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Chapter 50 I can't go home

"'The moon rises to the willows, and people make an appointment after dusk', this sentence should be the eyes of the whole poem, which points out the sweetness and happiness of men and women making appointments under the moon, and also uses dusk to suggest the future tragedy of men and women. It is amazing, it is wonderful!" At a poetry meeting where a literati gathered in Chang'an City, a young man sitting slapped his legs and exclaimed.

"Otherwise, I think the most wonderful thing about the whole poem is the strong contrast between the moon and the lamp and the 'No one in the last year'. The whole poem contains these two sentences that make people feel sad. As for the last sentence, the last sentence, "Tears are all over the spring shirt" is the topic of the whole poem, which completely vents the emotions in the poem and makes people cry when they hear it!" At this time, another scholar expressed his own different views.

"It's a bit inferior to the two brothers who only talk about poetry. For the following, this poem is combined with the emotional encounter between Mr. Li Xiu, which is the most touching thing!" Another scholar expressed his opinion and his words also received support from many people. The topic began to shift from poetry to Li Xiu, who wrote poetry, and the scene also began to become lively.

"Everyone, we have always believed that we are literary and elegant, but today we are willing to give up the disadvantage when we see Mr. Li Xiu's poem. Why don't we go and visit me? Let's talk about poetry and talk about the Tao with Mr. Li?" At this time, I didn't know who suggested, but it suddenly ignited everyone's enthusiasm. The poetry meeting was no longer held. Everyone stood up and called their friends to walk out of the city.

At the same time, on an embroidery building in an aristocratic inner house in Chang'an City, a girl in a waist-length dress lay on the windowsill, looking out the window with a blurred eyes. After a while, she suddenly sighed and said, "Mother, what does the woman you said Li Xiu like look like? Isn't she more beautiful than her daughter?"

"Silly girl, why are you still thinking about this?" As soon as the girl finished speaking, she saw the middle-aged lady behind her coming over to caress her hair and said lovingly. If she had known her daughter would be like this, she wouldn't have taken her to Princess Pingyang yesterday, and she shouldn't have let her throw her handkerchief to the talented Li Xiu.

"I think she should be very beautiful. Although I heard that the other party was a nun, since she could be liked by a talented man like Mr. Li Xiu, she must be a beautiful woman who is charming in the country, just like..." The girl ignored her mother's words, but still said to herself. In the end, she seemed to want to find someone to refer to. After thinking for a while, her eyes suddenly lit up, "Just like that Princess Pingyang who changed into women's clothing, only such a woman can match Master Li Xiu's talent and infatuation."

Seeing her daughter mentioning Li Xiushi's happy face, the noble lady couldn't help but sigh. She was a person who had experienced it, so she naturally knew that her daughter had deep love for Li Xiu, but she, a mother, had no choice but to think about it. Finally, after thinking about it, she finally gritted her teeth and went downstairs, and then instructed her subordinates: "Send someone to Mr. Li Xiu to find out the situation, and prepare a car. My wife is going to visit the Yongkang County Duke's Mansion!"

In another aristocratic mansion several miles away from the Huaichun Girl Embroidery Building, a middle-aged man was also listening to his friend telling about what happened last night. After listening to Li Xiu's poem, he couldn't help but pat the table and shouted: "I didn't expect that there was such a young hero hidden in Chang'an City. The Duke of Yongkang County really gave birth to a good son, but unfortunately the father and son had a good relationship."

"The prince said it well. You didn't go yesterday, otherwise you could have a glimpse of Li Xiu's style. At that time, I thought he had no hope of turning over, but I didn't expect that just one poem would completely turn the situation around. It's really amazing!" The middle-aged official sitting in the lower head also exclaimed.

"Such a young handsome man, of course, I can't miss it. Come and bring my famous post from the king and invite Mr. Li to have a banquet in the mansion!" The middle-aged man immediately ordered loudly that he had always liked to make friends with young scholars, and a talented person like Li Xiu should be his guest!

Even Li Xiu himself did not expect that the song "Sheng Chazi" could cause such a big sensation. Before dawn, someone came to deliver the invitation. This was pretty good. After all, these people went back after delivering the invitation. What was terrible is that those scholars who came here actually wanted to discuss poetry with Li Xiu. Moreover, if Li Xiu didn't open the door, they stayed outside the door and refused to leave. In addition, there were many strange people nearby, and people were peeping outside when they went to the toilet.

Li Xiu didn't want to go to the banquet, and it was even more nonsense as to discuss poetry and essays. He couldn't even recite ten lines of the Analects of Confucius. The one he hated the most were those sneaky guys, which made him lose his privacy. In the end, he couldn't stand it anymore, so he just took Yue Chan and Liu'er, climbed over the wall and crawled into the bamboo forest behind, and then hid in a circle in the princess villa. He didn't believe that those people were so brave that they dared to break into Princess Pingyang's villa.

"Boy, you can just come by yourself. Why did you bring the maid too? Do you really plan to stay here for a long time?" Mr. Ma smiled and asked.

"Uncle Ma, you haven't seen the situation at my doorstep. A bunch of scholars blocked the door and refused to leave. There were suspicious people peeking outside. I was worried about putting two beautiful little girls at home. And you are right. I plan to stay here for two more days before going back, so as not to be upset when I see those people." Although Li Xiu had long expected that his life would change due to yesterday's incident, he did not expect that he would fall to the point where he could not go home.

"Haha, it's better to stay for two more days, so that it's convenient to take care of the princess' injuries. Secondly, we can also talk more." Mr. Ma suddenly looked at Li Xiu seriously and finally spoke again: "Boy, I have known you for so long, but I never knew you were such an excellent literary talent. At that time, I saw you with my own eyes three steps into poetry, which is comparable to the legendary Cao Zijian."

When Ma Ye said these words, his expression on his face was very serious. The more he got along with Li Xiu, the more he could not see through the young man, as if there were endless mysteries on the other party.

However, Li Xiu smiled proudly when he heard this, "Uncle Ma, talent also takes time to reveal it. To borrow someone else's words, being talented is like getting pregnant. It will only be seen after a long time. We have not known each other for a long time. I still have more talents to display!"

"You...I..." Mr. Ma was so angry that he was Li Xiu's metaphor that talent was like pregnancy. After a while, he finally recovered and said, "Boy, you actually compared talent to pregnancy. Can you say such insulting words? Do you believe it or not, I will pass this sentence on the next day, and no one dares to collect the body?"

"Faith!" Li Xiu nodded firmly. He had seen the madness of scholars in this era before, but then he smiled, "But if you say it out, you may be the one who was hacked to death, not me. One is a talented man who just became famous in Chang'an, and the other is a rude general who only knows how to use a knife to chop people. Who would you rather believe that the above words are insulting?"

"You..." Mr. Ma couldn't help but get angry when he heard this. He stared at Li Xiu for a long time, and finally burst into laughter. After a while, he patted Li Xiu's shoulder and said, "Okay~ OK, you are the second best, what's rare is that you have the thought of being so exquisite. People like you may not suffer any loss."

"Hehe, thank you for the praise of Uncle Ma. But if it is not necessary, I really don't want to put in such a problem. Wouldn't a simple life be better?" Li Xiu's tone was relaxed at the beginning, but in the end he became a little heavy. As the saying goes, 'A man is in the world, and he can't help but feel it'. Now he has a deeper understanding of this sentence.

It should be when Li Xiu was talking to Mr. Ma, he suddenly saw someone coming in from outside. When he saw Mr. Ma, he hurriedly saluted him, and then said to Li Xiu: "Mr. Li, the car you asked us to make last time has almost finished, so when do you have time to check it out?"

The person who came in was one of the two carpenters Li Xiu had found last time. When he heard his words, Li Xiu's eyes lit up and said, "It's great, I'm fine now. Let's go and see how your work is done?"

"What carriage did you ask the carpenter to make? Do you want to get yourself a carriage?" Ma Ye didn't know that Li Xiu was going to make a wheelchair for Princess Pingyang, so he asked strangely at this time.

"It's not a carriage. Uncle Ma, you can go with me to see it." Li Xiu immediately pulled Ma and followed the carpenter out of the yard and came to a special carpenter's house on the left side of the front yard. Most of the ancient houses and furniture were made of wooden furniture, so there were usually special carpenters in the homes of wealthy and nobles. Some carpenters with superb skills had no lower status in the mansion than in charge.

The carpenter's house is actually an independent yard, with sheds all around the yard. There are many carpenters under the shed doing carpenter work, and the ground is full of wood chips and shavings. When Li Xiu followed the carpenter to the innermost area, he immediately saw another carpenter who was called to him last time, taking several other carpenters to make some modifications to a wooden wheelchair.

"Young master, look, this little car has been done almost as you ask. I wonder if you are satisfied?" At this time, the carpenter leading the way pointed to the wheelchair and asked Li Xiu.

"Boy, isn't this just a Hu chair with wheels? What's the purpose?" Before Li Xiu could speak, Ma Ye walked up to look at the wheelchair curiously and asked. Chairs had just appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and they were from the Hu people, so they were called Hu chairs. However, Hu chairs have not been fully spread and are not popular among nobles.

"This is called a wheelchair." Li Xiu stepped forward and pushed the wheelchair for a while, and found that the wheels were rotating very easily. He didn't know how these carpenters did it. Moreover, the steering wheels were also done, so that the wheelchair could be easily turned. After these two basic functions were realized, the wheelchair had already been successful, and only some small details were left for the rest.
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