Chapter 20: There are more talents than young people (3)
There is a small area marked separately on the right side of Linhuyuan. Inside are female guests and female relatives from each family, with silk curtains covering the outer edges, but you can see clearly from the inside out.
It is not suitable for men who are talented or have backgrounds. Most women who can enter Linhuyuan are either rich or noble, and ordinary families will not bring their female relatives in.
There are only such a large circle of wealthy families in Hangzhou. On weekdays, women don’t have much interaction with men outside, but most of the female relatives know each other. As the saying goes, three women have a rare opportunity to get together in one play, and the beauty is quite lively.
The entertainment in this era is very few than in later generations. Singing girls and dancers are all people with low status. Students who can recite poems and essays have become the subject of talks among many girls in the boudoir. The girls chirped and pointed at the middle of the field. Whenever good poems and lyrics came, they were very excited. Like the tourists on the outside, they each supported their favorite talents and cheered for them. The commotion caused outside naturally attracted their attention.
A breeze blew, blowing the curtain open, and Han Qiniang's maid Luping's petite body came in.
"I've found out clearly. I heard it's a son-in-law..." He looked up and saw Han Qiniang's eyes that wanted to eat people, and quickly changed his words, "Chen Yue wrote the first word outside. After winning Guanpu, he refused to accept the money. Others chased him and sent the money."
Han Qiniang said angrily: "What words can he do? Humph! It's a mess that can't be supported by the mud."
The women sitting next to her were all her friends in her boudoir and they laughed sweetly.
"Qi Niang, you are really like that. What if your Goroshi made some good words to express them in front of you? You are not afraid of being sad because of this injustice."
Han Qiniang's pretty face turned slightly red and she spat: "Go and go, who belongs to my family? If you want to take it yourself."
"I think Chen Shangwen is also quite handsome. He was very polite and decent when he entered the yard just now. It was not as unbearable as the legends outside. Qi Niang, please forget about him. Anyway, the daughters of our wealthy families have a few who can choose from."
Han Qiniang glared at him: "I don't know what benefits he has given you, so I can help you become a lobbyist, or do you mean you are interested in him and stare at him from the door? Otherwise, how could he know he is polite?"
"Oh, Qi Niang is jealous."
"Oh~ Qi Niang blushed, Qi Niang blushed~"
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After a giggle, Han Qiniang couldn't do anything about them. Although she was a little more aggressive on weekdays, she was not angry with her best friends at this time. She thought about a reason to change the topic, turned to the maid Luping and said, "What kind of broken words did Chen Yue make? Let's take a look?"
Lu Ping was just smirking. Seeing her wife turn to look at her, she quickly restrained her smile and said, "I heard that she wrote a poem about Qingyu, and asked someone to take it to Mr. Su with the words of the second young master of the Chen family to Mr. Su. I don't know what she wrote in detail."
Su Lu, the fourth daughter of the Su family, raised her head and asked, "Qingyu case? Could it be that the Qingyu case that Qi Niang just mentioned was made by him?"
The women around him were looking at her in confusion when they heard Han Qiniang tell him what she had encountered when she came here just now.
"How is that possible! Don't you know what Chen Yue does on weekdays? I said at the door that if he could make half of the poem "The East Wind Blooms Thousands of Flowers and Trees at Night", I would not care about what happened the day before yesterday."
In the Song Dynasty, the peers usually called each other, and if they called them directly, it would be like swearing. Han Qiniang spoke Chen Yue one by one since before, which shows that she had such a deep prejudice towards Chen Yue. At this time, she was still a little embarrassed in front of her friends in the boudoir. She didn't say that he could write it and then marry him.
"Didn't Qi Niang only find out a few words about the Qingyu Case before? If it were really written by Wulang of Chen, it would be great, so I can get a glimpse of the whole picture." Su Lu said with some regret. These words alone could make people fall in love with them and were so amazing that they were praised by others. I think the whole poem must be excellent, but she didn't believe that Chen Yue could make such a lyric.
The other people also shook their heads. They just joked, but at most they thought it was a coincidence and sighed secretly.
Luping stepped forward to clean up the table with a lot of fruit shells and debris. When she was about to go out to throw away the garbage, a girl dressed in a maid hurriedly ran over. When the two passed by, they accidentally bumped into each other. When Luping saw that it was Su Lu's maid Fang'er, they were all familiar with each other, so she didn't care. She smiled and said, "What are you doing in a hurry? Could it be that someone was chasing me?"
Fang'er spat: "Go, I see you are the little girl who is Sichun. The poems that your son-in-law has just come out, so he rushed to report to the lady to know." After that, he turned around and walked quickly.
When Luping heard this, she became curious and quickly dumped the things in her hand and followed her.
After entering the female family area surrounded by the silk curtain, Su Lu's voice came, "What is Chen Shangwen's lyrics written? Tell me quickly and listen to Qi Niang."
"Whoever wants to listen, go and go, say you will listen to your wife." Han Qiniang said that, but she couldn't help but be curious and came over.
Fang'er handed the paper of the poems on her hand and said, "I didn't look carefully, so I asked Manager Ding and took the copy and came over. However, the atmosphere there seemed to be a bit strange. Several masters on the stage frowned and muttered something, but no one spoke."
"Oh?" Su Lu looked at Han Qiniang with light eyebrows and saw the questions in the other party's eyes.
After taking the paper, Su Lu looked at it intently. The first sentence at the beginning was clearly written, "The east wind bloomed thousands of flowers and trees at night"!
He looked at Han Qiniang incredibly again, turned around and continued to recite the words on the paper silently. His eyes gradually became complicated and difficult to describe from the beginning of doubt to shock. After reading it once, he looked from the beginning, but still couldn't believe it.
Han Qiniang sat opposite Su Lu and couldn't see the content on the paper. It was a lyric written by a man who was very likely to become her future husband. She also wanted to see what the other party could write. However, although she was curious in her heart, she couldn't ask for questions at their table.
Fortunately, there were two people next to her who couldn't wait and shouted to her read it. Su Lu glanced at them in a complicated way, and finally set her eyes on Han Qiniang's face, sighed softly, and put the paper on the table, "You can see it yourself... I'm afraid you can't understand the three flavors of it if I read it..."
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I will make the list tomorrow, so I'll ask for recommendations on Monday~ I didn't know if I had something to do last Sunday, so I'll be **!
Chapter completed!