Chapter 17
The darker the night, the more lively the Niannuzhai is.
Li Cangyu walked out of the elegant room and came out of the corridor. From a distance, he heard the music and cheers coming from the hall on the first floor.
What is singing and dancing to bring peace, what is being drunk and indulged in luxury? At this moment, you will know everything after taking a look at Niannu Zhai.
Li Cangyu believed that he was not a righteous and honest and spotless moral lord, but he had encountered too many great officials and nobles in the brocade clothes and jade belts and beautiful and charming geniuses. They may be elegant and free and easy, but the four big words "playing with things is lost" seem to be written on their faces.
When he just entered society in his previous life, Li Cangyu was once lost in a nightclub. He fell in love with the smell of beer and hunting for beauty almost every night. Even when he went to work every day, there seemed to be a crazy DJ roaring in his ears.
The result was that he had just won the glorious title of "Nightclub Prince" and lost his first very good job in his life.
Drinking, sex and entertainment are the products of men. Only by constantly increasing the dose can we continue to enjoy the pleasure it brings. Once a man gets addicted, it is really difficult to be free to restrain and not be enslaved to the point of losing his ambition!
Throughout history, countless heroes have been defeated by it. In real life, there must be such people around everyone.
Take the current emperor Li Longji as an example. He was a very talented and courageous young man. After a bloody storm, he also worked hard to govern and made great achievements in a generation of heroic lords. It was under his leadership that the Tang Dynasty ushered in an unprecedented peak of prosperity. But now, Li Longji, who was entering his old age, only cares about enjoying the love of the evening brought to him by the great beauty Yang Yuhuan. His father and wife wandered hand in hand in the ocean of art of music and dance, intoxicated and did not know the way back, and the king no longer paid early court.
The scholars and commoners are losing their ambitions, which is nothing more than mediocrity or self-destruction of their future.
The king loses his ambitions when he plays with things, but it brings disaster to the country and the nation!
This information was like a devil, and it was very unfriendly from Li Cangyu's mind, instantly smashing the "Soul of the Nightclub Prince" that had finally been resurrected. He couldn't help but think that today I could walk into the gate of Niannuzhai because of a gift from someone else, but I was full of fantasy of a romantic encounter...
"Ha, bitch Li Cangyu!"
"So unambitioned, why don't you go back to the mountains?"
Although his steps continued to move forward, he felt more and more that he was incompatible with the exaggerated men and women around him with the dazzling music and dance.
There were already many people standing by Pinglan on the second floor, watching the poetry and wine event below. Li Cangyu glanced and estimated it briefly. There were no less than a thousand people present at the upstairs and downstairs.
The hall is in the center, and the musicians in the work are playing with each other, and a woman sings in a gentle voice—
"The Han family is in the northeast, and the Han generals resigned and destroyed the thief.
Men are arrogant and arrogant, and the emperor gives them very much color..."
The lyrics are Gao Shi’s famous work - "Yan Song Xing".
Li Cangyu smiled indifferently and sang well and was very professional. But it was because she was too professional that she lost her sincere feelings. In contrast, Chen Liniang, the singing of the hunting garden, was more touching.
But the people downstairs were still intoxicated by the sound of cheers. A song was just awesome, and many people even brought bundles of silk to the stage, just like someone presenting flowers on the stage now.
Soon, layers of silk that were more than one person tall were placed in front of the singer, like a wall that circled her.
This is what it means to spend money like soil!
Li Cangyu was a little dumbfounded and said unconsciously: "Is that Nian Nu?"
"Of course not." A young man next to him said disdainfully: "Although Gao Shi and Cen Shen are famous, they are really not qualified. If you want to miss Nu to come here to perform in person, unless it is..."
The young man looked up and down at Li Cangyu. Seeing his robe wearing a poor look, his expression suddenly turned into disdain. He raised his hand and waved his face and stopped talking.
The people next to him laughed at him, "Look at you, you can get angry with anyone."
The dog's eyes look down on people.
Li Cangyu was too lazy to see such people, so he continued to look downstairs and saw Xu Shenyuan in the crowd. He was sitting with a few scholars in the brocade, talking and laughing and urging each other to drink, as if he was enjoying it.
Birds of a feather flock together. Li Cangyu knew that it belonged to Xu Shenyuan's circle and could only watch from afar. As a bitch, he would only act as a clown and let others laugh at him.
Li Cangyu believes that no matter in any era, there will be principles for getting along with people. This principle is - what is the use or meaning of you to me?
Don’t blame the world for being cold or the worldly and sophisticated. People are originally living in groups, and the meaning of living in groups is to help each other and benefit each other. This is the survival rule that humans have begun to pass on from generation to generation since they first learned to walk upright.
Therefore, the icing on the cake has always been much more than the timely help, and it is even less likely to help and give for no reason.
So, why did Xu Shenyuan treat me so favorably? Even King Yi Li Jin had to extend an olive branch? Li Cangyu thought of this question. Is it just because of his uncle Gao Yu's old friend, or my so-called calligraphy that is difficult to enter the elegant hall?
Just as he was thinking, Xu Shenyuan downstairs left the seat and bid farewell to his friends, walked upstairs. Li Cangyu took a step towards the stairs. Xu Shenyuan smiled when he saw him, and waved his hand from afar and greeted him.
The two young men who had ridiculed Li Cangyu before couldn't help but change their faces, and gave each other a wink, slipping away quietly.
Xu Shenyuan walked up and asked with a smile: "Li Langjun, have you ever eaten good food?"
"I am already full of wine and food when I have a good time to offer wine and treat you well." Li Cangyu bowed and thanked him.
"What do you think will be like for this poetry and wine?" Xu Shenyuan asked again.
Li Cangyu smiled, "I don't know much about poetry, lyrics, music, etc."
"Come on, come on." Xu Shenyuan called Li Cangyu to Fuzan with interest, raised his hand and pointed downstairs, "Did you see that the person wearing a bright white Hu robe in the southeast corner of Lecai and holding a wine pot is Cen Shen. He is Gao Xianzhi's aide, and he has just returned from the Western Regions to report his victory and offer prisoners. Yesterday, the saint held a banquet in Linde Hall and summoned them, the soldiers of the Western Army. During the meal, the saint highly praised Cen Shen's frontier poems!"
"The one next to him who was wearing a black suit and a long beard was Gao Shi. He had just been ordered to go to Yandi to send troops to An Lushan. When he returned to Beijing to hand over the order, he happened to meet Cen Shen, which led to today's poetry and wine meeting."
"The thin man in gray clothes next to Gao Shi seemed to be named... Du Fu, yes, Du Fu, whose courtesy name was Zimei. He and Cen Shen and Gao Shi were both good friends, and had just been promoted to Hanlin Guanzhao by a saint."
Li Cangyu was slightly surprised. That person was Du Fu?
It is not surprising that Xu Shenyuan disagreed with Du Fu, because it took nearly half a century to become famous. Now Du Fu is not famous, but at least he is far inferior to Cen Shen and Gao Shi. Besides, the "Hanlin" of the Tang Dynasty is not valuable at all. To put it bluntly, the so-called "Hanlin Attendant" is the "monarchy" around Li Longji. He has nothing to do to catch him and fill in a poem, write a fu, and write an edict. He is lucky enough to fill in a vacancy for a small official, that's all.
Li Bai also served as a Hanlin attendant, but he had already resigned. The exiled immortal, who "How can he bow down and serve the powerful and unhappy, make me unhappy" has already traveled all over the world, but Du Fu has just stepped on his old journey.
Xu Shenyuan was very excited and introduced seven or eight talented scholars who came today in one breath. Some of them were famous for Li Cangyu for a long time, while others had never heard of them.
Li Cangyu felt a little uninterested after hearing this for a while. After all, he was not from the same world as those great poets. Although he had appreciation, he still couldn't say that he was eager or admiring. Just like his attitude towards those film and television stars, he might like to listen to their songs and watch their movies, but he never had the habit of chasing stars.
After Xu Shenyuan talked enough, Li Cangyu seized the opportunity and asked, "Xu Jijiu, when will this poem be opened? Why haven't Your Highness Yi come yet?"
Xu Shenyuan seemed to be reminded and blinked, "Your Highness has always loved Gao Shi's poems, and I have long been looking forward to it today. Let's do this, I'll go to the royal palace to invite Your Highness. You can stay here with peace of mind, how about you?"
"good!"
Xu Shenyuan left after saying that, Li Cangyu watched him out of Niannuzhai and couldn't help but sigh.
This kind of place is really not suitable for the "bitter" Li Cangyu. He couldn't help but smiled with a self-deprecating smile. One day, I will personally invite the people downstairs to come back here and hold a poetry meeting - and Li Bai!
After watching a poetry meeting, Li Cangyu felt more and more frivolous and boring, so he planned to go back to the room to see Gao Ju. After walking for a while, he arrived at the door of another private room. He heard a burst of angrily scolding from inside the room-
"A little madman, I don't know how to be proud!"
"I paid for your first night, which is the blessing you have cultivated in the eighth generation. How dare you push me and stop me? Could it be that you look down on me?"
Another woman cried and told me: "Please respect yourself. The little woman was not in the Jieting family in the Jiaofang, and she came here just to play music..."
"Pan!" A loud slap in the face.
Li Cangyu's heart trembled, he was so cruel!
Immediately afterwards, a group of people in the room began to persuade: "Cui Zhonghou is drunk too much, sit down and rest for a while!"
"That's right, why bother to get angry for a little trick and lose the drunkenness!"
It would be fine if others didn't persuade him. After a few words, the man became more and more angry, "People in the palace? Bah, who are you scaring me! - I asked you to play!"
"Bang--"
With a loud noise, an object broke through the window paper and rushed out and fell into the corridor, making a loud noise.
A pipa.
When Li Cangyu saw it, why did he look so familiar?
"My pipa!"
"Bold, did I tell you to leave?"
The woman opened the door regardless of concern and wanted to pick up the pipa. Li Cangyu was at the door and happened to stand opposite her.
--moon!
Chapter completed!