Nightwatcher Chapter 38: Shicheng


  "If Yang Ziqian didn't go to Qingzhou, he could be pushed for this job." Zhang Shen said:

   "Among us, he is the best at this."

  The mountain wind rushed into the room, and Chen Tai's long beard fluttered. He smiled and said, "Brother is more suitable to be an official in the court than me."

   "Old Piff, are you taunting me for kicking the ball?" Zhang Shen was not angry, but with a bachelor gesture: "You can do it, the old man listens carefully."

   Seeing that he was about to quarrel again, Zhang Shen's book boy lowered his head and walked in quickly, bowing and saying: "Sir, your student Xu Zijiu is here."

   Xu farewell? Why is he here? The sage's quotations have been copied three hundred times? Zhang Shen nodded: "Please come in."

  When the book boy left, Zhang Shen glanced at Chen Tai on the opposite side of the chessboard, and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the old man recently accepted a new student, this is the cousin of Xu Dijiao, the poetry is shocking the world."

   Li Mubai immediately added: "That's also my student."

  Chen Tai glanced at the surnamed Zhang, and then at the surnamed Li, and his heart moved: "The poet who says "Mo Chou has no confidant, who does not know the king"?"

   Li Mubai and Zhang Shen smiled triumphantly.

   "Hahaha..." Chen Tai laughed out loud and nodded at the two friends.

   "What are you laughing at?"

   "I laughed at you being blinded by fame and fortune, oh, and jealous." Chen Tai closed his smile, half admonishing half mocking:

  "Yang Ziqian’s name must be because this poem was passed down to later generations, which is really enviable. But you two don’t want to think about it. It’s rare to find good poems. Many scholars will have only a few good poems in their lives. No."

  "The sentence "Momhou has no confidant, no one in the world knows the emperor" is already a magical pen, and I am happy to hear it, and I hope to have another one, no, two, so that you two will be named together forever?"

  "Too concerned about fame and fortune. Over time, how does the awe-inspiring righteousness in your stomach survive?"

   After a taunt, Li Mubai and Zhang Shen were a little embarrassed.

   From the bottom of my heart, I know that Chen Tai's words are reasonable, and that he can make the best sentences from the ages. Moreover, the other party is not a scholar, and he even won a poem, which is a great fate.

   It is indeed a bit delusional to expect a subordinate staff member to produce good poems and let them stay in history.

   "You Ping is very true." The two men said in a deep voice, "Three immortal scholars, even if you want to go down in history, you should take the road upright, not a shortcut, because I have gone wrong."

   "If you know your mistakes, you can make corrections, and you won't be good." Chen Tai nodded slightly.

   After a while, the book boy led Xu Qi'an and Xu Xinnian into the elegant room.

   The two at the same time said: "The student has seen the teacher."

   Li Mubai and Zhang Shen looked at each other, surprised and delighted at Xu Qi'an's arrival.

   "Sit down!" Zhang Shen said.

   "Ning Yan, you came to the academy because you have a good sentence to appreciate as a teacher?" Li Mubai tentatively asked.

   Xu Qi'an shook his head and said: "The students come here, they are asking for something."

   "But it's okay to say."

   Xu Qi'an told the two teachers of his intentions and concealed his intention to retaliate against the servant of the household department. He only said that the chief ambassador of the tax and silver case was most likely Zhou Shilang, and if the other party had been through the Beijing inspection, he would definitely retaliate. House.

   "This..." Li Mubai glanced at Zhang Shen, who was also embarrassed, and said helplessly: "The academy prohibits outsiders from staying overnight. This is the rule."

   Scholars are the most disciplined.

   As soon as Xu Qian asked, he heard Xu Xinnian say: "The princess often lives in the college."

  Zhang Shen shook his head: "What is the status of the princess."

  Xu New Year nodded: "The academy prohibits outsiders from staying overnight, except for the emperor's relatives."

  Hey! This stunned green still couldn't speak as usual.

   The three Confucianists present laughed.

   Xu Qi'an almost laughed, but Erlang's poisonous tongue is still so sharp.

   Li Mubai shook his head, "Brother Kindly, you student, I'm a little bit looking forward to him stepping into his fate in the future."

   That's horrible... Zhang Shen's mouth twitched.

  Only Chen Tai looked at Xu Qi'an with a smile. At this time, he interrupted and said: "Are you Xu Ningyan?"

   "It's a student." Xu Qi'an pretended to be a scholar in a Confucian shirt.

  "I heard that there are quite a few talents in poetry, so if you can make a poem that satisfies all three of us on the spot, the old man will call the shots, let the family members of the Xu family stay in the college temporarily and keep them considerate."

   Allowing the Xu family’s female family members to stay in the college is not the point. The point is his last sentence to keep them considerate.

   This is the purpose of the Xu Qi'an brothers.

  Xu New Year's face was slightly happy, and he turned to look at his cousin: "Big Brother..."

   He is both happy and apprehensive. It is not difficult to write poems. Every scholar can write neat poems, but the difficulty is to satisfy the three great scholars.

   Is this difficult?

   This is too difficult.

   write poems? Are you forcing me to prostitute you for nothing? Xu Qi'an did not immediately agree, but deliberatedly said:

  "Writing poems is still a fixed theme."

  The three great scholars exchanged eyes, Zhang Shen said: "Encourage learning!"

   As expected, it is impossible to compose poems voluntarily, otherwise, I will come up with a masterpiece of the age in minutes...Xu Qi'an sighed in his heart.

   also heaved a sigh of relief, because this question does not have a super outline, and his literary background can handle it.

The word    Quan Xue, the first thing Xu Qi'an thought of was the "Encourage Learning" he read in high school, but since it is a poem, this ancient essay is not applicable.

  The book has its own golden house, and the book has Yan Ruyu!

   In Xu Qi'an's mind, this persuasive poem that has been passed down from the past emerged immediately.

   In the field of persuasion, not many people can compare with it in terms of popularity~IndoMTL.com~ He just decided to use this poem to prostitute three great scholars, and suddenly he thought of Yunlu Academy's two hundred years Situation.

   "If you remember correctly, this poem seems to be written by the emperor of the Song Dynasty? It is mixed with fame and fortune, and the students who graduated from Yunlu Academy have always had a difficult career."

   "I felt emotional when I was recruiting people in the resignation test. I don't know that I will be sent to that poor country in the future..."

  "I copied this poem, didn't I poke the heart of Yunlu Academy, it was counterproductive..."

   Seeing him being silent for a long time, Xu Xinnian's brows became more frowning. Among the three great scholars, Zhang Shen and Li Mubai had been looking forward to it, while Chen Tai was drinking tea with a smile.

   Xu Qi'an retracted his thoughts, and said, "The students are showing their ugliness, leave the old and polish the ink for me."

   Xu Xinnian found the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and placed it on the table, personally grinding the ink for his cousin, holding the pen in one hand, and holding his sleeve in the other. The nib was dipped in the ink, and he turned his head to signal his cousin to take the pen.

  I’m not ashamed of my sloppy calligraphy...No, I don’t know how to calligraphy.....Xu Qi'an complained in his heart, and put on the posture of a scholar pointing the passionate writing on the surface, and said:

  "Farewell to ghostwriting for me."

  Xu Xinnian nodded and sat down in front of the case.

  "Three watch lights and five watch chickens."

  "It is when a man is reading."

   "Black hair doesn't know how to study early."

  "Bai Shoufang regretted that he was late in studying!"

  After Xu New Year's writing, he put down his pen and stared at the seven words of handsome handwriting on the rice paper. His eyes were radiant and his face was slightly excited.

   There was a short silence in the house. Xu Xinnian experienced the lingering rhyme of the poem. The three great scholars walked to the shore and stared silently at the rice paper.

   stared silently.

   Chen Tai, with a long beard and black robe, his eyes flickering.


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