Lu Fu rushed to Jiuqu Garden overnight to ask for an audience with the emperor.

Yinyuan was in the tiger garden, wrestling with a huge white-browed tiger with hanging eyes.

The general process was that a group of Yulin Guards' masters beat Dahu violently, and Dahu fled in panic. Yinyuan was extremely brave, and he grabbed Dahu's tail and dragged it backwards to measure who was stronger between him and Dahu!

When Lu Yi arrived, Yinyuan had already won nine games in a row and was having a great time.

So as soon as Lu Yi opened his mouth, Yinyuan was very straightforward and wrote a letter in his own handwriting titled "The Court's Favorable Treatment of the Princes and Princes", using his own private seal "Treasures from the Emperor's Imperial Treasures". He also asked Yu Changle to use the seal of the Palace Guards and handed it to Lu Yi. He also asked Lu Yi what he was going to do with the handwritten letter.

Lu Yi was very frank. He went straight to the Honglu Temple to report the extravagant accounts of the princes and sons of the Sijifang people, saying that his family wanted to build a family temple in Baimafang to enshrine the tablets of their ancestors, but a good location was hard to find, so he found a partner and wanted to buy their villa south of Jingang Creek from the wealthy businessmen in Baimafang.

Lu Yi noticed that after Yin Yuan heard his explanation, his eyes glowed green, his ten fingers twitched, and he had a strange expression as if his index finger was twitching.

Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Lu Yi hurriedly left Jiuqu Garden holding Yin Yuan's handwritten letter.

He vaguely felt that he had done something terrible and awakened a terrible monster in Yin Yuan's heart... Tsk, I don't know who is going to be in trouble.

On February 4, the 19th year of Jiayou's reign, there was a sensation in the literary circles of Gaojing.

"Red tender hands, yellow wine, the whole city is full of spring colors and willows on the palace walls. The east wind is bad, the joy is thin. A heart full of sorrow, years of separation. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Spring is the same as before, but I am thin and empty, tears are red and wet through the silk gauze. Peach blossoms are falling, the pool pavilion is empty. Although the mountain alliance is still there, it is difficult to entrust a letter. No, no, no! "

A certain talented scholar, under the name of "plagiarist", brought tears to countless young ladies and married women in Gaojing with his poem "The Phoenix with the Hairpin". In the boudoirs and the backyards, countless young ladies from famous families and beautiful girls from ordinary families regarded this "plagiarist" as their perfect confidant.

What's more, some wealthy people jointly offered a reward of 100,000 strings of cash, just to get the real name and home address of this "plagiarist"!

On February 7, when the controversy over "The Golden Hairpin" was at its climax, a song "Song of Water Melody" once again shocked Gaojing.

"When will the bright moon appear? I raise my cup to ask the sky. I wonder what year it is in the palace of heaven. I want to ride the wind to go back, but I am afraid that the jade buildings are too cold up there. I dance with my shadow, but it doesn't seem like I'm in the human world.

Turning the red pavilion, lowering the window, shining on the sleepless. There should be no hatred, why does the moon always appear full when we are apart? People have joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, the moon waxes and wanes, this has always been difficult to achieve. I wish you a long life, and we can enjoy the beauty of the moon together even though we are thousands of miles apart.

The author of this poem is surprisingly another "plagiarist"!

The literary world in Gaojing was shaken, and countless famous poets and great men of literature and education speculated that this "plagiarist" must be a "naughty boy" from a family of "six saints, nineteen sages and sixty-three great men" in literature and education.

A great scholar pointed out that this must be the work of a "little naughty boy" with a lively and eccentric personality. Otherwise, such excellent poetry and prose are unheard of and never seen before, and are completely different from the style of any famous poet in the world today. It is absolutely impossible to be a work of "plagiarism".

It was a certain "young friend" with an "interesting personality" who, after working hard to create such excellent writing, wanted to become famous with it, but deliberately used the name of "plagiarist" to ridicule the world.

February 10th, Baimafang.

On the canal, Lu Yi, wearing a blue shirt, with his hands tucked into his sleeves, quietly watched the icebreakers speeding on the canal with the wind.

In just a few days, the climate has changed greatly, and the temperature in Haojing City has continued to rise. Today, Lu Yi was only wearing a thin jacket, but he still felt hot all over.

The canal was filled with the sound of thawing river ice. In the rivers of Gaojing, the ice layer in the center of the river was less than three inches thin and covered with cracks, making it extremely fragile.

The officials of Gaojing sailed back and forth on the canal with specially made iron-clad ram icebreakers to break up the ice and dredge the river.

With the efforts of the icebreakers, small and medium-sized cargo ships have appeared on the canal in the past two days.

These cargo ships, even the smallest models, can carry dozens of times more cargo than a dog sled in winter.

In winter, the transportation of materials is difficult, and life in Haojing is a bit tight. But it is about to thaw like the canal, and its vitality is about to recover vigorously, entering the most lively and beautiful season of the year.

Just like those young men and women who are dressed up beautifully.

Right at the bridgehead where Lu Yi was, a nine-story restaurant stood tall. Groups of young men and pretty ladies in fancy clothes were calling their friends and entering the restaurant one after another.

In the past two days, two excellent poems by "Wenchaogong" have shocked Gaojing.
In Baimafang, several wise men who were also quite famous in Gaojing jointly posted a message, inviting the literati, elegant guests, handsome men and talented women in Baimafang to gather in the "Green Willow Tower" in front of Lu Yi, to use the two ci forms "Chai Tou Feng" and "Shui Tiao Ge Tou" to make friends through literature and hold a literary grand event.

Among them, several courtesans from Baimafang's top "Music House" "Moss Mark Cottage" announced that all poems written by the literati and elegant guests attending the meeting today will be voted on in public by the participants, and the talents with the highest rankings will have the opportunity to spend a good night with them.

Several courtesans in 'Moss Mark Cottage' were extremely beautiful and multi-talented, skilled in poetry, music, calligraphy and painting. They were first-rate beauties in the city of Gaojing and had long been coveted by countless people.

If I can write a good poem at today's literary gathering, I will not only become famous in Gaojing, but also have the opportunity to spend a night with a beautiful woman.

Of course, if a talented woman wins in the end, she won't be able to have anything happen with those prostitutes, but she will also be given the title of "No. 1 Poet in Baimafang" and will be famous in Gaojing from then on, and maybe she will attract a husband of her dreams!

Such a good thing naturally attracted many followers!

At the gate of Green Willow Tower, there is a huge water sign hanging high. Whenever a talented man or a beautiful woman comes with a visiting card, the waiter will read out the name on the card aloud.

A scholar with superb calligraphy stepped on a ladder and wrote the name of "Young Master So-and-so from So-and-so family in Baimafang" or "Miss So-and-so" neatly on the water sign.

This water sign is used to record the votes when attendees vote in public later, so the sign is made very large, the handwriting is quite large, and it is hung very high. You can see it clearly even if you stand several miles away.

Outside the Green Willow Tower, there were many scholars who came from other places to join in the fun. They did not have the skills to write letters and were not famous enough, so they naturally could not enter the Green Willow Tower today.

They could only stand in the open space outside the door, pointing at the water signs and occasionally shouting "Young Master So-and-so has arrived" or "Young Lady So-and-so is also attending the meeting".

At noon, on the dot, the literary meeting began.

Inside the Green Willow Tower, poems of varying quality were composed one after another amidst clear singing.

There was a waiter with a loud voice standing at the door, reciting these poems in a loud voice, which attracted the onlookers outside to applaud, laugh, curse, or whistle.

It was bustling, and a large group of people came pouring in on the street.

Today, Pan Man changed into a standard scholar's gown, rode a majestic white horse, held a folding fan, and rushed to the Green Willow Tower with a dozen hostages from the princes with whom he had some friendship, and hundreds of guards.

Pan Man and a dozen hostages all had invitations issued by the organizer of the literary gathering. Although they were late, the guards standing in front of the door still let Pan Man and his group enter the Green Willow Tower.

A quarter of an hour later, shouting and cursing broke out in the Green Willow Tower. No one knew what Pan Man and the others had done, but one could hear the sound of pots and pans breaking, the sharp sound of railings, pillars, tables and chairs breaking, and the screams of pretty young ladies.

After a short while, Pan Man, covered in blood, and a dozen protons were seen crawling out of the Green Willow Tower. As soon as they reached the street outside the building, Pan Man vomited more than a dozen mouthfuls of blood in public, fell to the ground with his eyes rolled back, and twitched rapidly like a fish that was caught and thrown on the ground.

"You obviously have no experience of being beaten." Lu Yi smacked his lips and said, "You spit out so much blood, it's obvious that you have suffered serious internal injuries. I don't know how many bones you have broken. You still have the strength to twitch? Really!"

Shaking his head, Lu Yi waved his hands: "Come on, the emperor just signed a letter to favor the princes, and here someone gathered to beat the princes... Follow me to arrest them, and first protect the water sign, it is irrefutable evidence!"

Lu Yi strode towards the Green Willow Tower. From the courtyards surrounding the Green Willow Tower, guards swarmed out like a tide, quickly dispersed the onlookers, and surrounded the entire Green Willow Tower, especially the large water sign, tightly.

A barbarian with a short stature and a body as strong as an iron stake knelt on the ground with a thud, kowtowed seven or eight times to Lu Yi, and rubbed a handful of chili water into his eyes.

The barbarian's face was twisted with red eyes and tears streaming down his face. He shouted with a suppressed smile, "Lord Tianyang, you have to make the decision for our prince... Our prince came here today for... for the girl from the Moss House... He only thought about the literary competition, not taking action. I didn't expect that..."

The barbarian roared, "My son is a talented writer, and he wrote a great lyric, but they actually said it was 'plagiarized'... They all refused to admit that the lyric was written by my son... My son tried to reason with them, but they insulted him wantonly... Then they started a fight and beat my son to death..."

Pan Man, who was twitching, opened his eyes wide and looked at Lu Yi. He opened his mouth and spit out a few more mouthfuls of blood.

Lu Yi shook his head and sighed, "In broad daylight, under the feet of the emperor, in the best place, you dared to gather together to commit violence and beat up the princes... Tsk, seeing how young you are, you probably can't make the decision. Let the elders in charge of your family do it!"

An onlooker figured out something was wrong, and he shouted in the crowd: "Mr. Tianyang, logically, shouldn't these criminals be arrested and dealt with according to the law? What does this have to do with their family elders?"

"It was just a fight and injury, not a rebellion. It can't be considered as a crime of punishing the entire clan, right? Why are you looking for their elders?"

Pan Man, who was twitching on the ground, suddenly sat up and pointed at the idler fiercely: "It seems that he was one of the people who hit me just now!"

For a moment, the whole street fell silent.

Lu Yu's face suddenly turned red. This was too embarrassing!