Chapter 975: Bitter Mandarin Duck

readx; With Jiang Wanliu announcing the rules of the competition, the 'Hua' Kui Contest officially began. In fact www.biquge.info this rule is similar to the previous editions, and each guest present can buy a ballot. The beauties took the stage in turn, and after each performance, several invited guests commented, and all guests could vote for their favorite person. In the end, the person with the most votes will be the overall champion of the 'Hua' Kui Competition, and each beautie, the one who votes the most will be accompanied by the beautie for ten consecutive days.

The only difference is that the price of the ballot in this contest is higher than in the past, reaching 100 taels of silver each. However, this can't stop the enthusiasm of those rich people who are both rich and 'sexual', as soon as the first beauty and the top girl of Shanglin Garden, Gao Ying'er, appeared on the stage, she won full applause, and hundreds of votes were thrown into Gao Ying'er's ballot box like snowflakes.

In fact, everyone present knows that as the saying goes, "the mouse drags the wooden shovel, and the big head is behind", the girl who appears first is impossible to win the 'flower' kui, and the real 'flower' kui must be produced in the "Qin Huai Eight 'Yan'". But there must be more people who pursue these famous skills, and those who have less money vote for them in vain, so it is better to vote for the girls who are relatively cold, and maybe they can monopolize the beautiful "women" for ten days, which is the real "name" and "sex".

Gao Ying'er's opening song is an anonymous poem by the Tang Dynasty song 'female' Du Qiuniang. She hugged the pipa in her arms and sang softly in a gentle singing voice: "Persuade the monarch not to cherish the golden clothes, and persuade the monarch to cherish the youth." There are 'flowers' that can be folded straight and must be folded, and there are no 'flowers' empty branches. The blue sky is cloudless and the moon is like a candle, and the dew is crying pear, and the flower is as white as jade. Zigui cried all night until dawn, and the beauty stayed alone in the empty room. Empty Luo Yi does not give grace, a fragrance after a **. Although the dance sleeves have danced, they often have tears on the 'spring' wind. The warbler cries 'dew' and the cold wine first wakes up, and the west corner of the painting building sounds. The people in the green feather tent dreamed, and the Baochai leaned down on the pillow. I was shocked in my dreams, and no one knew what I was doing at this time. It's not as good as the mandarin duck bird on the pond, and live and fly for a lifetime..."

This anonymous poem sings about the emotional entanglement between the 'girl' of the Qing Mansion and the benefactor, which can resonate with the guests. The crowd was so fascinated by it that they didn't even dare to shout, for fear of disturbing the beautiful singing.

And Zhu Youzhen, who was in the private room, had no intention of appreciating the song, he was just deeply moved by a poignant love story told by Chen Yuanyuan. The protagonist of the story is Ma Xianglan, one of the "Eight 'Yan' of Qin Huai" who has just passed away, and her lover Wang Zhideng.

Ma Xianglan's real name is Ma Shouzhen. She is not outstanding in the "Eight 'Yan'", but she is beautiful in her "sex", can be good at poetry and painting, and is especially good at painting orchid bamboo, so she has the nickname of "Xianglan". She was a smash hit in Jinling, with guests like clouds, earning a lot of silver, and living a life of spending money and being poor and extravagant.

Qinglou's 'daughters' do it for a living, most of them hate the poor and love the rich, but Ma Xianglan is not like this. Whether the guests who came were generous or shy, she did not refuse to come, and even helped some poor students. Perhaps, deep down, she doesn't want people to see her as a lowly 'girl', but wants to get along with visitors on an equal footing, so she can only use this way to show that she doesn't value yellow and white things.

Wang Zhideng is such a poor person, and he is more than 20 years older than Ma Xianglan. Although he was half a life down because he offended the powerful ministers in the Wanli period, he was talented, he had to pass on poems and paintings by Wen Zhengming, and admired Ma Xianglan's posture and talent.

Ma Xianglan has read countless people, but she sends Zhang Yingli every day, which looks very lively, but after all, she is a crowd of dust, and the guests come to her just to play, and there is no deep 'friendship'. In the face of the infatuated Wang Zhideng, Ma Xianglan couldn't feel it, and immediately made a "One Leaf Orchid", implying that she was by no means a 'flower' on the willow wall, but a lone orchid on the cliff, and the extraordinary husband and woman could not appreciate its fragrance.

She gave this painting to Wang Zhideng, which already means "a token of love". However, Wang Zhideng began to hesitate, because not only did he have no money to spare, but he was worried that he would not be able to support Ma Xianglan, who lived a luxurious life; I'm even more afraid that I will be jealous of the ministers, maybe one day there will be a flying disaster, wouldn't that affect my sweetheart? So after he received the painting, he didn't say anything more, and Ma Xianglan was naturally sad and 'desired'.

A relationship was originally considered to end without a problem, but Wang Zhideng suddenly came to work, and friends in Beijing invited him to go north to edit the history of the country. Wang Zhideng was overjoyed, and when he said goodbye to Ma Xianglan, he vaguely revealed that after 'revealed' his future to get ahead, he should come to marry Ma Xianglan and grow old with her.

Ma Xianglan only knew Wang Zhideng's heart for herself at this time, although her heart was 'flowering', but she was about to part with "qingren" in a blink of an eye, and she was very reluctant. At that time, it was inconvenient to communicate with each other, Wang Zhideng left, I don't know what year and month the two could reunite, Ma Xianglan gave silver and poems, and said goodbye with tears in the end.

After Wang Zhideng left, Ma Xianglan no longer accepted customers to show that she had a belonging. Unexpectedly, Wang Zhideng was framed by the enemy in Beijing and almost lost his life, so he finally returned to Jiangnan without being able to escape his crimes, but since then he has been depressed and disheartened. He felt that he had failed Ma Xianglan, and he didn't even dare to see her.

After Ma Xianglan learned the reason, instead of blaming Wang Zhideng, she went to Gusu Wang Zhideng's house to comfort him. But the matter has come to this point, and neither of them said anything about marriage, and many years have passed like this. Last year, Wang Zhideng's 50th birthday, Ma Xianglan rushed to Gusu from Nanjing with illness, held an extremely grand birthday banquet for him, and sang in public again for so many years, moving Wang Zhideng to tears. However, Ma Xianglan never fell ill, and died soon after returning to Nanjing.

When Wang Zhideng heard the news of Ma Xianglan's death, he was sad and 'desired', and wrote a poem and said: "The song and dance were the first class in the year, and his name won the Manchu Qing Building; The amorous died before he died, and he turned into a hibiscus and his head. After less than two months, he also followed Ma Xianglan under the spring.

Zhu Youzhen sighed after hearing this, and blamed him repeatedly: "This pair of hard-working mandarin ducks is really true, since the two are happy, why don't you care so much, why don't you get married?" As a result, I regretted it for the rest of my life! ”

Chen Yuanyuan shook his head with tears in his eyes and said, "Long live I don't understand Sister Ma's mind. She loves Wang Zhideng deeply, and knows that Wang Zhideng feels ashamed of herself. If he is forced to marry, won't it make Wang Zhideng even more ashamed? Therefore, she would rather choose to live a lonely life. Sister Ma died of Xiangxiao 'Jade', and others only sighed that she died too early, but in Yuanyuan's view, this was not a relief for her. She is too tired and miserable in this life, maybe she will re-enter reincarnation after crossing the Nai He Bridge, and she will be able to meet Wang Zhideng again in the next life! ”

Zhu Youzhen wanted to say where there is an afterlife, but it can be seen that Chen Yuanyuan is sad, and he can't bear to make her even more sad. Suddenly, his heart moved, and he secretly thought that although Chen Yuanyuan was talking about Ma Xianglan, in fact, why didn't he say herself? At present, although she has taken off her music membership, lives in the Xinwang Mansion without worrying about food and clothing, and runs the "Beijing Times", in the end, she is alone...

He was groaning, and suddenly heard another commotion in the hall, and everyone shouted loudly: "Dong Xiaowan is out!" ”...