Chapter 50: I can't go back to my home
"'The willow tops on the moon, people about after dusk', this sentence should be the eye of the whole poem, that is, to point out the sweetness and happiness of men and women meeting under the moon, and to hint at the tragedy of this pair of men and women in the future, absolutely wonderful!" At a poetry meeting where literati gathered in Chang'an City, a young man sitting in dispersion slapped his legs and exclaimed.
"Otherwise, I think the best thing about the whole poem is the strong contrast between the 'moon and the lamp' and 'I don't see last year' in the whole poem, and these two sentences are the most sad in the whole poem, and the last sentence of 'tears full of spring shirt sleeves' is the title sentence of the whole poem, which makes the emotions in the poem completely cathartic and makes people cry!" At this time, another scholar expressed a different opinion.
"The two brothers only talk about the poems, which is inevitably a little inferior, for Zaixia, the combination of this poem and Li Xiugongzi's emotional encounter is the most touching place!" Another reader opened his mouth to express his opinion, and his words were also supported by many people, and the topic began to shift from poetry to Li Xiu, who composed poetry, and the scene began to be lively.
"Everyone, we have always considered ourselves literary and elegant, but when we saw Li Xiugongzi's poem today, we are willing to bow down, why don't we go and visit, or talk about poetry with Li Gongzi?" At this time, I don't know who opened his mouth to propose, but the result suddenly detonated everyone's enthusiasm, and the poetry meeting was not held at the moment, and everyone stood up and walked out of the city with friends.
At the same time, on the top of an embroidery building in a nobleman's inner house in Chang'an City, a girl wearing a waist-length skirt was lying on the windowsill, looking out of the window in a daze, and after a while, she suddenly sighed and said: "Mother, what do you say that the woman Li Xiu likes looks like, is it more beautiful than her daughter?" ”
"Silly girl, why are you still thinking about this?" As soon as the girl's words fell, she saw the middle-aged lady behind her come over and stroke her hair and said lovingly, I knew that my daughter would be like this, I shouldn't have taken her to Princess Pingyang yesterday, and I shouldn't have thrown the handkerchief to the talented Li Xiu.
"I think she should be very beautiful, although I heard that the other party is a bhikshuni, but since she can be liked by a talented man like Li Xiu Gongzi, she must be a beauty who captivates the city and the country, just like ......" The girl didn't pay attention to her mother's words, but still said to herself, in the end, it seemed that she wanted to find someone to refer to, but after thinking for a while, her eyes suddenly lit up and said, "Just like the princess of Pingyang who changed into women's clothes, only in this way can a woman match the talent and infatuation of Li Xiu Gongzi." ”
Seeing her daughter's happy face when she mentioned Li Xiu, the lady couldn't help but sigh, she was a person from the past, and naturally knew that her daughter had a deep affection for that Li Xiu, but she couldn't help this kind of thing, and finally thought about it, and finally gritted her teeth and went downstairs, and then instructed her subordinates: "Send someone to Li Xiu's son to inquire about the situation, and prepare another car, Mrs. Ben is going to visit the Yongkang County Mansion!" ”
In another aristocratic mansion a few miles away from the Huaichun Maiden Embroidery Building, a middle-aged man was also listening to his friend tell about last night's events, and after listening to Li Xiu's poem, he couldn't help but exclaim: "I didn't expect that there is such a young and handsome man hidden in Chang'an City, Yongkang County Gongzhen gave birth to a good son, but unfortunately their father and son fell out." ”
"What the prince said is right, you didn't go yesterday, otherwise you could have seen Li Xiu's demeanor, at that time, even I thought that he had no hope of turning over, but I didn't expect that with just one poem, the situation was completely reversed, which is really amazing!" The middle-aged official sitting at the bottom also high-fived and exclaimed.
"Such a young and handsome man, naturally can't miss it, come here, bring the name of this king, and invite Li Gongzi to come to the house for a banquet!" The middle-aged man commanded loudly at the moment, he had always liked to make friends with young scholars, and a talented person like Li Xiu should be his guest!
Even Li Xiu himself didn't expect that just a song "Sheng Chazi" could cause such a big sensation, before dawn, someone had already come to send the invitation, which was good, after all, these people went back after sending the invitation, the terrible thing is that those who came to read the book actually wanted to learn poetry with Li Xiu, and Li Xiu didn't open the door They stayed outside the door and didn't leave, and there were a lot of strange people nearby, and there were people snooping outside the toilet.
Li Xiu didn't want to go to the banquet, as for the poetry and writing, it was even more, he couldn't even recite ten sentences of the Analects, and the most annoying thing was those sneaky guys, so that he had no privacy at all, and in the end he couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply took Yuechan and Liu'er with a burden, climbed over the wall and drilled into the bamboo forest behind, and then hid in the princess's courtyard in a circle, he didn't believe that those people dared to break into Princess Pingyang's courtyard.
"Boy, you can just come by yourself, why did you bring the maid too, do you really plan to stay here for a long time?" Ma Ye looked at Li Xiu with a smile and asked.
"Uncle Ma, you didn't see the formation at the door of my house, a bunch of scholars blocked in front of the door and didn't leave, and there were suspicious people peeping outside, I don't feel at ease to put two beautiful little girls at home, and you are really right, I plan to stay here for two more days and then go back, so as not to see those people upset." Although Li Xiu had long expected that his life would change because of yesterday's events, he did not expect that it would fall to the point where he could not return to his home.
"Haha, it's good to stay for two more days, so that it is convenient to take care of the princess's injury, and secondly, we can talk more about it." When Ma Ye said this, he suddenly looked Li Xiu up and down seriously, and finally spoke again: "Boy, I've known you for so long, but I never knew that you had such an outstanding literary talent. ”
When Ma Ye said these words, the expression on his face was very serious, and the more he got along with Li Xiu, the more he found that he couldn't see through this young man, as if the other party had endless mysteries.
However, Li Xiu smiled proudly when he heard this: "Uncle Ma, talent also needs time to be revealed, to borrow someone else's words, pregnancy is like pregnancy, it can only be seen after a long time, we haven't known each other for a long time, I still have more talents that I haven't shown!" ”
"You...... I ......" Ma Ye was not lightly angered by Li Xiu's metaphor that Huaicai was like a pregnancy, and after a while, he finally relieved himself and said, "Boy, you actually compare Huaicai to pregnancy, can you say this kind of insulting words?" Do you believe that if I spread this sentence, you will be hacked to death the next day, and no one will dare to collect the body? ”
"Faith!" Li Xiu nodded very firmly, he had seen the madness of scholars in this era before, but then he smiled and said, "But if you say it, Ma Ye, I'm afraid that the person who was hacked to death was you and not me, one is a great talent who has just become famous in Chang'an, and the other is a rude military general who only knows how to cut people with knives, who said that everyone is more willing to believe the insulting words above?" ”
"You ......" Ma Ye couldn't help but be angry when he heard this, stared at Li Xiu for a long time, and finally suddenly laughed, and after a long while, he patted Li Xiu's shoulder and said, "Okay~ Okay, how is your kid's literary talent secondary, what is rare is that there is also this exquisite mind, people like you, I'm afraid they won't suffer anyway." ”
"Hehe, thank you Uncle Ma for the compliment, but if it is not necessary, I really don't want to bother with this kind of thought, wouldn't it be better to live a simple life?" Li Xiu's tone was relaxed at the beginning, but in the end, it became a little heavy, as the saying goes, 'people in the rivers and lakes, can't help it', and now he has a deeper understanding of this sentence.
When Li Xiu was talking to Ma Ye, he suddenly saw someone coming in from outside, and when he saw Ma Ye, he hurriedly saluted him, and then said to Li Xiu: "Li Gongzi, the car you asked us to make last time is almost finished, so when do you have time to take a look?" ”
The person who came in was one of the two carpenters that Li Xiu was looking for last time, and when he heard his words, Li Xiu's eyes lit up and said, "Great, it just so happens that I'm fine now, let's go and see how you do it?" ”
"What kind of carriage do you ask the carpenter to make, do you want to give yourself a carriage?" Ma Ye didn't know that Li Xiu was going to make a wheelchair for Princess Pingyang, so he asked a little strangely at this time.
"It's not a carriage, Uncle Ma, you can accompany me to have a look." Li Xiu immediately pulled Ma Ye out of the yard with the carpenter, and came to a special carpenter's room on the left side of the front yard.
The carpenter's house is actually an independent yard, there are sheds all around the yard, and there are many carpenters doing carpenter work under the shed, and the ground is full of sawdust and shavings, and when Li Xiu followed the carpenter to the innermost area, he immediately saw that another carpenter who was called by him last time was taking several other carpenters to make some modifications to a wooden wheelchair.
"Childe, you see, this little car has been almost done according to your requirements, I wonder if you are satisfied?" At this time, the carpenter who led the way in front pointed to his wheelchair and asked Li Xiu.
"Boy, isn't this just a chair on wheels, what's it for?" Without waiting for Li Xiu to speak, Ma Ye curiously stepped forward to look at the wheelchair and asked, chairs have just appeared in this era in the Tang Dynasty, and they are still from the Hu people, so they are called Hu chairs, but Hu chairs have not yet completely spread, and they are not popular among nobles.
"It's called a wheelchair." Li Xiu stepped forward and pushed the wheelchair around, and found that the wheels rotated very easily, and he didn't know how these carpenters did it, and they also did a good job of the steering wheel, so that the wheelchair could be easily turned, these two most basic functions were realized, and the wheelchair had been successful for most of the time, and only some small details were left for the rest.