Chapter 019: Palace Poetry

Poetry?

As soon as these two words came out, Xia Houhong and Dong Xian couldn't believe their ears, what kind of person is this Xie Ling, he is the eldest son of the Xie family in Chen County, and there is a way to "Wang family calligraphy, Xie family poetry!" Until now, Emperor Xiao Yan has been holding the poems of the Xie family, such as Xie Ming, Xie Wei, Xie Lingyun, etc., and once said: "If you don't read Xie poems for three days, you will feel bad breath!" ”

Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu was also a knowledgeable and talented man when he was young, during the Yongming period, how many literati and scholars gathered in the mansion of Xiao Ziliang, the king of Jingling, to share the words and appreciation, sway pen and ink, and display their talents, the poetry style at that time can be said to be pushed to the peak of the Southern Dynasty, the most famous of which is the "Jingling Eight Friends" that are still passed on by word of mouth until now, and Xiao Yan is one of the Jingling Eight Friends.

Even a talented emperor like Xiao Yan praised: "If you don't read Xie Shi for three days, you will feel bad breath." It can be seen that the freshness and eye-catching artistic conception of "Xie Jia's poems" are far-reaching.

Until now, those scholars in Jiankang City are proud to learn Xie Jia's poems!

Xiao Zhengze actually wants to compare poems with Xie Ling, isn't this an egg touching a stone, and he can't do it himself?

Xia Houhong was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, hurriedly ran to Xiao Zhengze, pulled him aside and said: "Xiao Houye, calm down, calm down, let's change to a different comparison and poetry, you definitely can't win him!" ”

"What do you mean, you mean that Ben Hou's talent is not as good as him, he is a thirteen-year-old boy who has not dried his milk, could it be that he has read books for more than 20 years?"

"No, no, Xiao Houye, you know that I don't mean that, it's just that the Xie family has been famous for poetry for hundreds of years......" Xia Houhong said with a smile on his face.

"That's the talent that only a few of their Xie family have, it's great to have one out of twenty, besides, their Xie family's poems don't pay attention to freshness and nature, and the graceful beauty of the hibiscus comes out of the clear water, so I won't let him write such poems today!"

"Someone, feast!"

Xia Houhong saw that it was useless to persuade him again, so he wanted to pull Dong Xian to persuade him, but when he looked back, he saw that Dong Shizi had knelt down in front of his golden armor worth seven million, and wept bitterly.

Don't blame him for crying bitterly, these seven million battle armor, but a few of them pasted gold leaves for seven hundred and forty-nine days, and only then did they create such a unique perfect battle armor, seeing that it was about to fly, can they not feel distressed.

"Dong Shizi, don't cry, don't cry, cheer up, Hou Ye has the next competition! We still have to cheer for Master Hou! ”

Xia Houhong pulled Dong Shizi up, at this time, Xiao Zhengze had ordered someone to set up a banquet, the banquet was not only full of delicacies and all kinds of rare and exotic objects, but also called a lot of maids to stand aside, some held the pipa, some held the hole flute, some sang with the drum and piano, these maids were all wearing a veil and wearing gold and jade jewelry, and they were brilliant

In the big family, even if it is a servant girl, when she goes out, she is more beautifully dressed than some little ladies from small families, but there are few like Xiao Zhengze, who blatantly let the handmaids wear gold, silver and satin all over their bodies.

Xie Ling immediately thought of his father, Xiao Hong, the king of Linchuan, who had been scolded as "Xiao Niang" by the Northern Wei Dynasty, it is said that Xiao Hong is just an idle prince, and there are a thousand concubines in the house, and these thousand concubines are all beauties he spent money to collect from all over the country, and he has thousands of beauties as a prince, and even the life of Emperor Xiao Yan is not as luxurious as his.

And this Xiao Zheng is obviously inheriting his father's decadent luxury.

"I have long heard that your Xie family has always advocated the way of Zhuang Lao, and what kind of mystery, insight, wonderful reward, and deep affection are emphasized, let me come to see your Xie family's talent and demeanor today, shooting and hunting is a rough person's preference, presumably Xie Langjun doesn't like it, so now, let's compare it to poetry, what do you think?"

"How do you compare?" Qiu Shi asked anxiously.

Xiao Zhengze smiled and said: "Naturally, it is a game of flying flowers, come to people, arrange the water flow feast, let's also play elegant." ”

At his command, someone soon built a trough in front of them that resembled a small pond, filled it with clean water, and threw a feather made of crane feathers into it.

"Let's start with the wonderful reward now, at the end of the dance, whoever this feather floats in front of will compose a poem, if you win, it will be a thousand gold, and if you lose, it will be ten thousand gold, what do you think?"

Xiao Zhengze asked like this, and Qiu Shi was a little dissatisfied: "Why is it 10,000 when you lose?" ”

"If you want to gamble, you have to admit defeat! Xie Jialangjun is not a person who can't afford to lose, not to mention that he won Ben Hou more just now...... How much? ”

The servant who kept the account hurriedly replied: "Nineteen million ......."

Xiao Zhengze's legs were weak, and he almost didn't fall off the collapse.

"Will it ...... Miscalculated? He asked in a whisper.

The servant's forehead was also dripping with sweat: "Waiting for the master, the slave doesn't dare to ......"

Xiao Zhengze picked up a glass of amber wine on the table, poured it down, and then slapped it and shouted: "What are you still doing in a daze, why don't you dance and play music quickly!" ”

"Yes, yes!"

The maidservants were so frightened that their faces turned white, and they had to put on a smiling expression, and began to play the pipa, the drum and the piano, and the flute, a very beautiful and tense music sounded in the vast golden fragrance garden.

"I don't know if Xie Langjun has ever heard of 'Step by Step Lotus'?"

When the music sounded, Xiao Zhengze looked at Xie Ling again and asked.

Xie Ling replied with a smile: "Of course I have heard of the step-by-step lotus of Concubine Pan, who was waiting in the east in the past!" ”

Xiao Zhengze patted the collapse table excitedly again, and said with a smile: "I'll let you see it today!" ”

So, he called a group of maiko to come over, and each of them wore clogs studded with pearls on their feet, and with the sound of music, the dancers dressed in pusha began to dance with their sleeves, and their dancing posture and white skin loomed under the pusha, and with each movement of these maiko, one after another like lotus marks fell under their feet.

"Beautiful, really beautiful, so beautiful!"

Because the movements of these dancers were too flamboyant and unrestrained, Xia Houhong, Dong Xian and others looked dry, and their throats began to roll.

And just as they were watching the excitement, the music suddenly stopped, and the dancers stopped all their movements and fell to their knees.

Everyone saw that the feather had floated in front of Xie Ling.

"Hey, that means it's Xie Jialangjun's turn to compose poems?" Xia Houhong said, "According to the spacing, it should be up to the little waiter!" ”

Xiao Zhengze also smiled and asked, "How about this dance step just now?" ”

"It's really coquettish, bone-devouring!" Someone said.

Xia Houhong immediately proposed: "Why don't you use this word as the title to compose a poem?" ”

Qiu Shi's face turned red, and he immediately cast a disdainful look at Xia Houhong, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Xie Ling holding on to the wine bottle and lowering his eyes, as if he was thinking about something, and he didn't feel ashamed at all.

Xiao Zhengze continued: "How can you use the word Sao as the title, what an elegant person our Xie Jialangjun is, this Sao word is too insulting." ”

"Little Waiter, what's wrong with the word? Isn't that also a literati? ”

"That's right, that's right, it's better to be like this, the word Sao is too big and spoils the scenery, Xie Langjun will use the word 'sleep' as the title to make a beautiful poem, okay?" Xiao Zhengze turned to Xie Ling and smiled, "If this poem of yours can compare to my third cousin, even if you win!" ”

His third cousin is the third prince Xiao Gang, in the Xiao royal family, represented by Xiao Gang, created a style of poetry called "palace style poetry", this style of poetry is dedicated to court trivial matters, women's graceful and moving people are beautiful, even "eating, sleeping, walking" can be casually come, and the poems made can be called extremely glamorous and exaggerated.

Xiao Gang once wrote a poem: "Dreams smile delicately, and sleep and fall flowers." Fu Wensheng jade wrist, fragrant sweat soaked red yarn. To describe the beauty of a woman's sleeping position.

When it comes to this kind of poetic style, no one can compare with Xiao Gang.

Xiao Zhengze looked at Xie Ling with a provocative smile, and when he saw Xie Ling, he smiled, and said very calmly: "Okay." ”

"However, when I compose poems, who will judge them fairly?"

Xie Ling asked, and Qiu Shi also echoed on the side: "That's right! It can't be, Xiao Hou Ye said that my Lang Jun's poetry is good, and if it is not good, it is not good, there must be a fair comment! ”

Xiao Zhengze's face turned cold, and he called a guard, gave him something in his ear, and threw a jade medal in his hand.

After about half a cup of tea, an old man and a young man were led by the guard to the Golden Fragrance Garden.

Xie Ling's gaze looked at the two people, she didn't know the young man, but the old man made her eyes light up unexpectedly.

This person turned out to be Xu Mian, who was known as the first virtuous minister of Nanliang in his previous life.

Looking at all the officials in Nanliang, Xu Mian is an extremely rare Qing official who does not dictate power and does not corrupt and accept bribes, there is the so-called "three years of Qing prefect, ten years of snowflake silver", Xu Mian is in the high position of the middle order, but he has no savings, no industry, some people asked him why he did not leave some money for his children and grandchildren, he said a sentence: "People leave their children and grandchildren with wealth, I leave them innocent." Sun Caiye, on the other hand, is self-inflicted, if he is not talented, he will eventually have it. ”

That is to say, it is better to leave a scripture for your children and grandchildren than to give them money, and if your children and grandchildren are talented, they will create wealth.

"It's fair for Xu Shangshu to make a comment, right?" Xiao Zhengze asked.

Xie Ling smiled, got up and said: "I have admired the name of Xu Shangshu for a long time, if Xu Shangshu witnesses it, it will be fair!" ”

It's good, now I even have a human card.

Xu Mian also looked at Xie Ling, and said with a smile: "You are the Xie family Langjun Xie Ling who was appreciated by the prince?" ”

"Yes!"

Xu Mian nodded with a smile and signaled, "Then let's start!" ”

Xiao Zhengze was still smiling proudly on the side, and Dong Xian and Xia Houhong were already anxiously wiping their sweat on the side.

At this time, Xie Ling had already gotten up and read word by word: "Penglai Courtyard is closed to the rooftop girl, and the people in the painting hall are speechless." ”

When the sentence was read, Xu Mian's eyes were already bright, and Xiao Zhengze's expression gradually condensed.

Immediately afterwards, I heard Xie Ling read: "Throw the pillow and green clouds, embroider clothes and smell the fragrance." ”

At this time, even Xia Houhong and Dong Xian looked at Xie Ling speechlessly, and there seemed to be a beautiful woman lying down, sleeping lightly, and the spring light of gorgeous clothes was beautiful!

"Sneaking into the bead lock and move, I was shocked by the silver screen dream."

At this time, Xiao Zhengze's expression was needless to say, and Xu Mian's eyes were already showing a stunning smile.

"Good sentence, good sentence! A good sentence sneaks into the bead lock, and I am shocked to realize the silver screen dream. He couldn't help but sigh, "What's next?" ”

"The face is smiling slowly, and the look is infinitely affectionate."

When the last sentence fell, Xu Mian was already so shocked that he stood up, clapped his hands and praised: "Wonderful, really wonderful!" is worthy of being the son of the Xie family of Chenjun, the poems written are clear and pleasant, such a good sentence, when there is no one in a hundred years, comparable to His Royal Highness the Three Princes! ”

It's still unparalleled for a hundred years, isn't it too exaggerated! Xiao Zhengze pouted very dissatisfied.

Qiu Shi jumped up with joy, "That means that my family Langjun won?" Little Lord, you lost another thousand gold! ”

Xiao Zhengze, who heard the word "lose" again, couldn't help but feel bruised on his forehead, he didn't believe that this Xie Ling could always compose poetry.

"It's only one game! Keep playing, keep playing! Xiao Zhengze shouted again, and asked the musicians to play music.

Xia Houhong had already thrown his eyes at Xiao Zhengze on the side, and Dong Xian on the side was already like ashes, and he had nothing to think about.

Little Waiter, have you forgotten the business of inviting him here today?

Next, several successive flying flower orders, Yu Yu fell in front of Xie Ling, and each time Xie Ling was able to deal with it calmly, and he also made poems at Xiao Zhengze's request.

Xu Mian clapped his hands in admiration and applauded, and he couldn't take his eyes off Xie Ling!

"It's really a talent from the country, Xiaolang is easy to order, the words are handsome, I see pity, there are successors to the Xie family, and there are successors!"

Xiao Zhengze heard this praise to the sky one after another, and his face was black and speechless.

At this time, Qiu Shi also asked: "Little Houye, why do you shout to stop every time this feather flies in front of my Langjun, you do it on purpose, right?" ”

"Your family Lang Jun Qingze is pleasant, so this feather like to stop at his place!"

"That is to say, Xiao Hou Ye and Dong Shizi are filthy, and even Yu Yu has to despise them!"

Xiao Zhengze was so angry that his chest was churning with blood, but he didn't have a good attack in front of Xu Mian, so he had to smile reluctantly: "Hahaha...... Sure enough, he is worthy of being a disciple of the Xie family, the former emperor's uncle once said, if you don't read Xie Wei's poems for three days, you will feel bad breath, today is to let Ben Hou see, and you will see him in another ten years, if you don't read Xie Ling's poems for a day, Ben Hou will feel smelly all over his body, you say, isn't it? ”

Dong Xian and Xia Houhong replied with embarrassed smiles.

At this time, Xie Ling actually said: "Xiao Hou Ye has won the award, in fact, the poems I wrote are average, compared to my ancestors, it is still too far away, and I can't even compare with my brothers and sisters in my clan." Writing poetry is not my specialty. ”

Is this humility? Or is it showing off?

"Poetry is not your specialty, so what is your specialty?" Xiao Zhengze asked.

Xie Ling pointed to the sky: "Look at the sky!" ”