Backstage entrances and exits are guarded. A middle-aged official who seemed to be in charge of the venue saw Su Xiaoman and greeted him. He recognized Su Xiaoman at a glance, and when he was slightly stunned, he stepped forward to greet Hou enthusiastically, asking her request, and then waved his hand to let the guard open the wooden door and respectfully invite her to enter.

Qin Wentao had no intention of going into the backstage, and men were not allowed to enter the backstage, so Su You Baishan was by his side. The three of them are at the back of the stage, and there are no performances on the stage more than ten feet high, so no one gathers. Qin Wentao leaned against the wooden wall, and Su You and Bai Shan did the same, leaning on his left and right, and their eyes fell on him. Qin Wentao looked at the two people on the left and right, and whispered, "Thank you!" Both Su You and Bai Shan held back the urge to laugh.

Seeing that Qin Wentao avoided talking about the matter with Su Xiaoman, of course they couldn't ask directly, but they deliberately didn't speak, looking at him with burning eyes. Qin Wentao pretended to look at the crowd in front of the stage casually, trying to introduce the stage of the Foreign Language Club to divert the attention of the two. The two of them were unmoved, and still created invisible pressure on Qin Wentao with a burning gaze with a strong sense of inquiry.

The three of them spent a while, Bai Shan couldn't bear it at first, and he was thick-skinned, so he said deliberately: "Young Master Wen Tao's performance just now has won Miss Su's heart, and if you work hard, Miss Su will be in the young master's bag." ”

Hearing what Bai Shan said so nakedly, Qin Wentao was a little embarrassed, and he stopped talking. He also couldn't do anything with Bai Shan, who looked curious, and Su You on the other side was the same, without hiding the eager look on his face. It seemed that he was not satisfied with the two, and they would definitely continue to knock on the side, and after endless temptations, he groaned.

There seemed to be a play, Su Bai and the two of them were in high spirits, staring at Qin Wentao.

Qin Wentao seemed to be stuck in a memory, and it took a long time before he opened his mouth to tell the story: one day in the autumn three years ago, he picked up Xintong from the school as usual, and Xintong also played on the street as usual, not wanting to go home. Qin Wentao had no choice but to let her, but because of the large number of pedestrians on the street, Qin Wentao followed closely behind her and did not let her leave her sight for a moment. Qin Xintong looked east and west, and drilled into crowded places.

Qin Wentao couldn't see her, hurriedly opened the crowd, and saw Xiao Xintong suddenly shouting "mother", and ran to a woman in white with an elegant figure on her back, and grabbed the woman's legs. Qin Wentao saw that Xintong was reckless and called people, so he hurriedly stepped forward to lead her.

The woman was also startled, looked down and found that it was a delicate little girl, so she smiled and held Xintong's little hand. Xin Tong looked at the woman expectantly and asked: Are you a mother? The woman's face was stunned, and it was the first time she was called a mother. She wanted to shake her head, but the desire in Xiao Xintong's eyes was aroused by the softness in her heart, and she couldn't bear to refuse, so she smiled and looked at Xintong.

The woman turned her head. As soon as Qin Wentao touched her eyes, he felt that his heart was hit hard, and he was deeply moved by the beautiful face of the woman with a gentle smile, and since then he has been haunted by his dreams and lingered .......

It was not difficult for the two of them to guess that the woman was Su Xiaoman. I heard him explain: There is a portrait of Xintong's mother at home, which is a white dress and a white dress, probably because Xiaoman was also wearing a white dress that day, so she was mistaken for her mother!

Seeing Qin Wentao's recollection of his acquaintance with Su Xiaoman, he was still "red with an old face", knowing that he had a deep affection for Su Xiaoman. It turned out to be the old-fashioned love at first sight. But Su You thought about it, it might be Xin Tong's call "Mother!" ", evoked her father's deep affection for Su Xiaoman.

Qin Wentao knew that Su Xiaoman was a Qing man named "Drunken Moon Building", and he came to the door several times to ask to see her, moved her with sincerity, and hired her into Qinfu Leyuan.

In the past three years, Qin Wentao has tailored for Su Xiaoman, composed poems and music, and Su Xiaoman lived up to expectations, and soon stood out in Qinfu Music Garden and took the lead. Qin Wentao succeeded in making Su Xiaoman famous in the imperial capital, but he did not make much progress in personal emotion. Su Xiaoman has respect and gratitude for him, but he has no idea of entrusting him with life......

The three were silent. Qin Wentao's face had returned to normal, and he confessed, without the intention of listening to the opinions of the two, and changed the topic: "Why did you arrive at the Vientiane Hall so late?" ”

Su You was still thinking about the previous topic, in his opinion, they got acquainted because of Xintong, and in order to impress Su Xiaoman, Qin Xintong's role could not be ignored. It seems that her father hasn't realized it yet, otherwise if she often takes Xintong to see Su Xiaoman, things may have been done a long time ago. Su You thought to the point, as if he was facing other people's feelings, he immediately became an expert.

Qin Wentao asked the two: "The cultural meeting has been going on for a while. This Wenbi is presided over by the second prince, with your knowledge, you could have been appreciated by the second prince, maybe there is a possibility of breaking the rules, you missed the opportunity, it's a pity! ”

Su You and Bai Shan glanced at each other, it turned out that the second prince was presiding, no wonder the third prince said those words just now, was he afraid that they would join the second prince? However, the two didn't want to be in the limelight at the literary meeting, and they had no intention of being officials, so if they missed it, they missed it.

Hearing Su You confess that he was delayed by being summoned by the third prince, Qin Wentao said thoughtfully: "Recently, all the princes have been extremely active, and they are moving around openly, and our Qin family is also frequently visited by several princes. The father and the uncle had different ideas, and the uncle intended to seize this rare opportunity to stand up for the second prince in order to fight for the second prince to succeed to the throne in the future and let the Qin family regain its former glory. His father disagreed, believing that it would lead the family into a political crisis, and he proposed to remain neutral, stay out of the matter, and focus on teaching, book and music management. The two of them had a very unpleasant quarrel, and our juniors were not easy to put their beaks in. I guess the Sun clan has the same troubles! ”

The brothers of the family will also disagree, and he will not be able to say anything. Su You met Qin Jiangshan before, and he couldn't see that there was a gap between their brothers, he didn't know how many brothers and sisters Qin Wentao's father had, and thought that Yao Legend had said that the four princes and Zhuo Wujue had married the women of the Qin family, so he asked Qin Wentao. Qin Wentao was stunned for a moment, and nodded: "Well, there is such a thing, they are all my father's cousins." He didn't seem to want to talk too much about family matters and didn't continue to explain.

Qin Wentao just said that all the princes are moving around and pulling forces, which should refer to the second, third and fourth princes, and I don't know how the five princes are. Su You thought of the time when he met the Five Princes in the Xiaguang Palace before, he was aggressive and not like his usual forbearance, and he felt strange at that time, and when he heard Qin Wentao's words, he aroused his doubts again.

Qin Wentao looked at Su You and said, "This time, there is a competition of literature and music and dance at the main venue of the Vientiane Palace, and it was originally arranged to Qifeng Tower. Feng Ya was the first to perform singing and dancing on stage, and was temporarily changed to Xiao Man. It should be because of the "Mulan Love" you made that she became famous and overwhelmed Feng Ya. She still sang "Mulan Love" on stage, and after careful choreography, the songs and dances were performed more skillfully and mellowly, accompanied by the fast-burning Mulan poem, which caused a sensation again. Many people who saw this song and dance for the first time reacted enthusiastically and praised it. As soon as the performance ended, Xiao Man left the Vientiane Palace, and I followed, so I didn't know what would happen to the Wenhui. Xiao Man has a good sister who will perform on the stage of this outside venue, and Xiao Man is rushing over to help. Then he wondered: "You two don't seem to be very interested in the palace cultural society?" ”

Su You brought out the unknown poet again, saying that he had used up all the poems he had heard. Qin Wentao naturally didn't believe it, he thought that the two of them didn't know about the Wenhui that was being held in the palace, so they were so contemptuous, and began to introduce them to the influence of the annual Jade Medal Spring Festival. They knew that this cultural meeting was unprecedented, and the number of participants far exceeded that of previous years, in addition to the literati of Xinhao, Yunze, and Tianchuan, there were also many people from other ethnic groups who loved the culture of the Central Plains. Together with the number of artists who were invited to participate in the competition, there were nearly 5,000 people. All countries have sent outstanding literary talents, who want to compete with Xinhao's students, at least not let Xinhao's students specialize in beauty. Therefore, the atmosphere of the literary meeting was warm at the beginning, and no one would choose to hide it, and all of them came up with carefully prepared masterpieces, good articles, good poems, good songs and songs, which appeared frequently.

Qin Wentao glanced at Su You again: "I heard my father talk about your first turmoil, this is the first word card, it is indeed exquisite." Until I left, I was still being compared. Alas! The beauty of the artistic conception of this word, the open-mindedness of the state of mind, Qin has never heard of, don't say transcendence, I can't see comparable poetry in this life! Qin was impressed! It's just that no one knows that you did it, and they all think it's from Mrs. Sun. In addition to fixing the turmoil, Miss Xiuxiu also pushed the Mulan poem to Ziyan, making people think that it was made by Ziyan. Although Miss Xiuxiu said that this is out of protection for you, it is always a little unfair. ”

Su You was overjoyed that the second master and Xiuxiu had considered it thoroughly, and he was busy thinking that he had heard this poem in the first place, and pushed it to Mrs. Sun and Miss Ziyan, and it was also his initiative to explain it to Qin Wentao.

Qin Wentao was silent for a moment, and said with a smile: "But the other poems you did yesterday have been repeatedly mentioned, I heard that Ma Qianli, Shi Ling, Wen Ren Yiming, Nan Guo Shijie and others are hyping up your other poems, you are now becoming more and more famous in the imperial capital student circle, and some people have called you Xinhao's new fourth talent, only because there are too few works to rank after the new three masters." Xuan teased: "If they knew that Mulan Ci and Dingfeng Wave were your works, they would definitely not be arranged like this." ”

Su You sweated profusely, fortunately he didn't go to the Vientiane Palace, otherwise it would be bad if he was forced to compose poems on the spot!

Qin Wentao said with great meaning: "Although my father didn't say it, I can see his expression and know that he has great appreciation for your poems. ”

Su You couldn't help but feel overjoyed, and his mind became active. Thinking of striking while the iron is hot, show his face in front of Qin Cangyue more often, and strive for more favor.

At this time, the official in charge of presiding over the cultural meeting took the stage, and he first introduced the content of the upcoming cultural and artistic programs to the audience, including quizzes, impromptu poems, calligraphy and painting arts, song and dance performances, and so on. After yesterday's batch of screening, all the performers who are qualified to perform on stage have been registered. In the corner of the stage, there are also three civilian personnel in official uniforms, sitting at the desk, with a complete set of pens, ink, paper and inkstones, who are responsible for evaluation, or recording the names of those who have performed well, and taking on the responsibility of selection. The program will be interspersed, alternating between art and .......

Qin Wentao said on the side: "It's the same in the palace, but those who are qualified to appear on the stage of the Vientiane Hall are leaders in various fields. The activities in the palace had started an hour earlier, and Su Xiaoman came here to cheer on his friends precisely because the performance was over. ”

The three of them chatted about the palace meeting, but they didn't realize that because there were too many audiences, more people who came late began to pile up on the side of the stage, and the three of them were squeezed into the corner, and they couldn't see the people on the stage, so they could only listen with their ears.

Suddenly heard the person in charge on the stage mention the name of "Yang Chan", Su You was busy listening to the introduction of this "Li Wailang", he didn't know what the official position of "Wailang" was, and heard him talk about the few people who made a few good poems in the square yesterday, Yang Chan, Xiuhua, Xiuse, Baishan, Mao Sui, these are all the names that Yang Chan wrote indiscriminately later. Li Wailang said that it was a pity that these people left early and did not invite them to the stage of tonight's Wenhui, which was a pity.

Bai Shan looked at Su You with a smile, and Su You whispered: "If you go up and report your name, you will definitely be able to get the opportunity to appear on stage." ”

There are Praetorian Guards near the stage who are in charge of order, and there are guards guarding the entrances and exits of the backstage, but they still can't withstand the crowd that gathers. The three of them had retreated to the backstage door.

After Li Wailang finished his speech, he announced the beginning of the literary meeting, and the first one was the literary examination, and Su You was taken aback when he heard the title, which was actually to express his views and suggestions on today's laws. Su You immediately thought that he knew the person who asked the question?

Thousands of people in the audience were buzzing and talking, and it was noisy, but no one came up to the stage to answer the questions. Li Wailang was not in a hurry, his eyes were shooting in the crowd, and he saw someone raising his hand in the audience, and Li Wailang beckoned him to come up and answer the question.

This person looked up and came to the stage, in his twenties, with a white face and no beard, and he should be a scholar in his attire. He was not afraid to face the gaze of thousands of people, his face was calm, he was extremely confident, his voice was loud, and he expressed his opinions eloquently.

Li Wailang didn't comment, and the clerk on the side seemed to be copying and writing, presumably recording the name of the respondent and the content of his opinion. Su You was pondering his point, and although he did not propose a solution to the separation of powers, as Su You did, he also criticized the current law for being too harsh and hurtful. Hearing his name, Su You remembered that he had seen it in Qifeng Tower, and he was the first person to take out the article on current affairs, surnamed Qiao, and it turned out that his name was Qiao Shaoyang.

With Qiao Shaoyang taking the lead, some people came to power one after another. Su You listened to the opinions of the people behind him, and there was not much new. In contrast, although Qiao Shaoyang's views cannot make people hear, they are also decent.

After the literary examination, there was a calligraphy competition, and first Li Wailang wrote a couplet that suited the scene: "The spring breeze blows the green of thousands of mountains, and the southern swallows return to the spring of ten thousand households." Although most of the audience are ordinary people, there is no shortage of poor literati. Suddenly, there were people who knew the goods, and they applauded, mainly because of their good intentions. Then many people enthusiastically took the stage, and more than 100 people came to the stage one after another to write couplets, which were like couplets, and they felt that they were performing calligraphy. Su You and the three of them couldn't see it, but just listened to the comments of Li Wailang and the audience.

Li Wailang is very good at controlling the atmosphere, guiding the audience to participate in the evaluation, and the scene is extremely active. Ten Mobao were selected and commended, and three clerks carefully recorded Yinglian and the author's name.

When the people who came to the stage stepped down, they stood close to the stage, and the people who were standing at the front had to step back, which attracted more people to follow suit, and most of them took the stage just to occupy the front position. Li Wailang did not stop this kind of stealing of planes, his job is to enliven the atmosphere of the scene, and if you have the ability, you all come to the stage.