The Southern Song Dynasty began with the apprenticeship of Huang Shang

Chapter 6 The Shen Family Has a Son
Wu Ruolan slowly opened the square cloth, revealing a rectangular emerald green jade pendant with a round hole in the middle.

"Mother, this is..."

Yang Chengye looked at the jade pendant in Wu Ruolan's hand, and asked a little puzzled.

"Hey!"

Wu Ruolan sighed, please, lightly stroked the square jade pendant, and said, "Boy, this is left to you by your father."

"Your father made a marriage for you back then, and the woman is the youngest daughter of Han Shizhong, king of Xian'an County in the capital."

"You go to the capital to find Han Shizhong. We don't ask him to fulfill the marriage contract. We only ask him to write you a letter of recommendation for your father's sake, so that you can have a certificate to take the scientific examination."

There is an unwritten rule in the scientific examination in the Song Dynasty, that is, all those who participate in the imperial examination must pass the Tongsheng, Jieshi, Provincial, Autumn and Palace examinations, all of which are indispensable.

But if there is a recommendation from an important official of the court, you can directly skip the previous links and directly participate in the autumn test.

And Yang Chengye had never entered the academy at all, nor had he taken the children's exam, solution exam, or provincial exam, so he was not eligible to take the autumn exam at all.

Yang Chengye really didn't expect that such a bloody plot would happen to him, and he would have a marriage contract with Han Shizhong's daughter.

He still knows something about Han Shizhong, a famous general and poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, together with Yue Fei, Zhang Jun, and Liu Guangshi, they are collectively known as the "Four Generals of ZTE".

Han Shizhong is tall and brave.Born in poverty, he was brave and good at fighting, and had a strategic mind. He made great contributions to the Song Dynasty in the war against Xixia and Jin, and made a good story with his wife Liang Hongyu.

Wu Ruolan handed the jade pendant to Yang Chengye and said, "Boy, take the jade pendant with you and go to the capital."

Yang Chengye put away the jade pendant and said, "Mother, there are still three years before the baby can take the autumn exam. Now I will cure your eye disease first, so I can use this time to read books."

Wu Ruolan knew her son's temper, if he didn't obey him, he would not be able to pull back nine bulls if he got stubborn, so she said: "Okay, mother promises you."

Seeing that Wu Ruolan agreed, Yang Chengye began to prepare surgical equipment, but there was one thing that made Yang Chengye embarrassed. The operation must be disinfected, and the best disinfectant is alcohol. Where did alcohol come from in this era?

When Yang Chengye was in trouble, Shen You suddenly came to visit him, bringing a four or five-year-old child and two jars of wine with him.

"Brother, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss you very much, so I came to see you!"

Shen You's arrival surprised Yang Chengye. He didn't tell Shen You his address, but he didn't expect Shen Kun to find him.

Yang Chengye clasped his fists and said: "Brother Lao Lao is worried about it, the house is simple, let's chat in the courtyard, don't blame me, brother!"

Yang Chengye's mother and son lived in an abandoned thatched hut with weeds all over the yard, but Yang Chengye has cleaned it up now, and there is a stone table in the yard.

Shen You laughed and said, "Brother, it's too outlandish for you to say these things!"

As Shen You said, he put all the food and wine in his arms on the stone table, and at the same time said to the child beside him: "San'er, haven't you seen your uncle yet?"

At this time, Yang Chengye noticed the child hiding behind Shen You, with red lips and white teeth, a naive look, a pair of bright eyes flickering, really cute.

After hearing Shen You's words, the child hastily bowed and saluted: "Shen Fu has met uncle."

Yang Chengye touched Shen Fu's chubby face with a smile and said, "This kid is so cute, what did brother call him just now?"

Shen You smiled and said: "This is a dog, five years old this year, named Shen Fu, because when he just opened his mouth, he kept calling Ah San, Ah San, so everyone in our family called him San'er, which is also his baby name. Bar."

Hearing this, Yang Chengye's raised hand suddenly stopped in mid-air, his eyes widened, and he looked at the child in front of him in disbelief.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?"

Shen You saw Yang Chengye looked at Shen Fu without saying a word for a long time, and pushed him with his hands.

Yang Chengye got up and said: "It's nothing, brother, your son is not simple!"

"hehe"

Shen You smiled slightly, and said, "It's just a brat."

"Why don't you see your mother?"

Yang Chengye replied: "Mother just had dinner and is resting."

Shen You nodded, picked up the wine jar, pushed aside the mud, and said, "Brother, come and taste the fine wine that Brother Wei brought you."

As Shen Kun poured two bowls of wine, the aroma of the wine immediately overflowed. Although Yang Chengye is not a good wine person, he was also a person who drank countless fine wines. As soon as he smelled this wine, he knew it was made from pure grain. The wine is a thousand times better.

Yang Chengye picked up the wine bowl and took a sip, feeling immediately sour and unbearably sour. The wine smells quite fragrant, why is it so bad?

Seeing Yang Chengye frowning frequently, Shen You asked, "Brother, what's wrong?"

Yang Chengye put down the wine bowl, and asked Shen You: "Brother, are you sure this is good wine?"

Shen You said: "Of course, this is an authentic flower carving with a history of hundreds of years, and it is hard to find."

After listening to Shen You's words, Yang Chengye was sure that he was not lying. He knew that Shaoxing produced good wine, but there was no distillation technology in this era, so the brewed wine had a low alcohol content and didn't taste very good.

No wonder the ancients used large bowls for drinking. It turns out that the alcohol content is too low.

At this time, Yang Chengye suddenly had a bold idea. If he could succeed, he would not only find a way to make a fortune, but also would not have to worry about disinfection.

Thinking of this, Yang Chengye said deeply.Shen You said: "If elder brother can trust younger brother, come back at this time tomorrow, and younger brother will let you taste what is the real fairy wine in the world."

"Brother, do you have good wine?"

Shen You blinked twice, and asked Yang Chengye.

Yang Chengye smiled mysteriously, and said, "The heavenly secret must not be revealed."

Shen You left with Shen Fu, and before leaving, Shen You also told Yang Chengye that he would come to the appointment on the same day.

After Shen You and his son left, Yang Chengye began to prepare his distillation equipment. He said it was a distillation equipment, but it was simple and rough, because the current technology simply cannot reach that level of precision.

After a whole night of busy work, Yang Chengye finally made the first bowl of alcohol. Although it was not very pure, it was quite good.

Yang Chengye sealed and put away the matter, and poured all the two altars of wine brought by Shen You into the still. The last two altars of wine shrank by more than half, and only one jug of wine was filtered out.

Yang Chengye picked up the wine and took a sip, and suddenly felt a line of fire running down the throat to his stomach, the wine was soft, spicy and mellow.

"This is what wine should taste like."

Yang Chengye put away the wine, got busy again, and began to meditate and breathe according to the method Huang Chang taught.

After an unknown amount of time, Yang Chengye was startled awake by voices outside the house.

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