Chapter 12 The Polo Arena Becomes Famous
On the way to the poetry club, Yan Jingwen mentioned the origin of this poetry club to Li Hao. Originally, the polo field was only a place for the children of the official family to play polo and hammer pills, and later it was the students of Qingtan Academy, Ganquan Academy, Chongya Academy and other colleges who often came, and they always liked to earn a win or lose on weekdays.
Yan Jingwen said: "Nowadays, in order to earn a win or lose, the students of several academies are constantly competing with each other in the poetry meeting. I will take you here today only for you to see and see, but you must not learn such a style. ”
"Of course, the poetry club is not without good, and now Mr. Yongshu is in Yangzhou. I heard that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival will be held in Pingshan Hall poetry meeting, with the name of Mr. Yongshu, it is inevitable that the great sages will gather, it is estimated that the talents of Manyangzhou will gather together, it must be a grand event, and then you may be able to go with the teacher to see the world, and you will be satisfied. ”
Li Hao listened to Yan Jingwen's nagging all the way, and nodded his head again and again. But in my heart, I thought, then this is the place where I can be in the limelight. After all, I have more than 1,000 years of accumulation of literati in the past dynasties, and I dare not say that I will compete with everyone, after all, even if I rob other people's poems, they will not be able to write anything else. After all, talent learning in the abdomen is fundamental, but Yangzhou in the Song Dynasty did not produce famous poets, so they are all some local melons and cracked dates, which are not worth mentioning. In the future, find an opportunity to slowly beat your fame, not to mention that like Liu Yong, wherever there is a well water drinking place, you can sing willow words. But I can't live up to the hard work and talent of many poets in later generations, and I have to make a name for them here. I can't help but feel a little more responsible.
I didn't hear an important message that I had just missed. At this time, I was almost at the venue of the poetry meeting, and I had not yet entered the room, but I heard the chaos inside. When I entered, I saw that the crowd inside was obviously divided into three groups, and some of them were familiar to them, and they should have seen them in the academy. Sure enough, after Yan Jingwen came in, he also took this one with him.
When he walked to the back of the line, Yan Jingwen asked one of them: "Brother Wu, what kind of situation is this, even if you win or lose, it won't be so clear-cut." ”
When the benevolent brother saw that it was Yan Jingwen, he said: "Isn't this the Mid-Autumn Festival poem going to make trouble." Originally, it was okay, but when the Mid-Autumn Festival Poetry Club was mentioned later, Zhang Zijian of Ganquan Academy took it upon himself to say that the people in our academy have no poetry talents, so don't go to the poetry club to be embarrassed, so naturally we can't agree. So the people who were in a hurry gambled and wanted to make a poem that suited the occasion. When it was our turn, the one drawn was a polo theme. Then he looked helpless.
Yan Jingwen listened to it, and understood it in seconds, so he said: "It's nothing, if you can't do it, you can't do it, in the past, everyone had a time when they couldn't do it, what is this." ”
"Yes, the truth is this, it was an ordinary gambling fight, it was nothing more than losing some of the four treasures of the study, but they insisted that we take a copy of the Academy's Book of Filial Piety that Fan Wenzhenggong had commented on, not to mention whether we could get it, and it was impossible to give it to him." Wu Wei said.
After hearing this, Yan Jingwen also frowned and said, "How can you use this thing to gamble." ”
"We didn't, at the beginning it was just a normal fight, and we didn't mention this book, we just said that we each took a book from the academy as a bet, who would have thought that they would ask for that book. As a result, we were forced into a dead end, and now that I think about it, they are afraid that they have premeditated it and are waiting for us to take the bait. Wu Wei spoke very resentfully.
At this time, Li Hao basically understood, and immediately prepared to go out to solve the siege, after all, reciting poems with propositions is a strong point. As a result, before he could start speaking, Yan Jingwen went up to reason with the other party first, but unfortunately the other party was intentional, so he naturally wouldn't let go easily, but his words made Yan Jingwen angry.
At this moment, Li Hao walked out and said, "Then I'll try it." ”
When everyone heard the voice, they gathered their eyes and looked at it, and after seeing people, they caused a burst of laughter, and one of them said: "There is really no one in your academy, such a yellow-mouthed child, they have all brought it over, will the poetry be endowed with you, just come out and say this big thing." ”
After hearing this, Li Hao said: "My talent is not as profound as my senior brother and my classmates in the academy, but it is still better than some people who do not learn and do not know how to do it, isn't it related to polo." I just came up with a song, and I'm going to give you some insight. ”
Then he recited aloud: The soft red ten miles are as flat as palms, and the horse's hooves are light and silent when stepping on the sand. The golden robe and jade belt Wuling'er, the flying horse hitting the ball beads as a reward. The body is light and the horse swims the dragon, and the color battle is low and a little red. Suddenly the stars flew into the clouds, and the saddle returned to the sleeve to receive the spring breeze. Sometimes the fragrant dust rolls everywhere, and the poplar flowers flutter peach pollen. The nest won the smile and returned, and the crescent moon swirled lightly. A life of delicate and disgusted with the sky, I don't believe that there is an upside down in the world. But the flowers are good, and the court has been playing since every year. ”
After speaking, he looked up at the sky with his negative hand, and he wanted to pretend to be a grandmaster. It's a pity that there is a strand of beard missing, otherwise stroking the beard and looking at the sky with his hands in his hands will look more like everyone's demeanor.
After everyone listened, the students of Qingtan Academy raised their eyebrows, glanced at Li Hao, and began to refute the other group of academy people, saying that they were delusional and something. However, Yan Jingwen's eyes were full of surprise when he looked at Li Hao after hearing this, and he felt a lot of surprises.
Just when everyone thought that the matter was over, Yan Jingwen planned to leave with Li Hao first. But that Zhang Zijian came out again: "The seven-word rhythm has never been orthodox, how can it be regarded as the right one." And such a child, who knows if he heard it from someone else, and today he came here to impostor. If you can't redo it, it will be hard to convince the people, and you will still lose today. "Then their group of people began to echo it, and they made everyone in Qingtan Academy angry, and even a good-tempered person like Yan Jingwen couldn't help but retort;" What is the reason, although the seven-word law is small, but it is not for nothing that everyone has done in ancient times, and today you come to deny it, it is not that you are the king of heaven and Lao Tzu, and what you say is what it is. ”
As a result, the frying on both sides became more intense. At this time, Li Hao said: "Actually, it's not difficult for me to make another song, but if you ask me to do it, I'm afraid you don't have this face in this empty word." Why don't we make a bet? ”
Zhang Zijian asked, "How to bet."
Li Hao said: "I'm making an article on the topic of polo, if I do it, what value can you lose to me." If I can't do it, you'll win, whatever. ”
Zhang Zijian sneered and said: "What is the reason, if I lose, I will give you a baby, and if you lose, it will be a little ridiculous."
Li Hao said with a smile: "Because we have already won, we can't ask me to admit it because of your strong words, you don't have such a big face." ”
At this time, a person next to Zhang Zijian said: "I think you can't do it, so I found a lot of excuses to push it." ”
"If you can't do it, you will know if you gamble, if you don't bet, then we will leave now, and it is really disgusting to stay with people like you." With that, Li Hao turned around and pulled Yan Jingwen to prepare to leave.
"Okay, I'll bet with you. As long as you do it, I will lose. Zhang Zijian said.
"Okay, then let's determine what the bet is, I don't believe in your character, it's better to say it first, it's not good for everyone to save you from paying the bill."
This really stimulated Zhang Zijian, and said: "I have a set of good four treasures of the study, lake pen, Hui ink, Duan inkstone, and rice paper, so I use it as a bet." ”
Li Hao listened, turned his head and asked in a low voice, "Are these things good?" ”
Yan Jingwen really felt strange when he heard it. But he still said: "It's worth a lot of money." ”
Li Hao said: "Okay, since that's the case, I'll bet with you." Then he began to pace and pretend to be contemplative, but he looked at Yan Jingwen and them in a hurry. Zhang Zijian and the others thought that Li Hao was pretending to fool them at the beginning, and they were just about to mock them.
I heard Li Hao speak: Yule Qianjin Horse, carved Seven Treasure Balls. Fei Fei was shocked, and he was awakened to the stars. After three victories, the first prize is passed on. Qingyun followed the foot, swirling around the east end of the hall. There is no problem with this five-character poem, this time you should be willing to gamble and lose.
After speaking, he turned his head to leave, but finally turned around and said, remember to pack the lake pen, Hui ink, Duan inkstone, and rice paper to the academy.
Then Yan Jingwen also followed Li Hao out, and said as he walked: "I really didn't expect my junior brother to have such literary talent, but my junior brother is too reckless to do things today, if you lose, it really won't end well." ”
Li Hao said: "If I hadn't thought about it earlier, I would definitely have won, and I wouldn't have gambled with them." In fact, it's nothing, he has to pick thorns and ask for his own hardships. And I deliberately left directly, just to prevent him from finding a reason to provoke, in fact, I didn't expect them to be so shameless, otherwise if they really left, I don't believe that he could force other classmates to nod and admit defeat, and then it will be over with a reason. ”
"I didn't expect that you are not very old, but you still have a lot of eyes" I only heard Yan Fu's voice coming from the side.