Chapter 217: Promote poetry and prose

Wang Ping'an was stunned and said, "Fang Yiai? Oh, I have heard of this person, he... has a good temper and is said to be a good person to get along with!"

Zhao Bixi said: "Wujian, it turns out that you have heard of the Prince Consort of Fang. The rumors are true. He is indeed a good person to get along with. People of his status like him don't even show off at all at all to us, which is really rare!"

Wang Ping'an thought for a while and said, "You didn't give him the invitation too, so that he could also attend the poetry and prose meeting?"

Zhao Bi clapped his hands and said, "I gave the invitation to Mr. Fang, but we didn't give it to him on our own initiative, but he took the initiative to care about what we wanted!"

Lu Xiuzhi listened next to him and suddenly interrupted, "Today, we went to meet some friends. These friends are very good at Beijing. Several of them have sought friends and even asked for Princess Gaoyang! No disease, since you have heard of Princess Fang, you must have heard of Princess Gaoyang, right?"

Wang Ping'an nodded and said, "That's natural. Princess Gaoyang is the emperor's favorite princess. I'm afraid that few people don't know about this in Chang'an City!"

Lu Xiuzhi said again: "Brother Zhao and I are distributing invitations, so everyone talked about Princess Gaoyang. This princess is amazing. She likes knowledgeable literati very much. She has never refused to hand her a copy. She is both a princess and the daughter-in-law of the old prime minister. If she is willing to say something to others, it will be of great benefit. She will take advantage of it in the scientific examination. We were talking about her, but she didn't expect that the prince-consort of Fang came to me and talked about things to my friends..." He told her all the things she had today.

Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi have a wide range of friendships, and there are many truly talented friends, but there are also many friends who are good at taking advantage of tricks. When they were sending invitations today, they happened to meet Fang Yiai. Fang Yiai somehow went to a big restaurant where literati gathered the most to find the scholars who usually like to visit him.

After Fang Yiai found the person, he invited these scholars to drink, and he also advised them to study hard and to introduce them to Fang Xuanling, his father. He said that the scholars always went to the prince-consort's house to seek confidants, which was a bit tortuous. After all, although the princess was influential, she could not beat Fang Xuanling. If the old prime minister of Fang could see the scholars' conduct, wouldn't it be better!

When the scholars heard what he said, they were all very happy and expressed their gratitude. If they could get the old prime minister of Fang as a confidant, it would be a matter of no end. It would be much better than asking Princess Gaoyang!

Fang Yiai said again, I did this to help everyone avoid detours. In order not to delay everyone's studies, and not to waste too much time on investment banking. But he has a condition. If the scholars turn to Fang Xuanling as their confidant, regardless of whether Fang Xuanling agrees or not, they will not be able to find Princess Gaoyang again in the future, so as not to disturb the princess’ rest!

The scholars felt a little embarrassed. What a person Fang Xuanling was? Someone introduced him to ask them to ask for it. This is one thing, but whether the old prime minister of Fang agreed or not is another thing. If the old prime minister of Fang refused, then they could not find Princess Gaoyang again. Wouldn't this lose the opportunity at the same time?

It was no longer covered up. Fang Yiai explained directly that if he went to the Princess Gaoyang's mansion to ask Princess Gaoyang to be his confidant, then they would not want to ask Fang Xuanling anymore. After asking Fang Xuanling, Princess Gaoyang would not see them again regardless of whether it was successful or not. If you want to ask for a confidant, go and ask other princes and nobles, don't ask him to the head of his Fang family again!

The scholars didn't understand anything, and they all knew it all at once. This was jealous. The prince-consort of Fang didn't like other men to find his wife! Where did the jealous allusion come from? Didn't it just come from the Fang family?

When the emperor wanted to send Fang Xuanling Meiji, but Mrs. Fang refused to agree, so the emperor gave her a pot of poisonous wine to Mrs. Fang and said to her, if you promise your husband to accept Meiji, this matter would be fine. If you don’t agree, you should drink this pot of poisonous wine! As a result, Mrs. Fang drank the poisonous wine without saying a word. Even if she died, she would not let her husband ask for a wife. She had a very firm attitude! The pot was not poisonous wine, but jealousy. So the word jealousy spread!

Unexpectedly, such a thing as jealousy will be inherited. In order not to let the scholars meet Princess Gaoyang, Fang thought of such a way!

It happened that Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi sent everyone an invitation at this time. When they met Fang Yiai by chance, they talked about poetry and prose! What's more coincidental is that Fang Yiai was afraid that the scholars would not keep their word and continued to harass Princess Gaoyang, and they were afraid that no one would go to the house to seek a confidant. Princess Gaoyang saw the flaws and settled the accounts on him, so she was very interested in poetry and prose!

Poetry and prose will be good. You can see scholars again, so that Princess Gaoyang will not feel disappointed. She is in public, and Princess Gaoyang does not have to be alone with scholars. This is a beautiful thing that kills two birds with one stone!

When Fang Yiai was happy, she took the initiative to ask for an invitation and planned to go back and give it to Princess Gaoyang to make her happy. Her wife is a very lively person. She likes to participate in this kind of elegant event of making friends through literature!

This is how things happened!

After hearing this, Wang Ping'an did not express any comments, thinking: "This poem will get bigger and bigger, and even the princess and the princess will attend!"

He said, "There are several princesses in the capital. If Princess Gaoyang participates, she might bring other princesses to come, and other princesses will bring their princesses to come. Each princess has his own friends, and maybe he will bring a group of people to come. If this continues, this poetry and prose may make a big fuss in the city. Then the guests will be crowded, and the expenses will be amazing. Can the two brothers afford it?"

Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi laughed, and they had thought of this for a long time! Zhao Bi smiled and said, "If everyone in Chang'an really knew about it, that would be great. Even if we didn't live in vain in our lives, we would have given our fathers a face to our family!"

Lu Xiuzhi said, "Isn't it just money? I mean, even if 10,000 people come by then, we can afford to treat them!"

Wang Ping'an shook his head secretly, don't be happy, this matter is quite big. As soon as the princess and princesses know, maybe the prince must know, and as soon as the prince knows, maybe the emperor must know. You are so passionate. If the emperor has a whim and wants to relax, he will come in person to get better at everyone's talent exam, then the matter will be a big deal!

Anyway, this matter doesn't matter to Wang Ping'an. If he wants to write poetry, he is full of poetry, but he is very troubled by the two hosts in front of him. If the emperor competes with them and they don't do anything, it's not about asking for a confidant, but about despising him!

Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi did not expect this. They were so excited that they could let Fang Yiai participate. They never thought about it even deeper. After all, they were people of this era and would not and could not have too much knowledge about royal affairs. They were still talking happily, how could this poetry and prose ceremony be resounding throughout Chang'an, and everyone knew it!

At the back mountain gate of Ganye Temple, Princess Gaoyang was anxious when she saw Wang Ping'an running away. She stomped her feet repeatedly. She turned her head and saw Ma Mingmei who had just stood up. She said angrily: "It's all you are bad, you ask questions, and ask the little husband away! By the way, why did you run to this nunnery to find a brief encounter? Why is this?"

Ma Mingmei didn't recognize her. Although Princess Gaoyang is wearing palace clothes now, she has no rank. She can only tell that she is a woman from an official family, but she can't tell that she is a princess. She came to Ganye Temple to find a short-lived person because she didn't want to tell her strangers. She just squatted to Princess Gaoyang, which was considered a tribute. Without saying a word, she went down the mountain!

Princess Gaoyang thought to herself: "If you don't say it, I don't want to listen to it yet!" She returned to Ganye Temple and asked the host, if she had ever had any contact with Baima Temple?

Of course, the host said that there was no. Ganye Temple is in Chang'an and Baima Temple is in Luoyang. It is far apart, and one is a monk temple and the other is a nunnery. If there are no major Buddhist affairs, how can there be any contact?

Princess Gaoyang was unwilling to accept it, so she ordered her maid to copy the poem on the door frame of the stone chamber, intending to go home first and then make a decision. She heard that the prince's brother had recently obtained a good poem, and she was going to use this poem to show the prince's brother to compare it to see who got the better poem.

Sitting in the car, Princess Gaoyang took out the manuscript of the poem and thought to herself: "This poem is most likely written by the young man, but why did he go to the stone room in the temple to write poems, and he also deliberately put the poems in an old way. Why is this?"

Ma Mingmei came to the temple first and got on her own carriage. When the coachman saw her coming back safely, he breathed a lot of relief. When he saw that there were tears on her face, he felt sad for her. The lady is a good person, but her fate is tragic!

After walking slowly, Ma Mingmei returned to the Ma Mansion. Before entering the mansion, she saw traffic at the door of her house, and people came and went, and countless people came to visit her!

Ma Mingmei was puzzled. The family has always been quiet and there have never been so many guests. What happened today? Why did so many guests suddenly come! After getting off the carriage and entering the mansion to see his mother, I realized the whole story!

When Mrs. Ma saw her coming back, she looked depressed and said, "Daughter, what have you done? Why don't you like it so much?"

Ma Mingmei only said that she was going out to relax and asked her mother why there were so many guests at home? Mrs. Ma was overjoyed and said, "Your father has been promoted from a chief to a doctor, and his duties have also changed. There is no need to make any wrong words for others. Today, the promotion order issued by the Ministry of Personnel has just been issued. Before your father came back from the yamen, the gift-giving person will come to the door first!"

When Ma Mingmei heard that her father was promoted, she was also happy and her depression decreased slightly, saying, "Dad will not have to pick typos for the candidates in the future, so what should he do?"

Mrs. Ma said proudly: "In the past, others didn't dare to offend us, but there was no need to curry favor with us. But now they can't be cursed. After your father was promoted to a doctor, his job became easier. He was only responsible for submitting the exam papers, and he divided the exam papers into categories and then sent them to the examiner's desk."

She lowered her voice and smiled, "This job seems inconspicuous, but your father can do it if it is placed on it! You said, how can those people outside not ask for him!"
Chapter completed!