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321. Get ahead(1/3)

At the poetry meeting in Xuanpuyuan, the envoys of Wei and the poets of Liang had already compared more than twenty poems back and forth.

As the master, Xiao Yan had no "end" with his princes. He only smiled and watched these talents from Liang State meet with them. Zhu Yingtai, as the "sponsor", was doing the work of hosting, and was busy with his feet not touching the ground.

As a person who came in with the post, Ma Wencai naturally tried to make himself less conspicuous, as good as possible. After the poetry meeting began, he found a place that no one paid attention to. While using refreshments, he sorted out the information that Liang Shanbo had found for him in his mind.

Like Princess Changle, this princess seems to have special hobbies in matters between men and women.

Princess Changle pursues the pleasure of beingtrayal. This princess does not like young men, but likes older men. It is said that the faces she raises in the mansion are mostly mature and handsome middle-aged people between forty and fifty years old.

There are many ridiculous princesses in this world, but whether it is Shanyin Princess or other princesses, they are mostly young and strong faces. It is rare for them to like old men like her.

After all, if the average life expectancy is only about 30 years old, people in their forties or fifties are already old men.

Thinking of this, it is understandable that Princess Yongxing posted her father's name when she was in the same room with her husband. You should know that the father of the husband was also a famous handsome man in the country in the past. The two families were still family friends, so it is reasonable for Princess Yongxing to have any thoughts about Yin Jun's father.

Just thinking about this, Ma Wencai was very disgusting.

Ma Wencai inquired about a lot of news, some of which were official data, while others were well-informed Rangers from the Pei family.

It is said that Princess Yongxing is also quite attached to Linchuan King Xiao Hong. In short, the relationship is not normal. However, Xiao Hong has never lacked female sex and is not interested in Princess Yongxing. Even if she is interested, she will avoid her after being pestered a few times. In short, there is no place where Princess Yongxing can never be seen.

Princess Yongxing was Xiao Yan's first child and the eldest princess, so she was naturally favored by thousands of people. The emperor obeyed her in a vain. She was able to bully the prince consort so badly. In addition to being a prince, the bigger reason was that she was the same prince, and she had many guards in the mansion. These people only followed her orders and were considered an amazing armed force in the capital.

If he was unlucky to get into such a person, he would be like offending a poisonous snake in the dark. No one knows whether he would rush up and bite you one day.

Ma Wencai was drinking Ganquan water slowly, and suddenly someone knocked heavily on his back. When he looked back, he found that it was Hua Yao and Chu Xiang.

Seeing that these two people were standing together, Ma Wencai looked strange:

"You guys are..."

"I am impatient with what poetry I am doing. The princess started chatting with a girl over there. I went here to get some breath and happened to meet Chu Xiang."

Hua Yao stretched out his hand and pointed at Liu Lingxian, who had a great chat with Princess Lanling, "Can you know that woman?"

When Ma Wencai saw that it was Liu Lingxian, he nodded: "That is the sister of Master Liu of the East Palace. She is the only one in the Dianke Order that received you this time, which shows how much the prince attaches importance to her."

He asked Hua Yao curiously: "What are they discussing? It seems that they are having a good conversation?"

"Are you talking about which man in Jiankang is the best?"

A strange look appeared on Hua Yao's face.

"Anyway, I'm not very interested."

Lanling was responsible for marriage, and she hoped to marry a more reliable family. Even Wang Xiezhi's family had many muds that could not be supported by the wall. Liu Lingxian, who was born in the world, was familiar with the situation of Jiankang, so she was right to ask her...

It's just a topic to discuss...

Hua Yao scratched her face and coughed dryly.

There were constant cheers and quietness on the other side. Chu Xiang was talking to Hua Yao, mostly asking about the six towns, while Ma Wencai was paying attention to Zhu Yingtai who ran before and after, and sighed that she was getting more and more comfortable doing this job now.

At this moment, it seemed that the Liang State was stumped by some problem. The scene was a little heavy for a moment. The Wei people were proud. Xiao Tong, the prince of the Eastern Palace, suddenly pushed Zhu Yingtai out.

Ma Wencai said "huh", stood up and walked towards the envoys. Hua Yao saw that it was Zhu Yingtai, and he laughed:

"Oh, it's Zhu Xiaolang. How is his poem written? It should be amazing to have the prince named it alone, right?"

Chu Xiang shook his head in wonder.

"I haven't heard of any poetry."

When he got closer, Ma Wen found out what the scene was.

It turned out that the two sides gave each other questions, and they had more than 20 songs to meet each other, and the topic became more and more biased. Later, the Liang State asked Wei State to sing "Jiangnan" with the title "Wu Song". Wei State refused to give in, and also asked Liang State to sing "Heishan" with the title "Gonggangs and horns and songs".

This is a bit fucked.

Many envoys from Wei State never came down to the Yangtze River in their lives, let alone saw the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River; the people of Liang State had never fought to the north, so naturally they didn't know what Black Mountain looked like.

Moreover, both sides were very tricky in the questions. The south asked northerners to write "Jiangnan" in the Wu language tune, while the Wei State asked southerners to sing "Heishan" in the form of drums and horns and sings.

Drum and horns are a kind of military music, which is mostly used to celebrate or pray for victory. There is no such custom in the south.

Both sides cursed in their hearts and thought they were not in line with each other, so even if they were in a balance, they knew that there was a father in the Wei ranks who was an envoy who was once an official of the Southern Dynasties and was plundered to the north due to war. He actually met this poem in Wu language.

Now, Liang State is in a difficult situation.

The people selected by Liang State have reached their peak in the themes of Xuanyan, landscape, traveling to immortals, and public banquets. They have prepared countless poems that can be dealt with for this poetry meeting, but in terms of military lyrics, they are still singing in Heishan, and they all look embarrassed.

So Zhu Yingtai, who was "very anxious" was pushed out.

When Zhu Yingtai was launched, he was completely confused.

If she hadn't been helping the prince to practice "Wenxuan" in Xuanpu Garden, she might not have known what it was to play drums and horns horizontally. Even if she knew, she would now let her write a song temporarily and write a big-headed ghost!

If she was asked to plagiarize the lyrics of later generations, "What can I do to make the flying general in Longcheng be there, and I will not teach Hu horses to cross Yinshan" and so on, but what is the occasion now?

Just write poems and talk about the romantic relationship between the two sides, but what about singing "I don't teach Hu horses to cross the Yin Mountains" here? Is this a problem?

What if Wei thought it was a provocation by Liang, what if the army was in anger?

No matter how stupid she is, she knows that she is asking for peace this time!

If you don’t fall into the prestige of Liang State, you can’t make the people of Wei feel uncomfortable. You have to limit the subject matter, style, and type...

She is just an ordinary civil servant who does odd jobs!

Seeing that Zhu Ying was fighting against the gods and men on the table, standing on the field without saying a word, everyone was impatient and began to whisper.

"Who is this? Isn't this the young man who has been copying poems for us before?"

"He is from the East Palace? He looks quite young, which man from the family?"

"Can this baby face be able to make drums and horns and sway the song?"

Seeing that Zhu Yingtai was not open, the third prince Xiao Gang was also anxious and kept urging her: "Yingtai, just write one. You are the best poet in Xuanpu Garden, how can you not write a single poem?"

The prince who pushed her out also frowned and was very unhappy.

He usually hides his weaknesses, and can be said to have a seclusion style, but now he is still hidden in such occasions, just because he is ungrateful. What's more, he is very polite to Zhu Yingtai, so he should always repay his kindness, right?

As soon as Ma Wen saw the prince's face, he knew that the other party was already angry. He slowly walked through the crowd and said loudly: "I have one!"

In an instant, everyone looked at Ma Wencai in unison.

"Can you chant poetry?"

Xiao Zong sneered, "Don't make another strategy!"

Ma Wencai bowed to the emperor and gave Zhu Yingtai a wink, then he spoke slowly:

"Jiji and Jiji, Mulan weaves the same family..."

Uh? This was not what I gave to Mr. Yao Hua at Kuaiji Academy last time...

Zhu Yingtai suddenly raised his head.

"What? Aren't you going to write about Montenegro? Why did you weave cloth?"

"This Ma Wencai won't be crazy about becoming famous, right?"

Several officials from Liang State said angrily.

"I don't hear the sound of the loom, but I hear the sigh of the girl..."

"What do you think about the girl? What do you remember? I saw the military post last night, and the Khan pointed his troops..."

When the Wei people were both shocked when they heard the "military post" and "selected troops". Even Princess Lanling, who had been chatting with Liu Lingxian, stopped chatting and Ma Wencai, who was paying attention to the poem.

"I left the Yellow River in the morning, and reached the head of the Heishan Mountain in the evening. I didn't hear my grandmother calling a female voice, but I heard the sound of Huqiu in Yanshan... "

When everyone arrived here, they finally understood that what he was going to celebrate was Mulan, the legendary female general of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so their expressions became complicated.

Speaking of this female general, the attitudes of the Southern and Northern Dynasties were completely opposite. The envoy of the Wei State never expected that Ma Wencai actually chose to choose the topic with Mulan as the protagonist.

Zhu Yingtai's mind was full of "It's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over,

"...Male rabbits' feet are shaky, female rabbits' eyes are blurred; two rabbits walk by the ground, how can I tell if I am male or female?"

After a poem was finished, the audience was silent.

After Ma Wencai finished chanting this poem, he saw that Zhu Yingtai's face was so red that it was about to explode, so he quickly bowed to the emperor and the prince:

"This poem is called "Mulan Ci", which is..."

He was about to say that it was written by Zhu Yingtai, but Princess Lanling suddenly interrupted him.

"This envoy, you..."

Princess Lanling interrupted him, looked at him with a complicated expression, and then looked at her own wedding general.

She still remembers that this man once brought General Hua back with him. She had been to the embassy every day to ask General Hua about his well-being, and ran very diligently.

The same is true for the people of Wei. It was clearly Mulan Ci who was Ma Wencaiyong, but their eyes kept looking at the direction behind him.

Ma Wencai looked back for no reason.

"What do they think of the flowers?"

His face suddenly changed.

"It's bad. Zhu Yingtai once gave this Yuefu poem to Hua Yao. If Hua Yao doesn't want to chant this poem, they all know?"
To be continued...
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