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Yan Shu, who had been silent, thought for a moment and said, "Xun Siye also said that if Mr. Chang'an comes to the literary gathering tonight and another masterpiece is produced, I'm afraid that many students will lose their literary spirit and fail the winter exam. He also said that this is the way it should be. Studying is also a way of training the mind. If you can't stand such stimulation, how can you continue to study? I think it's hard to say what a person's state of mind is. But you will definitely not be affected by this."
Everyone looked at Yan Shu. Liu Sanbai smiled and said, "When it comes to speaking, it has to be you, Yan Shu. No wonder you are so popular with the teachers."
Yan Shu smiled slightly and looked out the window at the drizzle that was gradually stopping.
Thinking of what Xun Siye said to him.
If you want to be calm, you must first be calm.
……
Inside Lingqi Pavilion, Su Changan sat in the hall, leaning against a pillar, yawning. He felt much better as he watched the dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipate.
Otherwise, it would be very uncomfortable to travel on rainy days.
Xia Fengxiang was lying on Su Changan's lap, holding a memorial in his hand. Seeing Su Changan yawning, he said, "You still have to go to the literary gathering tonight, you can sleep for a while now. I won't go to the imperial study today, I'll stay here. I'll call you then."
Su Changan shook his head: "I'm afraid I'll fall asleep and sleep until morning, and won't be able to go to the literary gathering."
Xia Fengxiang laughed and scolded: "How is that possible? I already told you to come."
But after saying that, Xia Fengxiang sat up, with some hair sliding down her face. Then Xia Fengxiang looked at Su Changan and said, "Or is it that Mr. Changan is afraid that he won't be able to go to the literary meeting and meet those girls who are thinking about you so much now?"
Hearing this, Su Changan helped Xia Fengxiang to put his hair back, and then said seriously: "Let them miss you, I am thinking of you."
Xia Fengxiang immediately laughed and scolded: "How corny! And every time I say this, you always say the same thing. There's nothing else you can say, right?"
Su Changan was helpless. It turned out that you knew you had said it many times!
But even if I think this in my heart, I will definitely say something else: "It's really gone, and you are happy when I say this."
Xia Fengxiang glared at Su Changan, then laid on Su Changan's lap and said, "If you go there tonight, if those girls come up to you, be careful, okay? You have a wife."
Upon hearing this, Su Changan lowered his head to look at Xia Fengxiang, who had already covered his face with the folded paper.
I feel a little happy.
My wife is becoming more and more adept at making jokes.
But just when Su Changan was looking at Xia Fengxiang with a happy face.
Xia Fengxiang secretly glanced at Su Changan from behind the letter.
Their eyes met.
Xia Fengxiang's face turned red and he immediately scolded, "What are you looking at! Go look at the rain!"
Su Changan was helpless, but seeing that the dark clouds in the sky had dispersed and the rain had listened, he thought for a moment and said, "I want to tell you something, do you want to listen?"
Xia Fengxiang looked at Su Changan.
Su Changan said, "I want to become a cloud. When I'm happy, I play hide-and-seek with the sun. When I'm unhappy, I cry for everyone to see."
Xia Fengxiang found it a bit strange, but when he thought about it carefully, it was a very cute sentence.
Just looking at Su Changan, Xia Fengxiang looked suspicious: "Does it have anything to do with now?"
Su Changan shook his head: "It's okay, I just suddenly thought of it, so I told it to the person I like."
Xia Fengxiang turned his head away and continued to cover his face with the folded paper.
But the face hidden under the fold looks super happy!
However, Xia Fengxiang suddenly remembered something, looked at Su Changan and said, "Su Changan."
Su Changan looked down at Xia Fengxiang: "Hmm?"
But looking at Xia Fengxiang's flushed face, he asked, "Want a kiss? Goodbye, we just kissed, why are you continuing so soon?"
Xia Fengxiang twisted Su Changan's leg and scolded, "You only know how to kiss me! I want to tell you something serious!"
Su Changan touched the place where he was pinched and looked at Xia Fengxiang.
Xia Fengxiang rolled his eyes and said, "What I mean is, if you are going to write poetry tonight, or if you have something you are good at, do it well! It would be best if you can scare those students."
Chapter 129 Mr. Changan, you have such a cruel heart!!
This literary gathering was named "Zhuyu Literary Meeting".
In fact, Mu Xu held this event for his own selfish motive, which was to help His Majesty take a look at those students who would have no problem passing the Winter Examination.
His Majesty met with him privately and told him that in this winter's examination, fifty more places would be added to the A and B lists.
This matter has not been officially announced to the students yet, but was told to him alone.
What does your majesty mean?
Mu Xu knew what was going on.
just
A full one hundred "Enming"!
What a grand gesture!
So bold!
If this gets out to the public, the people on the Empress Dowager's side or the Grand Tutor's side will probably regret not trying harder to snatch more examiner spots from those people from the upright families.
Those who have been appointed to serve as examiners for this event will probably wake up laughing in their sleep.
Let’s not worry about how to accommodate these more than one hundred Jinshi and who they are.
For no reason, there are more than a hundred extra disciples who want to call them teacher. This is really laughable.
but
These have nothing to do with his pastoral order.
Because he is the examiner.
No matter what you do, those kids will call him sir.
Therefore, Mu Xu was looking forward to seeing the expressions of the people on both sides after the announcement tonight. Will they be heartbroken because they gave up such a good thing because of a little bait thrown by His Majesty?
Especially the Empress Dowager, she might not be able to laugh anymore.
Mu Xu heard that in recent days, the people under his command have been constantly lost and have been cleverly replaced by His Majesty's own people. The Queen Mother is in a very bad mood in Xingqing Palace.
As the chief priest walked, he looked at the people in the distance who were preparing for tonight's literary gathering. He sighed and wondered what kind of quarrel that group of people would have tonight.
I just hope that with the future Queen Mother around, those people from various schools of thought can be more restrained, and not turn a good literary gathering into a quarrel like a quarrel between shrews in the market. If the Queen Mother saw it, she would think that she was not a good enough chief priest.
"Grand Priest Mu, you have time to wander around, why don't you come and help?"
Mu Xu suddenly heard this familiar voice, turned his head and looked over, he saw Master Yao helping to carry the stools in the conference hall.
Mu Xu blinked, then immediately held his waist and wailed loudly: "My old waist and bones are suffering, it's really suffering!!"
Having said this, Mu Xu turned around and slipped away.
You, Yao Yuanzai, are nearly seventy years old and have been able to do whatever you want without breaking the rules. But I am only in my sixties and my health is not as good as yours. I will not do such a thing.
……
It was getting dark.
The talented men and women who were invited to participate in the [Dogwood Literary Meeting] set out for the Imperial College one after another.
Literary gatherings are different from poetry gatherings.
The former can be said to encompass the nature of a poetry meeting.
Although it was not precisely said that people would be asked to write poems directly, someone might suggest writing a few poems, and a poetry competition would emerge at the literary meeting.
Therefore.
After this literary gathering was announced a few days ago, many people knew that Miss Chang'an, Su Chang'an, who was now respected as Mr. Chang'an by many students due to the publication of the book Red Mansions, would attend.
Those students who were not invited lamented a little, but they were looking forward to having poetry tonight, just because they wanted to see the scene of Mr. Changan dominating.
Especially those students from outside the country.
Wen Wu is the first.
No one knows about this, but these outsiders, although they know when the bright moon will appear, the clouds resemble clothes and the flowers resemble face, and even this "Dream of Red Mansions" are all from the hands of Mr. Chang'an.
But I just don't accept it.
The outsiders were simply arguing with the students from the capital over literature.
However, they would never dare to show any disrespect to Su Changan. After all, they all knew that Su Changan was the future empress.
What is debatable is the text!
Therefore, many people in the capital who admired Su Changan naturally had many quarrels with them during these days.
Now that Su Changan is also going to participate in this Zhuyu Literary Meeting, of course everyone hopes that Su Changan can win the championship again and let these unconvinced foreign students see it for themselves!
So.
Whether they were invited or not, they all walked towards the Imperial College together.
For nothing else.
Just because the literary meeting was held inside the Imperial College, people inside the Imperial College were talking about it and would constantly inform outsiders about what happened inside the literary meeting.
so.
With so many people, naturally they wanted to go outside the Imperial College and wait for news.
……
Su Changan and his friends will ride in a carriage tonight.
There were four people in the group, including Zhou Qianhong.
Actually, Yan Ruyu originally wanted to ask Lian Wei to go and take a look together, but Lian Wei was unwilling to go to crowded places.
Yan Ruyu didn't force it.
It's just a pity.