After listening to Li Yu's explanation, Tang Ji nodded calmly, stretched out his hand and pushed him out of the hospital.
"Huh? No, Tang Ji, why didn't you respond at all? The top priority is to clarify quickly. Professor Chen knows your poetry talent. Those students and scholars should be convinced by his words. Let's go find him quickly." Li Yu grabbed the door of the courtyard.
, stopped the ground with his feet, and said to Tang Ji seriously.
Seeing that he couldn't push the other party, Tang Ji simply let go of his hand, turned around and walked towards the courtyard: "No, just go and do what you have to do."
"The most talented man in Huaizhou" was originally given to him by others. He has never acknowledged it, so how can he talk about buying and selling?
Also, he just handed the "Three Character Classic" to Magistrate Yan a few days ago, and that guy should come out to speak for him, so there is no need to panic at all.
Li Yu couldn't help but feel confused when he saw Tang Ji's unconcerned look. He was about to continue persuading him, but found that Tang Ji had already pulled Jiang Ran back to the kitchen while talking and laughing, and he was immediately furious.
Come and beat the courtyard door angrily: "This guy who values sex over friends, the king of losses even came back to tell him the news. Huh, don't come crying and begging me tomorrow, Song Xiao, let's go!"
"Yes." Song Xiao, who was standing outside the door, set up the horse stool, waited for Li Yu to get on the carriage, then gently pulled the horse rope and drove out of the alley.
In the kitchen, Jiang Ran put the prepared tea on the table and reminded him softly: "As the saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. Mr. Li is a prince. You'd better be polite to him in the future."
"He's a tiger cub at best. Don't worry, I'm sure of it." After these days of observation, Tang Ji's impression of Li Yu has changed from a resentful person who spends money and spends a lot of money to a middle-school boy who loves to be crazy and fun-loving.
I have never seen him put on the airs of a prince.
The two of them have established a friendship, and there is no such thing as being wary of friends.
Tang Ji shook his head and stopped thinking about it. He grabbed the melon seeds on the table and said with a smile: "It's rare to see you buying things. How can I let you go today?"
Hearing this, Jiang Ran's face turned red. He was used to being frugal in the past. Except for necessary things, he rarely spent money. Even during the holidays, he only added extra dishes. But since he came, everything seems to have changed.
, now I will also buy some things I like.
Jiu'er, who was cooking, giggled twice and replied: "That's right, Miss won a thousand taels of silver today, so of course she has to reward herself!"
Tang Ji chuckled and nodded slightly: "You really should reward yourself."
"Jiu'er!" Jiang Ran glanced at the little girl and planned to educate her.
Seeing this, Jiu'er quickly exclaimed with joy: "Ah, Mr. Tang, help me."
...
The next day, rumors in the city about "Tang Ji buying poems" intensified, attracting the attention of many people.
At this time, at a breakfast noodle stall, four scholars sat around a table and discussed this matter.
"I have long said that the desolate meaning in the song "Beauty" cannot be experienced by a young man like Tang Ji. This poem must have been bought without a doubt!"
"Hey, I heard that Jianghai Chamber of Commerce is behind all this."
"Yes, the Jianghai Chamber of Commerce is so shameless. In order to mess up the poetry meeting held by the Lin family, they actually bought poems to praise Tang Ji, and even promoted this person to the position of 'the most talented person in Huaizhou'."
"Now I just hope that the original author will come out and say something quickly to expose Tang Ji's false face."
"..."
These words reached the ears of the handsome young man passing by. Li Yu took a sip of fruit tea, handed the cup to Song Xiao behind him, opened the paper fan and fanned it twice, curled his lips and shook his head: "If you don't listen to your brother, you will suffer.
Now, let’s see how that guy Tang Ji ends up!”
Just at this time, another young man wearing a gray robe walked into the noodle stall. Hearing the discussion of several people, he quickly interrupted: "Are you still spreading rumors? Professor Chen from Fu Xue rectified Tang Ji's name this morning.
, two poems written by Tang Jixin were also posted outside the Fuxue County Yamen."
The scholar who was originally sitting on the bench asked in confusion: "Is what brother said true?"
"Don't believe it? Just go and take a look." The young man in gray sat down on the other side and raised his hand to call the noodle stall owner to order.
Hearing this, the four scholars looked at each other, quickly picked up the noodles on the table and started eating, planning to check it out later.
Li Yu, who stopped, was speechless after listening to the discussion of several people. Then he scratched his head and sighed: "Professor Chen took action too quickly."
In this way, there would be no chance to wait for Tang Ji to beg for him.
Finally, he shook his head with regret and ordered Song Xiao to prepare the carriage.
In this way, because of Professor Chen's intervention, Tang Ji's reputation was saved. After reading Tang Ji's landscape poems and patriotic poems, many students and scholars admired him and said frankly that he was a versatile poet.
But this made Lin Zican, who was lying on the bed, furious: "An old guy who is about to be buried dares to come out and jump around, repeatedly ruining my good deeds, ah yo yo~"
He reached out his hand to cover his buttocks and rubbed it twice.
After a while, Lin Zican lay down again, with a flash of cunning and cruelty in his eyes. He hooked his hand at the guard beside the bed, waited for the other person to approach, and whispered a few words.
...
In the morning, the four scholars went to the Fuxue Yamen and saw two poems by Tang Ji. They were completely convinced by each other, but at the same time they became more melancholy.
I can’t understand why, at the same age, the other person is able to control various poetry styles, but they can’t even grasp the relationship between them!
Finally, the four of them found a tavern and got very drunk, then wandered the streets arm in arm.
Just as I was passing by an alley, I suddenly noticed a crowd gathering together. Ignoring the strong summer sun, I quickly squeezed through.
I saw a middle-aged man in dark linen clothes standing in the center of the crowd, narrating the story in his mouth: "...You don't know that Professor Chen received a total of twenty taels of gold from the Jianghai Chamber of Commerce. Tang Jigang
When something goes wrong, he rushes out to explain. Young scholars regard him as a great literary scholar, so of course they will believe him. Tell me what is happening!"
"Ah? Professor Chen wouldn't do such an unconscionable thing for twenty taels of gold, right?" someone in the crowd asked.
The middle-aged man showed a mysterious smile and continued: "That's twenty taels of gold, which is enough for us ordinary people to live for half a lifetime. Professor Chen only needs to say a few words, if you don't make this money, you won't make it in vain!"
"
Seeing that the crowd of onlookers was getting bigger and bigger, he coughed twice and continued: "You may wish to think about it, Tang Ji was only ten and seventeen this year, and even many adults in Kyoto who are good at poetry cannot write poems with different styles.
Why can he write four or five poems at once? There must be something fishy in this!"
After hearing his words, the people watching nodded and started talking.
"Yeah, I just said how could there be such a godly man in the world."
"It's all because of the Jianghai Chamber of Commerce's behind-the-scenes work. Unfortunately, I still want to take my wife to Jianghai Uniform to pick out two pieces of ready-made clothes. Now it seems I'd better forget it. I don't want to go to such a liar shop."
"That's it, I will never buy anything from Jianghai Chamber of Commerce again!"
"..."
Listening to the noise around them, the four drunk scholars also became excited.
"Okay, Mr. Chen actually sold his conscience for some money. Fortunately, I still regard him as a role model. I want to perform well in the state examination this year and win his favor."
"Bah, this Tang Ji is really stubborn."
"Brothers, let's go to the Jianghai Chamber of Commerce to ask for an explanation."
"Okay, we can't let this trend continue to spread. Otherwise, if any future scholars are willing to work hard, they might as well just buy poems!"
The four of them planned to go to the Jianghai Chamber of Commerce to have a fight, and they had already imagined in their minds the great image of them fighting to maintain the fairness of poetry.
But just when they were about to turn around and leave, a group of red-clad officers with knives suddenly rushed towards them on the street.