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

[Chapter 34]

Bai Wenlou Wenhui started at 4:00 a.m. in the morning.

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

Shen Fengzhang sat in the ox cart, lifted the curtain, and looked at both sides of the road. The teahouses and restaurants facing the street are full of people, and looking at the clothes of these guests, it is obvious that they are all literati who have read books.

Bai Wenlou Wenhui, as the first major literary meeting in Dazhou, attracts countless literati to watch every year. Many people traveled thousands of miles and set off half a month or a month early to witness this gathering of top scribes from the entire Great Zhou Dynasty.

The best place to watch the Wenhui is of course the teahouse opposite Baiwen Tower. Only those who are powerful and rich can occupy the second floor of the opposite teahouse at this time.

In addition to the teahouse opposite, there are teahouses and restaurants scattered around Baiwenlou. The farther away from Baiwenlou, the lower the price.

Although the Shen family has been defeated in official circles, they are not lacking in money. Shen Fengzhang spent 200 gold to book a pavilion on the second floor of the restaurant opposite Bai Wenlou.

Sitting in the reserved pavilion, Shen Fengzhang picked up the tea provided by the teahouse and took a sip. The entrance is slightly bitter, the aftertaste is sweet, and the lips and teeth are fragrant. She raised her eyes and looked out the window, not only could she see clearly the expressions and appearances of the people in the building opposite, but she could even hear the loud voice from the other side.

These two hundred golden flowers are worth it.

As people walked up to the second floor one after another and took their seats in the pavilion on the second floor, the cultural meeting in the opposite Bai Wenlou finally started!

There will be three competitions in the literary competition. The first competition is to determine the topic by Bai Wenlou. All the contestants will write a poem on the subject within one stick of incense.

Shen Fengzhang looked towards the opposite side. On the innermost part of the first floor of Baiwen Building, there was a high platform against the wall, and a long table was placed on the platform. Around the high platform, there are thirty desks, on which are the four treasures of the study room.

At this moment, the thirty literati who were fortunate enough to participate in this competition have already stood in front of the case and prepared.

Among the young contestants, the young, handsome, clean and gentle Shen Jun stood out like a pearl falling from rubble, standing out from the crowd.

“Ma’am, that Langjun is so young, he must be better than others, right?” A curious female voice drifted into Shen Fengzhang’s ears from the next door with the wind.

The lady in the maid’s mouth chuckled lightly, as if the mountain spring was ding dong, and the orchid was beginning to bloom, “I think that Langjun can participate in the Bai Wenlou Wenhui at such an age. He must be extremely talented and talented.”

Shen Fengzhang took it back . Pay attention and turn your eyes back to the opposite side. A middle-aged scholar dressed in a blue shirt with elegant appearance stepped onto the high platform, and the attendant behind him put the incense burner in his hand on the long table.

The middle-aged scholar looked around, with a refined smile on his face, “Everyone who can step into this place today is a dragon and a phoenix. Bai Wenlou holds a literary meeting every year, and the rules of the literary meeting are clear to all of you. I won’t repeat it any more.” He raised his hand and pointed to the incense burner in front of him, and said loudly: “It is now the beginning of the late spring and summer, so I invite you to write an essay on the topic of spring within the time of the incense stick! The first test Start now!”

Opposite Bai Wenlou, the onlookers who heard the questions of this competition exclaimed.

Parallel Fu! This time, the style of the regulations is actually parallel Fu! The whole chapter is confrontation, two sentences are combined, and the words are combined with the dictionary, and the rhythm is emphasized. How can you do it in just one stick of incense!

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

“Yeah! Make a parallel poem in a stick of incense, and this parallel poem should be written well. This—this is simply…”

Shen Fengzhang next door , just now talking about Shen Jun’s master and servant, after hearing the title, he couldn’t help but talk.

“Ma’am, is it really that difficult to write a parallel poem?”

The female voice like a clear spring sounded again, with a hint of helplessness, and she smiled bitterly, “It’s not difficult to say, it’s not difficult, it’s difficult to say it.” Write, let alone a stick of incense, you can write a parallel poem in half a stick of incense, but the parallel poem written in this way is just a waste of pen and ink!

For these thirty contestants to not only write seriously, but to write better than everyone else, it was too difficult.

She shook her head lightly and sighed helplessly, “As long as you know, even I may not be able to write a good parallel poem with the theme of spring in a stick of incense.”

“You can’t even be a lady?!” The young maid was surprised.

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

Liu Wenchang took a step forward and said in a low voice, “Do you need to inquire about it?”

Shen Fengzhang shook his head, “No need.” She was just curious for a while.

When everyone was talking about Bai Wenlou’s topic this time, the thirty participants in Bai Wenlou had already hurried to start creating. As everyone said, this competition was extremely difficult. Among the thirty contestants, many were frowning and sweating profusely. Some people scratched their ears, scratched their cheeks, and beat their chests and feet.

Green smoke rose from the top of the incense burner, lingering. Before I knew it, only half of the complete stick of incense remained.

With a click, a scribe who was in his thirties, dressed in brocade clothes, sweating profusely, and his face full of anxiety, stared at the rice paper for a long time but found nothing. He shouted at the blue-shirted scribe on the high platform, “I abstain!” The

chatter sounded again in the teahouse.

“Alas, Mr. Sanmeng has never been good at fu.” Mr. Sanmeng is famous for his seven-character poems, and the three seven-character poems with dreams as the content have spread all over the country and are well known to everyone. The nickname Mr. Sanmeng comes from this.

“Mr. Sanmeng really has bad luck. In the last cultural conference, shortly after he set off from Jian’an County, he encountered heavy rain and caused torrents. Mr. Sanmeng was trapped in the station for seven days and missed the conference. I specially set off half a month early, but I met a strong man halfway and almost lost my life. This time, I heard that Mr. Sanmeng paid a lot of money to hire dozens of guards, set off from Jian’an County half a month early, and finally came to Wenhui smoothly. , I didn’t expect to encounter the most unfamiliar gift again.”

Profusely sweating, the brocade-clothed scribe, who had poor luck, was led by Bai Wenlou’s servants to the resting place beside him.

After Mr. Sanmeng, two more scribes who knew they could not give up voluntarily.

After leaving three competitors, the atmosphere on the field became more tense. Almost everyone’s hair on the temples was wet with sweat, sticking to their faces wetly, but even so, no one reached out to wipe the sweat. At this moment, they had already forgotten about the foreign objects, and only the thoughts they had thought were left in their minds.

Although he doesn’t like Shen Jun, Shen Fengzhang has to admit that as the male protagonist, he does have two brushes. Among so many people, although Shen Jun also frowned slightly and stared at the rice paper in front of him, his temperament was very calm, and he was calm and scheming. Among a group of contestants who were described as embarrassed, profusely sweating, and quite young, Shen Jun with a handsome face, fresh and tidy, like the breeze in the forest, Chengjiang under the moon, made people unconsciously dissipate the anxiety and heat in their hearts and become calm and peaceful.

“This young man is not bad.”

“Yeah, no accident, I think he can enter the second round.” The

gray-white cigarette has long since dissipated, and the last smear of incense ash fell from the incense, and the incense flashed red and completely extinguished. .

“Okay! Time is up! Please stop writing.

” Of the remaining twenty-seven contestants, some let go of their brushes and gasped fiercely; some were grim-faced, waving their brushes quickly, trying to rush to write the whole essay at the last moment; some stood blankly, watching. The rice paper in front of me couldn’t come back to my senses.

The servants of Bai Wenlou walked up to each contestant, took the fu from their table, and posted them on the wall behind the high platform in order.

The blue-shirted scribe smiled, “I think everyone present is looking forward to these parallel poems and the final result. Next, I will trouble the seniors on the second floor to comment on these twenty-seven parallel poems one by one.

” The famous voice was loud, and the servants who were carefully trained by Bai Wenlou to sing the newspaper stepped onto the stage and began to recite the first parallel poem aloud.

“… cherish the spring flowers for a while, and show respect to the spring flowers.”

The servants on the stage had just finished reciting, and there was a sound of applause around.

The teahouse was also full of people.

“As expected of a scribe who was elected to participate in the Bai Wenlou Literature Association! This talent is one that must be admired! Good! I didn’t expect the first article to have such a high level!”

The creator of the first parallel essay got up and said, He clasped his fists towards the surroundings and across from the teahouse, “Asking for concessions, if you are not talented, let’s throw bricks and stones first.”

The literary veterans on the second floor recalled the gift they had just made, and they made a waiting list and opened their mouths to comment.

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

“Lang Jun?”

Shen Fengzhang shook his head at the servant of the teahouse, stood on the second floor and glanced around the lobby. The lobby was densely packed with people, most of whom stretched their necks and leaned forward, trying their best to see the situation on the other side.

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

servant gave Shen Fengzhang a surprised look, apparently in the teahouse After so many years, I have never heard such an order. But he immediately lowered his head, answered yes, and walked towards the lobby.

The gentleman on the second floor is really not at home and doesn’t know Chai Migui. For a wealthy family like them, three hundred gold is nothing, but for the guests sitting in the lobby, how could it be possible to pay three hundred gold for a good seat. The servant approached the guest without hope.

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

The simple-looking middle-aged man brought Xiao Langjun, who was only seven or eight years old, to Shen Fengzhang. He was slightly taken aback. Obviously, he didn’t expect the person who temporarily sold the second floor pavilion to have such a good appearance. .

The middle-aged man who originally wanted to say a few more words stopped the conversation with a wink, considered his words and expressed his gratitude to Shen Fengzhang.

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

The servants of the tea house led Shen Fengzhang downstairs, and he was entangled along the way, how did this gentleman see that the man in the lobby who was dressed in simple clothes just made such a big deal.

In fact, Shen Fengzhang just found that although the other party was dressed simply, the hands on the table were very clean. Obviously, he had not done any rough work. Although it seems that there are only two people, the father and the son, several servants standing in the crowd always pay attention to the situation of the two, and there are dried and solidified mud spots on the corners of these servants’ robes.

All signs indicate that the father and son family have surplus money, but because of some changes, they just arrived in Jiankang and did not book a cabinet.

Walking out of the teahouse, Shen Fengzhang had just gotten into the ox cart, and before he left, he heard a loud applause from the teahouse.

She tutted lightly, realizing that it must be Shen Jun’s essay that she had finished reading.

This text meeting is for the male protagonist to gain prestige and help him enter a career. Shen Fengzhang only looked at it for a while before deciding to go to the next place.

The bullock cart walked slowly on the spacious bluestone road, passed through most of Jiankang City, and finally stopped in front of a store.

Shen Fengzhang got out of the car, raised his eyes and glanced at the hanging plaque, wrote the three characters “Huizhenlou”, and walked inside.

The Huizhen Building is not as lively as the teahouse at the Baiwen Building, but there are also scattered guests, and most of them are ordinary people in simple clothes. They were a little surprised when they accidentally saw Shen Fengzhang who walked in from the outside, with a noble appearance and a temperament, and was out of tune with this ordinary teahouse.

The servants of the teahouse also stepped forward and carefully asked Shen Fengzhang what he needed.

Shen Fengzhang didn’t take a second look at the lobby, and said directly, “Take me to the second floor.”

The teahouse servant hesitated for a moment, then led Shen Fengzhang to the second floor. Their second floor is different from ordinary teahouses.

The second floor of Huizhen Building is not a pavilion, but a table similar to a lobby. Different from the downstairs lobby, the second floor is much more lively than the downstairs, and there is a pair of backgammon on every table. The guests at the table drank tea while going downhill. At the critical moment of excitement and nervousness, he didn’t even care to drink tea, and his eyes were fixed on the backgammon on the table.

There were a lot of people around a few tables, three floors inside and three floors outside, apparently watching the people inside go to the double land.

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

“No need.” Shen Fengzhang looked around the second floor, and when he saw the 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 book that mentioned that when Shen Jun was competing in Bai Wenlou, this person was looking for someone to play backgammon in the Shuanglu Teahouse, which is more than half of Jiankang’s distance. The author sighed that this person was absurd. She just came to try and didn’t expect to see him.

The guests on the second floor didn’t notice Shen Fengzhang at first, but they were surprised when they realized that she was sitting opposite the guests by the window.

“Anyone dares to play chess with Linchuangke?”

“It is estimated that Xiao Langjun from a rich family will come to the real building for the first time.”

“Playing chess with Linchuangke, this Xiao Langjun will probably lose miserably.”

The second floor of Huizhen Building is basically full of regular customers. They often saw that Lang Jun, who was sitting by the window, brought his entourage to play chess. At first, someone bullied him and tried to win some money from him. Unexpectedly, he lost. Many people did not believe in evil and went to challenge each other one after another, but almost the entire army was wiped out.

For so long, no one knew what the identity of this Lang Jun was, so everyone took him a window guest based on the seat he had been sitting in.

It has been almost half a month that no one dared to come and play chess with Linchuangke. Seeing Shen Fengzhang sitting down, not to mention the surprise of the other guests, even the guest at the window was slightly surprised.

He raised his eyes and was about to speak, but after seeing Shen Fengzhang’s face clearly, his face was stunned. Seeing this, the middle-aged attendant who was standing behind the guest by the window, leaned over and whispered a few words in his ear.

It was him. Linchuangke put away his surprise, smiled, and said to Shen Fengzhang: “This little man, do you want to play chess with me?”

Shen Fengzhang nodded, “Of course.”

Linchuangke swayed the double land on the chessboard. Playing chess, he said slowly, “I don’t play chess for nothing. You have to bet chips to play chess with me.”

Shen Fengzhang glanced behind him, took the wooden box in Liu Wenchang’s hand, smiled on the corner of his lips, opened the box, and there was a golden light. The guests who were paying attention to this side couldn’t help but gasped.

Shen Fengzhang closed the wooden box and pushed the box to the opponent. “Three hundred gold chips.” Withdrawing her hand, she looked at the opponent, “What are your chips?

” Jian Peiyu put it on the table, her voice full of joy, “If I lose, this jade pendant will be given to you.” This young gentleman of the Shen family is quite dashing.

After placing the chips, the game of backgammon finally began.

Unlike other tables, the backgammon board on this table is more delicate. The black and white horse-shaped backgammon on the board is visible, and the hair on the horses is slender and finely crafted. And it seems to be made of black and white cloud, but the extra warm and smooth touch after getting started shows that this is actually the best black jade and white jade.

As soon as the two sides played against each other, Linchuang guests found that Shen Fengzhang played backgammon very well, and he was very skilled. Seeing this, he immediately became interested and began to get serious.

The people around didn’t dare to get close, and watched the two of them play chess from a distance.

Halfway through the chess game, the window guest finally took his eyes off the chessboard. He looked at Shen Fengzhang with extremely gentle eyes, as if he was looking at the younger generation he admired and loved.

Fortunately, he didn’t go to Baiwenlou today, otherwise I’m afraid he won’t have the chance to play chess with the Lord of the Shen family.

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 to near. The tea guests who had seen Bai Wenlou Wenhui for a long time were immediately excited, “Bai Wenlouwen meeting is over! The final result is out! I don’t know who will win the first place this time?!”

Shen Fengzhang finished At this step, he turned his head and looked out the window. A barefooted child held a gong and ran briskly across the street. Behind him, an ox cart was slowly approaching, and a Bai Wenlou servant was standing on the cart. He was reading the article in his hand aloud.

There are four such ox carts. After the Wenhui, they scattered around Jiankang City with Baiwenlou as the center, and loudly publicized the article written by the leader of the Baiwenlou Wenhui in the last competition. .

At the same time, Bai Wenlou will also transcribe this article at the fastest speed and send it to all towns in Dazhou.

Overnight, the leader of the literary society can become famous for thousands of miles!

Shen Fengzhang remembered that the last competition of the Wenhui this year was a question of strategy.

Bai Wenlou’s title quoted a sentence from the previous articles, “First of all, it is called prevention, and it is called rescue. When it is done, it is called “precept.” for the next”. Then ask the remaining contestants to think about the worries of the day and write a policy essay on this topic.

The voice of Bai Wenlou’s servants chanting Shen Jun’s policy theory became louder and louder. Shen Fengzhang could already hear the discussion about the harm of the captives in Shen Jun’s policy theory.

The noise on both sides of the street became less and less, and everyone on the second floor of the teahouse also quieted down, listening carefully to the sound of the servants chanting. Even the window guest who was about to play chess stopped throwing dice and listened quietly to Shen Jun’s strategy.

The Yongkang Rebellion in the previous dynasty was only more than a hundred years old, and many elderly people still remember the story of the elders who were forced by captives, left their hometown, and followed their elders across the Huai River.

These years seem to be stable, but in fact, the Suoru people north of the Huai River have been eyeing the Great Zhou. There have been various frictions and wars on the Huai-shui border all the year round. In the more than ten years since the Supreme Being ascended the throne, there have been three wars with the northern captives in Dazhou, and countless soldiers have been buried in the battlefield.

Many people on the street who do not understand the language and ink may not understand what Shen Jun wrote in this policy theory. However, when they heard the words “Northern Suolu”, they thought of the children of neighbors who did not return after enlisting in the army, and suddenly felt infinite sadness and sorrow in their hearts. resentful.

Those literati and calligraphers who are literate and hyphenated, when they hear Shen Jun’s clear-cut, vigorous writing, and passionate essays, in addition to grief, they are also full of pride!

“Okay! This article is so well written! There is nothing more dangerous than the disaster of the captives!” 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. Among them, the youngest literati highly praised this policy theory and was full of praise.

Amidst the applause, a sneer suddenly sounded.

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

The youngest literati got up in anger and wanted to walk towards the other side. The people around hurriedly grabbed his sleeves and persuaded him with good words, “Forget it. From the look of that person, you can tell that he was from a rich and noble family, and maybe he was an official family, so we can’t afford it.”

The young scribe got up, but I didn’t listen to my friends. He threw off the crowd, angered, and scolded loudly: “If the captives are not broken, there will be endless troubles. As Shen Langjun said in the article, in the northern county now, the scout Wang Fengsui cannot lie down, and the generals are put to sleep! You are alone! How can a playboy who can gamble on backgammon hiding in Jiankang City have the right to laugh?! Maybe, you can’t even understand this policy theory!”

The young scribe scolded as he strode towards Shen Fengzhang .

Seeing that he was about to approach the table by the window, Liu Wenchang, who was standing behind Shen Fengzhang, hadn’t made a move. A few men who seemed to be standing not far away suddenly took a step forward, lifted their robes, put their hands on their waists, and with a sound of “Zheng”, the swords around their waists came out of their sheaths, the silver light was frigid, and the air was cold.

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

The heated discussion disappeared in an instant, and the whole place was silent, and there was no sound at all. The people present even kept their original movements, daring not to move, for fear of attracting the attention of the guards wearing the ring-headed sword.

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

“This Langjun, our little friend is young, impulsive, irritable, and offended. We also ask Langjun Haihan, please Langjun Haihan.” Several of them were full of pleasing apologies, and they carefully apologized for their companions. However, looking at their silent companions at the moment, they all gritted their teeth in anger. I just told you not to go, but if you don’t listen, you want to be a hero. Now that people who are not easy to mess with are turned into tortoises with shrunken heads and gourds with sawed mouths.

Shen Fengzhang glanced at the guest at the window opposite.

The guest at the window nodded slightly to the guards who drew their swords.

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

The few literati who came to apologize were dumbfounded. They thought that their companions had bumped into the powerful Xiao Langjun, so there were so many guards drawing their swords on alert, but they didn’t expect that these guards were actually from the window-guest who had been in the Huizhen Building for so long. They discussed it privately, and they all felt that the guest in the window was a rich and wealthy landlord, but it was not that simple.

Seeing this, these people hurriedly confessed their mistakes and thanked the guest at the window.

Although the guards had already withdrawn the knives, the atmosphere on the second floor had swept away the previous ease and became extremely depressed. Some people couldn’t stand it at first, and they cautiously went downstairs with their composure.

Seeing that someone had left safely, the rest immediately followed.

After a while, the entire second floor was empty, except for Shen Fengzhang, Linchuangke and their entourage, there was no one else.

The guest at the window sighed in his heart, he knew this would be the result. However, what surprised him was that even though Shen Fengzhang, who was sitting across from him, saw these guards drawing their swords, he still looked calm and unhurried. As expected of the grandson of Duke Shen, his courage is really good. For the sake of the old prince, he already had a slight affection for Shen Fengzhang, but now that he knew that she would go to Shuanglu, he would not panic when something happened, and he immediately liked this junior more and more. He remembered Shen Fengzhang

‘s sneer just now, and asked curiously, “You laughed just now, do you think this article is not well written? Don’t you think that the suzerain is the worry of today?”

He raised his eyes, looked at the person opposite, smiled slightly, and said slowly: “The monarch is the lord of all things in the world. He is the lord of all subjects and all things in the world, and his responsibility is the most important. If the king understands the theory of security, who in the world would dare to use troops? ”

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

[End of This Chapter]