Chapter 24 Suddenly like a spring breeze
On the New Year, there was a joy in Xuanhu City. The crackling sound of firecrackers dispelled the clouds of war that enveloped Xuanhu. The outside of the city was empty, and the siege troops had retreated outside the long encirclement, and they were burning bamboo to make sounds to celebrate the festival.
The firecrackers of this era, of course, were to put bamboo on fire, and the bamboo joints baked by the fire burst and made crackling sounds. As for firecrackers made of gunpowder, they have not yet been popular.
The New Year is the most important festival of the year, which is the Lunar New Year called later generations. Therefore, even if the two armies broke out in fierce offensive and defensive battles around Xuanhu, on the New Year, they tacitly stopped using troops to let the soldiers have a good New Year.
The enemy was besieging the city. After several months, most of the soldiers and civilians in Xuanhu City were injured and injured. Now the enemy troops outside the city are still surrounded like iron barrels, but even so, the soldiers and civilians in Xuanhu have to have fun in suffering and have a decent New Year's Day.
The strict implementation of the food quota distribution system has relaxed restrictions today. Live chickens, ducks, live pigs, and sheep are cut open by the kitchen, making dishes and dishes, and placed on rows of flowing mats.
The soldiers and ordinary people all feasted on the flowing table. The commander, King Yuwen of Xiyang, walked around the flowing table and greeted the soldiers frequently.
The wine is naturally a turbid low-alcohol wine. Yuwen Wen's alcohol volume is very good. It's no problem to have a small amount of wine, but it can't resist the large amount. From morning to afternoon, Yuwen Wen vomited countless times.
After returning to the General Administration Office, a new round of social engagements began. Yuwen Wen and civil and military officials drank together. He was drunk and pulled his haggard face to "dance with a sword". He stopped after everyone persuaded him.
Gu Yi has been diligent and conscientiously fulfilling the important task of defending the city. He is a civil servant and does not need to go to fight to kill the enemy, but he is responsible for allocating military supplies and organizing the people to repair bunkers. He is tired day and night, and after several months, he becomes much more haggard.
He had seen the ability of King Xiyang and admired it very much. Therefore, King Xiyang lost his composure after drinking and wanted to pull him to dance with him. The Guyi did not think it was a humiliation. After all, the string in the heart collapsed for too long and always relaxed.
Seeing that the King of Xiyang was in a state of drunkenness, Li Yunxin, who was responsible for the chief of the history, quickly asked someone to help the other party. Two servants came forward to support him, but they could not resist the King of Xiyang.
Seeing this, Zhang Yu, the lieutenant of the royal palace, quickly brought the pipa. Yuwen Wen got the pipa and used the skills he learned from Zheng Yi and improvised the difficult skills of rebounding the pipa.
The pipa is a very common instrument in this era and one of the common instruments in the army. It is not exclusive to the charming little lady. It is a very common situation for soldiers in the army to play the pipa and draw their swords to dance. When Gu Yi saw the King of Xiyang happy, he pulled out his sword and danced with the pipa song.
After Yuwen Wen played another song, several generals drew their swords and danced one after another. Although there is no Kabuki to cheer up now, such a typical military singing and dancing scene still makes the scene very lively.
Yuwen Wen, who played the pipa crazily, had a lot of alcohol reduction. However, he missed his family more during festivals. Thinking about Yuchi Chifan, Yuwen Weicheng, who was close to him but could not meet him, and thinking about Yang Lihua, Xiao Jiuniang and other children who were far away in Xiyang, Huangzhou, and he couldn't help but feel sad from his heart.
He was trapped in Xuanhu, the news was almost cut off, and the situation in the world was unknown, so he could only wait for reinforcements to arrive day after day. This kind of day is not so easy to endure. Now, the Day is a good time to drown your sorrows by drinking.
Negative emotions have not occupied Yu Wenwen's heart for too long. Now that the soldiers and soldiers are united, the people are using their lives, the Xuanhu City can still be guarded for a long time. Yu Wenwen has absolute confidence in this, so he quickly got better while playing the pipa.
Plagiarism... The desire to learn from is emerging again. It was the New Year's Day banquet, which was a good time to recite poems. Yuwen Wen used the alcohol to "get from" Wang Anshi's poem "New Year's Day".
Of course, he was still ashamed and did not regard it as his original work. He said that he had gone out and saw the poem written by an anonymous man on the screen wall of a certain temple. Now it is just right.
"One year of age is gone by the sound of firecrackers."
"The spring breeze brings warmth to the slaughter of Su."
"Thousands of doors and thousands of households are bright and clear."
"Always replace the old charms with new peaches."
Most of the poems in this era were five-character poems, and seven-character poems were not lacking, but there were few excellent works. Yu Wenwen's poem "Year Day" was both in line with the scene and the parallelism was neat, and it immediately received applause from the whole hall.
At this time, there were almost no literary scholars at the banquet. Wang Nao was the only one. After listening to the Anonymous "Year Day" edited by Yuwen Wen, he nodded frequently with his beard under his chin and beard.
Sometimes he couldn't see through Yuwen Wen. This person seemed to be not very knowledgeable about classics, had poor literary literacy, and had no calligraphy. Of course, as a royal vassal king, this is not a big deal.
Wang Jun knew that Yuwen Wen rarely wrote poems and said he was not good at literature on his daily life, but as long as he wrote a poem, the level of that poem was not low. What's strange is that every time Yuwen Wen said that he was passing by somewhere and remembered the good sentences written by anonymous people.
Once, it can be said to be a coincidence. If you say coincidence one after another, isn’t it too coincidental?
The doubt was just a swept through Wang Jun's heart. Now he is the only one here who can be called a literary scholar. Although Gu Yi is a civil servant, he is not good at literature. Wang Jun saw that the King of Xiyang was still in danger of being drunk and crazy, so he stood up.
Picking up the pipa, Wang Xu began to sing the popular music in Chang'an. This was not a measure that would lose its identity, but a very common move to entertain.
He was also young and frivolous, and he had avenged his grudges and exchanged cups with his wife in the music shop. Naturally, he remembered the popular music in Chang'an.
Most of the people here have lived in Chang'an and cannot help but go to Lefang to have fun, so they applauded Wang Jun's proposal.
The young ladies in the music shop sing songs to please the guests so that they can donate generously. The level of the songs they want to play should not be low. The lyrics are generally quoted from poems made by famous artists.
The lyrics of the songs Wang Xun played and sang at this time were poems by Bao Zhao, a famous Liu Song Dynasty artist.
Bao Zhao was once a former army to join the army, so he was known as "Bao Army". During the Liu Song and Yuan Jia period, he was an extremely famous poet and one of the "Three Great Masters of Yuan Jia".
Bao Zhao's famous poems were composed of pipa songs and were sung in Chang'an Lefang for many years and have been renewed for a long time. Wang Xun played and sang "The King of Huainan" at this time.
There are two poems in "The King of Huainan":
King Huainan is very happy to live forever, taking food and refining qi and reading the immortal scriptures.
Glazed glass is used as a pen and a plate, and a golden tripod and jade dagger are used as a divine pill.
Combining the divine pill, playing with the purple room, the purple room colored girl makes a bright spell, the phoenix sings and dances to break your intestines.
Wang Jun sang with the pipa, which won the applause of the whole hall, and then the second one of the "Daily King Huainan":
The nine gates and nine boudoirs in Zhucheng, I wish to chase the bright moon into your arms.
Enter your arms, make your pen, and resent the king and hate the king and rely on your love.
Building a city and thinking of strong swords and swords, and not abandon each other when they are prosperous and weak.
These two poems are related to love poems, so they are especially loved by the girls of Lefang after compiling the music. They have been sung in Chang'an Lefang since Wei divided the East and West, and have been one of the most popular songs by guests until now.
At this moment, whether it is Li Yunxin, Yang Su, who is over 40 years old, or Yin Shishi Master who is only over 20 years old, they all warmly applaud this familiar song. These two songs remind them of their years in Chang'an.
There is another story.
In the past, Emperor Yuan Xiu of Wei could not bear the oppression of the powerful minister Gao Huan and fled west to Guanzhong. Empress Yuan Xiu was Gao Huan's daughter, so of course she would not take her away. The one he brought was his mistress and cousin Yuan Mingyue.
Yuan Xiu and Yuan Mingyue were openly dating, but the taboo love of this cousin is unwilling tolerated by the world.
When Yuan Xiu arrived in Chang'an, a song soon spread in Chang'an Lefang. The lyrics were Bao Shenjun's "The King of Huainan" (the second). The first two lines were used by singers to satirize the taboo love of Emperor Wei.
"The nine doors and nine boudoirs in Zhucheng, I wish to chase the bright moon into your arms."
When Yuwen Wen heard these two sentences, he felt depressed instantly. He first thought of the peerless beauty Yuan Mingyue, and then thought of another stunning beauty, sister-in-law Yuchi Mingyue.
Of course, he did not have any thoughts about his sister-in-law at this time, but thought of Mingyue's sister, his princess Yuchi Chifan, and his princess Yuwen Weicheng.
His wife and son were taken hostage by his parents' home. I don't know when he would meet again. Maybe he would never meet in his life. This feeling was not good. Yuwen Wen couldn't help but feel silent. In the eyes of others, he thought that this person had sobered up.
Of course, Wang Xu didn't know that the name of King Xiyang's sister-in-law actually contained the word Mingyue. After all, the woman's name is generally not known to outsiders. Although Yuchi Mingyue had been enthroned as the queen and announced to the world, in public, everyone knows the name of "Empress Yuchi".
The king didn't know, and most of the people present didn't know, so no one knew that this "Daihuai Nan King" (the second) actually touched the minds of the King of Xiyang.
Zhang Yu, the lieutenant of the royal palace, knew the name of the mistress's sister. When he was in Anlu, Yuchi Mingyue often went to the mansion to play with Yuwen Eying, who was extremely naughty. As the man in charge, he was sent to play with him from time to time. He didn't know it.
But Zhang Yu's literary skills were not good, and he didn't know that those two lines of poetry would trigger the boss's thoughts. However, he observed his words and expressions and felt that the boss was drunk and crazy. In order to avoid the scene from getting out of control, he quickly turned his face to the left and right and prepared to "change clothes" the boss.
Thoughts, with Yuwen Wen's skills, it would be difficult to subdue him once he started to be drunk. Zhang Yu and others were ready to be beaten. At this moment, soldiers suddenly ran out of the hall and brought shocking news.
"General! General! Just now, the observation post was reported that our reinforcements arrived in the remote suburbs of the south of the city!!"
"Reinforcements? The enemy's forces have more than 100,000 troops. Will reinforcements be approached?"
"General! The first one is the Ranger. I think the main force is still behind and is approaching."
"Can it be the enemy's posing as reinforcements?"
"No, the Ranger casts the Sky Monkey continuously, that's not wrong!"
This news was like a huge rock entering a flat lake, causing huge waves. The officials and generals present showed joy when they heard this, while Yu Wen Wen, who was in a low mood, was also excited when he heard this.
Reinforcements? Reinforcements!
Reinforcements are coming, I want to save my wife and son!
Chapter completed!