Chapter Seventeen
Bai Xiuying and Yu Min looked sad and instinctively wanted to refuse. Gao Chong is not an ordinary person, he can't do anything to you. Pinching us is like pinching an ant.
Dong Xiu's eyes flashed, and the murderous intent made them almost collapse to the ground. Especially Bai Xiuying, who had originally defected from Yan Fenglou, would have been unable to move without Dong Xiu's protection.
Now that things have come to this point, she can't do it anymore, so Bai Xiuying gritted her teeth and walked forward quickly, her eyes full of charming expressions, and said in a coquettish voice: "Little Prince, your poem is really written into my heart. It really makes me love and envious. I hope Zhu Rui from Feiyun Tower has a lot of sorrow, but we don't have it? How about the little prince, please give me a poem to me?"
When Yu Min saw Bai Xiuying taking the lead, she quickly said, "That's right, I want it too? Please help me!"
Gao Wei sneered and said, "Did you see it? When these two bitches saw that our master had the leader, they immediately threw away their old love and came over. It is true that they said this bitch is ruthless."
Ding Zhou frowned and said, "I think there is something wrong with them. I say they are asking for poetry, but in fact I don't believe that our little prince can write poetry again, because I want to see our prince make a fool of himself."
"These two bastards are actually paying attention like this? No, let's see me go and cut their heads off!"
Gao An glared at his son and cursed: "Little bastard, stay for me! Is this your wild place? Everything depends on our little prince. Can the big Kaiping King make them stump? But they dare to attack the little prince, and they will definitely not have to keep this in the future."
Gao Chong glanced at them, and his cold eyes made the two of them feel like they were falling into an ice hole. "You are also a pair of poor people, but poor people must have something hateful. No good or bad will be summoned by others. Today I will give you a poem!
Fireworks prostitutes dress up pretty, and bridal chambers change grooms every night.
A pair of jade wrists, a thousand-person pillows, and a few red lips, thousands of guests tasted it.
Pretend to be shy and makes a fake heart.
How many things are welcoming the new and sending old knowledge? So I feel shy and crying in two lines."
These poems hit the two of them like thunder, making them feel ashamed and want to find a crack in the ground to get in.
Gao Chong was too lazy to pay attention to them, so he turned around and talked to Cai Songnian and others.
Cai Jing also smiled bitterly. How could a good poetry party end with such a beautiful poem? It was also because these two sisters were ungrateful and deserved to be ridiculed. Cai Jing announced the final result without saying a word and gave all the rewards to Gao Chong.
Gao Chong bowed his fists like everyone and said, "Thank you all for your love! I, Gao Chong, don't take any money for these thousands of silos of copper coins today. Please accept them as yourselves and build a library for free for those who are truly poor scholars!
To commemorate this poetry meeting, this library is called Chongyang Library! If there is not enough money, our Gao family will make up for as much as we lack."
This is a good opportunity to make a name for himself. Cai Jing certainly would not refuse and said with a smile: "How can you let your nephew pay for it alone? With these thousands of stakes of nearly 10,000 taels of silver, it is almost enough. The rest of our warehouses can be filled in, so you can't take it alone."
"I would like to thank Lord Cai for this. Since today's poetry meeting has ended, we will have a date later! I will follow my brothers to clean up."
Gao Chong said goodbye to everyone, put his belongings on a big cart, and then returned to Gaojia Town.
As soon as he came back, the entire Gao family was sensational. Gao Wei, Ding Zhou and others promoted everywhere how their food and wine were popular, and how the little prince defeated Cai Songnian and won the leader.
The servants of the Gao family were like the New Year, and they almost set off firecrackers to celebrate. Gao An also told Li about this result.
Li Wan was shocked and didn't believe it at first, but seeing the old butler so confident, she was a little skeptical.
"Where is the poem written by your little prince? Read two and let me listen." Li was so tickle that he quickly asked.
"Poetry? Old slave, please be happy and forget all of these." Gao An was confused. I couldn't read a basket of words. What does it mean to know the ones who know them?
Li patted his forehead gently and said, "Okay, okay, go and call Dalang here." Gao An quickly agreed and turned around and ran out.
Li took the manuscript of the poem in his hand and read it silently over and over again. Finally, he looked at Gao Chong and said, "Dalang is really capable. If it weren't for this Double Ninth Festival, I wouldn't know that you were so capable. It seems that I usually forced you to be a Jinshi, otherwise you would have become a Jinshi."
Gao Chong shivered and said, "Mom! Since I was injured, I often have these messy things in my mind. In fact, this is not my true level. I should forgive me."
"It's the ancestors' blessing again?" Li was a little unbelievable, so Gao Chong nodded quickly and pushed all this to the illusory ancestor.
After finally dealing with Li's interrogation, it was already dark when Gao Chong came out of the study. He sighed a long time ago, and then he went to give the chefs a summary of the questions at today's poetry meeting.
The next day, he couldn't help but just wanted to go to the martial arts training ground secretly, but as soon as he left his yard, he almost got caught. He quickly stopped and reached out to catch the person in the future, and found that it was Ding Yunniang, the daughter of the kitchen manager Ding.
"Xiao Yunniang? Why are you? By the way, are you here to learn carving? I'm so sorry. I've been busy all this time. How about I'll teach you after a while?"
Ding Yunniang's mouth squinted, tears flashed in her eyes; she suddenly fell to the ground and said, "Little Prince, please save my father."
"Your father? Ding Zhou? It's not that he was fine when he came back from the poetry meeting yesterday. What happened in a while?" Gao Chong's face suddenly turned dark.
"The officials in the mansion came to the village to collect taxes. My father said we were servants of the royal palace and were exempted from taxes and taxes, but he said this was a tax donation. Now the world is in chaos, and we are next to Wuji, where strong people are rampant. The prefecture needs to organize forces to suppress bandits, so the public security tax is imposed.
Little Prince, you don’t know that ordinary people are taxed for clothing, salt for food, shoe for shoes, hat for hat for travel, foot for travel. If we hadn’t relied on the royal palace to exempt a lot of taxes, we wouldn’t have been able to live, and we would have to throw life and death to God like the refugees outside.”
Gao Chong's face turned pale, and he said to Yun Niang: "If you go to find Gao Wei, just say it was me. Let him go to the county government and bring Manager D back."
"Thank you little prince! Thank you little prince!" Ding Yunniang agreed happily, wiped her tears and ran out.
Gao Chong gritted his teeth slightly, and then went to find his mother. Li was doing homework in her study, and she was seriously calculating the formulas on the draft paper.
Gao Chong came in and Li did not notice it. Seeing her serious appearance, he sat next to the desk. Suddenly he had a whim and picked up his own charcoal pen and used sketching to portray his mother.
In order to better connect with carving, he also studied structural sketching for three years while practicing sword techniques.
He quickly drew out the rough structural proportion of his mother on the face, and then he began to paint quickly.
At first I had to take a look at the drawing step, but later I was confident and didn't need to look at it anymore. I painted myself with a swish.
Li's brows slowly spread out and finally completed her homework. She put down the brush in her hand and moved her wrists. Suddenly she found that her son was also in the room, and she was lying on the table, not knowing what she was doing. Unable to help but curiosity, Li quietly came to Gao Chong.
Gao Chong is drawing in a way she has never seen before, and the woman in the picture is vivid, just like in the mirror; isn't it her?
Li Wan's lips smiled in the corner of her mouth, bringing infinite tenderness; she felt soft in her heart when she saw this, and she sighed inwardly: "Is this the mother in their hearts? Am I too strict with them on weekdays?"
"Hu——" Gao Chong let out a long sigh. His painting skills were really unfamiliar during this period. I didn't expect that he would pick them up today, but he would perform well at a high level.
"What is your drawing method?" Li's words scared Gao Chong. He turned around and saw his mother standing behind him and smiled: "This is the sketching method created by the child. It uses simple lines and dark changes to draw out layered real people or things. What do you think of mother?"
"This is very similar to me. I have always been strict with you. Why is this the case in your heart?"
Gao Chong said it was not good and quickly explained: "Thunder, rain and dew are both kindness and maternal love. We know that you are for our good. Although you are strict with us on the surface, you are like this in your heart. You are a gentle harbor. No matter how big the wind and waves are outside, as long as you are there, your home will be there."
Li bit his lips tightly, his eyes were a little red, and he looked like Dalang knew me.
Gao Chong hurried forward and said, "Mother, someone came to tell me just now that our company Ding Zhou was captured by the people from the government office. They were so bold. This was coming to our Gao family openly!"
"Hmph!" Li's face suddenly became cold and said, "This Dong Cai is really a little greedy! I have already made a step forward and agreed to pay the state's taxes. He is still not satisfied and comes to force him again. He really thinks that our Gao family is easy to bully?
Chapter completed!