Chapter 83: The Yuan Day Banquet (2)
The back house of Ba Fu was also jubilant at this time, and there was a circle of maids and servants in Ba Wan'er's room, and everyone was happy and joked with Ba Wan'er.
The maids smiled and said, "The little lady is overjoyed! Your husband's family has sent a matchmaker to collect it! ”
"I saw the new aunt who came to the door, that look, tsk......".
"I heard the servant in the front yard say that the matchmaker is the famous Mr. Rugai, and the marriage is proposed by the Duke of Yuguo and the King of Wei, what a big scene!"
"That is, the new aunt is still a noble person with a knighthood, and if you marry in the future, the court will give you a rank."
"What about a knighthood? It's not that my young lady has the final say, I want to see that the young lady threw him the pickax is God asking you to warn him, if he doesn't listen to you in the future, you will whip him, I just don't know if you can get down to that hand, young lady."
"If you marry a dowry girl in the future, you will also get a piece of the pie then, I don't know if you will be that ......."
"You dead girl, I don't think I'm ......."
"Haha......".
Xiao Zheng led people into Bafu, and the house was full of lights, and Xiao Zheng even saw the glass lamp tree in the courtyard.
Entered the main hall and laid out a mat, in the crowd of congratulations, Ba Zhongtian and Gai Wenda stood in the position of each other and saluted, the two of them knelt on the mat face to face in formal dresses, Gai Wenda smiled and said: "I have heard for a long time that the Ba family has Huixian, Gai is not talented, I am willing to be a matchmaker to ask my wife to lose, and now I bring the gift of the ancestors, please Ba Jiacai."
Ba Zhongtian also replied with a smile: "Nacai"
At this time, Li Tai came over with a wild goose and gave it to Ba Zhongtian, who touched it and let the servant take it down.
Gai Wenda saw Li Tai come up with a wild goose in his arms, and then said: "Since you have been ordered, you will add divination, who dare to ask a woman for?" ”
Ba Zhongtian replied with a smile: "Gai Gong has a life, and he chooses by courtesy, he doesn't dare to resign, and he is Wan." ”
The two exchanged the Geng stickers with the eight characters of the birthdays of both parties, and brought them back to calculate whether the men and women had any conflicts.
I don't know where the Ba family invited a priest, but I saw that the Taoist priest closed his eyes after reading the eight characters of the two and muttered in his mouth for a long time, and suddenly opened his eyes and said loudly: "The eight characters are compatible, the wife is virtuous and the son is filial, and the upper is auspicious."
In Xiao Zheng's opinion, this is all nonsense, and if this guy dares to say no, he will probably not be able to get out of the door.
After tossing and turning, it was finally the end of the ceremony, and at this time it was already the beginning of the lanterns, and the mat was removed, and Ba Zhongtian invited Xiao Zheng and others into the main hall. Wait to see when you go in, the hall is already full of friends, originally the Ba family feasts the local gentry on the first day of the year every year, and this year, with the engagement of the eldest daughter of the eldest grandson of the Ba Mansion, it is full of guests for a while.
A man with a head and a face in Chengdu Mansion sat in the hall in fresh clothes, and when he saw Xiao Zheng and others coming in, he got up and saluted: "I've seen King Wei!" I've seen Xiao Gong! I've seen Gai Gong! ”。
Since Li Tai played his own guard of honor, no matter how old he is, he must have the highest status among all of them, which is a face for the royal family.
Li Tai also returned the gift in a regular manner, Xiao Zheng and Gai Wenda plus Gong Yi Ruoyi must be the guests of honor this time, since they have passed the "Nacai" level, and there is a person with status like Xiao Zheng Gai Wenda as a matchmaker, this marriage must be a sure thing.
The more the old lady looked at the old lady and Ruoyi, the more she liked it, and she didn't dare to look at the old lady directly, which made Ba Zhongtian's brothers laugh secretly, until Ba Zhongtian coughed several times The old lady came to her senses, and she glared at her son several times.
Ba Zhongtian raised his wine glass and shouted to the guests in the hall with some leadership momentum: "Rank, on this festival, we will gather together, first Xiao Gong cured his mother's stubborn disease, and then King Wei, Xiao Gong and Gai Gong went to the door to propose marriage to the little daughter. ”。
With the sound of silk and bamboo, the atmosphere suddenly became lively. A few glasses of spirits under the stomach, everyone drank heartily, during the banquet, many people came over to celebrate the old lady's birthday, or with different purposes to Xiao Zheng, Li Tai and others came to toast, Xiao Zheng also responded with a smile and saluted one by one, and many young talents came to toast Gai Wenda, it can be seen that the old guy has a high prestige in the Shudi literary world.
At this time, Xiao Zheng's massive amount of this guy played a role, not responsible for Gai Wenda and Li Tai to block the wine, but also frequently returned the salute, seeing that the three Ba brothers were speechless, and the old lady Ba even slapped the table and laughed and said that Xiao Zheng was a wine fairy alive.
Originally, these people who went to the banquet knew that Xiao Zheng and Gai Wenda were coming, and some family heads brought their children and nephews to meet the world, after all, characters like Xiao Zheng, Li Tai and Gai Wenda were not seen.
Everyone saw that Xiao Zheng and the others were so approachable, and some of the young people who came to the banquet came alive with the strength of wine.
Some young people took the opportunity to celebrate the birthday of Mrs. Ba and Gavinda, and young people who thought they were talented took out their own poems or praised them or brought them out for Gavenda or Xiao Zheng to taste. Mrs. Ba no matter what, as long as someone comes to read poems, she will be rewarded, Gavenda will give a point or two to good poems, Xiao Zheng will save trouble, put Gavenda forward and clean, and drink with Ba Shi brothers and everyone.
There are happy and disappointed, Chengdu Liu Kang is a big businessman in Shu Jin, although it is not the same as the Ba family, but it is also a leader in the Shu Jin industry, and his only son Liu Siyuan is also very handsome and quite famous among local young people. The family has money, people are chic, and some talents invisibly boost Liu Siyuan's arrogance.
With the status and wealth of the Ba family and Ba Wan'er's appearance, there are not a few young people in Chengdu who admire Ba Wan'er, and in his heart he thinks that only a young talent like him can be worthy of the eldest lady of Ba Fu, and he also took the opportunity to contact Ba Wan'er a few times in business with the Ba family, but Ba Wan'er is always cold to him, and the trustee also handed a few words to Ba Zhongtian, but Ba Fu has never heard back.
Liu Siyuan naively thought that his own emotions were not in place, and he still stalked Ba Wan'er, and originally planned to let his father mention the family affairs again when he was celebrating the first day, but unexpectedly, Xiao Zheng took the public to defeat Ruoyi and killed him halfway to snatch love, which made him hate and annoyed but had nowhere to attack.
Seeing Xiao Zheng and Gong Ruoyi sitting on the guest of honor seat with a smile, he was even more jealous of his narrow-mindedness, and made up a few poems by himself a few days ago, thinking that he would show his face on the first day to win the hearts of beauties, but he didn't think that it would all become useless waste paper at this time.
After a few glasses of stuffy wine, he also took out his poems and asked Govinda for advice.
Gai Wenda looked at it and said: "This poem is not bad, there is only one sentence 'Mei Zhan Xue Shang Piao', can it be changed to 'Mei Shu Xue Shang Piao', okay?" ”。
For Gai Wenda's guidance, Liu Siyuan naturally didn't dare to have other ideas, and thanked Gai Wenda in a proper manner. As soon as he raised his eyes, he saw that Mrs. Ba was giving Ruoyi vegetables to the public, and saw that Ruoyi was a little more handsome than him, and suddenly he became angry again.
"If it weren't for this kid, I should be sitting here now!" Liu Siyuan said to himself viciously.
With a little bit of wine, he walked over to Ruoyi with a wine glass, and shouted: "Seniors and colleagues, there is this event today, and our young people have excellent works to celebrate the birthday of the old lady. Can you see it? ”。
"Good!" The hall erupted in applause.
A trace of displeasure was fleeting in Mrs. Ba's eyes, but she didn't speak, just watched with a smile how Gong Ruoyi dismantled the move.
All the older people here know in their hearts that if Ruoyi is good, he would have been the first to stand up, and he would definitely not bow his head and keep silent, and there are many people who are not good at poetry, and there is no need to be harsh. In terms of kung fu, if you lose the public and lose Ruoyi, you are not afraid of anyone present, but when it comes to poetry and songs, this guy is missing this tendon in his brain, Xiao Zheng has also taught him and Li Tai and others the skills and examples of writing poetry before, but how much this guy can remember, Xiao Zheng has no idea about him.
I saw Gong Yi Ruoyi stand up and salute and said, "I don't know what to call this benevolent brother?" ”。
"In the next Liu Siyuan, there is a small talent in Chengdu Mansion."
"I don't know what the title of the poem is".
Liu Siyuan pointed to the plum tree outside the hall and said: "The snow falls on these two days, the plum blossoms in the city are in full bloom, you can use plum snow as the theme, of course, you can also use other themes, if you really can't think of it, you can chant a song in the next generation, but brother, you have to punish three wines."
Gong Yi Ruoyi thought for a while and said: "One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five pieces, six pieces, seven or eight pieces, nine pieces, ten pieces, ten million pieces, ,......."
After reading the first three sentences, Gavenda's hand holding the wine glass trembled a little, his face slowly turned purple, and his beard trembled a little, and he now regretted protecting this medium. Ba Zhongtian's face was also a little stiff, and his expression was the same as finding an uncle for someone else's house.
Liu Siyuan's heart smiled, this is also called poetry? ! The shouts of the street vendors are stronger than these words! It seems that the Ba family is also blind, so they found an embroidered pillow, which clearly shows that they want to use their daughter to climb Xiao Zheng's high branch.
Just when he was gloating, he didn't expect Ruoyi to come with a sentence of "flying into the plum blossoms and never seeing them".
With the exit of this poem, many talented guests in the hall immediately put away the contempt on their faces, and then two of them shouted "Good! ”。
The purple on Govinda's face also faded, turned into an approving smile, and stopped and said: "This poem seems to be plain, first suppressed and then raised, but the idea is extremely novel, although it is not of the highest quality, according to the heart, it should be recommended today."
With Gavenda's conclusion, the guests congratulated the Ba family on finding a son-in-law who was both talented and good-looking.
The three Ba brothers were even more excited to toast the guests, and some clever servants were busy writing down the scene in the hall, and ran to the back house to talk to Ba Wan'er, in order to ask for a good reward.
After Gong Yi Ruoyi sat down, Xiao Zheng whispered to him: "If you want to study hard, you won't study, now you know."
Gong Yi Ruoyi said nonchalantly: "What are you afraid of, it's not that I can't deal with them."
"Fortunately, you remembered Lao Tzu's poem, or you will be embarrassed, and you will not be able to enter the door of marrying a wife if you don't read some books."
The conversation between the two ignored Liu Siyuan, who was frozen on the spot, listening to the first three sentences of this poem, he was still laughing at others for having no ink on his chest, but in a blink of an eye, he was turned over by others, and he was also used as a stepping stone, this guy felt a little unable to get off the stage.
Looking at Xiao Zheng's expression that he didn't take him seriously, Liu Siyuan was furious, and said to Xiao Zheng with a hot head: "I have heard that Xiao Gong is a poet, and people say that Xiao Gong's works are all good stories, can you ask Xiao Gong to write a poem to become a good story of today's Yuan Day?" ”。
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall who was a little sane sighed, this guy really had a good skin. If he said this to his peers or people who did not have an official position, then forget it, this guy who is jealous of the fire forgets that he and Xiao Zheng's status is one in the sky and one in the ground, that is, Li Shimin and Xiao Zheng say the same thing, and they are also thinking about it, and let Guogong make poems? You have to have that identity and status before you speak!
Mrs. Ba looked at Liu Siyuan and said, "You kid, you drink too much wine, go back and rest for a while, and go back and think about what Gai Gong pointed out to you."
Only Li Tai looked at Liu Siyuan and whispered: "Hit the stone with an egg", and after finishing speaking, he was ruthless at a plate of deer breasts on the table.
Encountering such a stunned young man, Xiao Zheng was also speechless, but Liu Siyuan's words had already been spoken, and Xiao Zheng didn't accept that everyone in the hall was watching, and this time he couldn't accept it.
Slowly stood up, smiled and said to Liu Siyuan: "Since you write poems, let's ask for a lottery, in front of everyone, the two of us, one person and one song, every time a poem is written slowly or a person who is not good at writing a poem, he will be punished for drinking, in front of the great Confucian celebrities, I think I Xiao Zheng will not oppress people with power, and Gai Gong and others will not lose their integrity, do you think it is good?" ”。
Liu Siyuan gritted his teeth and said, "But it's up to Gong Xiao to call the shots, and it's up to you."
"Good! So what do you say is the topic? ”。
"If the old body says it, can it still be based on Mei Xue?" Bach said with a smile.
"I have heard the heroism of Xiao Gong's 'Grape Wine Luminous Cup' for a long time, and now I can see it with my own eyes, and I am very lucky! The old man will add wine to it."
The two big wine gobalists had just been put on the table, and Li Tai didn't know where to find a jar for liquor, and filled the two goblets in a few clicks, Xiao Zheng smelled the aroma of wine wafting out and knew that the degree was not low.
Glaring at Li Tai, the guy sat back in his seat with a wicked smile on his face.
"The old man came to beat the drum and count!" Gavinda called for the servant to carry the drums.
As soon as the drum sounded, Liu Siyuan also calmed down, usually this guy can indeed be called talented, but his mistake is that he chose the wrong opponent.
After a few drums, Xiao Zheng read aloud: "There is plum without snow and no spirit, and there is snow without poetry and vulgarity."
The sunset poems are full of snow and snow, and the plum is very spring".
"Good!"
Among the guests was a master who knew the goods, and after hearing this poem, he praised it loudly.
Liu Siyuan was stunned after listening to Xiao Zheng's poem, he didn't expect Xiao Zheng to make the poem so quickly, and he did it so well.
"Young Master Liu, the old man is knocking ten times, if you are making a poem, you will have to drink this wine", Gavenda continued to beat the drum in his hand unhurriedly.
More than half of the wine Liu Siyuan drank turned into a cold sweat and flowed out, and at this time, Gavenda's drumming turned into a drum. He himself knows that once Xiao Zheng's poem comes out, it is impossible for him to make poems of a higher level in a short period of time.
When he came to his senses, the servant was already standing in front of him with a full bottle of wine, and he had no choice but to grit his teeth and pour it down, and the way this guy drank made a bunch of people applaud.
A large amount of liquor drank from his stomach, but it also aroused his aggressive heart, and he shouted loudly: "Admire, come again!" ”
"Good!".
As soon as Gai Wenda's drum beat twice, Xiao Zheng suddenly spoke: "Mei Xue is not willing to descend in the spring, and the saucy people put aside their pens to comment on the chapter."
The plum and snow are three points white, but the snow loses the fragrance of the plum."
"Good! Good! ......" was even more thunderous for a while.
This time, Liu Siyuan's face suddenly turned purple, and after the two Yao spirits were in his stomach, this guy spit wine in his mouth and lay down directly, waiting for the servants to take him out to clean up, Xiao Zheng also pointed to the jade bowl of the old lady Ba through the wine and said: "How can there be no wine with plum and snow, and give another song to the old lady under it, 'Lanling wine tulips, jade bowl with amber light.'" But the master can be drunk, and he doesn't know where ...... is somewhere else."
Don't think about it, these poems will definitely spread all over Chengdu tomorrow, and the guests got up to toast Xiao Zheng, who did not refuse and saluted one after another.
Waiting for Xiao Zheng to sit down, Gai Wenda touched Xiao Zheng with a wine glass and said: "The old man thinks that his poetry talent is also a little successful, and he has heard a few of your Xiao Gong's masterpieces before. Even if Cao Zijian is reborn in the world, he will be three points inferior to you", and after finishing speaking, he poured another glass of wine a little decadently.
"Poetry is a small way of entertainment, you can't govern the country, you just have fun, I also stole these poems."
Gavenda gave him a letter, and you ignored him with a strange look.