Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 149 Su Che returns to Beijing!

Su Che finally arrived. Su Yun took A Hui and others to Zhuxian Town to pick them up. They not only prepared two horse-drawn carriages for people, but also brought several donkey carts for egg noodles. Of course, they were all cleaned. They were used to transport the luggage for Su Che's family.

"I'm coming!"

Ah Hui saw Su Che standing on the bow of the boat from a distance, and Su Che looked quite emotional.

Su Yun smiled. How could he not feel emotional? He originally thought that he would have to work as a minor official in charge of liquor tax in that small place of Yunzhou for five years, but he didn't expect that he would be back after just over a year.

"Uncle! Uncle! Here, here!" someone on the shore waved and shouted.

Su Che looked over and saw many carriages parked on the shore. At the head of the carriages was a tall and extremely handsome young man. Who else could it be but Su Yun?

Su Che was a little dazed for a moment. He naturally knew who brought him back this time. Although it was Zhang Dun who rescued him, it was his nephew who really made him come back.

Su Yun not only helped his brother, but now he has helped himself. In fact, his kindness to his family has long surpassed the kindness his mother showed to Su Yun's parents.

Back then, his mother only gave Su Yun's parents a little money for their wedding, which was only ten strings of coins in total. However, the money Su Yun has spent on his brother's family in the past two years is more than a thousand strings of coins!
The ancients said that a drop of water should be repaid with a spring of water, and Su Yun really did it.

This time, Su Yun rescued him from Yunzhou, which undoubtedly saved his career. This kind of favor is tantamount to saving his life!
Su Che didn't know that he would come back from Yunzhou a few years later. In his own opinion, his official career was over.

The old party is either dead or demoted, and the court is dominated by the new party. Where is the place for them in the court?
The government is determined to make progress and is placing importance on the New Party, which is young and energetic, and is only in its thirties. Those of the Old Party who oppose the reform can probably only spend the rest of their lives in the local area. How can they have a chance to come back?

Yes, it’s not that Su Che was pessimistic, but the situation was so difficult for the old party.

No one expected that Zhao Xu would die a few years later, and the ascension of the young emperor gave the old party an opportunity to make a comeback.

So in Su Che's view, Su Yun's actions saved his political life.

Su Zhe came ashore, hugged Su Yun tightly, and said, "Ju Zheng, thank you."

Su Yun shook his head and said, "Uncle, I have a favor to ask of you. It's really hard work for you to make this trip."

Su Che laughed and said, "You, you, don't I know what's going on? I've read the book you sent me. It has a very high idea, a coherent and self-consistent theory. It's already a very complete theory.

I can't really help you much, even though I was the one who taught you Mencius, but now you are qualified to be my teacher in Mencius's teachings."

This evaluation was extremely high. Even Su Yun was very happy to hear it and said, "Uncle thinks so highly of me. I finally have some confidence."

Su Che smiled and said, "Don't underestimate yourself. In my opinion, your collection of notes on Mencius will become a new classic, and..."

Su Zhe looked at Su Yun meaningfully and said, "... our Meishan Su family has produced great writers and poets in the past, and now we are finally going to produce a great scholar of classics.

Moreover, you, as a master of the interpretation of the classics, will be a master of the interpretation of the classics at the level of founding a school of thought. After you have compiled the annotations for the book of Mencius, it is possible that it will be promoted from the sub-collection to the classics section. The old man Mencius should also be honored in the Confucius Temple."

Su Zhe looked at Su Yun with admiration.

"Mencius" was Su Che's original book. He followed Mencius' thoughts as the guideline for his actions throughout his life. Naturally, he respected Mencius from the bottom of his heart. However, Mencius could not even enter the Confucius Temple. This was a kind of spiritual pain for Su Che.

Now that Su Yun's "Collected Commentaries on Mencius" has come out, Su Che has seen an opportunity to push Mencius to the altar, which is even more important than Su Yun saving his political life!
Upon hearing this, Su Yun could not help but admire Su Zhe's vision. It was indeed because of Zhu Xi's Annotations to Mencius that Mencius leapt from an ordinary Confucian saint to the second-best saint.

Su Che had only read the Collected Annotations of Mencius, and had not yet seen the reaction of the world after the interview of the Collected Annotations of Mencius, but he was able to predict this point. This kind of vision is truly rare.

Su Yun smiled and said, "Uncle, please guide me in the revisions from now on."

Su Che nodded and said, "This time the emperor has appointed me as the proofreader of the Secretariat, which is a good opportunity for me to consult many ancient books and fill in the gaps."

Su Yun smiled and nodded.

Su Zhe and Su Yun made way to let Ah Hui and the others move their luggage quickly, and they stood aside and continued chatting.

Su Che whispered, "The position of the Proofreader of the Secretariat may seem like an idle position, but it is an important one. In the future, he can be appointed to other important posts. It is a position that many people want but cannot obtain. How did you do it?"

Su Yun sighed and said, "Uncle, I sold myself for a good price."

Su Zhe was confused and asked in surprise, "What do you mean?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "I agreed to marry the daughter of Zhang Canzheng."

Su Che breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "This is a good thing, how can it be sold at a high price?"

Su Yun heard this and looked at Su Zhe in confusion, saying, "Uncle, this wasn't your idea, was it?"

Su Zhe was annoyed when he heard this: "What's the matter with you? It's my idea, so what? It's not my idea, so what? Isn't this a good marriage?"

Okay, the dust has settled.

It was this old guy who came up with the idea!

Now that things have come to this, what else can we do?
Su Yun smiled and said, "Very good, very good. Hey, everything is packed. Uncle, please get in the car and let's go into the city." Su Zhe snorted and got in the car with his head held high.

The carriage rumbled towards the city.

After entering the city, the carriage continued to move forward, but Su Che suddenly asked, "Where are we going? The inn doesn't seem to be in this direction?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "Why go to the post station? I have already bought you a courtyard house near the Imperial College, so you can go to work nearby."

Going to work is not something that only happened in later times. In fact, in the Song Dynasty, the full name of going to work was "going to court."

When officials went to the court to meet the king, report matters and discuss politics, it was called "going to court".
Other officials were not qualified to attend court, so they were just "going to work."

Su Che, a proofreader in the Secretariat, naturally had no qualifications to attend court, so it was most accurate to call him going to work.

As soon as these words came out, Su Che could no longer sit still and kept saying, "How can this be possible? How can this be possible!"

Su Che had been an official for many years. Although he did not have many opportunities in Bianliang, he always wanted to buy a house in Bianliang. After all, he would eventually have to return to Beijing to be an official. However, the housing prices in Beijing were too high, so this dream could never be realized.

He was naturally aware of how expensive the housing prices near the Imperial College were. It would take several thousand strings of cash to buy a house there.

Su Yun quickly held Su Zhe down and said with a smile, "It's just a small yard. It's very small. You and your aunt can live there first. When your nephew makes a lot of money, I will buy you a bigger yard."

Su Che shook his head repeatedly and said, "No, no, we should just rent a yard."

Su Yun smiled and said, "I've already bought it, it would be a waste if I don't live in it, and my uncle is going to help me revise the Mencius Annotations, so it's convenient to live next to the Imperial College.

Such an important matter as revising the collected annotations of Mencius cannot be delayed. Compared with this, what is the yard?
Uncle, whether I can achieve success or not depends on you!"

Su Yun had said so much that Su Zhe wanted to refuse but couldn't. He just shook his head and said, "Alas, I have received your great kindness again."

Su Yun did not delve into this topic, but changed the subject. After a while, he went out of the yard.

Su Zhe got off the car and looked around, then turned back to Su Yun and said, "You called this a small courtyard?"

Su Yun nodded and said, "Any courtyard with less than four entrances around here is a small courtyard. This courtyard only has three entrances. If it's not a small courtyard, what can we call it? There are 20 to 30 people in my uncle's family. This courtyard is really too small. You have to make do with it."

Su Zhe didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but seeing his wife and children cheering and jumping for joy, he had no choice but to accept it and said, "Forget it. I owe you so many favors anyway, so I won't worry about it. But where did you get this money? Did Linjiang Tower give it to you?"

Su Yun smiled and shook his head, saying, "Linjiang Building has been under expansion recently, so there will be no dividends for the time being. I have started a small business in Bianjing..."

Su Yun talked about the egg-filled pancakes, but did not mention the specific revenue, only the scale.

When Su Zhe heard that Su Yun's so-called small business actually had 700 to 800 people and 200 to 300 stalls, he was a little shocked and said, "I was wondering why I found a pancake stall I had never seen before on my way here. It turned out that you were the one who set it up."

Su Yun smiled and said, "Yes, although the business is small, it can still make some money. It's not easy to live in the capital. If you don't make some money, you can't survive."

Hearing this, Su Che felt the same way. He had been demoted here and there in the past few years, and had been traveling far and wide. As the saying goes, a poor family makes a rich journey, so he absolutely could not save money on the road. There were many people in his family, so he had to support his brother from time to time. He had lived a very tight life in the past few years.

Su Yun helped Su Zhe's family settle down, and then let Su Zhe and his family go wash up first. The welcoming ceremony would be discussed after they had rested in two days.

Su Zhe saw Su Yun off to the door, and waited until Su Yun left before he went in with a sigh.

After entering the front hall, his wife came out in a hurry and said to Su Zhe urgently, "Husband, please follow me."

Su Zhe was surprised when he heard this: "What happened? Is the child not feeling well?"

His wife said nothing and pulled Su Che into the study. The study was full of boxes of books. It was just moved in and was still messy.

The wife pointed to a box and said, "This box is not ours."

Su Che took a look and found that it was not his box. He opened it and was shocked to see that it was full of treasures.

The box is divided into three compartments, one is full of copper coins, one is full of silver ingots, and the other is full of gold ingots. The copper coin compartment is the largest, occupying one half, and the silver ingot compartment is the same size as the gold ingot compartment.

Su Che was good at managing the household and was sensitive to gold, silver and other treasures. He could roughly estimate how much money was there without counting them one by one.

No less than a thousand strings of cash!

Su Che's wife stared at the box blankly and asked, "Did Ju Zheng move it to the wrong place?"

Su Zhe laughed when he heard this. Well, since he already lived in the house, it wouldn't matter if he collected this little money.

Su Che said, "Put it away. When we have more money, we can return it to Ju Zheng. Ju Zheng, you are really thoughtful."

(End of this chapter)