The palace of the king of Qin was a lively scene, many poets who had only heard of their names before also took this opportunity to get acquainted, and at this time, an old man came from outside the gate of the palace of the king of Qin, the old man's gray hair, gray beard, and walked straight to the king of Qin, he saw the king of Qin did not salute, just nodded, but the king of Qin was very warm to entertain the old man!

Seeing this scene, Li Siyuan curiously asked Cheng Chuliang beside him: "Chuliang, who is this old man?" The shelves are not small! Cheng Chuliang heard Li Siyuan ask, looked at the old man with some fear, and then said in a low voice: "This is the famous Yan Shigu, this person is the most iron-faced and selfless, and he is upright, and there is no sand in his eyes, I didn't expect that the judge of this poetry competition would be him, and those who think of opportunism are afraid that they will be unlucky!" ”

After listening to Cheng Chuliang's introduction, Li Siyuan also nodded secretly, Yan Shigu's name is also thunderous in the ears of future generations, and the two families of this poetry competition invited him to be a judge, it seems that they are full of confidence!

When Li Siyuan was quietly looking at this ancient teacher, a large number of people came in outside the door, both men and women, and the guards at the door shouted when these people arrived2: "His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the King of Qi, the Crown Princess has arrived!" ”

After the voice sounded, the Qin Palace's house was quiet, everyone bowed down and saluted, and Princess Qin also led a group of female dependents to pay homage.

Prince Li Jiancheng walked in front of King Qin with a smile, helped him up, and then said to everyone: "Everyone, today is the poetry competition hosted by my second brother, His Royal Highness King Qin. ”

After speaking, he said to King Qin again: "Erlang, it's not too early, let's start!" King Qin promised, and then ordered the housekeeper to prepare!

The poetry competition hosted by the Qin Palace, which is naturally different from other places, has no platform, and does not leak the sky, but is held in a huge living room, everyone comes to this living room to sit down with the guests, the prince is the prince, and Li Shimin's brother naturally sits in the first place, as for those female dependents, they were led to the backyard by Princess Qin!

After everyone was settled, the subordinates of the Qin Palace's Mansion began to serve a steady stream of wine and food for each table, and everyone chatted while eating wine and food at the suggestion of His Royal Highness the Prince!

After the three rounds of cooking, the prince may feel that it is almost over, so he said to King Qin: "Erlang, I think it's almost the same now, why don't you start!" ”

King Qin agreed, stood up and said to everyone: "You are all my talents from the Tang Dynasty, gather together today to compete in poetry, I hope everyone will take out their real talents, it is Master Yan who is the judge today, presumably everyone should not have doubts about the results!" As for the rules of the Poetry Competition, there is only one rule: the poem must be your own! If there is a violation, it will be severely punished! ”

Seeing this, King Qin turned his head to the prince and said, "Brother Huang, you are the prince, please ask for a question!" ”

The prince did not agree, but said with confidence: "Since today is the poetry competition between the prince's mansion and the Qin prince's mansion, then it is naturally not appropriate for you and me to ask the question, it is better to call Yan Shi to ask the question, he is the referee today, and it is not bad etiquette for his old man to make the question!" “

King Qin didn't insist, and he didn't want the prince to really make the question, so he pushed the boat to Yan Shigu and said: "Master Yan, since the prince has said it, then I bother you to come up with the question!" ”

Yan Shigu is not polite, although he also understands the open and secret struggle between the two princes, but with his current prestige, he doesn't care about these things, after listening to the words of the prince and the king of Qin, he opened his mouth and said to everyone: "Everyone, since the prince and the king of Qin have said so, then the old man will no longer shirk, the topic of today's event will be done according to the four seasons of the year, spring, summer, autumn and winter can be included in the poem, but you need to make the poem, you can't take the previous number!" ”

As soon as Master Yan finished speaking, one of the scholars on his side asked, "Master Yan, can you only use spring, summer, autumn, and winter to enter the poem?" ”

Yan Shigu thought about it for a while, and then said: "Everything related to it can be, not just limited to solar terms, there are many talented people and bachelors who come today, so let's let go of the limitations!" ”

After listening to this, the scholar respectfully bowed to Yan Shigu and said, "Master Yan is thoughtful, I thank you here!" ”

Nodding at the scholar, Yan Shigu continued: "The rules have been set, if you have any good poems, you can read them out for everyone to enjoy now, and there will be scholars here to record them!" ”

After Yan Shigu finished speaking, he was silent for a while, and then saw a young scholar walk out, and after saluting everyone, he said: "Student Luoyang Wang Youde, compose a poem on behalf of the prince's mansion, and ask you to correct the poem, the poem is called "Spring Rain""

After reporting the name of the poem, the scholar shook his head and began to read the poem: "The spring rain is like silk, and the grass and trees spit out new sprouts." Cleanse the world of dust and be full of vitality! ”

After finishing reading, the scholar retreated, and Yan Shigu's own scholar made a record. At this time, there were also two maids outside the living room who were making records, and one of the maids handed over the poem to the other maid after memorizing it: "Xia He, quickly send this poem to the ladies, by the way, tell the ladies not to worry, as soon as there is a poem to compose, I will record it and send it to them!" ”

After the maid named Chunzhu took the poem, she whispered: "Sister Chunzhu, then you keep an eye on this side for a while, and I will come when I go, you must not be discovered, otherwise those people in the Prince's Mansion will have to say that our Qin Wangfu has no rules!" ”

After seeing Chunzhu nodding his head, Xia He trotted all the way back to the backyard. Everyone in the backyard had been waiting a little anxiously, and when they saw that the news finally came from the front yard, they immediately began to speculate!

And outside of this group of ladies and daughters, in an inconspicuous corner, a girl was quietly drinking soup tea, and did not show any expectation, the maid next to her looked at her young lady's indifferent appearance, and couldn't help asking: "Miss, aren't you curious about which talents have made good poems?" Maybe you like one of these talents! ”

The young lady glanced at her maid and said: "There are only a handful of real poets in our Tang Dynasty, and those in the front yard are just people who are famous and famous, what good works can they have!" As for the talent you said, even if I like it, what can I do, don't I still have to follow my parents' orders! Stop talking nonsense! ”

The maid obviously has a very good relationship with her young lady on weekdays, so she dared to refute the young lady's words at this time: "Miss, you are wrong, if I don't like it, I won't marry if I am killed!" Miss, you may not know, this morning Uncle Zhou told me that the kid who jumped off you in the Li Jiaji last time actually asked a matchmaker to kiss today, I really don't know what the eldest lady thinks, and even said to consider it, if you want me to say, what is there to consider, how can a wild boy in the countryside be worthy of you! ”

The young lady listened to the maid's words, frowned, clenched her fists, others don't know what's going on, she naturally knows it in her own heart, she has not been waiting to see her since she was a child, and now that she has grown up, she naturally hopes that she will marry out sooner, as for who the other party is, how can she, the eldest mother, care!

Thinking of this, she smiled bitterly: "Cuckoo, don't complain anymore, there's nothing bad about a country boy, at least marry there, the two of us don't have to worry about being bullied!" ”

The maid still wanted to reply, but the princess stood up and read the poem aloud, after the maid finished reading, the lady on the princess's side was naturally applauded, and the princess Qin was naturally sneering and disdainful, and the two began to argue, and suddenly, the backyard was much more lively than the front yard!

In the living room of the front yard, Li Siyuan didn't feel anything after listening to this poem, who told him to only memorize it and not do it! After listening to it, Yan Shigu felt that although this poem was catchy, it lacked a little charm, and couldn't help but shake his head secretly!

Someone on the side of the Prince's Mansion finished a poem, and the genius on the side of the Qin Wangfu naturally would not let the other party take the lead, so a young man also walked out of this side and said: "Fang Yuzhen, a native of Chang'an, is now making a poem, and I hope you will give me advice, the poem is called "The Wanderer", when the autumn wind rises, it is cold, and the pedestrians on the road are in a hurry; After a long time of wandering, the son has not returned to his hometown, and the loving mother is worried and tearful! ”

After the scholar finished reading, Li Siyuan couldn't help but start thinking in his heart, are all the poems at this time only at this level? If you take out a poem of the Hymn Immortal, wouldn't it be a little too dazzling? What a good thing that is!