Chapter 300: Half a Word

Lantern riddle is a traditional program at the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, some merchants in order to attract the attention of others, deliberately set up a high platform in front of the shop, and then hang all kinds of lanterns, under the lamp is a note with lantern riddles, let others guess, if someone can guess, you can get some small prizes, most of them are some goods in this shop, worthless but very attractive.

When Zhao Yan came to the high platform in the middle of the royal street, he thought that it was also used by merchants to put lantern riddles, but when he raised his head, he was very surprised to see that this platform was not used to guess lantern riddles, but a white cloth was hung in the middle of the platform, and the word was written on the cloth, to be exact, it should be the upper half of the word, and when Zhao Yan saw this half of the word, he was shocked beyond measure.

"The east wind blooms thousands of trees at night, and blows down, and the stars are like rain. BMW carved cars are full of fragrance. The sound of the phoenix flute moves, the light of the jade pot turns, and the fish and dragon dance all night. I saw Yelusi, who was beside Zhao Yan, looking at the words on the stage and reading softly, and then couldn't help but slap his hands and praise, "Good words!" Good words! Although it is only the first half of the run, it is already brilliant, and the lively scene of the Shangyuan Festival is vividly described. ”

"Sister Si'er doesn't know, although the first half of this Qingyu case is wonderful, the most exciting and expressive thing is the second half of the word." Cao Ying heard Yelusi's admiration, and immediately said with a smile.

Zhao Yan finally came to his senses at this time, and asked Cao Ying at the moment: "What the hell is going on, why does the first half of this word appear here?" ”

Before Cao Ying could speak, she saw a fat steward walk out of the high platform. Then he announced loudly to the people gathered around the high platform: "Everyone, our Ouyang Xianggong has a problem, if any talented person can match the lower half of this word, then you can get a big character written by our Xianggong himself, and there are also copper coins, I hope you will have more support!" ”

Hearing that this high platform was erected by Ouyang Xiu, in order to continue writing the word, and there was such a generous reward, which made all the onlookers very excited, and a hundred copper coins was already a generous reward. But the most important thing is Ouyang Xiu's pen and ink. Ouyang Xiu's government affairs have been busy in recent years, and he is also old, and many people can't ask for his pen and ink, so his words are much more precious than the hundred copper coins.

Zhao Yan finally had a feeling of sudden realization when he heard this. said to Cao Ying at the moment: "I guess this is the good news you said when you left the mansion just now, right?" ”

"Giggles. Husband is really smart. This is the news that Mi Xue told me just now, and it seems that Ouyang Xianggong has also gone to great lengths to find the person who wrote the letter. Cao Ying said with a smile. But at the end, the smile on her face slowly faded, revealing a guilty expression.

Zhao Yan was also a little helpless when he heard this, Ouyang Xiu was a person he admired very much, but because Ouyang Wanling had something to do, he didn't have any contact with the other party, and now if the other party knew that those poems were from him, he didn't know what his reaction would be?

Yelusi listened to the conversation between Zhao Yan and Cao Ying, but she was full of confusion, and she couldn't understand what they were talking about at all, but she didn't ask, because she knew that if she could tell herself about this matter, Zhao Yan and Cao Ying would definitely say it, and if she couldn't tell herself, it would be useless for her to ask again.

Zhao Yan also saw Yelusi's confused appearance at this time, after thinking about it for a while, he finally decided to tell her about Ouyang Wanling, after all, he had been with Yelusi for most of the previous half a year, if he wanted to pretend to be that fictitious man, he would definitely need Yelusi to help him lie, so this matter could not be hidden from her.

Yelusi didn't expect that there would be such a bizarre thing in this world, and after hearing it, he also looked at Cao Ying with a surprised gaze, and Cao Ying was also a little embarrassed to say: "Actually, the third sister and we are also kind, but I didn't expect to do something bad, and now Sister Ouyang is seriously ill, and we have no other way but to let the husband pretend to be the fictional man." ”

"Sister doesn't have to explain, speaking of which, Sister Ouyang was originally harmed by her husband and couldn't get married, and now it is natural for her husband to take this responsibility!" Yelusi was very generous, and he also put the blame on Zhao Yan, which made Zhao Yan feel very depressed, but he couldn't find words to refute it.

"Well, I love to hear my sister's words, Sister Ouyang has a gentle personality, which is very similar to the second sister, and my sister doesn't have to worry about not being able to talk to her." Cao Ying also smiled when she heard this, she now feels more and more that this Yelusi is a wonderful person, whether what she says is true or false, but it is always very comfortable to listen to.

"What should we do now, can't it be that we just write down the second half of the rhyme and hand it over to the people of Ouyang Mansion?" Zhao Yan said dissatisfiedly at this time, and let Yelusi and Cao Ying continue to talk like this, it is likely that the responsibility for Ouyang Wanling's matter will be completely placed on him, so he interrupted them.

"That's right, just send it directly, husband, you see that so many people are vying to write words, and you will definitely not be able to pick out the direct second half of it for a while, and not many people know about Sister Ouyang's illness, and Ouyang Xianggong must also be afraid that this matter will spread out, which will deal a blow to Sister Ouyang's reputation, so I guess that in the end, these handed in words will be sent to Ouyang Xianggong, and then he will personally judge, and then the husband only needs to wait for Ouyang Xianggong to come to you." Cao Ying said very confidently.

Originally, in Cao Ying's plan, she wanted to go with Princess Bao'an and Princess Shoukang to confess her mistakes to Ouyang Xiu, and then discuss with the other party that Zhao Yan would pretend to be the fictitious man, but with Ouyang Xiu's character and his prejudice against Zhao Yan, it was not easy to get him to agree to this matter, and Cao Ying had been worrying about this matter, but today she knew that Ouyang Xiu was actually making this right word activity in order to find someone to write a letter to Ouyang Wanling, which was a way for Cao Ying to think of, but she needed to change some of her original plans.

Zhao Yan was very relieved of Cao Ying, and after hearing her words, he immediately asked people to find a piece of paper, and then wrote the lower half of the Qingyu case on it, and also inscribed his name on it, in addition, he also used charcoal when writing, and only he would use this pen to write in the entire Great Song Dynasty, which has almost become his unique symbol.

Next, Zhao Yan sent someone to send the words he wrote to the stage, but after those people in Ouyang Xiu's mansion took it, they immediately put it in a small box, and the same is true for other people's words, whenever a box is full, it will be sent away by a fast horse, it seems that as Cao Ying guessed, these words need to be sent to Ouyang Xiu.

Zhao Yan and they naturally couldn't wait, Cao Ying also had her own plans for this matter, and then she took the initiative to pull Yelusi to play on the royal street, she didn't plan to wait for the result at all, Zhao Yan didn't ask about it, anyway, this matter was provoked by Cao Ying, and she also came up with a plan to let herself replace the fictitious man, she just had to do it according to her plan.

Just when Zhao Yan was playing in the royal street, Ouyang Xiu and his wife Xue were accompanying Ouyang Wanling, originally for this year's Shangyuan Festival, Ouyang Wanling wanted to go out to play, because last year she received the first word from Mr. Qingyu during the Shangyuan Festival, but unfortunately her body was too weak to go out at all, which made Ouyang Wanling's mood very low, and it was in this situation that Ouyang Xiu and his wife were not at ease to let Ouyang Wanling stay alone, so they kept accompanying her.

However, even if she was accompanied by her grandparents, Ouyang Wanling's heart had already flown to the street outside, and her eyes swept the lights outside the window from time to time, and her eyes were full of yearning, which made Xue couldn't help but speak: "Wanling, don't think too much, you have to focus on your own body, only when you take care of your body, can you have the opportunity to enjoy the Lantern Festival again in the future." ”

"Yes, Wanling, you can take care of your body, you don't need to worry about things outside, you have a grandfather!" At this time, Ouyang Xiu also opened his mouth to comfort, although they all knew the reason for Ouyang Wanling's illness, they still pretended not to know, and today he used the right word method to find that Mr. Qingyu outside, and he had been hiding it from Ouyang Wanling.

"Thank you grandfather and grandmother for your concern, Wanling also understands this truth, and will definitely recuperate!" Ouyang Wanling said with a smile, but Ouyang Xiu and the Xue clan both knew that Ouyang Wanling said these words just to reassure them.

Just as the three of them were talking, they suddenly saw Ouyang Wanling's personal maid Yanmo walking in quickly, and then whispered a few words to Ouyang Xiu, but Ouyang Xiu immediately said to Ouyang Wanling: "Wanling, I have some things to go out to deal with, let your grandmother chat with you for a while!" ”

"Well, if your grandfather has anything to do, just go and be busy, but you also have to pay attention to your body, don't work too hard!" Ouyang Wanling was also very sensible, she knew that her grandfather, as an important minister of the imperial court, often couldn't get out of his body even during the Shangyuan Festival.

Seeing his granddaughter so well-behaved and sensible, Ouyang Xiu felt even more sour in his heart, and even complained a little about God's injustice, so that his granddaughter suffered so much?

Next, Ouyang Xiu told his wife Xue a few more words, and then he walked out of the room with Yan Mo. However, as soon as he walked not far away, Yan Mo said excitedly: "Master, just now the housekeeper has sent the collected words to the study, and the slave maid took a cursory look, and the existing person actually wrote out the second half of the original words!" ”

"What? This...... This ......" Ouyang Xiu was also very shocked when he heard this, he originally just had the idea of giving it a try, but he didn't expect that someone would really write the second half of the Qingyu case, but then he felt very excited, and asked impatiently, "Quick!" Tell me, what's the name of the guy who wrote the second half? (To be continued!)

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