After the poetry meeting in the evening, what happened when Kuang Chaoren, Zhi Jianfeng, Pu Moqing, and Jing Lanjiang returned to the city?

A few people went back late and met the Yanqiao sub-prefecture on the way. Zhi Jianfeng was arrested for speaking arrogantly while drunk.

Excerpt from Chapter 18 of "The Scholars": Kuang Chaoren and Zhi Jianfeng, Pu Moqing and Jing Lanjiang travel together. The four of them were happy, joking and playing around all the way. They entered the city late and it was already dark. Jing Lanjiang said: "It's already dark, let's go quickly!" Zhi Jianfeng was already very drunk, and he said wildly: "Why not! Who doesn't know that we are celebrities in the West Lake Poetry Society! Besides, Li Taibai was wearing a palace robe at night. It’s too late to leave, don’t worry! Who dares to come?” As he was dancing happily, suddenly there was a pair of high lamps and a pair of lanterns in front of him, with the words “Yanqi Branch Mansion” written on them. The sub-prefecture saw it at a glance while sitting in the sedan chair, and recognized it as Zhi E. He asked someone to pick it up and asked: "Zhi E! You are a patrolman in the salt department of your branch prefecture. Why did you get so drunk in the street at night?" Are you kidding?" Zhi Jianfeng was drunk, stumbled forward and backward, and said, "Mrs. Li is traveling at the White House at night." When the branch office saw him wearing a scarf, he said, "It's a business tour in the Yamen. I've never been a prisoner. Why are you wearing this hat?" Lock it up with a chain. Pu Moqing walked up to help. The branch office said angrily: "You are a student, how come you drink so much at night? Take him to Confucianism!" Seeing that it was nothing, Jing Lanjiang quietly pulled Kuang Chaoren in the shadows, and the two of them slipped into the alley. . Go downstairs, open the door, and go upstairs to sleep. When they went out for a visit the next day, the two of them were not too troubled and still wrote all the poems with different rhymes.

"The Scholars" is a chapter-length novel written by Wu Jingzi, a realist novelist in the Qing Dynasty. The book has fifty-six chapters and was written in the 14th year of Qianlong's reign or a little before. It was first handed down as a manuscript and was first engraved in the eighth year of Jiaqing's reign. The author uses realism to describe the different expressions of "fame and wealth" by various people, showing the good and evil of human nature, creating an example of using novels to evaluate real life, and representing the peak of ancient Chinese satirical novels.