"Gossip Weekly" is different from Xiaosheng's Jianghu. This kind of journal focuses on strange stories in the Jianghu, and is not strict in the source and textual research of the news. The more bizarre the plot, the more exaggerated it is, the more it can attract the attention of Jianghu's live-streaming. Therefore, as soon as this report came out, it was immediately robbed in Jinling City.

After all, it involves the wealthy nobles in Jinling City. This report not only satisfies the curiosity of some people. It also embarrasses the arrogant Xie family in Jinling City, why not do it?

Zhuge Shaobing read the report and threw the weekly magazine hard onto the book case. Who did this?

Needless to say, it must be Zhang Youqian's idea, but as a friend, I will never betray him.

I glanced at Zhang Youqian, but saw him angrily, this was obviously nonsense! Lord Zhuge, who is Captain Su? How could he do such despicable means? Look here, Captain Su just sucked out the snake venom for Miss Xie, and then he was caught in the union of Yin and Yang. Anyone with a little common sense knows that this kind of a rampant trick is nothing to do with Xiaobaiwen, which is a thousand words and five pieces. For this behavior of slandering our Six Gates and the Wang family, we must investigate the six Gates to the end and punish them severely.

Zhuge Shaobing looked gloomy. You two will check the gossip weekly now, especially the author's three views, so I can find a way to clean up him. As he said that he said to the butler Xie Fen, please tell Lord Xie that I will never let go of the six doors for spreading rumors and slandering the reputation of the lady.

After leaving the house, I told Zhang Youqian that this matter was a bit over. Zhang Youqian went straight to the Confucius Temple and saw a scholar setting up a street stall looking at the girl on the roadside with a vulgar face, drooling.

When the scholar saw Zhang Youqian, he rushed forward and the financial owner came! Zhang Youqian kicked the street stall down and scolded: I spent 10,000 taels, what about the promised naked? What about the promised sex? Use omitting thirty words here to fool me?

I picked up the scholar and slapped him up, thirty words. With this little imagination, I want to be a gunman. I took off my eight clothes and took off my body for more than thirty words!

The scholar said I was wronged. When I handed over the manuscript, I wrote three thousand words. The article was too long and I deleted it. I only received fifty manuscripts in total, and I was deducted twelve cents of tax. Oh, the tax was more powerful than the tiger.

I said you slander the state public officials and spread lewd content. Let's go, go with us to go to the prison! The scholar was like a deflated ball, begging for mercy, saying that I was a scholar who participated in the spring examination. If I had a criminal record, my career would be ruined. Zhang Youqian said forget it, in fact, except for too few descriptions, everything else is OK, but it would be a pity for you to be an official with your literary talent. It would be better to work in the gossip weekly.

The scholar shook his head repeatedly and refused to agree no matter what. Zhang Youqian laughed, why don’t you get out of here? Looking at the scholar running away, Zhang Youqian said disdainfully, and he still has the character of a scholar. When he sees money, he loses anything. I sighed. As the saying goes, a scholar is useless. Articles in troubled times are not worthwhile. This person is just supporting his family, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Confucius Temple is crowded with people, and then I remember that today is the Flower God Festival. I have never passed the Flower God Festival in Yanmen area. There are yellow sand geese, desert smoke, but there are no flowers blooming. It is different in the Jiangnan area, and there are flowering periods almost every month.

It is said that wintersweet in the first month of the year, roses compete for fragrance in February; pomegranates are red in March, gardenias are blooming in April; begonias are dazzling red in May, lotus fragrance fills the pond in June; orchids are worn on their heads in July, osmanthus flowers are fragrant in August; chrysanthemums compete for beauty in September, and hibiscus changes in October; daffodils are offered to the table in winter, and plum blossoms are fragrant in the snow in the twelfth month. It is said that it is Jiangnan.

Flower God Festival, also known as the Flower Festival and Butterfly Festival, is mostly held at the end of February and early March, and is extremely popular in the Jiangnan area. Now it is the time when flowers are in full bloom. On the street of Confucius Temple, there are flower farmers carrying loads and selling flowers, selling them along the streets. Each shop is also decorated with flowers. The entire Confucius Temple is like a sea of ​​flowers.

There are people who blow candy, sell hand-style, play monkeys, shouts, and gongs and drums along the street, and there are naughty children picking flowers and interspersing them, which is very lively.

The young girl who usually stays in the boudoir also comes to the street, buys some rouge and water, and points to the Confucian scholars in the Jiangnan Academy. Maybe she wants to look forward to the Liu Mengmei and Zhang Sheng in her mind, and writes a story about a talented man and a beautiful woman, which is a unique flavor.

Originally, Zhang Youqian and I were on duty today, but today's incident made us angry. Zhuge Shaobing took care of our emotions and specially gave us a half-day vacation. We were also happy. Wuyi Lane was not far from Confucius Temple, so we went home to change into clothes.

Zhang Youqian is still dressed as a young man, and I changed into a fashionable Confucian long gown. Although I have never studied, we also yearn for the life of scholars. Of course, the main reason is that today we made an appointment with Xu Ruonan to share the Confucius Temple, which is also our first official date.

How many hours have passed before the appointment with Xu Ruonan? Zhang Youqian proposed to go to the Jiangnan Academy. Every year, the Jiangnan Academy holds a hundred flowers poetry meeting. Since ancient times, talented people have emerged. In Zhang Youqian's words, we are not knowledgeable and have been ignorant of scholars in the past, which is considered art of elegance, right?

On the Qinhuai River, even at noon, the girls in the pleasure boat stood on the bridge, cast a charming look at the scholar passing by, and met a shy young master teasing him. The young master lowered his head and walked over quickly, causing a burst of laughter on the boat. The shy young master's face turned red.

Jiangnan has always been a hometown of poetry and essays, so it naturally has its profound cultural heritage. In Jinling City, even street vendors and barbarians can recite a or two poems, otherwise they will not be able to do business with those scholars, right?

The Jiangnan Academy is also the largest tribute court in the south. This kind of flower poetry meeting naturally fell on the head of the Jiangnan Academy. The Jiangnan Academy is located at the end of Confucius Temple. When I arrived at the school, I was already crowded with people. On weekdays, the style of the Jiangnan Academy is very strict, but today all people are having fun together, and literati, poets and peddlers and barons are interspersed. This is something I have never encountered in the north.

The main hall of the Academy is divided into east and west, with couplets on the east and poetry meetings on the west. This year, the Academy invited Xie Shiting, the leader of the Jiangnan literary world, to take charge of the position. The situation is quite strong, and I am not very interested in poetry, but I am quite interested in couplets, but I have squeezed in for half a day, but I haven't squeezed in.

At this moment, I suddenly heard someone cursing, "You don't have eyes when you walk?" I looked at it. It was Gong Zhi's young master, Gong Zhi, who was scolding a flower seller. I saw a load of flower sap on the ground. The servant wrapped his head in a towel and his face was flushed. It was Li Muge, a scholar in the school whom I saw in Tianxianglou two days ago.

When Zheng Dahai saw the servant, he couldn't help but say, "Oh, everyone, come and see it. It turns out that it is Li Dacaizi. Why didn't he serve vegetables in Tianxianglou and run to the academy to sell flowers?"

As soon as Zheng Dahai shouted, everyone immediately surrounded him. In the Ming Dynasty, everything was inferior, but studying was high, and doing business was a shameful thing. As soon as the shouts came out, the students surrounded him and talked a lot, but they saw Li Muge's lips closed and bent down to pick up the falling peach blossoms.

Pang Dahai laughed loudly, wondering how much is Mr. Li’s peach blossom? How much is the face of us scholars?

Li Muge looked at Ying Dahaidao, Mr. Ying, why do I have to do with you when I sell peach blossoms? Why should I be aggressive? Ying Dahai snorted coldly, "The surname is Li, I don't care if you sell flowers elsewhere, you do your business until my Jiangnan Academy is here, and you have lost all the faces of our Academy."

At this time, I heard a woman scolding angrily, "Bing Dahai, don't bully people too much!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a young woman walking out of the crowd. She was none other than one of the two pearls of Jinling. Wang Linglong, the daughter of the Wang family in Jinling, and Zhang Youqian, was about to step forward, but I was dragged down.

Wang Linglong walked to Li Muge and bent down to help him pick up the peach blossoms scattered on the ground. When Zheng Dahai saw Wang Linglong, he changed his face. It turned out to be Sister Wang. He hadn't come to the school for many days. I thought you forgot me.

Wang Linglong's pretty face was frosted, who is your girl? He turned to Li Muge and looked at Li Muge with a tender face. Mr. Li, I bought the peach blossoms. Li Muge didn't even look at Wang Linglong, and whispered, "Don't sell them."

Ying Dahai said angrily, "My sister Wang is looking down on you because she buys you peach blossoms, so don't be shameless." Li Muge said coldly, "What does it have to do with you if you sell it?" You said just now that I, Mr. Li, have lost all my face."

Seeing Li Muge's voice was cold and his face was full of grievances, he was almost crying. Mr. Li, why should you be a slander? Li Muge looked up at Wang Linglong and said, "I, Li Muge, sell flowers, support myself and have a clear conscience. Why do you need to be pitiful?"

Wang Linglong was very excited by this sentence, pointed at Li Muge and said angrily, "Okay, someone surnamed Li, if you have the ability, don't take the spring exam. Even if you have the exam, I will not let you pass the exam!" Li Muge turned around and refused to look at her. Wang Linglong stomped her feet and turned away angrily. Ying Dahai said, "I will deal with you later, and then chased you."

Zhang Youqian felt uncomfortable in his eyes. I patted his shoulder and said, "I have a rival in love." After that, he walked up to him and helped him pick up peach blossoms, saying, Brother Li, don't be fine. When Li Muge saw me, he knew that I saw the situation just now, and his face was a little embarrassed. I waved my hand. A real man can bend and stretch. What's the point of suffering some grievances today? I heard that today's poetry meeting was the first to be successful. Why don't you show off your skills?

Li Muge smiled bitterly when he heard this, "I came for this reason, and thought that there was still half a basket of flowers that had not been sold, so he picked it up here." I took the peach blossoms and threw them to Zhang Youqian. Come on, Master Zhang. Anyway, you are idle, so you might as well taste the sufferings of the world and help sell the flowers."

Zhang Youqian said, "Isn't it just selling flowers? Don't forget that I was a serious businessman before. After that, I put down my burden and said loudly, "Selling peach blossoms, this girl, come and have a good luck in peach blossoms. I saw that you had spring in your eyes, so I bought my peach blossoms and promised that you would be called spring."

The girl put her hips on her hips and said, "Honey, this boy is so slick and teased me." Suddenly, a burly man came, standing in front of Zhang Youqian, what did you say? Zhang Youqian scratched his head, I didn't say anything. The burly man stretched out his fist, and Zhang Youqian threw a basket of peach blossoms on his face and ran away.

Li Muge and I laughed and squeezed into the crowd side by side. There were several couplets hanging on the east hall. Most of us had paired up the first couplet and took the red flowers, but the only couplet was hung in the middle hall. The red flowers were written by the ten taels of red flowers. Everyone stood below, scratching their ears and heads, unable to understand.

The first couplet is: Frozen rock sprinkles ink, two points in the east, three points in the west, and black soil falls on the mountain rocks.

The person who gave the title was Xie Shiting from Jinling. I thought to myself that this couplet is also of course. It is really wonderful to split the four words into a couplet in one sentence. This couplet is extremely difficult, but the leader of the Jiangnan literary world is not worthy of being famous. Everyone gathered around, but no one appeared.

There were three people standing under the couplet. It was the middle-aged man in yellow and an old man in gray that I met at Tianxianglou that day. The middle-aged man looked at the couplet and asked, Dean Lu, everyone said that Lu Nan Xie, Xie Shiting, what do you think of this couplet?

The old man in gray said that Xie Shiting was unparalleled in literary style. If he talked about poetry couplets, he would be ashamed of himself. However, the middle-aged man said, "Director should not belittle himself." Xie Shiting's boy was a little talented, but he was too arrogant. If he talked about the country and the world, he was far inferior to you.

Li Muge and I came forward to greet us. When the two of us saw us, we laughed. The two friends didn’t expect to meet again today. I laughed. Today’s grand event, why don’t you join in the fun? The middle-aged man smiled and looked at Li Muge and said, “Mr. Li, I don’t know what opinions do you have on this couplet?”

Li Muge's face turned red and he said, "I can try it hard." As he said that, he said to the boy standing quietly beside him, "Is this match really a ten-two-pound bonus?"

The book boy said proudly, "This is my adult's question, and it has been a day since I have been waiting for someone to answer it." However, since the young master wants to try it, if I can barely score 70 or 80 points, I will report it to my adult, and maybe I will have some good luck."

The middle-aged man said that the arrogant and arrogant spirit of this little book boy also has a bit of Xie Shiting's taste.

Li Muge stood under the couplet, pondered for a moment, and said, I have the second couplet.

Shutong said, you have a good idea, don’t be embarrassed if you are wrong.

But Li Muge said, come, lay paper and grind it!

The book boy hummed, no!

The middle-aged man laughed and said, "I'd better grind it."

The old man in gray also smiled and said, "I'll lay the paper."

The pen and ink were ready, but Li Muge came forward, picked up the pen and brushed it, and the words were flying and phoenix danced, and they were done in one go. Put down the pen and ink, and said, "Hang it up."

The book boy's way is not reachable.

The middle-aged man signaled, and the man in black followed him picked up the couplet, jumped and hung it on the beam. Everyone gathered over, but saw a couplet hanging on the beam.

Frozen rocks sprinkle ink, two points east and three points west, and black soil falls on the mountain rocks.

Cut the mountain into the spring, with seven swords across the horizontal and eight swords across the vertical and white water crosses the hills and mountains.
Chapter completed!