Chapter 170: The Superiority of the Literati

I took a piece of meat from the basin and put it in my mouth little by little with a knife, but I felt that it was tender and soft, fragrant, and there was no peculiar smell. After eating a few pieces www.biquge.info the pen, Ouyang Xiu was amazed in his heart, and gradually let go of his original reserve.

The moon gradually rose, and the misty moonlight enveloped the whole world, and the stars in the sky lost their light and gradually disappeared behind the canopy. The evening breeze carried the fresh smell of the crops in the surrounding fields, blowing slowly, with a hint of sweetness.

The little worm that had been silent for a winter came to life again, screaming desperately and playing the song of spring.

After eating a few pieces of meat and drinking a few wines, everyone was a little drunk, so they paused.

Not far away, Sun Qilang was leisurely roasting meat on the charcoal fire, turned around and said, "The fire is already burning here, if you are tired of eating boiled meat, come and roast and eat." ”

As soon as the wine was strong, he flew out of the sky with his reserve. Several people stood up from their chairs, wine glasses in their hands, and staggered to the coals.

I saw that an iron net was spread on the flaming red charcoal, and it was scrubbed cleanly. Sun Qilang squatted on the side, put the cut mutton on the net piece by piece, holding a small brush in his hand, and brushed a little of the sauce in the bowl next to him on the meat from time to time.

Seeing the fresh and tender mutton sizzling on the charcoal fire, revealing an attractive aroma, Wang Gongchen said: "This meat looks fragrant and tender, is it cooked?" Give me a piece to taste! ”

Sun Qilang picked a piece of roasted one, held it with chopsticks, and handed it to Wang Gongchen: "Officials should be careful of scalding, stick it with a knife and eat it slowly." There is a lot of meat here, take your time! ”

Wang Gongchen stuck the meat with the small sharp knife in his hand, bit it carefully, and nodded again and again: "It really tastes good!" ”

Seeing that Wang Gongchen was eating sweetly, everyone took a knife and stuck it in the net to eat the cooked meat.

After eating a few more glasses of wine, the wine came up, and Ouyang Xiu said loudly: "Tonight is really enjoyable!" But there is wine without poetry, after all, it is not a beautiful thing, we are exactly eight people, how about the couplet? ”

Wouldn't it be a joke for literati to get together and drink without composing a few poems? The crowd applauded.

Yin Zhu said: "Deputy Envoy Xu is the landlord here, so please rhyme, and Uncle Yong will pick it up." ”

Ouyang Xiu was conceited and talented, and he agreed and looked at Xu Ping.

Although he is ranked better than Jinshi, Ouyang Xiu is worse than Xu Ping, but he was the first in the imperial examination and provincial examination, but he was inexplicably snatched away by Wang Gongchen, a little ghost, during the palace examination, and he was a little unconvinced. And in recent years, the Xijing shogunate has made great progress, regardless of poetry and writing, there is a vague atmosphere of its own.

On the contrary, Xu Ping, of course, Zhongjinshi's article is actually average, but the idea is excellent, so he is favored as Gaodi. That first-class jinshi, even more because of the light of the sky when he was called up, he was brought up alive, there is really nothing to say. has been an official for so many years, Xu Ping has no famous music, and no good poems have been circulated, which makes people doubt his poetry level.

As for the money and food for military exploits, that is the work of the martial artists and the petty officials, and the ministers of the DPRK and China cannot be convinced by this.

The literati from Luoyang, Xijing, all pretended to be innovative leaders in the literary world, and their vision was extremely high, and they did not look down on Xu Ping. Yin Zhu asked Ouyang Xiu to pick up Xu Pingqi's rhyme, which also meant a demonstration.

Xu Ping looked at Ouyang Xiu and the others, smiled, and said, "Since this is the case, then I might as well be respectful." Casual nonsense to make you laugh. ”

After speaking, I didn't think much about it, and really said casually: "The beautiful scenery of a good day is the sky, so let's rhyme with 'sky'." Songs and poems are written for things, and there is no need to learn from those sour literati and use any dangerous rhymes. ”

Ouyang Xiu was originally in high spirits, but after listening to Xu Ping's words, he choked there in one breath.

"Heaven" is a very common rhyme, and there are a lot of rhyme words. Literati couplets, in order to show their own level, often use dangerous rhymes with few rhyming words. Ouyang Xiu was also prepared for Xu Ping to use a dangerous rhyme, but he didn't expect Xu Ping to use a common rhyme.

This sentence is not difficult one after another, the difficult thing is that the artistic conception and pattern are aligned, and Ouyang Xiu is also frozen there.

Poetry trail, although Xu Ping usually puts in some effort, he doesn't spend any special energy. Let him compose poetry, it is usually difficult, and it is still not possible to calm people on this occasion. I can't make it myself, but it's easy to pick a random sentence from the poems I remembered in my previous life, and there's nothing that I can't copy, anyway, I don't rely on this to eat and make a reputation.

Seeing Ouyang Xiu frozen there, Xu Ping smiled, didn't say anything, turned to the side and lowered his head to concentrate on the barbecue. He didn't mean to make Ouyang Xiu ugly, he just wanted to tell them that he didn't care about this. These people don't care about what they care about, and they think that the poetry is extremely clever, but they can't do it, they just don't spend energy on it.

In the end, Ouyang Xiu said something to the end, Xu Ping didn't listen to it at all, and he didn't need to listen to it. Ouyang Xiu's literary brilliance will naturally have clever sentences than this, but it takes a coincidence to think of it in a very short time on this occasion, Xu Ping doesn't believe that it will be so coincidental tonight. As for the plain verses, Xu Ping can write them himself, so there is no need to listen to Ouyang Xiu.

After the couplet, the atmosphere was a little awkward, and no one made any more proposals to compose poems and lyrics, and they all honestly gathered in front of the charcoal fire to barbecue meat. After a few more glasses of wine, the atmosphere gradually faded.

The others looked at Xu Ping's eyes a little complicated, and they all felt a little unfathomable.

Fu Bi tried to ask, "Junhou, what articles do you usually read?" ”

"The sons of the pre-Qin Dynasty, the two Han Dynasty literature, the Sui and Tang Dynasty poems, all read some in their spare time. However, I have always been busy with official duties, and I have no leisure to study deeply, and the so-called good reading does not seek to understand much, which makes people laugh when I talk about it. ”

Yin Zhu said: "Not to mention the sons of the pre-Qin Dynasty, the two Han Wenfu, who does the county marquis think should be the first?" ”

Xu Ping smiled and shook his head: "Wen Wu is the first, Wu Wu is the second, where can I be judged as the first?" ”

Yin Zhu's words were not asked casually, the ancient literature movement he advocated was opposed to the 46 Shiwen, and the source was Han Fu. Asking Xu Ping this sentence is actually asking his opinion on the article.

Seeing that Xu Ping avoided talking about it, Yin Zhu didn't give up, and asked again: "In the heart of the county marquis, there is always that kind of article that far surpasses his peers, I don't know which article the county marquis thinks can be this honor in the articles of the two Han Dynasty." ”

Xu Ping thought for a while and said: "The text is based on the name of the person, and it is not interesting to talk about the beauty of the words and sentences. There is a poem in the Du Gong Department, 'A teacher is a true name in the world, who can be a man in the middle of a thousand years'. If you want to pick an article of the two Han Dynasty, it should naturally be "Out of the Teacher's Table", without him, Prime Minister Zhuge really achieved the eight words of "bow to the best of your ability, and die later", the text is like his person. ”

Xu Ping's words were also moved, although these Xijing literati later enjoyed great fame, but when it comes to articles, the most famous in later generations in this era is the "Yueyang Tower" written by Fan Zhongyan later. In my previous life, I only knew that this article was well written and had to be memorized, but I really didn't know that it was far from the case when I was in this era. The reason why "The Story of Yueyang Tower" has been recited through the ages is because Fan Zhongyan has achieved "the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world", not just because of the literary talent. After all, Yang Yi's "The Story of Hanxu Pavilion" was in the front, and now it is widely circulated, and the traces of imitation of "The Story of Yueyang Tower" are still obvious.

And Fan Zhongyan is the spiritual idol of these people. (To be continued.) )