Dafeng Night Watchman

Chapter 38: Poem Completed



"If Yang Ziqian hadn't been appointed to Qingzhou, this job could have been pushed to him." Zhang Shen said:

"Among us, he is the best at this."

The mountain breeze rushed into the room, blowing Chen Tai's long beard, and he smiled and said: "Brother Jinyan is more suitable for being an official in the court than me."

"Old man, are you mocking me for passing the buck?" Zhang Shen was not angry, and said with a bachelor's attitude: "If you can do it, come on, I'm all ears."

Seeing that they were about to quarrel again, Zhang Shen's servant bowed his head and walked in quickly, bowed and said: "Sir, your student Xu Cijiu is here."

Xu Cijiu? What is he doing here? Has he copied the quotations of the saints three hundred times? Zhang Shen nodded: "Please let him in."

After the book boy left, Zhang Shen glanced at Chen Tai on the other side of the chessboard and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, I recently accepted a new student, the cousin of Xu Cijiu, whose poetry is shocking."

Li Mubai immediately added: "That's also my student."

Chen Tai glanced at the Zhang and then at the Li, and his heart moved: "The poet who wrote the poem "Don't worry about having no friends on the road ahead, who in the world doesn't know you"?"

Li Mubai and Zhang Shen laughed proudly.

"Hahaha..." Chen Tai laughed out loud, pointing at his two friends.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I'm laughing at you being blinded by fame and fortune, oh, and jealousy." Chen Tai stopped smiling and half warned and half mocked:

"Yang Ziqian's name must be passed down to future generations because of this poem, which is indeed enviable. But you two don't think about it, good sentences are rare, many scholars have only a few good poems in their lives, and there are even fewer that can be recorded in history."

"It's already a stroke of genius to come up with a sentence "Don't worry about having no friends on the road ahead, who in the world doesn't know you"? I'm happy to hear it, and you still hope for another one, no, two, so that you two can be famous together?"

"If you care too much about fame and fortune, how can the righteousness in your stomach survive over time?"

After a ridicule, Li Mubai and Zhang Shen were a little embarrassed.

In their hearts, they knew that what Chen Tai said was reasonable. Good sentences that can be passed down through the ages are not something that can be made casually. Besides, the other party is not a scholar. It is a great fate for him to get a poem by chance.

It is indeed too delusional to expect a clerk to write good poems and leave their names in history.

"Youping is right." The two bowed and said in a deep voice: "Scholars have three immortals. Even if they want to be remembered in history, they should take the right path, not the shortcut. We two have gone astray."

"It is a great virtue to correct mistakes as soon as you know them." Chen Tai nodded slightly. After a while, the book boy led Xu Qian'an and Xu Xinnian into the elegant room.

The two bowed at the same time: "Students meet the teacher."

Li Mubai and Zhang Shen looked at each other, surprised and happy at Xu Qian'an's arrival.

"Sit down!" Zhang Shen said.

"Ning Yan, are you here at the academy because you have good sentences for me to appreciate?" Li Mubai asked tentatively.

Xu Qiyan shook his head and said, "I came here to ask for something."

"Just tell me."

Xu Qiyan told the two teachers why he came, and concealed his intention to take revenge on the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He only said that the mastermind behind the tax case was most likely Minister Zhou, and if the other party passed the imperial examination, he would definitely take revenge on the Xu family.

"This..." Li Mubai glanced at Zhang Shen, who also looked embarrassed, and said helplessly, "The academy prohibits outsiders from staying overnight. This is the rule."

Scholars are the most rule-abiding.

As soon as Xu Qiyan asked, he heard Xu Xinnian say, "Doesn't the princess live in the academy from time to time?"

Zhang Shen shook his head: "What is the status of the princess?"

Xu Xinnian nodded: "The academy prohibits outsiders from staying overnight, unless they are royal relatives."

Hey! This young man is still speechless as always.

The three great scholars present laughed angrily.

Xu Qiyan almost laughed out loud, Erlang's poisonous tongue is still so sharp.

Li Mubai shook his head, "Brother Jinyan, I am looking forward to your student entering the realm of life in the future."

That's too scary... Zhang Shen's mouth twitched.

Only Chen Tai looked at Xu Qian'an with a smile, and at this time, he interrupted and said, "Are you Xu Ningyan?"

"Yes, the student." Xu Qian'an, who was wearing a Confucian robe and pretending to be a real scholar, bowed.

"I heard that you are quite talented in poetry. How about this, if you can write a poem that satisfies the three of us on the spot, I will make the decision to let the Xu family's women stay in the academy temporarily and keep them safe."

Allowing the Xu family's women to stay in the academy is not the point, the point is his last sentence, keep them safe.

This is the purpose of the Xu Qian'an brothers coming here.

Xu Xinnian's face was slightly happy, and he turned his head to look at his cousin: "Big

brother..."

He was both happy and nervous. It is not difficult to write poems. Every scholar can write neat poems. The difficult thing is to satisfy the three great scholars.

Is this difficult?

This is too difficult.

Write a poem? Are you forcing me to get you for free? Xu Qian'an did not agree immediately,

but said carefully:

"Write a poem at will, or a fixed theme."

The three great scholars exchanged glances with each other, and Zhang Shen said: "Encourage

learning!"

It is indeed impossible to write a poem at will, otherwise, I will come up with another eternal masterpiece in a minute... Xu Qian'an sighed in his heart.

At the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief, because this question was not beyond the syllabus, and his literary background could still handle it.

The word "encourage learning" first reminded Xu Qian'an of "Encourage Learning" in high school, but since it is a poem, this ancient text is not applicable.

There is a golden house in the book, and there is a beautiful woman in the book!

In Xu Qian'an's mind, this long-standing persuasive poem immediately emerged.

In the field related to persuading learning, there are not many that can be compared with it in terms of popularity.

He was about to decide to use this poem to get the three great scholars for free, and suddenly thought of the situation of Yunlu Academy in the past two hundred years.

"If I remember correctly, this poem seems to have been written by the emperor of the Song Dynasty? It is mixed with the taste of fame and fortune, and the students who graduated from Yunlu Academy have always had a difficult career."

"I felt sad when I passed the imperial examination. I didn't know where I would be sent to in

the future..."

"I copied this poem, which is a poke at the heart of Yunlu Academy. It's counterproductive..."

Seeing that he was silent for a long time, Xu Xinnian frowned more and more. Among the three great scholars, Zhang Shen and Li Mubai were looking forward to it, while Chen Tai was drinking tea with a smile.

Xu Qian'an withdrew his thoughts and bowed his hands, saying: "I'm sorry for the poor performance, Cijiu, grind the ink for me."

Xu Xinnian found the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, placed them on the table, and personally ground the ink for his cousin. He held the pen in one hand and rolled up his sleeves with the other hand. He dipped the pen tip in the ink and turned his head to signal his cousin to take

the pen.

My poor calligraphy is not a shame... No, I don't know calligraphy at all... Xu Qian'an complained in his heart, but on the surface he put on the posture of a scholar who was pointing out the world and writing passionate words, and said:

"Ci Jiu, please write for me."

Xu Xinnian nodded and sat upright in front of the desk.

"The lights are on at three o'clock in the morning and the roosters crow at five o'clock."

"It is the time for men to study."

"You don't know how to study hard when you are young."

"You regret not studying late when you are old!"

After Xu Xinnian finished writing, he put down his pen and stared at the seven-character

poem with clear handwriting on the rice paper. His eyes were shining and his face was slightly

excited.

There was a brief silence in the room. Xu Xinnian felt the aftertaste of the poem. The three great scholars walked quickly to the shore and stared at the rice paper in silence.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Staring silently.