As soon as Hu Yang, the leader of the "Mo Yuzhai Poetry Society" and the son of the deputy envoy of Ning Guojiedu, entered the hall, he stood on tiptoe and stretched his neck to look around, and saw Zhou Xuan at a glance, wow, there are several more beauties around him!

Hu Yang walked over with a smile on his face and arched his hand: "Zhou Gongzi, a false alarm, a false alarm, it's just a leg cramp in the next place, it's good to return to the mansion, thank you Zhou Gongzi for your concern." ”

Zhou Xuanxin said: "Concern? I wish you big-headed flies had moved away! The third child is too light, and it will be fine for him to be on his leg in less than half an hour, so he will scare him for a day and a night. He bowed slightly: "Master Hu, the poetry competition will start immediately, please don't disturb each other." ”

Hu Yang said: "This scene is compared to Su Zhuang, there is nothing difficult, if Zhou Gongzi does not have a ready-made one, he will have a number of poems to give away from him." "His eyes were on the veiled Jingyi Fairy, and he was intent on showing off his talents in front of this beautiful female crown.

Zhou Xuanhan said with a smile: "No need, I am full of poems and books, like a spring of ten thousand trees, eager to erupt." ”

Hu Yang pursed his lips and said in his heart: "The tone from Jingzhong is big, I don't know where it came from?" Asked: "Can Zhou Gongzi be famous?" ”

Zhou Xuan said: "It's just a vassal and elegant salt merchant. ”

Hu Yang suddenly showed a contemptuous look, and said in his heart: "I see, salt merchant, there is silver, and it is ridiculous to fill in the lyrics of the poems." Now I have the bottom in my heart, and I think about proposing marriage directly to Zhou Xuan, and let Zhou Xuan marry his sister or sister to him as a concubine, the female Taoist priest is okay, it is still vulgar, I think a salt merchant, dare not allow it!

At this time, a little maid in Tsing Yi came over and gently pulled Hu Yang's sleeve, Hu Yang looked back, the little maid winked at him and beckoned, turned around and walked through the crowd to the back door.

Hu Yang was secretly happy in his heart, which celebrity lady admired his talent and asked his personal maid to call him to meet, but I don't know which lady it is? The young lady of the Zhang Thorn family is very beautiful, if she is her, it will be very happy, haha, the opportunity to steal incense will come.

Hu Yang strode after the little maid and asked in a low voice, "Which lady's maid are you?" ”

The little maid smiled and said, "Childe comes with me, and I will take care of Childe's surprise." ”

Hu Yang's heart was itching, and he followed the little maid out of the back door of "Xie Guanlou", because there were guards in front of the building, the back door was deserted, and the lonely peak cliff was erected with iron railings, surrounded by iron cables, and covered by strange caryophyllum trees.

Hu Yang followed the little maid around to a clump of green bamboo, and saw a woman in a red dress holding the bamboo, with a thin waist and limbs, and her hair simply combed into a bunch and hung down on her waist.

Hu Yang swallowed his saliva, walked over and bowed to the ground: "Miss Meng called, Xiaosheng hurried over." ”

The woman in the red dress turned around slowly, Hu Yang's eyes widened suddenly, and she exclaimed, "Xiahou tassel!" ”

Hu Yang once went to the appointment of the son of Lianchang, and saw the side of Xiahou tassel in Mingyulou, Xiahou tassel performed a Hu Xuan dance in the Western Regions, that face, that figure made Hu Yang salivate, and he was willing to pay a lot of money to comb it, but Xiahou tassel insisted on selling his art and not selling his body, and it was rumored that Lianchang Gongzi was interested in Xiahou tassel, so Hu Yang did not dare to move strongly, and he had been watching from a distance and not playing profane, but he didn't expect to ask him to meet here today, wouldn't he be happy to fall from the sky!

Xiahou tassel melon seed face, picturesque eyebrows, especially eyelashes, dense and long, when the eyelashes hang down, it is like a curtain covering the eyes, and when the eyelashes are raised, the eyes are really like the morning star of autumn water, the complexion is crystal clear and almost transparent, the whole person seems to be carved from ice and jade, there is no trace of wind and dust, but he is playing with a grasshopper made of straw in his hand, and smiles calmly: "Hu Gongzi can know the meaning of the tassel to see?" ”

Hu Yang's eyes straightened and said: "If the tassel girl has something to do, even if she is instructed, Xiaosheng will go to the soup and fight the fire, and she will not give up." ”

Xiahou Tassel smiled, and the warbler said: "I wonder if Hu Gongzi is sure about capturing the poet?" ”

Hu Yang was surprised and delighted: "The tassel girl hopes that Xiaosheng will win this poem?" ”

Xiahou Tassel said shyly: "Yes." ”

Hu Yang's confidence skyrocketed, and he said: "With the talent of a small student, I regard this poem as if I was looking for something." ”

Xiahou tassel said: "I heard that there is a Zhou Gongzi in Beijing, amazing talent, a poem "Spring" straight through the second pass of Jingting Mountain, this person is Hu Gongzi's fierce rival, the poet is not to be taken away by him. ”

Hu Yang regretted letting Zhou Xuan pass the second level of the exam, and he didn't know which rap it was, so quickly passed the song "Affectionate peony will be tearful, powerless rose lying Xiaozhi" to Xiahou Tassel's ears, and hurriedly said: "The surname Zhou is a despicable salt merchant, the character is obscene, and the poetry is not the opponent of this son, although the tassel girl can rest assured, Xiaosheng will never let a salt merchant and vulgar things spend ** with you." ”

Xiahou tassel said: "The last level of this poem is my question, I will tell the title of the poem to Gongzi first, and Gongzi Hu will figure out how to make a wonderful poem." ”

Hu Yang only thought that this was favored by the beauty, and he didn't feel ashamed of cheating at all, seeing Xiahou Tassel Jade handing over a small note, he was not in a hurry to take the note, but pinched Xiahou Tassel's smooth fingertips, and said in a daze: "The hand is like a soft wattle, the ancients are honest and do not deceive me!" ”

Xiahou Tassel stuffed the note into Hu Yang's palm, and quietly withdrew his hand: "Hu Gongzi take a look at the poem title, but don't let the tassel down." ”

Hu Yang glanced at the small note twice, and said with a smile: "Easy with ears, easy with ears!" ”

Xiahou Tassel turned around suddenly, his eyes stared at a pear tree under the "Xie Wanglou" twenty zhang away, the breeze blew, and the white pear blossoms fell one by one.

"What?" Hu Yang saw Xiahou Tassel's eyes showing a vigilant look, and couldn't help asking.

Xiahou Tassel motioned for him not to speak, and slowly walked towards the pear tree.

After the pear tree, he stretched out a white hand, picked up a small golden daisy under the root, put it in his hand, and then a figure turned away, but saw that the back was slender, walking gracefully, it was a woman in green clothes, and she was not seen when she entered the "Xie Wanglou".

Xiahou Tassel asked, "Does Hu Gongzi recognize this woman?" ”

Hu Yang said: "I don't recognize, it should be the lady of Shangxiang Society, picking chrysanthemums and pear blossoms." ”

Xiahou tassel said "um", and thought: "Twenty zhang away, this woman can't hear anything." said: "Hu Gongzi go back quickly, the time for a stick of incense is almost over." ”

Hu Yang reluctantly said: "Don't worry, I am the leader of the Moyuzhai Poetry Society, I will go directly to the second layer without taking the exam, tassel girl, Xiaosheng has admired you for a long time, since the tassel girl favors Xiaosheng, it is better to let Xiaosheng kiss Fangze now, in this way, Xiaosheng is also energetic in writing poems-" As he spoke, his hand wanted to hug Xiahou's tassel's thin waist.

Xiahou's tassel flashed lightly, and suddenly said, "Someone is coming." ”

Hu Yang thought that the chrysanthemum picking woman had stepped back before, turned his head to see that there was no trace, and when he turned his head again, the Xiahou tassel was gone.

Hu Yang sighed for a while, looked at the poem title in his hand again, rolled it into a ball and threw it outside the iron railing, fell off the deep cliff, and then returned to the "Xie Guanlou" hall in a good mood, and went directly to the second floor to sit and figure out the poem title.

The chrysanthemum woman is none other than Lin Ning, just Lin Ning saw Hu Yang go out of the back door with a small maid, and couldn't help but be curious, so he informed the three idiots, and quietly followed Hu Yang out of the back door, to see which lady had a private affair with this person, and heard Hu Yang call "Xiahou tassel", Lin Ning knew that Xiahou tassel was Xuanzhou Oiran, so many poets and poets fought for this poet in order to have a night with Xiahou tassel, so he hid behind the pear tree and listened to Hu Yang and Xiahou tassel talking.

If it is an ordinary person, twenty zhang away, and the sound of chanting and singing words comes from time to time on the "Xie Guanlou", it is difficult to hear what Hu Yang and Xiahou Tassel say, but Lin Ning is different, she has been trained in the secret method of the Falcon Gate since she was a child, her ears and eyes are far better than ordinary people, she can hear the conversation between a man and a woman by the green bamboo clearly, and she feels that this Xiahou tassel is a little wrong, and at the moment she stomped lightly to test it, Hu Yang didn't feel it, and Xiahou Tassel immediately heard it, it was clear that she was armed with martial arts, and that vigilant look was clearly a ghost in her heart.

Lin Ning immediately reached out and picked a daisy, and returned to the building generously, telling Zhou Xuan what he saw and heard.

Zhou Xuan was puzzled: "Look at Xiahou tassel like this, it's aimed at me, but why do you want to help that Hu Yang win the poem?" ”

The three idiots said: "It's not King Jing, it's Huangfu Jixun, these two people regard their masters as enemies." ”

Fairy Jingyi said worriedly: "Brother Xuan, then let's get out of here quickly." ”

Zhou Xuan narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "How can I miss this good show, there are three sages and his wife here, who can touch my cold hair, I have an idea now, how about letting the third sister-in-law take this poem?" ”

Lin Ning knew that Zhou Xuan was scheming, and said, "Does the master want to help me win this poem?" But Oiran won't take a fancy to me as a woman. ”

Zhou Xuandao: "I have already asked, if a woman wins the poetry, there will be a makeup award of 3,000 taels of silver, it is the money from the son of Lianchang, if you don't take it for nothing, the second place is the deputy of the kui, if it is also taken away by the female talent, then the 'Qingping Poetry Society' and the 'Mo Yuzhai Poetry Club' in Xuanzhou City will be automatically dissolved, and the male poets will not write poems in the future, and they will be ashamed to death——"

Lin Hanyun smiled and said: "Interesting, interesting, if Kui is a man, will the Oiran accompany him for one night?" ”

Zhou Xuan smiled: "Then it depends on whether the Oiran likes this poet Gui Zhong, if she is as handsome and chic as Ben Gongzi, then she is too willing." ”

Fairy Jingyi persuaded: "Brother Xuan, this matter is not a joke, that Oiran obviously has bad intentions towards you, and you know martial arts." ”

Zhou Xuan said: "It's okay, I have a way to deal with it, it's my forte, I want to find out the mastermind behind the scenes." ”

At this time, a well-known scholar who presided over the poetry meeting said loudly: "The time for a stick of incense has come, please recite your own poems in turn, the eyebrow sweeping talent of Shangxiang Society chanted first, followed by Qingping Poetry Society, then Mo Yuzhai Poetry Society, and finally poets and lyricists from other places." ”

Zhou Xuan took advantage of the poets of the three major poetry societies in Xuanzhou to chant poems in turn, and let Lin Ning memorize a "Butterfly Love Flower", Lin Ning knew that Zhou Xuan did not let Sister Lin come forward and let her come forward must be to borrow her martial arts, and remember it with her heart at the moment.

Although Lin Ning is powerful, she is not a rough woman, and she is also very smart, Zhou Xuan read it three times, and she remembered it.

More than 100 poets, one by one, have to chant poems and sing lyrics, and they are tired of listening to it, Zhou Xuan didn't hear any particularly colorful poems, almost an hour later, it was the turn of the stranger, and he saw a young man with sword eyebrows and jade face walking out of the corner, his eyes swept the audience, and the hall of "Xie Guanlou" was quiet.

The young man of Jianmei arched his hand and said: "In Xia Lianchang, fill in a new "Butterfly Love Flower", please Fang Jiayazheng." ”

Lin Hanyun looked at this personable sword-eyed boy with wide eyes, and whispered to Zhou Xuan: "It turns out that he is the son of Lian Chang, he is really worthy of his name, and he is very spirited!" ”

Zhou Xuan glared at her, and quietly reached out and pinched her back buttocks.

Lin Hanyun covered her PP, her little face was flushed, and she said angrily: "You-" She didn't expect Zhou Xuan to dare to pinch her PP in front of the public, she was really cowardly!

Everyone else in the hall was ready to listen to Lian Changgongzi's recitation of "Butterfly Love Flower", so Lin Hanyun's voice was very eye-catching, so they looked at Zhou Xuan and the eight people together.

Zhou Xuan said: "Hanyun, don't make a noise, listen carefully to the famous sentences of Lian Changgongzi." ”

When Gongzi Lian Chang heard this, he smiled on his cheeks, hugged his fists towards Zhou Xuanyao, and began to chant:

"How much green shade does it add to the window? There are Zhu Ying left, and they are still living in the remnants of spring. The old warbler didn't say a word, and flew to get the cherry. Sit and watch the double bird's milk of the face beam. The swallow whispered, as if cherishing the late spring twilight. Since you think about it, you can't think about it, and the world is always thinking about it wrongly. ”

After a few words, there was a burst of applause, and some people touted: "Stay in the spring, cherish the spring, it's really a deep love, Lianchang Gongzi's word can be suppressed!" ”

Lin Hanyun shouted: "It's too early to press the volume, and we haven't chanted it, Brother Zhou Xuan, it's your turn." ”

Zhou Xuanxin said: "This Lian Chang Gongzi is good, but he still can't compare with his buddies, buddies are Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu, Qin Shaoyou, these famous masters of the past dynasties are possessed by the souls, compared with me, it is really Lubanmen making a big axe - I can't do it!" said: "Please ask Mrs. Ning, the first female lyricist in Guangling, to chant first." ”

Lin Ning, who was crowned with the title of Guangling's first female lyricist, had no stage fright, and said in a crisp voice: "I am also a "Butterfly Love Flower", please listen - the courtyard is a little deep, the willows are full of smoke, and the curtain is not repeated. Yule carved saddle tour smelter, the height of the building does not see Zhangtai Road. The rain and wind are wild in March twilight, the door is covered at dusk, and there is no plan to stay in spring. Tearful eyes asked Huahua silently, and the red flew over the swing. ”

Lin Hanyun took the lead in "crackling" applause, cumin, Mingfeng, and Jianyue responded positively, and the female talents of Shangxiang Society present also cheered.

The scholar who presided over the poetry meeting praised: "The opening sentence is wonderful, even with three 'deep' words, such a pen power is really convincing, the ending of the 'tearful eyes ask the flowers silently, and the red flies over the swing' is also wonderful, infatuated with women, ruthless flowers, the two are more pity for the pain of spring." ”

Zhou Xuan said with a smile: "Today's colorful butterflies are all in love with flowers, and in the next month, "Butterfly Loves Flowers" will make a lively scene-" chanted: "The dawn peeps into Xuan Shuangyan's language, like a beautiful woman, cherishing the spring and twilight." There is a little sunshine on your fingers, but there is no time for the wind and rain. There is no question about the flowing water and the flowers, only the flying clouds, which come and go. Hold the wine to persuade the clouds to stay, and rely on the king to block the way back to spring. ”

Lin Hanyun applauded vigorously again, but this time because there was no response from the woman of Shangxiang Society, the scene was not as enthusiastic as Lin Ning, this is exactly the effect that Zhou Xuan needs, he just wants to highlight Lin Ning, and the words he chose for Lin Ning are also famous through the ages, which is much more famous than him.

The scholars who presided over the poetry meeting began to comment, and they wanted to select twenty people to go to the next level.

Wen Wu first, Wu Wu second, not fighting insects, not Go, this is really troublesome to evaluate the quality of poetry, Zhou Xuan watched coldly, and saw that if someone didn't secretly push him to the second floor, he, a foreigner, was likely to lose the top 20, after all, his words were not as impressive as Lin Ning's, although they were many times stronger than those Xuanzhou people's poems, but if they really failed, he had nowhere to appeal, which was the same as many essay awards in later generations, and the winners were actually determined.

Zhou Xuan and Lin Ning went to the second floor, and Fairy Jingyi stayed in the building.

Upstairs and downstairs treatment is very different, on the second floor, each person has a few cases, in addition to pen, ink, paper, inkstone, there are also peaches, plums, strawberries and other fruits, as well as Xuanzhou's unique dim sum, cakes.

Zhou Xuan and Lin Ning sat together to facilitate cheating in exams.

Hu Yang was a little surprised when he saw that Zhou Xuan had also entered the top 20, and said in his heart: "How did those people below let this salt merchant come up, could it be that they used silver to bribe?" However, Hu Yang knew the title of Xiahou's tassel in advance, and he had already searched for dry intestines just now, and thought that he was a wonderful word, so he was very determined and smiled at Zhou Xuan.

The scholar who presided over the poetry meeting also came up and said: "There are twenty people who have advanced upstairs, together with the six well-known poets and lyricists upstairs, this year's poetry will be produced among these twenty-six people, everyone, please choose two of the four music cards of "Qingping Le", "Huanxi Sha", "Like a Dream Order", "Butterfly Love Flower", each person fills in two words, please write on the paper, limit one stick of incense to submit the paper, the meaning of the words must be related to the wounded spring, cherish the spring, and, do not sign——"

There was a scholar who was not good at words and shouted: "Why are they all words, can't you write poetry?" ”

The poetry club presided over and said: "His Majesty the Emperor likes to fill in the words, how can my generation of small people not follow it, don't say much, burn incense——"

Zhou Xuan is secretly happy in his heart, there are many famous articles in the future circulation of these four kinds of songs, and the ancients like to feel sad spring, he has two que, and then two ques for Lin Ning, a total of four que, small meaning!

There is still a while to see that others are chanting, Zhou Xuan is not busy forking his hands, eating a piece of Xuanzhou glutinous rice cake, and sitting there with his eyes closed.

Lin Ning was born as a female assassin, and the assassin was the most patient, and she also sat there with her chest and back up, looking inward, motionless.

More than half of the incense, Zhou Xuan began to fork his hands, this time the fork was much, and he forked dozens of times, because there were four words, and the ten fingers were hot, and then he began to write and fill in the words, first for Lin Ning to copy two que, respectively, Su Dongpo's "Butterfly Love Flower" and Ouyang Xiu's "Qingping Le", both of which are thunderous writers, of course, now all of them have become Zhou Xuan's belongings, and he is really like a god, writing:

""Butterfly Loves Flowers" - the flowers fade and the red and green apricots are small. When the swallows fly, the green water surrounds. There are few willows blowing on the branches, and there is no fragrant grass at the end of the world! Swing inside the wall, outside the wall. Pedestrians outside the wall, beautiful people laugh inside the wall. The laughter gradually faded into silence, but the amorous was ruthlessly annoyed.

- "Qing Pingle" - Xiaoting is old in spring, and the red daylilies are green. Long memories of the small corner leisurely, hand in hand with the green bush smile. Don't come with no news, the past can be guessed. The door covers the sun and is quiet, and the falling flowers are sad and moss. ”

Zhou Xuan has been in the Tang Kingdom for almost a year, and he doesn't just know how to eat, drink and have fun all day long, and he really learned a lot of things, such as learning music from Yang Xiaofeng, painting from Gu Hong Middle School, and the rest of the traditional Chinese characters and practicing calligraphy.

Lin Ning's hand was as fast as lightning, and the paper ball reached her hand in the blink of an eye, spread it on the skirt under the case, and began to copy.

Zhou Xuan sighed in his heart: "I never thought that I could use the means of cheating in the exam that year, life is really funny!" ”

Zhou Xuan also wrote the famous article "Butterfly Loves Flowers" and "Dream Order" by Qin Guan, a scholar from Sumen, on printed poetry paper -

"Butterfly Loves Flowers" - leaning on the dangerous building with a fine wind, looking at the extreme spring sorrow, gloomy sky. In the grass-colored smoke and afterglow, there is no word who will rely on the column. I plan to get drunk with the madness, and I sing about the wine, and the strong music is tasteless. The belt gradually widened and did not regret it, and it made people haggard for Yi.

- "Like a Dream Order" - Where is Ikegami Haru? Full of falling flowers. The lonely house is quiet, and the dream is broken and the moon embankment returns. No clue, no clue, five more wind and rain outside the curtain. ”

Zhou Xuan finished writing, looked around, and saw that no one had handed in the papers, and he was the first again, so he said: "Submit the papers, hand in the papers." ”

The host of the poetry club came over and picked up Zhou Xuan's poetry and looked at it, and his face was shocked.

Lin Ning on the side said: "I will also hand in the papers." ”

The host looked at Lin Ning's two words again, was shocked again, and said in his heart: "It seems that these two outsiders are going to suppress us Xuanzhou people, such words, Xie Wei and Li Bai's resurrection, it's nothing more than that!" ”