Chapter 22: The Prince
The maids rushed in and brought melons, fruits, wine, and a plate on a small table. While the maids were busy, the little maid just now came forward again and said the rules of the poetry club.
The poetry club is divided into three rounds, the first round of singing, the second round of singing, and the third round of free creation. You can write poems and fill in the words, the poems are not limited, the words are not limited to the word cards, the poems are not limited to rhyme, and each round is limited to three incense. In one round, one judge was selected, and one leader was elected from each of the male and female seats.
Everyone is gearing up and eager to try.
The first round of the exam was Yongwu, Ji Zhun didn't know what to sing, she looked around and found that the old princess was hanging a lyre behind her.
With a decision in her heart, she dipped her pen in ink and filled in "Extreme Lovesickness".
She finished writing the last word, took back the pen, and felt that someone was looking at her.
She looked up and met Ye Xirui's gaze in the air.
Ye Xirui hooked her lips and smiled lightly, and the smile was full of provocation.
Ji Zhun felt bored, so he ignored it, and handed the poem manuscript in his hand to the little maid who came to collect the volume.
When everyone handed in the papers, the two little servants beside the old princess stepped forward and picked out the poems that had not been written or handed in the blank volumes, and the rest were written into poems.
Reading them one by one, listening to them, the ladies sang mostly about the small things of the daughters of the boudoir, and the sons sang mostly about pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other study utensils.
Ji Zhun heard Ji Jin's words, he was different, he sang a feather arrow carved bow, Ji Zhun glanced at him through the curtain, she thought, he really likes bows and arrows.
Ji Zhun heard Ji Ya's again, Ji Ya sang a fan, Ji Zhun looked at her, she lowered her head a little shyly.
After listening for a while, Ji Zhun heard his own.
Extremely acacia
Gu Tong lay quietly and slightly. Yao Zhen is cold.
In the acacia strings, outside the dream of red dust, you can play the palace business.
Chengluyue Mountain flows slowly, minus the word book, and picks up the phoenix.
Qingbo Huaiyue, Changlin dew, and the horns are strong.
The old princess turned her head to look at Ji Zhun: "Oh? Is this a prospective girl? All right! It's a good pick. ”
The sons on the other side of the curtain also turned their heads, they had attended so many poetry gatherings, but it was the first time they had heard of this famous young lady.
The last song arrived at Ye Xirui's, she filled in the song "Bodhisattva Man", and sang about jade scratching her head, which is also very good.
At the end of the first round, Ji Zhun, Ji Ya, and Ji Jin were all selected.
Ji Zhun turned his head to look at Ji Hen on the side, and Ji Hen shrunk her neck. Well, she's still young, so I'll spare her this time.
Among the male guests on the other side, He Zhuo opened his eyes and asked Ji Jin in disbelief: "Zewen, tell me quickly, am I on a bad listen!" This...... How can this still be a disciplined thing! I don't believe it! ”
Ji Jin was also a little surprised, this was not the poem he gave her, and the eldest sister couldn't read it.
Without waiting for the two to think clearly, the little guy announced the start of the second round.
Just as everyone was about to put pen to paper, they suddenly heard someone outside the flower hall shouting: "The eldest prince, the fourth prince, the fifth prince, and the sixth prince have arrived!" ”
Sitting down, Miss Childe was taken aback, and they put down their pens and got up to greet them. They came to participate in a poetry meeting, and they were able to meet the royal family and nobles.
The sons and brothers all raised their heads up, hoping to take this opportunity to get the favor of the princes.
And the ladies all quietly called the maids behind them to arrange their sideburns.
Ji Zhun brought the star today, and the star saw that the other maids were helping their respective masters sort out, and she was also eager to try in the back of Ji Zhun's head.
Ji Zhun glanced back at her, and the star was immediately honest.
Here, the princes stepped in, and everyone first greeted the princes, and then the princes stepped forward to call the emperor's uncle and mother.
The old princess smiled toothlessly, and her face was full of red light. Someone went to fetch a rose chair and fragrant tea and snacks, and the royal family chatted. The eldest prince said: "I heard the imperial grandmother say that you held a poetry party, so we asked for the grace of our father to have fun." ”
The eldest prince was born to an unfavored concubine of Emperor Jing, and he was the eldest son of Emperor Jing.
The people in the palace are the most shrewd, and they know that the Queen Mother loves him, so they don't dare to underestimate him.
Ji Zhun quietly observed these princes, in a few years, these people would kill each other, causing the British government to become a victim in the struggle for imperial power.
She wanted to find out who was the culprit in the battle for the throne of these princes.
The fourth prince said: "I don't know how the poems of the imperial uncle and aunt will go, since we are all fun, it is better to continue and ignore us." ”
The old princess smiled and said, "Okay, you young ladies are just about to start the second round of Yonghua poems, you can also listen to it." ”
The princes readily agreed, the old princess signaled, and everyone began to be cautious.
Ji Zhun didn't want to be conspicuous, especially when these princes were present; Second, although she worked hard for Duan Hongqing in her previous life, she had mediocre qualifications. She simply picked up the pen and wrote a boring and mediocre little poem.
The little guy began to read it out again.
This round, Ji Yayong was a daffodil, and Yu Wanwan, who was sitting in the distance, turned her head and glared at Ji Zhun and them viciously.
Ji Zhun didn't bother to pay attention to her, but when Ji Hen on the side saw it, he was angry. Obviously, it was Yu Wanwan who did her own thing, and she had to stare at them for nothing.
Ji Hen took out a brocade with dragonfly flowers embroidered with dragonflies from her arms, and looked left and right to admire it.
Yu Wanwan became the laughing stock of the whole Kyoto because of the matter of sending Qian Sheng Jinpa, and was punished by her grandmother to go to the ancestral hall to kneel for three days and three nights, and later was detained in her own courtyard to copy the "Female Commandment" every day.
Now when she saw Ji Hen actually poking her sore spot with Jinpa's matter, her blood immediately surged, and she shouted: "You! ”
After shouting, she knew that it was bad, and at this time everyone's eyes in the hall were staring at her, and she felt that her face was hot, but she couldn't explain everything clearly, so she could only bow her head in embarrassment.
The old princess looked at her with some displeasure, and then motioned for the little maid to continue.
Xiao Wu re-read it again, it was Ye Xirui's, it's okay not to read it, so read, everyone turned their eyes to Ye Xirui again, Ye Xirui also felt embarrassed at this time, since she entered the palace, she and Yu Wanwan went in and out together, many people saw it, and just after Yu Wanwan's thing happened and read her poems. She felt that the gaze of everyone looking at her at this time was no longer the appreciation just now.
When she finally finished reading her words, the old princess only hummed softly.
Ye Xirui still maintained a light smile on her face, but in her heart, she had already scolded Wanwan and Ji Zhun thousands of times.
When this round is over, Ji Ya enters the third round, and Ye Xirui also enters the third round, in addition to the two of them, there are also Miss Fang, Miss Tang and four sons.
In the last round, there is no restriction on the subject matter, Ji Ya filled in the first "Eight Voices of Ganzhou", with beautiful words and sentences, but unfortunately the emotions are slightly inferior. Ye Xirui's poem is written in a good scene, but it is a pity that what happened to Yu Wanwan just now made Princess Bian somewhat angry with her, so the female leader was awarded to Miss Tang.
The male leader on the other side was awarded to the eldest son of the squire of the Criminal Department, Lin Yuanhui.
Princess Bian beckoned, and a maid brought two brocade boxes and gave them to Lin Yuanhui and Miss Tang. And what Miss Tang received was an inlaid Hetian jade gold silk Huasheng.
The two stepped forward to thank the old princess, and after the princess praised the two, she asked everyone to go to the flower garden and chant poems.
Ji Zhun also took his sister to the garden, and the three of them found a cool and secluded place, and a little maid brought a chilled sour plum soup, and the three of them drank it in small sips to relieve the heat and cool down.
He Zhuo saw that they were here, and he also pushed Ji Jin over, and several people chatted together.
On the other side, Yu Wanwan was asking Ye Xirui with a bitter face: "Cousin, didn't you say that your writing couldn't be better, why did you have a tie with the second lady of the Ji family!" ”
Ye Xirui was so angry with her, and pointed at her for a long time before she got angry, "You still dare to complain about me?" If you hadn't suddenly shouted, how could my flower poems be disliked by the old princess! It's okay if you're stupid, but don't take me with you! ”
Yu Wanwan saw that Ye Xirui was really angry, so she hurriedly said: "No, cousin, I didn't mean to complain about you, I mean, that Ji Zhun is really too hateful, she is insidious and cunning, deliberately let her sister provoke me, and then use these shameful tricks to ruin your position as the leader." ”
Ye Xirui glared at her, but hearing her say this, she finally lost some anger, but she also hated Ji Zhun even more.
When she first heard that Yu Wanwan came to beg her, she didn't take Ji Zhun seriously, although the Ji family was a national prince, but her grandfather was a former cabinet scholar, and her father was a member of the court.
She once overheard the conversation between her grandfather and her father, and her grandfather said that although the status of the Guogong Mansion is transcendent, there is no successor, but it is just the end of summer, the beginning of autumn, the golden cicada, it seems to be glorious, but in fact there is not much time. Unless the Guogong Mansion finds a way to send that young lady into the palace to earn a concubine, a lady or something, she may be able to last for a few years.
Ye Xirui prides herself on being the first talented woman in Jinghua, and her grandfather once told her that she would marry into the royal family in the future. Naturally, she is not the old emperor that the daughter of the Ji family wants to marry, she is going to marry the young prince and the future prince. But also because of this reason, Ye Xirui fell in love with the number one person of the Ji family.
Although the Heavenly Family has not yet discussed with the Ye family, Ye Xirui has already regarded herself as the future crown princess in her heart. Ji Zhun will become a palace lady at that time, and she has to deal with her, and she subconsciously regards Ji Zhun as an imaginary enemy.
So when Yu Wanwan, the stupid cousin, came to her, she readily agreed. The daughter of a martial artist, when it comes to this qufu, she is not allowed to rub the round and flatten.
But she didn't expect that today's poetry not only did not get the first place, but was also affected by Yu Wanwan. What's even more infuriating is that Ji Zhun, who wanted to suppress him, actually won the praise of Princess Bian, whether it was Princess Bian's sincere praise of Ji Zhun, or because of the affection of the Guogong Mansion, Ji Zhun finally let Ji Cheng enter the eyes of all the sons present.
Ye Xirui blamed all the faults on Ji Zhun's head.