Mu Jianming, who was standing in the hall, thought about it for a while, but still did not dare to read out the second half of the sentence.
The second half of the story is "The toad has eroded its round shadow, and the bright night has faded. Yi has fallen into nine crows, and heaven and man are clear and peaceful. The Yin essence has been deceived, and it is difficult to see whether it will go away. Where does worry come from? Desolation destroys the heart and liver." This is Li Bai. If you read this alluding to the political situation at that time, who would be causing trouble in this situation?
Mu Jianming ignored Hu Shichang's clamor. He glanced at the main hall and found Zhang Chen from the dining department of Guanglu Temple.
Due to the period of distilling liquor, Mu Jianming learned from Shen Xiyao's message that Zhang Chen was not very interested in distilled liquor. Since he was also in the palace, the liquor on his desk should still be undistilled liquor.
Mu Jiangming walked around pretending to be thinking. He walked to Zhang Chen in a few steps, casually picked up Zhang Chen's wine bottle and poured himself a glass.
After bringing the wine glass to his mouth for a moment, Mu Jianming raised his head and drank the wine.
Well, you guessed it right, Zhang Chen’s wine does taste like it has not been distilled.
Zhang Chen stared at Mu Jianming with wide eyes. He was the only one who knew what was going on with this pot of wine. But the others in the main hall didn't know.
In their opinion, Shen Xiyao was so cool and bold that she had no friends.
Mu Jianming walked to the center of the hall carrying the wine flask, filling himself up with wine again as he walked, and drank it all in one gulp.
He opened his mouth and chanted: "The tide of the Autumn River reaches the level of the sea, and the bright moon on the sea rises with the tide."
It is autumn now, and the spring river tide is a bit unsuitable for the situation. I can only change it slightly. But this sentence made the Zichen Palace quiet again, and everyone was trying to figure out the artistic conception of the poem.
Mu Jianming then poured wine.
"The twinkling waves follow the waves for thousands of miles, but there is no moon on the Qiu River!"
All the officials in the Wei Dynasty were red-faced, suppressing their excitement, and did not dare to cheer loudly. They were afraid of disturbing Mu Jianming's thoughts.
The faces of the envoys from other countries either showed surprise and admiration, or expressions of admiration and displeasure.
Well, resentment was the expression on the faces of Hu Shichang and a few others.
Mu Jianming had no intention of caring about other people and continued to pretend to recite poems.
"The river flows round and round the meadow, and the moonlight shines on the flowers and forests like sleet;
The frost is flying in the sky unknowingly, and the white sand on the pavilion cannot be seen."
Keep toasting and drinking.
"The sky over the river is the same color without any dust, and there is only one moon in the bright sky. Who on the bank of the river sees the moon for the first time? When did the moon over the river shine on people for the first time?"
At this time, only Shen Xiyao's clear voice echoed in the Zichen Palace.
"Life has been endless from generation to generation, and the river and the moon look alike every year. I don't know who the river and the moon are waiting for, but I see the Yangtze River sending flowing water."
Mu Jianming stopped, turned around and asked Hu Shichang: "Deputy Ambassador Hu, is this poem good?"
As he said this, Mu Jianming sighed in his heart: Another great poem has been ruined! However, it is really cool to drink and pretend to be evil while being slapped in the face with a good poem! However, the world cannot escape the law of true fragrance. Before I still thought about not using this poem, but ended up using it anyway.
Because this is the only Yuefu poem about the moon that Mu Jianming remembers.
A loud wave of applause suddenly erupted from Zichen Hall. The applause this time was even louder than when he recited "Gulang Night Journey" before.
Hmm! Yes, it’s reciting, not chanting.
Mu Jianming stopped reciting. On the one hand, he only remembered so much. "Spring River with Flowers on the Moonlit Night" was still a bit long, and he had only a little memory of the following parts and could not recite them all. On the other hand, on the other hand, he only remembered so much of "Spring River with Flowers on the Moonlit Night". The poems in "Gulang Night Walk" have the same problem: they are inconsistent with the environment at this time.
Hu Shichang's face turned red and white. He turned his head and lowered his voice and yelled at the people from the Chu delegation: "Hurry up and compose another song to beat her."
Everyone in the envoy looked at each other with troubled expressions.
Finally, someone stood up and walked up to Hu Shichang.
"Sir, even if we could compose a poem in such a hurry, it wouldn't be as good as this poem. Besides..."
"Besides what."
"Besides, this poem feels half-finished."
Hu Shichang was happy again when he heard this.
"Then let her do everything, otherwise it won't matter."
But the Confucian scholar pulled Hu Shichang and smiled bitterly: "Deputy envoy, we can't compare with this half of the poem. If it were the whole poem, we wouldn't even have a chance."
"Trash! Then come up with a question and compete with her on couplets."
The Confucian scholar did not dare to speak. After bowing his head and saluting, he took a few steps forward.
"I am a bachelor of the Wenxian Pavilion of Dachu and the head teacher of the Hu family. I have been studying the classics of the sages for nineteen years. I am known as Li Jiu."
After listening to this person's call, Mu Jianming became playful.
This word sounds familiar.
So he took two steps forward.
"The little... girl has been studying for several years, and she is an ignorant general in Wei State, Shen Xiyao."
As soon as Shen Xiyao finished speaking, the officials of Wei State burst into laughter.
"Huh, I'm going to ask you a question. I'll meet you for a while. Please..."
"Wait a minute."
Mu Jianming didn't dare to let people from Nanchu come up with questions. The little ink in his belly couldn't withstand the ravages of others.
"Didn't Deputy Ambassador Hu clamor for me, the Great Wei, to come up with a question before?"
Li Shijiu looked back at Hu Shichang.
Hu Shichang waved his hand impatiently.
"Let her come."
Li Shijiu looked at Shen Xiyao again, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation.
Mu Jianming raised the wine glass in his hand and took another sip, and said slowly: "Everyone in the world knows that in terms of literary talent, Wei Dynasty is indeed lacking. It is not as good as your Chu country, let alone a woman like me. You guys Winning is not a big honor, so don’t you dare change the rules?"
"Why don't you dare?"
There was no need for Li Shijiu this time. Hu Shichang gave full play to the role of an excellent flatterer and followed Shen Xiyao's words and asked.
"How to change it?"
"I'm going to ask a question. If you can't answer it, all of you, except Qin, will have to drink a jug of wine. If you can answer it, I'll drink two jugs. How about that?"
Hu Shichang, Xu Liangqiu, Wu Lijin, and Wang Weiren looked at each other. Hu Shichang and Wang Weiren looked at Meng Changxun again.
Old God Meng Changxun was drinking by himself, as if what happened in the hall had nothing to do with him.
"Okay! However, the wine you drink must be the kind of strong wine Li Kuang drinks."
"Changshi Shen, don't show off, be careful."
Yang Ke gave a warning.
Shen Xiyao looked at the emperor on the high platform, then at Chu Rupeng, Yang Minzhi, Cheng Kangming, and the Marquis of Northern Hebei Shen Ao. These people all cast concerned glances.
After giving these people a reassuring look, Mu Jianming turned around and looked at Hu Shichang and said unhurriedly.
"Can."
Li Kuang frowned slightly after hearing this.
At this time, he had drunk a lot, and he had a deep understanding of the power of this kind of wine. Not to mention Shen Xiyao, a woman. Even he himself thought that he had a strong drinker, and he drank these two bottles in one go. He also became unconscious.
Li Kuang felt quite dissatisfied that Hu Shichang was making things difficult for a woman, but he was inconvenient to say anything to stop him.
"Okay, you come up with the questions. Let's continue."
Hu Shichang didn't care so much. He was happy that the woman in front of him made a fool of himself, and he was even more willing to watch Wei make a fool of himself.
Mu Jianming held his forehead and felt slightly dizzy.
"Let's start with a simple one, three lights, sun, moon and stars."
Hu Shichang laughed heartily.
"What was my problem at that time? That's it? Three Lights Day..."
Hu Shichang's voice gradually became quieter as he spoke, and he stopped talking. Then his face changed and he frowned. He quickly looked at Li Shijiu again.
Li Jiu frowned and paced back and forth hurriedly.
Looking at the other members of the envoys from Shu and Chu, their eyes began to slowly become dull and they were lost in thought.
Not only them, but also the ministers of Wei State were also thinking, and the hall fell into silence for a while.
Mu Jianming looked at the wine bottle and wine glass he was carrying and did not dare to drink any more.
Isn’t it a bit inappropriate to use Li Bai and Su Shi one after another? This is not killing a chicken with a knife, it is almost as good as a nuclear bomb to kill mosquitoes.
But there is no way.
These were all jotted down when I was studying with my daughter in my previous life. If I really relied on myself, wouldn't it be tragic if someone really fell in love with me?
He simply carried out the Great God Su, but he did not believe that there was anyone in the two countries who could rival Su Xian.
When encountering such a situation in the future, I can only promise not to give priority to Li Bai and Su Shi.
but……
There are many others similar to these two!
Looking at the people from the two countries’ missions, sweat began to form on their heads.
Mu Jianming walked leisurely to Shen Ao's table without urging him.
After beckoning to the palace maid on the side for a new pair of bowls and chopsticks, Shen Ao placed some dishes on the table to suppress the rising smell of alcohol.
The Marquis of Jibei looked approvingly, watching his granddaughter eating and drinking opposite him dotingly.
One of the censors stood up and was about to impeach Mu Jianming for his over-the-top behavior. When the censor glared at him, the censor shrank back in surprise.
Mu Jianming didn't care about anyone else and just ate his own food.
People from Chu and Shu no longer cared about etiquette. They gathered together to discuss, and their voices became louder and louder.
The deputy envoy of Qin poked Li Kuang and whispered.
"Your Highness, it's a pity that we didn't participate, otherwise..."
Li Kuangshen nodded in agreement. If his side was not really good at civil affairs, he would have joined in.
When she was almost done eating, Shen Xiyao put down her chopsticks and said directly.
"You still won't admit defeat?"
"I……"
One sentence choked Hu Shichang's breath in his throat, and it took him a long time to regain his breath. His face was extremely ugly.
"You are deliberately making things difficult for us. This is absolute, and there is no way to give the second line. Your word 'three' limits the number of words that follow. Even if we find the number corresponding to the word 'three', we will break the limit on the number of words."
, can’t be paired at all.”
Everyone in the hall nodded in agreement with what Hu Shichang said.
Indeed! If it's "one", it can only be followed by one word. If it's for other numbers, it has to be the corresponding number. No matter how you pair it, the number of words in the couplet won't match.
"Then I'm sorry, let's have a drink!"
Mu Jianming stood up and said a little embarrassed.
"We are not convinced by your use of such absolutes to pose the question. We will not be convinced even if you lose, unless you can give us the following link to convince us."