Songhe Tower.

The pine and cypress forest are always in spring, and the crane dance is in the air.

After years of war on the border, people can only put all their good wishes in ordinary life. It's like the Mid-Autumn Festival, no matter what, you have to make a mille-feuille, and it's like you have to make dumplings on the first day of the New Year.

Therefore, the name of Songhe Tower has been obtained very well.

It's just that it costs hundreds of dollars to eat a meal in ordinary times, and ordinary people can only pass by and smell the fragrance of the food, and then probably with the psychology of not eating grapes and saying that the grapes are sour, silently comforting themselves: "It's just the same taste as their own food." ”

Therefore, although Songhelou is quite famous in Chengji, there are not many people stopping in front of the door.

Today is different.

In the early morning, a thin layer of snow fell in the city, but at this time, at the gate of the Songhe Tower, the crowd was like a tide, and the snow was actually trampled. And then the people who followed brought the snow from other places with their footprints.

Fortunately, there are wide bluestone slabs in front of the door, but they are not muddy.

Among the high-rise buildings, the shopkeeper of the Songhe Tower is instructing the people in this building to keep arranging.

It is certainly a very conspicuous thing to know that the government values it and holds a cultural meeting on the night of the New Year's Eve.

But the premise is that this cultural meeting will be held to the enjoyment of the guests, which can be worthy of the attention of the prefect, and even if it is displayed in front of peers in the future, it will have enough confidence.

Informed by the government that Songhelou had not received guests yesterday. After a whole day's work, the Songhe Tower was sprinkled inside and out. Even the stairs up and down the stairs have not spared an inch.

Today is the light in it.

After all, it was a group of literati and scholars who came, and it was a festival, so they couldn't dryly let the family empty the greasy tables and chairs that had been so timeless that they couldn't wipe them off, and the powdered walls full of the handwriting of literati and ink writers who came and went.

Winter in the northwest, the evening can't wait to come, and people are not prepared at all. The sun, which was still as warm as a furnace, suddenly changed its face, like the delicate little face of the little daughter's blushing family, and pulled up the heavy mountain in the distance to cover her face.

The evening breeze squeezed through the crowd and stroked a few handfuls on every onlooker.

There will always be people who can't stand such gentleness, and suddenly, there is a "sneeze", and then a cold shiver.

It's just that the excitement hasn't started yet, how can you be frightened by this little cold.

Someone at the back of the crowd suddenly shouted: "Here, Lord Futai and those gentlemen are here." ”

Looking back, it was a few fat and strong horses, pulling the cart and walking steadily towards the Songhe Tower. Don't think about it, Zhang Shi'an must have invited those Qinzhou celebrities to come together.

Sure enough.

The carriage slowly stopped behind the crowd, and the coachmen hurriedly got out of the carriage, pulled out the hard ladder from the side of the carriage, and one after another, the characters that the people of Chengji County often heard about, walked out of the car.

Looking at the dense figures surrounded in front, I didn't like it at all.

On the contrary, he laughed a few times and complimented Zhang Shi'an in the middle of the crowd, which made the cadres who came with him clear a road, and then walked into the Songhe Tower with each other.

In the order agreed upon, each of these Baume & Mercier remained on their respective floors.

Then, an errand officer shouted in front of the door: "According to the rules, the first floor is a poem, the second floor is a lyricist, and the third floor is an article." Until now. The best of them can go to the fourth floor to drink with all the famous artists. Bing the meaning of the whole day to celebrate, and set up a special lantern riddle outside the building, if you have guessed it, you can get ten money. ”

There was an uproar in the crowd.

I don't want to have such a good thing on this year's New Year's Eve, if you are smarter, guess it ten or eight lantern riddles, and the money you get can buy two buckets of food.

In the building, listening to the praise of Zhang Shi'an, the celebrities sitting on the fourth floor offered congratulatory messages one after another. This unexpected joy made Zhang Shi'an so happy that he stroked his chin and beard.

"Look at it, the famous Seven Talents of Chengji County are here."

"Those guys from the county school are also talented? I've heard that these are actually not hired by the state school. ”

"Yes, but if you have some talents, you either go to other places to worship famous teachers, or you go to the state to study. The county learns these guys, and it's okay to mix some subsidies, but if you really want to talk about your ability, it's too bad. ”

It is not unreasonable for the onlookers to refute it.

As far as the Great Song Dynasty is concerned, Qinzhou is really not a place where the literary style is prosperous. The people sitting in the building, although they are all celebrities, are just some fame in Qinzhou. Looking at the world, there are really many people in Shilin who don't know who these are.

"It's back for the real thing."

"Yes, I know this scholar, his name is Han Yang, a native of Chengji County, he was taken to Beijing to study when he was a child, and for some reason, he has returned to Qinzhou now."

"Have you forgotten that this year is the time for the Liberation Test again. If you want to come to Beijing, the competition is too fierce, and there are restrictions on candidates, unless there are special conditions, you are not allowed to take cross-regional scientific examinations, so you come back and pass the examination steadily. ”

"I see."

"I think this young man will definitely make a name for himself this time."

The young man known as Han Yang, who was only sixteen years old, listened to the discussion in the crowd around him at this time, with a little pride on his face, and strode into the Songhe Tower.

One after another, people who read walked in, and I have to say that there is really no shortage of well-informed people among these onlookers, and they can all call out the details without missing a single one.

"This time, the three talents of the state school have arrived."

Half of the time has passed, and seeing the night falling, people believe that the finale has finally arrived.

The three talents of the state school are the three people who have been recognized as the most promising in the state school in the past three years. If Shen Yun had already arrived, then he would definitely recognize that Lu Fang, an old acquaintance who had competed with him three years ago for the errand of transcribing books from Fan Mansion, was among them.

The other two are Zhao Wenqing and Zeng Mingli.

The three talents came together, which has already shown the attitude of the state school, that is, to go all out to compete for the top of this literary meeting.

Sancaizi walked in the middle of the crowd, and politely waved around, and then Shi Shiran walked into the building.

Seeing that the servants were about to hang the lanterns with lantern riddles under the Songhe Tower, and the crowd gradually became surrounded, Shen Yun hurriedly ran over.

Seriously, Shen Yun is really embarrassed at this moment.

He underestimated the enthusiasm of the people in this world to see the excitement, and originally thought that he would come at the end of the unitary time, so he ate in a small restaurant and listened to the gossip of the guests.

After eating, I knew that the crowd had already surrounded the Songhe Tower.

If she missed this cultural meeting, Shen Yun could only borrow money from Fan's mansion, which she didn't want to see, so she hurried over, who knew that she would almost be one step late.

kept muttering "borrowed", and in people's strange eyes, Shen Yun appeared at the door of Songhe Tower in disheveled clothes. The errand officer was about to stop, and saw that Shen Yun was dressed quite in an orderly manner, and it seemed that he did have a bit of the temperament of a scholar, so he put it in.

"Who's the guy who just went in?"

"I don't know, is it a scholar from other places?"

"It's too dark to see clearly. But this face seems to be very familiar, it should be from our Chengji County. ”

"Think about it, who it is."

Sure enough, after more than two years, many people have forgotten the young man who competed with Lu Fang on a street corner that day.

Walking into the Songhe Tower, Shen Yun dragged a guy who was gearing up to write a poem and asked, only then did he know the rules of the Wenhui.

Of course, everyone wants to go to the fourth floor early in the morning to meet with Zhang Shi'an and the Qinzhou Guilds. But everyone knows that it is a very disadvantageous thing to come up with their own works early.

Don't talk about the guys who came from behind, let's just say that those judges, who are having bad tastes at this time, are stunned and come up, and they don't know what it looks like to be refuted.

However, the matter on the first floor was not taken to heart by Shen Yun.

Poetry is a thing, in Shen Yun's mind, the predecessor has exhausted it. What he wanted was to win the top of the first floor and take that amount of reward, instead of following back to the excitement and going to the fourth floor to have a few glasses of wine with Zhang Shi'an and others.

So far, there is only one more important building, and with the few words that I remember in my mind, I can compete with the scholars of Qinzhou.

Take it to the next level.

Compared with poems, there are many more people on the second floor who write lyrics.

The Songhe Tower is indeed spacious, but no matter how spacious it is, it is also crowded with dozens of people at this time. There was a slight cool breeze blowing on the open floor, but it didn't stop the meditation of the scholars.

On the first floor, it is estimated that the judges have also released water, so there are no strict requirements for Saishi.

But when the lyrics were written on the second floor, there were some rules. Without him, he asked these scholars to compose a poem about Yuan Xi at the right time.

A few years ago, Liu Qingming held a literary meeting, and there was no such requirement, so although these people had drafts when they came, they were disrupted by this instant. There are only a dozen or so people who can be fully prepared, and these people are smiling at the corners of their mouths, looking around randomly.

Lu Fang is one of them.

This time, they came with the help of their masters. After all, as the highest institution of learning in Qinzhou, the state school sometimes has to show a little strength in these literary meetings in order to maintain its status.

When he looked back, he happened to see Shen Yun walking upstairs.

Lu Fang is a high-minded and arrogant person, so he is particularly impressed by this guy who was not on the scientific examination list a few years ago, but he was valued by the Fan Mansion.

After failing to make the list in the Tokyo scientific examination, Lu Fang also inquired about Shen Yun's news after he came back, and later learned that his filial piety was at home, so he didn't take it to heart, and he didn't want to meet him on such an occasion two years later.

With a bit of vigilance and alarm in his heart, Lu Fang turned his head. But in my heart, I re-played with the words I had thought of.

He didn't want to lose again in the hands of an unknown scholar like Shen Yun. Otherwise, the state school will completely become a foil for others this time.