Seeing Zhou Ze entering the poetry club and chatting with others with smiles, Zhou Jun breathed a sigh of relief, took some pastries from the table, quietly found a clean place and sat down.
Just as he was about to eat something to fill his stomach, the sound of footsteps behind him made Zhou Jun stop immediately.
Yin Yu's voice sounded behind him: "How did you compose that poem?"
Zhou Jun didn't even turn around, he just said: "The horse has the strength, the man has the quick wit, my brother is already very talented in literature, but he is usually a little dull."
Yin Yu said in a deep voice: "Compared with the previous antithesis, the poem about falling flowers has couplets and a completely different writing style. Why is this?"
Old Master Zhou Jun said calmly: "It's not surprising. Articles are made by nature. Skilled hands occasionally acquire them. Scholars occasionally have extraordinary talents. They have existed since ancient times."
Yin Yu was silent for a moment, and then asked in a cold voice: "The article was written by nature, and it was accidentally obtained by a good hand. Which book does this sentence come from?"
Zhou Jun was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, he realized that this sentence seemed to be written by Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty, and then he said vaguely: "I can't remember which book, maybe I heard it accidentally."
Yin Yu was offended by this ambiguous answer and asked directly: "You really can't write poetry?"
Zhou Jun said with one mouthful: "A certain person is just a slave tooth man. He solicits business, negotiates prices, and knows a lot about things. Reciting poems and correcting them is something that only scholars do, and it has nothing to do with him."
Yin Yu gritted her teeth with hatred, but she had no choice but to keep saying: "It's great, just wait!"
Hearing Yin Yu walk away, Zhou Jun smiled, picked up the cake, and was about to eat it when he heard someone approaching from behind.
Zhou Jun looked back and saw that the person coming this time was Shao Chang.
Zhou Jun didn't dare to hold it up, so he quickly stood up, put the cake in his arms, and saluted Shao Chang.
Shao Chang looked a little embarrassed and said: "Hengcai, when you invited Changzhi to join the club this time, you had already met with Nie Xuanluan who was on duty, but for some unknown reason, she suddenly wanted to deliberately embarrass your brother."
Zhou Jun saw all this membership in the poetry club.
From the beginning to the end, Shao Chang always defended Zhou Ze, and even almost fell out with Nie Xuanluan.
Although he finally joined the company smoothly through cheating, Shao Chang's kindness should be remembered.
Thinking of this, Zhou Ze sang to Shao Chang: "My brother in the family has always wanted to join the Hongyan Poetry Society, but he had no one to guide him. Guan Wen's help this time was a great help to the Zhou brothers, and Hengcai was grateful."
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After hearing this, Shao Chang breathed a sigh of relief at first, and then said with a smile: "Brothers from the Zhou family have always been talented, but I am just following the trend."
"Speaking of this, Heng Cai has heard of the recent rumors in the DPRK."
After hearing these words, Zhou Jun's heart tightened and he thought to himself, he is finally here.
Why Shao Chang recommended Zhou Ze to the poetry club, and why he had to accompany him himself, finally comes to the point.
I only heard Shao Chang say: "Zhang Duanqing, the imperial censor in the palace, said that the prince has exceeded the regulations and has not inspected all the utensils."
Zhou Jun was confused when he heard this. Someone accused the prince of overstepping the rules. What does that have to do with me?
Shao Chang continued: "In the first year of Tianbao, King Ning passed away. King Shou was grateful for his kindness in raising him and kept his filial piety for three years. Counting the days, this period of filial piety is coming soon."
Listening to two completely unrelated things together, Zhou Jun slowly picked up some clues.
Concubine Wu Hui (who was posthumously named Empress Zhenshun) framed Prince Li Ying, Prince E Li Yao and Prince Guang Li Ju in order to make her son Prince Shou Li Hao the crown prince.
They want to rebel.
Xuanzong was furious and immediately issued an edict to depose Prince Li Ying, King of E Li Yao, and King of Guang Li Ju as "common people".
Although the three kings were demoted, their party members still existed, and Concubine Wu Hui was worried about their counterattack, so she and Li Linfu jointly slandered Xuanzong.
Xuanzong was worried that the rebellion would be difficult to suppress, so he killed his three sons in one day.
This unjust case is the famous "Three Common People" incident in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
It is worth mentioning that not long after this incident happened, Concubine Wu Hui passed away in fear because the harem was haunted.
After her death, the position of crown prince was not passed to Li Hao. Instead, Xuanzong granted it to the loyal king Li Heng.
Ever since Li Heng took the position of crown prince, Li Linfu had been opposing him and hoped to replace him with the longevity king Li Mao.
As for the longevity king Li Hao, he has been keeping filial piety for his uncle Ning Wang Li Xian since the first year of Tianbao.
Now, the three-year period of filial piety is coming soon, and naturally there are people in the court who are starting to make plans to exchange reserves.
Thinking of this, Zhou Jun glanced at Shao Chang.
The Prime Minister of Shao County came here, fearing that he wanted to connect with Pang Gong through himself, and then connect with Shou Wang through Pang Gong.
After all, Pang Gong was nominally a servant of the Wu family, but emotionally he was the uncle of Concubine Wu Hui and the elder of King Shou.
If Li Mao was out of his filial piety period, the first person he came to look for would definitely not be Li Linfu, but Pang Zhonghe, who was almost like a family member.
After thinking about this, Zhou Jun sighed, things in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty were really twists and turns.
Zhou Jun bowed to Shao Chang and said, "Thank you very much Guan Wen for your advice."
Shao Chang waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't take advice seriously. In the middle of last month, Hengcai still encountered changes in his family, but now he has turned the bad luck into good luck and is in good health."
"It can be seen that Hengcai must be a lucky general. Guanwen takes advantage of this opportunity and has more contacts with him to add more nobility."
Zhou Jun said a few polite words and was about to ask more about the affairs of the court when he heard Nie Xuanluan's voice not far away.
"We are all making couplets, and you two are just whispering here, but have you forgotten the origin of this poetry club?"
Zhou Jun looked over and saw Nie Xuanluan walking over with a group of poetry club members and saying: "Since you have joined the poetry club, you must have some literary goods. Hand it over and let us know."
Zhou Jun leaned over and said, "I'm just here to accompany you, I don't want to join the society."
Nie Xuanluan smiled and said: "Erlang, let's see, among the maids and servants accompanying this poetry club, which one can't recite a few lines? Do you think that the ink in your belly is not as good as these servants?"
Zhou Jun was a little annoyed. What grudge did this woman have against him to warrant such targeting?
Shao Chang stood up at this time and said: "Nie Nvzhen's words are wrong. He specializes in art. Tuesday Lang is not familiar with literature, so why force him?"
Before Nie Xuanluan could speak, Yin Yu in the crowd suddenly said: "Zhou Zhoulang is no better than ordinary people. I'm afraid Guan Wen may have misjudged him."
As soon as these words came out, Nie Xuanluan was stunned.
She didn't expect that Mr. Yin, who she usually didn't deal with, would actually stand with her at this time.
Shao Chang still wanted to argue, but Zhou Jun stopped him with a wry smile.
Looking at the members of the poetry club in front of him, Zhou Jun said loudly: "Hengcai is a common man who doesn't know how to recite poems and write poems correctly, but he does have a few stories in his heart. Why don't you tell them and let everyone evaluate them."
Everyone was curious and urged Zhou Jun to come quickly.
Zhou Jun cleared his throat and said, "The story I will tell you next is called 'The Romance of the West Chamber'."
"In the previous dynasty, Prime Minister Cui fell seriously ill and passed away."
"His wife Zheng and her daughter Cui Yingying sent her husband's coffin back to Hebei for a safe burial. On the way, they temporarily stayed at Pujiu Temple for some reason."
"Scholar Zhang Sheng was originally from Xiluo. His parents died and his family was poor. He went to the capital alone to take the exam and happened to meet Cui Yingying and the matchmaker who were playing in the temple..."
As soon as "The West Chamber" came out, Zhou Jun talked about it for half an hour.
There were some plots in it that he couldn't remember clearly, so he wrote some of his own to make up for it. Fortunately, it didn't have much impact on the overall plot.
Zhou Jun finally said that Zhang Sheng won the first prize in the exam and wrote a letter to announce the good news to Yingying, but the letter was not delivered to the latter's hands due to some strange circumstances.
Zheng Heng, Yingying's proposed marriage partner, took the opportunity to come to Pujiu Temple and fabricated a lie, saying that Zhang Sheng had been recruited by Wei Shangshu to be his son-in-law.
So Mrs. Cui promised Yingying to Zheng Heng again and decided to choose an auspicious day to get married.
It happened that on the day of the wedding, Zhang Sheng returned as the governor of Hezhong, and Du Que, the general of the Western Expedition, also came to congratulate him.
When the truth came to light, Zheng Heng was so ashamed that he committed suicide with hatred. Zhang Sheng and Yingying finally got married.
After hearing the ending, everyone in the poetry club was relieved.
Shao Chang praised: "It's full of ups and downs, and it's so exciting."
Nie Xuanluan wiped the corners of his eyes and simply said: "That's exactly what I said at the end, I hope all lovers in the world will eventually get married."
Yin Yu and Yu Junniang held hands together, feeling very sad and secretly wiping away tears.
Zhou Jun looked at these people and sighed with emotion, looking a little embarrassed.
He probably didn't remember everything about Romance of the West Chamber. Not only was there a slight deviation in the plot, but he also only remembered one line of the beautiful lyrics - May all lovers in the world finally get married.
Regrettably, Zhou Jun suddenly had an idea.
He opened his mouth and said to everyone in the poetry club: "If... if this story is written into a play and performed on stage, do you think it is feasible?"