Chapter 61: Speedy Poetry
"People nowadays are so shameless that they even call cheating a sign of talent." A daughter couldn't help but whispered.
Once there is one, there will be two, and everyone started talking about it again.
In short, no matter what it is, I just don’t believe it. This is the poem written by Yu Mengqing herself.
"That's right, you're not ashamed to say it."
"Look, Prince Zhan, who's sitting next to her, isn't talking."
"How dare you say that? Your own princess is cheating so openly."
“…”
"Just because I'm silent doesn't mean I don't trust my princess. Who are you? If you don't agree, come up and fight me."
Chu Shiheng's eyes swept over everyone with a sharp look like a knife, and the sharpness in his eyes made the Tihe Hall very quiet.
This was the first sentence Chu Shiheng said at the beginning of the banquet, and no one dared to refute it for a moment.
Even if I'm not convinced, so what? Who dares to contradict Prince Zhan?
After a long time, a coquettish female voice sounded.
"Yu Mengqing, if you do this, you're ruining Brother Shiheng's reputation. How can you be worthy of Brother Shiheng?"
"Brother Shiheng?" Yu Mengqing ignored the woman who was shouting at her, and looked down at Chu Shiheng.
If she guessed correctly, the person who could call Chu Shiheng like this and speak again at this critical juncture must be someone who has a certain relationship with Chu Shiheng.
Hearing this name, Chu Shiheng narrowed his eyes subconsciously.
Then he looked sharply at the person who spoke, and anyone with a discerning eye could see the warning in his eyes.
But the woman who said this didn't hear it and continued to shout:
"So what if I call him Brother Shiheng? Someone like you is not worthy of being called Brother Shiheng. You..."
"Peiying! Sit down!"
As soon as the woman finished speaking, she was interrupted by the angry words of the man next to her.
"Brother, she is clearly..."
"Shut up!" the man interrupted the woman again.
Seeing that Yu Mengqing was still confused, Chu Shiheng realized that she probably didn't know the woman opposite.
So he explained softly, "She is General Guo Zhaochuang's daughter, Guo Peiying, and the one holding her is her brother, General Guo's eldest son, Guo Yalun."
Yu Mengqing nodded in understanding, but she didn't expect that the person opposite her was the famous General Guo.
But Guo Peiying is really quite straightforward and endearing.
For some reason, even though she and Li Qiaochu were targeting her, Yu Mengqing just couldn't hate Guo Peiying.
This may be the first impression people have of each other!
Thinking of this, Yu Mengqing looked at the people opposite again, and happened to meet Guo Yalun's eyes.
Yu Mengqing chuckled, but didn't feel embarrassed. Instead, she nodded at him as a greeting.
Guo Yalun was stunned. She obviously didn't expect that her sister would greet him so gracefully even though she said that to her.
So Guo Yalun also followed Yu Mengqing's example and nodded to her.
Then she looked at Chu Shiheng beside her.
The two men smiled at each other, and the smile of close friends was clearly visible in their eyes.
Yu Mengqing raised her eyebrows. She didn't expect that the two of them were such good friends.
That's right, it's not surprising that Guo Yalun, who comes from a family of generals, can know Chu Shiheng, the war king.
Glancing at the entire room and listening to the whispered questioning voices beside her, Yu Mengqing curled her lips slightly and said coldly:
"Why? Because I write poems quickly, I'm cheating? When you don't have any real evidence, you won't allow others to have it?"
As she said this, the sarcasm in Yu Mengqing's eyes became more and more obvious.
"If you can't do something yourself, why do you think others can't do it either? Don't forget that in this world, you may just be a very small individual. There are people who are more capable than you everywhere. Don't take yourself too seriously."
Although Yu Mengqing said these words bluntly, they were true.
But in the eyes of everyone, this was Princess Zhan scolding them for not having real ability.
"Princess Zhan is indeed eloquent." Prince Chu Shiwei, who was sitting diagonally above her, spoke up.
"Prince, this competition is about winning or losing. I can't be cheating if I win. Do you have to watch me make a fool of myself? Only then will it be real? Only then will I not cheat?"
"It's actually very simple. If you want to prove whether you really have the ability, you can compose another song on the spot to prove your innocence. What do you think, Princess Zhan?" said Queen Zhen Bie'e next to the emperor.
"Why not? But Meng Qing is afraid that there will still be some people who are dissatisfied and say something behind my back. That wouldn't be good, right?"
"Ah, that's wrong. If Meng Qing could really do it, everyone in Tihe Palace can testify to it. So why would anyone gossip about her?" The Queen said with a gentle look on her face.
But the cruelty that flashed in his eyes from time to time could be seen by anyone as long as Yu Mengqing was not blind.
With a light laugh, he asked, "Didn't the Queen hear the discussions of the people in this palace just now?"
Queen: “…” He is really a person who never forgives others when he should.
Yu Mengqing didn't know that the queen had automatically classified her as part of her enemy camp.
"Yu Mengqing, don't go too far. My mother is willing to give you this opportunity to give you face. Don't be shameless." Chu Shiwei pointed at Yu Mengqing and roared.
Yu Mengqing pretended to think for a moment and said, "That's fine. Since you want to ask, then go ahead."
She looked as if she was fearless and extremely arrogant, but there was no way around it, she had the capital to be so arrogant.
Let alone just one poem, she can recite hundreds or thousands of them. It’s like a dream to think that a mere poem can stump her!
If it weren't for the emperor's prize, she really wouldn't bother to waste her breath talking to these people here.
Seeing Yu Mengqing nodded in agreement, Zhen Bie'e looked around the Tihe Hall seemingly casually.
Then he pointed to the chrysanthemums beside him and said, "The chrysanthemums are in full bloom this year. How about Mengqing write a poem about chrysanthemums?"
This time, Zhen Bi'e did not deliberately make things difficult for her, because in her eyes, Yu Mengqing's poem about the water and mountain painting was clearly cheating.
Like everyone else, she didn't believe that Yu Mengqing could come up with such a good poem right away.
That’s right, no normal person would be so fast and be able to compose a poem without any thinking.
That's why she casually pointed to a pot of chrysanthemums and asked her to write a poem.
If Yu Mengqing had thought about it for a quarter of an hour, it would have been obvious that the poem she had just composed was cheating.
Because she wrote the poem just now without even stopping for a moment.
If this poem had been thought about, it would have been obvious that she had cheated in the eyes of everyone.
"Autumn bushes surround the house like those of Tao's, the sun gradually sets around the fence. It's not that I prefer chrysanthemums among flowers, but when this flower blooms, there are no other flowers left."
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