All eyes in the Phoenix Tower were drawn towards Huang Jinze.
"Brother Shao Yang's poem "Phoenix Tower" describes the peace of our Huang Kingdom, but how can the world be at peace? Have you forgotten those soldiers guarding the border? Huang is not talented, so he dedicated a poem to the bleeding men of the Huang Kingdom!" Huang Jinze
With a sharp gaze, he looked at Shao Yang.
Shao Yang only felt a pain in his eyes, and subconsciously took two steps back, with a gloomy expression on his face.
There was no quarrel between him and Huang Jinze on weekdays, and they would even take the initiative to say hello when they saw each other, but it was obvious that this time the target was him.
Shao Yang could hear the implication, which meant that the soldiers on the border were still fighting bloody battles for the Yellow Kingdom, while he was having fun so leisurely.
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, many people kept silent to avoid getting involved in the dispute.
Some young men who were friends with Shao Yang were hesitant to talk. They remembered that Huang Jinze had successfully opened his spirit and was about to enter the Immortal Sect, so they decided not to help each other.
Shao Yang's face was gloomy, then he squeezed out a smile and said, "Shao is really looking forward to Brother Huang's poems."
Huang Jinze didn't even look at Shao Yang. He thought for a moment and composed a poem with his head held high: "In the battlefield of hundreds of battles, my iron clothes were shattered. Black Mountain has been heavily surrounded. I broke out of the camp and shot the general of the Monument. I led the remaining soldiers back with thousands of cavalry."
"What a poem!" Li Xun clapped his hands, but suddenly he saw that something was wrong. No one else clapped except himself.
When several young masters heard this, their faces darkened, and even Lin Qingrou's face became gloomy.
The Huang Kingdom has been at war with the Bei Kingdom for two years. Four months ago, Beiyangguan was attacked by the Bei Kingdom army all the way to Heishan City.
The Huang Kingdom's army at Beiyang Pass originally numbered 800,000, but due to the delay in the delivery of food and grass, its combat power was greatly weakened. After several consecutive battles, there were only less than 30,000 left, while the Bei Kingdom's army was still
There are four hundred thousand!
The remnants of the army guarded the city gate, reinforcements did not arrive for a long time, and Black Mountain City was crumbling.
General Ao Guang stormed the city in the dark of night, unexpectedly attacked the Bei Kingdom military camp and shot and killed the Bei Kingdom general. After a fierce fight, 130,000 Bei Kingdom troops were killed, but in the end, the Huang army was almost completely wiped out! Only less than a thousand cavalry were left to break through.
Return to Beiguansai.
General Ao Guang lost one of his arms in the battle and almost fainted when he reached the North Pass.
However, when the Holy One learned that Beiyang Pass had been conquered by Beiguo, Long Yan was furious and ordered Ao Guang to be quartered on five horses for defecting. His head is still hanging high in Beiyang Pass.
This made all Huang Guo soldiers feel chilled!
Chu Cheng had also heard about this, and his heart sank. This emperor was extremely stupid. If this continues, the Huang Kingdom will surely be destroyed.
This poem? Why is it so familiar...Chu Cheng suddenly thought of Li Bai's military journey, and also thought of the five thousand years of China's country's division and reunification, and the change of dynasties. He couldn't help but sigh.
"Ao is not feeling well, please take the first step." A tall and powerful man stood up, bowed his hands to the eldest princess, and led the two young masters out of the Phoenix Tower.
No one dared to say anything or stop him, because Ao Guang was the man's second uncle.
There was silence in the atmosphere for a while.
Lin Qingrou spoke at this time and said, "Is there anyone else who can reward Young Master Huang with two thousand taels of gold?"
At this time, Shao Yang suddenly said: "Brother Huang's poem shocked my heart! In the future, I will definitely go to the army to serve the country! But if it comes to composing poetry, there is a person here who is both talented and beautiful, and is better than everyone here.
I'm afraid even Brother Huang can't compare."
"Oh, who is it? Come out and take a look!" Several people cooperated with Shao Yang.
"Of course it's Chu Cheng! Who else besides him can be said to be both talented and beautiful?" Shao Yang pointed back and looked at Chu Cheng with a half-smile.
"Hahahaha! He is indeed both talented and handsome." A fat man behind him sneered.
In their eyes, Chu Cheng's appearance was simply too ugly to look at.
"Brother Chu's talent and learning are naturally better than those of Bill and others, even better than me." Huang Jinze shook his head after hearing this. Naturally, he knew in his heart that he was trying to drive a wedge between him and Chu Cheng.
Chu Cheng sighed softly and felt something in his heart. This Huang Jinze was somewhat similar to his brother Aze from his previous life.
"Since Brother Shao praises you so much, I'm going to make a fool of myself."
Chu Cheng smiled and said: "Today I came to celebrate the birthday of the eldest princess. It has been a long and dusty journey, and I haven't eaten anything until now. As for how to write poems, Chu can definitely write poems. But first, please fill your stomach."
Everyone was stunned, not expecting Chu Cheng to say such words. Some were dissatisfied, and some laughed, secretly thinking that he had no ink in his stomach and was deliberately trying to evade it.
Chu Cheng ignored other people's opinions and said to the two people around him: "Brother Huang, Brother Li, are you going to eat something?"
"..." Li Xun looked at Chu Cheng dumbfounded.
Huang Jinze smiled slightly and said, "Okay, let's eat some pastries first to cushion our stomach."
Chu Cheng chose a seat with four or five empty seats and sat down. He picked up a piece of pastry and tasted it carefully.
There was silence all around, and all eyes fell on him.
Chu Cheng poured a cup of tea, took a sip, and pretended to be confused: "Huh? Why don't you continue? Don't worry about me."
Everyone was speechless when they saw him eating enthusiastically. You were asked to compose a poem, not us!
Lin Qingrou smiled and said softly: "Let Mr. Chu fill his stomach first, whoever comes first."
The poetry meeting continued as usual, and someone took the lead. No matter whether it was good or not, the eldest princess would be rewarded. In a blink of an eye, the moon shone in the sky.
"I'm showing off my ugliness!" A young man finished reading the poem and said with a smile.
"The reward is twenty taels."
Chu Cheng picked up the last piece of pastry on the plate and praised that it was really delicious. The pastries sold in the palace were indeed not comparable to those bought in ordinary places. Although he was thick-skinned, he couldn't bear to go to another table to get it.
The other six people present didn't do much with these plates of pastries, and they were all left to him.
"Brother Chu, it's your turn." Shao Yang's voice came.
"Don't worry, wait for me to finish the last piece first."
After the person who just finished reading, everyone present except him finished their poems one after another. Chu Cheng knew that it was his turn.
Chu Cheng drank tea, rinsed his mouth, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and thought of the concubine who brought disaster to the country and the people of China hundreds of years ago. He also thought of the eunuch. He put down the tea cup and said: "I heard that the current queen has a moon-shy flower.
It is so beautiful that Chu Cheng hereby dedicates a song to wish the queen long happiness!"
Everyone's hearts were lifted when they heard this. The Queen was doted on by almost everyone and was deeply loved by the Emperor. In terms of appearance, she was even a bit more beautiful than Lin Qingrou.
Chu Cheng said with a smile: "When you are full, you will have the strength to write. I will write a poem here. Come on, Mr. Shao... prepare pen and paper for Mr. Chu!" Mr. Shao almost blurted out the words.
"You..." Shao Yang's expression changed. This was obviously a slap in the face, which had the effect of killing a chicken and respecting a monkey, and he was the chicken.
"Young Master Chu got up and started writing poems, so it's not too bad that Mr. Shao went to prepare some papers." Huang Jinze said with a smile.
Shao Yang subconsciously looked at the people around him. It seemed that no one stood up to speak. He looked at the eldest princess with a sinking heart.
Lin Qingrou said softly: "Then I'll trouble Mr. Shao."
Shao Yang cursed secretly in his heart and had no choice but to take the pen and ink presented by the maid, put it on Chu Cheng's table, and polish the ink.
"Master Shao, please help Chu take off his shoes. I have a habit of taking off my shoes when composing poems to get inspiration, but I can't take them off myself for fear of damaging the meaning of the poem, so I'm sorry to trouble Brother Shao." Chu Cheng did not take over the writing.
, leaning back on the chair and said lazily.
"You..." Shao Yang was furious, but seeing that the eldest princess didn't say anything, he had to suppress his anger and bent down to take off Chu Cheng's boots.
Pfft! Some people who didn't have a close relationship with Shao Yang couldn't help but laugh. Chu Cheng nodded with satisfaction, feeling quite like the high-spirited poet Li Bai was at that time, recalling Li Bai's "Qing Ping Diao".
Put pen to paper! The three characters Qing Ping Diao appear on the paper.
"The clouds are like clothes, the flowers are like faces, the spring breeze is blowing on the threshold, and the dew is thick. If I hadn't seen you at the top of the jade mountain, I would have met you under the moon at Yaotai. "
Several young masters gathered around and nodded, understanding the meaning of this poem.
It means that the Queen's clothes are like neon clothes and feathers, surrounding her plump jade face. It can be said that when you see clouds, you think of clothes, when you see flowers, you think of appearance. It can also be said that you imagine clothes as clouds and appearance as flowers.
In this way, the interaction between the seven characters gives people the feeling of a cluster of flowers.
Next, "The spring breeze blows the threshold with Revlon", and further uses "Revlon" to dye the flowers. The beautiful peonies look more beautiful in the crystal dew, which makes the previous sentence more full, and also uses wind and dew as a metaphor for the king.
The grace of the beauty makes the beautiful face appear more energetic. Below, the imagination suddenly rises to the jade mountains and Yaotai in heaven where the Queen Mother of the West lives.
Such an extraordinary flower face can probably only be seen in the fairyland of heaven! Yushan, Yaotai, and moonlight are words with pale colors, which set off the flower face and human face, making people naturally think of a white jade-like person, and also resemble a person.
A warm white peony flower. At the same time, the poet did not show any trace, comparing the Queen to the goddess descending to earth, which is really subtle.
"A good poem can be called a quatrain." Lin Qingrou praised, regretting that this poem was not written for her.
The pen in Chu Cheng's hand paused slightly, and then he wrote: "A branch of red dew is fragrant, and the clouds and rain in Wushan are heartbreaking. I ask who in the Han Palace is like it. Poor Concubine Luo relies on her new makeup."
Lin Qingrou's eyes lit up, she looked at these four sentences and understood the main idea.
The first sentence describes flowers receiving fragrant dew, setting off the queen's favor from the king; the second sentence describes the vanity of the King of Chu meeting the goddess, setting off the benefits of the queen's shower; the third and fourth sentences describe the former imperial concubine Luo, who was a peerless beauty, but she relied on her new makeup to pamper her.
, to set off the queen's natural national beauty. Use the method of restraint to suppress the goddess and Luo Fei, so as to enhance the queen's beauty.
As soon as these four sentences came out, everyone took a breath and their faces were moved. It was as if they were in the most beautiful fairyland and suddenly saw a peerless fairy.
Chu Cheng dipped his pen in ink and wrote the last four sentences.
"Famous flowers attract the whole country and love each other. They look so beautiful that kings look at them with smiles. It explains the infinite hatred in the spring breeze. The agarwood pavilion leans against the railing in the north."
"Famous beauties fall in love with each other..." Lin Qingrou murmured.
The first sentence combines famous flowers with the fall of the country. The second sentence describes the joy of the king. The three words "look at it with a smile" are extremely vivid. The third and fourth sentences describe the behavior of the king. The emperor is snuggling in the agarwood pavilion.
As the queen admired the flowers, the sorrow and hatred in her chest completely disappeared. She leaned against the railing and the flowers were outside the fence.
When Lin Qingrou got into business, she suddenly thought of her father and queen. How chic, elegant, and suave her father was at that time.
However, my father has been gone for many years now.
"What an eternal quatrain! It is divided into three poems at this time, but the artistic conception of Lianjie has been taken to a higher level, raising the artistic conception to an extremely high point." Huang Jinze recited silently and clapped his hands.
Huang Jinze would not be able to compose such a poem even if it took him a hundred years, and he was sure that Liu Boran, the god of poetry in the Huang Kingdom, would not be able to compose it either.
After a while, there was thunderous applause! Even Shao Yang was moved by it!
Even if the poem is not good, they still have to praise it if it is written about the Queen. If disrespectful words are said and spread to the ears of the Emperor, they may be killed, not to mention that they have only seen such beautiful words and quatrains!
Shao Yang suddenly felt that it was not a shame to polish ink slippers for such a talented person.
The atmosphere in the Phoenix Tower reached its peak for a while, and then slowly faded away after a long time.
"Brother Chu, I'm not talented, so I hope you can forgive me just now!" Shao Yang bent at ninety degrees and apologized sincerely.
Chu Cheng was stunned. Seeing Shao Yang's sincere attitude, he felt that this person was capable of bending and stretching, and would definitely be a figure in the future. He waved his hand and said: "Brother Shao may have had some misunderstandings about my younger brother before, but as the saying goes, if you don't fight, you won't get to know each other!"
Let go of grudges with a smile!
At the end of the poetry meeting, everyone presented their gifts one after another, and then left the stage together with each other.
Chu Cheng and Shao Yang laughed away their grudges, chatted for a few more words, and then left.
"Brother Huang, thank you for resolving the situation just now." Chu Cheng said with a smile. Huang Jinze had caused a lot of hatred for him just now. This kind of friend is worth keeping.
"You and I are friends." Huang Jinze shook his head and said only four sentences before waving his fan and leaving with the waiters waiting outside.
Chu Cheng watched the two people's backs gradually disappear from sight, looked back, saw that it was getting late, and was about to return to the Chu Mansion.
"Mr. Chu, the eldest princess invites you." A maid walked out of the Phoenix Tower.
"What?" Chu Cheng's face suddenly changed as he thought of the eldest princess's heavy body.