Hu lowered her eyes and looked at Shen Lingzhu: "Little Bamboo..."
Shen Xianzhu quickly stopped her sister and said, "Mom, I didn't take good care of my sisters. You have to punish me."
Shen Lingzhu stuck her head out from behind her eldest brother: "No, it's my fault, I accept the punishment."
“You failed to fulfill your responsibilities as an older brother, and you deserve to be punished.
And the bandage on my sister's hand is gone, so I don't know where it is." Hu pulled Shen Lingzhu's injured hand up.
Shen Miaozhu then stood up: "I'll apply medicine to Xiao Zhuzi."
Mrs. Hu took one look and disagreed, saying that she was the one who should be punished the most, and then pulled the youngest one into the inner room.
Shen Miaozhu wiped her face and knelt down again, "Those in the middle are not favored!"
Mrs. Hu heard this and said from the inner room, "I told Xia Wang to follow your instructions when he goes out.
But what about you? You didn't correct your brother, and you didn't discipline your younger sister. Shouldn't you be punished?"
Shen Miaozhu was silent. It seemed that she had failed her aunt's trust. She knew that Xiao Zhuzi was a bad idea, but she still allowed her to chat with the store owner.
Shen Xianzhu turned quickly towards the figure in the inner room, "Mom, when did you tell me?"
Mrs. Hu ignored him, closed the door, tapped Shen Lingzhu's forehead and said, "You are more wrong than your brothers and sisters. You always act rashly when encountering things."
It turned out that the aunt didn't change the medicine out of pity for her, but criticized her alone.
"Your uncle also said that in a few days, when he makes more bellows, he will take you to the county town to sell them to various shops.
But you've always been like this when things get tough, so how can I let you go to the county town without worrying about it?" Hu naturally didn't ignore her hand, "Why did you take off the cloth?"
Shen Lingzhu was delighted. In the morning, when she asked her uncle on behalf of her aunt whether he had any familiar clerks in the county government office, she mentioned that she wanted to stroll around the county town. Unexpectedly, her uncle remembered it and planned to take her there.
Seeing that she was snickering and hadn't said a word to her, Mrs. Hu squeezed her hand a little harder.
Shen Lingzhu let out an exaggerated "ow," startling her eldest brother who was kneeling in the hall. "Second sister, go apply the medicine. Mother isn't moving well right now."
Shen Miaozhu glanced at him and said, "There's no water or medicine in the inner room."
Shen Xianzhu was dumbfounded and didn't know what his mother was doing.
Of course, Mrs. Hu was listening to Shen Lingzhu talking about the memorial archway. She frowned as she listened. When she got married, her husband had already passed the imperial examination and was praised by many people in the surrounding villages.
Although there were some people in the same village who looked down on my father-in-law as a son-in-law and had disputes over land, they were settled early by my mother-in-law.
She couldn't imagine who would be so bold as to touch the archway built with the approval of the imperial court.
"Did you erase so many marks?" She planned to ask a Taoist priest to take a look when she sent Miaozhu to Qixing Temple tomorrow.
Shen Lingzhu said it couldn't be wiped off at all, "Aunt, who do you think did it?"
"I can't feel it. I have to ask your Uncle Jiuhe if he has seen the cleaning during the Dragon Boat Festival." Mrs. Hu supported her waist and stood up.
Shen Lingzhu didn't dare to let her work hard, "I'll go ask."
After a pause, he continued, "But asking him is equivalent to telling Second Grandfather.
What if he gets angry and mobilizes the entire clan to search for the culprit, causing a big commotion? Wouldn't that make the county government think that my uncle is looking for trouble?"
Second grandfather Shen Dexian has two sons. Shen He is the second son and Xiaoshan’s father. He will definitely tell his father about this when he returns home.
"From the moment the memorial archway was erected, it represented the honor of the Shen family. We must tell them.
You can keep it quiet, but you must investigate it privately." Mrs. Hu agreed with her niece's decision to keep it quiet. She walked out of the inner room and said,
"Don't worry about this anymore, just go and kneel.
Well, in a quarter of an hour, all three of you will stand facing the wall as punishment. "Kneeling for too long hurts your knees, so standing is fine too."
Shen Lingzhu finally became a fellow sufferer with his elder brother and second sister. A quarter of an hour later, when the three of them stood up to look at the yard, only the brothers Xia Xing and Xia Wang were there.
Several tribesmen must have gone to the archway to check.
And my aunt was feeding water to the chickens and geese in the pen.
It was a quite leisurely scene, but Shen Lingzhu had no time to watch it. Her legs were so numb that she could hardly stand.
Fortunately, my aunt didn't ask them to stand straight. She waited and waited until my uncle came back and asked them to sit down, and then she slumped down in the small chair in an ungraceful manner.
After hearing his uncle say that the owner of the tavern was replaced, Shen Lingzhu once again flattered Shen Huai.
The latter laughed and said, "Uncle is not so useful now, and he has never appeared in the market.
It was your uncle who went to find the owner of the Shangguan Salt Shop and handed the captured people over to him for handling.
The boss also ordered ten bellows from your uncle."
"Sell it?" the three siblings asked in unison, worried that someone would take it apart and copy it.
"Of course we will sell it." Shen Huai told them that the salt shop owner was trying to be friendly and would not dare to imitate unless he did not want to do salt business at the market.
Only a fool would give up being a salt merchant for a small profit.
“As for the matter of the memorial archway, there’s no rush to investigate it.
I'll go take a look later." Shen Huai had an idea of where the person who might have done such a thing was.
He sighed softly. Human greed is insatiable. Now that their wish has come true, are they more comfortable than before?
"You three, each of you will write a 500-word self-awakening book tonight.
Miaozhu, get ready and go to Qixing Temple to study for half a day tomorrow."
"Uncle, let's do it for the whole day! You can't learn much in half a day." Shen Miaozhu wanted to buy more time, but Shen Huai waved his hand and set it at half a day.
No matter how many good words Shen Lingzhu said, it was useless.
The next day, he brought gifts and a bellows and led his whole family to the Qixing Temple, one to send his eldest niece to learn health-preserving techniques, and the other to invite a Taoist priest to come down the mountain to break the cinnabar talisman.
Third, it is to cancel the verbal agreement between Xiao Zhuzi and Zhi Yuan, and no talismans can be drawn on his family's bellows.
After these three tasks were accomplished extremely smoothly, he left his wife and niece behind and only took Shen Lingzhu and his son down the mountain.
Shen Lingzhu turned around and glanced behind him. His elder brother was having a pleasant conversation with a young Taoist priest of the same age.
"Uncle, why didn't you let me and aunt accompany my second sister?" She didn't understand what her senior sister was learning. She could just wander around the mountains and hunt a pheasant or something.
Shen Huai said, "Zhiyuan's face turned black when we just cancelled the agreement. Are you uncomfortable staying here?"
He added mysteriously, "Go home, and your uncle has another important task for you."
Shen Lingzhu couldn't ask the answer, so he could only suppress his curiosity and get home quickly.
Then I saw seven or eight half-grown boys cutting wooden boards and drilling holes in front of Uncle Jiu Shen He.
Shen Huai said, "They are all children from the Shen and Huang families who are interested in learning a craft. I have discussed with your aunt and will give them ten coins a day as you said, and also require them to sign a confidentiality agreement.
From now on, they will be handed over to you three siblings to train them using the method you mentioned, where each person is responsible for one task, to train them well."
Yesterday at the market, people kept asking Uncle Miaozhu if they wanted to buy a bellows. He thought this business had great prospects and would also be a source of pocket money for his two nieces in the future.
Therefore, having two girls take care of it from the very beginning is the best training.
As for the son, he can be regarded as a temporary guard for his sisters.
"Uncle, I'll accept this task and I promise to do it perfectly." There was nothing Shen Lingzhu was more willing to do than this.
Assembly line process, let's go...
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