Chapter 181 The sound of wind and rain
Lu Jinping said: "There is no absolutely fair thing in the world. It is just that it can be as fair as possible. If you lose the courtesan because of the ordering, you can only blame God for not letting her be the name. ▲∴▲∴,"
Governor Feng also nodded and said, "That's right, no matter what the Lord said, it's all right, so let's start."
So the twenty-five girls drew lots in public. The ones who drew were naturally excited when they drew, and the ones who drew in front were extremely depressed.
After the order is arranged, the performance begins in sequence. Each person's performance time is limited to one cup of tea, and no one chooses one talent to display. These girls rack their brains to think about their best talents and best appreciate the skills that literati and Yake can show them to get their approval. In Tongzhou, they can gain a firm foothold and will quickly become popular throughout Tongzhou.
To win the praise of literati and elegant guests, of course, it is to show their talents in poetry and books. If this aspect is indeed not enough, then it is in singing and dancing, because being able to sing the poet's poems is graceful and singing, it can often win the favor of these literati and poets. Then there is singing and dancing, and then calligraphy and painting.
Therefore, most of them recite poems, essays and sings on the stage. There are many people who write lyrics and compose themselves. However, they are certainly not comparable to those of Qinlou women in the end, and they are of course incomparable to these literati and poets. Therefore, their poems can only make the smiles from the bottom of their hearts, but they don’t agree with them in their hearts.
Lu Jinping was amazed when he saw that these women had their own strengths in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs and essays.
Everyone was intoxicated by the sight, but Yunzi next to him leaned into Lu Jinping's ear and said, "Why are some of them wearing flowers on their heads and some of them not?"
Lu Jinping didn't notice this, but Yunzi noticed it. Lu Jinping was about to say he didn't know, but the rich man Ma who was sitting behind them came up and laughed and said, "Young Master Yun doesn't know anything. This is a rule in Qinlou. Anyone who doesn't bring flowers will sell their skills and not their bodies. Of course, those who wear flowers can pick up guests and stay overnight."
When Yunzi heard this, his pretty face turned red and stopped talking. Lu Jinping felt that it was a bit inappropriate to talk about this problem with a woman, so he should not look back at Ma Qianzhu.
The rich man Ma originally wanted to please him, so he explained it, but now he thought that this topic was not suitable to talk to a girl. He was smart but was a little nervous, and he couldn't help but feel a little upset.
At this moment, a young woman with excellent figure, exquisite and feminine appearance came on stage to show her talent. She held a pipa and played and danced, especially for dancing. Her body was extremely soft and could make many amazing moves, and she showed great softness, which attracted everyone's attention.
The woman wore a beautiful rose on her temples and a pair of red embroidered shoes on her feet. The tip of the shoe was inlaid with two red peonies made of red silk. It was this sign that made the men in the field look bright. They even heard the sound of swallowing saliva. After all, this woman was too angry.
When Zhang Qianzhu saw Lu Jinping, he looked at the woman, his eyes were shiny, and he hurried over and said with a smile: "Sir, this woman is called Feng Die. He is a famous actor invited by a villain from the capital for a lot of money. He plays the pipa well and is very good at dancing. He plays the pipa while dancing, which is a magical skill."
It seemed to be a footnote to Zhang Qianzhu's explanation. The woman had already fully demonstrated her soft skills on the stage, and she used various unexpected movements to play the piano. Her body was soft and she could not doubt whether she had no bones. The sound of the piano did not stop at all during the dance, which made people breathe.
When Feng Die finished playing and stepped down, everyone exclaimed and applauded.
The talent show continued, and the women followed each one to do their best, and the sound of singing and dancing in the wild and bamboo was endless.
When I was in full swing, suddenly, the glazed tiles on my head slammed, and there were crackling sounds outside the open window.
Yunzi shouted happily: "It's raining! It's not raining for many days. Look at the rainy situation, it's not small!"
The maids serving both sides were about to close the windows, but the governor Feng waved his hand and said, "Don't close it, just let the sound of wind and rain blow in, and then mix with music. That is the wonderful enjoyment. You can't get such a scenery, so why should you keep it out?"
Lu Jinping also nodded frequently and said, "Yes, the sound of wind and rain, singing and dancing are heard!"
Governor Feng fluttered his hands and said, "Sir, this is a wonderful couplet sentence, who can connect the next sentence?"
When he heard the words of governor Feng, he wanted someone to cater to Mr. Lu's first couplet. Zhu Yunniang was very well-behaved. A woman on the stage was playing the piano. She waved her hand quickly, and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly. Everyone's eyes looked at governor Feng and Lu Jinping.
Seeing that Governor Feng said this, all the elegant people present were so naturally not polite, so they all got up to go and talk. Various pairs emerged one after another, and dozens of them were said. Governor Feng frowned slightly, but he just shook his head frequently, and he felt that it was not touching his heart.
Although these literati and poets think that they are very talented, governor Feng is a local seal officer, and his literary talent is also well-known. Since he does not receive his praise, he naturally feels a little ashamed, although he is somewhat dissatisfied.
Seeing that everyone was almost talking, Feng stood up and walked to the window, looked out the window, chanting the first couplet Lu Jinping had just said, thinking in his mind how to meet such a good sentence. However, he turned around and thought about several second couplets, and none of them were very satisfied with them, so he sighed and looked back at Lu Jinping and said, "You have this first couplet, can you have the second couplet?"
This couplet is almost everyone knows in a modern society. It comes from Gu Xiancheng, the leader of the Donglin Party, a great writer in the Ming Dynasty. Lu Jinping just doesn't want to copy other people's things, nor does he want others to think that his literary talent is so great. If he really encounters a fight with articles, he will be in trouble. Therefore, he shook his head and said, "The article is natural, and I have obtained it by hand. I don't have the second couplet."
Unexpectedly, his words shocked everyone. These two wonderful lines of poetry. These literati and elegant guests were deeply touched. They often sat upright with their pens, burned incense with clean hands, brewed for a long time but didn't think of a single sentence, or they didn't feel satisfied with what they thought of, but often suddenly flashed inadvertently, and could write wonderful poems. Isn't this what was written by the natural master? Lu Jinping's two sentences fully expressed the pain and ecstasy of literati, and he couldn't help but stare at him in a daze.
Governor Feng also raised his thick eyebrows in surprise: "What a 'makeup hand', Master Lu, I have heard of your poetry, but I have never been able to understand it. I heard these two sentences today, it is really wonderful. If you are a woman who performs on this stage, I will give you all three taels of silver. Only you are worthy of the courtesan."
Everyone burst into laughter when they heard this. Of course, the laughter was more like praise. Most of them felt that Lu Jinping's poems were really serious.
These two lines of poetry, Lu Jinping originally wanted to mock Lu You, a famous poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, to ridicule these two lines, so he said it casually, but unexpectedly, it added to these people's impression of their great literary talent and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
After hearing these two sentences by Lu Jinping, General Feng heard him say this again, and probably there was no second couplet, so he stopped asking questions, came back and sat down, and signaled to continue.
In this way, with the sound of wind and rain outside, the singing and dancing talent performances in the hall were also wonderful. In the end, all the twenty-five girls showed their talents, which was really dazzling. Seeing these literati and elegant guests and celebrities and gentry admired them, they were only three votes, and hesitated for a moment and didn't know who to vote for. Their eyes swept to the faces of the twenty-five girls. Of course, the girls also knew that these people were thinking about who to vote for, so they posed one by one and two, and wanted to add some impression points.
As a result, Lu Jinping felt a little interested. He thought that most of them were not selling their own skills, not contaminated with dust, dignified and elegant appearance and unconventional singing and dancing. He thought that he was really a fairy who was not as good as the world. But when he saw them secretly sending out their misfortune and even showing off in order to win the name of a courtesan, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. After all, the woman in Qinlou is still the woman who is not unconventional!
Next, we voted, and went forward one by one in the order just now and put the silver in the boxes held in the three of the twenty-five women who valued them.
Lu Jinping had not yet determined who to choose, so he turned his head and looked at Yunzi and said, "Who do you choose?"
Yunzi said, "I have no idea, what about you?"
Lu Jinping had no idea, so he asked her this, but when he heard that she had no idea to ask herself in turn, it was hard to say that she had no idea. It seemed so unmanly, so he smiled and pointed to three people according to his previous impression, saying that their talents were relatively better.
After he said this, he felt that his judgment was outstanding, because two of these three were not worn, but they were not selling their skills but not selling themselves. Such women often spent all their kung fu on their talents, and naturally they were more skilled than other women. However, the only woman he chose to pick up customers was Fengdie, the most charming Fengdie, who had the most charming skills of rebounding pipa, and the most attractive one among the twenty-five women.
He had sighed before that these women looked pure and secular, but now he realized that the person he was pointing to was the most feminine Fengdie. He realized that men still liked this kind of charming woman who exuded feminine all over her body at first glance, and he thought of the fancy woman who looked like the bed.
As expected, the final result of the vote was that the most charming woman Feng Die received the most rewards. She became the courtesan tonight without any suspense. Her soft and boneless rebounding pipa dance is the most impressive.
Chapter completed!