Chapter Ninety-One: The Poetry Club of Xufu (I)
Today is the day of the Xufu Poetry Club, and many scholars in Runzhou City are very attentive, and the readers who received the invitation feel extremely proud and proud to be able to join this poetry club activity.
First, because Xu Qingwan is the first talented woman in Runzhou, and she looks like a beautiful and fragrant country, which is simply a scarce commodity for ancient women, coupled with the deep background of the Xu family, when he was in the Yang Wu regime, Xu Wen was the prime minister of power, and almost ascended the throne as the emperor, and later died of illness.
Although the Xu family was defeated in the whirlpool of palace power, Li Yu was grateful for Xu Wen's nurturing and cultivation, and did not exterminate the Xu family.
This Xu Qingwan is the great-great-granddaughter of Xu Zhiji, the family has been operating in Runzhou for decades, with a strong foundation, plus the Xu family Taoguang is obscure, and is no longer involved in the major events and confidential center positions in the Tang Dynasty, nor is it too big in business.
In recent years, Xu Qingwan's talent has become famous, and after winning the title of "the first talented woman in Runzhou", every year from February to November, the Xufu Poetry Conference is held in these ten months, and many talents in Runzhou are gathered to come over with everyone's girlfriends to talk about poems and articles.
"In front of Taowu Lane, Xu Mansion is located there." Peng Jingqing lifted the curtain of the car, saw the entrance of the alley in front of him, and told everyone in advance.
Peng Zeliang, the father of the Xu family, has a good personal relationship with Xu Yonghua, the head of the Xu family, so Peng Jingqing has followed her father to Xu Mansion as a guest several times, and she has also been in contact with Xu Qingwan a few times, but her personality and hobbies are too different to talk about together. Therefore, the friendship between the two daughters is average, and Peng Jingqing is more willing to go to Su Su to communicate and play.
"Where are you today, do you need me to write poetry?" Su Chen said with some concern.
His "name of a talented man" is not worthy of the name, although the two poems "Qu Yuguan" and "Butterfly Love Flower" circulated in Runzhou were indeed written by him, but they were not his first work, he just memorized and copied them. As soon as the article was discussed live, he was exposed. What is the whole Tang language, the Fu, etc.,
Unless he only discusses poetry, he has recited a lot of Tang and Song poems, and he can casually throw out a few poems to scare these talents and ladies.
Bai Susu glanced at him, and said calmly: "It depends on the situation, I hope you can play freely, depending on the situation, and don't fall into the name of a talent!" β
Peng Jingqing said on the side: "That is, Sister Su Su rarely participated in this kind of poetry meeting before, and this time the news was released, presumably the people of Murong Yan'er and the Ding family, who have a poor relationship with us, will definitely bring in talented people or talented women to help us, and use poetry to squeeze us, you have to fight for anger and kill all sides, so that they can stop being arrogant." β
"I'll try my best." Su Chen was a little weak-hearted.
The streets of Taowu Lane are obviously much wider, with a width of four cars running side by side, and the streets are clean, paved with bluestone and bricks, much stronger than many yellow mud roads.
The huge Xu Mansion, located in the core area of Taowu Lane, covers an area of dozens of acres, sits north to south, green tile high wall, at the gate a pair of white marble lions half a foot high, not angry and self-righteous, vermilion gate, shining copper nails, copper rings, flashing luster, a plaque with "Xu Mansion" two gold lacquer characters.
When Su Chen, Bai Susu and others got off the carriage, they found that there were some carriages and small sedan chairs parked in the open space in front of the Xu Mansion.
Every time the Xufu poetry meeting, Xu Qingwan will invite one or two big Confucians in the city or big people who dismissed officials in Runzhou, who were famous and influential in the past, and were responsible for the final comments on the poems.
Su Chen stopped at the gate of the Xu Mansion, looked around, and found that there was a small garden opposite the Xu Mansion, which was full of peach trees.
It is the time of March, the peach blossoms are dying, purple and red, gorgeous and colorful, very beautiful. The name of Taowu Lane also has something to do with this peach forest.
"When we come out, we can go and enjoy the peach blossoms!" Su Chen smiled and made a request.
Peng Jingqing shook his head and said: "No need, there are also flower gardens in the courtyard of Xu Mansion, where you can enjoy peach blossoms." β
Bai Susu asked Xiaotong to submit an invitation to the concierge servant of the Xu Mansion, and after the inspection, a family member introduced them to the Xu Mansion and took them to the Splendid Courtyard where the poetry meeting was held.
I have to say that the house of Xufu is magnificent and magnificent, ten steps and one scene, along the way to see rockery waterfalls, long corridors and bridges, buildings staggered, exquisite and beautiful, Su Chen couldn't help but look a few more along the way, after passing the main courtyard, turned into the garden courtyard on the east side.
Walking through the moon gate, you will see the open courtyard in front of you, with the water ring garden, the scenery before entering the garden, the flowers and trees, the mountains and waters, the pavilions and pavilions, the pink walls and tiles, completely constitute a perfect picture of the Jiangnan water town garden.
At this moment, there have been a lot of young people gathered in front, everyone and their ladies and daughters are watching the lotus pond lotus at the long bridge of the stone pavilion, laughing and whispering, and there are also women who are versatile, stroking the strings and flutes and pipa.
The men and gentlemen stood two feet away on a grassy field, where a number of square tables were placed, on which were placed wine, fruit plates, pastries, and pen, ink, paper, and inkstones.
The poetry meeting has not yet begun, so everyone is in groups of three or five, talking and laughing.
This scene gave Su Chen the feeling that it was just like what the ancients wrote: there is a great deal of talk and laughter, and there is no vain exchange. You can tune the piano and read the Golden Sutra; There is no silk and bamboo, and there is no case. It's really cosy and elegant!
"Huh? Isn't that the eldest lady of the Bai family, Bai Susu? She really came to the poetry party. "Someone has sharp eyes, and after seeing the white-green combination of Bai Susu and Peng Jingqing, they immediately recognized the identity of the second daughter.
"Oh my God, it's really Bai Susu, does she really dare to come?"
"One of Bai Susu's side is Peng Jingqing, and who is the other white-clothed scholar? Could it be Su Yixuan, a genius from Jinling? β
"Su Yixuan is hereβ"
The scholars and ladies saw Bai Susu and a few people coming over, and fell into surprise and discussion.
"Where is Su Yixuan?" When more and more people present heard the name "Su Yixuan", they stopped discussing with the people around them, and looked at the past with their eyes.
Hou Shijie, Liang Youcai, Fang Chenbo, Zhao Yu and others all squeezed in front of the crowd, wanting to take a look at what Su Yixuan looked like?
"Su Gongzi is here." Among the many ladies, a beautiful woman who quickly walked out of the country and the city was the talented girl Xu Wanqing, who learned that Su Yixuan followed Bai Susu to participate in the poetry meeting, with a look of surprise on her face, and greeted her with a smile.