Today's Xuanshu Hall is terrifyingly quiet, here is Xiang Jingwu's study, there is a long case of Huali in the hall, there is a treasure inkstone, all kinds of pen holders, the pen inserted in the pen holder is like a forest. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

There is an incense burner in the center of the hall, and there are all kinds of antique treasures on the red sandalwood frame on the left, and a white jade flounder chime is hung on the lacquer frame on the right. It gives people the feeling that the overall is wide and dense, and it is full of antique elegance.

If it weren't for the five-clawed golden dragon carved with teeth and claws on the red pillar in the hall, no one would have imagined that this was the core of the Great Chu Dynasty.

Xiang Jingwu sat cross-legged behind the long case of Huali, his eyes seemed to be open, and the incense burner in front of the imperial case rose with curling green smoke, permeating the hall, and there was a faint fragrance.

Zhang Kang crossed the threshold of the Xuanshu Hall with a smile and saluted Xiang Jingwu: "Your Majesty." ”

"Oh, it's back, get up." Xiang Jingwu's tone was very cold.

Zhang Kang knew that Xiang Jingwu was so impatient to wait, but he had to pretend to be confused, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the slave came from the examination room, and some of the test papers selected by the Ministry of Rites were also brought. ”

Xiang Jingwu's face began to be cloudy and clear, but he still pretended to be indifferent: "Oh? Is it? I almost forgot about it, and presented the exam paper for me to see. ”

Zhang Kang gently opened the brocade box in his hand while weighing it, and spread out more than a dozen test papers on the imperial case, and Xiang Jingwu was ready to read it.

Although the hall was bright, Zhang Kang still lit a palace lamp for Xiang Jingwu on the imperial case, so that he could see more clearly, and then said with a smile: "Speaking of which, something unbelievable happened in the examination room this time." ”

Xiang Jingwu smiled: "Unbelievable? You say come and hear it. ”

Zhang Kang calmed down, and told the princess what the princess broke into the country, what Liu Fan said, and how to submit the file in advance, Xiang Jingwu listened, frowned slightly, and said: "Qinghe is too presumptuous, the country takes the virtuous, but she is stubborn and messing around, is this worth it?" Looks like I'm going to have to find a time to reprimand her. Then he said: "It's Liu Fan, it's quite interesting that he doesn't care about his future at all, but Liu Fan has made a great contribution to my friendship with Dachu this time." Well, then the merits and demerits should be offset, and no rewards and no punishments should be given! Xiang Jingwu made a final decision, and then picked up the first volume and looked at it.

After a while, Xiang Jingwu frowned, the first volume was Wu Pen's, and he suddenly raised his eyes: "This Wu Pen, could it be the young son of Wu Feng in the main guest of the Ministry of Rites?" ”

Zhang Kang hurriedly replied: "Exactly, His Majesty summoned him a few days ago." ”

Xiang Jingwu sighed and said, "Tiger father has no dog, Wu Feng's poetry articles are very good, but I didn't expect his son Wu Pen's poetry articles to be quite good." ”

Zhang Kang was silent, went to pour a cup of fragrant tea for Xiang Jingwu, and carefully accompanied him.

Xiang Jingwu continued to read the scroll, and couldn't help but say "Okay!" several times! After a while, he said: "Cheng Ming really lived up to my expectations, and his scripture can be called his top work." ”

Immediately, Xiang Jingwu was a little disappointed and said: "It's a pity that Cheng Ming's poems still haven't grown and lack scrutiny, otherwise this son would be firmly on the top spot." ”

After that, he continued to look at the papers, Xiang Jingwu read them very quickly, and all of a sudden, more than a dozen papers were almost evaluated, and he said: "The young talents of my Da Chu are really extraordinary, and these test papers are all excellent works." ”

As he spoke, he picked up the last test paper, which was Liu Fan's test paper! Xiang Jingwu saw that it was Liu Fan's test paper, and he was looking forward to it in his heart, Xiang Jingwu focused on reading the scriptures first.

"Confucius said: 'If a man has no faith, he does not know what he can do.'" ”

Seeing this opening topic, Xiang Jingwu couldn't help but help but help the case and said: "This kind of opening is quite interesting, with a unique heart." ”

Then continue to look down, the whole article is spacing, the whole text is closely related to the opening topic, and the format is flawless, Xiang Jingwu couldn't help but laugh: "Xuanyu, this kid is slippery, Jingyi is his weakness, and I don't know where he learned the method to make such a moral article." Yes, very good! ”

If you want to say that this scripture is meaningful, it is really leaky, impermeable, and you can't find the slightest mistake, but after reading one article, Xiang Jingwu always feels that Liu Fan has written so much, except for this opening topic, the rest is all nonsense.

The strangest thing is that he knows that he is nonsense, but he can't find out the mistakes and omissions, the reason makes sense, although there are some shocking words, but the point is so far, the pen style turns, and it runs to the benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith.

Such a scripture, if it is said that he is not slippery, it is really unreasonable.

Zhang Kang said: "It is said that before Liu Gongzi entered the National Prison, he had not even read the Four Books and Five Classics well, and in less than half a year, he made a scripture and righteous article that could be praised by His Majesty. ”

Xiang Jingwu nodded, and couldn't help laughing: "Thinking of this slippery head, I also think of the four words shocking the world, such a scripture and righteousness, only he can do it." ”

After sighing, he continued to bury his head in reading Liu Fan's poems, the title of the exam was "Acacia", this question stumped many students, especially scholars like Cheng Ming, who studied hard all day long, and his knowledge was naturally first-class, but he only remembered to read, but he neglected to love men and women.

If there is no love between men and women, what is lovesickness? So Cheng Ming stumbled before the battle this time, Jingyi did a very good job, and even Xiang Jingwu was moved, but the poem was not in Xiang Jingwu's eyes.

These topic selectors of the Ministry of Rites are very shrewd, and this time the poem title has stumped a group of people, and the scholars who study hard don't know what lovesickness is. And students with rich feelings and high emotional intelligence are in the way when they write poems: they are usually asked to make some ** words, which is hand-to-hand, but this is an exam! The people who read the papers are all officials and doctors, and on weekdays, doctors and officials all have a straight face in front of students, who dares to write too much in front of them?

Therefore, these dozen or so volumes and articles are all very well done, but none of them can move people's hearts! Although the rhetoric is piled up like a weave, there is a little bit of something that makes people throb.

Xiang Jingwu was a little excited, and put his last hope on Liu Fan's test paper, and when he saw it, he was really stunned, and muttered: "Ask what the world is like, and teach life and death to make a promise." Okay, good ......" such a beginning, although it is shallow, but catchy, breaks the meaning of lovesickness, and directly expresses people's hearts.

Looking further down, the full word reads: "The sky is south and the north are double flyers, and the old wings are cold and hot several times." Joy and joy, parting bitterness. There are even more crazy children among them. You should have words, thousands of miles of stratus clouds, thousands of mountains and twilight snow, only the shadow to whom.

Hengfen Road, lonely and drummed, the smoke is still flat. The spirits are a little more groaning, and the mountain ghosts cry out for themselves. The sky is also jealous, and the warblers and swallows are all loess. Through the ages, in order to stay for the people, he sang and drank wildly, and visited Yanqiu. ”

Xiang Jingwu stared at the test paper silently, his mind unpredictable.

This poem is called "Yan Qiu Ci", Xiang Jingwu originally thought that it was a wild goose as the theme, and the beginning was a song of geese, but the words were written from the "world" first, and people imitated geese, giving the wild goose a meaning beyond nature, and the imagination was extremely novel. I also wrote about the martyrdom of the wild goose in advance. At the extreme, "the living can die, and the dead can live". "Life and death promise" is so affectionate!

Then came to the second sentence, the pen turned, but it was a description of the double geese, "the south of the world, the north of the earth", the winter goes south to winter, the spring returns to the north, "several times of cold and summer" in the double stay and double flight, depending on each other, a deep love. There is both joyful reunion and parting, but no power can separate them. And after "snaring the amphibious dream", the lover has passed away, and An can live alone! So the "people who broke off the net" made up their minds to follow Jiuquan and "die by throwing themselves to death". Although this is a small story, behind the story, there are heart-wrenching feelings.

In the lower que, with the help of the surrounding scenery, the misery after the martyrdom of the wild goose is set off. In the place where the lonely goose rests, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty crossed the Fen River to worship Fenyin, the drums were noisy and the songs were everywhere; Now the flat forest is deserted, the barren smoke is like weaving, the sound of the flute and drums is overwhelming, and it is a bleak group. Ancient and modern, people and geese, feel the poignancy of the martyrdom of the wild goose. But the dead cannot be resurrected, the spirit is of no avail, and the mountain ghosts are also mourning in vain.

At the end of the word, it is a tribute to the martyrdom of the wild goose, talking about the death of the wild goose, its realm is so high, the heavens will be jealous, although it cannot be said to be heavier than Mount Tai, nor can it be the same as the death of the warbler swallow to return to the loess. Its reputation will be "eternal" and will be praised by later sao people.

Such poems, the rhetoric is gorgeous, and at the same time directly expresses the chest and knocks on the heart, so that when people read aloud, they can't help but feel sentimental, as if there is an echo of the geese chirping in their ears, and the sound of the geese chirping tells the lovesickness, this sweet and melancholy feeling! Xiang Jingwu savored the feelings in the words, and his eyes suddenly blurred.