Chapter 34: The Human Face
Li Shizhi smiled and said, "They are drunk, don't you care." Go back and arrange a place for them to live. ”
Wang Yuan shook his head and said: "That's not possible, I can't teach people to gossip about me, I think since they have such doubts, maybe everyone here will have the same doubts, how can I ignore the matter related to reputation." ”
Li Shizhi spread his hands and said noncommittally: "Then you can do it yourself." ”
Wang Yuan looked at Li Shizhi's attitude, and knew in his heart that he might have guessed Li Shizhi's mind, and maybe Li Shizhi was also doubting whether he had plagiarized other people's poems, otherwise why not scold these drunken scribes and let them go crazy by getting drunk.
Wang Yuan was angry, and he was no longer polite when he spoke, and turned back to the middle-aged scribe who was standing in front of him: "Brother Tai, as you wish, if you want to see my ability, I will let you see it, otherwise you don't know how to slander me and me when you turn around." Brother Tai can be invited here, he must also be very literate, so let's do it, Brother Tai must be a master of poetry, if you recite your proud work, I will also make a poem with the same title, how about we let everyone judge it? ”
Everyone was uproaring, and someone whispered: "What a crazy tone, this is to argue with Han Shilang." ”
"Yes, but he miscalculated, although most of Han Shilang's poems are mediocre, a few of them can be called swan songs. For example, the poem "Song of Peach Blossoms", when Li Taibai was in Chang'an in the first year of Tianbao, Han Shilang took this poem to visit, and Taibai nodded when he saw it. ”
"Do you dare to say that most of Han Shiro's poems are mediocre? If he hears this, won't he turn around and scold you for being a bloody dog? ”
"Oops...... Shhh, keep it secret for me, don't tell him, how about I ask you to go to the Pingkangfang Red Sleeves Pavilion as a thank you? ”
"That's pretty much ......"
In the midst of the discussion, the middle-aged scribe Han Shilang was also angered by Wang Yuan's attitude, and sneered: "Okay, I want to see how much ink is in the stomach of you, the Wenqu star who is attached to Fang Ding." Listen, my old work "Song of Peach Blossoms" poem four years ago. ”
Han Shilang shook his head, squinted his eyes and said, "Thousands of plants are dewed, where are they red." The wind warms the fairy source, and the spring and water are in the country. 0202 The warbler should see the fall, and the dancing butterfly is unknown. Desire for pictures, branches with bamboo bushes. ”
The scribes applauded and praised: "What a poem, it is still amazing to read today." ”
Even Li Shizhi and Liu Xunzhi and others nodded slightly, this Han Shilang did have some poetry names back then, but the poems he wrote in the past few years were all bad works, but the hundred-legged insect died but did not stiffen, Li Shizhi just hoped that he could have a flash of inspiration at the Pear Blossom Poetry Conference, so he invited him to come.
Han Shilang thanked him in all directions, and then looked at Wang Yuan smugly: "Can you enter the eyes of the Zun Driving Law?" ”
Wang Yuan nodded and said, "Yes, the writing is good, but it's just good." I want to express some thoughts too much, but it seems pretentious, the realm of poetry is still moisturizing things silently, allowing people to taste the meaning by themselves, whether it seems or not, if there is nothing, it is wonderful. ”
Li Shizhi, Liu Xunzhi and others nodded slightly, these sentences show a high style, Wang Yuan seems to be very thoughtful, and when he tastes Han Shilang's poems, he does express emotions deliberately, and the taste of hypocrisy is very strong.
Han Shilang's eyes were on fire, and the smell of wine was surging, if he didn't know that this was the prime minister's mansion, and there was Li Shizhi in front of him, he was afraid that he would immediately scold. After holding back for a long time, he said fiercely: "The head of the story is the Tao, but I want to see what earth-shattering work you write." ”
Everyone stared at Wang Yuan, but saw Wang Yuan frowning and slowly pacing in the hall, and after a while, he stood still and said softly: "I have a friend who went on a spring trip to the suburbs in the spring, and when he was thirsty, he saw a peach forest cottage, so he went to ask for water to drink. The next year, my friend went to the cottage and found it empty. After my friend told me about this, I wrote a poem to send him, but unfortunately he went to the south, so the poem was never sent, and today it is ugly. The poem said: In this door last year, the peach blossoms on the human face were red, and the human face did not know where to go, and the peach blossoms were still smiling in the spring breeze. ”
The hall was silent, and after a while, someone sighed slightly and said in a low voice: "Good poetry." ”
It was Li Shizhi who spoke.
"The peach blossoms on the human face, the things are not people, they can be obtained but they cannot be obtained, they are left in vain, and the helpless regrets of life are all in it." Liu Xunzhi also sighed.
"What he said is very true. Unexpectedly, such a poem came from Wang Yuan's hand, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, even a certain family would have to be suspicious. What is this not a child prodigy? Li Shizhi gently slapped the table and praised repeatedly.
Everyone here is a knowledgeable person, maybe they can't write such a poem, but they can appreciate the meaning of the poem, and compare it with Han Shilang's poem.
Han Shilang stared for a long time, and finally nodded: "Bow to the wind, you are smarter than me, I can't write this poem." ”
Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Brother Han, don't be suspicious of people in the future, although I am a small square man and I am not famous, it does not prevent me from writing poems." We were still complaining just now that the people who take the scholars are famous and not talented. Isn't that true for ourselves? We ourselves are all skeptical of good poems written by unknown people, so how can we blame the court for taking people by fame? This is called "Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you." ”
Everyone thought it was true, Han Shilang was also cute, although his temper was straight, he also had the courage to admit his mistakes, and said: "I have been taught." If you don't live in Liuyuan, who would dare to live there? ”
Wang Yuan smiled and said, "I have a suggestion, but I don't know if Li Xiang agrees." ”
Li Shizhi: "Let's listen to it." ”
Wang Yuan said: "I am waiting for this time to come for the Pear Blossom Poetry Club, and there are still eight days before the Poetry Club. On the ninth day, it is better for us to move to live in Liuyuan these days, and everyone will discuss poetry and do some homework together, which may be helpful to the poetry meeting. The willow garden is so big, and we can live there completely, so that I don't feel uncomfortable living in it alone. ”
Li Shizhi laughed and said: "Good Wang Yuan, you are killing two birds with one stone, a good person did it for you." ”
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "It's just borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, anyway, it's for the sake of the poetry club." ”
Li Shizhi laughed and said: "A certain family promised you, everyone is happy today, come here, continue to pour wine, let's drink until the evening today, if we don't get drunk, we won't return." Smoke straight and call a few dancers to help the fun. ”
Liu Xun hurriedly ordered, and after a while, several graceful dancers came to the hall and danced with the silk and bamboo, and all the scribes raised their glasses and drank booze, Wang Yuan didn't want to drink more, and couldn't bear the hospitality of everyone, so he drank bowl by bowl, and drank it darkly.
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The night was as dark as ink, in the north of Chang'an, in the Shaoyang Courtyard on the side of Daming Palace, the crown prince Li Heng sat quietly in the dimly lit study with candles, staring at the orange candle flame flame that swayed slightly on the table, and his brows were tightly locked.
As the future successor of the Tang Empire, Li Heng should be full of vigor and glory, but from Li Heng's face at this moment, he can't see the majesty of his crown prince at all, on the contrary, his face is shrouded in a thick black gas and a thick cloud of sorrow.
Since the crown prince Li Ying was deposed as the crown prince in the twenty-sixth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Li Heng has been pushed from dormancy to the cusp. Although Li Heng has coveted the crown prince for a long time, he is not very sure about competing for the crown prince in his heart. When the decree of canonizing the crown prince arrived at the Zhongwang Mansion of the Ten Princes, Li Heng even suspected that Gao Lishi, who had delivered the decree, had gone to the wrong place. Shouldn't it be to go to the palace of King Shou Li Mao, who is diagonally opposite the Zhongwang Mansion?
As early as when the news of the imminent deposition of the crown prince Li Ying came out, many courtiers also secretly discussed with Li Heng many times about fighting for the crown prince's position.
That's because he learned that the right minister Li Linfu publicly supported King Shou as the crown prince, which was a fatal blow to Li Heng, who had high hopes, and he knew very well in his heart that all the courtiers who supported him together were not as important as Li Linfu alone. And once Li Linfu openly supports King Shou to be crowned crown prince, most of those supporters around him are afraid that they will have to protect themselves and dare not give advice for themselves.
After that, Li Heng became very negative, when his father summoned him, he always stood silently aside, and when other princes competed to show themselves, Li Heng stood far away without saying a word. He didn't want to be too strong in this battle for defeat, in that case, when King Shou ascended the throne, he would be the first person he and Li Linfu wanted to get rid of.
However, things in the world are so unpredictable, on the morning of the third day of the sixth month of the twenty-sixth year of Kaiyuan, Gao Lishi came to his mansion, and when he clearly heard the holy decree of 'canonizing Li Yu, the king of loyalty, as the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty and giving him the name Heng', Li Heng almost fainted on the spot.
This surprise came too suddenly, but this surprise did not last long, and after becoming the crown prince, he realized that his worries had just begun, and this position was far from being as comfortable as he imagined.
The first thing to worry about is Li Linfu, he is a hurdle that he can't get around, and before he ascends the throne, even if he is the crown prince, he can't compete with Li Linfu. Although his father followed Li Linfu's suggestion to appoint King Shou, which made Li Heng wonder if his father had lost his trust in Li Linfu, he did not see Li Linfu fall out of favor in front of his father because of this incident, on the contrary, his father seemed to trust Li Linfu even more. Father's mind is as deep as the sea, and Li Heng is completely unpredictable.