Queen of flowers - chapter 174
That was likely to be a conspiracy against Feng Liao.
It was a difficult situation. Even if Feng Liao saw through the opponent’s various plans, he had to drill into the preset battlefield because he couldn’t let the rebels grow.
And Ah Lan‘s identity and role in this matter was even more confusing.
Looking over the second mountain beam, Yong Ruo saw the destroyed Majia Village.
There were originally 30 to 40 households in the village. But except for one yard, the other houses had been scorched leaving only a piece of wall debris and rubble ash.
Ah Lan had already heard the news from Xiao Linzi.
At that point, after witnessing the situation, she burst into tears again. While crying, she also called the names or titles of various relatives, and then ran madly towards the village.
The two guards in charge of “taking care of” Ah Lan ran quickly behind her.
Feng Liao and others all looked sad.
The road from the mountain beam to the village entrance was steep and narrow, not suitable for horse riding.
Feng Liao and Yong Ruo could only dismount and walk. Their horses were held by eunuchs behind them. Feng Liao took Yong Ruo’s hand down the mountain.
Near the village entrance, Feng Liao pinched Yong Ruo’s hand and comforted her very gently, “It’s okay! I will always hold your hand.”
Yong Ruo squeezed his hand and smiled at him, “Okay! I’ll also always hold your hand.”
In the middle of a sundried field at the village entrance, there was a campfire ash. Around the fire, there were tables and chairs, pots and stoves, and many bones of chickens, dogs, pigs and sheep that had been burned, and some broken wine goblets and bowls.
Not only the firewood was burned, but also some furniture that was chopped off.
Some wine bowls and pieces of wine bowls still had a faint blood stain, as if many people had gathered together to drink blood wine.
Obviously, just a few days ago, a large group of people gathered there, held a campfire party, ate and drank, and shed blood.
There were quite a few guys who were rebellious.
Yong Ruo and Feng Liao went to the only yard in the village that hadn’t been burned.
It was also the best-built yard in the entire village. Although it wasn’t far from others, it was a brick building which looked new.
The east and west chambers of the yard were damaged to varying degrees.
The windows were removed and the furniture were gone. It may have been burned. There were also traces of peeing in the room.
But the main house of the yard was very well kept and very clean.
There were three rooms with the main room in the middle.
On the white painted wall on the east side of the house, there was an satirical verse (fan shi: a poem criticizing officials) dripping in ink:
Depressed and desolate without feeling sorrow, I was a child without parents and wealth;
When dirty officials and drought ghost kill people and land, reckless heroes gather together;
If God doesn’t grant wealth and glory, we’ll seize it from Seji (god of soil);
Somewhere in the future I’ll be like Ling Yunzhi and open the imperial ancestral shrine here.
The meaning of this verse was very straightforward:
Although he had no parents when he was a child, no money when he grew up, his life was down, and he wandered around, he didn’t feel very sad.
Now, dirty officials and droughts were killing people, and it was time for the reckless heroes to form an alliance and stand up.
If God does not grant wealth and glory, we’ll seize it from Seji (god of soil).
If this ambition was realized, the imperial hegemony by revel would begin.
As a person who knew only a few words about poems, Yong Ruo found the poem very powerful.
An image of a reckless hero who had a bumpy childhood, impassioned in his heart, impoverished but ambitious, was portrayed vividly.
But after reading the poem, Feng Liao snorted and began to taunt, “He seems so arrogant! Unfortunately, he hasn’t studied well enough as the grammar is wrong. He will fail in the imperial examinations.”
Yong Ruo asked, “Where is the wrong?”
Feng Liao said, “The word “seize” is used in the seventh part of Rusheng {entering tone; one of four tones in classical chinese)” which is the sound of the Zesheng (the falling tone). At that position, a flat sound should be used!”
He turned to look at the poem on the wall, and said with a sullen expression, “So, his use of the word “seize” is wrong!”
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chinesefanreader
Not really the time to nitpick grammar 🤦🏻♀️
Thanks for the chapter