Lin Zhan's words completely angered Tang Yu. Just when he was about to say something else, a voice as melodious as an oriole rang out.
"Xiao Yu, don't be rude." Tang Xiu walked out of the crowd like a moon surrounded by stars.
Her body is as slender as a willow, her face is as white as jade, her cherry lips have just the right smile, and she sways gracefully like a lotus.
Lin Zan saw that Tang Xiu had become more charming after not seeing her for a while, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional. No wonder she was the woman who could marry Jun Beiqi.
"Sorry, Miss Lin." Tang Xiu also smiled and apologized to Lin Zan.
In front of everyone, one cannot hit a smiling person. Lin Zan nodded without saying anything more. He took Tian Ningxi's hand and found a corner to sit down, ignoring the people around him.
"Ningxi, it's just a banquet at Prince Su's mansion, why are there so many people here?" Lin Zan asked Tian Ningxi curiously.
Tian Ningxi was taking out a piece of cake from her bag and eating it. When she heard Lin Zhan's words, she was stunned for a moment and opened her eyes wide in surprise.
"Today is a blind date garden party, walking in the snow and looking for poetry, don't you know what you are here for?" Tian Ningxi said surprisingly.
Lin Zhan was stunned on the spot, and his voice rose a few notes, "What did you say? A blind date garden party!"
Her voice attracted the attention of several young ladies, and they frowned slightly. After all, ladies from wealthy families pay the most attention to their manners and would not do such loud and noisy things.
Lin Zhan lowered his voice slightly and asked Tian Ningxi with a serious face. "What's going on? I was directly dragged here by the Queen today. I don't know what kind of blind date today is."
Seeing that Lin Zan’s face looked very ugly, Tian Ningxi shrank her neck and talked about this matter.
It turned out that every time it snowed in the twelfth lunar month, Prince Su's palace would hold a blind date garden party, where men and women would recite poems to each other at a distance.
Over the years, expressing feelings through poetry has created many couples of beautiful women and talented men, so this custom has been preserved.
In the Northern Qi Dynasty, where ethics and morals were strict, this was one of the few times when men and women could express their emotions through poetry.
Therefore, the ladies of each family attached great importance to every time they walked in the snow to search for poetry.
When he heard this, Lin Zhan sat there for a long time without coming back to his senses.
Tian Ningxi waved in front of her eyes, then said with a smile, "If you don't want to, just hide behind. No one will force you to write poetry."
"That's good. After all, I don't want to communicate with someone I've never met through poetry from a distance." Lin Zhan said with a sigh of relief, planning to hide behind and act like an invisible person for a while.
Besides, as a modern person, she has only a handful of poems in her mind.
However, looking at the ladies around him with faint blushes on their faces, Lin Zhan knew how much they cared about this trip to search for poetry in the snow.
Soon, maids from Prince Su's mansion came to ask the ladies to move over, and everyone came to the back garden, where there were two pavilions facing each other across a pond.
The pavilion was surrounded by curtains, making it difficult to see clearly, with only vague shadows flashing through it.
There was a pond between the two pavilions. When everyone entered the western pavilion, some ladies from wealthy families couldn't help but look towards the eastern pavilion out of curiosity.
As expected, it was obvious that there was someone in the pavilion on the east side. A clear man's voice could be heard faintly on the wind. Before they saw the person, just hearing the voice, the faces of those ladies from wealthy families turned red.
"What a pure love!" Lin Zan sighed, while Liu Qiuchan and the other ladies sat down in the pavilion between the two pavilions.
Seeing those young men and women who were just beginning to fall in love, Liu Qiuchan couldn't help but sigh. "Back then, when I participated in the snow-walking poetry search, it was because of my poetry that I became acquainted with the emperor."
"The Queen is a blessed person and is extremely talented. Otherwise, she would not be worthy of what the Emperor said." Several noble ladies nearby complimented Liu Qiuchan.
Liu Qiuchan smiled faintly and said nothing more. Her eyes fell on Lin Zan who looked indifferent.
Just like Tian Ningxi said, if Lin Zan didn't want to recital poetry, he could just hide behind.
"Ningxi, don't you want to take this opportunity to find your ideal husband? Why don't you go over and take a look?" Lin Zan asked curiously when he saw Tian Ningxi sitting next to him eating pastries.
When Lin Zan asked about this, Tian Ningxi's face instantly turned red, and then she stammered, "No, that's not necessary."
Seeing her panic, Lin Zhan half-jokingly said, "You don't have a crush on someone, do you?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the pastry in Tian Ningxi's hand fell directly to the ground. She was so embarrassed that her face turned as red as the sunset, like a peach dyed with clouds, very cute.
"You, don't talk nonsense." Tian Ningxi stuttered and turned her head to the side.
Seeing her strange behavior, Lin Zan understood what was going on and laughed it off without asking any further questions.
Soon, the sound of singing hymns came from the other side. "From a high place, I can see the magnificent view of heaven and earth; the vast river flows away and never returns."
After the voice fell, all the ladies looked embarrassed, not knowing how to continue.
After all, this poem is majestic and has a masculine spirit of lofty ambition.
Just when the atmosphere was solemn and awkward, a voice like wind chimes sounded. "Yellow clouds move the wind for thousands of miles, and nine streams of white waves flow over the snow-capped mountains."
As soon as the words fell, everyone looked in the direction where the voice came from and found that the person who responded to this poem was Tang Xiu.
The ladies all had admiration on their faces, and even Lin Zhan couldn't help but nod slightly. Although she didn't understand, she could tell from the astonished looks of the others that her answer was very subtle.
Sure enough, a maid came over quickly from the opposite side dragging a tray, and then a delicate dagger appeared in front of Tang Xiu.
"How envious! Miss Tang got her first golden sword so quickly." The eyes of the ladies were full of envy.
When she saw the golden sword, Lin Zhan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered the golden sword that Jun Anqing gave her this morning.
At this time, Tang Xiu had already put away the golden sword, but did not hang it around his waist. Instead, he placed it aside with a look of arrogance on his face.
At this time, the sound of singing hymns was heard again from the opposite side. Naturally, the other ladies were not willing to be outdone and they all tried their best to show off their talents.
In order to gain the admiration of the young men in the opposite pavilion, several young ladies soon obtained some golden swords and their faces were beaming with joy.