Chapter Twenty-Three: Poetry in the Garden

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This piece of street near the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal has become the most brilliant night pearl in the Dragon Boat Festival, a piece of lanterns, the brilliant light belt spreads along the river bends, the willow trees are hung with exquisite lanterns, and the willow branches are swaying and flying with the night wind, winding like a dancing dragon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The green building standing near the canal flies red and cui dances, the sheng song is boiling, the beautiful sound of silk and bamboo and the laughter of the female warbler and the swallow chirp are intertwined, and there are also the staggered between the literati and scholars, and the wine is happy. The Hangzhou Dragon Boat Festival Poetry Meeting will be held here, an elegant game of real talents and beauties. is not only a simple review of poetry, but also a series of after-entertainment programs such as pitching pots and guessing riddles. From the third floor, you can see that the whole of Hangzhou is submerged in a crowded and bustling atmosphere. On the canal, the long sleeves of Kabuki geisha flutter and look longing, and the overlapping boats are like streamers floating on the river.

Li Lanting and Zhang Xun, the two highly respected Confucians, are the authority of the Hangzhou City Word Review Committee over the years, which was initiated by the literati and scholars, and the poetry meeting sponsored by the wealthy merchants in the city who like elegance has always been the focus of the literati dispute over the crown, who does not want to be the first poet in Hangzhou Jiangnan Dictionaries. Everyone has the heart of fame and fortune, and no matter how noble a scribe is, he can't resist the temptation of being famous all over the world.

However, not just anyone can step into the door of the Dragon Boat Festival Poetry Club, and the prime minister must be recognized by Li Lanting or Zhang Xun, two sitting authorities, and he must be able to write his hand to be qualified to step into this building. Otherwise, there would not be so many talented people who rack their brains every day and want to be famous in the world to break through the threshold of the two people's mansions.

Li Lanting sat in the position of the guest, and looked at the ambitious literati in front of him, this time the Dragon Boat Festival poetry meeting was more lively than ever, not only Xie Xuanzhen, who won the laurel in the Shangyuan Festival, closed his eyes slightly in contemplation, and Hong Qingqi, the leader of the Mid-Autumn Festival, swung his hands and knees, sat cross-legged, and did not smile. Even Su Zizhan, who is unparalleled in his writings, is also raising a glass to drink, Huang Yinjian, the eldest son of Yangzhou prefect, has just asked himself for poetry, and even Cao Peixian, the "third national player in Hangzhou" who has never stepped into the Qinglou, is also there.

The ignited ambitions of the literati are surging.

Li Lanting noticed that Zhang Xun, who was sitting next to him, looked sad, so he turned sideways and teased the other party in a low voice, "Brother Zhang, is it that your once-in-a-century wizard can't come tonight?" Haha, it seems that this Dragon Boat Festival poetry meeting is probably not due to the leader! ”

Zhang Xun raised his head and glared at Li Lanting, and said mockingly, "What about the literary genius in Brother Lanting's mouth?" I didn't seem to see him when I looked around, could it be that he heard the words of the whole of Hangzhou, everyone gathered here, was he scared? ”

"Oops!"

As soon as Zhang Xun said this, Li Lanting noticed that Chen Zhongqing had not come over yet, and the word review meeting was about to start, and he would have missed this annual feast a little later.

"Don't worry." Although Li Lanting didn't know the bottom in his heart, he still pretended to be calm and said, "The nephew will return soon, and Brother Zhang should be ready to admit defeat as soon as possible, none of those people you fancy will be my opponent." Do you remember that painting "Looking at the Sea Tide"? The prefect of Hangzhou had to spend more than 300 taels of silver to buy it. ”

"Tut-tut, he is a prefect of Hangzhou, and his shot is really generous."

Zhang Xun also didn't pay attention to Li Lanting's boasting, like the four states of Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Yanghu, where commerce and trade are prosperous, and they are too safe and healthy, and the annual income of a prefect here is enough to make people jaw-dropping. However, Zhang Xun and Li Lanting are not pedantic people, as long as the prefect does not make it too ugly, and ensures the interests of the family and the lords of the gate, they will turn a blind eye to certain things.

Three hundred taels to buy a pair of graffiti, I'm afraid there is a deeper flattering meaning behind it.

Everyone in tonight's word review meeting has their own thoughts, Qin Shaoyou can't understand literature and ink, but their Qin family happens to be the organizer of this word review meeting, so Qin Shaoyou attended this word review meeting as a representative, and all the people present are big people with heads and faces in Hangzhou, and the Qin family also wants to let their next generation make friends with the children of these official eunuchs, so as to open up the business on the trade road.

Qin Shaoyou raised his wine glass and stared absentmindedly at the word review meeting. He had an obsession in his heart, he always felt that the scholar he met in Huxin Pavilion would stand here today, maybe it was a song that was ambushed on all sides, and he was stared at with the envy of thousands of people. But he can't guarantee what the ending of that little lady will be.

Since he can't touch himself, he will attack what he cares about, which is more vicious than direct harm.

"Tonight is probably going to be very interesting, some people are happy and some are worried, hehe."

Huang Yinjian sat diagonally opposite Qin Shaoyou, looking at the other party's uncertain face and knowing what was going on. He had conveyed to Qin Shaoyou before, if he wanted to take revenge, he would take advantage of the people around him. In fact, he also used this high-flying and domineering rich young master as a pawn to test how many catties and taels Chen Zhongqing was behind him. If the power is huge, Huang Yinjian will also stop appropriately.

Su Zizhan frequently touched wine with Xie Xuanzhen, this time he came to go through the motions, even if he had to compare, there was also a Lantern Festival word review in front of him Xie Xuanzhen, a Hong Qingqi who beat the crowd in the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, after the two of them sat in the battle, the champion and the list should win from them, and the others wanted to fight, and they could only earn a tanhua.

Two-thirds of the top three tripods have been decided, and even Su Zizhan is a little depressed.

Xie Xuanzhen seemed full of ambition and confidence, after all, he and Hong Qingqi beside him were the protagonists of this wonderful scene, and knocked Su Zizhan with a wine glass, "Come, Brother Zizhan, don't drink alone." This piece of Hangzhou flowers and moonlit nights, wait for the end of the word review meeting, let's go and have a good time? After this word review is over, the rouge list will be released immediately after, I don't know which woman has fallen in love with Brother Zizhan's pen and ink? ”

Xie Xuanzhen laughed a few times, although they were on the word evaluation list, but Su Zizhan had only a lot of romances among geisha and geisha, and it was said that more than half of the top ten women on the rouge list asked Su Zizhan to compose a song for them.

"Brother Xuanzhen, don't tease me, you and Hong Qingqi are sitting here, who dares to make a mistake? I'm just icing on the cake, in fact, how can He De sit in this position? ”

"Haha, interesting."

In all fairness, he hopes that Xie Xuanzhen, who is good friends, can overpower Hong Qingqi Yicheng, who always has a straight face, and being with this guy who doesn't like to speak out always makes him feel happy.

"The word review begins."

After the judges who presided over the word review shouted, everyone stopped moving, and the word review of the Dragon Boat Festival is generally inseparable from this festival.

At this time, Li Lanting and Zhang Xun didn't know that Chen Zhongqing, who was both optimistic about each of them, was being stopped outside the Qinglou and stared at him in a hurry. I ran back to Tsing Yi Lane to change my clothes and come back, but I didn't expect to throw the most important invitation on the road, and it was too late to go back to find it, Chen Zhongqing could only talk at the door and let the people in the Qinglou let him in.

"This gentleman, you can do well, and you will embarrass me. This Lord Li has already stipulated that you can't come in without an invitation, you embarrass me like this, and when the adults blame it, the little ones can't afford it. ”

The subordinate was even more helpless than Chen Zhongqing, and persuaded him to die of this heart, "Either you take out the invitation letter, or wait until the end of the word review to explain to the two adults, how about it?" ”

Chen Zhongqing had no choice but to turn around and leave. He found a pen, ink, paper and cigarette nearby, spread it on the ground, and then began to write on Bai Su's rice paper, the uneven bluestone street did not affect his play at all, and slowly waited for the ink to dry after the deed, then rolled it up, ran to the door of the Qinglou again, and handed the rice paper to the next person.

"...... this?"

The subordinate looked at Chen Zhongqing with some puzzlement.

"I also asked the little brother to transfer this pen and ink to Master Li Lanting, and he naturally understood after reading it. If you ask my name, you will say that Chen Zhongqing will come back to the Qinglou to find him afterwards. ”

After speaking, Chen Zhongqing also took out ten taels of silver from his arms and handed it to the other party.

You can earn ten taels of silver by running an errand, and no one will refuse such a good thing, so the subordinate hurriedly agreed, "It's easy to say, I will tell Lord Li what you said." ”

"There's Brother Lao."

After Chen Zhongqing finished speaking, he turned around and left again, got into the lively garden party, and disappeared without a trace.

The servant carefully stuffed the silver into his pocket, hummed a little song happily, and turned to the door.

At this time, the upstairs was still fighting for the title of the first Wenkui, and there was an invisible war of gunpowder.