Dingguo

Chapter 267 Gambling Poetry Club (1)

In the evening, when the last ray of winter sunlight has not completely disappeared in the sky, Jinling City is lit up with little lights... The beginning of the lanterns means the beginning of the cold night, and the bustling streets are gradually fading away at this time the hustle and bustle of the day. 【】Rice stores, oil stores, and grocery stores are all closed.Only in the Goulan, in the troupe, in the restaurants and teahouses, the lights are still bright...but the little light in the shops can't illuminate the street, let alone illuminate the deep night!When the cold wind blows, these few lights are dimly lit on the street, making it even colder.

The crowded street during the day looks empty and deserted at night... and the night, because of the lights, looks even darker... However, if there is a deserted place, there will naturally be a lively place!Tingyu Tower is full of guests tonight, and it is very lively.Because here tonight, there is a gambling poetry meeting going to be staged, almost all the talented people who got the news got here, it was even more lively than the poetry meeting... Hundreds of talented people couldn’t enter the building because they didn’t have invitations, They were all crowded outside the Tingyu Building and refused to leave... Many small vendors who heard the news set up a lantern and a small stall, and even started business here!There are food stalls, art stalls, and porcelain stalls, shouting one after another, almost catching up with the scene at the temple fair... a group of talents, some sitting on the snack stalls, eating and chatting; There were a lot of discussions; some simply sat outside Tingyu Building, found a clean place, sat on the floor, bought a lot of food and wine, and started talking... Although they talked about many topics, the most heated one was tonight. A grand event where talents from the two prefectures compete!

Students who don't understand the cause of this poetry gambling meeting are here.The first question, of course, is to ask what happened to Wuling Talent and Jinling Talent?Why did they fight together?

At this time, someone naturally recounted the embarrassing things about Wuling talented scholars at the poetry meeting on the eighth day of the lunar new year... In fact, the Laba Festival poetry meeting in Jinling City that day could only be regarded as a small warm-up poetry meeting .It's just dozens of talented people who get together, recite poems and make up for each other, and pick out some pleasant poems by themselves for self-evaluation, just for self-entertainment.Neither poet critics nor heroes were invited.

But next year happens to be the three-year competition, and there are many talents from the South Road and the North Mansion living in the Jinling Mansion.Worried about not having the opportunity to show their talents, they heard about such a small poetry club, so they came one by one, uninvited, and a large group of people came, and it turned into a big poetry club with hundreds of people. In the cold weather, many talented people , it is rare to gather together, drink wine, talk about the past and the present, and naturally have a heart for competition... Everyone is young at heart, and no one is convinced by the other. This is also human nature.

The talented people in Jinling Mansion are landlords, so naturally they won't let the talented people from other places.Talented scholars from other places will naturally not be convinced by Jinling people, so they are divided into two factions between talking and laughing. Since they couldn't compete with each other, and they couldn't overwhelm each other's prestige, Jinling people proposed the idea of ​​comparing poetry... Competing poetry was a proposal from Jinling people, and it was also something Jinling people usually play!The rule is very simple, only four lines in a poem.People on both sides, two sentences on each side.Every sentence must be selected from an ancient poem, it must have a history, it must have a source, it must be put together, and the meaning of the sentence must be the same... At that time, the number of talented scholars in other Lufu was small, so the people from Wuling Mansion were publicized. Come to fight the people from Jinling Mansion.The people of Wuling Mansion are naturally not afraid of it. If they want to show their face, if they can't fight it, they won't back down.What's more, there are more than a dozen of them, and they are all very talented... An agreement is like poetry and drinking, but as long as there is one person who can stand up, the competition will continue... On the one hand, they are Jinling people who are used to playing poetry, and on the other hand, they want to sharpen their guns before the battle , Wuling people who are thinking hard.Two touches and one touch, the result can be imagined.

People in Jinling are quick and good no matter whether they write poems or receive poems; while people in Wuling think hard for a long time, and the poems they spell out can only barely pass the test...Compared in this way, in a short time, the people in Wuling Bian drank half of it, and the rest was even worse. His tongue was enlarged and his brain was dizzy. How could it be compared?They were all overwhelmed by Jinling people. As for the fact that Wuling people went drunk on the spot and called their mothers with their arms around prostitutes, that is also true... This is the reason why Wuling people and Jinling people formed a relationship, and it is also the reason why there are people today. The reason for this poetry competition... It turned out that the Jinling people showed their hand at the poetry competition, which not only shocked the talents in other prefectures, but also killed the people of Wuling.Although the people of Wuling were suffocating in their hearts to find the victory, they really had no confidence in their hearts, so they didn't dare to show their faces.

It wasn't until Su San, who represented the number one talented scholar in Wuling, appeared in Jinling, that the situation slowly evolved into what it is today... "If you want me to say, even if Su San came, he still didn't win in this competition... Su San Even if you are talented, it is only a mouth. Two fists are no match for four hands, how can one person challenge these many people?"

"It's not necessarily... the day before yesterday, Wuling talents suffered from not being able to understand the poetry routine. Many days have passed, and they still dare to come. Naturally, they are studying this way every day! Everyone learns poetry in the same way, not necessarily Who will be worse than anyone else. Therefore, this time the people of Wuling set up this host, of course it is also the reason why the talented Su came to Jinling, but there is also the reason why they have already figured out the tricks here... they may not lose!"

"Brother Tai, what you said is reasonable! Before the Laba Festival of Jinling people, we were so shocked that we were shocked in our hearts. We thought that we were really not as good as others. However, these few days, some of us on Fushan Road, Playing this competition every day, I feel that the more I play, the more I become familiar with it, and it is not difficult to express it well... Therefore, it is not necessarily that the people of Wuling have no hope of winning..."

"After only playing for a few days, can it be compared with the experience of Jinling people who have been playing since they were studying? Let's not talk about it, let's go back to the last time. Do you know that last time on the Laba Festival, None of the well-known talents in Jinling City were present? I don’t know! But this time? The incident is so big, Jinling talents can’t be sloppy for the sake of face... I heard that the well-known talents in Jinling Mansion, It's all here...Su Ningyuan's poems are good, but it doesn't mean that he is familiar with the old poems...Therefore, it's hard to win..."

"Well, I agree with what this man said. This competition is not a competition for talent. If it is a competition for talent, I will stand on the side of Wuling talents. After all, those poems written by Su Ningyuan are there. That poetic talent, that love, Even the seniors would be full of praise. Even if the people of Jinling piled up ten talents, they would not be able to compare. Where the level is, it is not possible to win with a large number of people... But, this is a comparison. Poetry, the comparison is the degree of familiarity with old poems. Even Su Dacai's familiarity with poetry is not weak, but this is only him. When comparing poetry, one brain is not as good as two brains ...I'm still a native of Wuling returning home tonight..."

"I'm afraid that's the truth... I heard that it's a one-on-one duel. Eight people are selected on one side, eight to eight, and the wrong order is not allowed. If you can't continue, you have to drink three bowls of wine or end. The rest Next, let's go... Eight against eight, it's really the Jinling people who took advantage. The Jinling people selected eight out of hundreds of people, while the Wuling people only came to a dozen, less than twenty. , out of a dozen or so people, choose eight people, how can you compare with Jinling people?...You guys, except for talented people who can't get in from various prefectures, most of you are from Jinling City Talented people. As far as this field is concerned, Jinling people definitely have the upper hand... If you really start to compete in poetry, every time you brush off a Wuling person, Wuling will be weaker. I don't believe that Suning can fare with a Enemy Eight?"

"Hey, I originally hoped that the Wuling people could save the game! Destroy the prestige of the Jinling people, so that once they lose, the Jinling people will gain more power..."

"I hope I can win..."

Listening to the outside of the Yulou, such conversations are everywhere.However, Eunuch Qin was not in the mood to listen to what these young people had to say... He walked around outside the listening building, and then ran back with a smile, and found Zhao Pu standing with a guard in a scholar's attire Then he ran over quickly... The emperor went out of the palace in a fish suit, and left Guo De to stop everyone in Zhengde Hall.

Who would have thought that this Tingyu Tower would be cleaned up in the middle of the afternoon, the back door was blocked, and the front door was guarded by special personnel, who only recognized stickers but not people, and would not let a single idler in... Seeing that he couldn't get in, Eunuch Qin went again. It was difficult to reveal his identity, so he lied, saying that he was a relative of the shop owner.He lured the shop owner outside, dragged him to a dark place, and secretly stuffed 20 taels of silver.Only then did I buy an opportunity to come in through the back door...

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