Chapter 15: Fighting Poetry?
After talking about a few more chapters of the Red Mansion in Di Mansion, Di Renjie let Li Caiji leave, originally the latter wanted to donate a few hundred taels to Di Mansion, but Di Renjie didn't accept it, just said that he could exchange the silver by talking about a few more chapters, and Li Caiji had to talk about a few more chapters. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info In this way, it is noon before you know it!
Holding the three "flying money" that he took from Di Lao's hand, Li Caiji couldn't help but look at it, two for one thousand taels, and one for five hundred taels. With this little capital, he must be able to do some small business, buy a few more pieces of land, buy some real estate, maybe his life in the Tang Dynasty is like this.
"I'm going to have to get some silver and make it into filigree."
Li Caiji was going to use some broken silver hammer and draw it into silver wire, but after thinking about it carefully, it seems that he is not short of money now, so why not replace it with gold wire? In this way, the service life of the charger is much longer!
Despite this, he still advanced to the Hou Mansion, but unfortunately, he didn't see the figure of the eldest lady, otherwise he could tell her the good news, and she would have been very happy.
"Where are you hiding?"
This is the difficulty of having money, and I dare not save thousands of taels of money at home!
"Put it under the bed!"
Li Caiji finally found a lot of places and felt uneasy, so he simply hid two "flying money" of 1,000 taels at the head of the bed. Anyway, there will be money in the future, and if you steal it, you will steal it.
Thinking about it like this, I really felt much more at ease, and it was cool to carry a ticket of five hundred taels on my body, Li Caiji walked out of the room with his head up, but he didn't want to bump into a person head-on, a woman to be exact!
"Oops! Who is it. ā
Li Caiji rubbed his chest and lowered his head to look at the maid who bumped into him.
"Vegetables, rooster! No, it's not good. ā
The maid raised her head and said breathlessly, and her body fell back to the doorframe.
"What's wrong?" Li Caiji frowned, although he had just crossed over not long ago, he was quite familiar with the maid in front of him, because she, like herself, was serving Xue Xuexue, the eldest lady of the Hou Mansion!
Could it be...
"Did something happen to Miss?"
Thinking of this, Li Caiji suddenly became nervous, this girl won't go to investigate the case again!
"It's Miss, Miss got into a quarrel with someone else in the West Market!" The maid said anxiously.
"Nishishi? Walk. ā
In recent years, few people dare to go against the Hou Mansion, especially in this Wuping County! Li Caiji wanted to see who had the guts.
Listening to the maid's intermittent explanations along the way, Li Caiji also understood what was going on!
It turned out that Xue Xuexue was originally talking about Li Caiji's Dream of Red Mansions in Naxi City, but she didn't want to suddenly appear and said that she was unconvinced when she heard the poems in the Red Mansion, and said that she wanted to fight the poems with the author, Xue Xuexue thought that Li Caiji didn't want her to leak the novel, but she was telling stories on the street! And there are people who want to fight poetry with him, and when Li Caiji knows it, he can't talk about her. said that he was unwilling at the moment, and the scholar Nasao actually said that Li Caiji's book was plagiarized, and if he couldn't fight in poetry, then he would tear up the Red Mansion that had just been published in public!
Xue Xuexue was willing to give up, so the two of them quarreled in the west market.
"I see! It's okay, I'll leave this to me. ā
Li Caiji said generously. Compare poetry with me? It's fun!
The two ran all the way, led by the maid, and soon came to the teahouse in the West Market, but they saw Xue Xuexue and a rich boy in brocade clothes facing each other upstairs at the moment, and there were crowded onlookers under the teahouse.
"Let's Jean! Let let, the official errand handle the case! ā
Li Caiji saw that he couldn't squeeze in, so he had to shout loudly. And when I heard this voice, sure enough, the people next to me automatically got out of the way. Seeing Li Caiji's rogue behavior, the maid next to him also laughed.
"Official? How can there be an official errand! ā
"This kid is really beaten, he is so dishonest at such a young age!"
Hearing the accusations on the side, Li Caiji had no choice but to smile apologetically.
It's just that this noise attracted the attention of the two people in the teahouse. The brocade-clothed young man frowned, but Xue Xuexue was very happy to see Li Caiji. Hurriedly greeted him.
"May I ask if the guest officer is Li Caiji and Li Gongzi?" A tea doctor asked softly at Li Caiji at the door of the teahouse.
Li Caiji thought about it, this tea doctor must have been deliberately arranged by Xue Xuexue, and nodded without hesitation.
"Childe, please follow me upstairs!" Dr. Nacha led the way, and when he saw that the maid wanted to go up, he stopped her, "This young lady, I'm sorry!" Miss Xue only said to let Li Gongzi go up alone! So..."
"Oooh! I'll wait below. "The maid came back with interest.
"Please follow me upstairs!"
Dr. Tea said again.
"Lead the way!"
Li Caiji stepped on the stairs to the second floor with his head held high, every step was steady and steady, and the sound of his feet touching the stairs sounded rhythmically! Dr. Tea must have been accustomed to seeing literati here, and when he saw Li Caiji's actions, he immediately nodded in his heart!
"Huh! Presumably this is the famous son of Li Caiji."
At the staircase on the second floor, a middle-aged man dressed as a chubby scribe arched towards Li Caiji.
"Huh! It's over. The younger generations, the door wall! Although he said that he was talking about the door wall, his eyes exuded a fierce momentum, which made people dare not look directly at him.
"The contemptible person is the owner of this teahouse, when he was young, he liked to chant poems against him, I heard that the son of Caiji is only eight buckets high, and he is rich in five cars, and he can see him today, it is really a blessing for three lives, you fight poetry with this son, but I am ashamed to be a referee."
The middle-aged scribe spoke politely, and Li Caiji also gave up his hand when he heard it.
"It's just that Feng Gongzi said that he wanted me to test you here, I don't know what Your Excellency wants?"
"Huh! It turned out to be for him to guard the door, I said! Li Caiji saw that the middle-aged scribe looked dignified, but his heart was dirty, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of slander in his heart. It's just that it's a different story.
"Please!"
The word "please" was plain, and of course the other party also noticed the unkindness in Li Caiji's tone, but he was also forced to be helpless!
"Childe is so bold, I was named Jinshi when I was young, but Childe is careful!"
Even those who listened carefully under the teahouse couldn't help but take a breath when they heard what the middle-aged scribe said. It can be seen how valuable this Jinshi is in the eyes of the people of the time!
When the middle-aged scribe said that he used to be a Jinshi, Li Caiji's pupils shrank, and the tribute system of the Tang Dynasty was also known as the imperial examination system. This middle-aged scribe said that he was born as a scholar, obviously wanting to tell himself that he was better than poetry and poetry, and he was still young, so he must not be able to compare with him in poetry.
But! But he miscalculated today.
"Please!"
When the middle-aged scribe saw Li Caiji's calmness, he also secretly praised it in his heart, and immediately moistened his throat a little, and shouted loudly:
"The reeds on the wall are top-heavy and shallow."
"It's so linked!"
"It's worthy of a jinshi!"
When the middle-aged scribe said the couplet, everyone downstairs whispered and praised the middle-aged scribe. There are even some people who hold the paper under the paper and write silently, one moment staring, one moment pondering, and the other muttering to themselves!
The young man in brocade who was fighting against Xue Xuexue also bowed his head and said nothing, as if he was thinking about the next link, but he was extremely happy in his heart, such a difficult link, presumably this kid couldn't even go up to the second floor. Now let's see how he ends!
Xue Xuexue was anxious for a while, of course she knew that Li Caiji didn't know poetry couplets, let alone such an absolute! Presumably, even the cousin who is called a "talented girl" by Jiangnan people wants to come out.
Yo he! What a familiar couplet, you're not playing a lantern in the toilet - looking for!
Hearing this pair, Li Caiji suddenly blossomed! The opening is back.
"Bamboo shoots in the mountains, with thick skin in the mouth and a hollow belly."