Chapter 66 (2/2)
They didn't knohat the girls were doing under that white silk, but a wo back and forth with copies of poe thehed ”Although women are no match for men,” he said aloud, ”literature is not the saentlemen, there is no chance you will be outdone by those feeble wo themselves Someone came up with an idea: write a poem on a topic, and the best three poems would be taken to the opposite side of the lake
A scholar on Guo Baokun's table turned his gaze and cupped his hands in salute ”I aest that the topic be the waters of this lake?”
”Very good Today's blue-green ripples float like gold” soan to write
”That'll do well As I look out on the beautiful lake and mountain landscape” someone else set out their poem
Guo Baokun stared in Fan Xian's direction ”I didn't realize young master Fan would be here today,” he said loudly ”Why don't we let him start?”
Fan Xian had come on his father's orders He was to make an appearance in front of the people of the capital and nothing more When he heard that they wanted hireat,” he said, shaking his head ”Please feel free to ask so him back down, Guo Baokun felt all the hed coldly ”The other day in Yi shi+jiu you werehow you didn't care for scholars, but now you're so stingy with your advice You really do think a lot of yourself”
Hearing this, the people present finally realized that the two young men had a history of enmity with each other; the poetry was only an excuse to start a fight Most of the people in the h they didn't knoho Fan Xian was, they saw that he seean to wonder whether he was a son of the Fan clan, but none of the the people around hihed sinisterly ”Brother Fan here only just arrived in the capital a few days ago I think we should all hear what he has to say”
The people at the contest weren't idiots; they immediately realized Fan Xian's identity When they looked at hiht trace of disdain, and a nus
Fan Xian's expression did not change from the faint smile he had worn before, but he continued to refuse to co saw his se the depths of this young e look flashed across his eyes, and he spoke to broker a coly, and brother Fan clearly does not wish to write today Gentlemen, you will have to write yourselves”
Fan Xian leaned lazily on the s about, listening to their average-at-best prose It was all rather boring To an observer's eye, he looked rather i lady of the Fan family is well known in the capital for her poetry It is rather surprising that young master Fan is so silent”
Guo Baokun spoke quietly ”Well, he wasn't raised in the hed, ”of course he's different froh he had spoken quietly, he doitimate children had remained as low as ever Fan Xian's status was a sensitive subject When people heard his carefully-chosen words, a strange atrounds