"That's exactly what Lord Yu said." A young official said, "Ladies and gentlemen, why don't we make poems on the theme of the scenery in front of us, and use them to make a strong wine?" ”

"Exactly." Other officials responded.

Cao Jingcheng was touted by his colleagues for a while, and it was when he was on the rise that he looked at the lotus flowers outside, and then read slowly: "The blue lotus is a quiet spring, and the morning sun is bright and fresh." Autumn flowers are green water, dense leaves and green smoke. [Note 1]

Han Wei, who was sitting not far away, nodded, but he did not give praise at the first time like most officials in the pavilion. Cao Jingcheng's two lines of poetry are just simple Yongjing, and there is no idea of borrowing things and words in it, although it is done well, but it has not yet reached the level where Han Wei can high-five.

Shi Cheng sat on Han Wei's right hand, watching the ministers in the pavilion enthusiastically show their poetic talents to their colleagues, and he couldn't hear the good or bad in the poems of these ministers of the Western Desert, so Shi Cheng, who was quite bored, just sat low-key and didn't insert a word, while his heart was thinking about how to deal with the lord.

But before Shi Cheng could come up with a suitable plan, Yu Yuan actually came directly to the door.

The superintendent finished drinking the hot wine in the cup, smiled kindly, and then suddenly said to his colleagues in the pavilion: "The literary style of my Western Desert literary world is inherited from the Great Wei, but it is a family of its own. Mr. Wei Shilin once praised that there is a wind of plugging the east of the river. ”

Seeing that all his colleagues were nodding, Yu Yuan said with a smile: "The sages have clouds: the sea is inclusive of all rivers, and the literature is passed down through the ages. Zhang Huai of Miyun Kingdom traveled all over the countries of Hanyue Continent when he was young, and finally gathered the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought to become a generation of literary masters. This is the principle of integration and eclecticism. If you want to go further on the road, in addition to having Jingcheng's humility and studiousness, you must also have the heart of learning from others. ”

After Han Wei heard this, he couldn't help but shake his hands, he could already guess what Yu Yuan was going to do next. Han Wei quietly glanced at Shi Cheng, who was staring intently at the wine glass in front of him, and suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart.

"After all, I'm still coming for the Stone Immortal Master." Han Wei thought secretly in his heart, he felt a little headache, "But for a great power like Shi Immortal Master, it is definitely not a problem to make a few poems, but I am afraid that this Yu Yuan will be endless, entangled......"

Sure enough, Yu Yuan looked over at Shi Cheng and said with a smile: "I heard that the style of the Chita poets has always been wide open and unrestrained. I have been studying how I have been unable to find a decent collection of Western Continent anthologies. Since Shi Xianshi is a guest from the Western Continent, I wonder if I intend to write a poem about this beautiful scenery, so that I can open my eyes? ”

Since Yu Yuan had already attacked, Shi Cheng could no longer concentrate on staring at the wine glass. He raised his head, smiled, and said, "Since our Chita ancestors established the first tribe on the Cimu River, the descendants of the steppes have lived in their homeland for more than six thousand years. Although the literary scene of the Union Khanate has indeed been unsatisfactory in the past few decades, how can there have been no decent poets in the long history, perhaps because the Western Desert is too far away, and all the anthologies of the Western Continent have not been transmitted here. As for Fu Shi, Shi is just a seeker who likes pharmaceutical alchemy, and he has no talent in poetry. There is a specialization in the art industry, and you are in front of you, and you really don't dare to be clumsy. ”

Yu Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "The immortal master's words are wrong, if you don't learn the sage's learning, how can you talk about pursuing the Great Dao?" Since the immortal master is a seeker, how can he be like a three-legged cat on the rivers and lakes? Or don't be too modest. ”

"Yes, immortal masters don't have to be modest."

"Above the poetry club, you should meet friends with literature, how can there be a reason for someone to drink silently?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't blame the stone immortal master for shirking it, if the scholars of the Chita people do the work of the bookkeepers or the laborers, then they will naturally be first-class. But if they want to make poems, it can only be 'tongue like a tree in the depths of winter, and eyes like a copper bell in Yuefu'. ”

As soon as these words came out, the inside and outside of the pavilion were immediately filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Han Wei shook his head slightly, looking down on these officials a little in his heart. He thought to himself: "It's really good to read the scriptures, and I don't think about it, how can the silver medal Dan Master of the Pharmacist Chamber of Commerce be an ordinary cultivator." Now that the persuasion is so urgent, I am afraid that I will not be able to get off the stage if I am slapped in the face for a while. ”

The officials in front of him were still urging, and some cynical voices also came into his ears, Shi Cheng's heart was not too angry, but he felt quite helpless, he ran to this occasion with a shy face just to probe Yu Yuan's reality, and it was best to have a preliminary contact with the ministers of the Western Desert Kingdom, but he didn't expect that before his ass was hot, Yu Yuan took the initiative to attack and hit him by surprise without talking about martial virtue.

"It seems that you still have to drag the poems." Shi Cheng thought, "Although I can't compare with these people, I should still be able to show my hand." Donghua also said that my poems are quite interesting, and he won't praise people casually after all. ”

"It's okay for them to pick and choose, it's a good thing to be horizontal and vertical......" Shi Cheng thought as he looked out at the pool outside, only to see a pleasant fat toad lying on a lotus flower not far from him.

"Uh-huh......."

Yu Yuan, Cao Jingcheng and the other officials saw that Shi Cheng had fallen into thought, so they no longer bothered, but sat down with a smile and waited for Shi Cheng's masterpiece.

Soon, they heard a hearty chanting.

Shi Cheng gently patted the railing and read, "Who is afraid of the toad in late autumn?" The mist is rolling, and the hot birds are flying. The pool of soup should come from the ground, and ten holes should rise together. ”

Thinking of this, Shi Cheng was a little unsatisfied, thought about it slightly, and then continued to read in a complicated gaze: "The lotus fire red pond is clear, and the late autumn wonders are difficult to find." The fresh lotus root should be picked all over the pocket, and a mouthful of sweetness will be fragrant. ”

Wu Neng's eyes widened, and the wine glass in Han Wei's hand had already fallen to the ground.

……

In the Heart Nourishing Hall in the Western Desert Palace, Han Qu, the king of the Western Desert, looked at the map on the long table in front of him, his brows furrowed, and the privy envoy Cao Ming sat quietly on the side, with no expression on his face. The two didn't speak, and they seemed to be waiting for something.

But soon, a small chamberlain walked in quickly, and after saluting, he respectfully handed a copy of the excerpt to Han Qu, "The lord of the country, it is the excerpt of Taiwei Zhang, and it is said that it is related to the military situation on the border." ”

"I know, bring it to me." Han Qu couldn't wait to take the fold over, he read it carefully, and his brows became more and more wrinkled, "You go down first, the widow has something important to discuss with Cao Shumi." ”

Xiao Nei replied and hurriedly retreated.

Han Qu sighed, then handed the fold to Cao Ming and said, "Cao Qing, take a look." ”

Cao Ming took the fold and looked at it carefully, he directly skipped the honorifics and clichés in the first paragraph, and started from the second paragraph.

"It has been proved that there are a total of 14 airships that have invaded China's border before, including eight Xinghuo, two Tianhuo, and four Fenghuo, and Dongdankou also has four old-fashioned Xinghuo ......."

Cao Ming's face finally changed, and he said with some uneasiness: "Since the end of the four-year war, this is the biggest move of the Western Barbarians. ”

Han Qu said: "But Your Majesty doesn't need to worry about this, the Southern Wilderness Front Army left behind by the Xiban in Dongdan has not made any other movements at present, according to some intelligence analysis from the Tiqi Division, the two thousand troops of the Cheta stationed in the Nanyang Islands do not seem to have any signs of leaving to Dongdan." ”

In the military system of the Union Khanate, the army consisted of brigades and brigades and battalions. However, the Cold Moon countries have always regarded the Chita as foreign barbarians, so when they translated, they liked to use the barbarian army's thousand-man and hundred-man teams to correspond to brigades and battalions.

Cao Ming said slowly: "Your Majesty, the actions of the Chita people a few days ago should be their revenge for the Great Wei to increase troops to the Wanyu Islands a few days ago. In addition, the visit of the Yuanliu City Lord to our country may have also made Xiban feel the pressure. However, for the time being, it seems that they are still calm and restrained, and do not intend to really escalate the situation. ”

Han Qu snorted coldly in distraught: "Hmph, no matter what they think, if they have a lot of help for the righteous and little help for the unjust, Xiban can't think about how a person like the Yuanliu City Lord can be with them." Look, the collapse of the Tyrant's Kingdom is a matter of time, and all barbarians who are enemies of the enlightened world will be completely eradicated sooner or later! ”

Cao Ming echoed: "What the king said is very true. However, despite the fact that the Chita have not made any substantial strategic moves in the Southern Wilderness recently, judging from the current indications, it is still possible that the Xiban will gradually reverse the policy of recuperation and recuperation that they have been implementing for twenty years in the future, and this sign has now appeared. ”

Han Qu looked at the map on the table and said, "With Da Wei here, it will be fine." ”

"Exactly." Cao Ming looked at Han Qu's thin body and said with some concern, "Now that the weather is getting colder and colder, the king still needs to pay more attention to his body, don't worry too much about these things." ”

"Thank you Cao Qing for your kindness, the widow will pay more attention."

The two of them discussed some more military affairs, and then Cao Ming left in a hurry, and he still needed to go to the governor's palace to meet with the governor of the Southern Wilderness of the Great Wei Empire.

Not long after Cao Ming left, an internal guard ran in and whispered in Han Qu's ear: "Your Majesty, there is new news from the brothers who are staring at that Xilu Dan Master......

After listening to the internal guard's report, Han Qu, who had a gloomy face, almost didn't laugh, the expression on his face was very strange, and he asked, "Are you sure?" Is this really the poem that Danshi made at the poetry meeting? ”

"Your Majesty, what your subordinates said is true, we have people in the Cao Mansion, and this news has also been confirmed by Lord Dutong who is sitting in front."

"Looks like I'm looking down on him." Han Qu said with a smile: "I didn't expect that my uncle's vision of looking at people has regressed to such a state. ”

The internal guard who reported the news did not dare to talk about the internal affairs of the Wang family, so he did not answer, but bowed his waist respectfully.

Han Qu let out the stuffiness in his chest and continued to ask, "And then?" Does that Dan Master surnamed Shi still have the face to stay in Qinghe Pond now? ”

The inner guard replied: "Your Majesty, speaking of which, that Ximan's face is thick enough. After being ridiculed by Yu Supervisor, he was embarrassed to lie in the Qinghe Pond with a shy face, and he didn't look at what Sheng Degong's face had become, and now he found a conversation again, and was talking about health preservation in front of all the adults. ”

"Oh? The way to regimen? Han Qu sat down, took a sip of ginseng tea, and then said to himself: "But I have to say that that Western barbarian seems to have some experience in medical science, and Hecheng's illness was cured by him so quickly." ”

[Note 1]: From the twenty-sixth poem of Li Bai's "Ancient Style" group of poems, the original poem has some emotions that are not encountered by Huai Cai, which is incompatible with Cao Jingcheng's spring breeze, so only the part of Yongjing is quoted here.