On the fifteenth day of every month, Jingshen Academy will hold a small poetry gathering in the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

The prize for the winner is to be personally taught by the vice-dean.

It seems useless, but scholars pay the most attention to inheritance in their journey. Just like Li Xianyuan, if he does not enter the academy, he will never know how to communicate with the Mingtang and evoke the aura of awe. For example, most of the Buddhist Zen words can only be understood and cannot be expressed in words.

Therefore, I benefited a lot from having a famous teacher to guide me.

The academy's ingenious move to disperse previous students and mix up students has reduced cliques among students of the same year, especially freshmen. Therefore, in previous years, it was difficult for newly admitted students to win the first prize in the Lake Poetry Association.

Maybe there will be an exception this time?

There was a light rain last night, and the weather is cool. Outside the pavilion in the center of the lake, wild flowers are everywhere, red and green, and the crystal clear water echoes with the sparkling light of the lake outside the island.

The students gathered in the pavilion, reciting poems to each other, making fun and making harmless jokes. They were all teenagers and girls, and they did not have the complex nature of adults.

One person said: "I will write a couplet about the peach blossom garden in the academy."

Another person subconsciously said: "Plum and bamboo dock in the thatched house."

The person next to him booed: "Yes, it's right, but it's unreasonable. I'm right outside the thatched house at Plum and Bamboo Pier."

The person who came out of the first couplet said: "This is good, this is good."

The man before laughed and scolded: "What a fart, just change the word and it becomes your own?"

At another place, a person said: "There was a summer rain last night."

Someone answered: "The meandering water fills the eaves."

Another person smiled and replied: "It will finally clear up at dawn."

"When the rooster crows, the people come out to sell their stalls!"

"What a poem! What a poem!"

There was laughter and laughter all around. Li Xianyuan sat alone in the corner of the pavilion, listening to the laughter around him, and sipping tea carefully with a porcelain cup in hand.

Shen Sheng came over like a pug and was about to speak when he was swept away by Li Xianyuan's dull eyes.

"Can you please let me be quiet?"

"Oh..." Without saying a word, Shen Sheng turned around and left with a grimace. Suddenly he turned around and said, "Brother Li, I..."

"explain."

Shen Sheng carefully probed: "Regarding Situ Yanran, do I need to apologize to her?"

"Shut up."

"Oh..." Shen Sheng turned away dejectedly and almost bumped into someone within a few steps.

"Look at the way." Shen Sheng said without raising his head and said in a bad mood. Only towards Li Xianyuan would he be weak, but towards others he would return to his dandy temperament.

The man in front of him ignored him and came straight to Li Xianyuan.

Li Xianyuan put down the tea cup and sighed in his heart. According to the general ancient novels, trouble would definitely come at this time. He hid in a corner to avoid trouble. Unexpectedly, the dog smelled the meat and chased him.

The title of leader of the case is not that easy to get. There are many scholars in Wuhou City who are waiting to destroy Li Xianyuan's majesty.

"Master Li, everyone is reciting poems and writing poems over there, why did you come to this remote place?" the visitor asked.

Li Xianyuan raised his head and saw that the person who came was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a maroon silk gown with an ink-colored Baoxiang flower ribbon tied around his waist. He had a slender body.

Since it was a poetry meeting, there was no need to rigidly wear Tongsheng robes. Looking around, only Li Xianyuan and Situ Yanran, who was sitting alone in the corner, were wearing Tongsheng robes.

In fact, the academy does not require students to wear Tongsheng robes. It is just that the fabric of Tongsheng robes is good and the feel is excellent. Except for those rich and nobles, children from poor families are quite willing to wear Tongsheng robes.

"I don't like the excitement." Li Xianyuan replied.

"Master Li is the leader of this year's childbirth examination. If you avoid participating, someone will inevitably gossip." The young man narrowed his eyes slightly and said.

Li Xianyuan was the head of the case, and he was a young man with a certain reputation. Therefore, the two of them attracted a lot of attention after a short conversation.

Xu Zhitian was sitting at the tea table not far away. The companions around him were laughing and pointing at Li Xianyuan. The general idea was that Li Xianyuan was in trouble.

Xu Zhitian played with the empty tea cup, his eyes complicated. He hesitated whether to go over or not.

"Please give way, please give way -"

Not far away, he realized there was trouble here. Shen Da quickly squeezed over and ran to Li Xianyuan's side.

"Brother Li." Shen Sheng whispered and came to Li Xianyuan's side: "He is Liu Jixin, his father is a salt merchant, he has a lot of connections, and he has many acquaintances in Wuhou City and even the Shuntian Prefecture government..."

Shen Sheng told Li Xianyuan all the news he heard from his father.

"Really?" Li Xianyuan glanced at the arrogant young man, and said casually: "I have admired him for a long time."

If Li Waner were here and saw Li Xianyuan's appearance, she would probably jump over and pinch Li Xianyuan's cheeks, shouting that he finally looked like a human being.

Liu Chixin handed over his hand perfunctorily and continued: "When it comes to poetry, I think I am not as good as you. But this couple... I am not talented. I have learned a few lessons from Dui Po Cang Qiong, the king of Dui Po Cang in the famous town of Qiubei. sky."

There was some commotion among the students around. Most of them had heard of the title of Fighting to Break the Sky.

"Against the Sky?" Li Xianyuan looked at Shen Da.

Shen Da lived like a compliment in a cross talk, and exaggeratedly said to Li Xianyuan: "Brother Li, these two can break the sky. It is said that the year before last, there was a fight at the Mid-Autumn Moon Appreciation Poetry Festival in Xinjing. The university scholar of the court vomited blood on the spot. He was sent to death. Nickname: The king of kings, the king of kings, breaks the sky."

Li Xianyuan nodded and asked Shen Sheng to retreat.

"Master Li, please." Liu Cixin held up his hand, with a strange meaning, as if he was laughing at Li Xianyuan for not overestimating his own abilities: "In order to avoid bullying others, I'll let you write the first couplet first."

Several teachers at the tea table in Tingxin looked at him with interest and had no intention of stopping him. They also wanted to see how good Li Xianyuan was at the couplets.

Outside the pavilion in the middle of the lake, the island is full of wild flowers, and the students are joking with each other. Li Xianyuan casually said: "Red, green, and green orioles are laughing."

Liu Chixin displayed her paper fan and answered easily: "The drums are red and the swallows are silent."

"good!"

Liu Jixin's companions cheered and applauded.

"The couplets are neatly matched to the occasion. This couplet, Mr. Liu, is perfect."

Wow——

Liu Chixin put away the paper fan and said: "Captain Li, it's my turn."

Li Xianyuan said: "Please."

Liu Chixin looked around, suddenly with a smile on his lips, he used a fan to point to a table not far away. My first couplet is: "The upper hook is for the old, the lower hook is for the test, the old is for the young, and the young is for the old." "

Everyone looked as he pointed and saw several people sitting around the table. The youngest was in his thirties. The oldest had gray hair and needed help to walk.

A middle-aged man looked sulky and was about to stand up. He was pulled by a student with gray hair on one side, who shook his head and said a few words to him. He could only look at him with an unwilling face.

Except for him, most of the others looked ashamed, and a few thin-skinned ones turned red with shame.

The first couplet is a good one, but it's too bullying.

Many people think.

There is no threshold for being a child, and anyone can come at any age. Therefore, it is not surprising that some people take the exam for more than ten years before passing the exam.

The island in the middle of the lake was quite quiet for a while. The teacher lowered his head and pondered. The other students were also immersed in thinking and found that they could not think of the second line anyway.

"Eh? Where are Mr. Li going?" Liu Shixin's voice suddenly came to mind. Teachers and students looked up one after another, and saw Li Xianyuan standing up and seemed to be about to leave, but Liu Shixin stopped him.

"Get out of the way." Li Xianyuan said, trying to avoid Liu Xixin.

"Captain Li, please match this couplet first. Otherwise, I won't be convinced by you, the prosecutor." Liu Xixin's tone was frivolous, and she put her arms across Li Xianyuan's body to prevent him from passing by.

Li Xianyuan ignored him, looked around Liu Shixin, and stared at a remote tea table outside the pavilion.

For some reason, Shen Da mingled with Situ Yanran again and waited aside. Situ Yanran was holding a brush and writing something on the rice paper on the case.

Silks of black mist curled up from the desk, filled with resentment.

Because Li Xianyuan became the focus, no one paid attention.

"Get out of the way." Li Xianyuan frowned and repeated.

"What if I don't let you?" Liu Xixin looked down at the slightly shorter Li Xianyuan with the eyes of a cat looking at a mouse, and raised his eyebrows slightly.
Chapter completed!