Yu Ren showed a wry smile, feeling as if his uncle was going to force this cousin to him, for fear that he wouldn't want to.

Yu Ren didn't want to argue any more, in his heart, he had already made a plan. Anyway, if he was asked to marry Cousin Yan, he would not agree. It's just that now my cousin hasn't made a statement, and he doesn't want to say it too soon. If the marriage cannot be pushed away, he will run away from the marriage. Anyway, now that his father has passed away, he has nothing to worry about, so it is not a beautiful thing to accompany Li Ying to drift on the sea for a lifetime.

Seeing that Yu Ren didn't speak, Shen Minghang no longer insisted. "Okay, then we'll talk about that later! You go back and rest first. After several days of traveling, I was also tired. ”

Yu Ren then took Cao An to a small courtyard under the guidance of a housekeeper of the Shen family. This is an independent small courtyard, the area is not very large, and there is an ancient locust tree in the courtyard. There are also seven or eight rooms in the main house and side rooms around it.

As soon as Yu Ren stepped into the courtyard gate, he saw three little maids standing at the door waiting for him. Among these three maids, one is about sixteen or seventeen years old, named Chunmei, who was originally a big girl of Shen Yan, who was specially transferred by Shen Minghang to serve Yu Ren; The other two Yahuan were only thirteen or fourteen years old, and they were selected from the newly bought little Yahuan outside.

Seeing this pomp, Yu Ren couldn't help but sigh. My uncle's family background is far more than one or two points bigger than theirs! But in the eyes of the world, the status of his uncle is obviously inferior to his father. This is the value standard of the world today. Although the status of merchants has improved significantly compared with the early and middle Ming Dynasty, they still do not get the respect of the world.

"Childe, warm water has been prepared for you. Do you want to take a shower and then take a break? In the evening, the master comes to deliver the meal, and I will call you again. Chunmei said.

"Good!" Yu Ren is not the first time to enjoy the careful and thoughtful service of such a big family, but he is not used to it.

This sleep, I didn't wake up until dark. got up and washed his face, and turned two more pages of the book, only then did he see Chunmei come to call him, saying that the master had passed the meal.

Looking at the sky, it should be more than eight o'clock in the evening, and Yu Ren is really hungry. Following Chunmei, while walking, Yu Ren chatted with Chunmei. "Isn't it late for your lord to eat every day?"

"No, our family doesn't have a fixed time for dinner like in other people's homes. Because it depends on how early or late the young lady returns. If the young lady comes back early, dinner will be served earlier, and if the young lady comes back late, dinner will be served later. Today must have been too late for the young lady to come back again, so I waited until now.

Next time, if the son is hungry, you can ask the maid to go to the kitchen to get some snacks to eat. ”

Yu Ren nodded and didn't speak again. It seems that this cousin of mine is really favored by his uncle.

Chunmei led Yu Ren to his uncle's yard. This courtyard is several times larger than Yu Ren's. At this time, a table of food had already been set up in the main room, and two maids were waiting.

Yu Ren saw that his cousin was not seated, only his uncle was sitting in the middle, and he was secretly a little strange.

When Shen Minghang saw Yu Ren, his originally elongated face also showed a smile.

"Ren'er! Come on, come on, sit next to my uncle. Hungry! I'm afraid you won't get a good rest, so I deliberately asked them to arrange dinner later. With that, Shen Minghang pulled Yu Ren to sit down beside him.

"Cousin Yan hasn't come back yet?" Yu Ren sat down next to his uncle and asked casually.

Shen Minghang suddenly heard Yu Ren ask Shen Yan, and his face was a little unnatural. "Oh! Back, back, she was a little uncomfortable today, so she didn't accompany us out to eat. ”

Saying that, Shen Minghang personally served Yu Ren a bowl of soup.

"Drink soup before eating. How about you try our chef's craft! ”

Although Yu Ren is a little hungry, he has always been very unparticular about eating, and he doesn't understand. So he drank the soup in three or two sips and praised it casually.

Shen Minghang asked the maids to pour Yu Ren a bowl of rice wine, and the uncle and nephew sat down and drank it. Drinking and chatting. Shen Minghang asked some about Yu Ren's experience of traveling for half a year. Yu Ren roughly told his uncle. Of course, Yu Ren ignored all the things about Li Ying and them.

Seeing that Yu Ren has changed his thinking in the economy for half a year, he seems to have shown a lot of interest in business, and he is no longer as interested in fame as before, Shen Minghang is very happy.

The nephew in front of him (no, it should be said that he is his son-in-law, Shen Minghang told himself in his heart), although the experience in the shopping mall is still shallow, but he seems to be born with a talent for business, and occasionally puts forward one or two business propositions, which makes Shen Minghang, a veteran who has been rolling in the shopping mall for twenty or thirty years, sigh to himself. Of course, he would not have thought that Yu Ren was just bringing out some common business practices hundreds of years later to discuss with him.

Yu Minghang believes that his nephew should be able to take over the management of the Shen family's business soon. He only needs to take him to familiarize himself with the Shen family's business a little, and the people who need to be paid attention to and dealt with in Songjiang Mansion, and in less than a year, Yu Ren should be able to manage the affairs of the Shen family independently.

The more Shen Minghang chatted, the happier he became, and before he knew it, most of the Shaoxing daughter red was drunk. At this time, Shen Yan came back with two maid rings. Shen Minghang was on the rise, so he planned to take advantage of the present to give the marriage of Yu Ren and Shen Yan. Although this era talks about the life of parents, the words of matchmakers. But Shen Minghang is still relatively open-minded (of course, mainly because of his love for his daughter), so he promised his daughter that her marriage would be decided by herself. However, through this conversation with Yu Ren, Shen Minghang suddenly changed his mind. He decided to act arbitrarily and finalize the marriage of the two.

What a talent! I can't miss it, not to mention that it's my nephew, so I don't have to worry about it. This is the best candidate for his successor, if you miss it, it is almost impossible to find such a person in the future. Shen Minghang thought in his heart.

"Go, call the young lady in. Let's just say I have something very important to tell her. Shen Minghang walked to the Yahuan who was waiting on the side.

After a while, Shen Yan came.

She didn't walk in, though, but floated in.

It seemed that she should have drunk more than her father, and the steps of her feet shook. And so he staggered into the yard. The maid who was following her wanted to help her, but she didn't let her, saying that she wasn't drunk.

As soon as Shen Minghang saw his daughter's appearance, he couldn't help but blush. You must know that although in recent decades, because of the massive spread of Wang Mingyang's psychology, the social atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty has changed greatly. People have long looked down on the shackles of those rituals and religions in the past, not to mention that the Shen family is still the home of merchants.

But Shen Yanbi is actually a girl who has not left the cabinet, such a big night, drunk outside until she comes back drunk, even if it is placed in modern society, her parents will be angry when they see it.

Therefore, Shen Minghang is no exception. This time, he was really angry.

Shen Minghang slammed the wine bowl in his hand on the table and stood up suddenly. "I think you're getting more and more talkative. On such a big night, I came back drunk outside. ”

"Dad, I, I'm not drunk. I'm also following your instructions to learn to make more friends in the mall! Daddy, don't you always teach me to make more and more friends when you are outside, and to have more friends and more roads! ”

Shen Minghang was speechless for a while.

"I'm ......," Shen Minghang said this, and suddenly saw Yu Ren still sitting next to him, so he stopped talking. Okay, okay, then I won't mention it. Come here, Daddy has something to tell you. ”

Shen Yan squeezed between her father and Yu Ren, sat down, and leaned on Yu Ren's body. Yu Ren was a little embarrassed, so he had to reach out and hold on. Don't look at Shen Yan looks very thin, but this is really not light in her hands. Fortunately, Yu Ren is not the kind of scholar who can't help but be weak, although Shen Yan's body has been pressed on his arm for half a day, he still doesn't care.

"Daddy, I'll tell you. I recently met an interesting friend and will introduce you to you another day. Seeing that Yu Ren didn't care about the pressure on half of her body, Shen Yan sat up straight and said to her father. She wanted to deliberately embarrass Yu Ren, but she didn't want to deliberately let her cousin, who she didn't look down on, eat tofu.