Chapter 349

Three days later, one afternoon.

In a modern villa behind the Tang Dynasty palace.

Gu Shanhe, Ying Zheng, and Li Shimin sat in a row, opposite Liu Bang, Liu Che, and Liu Xiu.

3v3, King's Canyon.

"Brother Zheng, don't go to steal their jungle, they are definitely camping you."

Gu Shanhe stared at the screen, his fingers sliding rapidly across the skill keys.

He was using a jungler, Ying Zheng was using the mage Ying Zheng, and Li Shimin was using an archer.

Ying Zheng expressionlessly maneuvered his hero toward the enemy's jungle: "I am not afraid."

"This is not a question of being afraid or not—"

Before he could finish, three big men jumped out of the bushes on the opposite side.

Liu Bang's Xiang Yu, Liu Che's Monkey King, and Liu Xiu's Gan Jiang Mo Ye, all three ultimate skills slammed into Ying Zheng's face at the same time.

Ying Zheng's screen went black.

Liu Bang laughed loudly: "Brother Zheng! I have camped you three times! Why do you still walk here?"

Ying Zheng was silent for two seconds, his voice very cold: "Again."

Li Shimin was stuck by Liu Xiu in the side lane and couldn't get away; he retreated while shouting: "Immortal Master Gu, request support!"

Gu Shanhe sighed, maneuvered his jungler Pangu to flank and cut in, first killing Liu Che's Monkey King.

Liu Che was stunned: "Why can't my Monkey move?"

"You were controlled."

Liu Xiu said, "Martial Ancestor, don't rush so far forward."

Liu Che was unconvinced: "I am a jungler, is it still called jungling if I don't rush the front line?"

"That is feeding," Liu Xiu said calmly.

Ying Zheng revived and walked straight to the enemy's jungle.

Liu Bang shouted: "Brother Zheng, you're coming again?"

Ying Zheng did not speak, unleashed a set of skills, and beat Liu Bang's Xiang Yu to a pulp.

Liu Bang turned and ran, Ying Zheng flashed to catch up, and used his first skill to finish him off.

"I have taken it back."

Liu Bang looked at his gray screen and muttered: "I only camped you three times..."

Liu Xiu said softly: "Gaozu, you camped the First Emperor; he holds a grudge."

Liu Che laughed out loud nearby, and then was cut down by Gu Shanhe.

Just as the battle was getting lively, the sky screen lit up.

Golden light fell from the dome, and the five people looked up at the same time.

Liu Bang threw his phone directly onto the sofa: "Stop playing, stop playing, the real business is here."

Liu Che glanced at his record—0 kills, 8 deaths—and sighed: "I couldn't keep playing anyway."

Ying Zheng put down his phone, his movements very light, but the corners of his mouth moved slightly—

He had just gotten a triple kill and was on a roll.

On the sky screen, a seven-character regulated verse slowly emerged—

【Half a life of wandering, half a life of worry, one stroke of mountains and rivers, one stroke of autumn.

Floating and sinking in troubled times, hiding a sincere heart, in the twilight years, wind and rain tie to the Divine Land.

Poetry hides the tears of all living things, the name is carried in the hall of eternal elegance.

Do not say that life is full of setbacks, the greatest sage in the world is from Lingzhou.】

Li Shimin finished reading and frowned: "Lingzhou? Who is this?"

Gu Shanhe said: "Du Fu. He styled himself 'Old Man of Shaoling'; Lingzhou refers to him."

Liu Che said: "Du Fu? The one from the High Tang? Ranking second?"

"Correct. The Poet Sage, Du Fu," Gu Shanhe replied.

Liu Bang scratched his head: "Poet Sage Du Fu, then the first must be the Poet Immortal Li Bai, right?"

Gu Shanhe smiled: "It will be revealed in the next episode, and you will know."

On the sky screen, a loud broadcast sounded—

【Ranking the ten great poets in history, second place: Du Fu, courtesy name Zimei, styled Old Man of Shaoling. Honored by later generations as: Poet Sage.】

The barrage flooded the screen—

【Barrage · Modern Netizen】: It's here, it's here! The Poet Sage!

【Barrage · Song Dynasty Netizen】: Du Gongbu! The number one poetic historian of a thousand years!

【Barrage · Tang Dynasty Netizen】: Brother Zimei! It's finally your turn!

On the sky screen, the image unfolded.

Luoyang, a young boy sat in a study, his grandfather Du Shenyan stood behind him, pointing at the poems on the bamboo slips to explain them.

The boy's eyes were clear, carrying light.

【Du Fu, born into the Jingzhao Du clan, a famous and powerful family in the north.

Grandfather Du Shenyan, a famous poet of the early Tang Dynasty.

Read extensively since childhood, naturally intelligent.】

Liu Che said: "Good family background."

Liu Xiu nodded: "A descendant of a famous family, the starting point is higher than most people."

Li Shimin added: "But there are many people with high starting points; only he could reach the position of Poet Sage."

The sky screen image shifted.

The streets of Chang'an, ten thousand nations coming to pay tribute.

Foreign merchants led camels through Zhuque Avenue, Persian envoys held gifts as they entered the palace.

In the restaurants, literati and scholars talked loudly.

【Du Fu experienced the Kaiyuan Prosperity in his youth and early adulthood, the peak of the Great Tang.

In his middle and later years, he encountered the An Lushan Rebellion, eight years of war, and the Great Tang turned from prosperity to decline.

He is the only top-tier poet who completely witnessed the end of the prosperous age and the beginning of the chaotic times.】

Liu Bang said: "Completely witnessed? Then his life must not have been easy."

"Having seen the good, seeing the bad again is even more painful than if it had always been bad."

Ying Zheng did not speak, but nodded.

Liu Che asked: "The An Lushan Rebellion, what did he experience?"

Gu Shanhe said: "Fleeing, being captured by rebels, almost dying, his son starving to death, he himself too poor to afford food—he experienced everything."

The living room went quiet.

Li Bai's barrage floated out—

【Barrage · Tang Dynasty · Li Bai】: Zimei's life was cautious and bumpy; the world calls me the Poet Immortal, yet the sky screen actually seals him as the Poet Sage... In terms of vision and breadth of mind, I am not as good as him!

Gao Shi's barrage—

【Barrage · Tang Dynasty · Gao Shi】: Zimei's heart held the family and the country; this title is well-deserved.

Li Shimin looked at the barrages of Li Bai and Gao Shi and said: "To be able to make Li Bai admit defeat, Du Fu is not simple."

Ying Zheng said: "Keep watching."

On the sky screen, the image darkened.

The flames of war burned through Chang'an, palaces collapsed, and the people scattered.

Du Fu carried his luggage, mixed in with the refugees, and walked south.

His face was expressionless, but his eyes were very heavy.

【Core reason for being on the list: Preserving history through poetry, exclusively occupying the name 'Poetic History'.

His poetry is not personal expression, but a record of the era.

One poem is a historical scene.】

On the sky screen, Du Fu's famous works appeared—

【'Spring View'

The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain; the city is in spring, and the grass and trees are deep.

Moved by the times, flowers splash tears; hating the separation, birds startle the heart.

The beacon fires have lasted for three months; a letter from home is worth ten thousand gold.

White hair is scratched even shorter; it is all about to be unable to hold a hairpin.】

Liu Che read it once: "The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain... the city is broken, yet the mountains and rivers still remain."

"These five characters write out the pain of a fallen nation."

Liu Xiu said: "Moved by the times, flowers splash tears; hating the separation, birds startle the heart."

"Flowers and birds are heartless by nature; it is he who put his own feelings into them."

Liu Bang was rarely profound: "'A letter from home is worth ten thousand gold'—when I was fighting, I couldn't receive letters from home, and I had the same feeling."

On the sky screen, it appeared again—

【'The Official of Shihao'

At dusk, I arrived at Shihao Village; there was an official catching people at night.

The old man climbed over the wall and ran; the old woman went out to see.

The official shouted so angrily; the woman cried so bitterly.

... Long into the night, the voices stopped; it was like hearing sobbing and whimpering.

At dawn, I went on my way; I was alone in saying goodbye to the old man.】

Gu Shanhe said: "Du Fu's poetry can be read as history books."

"Official history only writes about emperors and generals; Du Fu writes about the common people."

"Those small characters crushed by the era survived in his poetry."

Liu Bei's barrage—

【Barrage · Three Kingdoms · Liu Bei】: In troubled times, someone who can still write poetry for the common people is a benevolent person.

Cao Cao's barrage—

【Barrage · Three Kingdoms · Cao Cao】: A literatus with backbone, a country in his heart, and the people under his pen. This person deserves the sky screen list.

Sun Quan's barrage—

【Barrage · Three Kingdoms · Sun Quan】: I remember that Sun Quan didn't seem to have much culture... but I understood this poem. It is written well.

Zhang Fei's barrage intruded—

【Barrage · Three Kingdoms · Zhang Fei】: I, old Zhang, can't watch this; it makes me want to cry, that old woman is too miserable.

On the sky screen, the image switched to Chengdu.

A dilapidated thatched cottage, the autumn wind rolled away the thatch on the roof.

Du Fu stood at the door leaning on a cane, rainwater leaked from the roof and dripped onto the bed.

His child hugged the quilt and cried.

But what he picked up his pen to write was not a complaint, not crying about poverty—

【Excerpt from 'Song of the Thatched Cottage Broken by the Autumn Wind'

In August, the autumn wind roared angrily; it rolled away the three layers of thatch on my roof.

... The cloth quilt has been cold as iron for years; the spoiled child sleeps badly and tears it.

How can I get ten thousand rooms, to shelter all the cold scholars in the world and make them all smile!...】

Liu Bang read the last two lines and stopped talking.

Liu Che read softly: "How can I get ten thousand rooms, to shelter all the cold scholars in the world and make them all smile... he himself was frozen like that, yet he was still thinking of others."

Liu Xiu said: "If my hut alone is broken and I freeze to death, it is enough—as long as others have houses to live in, I am willing to freeze to death."

Li Shimin sighed: "If I had such a minister under my command, I..."

He paused and did not continue.

Ying Zheng said: "Such a person is hard to find."

Du Fu's barrage—no, it was the barrage of later generations—

【Barrage · Modern Netizen 1】: Covered in mud himself, yet still wanting to hold an umbrella for the world.

【Barrage · Modern Netizen 2】: I didn't feel anything when I read this poem as a child; I cried like a dog when I read it as an adult.

【Barrage · Modern Netizen 3】: Du Fu's greatness is not because of how many poems he wrote, but because he was suffering while writing these poems.

Lu You's barrage—

【Barrage · Song Dynasty · Lu You】: Being born in a prosperous age is luck; being born in troubled times and having the country in one's heart is the greatest benevolence of a thousand years!

Su Shi's barrage—

【Barrage · Song Dynasty · Su Shi】: There are many poets from ancient times to the present, but Zimei is the only one who is the head.

This evaluation, I give it.