The Great Wei Music Bureau

Chapter 391: Formation (Part )

Last time, we talked about the evil spirit that appeared in the palace and attacked the King of Chu, but it was eliminated by the dragon energy of the Human Emperor. This forced the King of Chu to face the problem of the evil spirit and agreed to the Mingtang debate proposed by Li Yi. So how will the story develop next? Let's read on.

The evil spirit in the palace was actually a play directed and performed by Li Yi to fool the King of Chu, and his purpose was naturally achieved. The King of Chu handed the matter of the Mingtang Ritual Debate to Xu Xin, the Liji Commentator of Tianshu Academy, who began to prepare for the relevant matters and agreed to hold the debate in the Golden Palace five days later.

After all, as the prime minister, Subu had many things to do, so he couldn't be asked for everything. But when it came to debate, he was the top person in Western Chu. The King of Chu handed this matter over to the people of Tianshuyuan, which showed his attitude. He didn't want to lose the debate and wanted those guards to be buried with Tu Xiu.

So in order to ensure that everything went well, Xu Xin went to find Subu and asked him to come down to debate. But when Xu Xin arrived at the Xiangfu, Li Yi and Xiong Zhui were discussing with Subu how to lure the evil spirit out.

These people all worked in the Tianshu Academy, so there was no taboo and they started the symposium directly.

Xiong Zhui said, "Xu Xin, are you here to talk to Prime Minister Su about the debate? But Prime Minister Su is going to catch ghosts with us these few days, so I'm afraid he doesn't have time to prepare."

Xu Xin looked at Li Yi and shook his head, sighing, "Alas, Wei Le deliberately arranged this just to exclude Prime Minister Su. He is so cunning! Why would he want to modify Chu Li at this time? Don't you know how important he is to the king?"

"Hey, Xu Ru is wrong about what he said. It's just a coincidence. If Tu Xiu hadn't died, the king wouldn't have let those innocent guards be buried alive with him. So how could I have proposed abolishing the practice of burying people alive with him?"

Being able to enter Tianshu Academy, Xu Xin is naturally no ordinary person. He came to find Subu even though he knew Li Yi's plan, not for anything else, but only to find a breakthrough in the debate from Subu.

So Xu Xin turned to Su Bu and said, "I know that the Prime Minister is busy with many things, and now he is even busier, but we all know what this debate means to the king. We, as ministers, must find a way to share the king's worries, right? What do you think, Prime Minister Su?"

Su Bu stroked his beard and said, "In fact, burying a living person with the dead is indeed against human ethics and against the laws of nature, but it is also unavoidable."

When Xu Xin heard this, he immediately guessed that Su Bu had already thought of the basis for his rebuttal, and immediately asked, "What does 'inevitable' mean?"

Subu looked at Li Yi and said, "You said that the tomb of the First Emperor was all buried with pottery figurines, and no living people were buried with him. Later emperors followed the example of Zulong and did not follow this practice. This is wrong. Let me ask you, including the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, none of the workers who sealed the tomb and closed the gate of the imperial tomb walked out of the imperial tomb alive in the end. They were all buried with him."

This was the best orator in Western Chu. With just one sentence, he completely shattered the basis for Li Yi's argument. Didn't you say that emperors did not use living people as burial sacrifices? Well, at this stage, is there any emperor wiser than the First Emperor? He also used living people as burial sacrifices. So what else do you have to argue about?

Xu Xin's eyes lit up, and he looked at Li Yi and smiled, "Yes, yes, Prime Minister Su is absolutely right. Even if the First Emperor did not order the workers to be buried alive with him, in order to ensure the emperor's rest in peace and prevent future generations from robbing the tomb, the workers who designed the key mechanisms and were familiar with the passages through the underground palace should have been buried alive with him."

At this moment, even though Li Yi had thousands of horses galloping back and forth on Subu and Xu Xin's heads in his heart, he pretended to be calm on the surface and said, "What Prime Minister Su said is indeed correct, but the burial of workers is different from the burial of living people."

Xu Xin smiled and said, "They are all buried alive, so there is no difference in essence. You can just order the guards to supervise the workers and then be buried alive with them."

"Tu Xiu still wants to build a mausoleum?"

"How come you don't know? Tu Xiu was to be buried with the king, so when the mausoleum was built for the king, a place for him was naturally arranged as well."

What Xu Xin meant by this was to tell Li Yi clearly that even if you win the debate on ritual with trickery, even if you ask the king to revise the Chu rituals and not allow living people to be buried with the dead, there is still a way to make those guards be buried with Tu Xiu. You are just wasting your time.

Xiong Zhui, Subu and Xu Xin all looked at Li Yi, their eyes expressing the same meaning, "Look at you, Wei Le, you are shooting yourself in the foot." At this moment, Li Yi wished that Zhang Hongchen would rush in and kill all three of them!

Li Yi suppressed his anger and said with a smile, "It is still unknown who will win. It is too early for you three to laugh at me. Prime Minister Su, are you planning to participate in the debate?"

Subu waved his hand and said, "I don't have the time. Being able to sit here and chat with you for such a long time is already a break."

Li Yi felt relieved after hearing this, but Subu's next words almost made Li Yi vomit blood in anger.

“But earlier today, the great scholar of the Jing family came to visit me and said that he wanted to compete with me again in the debate. He also said that he wanted to regain the face of the past when I fought two people alone and left them speechless.

It just so happened that I hadn't debated with anyone for a long time, so I just said a few words to them, and they left in disgrace. I don't know if they will participate in this Mingtang debate again."

Poof, Li Yi spat out dozens of ounces of blood in his heart and almost fainted on the spot! Xiong Zhui and Xu Xin even put on a wicked smile, making Li Yi feel uncomfortable all over his body, from inside to outside.

Li Yi took a deep breath and said with a smile: "Hey, why are you making the atmosphere so tense? It's as if I'm going to lose. Since Prime Minister Su is tired, why don't we take this opportunity to play a little game to kill time."

Subu asked, "Mini game? You developed a new game for the Xiang family, Xiangqi? I've tried it before, it's really interesting, I was thinking of competing with you."

Li Yi waved his hand and said, "That was just to fool my father-in-law who couldn't go to the battlefield. We are all scholars, so let's play some scholar's games."

"what game?"

"A pair!"

"What is a pair?"

"It is a combination of peach charms and poetry. One person says the first line, and the other person says the second line. There is no limit to the number of words, as long as the reconciliation is neat. It is simpler than poetry, and there is no need to pay so much attention to rhyme. It is perfect for entertainment."

Xu Xin smiled and said, "That sounds interesting. Why don't you start so we can listen."

"This is actually very simple. Here are a few examples: Heaven versus Earth, rain versus wind, continent versus sky, mountain flowers versus sea trees, scorching sun versus blue sky. Thunder is faint, fog is hazy, and the sun is against the sky.

The moon is white in the autumn when the wind is high, and the sunset glows red after the rain. The two stars of Niu and Nu are on the left and right of the river, and the two stars of Shen and Shang are in the west and east. In October, the cold frost frightens the soldiers on the frontier; in March, the endless snow on the river chills the fisherman. "After Li Yi finished speaking, a faint purple air floated over.

Subu clapped his hands and laughed, "Interesting, interesting. This kind of game can also help accumulate talent. Since Wei Le is interested in this, let's give it a try."

The debate on etiquette made him very passive. Li Yi proposed a couplet, naturally to regain his position! So he came up and said: "That was Wei's first sentence just now! Prime Minister Su, Xu Ru can now answer the second sentence."

Xu Xin was surprised and said, "What the hell? Such a long sentence? I thought you were giving an example!"

Li Yi smiled and said, "It's an example, and it's also the previous sentence. I've already said that there's no limit to the number of words in a couplet, as long as the matching is neat. It's very easy to match!"

Xiong Zhui looked at Li Yi with disdain and said, "You are just kidding me. Your last sentence was so long that I'm afraid they didn't hear it clearly."

Li Yi repeated the previous sentence and asked Subu and Xu Xin to reply. This was the first time for the two of them and they were not used to it yet, so naturally they couldn't reply for a while.

Seeing the two people's embarrassment, Li Yi smiled and said, "In fact, this couplet is really simpler than a poem. It comes to mind easily. Listen to my next line:

Mountain is opposite to sea, Hua is opposite to Song, Four Yues are opposite to Three Dukes, Palace flowers are opposite to Willow Forbidden, Wild geese are opposite to River Dragon. Qingshu Palace, Guanghan Palace, Shi Cui is opposite to Ti Hong.

Zhuang Zhou dreamed of turning into a butterfly, and Lü Wang predicted a flying bear. The north window is open to the wind and the summer fan is stopped, the south curtain is exposed to the sun and the winter is saved. Cranes dance on the top of the building, the jade flute plays the fairy moon; on the Fengxiang Terrace, the purple flute blows the beauty wind.

Li Yi's next sentence not only attracted applause from Subu and Xu Xin, but was also naturally accompanied by purple air, and it was also hinting at something, but the three of them hadn't figured it out yet.

Xu Xin said, "Hey, Wei Le, don't start with such a long and difficult first line. Come up with something simpler! Otherwise, how can we continue?"

Li Yi smiled and said, "Okay, okay, then I'll give you a simple one. Since Prime Minister Su mentioned chess, you know that there is a term in chess called 'checkmate', which means to capture the opponent's general. I'll give you a sentence based on this topic, listen carefully:

On the chessboard, the chariot has no wheels, the horse has no reins, and the general shouts, "Be careful, be careful!"

Xu Xin quickly said: "Hey, Wei Le, this is not easy for you!"

Li Yi waved his hand and smiled, "This is simple enough. Prime Minister Su, Xu Ru, you take your time to think about it. I have something else to do, so I'll take my leave now." After that, he stood up and left.

Xiong Zhui tried to dissuade him, "Hey, don't leave. We haven't figured out how to catch the evil spirit yet!"

"Your Majesty, please discuss this with Prime Minister Su, and I will follow your orders." Li Yi walked out of the door without even looking back.

Subu smiled and said, "Even if we keep him here, his heart is not here anymore, so let him go. He is anxious to go back and think about the etiquette. But the couplets this kid talked about are indeed a good game. In terms of talent and learning, he is much better than me.

Hiss, Sir, in Li Yi's next sentence, Lü Wang foreshadows the flying bear. Cranes dance on the top of the building, and the jade flute breaks the fairy moon; on the Fengxiang stage, the purple flute breaks the beauty's wind. These sentences seem to be hinting that it was you and I who killed Han Xi. "

Xiong Zhui slammed the table and shouted, "How dare Wei Le, that bastard..." But then he thought about the fact and swallowed the rest of his words.

Subu shook his head and laughed, "Humph, he always calls others corrupt scholars, isn't he also so sarcastic himself?"

Li Yi went home to find Jing Xin, and went with her to the Jing Family New Garden. They met the two great scholars whose self-esteem was hurt by Subu, and began to discuss countermeasures for the debate. However, after discussing for a long time, they still couldn't find a suitable breakthrough, and returned home in disgrace.

We can't just give up like this, so Li Yi went to visit the Qu family. Qu Xia was still angry with Li Yi so she didn't show up. Li Yi talked with the Qu family boss for a long time but got no results. Just when it was awkward, something even more awkward happened!

Li Yi's mother-in-law, Qu Xia's mother, came in angrily, and she came with a weapon! As soon as she entered the room, she showed her family baguette, pointed at Li Yi and shouted: "Wei Le, you bastard, how dare you make our Xia'er angry! I will break your legs!"

Although Li Yi was not afraid of being hit by his mother-in-law, he was a Transcendent Realm scholar. If he was beaten by his mother-in-law and the news got out, how could he survive? So Li Yi hid behind his father-in-law.

Mother Xia pointed at Qu Zhi and shouted, "I'm telling you, don't protect him! Otherwise I'll beat you too!"

"Are you crazy? Why are you making such a scene here?"

Xia's mother was not used to hitting people without any hesitation. Seeing this, Li Yi immediately hid behind the uncle of the Qu family. He thought that this big man should be able to protect him.

Xia's mother pointed at her nose and scolded: "You are all birds of a feather! Have you forgotten that my Xia'er's surname is also Qu? How can you protect outsiders? If big brother doesn't move out of the way, don't blame me and my sister-in-law for being ruthless!"

The head of the Qu family tried to stop and dissuade them, but they ended up playing a game of "Eagle Catches Chicken", making the main hall a mess and the whole Qu Mansion in chaos.

But Xia's mother's disturbance made Li Yi realize that it is impossible for a scholar to explain himself clearly when he meets a soldier. Now he has to argue even though he is not in the right. The only way out is to be unreasonable and make a fuss!

Thinking of this, with a snap, Xia Mu's family stick hit Li Yi's chest and broke directly. Xia Mu herself did not expect why Li Yi suddenly stopped dodging. In shock, she looked at Li Yi with everyone else.

Li Yi suddenly laughed, bowed to Xia's mother and said, "I know I was wrong. I will go to apologize to you now." After that, he went to find Qu Xia.