Wear It with Space - Chapter 23

The situation of Zheng Tang’s family is worse than that of Zheng Feng’s. Pushing open the two wooden doors, the little one enters the house. Zheng Tang sent Shen Ling to the hall, and went to the kitchen to serve two bowls of warm water, and the two of them ate the sesame seeds they bought.

Shen Ling only drank a bowl of rice porridge when she woke up in the morning, and wasted a lot of brainpower when attending classes, and she was already hungry. He didn’t feel so hungry after eating two biscuits in a row, so he picked up the warm water in front of him and drank it.

With some satiety in his stomach, Shen Ling’s speed of eating sesame seeds slowed down. At this time, he realized that Zheng Tang seemed to have no appetite, and he hadn’t even finished a sesame cake.

Shen Ling asked, “Why, something is on my mind?”

Zheng Tang sighed deeply: “My mother asked me to tell me about the marriage.”

Zheng Tang and Zheng Feng are the same age, but two months older than him. Now that Zheng Feng is married, Zheng Tang’s mother will naturally be anxious.

Shen Ling joked: “This is a good thing!”

Zheng Tang glanced at him: “It’s not that you don’t know the situation of my family. You can collect rent than if you have two shops, and the bride price is not generally high.”

Shen Ling silently ate the biscuits in his hand slowly before saying: “The money is a trivial matter. The most important thing is the woman’s appearance. You can honestly tell me, have you seen each other?”

Zheng Tang lowered his head slightly: “My mother has seen that girl and she looks pretty good.”

Shen Ling listened to what he meant to be willing to this marriage, but was worried and couldn’t get so much money.

“How much bride price does his family want?”

Zheng Tang exhaled a long breath after hearing it, “I want thirty taels of silver and a set of silver jewelry.”

Shen Ling said: “Then what do you think?”

A helpless smile appeared on the corners of Zheng Tang’s lips: “I originally wanted to go out of patriarchy and do a small business outside, and my family would also make some money. My mother agreed. But if I use all my savings to do it After the bride price, where does the capital come from?”

Shen Ling thought for a while and said, “Leave the dowry aside first, what kind of business do you want to do?”

When it comes to doing business, Zheng Tang finally has some brilliance in his eyes. He said in a calm tone: “I don’t want to do business a day or two. After thinking about it for so long, I think it’s suitable for me. It’s the opening of a bookstore. First, I’ve studied for a few years in patriarchy, and I still know a little about what books are good for sale. Second, opening a bookstore doesn’t count as tarnishing the name of my Zheng family. It sounds more elegant than other businesses.”

Shen Ling nodded and said: “What you said is good, and I think the idea of ​​opening a bookstore is good. To be honest, I have a fortune in my hand. Although not much, it is enough for the bride price.” He looked at Zheng. Tang has something to say, so he interrupted hurriedly, “You don’t need to say more between you and me. I will send you this money tomorrow. Whenever your bookstore makes money, I will pay it back anytime.”

Coming out of Zheng Tang’s house, Shen Ling walked towards Clan Xue alone. With what he said, Zheng Tang directly settled down, and went down to see a suitable store.

Because of the plenty of time, Shen Ling walked to the school in a hurry, and then turned to the content he had learned in the morning and recited it silently. After he had all the content in mind, it was almost time for class.

When Zheng Ming came, he still had a stack of reviewed articles in his hand. He distributed the articles one by one, and then came up with a topic for the students to write an article. You can leave when you finish writing.

For articles that Shen Ling had not reviewed before, he didn’t need to study the criticisms written by Zheng Ming, and started thinking about it first.

The title is an original sentence from the “Golden Mean” that I learned in the morning: Jun Yu Zhongyong, the villain opposes the Golden Mean. Shen Ling repeated its interpretation several times silently, and then began to compose. For Zheng Feng, this is certainly not the first time to write an article, but it is the first time for Shen Ling. Thousands of thoughts were tumbling in his heart, but when he wrote, he found that he was still unable to transform the vernacular into ancient.

Shen Ling remembered that when he was in college, a senior sister taught him a way to write a paper quickly, that is, first find out a dozen sample essays, and then take a paragraph from each one, and change some sentences before and after them. It is said that in this way, a paper of acceptable quality can be pieced together, and the plagiarism rate must be below 30%.

Therefore, Shen Ling spent all afternoon writing down all the contents of the four books and five classics involving gentlemen and villains, and then pieced together an article of more than 600 words on this basis.

It was late when Shen Ling handed in the article, and there were only a dozen people left in the school. He handed the article into Zheng Ming’s hands, cleaned up the stationery on the table, and left the school.

When he returned home, Lan Zhu was sitting with Huang, doing needlework. Shen Ling handed the two fish to the little maid Xiaoer, and listened to Huang’s words: “Okay, why do you think of buying fish?”

Shen Ling said, “I don’t know what’s wrong, I suddenly wanted to eat fish, so I bought two at the fish market.” Fortunately, there is a big river beside the county town where they are located, and fishermen often go to the city to sell fish. Otherwise, it would be really difficult for him to take out the fish in the space.

When Huang heard his son said he wanted to eat fish, he immediately asked Zhuaner to go to the kitchen and Mrs. Li, who was called a meal, left one in the vat and the other stewed to eat at night.

Shen Ling watched the clothes that the two mothers made for him for a while, said a few gossips, and went to his study.

Huang looked at his son’s back and smiled and said, “Since Feng’er took you back this time, people have worked harder. It is your credit for wanting to come.”

Lan Zhu lowered his head and whispered softly, “Where is the credit for the daughter-in-law, it is Xianggong who knows that he is making progress.”

Huang smiled and didn’t click on it. After a while, he said again: “I don’t expect him to be appointed as a nominee. As long as he is a talent, I will be satisfied. In a few years, you will give me a big fat. Boy, I have no more regrets.”

Lan Zhu blushed and didn’t speak, bowed his head and only did needlework.

Naturally, Shen Ling didn’t know this conversation. He lay in the study, browsed all the selected articles on the shelf several times, and compared the articles he wrote in the afternoon. Shen Ling selected several articles with similar topics, and planned to memorize them all in silence at night.

During dinner, Huang Mingzhuo’er put the fish made by Mrs. Li in front of Shen Ling.

What Shen Ling took out from the space were two carps weighing five or six kilograms, two of the few carps he fished when he was in Zhubi Lake.

The carp weighing five or six catties was cut into two pieces by Mrs. Li. The part of the fish head was made into a large bowl of fish head tofu soup, and the remaining part was made into a braised carp.

The fish head tofu soup has been simmered for more than half an hour, and the creamy white soup has a delicious fragrance. Chen Ling drank two bowls, and persuaded Huang Shi and Lan Zhu to also taste it.

Huang Shi and Lan Zhu were not easy to push but he was kind, and they each had a small bowl. Huang couldn’t stand the fishy smell, so he let it go after two sips. Lan Zhu couldn’t bear the fishy smell either, and after taking a sip, she felt a little sick, so she hurriedly let it go.

Shen Ling had no choice but to enjoy the delicious food alone, and ate more than half of the braised carp with white rice.

After dinner, Shen Ling still went back to the study, remembering the articles so well before returning to the room. Like last night, Lan Zhu was sitting in the room waiting for him.

Shen Ling said as he undressed: “You should go to sleep in the future, don’t wait for me.”

Lan Zhu brought him foot wash and said, “You don’t need to worry about me. As long as you study hard every night, I will only go to bed in the middle of the night and I am willing to go to bed.”

Shen Ling took off his shoes and socks, “If you insist on waiting for me, then I will have to stop going to the study from tomorrow.”

Lan Zhu only compromised: “Okay, don’t wait, don’t wait.” After speaking, she looked at Shen Ling with a smile.

Shen Ling was uncomfortable with her, and asked: “What’s the matter, what are you doing when you look at me like this?”

Lan Zhu smiled and said, “I always feel like you have changed people these past two days, knowing that you are considerate of others.”

Shen Ling didn’t speak, but smiled, thinking to himself, isn’t it?

After washing, the young couple lay on the bed and talked. It was mostly Lan Zhu who was talking about what happened today, Shen Ling had a couple of words at first. Later, he was a little confused, listening to Lan Zhu’s homely words, he didn’t know when he would go to sleep.

When she woke up early the next day, Shen Ling wiped her face, drank the fish porridge made by Mrs. Li, and went to school.

This morning, Zheng Ming still checked the students’ recitations first. Shen Ling had already memorized the original text and annotations, and naturally passed this test easily.

After examining the students, Zheng Ming went on to talk about “The Doctrine of the Mean”, and everything was the same as yesterday. It was just that when the review article was distributed in the afternoon, Shen Ling finally produced an article with a few red circles and some words in his hand.

The place where the red circle is drawn is the sentence Zheng Ming thinks is better, and the comment is a few suggestions for people like Shen Ling who can’t write, and a few book titles are listed.

After Shen Ling wrote the article according to Zheng Ming’s suggestion, he did not rush home, but went to a nearby bookstore to buy the books Zheng Ming said.

When he got home, he read the books from start to finish, and he realized that he had benefited a lot.