Here Xie Shu was thinking, and several people came towards them.

These people are also from Jinling Academy, but they have always been at odds with Zhang Enshi, Xu Shengkai and others.

After all, there are family distinctions in this court, and Jinling Academy is no exception.

People like Zhang Enshi and Xu Shengkai all come from mediocre backgrounds, and they got through the exams by studying hard. Fortunately, after passing the exam, they can enjoy the right to be exempted from paying service tax, and the state will provide food, so they can live on. .

It's just that they study on weekdays and don't do farming, and their lives are inevitably tight. This is the case for the so-called poor scholars.

There is also a group of people whose families are wealthy landlords or local officials. Most of them were sent to Jinling Academy by their parents and paid a lot of money for repairs. The door of convenience.

These people are rich and spend a lot of money on weekdays, and some of them like to hang out in the place of fireworks and willow alleys, so they are naturally neglected in their studies.

It is not surprising that people on both sides look down on each other.

The leader of this group of people is a handsome young man, but with an unpleasant arrogance on his face: "Hey, you have occupied a good position so quickly, and those who don't know think they are here to fight the autumn wind."

As soon as these words came out, Xu Shengkai couldn't help saying angrily: "Wan Tianyun, don't go too far!"

The name of the person in front of him is Wan Tianyun, he is the son of Yingtian Mansion.

Today's local officials are divided into four levels: province, prefecture, prefecture, and county. The magistrate is the highest-ranking official in Jinling City. Therefore, Wan Tianyun is usually very arrogant, and those dudes are also headed by him.

Of course, Xu Shengkai and the others may not be afraid of him. After being admitted as a scholar, they are no longer ordinary civilians. With political and judicial privileges, officials need to treat each other with courtesy, and they don't have to kneel when they see officials.

It's just that when two people meet each other, they will always have disputes.

Zhang Enshi also held back his anger and said: "Today's poetry meeting, we don't want to be too troublesome, and you don't want to cause trouble for no reason. When the time comes, everyone will look bad."

Wan Tianyun also knew this truth, their family couldn't afford to provoke the Gu family, so he snorted coldly.

At this moment, he noticed that there was an extra figure in this group of people today, but he did not expect to be an acquaintance from the past, Xie Shu.

Xie Shu is different from these people, he is very knowledgeable.

Thinking that the other party joined the Yu family three years ago, although Wan Tianyun felt a little disdainful, he also wanted to win him over.

Wan Tianyun changed his mind, and said with a smile: "Xie Shu, why didn't you tell us in advance when you came? I haven't seen you for three years, but you have changed a lot. Xie Shu, why don't you come over, let's catch up with each other, What's the point of these sour scholars talking?"

As soon as these words came out, the dude behind Wan Tianyun immediately laughed, and said enthusiastically, "Yes, Xie Shu."

Xu Shengkai and others glared at him, but everyone's eyes finally fell on Xie Shu unanimously.

At this time, many people have noticed that if Xie Shu chooses Wan Tianyun, they will lose face.

But Zhang Enshi also knew that Xie Shu was different from them now, and facing Wan Tianyun's overtures, Xie Shu's choice was self-evident.

So Zhang Enshi didn't speak, but was a little disappointed, while Xu Shengkai gritted his teeth and looked at Xie Shu. They all knew who Xie Shu was, and they would definitely rush to meet him, right?

Faced with all kinds of complicated and different eyes around him focusing on him, Xie Shu still looked very calm.

Xie Shu didn't know the identity of the person in front of him, but judging from his clothes, words and deeds, he should be the son of an official family.

Apart from that, Xie Shu had no other extra thoughts. Unlike the people here, he had a sense of awe towards officials.

As for the other party's purpose, Xie Shu could also guess.

This person is mean and has a perverse personality, and he is not a person worthy of friendship, but Xie Shu also knows that it is best not to offend such a person.

So Xie Shu just said indifferently: "Thanks to Mr. Wan for looking up to me, thank you for your kindness. In fact, I didn't know about this Xiyuan poetry meeting before, but because Mr. Zhang invited me, I was able to come, so I hope Wan Forgive me, young master, I will definitely accompany you next time."

Wan Tianyun originally had a good time, thinking that Xie Shu would flatter him, but he didn't expect that the other party would reject him.

However, Wan Tianyun was not in a good mood, but he was not too angry. After all, Xie Shu's words were thoughtful of his face.

And Wan Tianyun definitely had no reason to invite a second time, seeing Xie Shu say so, it was fine, he glanced at the others with a smile on his face, and walked away.

After Wan Tianyun left, Zhang Enshi couldn't help but smile and said, "Mr. Xie, I really didn't misread you."

Even Xu Shengkai looked better, and he felt a big change towards Xie Shu. Although he still had doubts in his heart, he couldn't target him like before.

And the other people who witnessed all this just now had a new impression of Xie Shu.

Xie Shu didn't care about these things, his mind was still on the poetry meeting, and he didn't know when the owner of the poetry meeting would come.

Just when Xie Shu thought so, Gu Yuanke, the owner of the West Garden, finally appeared.

As soon as he appeared, everyone rushed to greet him.

Gu Yuanke smiled and nodded one by one, and when he passed by Xie Shu, Gu Yuanke couldn't help but pause.

Gu Yuanke also happened to see that scene just now.

At this time, Gu Yuanke was in a complicated mood. It seemed that Xie Shu was not as miserable as he had investigated before, but a talented person.

It's just that Gu Yuanke couldn't help but feel sorry for him. Now that Shao Zhen's impression of him has been formed, it may be difficult to change it.

Now that the host has arrived, the poetry meeting is about to begin.

But before that, Gu Yuanke suddenly smiled and said, "Today, I have a distant relative coming. He is here to see the world. His surname is Zheng, and his name is Ziqi."

After finishing speaking, Gu Yuanke looked towards Changting and said, "Ziqi, come out."

Everyone looked at him, and saw that a young man in brocade clothes really came. Although he looked unfamiliar, he was very imposing, and he was not a simple person.

And Xie Shu noticed that when the young man walked to Gu Yuanke's side, Gu Yuanke subconsciously took a small step.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Yuanke asked everyone to sit down at the table. As the host of the poetry meeting, he enlivened the atmosphere and suggested: "Today's poetry meeting depends on everyone's appreciation. You are all talented people. Gu has always Admire me, I specially prepared good food and drinks this time, and everyone can eat as they please. It’s just that I just suddenly thought that it’s not interesting to compete poetry like other poetry clubs, so I’d better come up with a new rule.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked different.

In fact, in this poetry meeting, many people have prepared copies in advance, some of them have made it before, and some have hired others to do it, just to make a name for themselves in the poetry meeting.

Therefore, hearing that Gu Yuanke has a new rule, those who are truly talented and learned can still be calm and composed, and the rest can only be anxious.

Gu Yuanke didn't seem to notice it, and still smiled and said: "It's better like this. Today, we will follow the example of the ancients and play a game of bending water and drinking wine to compose poems, and let the wine go down along the stream. In front of someone, whoever has to compose a poem, regardless of the rhythm and tone, but it must be done within three breaths, if not, how about three cups of wine as a fine?"

Hearing this, many people breathed a sigh of relief, because Gu Yuanke did not specify the theme of the poetry meeting, so the things they prepared could still be used, so everyone cheered.

At this time, Mr. Zheng suddenly said: "How can you just write poems without getting a lot of money?"

Gu Yuanke just reacted, but showed distressed expression.

Mr. Zheng took off the jade pendant around his waist very generously and said, "Forget it, just use mine."

As soon as he made a move, everyone's eyes couldn't help but focus on it. Even if you looked at the jade pendant from a long distance, you could still see that the jade was as bright as water, and there were exquisite carved patterns on it. , it is not clear what shape it is.

Even Wan Tianyun couldn't help being amazed when he saw it, Mr. Zheng had such a great handwriting, and a jade pendant of this quality is really rare.

Gu Yuanke also said with a smile: "Then if anyone can win the meeting and be the top poet, I will decide who to give the beautiful jade to. Ziqi, don't go back on your word."

Mr. Zheng smiled loudly, which doubled the favor of everyone.

Everyone's hearts became even hotter, let's not talk about winning the lottery, there are quite a few Jinling talents who came here today, if anyone wins the first prize of poetry on such an occasion, it will really become famous in one fell swoop.

Since everyone was sitting by the stream, there was no need to move their positions. Starting from the uppermost stream, a maid knelt and sat by the stream, poured half a glass of fine wine from a flagon, and then put the wine glass into the fishing pocket and let it go downstream. Down.

According to the rules, whoever the wine glass rests in front of will have to recite a line of poetry, so everyone is a little nervous and only cares about where the wine glass rests.

As the water wave flowed, the bag went down along with the petals, and was the first to stop in front of Wang Jing who was sitting in front.

Wang Jing picked up the wine glass, thought for a while, and then recited a five-character quatrain, with two sentences above and below, which has its own artistic conception and is out of the ordinary.

Everyone couldn't help applauding, it's a good start, and the next step is also simple.

The maid picked up another wine glass and poured another glass of wine, starting from Wang Jing's place and going downstream.

In this way, after one round, it starts again and again.

In the beginning, everyone was more than comfortable. After all, they only needed to write a poem instead of a poem. It was not too difficult. Besides, everyone had prepared things in advance, so everyone could say a sentence.

But soon, starting from the third round, people quit the game one after another.

At this time, a wine glass stood in front of Xu Shengkai, but Xu Shengkai thought hard, and couldn't think of a word, so he had to drink three glasses as a penalty, but Xu Shengkai was in a good mood because Wan Tianyun also quit just now.

Next, starting from Xu Shengkai again, this time the wine glass stayed in front of Xie Shu.

Everyone looked at him. Xie Shu's luck had been very good before, and it was never his turn. This time it was finally his turn.

Xie Shu didn't hesitate. He raised his glass and wrote a poem.

In this era, poetry has not been born for a long time. In the imperial examination, although there are questions that require a poem to be tested, the score is not high. Therefore, everyone does not put much effort into poetry on weekdays. With leisure and a reserve of knowledge, in modern times, Xie Shu had worked hard on the rhythm of ancient poems.

After he finished speaking, everyone couldn't help applauding, and thought to himself, hasn't this Xie Shu devoted himself to studying poetry for the past three years?Of course, most people still think that Xie Shu must have made a cheat sheet in advance.

After a few more rounds, there were only three players left in the game.

They are Wang Jing, Xie Shu, and one named Cui Cheng, who is quite talented in poetry.

In the end, Wang Jing also modestly withdrew: "I really can't think of it, Mr. Xie and Mr. Cui are more talented, let's just look at these two."

Hearing what Wang Jing said, although everyone could understand, they were still very surprised. They didn't expect that even Wang Jieyuan couldn't make it to the end.

The remaining two are just Cui Chengcheng. He has an alias called "Poetry Demon", and he writes poems like crazy every day. But who is this Xie Shu, and what virtue and ability is he?

Cui Cheng was actually very surprised at this time. He hadn't heard of Xie Shu's reputation before. He didn't expect that there would be such a person in Jinling. He often discusses poetry too.

And Cui Cheng couldn't stand at this time, the time for the three breaths is too short, it is really troublesome to come up with a good poem...

At this moment, it was Mr. Zheng who suddenly said: "If you continue like this, I don't know when I will be able to give away my jade. Why don't you draft a new topic, and the two of you will compose a poem on the spot, and then everyone will discuss it together." How's the judgement?"

Seeing that the final situation was different from what he expected, Shao Zhen felt a little displeased, especially Xie Shu.

However, Shao Zhen can think about it. For others, this jade is a rare treasure, but for Shao Zhen, it is only used to open up the situation and leave a deep impression on everyone. If this jade It's not bad to fall into the hands of someone he likes, but if it doesn't work, it's fine, the effect he wants is enough.

But Shao Zhen didn't expect that this jade would be given to someone he doesn't like right now.

Shao Zhen then proposed this method. Naturally, the others thought it was no big deal to watch the excitement, and the more exciting the better, they booed one after another.

After Shao Zhen finished speaking, he watched the two people's reactions with cold eyes.

I saw Cui Cheng heaved a sigh of relief, with some joy on his face, which proved that he...was beyond his strength just now.

And what about Xie Shu?

There was no gloomy look on his face, his expression was still clear and calm, with a little...excitement?

Shao Zhen couldn't help frowning, feeling unspeakably depressed, but Shao Zhen was still a little annoyed when he thought of his previous reaction, he didn't believe that he really misjudged the other party.

Thinking of something, Shao Zhen said again: "Of course, the rules have changed now, and the person who wins the championship can still make a request to...Brother Gu."

Perhaps Shao Zhen didn't realize the potential superiority in these words, but Gu Yuanke couldn't see it, Shao Zhen was a little superior.

But there was no other way, Gu Yuanke could only cover up the past, and responded with a few cheerful smiles.

A strangeness flashed in Wang Jing's eyes. Maybe other people didn't know Gu Yuanke's background very well, but Wang Jing studied under the great Confucianism and was involved in the current affairs of the dynasty, so of course he could think of some of it.

Here, there are already maids holding pens, ink and rice paper for the two of them, waiting for the question to be written.

It was inevitable that Shao Zhen would show his clues again, but this time Gu Yuanke directly opened his mouth to make a plan. He remembered Xie Shu's look at Tao Hua before, but it was very different.

Why don't you try him again to see what kind of ambition this person has in his heart, is he greedy for fame and fortune, or is he really talented.

So Gu Yuanke said, "How about you take peach blossoms as the theme and a stick of incense as the limit, and draw up a five-character quatrain?"

Cui Cheng was distracted when he heard the words, this peach blossom is not a tricky topic, but it is not easy to write brilliantly.

There are many images of peach blossoms. Peach blossoms bloom in spring, which not only means the age of youth, but also represents a hazy and beautiful feeling.

However, the peach blossoms bloom for a short time, so they also express the feelings of cherishing the spring and hurting the spring, such as the flowing water and falling flowers, which cannot be traced.

In judging a poem, poetry is the most important.

Thinking about it this way, Cui Cheng quickly had an idea in his mind. He rolled out the paper and began to write.

On the other side, Xie Shu looked at the scorching peach blossoms among the weeping willows by the stream, and his expression suddenly became gentle.

When he wrote and swiped, he was equally freehand and romantic.

Until he put down the last stroke, the stick of incense hadn't completely burned out, and others couldn't help but join in.

Gu Yuanke also made a detour and took a look. After seeing it, he suddenly realized that everything made sense.

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