Literature about human affairs is naturally literature.
In order to find a backer for his bookstore that could fool people, Su Yu brought his things directly to Zhang Xuezheng's door the next day.
Zhang Xuezheng will leave for Beijing at the end of the month, and now he has almost all the work in hand arranged.
The remaining work is to wait for him to lead the students to hold a Pan ceremony in early October, and then go on a tour of the county schools below.
All the academic officers below also got the news.
If the matter is not urgent, we will suppress it and wait until the new academic administrator comes over before reporting it.
Zhang Xuezheng had nothing to do today. He was doing a tour of the mansion and heard that Su Yu wanted to see him.
He had a deep memory of this student.
So when I heard that he came to ask for an audience, I immediately asked someone to invite Su Yu in.
"Hello, Master Xuezheng."
Zhang Xuezheng nodded and pointed to the stool beside him.
"Sit down and talk."
Before Su Yu went back to worship his ancestors, Zhang Xuezheng had someone give him a hundred taels of silver.
It was enough to show how much he valued Su Yu.
Therefore, Su Yu's attitude towards him was extremely respectful.
He said that not long after he returned from worshiping his ancestors in his hometown, he heard the news that Zhang Xuezheng was being transferred back to the capital.
Su Yu brought the tea.
"When the adults leave, the students are probably in class at the government school, so they cannot say goodbye to the adults."
"The student's family happened to get some good tea, so they brought it over in advance to give it to the adults."
The last time Butler Zhang went to help Zhang Xueshen deliver money, he once praised Su Yu for serving him tea.
But Su Yu naturally couldn't say that to Zhang Xuezheng.
Otherwise, Zhang Xuezheng might misunderstand that it was Butler Zhang reaching out to Su Yu to ask for something.
So Su Yu changed it to a simpler way.
"tea?"
Zhang Xuezheng knew that Su Yu's family was not well off, so he asked his men to send money.
What good tea can people from poor families have?
He smiled and said: "You are determined."
He took the tea leaves handed over by the maid and opened them casually and looked at them.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened it, the fragrance of tea came to his nostrils, which made Zhang Xuezheng a little surprised and stretched out his hand to twist a few tea leaves.
"Tea before the rain..."
The tea in hand is obviously expensive.
It was obviously not something that people from Su Yu's family background could afford.
I gave him one hundred taels as a gift, hoping to help him study for the exam in the future.
Could it be that he used the money as a favor?
At such a young age, I have just passed the exam to become a scholar, and I am thinking about these worldly things, which is not a good sign.
Zhang Xuezheng frowned slightly. He was not happy about receiving the gift, but seemed a little dissatisfied.
"Did you buy this tea?"
Su Yu looked at his expression and seemed to have guessed what he was thinking.
He explained with a smile: "This tea was given to me by an elder friend of the student's family. It was not bought by the student."
I see......
It seems that it is not easy for this elder friend of the family to be able to afford such good tea.
Thinking of the inextricable relationship between Su Yu's family and the King of Huainan, Zhang Xuezheng felt that this was not too strange.
He put back the tea leaves in his hand and handed them back to the maid next to him, asking her to take them down and put them away.
Only then did he regain his smiling face.
"It's really good tea."
"In that case, I will accept it."
He also mentioned that he was going to study at Fuzhou School soon.
Zhang Xuezheng said: "With your strength, I think you have a good chance of taking the provincial examination next year."
"So from now on, you must not slack off."
Su Yu handed over his hand and said, "Students will definitely work twice as hard."
While talking, the maid served tea and snacks.
While the two were drinking tea, Zhang Xuezheng asked some questions about Su Yu's family.
After chatting for a while, Su Yu talked about today's business.
He said: "Recently, there is a Sanwei Bookstore that produces top beauties in the city. I wonder if Sir Xuezheng has ever heard of it?"
At the last banquet, Su Yu brought out various drawings and papers that amazed him, an academician.
Of course I have heard of it.
On the first day the painting paper went on sale, the servants in the mansion bought a lot of them for him.
"The drawing papers you took out at the last banquet were produced in this bookstore."
"I don't know who the owner of the bookstore is, but he actually has such a unique craftsmanship."
Color paintings that ordinary people would be reluctant to buy in their entire lives only cost a few dozen pennies in that bookstore.
Moreover, the quality of the paintings was excellent and the style was very different from anything they had seen before.
Not to mention rich people flocking to them, ordinary people can't help but spend a little money to buy a few.
Seeing that Zhang Xuezheng's evaluation of his bookstore was also good, Su Yu became more confident.
He said: "It's true."
"The owner of Sanwei Bookstore came to the student yesterday and asked me to help with something."
"The students are a little undecided, so I want to take advantage of today to ask the academic administrator for his opinion."
"Huh? What's the matter?" Zhang Xuezheng looked at Su Yu strangely.
Su Yu explained: "Sanwei Bookstore will launch a new drawing paper next month."
"Before the official launch, they want to organize an event for all literati students."
"The owner of Sanwei Bookstore made a good match."
"If you can match up with the right person then, you will be able to get a set of new products they are about to release."
A set of new products, naturally including storybooks and beauty notepads from the same series.
At the same time, an additional separate poster will be given.
"The student has some connection with Sanwei Bookstore, so the owner of the bookstore told the student about it in advance."
"After learning about the first couplet, the students thought hard about it in the middle of the night yesterday. After thinking about the second couplet, they thought it was not good enough."
"So I would like to ask the Academic Affairs Master for some help and guidance."
Su Yu thought about it yesterday.
If you want Zhang Xuezheng to go to Sanwei Bookstore in person, you can't say it directly.
After all, their relationship is not actually close, and Zhang Xuezheng is a civil servant.
This kind of thing of being someone's backer is too philistine.
Saying so will only make him unhappy.
But it's not impossible.
Literary people naturally care about literary matters.
As long as Sanwei Bookstore attracts Zhang Xuezheng's attention enough and he can't help but go there by himself, that won't be a problem.
Showing students a pair is not a big deal.
Zhang Xuezheng readily agreed.
"Your poetry writing skills are pretty good, and you must have good pairing skills as well."
"But this kind of game of playing with words is faced too rarely, so there is this kind of uncertainty."
"Bring the first couplet, I will show it to you."
Su Yu smiled and took out the couplet he wrote yesterday and handed it to Zhang Xuezheng.
As a second-ranked Jinshi, Zhang Xuezheng's literary talent is naturally good.
Su Yu's articles were good, but after all he was just a scholar.
He was also a scholar who came from a peasant family.
So in terms of literature, it is still a bit immature.
He admired Su Yu, so he also wanted to show his skills in front of Su Yu, so that Su Yu could see the ability of the two Jinshi.
This will also give him motivation to work harder for next year's provincial examination.
When Su Yu won the imperial examination, he went to the capital to take part in the examination.
No matter what you do, whether you are recruiting a disciple or doing something else, it will be much more convenient then.
Zhang Xuezheng thought about this, took the pair, opened it and started reading.
Seeing this, Zhang Xuezheng himself couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"The water is falling."
