No watermelon can be, Zhu Pingan bought some lychee, cherries and other seasonal fruits, and wrapped some snacks, and carried to Zhang Siwei House, later bid farewell to Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen, and then went out to go to the acacia hutong to pay a visit to the master Xu step.
On the way, Zhu Pingan spent two taels of silver, in the tea shop to choose a catty of West Lake before Longjing, let the shopkeeper heart exquisite package with. Longjing tea has always had “rain before the top grade, before the precious Ming” said, in the Qingming before the picking of Longjing tea called Mingqian Longjing, in the Qingming after the rain before the picking of Longjing tea called rain before the Longjing, Mingqian Longjing price is about twice as much as the rain before the Longjing, belongs to the aristocrats in the Longjing tea.
Visiting the seat master, empty hand is not good, send gold and silver is too vulgar, and they are not rich, so they chose this top quality dragon well tea as a gift, the tea house also has the very best dragon well, to more than ten taels of silver, too expensive.
This trip is not to ask for Xu Ji’s favour, but in accordance with the practice of the officialdom, to visit the seat of the master.
Return home before the fold is not a small matter, return home after the marriage is a major life event, in addition to the Dragon Boat Festival some time ago, they are not in the capital, although Wang Shizhen and Zhang Siwei two people for their own into a gift, but after all, I have not arrived. So many things down, in the sense of reason, have to go forward to visit the seat teacher Xu step, otherwise they will be accused of saying that they do not respect the teacher.
“Please pass on, the disciple Zhu Pingan came to pay a visit to the seat master.”
Entering the acacia hutong and arriving in front of the Xu Mansion, Zhu Pingan honestly passed the invitation to pay his respects inwards through the concierge.
Waiting outside the door, Xu Mansion door side door opened, from the inside out of a jade hairpin bundled crown, wearing a blue cocoon silk straight jacket, handsome handsome youth, with a steady pace, in the Xu Mansion under the escort, out of the door, a natural elegance of the handsome atmosphere comes out.
At the beginning of the breeze, a light smell of balsam blew in.
Seeing this person, Zhu Pingan took the initiative to arch his hand forward to salute, a naive smile, “Zi Hou met Zhang senior brother.”
This person is Zhang Juzheng, as in the past, Zhang Juzheng pays great attention to his appearance, his clothes are spotless and powdered, this trend is hundreds of years ahead of the later generations of those powdered Korean fresh meat.
Zhang Juzheng also bowed his hand to return the salute, a smile, the two men in front of the Xu Mansion briefly exchanged pleasantries. But also did not chat a few sentences, Xu Mansion’s concierge came over to invite Zhu Pingan into the house, so Zhu Pingan also arched his hand and Zhang Juzheng goodbye, into the Xu Mansion.
The outer walls were highly illuminated and the interior was elegant, this was the second time Zhu Pingan stepped into the Xu Mansion.
“Lord Zhu, please also sit down for a moment, Master is currently in the study composing the Qing lyrics for His Holiness.”The servant of the Xu Mansion invited Zhu Pingan into the parlour, the maid came in and poured a cup of tea, allowing Zhu Pingan to sit for a moment.
“Thank you.”Zhu Pingan nodded and sat down, thanking the maid who poured the tea.
Just now, Zhang Juzheng had only gone out, and this side, Xu Shi was writing the green words? Is it because of the matter of the zhangzhi, deliberately snubbing himself and showing goodwill to Yan Song? Or is it true that the emperor has a request for a word, and Xu Shi is working overtime to meet the emperor’s needs?
With Zhu Pingan’s understanding of Xu Shi, the latter is more likely.
Xu step has a habit, is to encourage the promotion of students, when Xu step is still doing the Hanlin Academy when the court, Xu step often take the time to talk with the new Hanlin, to encourage the future, to discover useful talent, cultivation of the class, for their own use. Zhang Juzheng is how to enter the line of sight. I don’t think I will be so bad that I will let Xu Shi give up on myself so quickly, right?
And since jiajing emperor cultivation since, good at writing green words of the officials were promoted, green words has become a trend in this dynasty, yan song into the cabinet of the first thing is in the cabinet next to the straight hut, built the green words room, at any time for the saint to provide the green words. Yan song can see the importance of the word, xu step naturally also see, so from the understanding of the capital since, xu step is also like yan song, the word as the work of the first priority. If the saint has the green word demand, Xu step is certainly the first time for the saint to write the green word.
Perhaps it was on the way to pay a visit to Zhang Juzheng, Xu Shi received the demand for the Qing lyrics from the saint, Xu Shi had to work overtime to write the Qing lyrics, and Zhang Juzheng just retired.
Of course, does not rule out the Xu step in order to curry favour with Yan Song, do to do cold shoulder their appearance. After all, in order to get rid of Yan Song in history, Xu Jie is learning to paralyse Yan Song by learning the matter of Wu.
After about less than half an hour, Zhu Pingan heard a burst of footsteps, looked up and saw Xu step dressed in a loyal Jing crown dress, amiable smile and walk quickly.
The Zhongjing Crown Suit was personally designed by Emperor Jiajing seven years after his ascension to the throne, and is a symbol of status that can only be worn by Beijing officials above the seventh rank and above the eighth rank of the Hanlin Academy, the Imperial College, the Pedestrian Division, as well as the local government halls and palaces, the state and county main halls, and the Confucianism school instructors. In the case of military officials, only officials above the rank of governor could wear it.
“The student has met the teacher.”
Before Xu Shi could reach the doorway, Zhu Pingan hurriedly got up to welcome him to the doorway and bowed with his hands, respectfully paying his respects to Xu Shi.
“Zi Hou, welcome, quickly sit down in the house and talk.”Xu step is very cordial, one hand pulling Zhu Pingan’s arm into the house, not at all end the cabinet minister’s frame.
“A month ago, the student got married at home, without informing the teacher beforehand, I came to ask for forgiveness.”After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Zhu Pingan hands over the invitation to the appreciation banquet in ten days to present to Xu Ji.
Xu step took the invitation, read it and put it into his sleeve, nodded his head and said with relief: “Very good, among my disciples, you are the youngest, I am very happy to hear that you have become a bride, I am very happy. The so-called become a family, Zi Hou family has become, why worry about the industry of not established.”
“The student is not talented and shallow, I am afraid that I will fail to live up to the teacher’s expectations.”Zhu Pingan said with some embarrassment.
“Zi Hou’s scholarly talent, no need to be too modest. Oh yes, I know that ZiHou is also quite knowledgeable about QingLyrics, see how about this QingLyrics that I just wrote?”Xu Hui said with a smile, then took out a copy of the Qing Lyrics from his sleeve and placed it on the table.
“The light of the student’s fluorescent candle, how dare I compete with the teacher’s sun and moon, to have the ability to read the teacher’s masterpiece today, is indeed the student’s three lifetimes of good fortune.”Zhu Pingan respectfully got up, picked up the green words placed on the table by Xu Shi, and gently unfolded them on the tabletop.
Xu step smiled and shook his head, looked at Zhu Pingan with an admiring gaze and slowly said, “I have read Zi Hou’s work of green words ……Fu Wei Tian Gong God shakes his head, and does not hold back on talent ……There are not many who can write Qing Lyrics to such an extent.”
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Zhu Pingan laughed bitterly, in modern times widely spread and selected textbooks of the green words of course good, but unfortunately not his own original, although he studied that mysterious old Taoist gift “Jiaojiao green words scripture”, the green words standard is also much better than the average person, but compared with the Xu step, Yan Song, Yuan Wei and so on, these really good at the green words, to green words as the first priority of the work of the people, but there is still a gap. However, these words can’t be said by myself
