Chapter 186: Collateral
Chapter 187: Aftermath
Even if Tan Weiying is not a princess in Danyang, she is the most influential art patron in the whole of Danyang. When Tan Weixin began to have to leave the troupes she founded because of various busy affairs, leaving behind a lot of script outlines and a lot of more and more professional cast and crew at a loss, the idle little princess took over these interesting things. Not only that, Tan Weiying also used her very generous share of the princess's mansion to fund a large number of poetry clubs, painting clubs and other institutions, and even participated in some of these activities from time to time. And when the embroidered princess and His Majesty the lord were in a mood, Tan Weiying did not completely regard gambling as the most noble cause by temperament, but devoted himself to the first symphonic soundtrack poetry drama in the history of Dongping and the entire Middle Earth - "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" with more enthusiasm.
Although the name is an out-and-out plagiarism of Liang Zhu, in fact, the plot of this poetic drama is Shakespeare's famous play "Romeo and Juliet". It is unknown whether the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai will be put on the stage again in the future, but such a spoof is obviously a very interesting thing for Tan Weixin at that time. As for Ma Wencai, in the play, he became the name of the "mysterious hermit" who provided Zhu Yingtai with a "resurrection" potion.
After being cultivated in this extremely literary environment for a few years, even if Tan Weiying didn't understand literature and art, she would have quite good opinions, not to mention, Tan Weiying originally had a lot of interest in these things, otherwise, she would not have readily agreed to take over the troupe at that time.
Tan Weiying is not only a sponsor of this poetic drama. She even participated in the entire script, stage design, actor selection, rehearsal and revision process of the entire poetry drama from scratch, and even some of the scripts were written by her at all. In discussing and revising the script again and again, she showed poetic talent, which amazed many people, and even more sincerely lamented that none of the children of the Tan family were simple characters.
However, just when Tan Weiying was organizing the rehearsal, in a side hall of the palace, Tan Xiaopei was summoning a few unpopular courtiers that he would never normally think of to discuss some absolutely confidential matters. And these things. It happens to be related to Tan Weiying's anger.
Tan Xiaopei is not a stupid person, nor is he a reckless person, when considering deciding a marriage for Tan Weiying, his strict screening of candidates is beyond imagination. It's no wonder that when he doesn't have any ill feelings towards Ye Tao, he has tested Ye Tao for so many years with a father's persistence and awkwardness, and he doesn't seem to be as capable as his sister. is a more considerate and lovely daughter Tan Weiying, how could Tan Xiaopei take it lightly? Almost all the school-age youths in Dongping were screened by him, and later, even the school-age youths of those families in Yunzhou and those top families in Chunnan, who now have a good relationship with Dongping, were also taken into consideration by him. Screen from such a large list of candidates. After comprehensively considering his morality, character, talents, wealth, family situation, etc., he proposed to choose Tan Weiying, and those candidates were by no means as unbearable as Tan Weiying complained to his friends, sister and two elder brothers.
Tan Weiying is not the kind of princess who hides at home and does not go out, she has known countless people from all over the years, especially talented young people. If she is not satisfied with the candidates proposed by Tan Xiaopei, if she herself has a favorite or even a candidate with a better impression, Tan Xiaopei will definitely find a way to do it for her daughter. In Tan Xiaopei's mind, probably no one would deliberately refuse to marry a family that is determined to dominate the world and has a good chance of dominating the world. And when Tan Weiying had almost no other opinions except for refusal and resistance, Tan Xiaopei also came to the same conclusion as Dai Qiuyan: there is a problem, there must be a problem.
It was at this time that the script outline of "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai". unexpectedly appeared in front of Tan Xiaopei, and Tan Xiaopei's imagination grew more and more.
Is it the same hostility between families as in the play? No, it can't be! It is impossible for Tan Weiying to know those families in Xiling or those families in Northern Liao, and in Dongping, with the process of establishing the country of the Tan family warlords and their consistent character, there is nothing in the country that can be called an enemy family at all.
So what is the reason? Because of the other party's identity, age, experience, etc., etc., etc.? …… Either way, Tan Xiaopei decided to take action.
First of all, he summoned Jin Ze, the head of the guard of Tan Wei Ying, and interrogated everyone that Her Royal Highness Princess Xiu had come into contact with over the years. Or rather. All communities. Then, Tan Xiaopei removed those who were obviously impossible. For example, if you have only met it once, and it is unlikely that you will leave any impression in a short time; For example, those people in the family who came to greet everyone's favorite little princess, because Tan Xiaopei knew that it was impossible for these people to be considered impossible by Tan Weiying because of their identity; For example, those who are related (and Ye Tao was excluded in this round of consideration). Then, after thinking about it again, Tan Xiaopei removed all the women......
Even so, the number of people left on the list is in the hundreds. In this helpless situation, Tan Xiaopei used the Intelligence Bureau with laughter.
Although Nie Rui couldn't help but roll his eyes when he thought of this matter in private, he didn't question Tan Xiaopei's idea of using it for private use at all. The Nie family was originally a retainer of the Tan family, and then it was ** opened, after several generations, although the power can only be regarded as a small end, but there are also important ministers like Nie Rui who can enter the center. Nie Rui's loyalty to Tan Xiaopei and the Tan clan was even higher than his loyalty to Dongping as a country, and he did not hesitate to order an investigation of those hundreds of people, hoping to find out who the sweetheart of the embroidered princess Tan Weiying was.
I don't know who or where I heard the saying that a person's poems are the expression of his inner consciousness, or something. Tan Xiaopei was in a hurry to go to the hospital to understand how far Tan Weiying had progressed with the mysterious "sweetheart", and why he refused to reveal the matter.
Pretending to be dissatisfied with Tan Weiying's huge expenses for supporting things like those poetry clubs and calligraphy clubs over the years, Tan Xiaopei directly sent someone to take over the entire embroidery garden, saying that he wanted to thoroughly check the princess's expenses. Tan Weiying didn't have any other way, so he snorted a few times very dissatisfiedly and went to the explanation hall of the Yizhan Building to rehearse the poetry and drama. However, she didn't expect that as soon as she left on her front foot, more than a dozen of the most senior spy officers of the intelligence bureau entered the embroidery garden on her back foot. They carefully searched every room in the garden, opened every box, pulled out every drawer, and even carefully searched every book, every volume, lest a single piece of paper slip slip should be missed. And after these people copied every word that Tan Weiying had written over the years in the original format, they quickly put everything back in place, lest they leave any traces and let Tan Weiying find out that they had appeared in the embroidery garden.
As a veteran patron of culture, a poet and lyricist who was still studying and achieving considerable results, and an enthusiastic companion who was always happy to correspond with friends far away, Tan Weiying had left a lot of records over the years, and it took a lot of time to turn through all the pages. At this time, the professional intelligence personnel came into play again, grading the various documents of Tan Weiying according to the degree of privacy of the places they found, sorting out the timelines according to whether there was a definite time when these things were written and when they could be confirmed, cross-referencing the timeline with the list, classifying the contacts with all kinds of people, and eliminating those who were already on the list...... Then, some of them combed through all the non-literary texts, such as letters, basic records, questions and answers with friends, and so on, looking for the key words that would normally appear in correspondence between lovers. Others singled out all of Tan Weiying's literary works...... They don't dare to make judgments about this kind of creation, and this part of the content needs to be sorted out and analyzed by Tan Xiaopei.
Therefore, Tan Xiaopei summoned a total of six famous literati in the field of literary creation, including Bai Xianyong, the director of the Literature Museum of the Archives Bureau, Yu Pingbo, a scholar of the Wenhua Palace and a famous great poet, and Mrs. Jin Xingyao, the manager of the Shuyu Pavilion of the Royal Palace, to explain the content of these poems to him.
If you want to talk about Wei Ying's poems, these people really haven't read much. None of them are the kind of people who need to pave the way for their careers by touting the royal family, some have already achieved fame, some don't care about these things at all, they only care about poetry and articles and other things. They have heard a little about Tan Weiying's deeds as a well-known cultural patron, but they have really not seen much of Tan Weiying's works except for the collective creation in the middle of the dramas and other things she participated in. And when a large number of works were put in front of everyone, they were also shocked by the number and quality of Tan Weiying's works.
After some sorting, they focused their eyes on two works:
One of them is:
Ling Bo is only on Hengtang Road, but he sees and Fangchen goes. Who is the year of Jinsehua? Yueqiao Flower Courtyard, Zhuhu Window, only Spring Knowledge.
Feiyun is in the twilight, and the color pen has a new question to break the intestines. If you ask how much leisure is it? A Sichuan tobacco, the city is full of wind and flocculents, and the plum is yellow when it rains!
And another poem has attracted everyone's unanimous attention:
Heavy and deep under the Mo Chou Hall, after lying down the night is slender and slender.
The career of a goddess was originally a dream, and the sister-in-law lived without a husband.
The turmoil does not believe that the lingzhi is weak, who will teach the laurel leaf fragrance in the moon?
Straight lovesickness is useless, and melancholy is madness.
If you read these two works of Tan Weiying on other occasions and in other contexts, I am afraid that everyone here would congratulate Tan Xiaopei on having a genius daughter whose articles are comparable to everyone in the world, but when you read these two things on this occasion and are asked to explain how and how, everyone here is not troubled.