The expressions of the people sitting at the table became extremely strange. Their eyes wandered between Lan Xi and Liu Yun, but no one broke the silence.
"As the eldest sister, I didn't think well." Liu Yun laughed at himself and said to the attendant who had brought her to the table and then stood aside, "I wonder if you can make an exception and let my sister sit at the table?
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Originally, the seats for the three seats had been arranged in advance. If someone were to make temporary changes, there might be some changes in the overall situation, so Liu Yun turned around and asked the attendants of Murong Villa.
This move won the favor and even surprise of many people.
If it were Mu Liuyun in the past, if she wanted to do something, she would never have thought of asking others for their opinions. She would have made her own decisions arrogantly.
"Yes, please wait a moment, Miss Liuyun." The attendant nodded in agreement and walked to the middle table to invite Lan Xi. After a while, Lan Xi followed him to the upper table and sat next to Liuyun.
"Thank you, sir, for allowing the students to sit at the table." As soon as Lan Xi sat down, she smiled at Mr. Chen, feeling quite grateful.
Mr. Chen's eyes flashed with uneasiness, and everyone just raised their eyebrows and said nothing. Liu Yun even lowered his head to drink tea as if nothing happened. Lan Xi didn't take it seriously either. Seeing that Mr. Chen didn't answer, he didn't say anything more. It was just a look between his eyebrows.
Pride couldn't help but reveal it.
Liu Yun, who was sitting next to her, would naturally not miss the joy and pride in her eyes. This was natural. It was very good for a concubine to be in the middle table. Now she actually sat on the upper table, thinking of those who were sitting in the middle table.
He must be quite jealous of her. She has always liked to be the center of attention, and now is no exception.
They chatted casually. These officials' children are all smart people. They speak without leaving any room and hit the nail on the head. They are completely different from the business children Liu Yun and others usually get along with. Lan Xi occasionally chatted a few words and was lightly flirted with.
Well, Liuyun didn't say anything from beginning to end, playing with the bracelet on his wrist in a languid manner.
Although these officials' children were not yet mature enough, they spared no effort in speaking in an official manner. Liu Yun had never liked dealing with these people. He always felt that everyone was wearing a false mask and practicing Tai Chi, which was very boring.
Lan Xi didn't think so. She couldn't wait to enter such a circle. As long as she could get involved with these powerful officials' children, it would be just around the corner for her, a concubine, to get rid of her status and become a legitimate daughter. So,
Only Liu Yun would generously give her this opportunity.
Only those who climb higher will fall harder.
Just like she was before, just like Lan Xi now.
During the dinner, there was suddenly some commotion. It turned out that the prefect's son, Shen Yi, had arrived.
Liu Yun raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect that his injury would heal so quickly. He would be able to get out of bed in just three days?
After taking a closer look, Liu Yun lowered his head and chuckled. This guy was not injured at all. He was just pretending. Looking at the way he walked, you could tell that the injury was probably not healed yet? This is interesting, the injury is so serious.
, actually dared to appear in front of everyone, Liu Yun secretly wondered, could it be that the person who hurt him was also sitting at the banquet?
While she was deep in thought, Shen Yi had already walked to the table, stopped in front of her, and said lightly: "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Liu Yun's answer was rather nonchalant.
As if he had anticipated her answer, Shen Yi smiled fondly and walked to the front of the table, next to Mr. Chen, at the chair seat.
The simple and tacit understanding between the two people revealed a bit of ambiguity. Everyone at the table looked at Liu Yun, seeing her indifference and calmness, the more they felt that she was pretending to be calm.
"I didn't expect that even our top scholar would come to such a small poetry tasting party." Lin Yan and Shen Yi were also familiar with each other, and they spoke very casually, but this time there was an intriguing look in his eyes, as if he had found something. Something to make him laugh.
"Your father is here too." Shen Yi answered calmly. As expected, Lin Yan immediately shrank his head and stopped talking.
Everyone had long heard that not only students were participating in this poem tasting, but also many businessmen and dignitaries came to join in the fun, but they did not sit with the students of the college.
Now after hearing what Shen Yi said, everyone understood that they were probably here for Master Murong.
About a moment later, Jiang Chu, the dean of Wantang Academy, appeared at the chairperson's seat, stroked his beard and said: "The poetry appreciation party of our Wantang Academy is for all students to gather together, speak freely, and appreciate various literati. I hope that today’s poetry review will satisfy everyone.”
The poetry tasting party actually spread from the imperial palace in the capital. Later, many official ladies liked to use this method to show off their talents and win the favor of their favorite people. Later, the poetry tasting party was used as a venue for gathering works in many academies. At the banquet, if some amazing poems can be written in the poetry tasting party and spread to the capital or even the palace, then not only the poets will have unlimited futures, but even the academies will also be known by everyone. Familiar.
"It seems that everyone is very reserved today, so Su Ying will be embarrassed." Miss Su from Qianyifang is very competitive. Since she was criticized by her husband for not being talented last year, she has devoted herself to studying poetry and poetry, and now she has achieved some success. , I am afraid that I am doing this today to avenge my shame.
Before everyone could regain their composure, she started reciting a poem, "The red tower stone and the brown door are made of gold. The stone on the curved corridor of the corner tower. I invite people to write poems and poems at the mountain. When I was young, who was afraid of facing the world."
If the first two sentences are just improvised, then the last sentence is amazing enough.
"Miss Su is really good at poetry." Mr. Chen was the first to applaud. She has always admired people with great ambitions, even if they were women. She had never been dissatisfied with the court not allowing women to serve as officials, but occasionally thought of how many It's a pity that she never thought that it was a virtue for a woman not to have talent.
Because of Su Ying's introduction, all the talented and beautiful people started to get excited, and even those who were not good at poetry came forward to play the piano and paint. The scene was very lively.
During the dinner, Shen Yi glanced at Liuyun many times, but she seemed to have never noticed his gaze and never turned her head to look at him. This kind of neglect was more deliberate, which made Shen Yi feel quite frustrated. The person he saw before he was injured and fell into coma that day was Liu Yun, and he also knew that it was her who saved him. Although he didn't know what method she used to make him fall, he felt more and more that the woman he loved was very amazing. But when he woke up later, he heard Doctor Lu say that she had left long ago, and he felt indescribably disappointed in his heart.
He came to the poetry tasting party today because he wanted to see her urgently. He wanted to know why she would save him when she kept saying that she didn't care about him. He didn't believe that she really didn't have any affection for her, but her neglect made him feel sad. Inexplicably disappointed.
"I've always heard that Mr. Shen is very talented. Even the current emperor is full of praises. Mr. Shen is here today, so it should be an eye-opener for us, right?" Lan Xi's soft voice interrupted Shen Yi's thoughts, and he finally paid attention. When he saw the woman sitting next to Liu Yun, the admiration in her eyes made him shudder.