Yuquan Mountain is located in the eastern suburbs of the west of the city, it is a very graceful and beautiful scenery of Jinling, it is famous because there are several springs on its mountain, although its mountain is not too high, but there are several silver streams such as swimming dragon through the gorge in the meantime, looking from the foot of the mountain, you can see the clear spring as flying down from the top of the mountain, gathering into the pool of springs one after another.

A man-made trail leads to the top of the mountain, along the way there are more dense forests and bamboos, pavilions and water pavilions, which are exquisite and unique, like a clever stroke, dotted between the mountainsides of the fog-locked jungle.

On the top of the mountain, there are pavilions, temples, garden rockeries, decorated with strange flowers and plants, pine and cypress, green bamboo, green and sprouting.

At this time, Gu Yuzheng and Gu Qiniang and Gu Shiniang came to a clear stream under the leadership of the old lady.

The edge of the riverside has long been filled with a lot of girls in brocade clothes, all of them with gorgeous hair and flying hair, stepping on high-toothed clogs, or sitting or standing, or holding a feather fan on the side of the stream, the stream is full of collapsed tables, on which are placed melon and fruit snacks and preserved meat, from a distance, it really seems to come out of the painting wall one by one.

Of course, if you don't say anything about some noisy voices, this situation is extremely elegant and chic.

I saw a girl on the side of the stream wearing a lotus flower pleated skirt with a slightly pulled arm veil while holding a glass cup, and sighed: "It's really disappointing, I thought that Wang Qilang and Xie Qilang would also come to our Jinling this time, and there were no them among those who didn't want to come." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard another girl's voice sneer: "Even if they come, Zhu Jiuniang, do you still think that you can get into their eyes?" ”

The girl who was called Zhu Jiuniang stood up straight when she heard this, her willow eyebrows were upside down, she blushed and glared at the girl who was walking behind her, and shouted: "Zhang Qin, you deceive people too much, my Zhu family is also a first-class scholar in Wu County, how can you humiliate me so much?" ”

The girl named Zhang Qin smiled sneeringly: "Although your Zhu family is a first-class scholar clan in Wu County, there is no official in the court now, it can be seen that there is nothing else except the family Qingwang, and it is also worth showing off!" ”

As soon as this sentence fell, Zhu Jiuniang was so angry that tears almost fell from her eyes, her face was also blue and white, and she pointed to the girl named Zhang Qin before saying the word "you-" for a while, and then ran away in a hurry with her tears.

I didn't want to run a few steps before I ran into a person.

"Who is so short-sighted...... Zhu Jiuniang, who had nowhere to vent her anger in her chest, couldn't help but snort, raised her head, and saw a young man in white clothes with sleeves and a beautiful jade posture standing in front of her, and couldn't help but light up and said, "You are ......"

Hearing this, the girl named Zhang Qin also looked over, first stunned, then frowned, and sneered coldly: "Even a concubine like Gu Ayu is qualified to come to our virtuous poetry gathering here?" The Gu family is not afraid to bring her here to show her ugliness! As he spoke, he glanced at him and said in a low voice with disdain, "It's still such a nondescript dress!" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a hoarse and deep voice coming: "When you say this, do you mean that my old lady is not fair?" ”

Zhang Qin's face turned pale, and when he turned around, he saw an old lady wearing a forehead wipe and dressed in a gorgeous dress who was being supported by two servant women and walked down from her shoulder, and this old lady with a solemn expression holding a cane was the old lady of the Gu family, the head of the Wujun clan.

Immediately afterwards, after Mrs. Gu, there was a group of people who either raised their shoulders or held spears and emerged from a verdant mountainside, and it was vaguely seen that the old ladies of the Lu, Zhu, and Zhang families among the four major families of Wu County were also sitting on the shoulders.

On this day every year, the nobles of the major families in the south will gather here to compete for their talents through poetry or calligraphy and painting, so as to become famous.

If it can be recorded in the list of virtuous women, it can be praised by the world like "Yongsu Xie Daoyun".

Naturally, a woman's virtue is also among the evaluations.

Therefore, seeing the old lady Gu's face, Zhang Qin also restrained her temperament, and hurriedly bent down and gave a salute to the old lady: "Old lady Gu is healthy." ”

Old Madam Gu snorted coldly, and no longer looked at her, so she sat straight to the top position, and after a while, the old ladies of the Lu family, the Zhu family, and the Zhang family also sat down on the ground in turn and talked to each other.

Seeing a few old ladies chatting, the little ladies sitting around the stream also chatted in a low voice, the so-called virtuous and elegant poetry meeting was also set up for these little ladies to go on a youth tour, not to mention that celebrities and celebrities nowadays pay attention to a casual and liberal attitude, if they are too restrained, it seems that they are not elegant enough, so Zhu Jiuniang's episode just now was quickly left behind.

As if there was no trace of the storm.

Gu Yu sat on one side, quietly looking at the clear water like jade, reflecting the shadow of a green superposition on the bank.

The ears are full of Yingli banquet words, and what these little ladies are talking about is nothing more than which family's Langjun is more handsome and has a more beautiful demeanor.

In this era, the evaluation of tolerance is originally a fashion of the times, especially the male color is more valued by the world, and some nobles even adopt some young children with good qualifications to have fun, and the current Jiupin Zhongzheng official will also write the appearance and behavior in the comments when evaluating a person's talent and virtue, as a reference condition for the product.

It can be seen how important a person's appearance is!

However, she only thought about these words in her heart, and then laughed it off, the most important thing at the moment was to get out of here as soon as possible.

If it weren't what she expected, Twelve Lang would definitely come to her with doubts after reading the book she had gifted.

This is also an opportunity for her to leave.

When she was thinking about it, she didn't realize that there was a figure around her, and when she looked up, she saw that it was the girl who was mocking Zhu Jiuniang, and sat down beside her.

The girl's eyes are bright, her eyebrows are also dotted with plum blossom makeup, and a skirt with gold threads is spread on the ground like flowing clouds, which makes her look like a fairy with a slim hibiscus out of the water, but the corners of her mouth are slightly curved, and the mocking color revealed in her eyes adds a tiresome arrogance.

"I heard that a few days ago, you and Gu Siniang fell into the water together, it was my twelfth brother who saved you, but you want to marry my twelfth brother?" She leaned in front of Gu Yu and said.

Gu Yu glanced at her, smiled slightly, seemed to be thinking about something, and did not answer.

The girl frowned, slightly annoyed, and sneered: "You don't know, although my twelfth brother is a concubine in the family, my grandfather loves him very much, and even wants to record him in my mother's name and cultivate him as the concubine of the Zhang family, if you really want to, I'm afraid you can only be a concubine for him!" ”

Gu Yu still smiled and didn't answer, but pointed his hand upstream towards the stream.

Zhang Qin looked at her hand and saw that the old lady Gu was looking at her with a cold face, and beside her, the faces of the two old ladies of the Lu family and the Zhu family also had some unspeakable expressions of unknown meaning, and the old lady of the Zhang family, as her grandmother, was even more embarrassed.

Zhang Qin shrank back, lowered his head and stopped talking, at this time, the scene was suddenly silent, only the spring breeze was slow, and the willows were light.

Mrs. Gu glanced at the other side of the river, the willows were still around, and the scenery was pleasant, and she couldn't help but sigh: "Thinking about the time when Wang Youjun and all the celebrities set up a meandering water in the Lanting, chanting poems and writing, leaving masterpieces that have been admired by the world, I sigh that I can't watch the grand occasion of the day, which can be described as a regret of my life!" ”

"Wang Youjun is the most famous man today, it is said that today he will also come to Yuquan Mountain to preside over this scholar's banquet, if after a while, we will also go to admire his world-class style and literary brilliance." The old lady of the Zhang family said.

As soon as her voice fell, the little ladies present burst into exclamations.

Old Madam Gu had a pale face, no special expression, and only asked, "So what should be the theme of today's Xianyuan Poetry Meeting?" ”

The old lady of the Lu family swept her eyes to the river, but when she saw a breeze coming, and the sparkling river reflected the catkins, she actually smiled and said: "No, let's take the title of 'What do the catkins propose', let these little ladies have fun!" ”

What are the catkins going to do?

Yongliu?

Gu Yu's heart jumped when he heard this, Yongxu's talent has made Xie Daoyun, the first talented woman in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, you can't still come back with the sentence "If the snow is not because of the wind", right?

Unexpectedly, this thought flashed in her mind, and she heard a childish voice say: "If the snow is not because of the wind!" ”

The little ladies in the audience suddenly puffed and forbeared, and then burst into laughter, and one by one they turned their heads to see a young woman with a cloudy bun and a tooth-colored waist-length honeysuckle embroidered pleated skirt leading a five or six-year-old child with drooping hair and walked over.

Gu Yu's eyes lit up, a beautiful and elegant woman, with long eyebrows and sideburns, and clear eyes, which would make her feel a sense of familiarity.

I saw the woman leading the girl to the front of everyone, bowed to the old ladies at the head, and then said with a smile: "The words of the child, let the girls laugh, why don't I throw bricks and lead the jade, first make a bad poem, to comfort everyone laughing!" ”

After that, she read: "The long path is cold and the mountains are sloping, the jade willow shadow is swaying, the blue color is inexhaustible, and there is a lot of hatred and suffering!" ”

As soon as she finished reading, the four fields were quiet, and there were already a few little ladies with displeasure on their faces and discussing in a low voice, but Old Madam Gu said coldly: "Yuan Niang, you are married to a wife, it is not good to stay at home, what are you doing here?" ”

Yuan Niang?

At this time, Gu Yu suddenly remembered that this woman was Gu Siyuan, the eldest lady of the Gu family who had already married into the Zhu family.

In her previous life, she had not seen Gu Siyuan, but about her affairs, some people in the house also talked a lot, it is said that the old lady Gu originally told Gu Siyuan about a family matter, but it was a sister-in-law of the old lady's mother's family, but Gu Siyuan refused to marry, and later made trouble to the head of the Gu family, and the head of the Gu family also relied on her because he favored this granddaughter and withdrew from this family business, but since then, no one in the family dared to come to Gu Siyuan to propose marriage,

It wasn't until Gu Siyuan was seventeen years old that someone from the Zhu family sent a matchmaker to the door, and Gu Siyuan agreed to this family affair without hesitation.

This is something that no one expected, because the Zhu family's matchmaker Zhu Wulang is said to be a fool who does not distinguish between grains and grains, and the eldest daughter of the Gu family is going to marry a fool, which is a shame for the family, but I didn't expect this matter to drag on to the end, the head of the Gu family actually agreed, and what was even more unexpected was that Gu Siyuan married less than a year ago, and the fool was miraculously better, and he also went to participate in a high-ranking gathering in Wu County, and won most of the children of the family on the spot with calligraphy and Xuan Xuan. The county at that time was dumbfounded.

Zhu Wulang entered the office with five grades, and later became Wang Wendu's subordinate official.

When Gu Yu looked at Gu Siyuan, Gu Siyuan also set his eyes on her, but at a glance, he turned his gaze to Mrs. Gu again, and said with a smile: "Since it is a virtuous gathering, why can't I come to participate, my grandmother is also partial!" ”

Old Madam Gu's face stiffened, so she had to signal her to sit down, and then motioned to the little ladies who were sitting there to speak freely.

As a result, one poem after another was sung one after another, and the scene became extremely lively.

Gu Yu was about to find a reason to leave, but unexpectedly, a voice actually called her name and asked, "Eleven Niang, it's your turn!" Let's take willow as the theme, and improvise a song casually! ”

Gu Yu suddenly raised her head, and saw that it was the old lady of the Zhang family looking at her with a smile on her face.

Gu Yu smiled back, and when she was about to speak, Zhang Qin beside her covered her mouth and laughed: "Grandmother, you actually asked Gu's Ayu to compose poems, then you can embarrass her, who doesn't know, our Gu family's eleven mothers in Wu County have always slandered themselves as heroes, and they dance every day to compare themselves to Liu Kun, but they will go to the battlefield to kill the enemy in the future, let her compose poems, it's too wronged for her!" ”

After that, she turned to Gu Qiniang and Gu Siniang on the side and asked, "Qi Niang, Shi Niang, you say, don't you?" ”

Gu Qiniang and Gu Siniang didn't answer, but she herself giggled, and many of the little ladies sitting there couldn't help laughing.

Gu Yu looked at her, pursed her lips slightly, and showed a slight smile in her eyes: I'm still worried that I won't have a chance to leave!

At this time, a clear and beautiful young man's voice shouted behind her: "Eleven Niang, it turns out that you are here, let me find it easily!" ”

Along with the sound came the sound of clogs, but as soon as this sound sounded, almost all the little ladies here swished back, and some even got excited and simply stood up.

The person who came was Zhang Shishilang, and thanks to his demeanor like flowing water, no matter where he went, when he appeared, it could become a landscape that could not be ignored.

"Twelve, why are you here?" A little lady couldn't help blushing and asked.

Zhang Shishilang didn't hear it, walked up to Gu Yu, grabbed her hand and said, "Ah Yu, follow me!" ”

But before the two of them had taken a few steps, Zhang Qin shouted, "Brother Twelve, what are you doing here?" Being with a concubine who doesn't know how to be polite all day long, and you're not afraid of ruining your reputation, is it possible, do you really want to take Gu Shiniang as a good lady and be your concubine? ”

Zhang Shishilang's face sank, turned to look at her and said, "What nonsense are you talking about, when did I say such a thing?" You are not only slandering the reputation of Eleven Niang, but also my reputation! ”

In this way, the twelfth brother denied in public that he wanted to take Gu Shiniang as a concubine, it was a concubine, and he would not give it to her!

Zhang Qin couldn't help but laugh secretly in her heart, and said with a smile: "Okay! Why is Brother Twelve so angry, I'm also joking! ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a voice say, "Sometimes jokes are not made casually......"

When she turned around when she heard this, she saw Gu Yu smiling at her and added, "You will be sent by heaven!" ”

Almost as soon as her words fell, her feet slipped, and the person fell steeply into the river next to her, and what made everyone inexplicably shocked was that no one touched Zhang Qin at all, Gu Shiniang and Zhang Shishilang were a few steps away from her, and this Zhang Qin fell into the river inexplicably!

Old Madam Gu's eyes widened in shock, and she looked at the struggling girl in the whirlpool in the river in a daze, her face turned pale.

Before, I only heard poetry and paintings say that Eleven Niang understands the art of Xuanyi, and she is like a god, but at this time, Old Madam Gu couldn't help but shiver, and her whole body trembled.

"Why don't you go to the river to save people!" After being stunned for a long time, she suddenly came back to her senses and shouted.

Poof! Poof!

Several of the subordinates jumped into the river, and the sisters-in-law on the shore also screamed and hid aside, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

So no one noticed that in this chaos, Gu Yu and Zhang Shishilang left here.