Chapter thirty nine
Qushui Liushang is the most well-known game on the Shangsi Festival on March 3rd, and it is also a kind of banquet game circulating among the people. People place wine glasses upstream, and the wine glasses flow downstream. Whoever stops in front of them will take the glass to drink to eliminate their own inauspiciousness.
The most famous Qushui Liushang Banquet was the Lanting Banquet held by Wang Xizhi during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It was also March 3rd. Kuaiji Insider Wang Xizhi and his relatives and friends Xie An and Sun Chuo and other 42 senior officials in the political affairs held a "Qushui Liushang" game in Lanting where they drank and wrote poems. Wang Xizhi even wrote the preface to the world's running script Lanting Collection in his excitement.
The upcoming Qushui Liushang game is the part of the Qujiang Banquet. The lottery is the more than 20 pretty beauties who come with it. Those who win the top scorer have the right to choose beauty and travel to Qujiang. In short, more than 20 beauties have already sang and danced, showing their charm, waiting for the invitation of those who can do it. As for whether they can be close to each other in the end, it depends on their last means and ability.
More than twenty beautiful flowers have their own merits, but there are only one true king of flowers.
Pei Min's eyes fell on Jiao Chen. He had no plans yet. After all, he was the first time. He was quite expensive and could not get into the experienced "big sisters". Compared to traveling with others, Jiao Chen is the most difficult choice.
At this moment, the singing and dancing stopped, and a charming madam walked up quickly and clapped her hands enthusiastically and said, "All the Wenqu stars who have descended to earth, come to the river to take their seats at will."
As the madam finished speaking, the Jinshi around him were already rushing to seize a good position.
Pei Min was a little puzzled and walked towards the river slowly.
"Brother Pei, here, here, here Brother Pei!" Xue Yong sat on the corner of the stream and waved his hands enthusiastically.
Pei Min walked over with a smile, sat down beside him, and reached out to touch the stream. The stream in spring was cool and very comfortable.
Xue Yong reached out and gestured, "Look, wine comes from the upstream, and we are the third bend here. The wooden plate is the most powerful in the first bend, and the possibility of stopping is not high. The second bend is still spared. Our third bend is just right, and the wine will definitely stop in front of us."
Pei Min knew the general link of Qushui Liushang, but he didn't know much about the detailed process and said, "Why, what's the point?"
Xue Yong looked at him unexpectedly and sighed: "Brother Pei is too straightforward. Could it be that he didn't prepare in advance? The first person who drinks is responsible for drafting the title. Do you really think everyone can tell the truth? Whoever grabs the first one can get the lead and has a chance to get the first place."
Pei Min knew the reason and smiled.
Seeing that the wine glasses upstream had arrived for a while, Xue Yong asked, "Brother Pei gave up, or is he sure of winning?"
"It should be the latter!" Pei Min nodded seriously.
Xue Yong said a little discouraged: "Brother Pei is very good at poetry and prose?"
Pei Min shook his head and said, "What I am best at is swordsmanship, and poetry is not my best." He paused and said, "But no one can beat me."
Xue Yong was stunned for a moment, speechless, and ignored him.
When the people around him heard Pei Min so arrogant, they secretly refused to accept it, and they would have to compete for the better.
Especially Pei Yu, this is especially true.
The glass of wine slowly fell down. As the wooden plate rotated, it passed the bend and did not stop, but it still did not stop when it reached the second bend. Xue Yong kept shouting and stopped excitedly, but he did not expect the wooden plate to slowly pass the third bend and stopped when approaching the fourth bend.
The opposite of the wooden plate was parked was Pei Yu.
Pei Yu's grades are from the top three and Jinshi, and they are two levels worse than Pei Min's top scorer. However, they are also Jinshi. If they pass the re-examination of the Ministry of Personnel, they are still qualified to be an official. Looking at him, Pei Min suddenly felt that this guy was a bit like a candy, and he always appeared around him quietly, which made him feel like he was entangled, and he said in his heart: "I have to find an opportunity to suppress him."
That was when Pei Min was thinking about it secretly.
Pei Yu had already held the wine glass in his hand. The confrontation with Pei Min made him pay a heavy price and became a laughing stock of the family. His original pride became humiliation, and he lost the consequences. Thinking of Pei Min's words that always stepped on him forever made him unable to fall asleep day and night. After learning from his pain, he hid the grief and anger in his heart in his heart, and secretly sweared to return the shame he had suffered a hundred times and let Pei Min pay the price for what he did to him. Pei Min took the exam, and Pei Min took the exam, and he also took the exam. He didn't believe it, he really couldn't compare to Pei Min. But the result made him jealous and hatred, which seemed to confirm what Pei Min said. The name Pei Min always appeared on his head again and again, and it was lingering.
Pei Yu couldn't expect that the God of Luck would favor him this time. He knew very well how famous the courtesan of Jiao Chen's name was in Chang'an. Even the emperor in the palace had heard of her name and intended to let her enter the palace to celebrate the birthday of the queen. He also knew that all the people in Chang'an who had an intention to do her were waiting for which young hero could take the lead.
If a talented man is worthy of a beautiful woman, if he can win the lead, with the help of the beautiful Chen's reputation, his name will be remembered by the world. It will be like Lu Zangyi, who is a shortcut in Zhongnan, and the sky will rise straight up.
The more he thought about it, the more excited he was, he raised his glass and drank it all over and said, "Today is Shangsi Festival, which is well known. But I don't know if he knows it. Shangsi Festival, also known as the Daughter's Day, says in the Book of Songs: "There is silence and savage, and the scholars and women are only serene. The topic I gave is spring love." As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd was silent.
Xue Yong was stunned and complained in a low voice: "This Pei Yu is so cunning."
Pei Min asked with a smile: "What's wrong?"
Xue Yong was so angry that he said: "This question is too tricky. There are also times when it comes to the word "love". How can you think of it in this short time?"
Pei Min supported her chin and said, "So, did Pei Yu ask this question just to win the championship?"
Xue Yong said: "On the tenth, he must have been prepared. If this problem is a problem, he will definitely be able to eliminate many opponents. Let's see how his poems are. Maybe he will win in the end." He looked at Pei Yu nervously.
Pei Yu pretended to walk back and forth a few steps back and forth, and whispered a seven-character romance poem with spring.
To be fair, the poems are neat and appropriate, and the rhetoric is also beautiful. Although they lack artistic conception, they are still good poems.
Xue Yong said dumbfoundedly: "It's over, it's a good time to finish it."
Pei Min smiled and said nothing.
The second glass of wine floated in front of an old Jinshi in his forties. He took the wine glass and drank it all, and then punished himself three times and took the initiative to recognize the output bureau.
The third glass of wine stopped in front of Feng Zhi, Tanhua. Feng Zhi wrote five-character quatrains, with beautiful words and elegant artistic conception, but the poems are a bit pieced together and lack neatness, which is inferior to Pei Yu's.
Pei Yu gave the title a trick and a ghost, everyone was defeated. After the thirteenth round, only four people wrote the poem, and the others were eliminated directly. And the good position Xue Yong mentioned has not stopped.
Looking at the gradually winning smile of Pei Yu, who was in a gloomy way, Pei Min changed his seat with a little dissatisfaction.
Chapter completed!