The banquet was held at the Ministry of Rites.

Everyone must participate unconditionally, this is the emperor's feast for the new scholars.

According to the custom, the banquet was attended by a representative of the emperor, and then the representatives of the Ministry of Rites and Wuxun were also to participate.

The representative of the emperor of the Shangke banquet is King Yan, and King Yan is the emperor's uncle.

The representative of the emperor of the present branch banquet is Prince Zhongshun, the emperor's mother and brother.

The banquet was not as elaborate as the ceremony, and the scholars arrived on time, and then entered the table according to the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

The new branch Sanding A is in the first row, and then the second class Jinshi is arranged in turn.

This kind of single-seat banquet is different from the traditional round table banquet, but it is quite close together, and the scale of 380 people is too large, and it is quite troublesome to set up so many seats to serve the dishes one by one.

However, this means that the face of the Great Zhou Dynasty is complicated, and it also needs to be so.

Fortunately, on Feng Ziying's left is Hou Sui, and on the right is Wang Xiangchun, a student from Shandong.

Hou Sui naturally doesn't need to say that Wang Xiangchun is a fellow villager in Shandong, although Feng Ziying doesn't know Wang Xiangchun, but when he hears the hometown, he naturally gets a lot closer.

However, Feng Ziying still felt that Wang Xiangchun seemed to be a little cold to her, but she was very enthusiastic about Hou Xun, which made Feng Ziying also a little puzzled.

If you say that because you are young, you are ranked in front of it, but Hou Sui is only three years older than him, and he is even more in the ranking, and he is the other party's fellow countryman, why is this guy so enthusiastic about Hou Sui from Henan?

After going back and forth, I found that when people talk about poetry, they are the first to talk about poetry, and I obviously lack the background in this regard.

Fortunately, although this guy is not enthusiastic about himself, he is not cold-eyed, but it is a little uncomfortable compared to Hou Xun.

Since people don't want to see her, Feng Ziying is too lazy to stick a cold face to other people's hot butts, in comparison, Hou Sui is much closer, this is the friendship that everyone has accumulated in the past two years, which is naturally not ordinary.

Hou Sui is also a shrewd person, so he naturally saw Wang Xiangchun's cold reception of Feng Ziying, and smiled secretly in his heart.

This Feng Ziying is usually overpowering himself in various affairs between him and Chongzheng Academy, even Yang Wenqiang is difficult to gain the upper hand, but he didn't expect to be despised by this villager at this grace banquet today, which makes him relieved on the surface, but he is still a little happy in his heart.

It seems that the news that he is not familiar with poetry but was ordered by the emperor to almost enter the three-ding armor in the palace examination has spread among the students, there is no doubt that this must be someone with a heart to manipulate it, otherwise it has only been two days, and it has become like this, Feng Ziying is also figuring out who is doing the ghost in it.

However, there are too many suspicious candidates, mainly because they are really too hated, fifteen years old, the youngest Jinshi in Da Zhou, born in a martial arts family, not familiar with poetry, well, it can't be said that it doesn't make sense, but it is really not fine, these aspects, none of them can make these new Jinshi who have just lifted out of poverty feel comfortable.

And he actually won the approval of the emperor Chrysostom, and almost entered the top three tripods, even so, they are still among the top ten in the second class, how can this make those students who spend countless efforts on poetry and literature feel comfortable?

Seeing the somewhat weird smile on Hou Sui's face, Feng Ziying could guess that this guy was secretly happy in his heart.

In the past two years, Yang Sichang and the Hou brothers have also dealt with Qingtan Academy, and there have been a lot of discussions and policy studies on various current affairs, and naturally there are some debates, and these guys have rarely taken advantage.

However, as long as it was about poetry and songs, Feng Ziying thanked Bu Min and made it clear that she was not good at it, so there was no need to say more, so Yang Sichang and the Hou brothers had no excuse to find fault.

Today, I finally waited for the opportunity, and it was provoked by others, not only to avoid offending people, but also to take this opportunity to tease Feng Ziying in the future, well, it is your own villagers who look down on you, and want to discuss poetry and literature with you, who will complain?

This Enrong banquet is also very aggrieved, this Wang Xiangchun discusses poetry with Hou Sui from time to time, and occasionally throws away one or two sentences of poetry scrutiny, or evaluates one or two Tang and Song Dynasty everyone, which makes Feng Ziying, who is sitting in the middle, extremely uncomfortable.

wants to get up and leave, this is the Enrong banquet, he is not so bold, but if he doesn't leave, these two people, especially Wang Xiangchun, are simply talking more and more, and that Hou Sui is only afraid that his belly will burst with laughter, but he still pretends to talk to Wang Xiangchun with his eyebrows, which makes Wang Xiangchun even more excited.

Feng Ziying also sighed secretly, seeing that this Wang Xiangchun was a simple-minded guy with lack of emotional intelligence, and he was toyed with by this Hou Sui on the applause, and he didn't know it.

It was easy to wait until the end of this grace banquet, Feng Ziying felt that she could finally escape the development of the Great Zhou poetry culture between the two of them, but she never thought that the contempt he had been trying to avoid would still come.

"Ziying, Ruoya said that you don't like poetry, but seriously?" Wang Xiangchun glanced at Feng Ziying, and asked with interest, obviously the previous discussion with Hou Xun made him very satisfied.

Hou Sui was born in a famous family, and his father was an official in the court, and the Wang family was also a famous scholar in Shandong New Town, his father and his brother were all Jinshi, so he was naturally arrogant, and he was respected by Hou Sui, which also made him particularly proud.

And this Feng Ziying is just a martial artist, relying on some understanding of current affairs, Jinke wrote an article to invite flattery, which won the emperor's heart for a while, and he was a little unaware of the sky, although he was also from Shandong, he was particularly disliked.

"Brother Ji Mu, the younger brother really doesn't have much talent in poetry and literature, plus he has lived in the border since he was a child, and he has no famous teacher to teach, and his family is not as family-educated as Brother Ji Mu, so he is really ashamed."

Feng Ziying didn't want to argue with Wang Xiangchun on such occasions.

Originally, they were all villagers, and they were a lot older than themselves, so they should respect their predecessors, so their words were also very modest and tactful.

"Ziying, you are still young, don't you hear that God rewards hard work? Diligence can make up for the shortcomings, this poem is the foundation of the existence of our scholars, if this aspect is lacking, how to educate the people in the future? Wang Xiangchun is still satisfied with Feng Ziying's low-key modesty, but he still has to teach as a person who has come over, "Now that you have won the Jinshi, you should still spend more time on poetry, current affairs are important, but it is right to strengthen the foundation." ”

Feng Ziying glanced at the other party coldly, forcibly suppressed the anger in her heart, and gave you a little face, but do you really think that you can be invincible?

"Brother Ji Mu is right, if the younger brother has time in the future, he must study hard,......" Feng Ziying still nodded in response, after all, the other party had no malicious intent.

"It's not that I have time, but from now on, I have to study seriously,...... Wang Xiangchun's literary and youthful energy is obviously a little superior, and he said stubbornly: "Think about our scholars, people die to leave their names, leopards die to leave their skins, if you can't leave a poem and article that can be praised by future generations, how can you be worthy of the status of scholars?" Look at Li Taibai, Du Gongbu, the ,...... that has been passed down through the ages"

I really couldn't help it, Feng Ziying really didn't expect that she would meet such a stubborn and young fellow, and this is at the Enrong banquet, is it appropriate for you to teach yourself a lesson over and over again?

Anyway, I am still your villager, and the ranking of the second-class jinshi is still before you, I don't like poetry and I don't like it to recruit you like this, and if you don't transfer my education to become a great poet, you can't be satisfied with the mentality of being a teacher?

"Li Du's poems have been passed down by thousands of mouths, and they are no longer new. There are talented people from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years. Brother Ji Mu, junior brother thinks that in the prosperous era of the Great Zhou, it may not be possible to produce a few talents who can be comparable to Li Du in all aspects, such as you? You say, don't you? ”

When Wang Xiangchun and Hou Sui discussed poetry, they had actually attracted the attention of many Jinshi around, after all, this was the top ten of the second class, including the three dingjia in front of them from time to time to prick up their ears to listen to a few words, until Wang Xiangchun "taught" Feng Ziying, it attracted many people to laugh secretly.

So when Feng Ziying finally launched a "counterattack", at least a dozen people present heard Feng Ziying's casual comment on Li Du's poem.

The audience was amazed.

Wang Xiangchun and Hou Sui next to him were dumbfounded.

Doesn't it mean that he doesn't know poetry? ...... poem?

"Ziying, ...... this poem?" Hou Sui couldn't help it at first, this guy is simply pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, he has been pretending to be in front of his brother and Wen Yi for the past two years, but at this time, he came to such a show at the Enrong banquet?

"What poem?" Feng Ziying asked in surprise: "Oh, you said this, I saw it on a dilapidated city wall by chance when my younger brother was a child when he was patrolling the border with his father, and I don't know which scholar who visited the side wall scribbles, so the younger brother wrote it down,......"

Hou Sui looked at Feng Ziying as if he had seen a ghost, with an unbelievable expression, and even Lian Guoshi, Huang Zunsu and Yang Sichang in the front row couldn't help but turn their heads.

Wang Xiangchun's face was flushed with anger, but he didn't know how to respond for a while, is there a boring person like you?

Hou Sui had some understanding of Feng Ziying's character, and it took a long time to breathe in like a toothache, and grinned: "Ziying, it's boring for you to do this, Brother Ji Mu is also kind, I hope you spend more time on poetry, there is no other meaning,......

"Ruoya, I'm very grateful to Brother Ji Mu for his kindness, but when you say that, it seems like I've done something bad again?" Feng Ziying also replied to the other party angrily: "What did I do?" ”

The commotion here immediately attracted the attention of the three guests of honor at the banquet, this is a banquet of grace, who dares to make a noise here?

Prince Zhongshun's eagle-like eyes suddenly looked over, and Niu Jizong, the representative of Wuxun and the envoy of the Jingying Festival, on the side, looked at this side with a relieved expression on his face and with interest.