Da'an's best son-in-law

Poetry gatherings in Jizhou are often held next to the Jihuai River in Jizhou. Compared to the lively atmosphere in Jizhou Street Market, it seems a bit quieter here.

Several small boats were moored beside the Jihuai River, and some women on the hooks were performing music. When it reached its climax, it attracted cheers from the surrounding scholars who stopped to watch. The businessmen sat at the banquet aside and discussed business cooperation.

In fact, the more famous poetry societies in the south are not unique to Jizhou. For example, the Lingxia Poetry Society in Jinling and the Zhiyuan Poetry Society in Suzhou are more famous than Jizhou. It attracted many scholars from the south to come here in admiration, some of them were accepted as disciples of local aristocratic families, and there were also some people who rose to prominence and brought a lot of favors to some aristocratic families.

For this reason, these families in Jizhou paid so much attention to the poetry society, and they did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire the so-called first courtesan as a gimmick. In the final analysis, it was just for publicity.

As soon as he got off the carriage, someone arranged by the Wei family came to greet him.

"Miss, uncle, you are here. The seats of the Wei family are over here."

Wei Yanran nodded slightly and turned to look at Ye Chen aside. "Husband, will you come with me?"

Ye Chen shook his head and said with a smile, "I won't go. I'll just take Lian'er around here."

The main purpose of the Chamber of Commerce's banquet is to discuss business, so most of them are the leaders of various family businesses. The old man of the Wei family appoints Wei Yanran to attend as a representative every year, so naturally he means to hand over the business to the latter. As for the superficial efforts at greeting people and catering to them, Ye Chen didn't like them.

Besides, his status as a son-in-law would inevitably cause inconvenience to Wei Yanran in the past, so it was better to lead Lian'er around freely.

Seeing Ye Chen acting like this, Wei Yanran stopped insisting and gave a few words to the person in charge of the Wei family to look after Ye Chen and the others before leading them towards the banquet.

On the other side, as more and more literati gathered here, the atmosphere of the performance was approaching its climax. It was getting late, and the moon hanging high in the night emitted soft moonlight, which reflected on the ripples of the Jihuai River. The entire river was sparkling, which highlighted the graceful dancing postures of the surrounding women.

After a few songs, all the familiar songs had been performed. The leading dancer put down her pipa, stood up and saluted the scholars with a smile.

The real competition of the Mid-Autumn Poetry Festival is about to begin.

"I don't know which scholar is willing to improvise lyrics and sing for the little girls. If there is a truly outstanding person who wins the lottery, not only will he get the lottery, Miss Qiyun will also be willing to sing in person."

As soon as this statement came out, the crowd of people watching immediately became excited.

"Miss Qiyun sings our lyrics herself, how widely spread will it be!"

"I heard that Miss Qiyun's voice is like the sound of nature. We are so blessed today!"

Everyone has come forward to write lyrics for these women. As a scholar, he has a high degree of vanity for his own knowledge.

If his impromptu poems can be sung here, his reputation and status in Jizhou's literary circle will naturally increase.

Seeing such a lively atmosphere here, Lian'er, who was hanging out with Ye Chen, couldn't sit still and insisted on dragging Ye Chen over to take a look.

"Hurry up, hurry up, uncle, what are you doing over there so busy?"

It was lively, but now the riverside was a complete mess, everyone was vying to say their own poems, completely devoid of the so-called elegance of the literati.

At the front, Yue Song and a group of friends were among them. The former was shouting the poem he had just written. However, because the crowd was too noisy, not many people could hear his shout.

Suddenly, Yue Song saw Ye Chen and Yu'er standing quietly next to the shouting crowd. His face suddenly darkened, but a sly smile flashed across his face.

"Everyone be quiet!"

Hearing his shouts, the originally noisy crowd became a little quieter. Seeing the eyes of the people around him focused on him, Yue Song felt quite proud. He cleared his throat and spoke again.

"You are all prominent figures in Jizhou. It is really indecent to fight for each other in such a noisy manner."

Everyone onlookers nodded, and if they continued shouting like this endlessly, they might not be able to come up with an argument until dawn. Then someone asked Yue Song in front of him

"I wonder what brother-in-law has to say?"

"Since today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the festival for appreciating the moon, we don't need to argue about the title of the poem anymore. Let's take it in turns to compose impromptu poems on the theme of appreciating the moon. How about letting these girls use the top three most outstanding poems as lyrics?"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone agreed. However, despite this, no one was the first to eat the crab. They all wanted to wait for others to test the depth of the water first.

One after another, some people composed lyrics and began to recite them in public. However, they are all words and phrases that have been repeated in previous years, with slight changes. There are only a few that are truly outstanding.

Seeing this situation, the smile on Yue Song's face became a little stronger. This was exactly what he wanted to see. For today's poetry meeting, the Yue Family Trading Company has invited several gentlemen these days, all of whom are well-known in Jizhou. , specially prepared today's poems for him.

Finally, after everyone had finished composing poems, the level of them was not uneven. There were a few outstanding poems, but none of them were truly amazing.

When it was Yue Song's turn, the latter smiled slightly, flicked the folding fan in his hand, and began to chant

"The sea water in the human world is deep, not even half as deep as lovesickness. The sea water still has an end, but lovesickness is infinite.

Carrying the harp to a high building, the building is empty and full of moonlight. Playing the love song, the strings suddenly broke. "

This poem was originally used to prepare for the final competition. It would be a waste to take it out now, but it is worth it for the next plan.

"Well, what a poem! Such a strong sense of lovesickness, but expressed so cleverly!"

"To have such a masterpiece, the leader this time is none other than Brother-in-law!"

Yue Song's poem was polished and polished by so many gentlemen in Jizhou. The level is indeed not low, at least not comparable to the improvised poems made by these scholars today.

After the applause of several entourages, the emotions of the scholars around him were also aroused, and they applauded one after another.

Yue Song swung his folding fan and waved it gently in front of his chest, enjoying the bursts of applause in front of him, looking confident. It seemed that he was the leader this time.

However, Yue Song, who was originally complacent, clasped his hands into fists and spoke loudly in Ye Chen's direction under the puzzled gazes of everyone.

"I've heard for a long time that Brother Ye is famous for his literary talents and is famous in Jizhou. I didn't expect to see Brother Ye at the poetry festival today. I just made a fool of myself, so we'll let Brother Ye write the lyrics for this last song. How about it?"