Chivalrous Song Dynasty

She said silently in her heart: brother, sister can only help you so far.She really couldn't think of any better words that Bai Sheng could come up with to surpass her, but if Bai Sheng couldn't even come up with poems of this level, then there was no need to think about being number one, Zhou Bangyan and his son were fuel efficient light?

But what Li Qingzhao didn't expect was that Cai Jing, who was the first judge of this poetry meeting, would give a very high evaluation, "If you don't count the official song Partridge Sky, this song Yongyule will be the number one song today." .”

Chapter 372

Zhao Ji's literary quality is also very high. Although he is not as good as Cai Jing, he can definitely be regarded as a writer. Hearing that Cai Jing praised Li Qingzhao's works, he immediately echoed: "It is indeed a good word!"

Then he lowered his voice and asked Cai Jing: "I just don't know who the talented girl Qingzhao is thinking about. I think the meaning of this word doesn't seem to be expecting her husband Zhao Mingcheng."

Cai Jing immediately shook his head to express his ignorance.I thought how could I know who Li Qingzhao was having an affair with?All I know is that since she came to Beijing, she has been teaching Li Shishi and Zhao Fujin dutifully in the lecture hall, and she has never heard of anyone having an affair.

Empress Zheng, Concubine Wei Xian and others were all slandering: This is Li Qingzhao again, and the assassination at Wang Fu's house hasn't learned the lesson?

There were many fans of Li Qingzhao in the audience, especially those princes and concubines. Hearing that Cai Jing and the emperor were praising Li Qingzhao's works, they also applauded.

Among the colorful sounds like a tide, there are also some people with mixed feelings.

As a contestant and one of Zhao Fujin's suitors, Chen Dong was completely hopeless. He knew that he would never be able to come up with such good words as Li Qingzhao, so he directly gave up the idea of ​​competing.

Chen Dong's giving up does not mean that others will also give up. Zhou Bangyan and his son don't think that Li Qingzhao's work can win the first place.

Cai Jing is certainly an authority among the judges, but he alone is not enough to finalize the ranking. As long as the words and sentences he writes are good enough, Cai Jing can't turn black and white in front of so many literary experts.

The colorful sound has not stopped, and Zhou Qin's work has been released, which is a song "Man Ting Fang":

"The White Jade Tower is tall, the Guanghan Palace is closed, and the evening clouds are like a curtain.

A school of the Milky Way flows out of the blue sky.

Countless stars and jade plums, the ice wheel moves, and the light fills the towers.

At the landing place, Yinghai was completely defeated, and Penglai was submerged in weak water.

Yun Huan, fragrant mist is wet, Yue'e Yunya, cloud frozen Jiangmei.

What's more, eating flowers and drinking dew, Moxie Peixiu.

Sit and watch the world like a palm, the shadows of mountains and rivers, poured into a Joan cup.

Returning late, the sound of the flute blows through, and the dust is ninety thousand miles away. "

This song Man Ting Fang was actually composed by Zhou Bangyan himself.As early as in the court, after the emperor decided that the first place in the poetry club would be eligible for competition, he and his son Zhou Qin prepared more than a dozen works when he returned home.

Just like the Chinese teachers in later generations "predicted the questions" for their students before the college entrance examination, the poems prepared by Zhou Bangyan and his son covered all kinds of situations at the right time and place.

The first sentence "Baiyulou is high" is written about the viewing pavilion where Zhao Ji climbed. This pavilion is made of white marble, so it is called "Baiyulou" very appropriately.

On the night of the second day of February, it is impossible to have a full moon in the sky, but there must be brilliant stars.Therefore, there are descriptions such as "Yinhe School" and "countless stars and jade plums" in his words and sentences.

As for "the ice wheel moves, and the light fills the tower", it is the portrayal of the first quarter moon.The ice wheel moves so it is not round.

"The girl in the cloud, the fragrant mist is wet, the moon's moon is cloudy, the cloud is freezing Jiangmei." It is praising Zhao Fujin's beauty;

"Sit and watch the world like a palm, the shadows of mountains and rivers, poured into a Qiong cup." It's Zhao Ji's flattery.

This poem was presented and recited by Zhou Qin himself, which immediately attracted a lot of cheers.

Zhou Qin also has fans, even if they are not as many as his father Zhou Bangyan or Li Qingzhao.

Zhao Ji still has the spirit of fair competition. If he also cheats, what's the point of playing this poem?What's more, this poem also flattered him?

Therefore, after reading the song Man Ting Fang, he thought that it could compete with Li Qingzhao's Yong Yu Le. The beauty of Li Qingzhao's lyrics lies in the artistic conception, and Zhou Qin's lyrics are better than the occasion, so he gave his opinion and said that it can be temporarily tied for the first place.

If there are no other works to surpass these two poems tonight, then in the end, it will be up to you literary masters to strictly judge which of these two poems is better.

Cai Jing opened his mouth beside him, but he couldn't say anything.He wanted to forcibly suppress Zhou Qin's poem, no matter which one of Zhou Bangyan and his son wrote the poem, he didn't want to give Zhao Ji that kind of evaluation.

It's just that there really isn't much flaw in this poem for him to criticize, and there needs to be a reason to pick a fault, right?He was organizing materials, but he didn't expect the emperor to set the tone first.

Now that the emperor had set the tone, it was hard for him to say anything more. Even if he didn't want to go along with it, he couldn't disagree with the emperor's intentions.What's more, forcibly suppressing Zhou Qin would have been suspected of eliminating competitors for Cai Kuang.

As a result, Zhou Qin became the favorite to win the first prize. Afterwards, other talented officials also submitted their works one after another, but no one's masterpiece could match the two poems of Li Qingzhao and Zhou Qin.

The Yuanxi Poetry Club is a poetry club for talented men and women from all over the world. In addition to these officials who can sit around the viewing pavilion on the top of the mountain, there are also many folk poets and poets flocking on the hillside.

These people include scholars from the capital city, and Confucian scholars from other cities and counties in the Song Dynasty. They also wrote their own poems, but they were all suppressed by the judges of the poetry society headed by Prince Zhao Heng. There is no qualification for public reading.

It's not that Zhao Heng is deliberately suppressing folk masters, but that the masters are really not among the folks.In the field of literature, the phrase "the master is among the people" basically does not apply, except for a man named Guiguzi a long time ago.

The poetry meeting has been going on for more than an hour. Although the atmosphere is getting more and more lively, the suspense of the first one is getting smaller and smaller. People are thinking that unless Zhou Bangyan personally presents a masterpiece, this No.1 can only be It happened between Zhou Qin and Li Qingzhao.

Most people are guessing that Zhou Bangyan will most likely not make a move, because if he makes a move, it is tantamount to killing father and son.

Gradually, the number of people submitting works became rare. After Bai Shizhong presented a not-so-satisfactory Die Lian Hua, no one presented any more works. It seemed that the poetry meeting was drawing to a close.

"Has anyone submitted a masterpiece yet?" On the second floor of the viewing pavilion, a eunuch was loudly announcing the emperor's inquiry.

There was silence on the top of the mountain, so quiet that one could even hear the noise of the city below the mountain.No one answered the eunuch's inquiries.

Suddenly, a sad female voice sounded from the second floor of the viewing platform, "Bai Sheng, why don't you see your poems? Didn't you say that you know all the poems?"

It was Emperor Maode who spoke. She only wanted to hear Bai Sheng's lyrics tonight. Even though she knew that Bai Sheng's works would never reach the level of Li Qingzhao and Zhou Qin, she just wanted to hear them.

No matter how rough and clumsy Bai Sheng's words are, it can at least prove that Bai Sheng's heart for her is sincere and firm.

On the contrary, it means that Bai Sheng has given up the relationship between the two!

After hearing Zhao Fujin's reproachful questioning, people couldn't help but be shocked. It turns out that Maode Diji already has her own heart!

While being shocked, people's hearts are full of doubts and puzzles. Bai Sheng has become like this, what else is there to love and follow?Is this Empress Maode stupid?

People will even think: Aren't you forcing Bai Sheng to make a fool of yourself?If you don't write lyrics, you won't be able to marry you, and if you write lyrics, you won't be able to marry you, so why bother to lose another person?

People will still think: It seems that Bai Sheng must have deceived Empress Maode with sweet words before that, "knows all poems"?He really dared to blow.

What people don't know is that Bai Sheng really didn't say that he is good at both poetry and poetry. These four words are the evaluation Li Qingzhao gave when he praised Bai Sheng, but Zhao Fujin and Li Shishi kept them in their hearts.

In fact, the fact that Bai Sheng and Chen Dong have not produced any works is known to everyone.

Both of them are key figures, who doesn't know that they will compete with Zhou Qin for the first place in this poetry meeting?

But no one thought that Bai Sheng and Chen Donghui were Zhou Qin's opponents. People had expected the result of the contest between the three before the poetry meeting.

People believed that it was the wisest choice for Bai Sheng and Chen Dong to give up.

If you give up, just give up. No one wants to mention this matter, so just pretend that you don't know.Is it really good to pull them out and roast them on the fire?It's okay to grab Chen Dong, but Bai Sheng?Can't find death?

However, the lid that everyone was clutching was lifted by Emperor Maode, and now Bai Sheng will suffer.