The east and west wings, the west side is used as a storehouse, and the east side is divided into two rooms for Master Hao and his apprentices to live, the inverted seat room in the front yard is used as a storehouse, and the back cover room is three rooms as a storehouse, and two rooms are reserved for the guys with their families.

Xu Tinglan sent two powerful servants over, and Huai'an hired a few craftsmen and laborers from Yaxing, and found an auspicious day to break the ground and start work directly. And let the Changxing around him stay at the construction site, so that it is convenient to run errands and pass the word when there is something to do.

Huai'an was pleasantly surprised to find that his mother was cultivating his business talents intentionally or unintentionally, and made good use of this to deal with his father.

Shen Yu didn't dare to deny his wife, and he didn't dare to let his son go. So every day I had to bring him to my eyes and ask him what he was doing. After a few times, I found that he was methodical and reasonable, and I couldn't help but be impressed.

"It's really grown up!" Shen Yu sighed.

"Of course!" Huai'an is the character who can open a dyeing workshop with a little color, and his black eyes are as bright as stars.

"Dad, I'm eight years old, you should also be open-minded, don't treat me like a child anymore, let go appropriately, and give me more free time. After all, I'm not going out to play, I'm doing business, in addition to being meaningful and making money, in addition to making money, it is also very elegant, in addition to being elegant......"

Shen Yu supported his forehead, still so noisy.

Left and right were not at ease, so he simply asked him to bring a document and check it one by one. It was found that in addition to the name of the domestic servant signed on the official documents, all the private contracts were signed with a huge name - Xu Sanduo.

The roots of my teeth are itchy and I want to beat someone, but I can't find a reason......

Shen Yuxin took out a copy of "Analects" from the bookshelf, obedient children are not easy to give birth, is it not easy to find a reason to beat people?

Huai'an's pupils dilate, and he asks questions if he doesn't agree with each other, Dad doesn't talk about martial arts!!

"Wait, wait!" Huai'an held high the white flag when the catastrophe came: "Dad, I've been so busy these days that I've almost forgotten it, why don't you give me some time to review!" ”

Shen Yu was as kind as a stream, and gave him a deadline with a straight face: "I'll check you again in ten days." ”

Huai'an blinked: "Fifteen days ......"

was glared at by his father, shut his mouth, and didn't dare to bargain anymore.

Huai'an sighed secretly, Dad has been getting more and more fierce recently, I don't know if it's because there are too many bad things in the court, or if menopause is twenty years earlier.

All in all, in order not to be beaten unjustly, Huai'an had to spend more energy on his studies.

Facts have proved that the desire to survive can indeed stimulate unlimited potential, and the "Analects", which I couldn't tackle for half a year, actually spent ten days in early February to memorize it word for word, and even the font strokes like dog crawls were erected from root to root.

Shen Yu was quite surprised, and even suspected that his previous education method had made a mistake in the general direction, delaying a child who was underbeaten to enjoy a complete childhood.

After reciting the last one, Huai'an breathed a long sigh of relief, he himself was surprised, he had lived in the prodigy pile for too long, and he had almost forgotten that he was just an ordinary person, not mentally retarded.

Now let's see how dad still finds fault!

"So......" Shen Yu twisted the Buddha beads and asked with a soul torture: "What have you been doing for the past six months?" ”

There are only two reasons why children can't read well, since they are not really stupid, they have a bad attitude.

Huai'an opened his mouth and smiled weakly: "Dad, there must be some misunderstanding in the middle." ”

"What misunderstanding?" Shen Yu is willing to hear about it.

Huai'an racked his brains to find a good excuse: "Thick accumulation, there is no half a year's thick accumulation, where does the thin hair come from?" ”

He said so, as a parent, you can't deny the results of your child's hard work, not that he is cramming temporarily.

Sure enough, Shen Yu's face turned slightly pale: "Don't you understand this very well?" Broad view and about to take, thick accumulation and thin hair. In the future, don't complain about the difficulties as soon as you study, learning is a process of slow accumulation, and there is no reason to achieve it overnight......"

Huai'an breathed a sigh of relief, his head obediently responded little by little, and the book on the desk was finally replaced with "Mencius".

Even if it takes half a year to read the Analects, Shen Yu is still very pleased, because his four-year-old enlightened son finally reached the last level of Mengxue at the age of eight!

Amitabha, good, good.

Chapter 81

The drizzle that lasted for days washed away the dust accumulated in the courtyard, and the persimmon trees were still bare in the autumn.

Huai'an knelt in a chair, looking out of the half-open window, sucking in the refreshing scent of earth. In early spring, people are always lazy, want to be in a daze, want to sleep.

Others are in Hanlin Academy, and their souls have already floated out of the window. I wonder how the bookstore has been renovated? Uncle Hao didn't protect his scraps anymore, and lost his temper at the laborers, right? At noon, I didn't want to eat the food in the yamen, and I wanted to eat the mutton potstickers on the street......

Shen Yu sat on the desk to approve the official documents, Xie Yankai stood at the door of the duty room, looked at the beaded curtain, and stretched his limbs: "Three rains in the beginning of spring, rice everywhere. ”

Turned around to Shen Yu's desk, and said softly: "Huai'an finally changed books?" ”

Huai'an seemed to have been stabbed, and "crawled" back to the table from the windowsill with a bitter face. Bitter and hateful, he looked at "Mencius" with the title page spread out in front of him.

In the order prescribed by Zhu Zi, they read the "University" first, then the Analects, then Mencius, and finally the "The Mean", but the order that his father taught him, the "Mean" precedes the "Analects".

The full text of the Analects is more than 11,000 words, and the full text of Mencius is more than 35,000 words! Of course, as a book for the imperial examination, the version in his hand was greatly cut by Emperor Taizu of this dynasty, and it was only more than 19,000 words.

Huai'an clasped his hands together, Thank you Emperor Tai*Zu!

"But more than 19,000 words is still too much...... Huai'an propped his head, looking passive and slacking off: "Wouldn't it be better if there were only 9,000 words." ”

"Wouldn't it be better not to read a word?" Shen Yu said.

"yes." Huai'an is thick-skinned and can build a city wall.

Shen Yu really wanted to beat people, but he always reminded himself to be a loving father, so he had to take a deep breath at the window, call him to his side, and explain the scriptures word by word, sentence by sentence, starting from the first article "Mencius met King Liang Hui", talking about "why bother to say profit".

Then ask him to repeat it.

This is not difficult for Huai'an, his memory is not good, his comprehension ability is still good, and he can repeat it every time. This is also one of the evidence that Shen Yu suspects that he has a bad attitude.

"You memorize this paragraph well, and after we disperse, let's go shopping on the street and buy fried chestnuts and rock sugar gourds." Shen Yu said.

Huai'an's eyes lit up, and he happily endorsed it.

Xie Yankai saw it in his eyes, shook his head with a smile, and watched his colleagues and friends use all their resources to coerce and lure them in order to teach their children, and sighed "Pity the hearts of parents all over the world".

Just as he was about to make a few jokes, he saw a scribe next to Shen Yu walking in from outside and said to Shen Yu: "My lord, something happened." ”

Shen Yu raised his head: "Pang Qian and Yang Fan? ”

"Neither." The scribe said: "It was Chen Langzhong of the military department who was arrested by the people of the Beizhen Fusi, saying that he deceived the heavens and slandered the king and caused trouble to the people's hearts. ”

Huai'an got up suddenly, and the book in his hand fell to the ground. Uncle sent an edict to prison?!

Shen Yu closed his eyes slightly and slowed down for a while. His face sank like water without a trace of astonishment, as if he had expected it.

After the solar eclipse, his uncle went to the concert without telling him, and the result was like a mud cow entering the sea, and it did not set off a wave. As a result, the two of them wrote to the same door a year later, which caused Wu Qi's revenge, and even his uncle was implicated.

The spring cold is steep, and the wind suddenly rises outside the door, cold and sharp, like a knife straight into the neck.

"Minghan ......" Xie Yankai looked gloomy and looked at him with some concern.

Shen Yu glanced at him, but finally didn't say a word, turned around and called his son: "Huai'an, go with Dad." ”

As soon as the words fell, he strode into the rain.

"Uncle Xie, let's go first." Huai'an didn't forget to say hello to Xie Yankai.

Xie Yankai picked up an umbrella from under the eaves, leaned over and handed it to him: "Huai'an, don't be afraid, don't run around with your father." ”

Huai'an nodded, put the books into his school bag, and didn't care about the umbrella, so he ran a few steps to chase his father.

Li Huan ran to the court: "Master, what do you command?" ”

"Prepare the car and go to Chen's house." Shen Yu said.

The streets were sparsely populated, and the coachmen drove fast in horse-drawn carriages. Huai Anxin was flustered, but he didn't dare to speak, disturbing his father's thinking.

After a while, he arrived at the gate of Chen's house, and Shen Yu said to Huai'an: "Is it okay to stay in the car and wait for Daddy?" ”

He didn't want his son to see the gloom and misery of the Chen family.

Huai'an shook his head: "Dad, you take me with you, I won't trouble you." ”

Shen Yu's heart softened, he raised his hand to twist his son's face, turned around and got out of the carriage, and Huai'an also jumped down after him.

Li Huan stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after knocking for a long time, an old servant in the porter opened a crack in the door, and when he saw Shen Yu, he seemed to see the backbone of the master, and hurriedly invited him in.

Shen Yu led Huai'an and walked in quickly, asking, "How is it at home?" ”

"You can count it," said the old servant, "and Madame has just learned the news, and she almost faints. ”

When Shen Yu came to the upper room, he saw that the people in the house were silent, as if they were facing a great enemy, the older children surrounded their grandmothers to comfort them, and the younger ones were so frightened that they cried.

Chen Yong was quite calm, and when he saw that Shen Yu had arrived, he stepped forward to explain the ins and outs to his cousin: "Grandfather went to the government as usual today, and came back at noon to report the news, saying that he was taken away directly by a few brocade guards with the edict. ”

It is roughly the same as Shen Yu's understanding.

Huai'an was shocked when he heard it, what kind of place is the edict? Whoever goes in will shed his skin if he doesn't die.

But he couldn't do anything but comfort his aunt at the moment. In fact, Shen Yu is not much better than his son at this time, and he is also like a trapped beast.

To appease his aunt's emotions, Shen Yu left Huai'an in the Chen family and went to Wenhua Hall to see Zheng Gelao, Zheng Qian had obviously gotten the news and entered the palace to face the saint.

He waited in the duty room until Zheng Qian came back and took off his vellus hair before standing and saluting him.

"You know it all." Zheng Qiandao, not a question.

Shen Yu didn't answer, which can be regarded as a default.

Zheng Qian continued: "Three years ago, I warned you in a letter, let you keep your light and be obscure, restrain and be patient, and go back to Beijing in the New Year. ”

Zheng Ge treats people gently and tactfully, but he is straightforward to Shen Yu.

Shen Yu also secretly blamed himself for panicking, and the impetuous look on his face gradually receded: "The teacher entered the palace to face the saint, did you see the saint?" ”

Zheng Qian spread the left and right sides far away, covered the door of the duty room, and then said to him: "I can't tell even if I am full of mouth now, so I simply acquiesced, so that Your Majesty thinks that I am the mastermind behind the scenes." ”

Shen Yu was taken aback: "The teacher ......"

Zheng Qian bowed slightly: "This is the only way to protect them from torture." ”

The emperor wanted them to confess to the mastermind behind the scenes, and now that the "master" himself has come forward, there is no need to torture them anymore.

Shen Yu is concerned and chaotic, but now that he has stabilized his emotions, he instantly understands the intention of his teacher. Zheng Qian is gambling, gambling with his diligent service to the emperor for half a year, his conscientious accumulation of political achievements and official reputation, and the emperor's suspicious sensitivity to checks and balances as bargaining chips.

If he wins, the lives of the three people in prison can be saved, and it will also show the Manchu Dynasty that Wu Jun is not invincible.

Lose, it doesn't matter, countless protégés behind him attacked him, it's a big deal to make trouble again and cry at the door, and everyone will die together.

"Death to the death and death to the death, this is where you and I are responsible." Zheng Qian also advised: "But you must always remember your identity, you are the official of King Qi's mansion, and your words and deeds will be regarded as the meaning of King Qi." Therefore, no matter what happens, even if it is to be imprisoned for the teacher, you must not act rashly. ”

Shen Yu frowned: "Students can't do it." ”