The woman had finished her salute and returned to the procession, and was in a beautiful posture like the others with her arms raised forward, presumably the starting gesture of the next dance; Wang Yuan stared at her face, her red face, thin eyebrows, two dimples looming, her eyes flowing, and her expression was gentle, but she was indeed a woman with a very beautiful appearance and a little temperament.

Wang Yuan sighed in his heart, no wonder the skin he possessed would be fascinated by this woman, this woman does have an attractive temperament, it is also rare for the Qinglou women to have such a pure temperament, the skin he possessed was still a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy at the time, how could he resist.

"Erlang be more restrained, don't be so excited." Liu Xun beside him pulled the sleeves of Wang Yuan's robe, half of them were afraid that Wang Yuan would make a fool of themselves, and the other half was still afraid that Wang Yuan would make a fool of himself and embarrass Li Shizhi.

"I'm sorry I met an old friend." Wang Yuan sat down slowly.

"The deceased?" Liu Xunzhi smiled slightly, knowing in his heart. He has already figured out the details of Wang Yuan, and he sold his property to become a prostitute. It's not difficult to inquire about the woman's affairs, it seems that she has indeed met the old man.

"The sisters practiced a dance overnight to help the nobles." Feng Nineteen Niang said in a coquettish voice, clapping her palms again, the sound of silk music stopped, and a transverse flute was faint in the silence, slowly falling from the clouds like silk threads, floating into everyone's ears.

The transverse flute turned tactfully for a moment, and the sound of musical instruments such as guqin, pipa, pipe, pipe, and hu Ji entered one after another, and for each more instrument, ten dancing girls began to dance, and finally the instrumental music sounded in unison, and dozens of women also formed a circle and began to dance in unison.

The white arms are like the wings of a goose flying up and down, the soft waist is like a light swing like a breeze, the colorful skirt is flying, the ribbon is swirling, the smiling face is like a flower, the young and beautiful body, and the graceful and weak posture make everyone immediately fall into fascination.

At this moment, a misty singing voice slowly floated from the side of the bamboo forest, and everyone heard the sound and looked, only to see a woman in Tsing Yi stepping out of the silk arch and coming slowly, her head was shrouded in a layer of green gauze mask, and her face and head and face could not be seen clearly, but the singing was made by this woman.

"Fluttering like a frightening Hong, graceful like a swimming dragon, Rong Yao autumn chrysanthemum, Huamao spring pine, as if like a light cloud covering the moon, fluttering like the snow of the wind, looking at it from afar, bright like the sun rising to the morning glow, forced to observe it, scorching like a hibiscus out of the waves."

The woman's singing voice was lofty and ethereal, like an autumn wind and drizzle sprinkled into the heavens and the earth, making people feel goosebumps all over their bodies and a sense of ecstasy.

Everyone in the audience, in addition to Wang Yuan and a few other young people, Li Linfu and Li Shizhi, as well as many older officials and celebrities, all stood up and stared at the singing woman with a shocked expression. The woman sang a song and slowly saluted, Li Linfu pointed at the woman movingly and said, "You are ...... Allow...... Xu ......"

Li Shizhi said slowly: "Xu Hezi, except for her, no one has such a natural voice. ”

The woman gently took off the mask on her head and face, and everyone exclaimed, only to see that the woman was full of white hair and an old face, but a pair of autumn eyes were as clear as a pool, and she didn't expect that it was actually a white-haired old woman who made such a beautiful singing.

"Xu Sixteen Niang, Xu Hezi." Li Linfu walked quickly to the clearing, looked at the white-haired woman carefully, and his voice was choked.

The white-haired old woman saluted again, and after getting up, her eyes wandered away from the body of the audience, raised her hand and gently covered the light veil on her head and face, and without saying a word, she turned around and walked towards the road where she came. Everyone present silently looked at her back and no one made a sound, Li Linfu wanted to open his mouth to say words of retention, but finally did not speak. After a while, the woman disappeared behind the bamboo forest rockery, coming and going as if there was no trace, only the sound of the song was still echoing in her ears.

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The audience was silent for a moment, and then sighed, and all the officials and celebrities on the table looked at the place where the woman disappeared, and their expressions were very solemn and playful.

Li Linfu sighed: "The old man listened to Xu Sixteen Niang's singing in Luoyang forty years ago, and since then, in the eyes of the old man, no one in the world can match Xu Sixteen Niang's singing. I didn't expect ...... Forty years later, I can actually listen to everyone's amazing song at this moment, no regrets! The old man has no regrets. ”

Li Shizhi also said: "There are indeed no regrets, I only heard it once in King Qi's mansion, and I listened to the sound through the bamboo curtain, and today is also a big surprise." ”

"Slave knows that there are many distinguished guests today, so he begged everyone who has returned to the retreat to come here to sing a thrilling song, Xu Sixteen Niang originally insisted on refusing, but when he learned that a distinguished guest on the seat was coming today, he agreed to come and sing a song. If it weren't for the presence of this distinguished guest today, Sixteen Niang would never have come. Feng Jiuniang said softly.

Nearly half of the people in the seat turned their eyes to Wang Wei, who was sitting on the side of the long table. But seeing that Wang Wei closed his eyes slightly, he seemed to be still immersed in Xu Hezi's singing, but the people around him could see his eyelids trembling, and they seemed to be extremely excited.

Wang Yuan didn't know why, Liu Xun whispered in Wang Yuan's ear intimately: "Xu Hezi, the first singer of the Tang Dynasty, the talented son of Chang'an who fell in love with him in the past is Wang Wei; The two were happy with each other, but in the end, they separated for various reasons. Today, it seems that Xu Hezi still remembers the prince in his heart. Hey, it's a pity that they're all white-headed. ”

Wang Yuan secretly smacked his tongue, it turned out that there was such a lingering past here, although I don't know why the two were separated, but thinking about the two of them when they were young, one was good at poetry and the other was good at singing, what a damn fairy couple. It's a pity that good things don't last long.

Li Linfu stroked his palms and laughed: "Let's not mention the past, today's song is accompanied by this dance, the world is wonderful, and everyone present today is a blessed person." If anyone comes, they will be rewarded with a thousand dollars each. ”

Li Shizhi was unwilling to lag behind, stood on the pavilion and said loudly: "A certain person will be rewarded with a thousand dollars." ”

Feng Nineteen Niangjiao smiled and thanked: "The sisters are not grateful to the two Xiangguo rewards. ”

All the women bowed down one after another, and Yingying Yanyan thanked her.

Li Linfu laughed and said, "It's time to be generous today." By the way, Nineteen Niang, where are you hiding? How did you get her here? ”

Feng Jiuniang chuckled: "Xiangguo, don't blame, Xu Sixteenniang's residence slave can't say, because this is one of the conditions that the slave promised her." Sixteen Niang has been traveling abroad for more than ten years, and recently by chance let the slave learn that she came to the capital, and after appearing today, I am afraid that she will leave the capital and go to the south on the same day, which has disturbed her purity. I hope Xiangguo can make the slave full of promises, don't blame the slave for not telling her whereabouts, okay? ”

Li Linfu nodded with a sigh and said, "Do you still need to beg me?" The old man naturally agreed, and the old man didn't ask. When I went back, I ordered someone to give a carriage and 100,000 yuan to Xu everyone, and I handed it over to you, and you said to Xu everyone, I wish her all the best and a long life, and I hope to hear her singing. ”

Feng Jiuniang nodded and said, "Obey Xiangguo's orders." Yan Yu deliberately glanced at Wang Wei a few times, as if he wanted to ask Wang Wei if he had any parting words, but Wang Wei looked at the bamboo forest and didn't seem to say anything, Feng Jiuniang sighed lightly and slowly retreated.

Everyone cleaned up their moods and returned to their seats, and a middle-aged man with a thin face in his forty years stood up at the middle pavilion, Wang Yuan recognized him, and Liu Xun gave an introduction just now. This person is Yan Zhenqing, a famous calligrapher in later generations.

Yan Zhenqing coughed, hugged his fists and said: "Everyone, Yan is entrusted by the two ministers to preside over today's Pear Blossom Poetry Meeting, singing and dancing, today's poetry meeting officially begins." In previous years, the judges of the Pear Blossom Poetry Club were myself and several masters of the Hanlin Academy of the Guozijian, but today is not the same as before. Therefore, the judgment of today's poetry society should be presided over by the sages; I wonder if the two prime ministers can agree? ”

Li Shizhi got up and said: "What Zhenqing said is very true, and I completely agree with it. ”

Li Linfu also said: "Of course I agree, a few years ago, some people said that the judgment of the Pear Blossom Poetry Club was unfair, and there are these people who should judge, who dares to say that it is unfair." ”

Yan Zhenqing said: "Okay, so the poetry meeting will officially begin." ”

Yan Zhenqing walked to the place where the bronze bell was hanging under the corridor with a red silk mallet in his hand, struck it hard, made a bell, and said loudly: "The poetry meeting began, according to the rules of previous years, for the sake of fairness, it was originally the two masters who each came up with a poem topic, and the remaining question was discussed by the judges and masters. But this year, with the permission of the two ministers, all the poems are given by the judges, which is one of them, and all gentlemen need to know. ”

"Second, some of the talents participating in the poetry meeting today are some of the voices of the right minister Li Linfu who was summoned to Chang'an to participate in this year's summer examination of the Ministry of Rites. These people were originally summoned by Li Youxiang, and it is normal for them to participate in this poetry meeting as the right minister's belonging, and you gentlemen need to know about this. ”

Li Shizhi sneered lowly: "Good ability, the talents from all over the country who were specially selected to participate in Chang'an to participate in the national examination in the fifth year of the Holy Grace Quasi-Tianbao have also been brought, this is a blatant fake public benefit." ”

Liu Xun said in a low voice: "Do we want to protest?" ”

Li Yong frowned and said, "What are you fighting against?" How can this be? Do these people have to be masters of poetry? Cowardice before fighting, what is this? ”

Liu Xunzhi quickly shut up. Pei Kuan on the side said: "The good man is not coming, today Li Linfu seems to be bound to win, as far as I know, among the people who came to Chang'an this time, there are a few people who can write poems, and there is a person named Du Fu I don't know if Brother Li has heard of him?" ”

Li Yong was stunned and said, "Du Fu? How did I not know? This person is quite talented, even Li Taibai has a year-old friend with him, how did he come to Chang'an? ”

Pei Kuan said: "Isn't it for Li Linfu's special imperial examination for the country's selection." This Du Fu is good at everything, but he can't let go of fame. Eighty percent came for this national examination again. ”

Li Yong was stunned and said: "No matter how you can't follow Li Linfu here, this Du Fu, I saw him once in Beihai that day, and I have a good impression of him, and he is also a little upright, why are you so confused." ”

Pei Kuan said: "Then it's no wonder that he dares not to listen to Li Linfu?" What should I do if I am disqualified from the imperial examination? That's it, with Du Fu here today, I'm afraid it's going to be bad. ”