Chapter 262: Academy Enrollment Frustrated
The servants at the door were watching, and no one dared to pick it up. They just waited for the boy to come out and pass on the message.

Who knew that after waiting for so long, the real owner would come out.

Puyang Zhao walked to the door and snorted, "I came out here on purpose to tell you: I don't care about things like this! If you want to take them away, just do as you please!"

After saying that, his eyes swept across the inkstone on the ground, his eyes were slightly fixed, a look of surprise flashed across his eyes, and his fingers were curled up!
Resisting the urge to look a few more times, Puyang Zhao turned away.

Since the owner had said no, the people who had been waiting outside the door immediately pounced on him.

Except for the glass tea set that was broken into pieces, everything else was snatched away.

Even the tea leaves that had fallen on the ground were picked up cleanly.

One ounce of tea is worth one ounce of gold!
What's dirty?!
Puyang Zhaoren returned to the study, but his heart remained outside the door.

The intricate and exquisitely shaped turtle-lotus-leaf inkstone kept turning around in his mind.

He has no interest in other things, but is particularly obsessed with inkstones.

Most of my savings over the years were used to buy all kinds of good inkstones, but I have never seen an inkstone like the one I see today.

If I had known it was so special, I should have opened it and taken a closer look before throwing it away!

So after an afternoon, Puyang Zhao felt very irritated.

After being scolded several times, the boy didn't even dare to enter the door and just went to the old housekeeper for help.

The old butler heard about what happened today and knew the crux of the matter. He brought tea into Puyang Zhao's study.

"Master, I will give you some tea."

Puyang Zhao frowned and looked at the old housekeeper: "Why did you come to serve tea in person?"

The old housekeeper laughed innocently: "Song'er said that you were in a bad mood. He was not careful enough in his work and was a little scared of you..."

Puyang Zhao fell silent.

This was the old butler's subtle reminder.

Without waiting for his master to speak, the old butler continued, "I heard that the person who found the inkstone sent it to Songshizhai, and Songshizhai offered a high price of five hundred taels to buy it."

Puyang Zhao sneered: "Song Shizhai is also evil-hearted. The carving of the inkstone alone is worth more than five hundred taels..."

With just one glance, he could tell that it was a good inkstone.

The old butler nodded: "The master's vision is definitely not wrong. The master is a noble person. It is very good that he does not accept the gift from the new prince. But that thing is a dead object. There is nothing wrong with it."

"If the master thinks that thing is good, why don't you ask your servant to buy it back secretly?"

Puyang Zhao was touched by the housekeeper's highly empathetic words. He thought for a moment and nodded: "Well... don't let anyone know that I bought it."

"Here..."

Before dark, Puyang Zhao finally saw the inkstone again.

It cost two thousand taels of silver!
The housekeeper felt very painful and Puyang Zhao was very regretful.

I shouldn’t have thrown it away if I had known… cursing a few words can be considered as “refusing to accept the prince’s offer”.

The next second his attention was attracted by the inkstone in front of him and he looked at it carefully.

Apart from the intricate and exquisite carving on this inkstone, a closer look at the stone will amaze you: the stone has a solid structure, fine texture, and a smooth surface.

In addition to its special shape, it can have many uses.

He tried pouring water into the grinding machine and found it was also excellent: it releases ink like a whetstone, it is not sticky enough to leave a mark, it is smooth enough not to reject ink, it has the skin of a melon but the texture of a jade, and the sound of gold but the virtue of jade.

Puyang Zhao was considered an expert in connoisseur and collector of the Four Treasures of the Study, but he had never seen such an inkstone.

He couldn't help but become more curious and rummaged through the box that had just been thrown away.

One corner of the box had been broken, and the words "Sheyan" were written on the front.

She (shè) inkstone?

He had never heard of it, and even the words in front of it had never been seen before.

As a great scholar, he has the curiosity unique to scholars: when he encounters something he doesn't understand, he always wants to figure it out.

Where does this word come from? What does it mean?
Is this the origin of this inkstone?
Or its characteristics?

If it were usual, he would certainly ask someone who knew the truth. However, it was obvious that the person who was most likely to know the origin of this "She Inkstone" was the prince.

After all, the stuff came from him.

But he had just thrown the thing away and went to buy it back, and even had the audacity to ask the prince for advice?

He would never do such a shameful thing even if he was beaten to death.

Reason stopped him in his tracks, but his emotions made him anxious: He really wanted to know the origin of this She inkstone...

Puyang Zhao was scratching his head, and Fu Chenan was also scratching his head.

In Tianwu Kingdom, they have been recruiting students for Yingchun Academy in the past two days.

However, once the admission details that “both boys and girls are accepted” were posted, many people watched and discussed it, but only a few signed up.

From ancient times to the present, there has been no reason for both men and women to study in the same academy.

Although men and women attended school separately on opposite sides of Yingchun Academy, with a wall between them, they were still only separated by a wall.

There are a few people on the man's side who cannot afford to go to school but want to learn to read and write.

There was none on the women's side.

There were a few female students who were interested but did not dare to be the first to sign up.

They were watching quietly.

Fu Chenan looked at Xiao Yingchun and said, "How can we encourage the common people and women to take the first step and become female students at Yingchun College?"

Xiao Yingchun thought for a moment and said, "Why not send the teahouse's tea artist trainer to Yingchun Academy?"

"Then let all the students who are learning tea art go directly to Yingchun Academy to study?"

Fu Chenan's eyes lit up instantly: "This way everyone will know that if you learn this, you can also work as a tea artist in a wealthy family?"

There is a shortage of tea art masters in the capital city now, and many noble families have sent their maids to teahouses to learn tea art.

The tuition fee for each person is as much as one hundred taels!
Xiao Yingchun smiled and said, "If you really learn it, you can also work as a tea artist in our teahouse."

As tea becomes more famous, more tea houses will be opened in various places, and naturally more tea artists will be needed.

Not only that, with the establishment of the high-end luxury brand "Chunxiao", the Weaving Department also needs more weavers and embroiderers.

We can also invite experienced embroiderers and weavers from the Weaving Department to come here to teach various weaving and embroidery skills.

If you learn well, you can work in the weaving department in the future.

There are a large number of orphans in the Charity Bureau, and they are also sent there to learn some skills.

Fu Chenan nodded frantically: "This is a good idea! I'll ask someone to post the enrollment details..."

Xiao Yingchun hurriedly stopped him and said, "You can also post a recruitment notice next to the enrollment notice."

"Let's say the teahouse and the weaving department are recruiting tea art masters, weavers, and embroiderers. The requirements are that they are experienced and have knowledge of tea art and weaving and embroidery skills..."

In this way, those who want to earn this money will naturally weigh the pros and cons and make choices.

Fu Chenan immediately went to the Tianwu Palace and asked someone to pass the order down.

In addition to ordinary people who were curious about the follow-up of Yingchun Academy, the aristocratic families were also curious, and the managers of each family asked people to keep an eye on it.

As soon as they saw the enrollment and recruitment notices posted, the stewards of each household rushed home to spread the news.

The aristocratic families were surprised, and then laughed contemptuously: Yingchun Academy has become a place to train all kinds of female servants?

Hahaha!
In this case, which young man or young lady from aristocratic family would lower their status to go to Yingchun Academy?
A butcher is a butcher. It is not even decent for him to run an academy.

Thinking in his mind, the head of the family immediately gave the order.

"There's no need to send the young masters and young ladies there. Instead, send a few of their personal servants and maids over to learn something."

The servants learn to read, write, and do math so that they can become helpful to the young masters in the future.

As for the maids, they learned tea-making, embroidery, needlework and so on, so that they could better serve the young ladies in the future.

The steward also laughed and immediately went over there. Unexpectedly, not long after, the steward came back with an embarrassed look and asked: "Master, the rules of Yingchun College are very strange..."

(End of this chapter)