Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 111

The scholar was stunned for a long time on the street.

But after he reacted, he didn't continue to pay the share.

Instead, after depositing the bookstall in a nearby shop, he rushed directly to Nuanxiang Pavilion.

The name of Nuanxiang Pavilion sounds like a brothel, but it is not. It is a library, and it is a library in Chang'an City that can be compared with Chongwen Library.

Chongwenguan is a place in charge of Qin Wang Li Shimin to recruit talented people. However, after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court selected talents mostly through imperial examinations and recommendations, so Chongwenguan gradually lost its former status and excitement.

However, Nuanxiang Pavilion has always been very lively.

Nuanxiang Pavilion is a library founded by Li Lingxiang, the ninth princess of Li Yuan. At the beginning, this library was also held for the imperial court to recruit talents.

But later, because the nine princesses preferred piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and poetry, the library gradually became a place where literati and refined scholars competed for their talents.

There are many literati and scholars in Chang'an, and Nuanxiang Pavilion is very sentimental, so it has become a scale, a rule and a tradition.

Nuanxiang Pavilion became more and more famous, and everyone also compared the nine princesses with Li Yuan's other princess, Princess Pingyang, and said that they were the two princesses of Chang'an City, one civil and one military.

Princess Pingyang was married to Chai Shao. At the beginning, she formed a women's army and made many achievements on the battlefield. The ninth princess is in her twenties this year, and she is married to Luo Cheng, a young silver spear general.

However, when Luo Cheng conquered Liu Heita, he was tricked by Su Dingfang, so that he was pierced by thousands of arrows and died.

Today's nine princesses have become widows.

But as a princess of the royal family, she will never worry about getting married. No matter who she is, she knows that the Ninth Princess will marry sooner or later, it just depends on when.

Therefore, many of the literati and scholars who came to Nuanxiang Pavilion to discuss their talents also had unreasonable ideas.

It's a pity that none of them were favored by Princess Nine.

Scholars came to Nuanxiang Pavilion for nothing else but to improve their reputation.

In Chang'an City, if you want to be recommended as an official, the more famous you are, the better. If you have great talent, it is very easy to be recruited as an official.

And if you want to be famous, coming to Nuanxiang Pavilion is the quickest way.

Because in the Nuanxiang Pavilion, in the middle of every month, that is today, there will be a grand talent competition, and anyone who can be born is enough to leave a name in Chang'an City.

The scholar wants to try his luck.

And when the scholar rushed to the front of the Nuanxiang Pavilion, there were already some voices in the Nuanxiang Pavilion. It was obvious that the talent competition had started for a long time, and the scholar was brave enough to go in.

But he left in a hurry, and as soon as he walked in, he bumped into a man. The man had been in a bad mood for the past two days. You can see that he is a poor scholar.

Unable to help, the man immediately said angrily: "The dog from there, you can come to this place, come here, and throw him out of me."

The man was very angry, and the young man from Nuanxiang Pavilion rushed over after seeing him: "Oh, Mr. Cui, don't be angry, it's not worth it to be with such a person, you go and sit first, and just leave this person to the younger one. "

The man was Cui Yuanhao. Since he divorced Lu Huaniang, he has never been in a good mood. Today he was invited to Nuanxiang Pavilion.

He has always been a distinguished guest of Nuanxiang Pavilion. After all, he is known as the number one talented man in Chang'an.

Therefore, Cui Yuanhao became angry, and the servant of Nuanxiang Pavilion immediately pushed the scholar with a slap: "Go away, this is not the place where you did this."

The scholar was thin and weak, he was pushed by the boy and fell to the ground with a plop.

Nuanxiangge was discussing poems everywhere, and such things happened here, which quickly attracted the attention of others.

Everyone looked this way, Cui Yuanhao wanted to get angry even more, and scolded the scholar: "Fuck off, a poor beggar also comes here, do you really think anyone can enter this Nuanxiang Pavilion?"

Others whispered, but most of them agreed with Cui Yuanhao's words. These people, isn't that a matter of literati?

Either he was born in a family, or he was born in an aristocratic family, or he was a student of a certain Confucianism. The family background must be extraordinary, otherwise how could he have the money to study?
People like them are competing together, and this person who is still wearing patched clothes comes in to stir up trouble, what's the matter?

Everyone booed, and the boy from Nuanxiang Pavilion stepped forward and grabbed the scholar and pushed him again: "Get out, get out quickly."

The scholar's cheeks were blushing, and it was a great shame and humiliation to be scolded like this. He wished he could fight with this group of people.

But the remaining reason kept him from doing it.

However, although he didn't make a move, after being pushed again by the boy, he suddenly laughed loudly, then turned around and walked out, and shouted: "Laugh up to the sky and go out, how can I be a Penghao?" Man, hahahahaha..."

The scholar suddenly felt that this poem really echoed his inner voice too much.

And just when the scholar finished shouting this poem and was about to leave, on the second floor of Nuanxiang Pavilion, Princess Jiu, who had been sitting and watching the situation downstairs, was shocked suddenly, and said: "It's a good sentence to go out laughing. People from Penghao, with such bold lines, those who can say such words must be extraordinary.”

Saying that, Princess Nine immediately ordered: "Call that scholar back."

As soon as the order was issued, someone immediately passed the order down: "The Ninth Princess has an order to send the scholar in."

The servants below all turned blue when they heard this, but they didn't dare to disobey, so they hurriedly trotted to invite the scholar back.

When the scholar came in, he was a little dazed. He wanted to drive him out just now, so why did he have to follow him back now?

What do you mean?
When the scholar came in, the nine princesses had already come down the stairs. She glanced at the scholar and asked, "What's your name?"

"Ma Zhou!" The scholar puffed up his chest.

The ninth princess smiled slightly: "I have never heard of it. This princess is here to ask you, this princess laughs and goes out. Is it written by you from Penghao?"

Ma Zhou's cheeks were reddish, obviously the Ninth Princess was appreciating this line of the poem, so she sent someone to chase him back. If she recognized it, she would naturally be treated politely.

But do this, what's your conscience?

After a little hesitation, Ma Zhou said, "It wasn't made by grass-roots people. It was written by the young Lord Qin Tianqin. A few young princes came to me this morning to explain the meaning of the poem. I heard it."

Ma Zhou was very honest. After hearing this, the ninth princess was a little surprised: "I heard that Qin Tian is good at business, how can he write poems?"

"There is one more sentence, fame is far away, and the heart is in a cup. Young Lord Qin must be talented if he can write such a poem."

Ninth Princess nodded: "Is this the only sentence? What about the whole poem?"

Ma Zhou said, "I don't know either."

Hearing that Ma Zhou didn't know the whole poem, the Ninth Princess suddenly felt a little lost, and even gave her an urge to send someone to catch up with Qin Tian and ask the whole poem.

(End of this chapter)