Chapter 1 Two years in a blink of an eye

Time flies, and more than two years have passed in a blink of an eye.

Mr. Yang's newcomer, according to the rules, the two wives of the Yang family must keep filial piety for Mr. Yang. Therefore, for more than two years, the Yang's big house and the second house have lived a very low-key life, and they have prohibited entertainment, marriage, sex and other taboos are regarded as unfilial matters.

Yuer was not very clear about the various rules of filial piety in the Northern Song Dynasty. After experiencing it himself, he knew that there were many rules for filial piety in the Northern Song Dynasty, which were not as scribbled as modern people. And during the period of filial piety, these rules must be strictly observed by the immediate younger generation. Once they violate the rules and are reported by others, they will be punished by the government.

Since it is related to the law, filial piety is a big deal for the fish family. As early as the time of Mr. Yang's death, Liu called all six children in the family together and carefully told them the rules that should be observed during the period of filial piety, and let them remember them firmly. Don't despise it.

The first thing Yuer knew was the deadline for filial piety for Mr. Yang. This period was very long and full of 27 months. In these 27 months, the juniors who were officials, such as Yang Dalang, must tell "Ding You" to go back to their hometown to keep filial piety. Only after the filial piety is full can they go to Beijing and ask for reinstatement.

In addition, during the 27 months of filial piety, a junior can't attend banquets, go to pubs, fireworks and other places to have fun, and even old husbands and wives who have been married for many years can't have sex, otherwise they will be regarded as unfilial.

Of course, 27 months of abstinence is indeed a little too long, but how can the couple know what they are doing when they close the door? As long as the couple do not give birth to children during the period of filial piety.

Otherwise, if a younger generation gave birth to a child during the period of filial piety, their lifelong reputation will stink, and they will be stabbed with their backbone and scolded for unfilial piety all their lives. If such an ugly thing happens to an official, in addition to their reputation, the official fortune in their life will be over.

After two years and three months of filial piety, the Yuer family happened to hold the imperial examination once every three years. This time, Yang Silang Xiaoman was able to attend. As soon as the Yuer family came out of the filial piety period, the first thing they prepared was this most important event. After all, the family's expectations for Yang Silang, who had been talented and intelligent since childhood. Still very high.

Yang Silang's current imperial examination is no longer as difficult as Yang Dalang's reference, and everything needs to be laborious. After all, Yang Silang now has an official brother, and the three brothers of Li Erniang's family are also working as officials. These relationships make Yang Silang become a complete "relationship" When participating in Qiuyan, he also took many detours because of these relationships, and there were many fewer people who deliberately made it difficult for him to ask for some fees.

And Yang Dalang returned home on leave because of Dingyou, who had just been an official for more than a year, which was a little detrimental to Yang Dalang, who had just started in the officialdom. Therefore, Yang Dalang took Li Erniang straight to Tokyo as soon as he finished his filial piety, and soon found a good job with the help of several brother-in-law. After receiving Yang Dalang's job I rushed to the office immediately.

Because Yang Silang was eager to take office, when Yang Silang went to participate in the provincial examination in Tokyo, he failed to stay in the capital to take care of him. Therefore, Yang Dalang and Li Erniang entrusted Yang Silang to several brothers-in-law and asked Li Erniang's three brothers to help take care of Yang Silang, who went to Beijing for the exam for the first time.

Li Erniang's three brothers are eager for another official in the Yang family. They also heard Yang Silang say that Yang Silang is talented and extremely talented in reading. Since Yang Silang has been talented since he was a child, he is very hopeful this time. Therefore, Li Erniang's three brothers were very enthusiastic about receiving and taking care of potential talents. As soon as they heard Yang Dalang's request, they responded.

Several brothers-in-law were willing to brush Yang Silang and Yang Dalang were naturally overjoyed. They soon sent a letter to their family and asked Yang Silang to take this letter directly to Li Erniang's brothers when they arrived in Tokyo, asking them to help take care of and make some care of them.

When the fish family received a letter from Yang Silang and learned that Yang Silang was going to Beijing to visit his in-laws uncle, Liu was immediately busy. While busy doing something Yang Silang needed to go to Beijing, he was thinking about preparing a decent gift for Yang Silang so that he could take it to visit Li Erniang's brothers.

After all, Yang Silang has to rely on Li Erniang's brothers to help him when he arrives in Tokyo, so this courtesy is indispensable. Besides, if Yang Silang visits empty-handed, it will not only be unpleasant, but also will lose Yang Dalang's face, making him unable to raise his head in the Li family in the future.

Just ask Yang Silang to bring something to visit Li Erniang's brother, but this matter has worried Liu for several days. You can't let Yang Silang bring local specialties to visit Li Erniang's brother, can he?

Besides, the specialty of Xiaoqi Village is seafood. You can't let Yang Silang go to Beijing with a bag of fish and shrimp, right? Why didn't you smoke people to death along the way?

In recent years, the fish has become more and more capable. Although Liu takes Lin Sanniang as a daughter-in-law, inside and outside the house, every time they encounter something that their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can't think of, they will find the fish and ask the fish to give them an idea, and every time the fish comes out Most of them can solve things perfectly.

Therefore, this time Liu discussed with Lin Sanniang for several days and didn't come up with a proper way. Finally, she could only find the fish to discuss it with a sad face: "Sister, at present, your fourth brother is waiting in Quanzhou, just waiting for us to send the things brought to your sister-in-law's brothers. As soon as this thing is delivered to your fourth brother, you have to hurry. I'm on my way to the capital..."

It's October after Yang Silang's participation in autumn, and he will arrive in Tokyo by mid-December at the latest, otherwise he will not be able to participate in the provincial examination held in early spring. Withholding the time it will take on the way from Quanzhou Prefecture to Tokyo, Liu has only a little more than a month to prepare things for Li Erniang's brothers.

Therefore, Liu calculated the rest of Yang Silang's time, and the sad face immediately deepened a little: "My mother also knows that your fourth brother can only wait for another month, but she can't think of anything to send to those in-laws! It's really not easy to give gifts to your in-laws..."

After thinking about it, the fish immediately gave Liu an idea: "Mom, why don't you bring silver and let's go around the shops in the city? Maybe you can choose the right thing"

"Hey! Your third sister-in-law has already brought up this idea, and she and I have gone to the city several times with silver! But those in-laws have been officials in the capital for many years. What good things have they not seen? Maybe we spend a lot of money to buy things in the city and they don't even like to look at them..."

Yuer also felt some truth after listening to Liu's words. After all, what kind of treasure has never seen as an official in the capital? And the vision of those Beijing officials is also much higher than that of local officials, and they are only interested in things that are really rare or have something special.

It's just that in this small place where the fish live, what is there that has both characteristics and can make Yang Silang take a hand? Yuer thought about it and became worried with Liu...

However, Liu's thoughts still stopped spending more money to buy good things, and soon nagged: "Although as long as there is silver, you may be able to find some rare treasures, the problem is that we can't take out that much money, and it's really difficult to find any good treasure with that little money."

"Well, it's a cheap thing at the time. I'm embarrassed to let Xiao Si bring it to my in-laws. We don't have so much money to buy precious treasures. What should we do?"

When Liu sighed, the fish also felt uncomfortable. She could only say some useless words to comfort Liu and turn her little brain to find a solution to this problem.

At this time, Lin Sanniang suddenly rushed into the room. As soon as she saw Liu, she said happily, "Mom, I want to ask the fourth brother to bring something to my brother-in-law!"

Lin Sanniang's words attracted the attention of Yuer and Liu, and Liu couldn't wait to ask, "What?"

"It's the kind of stone that Amei usually plays with at home, that can carve a picture on it," Lin Sanniang took a breath and then continued to say, "I went to the city again before, trying to see if I could find something suitable to bring to my fourth brother. After a circle, I found that There is a shop that specializes in selling the kind of stones that Amei usually beats..."

"So I went in and casually asked about the price of those stone paintings. I didn't expect that the shopkeeper's price was frighteningly high. I took a closer look at the stones. The paintings carved on the top were not as good-looking as our sister! Since those beautiful stones that are not carved by Amei can be sold at such a high price, if the stones carved by our sister are sold, they will definitely be sold more expensive!"

After listening to Lin Sanniang's words, Liu's face was confused. Obviously, she did not expect that the shadow sculpture would be so valuable. Although Yuer knew that the stunt of the shadow sculpture passed by her lame mother-in-law was very precious, she had previously thought that the shadow sculpture was more expensive than ordinary things at most, but she did not expect that it could join the ranks of luxury goods and at a price. It's not cheaper than those antique decorations.

However, Yuer was a little worried that Lin Sanniang didn't find out clearly and made a mistake, so she hurriedly asked, "Sister-in-law, has the shopkeeper said why the film and painting should be sold at such a high price?"

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