In the fifth year of Jianlong of the Great Song Dynasty (964 AD), in March, all things recovered, and the land south of the Yangtze River was already a warm spring breeze, willow green and red, a vibrant scene.

Outside the city of Runzhou, a mile away in the western suburbs, there is a Yangpeng Mountain, which is not majestic and majestic, but it is heavy and green, the mountains are clear and the water is clear, and the scenery is beautiful; The west gate of Guo outside the city of Luocheng in Runzhou is the only place for pedestrians to go to the ferry from the west and enter Runzhou, and the officials and merchants welcome to send them all like to take this place as a place for customers, so the restaurants are lined up, the vendors are in rows, and the city is prosperous.

Especially in the spring season in the lower downstream, the ordinary people, talented and beautiful women, and the families of dignitaries and nobles in the city all like to go on a spring outing here, which is not lively.

Su Chen stood at the foot of the mountain, looking at the bustling crowd and the noisy streets, all dressed up by the ancients, smiling slightly wryly, it seemed that he had really come to ancient times, not in the modern society of the twenty-first century that he was familiar with.

His name was originally Su Yixuan, a graduate student of the Chinese Department of a university in Zhejiang, went home in the summer vacation and engaged in medical career parents because of the choice of major, again had a verbal dispute, under the gambling, a person reported a group to travel and relax, who knew that in the mountaineering heard someone shouting for help, he went to rescue but accidentally fell off the cliff, after Su woke up, Su Yixuan was in this world.

Su Chen is the name of the owner of his body, with the same surname and different names, just reached the age of eighteen years old, his father seems to have a great background before his death, he was a royal doctor in the Jinling court of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but five years ago because of the violent death of the prince, he was implicated, and was ordered by Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, to be arrested and imprisoned, and by the way, he raided his home as a punishment.

Although his father Su Mingyuan died in prison soon after, Yuanzong Li Jing was not a murderous master, so he did not order the whole house to be beheaded, so Su Chen, the only son-in-law, survived, and when he raided the house five years ago, he was taken back to the ancestral house of Runzhou by a loyal old servant in the house to live, and this information came from the residual memory in his brain.

When Su Yixuan woke up, just seven days ago, the original owner of the body seemed to have been beaten severely, and when he was carried home, he didn't come up in one breath, and the skin changed to the owner.

"Since you can't go back, you have to live well!"

He is already Su Chen's identity, and he has gradually accepted it, and now he has to consider how to quickly integrate into this era.

The people of the Southern Tang Dynasty!

A concubine of the imperial doctor who was raided from home, his parents died, and now his family is poor, the old servant died two years ago, and there is only one godsister left in the family, and it is difficult to live with him, which is Su Chen's current embarrassing situation.

Su Chen felt that it was necessary for him to cross the river and go north earlier, otherwise there would be no future in the Southern Tang Dynasty, even if he was still starving to death, but in the future, the Southern Tang Dynasty would be destroyed by the Northern Song Dynasty in ten years, and it would be useless to stay!

Between Yangpeng Mountain and the tile porcelain mountain in the west, the terrain is relatively low, and the perennial water storage forms a lake, which is called Yangpeng Lake (Xiaomeng Lake), it is very wide, at this time the lake surface is sparkling and scaly, some painting boats and canopy boats, cruising on it.

The sound of silk and bamboo orchestras on the boat continues, and it seems that there are talented and beautiful women who are playing the piano and flute on the boat, showing off the wind and moon, and expressing the interest of Wenqing.

In some boats, there is a sound of laughter, and some of the daughters of high-ranking and wealthy families are traveling, and finally they don't have to be bored at home to think about spring, see each other, talk and laugh freely, and they are not restrained.

On the shore of the lake embankment at the foot of the mountain, there are many young scholars standing, wearing straight long clothes, round necks and narrow sleeves, and four-legged heads with 'folded scarves'.

"Look, Xu Dacai's painting boat is here!"

"It's really Xu Cainu's painting boat!"

Some of the scholars became even more agitated, and shouted more vigorously than a wolf's howl.

The talented woman Xu in their mouth, named Xu Qingwan, is known as the first talented woman in Runzhou, writes lyrics as endowments, overshadows the young scholars who study in the city, and is proficient in music and rhythm, looks like a flower and moon, Qingshui hibiscus, and her ancestral identity is also noble, so she is very popular with Runzhou readers.

Not far away, a beautiful painting boat slowly approached.

The attic of this painting boat stands skillfully, the eaves are carved, and the beauty is indescribable.

However, there was no one standing on the plywood of the painting boat, only a bamboo paper lantern fluttering in the wind, which was very conspicuous, and there was a word "Xu" written in thick ink on it.

Although there are no people in sight, the sound of the piano can be heard from the painting boat, accompanied by a pleasant singing, floating leisurely on the river.

"The spring breeze blows across the autumn water, covering the distance. I only know that the long window period is long, who believes in the east wind and blows away the colorful clouds. ”

"The silver screen dream is far away from Feiluan, only the bead curtain roll. The poplar flowers are scattered and the moon dissolves, and the dust covers the jade zither string pillars and the painting hall is empty. ”

Su Chen has already heard that this is the second half of Feng Yansi's poem "Poppy Beauty" in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the title is "Jade Hook Luan Pillar Tunes Parrot." ”

"This song by Feng Lao is wonderful to be sung by Xu Cainu!"

In addition to him, many readers on the shore heard the origin of this poem, because Feng Yanji's words were widely circulated in the Tang Kingdom.

Feng Yansi is a famous lyricist in the Southern Tang Dynasty, in the Southern Tang Dynasty Liezu, the second dynasty of the Lord, three times into the phase, four years ago has died, the official end of the prince Taifu, although the official, there is no less bad ideas, forming a party for personal gain, excluding dissidents, limited political talent, but in terms of filling in words, it is the essence of the late Tang Dynasty Shu Di Huajian School, and he has written a lot of good words in his life, becoming one of the representatives of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

The Southern Tang Dynasty undertook the five dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, at the end of the endless war in the north, Jiangnan from Yang Wu to divide one side, operating Huainan and Jiangzuo, and then through Xu Wen and Li Sheng's hard work, to the Southern Tang Dynasty, decades of stability, economic development, culture to prosper, the Tang Dynasty in the literati and ink writers are also more, the words of the Huajian School, there are many inheritances.

In Su Chen's view, although the sentences of the words are gorgeous and durable, soft and delicate, they are too rouge; Of course, that's because the development of words has just emerged, and it has not yet been baptized by Li Yu's words of death, Liu Yong's euphemistic words, Su Shi's bold words, etc., and it is not mature enough.

At this moment, the painting boat is moored to the embankment, Xu Qingwan took a maidservant girl ashore, looking from afar, Xu Qingwan is wearing a turquoise silk long skirt, black and green silk long hair is pulled up with a white hosta, showing off her long neck, slender waist and thin back, graceful posture, clothes and wind, walking on the shore of the lake, the light and shadow of the lake are set off, like a white lotus in the world.

Behind him, there were several women from the poetry club, talking and laughing, and they were going ashore to attend the party.

Su Chen was a little curious, and wanted to see the specific face of this No. 1 talented woman in Runzhou, and as soon as she took two steps forward, she was rushed up by the surrounding scholars, squeezed to the back, and almost fell.

"I'll rub!" Su Chen couldn't help but burst into foul language, the so-called Confucian scholar was as polite as jade, and at a critical time, he was more shameless than him.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter if she's a talented woman or not, it is estimated that she can't even do arithmetic problems in the sixth grade of primary school, so I won't go to join in the fun." Su Chen felt that he was not in the same circle of friends as the other party, so there was no need to go forward to chase stars.

He was a noble man, a pure man, a man detached from low tastes!

"Gollum!"

The stomach sounded at this time, Su Chen's face collapsed, and he only drank half a bowl of ballast porridge in the morning, which was really not enough for him to stuff his teeth at an age when he was about eighteen years old, let alone fill his mouth; It's still early at noon, and my stomach is empty.

"I have to find a way to make money to make ends meet, in addition to not starving, there is a little Lori at home, waiting to be fed!" Su Chen thought that his home was empty, and without money and food, life would be difficult!

Su Chen left the river embankment and walked to a willow green shade, where there were a handful of people, some table cases and ink, and some couplets and poems, there were literati selling calligraphy and paintings, and there were also shops that collected songs.

"A new song, Shiwen!"

"Medium new lyrics, thirty words!"

"Superior new lyrics, negotiable!"

The banner is opened, the price is clearly marked, and there is no bullying for children, and there are people who specialize in collecting lyrics.

Su Chen inquired for a while, and realized that this was a new song from several popular Qinglou music halls specially sent by the Qing Dynasty to receive new lyrics from literati here.

Qing Qi people perform in the Qinglou, playing, playing and singing, and often constantly introduce new songs and new lyrics, so as to attract guests, continue to listen to her performances, and attract money to make money, so good words are very important.

Today's spring outing in the western suburbs, there are many literati who travel, and the Qinglou sends people to publicize it at the same time, and by the way, it also collects a little new word.

Su Chen's eyes lit up when he heard this, there were a lot of Song words in his mind, and he could still pass the test if he ate a whole song first.

He stepped forward, came to a book shed, and said to one of the old men in green shirts sitting in front of the crime: "This old man, I have made a few long and short poems in private, I want to give it a try!" ”

The old man in the green shirt is a clerk in the Xiangyun Pavilion, usually in the museum to help repair words and sentences, talk about a little article, and have the identity of half of the private school Mr., after all, the Qing people also have to read and write, in order to communicate with the literati and the children of the powerful, so it can't be illiterate who doesn't know a word and only knows how to sell jokes and sell themselves.

"Is Childe famous?" Lao Wen glanced up at Su Chen and asked.

"It should be, apprentice!"

In Su Chen's memory, it seems that the owner of this body has read books, but he has not passed the township tribute examination, so he can only be regarded as an apprentice, that is, after studying in the local academy, he can be regarded as a scholar, but he has no fame.

During the Five Dynasties period, the Southern Tang Dynasty should have paid the most attention to the imperial examination. During the Shengyuan period, the imperial examination focused on the law and was greatly influenced by the personal influence of Liezu. In the later Yuanzong and Li Houzhu dynasties, the scholars were given multiple poems and strategies, and Confucian officials were reused.

At that time, there was no three-level imperial examination system of state examination, provincial examination and palace examination, only the township tribute examination, and those who passed the examination were tributes, and they could enter Beijing to catch the exam, participate in the tribute examination, and the first one was a jinshi!

"Oh, it's just a living apprentice, and it's barely okay, please write down the lyrics and name, if it's a new work that you haven't heard before, the quality is good, and if you pass the verification, you can get paid." The old man replied.

Su Chen nodded, this is easy, came to the back of the table that separated the eyes of the crowd, turned his back, and people outside couldn't see what he wrote, he picked up the brush and thought about it, Su Shi, Li Qingzhao, Xin Qiji, Lu You and other great poets of the Song Dynasty There are too many great words in the Song Dynasty, and there are many words that have been passed down through the ages.

At that moment, on a blank piece of rice paper, he wrote a poem "Qu Yu Guan":

"Longshou Yunfei, the riverside day and night, the smoke and waves are full of long. Looking at the Guan River, thousands of miles of autumn, endure the gaze? Qi Shenjing, Yingying Fairy, don't come to the brocade word is difficult to match. The broken goose has no basis, and Ran Ran flew down Tingzhou, thinking about it. ”

"Thinking about the beginning, how many happy and happy parties there were, how did you know that it was difficult to gather and disperse, and it turned into rain and hatred? Blocking the chase. Every time you climb the mountain and face the water, you will be troubled in your life, and you will never be speechless, but you will go down to the next floor. ”

This is one of Liu Yong's masterpieces of parting sorrow and hatred, the quality is good, but compared with his "Yulin Bell" and "Butterfly Love Flower", it is still much inferior in terms of praise.

On a piece of paper, full of small block letters, the pen power is timeless and beautiful, this is when I was a child at my grandfather's house, when my grandfather was holding back to copy Chinese medicine prescriptions, I practiced the brush words, I didn't think of it coming in handy today.

The old man in the green shirt didn't have much expectation, but after taking the paper, the font that greeted his eyes first gave him a good sense, and after reading it carefully, his brows frowned.