Chapter 69: Poetry Against Poetry
Wei Yangyang will be eighteen years old after the New Year, and her family is heartbroken about her marriage. As she grew older, this girl who had always had no heart and lungs gradually had her own troubles. For example, what happened to the position of Princess Fengquan promised to her by King Fengquan? For another example, what should she do if King Qinghe saw her hair? On the night of the princess's birthday banquet, as soon as she returned to Guiyuan, she immediately found the purple bead bracelet and looked at it repeatedly. What does King Fengquan mean by that? She will kill people, and it is unknown whether she can marry or not, how can she become a princess? Besides, it is clear that King Fengquan hates her so much, and he always keeps a straight face when he sees her, which is completely different from when the starling brother saw Sister Miao, why did he choose her to be the princess? This court battle was something that Wei Yangyang, who grew up in Haixi, didn't understand at all, she thought about it all night, and her brain hurt when she thought about it, and she didn't figure out a result.
In winter, the most important activity of the nobles of Huadu City is to go to the West Mountain to soak in hot springs. Because Wei Yangyang couldn't go out on weekdays, Shen Minghuang didn't have much chance to see her, and he couldn't go to Weiwei Alley to have a private meeting with her, so he took this opportunity to ask Song Wenru to invite Wei Yangyang to go with him. Song Wenru is a very kind girl, although she is not in the same camp as Shen Mingyuan, she can see that King Qinghe and Miss Wei are very compatible, and she is very willing to do good things. Therefore, after Shen Minghuang instructed her, she happily visited Guiyuan again and invited Wei Yangyang to go to Xishan to play together. Who knows that Wei Yangyang, who loves to play and laugh on weekdays, has a cool personality, but today is unusual, and he did not readily agree: "Wenru, go to Xishan, will you not come back for a day?" Song Wenru was in a good mood and hurriedly explained the situation to her: "Naturally, it will take a day to just take a car over, and we will live there for half a month before coming back." Oh, the emperor and queen are also going, the opportunity is very rare, and King Fengquan finally added your name to it. When Wei Yangyang heard her mention Shen Minghuang, he was even more reluctant to do anything: "Oh, thank you King Fengquan for your kindness." But I'll be indeed, I can't live with everyone, it's unlucky. I'm not going. Song Wenru looked at her, obviously wanted to go, but because she couldn't go with her bad characters, she felt sorry for her, so she comforted her: "It's okay, around Xishan Hot Spring, even winter is full of flowers." When I come back, I'll bring you a dried flower, and when you see the flower, it's like you've been there with us, okay? Wei Yangyang was very grateful and thanked her repeatedly.
When she arrived at the Qinghe Palace, Shen Mingyuan also invited her to go to Xishan with her, but she had to refuse again. This time was different from the last time she went to the paddock to shoot and hunt, last time she only participated in the hunt and did not have contact with others, and only went for a day, and then rode back to Huadu. But this time, she has to go for half a month in a row, and the emperor and empress are here, if she lives there, there is really something wrong with the emperor's body, and she and herself are inseparable. Shen Mingyuan thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of a good way to get the best of both worlds, so he had to take out a copy of "Yan's Family Motto", first briefly told her what kind of book it was, and then said to her: "After I leave, you will read this book in Guiyuan, you can read as much as you can, if there are words you don't know, don't understand the meaning, wait for me to come back, and then explain it to you." ”
Under his guidance, Wei Yangyang had finished reading the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", this "Yan's Family Motto" was obviously more difficult for her, but she was still very happy: "Well, then Your Highness, don't forget to continue to practice the two fairies, none of us can be left behind." Shen Mingyuan heard her say this, and was competitive for a while: "That's nature, how can I lose to you." He saw that Wei Yangyang was a little unconvinced and didn't dare to refute him, so he sold a pass: "If you study hard in Guiyuan and don't cause trouble, then when I come back, I will give you a small gift." ”
The gifts he gave before were all unavailable on the market. It was he who drew the drawings himself, and then found a craftsman to make the gadgets, which was very appetizing for Wei Yangyang. Hearing him say this, Wei Yangyang immediately came to his senses: "What gift?" Is it a kite I haven't seen before? When she was in Haixi, she said that she could not fly a kite, and Shen Mingyuan promised her that if she had the opportunity to come to Huadu, he would teach her to fly it. Shen Mingyuan did what she said, every time she came to the palace, as long as the weather was fine, the two of them would fly kites for a while. And the kites flown are different every time, and in the past six months, she has received twenty or thirty kites of different shapes. There's her favorite skeletal kite, a cannon kite that fires cannonballs, a Monkey King kite with a golden hoop stick that swings in the wind, and even a giant golden dragon kite that shoots flames.....
But this time, Shen Mingyuan didn't say what it was, just smiled mysteriously: "When you see it, you will naturally know." Hearing him say this, Wei Yangyang's heart was itchy. She was simply looking forward to Shen Mingyuan going to Xishan and coming back quickly, if it weren't for the fact that the other party was the king of Qinghe, she really wanted to drive him out of the Qinghe palace now. But thinking about Shen Mingyuan's condition for giving a gift was to ask her to read "Yan's Family Motto" well, she sighed sadly, for fear that when the other party came back, she would not get the gift before she finished reading it. Shen Mingyuan looked at her and asked her to study more bitterly than asking her to go to prison, so he coaxed her and said: "This book is not too difficult, you know most of the words in it, but you don't understand the meaning." But if you read a book a hundred times, you will be able to think that this is a copybook, copy the content a few times, and you will gradually understand. ”
Wei Yangyang hugged the book and whispered: "I didn't mean that, it's just that I still want to learn to compose poetry, but His Royal Highness and Wen Ru have gone to Xishan, and no one will teach me, so I can only wait for you to come back." "Learn to compose poetry?" These words came out of Wei Yangyang's mouth, which made Shen Mingyuan very surprised. Wei Yangyang looked at him with a strange expression, so he looked at him very unconvinced: "Your Highness thinks I can't learn?" Shen Mingyuan hurriedly shook his head: "Of course not, it's just that you took the initiative to learn to compose poetry, and this is the first time since I met you." I remember when I first wanted to teach you how to write, I had to say all the good things, and I begged you to learn it. He was talking about the two of them when they first met in Haixi last year, when Wei Yangyang didn't know that he was the prince and had a rather unfriendly attitude towards him. Hearing him talk about the old things again today, Wei Yangyang was also a little embarrassed. But she still said very seriously: "This time is different from the past, I just want to learn to compose poetry now." At the beginning of the month, I didn't go into the palace to celebrate Princess Mengjin's birthday, whoever lost would compose a poem. Other ladies wrote poems on the spot, and they came when they opened their mouths, but I couldn't even memorize them well, which made people laugh. I'm the daughter of King Weiyan, how can I disgrace our Wei family like this? ”
Shen Mingyuan was also there on the day she entered the palace, but he went late, and he didn't know that the nobles still had the link of composing poems. When he was in Haixi, he had personally seen the children of the Wei family regard the honor of the Wei family very seriously, and the whole family was very united. He can imagine that if he can't make a poem, if other nobles look down on Wei Yangyang, if they dare to look down on the Wei family because of this, he is afraid that Wei Yangyang will regard this as a great shame in his heart, and he must find this time back. It has been eighteen days since the princess's birthday, and he estimated that Wei Yangyang was sulking in Guiyuan every day these days, accusing himself of disgrace to the Wei family. She also came to the palace three times, but she didn't dare to speak until today, which shows that she has endured it for a long time.
Shen Mingyuan thought of this and found a good way to let her stay at home for the rest of the month to pass the time: "It's a good thing that you want to learn, I can start with the simplest to teach." The first step to learn to compose poetry is rhyme. Wei Yangyang was very happy to hear that he was willing to teach himself, but when he heard him say rhyme feet, he looked down at his feet: "Iron feet? I've heard the story of the cone and the thorn of the cantilever, the ironing of the feet, is it necessary to burn the feet before learning to compose poems? Shen Mingyuan listened to her words and laughed: "You think it's the ironing of the iron?" No, it's the rhyme of rhyme. He picked up the brush on the desk, wrote the word "rhyme" on the paper, and then pointed to the word and said, "This is the word." In our Dayang text, each word is a sound. If the rhyme is right, then it will read in a subdued and catchy tone. ”
He remembered that Wei Yangyang liked to sing, so he continued: "When you deceived Yuan Shukuo in the desert, didn't you just sing a song, I remember the lyrics are like this: The soldiers are brave, and they are afraid of the enemy; The Wei family is loyal, protect my rivers and mountains. Say goodbye to your lover and kill happily; Horse leather shroud, mother is not strange. The rhyme in the first half of this song is the two words of the enemy's gall and the mountains of the rivers and mountains, that is, the sound of "An"; And the second half of the rhyme foot is the two words happy fast and strange strange, that is, the sound of "Ai". "This children's song was learned by Haixi people since childhood, and everyone can sing it. Wei Yangyang has been able to sing since she can remember, and she doesn't even think that she has learned it, but from her mother's womb. She didn't expect that a simple children's rhyme, Shen Mingyuan could also tell such a large number of interpretations.
Shen Mingyuan saw that she didn't seem to understand, his face was still a little confused, and then he said: "Your favorite general Yue Feiyue is not only good at fighting, but also good at writing words, which can be said to be both civil and military." He once wrote a song "Man Jianghong". As for what a word card is, I'll tell you about it slowly when I get back. When Wei Yangyang heard him mention Grandpa Yue, he rushed to say, "Man Jianghong? I know I know, I will memorize this, isn't it: thirty merits and fame dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons? Also, there is a hunger for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Hun blood. The courtiers hate, and they want to break through the lack of Helan Mountain! A good song "Man Jianghong" was recited upside down by her. What she said about "being able to memorize" was just Wei Bingyue's bad idea that Wei Bingyue annoyed her when she was reading a book, and deliberately forced her to memorize poems, so that she wouldn't come to disturb herself. Wei Bingyue was not a few years older than her, and he was completely impatient with her, and he didn't tell her the ins and outs and meaning of the poem, just blindly forced her to memorize it. made her mention the previous sentence and forget the next sentence, not knowing that Yue Fei wrote this poem in an extremely sad and angry mood.
Shen Mingyuan saw that she knew Man Jianghong, so he directly explained the rhyme in it: "You see, the empty and sad cut, when to extinguish, the blood of the Huns, the words at the end of each sentence, all have the sound of "leaf", this is the rhyme. For example, on the desk, the paper of rice paper and the ruler of the ring ruler both sound "day". For another example, our Dayang is a beautiful country with bright sunshine and flowers, and it is the most powerful and wealthy country in the world. What is the same rhyme as the yang character of this big yang? Do you find ten? Wei Yangyang was stopped by him, and she crossed her fingers to think carefully about the words she knew. After thinking for a long time, she spoke: "I like to eat the lamb character of roast lamb shank." Shen Mingyuan was amused when she heard it, her first thought was roast lamb shank, which was in line with her foodie style, but he still encouraged the other party: "Well, this roast lamb leg is very right, what else?" Wei Yangyang continued to count: "There is ginger, ginger to eat." My ancestral home is Kaifeng Prefecture, and my grandfather only came to Haixi from Kaifeng when the country was founded, the township of his hometown. And His Royal Highness is the prince, the prince of the prince. The light of light, the bed of sleep at night, the window of the window, the field of the autumn soldiers on the battlefield. Then I thought about it, and I couldn't think of the tenth one. Every time she said one, Shen Mingyuan nodded in encouragement, but when she heard her say, "I think about it, and I can't think of the tenth one." Shen Mingyuan wanted to laugh again, he counted, Wei Yangyang had already found nine words, so he reminded her: "You have a big name?" Wei Yangyang was curious why he asked this, but he still replied proudly: "My surname is Wei who protects the family and the country, and I call it the Great Country." Ah, by the way, a great country! Ten words, all together! ”
Shen Mingyuan followed what she said, and casually helped her add: "A big country, we have a vast land and a long history, what is the longest?" In addition to the Great Wall, there is the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River flows down the river, out of the East China Sea, and into the vast ocean. If you want to learn to compose poetry, you have to memorize a lot of poems first, where can you find poetry? I have a lot of archives in this study. In addition to reading and practicing martial arts every day, I also have to go to the court. Above the court, the officials are busy, busy with political affairs and benefiting the people. Your elite soldiers and strong generals in the Weijia army use the military salary of the imperial court and eat the food handed over by the people, and you need to kill a lot of thieves to get the reward. Your Miss Wei is as sassy as Mulan, she doesn't like women's clothes and men's clothes, but she doesn't like to wear heavy makeup. If you study hard, you will soon be able to export like Wenru. ”
Wei Yangyang thought about it, and only then did he think of nine words; When he thought about it so casually, it was dozens of words. When he was just talking, Wei Yangyang's eyes were about to run out of his sockets and get into his head to see how his brain grew. Shen Mingyuan left her homework again: "You go home, find a different word every day, and then find twenty rhymes for each word." Kept finding me back. Wei Yangyang liked this homework and agreed with his mouth. After Shen Mingyuan left, she stayed in Guiyuan honestly, in addition to practicing every day, she was studying, and she looked forward to Shen Mingyuan coming back as soon as possible, so that she could know what kind of gift it was. In this urgent anticipation, she had long forgotten what Shen Minghuang had said.