Chapter 54: 134, Liu Guozong Reveals Secrets of Dream of the Red Chamber... Part Five

134, Liu Guozong Reveals Secrets of Dream of the Red Chamber... Part Five

Chapter 134,

Liu Guozong Reveals the Secret History and Scandalous Tales of Dream of the Red Chamber, Part Five

Yang Guifei, this peerless beauty, even secretly fell in love with the charming and talented Li Bai; that affectionate, righteous, and talented Li, the great poet, also wrote love poems for Yang the beauty……

(Eight), this old guy truly lives up to being a wanderer of the martial world; he really has plenty of tricks up his sleeve――

"This old guy truly lives up to being a wanderer of the martial world; he really has plenty of tricks up his sleeve, huh? Tell me what conditions you have!" I said bluntly and cheerfully.

"You didn't just mention that peerless beauty known as the number one beauty under heaven, Yang Guifei, did you? Do you know or not, that peerless beauty secretly fell in love with the great poet Li Taibai? And the great poet wrote love poems for a great beauty?" Lao Can asked with a mysterious smile.

"Yang the great beauty secretly loved the charming and talented Li Bai, and the fact that Li Bai wrote love poems for Yang the great beauty is an open secret known throughout the court and countryside, a topic everyone talks about. How could I not know such a basic question?"

"Then please tell our friends about the love story between the talented one and that great beauty." Lao Can urged me to speak.

"It's a long story," I said, pretending to be mysterious――

(Nine), after Li Bai became a celebrity, he became the target of media attention and was summoned by Tang Xuanzong to serve as a personal secretary. Even the concubine that Emperor Xuanzong kept took a liking to this wandering poet. This truly is "when the person leaves, the mountain cannot block them; when the person stays, even a fart can hit their heel."――

The common saying goes: talent and beauty match. Beauties love talent, and the beauty, the imperial consort, mainly loves Li Bai because his poems are well written.

Li Bai's poems are very cool, even cooler than the poems Zhao Benshan wrote for Huang Hong.

Li Bai originally also came out of a mountain ditch to work, earn money, and wander as a poor kid; he was already in his thirties and still hadn't gotten a wife. But this Li Bai kid has twisted talent. When idle, he likes to chew maggots and play tricks while scribbling essays, hammering out a few lines of poetry. The fellow workers around him often "screw him over"; when Li Bai gets angry from being screwed, he often says: "I go out to face the heavens and earth—how could we be mere weeds?" You lot who look down on people with dog eyes, "hairy worms," are we the same kind of people?

This Li Bai is truly arrogant.

(Ten), He Zhizhang this old fogey, he spouts nonsense off the cuff, and yet his words are worth money――

Li Bai's temperament is "tough-mouthed and stubborn―― unwilling to lose!" Later Li Bai wrote a poem called "Difficulty of the Shu Road," and gave it to an old man named He Zhizhang (because Lao He is a big boss; the novels he created have several that have been adapted into TV dramas; he also likes to casually recite a few poems in his spare time, like the verses elementary school kids recite offhand: "Green jade adorns a lofty tree, ten thousand branches hang down green silk threads; who cuts the fine leaves? The February spring wind is like scissors." "Leaving home young, returning old, the hometown accent remains unchanged, the hair turns gray; children meeting each other do not recognize each other, laughing and asking where the guest comes from." There are also others I can't recall; they are his casual compositions. In short, he made a living by writing poems and essays; now, although he's older and retired, many organizations still ask him to serve as honorary chairman or advisor, etc. His words also carry weight and he is influential.) Look, Lao He (should be called Lao He) looked at this nobody's poem "Difficulty of the Shu Road," slammed the table, and said: "This kid is truly a Poet Immortal."

(Ten), this celebrity's words are not ordinary; if he says that "stinky dog feces is fragrant," immediately someone will rush to take it home to make "steamed bun filling"――

This celebrity's words are not ordinary; if he calls that "poisonous grass" a "fragrant flower," the poisonous grass will quickly increase in price; if he calls that "stone" an "ingot," the stone will quickly have people rushing to buy it.

It is said that when a big star went to perform somewhere, he saw a pig eating vegetables in a commoner's vegetable garden; the big star got curious, went up and touched the pig's body with his hand. That touch by the big star wasn't a big deal, but the pig immediately became famous. At that time, someone even offered an astronomical price to buy it.

The county magistrate said: "No one is allowed to sell this pig; it is our county's 'treasure pig.' It requires top-level protection and care, and is the 'county treasure.' Look, this is the celebrity effect. Otherwise, those unsalable goods, as long as a big star twists his waist and winks at the audience on TV, puts on a fake smile, and then the narrator adds a comment, that 'stinky dog feces' turns into 'fragrant steamed bun filling'."

Look at that Li Bai kid; the big star Lao He only says he is a "Poet Immortal." Immediately his fame filled Chang'an, and paper in Luoyang became expensive. Even Tang Xuanzong hired him as a personal secretary.

Friend, you must be annoyed: this Liu-surnamed kid, studying Dream of the Red Chamber, has gone off-topic; he can't let his anger out?

Just now I was a bit out of sorts with my thoughts; now I've bottled up my anger—please look――