Chapter 2 Flower Country Champion

In a wine shop on the bank of the Qinhuai River, two scholars were drinking and talking.

At this time, I only heard the melodious sound of silk and bamboo coming from the Qinhuai River, from far to near, and gradually away. After a while, another silk and bamboo band passed.

A younger scholar: "What is the silk and bamboo doing outside?"

Elder Shizi: Today, the girls of the Qinglou in Jinling are gathering on the Qinhuai River, and they want to see what to do with the top of the country, and what to look for and explore the flowers.

Young scholars laughed: It's really unreasonable to joke about the national talent selection ceremony!

The elder scholar looked mysterious: Qin Huai Bayan is also going tonight.

Young Scholar: What Qin Huai Bayan?

Elder Shizi: She is the most famous of the eight Qinglou girls in Jinling. Everyone on the street is guessing who will be the champion of the country this year?

The young scholar said with a smile: The champion of the country is ordered by the emperor. Who will order the champion of this flower country? Could it be that there is still an emperor of the flower country?

The elder scholar said: Each Qinglou girl sits on a flower boat, and displays the gold and silver money, treasure and jewelry of the benefactor on the boat, to see whose flower boat is the most luxurious, who receives the most abundant assets, and then the ranking is determined by the merry and famous people of Jinling.

The young man was thrilled: when did they do this?

Elder Scholar: It's soon, it's a little darker, and there are thousands of lights on the flower boat, so let's choose the Oiran! If you're interested, why don't you go and see it?

The young scholar was already eager to try, but he was a little worried: "If my father knows that I am going to order something to be the champion of the country, I am afraid that I will speak, haha!"

Elder Scholar: Quietly go and see the excitement, my uncle won't know.

The young scholar was overjoyed: Okay, let's come back quietly after a while.

This young scholar's name is Wang Tuo, a son of the Jingzhao family, and he has been brilliant since he was a child. At this time, he was temporarily living at his cousin's house in Jinling, and the eldest scholar was his cousin. When encountering such a grand event, Wang Tuo was at the age of young and good deeds, so he and his cousin went to see it.

The two came to the Qinhuai River, at this time, the river was full of songs, lighting palace lights, endless prosperous scenes, beautiful scenery. I saw more than 20 flower boats coming and going slowly on the water, and the boats were full of gauze tents and silk lanterns. There are also some boats tied with silk silk into flowers, grasses, insects and fish, and oil lamps are lit in the middle, which is exquisitely conceived and extremely ingenious.

Wang Tuo secretly admired that the south of the Yangtze River was unreachable. Hundreds of pleasure boats come and go, carrying high-rollers and good deeds. Everyone pointed out and commented on the quality of each boat's equipment.

Suddenly, the gongs and drums sounded, and the boats and bamboos breathed together. One by one, fireworks and meteors shot into the sky, shining brilliantly, and then snorted and fell into the lake. At first, there were some auspicious fireworks such as "Guotai Min'an" and "Auspicious Ruyi", followed by "Crowds of Flowers Competing for Beauty", "Clusters of Warbler Flowers" and other romantic names, Wang Tuo was elated.

After the fireworks are released, the silk and bamboo rise again, and when the music is **, suddenly all the flower boats invariably pull up the curtains, and there is a beautiful girl sitting in each boat.

Everywhere on the river, the sound of color thundered.

Wang Tuo was born at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and he is a child of a family, I don't know how many beauties of the Han family and exotic orchids have seen, but at this time, the lights and shadows are colored, and the sound of oars is fragrant, but there is another scenery, and I don't feel drunk.

At this time, eight flower boats sailed by, and my cousin was busy saying: Qin Huai Bayan is here.

Wang Tuo looked at it and saw that these eight flower boats were different again.

The first one is tied into the appearance of a lotus-picking boat, the flower boat is surrounded by lotus lanterns, red lotus and white lotus, lotus leaf field, and the girl in the boat is named He Tiantian.

There is a pavilion on the second boat, a luxurious and rich style, the pavilion is surrounded by pearls and emeralds, and there are four big characters written: "Yuli Tingting", it turns out that the girl in the boat is called Gao Tingting.

The third boat is pretended to be the appearance of Guanghan Palace, and the toad jade rabbit is tied up with paper silk next to the boat, osmanthus Wu Gang, and the girl Ouyang Chanjuan in the boat is dressed in ancient costumes, holding a fan, pretending to be Chang'e in the moon.

… … …

The eighth boat is full of real trees and real flowers, the branches are horizontally oblique, the flowers and leaves are sparse and dense, elegant and natural, really like a famous ink landscape. The girl in the boat is dressed in white, looking through the water, like Luo Shen Lingbo, fluttering out of the dust, but only her back can be seen.

Although the girl on the eighth boat saw her back, she saw that her shoulders were sharpened, her waist was like a plain, and her neck was stretched.

Suddenly, Wang Tuo noticed that the girl's shoulders were twitching, as if she was crying...

The cousin didn't notice anything unusual about the girl, but he noticed that he was paying attention to her

Cousin: Brother, would you like to go up and see it?

Wang Tuo was stunned: Can we get on the boat?

Cousin: Brother, no matter how you say it, my brother is also the head snake of Jinling, and he still has this ability

After that, the cousin called the captain of the eighth boat and asked the captain to call out the bustard, and the bustard asked the boat to stop and invite the two to get on the boat.

When I got on the boat, the girl in white that Wang Tuo had just seen was also in the cabin, her eyes were red and swollen, and she was indeed crying.

Cousin Wang Tuo is a frequent visitor to this old bustard, so when he got on the boat, the old bustard was very attentive to Wang Tuo's cousin, serving tea and offering fruits, opening his mouth and closing his mouth Wang Gongzi, but both of them could see that the old bustard was forcing a smile, and the people in the cabin were all sad.

My cousin wondered: At this flower country event, the girl in my mother's family is one of the eight flowers, this is a happy event, why are you worried?

The old bustard sighed: Wang Gongzi, the girl brought this time is called Li Huan, she was born with national beauty and fragrance, and she is very smart and beautiful, and she was brought to the event this time to make her debut. Li Huan was raised by me since I was a child, and I invited a famous teacher to teach her to sing and dance since she was a child. With her talent, although it is the first time to participate in the event, this time she must be the champion of the flower country.

My cousin was puzzled: This is a good thing, why is my mother worried?

Lao Bustard: This time I specially asked someone to make new words according to the music score, but now I am about to compare the words but I can't find them, only the song has no words, I can only play and can't sing, all my hard work will be in vain, and I see that this time the champion of the flower country is going to give it to people...

Li Huan wept and said: I was poor since I was a child, and I was raised by my mother. My mother has raised me for more than ten years, and I want to win the top prize in the flower country this time to repay my mother's kindness. How can I repay my mother now...

Li Huan said, anxiously washing his face with tears.

Wang Tuowei groaned and said to Li Huan: Is there pen and ink on the ship?

The old bustard was stunned, but seeing Wang Tuo's calm expression, he thought that maybe he had a way, so he took a pen, ink, paper and inkstone

Wang Tuo spread out the pen and paper: Ask the girl to play a song

Li Huan knew something was wrong, did he want to write lyrics on the spot? It took a lot of money to hire a master to write this new word, what could he write in such a short time? Even so, there was nothing to be done at this time, so I took the pipa to play.

In the sound of the music, Wang Tuo waved on the spot, and at the end of the song, Wang Tuo's words had been waved. Lao Bustard and Li Huan came over, and found that the new words were written with lingering compassion and lofty artistic conception, and the two couldn't help but be overjoyed, and the whole cabin was jubilant.

The sound of silk and bamboo started, and the grand event began.

The warbler sounded, and He Tiantian sang on the lotus-picking boat over there. At the end of the song, the audience rewarded them one after another, and the ingots were piled up on the table in the boat.

Then Gao Shuangting stroked the piano, and Wu Chanjuan played the flute, both of which achieved countless picks.

When everyone was around Li Huan's flower boat, I saw her open her lips, her teeth, and the pipa sound, singing the new words written by Wang Tuo.

At that time, it was the middle of August, there was a slight coolness on the lake, Li Huan's singing voice was lingering and tactful, and the wind in the song was warm and fragrant, which made people drunk without drinking. I also heard the words written in the lyrics, the words were beautiful, and the people around couldn't help but cry like thunder.

Hearing everyone's applause, Li Huan's eyes wandered when he sang the song, and he couldn't help but look at Wang Tuo. Wang Tuo was already fascinated by what he heard, and when he saw Li Huan like this at this time, he couldn't help but be happy in his heart.

Jinling is known as prosperous, this annual flower selection event, the local good deeds are going all out, or show off elegance, or show off the magnificence, is in an instant, entanglement and throwing, each flower boat on the collection of products piled up, especially Qinhuai Bayan is more. It was almost midnight, and the flower selection party would be the first to check and collect the products, which was like a roll call on the gold list, not only the girls were anxious, but also the tourists on the lake were very concerned.

The inspection of the collected products has been completed, and all the boats will gather to sit around the boat to listen to him announce the first and second times. I only heard the first shout: The inspection and collection of products have been completed, and Li Huan, the champion of the current flower country!

There were colorful sounds on the lake, and everyone on Li Huan's boat was laughing from ear to ear.