The vicious male partner is a girl - 恶毒男配是女郎 - Chapter 34

[Chapter 34: Questioning]

Bai Wen Lou Wen will start at four o’clock in the morning.

However, as early as the dawn, the road was full of cars heading in the same direction.

Shen Fengzhang sat in the ox cart, lifted the curtain, and looked at the sides of the road. The tea house restaurant on the street is full of people, and looking at the dress of these guests, it is obvious that they are all literati who have read books.

As the first major literary meeting of the Great Week, the BaiwenLou Wenhui attracts countless literati to come to watch every year. Many people travel thousands of miles, half a year early or a month early, and travel thousands of miles to witness this meeting that brings together the top scribes of the entire Great Week.

The best place to watch the wenhui is of course the tea house opposite the Baiwen Building, and only those who are powerful and rich can occupy the second floor of the tea house opposite at this time.

In addition to the opposite tea house, the next is the tea house restaurant scattered around the BaiWen Building, the farther away from the Bai Wen Lou, the lower the price.

Although the Shen family has fallen in the official arena, there is no shortage of money. Shen Fengzhang spent two hundred gold to book a cabinet on the second floor of the tea house opposite the Baiwen Building.

Sitting in the predetermined cabinet, Shen Fengzhang took a sip of the tea provided by the tea house. The entrance is slightly bitter, the aftertaste is sweet, and the lips and teeth are fragrant. She looked up at the window, not only could she clearly see the appearance of the people in the opposite building, but even if the opposite side was loud, she could hear it clearly.

The two hundred gold were worth it.

As people successively walked up to the second floor and sat down in the second floor cabinet, the cultural meeting opposite the White Smell Building finally began!

There will be three contests, the first of which is determined by Bai Wenlou, and all the contestants write a poem with a prescribed theme in one incense time.

Shen Fengzhang looked at the opposite side. On the innermost wall of the first floor of the Baiwen Building, there is a high platform with a long table. Around the high platform, there are thirty tables, on which are placed the four treasures of the pen, ink and paper.

At this moment, the thirty literati who were fortunate enough to participate in this contest had already stood in front of the case and were ready.

Among the young and handsome, the young and handsome, gentle And gentle Shen Jun is as eye-catching as a pearl falling from the rubble, standing out from the crowd.

“Lady, that Lang Jun is so young, surely he can’t compare to the others?” With the wind, the curious female voice drifted into Shen Fengzhang’s ear from the cabinet next door.

The lady in the maid’s mouth laughed softly, RuoshanQuan ding-dong, Youlan Chu bloomed, “I think that Lang Jun can participate in the Baiwen Lou Wenhui at such an old age, presumably he is talented and talented.”

Shen Fengzhang withdrew his attention and refocused his gaze on the opposite side. A middle-aged scribe dressed in a blue shirt and a graceful appearance stepped onto the high platform, and the retinue behind him placed the incense burner in his hand on the long table.

The middle-aged scribe looked around with a polite smile on his face, “All of you who can step into this place today are dragons and phoenixes among people.” Bai Wenlou holds a literary meeting once a year, and the rules of the literary meeting are already clear to you, and I will not repeat it in the next step. He raised his finger to the incense burner in front of him and said in a loud voice, “Now that it is the beginning of late spring and summer, I would like to ask you to write a poem on the theme of spring in a short period of incense!” The first game starts now! Opposite

bai wen building, the onlookers who heard the purpose of the test question this time exclaimed.

Boom! The style of this stipulation is actually a gift! The whole text is in battle, two sentences are combined, and the words are refined, and the sound law is emphasized, and how to do it in just one incense time!

“This time the topic is much more difficult than in previous years!”

“Yes! Within a piece of incense, it is composed of a piece of incense, and this piece of incense must be well written. This–this is simply…”

Next door to Shen Fengzhang, the master and servant who were just talking about Shen Jun, after hearing the topic clearly, he couldn’t help but open his mouth.

“Mother, is it really so difficult to write a piece of qifu?”

The female voice like a clear spring sounded again, with a hint of helplessness, and gently laughed bitterly, “It is not difficult to say, it is not difficult, it is difficult to say.” “If you really want to write, don’t say it’s a piece of incense, you can write a piece of incense in half an incense, but the one that is written in this way is just a waste of pen and ink!”

It was too difficult for these thirty contestants not only to write carefully, but also to write better than others.

She shook her head slightly, sighing helplessly, “As long as you know, even I may not be able to write a good gift with the theme of spring in a piece of incense.” “You can’t

even be a?!” The young maid exclaimed in astonishment.

Shen Fengzhang originally just casually listened to the conversation next door, but now he was a little curious about the identity of the person next door.

Liu Wenchang took a step forward and whispered, “Do you need to go down and inquire about it?”

Shen Fengzhang shook his head, “No.” “She was just curious.

When everyone was talking about the topic of Baiwen Lou this time, the thirty participants in Baiwen Lou had already seized the time to start creating. As everyone said, this competition is extremely difficult, and many of the thirty contestants are frowning and sweating. Some people scratch their ears and scratch their cheeks, beat their chests and feet.

Green smoke rises above the incense burner and lingers. Unconsciously, only half of the complete incense stick remained.

With a snap, a scribe dressed in brocade, sweating profusely, with a scorched face, stared at the rice paper for half a moment but found nothing, and after his mind was empty, he threw the pen in his hand to the ground and shouted at the blue-shirted scribe on the high platform, “I abstain!” There was

another round of discussion in the tea house.

“Alas, Mr. Sanmeng has never been good at doing gifts.” Mr. Sanmeng is famous for his seven-word poems, and the three seven-word poems with dreams as the content are spread throughout the country and are well known. The elegant name of Mr. Sanmeng comes from this.

“Mr. Sanmeng really had bad luck, and at the last literary meeting, shortly after he set out from Jian’an County, he encountered heavy rain and caused a flash flood. Mr. Sanmeng was trapped in the station for seven days and directly missed the literary meeting. In the last session, Mr. Sanmeng specially set off half a month early, and as a result, he encountered a strongman halfway through the road and almost lost his life. This time, I heard that Mr. Sanmeng spent a lot of money to hire dozens of guards, set off from Jian’an County half a month early, and came to the Wenhui smoothly, but I didn’t expect to encounter the most unfortunate Fu. Sweating

profusely and with poor luck, the scribe in brocade was led to a resting place by Bai Wenlou’s servants.

After Mr. Sanmeng, two scribes who knew they could not do it voluntarily gave up.

After walking through three competitors, the atmosphere on the field became more tense. Almost all of the people’s sideburns were wet with sweat, wet and sticking to their faces, but even so, no one reached out to wipe the sweat, and at this moment they had long forgotten the foreign objects, and only the conceived gifts were left in their minds.

Although he didn’t like Shen Jun, Shen Fengzhang had to admit that as the male protagonist, he did have two brushes. Among so many people, although Shen Jun also frowned slightly, staring at the rice paper in front of him, his whole temperament was very calm, calm and relaxed, and he was strategic. Among the contestants who are described as wretched, sweaty, and not small in age, the handsome-faced, refreshing and neat Shen Jun is like the breeze in the forest, and the moon is under the Chengjiang River, which makes people unconsciously dissipate the anxiety and heat in their hearts and become quiet and peaceful.

“This young man is good.”

“Yeah, no accident, I think he can make it to the second game.”

The gray cigarette has long since dissipated, and the last touch of incense ash falls from the incense, and the red light on the incense flashes and is completely extinguished.

“Good! Time is up! Please stop writing. All

beings are diverse. Of the remaining twenty-seven contestants, one of them released his pen and gasped fiercely; There are also people with hideous faces, and the brush in their hands is swinging rapidly, trying to grab the mostWrite the whole article at the next moment; Someone stood still, looking at the rice paper in front of him, unable to return his attention.

Bai Wenlou’s servants walked up to each contestant, took the gifts from their tables, and posted them on the wall behind the high platform in order.

The blue-shirted scribe smiled, “Presumably everyone present is looking forward to these gifts and the final result.” Next, I have to worry about the seniors on the second floor to comment on these twenty-seven articles one by one.

A loud-voiced servant who had been carefully trained by Bai Wenlou to sing the newspaper full-time stepped onto the stage and began to recite the first recitation aloud.

“…… For the time being, the spring flowers are celebrated together, and the spring flowers are honored. As

soon as the servants on the stage finished reading, there was a roar of applause around them.

The tea house is also full of people.

“Worthy of being a scribe who was elected to participate in the BaiwenLou Literary Conference!” This talent is admirable! Good! I didn’t expect the first article to have such a high standard! The creator of the

first article got up and gave a fist-hugging salute to the surrounding areas and opposite the tea house, “Accept the concession, in the next no talent, first throw bricks and lead the jade.” The

literary elders on the second floor recalled the endowment of Fang Cai, laid down a place, and began to comment.

Shen Jun’s order is relatively high, the seventh. Because of the calm and outstanding performance in the creative stage, onlookers are very much looking forward to Shen Jun’s works. However, Shen Fengzhang got up and walked outside when the elders commented on the sixth work.

“Lang Jun?”

Shen Fengzhang shook his head at the servants of the tea house and stood on the second floor and looked around the lobby. The lobby was densely packed with people, most of them extending their necks and leaning forward, trying to see what was happening on the other side.

When he saw the guest sitting at the table on the far left, Shen Fengzhang’s long eyebrows moved slightly. She pointed to the guests over there and instructed the servants of the tea house, “Go and tell them that as long as three hundred gold, the cabinet on the second floor will belong to him.” The

servant looked at Shen Fengzhang in surprise, obviously having been in the tea house for so many years, he had never heard such an order. But he immediately lowered his head, answered yes, and walked toward the lobby.

The Lang Jun on the second floor really didn’t know chai mi gui. For a rich family like them, three hundred gold is not enough, but for the guests sitting in the lobby, how can it be possible to pay three hundred gold for a good position. The servant approached the guest hopelessly.

After a while, the servant went and returned, followed by the guest.

The simple-looking middle-aged man walked up to Shen Fengzhang with Xiao Langjun, who was only seven or eight years old, and was slightly stunned, obviously he did not expect that the person who temporarily sold the second floor cabinet had such a good appearance, and at a glance, he knew that he was definitely not an ordinary person.

The middle-aged man who originally wanted to say a few more words closed his head with great eyes, considered the words, and thanked Shen Fengzhang.

Shen Fengzhang didn’t care much, and signaled Liu Wenchang to accept the wooden box handed by the other party and walk downstairs.

The servant of the tea house led Shen Fengzhang downstairs, and along the way, he was troubled in his heart, how did this Lang Jun see that the person who was simply dressed and sitting in the lobby had actually made such a generous shot.

In fact, Shen Fengzhang only found that although the other party was dressed simply, the hands on the table were very smooth, obviously did not do rough work, and the children brought by the other party were extremely delicate and tender, obviously there was no shortage of food and drink. Although it seemed that there were only two fathers and sons, several servants standing in the pile of people always paid attention to the situation of the two men, and the corners of these servants’ robes were still dried and solidified mud spots.

All kinds of indications show that the father and son family have surplus wealth, but because of some changes, they have just arrived in Jiankang and have not booked a cabinet.

Stepping out of the tea house, Shen Fengzhang had just sat on the ox cart, and before he could leave, he heard a huge cheer erupting in the tea house.

She sighed softly, and understood that shen Jun’s fu was definitely finished.

This literary meeting is for the male protagonist to brush his reputation and help him enter his career. Shen Fengzhang only looked at it for a moment, and then decided to go to the next place.

The ox cart slowly traveled along the spacious bluestone slab road, passing through most of the city of Jiankang, and finally stopped in front of a shop.

Shen Fengzhang got out of the car, looked up at the hanging plaque, read the three big characters of “Hui zhen lou” on it, and walked inside.

The Huizhen Building is not as lively as the tea house on the other side of the Baiwen Building, but there are also scattered guests, and most of them are ordinary people with simple clothes. They were a little surprised to see Shen Fengzhang, who had walked in from the outside, with a clean and noble appearance, and was incompatible with this ordinary tea house.

The servants of the tea house also took the initiative to come forward and carefully asked Shen Fengzhang what he needed.

Shen Fengzhang did not look at the lobby more, and said directly: “Take me up to the second floor.” The

servant of the tea house hesitated for a moment and led Shen Fengzhang to the second floor. Their second floor is not the same as an ordinary tea house.

The second floor of the Huizhen Building is not a cabinet, but a table similar to the lobby. Unlike the downstairs lobby, the second floor is much more lively than downstairs, with a backgammon set on each table. The guests at the table drank tea while landing. At the critical moment of excitement and tension, I couldn’t even drink tea, and my eyes were firmly fixed on the backgammon on the table.

There were a lot of people around the table, three floors inside and three floors outside, obviously watching the people inside under the double land.

The servant led Shen Fengzhang to sit down in a quieter place, but Shen Fengzhang refused.

“No more.” Shen Fengzhang looked around the second floor, and when he saw a middle-aged man playing backgammon alone by the window facing the street, his eyes lit up slightly, and he walked straight towards him. There is a detail in the original work, mentioning that when Shen Jun was competing in baiwenlou, this person was looking for someone to play backgammon in the double land tea house that was more than half a jiankang, and the author sighed that this person was absurd. She just came to try it, and didn’t expect to see him.

The guests on the second floor had not noticed Shen Fengzhang, and they were surprised to notice that she had actually sat down opposite the guests at the window.

“How dare someone play chess with the window guest?”

“It is estimated that the little Lang Jun of a rich family will come to the real building for the first time.”

“Playing chess with the window guest, this little Lang Jun is afraid that he will lose miserably.”

The second floor of the Huizhen Building is basically some regular customers. They often saw the Lang Jun sitting by the window playing chess with his entourage, and at first someone deceived him and wanted to win some money from him, but he did not expect to lose. Many people did not believe in evil and challenged each other, and as a result, they almost completely destroyed the army.

For such a long time, no one knew what the identity of this Lang Jun really was, so everyone gave him a window guest according to the seat where he had been sitting.

For about half a month, no one dared to come and play chess with the window guests. Seeing Shen Fengzhang sit down, don’t say that the other guests were surprised, even the window guest himself was slightly surprised.

He raised his eyes, just wanted to speak, and after seeing Shen Fengzhang’s face, his face was imperceptibly stunned. The middle-aged attendant who was standing behind the window guest and waited saw the situation and leaned over to whisper two words in his ear.

It turned out to be him. The window guest put away his surprised face, smiled, and said to Shen Fengzhang: “This little Lang Jun, do you want to play chess with me?”

Shen Fengzhang bowed his head, “Of course. The

windowman swung the backgammon on the chessboard and said slowly, “I don’t play chess in vain.” Playing chess with me is going to bet on chips.

Shen Fengzhang glanced behind him, took the wooden box in Liu Wenchang’s hand, smiled at the corner of his lips, and opened the box, a golden light. The guests around who were watching this side couldn’t help but take a breath of cold air.

Shen Fengzhang closed the wooden box and pushed the box to the other party, “Three hundred gold chips.” Withdrawing her hand, she looked at the other party, “What is your excellency’s chip?” The window attendant retracted

his gaze from the wooden box, untied the jade pendant from his waist and put it on the table, his voice full of pleasure, “If I lose, this jade pendant will be given to you.” “This little Lang Jun of the Shen family is quite dashing with some money.”

After putting the chips on, the backgammon game finally began.

Unlike other tables, the backgammon board on this table is more delicate, with black and white horse-like backgammon on the board, and the hairs on the horses are thin and visible, and they are exquisitely carved. And it seems to be made of black and white clouds, but the extra warm and smooth touch after getting started shows that this is actually the best ink jade and white jade.

As soon as the two sides exchanged hands, the window guest found that Shen Fengzhang played backgammon unusually and at a very high level. Seeing this, he immediately became interested and began to get serious.

People around did not dare to get close, watching the two play chess from a distance, from time to time stunned, smashing their mouths, completely unexpected that this chess could still play like this.

Halfway through the game, the window player finally withdrew his gaze from the chessboard. He looked at Shen Fengzhang’s eyes with extremely gentle eyes, as if he were looking at the younger generations who were quite appreciated and loved.

Fortunately, he did not go to BaiwenLou today, otherwise I am afraid that he would not have had the opportunity to play chess with Shen Jialangjun.

He looked at Shen Fengzhang, who was thinking about what to do next, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

At this moment, the sound of gongs and drums on the street suddenly came from far and near. The tea guests who had already seen the Baiwen Louwen Meeting suddenly became excited, “The Baiwen LouwenHui is over!” The end result is out! I don’t know who will win the first place this time?!

Shen Fengzhang finished this step and turned his head to look out the window. A barefoot child with a gong ran briskly across the street. Behind him, a bullock cart was slowly approaching, and on the car stood a servant of Bai Wenlou, who was reading the article in his hand aloud.

There were four such ox carts, and after the end of the wenhui, with Baiwenlou as the center, they scattered in all directions toward Jiankang City, and loudly publicized the articles made by the leader of the Baiwenlou Wenhui in the last competition.

At the same time, Bai Wenlou would also copy this article as quickly as possible and send it to all the towns of Dazhou.

Overnight, the leader of the Wenhui will be able to make a name for himself!

Shen Fengzhang remembered that the last test of this year’s literary conference was a matter of strategy.

The title of Bai Wenlou quotes a sentence in the article of the former dynasty, “First of all, it is called prevention, and what is stopped is salvation, and what is done and responsibility is called the precept, prevention is the upper, salvation is secondary, and the precept is the lower.” Then ask the remaining contestants to reflect on the worries that exist today and write a policy paper on this topic.

The voice of Bai Wenlou’s servants reciting Shen Jun’s theory became louder and louder. Shen Fengzhang was already able to hear shen Jun’s discussion of the harm of suo yu in his strategy.

The noise on both sides of the street became quieter and quieter, and everyone on the second floor of the tea house was quiet, listening to the chanting of the servants. Even the window player who was preparing to play chess stopped throwing the dice and listened quietly to Shen Jun’s strategy.

The Yongkang Rebellion of the former dynasty was only more than a hundred years old, and many old people still remember what the elders said about the time when they were forced by Suo yu to leave their hometown and follow the elders of their families to cross the Huai Shui.

These years seem to be stable, in fact, the Suoyu people north of Huaishui have always been eyeing the Great Zhou Tiger. All kinds of frictions and wars have occurred on the huaishui border for many years, and in the more than ten years since the supreme lord ascended the throne, the Great Zhou has had three major wars with the northern Suoyu, and countless soldiers have buried their bones on the battlefield.

Many people on the street who do not understand the ink and literature may not understand what Shen Jun wrote in this policy, but as soon as he heard the four words of the Northern Suoyu, he thought of the neighbor’s children who had not returned after enlisting in the army, and his chest suddenly gave birth to infinite pity and resentment.

Those literati and inkers who can read and hyphenate, when they hear Shen Jun’s clear banner, strong penmanship, and passionate speech, in addition to being pathetic, they are even more proud!

“Good! This article is so well written! There is no greater danger today than the scourge of the scoundrels! A group of literati on the second floor of the Huizhen Building, chanting the sentences in Shen Jun’s article, couldn’t help but applaud the case. Among them, the youngest literati praised this policy to the extreme, praising it.

In a cheer, a laugh suddenly sounded.

Anger suddenly appeared on the faces of those literati, and they turned their eyes to the young Lang Jun sitting by the window.

The youngest man of letters got up in anger and wanted to walk toward the other side. The people around him hurriedly tugged at his sleeve and exhorted, “Forget it.” Looking at the appearance of that person, we know that we are from a rich family, maybe it is still a family of officials and eunuchs, and we can’t afford it. The

young scribe, who had risen, did not listen to his friend. He threw away the crowd, became angry, and shouted angrily: “The rope is not broken, and the consequences are endless.” As Shen Langjun said in the article, now in the northern county, the scouts are unable to lie down, and the officials are slept! What right do you have to laugh at a clumsy boy who will only hide in Jiankang City and gamble on backgammon?! I don’t know, you can’t even read this policy! The

young scribe scolded as he strode toward Shen Fengzhang.

Seeing that he was about to approach the table by the window, Liu Wenchang, who was standing behind Shen Fengzhang, had not yet made a move. Several men who seemed to be standing idly not far away suddenly took a step forward, their robes lifted, their hands pressed on the side of their waists, a sound of “Zheng”, the waist ring head knife out of the sheath, the silver light was cold, and the cold sensen.

The menacing scribe suddenly took two steps back, and the anger on his face was instantly replaced by panic, and it was as white as paper.

The heated discussion disappeared in an instant, and there was silence in the room, and there was no more half a sound. The people present even maintained their original movements, not daring to move, for fear of attracting the attention of the guards wearing ring-headed swords.

The young scribe’s companions looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and quickly stepped forward, grabbed their companions’ arms, and apologized to Shen Fengzhang.

“This Lang Jun, our little friend is young, impulsive and irritable, and has many offenses, please Lang Jun Haihan, please Lang Jun Haihan.” Several of them were full of flattery and apologies, and carefully compensated for their companions, but looking at their companions who did not say a word at the moment, they all gritted their teeth in anger. Fang Cai will let you not go, you will not listen, but you want to be a hero. Now the characters who are not easy to mess with have become turtles with shrunken heads and gourds with their mouths sawn.

Shen Fengzhang glanced at the window visitor on the opposite side.

The windowman nodded slightly at the guards who had drawn their swords.

In an instant, these people withdrew the ring head knife and returned to their original position.

The literati who came to apologize were stunned. They thought that their companions had rushed into this young Lang Jun, who was born of a powerful family, so that so many guards were drawn and guarded, but they did not expect that these guards were actually the window guests who had been in the Huizhen Building for so long. They discussed it privately, and they all felt that this window guest was a rich landlord, but they didn’t expect it to be so simple.

When these people saw the situation, they hurried to thank the window guests for their mistakes.

Although the guards had taken back their knives, the atmosphere on the entire second floor had swept away the previous ease and became extremely depressing. Someone was the first to be unable to stand it, and carefully pretended to be calm and went downstairs.

As soon as they saw someone leave safely, the rest of the people immediately followed.

After a while, the entire second floor went to the empty building, except for Shen Fengzhang and the window guests and their respective retinues, there was no one else.

The window guest sighed in his heart, and he knew that this would be the result. However, what surprised him was that Shen Fengzhang, who was sitting opposite him, was still at ease and not in a hurry even when he saw these guards who were drawing their swords at each other. It is worthy of being the grandson of Shen Laojungong, and his courage is really good. For the sake of the old county duke, he already had some good feelings for Shen Fengzhang, and at this moment he knew that she would go down to Shuanglu, and he was not flustered when things happened, and he suddenly liked this youngster more and more.

He remembered Shen Fengzhang’s laughter and asked curiously, “You just laughed, do you think this article is not well written?” Don’t you think sophistry is a worry today?

Shen Fengzhang fiddled with the hand of the tea cup slightly, she raised her eyes, looked at the person opposite, smiled slightly, and said slowly: “The king, the lord of all things under the world.” But he is the Lord of all things under the world’s subjects, and his responsibility is paramount. If the king understands the theory of public order, who in the world dares to use soldiers.

“Your Majesty, what is the danger of the Great Zhou, you already have the answer in your heart, don’t you?”

[End of This Chapter]