Shouren Academy.
Xu Qingnian came to Chen Xinghe’s room with a copy of a letter.
“Senior brother?”
Chen Xinghe, who was painstakingly studying poetry, was a little curious and looked at Xu Qingnian with some confusion.
“Senior brother, take this envelope, there are seven copies in total. Today’s Taiping Poetry Competition, senior brother will not participate.”
“But I have made a poem of all the poems you have chosen, if you choose the right one, you will open the envelope.”
“Remember, you can only open one envelope, more than that won’t work, so I’m sorry for your trouble, senior brother.”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth, stating the purpose of his coming here.
But when he said this, Chen Xinghe was a little confused.
“Senior brother? You’re not participating?”
“Everyone is waiting for you in today’s poetry competition, and you’re actually not coming? What’s this Ten Kingdoms Great Talent going to say then.”
Chen Xinghe smacked his lips a little, such an important event, Xu Qingnian actually did not come? This is really some …… The reason is that everyone was waiting for Xu Qingnian.
The reason is that everyone is waiting for Xu Qingnian to come over, the people of Great Wei are eagerly awaiting, but they did not expect Xu Qingnian to come, how is this not embarra*sing.
“Senior brother, senior brother has to be busy with a big event that involves the rivers and mountains and the people.”
“That’s why senior brother won’t be attending the Taiping Poetry Festival.”
Xu Qingnian looked very serious as he explained to Chen Xinghe.
When these words were spoken, Chen Xinghe fell into thought, but soon he understood that Xu Qingnian would not lie, and was even more clear that Xu Qingnian was indeed working for the Great Wei Dynasty now.
It was a matter of rivers and mountains and involved the people, so naturally it was a hundred times more important than the Taiping Poetry Society, so it was only natural that he would not go.
“Fine, senior brother, then I will go to the Taiping Poetry Competition today for you.”
Chen Xinghe nodded and agreed, while dropping his gaze on the seven letters.
“Why can’t this letter be opened?”
Chen Xinghe continued to ask, somewhat curious.
“I have sealed the talent qi with my literary weapon, the Spring and Autumn Brush, if I open it and the talent qi pours in, I am only afraid that it will cause bad repercussions.”
“In short, senior brother, remember, no matter what, don’t open it, these seven letters, represent seven test questions, if you really don’t win any of them, I beg you to come back to Drunken Man House to find me.”
Xu Qingnian explained.
The people from the three major chambers of commerce had chosen the meeting address at the Drunken Full House, which was exactly opposite to the Li Yang Palace.
“Good!”
Chen Xinghe nodded and didn’t say anything more.
“Thank you for your trouble.”
Xu Qingnian paid a bow before turning around to leave.
“Senior brother is polite.”
Chen Xinghe replied, before getting up and seeing Xu Qingnian leave Shouren Academy, before then dropping his gaze on the seven letters on this table.
Each letter had a title written on it, but there was one thing that Chen Xinghe didn’t quite believe.
It wasn’t that he didn’t believe in his senior brother’s literary skills, but Xu Qingnian was a little too confident when he said he couldn’t open them all, right?
He knew that his senior brother had amazing talent, but there was no need to be like this, what could be done if he really split it up?
“Senior brother, senior brother, you’re too high profile, you need to learn to keep a low profile just like senior brother, sigh!”
Chen Xinghe lamented in his heart, thinking that his senior brother was too high profile, his words and actions were a bit pompous, he had to learn from himself, wasn’t it good to keep a low profile?
Of course, Chen Xinghe was only thinking about it casually, the seven letters were still well stored, if they won the question, then they would open it, if they did not win then they would go and find their own senior brother.
Soon, it was getting late and it was gradually coming to 10 o’clock.
Today’s Liyang Palace was even more lively than the previous three days. The number of people entering the palace remained the same, but the people couldn’t help but come and join in the fun.
Apart from the first day, when a large number of people watched from outside the Liyang Palace, there were no more people on the next two days.
The literati of Great Wei and the literati of the Ten Kingdoms have reached a point of incompatibility, and the people of Kyoto despise the literati of the Ten Kingdoms.
All in all, the literati of the Ten Kingdoms were too disgusting.
On the first day of the Peace Poetry Competition, Wei won, so it was a 50/50 split, so you could lose face and I could lose face.
You can’t expect Great Wei to lose face, can you?
On the second day of the Peace Poetry Competition, although Wei still came first, eight of the top ten were your Ten Kingdoms’ talent, so by definition, we have lost, and your Ten Kingdoms’ talent is not at a disadvantage, right?
As for your argument that it’s unreasonable, fine, we can take our time and talk about it, but what about you? You just turn your back and walk away, not giving any face? Is this the quality of your ten great talents?
On the third day, you came up with a poem on the state, and Hua Xinyun said he would compose another poem, but since Minister Chen Zhengru had already said that the limit was one poem per person, you refused.
Xu Qingnian came, a poem for a thousand years, are already like this, but what we did not expect is that you people directly slander Xu Qingnian, the poem is already done, it is someone leaked the question in advance.
Crooked Day.
According to this, our Great Wei is biased as long as we take first place? Is that a leaked question? According to this conspiracy theory, who can explain it clearly?
So the literati and the people of Great Wei are furious, really disgusted, and when they show their real strength, you say that the questions were leaked, and when we are neck and neck and you have the advantage, you say that you are biased?
How can you shut up?
Today, at the poetry competition, everyone was expecting Xu Qingnian to come out and slap these people in the face with another famous poem, and swell their faces.
Because of this, many people gathered outside the Liyang Palace, not even attending the temple fair, and even many restaurant owners, including some hawkers, came to witness this grand event, preferring not to do business.
Of course, they said this, but in reality they were still afraid, afraid that Xu Qingnian would lose, afraid that the Great Wei would lose.
If that were to happen, it would be a great shame.
Little by little, time pa*sed.
As the gates of Liyang Palace slowly opened, all the literati and the people walked into the palace.
The pool was filled with 10,000 catties of wine, and many people in the palace had prepared wine and liquor for fear that Xu Qingnian might improvise a poem and run out of wine.
Many of the people even prepared their own wine, just in case Xu Qingnian needed to drink.
The crowd entered.
The crowd entered, singing and dancing, and music was played.
The great scholars of the Palace of Literature appeared first, followed by the six ministers in turn, but Gu Yan, the minister of the Ministry of Household, did not appear, and finally, the deans of the four academies appeared one after another.
The crowd appeared and looked at the crowd on the stage, their eyes searching again, not just him, but in fact there were quite a few people watching each other at the poetry session.
All of them were searching for one gaze.
Xu Qingnian.
Especially the great talents of the ten kingdoms, they didn’t say anything either, they were just looking to see where Xu Qingnian was.
Only when they looked around, they just didn’t see Xu Qingnian’s figure.
“Shouren wouldn’t have been dragged away by that old thing Gu Yan, would he?”
“Yeah, that old guy Gu Yan didn’t come either, and Shouren didn’t show up, so he couldn’t have been dragged away to talk business, could he?”
“At this time, Shang Shu Gu dragged Shou Ren away? Isn’t that sick? What nonsense.”
The Minister of Penalty, the Minister of War and the others couldn’t help but speak up, as soon as they arrived they found out that Gu Yan was up to something, and since they didn’t see Xu Qingnian afterwards, they naturally thought that Xu Qingnian had been dragged away by Gu Yan.
“Don’t say anything yet, Shouren won’t mess around, trust him.”
Chen Zhengru spoke up, telling the rest of the Shang Shu not to say anything and to attend the feast honestly, and that it would not be too late to look for Xu Qingnian’s figure after the feast was over.
When this was said, the crowd nodded their heads.
Amongst the crowd, although Mu Nanping did not find Xu Qingnian, he did see Chen Xinghe.
At that moment, Mu Nanping walked over with his sister, Mu Nan Lime.
“Brother Chen, where is Brother Xu?”
Mu Nanping opened his mouth and asked Chen Xinghe, a curious look in his eyes.
“This way.”
Chen Xinghe sensed some people’s gazes, before pulling Mu Nanping to the side.
The two people followed them at once, followed by Chen Xinghe before he pressed his voice and said.
“Senior brother is not coming, he has other important matters and asked me to come over to handle today’s poetry session.”
Chen Xinghe said so.
But when this was said, Mu Nanping and Mu Nanlei froze a little.
“Let you come? What are you doing here? Isn’t this a disgrace?”
Mu Nan lei spoke very straight and subconsciously spoke.
Chen Xinghe: “……”
In an instant, Chen Xinghe’s face changed as he looked at Mu Nanlii, pretty as she was, so what? Are you so humiliating to people? What do you mean by disgraceful?
Even if I am not good enough, I am still ranked twenty-first in the First Provincial Examination of the New Dynasty of the Great Wei Dynasty in the South Yu Province, okay? Can you reach this ranking? What the hell.
“Brother Chen, don’t be angry, my little sister speaks straight.”
“Little sister, don’t be like this in the future.”
Mu Nanping reprimanded, but this was even more unpleasant for Chen Xinghe to hear, what do you mean by speaking straight?
What do you mean? Do you also think that I, Chen, am here to embarra*s myself?
Chen Xinghe did not say anything, his face was clear and proud, but inwardly he was very difficult, he wanted to be angry, but after all, the other party was the son of Yongping, he still needed to know more people in Kyoto, he wanted not to be angry, but he was holding his stomach full of anger.
“Brother Chen, why isn’t Brother Xu coming? What’s the big deal that even the Peace Poetry Party doesn’t come to attend?”
“Today I heard that the ten great talents of the ten countries have prepared a lot, almost raising the strength of the ten countries to fight against Xu Qingnian, they gathered together yesterday, I don’t know what they discussed.”
“And where they are, the talent is overwhelming, I’m only afraid that there will be at least a few Zhen Guo poems today.”
“Brother Chen, if Brother Xu doesn’t come today, I’m only afraid that the Great Wei literary world will be unstable.”
“Why don’t you go and find Brother Xu, otherwise, if something happens, Great Wei will be reduced to a joke ah.”
Mu Nanping spoke, his tone carrying some begging.
“No need.”
“Senior brother has already made a backhand, look.”
Chen Xinghe took out the seven envelopes Xu Qingnian had prepared.
“What is this?”
Mu Nanping was a little curious.
“Senior brother has made preparations, yesterday he asked me to bet on the questions, I bet on five questions, and senior brother wrote seven poems, which are in this.”
“If you succeed in betting on the questions, just open the envelope and respond.”
Chen Xinghe said confidently.
“Let you bet on the questions?”
However, Mu Nanping instantly caught the point and was full of disbelief, after all, if it was Xu Qingnian himself who bet on the questions, he would still believe it, but to let Chen Xinghe bet on the questions?
No way!
In an instant, Mu Nanping took the envelopes and looked at them one by one.
[Reason], [Wind and Moon], [Sorrow], [Jian You] ……
D*mn you.
If he was told that it was Chen Xinghe’s bet on the questions, he was half cold, but after reading Chen Xinghe’s bet on the questions, he was directly cold.
What the hell kind of question is this.
And reason? This is the Peace Poetry Competition, what does it have to do with reasoning?
It’s over, it’s over, this time it’s all over.
Mu Nanping felt that this time he was really cold, completely finished.
“Brother Mu, what do you mean by this expression?”
“I respect you as Yongping Shizi, but I never thought that you would humiliate me like this.”
Chen Xinghe was a little huffy, is there any end to this, betting on a question and you are going to say me?
“Brother Chen, don’t be angry, don’t be angry, my son is just a bit anxious.”
“Alas! Alas! Alas!”
Mu Nanping immediately explained, but even though he said so, he was still depressed.
Chen Xinghe did not say anything, he would see the result later, there was no need to argue with such people here, it was really degrading.
Clang!
Also at that moment, with the slight ringing of a bell.
At that moment, Sun Jing’an, the great scholar of the Palace of Literature, slowly stepped out and said.
“The poetry competition is about to begin.”
“For this poetry competition, the rules have been temporarily modified so that the great talents of the ten countries will send their representatives, and the literati of Great Wei will send their representatives, and each will choose a topic for it.”
Sun Jing’an’s voice rang out, this time for the poetry competition, the rules were temporarily modified, and that rule was to give ten questions for the ten great talents of the ten countries to come and compose poems for Great Wei, and Great Wei would also pick a question for you to compose.
Don’t you think we will leak the questions? It is not possible that we have prepared ten poems of a thousand years old, is it? If you have to say so, then there is really no trace of Confucian character.
Sure enough, once this rule came out, quite a few voices followed.
“Now we’ll have to see how the readers of the ten kingdoms are going to explain themselves.”
“Hardly forcing Great Wei to change the rules, don’t lose again.”
“If this still dares to say we leaked the questions, they won’t be able to walk out of Kyoto.”
“Hmph, a bunch of sore losers.”
The whispers of the people rang out, changing the rules was not a good thing, but a sign of weakness, but there was nothing you could do about it, if you didn’t change the rules, no matter what the result was, the gang would definitely be looking for all kinds of excuses.
You can’t afford to lose.
Hearing the voices of the people, the faces of the great talents of the ten countries did not change, but instead they showed a cold smile.
“When it comes to really asking the question, why do you want to change the rules? It’s still too ugly to do it yourself?”
“That’s right, that’s right, if there was really no favouritism and leaked questions, why did they have to be amended? In the end there’s still a ghost in your heart.”
“But the way it looks now, they shouldn’t dare to leak the questions.”
“Not necessarily, it mainly depends on this Xu Qingnian.”
The voices of the ten great talents of the ten kingdoms rang out, although Great Wei had modified the rules, they were still somewhat unconvinced.
But when these words were spoken, the Great Wei literati were furious.
“What kind of words are you guys saying? The rules have been amended, and you are still shouting here?”
“Since you hold such thoughts, then stop comparing and just get lost you guys.”
“Really, just get lost straight away.”
“You people, you are really disgusting, it’s already this time and you’re still saying such things.”
The Great Wei literati really couldn’t stand it anymore, before they said they were biased, then they said they leaked the questions, now well, it’s come to this, they’ve changed the rules for you guys, and you’re still saying we leaked the questions?
How can we play this game?
Get lost straight away and don’t come and compete.
A chorus of voices rang out, and the people, the Great Wei literati, were furious.
It was too infuriating.
“We didn’t say anything, and straight away we’re in a hurry?”
“Just saying a word is like poking you guys in the gut… If you didn’t leak the questions, you didn’t leak the questions, don’t you understand?”
“Is that all you guys do in Great Wei? If you really didn’t have one, would you still be afraid of people questioning it?”
The voices of the ten great talents of the ten kingdoms rang out, they too were not convinced, they only said a few words, if you have no shame in asking questions, why do you need to be like this?
In an instant, the scene was instantly uproarious.
Both sides cursed and battled.
At the banquet, Sun Jing’an saw this scene and could not help but frown.
“Silence!”
Sun Jing’an spoke, and as a great Confucian, he gave an order and the scene was indeed under control.
“For Confucians, this kind of noise, how can you make such a fuss when others say a word or two?”
“Especially you, I am a Confucianist, you are all scholars of Wei, but you are all chattering and arguing here, turning the poetry meeting into a scandal.”
“Where have you all been reading all these years? You might as well not have read at all.”
“If anyone makes any more noise, they will all go out and disgrace the face of Wei.”
The first sentence was a scolding of everyone, but later on he reprimanded all the civil servants of Great Wei, saying that they were uncouth and noisy, just like shrews.
Of course, he did this because of two things.
One, what if this group of people left again? Then should the Peace Poetry Festival continue? If Great Wei had lost its people, his Palace of Literature had also lost its people.
Secondly, this kind of noise does not reflect the Confucian style of Wei at all, it is simply a disgrace.
Even Hua Xinyun, who was in the crowd, frowned slightly because Sun Jing’an had gone too far.
How dare you, people are bullying us? How dare you act like this? Even if you don’t help your own people, you are still reprimanding us?
They looked at Sun Jing’an, but they did not have Xu Qingnian’s courage to angrily rebuke the great Confucian, so they could only hold their anger in their hearts, for a great Confucian was a great Confucian, no matter what.
The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the actual situation.
But what Sun Jing’an did was indeed ungenerous, reprimanding his own people? Helping an outsider? Even if it was for the sake of saving face, it wasn’t necessary to do so, was it?
Even though Wei was in decline, it was not so bad that it did not even have this kind of backbone, right?
“If only Xu Qingnian were here, I think he would have gone straight for it according to his temper.”
“En, I now feel that if Brother Shouren were here, these people would dare to shout?”
“It suddenly dawned on me that although Brother Xu is arrogant, he is protective of his shortcomings, if we were on good terms with Brother Xu, Brother Xu would definitely be partial to us.”
“Don’t even say favouritism, we didn’t do anything wrong in this matter either, if Brother Shouren was here, he would have directly helped us out of this bad temper.”
Some people opened their mouths and whispered, their voices were very small, but in an instant they spread, and the crowd were a little disgusted with each other, really disgusted, being angrily rebuked by the great scholars of their own families.
And then they looked at the great talents of the ten countries, each one smug and even smiling, what a B*tch.
So it suddenly occurred to everyone that if Xu Qingnian was here, I guess the Ten Great Talents of the Ten Kingdoms would not dare to speak, and even according to Xu Qingnian’s temper, these Ten Great Talents of the Ten Kingdoms would have to be beaten up.
Unfortunately, Xu Qingnian was not here.
Yes, where had Xu Qingnian gone? Why didn’t he come? Could it be that he was also disgusted by the Ten Kingdoms Great Talent? Or was it something?
At this moment, the Great Wei literati were somewhat curious and at the same time very sad in their hearts; inexplicably, they had an indescribable good feeling towards Xu Qingnian.
“Alright, choose the topic.”
It was also at this moment that Chen Zhengru’s voice rang out, his brow slightly furrowed, feeling that Sun Jing’an had gone a little too far, but he could not say anything, and there was nothing he could do if he thought about it.
He could only tell Dou Shi to be quicker.
“The ten great talents of the ten countries have sent someone up to choose the topic.”
Sun Jing’an did not have any reaction, he sensed the discontent of the Great Wei literati, but so what? He himself represented the Great Wei Literary Palace, and the Great Wei Literary Palace represented the fifth sage, in other words, he represented the saints.
They were unhappy, so what? Did one do wrong? No.
Because one is standing in the position of the state, standing in the position of the saints to reprimand, others shouting, let others shout ah, keep arguing with each other, does not it look like one does not have a bit of great power style?
As for personal feelings? Are you worthy of it?
As a great Confucian, he did not dare to have personal emotions. Standing on the position of the state, standing on the position of the saints, sometimes he could only shut up even when he was at a disadvantage, let alone these people.
As for whether they dare to make a scene or not? No!
Because one represents a saint, would they dare to make trouble with a saint?
This was Sun Jing’an’s bottom line and thoughts.
At that very moment, among the great talents of the ten kingdoms, someone stepped out, it was the number one talent of Jin, Wang Shuo.
He slowly walked up to the banquet table and bowed towards Sun Jing’an, very respectfully.
This obeisance was somewhat deliberate, and was meant for the literati of Great Wei.
“Wang Shuo, you choose the questions.”
Sun Jing’an opened his mouth and said so.
The latter didn’t think much of it, and directly swept through the test questions.
And at this moment, everyone was slightly nervous, the most nervous person was Chen Xinghe under the banquet.
And Mu Nanping.
After all, if this betting question was wrong, it would be the end.
Chen Xinghe was a little nervous, and he kept praying in his heart that he would succeed in his bet, and the paper in his hand was trembling slightly.
But just then, finally Wang Shu spoke.
“Let’s take Wind and Moon as the topic.”
Wang Shuo opened his mouth, and he chose this topic.
The voice rang out and everyone was a little curious. Among the crowd, Chen Xinghe was the first to look at the envelope in his hand.
Mu Nanping also came up, looking at the envelope with dead eyes to see if he had bet on it.
“Yes! Yes! There!”
Chen Xinghe instantly found the word [Wind and Moon], he had won!
What a good guy, he was worthy of being the king of the Great Wei in betting on questions.
This was even a hit.
Chen Xinghe was actually too nervous, otherwise, he wouldn’t have failed to remember his bet.
“Good guy.”
Mu Nanping at the side also couldn’t help but murmur, he didn’t expect that Chen Xinghe had actually succeeded in betting on the question, which was really …… What a good guy.
However, he did not make a sound and was slightly relieved.
And at that moment, above the banquet, Wang Shu spoke again.
“By the way, Sun Ru, can you make a request, since the wind and moon is the topic, the poem must have the words wind and moon in it, and they cannot be linked together, they must be separated, how about that?”
“Of course, if the Great Wei is not willing to agree, it does not matter, if it does, it can also make a similar request to us.”
Wang Yu suddenly spoke up and said so to Sun Jing’an.
When this was said, the entirety of Great Wei was somewhat offended.
What was the meaning of this statement? Didn’t it mean that they were afraid that Great Wei would leak the questions?
This is a disgusting approach.
The six ministers all frowned, and were really unhappy. This Wang Shu seemed to be a proposal, but in fact it was still a mockery of the leaking of questions by Great Wei.
If they said yes, they would be pa*sive.
If they didn’t, they would be disgusted.
But normally, if you have some backbone, you shouldn’t agree to anything you say. Do you really think I have no backbone in Great Wei?
Chen Zhengru wanted to speak up, but at that moment, Sun Jing’an spoke up.
“Good.”
He replied blandly, a good word, and agreed to it.
For no other reason than to ask for a clear conscience, and not to be afraid of you adding any settings.
But once this was said, the crowd could not help but frown in their hearts again.
“This is very good, if this loses, we are convinced.”
“Sun Ru, you really have the style of a great scholar.”
Wang Yu smiled and bowed towards Sun Jing’an.
Sun Jing’an did not have an expression, but looked towards the Great Wei students and said, “You and others come up and choose your questions.”
The voice rang out and the crowd looked at me, I looked at you, they really did not want to go up, or they were disgusted by the great talents of the Ten Kingdoms, but many eyes fell on Hua Xinyun.
After all, he was the most talented person of the young generation of Great Wei, apart from Xu Qingnian.
Sensing the gazes of the crowd, Hua Xinyun exhaled a breath and prepared to go up to choose the question, but just then, a voice rang out.
“Xu Qingnian, Senior Xu has said that if there is a session to pick the test questions, let the Ten Kingdoms literati pick them themselves, lest they say they are bullying him.”
As the voice rang out, in an instant the eyes of the entire audience fell in the middle of the corner.
It was Chen Xinghe.
En.
Being disgusted by the Ten Kingdoms Great Talents all the time, Chen Xinghe couldn’t help himself, Xu Qingnian had never said this at all, but he had put his words out today, and he was also speaking on behalf of Xu Qingnian.
He believed Xu Qingnian would say the same thing, plus now that he had successfully bet on the question, who else was he afraid of? Who was he afraid of? Who was he afraid of?
“Xu Qingnian is his senior brother?”
“Who is this guy? I didn’t expect Xu Qingnian to be his senior brother?”
“This person has an extraordinary appearance, so I’m afraid he’s not a small person.”
“To be Xu Qingnian’s senior brother, he is naturally not an idle person.”
“Your Excellency, may I ask why Xu Shouren is not coming?”
“Yes, why didn’t Xu Shouren come?”
“Where is Brother Shouren?”
The crowd was curious, they didn’t expect Chen Xinghe to be Xu Qingnian’s senior brother, but they were even more curious as to why Xu Qingnian wasn’t coming.
When he felt the crowd’s gaze.
For some reason, Chen Xinghe inexplicably had an indescribable feeling, his aura gradually changed, becoming more arrogant, and his eyes were filled with an indifference.
This kind of look was not one of despising everyone present, but of thinking that everyone present was a hot chicken.
“Who are you? Why doesn’t Xu Qingnian dare to say this in person?”
“That’s right, where is Xu Qingnian? Why didn’t he show up today? Could it be that he’s afraid?”
“Heh, Xu Qingnian doesn’t dare to come out, so he asked his senior brother to come? Are they afraid of us?”
The talented sons of the Ten Kingdoms spoke up, after all, Chen Xinghe’s words inexplicably carried mockery, and coupled with this aura and look, it made them feel even more offended.
“Senior brother is indeed right.”
Chen Xinghe shook his head and muttered, as he took a few steps forward and quite a few people made way.
“What was said?”
Someone asked curiously.
“Senior said that the great talents of the ten countries are all frogs at the bottom of the well, and if it weren’t for His Majesty’s decree, he wouldn’t even want to come to this Peace Poetry Fair.”
“To compare with some frogs at the bottom of the well, even if you win, you lose your status.”
Chen Xinghe spoke indifferently, seriously pretending to be bleeped.
While the two siblings, Mu Nanping and Mu Nanlei, were somewhat silent, after all, Chen Xinghe’s words were too pretentious, and they did not think Xu Qingnian would say such things.
However, according to Xu Qingnian’s character, it was not impossible, but this change in Chen Xinghe’s temperament was too fast, right? Instantly turning into a bleeping king?
“You are unbridled!”
“How dare you insult us?”
“Great Confucian Sun, this man has spoken out of turn, is this what Great Wei is like?”
When the ten great talents of the ten kingdoms heard these words, they directly exploded, a frog at the bottom of the well? How could they not be angry at this public humiliation?
But the people of Great Wei as well as the literati of Great Wei were shouting in agreement.
“That’s right.”
“It’s a bunch of frogs at the bottom of the well, Brother Shouren is not wrong in a single word.”
“Good, good, good, Brother Shouren is worthy of being Brother Shouren.”
“I just said, why did Brother Shouren attend the day before yesterday, it turns out that His Majesty gave the decree, no wonder Brother Shouren showed up.”
“Alas, come to think of it, to deal with a group of mere dogs and chickens, to have Brother Shouren personally take part, it is our problem that has dragged Brother Xu down.”
The Great Wei literati were thoroughly applauding at this moment, the words were overbearing and they also fit Xu Qingnian’s persona perfectly.
But at the banquet, Sun Jing’an’s gaze was cold as he gazed at the Great Wei literati, and those who shouted their approval, one by one, shut up and bowed their heads, but their expressions looked a little ugly.
Soon, Sun Jing’an’s gaze fell on Chen Xinghe.
“Outspoken!”
He uttered four words, looking very majestic.
Feeling the great Confucian’s majesty, Chen Xinghe not only did not have any fear, but instead he stood up with his chest high and said.
“What is disrespectful?”
“Is it okay for a great talent from ten countries to humiliate us?”
“But it is not okay for us to humiliate him?”
“Great Confucian Sun, are you a Confucian of Wei or a Confucian of the Ten Kingdoms?”
“Furthermore, don’t press me with your crap, this is the Peace Poetry Festival, His Majesty has said that there is no honor in the Extreme Banquet, calling you a great Confucian is to respect you.”
“Otherwise, calling you Old Sun, what can you do?”
“It’s not like I, Mister Chen, am in the Zhu Sheng lineage, looking at me with such eyes? Do you think I, Chen, am afraid of you?”
The more Chen Xinghe pretended, the more energetic he became, this was the first time he had been in the limelight, the first time he had been praised and shouted at, so naturally, his brain got hot and he acted like Xu Qingnian, in style.
But when this was said, countless people couldn’t help but laugh.
There was something inexplicably comical about this old Sun calling, ah.
“Arrogant!”
“But you are not of the Zhu Sheng lineage, you have also read the sage books, you are a member of the Great Wei literati, you are also a disciple of the saints, there is no respect above the extreme feast, but you are a disciple of the saints, but you are so arrogant? Disrespecting the superior and the inferior?”
Sun Jing’an shouted, as a great Confucian, he was reprimanded by someone like Chen Xinghe who had not even entered the rank, this was simply a strange shame.
“Shut up!”
“I, Chen, am already a scholar of Heart Studies, not a disciple of a saint, and need not respect you as a great Confucian.”
“Do you know what teleology is?”
“It is the unity of knowledge and action!”
“If you dare to threaten Chen one more time, believe it or not, Chen will immediately write a poem to rebuke the rotten Confucian.”
Chen Xinghe had over-acted, and with a single sentence, he instantly regretted it.
How the hell could he know how to compose a poem?
However, when he said this, he made the blood of all the literati present in the Great Wei boil.
At the same time, they also believed that Chen Xinghe was Xu Qingnian’s senior brother, the two were simply carved out of the same template, wild and arrogant enough.
And what’s this heart study? Why does it sound so cool? Can you add me to it?
The crowd thought so in their minds.
“Alright!”
It was also at this point that Chen Zhengru spoke up, not wanting things to continue to get heated like this.
“In place of the Great Wei literati, I will choose the title for it.”
“Let’s choose Mountain and River, but the poem must also carry the word Mountain and River in it.”
Chen Zhengru spoke out and pressed the matter down.
This was because he had keenly noticed that there were already many scholars who were dissatisfied with Sun Jing’an, and even this dissatisfaction would turn into dissatisfaction with the Zhu Sheng lineage, and if this were the case, it would not be a good thing for the Great Wei Literary Palace.
“Begin!”
Sun Jing’an spoke with a cold face, followed by turning around and returning to his seat.
His heart was thundering with anger, but he didn’t know what to say anymore.
It was too unbearable for him to hold this anger in his heart.
And at that moment, Chen Xinghe’s gaze looked towards the Ten Kingdoms’ Great Talents and said in a cold tone.
“Let you guys go first, lest once my senior brother’s poetry comes out, you guys won’t have a chance.”
Chen Xinghe said this.
Such an arrogant expression made the ten great talents of the ten kingdoms vomit blood in anger, this man hadn’t even entered the cla*s, what made him so confident?
“It’s better to let your senior brother come.”
Someone among the Ten Kingdoms literati spoke up, in a disdainful tone.
“My senior brother is not coming, he has already prepared the poem.”
Chen Xinghe took out the seven letters and said so.
“Ready?”
“Already ready?”
“Hehe, a poem that is already written is no better than a thousand words, it seems Xu Qingnian is really afraid to come forward.”
“Yes, hahahahahahaha, I finally understand why Xu Qingnian doesn’t dare to come forward.”
The crowd laughed and spoke.
It was because something like poetry, once it involved a Zhen Guo poem and a thousand ancient famous poems, then when it was written out, it would gather visions and talents.
If you wrote it in advance, unless you wrote half of it and then let the Great Confucian of Heaven and Earth suppress it, otherwise, the talent energy would definitely leak out.
So they could be certain that Xu Qingnian’s poetry was, at most, only a thousand words.
If that was the case, then this Xu Qingnian was no longer a cause for concern.
It was not just them, in fact, the six ministers, including the great scholars and the deans of the four great academies were also a little worried, because the ten great talents of the ten kingdoms were right.
“Frogs at the bottom of the well.”
Chen Xinghe sneered, although he didn’t know if the poems inside this envelope were famous for a thousand years, he believed that the poems inside were, at the very least, Zhen Guo poems.
“A mouthful of frogs at the bottom of the well, then open the envelope and let us frogs at the bottom of the well grow eyes, but don’t just try to show off your words.”
The ten great talents of the ten kingdoms were disgusted by these words, for Chen Xinghe’s phrase “frog at the bottom of the well”, coupled with that gaze of indifference to the crowd, was too attractive to hatred.
“Yeah, let you guys be first.”
“Open the envelope, ah, you didn’t miss the question, did you?”
The great talents of the ten kingdoms shouted.
Hearing the voices of the crowd, Chen Xinghe was straightforward and directly took out the fourth letter, which read [Wind and Moon].
At this moment, everyone’s eyes fell on Chen Xinghe.
And at that moment, Chen Xinghe stopped his hand again and slowly looked at the Ten Kingdoms Great Talents.
“I’ll give you one last chance to come first, otherwise, there will really be no chance to regret later.”
Chen Xinghe said confidently.
Ten Kingdoms Great Talent: “…….”
D*mn you, demolish ah, why do you talk so much?
Why are you so confident?
The Ten Kingdoms Great Talent was so angry that his lungs hurt a little.
Seeing the appearance of the Ten Kingdoms Great Talent, Chen Xinghe did not talk nonsense, the opportunity had already been given, it was they themselves who did not cherish it.
At that moment, Chen Xinghe directly opened the envelope.
In a flash!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
An incomparable golden light was released from the envelope.
Rolling talent qi gushed out, turning into a river and pouring into the Li Yang Palace.
The entire hall was flooded with talent qi and shone with light.
“Another famous poem of a thousand years?”
“This! This! This!”
“This is impossible, why is a poem that has already been written out still a thousand ancient famous poem?”
“Why did Xu Qingnian make another thousand ancient famous poem?”
“Xu Shouren actually sealed his talent in it, this tactic, it’s truly terrifying.”
“He has a literary artifact that can seal the talent qi.”
In an instant, the palace crowd boiled over, no one would have thought that a poem that had already been written would still have talent energy, but someone soon reacted and understood why.
Xu Qingnian had sealed the talent qi within the words.
But what shocked the crowd the most was this.
Xu Qingnian was still able to produce the famous poem of a thousand years?
Should it be so outrageous?
Everyone was shocked, the six ministers, the great scholars, the deans of the four academies, the literati of Great Wei, the people of Great Wei, the great talents of the ten kingdoms, Mu Nanping Mu Nan Lime, and even Chen Xinghe himself were all shocked.
Because the most they expected was that this was a poem for the state, but they didn’t expect that it was still a famous poem for a thousand years.
And at that very moment, the Qi of talent surged and coalesced to reveal Xu Qingnian’s figure.
He stood in the middle of the palace.
His voice rang out.
“I want to tell you the date of my return, but I want to tell you that I will be miserable in spring.”
“Life is full of love, this hatred is not related to the wind and the moon.”
“Don’t rewrite the song of separation, one song can make your intestines knotted.”
“We must see all the flowers in Luoyang before we can easily part with the spring breeze.”
A faint voice rang out.
It was Xu Qingnian’s voice, reciting poetry.
When the voice fell.
An even more surging talent surged in, a thousand ancient poems, and then another thousand ancient famous poems.
“Excellent! Lord Xu, truly astonishing talent.”
“With Xu Shouren, the Great Wei will have a flourishing literary path for ten thousand years.”
“The heavens have not given birth to me, Xu Qingnian, the Confucian Way is like a long night. ……. Xu Qingnian, Xu Wangu, ah.”
“This man’s talent is astounding and earth-shattering, shaking the ancient world.”
People got up, each with shock in their eyes.
Xu Qingnian had given them too many shocks.
But the great talents of the Ten Kingdoms had gone mad.
They had been sure that they would win, but what they didn’t expect was that this could even produce a poem of ancient fame.
They were confident that they could produce the poem of the kingdom.
But they didn’t have the confidence to surpa*s a thousand famous poems.
Even if they had composed it, what could they do? People are in front, you are behind.
There is no ranking in a thousand ancient times, only time before and after.
In any case, you have lost.
A complete and utter loss.
“Leaked questions! This must be a leaked question! Why was he able to bet on the questions?”
“There’s definitely something wrong with this, how did he manage to bet on the question successfully?”
“Something’s wrong, something’s wrong, sealing the talent within the letter paper.”
“There must be something wrong here.”
The great talents of the ten kingdoms had lost their minds, and Xu Qingnian was another poem of ancient fame, how could they accept it?
But right at this moment, they still muttered that there was something wrong.
It wasn’t anything else, it was mainly that one person had composed so many thousand ancient famous poems in a row, was this possible?
It’s simply impossible.
“Is it a fake, just open the rest of the envelope, since he Xu Qingnian has the ability to make thousand ancient famous poems and dares to bet directly on the title, just look at the other letters.”
“If the first poem is really a thousand ancient, we will concede defeat, otherwise there is something wrong.”
Someone shouted, staring at the letter in Chen Xinghe’s hand and saying so.
Indeed, betting on seven poems and being so confident, if it was said that the six remaining letters were all thousand-year-old poems, then they had nothing to say.
But if the six letters were ordinary poems, or if there were no poems in them, then it was a forgery.
Thinking of this, many of the ten great talents of the ten kingdoms rushed over.
They pounced directly on Chen Xinghe.
In a flash, a figure rushed over, intending to directly take the epigraph in Chen Xinghe’s hand.
“Can’t!”
“You can’t open it!”
“Senior brother has said that it cannot be opened.”
Chen Xinghe held on for dear life.
But the other party was coming aggressively, and it looked like …… was going to be snatched away.
But when Chen Xinghe looked like this, it made the ten great talents of the ten kingdoms more and more suspicious.
“Rob!”
The next moment, the Ten Kingdoms Great Talents were even more fierce.
If it could be proven to be fake, then Great Wei would be completely disgraced.
This was their only chance to turn over a new leaf.
What else could they rely on?
By writing another famous poem for the ages?
Who would do it?
For a moment, the scene was in chaos.
And when the Great Wei literati took a look at the situation, they didn’t care about the situation and directly began to protect Chen Xinghe.
Because they …… were also afraid that there was a fake in this ah.
After all, Xu Qingnian is too unbelievable.
It really is possible to fake it ah.
