A few days passed comfortably, and on this day, Ruxu received another post, it was Xi Ming who invited her to Wenzhuyuan to participate in the poetry conference. She pondered the ink in her stomach for a while, and felt that she had no literary talent.

But she was idle, and Brother Xi invited her to go, and she couldn't refuse. What's more, it is not a bad thing to know some literati and writers, there are many fame and stories in history, which are praised and recorded by poetry.

After thinking about it, the spirit came to me in an instant, and the evil made up some poems and songs that night, which can be regarded as making some preparations.

The next day, he took Jin Feng to the carriage and went to Wenzhuyuan, and before leaving, Su Rong reminded Ru Xu, "Let you compose poems, let you participate, you must refuse, you must remember." ”

Ruxu nodded as if he didn't understand.

When I arrived at Wenzhuyuan, I got out of the carriage and saw Qin Huan as promised. He seemed to be waiting for her here, and as soon as he saw the carriage of Guiling Mansion, he immediately walked over and smiled at Ruxu, "Brother Xi asked me to wait for someone here, I didn't expect it to be you!" ”

Ruxu shook off the fan and smiled, "Why are you here too?" ”

"I'm just here to deliver tea...... It's not easy for them to participate in the poetry conference of the literati, so it's good to sit by and watch. Qin Huan smiled, "Since you're here, I'll accompany you." ”

"Why isn't it good to participate?" First Su Rong said it once, and now Qin Huan said it again, Ru Xu is really a little curious about what this poetry conference is like, is it possible that it will be as fierce as a war?

"How much ink can we have in our stomachs in business? It would be nice to know a few words. Write poetry or something, just think about it, there were no less jokes earlier, don't lose the face of our business world again......" Qin Huan said sullenly.

Ruxu smiled, followed Qin Huan quietly in through the side door, and sat behind him from a distance and watched.

When they entered, they were all assembled, and they were sitting in their seats, composing poems. The upper lord gave a picture of a chrysanthemum, and everyone was asked to write a poem on it.

After writing the poems, I began to recite them one by one, and everyone in the audience competed and finally selected the three best poems.

Ruxu got a little tired of listening to it, and sat in his seat and yawned.

"This year's poetry festival in Kyoto was canceled because of the loss of Nan Wangye's wife, but we still have to prepare for next year's poetry fair, and we can't slack off." Xi Ming said first.

Hearing the words "Lord Nan lost his wife", Ruxu felt a pain in his heart, and his heart was sad and indescribable.

"Today, I have invited a guest to preside over the next Flying Flower Order. He had a great heart of kindness, not only mobilized the river workers of the state capital and agreed to divert water downstream of the Yuhu to open a canal, but also mobilized the merchants of Qingchuan to fund the river project of the state capital. Xi Ming looked at Ruxu on the other end first, "I will invite him to come because he, like Yu Yu, has a rare pure heart." ”

Everyone knows Yu Yu, and everyone here respects Yu Yu's morality and compassion. Who is this person, Xi Mingxian gave such a high evaluation, can he be compared with Yu Yu?

Qin Huan pulled Ruxu's sleeve, and Ruxu came back to his senses.

"Brother Xi raised the ......" Ruxu stood up with red eyes, looking at everyone present with tears in his eyes, "In Xia Jin Ruxu, Brother Xi sincerely invited, it is an honor to have the honor to meet you today." ”

There was an almost inaudible tremor in her voice, and everyone turned their heads to look at her.

"Brother Xu, come, you will preside over the next Flying Flower Order." Xi Ming made a "please" gesture to her first.

Ruxu went to the main seat above. She took a deep breath and adjusted her mood, then turned around and sat down, and said to everyone with a smile on her face, "Then I'm going to write next...... Now that it is the season of cold dew, then we will use the word 'cold' in the first round. ”

Then everyone began to fly the flower order, and there were about twenty people in the seat, and each of them had to say a verse with the word "cold", and it could not be a verse from the same poem. Whoever doesn't match it loses, and whoever loses will be punished with a glass of wine.

After the end of the first round, a new word "chrysanthemum" was promised.

Then the second round ended.

After listening to it a few times, Ruxu felt bored and couldn't help yawning.

"Why does Xu Gongzi find it boring?" Someone asked.

For a while, the room was quiet, and the atmosphere was a little tense and awkward.

"It's really boring!" Ruxu lowered his head and patted his clothes, "I have an interesting game here, I don't know if you're interested." ”

Hearing that Ru Xu had a new way to play, everyone was curious, "Xu Gongzi said it doesn't matter." ”

"This flying flower and poetry, although elegant and elegant. But the form is the same, don't you really find it boring? Ru Xu first affirmed the benefits of Feihua Ling and composing poetry, and then expressed his opinion, "I think that the form of literature should be innovative, otherwise it will be too old-fashioned." ”

"I suggest that everyone play a game called "Debate". Ruxu shook off the fan and shook it, "This debate, as the name suggests, is debate and argument, argumentation and argumentation. ”

"What's the fun about that? It's just the same as the court debate, citing scriptures and classics to prove one's own point of view. A scholar in a green shirt said.

"Good. Then I'll come up with a question, and you will argue with me. As soon as Xu Xu put the fan away, he pointed at the scholar and said with a smile, "If today's son governs the country with filial piety, I would like to ask everyone here, what is filial piety?" ”

"Loving one's parents, respecting one's parents, and obeying one's parents is filial piety." There is humanity.

"Is obedience to one's parents filial piety? If your parents tell you to steal and rob, will you also be morally obedient? Ruxu said with a smile.

"Of course, you can't do things that are contrary to morality, and stealing and robbing is not a gentleman's doing. This is, of course, to advise parents to correct their unrighteous deeds and prevent them from falling into unrighteousness...... By obedient parents we mean something that has nothing to do with morality! Someone argued.

"Oh, really?" Ru Xu raised his eyebrows, "If I am the daughter of a concubine in the family, and my family is in the middle of the road, and my father wants to sell me to the Qinglou, do I have to obey?" ”

"Naturally...... Be obedient! Someone replied, "Parents who are physically exposed to the skin are always arranged for the good of their children." ”

As soon as this sentence came out, there was a lot of discussion in the audience, and some people did not agree with this view, and the two sides began to argue.

"Well, then let me ask you, what if your relatives insist on asking you to do business now? Will it be submissive? If you are told to give up fame and fortune and go home to plant an acre and three points of land, will you also listen? Ruxu shook his head and smiled helplessly.

Foolishness and filial piety were really a big cancer in ancient times. The so-called Son of Heaven ruled the country with filial piety, emphasized the "Three Principles and Five Constants", and pushed from filial piety to the concept of loyalty to the monarch, but it was just the ruler's policy of fooling the people, and the purpose was to make the people willingly and blindly obey.

The man listened to Ruxu's rhetorical question, couldn't argue, and bowed his head in shame.

"For another example, I heard that the people of Qingchuan think that the people of Taihe are southern barbarians and disdain to associate with them. With all due respect, this is also the result of the people resting on their laurels and closing their eyes and listening! "Ru Xu spoke sonorously and powerfully.

"If you are willing to think deeply, what is the difference between a tree planted in Qingchuan and planted in Taihe? Just because he grew up in Qingchuan, he is superior? In the same way, all the people of the world are all life, from infancy to adult, what is the difference between us? ”

"Just because Kyoto calls them Nanban, we also think they are Nanban? If one day, Kyoto also looks at us like this and treats us as Nanban, how sad will we be? ”

If Xu continued to ask questions, of course, she also knew that saying such things might bring disaster to herself. But these thoughts have begun to sprout as early as the first time she heard Qianwu say in the Nanwang Mansion that the emperor called the people of the jade pot "Southern Barbarians", but her memory had not recovered at that time, so she couldn't express her deep experience.

"I'm a businessman, and maybe you don't want to associate with me. But ladies and gentlemen, there is no contradiction between business and poetry. Our two worlds are now in harmony and there is no conflict. All the festivals and criticisms are because everyone follows the ideas of our predecessors and thinks in the same way of thinking, and because we are all ignorant. ”

After Xu finished speaking, he exhaled a long breath and sat down slowly.

Xi Ming in the seat was the most shocked first, and if he wished, he could almost feel it.

His mother was a poetess and his father was a businessman. The relationship between the two was hindered and discriminated against by the literary and business worlds, which caused his mother to die of depression, and his father became ill with longing, so he sold all his property and purchased this Wenzhu Garden for him. Before he died, he told him that he must not deal with the business world, so as not to suffer the same criticism.

But since he was a child, he liked to make friends with the world's heroes, and did not care about their identity and family background, since he knew Yu Yu and Qin Huan, he began to think about the source of these contradictions, and began to work hard to promote the integration of the two worlds of literature and commerce. Although the effect was little in the past few years, the appearance of Ruxu now gave him a glimmer of hope.

Most of the people in the audience still couldn't understand Ruxu, and maybe a few people had already approved of her in their hearts, but they didn't dare to express their position yet, for fear of offending the ruling authority.

The feudal system has lasted for thousands of years, and it is not something that she can change with a sentence or two. If the purpose of today's meeting is not to wake up these people who are pretending to be asleep, what she said has knocked everyone's closed minds open, which is enough to arouse the slightest consciousness of the people present, and that is enough.

So she looked down and smiled, "Okay, let's try this debate." ”

Then, she divided everyone into two groups, one for the positive and one for the negative. The first topic she came up with was the famous one, what is virtue.

At the beginning, everyone was still a little restrained, quoting scriptures and scriptures to tell their own views. But later, Ruxu guided the thinking of the two parties, and the situation gradually became tense, and everyone couldn't take care of it, and they tried to grasp each other's loopholes logically, and use dialectical thinking to think about the arguments given by the other party.

After two or three rounds, everyone's mouth was dry and hearty, as if they had been baptized by rebirth, and suddenly there was a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

Ruxu summarized each debate and gave pertinent conclusions based on the views of both sides.

Today, she and everyone here have benefited a lot and made progress together. When Ruxu was about to leave Wenzhuyuan, Xi Ming called out to her first.