Chapter 176: Let’s bite the bullet!

Therefore, Cao Cao and Wu Fan, who are also the top ten famous scholars in the world, joined the harvest celebration one after another, drinking with the people and having fun with the people; making the people's enthusiasm even higher and pushing the atmosphere of the celebration to another peak.

During this process, Guo Jia and Lu Lingqi naturally sat by the side. However, Lu Lingqi was soon pulled into their team by the dancing women and danced with everyone.

At first, Lu Lingqi was a little twisted, but gradually, when she was infected by the atmosphere around her, she became active. However, as a military general, Lu Lingqi danced with a unique look, hard and soft, but not delicate, giving people a completely different feeling. It attracted the audience to cheer, and Wu Fan also watched with interest for a while. Seeing this, Lu Lingqi's pretty face turned slightly red, and her eyes were flowing, but her dancing posture was even more beautiful.

The so-called person involved was the best confirmed by Wu Fan at this time. Just as Wu Fan faced Lu Lingqi's repeated glances and smiled purely out of praise. Guo Jia, who was sitting next to Wu Fan, turned his head and looked at the two of them separately, with a smile on his face that could see others' hearts.

Cao Cao was talking to several old men at this time. With Cao Cao's political power of 96, these ordinary people were not his opponents. He heard that the old men had nodded constantly and did not notice the situation here.

This kind of agricultural celebration usually lasts for more than a dozen hours and will not end until midnight. Of course, Cao Cao, Wu Fan and others would not always accompany the celebration to end. After drinking with the people, they stood up and said goodbye and returned to Xia Pi City.

It was already dusk at this time, and according to the scheduled time limit, the Han Poetry Conference will be held at this time tomorrow. Chen Deng, the prefect of Xia Pi, set up a banquet while arranging the venue to welcome the contestants participating in the Han Poetry Conference.

At the banquet, everyone was dressed in a wide robe and wide-sleeved Confucian scholars, and naturally they were civil servants. Only Wu Fan and Lu Lingqi were military generals, both of whom were tight and neat outfits, which were contrasted with everyone.

During this period, it was natural that everyone toasted each other and politely. When literati and wine were mixed together, a new substance would be produced like a chemical reaction: poetry, songs and essays. However, at this banquet, everyone had a tacit understanding that no one recited poems and essays, and it seemed that they were hiding their strength for tomorrow's Chinese poetry conference.

After the banquet, everyone was arranged by Cao Cao in advance. Before Wu Fan went to bed, he looked at the civil servants at the banquet one by one: Jia Xu, Cheng Yu, Xun Yu, Xun You, Tian Feng, Xi Zhicai, Liu Ye, Chen Deng... By the way, there is Guo Jia who came with him.

It seems that the contestants are very good, and I don’t know if the few poems I wrote down from the textbook are good. I had known that today would have been, I would have skipped a few Chinese classes when I was in school. Alas.

With resentment in his heart, Wu Fan went to bed.

He didn't have the idea of ​​competing for the first and second place, but just wanted to try the effects with the poems he remembered in his textbook, and even had a tendency to spoof in his subconscious. Therefore, although these opponents participating in the Chinese Poetry Conference were more powerful than the other, Wu Fan was not worried about it, and still slept until dawn as before.

After Cao Cao's advance arrangement, the restaurant provided some light food. Lunch was held in the main hall of the palace, which was still a sumptuous banquet. However, this time, the generals under Cao Cao who participated in the Battle of Xia Pi were having a banquet with the contestants. There were many loud generals at the banquet, so the atmosphere became more lively. Xiahou Dun, the prefect of Puyang, also sat with Wu Fan specifically to thank Wu Fan for saving his disciple Qin Qi's life at the Yellow River Ferry, and even deeply appreciated Wu Fan's killing of Guan Yu.

As mentioned earlier, Xiahou Dun did not go to Guan Yu. After learning that Guan Yu had left without saying goodbye, he went back to Chenliu to pick up Liu Bei's two wives, Xiahou Dun immediately led his troops to block the enemy at Baima Port, because Baima Port was the necessary port on the nearest route from Chenliu to Nanpi. Unexpectedly, Guan Yu took a turn and changed to Luoyang Ferry, but was killed by Wu Fan.

After learning this news, Xiahou Dun was extremely happy. He had always been serious and couldn't help laughing a few times: Governor Wu did a good job and finally, in addition to his own heartache, the Cao army was also a disaster in the future. Then, Xiahou Dun learned from the letters sent by Qin Qi that Wu Fan had saved his disciple's life. Therefore, Xiahou Dun naturally praised Wu Fan and felt a sense of emotion.

Through this feeling of appreciation, Wu Fan and Xiahou Dun exchanged cups and chatted and laughed at the banquet, which was so unhappy. The generals under Cao Cao had never seen Xiahou Dun so happy, and even Cao Cao was surprised by this.

Through this banquet, Wu Fan and Xiahou Dun's intimacy has quickly increased from 65 points to 90 points, and has reached a state of intimacy. This is a miracle for Xiahou Dun, who is as indifferent to human relationships. Wu Fan has thus become the closest and most trusted person to Xiahou Dun besides Cao Cao.

Xiahou Dun is Cao Cao's clan brother, and he is deeply trusted and his achievements have grown rapidly. Although he is incomparable to Wu Fan's level, he is very likely to become the second governor of Cao's army after Wu Fan in the future. There are naturally advantages and disadvantages to making emotional investments in advance.

Of course, this is Chongjia's analysis. Wu Fan did not have such utilitarian ideas at this time, and with his current strength and real power in his hands, he did not need such utilitarianism. The reason why he made friends with Xiahou Dun was entirely based on his personal preferences and felt that he was very happy with Xiahou Dun, that's all.

The lively banquet was not announced until the evening of the west mountain. Afterwards, Cao Cao led everyone to the palace tower, where the venue for the Han Poetry Conference was set up.

This city tower is very high because Cao Cao once supervised the battle against Cao's army and Sun Jian's army on this city tower. Upon climbing the city tower, the Xia Pi city was in sight, including the military camp outside the city and the battlefield outside the city that had not been cleaned yet.

Cao Cao sat on the main seat, and the contestants sat on both sides in front of Cao Cao, while other civil and military officials became spectators and stood behind the contestants.

Cao Cao's eyes swept over the contestants, with full of expectations in his expression. He didn't know what kind of masterpieces his front-line counselors would present in the next competition. Cao Cao himself is very knowledgeable about poetry and songs, and is a senior industry insider. Cao Cao has been looking forward to this Chinese poetry conference for a long time.

After glanced over, Cao Cao announced that the Han Poetry Conference had officially begun.

Although the Chinese Poetry Conference has begun, the unique caution of the literati made no contestants willing to take the initiative to come forward to present their poems, and they were complimenting each other. Cao Cao had to use the method of naming and let Cheng Yu be the first to present his poems.

Seeing this, Cheng Yu had to stand up and salute Cao Cao, then bowed to everyone on both sides, and then said:

"The river goes east, but it cannot be chased; the autumn wind is bleak, and the leaves fall." Well, Chongjia admits that he can't write poems, everyone can do whatever he wants...

In just one sentence, it was a long and profound meaning. As soon as Cheng Yu sat down, everyone couldn't help but cheer; the rough voices of the military officers overshadowed all the voices, especially Dian Wei, Xu Zhu, shouted the most happily, and I don't know if I really understand the artistic conception in the poem.

Cao Cao nodded slightly at this time, then opened his eyes and commented:

"In Zhongde's poems, there is a sad feeling of sighing at the evolution of the times. Unexpectedly, Zhongde, who has always been upright on weekdays, has such sad moods. Good poems are very good."

As the saying goes, everything is difficult to start. With such a good start, it will be much easier to proceed later. Not long after Cao Cao's comment, Xun Yu took the initiative to stand up and said:

"Thousands of thousands of mountains have disappeared, and birds have died on the battlefield."

Xun Yu, who has always given people the impression of being weak, was able to make such a clanging poem. This time, even Wu Fan was surprised.

Before everyone's cheers fell, Tian Feng stood up and said:

"Lonely crow, dead trees, under the sunset; single, only shadows, wandering to the ends of the world"

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Next, Jia Xu, Xi Zhicai, Chen Deng, Liu Ye and others all stood up to offer poems. When it was Guo Jia's turn, Wu Fan listened carefully:

"I have a strong ambition in xiong, and I dare to ask the sun and moon to change the sky."

Another wonderful poem, with a thrilling momentum that makes people excited. While everyone was cheering in unison, Cao Cao naturally commented again. When they talked about the wonderful things, everyone nodded.

When Wu Fan heard this, he couldn't help but retreat. He hadn't remembered many poems in the textbook. At present, the poems of these contestants were either grand or touching the scene. In comparison, the poems he remembered seemed very family-like.

In this way, you should not be ugly, right?

Thinking of this, Wu Fan stood up from his seat, quietly came to the back of the seat, and squeezed into the crowd. He only hoped that after Cao Cao and the others would appraise him, he would announce the end of the Chinese poetry conference when he saw that he was "absent" and abstained from the right.

The audiences such as Wu Fan, Xiahou Dun, who suddenly squeezed beside him were naturally puzzled and asked for the reasons. Before Wu Fan could answer, Cao Cao's voice sounded:

"Why is Meng Xuan missing? Where is Meng Xuan?"

As soon as Cao Cao finished speaking, Xu Zhu shouted in a rough voice:

"Lord, Governor Wu is here?"

While saying that, he also pointed at Wu Fan. The generals around Wu Fan all dashed to the side with tacit understanding and violently stormed Wu Fan in full view of everyone.

Originally, Wu Fan squeezed into the audience and hid himself out of the idea of ​​not wanting to attract attention. Now, he became the focus of the audience, and everyone's eyes were projected on him.

At this time, Cao Cao stood up from the main seat and waved to Wu Fan:

"Meng Xuan, why did you run there? I'm waiting to listen to your poems, come here quickly."

Before Wu Fan could come up with a suitable reason for abstention on the spot, Xiahou Dun, Dian Wei, Xu Zhu and other generals surrounded him and pushed Wu Fan out of the audience and came to the center of the venue.

While pushing Wu Fan away, the generals said:

"Governor Wu, you are the only candidate among our military generals to participate in this Chinese poetry conference. We are our representative. The reason why we stand here is either to listen to the sour and elegant style of the strategists or to listen to you."

"Yes, Governor Wu is both wise and brave, and he will definitely be able to write an immortal poem that has been passed down for a long time."

"Yes, let these civil servants see how powerful our military generals are."

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Chapter completed!