Li Mu really didn't expect that there would be vote bribery these days, but when he thought about it, he felt something was wrong and said: "So, if I bring a box of silver ingots and leave them at the door, wouldn't it mean I'm sure to win?"
Li Siwen shook his head and said: "No, no, no, if anyone does that, they will be criticized. Even if they become Oiran, they will not be recognized."
Li Mu said in confusion: "This is strange. Giving money is considered a bribe, but giving food is not. Who set the rules?"
"Who decided it...I don't know. Anyway, when I knew Pingkangfang, there was this rule. In fact, it can't be regarded as a bribe, just a little food. Brother, think about it, if we live in the south of the city, we have to rush
When I arrived at Pingkangfang at this time, I had no horses, so I had to leave an hour ago. I just missed the meal time, so it was reasonable to prepare these meals. Moreover, one family had done this, and the others had to do it.
If you don't do it, won't you suffer a loss? We don't have much money in total, and whoever runs a brothel doesn't have a big business, so who is short of these ten thousand dollars?"
"That's right." Li Mu nodded, and suddenly thought that it was the first year since his garden opened, and he didn't know if Ergou had any experience. If he suffered a loss in this aspect, he would be really dumb and eating Coptis chinensis.
Not far ahead, we arrived at the entrance of Lichun Courtyard. Far away, Li Mu was looking at the stall. Ergou, dressed like a tortoise, was waiting at the door. Looking at Li Mu and his group, he hurriedly
He came up to us and said: "Master Marquis, you are here, the stage has been set up, our family is the best, no worse than other families, don't worry, this year's oiran will definitely be us!"
"We must respect our opponents. We are in the first year. They have been doing this all their lives, so there is no guarantee that they will have a trump card." Li Mu glanced at what Ergou had prepared, frowned and said, "Why are all the soup cakes coming out? What is this?"
Ergou said hurriedly: "This is the soup cake you eat every time you go to the West Market. I rented their store for three days and invited you here! Lord Marquis, I invited you here because of your reputation."
Come, but people don’t want to come!”
"Oh," Li Mu suddenly said, "The stalls here are all traders from the east and west cities."
Ergou nodded sharply and said: "Yes, yes, yes, Lord Marquis can guess it correctly."
"Has it always been like this before?"
"Yes, I asked about it, it was like this in the past."
Li Mu waved his hand and said: "Send someone to go now and pick out some good candied fruits and buy them for 180 kilograms. Find some kind-faced little girls and give candied fruits to children when they see them. Give them free of charge first."
If you want one more, let them exchange it for Feihua Ling."
Ergou's eyes widened and he said blankly: "But Lord Marquis, children don't have Feihua Ling, only adults do!"
"Idiot!" Li Mu knocked Ergou on the head and cursed: "What child can come by himself? Aren't they all coming with their parents? In the past, Pingkangfang rarely brought children, but the Lantern Festival is different.
Some came to watch the lanterns and some watched the performances. I just saw several houses. If you bring a child here, will you give it to the child if he wants to eat preserves? Feihua people have it for everyone. You don’t have to spend money to exchange for preserves. You
Do you want to change it or not?”
"Oh oh oh" Ergou suddenly realized and hurried to make arrangements. Li Mu shook his head helplessly, how could the people of Tang Dynasty be so honest? When he really had to use these tricks, he felt a little guilty.
"Brother, I'm going to the gambling house!" Li Siwen shouted and dragged Dugujiu to the gambling house, while Li Mu took his wife and concubines into Lichun Courtyard.
It's lively outside, and it's lively inside the house. In half an hour, the performance starts. Today's theme is singing and dancing, and Jin Chen is the protagonist, but there can't be only one performance with the protagonist. There are usually three performances, with a warm-up at the beginning.
, music and dance, there is no protagonist in the group dance. In the middle is the solo dance of the protagonist, and at the end is a Yuefu music and lyrics. Some perform Yuefu music and lyrics left over from the Han Dynasty, such as "Battle to the South of the City", "Fifteenth Military March", etc.
Some performances are more modern, using old Yuefu music in the Wei and Jin Dynasties to fill in new lyrics, such as "The Peacock Flies Southeast", "Mulan Ci", etc.
A group dance, a solo dance, and a song and dance! We strive to show Yuanzi’s strength in all aspects.
In addition to Jin Chen, there were sixteen girls participating in the performance tonight. They were all dressing up. When Li Mu and others came in, they didn't notice.
Yin Yue, the maid next to Jin Chen, noticed Li Mu first and quickly put down the pipa in her hand to salute. Li Mu waved his hand to signal her not to disturb others, and led Bai Qiaoqiao and others upstairs.
In the middle room on the second floor, open the window, it just faces the stage, and the height is also the most suitable. Li Mu led his wife and concubines to sit down, and Jin Chen and Yinyue came upstairs together. Seeing Li Mu's wives and concubines, Yinyue seemed a little nervous, but
Jin Chen was not nervous at all, he smiled and gave everyone a blessing.
"Yinyue, please come and ask me to bring you some snacks, a little of everything." Li Mu reached into his arms, exchanged a handful of broken silver from the system, and put it in Yinyue's hand.
There were six or seven layers, and he said: "Don't trouble others in vain, just give it to me, and keep the rest to buy rouge."
"Thank you, Lord Marquis."
Although Yinyue was a little hostile and even wary of Li Mu in her heart, she was still a little girl after all, and she didn't have much pocket money at ordinary times. She was happy to get the money and went downstairs happily.
Li Mu looked at Jin Chen who was still standing and said: "Sit down, don't be restrained, there are no outsiders."
Jin Chen looked at Bai Qiaoqiao's face and saw that she didn't have any displeasure, then he leaned over and sat down. The buttocks were only halfway touching, and the body was sitting upright. A tiny detail distinguished Bai Qiaoqiao's superiority and inferiority.
Qiaoqiao didn't have these things in her mind and didn't notice it, but Wang Ou and Li Zhien both understood it, and their impressions of Jin Chen suddenly improved a lot, and they smiled back one after another.
Li Mu didn't notice it and asked: "The performance will be performed later. Do you have confidence in yourself?"
Jin Chen smiled and said: "I have confidence, but I just think in my heart that I can't live up to the expectations of the Marquis. I want to do better, but I can't catch up. I can't catch up. I have no choice but to do it. Wu,
I think I have no opponent, but the song... I am not completely sure about it."
Li Mu frowned slightly and said, "But there's something wrong with the minor tune I asked you to compose. Didn't the tune get completed?"
"The composition is finished." Jin Chen said hurriedly: "The tune was composed by Yin Yue. This poem by Lord Hou can also be composed as a tune. The poem has a total of ninety-five characters in double tone. The first part has nine lines with four flat rhymes, and the second part has ten lines.
The sentence has a smooth rhyme. It just fits "Shui Tiao Song" and it doesn't take much effort."
"Shui, water tune song?" Li Mu was a little dumbfounded. The Song poem he copied this time was exactly "When will the bright moon come out of the water tune song?"
It was said that this poem was called "When will the bright moon come", but I didn't expect that the word "water tune" was involved.
When Wang Ou heard that Li Mu had published new lyrics, he took over the conversation and said: "Shui Tiao Song was composed by the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Yang dug the Bianhe River and made it when he came to Jiangdu. The sound was so sad that it became a famous song at that time. It is also now
Many people have sung it, didn't your husband think about this song when he wrote the lyrics?"
Li Mu secretly thought, I only memorized Song lyrics for the high school entrance examination in my previous life. There is no music. But now I am forced to do this. For the sake of my old face, I cannot admit my ignorance and just make up nonsense.
: "This word is like this. Didn't I rehearse during this time? I often went to and from Pingkangfang. I passed by a garden and this song was always coming out. I felt at that time that they were not good at singing it.
, the lyrics were not good, so I thought about writing a new lyrics myself, which would be just right for this song."
"It turns out that this song is called Shui Tiao Song, and it was composed by the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. I never expected that the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had a bad reputation, but he was a great talent!"
Wang Ou smiled and said: "A person is good or bad, and everything depends on it. Although Emperor Yang's reputation was not good after he became the emperor, before he became the emperor, he was a good prince who could not fault anything. He wrote poems and etiquette
He knows everything about music and music. Otherwise, he would not be able to replace his brother as the prince. This person is a talented person, but he is not suitable to be an emperor."
"oh"
Li Mu's "Oh" was not finished yet. Someone answered: "What Mrs. Mudan said is true. My father-in-law is indeed a great talent, but he is indeed not suitable to be an emperor. He can't control his emotions."
He is ambitious and always wants to achieve great things unprecedented in ancient and modern times, but he is unable to do so, harming the world and suffering the people. I will take this as a warning and I will never be like him."
"His Majesty!"
Li Mu's face turned pale with fright, and he quickly stood up and saluted. Fortunately, Wang Ou didn't call her husband just now, otherwise his head would probably have moved by now.
Everyone also stood up and saluted Li Shimin. Li Shimin said no courtesy, but his eyes were only fixed on Wang Ou. He couldn't help but walked over and reached out to help him.
When Wang Ou saw Li Shimin's hand stretched out, he felt unhappy and took two steps back. Li Shimin's hand froze in mid-air, feeling awkward. Li Mu quickly reached out to hold Li Shimin's hand and shook it vigorously: "Your Majesty, why are you here?
, What a coincidence, the palace is also on holiday today?"
Li Shimin threw Li Mu's hand away and hummed: "Can't I take two days off at the end of the year? Why don't you celebrate the Lantern Festival and I can't?"
Li Mu glanced back and said: "Your Majesty is coming alone, Queen..."
"What's at the back." Li Shimin's expression froze when he heard the word "Queen". He glanced at Wang Ou reluctantly and whispered: "I heard that Mrs. Mudan is here and came to say hello. How can the Queen
Entering this land of fireworks."
"Your Majesty!" Li Mu said solemnly: "This is not a place for fireworks, but a serious theater. Selling tickets and singing operas has nothing to do with a brothel."
"Play?" Li Shimin vaguely remembered that Yuan Tiangang had reported that Li Mu had been rehearsing a play in Lichun Court recently, and it was called "Dou E's Injustice". But what it was exactly, due to the strict confidentiality, bad people also
Didn't find out.
Hearing Li Mu mention it, Li Shimin couldn't help but become a little interested, and said: "Bring it to me to see any play or tune, and let me taste it. Although I am not a talented person, I still have some good eyesight."
of."
Li Mu naturally did not dare to refuse, so he asked Jin Chen to get it. Jin Chen went back to his room and took the script and the manuscript of "When Will the Bright Moon Come" written by Li Mu, and then went downstairs to make preparations. Li Shimin opened the script, although the format
He had never seen it before, but he recognized the characters. After a cursory glance, he frowned and said, "Why is this Qizhou governor so ridiculous? He must be a figure from the previous dynasty!"
"Hey!" Li Mu said coldly: "Your Majesty, this play is based on the events of this dynasty. Didn't you see that the governor was named Zheng Dalu?"
"Oh," Li Shimin suddenly realized, glanced at Li Mu, and said: "You are really a loser. If someone offends you, it will be endless. It's not just tit-for-tat on the surface, but you also belittle others behind their backs.
I feel a little pity for them."
"Your Majesty, you have to speak according to your conscience. I have no enmity with them, so why don't we have any enmity for your Majesty's sake? Besides, I didn't do it secretly. I wrote a play to scold them, and I didn't block their way.
I don’t want them to scold me. If they have the ability, they will stage a show to scold me. But if they don’t have the ability, they can rely on me, right?”
"Yes, yes, I can't speak to you." Li Shimin put the script aside, then picked up the original manuscript of "When Will the Bright Moon Come?", only took a glance at it, and then became serious.
The song "Shui Diao Ge" is widely circulated. Just like Li Mu's pop songs in his previous life, anyone can hum a few lines. Li Shimin is no exception. His Concubine Yang is the daughter of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. As a daughter, she misses her father.
I often sing this little tune.
Seeing this word, Li Shimin subconsciously hummed it in his mind. The more he hummed it, the more subtle it became, and he read it out loud without realizing it.
"When will the bright moon come? Ask the sky for wine. I wonder what year it is today in the palace in the sky?"
"I want to ride the wind back home, but I'm afraid it's too cold in the high places."
"Dance and clear the shadow, how can it be like being in the human world!"
"Turn around the Zhuge Pavilion, lower the Qihu household, and the light will make you sleepless. There should be no hatred, why should we be reunited when we say goodbye?"
"People have joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, and the moon waxes and wanes. This has never been the case in ancient times."
"I hope that people will live forever, and we will share the beauty of the moon even though we are thousands of miles away."/"I hope that we will live forever, and we will share the beauty of the moon even though we are thousands of miles apart."
The last sentence was recited by Wang Ou and Li Shimin together. When Li Shimin was watching, Wang Ou was also looking at the side and reciting it in his heart. When he got to the last sentence, he finally couldn't help but read it out loud.
Li Shimin heard Wang Ou's voice in his ear, raised his head to look at her, and his heart skipped a few beats.
She recited the words together with me, and the content was like this. Could it be that she was also thinking about sharing the beauty of Chanjuan with me?
When Wang Ou saw Li Shimin looking over, she immediately turned her head to the side. Her heart was filled with boredom. She had just spoken about her evaluation of Emperor Sui Yang, but not of Li Shimin. But in fact, Li Shimin was exactly the same as Emperor Sui Yang in her heart.
It's the complete opposite. Emperor Sui Yang was a great talent, but he couldn't be an emperor. Li Shimin could be an emperor, but he had and only had this one advantage.
In addition to being qualified as emperor, Li Shimin was useless in Wang Ou's eyes.
Fei Bai can't recite poetry, nor is he romantic. But for a talented woman like Wang Ou, Li Shimin's handwriting is just average and not good at all. The most important thing is that Li Shimin's handwriting is just average.
Wang Ou dislikes his character very much. He is self-centered in macho chauvinism. How can there be any happiness in being with such a person?