181 This Shower, Is Life And Death! (1/2)
Chapter 181: This Shower, Is Life And Death!
Translator: Translation NationEditor: Translation Nation
Ten poems in ten steps?
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone around were roused!
The students were agitated and furious. Even Tang Liu Feng was afraid.
To compose a poem in seven steps was considered a great art form and required the poet to be extremely proficient. Being able to do this would cause many students sing great praise about the poet.
However, to compose ten poems in ten steps, how good can the poem be? This conversation wasn’t about composing poems anymore. In fact, it seemed to the students that Xu Que was just trying to humiliate young master Mo.
”Outrageous Li Bai! You’ve got overboard this time!”
”You are not worthy of being called a student and are a disgrace to the educated. What a low down!”
”What a heretic. If you had been born a hundred years ago, they would place you on a stake and burn you to death. Outrageous!”
”Ten poems in ten steps, that’s unbelievable. Who do you think you’re kidding?”
”And you even dare to spout rubbish like this here in Madam Ya’s banquet. You have no regard for anybody and are too arrogant”
The crowd started hurling abuses at him, clearly outraged by what he claimed.
Mo Yun Shang was elated at how the students were responding towards Xu Que. He looked at Xu Que in a mocking expression and asked, ”Brother Li, I shan’t add more comments. You went overboard earlier with your jokes. But now, you’ve crossed the line when it comes to calling yourself a student!”
”Arrogant braggart, you are nothing more than a joke!” The leader of the four great students, young master Zhao shouted out with an expressionless face.
In the blink of an eye, Xu Que was the butt of ridicule and insults once again as everyone shouted at him in rage.
Even Madam Ya was stumped by this. She had never imagined that Li Bai was capable of spouting such rubbish. It was indeed overboard for him to say something like that.
She opened her mouth, about to say something.
”Whoosh!”
All of a sudden, a rasping sound could be heard.
Xu Que flung his wrists as he opened the fan in his hands and fanned himself twice, allowing a gentle breeze to brush against his face. He looked extremely confident and at ease.
He then stood up as he cast his glance outwards before breaking out in uncontrollable laughter, ”While others are teasing my madness, I am laughing at their short sightedness!”
Everyone paused, their faces revealed looked of shock!
Tang Liu Feng opened his mouth wide in a daze.
Even Madam Ya’s eyes were wide open as her body trembled.
Young master Zhao’s expression froze.
Young master Mo’s smile froze before it faded off his face.
”While others are teasing my madness, I am laughing at their short sightedness!”
This line was extremely poetic, and was an attack at the students. The words he chose were intentional and had successfully made his point. This was an amazing line!
Indeed, when Xu Que took his next step, there was absolute silence within the hall as the students craned their necks to get a better look of him.
”Good rain knows its time well, and will fall once spring arrives. With the wind it steals the night, and silently dampens all things.”
All the students present felt their hearts froze as their eyes bulged out of their sockets.
My god, this was an amazing poem, and… Every single line was an excellent combination of the right words. In fact, it was much better than young master Mo’s poem!
Mo Yun Shang was dazed. He was aware of how great this poem was and he knew that it had completely crushed his own poem!
In that short time, Xu Que took his second step as he recited.
”On this piece of land, a thousand miles across, birds linger and flock in hues of red and green. In coastal villages and by the city walls, tavern signs flutter in the gentle breeze. Of the four hundred and eighty temples built in the Southern Dynasties, Most were shrouded in the hail of mists and rain.”
The students within the hall inhaled deeply. This… This was another wonderful poem and it was such a scholarly piece!
”Dong!”
Xu Que took his third step.
”I wake up at the dawn of first spring, and hear birds everywhere sing.”
”As sounded the wind and rain o’ernight, I wonder how many blooms alight.”
It was a fantastically composed rhyming poem!
The audience were so shocked that most of them were afraid at this point. The expressions across most of their faces were so appalled that they looked extremely foolish!
”Huff puff huff puff!”