Chapter 171: Keeping the Word
""Silent Night Thoughts"" Meng Chong knelt on the ground in response to the order, and recited aloud Zhu Ping'an's revised "Silent Night Thoughts" from the title.
Emperor Jiajing sat on the lawn and concentrated on petting the cat, bent on pleasing the cat master, and did not pay any attention, it seemed that he just regarded Meng Chong's reading as the background music of the cat.
"The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground." Meng Chong read out the first two sentences revised by Zhu Ping'an.
Emperor Jiajing, who was concentrating on petting the cat, listened to the two sentences read by Meng Chong, and the action of petting the cat in his hand involuntarily stopped.
The tabby fat cat purred in a low voice, rubbed Emperor Jiajing's hand twice with his head, and urged Emperor Jiajing to continue.
"Raise your head to look at the bright moon, bow your head and think of your hometown." Meng Chong then read the last two sentences aloud.
After hearing this, Emperor Jiajing involuntarily closed his eyes, as if he had a feeling, and completely forgot to pet the cat.
In Emperor Jiajing's mind, the bricks and tiles of Lu Zhouxing's palace began to slowly emerge, and the scenes of his life experience also began to flash in his mind......
"Meow Meow~"
Seeing that Emperor Jiajing had snubbed him, the tabby fat cat couldn't help meowing dissatisfied, and couldn't stop rubbing Emperor Jiajing's hand with his head.
"Hehe, my Dragon and Tiger General is jealous." Emperor Jiajing came back to his senses and smiled, gently touched the head of the tabby fat cat and teased, "If there is a chance another day, I will take the Dragon and Tiger General to my hometown Luzhou Xingwangfu to go around, it is not as big as here, but there is a rockery and many caves, the general will definitely like it." ”
Meng Chong, who was kneeling on the ground and bowing his head to wait for the decree, listened to Emperor Jiajing's words, and his heart fluctuated, this is the saint who listened to the "Silent Night Thoughts" modified by Lord Xiao Zhu, touched the scene, and missed the Lu Zhouxing Mansion when the dragon was diving.
"Transcribe several copies, pass them to the Wuyi Palace, objectively evaluate them, and report them to me."
After Emperor Jiajing teased the tabby fat cat for a while, he lightly commanded Meng Chong, who was kneeling on the ground and waiting for the order.
"The minions obey."
Meng Chong touched the ground with his head, got up, and left backwards with his head down.
Soon, Meng Chong copied several copies of "Silent Night Thoughts" and sent them to Wuyi Hall for comments from the ministers.
"Huh? turned out to be a rewrite of the poet fairy Li Taibai's "Silent Night Thoughts". Dare to ask Gonggong Meng, who is the author of this "Silent Night Thoughts"? ”
Before starting the evaluation, a valuable minister asked Meng Chong who wrote this revised version of "Silent Night Thoughts".
"This "Silent Night Thoughts" is from ......"
Meng Chong was about to open his mouth to tell the ministers that this "Silent Night Thoughts" was from Zhu Ping'an's hand, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he suddenly thought of the sentence "objective comment" ordered by Emperor Jiajing, what about objective comments, if the ministers knew that the author was Lord Xiao Zhu, wouldn't it be easy to bring personal subjectivity to Lord Xiao Zhu when commenting.
More is better than less, more is more wrong, less is wrong, not doing is good.
Miscellaneous families can't do miscellaneous errands on the saints.
Thinking of this, Meng Chong closed his mouth, smiled hehe, and said to the ministers: "Hehe, my lords, let the miscellaneous family sell a pass, and wait until the adults have finished commenting, and the miscellaneous family will tell you." ”
Although I don't know who the author is, I know that this "Silent Night Thoughts" was asked by Emperor Jiajing to comment on it. Based on this, most of the ministers are mostly praised when they comment.
"Well, it actually rewrote Shixian's "Silent Night Thoughts"? It's really bold, the first sentence of 'watching the moonlight before the bed' was rewritten as 'the bright moonlight before the bed', and it reads more catchy. You Chen couldn't wait to comment.
"Not only that, but when you read it carefully, it makes sense to remove the word 'look'. The version that circulated before was 'watching the moonlight before bed', this moonlight is an invisible thing, it is not good to come to 'see' it deliberately, and if you deliberately 'see' it, it is not easy to mistake 'moonshine' for 'suspected frost on the ground'. and changed to 'bright moonlight in front of the bed', it is 'moonlight' inadvertently reflected in the eyes, leading to the next sentence of 'suspected frost on the ground', which makes people feel more natural to read, which can be described as natural. Yuan Wei has always been actively keen on this kind of thing, and can show his strengths, so he took the words of the previous minister, further explained, dug deep into the considerations behind the change of words, and sang praises for the revised version, "In particular, the change of 'head up' to 'head up' can be said to be the finishing touch of this poem, looking up always gives people a relaxed feeling, and raising the head is heavy, which can highlight the weight of homesickness." ”
"However, what Lord Yuan said is very true. In fact, strictly speaking, there are dozens of versions of "Silent Night Thoughts", and the popular ones today are only the versions collected and printed by the Song people, and no one can say for sure whether there is a discrepancy with the original work of the poet Li Taibai. This revised "Silent Night Thoughts" is more catchy and easy to understand than the Song version. "Silent Night Thoughts" is a work of Mengxue, so it is more suitable for Mengxue to recite, it is the gospel of my Ming Mengtong, and it should be vigorously promoted and recited......"
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The ministers in the Wuyi Hall vied with each other to speak, and the comments praising the revised version of "Silent Night Thoughts" were endless.
Of course, it is not without criticism, saying that this "Silent Night Thoughts" is a "tampering" poetic masterpiece, and there is a suspicion of "blasphemy" of the poetic immortal masterpiece, and the original "Mountain Moon" is more literal, and the revised "Bright Moon" is much more cheesy, but soon these voices were criticized, and then drowned in the human voice, compared with the wave of praise, it is just a little ripple, and even the waves can't be turned up.
When everyone was commenting, Meng Chong and several little eunuchs recorded on the side, especially Yuan Wei's comments, and after everyone commented, Meng Chong fulfilled his promise before the review, and told everyone about the modifier of "Silent Night Thoughts", Zhu Ping'an, and then went to Emperor Jiajing to return his life.
After hearing that "Silent Night Thoughts" was written by Zhu Ping'an, Yuan Wei, who had been the most energetic in singing praises before, was suddenly stunned, his mouth opened as if he had swallowed a mouse, and various emotions such as discomfort, diaphragm, and regret came one after another...... Yuan Wei's intestines were all repentant.
It's a pity that there is no if, time is difficult to return, and it is difficult to recover the water.
In the Imperial Garden, Meng Chong truthfully replied to Emperor Jiajing, who was a cat, the comments of the ministers of Wuyi Palace.
"That being the case, then I also have to be true to my word, are you right, my dragon and tiger general."
Emperor Jiajing lifted the tabby fat cat with both hands, and raised its two fat claws to soar in the air, teasing and said.