"Showing your kindness to the point of being traitor or thief."

Yang Fan instantly made such an evaluation when he received an invitation from the jury of the Flower List Competition, indicating that he was skeptical about this matter. After all, he was not a literati and poet. He was not familiar with the place when he first entered the capital, and it was not his turn to be a senior.

Arou said: "Arou heard the old pony and other sisters mention that the selection of this flower review competition is all the great writers in the capital. If the young master can join it, it will be a very high honor! I also heard that the selection location is in Lingxiao Pavilion, which is just like a fairyland on earth, and it is hard for ordinary people to have the opportunity to enter!"

Seeing that A Rou's expression was positive and her eyes were full of expectation and enthusiasm, Yang Fan was very similar to those girls who were chasing stars in the future, so he asked with a smile: "Do you want to go?"

Arou nodded immediately, then shook her head and said, "Arou has a low status, so she is afraid she is not qualified."

Yang Fan thought about it, but he didn't know why the other party sent him an invitation letter. He couldn't guess any conspiracy for the time being. He also wanted to see what the Lingxiao Pavilion, which was rumored by the outside world, looked like. Isn't it just a judge of a beauty pageant? It's not difficult.

Thinking of this, Yang Fan immediately smiled and said, "Since you want to go too, let's go over and take a look together. No matter what kind of dragon, tiger den, soldiers come to block the water and soil!"

Arou looked surprised and asked, "Young master, can Arou go in too?"

Yang Fan smiled and said, "Since I've invited me, it should be fine if I bring a girl in! If I don't allow it, I will simply not participate!"

Yang Fan's words made Arou happy and moved. The two twin little loli beside her were not old, so she naturally wanted to see this kind of excitement, so she couldn't help but beg Yang Fan.

"Young Master, we want to go too!"

Yang Fan immediately smiled casually and said loudly: "Finish, let's go together!"

Seeing Yang Fan agreeing, Shiya and Shiyun, two little loli, were cheering and hurried forward to please, rubbing Yang Fan's shoulders and backs, one left and one right, which was very comfortable.

The annual flower review competition in Bianliang in Tokyo is gradually kicking off. Top beauties from dozens of **prostitutes and houses have appeared in public, patrolling the streets and cities, leaving the huge capital city with an unprecedented grand occasion.

These top beauties are not the real protagonists. They just come out to warm up the scene in advance and shout for the sisters who are about to participate in the flower review list.

These top beauties are either the courtesans, top scorers, or top scorers on the list in the previous flower review list. They have many customers and many supporters. When they go out to patrol the streets and cities, the former regular customers will naturally know and come to support them.

Floats slowly drove by in the streets and alleys, and there were crowds of people along the way. On weekdays, these top beauties are extremely valuable, not affordable to ordinary people, and it is even difficult to meet each other. Only during the flower review list can you witness the style of these top beauties in the big prostitutes and feast your eyes.

The most popular one is Lingxiao Pavilion. As the top prostitute in Kyoto, it is very powerful. On the first day, more than a dozen stunning beauties were dispatched, all of whom are famous prostitutes, which have squeezed the attention of the onlookers.

The owners of teahouses and restaurants were the happiest, because whenever they entered the flower review list, their business was particularly good and full. Some good locations took the opportunity to raise prices and were still full, and they had to temporarily add seats and benches.

This is just that the opening scene is so lively, which makes people feel full of expectations for the subsequent official flower review list.

Until the last moment, the major prostitutes will never show off their own beautiful women. They will keep the audience's appetites and make them imagine.

Zhao Ji was also surprised to learn that Yang Fan was invited to the jury of the flower list competition, but he sent someone to investigate secretly and did not find out the reason, which made Yang Fan even more suspicious.

But Yang Fan was not afraid. He was skilled and brave. The more mysterious the other party was, the more he wanted to untie the other party's veil and find out the truth.

But Yang Fan will not fight unprepared battles. He despises the enemy strategically, but must pay attention to the enemy tactically. Therefore, he used the Duan Wangfu's relationship network to learn more about the process rules of the previous years of the Flower List Competition so that he can know the truth.

As early as the prosperous Tang Dynasty, literati and poets often interacted with famous prostitutes and sang together, and sang poems and wine. Poets often presented famous prostitutes to praise or evaluate their talents and crafts. In the Northern Song Dynasty, abnormal "beauty selection" activities began to officially select famous prostitutes. The declined scholars used this to make fun of them, and they also named them "Flower Review List".

The so-called "flower evaluation list" uses various famous flowers to taste famous prostitutes and select "flower courtesans". Some simply imitate the titles of the imperial examination to arrange the rankings of famous prostitutes, and they are divided into one, two, three, and three, and three are naturally the "top scorers", "second scorers" and "Tanhua". This may be the kind of ridicule and ridicule of those scholars who were frustrated in the scientific examination and took the opportunity to mock and ridicule the corruption in the imperial examination and officialdom.

In Yang Fan's eyes, the flower review list is similar to the various "beauty pageants" competitions nowadays. Before the "flower review list", the organizers must first select the "flower field" and make the selection regulations. The evaluation content is "piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs and essays" that scares the beauties of later generations.

Yang Fan teased that there was no formal notary institution in the Song Dynasty, so the item "please ask notarize the notarization" can be omitted in the selection agenda.

What Yang Fan is most concerned about is naturally the day of the selection. At that time, the famous prostitutes hidden in the capital will dress up in colorful clothes and compete to attend the meeting. The scene is very lively, and there are often thousands of onlookers.

The key is that the talented men will gather with famous prostitutes, drinking and chanting, savoring the topics, writing poems or comments. After the review is finished, the roll title will be announced on the spot. Once the woman "come to the list", she will be "ten times worth". Before and after the selection, the inns designated by major prostitutes will naturally be full of wine, and the business will be prosperous and the interests will be secretly divided.

Yang Fan thought for a while and roughly guessed the purpose of the other party's invitation to participate. Maybe he wanted to make himself ugly in front of those talented and beautiful people, to make Yang Fan's reputation smell bad, and then attack Duan King Zhao Ji.

Yang Fan did not fight unprepared wars. Since he guessed how the other party might attack him, Yang Fan naturally had to be prepared. Fortunately, the examination-oriented education system in later generations ordered Yang Fan to recite the history of Tang and Song lyrics proficiently. It is said that "if you read 300 Tang poems well, you will slip away if you can't recite poems." Even if Yang Fan is not a great writer, he is not just a casual person.

The Lingxiao Pavilion, the leading Lingxiao Pavilion in the capital, is said to have snatched the top tastings, inns or tea shops they cooperate with, with bids of up to 200,000 yuan. The consumption price of visitors who come to these cooperative places to stay, taste wine or drink tea and eat vegetables must be sky-high.

Yang Fan specially checked the last Bianjing flower evaluation list. Gao Yi, a famous prostitute in Bianjing, won the first place with the best four standards of quality, rhyme, talent and color. She was rated as the "No. 1 Red" by the literati Cikepin. Her ** fee alone was auctioned for 100,000 yuan, becoming the first prostitute in Bianjing, with a long reputation.

Yang Fan was amazed at his tongue. One hundred thousand chunks were enough for ordinary people in the Song Dynasty to spend ten lives, but in the eyes of the dignitaries in the capital, it was just the expense of their prostitutes overnight.
Chapter completed!