Chapter 53 It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo

Faced with the sincere words of the second prince, Jia Baoyu was silent.

His silence made the atmosphere around him tense. Could it be that Jia Baoyu really didn't even give the face of the second prince?

Everyone was silent, waiting for Jia Baoyu's reaction.

In this quiet atmosphere, the most tormented person is Wu Fan.

His Royal Highness the Second Prince actually pleaded with Jia Baoyu because of him. The key is that Jia Baoyu is not immediately grateful for Dade's promise? Could it be that he thought that if His Royal Highness the Second Prince didn't speak, who could force him to kneel?

Why did he handle it?

Wu Fan felt that he had been insulted endlessly, he was like a piece of meat on the chopping board, cut or not, all in Jia Baoyu's thoughts, this feeling made him hateful.

However, he did not dare to speak without permission. It's not that I'm afraid of Jia Baoyu, but I'm afraid that I'll really offend the second prince.

The second prince kept smiling, waiting for Jia Baoyu's reaction, without a trace of impatience in his eyes.

"The second prince has a life, and Baoyu dares to disobey it." Jia Baoyu suddenly bent down and clasped his fists and saluted.

The second prince was instantly happy, raised Jia Baoyu's hand, and was about to speak, when he heard Jia Baoyu say: "There is no need to kowtow, but since today's matter has become like this, from now on, when he sees me, he must go around, but this must be followed." ”

"It's nature." The second prince seemed to be obedient to Jia Baoyu's words at this time, and said directly to Wu Fan: "A gentleman stands in the world, and he should be true to his word." This is your previous agreement, do you have any objections? ”

"No, no." Facing the solemn eyes of the second prince, Wu Fan replied humiliatingly.

The second prince continued: "In this way, Brother Jia is still dissatisfied? ”

"His Royal Highness is serious, Baoyu obeys His Highness's arrangement."

"Hehe, in that case, today's matter is over, and the two of you must not seek personal revenge in private, may you agree?"

"Don't dare to disobey Your Highness's orders." Jia Baoyu replied respectfully, as if he had changed back to the courteous and polite young man.

"Yes, Your Highness." Wu Fan hated it in his heart, and his hatred today would be repaid in the coming day. It's just that in the face of the second prince's forced gaze, he had to reply like this.

Jia Baoyu and the others have already bowed their heads, even if today's matter is resolved, the second prince looked very happy, he smiled and said: "It's not early, let's meet friends with text today, let's go here." ”

After speaking, he walked towards the Tinglan Water Pavilion. Over there, more than a dozen people in vermilion purple official robes had already walked down the wooden steps slowly.

"Jing Hao has seen his grandfather and all the adults."

The second prince stood on the side of the road at the foot of the stairs and saluted the group.

Seeing this, except for the first one, the rest of the people all returned the salute.

"I heard that some of you have written good poems again, why haven't you sent them for a long time?"

After seeing the ceremony, the first crane-haired old man, that is, the current Taishi Ye Qiong, said with a smile.

The second prince paused slightly, he deliberately did not send Jia Baoyu's poems to the Yashe before, but in fact, it was because of a little selfishness.

He likes Ye Zhenzhen, which is not a secret in his circle. No man wants his favorite girl to see someone better than him. Even if Ye Zhenzhen could still know in the end, he still intended to do so.

After everyone knew that Jia Baoyu had made an excellent poem that could even be passed on to future generations, Ye Zhenzhen knew it again, and she was not shocked to know it for the first time.

However, in the face of Ye Qiong's inquiry at this time, he no longer concealed it, and said truthfully: "There is indeed a good poem, which was written by Jia Baoyu, the second son of Rongguo Mansion. Because he was the last person to write a poem, he had not yet had time to send the manuscript to his grandfather and other adults for evaluation. ”

Ye Qiong is not only his nominal grandfather, but also his teacher, he doesn't dare to hide anything from Ye Qiong.

Ye Qiong had obviously heard something, and said with a smile: "Oh? Read it aloud and listen to it. ”

The second prince solemnly read Jia Baoyu's poem in front of Ye Qiong and all the adults in the court.

......

The second prince had a little selfishness, but unfortunately what he didn't know was that because of the existence of a person, Jia Baoyu's poems had been known by Ye Zhenzhen, the eldest lady of the Ye family in the house, as early as the first time.

"Yunni, the poem you just read was really written by someone outside?"

Ye Zhenzhen changed her previous attitude, sat up straight and looked at the girl in front of her.

There are many people in the world, and she thought that Yunni had found such a good poem out of nowhere in order to tease her.

Moreover, although she reads ancient books, she does not think that she must know all the famous poems and poems of the past and present. In short, the poem Yun Ni read just now is by no means like the pampered playboys outside can compose, because the style is very different from the nearly 100 poems he has read before.

The girl who was called Yunni didn't have much mood swings before, but when she saw Ye Zhenzhen like this, she felt that maybe the meaning of this poem in her hand might not be ordinary.

Because she hadn't seen Ye Zhenzhen so moved for a long time.

"Of course, I asked Daisy to keep an eye on what's going on outside, and she copied it herself! How's it going, is this poem written? I also think it's good, it's catchy to read, and I think it's better than what Brother Zhan Hao did. ”

Yunni seemed to be very literate, shaking her little head, and made a comment easily.

Ye Zhenzhen said: "Show me." ”

She held out her hand.

Yun Ni pouted, but still obediently handed the manuscript paper copied in by the personal palace maid to Ye Zhenzhen.

"How's that, isn't it well written?"

Yun Ni saw that Ye Zhenzhen was silent for a long time, so she asked.

"It's not just a good ......" Ye Zhenzhen was a little distracted, and muttered: "Since Su Dongpoyun's 'I'd rather eat no meat than live without bamboo', future generations have flocked to bamboo, but in the bamboo poems I remember, I'm afraid there is no one who can stand out......"

Yunni's small mouth opened into an O-shape, and she said in disbelief: "Sister Ye, what you said is true, is it really so powerful?" Let me see, who wrote this! ”

Yunni listened to Ye Zhenzhen's words and snatched the paper. She remembered that Daisy had noted who had written it at the check-in desk, but she hadn't paid attention to it just now.

"Jia Baoyu? Who is he? Why haven't I heard of it? ”

......

Ye Qiong and the others got off the Tinglan Water Pavilion, and there were eunuchs around them who secretly maintained order and did not let too many people collide, and even the eyes of the soldiers of the forbidden army who had stood quietly around before immediately became cautious and paid close attention to the surroundings.

Therefore, most people don't want to get too close.

Jia Baoyu and the others had no intention of approaching the past, and no one of them had entered the court as officials anyway.

"Haha, I've known Bao Er Ye for so long, I didn't know that you have such a great talent, it can be seen that we are all people who don't know Taishan, and I want to ask Bao Er Ye to forgive me for the crime of disrespect."

Although Feng Ziying never regarded himself as a scholar, in fact, he was not unfluent in literature and ink, but as the son of the general's mansion, he would lead the army in the future, and his family would not force him to study for the imperial examination.

Therefore, not to mention the evaluation of the second prince and others, even Feng Ziying herself can understand the subtlety and lofty intentions of Jia Baoyu's poem.

So, when people's attention shifted to those big shots, he teased and teased them like this.

Jia Baoyu was naturally polite, and there was no trace of superiority from now on.

He wasn't a frivolous person in the first place.

The previous practice in front of the second prince was just intentional.

Since today, he has officially come into contact with the upper class of Daxuan, and in this circle, if you want to excel in the fastest time, you must have some different characteristics, characteristics that people can remember.

The first appearance of the person, outstanding literary talent, young and frivolous, clear grievances, such a label is obviously the easiest to remember.

Moreover, he and the second prince met for the first time today, although the second prince was very polite to him on the surface, but from Wu Fan's initiative to provoke, he did not reprimand, or even stopped, it can be seen that the second prince's courtesy to him is only superficial.

It's not that he thinks that the second prince should be courteous to him, but since this second prince intends to test him, why can't he test the second prince in turn?

His high posture is temptation.

Even if you want to belong to the second prince, a slave lackey who is submissive and obedient is obviously not as advantageous as a collaborator who has his own capital and has a degree of advance and retreat.

The former has become a vassal completely, and the latter will slowly be taken seriously.

Wu Fan is the former, he will not be Wu Fan.