Seeing Zhao Xingde's gloomy expression, Chen Dong couldn't bear it, so he comforted him in a low voice: "In my opinion, the word Xingde is comparable to Sima Xiangru Changmen Fu, if the pretty sister of the hook column sings it, then it will not let the prince and grandson even take out the soul." After speaking, he felt as if he was still implying that Zhao Xingde's style was not high, Chen Dong felt slightly embarrassed, so he diverted the words and said, "What do you think of these servants raised in the teacher's family?" Zhao Xingde raised his head and looked at it a few times, and replied listlessly: "Not bad." Chen Dong continued: "That's right, not only is it beautiful and gentle, but also good at skills, and there are a few people who can recite poems and fill in lyrics." Zhao Xingde smiled: "It's a pity that these talents are buried in the deep walls of the courtyard." ”

Chen Dong sighed and said: "Who says it's not, these singers and maids are far better than those boring girls from good families, it's a pity." As he spoke, he picked up a glass of wine and drank it. Zhao Xingde knew that Chen Dong had something to do with a prostitute, so he had a drink with him, and Chen Dong said: "I heard that Dr. Li's family has a son-in-law, who is knowledgeable, beautiful, and does a good job. These words made Zhao Xingde almost not squirt out the wine in his mouth, just because this one Chen Dong said was something he knew, not only familiar, but also often met.

After a round, Shao Wu commented on everyone's lyrics, and rated Zhao Guangshi's "Qingping Le" as the first, and Chen Dong's "Xijiangyue" as the fourth.

The teacher was unfavorable, and in the second round of Qingxi drinking, Zhao Xingde took to heart Shao Wu Shicai's "back and forth" comment, searched his intestines and scraped his stomach to find a song about Xin Qiji's "Qingyu Case", and read:

"Thousands of trees bloom at night in the east wind. More blown down, the stars are like rain. BMW carved cars are full of fragrance. The sound of the phoenix flute moves, the light of the jade pot turns, and the fish and dragon dance all night. The moth snow willow is golden, and the smile is full of dark fragrance. The crowd looked for him thousands of times,—— suddenly looked back, but the man was there, and the lights were dim. ”

After reading it, Zhao Xingde couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, and waited for Shao Wu to speak with all the scholars.

Shao Wu frowned, nodded slightly, and said, "There is some merit in the twist of words," and then changed his words, "It's just that this is the words of Sangjian Pushang, lewd and run, and the good of troubled times." In the future, virtue must be studied with morality. Zhao Xingde is okay, Chen Dong's face changed immediately, and he was embarrassed to talk to Zhao Xingde under the contempt of everyone. After this round of competition, Shao Wu commented on the poems of all talents, and still listed Zhao Guangshi's "Bodhisattva Man" as the first, Zhao Xingde's "Voice of Zheng Wei" as the fourteenth, and Chen Dong as the twelfth.

In the third round of words, Zhao Xingde wanted to reverse his humble comments, so he chanted Lu You's "Fortune Operator. Yongmei":

"Outside the post by the broken bridge, lonely and ownerless. It was already dusk and I was alone, and it was even more windy and rainy. has no intention of fighting for spring, and a group of people are jealous. Scattered into mud and dust, only fragrant as before. ”

Shao Wu commented that the realm was acceptable, but the twilight was too heavy, and he lost the vitality of young people in order to say that he was sad. Finally, Zhao Guangshi's "Queqiao Immortal" was rated first, Zhao Xingde was rated eighth, and Chen Dong was named fifteenth.

In the last round, Zhao Xingde had no illusions at all, so he casually chanted a quatrain by Li Qingzhao, "Life should be a hero, and death should be a ghost." So far, I think of Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong. ”

Shao Wu's face was slightly cold, and he said seriously: "To be virtuous, you must read history books, Xiang Yu killed King Chu Huai as disloyal, and it was unkind to kill 200,000 Qin soldiers, how can you praise such a chaotic minister and thief." "Once again, Zhao Xingde was set at the end.

In the final general comment, Zhao Guangshi, the eldest son of Prime Minister Zhao Zhifu, is talented and unbeatable, and the four poems are listed as the first.

When he said goodbye, Shao Wu ordered the servant to send two hundred pieces of Jiaozi, handed them to Zhao Xingde, and said in a deep voice: "Lingzun Zhao is a member of the party, I deeply respect it, these things outside the body, talk about it." ”

Zhao Xingde's first elegant gathering, he came with excitement, and returned with defeat, Chen Dong saw that he was unhappy, and said with relief: "In the past, Qin Shaoyou gave the words 'the sky still knows, and the sky is also thin', but Mr. Yi Chuan reprimanded him and said, 'The dignity of the sky, and the ease of insulting it?'" Qin Shaoyou was very embarrassed, and it was similar to Yuan Zhi's situation today. Don't worry. ”

Zhao Xingde thanked him: "Thank you, Brother Shaoyang." He sighed again: "Poetry is just the last skill, I won't mind." Chen Dong listened to his words with some unwillingness, and the remarks that poetry is the last skill are close to the new party, and they must not be publicized, so he said: "Shicai is not happy, it is still early, how about you and I go to drink somewhere else?" ”

Zhao Xingde couldn't, so he followed him to a place where the beams were carved and painted, the corridor upstairs was brightly lit, and dozens of women with heavy makeup were flattering downstairs, some covered their chests and made a fragile appearance, and some saw Chen Dong and greeted with a smile: "Brother-in-law is here." Chen Dong didn't think he was angry, he greeted them with his hand, and entered the room, he was familiar with the door, and almost drove the turtle slave to an elegant window attic, ordered wine and food, and took out a famous post, together with the reward to the turtle slave, and said with a smile: "Today's son is here to feast guests, and the idle people are waiting to retreat, and only invite the master to come." ”

Thinking that Chen Dong's reward exceeded the usual, the turtle slave went happily, Chen Dong poured his own wine, and Zhao Xingde drank it cup by cup, after three rounds of wine, he sighed and said: "Although I am not good at words, I still have a vision, and the poems written by Yuan Zhi are really amazing and gorgeous, but they are too late, and the edge is too exposed." ”

Zhao Xingde heard what he said, his expression changed slightly, he stretched out his hand to fill the wine glass in front of Chen Dong, and asked, "What do you mean by Brother Chen?" ”

Chen Dong sighed and said: "It's unfortunate today, the son of Prime Minister Zhao wants to become famous, and Yuan Zhi's poetry is too good, if the teacher doesn't judge you fiercely, wouldn't he let the prime minister's son be a foil with you?" At present, my generation Qingliu is being suppressed by the traitor Cai Jing, and he is about to join forces with Zhao Chengxiang to fight against Cai Jing, so he ......" He held back and didn't say anything, sighed, and drank another glass of wine.

Zhao Xingde originally had doubts in his heart, but now he suddenly realized, drank the wine, and said in a muffled voice: "Shao Yushi, the leader of the Qingliu who is looked up to by the people of the country, is really upholding." ”

Chen Dong tapped his fingers lightly on the table, rolled his throat several times, and said in a low voice: "The way of a gentleman, I only want to take it straight, not to ask for it in the bend." How difficult is it? Mr. Zhoushan pleaded for the people's lives all his life, but in the end he ended up in exile in Qiongzhou. Above the court, there are already many friends, if our generation Qingliu has the heart to do things and help the world and the people, he can only accept this situation. When necessary, they can only sacrifice themselves and obey others. ”

Zhao Xingde drank shallowly, and his mood was not very good at this time, and after drinking a few glasses of wine, he couldn't help but feel dizzy, and immediately retorted: "If you don't sweep a house, why sweep the world, your body is not right, why is the world's people, you know the subtleties, if you want to help the world, just rely on him?" He was indignant in his heart, but there was still a trace of clarity in his mind, and he finally bit his tongue and did not say Shao Wu's name.

Chen Dong's face was ashamed, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly asked: "Mr. Zhoushan's words, 'The world is the master, and the king is the guest', does Yuan Zhixin believe it?" ”

Zhao Xingde smiled dumbly, and said casually: "I naturally believe it." ”

Chen Dong nodded, in this era, "the Tao is not the same", if Zhao Xingde does not believe it, then there is no need to say anything about it.

He turned his wine glass and said in a deep voice: "This dynasty respects the rule of three generations, the son of Shun has no way to be Shang, the world has abandoned Shang Jun and Feng Xia Yu, Shang Tang has no way, the princes have rebelled and returned to Zhou, and then, there is no way to become a king, the Duke of Zhou is abolished, King Li has no way, and the people chase him." ”

Zhao Xingde's eyes flashed, knowing that Chen Dongbai was under Shao Wu's sect, these words were inconsistent with Shao Wu's Confucian ideas. He looked up at Chen Dong and asked, "If Shaoyang admires Mr. Huang, why did he join Shao Yushi's sect again?" "Hope to hear his explanation.

Chen Dong smiled slightly and said slowly: "Although Mr. Zhoushan's doctrine is good, it is not tolerated by the court scholars. Instead of being depressed and dying of old age, it is better to turn it into a song. The teacher is the leader of Shilin, if my generation wants to show its talents, if it is not to join Cai Jing's traitorous party, then we need to join the clear stream, so I worship under the teacher, and I want to accumulate hope for the future, there is always a time for my generation to help the community. ”

Zhao Xingde didn't expect Chen Dong to have such a plan, he was stunned, and sighed for a while: "Zi said, politician, Zhengye." Zi Shuai is upright, who dares to be upright? What he meant by this was that if Chen Dong studied under Shao Wu, he would only be able to go further and further on the road of power and conspiracy in the future, and could not adhere to the morals and ideas that he originally believed in in his heart.

Chen Dong glanced at him, drank a glass of wine, and before he could speak, the door was pushed open, and a singer with light lead powder and a pipa in her arms slowly walked in. ”

Chen Dong felt slightly embarrassed and said, "Aren't I here?" He added: "This is my friend Zhao Yuanzhi, who is a real talent." Said with a smile: "Yuan Zhi is an honest man, so don't bully him." The singer glanced at her and said, "Are you allowed to bully me?" Having said that, his tone and eyes were full of affection and love,

Zhao Xingde saw that these two were flirting here, and he didn't know whether it was true or false. The singer glanced up at Zhao Xingde, and then gave a deep salute, Zhao Xingde knew that the relationship between her and Chen Dong was not ordinary, so she hurriedly turned sideways, and the singer saw that he was restrained, and obviously did not see the scene of Fengyue, even avoiding it was a little panicked, grinning toothily, like a flower blooming, all kinds of customs were revealed, and said softly: "The slave grandmother's surname is Li, the famous teacher, Zhao Gongzi Wanfu." ”

At that time, there were tens of thousands of prostitutes in Bianliang, and the singers were called "Shishi" or "Panpan" and "An'an" respectively, not one thousand but five hundred, Zhao Xingde secretly said in his heart that he didn't know if this Li Shishi was the one in history, but looking at her gorgeous appearance, even if it wasn't, it wasn't much worse.

Chen Dongdao: "Shishi's life experience is quite pitiful, her mother's surname is Wang, her parents died when she was 4 years old, and she was adopted by Grandma Li so far. He also said: "I think it was fate in my previous life, I fell in love with my teacher at first sight, and now I have agreed on a lifelong matter, but Grandma Li asked for a lot of money for redemption, so I had to think about it in the long run." As he spoke, Master Li's face next to him also darkened. At this time, the fornication between the scholar and the prostitute was forbidden by the imperial court, and he confided to Zhao Xingde and Pan, firstly, to show that he was reassuring, and secondly, he did not want Zhao Xingde to look down on Master Li, or even make jokes.

When Master Li heard Chen Dong's introduction, he knew that Zhao Xingde was a friend that Chen Dong really valued, so he came over again to give a gift, and Zhao Xingde also returned the gift. After the three of them sat down, the atmosphere was different from just now, there was an empathetic beauty present, and the hearts of the two scholars were much more relaxed, and the cups were changed more frequently.

After the wine was hot, a glimmer of light flashed in Chen Dong's eyes, and he raised his glass to Zhao Xingde and said: "Don't hide it, I think that in today's world, the scholar doctor and the Son of Heaven rule the world together, but my court's lady has a different heart, and she is trapped in party disputes, so that the world can't cheer up." As the saying goes, the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband. If you want to cheer up the dynasty, you need to make people's hearts the same first, I want to contact more than a dozen friends, start a literary club in Taixue, temper each other, study theory, I don't know if Yuan Zhi is willing to join the society? ”

Zhao Xingde said with a smile: "Such a good thing, you should help Shaoyang." I just don't know if I have to donate money to join the company? ”

Chen Dong laughed and said: "The matter of donation varies from person to person, rich families like Zhang Wenhuan, Deng Shouyi, and Zhu Damu naturally have more, Yuan Zhi, you have a clean sleeve, just take out the consistent two-run, but everyone is the founder of the Science Society." ”

"Science Society?" Zhao Xingde turned his wine glass and pondered the name of the literary society.

"Exactly," Chen Dong's eyes flashed with a hot light, "Tomorrow is the truth, through the ancient and modern learning, and the way of the Holy King will rule the world." The two dried the wine in the cup, and Chen Dong discussed with Zhao Xingde some of the statutes and systems of the literary society. Chen Dong has the ability to read people, and his intuition is like Zhang Bing, Deng Su, Zhu Sen, He Fang and others, although they have talent and ambition, they are not as good as Zhao Yuanzhi in terms of practical ability, and he hopes that Zhao Xingde will play a role similar to that of a general affairs officer in the science society. Zhao Xingde consciously gave less money than others, so he was embarrassed to shirk too much, and the two hit it off and drank a few more glasses.

When Chen Dong and Zhao Xingde discussed the affairs of the Cultural Society, she only pursed her lips and held the pipa on the side and smiled silently. After talking about major events, and returning to the words of the wind and snow, Chen Dong mentioned that Zhao Xingde made a few good words, and Master Li played and sang them one by one according to the word card, the pipa sound was crisp, the throat was tactful, and the light rain outside the window did not know when, the eaves were dripping with water, and there was a faint sound of beat, which was in harmony with the song, as if it was natural. Zhao Xingde and Chen Dong sent wine to Qingge, both of them were drunk, and staggered back to the house together.

Stirred by the rain along the way, when they returned to the house, most of the wine of the two of them also woke up, Chen Dong was still unfinished, and said impassionedly: "If the court and the princes of the palace have a vegetarian meal, they can't be royal and can't be peaceful inside, and they can't be peaceful inside, it is the responsibility of the world to rise and fall, and it is the responsibility of our generation of scholars." My Chinese culture is far-reaching, the mountains and rivers are rich, and the people are several times and the four yi, as long as the king rises up, the government is clear, and the people are vigorous, China will prosper! Great Song Bixing! Zhao Xingde couldn't bear to sweep away his interest, and echoed the voice, and the two talked freely in the courtyard of the house late at night before going to bed separately.

A few days later, the warm incense was thick in the study of Prime Minister Cai Jing's mansion, Cai Jingxin took the manuscript of the poems of the old party scholars passed by the Shao Mansion, and when he read the three words and one poem written by Zhao Xingde, he couldn't help laughing: "What a young generation who doesn't know the current affairs and doesn't know the height of the sky, even if it is a dream and a flower, and an immortal caresses his head, he should suffer some setbacks." He secretly said: "Zhao Tixin has been working against me for several years, and he died depressed, and he was born a good son." When he goes to a group of fame and fame fishers, he will see if he can put this son in his sleeve, and if he can't use it, he must hoe it. ”

The helper next to him echoed: "These old parties criticize the government in the name of poetry and elegance, and they should really be punished." Cai Jing waved his hand and said: "A gentleman has the capacity to accommodate people, and a scholar is a pillar of the country, how can it be easily broken." ”