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Chang'an City, Xianyang Palace.
Snowflakes filled the sky, quietly sprinkling across the palace and gardens. The tall glazed tiles, rockery pavilions, waterside terraces and towers were all covered with a layer of pure white silver, making the tranquil imperial palace look like a fairy tale world.
The evening bell of Da Ci'en Temple can be heard faintly, quiet and distant, like the Buddhist chanting from heaven, making people feel more peaceful and serene when listening to it.
The dusk spread silently, and one by one, exquisite wooden lanterns inlaid with gold and jade, with floral and bird patterns, lit up in the palace galleries, emitting a warm and soft light.
The palace maids walking under the lights were all young and beautiful, with graceful postures, like fairies walking in a fairy palace, but they were all full of yearning for the Cuiwei Palace over there.
From time to time, a man's hearty laughter could be heard over there, which suddenly brought life to this quiet palace and made it no longer so lonely.
In Cuiwei Hall, there are palace lanterns with cloisonné enamel paper paintings of flowers and birds on the table, and palace lanterns with poems and inscriptions on rosewood and inlaid white jade hang from the ceiling. These exquisite palace lanterns alone are full of beautiful poetic beauty.
In the warm hall, on the spacious soft couch by the window, there was a small red lacquered table with a plum blossom pattern in the middle, and on the small table there was a small cloisonné stove. The aroma of fine wine was wafting from the stove, and some fruits and snacks were placed beside the stove.
Qin Mu and four stunning beauties, Li Xiangjun, Xu Ruoshi, Dong Xiaowan and Li Zhiyin, sat around a small table. Under the lamp, the beauties had faces as beautiful as jade, with faint fragrance emanating from their sleeves, and their icy and delicate bodies were extremely beautiful.
Li Xiangjun, who was sitting on the left of Qin Mu, suddenly said, "I thought of a couplet. Everyone, listen carefully: The sound of the jade flute in the small building makes me feel sorry for myself and lonely."
Xu Ruoshi immediately said, "Xiangjun's couplet is from Li Jing's "Tan Po Huan Xi Sha": The drizzle in the dream brings back the distant chicken pass, the cold jade flute blows through the small building. And Zhou Bangyan's "Da Po. Yue Diao Chun Yu": What can I do when I am extremely worried and startled, the dream is so light and hard to remember, I pity myself for being lonely. After Xiangjun's transformation, it is indeed a good couplet with eleven characters with excellent artistic conception."
Li Zhiyin also sighed: "Sister Xiangjun's first couplet is even better than the original poem."
Dong Xiaowan also cast an admiring glance at Li Xiangjun, who smiled sweetly and had longing eyes. Her watery gaze flowed to Qin Mu, and she said sweetly, "Your Majesty, do you want to accept this couplet?"
Although these couplets are all excerpted from the words of predecessors, they require you to read a lot and test your memory, as well as your writing skills. For example, the first couplet written by Li Xiangjun, the two sentences are connected together, and the artistic conception must match. This is actually as difficult as writing a couplet by yourself.
Qin Mu was very "angry" and glared at Li Xiangjun and said, "It seems that you two are secretly in collusion. You are teaming up to embarrass me, right?"
"Your Majesty, what you said is very unpleasant. Will you accept it or not? Well, if Your Majesty accepts it and everyone says it is right, I will punish myself by drinking two cups." Facing his angry eyes, Li Xiangjun was not afraid at all and even offered him a piece of tangerine diligently.
While Qin Mu was holding the tangerine in his mouth, he bit her finger lightly. Li Xiangjun giggled and quickly retracted her hand, her pretty face was infinitely charming.
“No!”
Qin Mu ate the tangerine and turned his face away from her. He refused directly.
According to the rules set at the beginning, one person will come up with a couplet first, then beat the drum and pass the flower around. Whoever the flower falls to when the drum stops will take it. If the person fails to take it, he will be fined a glass of wine. The person who takes it will drink a small sip with the person who came up with the couplet.
Now, as soon as the beauties got the new couplet, they would first rely on him. They used all kinds of provocations to get him to accept it, especially Li Xiangjun, who used every possible means.
These beauties are all well-educated and their talents are not inferior to those successful candidates in the imperial examinations. Even Lee Ji-eun from Korea is not much behind them.
The four of them joined forces to deal with him alone. Qin Mu's second line was slightly inferior, so they attacked him together and forced him to drink. How could this continue
His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qin had no choice but to hang up the white flag and reject all provocations.
"Oh, we have to pass the flower again. How about we change the rules?" Seeing that Qin Mu refused to take it, Li Xiangjun actually thought of changing the rules.
"No." Qin Mu said righteously, pointing at the two palace maids in charge of passing the flower, "Hurry up and pass the flower. No cheating is allowed."
"Yes, Your Majesty." The two palace maids bowed and smiled secretly.
One of them blindfolded herself and prepared to beat the drum, while the other stood behind Qin Mu and the others holding a flower branch. When the drum sounded, the palace maid holding the flower branch began to circle around Qin Mu and the others. When the drum stopped, she just happened to be behind Li Xiangjun.
At this moment, the four girls couldn't help but laugh so hard that they were shaking with laughter.
According to the rules, Li Xiangjun was the one who came up with the couplet. If the flower branch stopped behind the person who came up with the couplet when the flower was passed around, the next person would come up with the next couplet.
Qin Mu was the next in line to Li Xiangjun, so according to the order of succession, it would eventually fall to him.
"Your Majesty, the first line of the couplet is: The jade flute is playing in the small building, and I feel sorry for myself because it is cold and lonely. Your Majesty, please answer it quickly." Li Xiangjun smiled with her cheeks slightly red and her eyes filled with tears. She was so beautiful that people wanted to swallow her up in one bite.
"Okay." Qin Mu responded helplessly, and did not forget to turn around and ask the palace maid who passed the flower, "Are you sure you didn't cheat?"
The maid knelt on the couch with a thump and said, "Your Majesty, I really did not cheat. Please understand."
Li Xiangjun and others were fed up and expressed their support:
"Humph, Your Majesty, you are bullying others by taking advantage of your power."
"That's right. That won't do."
“… … ..”
"I just asked a question, how can it be considered bullying?"
"Then your majesty, please come up with the next couplet."
"Hey, you really think I'm sorry, don't you?" His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor's self-esteem was greatly hit, and he calmed down and chanted: "The wind blows over the water palace, and the subtle fragrance is filled with endless thoughts."
After listening to this, Li Xiangjun murmured to herself: "The sound of the jade flute in the small building makes me feel lonely and pitiful."
Dong Xiaowan then repeated the second line: "The wind blows through the water palace, and the subtle fragrance fills me with endless thoughts."
Li Zhiyin: "That's very good."
Xu Ruoshi: "Your Majesty's second couplet is from Su Dongpo's "Dongxian Ge": Ice-like skin and jade-like bones, naturally cool and sweat-free. The water palace is filled with fragrance in the wind. Wu Xiyi's "Chan Gong Qu": Deep alliance, infinite thoughts, full of laughter and talk."
“Hahaha…” Qin Mu laughed loudly, hugged Li Xiangjun and gave her a kiss, and intentionally or unintentionally rubbed her soft breasts that were as soft as a dove.
Li Xiangjun pretended not to know what he was doing. She twisted her body and said unwillingly, "Your Majesty has clearly thought of the second line, but you come to bully me. Humph, I still have one more line..."
"Wait!" Qin Mu interrupted her, "I haven't drunk yet."
Li Xiangjun's face turned even redder, so she had to stand up, pick up the lotus white jade cup, put the wine into her mouth first, and then stepped forward to pass the wine to him. This was the prerequisite for Qin Mu to agree to play with them. Whoever made a match with him would have to feed him the wine.
Qin Mu hugged her slender waist, then kissed her soft cherry lips deeply. After taking a sip of the mellow wine, he hugged her and kissed her passionately, enjoying her cherry lips and small tongue to his heart's content, until she was panting and almost suffocated, and then he let go.
Li Xiangjun collapsed in his arms, panting rapidly, her face was so beautiful that it was dripping with beauty. Seeing Dong Xiaowan and the other two girls looking at her with a smile, she quickly struggled to get up and said, "Your Majesty, I have another couplet. Please give me the next one."
"Xiang'er, there is no order without rules. Look at you, why are you coming directly to me again?"
"Hmph, I want your Majesty to answer. If you refuse, I will..."
"So what?"
"Just... just ignore your majesty."
"Oh, okay, okay, all four of you come together, I'll take it."
"Your Majesty, you said so. I'll go first." Li Xiangjun was overjoyed and threw herself into his arms, kissing him on the cheek to encourage him. Then she recited, "When the sky is clear, you can see sparse stars across the Milky Way."
Xu Ruoshi, as before, immediately praised: "It's a good couplet. Xiangjun's first couplet comes from..."
"Wait." Qin Mu interrupted Xu Ruoshi, his face strange, and he smiled, "I know this, the first four words of Xiangjun's couplet come from Liu Yong's "Drunk Penglai": The leaves of the pavilion are falling, the clouds are flying over the mountains, and the autumn is clear. The palace is in the sky, locking the green and beautiful air. The young chrysanthemums are deep yellow, resisting the frost and light red, near the treasure steps. The jade sky is dust-free, the golden stems are covered with dew, and the blue sky is like water.
I suddenly like Liu Yong's lyrics, especially these lines: The tender chrysanthemums are deep yellow, the frost-resistant chrysanthemums are light red, and the golden stems are covered with dew. It is so well written... "
"His Majesty!"
Four stunning beauties spoke in unison, complaining coquettishly. The originally beautiful words had their flavor completely changed after he took them out of context.
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