Chapter 121: The Poetry and Sword, Pei Twelve’s Sigh

【“Thank you, Master Li!”

The dancer Yingying bowed and began to dance to the beat of Li Bai’s drum.

She has a graceful figure and dances lightly in silk, with a unique charm.

“What a great Tuozhi dance! A beauty’s smile is worth a thousand gold, and the dancing silk yarns are accompanied by Hu music!”

Li Bai watched the dancer’s Takuzhi dance and couldn’t help but admire it.

“Mr. Li, how about this dance tonight?”

The dancer asked softly after finishing her dance.

“It can rival the bright moon over the river! Come, all the gold and silver I have will be given to you!”

Li Bai was obviously very happy. He was not stingy with his reward. He picked up a bag of gold and silver and threw it onto the dancer’s boat.

The two boats went farther and farther away, and soon separated into different rivers. Looking at Li Bai’s unrestrained and free-spirited attitude, Gao Shi frowned.

Afterwards, Li Bai took Gao Shi to Pei’s house and saw General Pei dancing with a sword and Wu Daozi painting…

“Hahaha, only in Yangzhou, a prosperous place in the world, can there be such a grand event!
It’s still early in the night, which karaoke house should we go to to continue our joy tonight?”

After watching the sword dancing and painting, Li Bai, Gao Shi and Pei Gongzi walked along the river.

“We must have fun tonight until dawn!”

Master Pei was also very happy and decided to party all night.

“Okay, okay, Brother Gao, let’s go!”

Li Bai looked at Gao Shi who was lagging behind and wanted to pull him to have fun, but he failed.

“Brother Li, forgive me for being blunt, but how can you keep spending money like water and buying smiles like this? With your talent, do you want to waste it on revelry every night?”

Gao Shi raised the question in his heart. Ever since he met Li Bai, he always felt uncomfortable with Li Bai’s unrestrained and free-spirited style.

In his opinion, this is not being free and easy at all, but more like giving up on oneself, indulging in pleasure and wasting one’s own talents.

That’s why Gao Shicai had been frowning, but now he finally asked the question.

“This this……”

Li Bai was speechless for a moment, and a helpless smile appeared on his face.

“If it is not spent in the night of Yangzhou, the wine and the beauties, then where is it spent?”

Master Pei stepped forward and relieved Li Bai’s embarrassment.

“A real man should serve his country and make great achievements!”

Gao Shi couldn’t help but get excited. In his opinion, Li Bai was very talented, and it would be a waste if he could not serve the country.

“Haha, serve the country? Just because you have talent, you can serve the country?”

Master Pei sneered twice, walked to the side of the boat and threw Gao Shi’s gun to him.

Gao Shi took the spear, but looked at Master Pei with some confusion.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve heard of the famous Gao family’s spearmanship. Mr. Gao is conceited about his talent. Are you willing to compete with me, a mediocre person who has no talent or morals and is wasting my time?”

Master Pei took out his sword and took the initiative to challenge for a duel.

“please!”

Gao Shi did not refuse, he also wanted to see how good Mr. Pei’s swordsmanship was.

“Well, well, well, the Pei family sword and the Gao family spear are both true martial arts tempered on the battlefield. What a great competition!”

Li Bai was very excited watching from the side. Both the Gao family spear and the Pei family sword were martial arts that had been proven in battles. This competition was truly a tit-for-tat.

“Yes, our Gao family’s spear is not for dancing, but for killing the enemy!” Gao Shi uncovered the black wrapping at the tip of the spear, made a spear flower, and pointed the shining spear tip at Master Pei.

Master Pei said nothing and drew out his sword. The sharp sword reflected the cold moonlight.

Dang Dang Dang!
The collision of spears and swords created sparks in the night sky. The spear-like python emitted a sharp cold light and devoured all its prey.

The sword light was like a swimming dragon, relying on its flexibility and variability to keep approaching the spear.

Gao Shi’s spear was swift and fierce, and had greater power. After the head-on collision, Master Pei’s hand holding the sword was shaking. He knew that the difference in strength was too great and he could not engage in a head-on collision.

Afterwards, Master Pei changed his tactics and, relying on his flexible and varied sword skills, successfully approached Gao Shi. After getting close to him, he swung away Gao Shi’s hand holding the spear, and the spear slipped out of his hand, while the tip of the sword was already at Gao Shi’s throat.

“Okay, okay, it turns out that whether it’s sword dance or defeating enemies, the sword techniques are all the same. I understand now!”

Li Bai watched the battle from the side and cheered for the exquisite swordsmanship.

Gao Shi remained silent. Although he lost, the faith in his heart was unextinguished.

“My father is an expert swordsman and has made outstanding military achievements, but Li Linfu is the prime minister at the moment, and he only wants to promote foreign generals and weaken the Han families.

No matter how talented my father was in swordsmanship, he could only dance with the sword for fun at home in Yangzhou.”

Master Pei couldn’t help but feel sad for his father.

Such a brilliant swordsmanship cannot kill the enemy, but can only be used to dance with the sword. How sad and lamentable.

“Brother Gao, do you know? Among all the younger generations of the Pei family, I am the only one who has mastered the essence of the Pei family’s swordsmanship, but…”

Master Pei handed the spear to Gao Shi, then slowly took off his hat, revealing his long black hair.

“I am a woman. I have no talent to contribute to my country!”

Pei Twelve couldn’t help but laugh sneerfully. What’s the use of a woman’s talent in this era?
I want to serve my country, but I have no way to do so. What else can I do except indulge in romantic love?

“The pear blossoms intoxicate the spring, the clear stream plays the strings at night, the good time can never come again, the wind and rain are as long as years.”

Pei Twelve turned his head and looked at the pear tree beside him, from which pear blossoms were falling.

“Everyone in Yangzhou knows her. She is an expert in both poetry and swordsmanship. She disguises herself as a man, and General Pei indulges her. If you lose to Pei Twelve, it won’t be disgraceful at all. Let’s go and have a drink!”

Li Bai talked about Pei Twelve’s identity and comforted Gao Shi not to feel ashamed.

“Brother Li, I lost. At the same time, I also understand that I was young and frivolous, self-righteous, and Gao Shi was not talented enough and his martial arts were not good enough. I will go back to my hometown to study hard until one day I am ready. There will be a day for me to show my skills. Brother Li, goodbye!”

Gao Shi walked down the long bridge, said goodbye to Li Bai, and prepared to return to his hometown to study hard and make all necessary preparations.

: Li Bai was in a dilemma.

: I was originally planning to show off my skills, but then a mountain came crashing down on me!

: There is a scene before my eyes that I cannot describe, and there is a poem written by Cui Hao on it, which is enough to show the level of Cui Hao’s poem.

: It is indeed not easy to suppress Li Bai!

：For the poet, this poem is indeed the best one written about Yellow Crane Tower.

: This is not a big mountain for Li Bai, right?
：But Li Bai no longer wrote poems with Yellow Crane Tower as the theme.

: It is true that some of Li Bai’s poems are better than Cui Hao’s, but no one can surpass Cui Hao in writing about the Yellow Crane Tower.

: It’s already very good to be able to defeat Li Bai, after all, he is Li Bai!

: Hahahaha, Li Bai actually forgot the agreement he made with others!
: Are you sure this isn’t a joke?
: Not really. Given Li Bai’s character, he did forget.

: A dangerous place? To snatch a dancer from someone else’s banquet?

: That is indeed a den of dragons and tigers.

: This Mr. Su is really unlucky. He doesn’t even have any dancers. How can the banquet still be held?
: With this disruption, even if the dancers are still here, the banquet can’t continue, right? 】

(End of this chapter)