Zhou Xuan, Jingyi Fairy, Lin Hanyun, three idiots and four people climb the main peak of Jingting Mountain along the stone steps "a peak", Jingting Mountain bamboo forest is dense, known as "Bamboo Sea", in late spring and early summer, the bamboo forest is verdant, the continuous obscene rain begins to clear today, the bright sunlight penetrates from the gaps in the bamboo leaves, the spots are sprinkled on the bamboo forest path, the scenery is fresh and lovely.

Zhou Xuan said with a smile: "This poem is well set up, otherwise, the hiking trail will be crowded with people, and there will be a lot less elegance." ”

Lin Hanyun's voice was crisp and sweet: "Brother Zhou Xuan, there is still a second level, you have to take my sister to break through the poetry level, and you have to write several more poems." ”

Zhou Xuan deliberately frowned and said: "Well, it's a little difficult, I don't know what the next level is---- Sister Daoyun, I beg you something." ”

Fairy Jingyi said gently: "Brother Xuan, what's the matter?" ”

Zhou Xuan looked at the hazy veil of Fairy Jingyi and said, "Sister, take off the veil, so that I don't have to answer the poem twice." ”

Lin Hanyun asked, "Why?" ”

Zhou Xuan smiled and said: "Sister Daoyun herself is so beautiful and picturesque, what else do you need to compose!" ”

Fairy Jingyi said shyly: "Brother Xuan is talking nonsense again. But his heart was secretly rejoicing.

Lin Hanyun was a little jealous when she saw Zhou Xuan praising her sister like this, and instigated: "Sister took off the veil, and the scholar guarding the pass asked you to pass the customs?" As he spoke, he pulled the veil of Fairy Jingyi.

Fairy Jingyi hurriedly said, "I'll pick it myself." The jade fingers are slender, and the veil is rolled up on the edge of the hat, revealing a delicate and moving face, with blue eyebrows, a face like a morning glow, eyelashes fanning like butterfly wings, and eyes half shy and half happy.

Zhou Xuanyi clenched his fists and said, "Which one with eyes and no beads will not let Sister Daoyun pass, I will beat him with panda eyes." ”

Lin Hanyun laughed crisply: "Brother Zhou Xuan, be careful of yourself, you will be hated if you are too outstanding in poetry." Oiran Xiahou tassel doesn't know what the beauty looks like, this mountain of poets are all going to Xiahou tassels, if Brother Zhou Xuan, a passing foreigner, gets the poet, they will hate you to death, and it's hard to say that you are beaten in groups, so many people rush up, and Mr. Third can't prevent it alone. ”

Zhou Xuan said with a smile: "I didn't say that I wanted to compete for the Oiran, Sister Hanyun said this, and my legs trembled." We're going to retreat, so let's go back. ”

Lin Hanyun smiled: "How to escape from the battle, let's see what the Oiran looks like." ”

While speaking, he stepped out of the bamboo forest path and looked up to see the "Yongcui Pavilion", where Li Bai wrote "The birds flew high." Lonely clouds go alone. I don't get tired of seeing each other, only Jingting Mountain".

"Yongcui Pavilion" is towering and spacious, and there is a small archway under the pavilion. A group of Xuanzhou scholars stood under the archway and looked at the four Zhou Xuans who climbed up the stairs from the mountain road, these are all poets who have passed the two levels, and they want to see the latecomers answer the poems, and they laugh and talk about the crooked poems and bad poems.

The poet is romantic, the poet who is not in the stream is light, and when he sees two beauties, one of them is a beautiful female crown, and those so-called poets are all in good spirits, and some people begin to chant fragrant and glamorous poems obscenely.

A middle-aged scholar walked out of the group of scholars under the archway. smiled and arched his hand to Zhou Xuan: "Son's surname?" But it's a face. ”

Zhou Xuan returned the salute and said: "The surname is Zhou, and I came from Jinling, which coincided with the Spring Poetry Meeting. Come and join in the fun. ”

This middle-aged scholar surnamed Dong is a well-known poet in Xuanzhou, and there are three major poetry societies in Xuanzhou, which are called "Shangxiang Poetry Society", "Qingping Poetry Society" and "Mo Yuzhai Poetry Society", and Dong poet is the right-hand man of "Qingping Poetry Society". It is said that three poems must be composed every day. The manuscript of the poem has been stacked a lot, and the second level of the Spring Poetry Club is guarded here.

On the side, another man in a fancy costume who pretended to shake a folding fan stared at the Lin sisters a few times. Ask: "Who are these people?" ”

Zhou Xuandao: "One is my sister, the other is my sister, and this is my scholar." ”

The surname of the prince of Huafu is Hu Mingyang, a giant family in Xuanzhou, and his father is the deputy envoy of Ningguo Jiedu, and this time he is the leader of the "Mo Yuzhai Poetry Society" to guard the second level of the poetry meeting.

Those who can enter the "Mo Yuzhai Poetry Society" are the children of wealthy families, "Qingping Poetry Society" is more civilian, as for the "Shangxiang Poetry Society", it is a women's poetry society, which is generally limited to boudoir singing and harmony, and rarely interacts with the other two poetry societies, but this annual "Cherish Spring Poetry Society", female poets are to participate, women are the most sentimental, this cherished spring poems do not know how much, they want to beat male poets in the "Cherish Spring Society", they do not need to pass two levels, directly go to the "Xie Guanlou" and wait for the final poetry election.

When Hu Yang Hu Gongzi heard that this beautiful and elegant female crown and lively and agile little beauty were Zhou Xuan's sisters, he immediately smiled and asked: "What kind of poem did Zhou Gongzi write when he broke through the first level, can you let me wait to appreciate the masterpieces of the poets in the capital?" ”

Zhou Xuan chanted the poem "Spring Day" of Qin Shaoyou in the Song Dynasty again, and Hu Yang applauded: "Good poem, good poem!" Said to the Dong poet of the "Qingping Poetry Society": "Zhou Gongzi's poem is beautiful and graceful, it is a rare masterpiece, I think it is difficult to break through the second level with this poem, what do you think, Lao Dong?" ”

Lin Hanyun couldn't help but think of the old Dong who didn't go to Beijing with her, and looked at the Dong poet "Gege" and laughed.

The Dong poet thought that the little beauty favored him, and he was secretly happy in his heart, Zhou Xuan was the brother of the little beauty, how could he be offended, and nodded again and again: "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful poetry, Zhou Gongzi doesn't need to take the second level test, a few, please go to the Cui Pavilion." As he spoke, he handed over a delicate bamboo plaque, one side of the bamboo green carved with a high-rise building with warped cornices, and the other side engraved with "Kaibao 29th Xuanzhou Cherishing Spring Poetry Meeting".

Although the rest of the poets who watched the excitement felt that this was a bit confusing, they were greedy for the beauty of the Lin sisters, and they were afraid that Zhou Xuan would not clear the customs and leave with the beauty, so no one raised any objections.

Zhou Xuan took the bamboo card, but he didn't appreciate it, and said in his heart: "It's not interesting to be exempted from the exam, buddy's stomach full of poems, and I'm looking for opportunities to show it everywhere, okay, if there is still a chance later, I am a seeded player and directly enter the finals." Haha smiled, and the two of them gave up their hands to Hu and Dong, and took the Lin sisters and the three idiots through the archway to climb the "Yongcui Pavilion".

The steps of the "Yongcui Pavilion" are relatively steep, Zhou Xuan gently held the elbow of Fairy Jingyi, and laughed in a low voice: "Sister saw it, as soon as my sister showed her true face, even I was exempted from the exam together, it was really stained with my sister's light." ”

Fairy Jingyi wanted to laugh, but felt that it was inappropriate. said: "Brother Xuan, I'd better put down the veil." ”

Zhou Xuan nodded and said, "It's okay, anyway, the poetry pass has passed, don't be cheap anymore those guys." ”

Fairy Jingyi hurriedly put down the veil, and then laughed silently under the veil, there are always so many funny things with Brother Xuan.

There are already more than ten poets of all ages on the "Yongcui Building", one of whom is still on crutches, with gray hair and wrinkled faces. According to Xiaosheng, this poem is Mo Dongliang. ”

Dong Liang Weng didn't know that the young man was deliberately joking, and said humbly: "How dare you be old, there are many talented people in the future, which round will get the old decay!" ”

The light boy said seriously: "It's your turn, it's your turn, it's just that there is a difficulty at this last moment----"

Dong Liweng asked, "What is the difficulty?" ”

The thin young man said: "The poem is seventy strange. Oiran sixteen is insufficient, this white hair is against red face, how to spend the Spring Festival? ”

Everyone in the pavilion laughed. Zhou Xuan also laughed.

Dongli Weng was embarrassed and angry, and his crutches sounded "tuk tuk", and hissed: "Don't make fun of the old man, you don't have a share in the poetry, this is the place reserved by Lian Changgongzi, you are all accompanying guests, no one should make fun of anyone!" ”

The light young man sneered: "Lian Changgongzi's talent is incomparable, and he deserves to be a poet." ”

Lin Hanyun was not convinced, opened his mouth to speak, but was stopped by Zhou Xuan. He whispered, "We're here to see the fun." ”

Zhou Xuan accompanied the fairy Jingyi to walk around the "Yongcui Pavilion", but saw that the bamboo forest was thousands of heavy, green and green, and dozens of peaks of Jingting Mountain were all in sight. Zhaoting Lake at the foot of the mountain is a blue and secluded, the water of Shuangxi meanders to come, and the south side of the "Xie Wanglou" looks at each other majestically, and the end of the land is a good scenery.

Hu Yang and Hu Gongzi then followed and accosted Zhou Xuan. Zhou Xuan saw this person's eyes flickering. As far as he could look at Fairy Jingyi and Lin Hanyun, he said unhappily: "Master Hu, please." Don't bother me with the wonderful psalms I brew. ”

Hu Yang is the same age as Zhou Xuan, thin, thin-skinned, and at first glance, he is a wine-colored man, seeing that Zhou Xuan is not polite to him, he said in his heart: "Boy, I'm afraid you don't know who I am." He introduced himself: "Under the surname Hu Mingyang, my father is the deputy envoy of Ningguo Festival, I want to make friends with Zhou Gongzi, and invite Zhou Gongzi to drink after the poetry meeting, how about it?" ”

Lin Hanyun said: "Deputy envoy of Jiedu! There was no sense of awe.

Hu Yang naturally didn't know that Lin Hanyun's father was the envoy of Fenghua Jiedu, and seeing that Zhou Xuan and the four of them were unmoved and respectful, he said in his heart: "You don't even know what kind of official the deputy envoy of Jiedu is, from the third grade, it is higher than the rank of Xuanzhou Thorn History, and in the twelve counties of Sanzhou under the rule of the Ningguo Protectorate, it is under one person and above ten thousand people----"

Zhou Xuan arched his hand and said: "Thank you, don't dare to bother, my sister doesn't like to get along with the living, Hu Gongzi should keep the poem." ”

Hu Yang really didn't know each other, but he still didn't retreat, like a big-headed fly, he flickered left and right beside the Lin sisters, and "buzzed" twice from time to time.

Zhou Xuan didn't want to cause trouble, he provoked Wei Bo in Hongzhou last time, and gave birth to so many things, and this time he was the son of the deputy envoy of Jiedu, why is this kind of goods everywhere, so he said to the three idiots: "The third child, can you make this big-headed fly quiet for a while?" ”

The three idiots nodded, hugged their arms and approached Hu Yang, and flicked their fingers on his left buttocks.

That Hu Yang didn't feel anything, and walked a few steps next to Lin Hanyun, when he suddenly stumbled, almost fell, quickly stood still, touched his left thigh and shouted: "Ouch, why did my left leg suddenly become unconscious?" ”

Zhou Xuan asked with concern: "Master Hu, what's wrong with you, could it be that you have had a stroke?" Oops, that has to be treated urgently, otherwise it will be bad to fall into a half-body failure. ”

Hu Yang's two relatives hurriedly came over to help Hu Yang, Hu Yang couldn't move, and the two relatives hurriedly found a chariot to carry Hu Yang down the mountain to find a doctor to Ye Fengji.

Lin Hanyun was the most eventful, and asked the Dongli Weng: "Who is the son of Lianchang, is he very talented?" ”

Dongli Weng said politely: "This young lady is not a local, Lianchang Gongzi is a household name in our Xuanzhou, with a lot of money and talent, and King Jing is a good friend, and he is the wife and brother of the Qingyuan Festival, and he has lived here for three years. ”

Zhou Xuan's expression moved, this Lianchang Gongzi is Li Kun's friend, and he is the brother-in-law of Qingyuan Jiedu, the relationship is complicated, Qingyuan Jiedu makes Chen Si'an nominally a minister to Tang State, but in fact, all taxes are not paid, as if Quanzhou and Zhangzhou are separated. It is no different from the King of Min.

Zhou Xuan was puzzled: "Why does Prince Lian Chang live in Xuanzhou?" Could it be that Li Kun and Qingyuan Jiedu have some conspiracy? ”

At this time, several poets who had cleared the customs came up one after another, and said: "The hour is almost up, let's go to Xie Guanlou, and the talented man who swept his eyebrows in Shangxiang Society should also arrive." "Just go down from the mountain road on the other side of Jingting Mountain and go to "Xie Weilou".

Zhou Xuan was not in a hurry, and went to the "Yunqi Pavilion" with the Lin sisters and the three idiots to sit for a while, remembering the sages, and then looking for a way down the mountain to meet Lin Ning and others. Let's go to the "Xie Wanglou".

"Xie Guanlou" is built on the top of Lingyang Mountain, Lingyang Mountain is slightly lower than Jingting Mountain, but the scale of "Xie Guanlou" is much higher than "Yongcui Pavilion" and "Yunqi Pavilion" on Jingting Mountain, there are three floors up and down, the upper circle is below, and each layer is two zhang high. Towering above the mountains, it is very imposing.

I can't help going up the mountain, and Zhou Xuan stays at the bottom of the mountain. The rest of Lin Ning, Mingfeng, and Jianyue went up the mountain together, came to the bottom of the "Xie Wei Lou", looked up at the high-rise building, looked at Jingting Mountain in the north, Li Bai's "draw the knife and cut off the water and the water is more flowing, raise a glass to eliminate sorrow and sorrow, life is not satisfactory in the world, and the Ming Dynasty spreads a flat boat", which is written here.

Downstairs, poets and artists gathered, and the crowd suddenly stirred. Someone shouted: "Look, look, that's Xiahou tassel." ”

Everyone looked up at the third level of the tall building. When Zhou Xuan looked up, he saw the blue sky and the white sun, and the cornices of the high-rise buildings outlined a jagged silhouette, how could there be a figure of Xiahou tassel?

But the poets downstairs are all so excited that you push me, these people have not passed the two passes of Jingting Mountain, and they have not obtained bamboo cards. Not eligible to enter the "Xie Wei Tower". Only the eyes want to see the corner of the red dress.

Zhou Xuan and his entourage of seven people entered the hall on the first floor with a bamboo plaque, and heard the two scholars guarding the door muttering: "There are so many beauties in Shangxiang Society." ”

Zhou Xuan smiled and said to the Jingyi fairies: "It turns out that the gatekeepers regard you as the poetess of Shangxiang Society." There are indeed a lot of beauties, and five came at once. ”

The hall on the first floor is about ten zhang square, can accommodate more than 100 people, but see the clothes and sideburns, Yan thin ring fat, most of the famous ladies and ladies of Xuanzhou will poetry have come, no wonder those scholars who have not been able to get the bamboo card into the building beat their chests, very sad, it turns out that once they enter the building, they can talk about literature with these celebrities, this is a great opportunity to contact private affairs, it is said that every year the poetry will have a poor scholar who climbs to the rich lady, there are those who tie the knot, those who elope, and those who cheat......

Lin Hanyun looked at the female poets who were also veiled, and said strangely: "If the female poet wins the poetry, then it is not a woman against a woman with an oiran, this is ----"

"Hanyun, don't talk nonsense!" Fairy Jingyi was afraid that this open-mouthed sister would say something embarrassing.

Zhou Xuan said with a smile: "There must be other rules, we don't know yet, it is impossible to let the female poet match the Oiran, and besides, there is a fork and fork boy here, and it is difficult for a woman to win the poet." ”

Lin Hanyun glanced at him charmingly: "Big face!" ”

At this time, Zhou Xuan suddenly had a brilliant idea, and thought: "Since Gongzi Lian Chang is determined to get this Xiahou tassel, then he must not follow his wishes, and he must take Shikui over, of course, Sister Daoyun is here, I am not good to spend the Spring Festival with Oiran, and my buddies are not used to sleeping with a woman who met for the first time, anyway, I can't get it from Gongzi Chang." ”

Zhou Xuan never expected that on the second floor above his head, a Confucian student in his fifties and a young man in his thirties were drinking tea in the small pavilion near the window, talking about Zhou Xuan.

That Confucian has sparse eyebrows, an uncommon appearance, a wisdom bead in his face, and a smile on his face, who else would it be if he wasn't the first thinker under King Jing, Gan Simou?

Gan Simou took a sip of the "Jingting Green Snow Tea" produced in Xuanzhou, and said with a smile: "Lianchang Gongzi, as Gan expected, Zhou Xuan really came to participate in this poetry meeting, a few days ago it was rainy and rainy, I was worried that he would not be able to catch up with this poetry meeting. ”

That Lian Chang Gongzi is very tall, tall, with two eyebrows and two delicate small swords, his nose is like a hanging gall, and his lips are greased, he is indeed a beautiful man, and said: "His Royal Highness King Jing asked me to find someone to get rid of Li Jian last time, I personally went to the lonely mountain of West Lake in Hangzhou, found Mr. Lin Kui, and hired a five-idiot killer to assassinate Li Jian with three thousand taels of gold. Last month, Lin Kui had sent someone to return 3,000 taels of gold. ”

Gan Simou said: "Li Jian put it aside first, but now this Zhou Xuan is a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of His Royal Highness King Jing, ten times hate him than Li Jian, this person will not be removed for a day, His Royal Highness King Jing will not be able to sleep for a day, and King Jing will be kicked and broken by Zhou Xuan in the last month, and he has not been able to walk on the ground. ”

Gongzi Lian Chang said with interest: "Then I want to see this bold and reckless Marquis of Xinzhou, I'm afraid that he doesn't have that talent, he can't get the poetry, so he insists on giving it to him, I'm afraid that I can't convince the public, and the Xuanzhou scholars are staring at it."

Gan Simou said: "Zhou Xuan is also a small talent, favored by the emperor with poetry, and pleases the queen with painting, he is really a hot figure in Beijing, and Xiao Zhou strictly ordered King Jing not to harm Zhou Xuan again, so it is not easy to start in Beijing, he returned to Jiangzhou this time, detoured to Xinzhou to worship his ancestors, it is a good opportunity to remove him, I don't know if the son has been arranged?" Zhou Xuan has a powerful subordinate who follows, named Zhou Zhouchi. ”

Lian Chang Gongzi said: "Please rest assured Mr. Gan, as long as Zhou Xuan enters the Oiran embroidery room, then he will definitely die, and Zhou Qiqi will not follow him into the cave room!" ”

Gan Simou asked: "Is that Xiahou tassel trustworthy?" ”

Lian Chang Gongzi said: "I brought the people from Qingyuan, of course it is reliable, our strategy is really both a coincidence and a human scheme, the time and place are favorable, and it is difficult for Zhou Xuan not to die!" ”

Gan Simou raised the teacup with satisfaction, took a sip, and asked, "Have you found a good place for the dead ghost?" ”

Lian Chang Gongzi said: "I have already looked for a good person, it is the deputy envoy of Ningguo Jiedu, named Hu Yang, this person can chant two crooked poems, vassal elegance, he thinks he is a famous man, and he is good at looking for flowers and asking willows, so let this person die with Zhou Xuan." As he spoke, he clapped his palms, and a waiter came in and asked, "What does the son command?" ”

Lian Chang Gongzi said: "Hu Yang, did Hu Gongzi go downstairs?" ”

The waiter said, "I haven't seen Master Hu." ”

Gongzi Lian Chang frowned: "Strange, Hu Yang is the most enthusiastic about capturing Shikui, how come it hasn't arrived yet, go and find out what's going on?" ”

The waiter answered.

Gan Simou worried: "There won't be anything wrong, right?" ”

Lian Chang Gongzi said: "Mr. Gan don't worry, even if Hu Yang doesn't come, I can find other substitutes for the dead ghosts---- downstairs seems to have begun to fight poetry, Mr. Gan is temporarily avoided, I'll go down and take a look." ”

Lian Changgongzi slowly walked down to the first floor, and saw Zhou Xuan sitting at a round table in the northwest corner of the hall, and the six people around him were all women except for the three feet, all of them were beautiful, and they couldn't help but think: "Zhou Xuan is really lustful, and there is a way to die." ”

A clear voice sounded: "Ladies and gentlemen, this year's Cherishing Spring Poetry Club has a total of seventy-seven people who have passed the Jingting Mountain Poetry Pass, together with the eyebrows of the Shangxiang Society, a total of 119 people, should all be there, the following begins to write poems, limited to one stick of incense time, because His Majesty the Emperor loves words, so the poetry of this poetry meeting can be, the rhyme is not limited, and the poetry of cherishing spring can be ----"

"I finally arrived, and I almost missed a big thing!"

A voice shouted out of breath, and then a person came in, shaking the folding fan in his hand, sweating profusely, it was Hu Yang Hu Gongzi.