The coachman stood on the driver's seat and glanced forward, sighed melancholy, and discussed with Ning Wuchang: "Sir, there are carriages belonging to rich officials in front of us. We don't dare to squeeze into this calf carriage even if we can't squeeze in." Squeeze forward, please go over there, and I'll give you half the fare."
"good."
Ning Wuyan paid the fare, and Yunfei and he carried two boxes and plunged into the crowd.
"Give way! Please give way!"
"Ning Wuyan, who goes to the perfume shop for secret fragrance, came to give 200 bottles of perfume to Ye Changlong, the young owner of Ye's Incense Shop!"
The high-spirited shouts should have been drowned out by the heated discussion.
But when people heard the two keywords "perfume" and "Ning Wuhuang", wherever Ning Wuhuang went, there was silence.
The men all stared at his face, checking with friends around him to see if this was the Poet Immortal who was widely known in Jinling.
The women were all staring at his box. If the crowd hadn't blocked the way, Ning Wuyan saw the way their eyes were shining and knew that they would have rushed to buy it all.
This made Ning Wuyan feel that if he set up a stall nearby to sell perfume today, the remaining 700 bottles might not be enough to grab it.
Of course.
This kind of promotional method can only be thought of.
The person holding the gathering of talents today is the Prince of Jin's favorite son, the Young Marquis of Zhou An.
Business has a way of doing business.
Selling perfume can make you stand out in this venue, but you can't overshadow it.
In business, the emphasis is on harmony and wealth.
Unless Mr. An Xiaohou, like the Ye family, thinks he is a soft persimmon and wants to flatten him and make him a round person.
Otherwise, there is no need to offend the King of Jin faction for a little profit.
This is why he chose to show up only after the gathering started, even though he knew that traveling with Miss Shen and the others would be a sure success.
"Ning Shixian, you're finally here!"
"The questions on the first floor have been announced, and many people have entered the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. If you come later, there won't even be room to stand."
"Master Ning, you only need to compose a poem to enter the first floor. If you walk faster, you must compose a quatrain that will amaze everyone and frustrate the spirit of the talents from other states in Jiangnan Province!"
Ning Wuyan looked at the person who spoke, it was Lin Xuezi who was defeated by his subordinates in front of the Liu Mansion that day.
He had both hands occupied and couldn't gesture, so he simply answered loudly from ten meters away from the crowd: "Brother Lin, don't worry!"
"It's not just the talented people from Jiangnan Road. If I become ruthless, I won't even let the talented people from Jinling Mansion go!"
Just hearing the previous sentence, all the students from Jinling Prefecture present got excited and imagined rushing up to the fourth floor under the leadership of Ning Wuchang, the Poet Immortal.
When the last sentence came out, everyone looked at each other and felt that they were out of touch.
Today's Gathering of Talents is a personal war, and it is indeed narrow-minded to engage in regional differences.
Even though many students bowed to their classmates and friends who came together, they kept apologizing: "Brother, I have finished the poem on the first floor. I won't wait for you, I will take the first step."
For a while.
The originally tense atmosphere among state capitals disappeared instantly.
Instead, the young men are working hard and vowing to compete with everyone.
Ning Wuyan immediately felt that the hostile looks towards him from the students from other prefectures were much reduced.
This is right.
"Your goal is to answer the questions, not to use me as a target."
Ning Wuyang and Yunfei had already arrived at the gate of Xiaoxiang Pavilion.
There are two pieces of red silk hanging on the two-foot-wide door.
The rules for entering the Xiaoxiang Pavilion are written on the left.
Each floor has different questions to choose from. There is no limit to the number of people who can go upstairs, but each person only has one chance to answer the questions. Whether they can go upstairs will be reviewed and judged by the judges on each floor.
It is forbidden to use old words or old words to write articles on topics such as poems and policy discussions. Once discovered, they will be settled in the future and permanently expelled from the literary world.
The names and official positions of the judges on each floor are written on the right side.
Ning Wuyang took a closer look and found that Ye Tongpan was on the third floor.
Entering the first floor of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, which is the title of the lobby, there are four characters hanging on the long blue brick wall on both sides of the door.
From right to left, in addition to the four large characters "Climb the tower and climb high", "Yangtze River and Yellow River", "Northern Saibei and Jiangnan" and "Three Mountains and Five Mountains" respectively, there is also a corresponding line of small characters.
"You can compose poems and lyrics, but they need to be related to the scenery and emotions, and you cannot be partial to inscriptions or lyrics."
After reading these questions, Ning Wuhao felt that they had the flavor of propositional composition.
The scene range is very large, and the selection is even broader than the "Four Friends of Suihan" originally released by Ji Jin.
But similarly, the larger the landscape, the more difficult it becomes to integrate the author's feelings into the poems.
It's not difficult to write, but if you can't make people feel the same when you comment on it, it's better not to write it.
Ning Wuyan looked around when he saw the students who had just happily bid farewell to their classmates to answer questions and walked back dejectedly, covering their faces with their sleeves.
The Ye family's carriage was nowhere to be seen.
Where is Ye Changlong?
He has not forgotten that his primary purpose today is to deliver goods.
How many floors you go up is secondary.
"Ning Wu is fine! This young master is here!"
While Ning Wuchang was still looking for the consignee, Ye Changlong's triumphant voice came from the lobby of Xiaoxiang Pavilion.
Follow the sound.
Ye Changlong and Liu Qingfang, two old acquaintances, were sitting in the elegant seats in the middle of the lobby, drinking tea and admiring the bustling crowd outside.
Ning Wuyang was not surprised to see Liu Qingfang entering the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.
Although Liu Qingfang has problems with her character, her reputation as a talented girl from Jinling is not earned for nothing. She does have some talent.
But Ye Changlong was sitting in the lobby drinking tea when there were only a dozen people in the lobby at the beginning of the question. Then he thought about the fact that Ye Tongpan wanted to miss the question for him, and he didn't understand anything.
If you miss the question in advance, you can spend money to write it.
Of course it’s understandable that someone who followed the King of Jin would take the opportunity to become famous and get some benefits.
Anyway, it was Mr. An Xiaohou who planned this matter. Whether the talent he selected was true or false had nothing to do with him, and he had no intention of exposing Ye Changlong's true strength.
Ning Wuyan walked to the door and showed the box in his hand to Ye Changlong.
"Ye Changlong, I brought you two hundred bottles of perfume."
"We agreed to deliver it, but if you don't deliver it to me, can you ask for delivery?" Ye Changlong's buttocks seemed to be glued to the chair, motionless, and the folding fan in his hand flickered around the door: "Since you are a delivery person, You must deliver the perfume to me. If you miss the delivery time, it is considered fraud, and you can just wait to compensate me one hundred thousand taels of silver!"
Mentioning the word "perfume", Ye Changlong's eyes flashed with greed.
When he smelled the fragrance of Ji Jin and Shen Youchu, he knew that Ning Wuhuang had really hit his luck.
Not only did he suddenly possess the ability to write poetry, but he also didn’t know where he got the secret perfume recipe that could crush the incense business.
Such a good secret recipe should belong to the Ye family!
"Mr. Ning, my lord asked me to bring you a message."
At this time, a young man squeezed in next to Ning Wuyan, who was Ye Tongpan's bodyguard.
The guard said he was just saying something, but his arrogant attitude was just to give an order.
"My lord said that if you agree to obey my order and hand over the secret recipe for perfume, he will escort you to the fourth floor to introduce you to the young marquis, and ensure that the Ning family will prosper from now on."
Ning Wuyan didn't expect that Ye Tongpuan was so persistent and wanted to win over him when the perfume caused such a sensation.
but.
The condition of handing over the secret recipe of perfume can be seen that the Ye family has determined the strength of perfume to seize the incense market.
Ning Wuyan ignored the Ye family guards who were determined to win. He smiled provocatively at Ye and Liu who were sitting firmly in the lobby: "Ye Changlong, do you think you should finish the cup of tea in your hands first, or I should finish the two hundred in my hands first?" A bottle of perfume delivered to you?"
