days to get used to this traditional bow.

Zheng Sen was born in a martial arts family, so archery is naturally not a problem, but he is still too young and has a loss of strength, so he can only use a soft bow and light arrows. After a few days of discussion, Zheng Sen also admired Zhang Huangyan and Shen Shuren more and more. I didn't expect that among these Suzhou literati, they could also pick out such skilled archery talents.

After arriving in Nanjing, Zhang Huangyan and Gu Yanwu did not need to be imprisoned, they came to take the exam, and they went to Qinhuai River by themselves, first looking for fellow villagers to continue to learn from the literary society and find out the news of the township examination.

Zheng Sen went directly to Guozijian, verified his identity, and waited for Guozijian to apply for student status.

Wu Weiye, the newly arrived director of the Guozijian Division, had already been greeted by Yang Ge Lao in advance, and when he knew about it, he naturally did not shirk it, and helped to complete the formalities as quickly as possible.

Zheng Sen came to Nanjing two or three years earlier than in history, and he was supposed to worship Qian Qianyi as his teacher, but in this life, he fell to Wu Weiye by mistake.

After Shen Shuren got off the ship, he couldn't go through the naturalization procedures immediately, and he had to deal with the interrogation of the Nanjing Criminal Department first.

When the Nanjing Criminal Department's review was completed and his innocence was thoroughly confirmed, it took another seven or eight days, and it dragged on until mid-July in a blink of an eye.

After the Nanjing Criminal Department completely closed the case, Shen Shuren took all the materials and went to Guozijian to meet Wu Weiye.

Wu Weiye looked at his resume and read the previous invitation, and muttered a little in his heart.

"Looking at this Shen Shuren's resume, I am afraid that his knowledge is not solid when he is in Suzhou. Although Elder Yang Ge took care of him and put him in prison, but now the situation has changed, after all, he has caused a lawsuit, and I don't know if Elder Yang Ge knows about this latest situation? If he knew about it, would Elder Yang Ge still ask to handle it as usual? ”

After Wu Weiye closed the materials, he considered the wording, and expressed his meaning to Shen Shuren in as euphemistic a way as possible.

That attitude is like that of later generations of civil servants, asking people to issue a "certificate of no criminal record".

Shen Shuren was so insightful that he understood Wu Weiye's subtext in just a few words.

In fact, he also has a record for this, and he wishes that Wu Weiye would be like this.

So, Shen Shuren gave Wu Weiye a step down very thoughtfully: "Students can understand the difficulties of the mountain chief, so let's do it, it is better to write a book euphemistically about your worries, and the students can take the opportunity to take Hefei and meet Yang Gelao."

After all, the time is different, at that time, Yang Ge Lao thought that the student was just a pure and innocent child, so he recommended me to be imprisoned, and now the situation has changed, what if Yang Ge Lao doesn't want to have anything to do with the student?

The student originally had another errand and wanted to report to Yang Gelao, but he was too small and embarrassed to come to the door. With Wu Shanchang's letter, the students also had more confidence to ask to see Yang Gelao. ”

Wu Weiye stroked his goatee a few times, thinking that this was not bad. Anyway, he is only responsible for writing a letter, and as for whether Shen Shuren can ask to see Yang Sichang after taking the letter, it is none of his business.

And he put on a humble attitude of asking for instructions on everything, and he was always careful.

"You're doing things steadily, okay, I'll fix a book, please give me instructions."

After Shen Shuren got the letter of introduction, he was very satisfied, and went straight from Nanjing overnight to the residence of Yang Sichang, the governor of Hefei County, the capital of Luzhou, and the governor of the six provinces.

He overfulfilled Yang Sichang's task this time, and also overcame so many additional difficulties that Yang Sichang didn't expect at first.

If you don't take the opportunity to report to the boss and show your face to ask for a favor, wouldn't it be a waste!

Originally, I was afraid that Yang Sichang would think he was frivolous, but with Wu Weiye's instructions, everything was so justifiable.

It can only be said that Shen Shuren is too capable of doing things, and he inadvertently took advantage of Wu Weiye and Yang Sichang at the same time.