As soon as this young man in white appeared, many people recognized his identity.
In the third year of Hongde's reign, there was Du Shen, a famous talented scholar in the capital.
Although Du Shen was not yet a Jinshi, his poetry spread throughout Jiankang City, and he was regarded as the first poetic talent in the new dynasty.
The so-called New Dynasty refers to the Hongde Dynasty since Emperor Hongde came to the throne.
Du Shen took the provincial examination in the third year of Hongde, but he did not take part in the examination the following year. According to his own statement, if he had participated in the examination in the fourth year of Hongde, he would have been a second-class Jinshi at most, so he was ready to polish it again. In three years, I have to take the exam in Hongde in seven years to try my best.
Because of this arrogant statement, Du Shen's reputation in Jiankang City has increased a lot, and he basically has several masterpieces every year. He can be regarded as the most popular talent in Jiankang City in recent years.
At this moment, Du Caizi stood on the stage, looked around, took a deep breath, and began to recite poetry in a melodious tone.
"Qin Huai is speechless and talks about the setting sun."
"Every house looks red when facing the water."
After reciting these two lines of poetry, Du Shen looked around at the crowd again and continued: "The spring breeze doesn't know how beautiful the beauty is, but still sings happily around the boat."
Du Caizi's state was a bit fanatical.
He finished reading this poem, or this paragraph, in a very excited tone.
He stood on the stage of Xiaoxiang Tower, still looking up at Pei Yuan, Vice Minister Pei, and then at the dignitaries present, with a loud voice: "Originally, Du had a clumsy work, but after hearing this poem, Du's work was It’s so unbearable, this poem has won my heart!”
He looked around, his voice heavy.
"A period of time has passed. No matter the princes in the court or the princes here, they only dare to chant the wind and moonlight on the Qinhuai River, and they don't dare to look north at all!"
"Today's spring breeze on the Qinhuai River, unaware of the shame of crossing south during the Jiazi period, is still blowing on the painted boats. However, we Chen people are not ignorant of the spring breeze. We should all bear in mind the changes in the Jiazi period!"
After saying that, Du Caizi spoke in a deep voice.
"Unless the rivers and mountains are restored, Du will never enter the Qinhuai River fireworks place again!"
After saying this, he was about to walk away.
On the main stage, Mr. Pei frowned and said nothing.
Another official from the Ministry of Rites stood up. He looked at Du Shen and shouted in a low voice: "Du Shen, the imperial court has its own ideas. How dare you discuss the imperial court in the grand meeting of Shangyuan even if you don't have an official status!"
"Do you want to use poetry to disrupt government?"
This hat is very big.
But Du Shen was not afraid. He turned back to look at the official of the Ministry of Rites and held his head high: "Du said before that this poem was not written by me, but it was exactly what I wanted, so he read it at the Shangyuan Poetry Conference. Come out, I am from Jiankang and live in Jiankang City. If Mr. Qian feels that what I have done violates the national law, I will ask the Jiankang Prefecture to come to my house tomorrow to pick him up!"
After saying that, Du Caizi walked away.
After Du Shen left, the atmosphere at the Shangyuan Poetry Club became awkward.
The originally very lively event became difficult to hold after Du Shen made such a fuss.
After all, among the people living in Jiankang City today, especially the nobles, seven or eight out of ten have ancestors who came from the south. Du Shen mentioned this matter to his face. If they can continue to "entertain" , then it would be a slap in the face of the ancestors.
Ever since, after Du Shen left, people started to leave.
Qian Zhong, the Minister of Etiquette, first glanced at his superior, then bowed his head slightly to Minister Pei and said, "Sir, how do you think this matter will end today?"
Pei Yuan was sitting in the main seat, his face a little unsightly.
After being silent for a while, he snorted: "It's just a person with a direct invitation name. It is not uncommon in all dynasties. There is no one who has not won the imperial examination. On weekdays, he only writes and writes at home. How can he understand the government and the current situation? "
"Short-sighted!"
After saying this, Minister Pei also stood up and walked away with a look of displeasure on his face.
Seeing that his boss was gone, Mr. Qian couldn't stay long, so he followed Mr. Pei and left Xiaoxiang Tower.
For a moment, the atmosphere at the scene became awkward.
However, the owner of Xiaoxiang Tower still had some background after all. Although the two bosses of the Ministry of Etiquette and some noble people left one after another, the Shangyuan Poetry Club continued to be held, but the atmosphere became a bit awkward and was far less lively than before.
Just when Du Shen was making a big fuss at the Yuan Poetry Society, Prince Shen Yi was also on the banks of the Qinhuai River.
In the afternoon, he met Gu Changshi at the Chief Secretary of the Jin Palace. After talking for a while, he left. In the evening, his father Shen Zhang gave him more than ten taels of silver and asked him to come to the Shangyuan Poetry Society. Take a turn and relax.
Although Shen Yi didn't like to join in the fun and didn't plan to attend any poetry festival to become famous, he was still interested in going out for shopping and "inspecting the market." In the evening, he took Xu Fu to the bank of the Qinhuai River.
At this time, the Qinhuai River has been turned into a "river of lights" by countless river lanterns. Many girls squatted by the river in groups and put the river lanterns with their wishes written on them into the water.
Most of the girls putting up lanterns are fifteen or sixteen years old, which is the age of Sichuan. Therefore, many of these river lanterns contain love things, and many of them have written the first half of a love poem, hoping to pick it up. The man who came to the river lamp completed the second half of the sentence.
In the lower reaches of the Qinhuai River, there are many naughty teenagers who are using hooks to hook the river lanterns, and then take out the girls' good wishes from the river lanterns. Then several young boys are passing it around happily, and some people think they have caught the girl they like. He held the note tightly in his arms, refusing to let anyone snatch it away.
Shen Yi and Xu Fu were walking along the Qinhuai River. They looked at the river lanterns along the river and the boys and girls playing and playing. They couldn't help but smile and said, "If such a prosperous scene lasts for a long time, it's not a bad thing. It's just that It’s a pity that such scenery can only be seen in the Jiangzuo area.”
Xu Fu followed Shen Yi. After hearing what Shen Yi said, he said, "Master, don't you want to guess lantern riddles?"
"No guess, no guess."
Shen Yi smiled hoarsely: "Those are the things we brought girls here to guess. Why are we guys going to guess?"
"We'd better investigate whether Jiankang's business is good or not, that's the serious thing."
Xu Fu followed Shen Yi, hesitated for a moment, and then bowed his head to Shen Yi and said, "Young master, you brought me here that day. After you left, I went to the Qinhuai River to have a look, and saw the scene of the Qinhuai River in the evening, and the young master The poem I recited was exactly the same, so I couldn’t help but recite it…”
Shen Yi was a little surprised, looked back at Xu Fu, and said in a joking tone: "What? Could it be that Xiao Xu, you are the son of destiny, and the big shots listened to your poems, and want to promote you?"
"That's not true..."
Xu Fu shook his head and said: "On that day, there was a young man standing next to me. He seemed to be a little crazy. After listening to me reading the last two sentences, he came up and insisted that I read the whole poem to him. After I read it, he also said that he would take me to some Shangyuan poetry meeting..."
At this point, Xu Fu scratched his head and said, "I heard that there are many bad people and liars in Jiankang City, so I ignored him and ran away."
After listening to what Xu Fu said, Shen Yi lowered his head and thought about it. Then he didn't pay much attention to it. He shook his head slightly and said, "Since you didn't leave your name, there should be nothing wrong with you. It's just a poem that was copied."
Shen Qilang said calmly.
"I don't lack this thing either."
(End of chapter)
