The brass round tree-shaped lamps under the east wall were originally lit, but only a few lamp trays were lit. At this time, because Sheng Sleeping Crane and Huang Wuyi wanted to use the bookcase, a maid in colorful clothes moved the lotus step lightly and ignited all the lamp plates, making the original desk a magnificent lamp, brighter and brighter, straight as day.

The two of them are each in a case, and they are far away from each other.

Because the hall is burning with raging charcoal, warm as spring, at this moment all untie the robes, are young and dignified men, at this moment, Huang Wuyi Tsing Yi is scarce, calm and atmospheric;

Yuan Liuguang and Meng Jiayan restrained each other, they all paid attention to the outcome and didn't say anything, and the others were afraid of them, and they didn't dare to show their ideas.

Only Li Shengxu had no taboos, and said with a smile: "These two Xie Yuan are a talent! In my opinion, what kind of champion are they fighting for? Such a good look, they should be a tanhua!"

"Young people are inevitably angry. Yuan Liuguang smiled faintly and said, "But if you want to talk about good looks, although Ziyue is born with a dignified appearance and a righteous face, when it comes to Shaorun and beauty, it is not as good as that Sheng Shizi." So I think this tanhua is more suitable than that Sheng Shizi!"

"Marquis Yuan just said that Chunfu is a national talent ceremony, which is not trivial!" Meng Jiayan immediately said, "Cousin Li is just joking, you actually take it seriously? Do you think this is the first thing to look at when choosing an Oiran in the checkbox? If you have no appearance and no talent, you are not qualified to be the head of the line!"

Yuan Liuguang said quietly: "Junyu, you are better to this Sheng Shizi than to your cousin, but this person doesn't seem to have officially visited your Meng family, right?

Meng Jiayan said lightly: "The relationship between our cousins doesn't need to worry about the Marquis Yuan, but I heard that the county lord of Qingfang has been running very diligently in his mother's house recently, if the marquis of Yuan feels that he has nothing to do, he should care more about the county lord, so as not to catch fire in ......the backyard! I'm just not used to seeing you suppressing young and talented scholars, and you have always spoken out with righteousness! What kind of support or not, is it because you are deliberately supporting Huang Ziyue when you talk to him? In this way, I don't think this Huang Ziyue Jinke will end up, after all, the chief examiner of this department is the uncle of the Qingfang County Lord, and he is also your uncle, how can he not avoid suspicion?"

"If you want to avoid suspicion, your cousin Gao Shaoyang will not be able to escape the involvement!" Yuan Liuguang smiled, "Miss Linggu Mengwu, you can call Benhou's mother-in-law 'cousin', so you and the little uncle of the Zhao family can be regarded as relatives who are turning the corner, and their son wants to participate in the Spring Festival, how can he not avoid Uncle Zhao?"

Meng Jiayan sneered: "It is said that a table is three thousand miles, but the Marquis of Yuan has kept it in mind! It's just that the Marquis of Yuan seems to have forgotten that the Dali Temple Secretary you are currently serving is still the result of the strong recommendation of your father-in-law, King Gaomi." According to your words, shouldn't you immediately be dismissed from your official position and your crown and returned your first clothes, as an example?"

"At Junyu's age, he is not even a jinshi, so he is in charge of the Yushi Terrace, isn't it the credit of Ling Zu Ling Bozu?" Yuan Liuguang took a sip of wine and said slowly, "If the children of the Meng clan are willing to return to their hometowns, let alone resign, even if he resigns from this title, why not?" But I don't know that Junyu can give up this rich land of Chang'an and the prosperous village of Kyoto?"

When he said this, at the end of the heavenly street, under the gate of the imperial city, several fireworks happened to burst into the sky, soaring to the sky before exploding, in the light of the snow in the night, blooming gorgeous and graceful peony flowers, the pavilion was illuminated with a brilliant and colorful.

In this splendid and colorful scene, Huang Wuyi and Sheng Sleeping Crane stopped writing one after another, and moved to let go of the poems that had not dried the ink marks.

Seeing this, everyone who was originally watching the fireworks turned their attention back to the pavilion, and Li Shengxu ordered people to take the two poems in front of him, and looked at Bai Xuan at the same time as Yuan Liuguang and Meng Jiayan, but saw that the two of them chose the quatrain.

Huang Wuyi is a song of seven uniques: "The lights are adorned with bright makeup at night,

The jade shavings are shining in the city.

Who taught the river to fall,

Fly to the purple platform into the vast expanse [Note 1]. ”

The approximate meaning of this song is that the lights dot the night, like a brilliant makeup, reflecting the snowflakes flying all over the city, as if shining with sparkling waves, this scene seems to be a thick cloud, causing the Milky Way in the sky to fall into the dust, all the way through the palace, into the invisible vastness.

Li Shengxu shouted the entire Seven Absolute Thoughts, and someone from the side of King Gaomi praised it in response: "This is a good sentence!

Although this is deliberately touting Huang Wuyi, it is not all a lie: the Sleepless Pavilion is located in the heavenly street, looking out from the railing on the third floor, the lights of the city are full of lights, and the mighty is like the Milky Way reversing, and under the night illuminated by these countless lights, the flying snow reflects a little silver light, and the trance is the fine sparkle on the river surface.

And the Chang'an Lantern Market is the most prosperous in the Tianjie before the Imperial City.

In this way, this Jiang River, which occasionally fell into the world, naturally seemed to be surging all the way to the imperial city, and finally disappeared behind the imperial city...... In all fairness, although this poem cannot be said to be enough to be passed down to future generations, it is also decent.

After all, from Li Shengxu's proposal, Yuan Liuguang drew out the "Seven Yangs" rhyme, to the poem, and the Communist Party has only been so long, ordinary people are only afraid that they are still searching their stomachs.

Huang Wuyi was able to finish a poem of seven uniques, and he also wrote it very appropriately, which really lived up to the name of Shu County Xie Yuan.

However, although the people from King Gaomi's faction grasped this point and praised it, Meng Jiayan and the others all had a cold attitude, and only said: "Don't be busy applauding first, you have to see Sheng Hengshu." ”

At this time, Li Shengxu also put aside Huang Wuyi's poems, picked up the white xuan at the bottom, glanced at it, and said softly, "This word is really good." ”

As the proprietor of this place, his biological mother, Princess Wuyang, is trying to travel between all parties and not choose any side, so it stands to reason that he will not easily express his position in the current situation, let alone favor one over the other.

However, Fang Cai did not praise Huang Wuyi's calligraphy, but he praised Sheng Sleeping Crane, although Yuan Liuguang frowned, Meng Jiayan showed a happy look, and specially probed over to take a look, and then slapped his hands and said: "Charming and strong, iron painting silver hook." No wonder cousin you have such an eye, and you will also praise it, it's really a good word!"

He said to Yuan Liuguang again, "Marquis Yuan, calculate the age, Sheng Hengshu is a few years younger than Huang Ziyue, right?

Since Yuan Liuguang wanted to conceal his relationship with Sheng Sleeping Crane, he naturally wanted to do enough of this targeted scene, so he sank his face at this moment, and said hesitantly: "At this moment, it is a competition for literary talent, not calligraphy...... What's more, calligraphy is just a trail, just be upright and decent, but what you take in the spring is an article!"

Li Shengxu ignored their dispute, and read out the poem written by Sheng Sleeping Crane: "In the middle of the night, the lights are not shining,

Qiong powder turned over the dress.

Thousands of miles of fish and dragon dance,

A little Kuihua fragrance [Note 1]. ”

After reading it, I didn't wait for anyone to comment, and sighed to myself, "I said before that it's good to compose poetry, and it's okay to write quatrains!" Who knew that this Sheng Hengshu would go too far, and directly took the five absolute ones with the least number of words and perfunctory! You are all Xie Yuan, and you must have the talent to learn, so why hide it and refuse to reveal it, and be so reserved?"

"Although it is only a song of five uniques, it has lofty ambitions and cannot be said to be perfunctory. Meng Jiayan said slowly, "'Thousands of miles of fish and dragon dance, a little fragrance of flowers', it seems to say tonight, but in fact it alludes to the spring festival, the world's scholars don't want to leap over the dragon gate, but there is only one leader after all!"

Kuihua is another name for plum blossoms, and the Guy plum blossom is the first of the twenty-four flower letters, which is actually very rare in poetry.

The poems of the predecessors chanting the Lantern Festival also mention plum blossoms, such as "In the corner of a thousand cold plums, a spring letter paints the east of the building [Note 2]", "After the plum cheeks turn white, the willow eyes turn blue [Note 3], "The east wind deliberately urges the plum willows [Note 4]", "The plum tops are an inch of residual red torch, happy and beautiful, and the cherry is transferred [Note 5]", "I will make the Lantern Festival a good scene, who will relieve the plum blossoms [Note 6]", "Frozen snow will eliminate the plum blossoms [Note 7]", all of which are straightforward flower names.

Even in poems that have nothing to do with the Lantern Festival, the name "Kuihua" is rarely used when mentioning plum blossoms, such as "the shadow is sparse and the water is shallow, and the dark fragrance floats in the dusk of the moon [Note 8]", "The heart is afraid of negative, and the wine is waking up when the sky is cold." Summoning the crow and the crane to return, please guard with the ice soul [Note 9]", "Relying on the ghost to collect mugwort, the national fragrance and the rain into the moss [Note 10]", "Hanying sits down, what is the use of comforting distant guests [Note 11]", "The ice branches in the snow break the cold gold, and the dark incense invades the front village fence [Note 12]", "The smoke in the south of the Yangtze River is sad, and a branch awakens the soul of Luofu [Note 13]".

Sheng Sleeping Crane wrote "Ten Thousand Miles of Fish and Dragon Dance, a little Kui Flower Fragrance", instead of "Ten Thousand Miles of Fish and Dragon Dance, a little plum blossom fragrance", to say that it sounds good, it is Meng Jiayan's lofty ambitions, but with him being questioned by Yuan Liuguang before learning this, it is obvious that there is a sense of provocation and resistance: You think that my talent is not as good as Shu County's Xie Yuan Huang Wujiao, and I have no qualifications to compare with him, but what I want is not to compare with the Xie Yuan of a small scientific research county, but the champion that countless scholars dream of in this thousands of miles of rivers and mountains!

The reason why Meng Jiayan would help Sheng Sleeping Crane speak, was not because he heard that Sheng Weiqiao and Sheng Weiwei's sisters were quite loved by the Empress Dowager Meng, and even intended to match Sheng Weiqiao and Meng Guiyu, not because he was broad-minded and loved, and he didn't care about his cousin Gao Chengxuan's fork and Sheng Sleeping Crane, but because he came to the Sleepless Pavilion today to support Gao Chengxuan.

As a result, now that Gao Chengxuan has gone wrong, he can't come up, he is neither willing nor willing to go away. It happened that Sheng Sleeping Crane was embarrassed by Yuan Liuguang, and Meng Jiayan also pushed the boat down the river and pushed this scholar up to fight in the ring on behalf of the Meng clan and Huang Wuyi on the side of King Gaomi.

As for Sheng Sleeping Crane, who was reminded by Yuan Streamer, did not clearly express his stance to join the Meng family, whether Meng Jiayan would give him benefits first and never return, Meng Jiayan felt that there would be no problem with this...... As far as the lintel of the Sheng family is concerned, even if it has a little relationship with the late General Zhou, it is okay to have the well water and not the river water with their Meng family; since they have taken their benefits, they still want to get out, how can it be so easy? !

Now aware of the conceit in Sheng Sleeping Crane's poems, as well as the sharp counterattack on Yuan Streamer, Meng Jiayan suddenly felt happy, originally just wanted to take advantage of this scholar, but at this moment, Sheng Sleeping Crane's gaze couldn't help but be a little kind, and said with a smile, "In contrast, Huang Ziyue's so-called 'who taught the river to fall into the river and fly to the purple platform into the vastness' is too ethereal, not down-to-earth enough, and the atmosphere of mortal dust is too little, but it has the meaning of letting the white deer in the green cliff and visiting the spirit fairy in the depths. ”