The night is shrouded, the autumn wind is bleak, and the lonely night wind is wafting between the sky and the earth, but in the southern city of Yingdu, it is a different scene...

There are very few houses in the southern city, but tens of thousands of people flow through it every day, all because there is a beach of Sun Moon Lake, which was built by the new emperor of Chu two hundred years ago and attracts the water of the Yangtze River. After the construction of this lake, it was given the name Sun Moon Lake by the new emperor of Chu, and since then, the waterway business in the southern city has developed, and the major wharves connecting the waterway of the Yangtze River have come and gone for business.

Later, the annual chrysanthemum appreciation custom was changed to Nancheng under the recommendation of a large group of scholars and poets. Since then, there have been a lot of painting boats in Sun Moon Lake, blocking the wharf to death, and there are many children playing in the painting boats, and the boss of the chamber of commerce does not dare to expel or report to the official, so he can only move the waterway business to the outside of the city.

Since then, the painting boat of Sun Moon Lake has soared to hundreds, and the daily warblers and swallows, singing and dancing have become a beautiful scenery in Yingdu.

At this time, people come and go by the Sun Moon Lake, and most of them are talented and beautiful people. There are hundreds of painting boats wandering in the lake in the lake, and from a distance, you can see the graceful dancing and joy in the tulle on both sides of the painting boat, which is desirable!

Ying Xuan wore a white dress with handsome facial features and shuttled through the sea of people, attracting some beauties. Whenever he encounters some beauties who shyly come up to talk, Ying Xuan will always politely refuse, not to Ying Xuan pretending to be cool, but to come out to enjoy the chrysanthemum to play, more to see the talent of Chu State.

"Smack~"

Suddenly slapped on the shoulder, Ying Xuan frowned slightly, grabbed his little hand and turned around, and said in surprise, "Brother Sedum!" How are you! ”

"You... You still don't let go! ”

Being grabbed by Ying Xuan's little hand like this, a blush appeared on Sedum's face, and he said with three coquettishness.

"Oh~ I'm sorry, it's abrupt!" Ying Xuan let go of Sedum's somewhat delicate and slender little hand and apologized. I was inexplicably nostalgic for the smooth touch and the lingering fragrance left on my fingertips.

Sedum's big watery eyes stared at Ying Xuan as if he was interrogating, and said, "Didn't Brother Qin say that he had something to do, so he didn't come here to enjoy the chrysanthemum?" ”

"Originally, this time I came here to visit a senior in the name of my father, but the senior had already gone out to travel, so I came here to have a look." Ying Xuan smiled slightly, and began to make up nonsense, telling lies without pause.

Sedum looked at Ying Xuan's calm expression and sincere eyes suspiciously, and finally believed him. Wan Er smiled and said, "Brother Qin! Let's go to the painting boat to play~"

Sedum's smile revealed two cute little tiger teeth, and the playfulness that was inadvertently revealed made Ying Xuan's heartbeat accelerate slightly.

Seeing that Ying Xuan didn't respond for a long time, Sedum turned his head sideways and looked at Ying Xuan with obsessive eyes, and his little face suddenly turned red, until Sedum's head was about to be buried in his chest, Ying Xuan realized that he was out of shape, and smiled awkwardly, "Then let's rent one!" ”

Ying Xuan took Sedum to the dock by the Sun Moon Lake, and at Sedum's strong request, Ying Xuan only spent ten taels of silver to rent a small painting boat, with only wood and thin cloth on the boat, and a table and four futons in the middle, and the simple furnishings looked elegant. Fortunately, there is also a boatman rowing, so he will not let Ying Xuan row in person.

Sitting on the futon, watching Sedum frolicking by the boat like a happy bird, Ying Xuan smiled faintly, made a pot of tea and took a few sips of it.

After playing for a while, Sedum sat on the futon, poured a cup of tea, drank it in a small sip, and asked, "After a while, the chrysanthemum viewing party will start, Brother Qin, will you participate?" ”

Ying Xuan said with a smile, "Chu is full of talents, so naturally I want to go and see it." ”

"Then Brother Qin is going to refuel, if you want to board the chrysanthemum boat, you must pass the question of the Hanlin Academy."

Ying Xuan didn't care, he didn't particularly care about whether he could get on the chrysanthemum boat, and there was still a quarter of an hour before the chrysanthemum viewing meeting, so he chatted with Sedum.

The two of you went back and forth, and a quarter of an hour passed quickly......

At this time, all the painting boats at the Sun Moon Lake Wharf were rented out, and the lake was crowded with two miles.

A huge ship came from the south, loaded with Qiu Ju. This behemoth attracted everyone's attention, and countless scholars and poets had blazing eyes.

Ying Xuan took a closer look at the ship, which was five stories high and could accommodate at least five thousand soldiers. Its ship, both in terms of decoration and size, is far above the one of the winners. Such a sea overlord was sent for a viewing meeting, which shows the heritage of the Chu State!

"Are you scared~" Sedum saw Ying Xuan's stunned expression and stared at the building ship and smiled.

"How does the Hanlin Academy screen the list of boarding ships?"

Sedum shook his little head; "The method of screening is different from year to year, and I don't know."

While the two were chatting, the boat stopped in the middle of Sun Moon Lake.

An official wearing the court uniform of the Chu State stood on the boat, took out a piece of paperwork, and said loudly, "Drink the fall of Mulan in the morning, and eat the fall of autumn chrysanthemum in the evening!" It's October again, and the autumn chrysanthemums are blooming. ”

"This year's chrysanthemum appreciation test is set for Jinglun! Wait a minute, all the boats will receive a unique token, the boat can choose the opponent freely, the loser will hand over the token, and after an hour, the person who holds three tokens will be able to get on the boat! ”

"Now I'm shocked to announce my identity as a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, and the game is on!" After speaking, Bai Yun touched his beard in surprise and looked down on the audience.

Bai Yunjing is just a scholar with little popularity, and only the painting boats around him can hear such a roar. However, the painting boat in the distance saw that all the lanterns on the building ship were lit, and they also understood.

"Which one shall we challenge first? Why don't you challenge that! This one is not bad either~"

Sedum excitedly showed two small tiger teeth and shouted as he pointed to a nearby painting boat.

Ying Xuan smiled and looked at Sedum's innocent appearance, but he felt very sympathetic to the women of these big families in his heart, and he could only learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and poetry and lyrics every day, and when the family needed it politically, they sold it to his family like goods. There is no freedom in their lives!

"Don't worry, let them challenge us!" Ying Xuan took a sip of tea calmly and said lightly.

With more than a thousand years of knowledge and insight than these people, Ying Xuan didn't dare to say that he was able to dominate the crowd, but he was still sure to board the ship. After all, Ying Xuan is not fighting alone, he has countless doctors, professors and experts in his head on the historical views of the situation in various Koreas, which are far from comparable to these people.

It's like an old man who has lived for a long time and a child who has just learned to speak, the gap in their experience makes them not at the same level at all. Of course, this kind of role is only limited to those below the genius level, and it can work if it falls on some peerless virtuous ministers who have left their names in history.

The game had been going on for nearly a quarter of an hour, and there was still no one to challenge Yingxuan.

Ying Xuan is a foreigner, and he is not well known, and those scholars and poets all want to learn from each other with their friends or admirers in their hearts at this flower-viewing party, and they are drunk and singing and talking with each other. This basically didn't win Xuan.

"I can't imagine that there is no one in this huge Sun Moon Lake for this token." Ying Xuan held the wooden token in his hand, and couldn't help but have more respect for the scholar poet in front of him. If this was placed in modern times, persimmons would have been pinched softly.