Preliminaries Rules:

1. Participants are requested to answer the questions in accordance with the specifications.

2: The judges will only pass after they are qualified.

3. There are only 50 questions, and the maximum number of people who pass the preliminaries is not more than 30.

Like everyone else, Xu Tian also carefully read the preliminaries guidelines on the LED background screen.

There were some sighs at the moment, and he swept his eyes, and there were hundreds of participants present, which means that more than half of the players had to be eliminated in just one preliminaries.

It's kind of cruel.

"I'm sure you've seen the rules of the preliminaries. ”

After everyone was seated, the host immediately took the stage and began to preside over the competition.

"According to the practice of previous years, the theme of our annual competition is poetry, until last year, in response to the general secretary's call for innovation, we tried a couplet competition, and the effect was quite gratifying, so today we continue the couplet competition again, combined with poetry, and the prizes of this competition will be more generous than in previous years. ”

Xu Tian, who was sitting below, couldn't help but feel novel.

Is the content of the game actually a couplet?

Interesting.

The fifty questions are all upper, and the rules are very simple, use the inkstone and brush in front of the question board to write out the lower couplet.

As long as the contestants write the answers at the bottom of the corresponding Shanglian, the battle is neat and the artistic conception is in line, even if they pass, the jury of the three Literary and Art Federation Writers Associations next to them will make an authoritative judgment.

The judges are three old comrades who are not too old, and of course Xu Tian doesn't know them, but seeing that those contestants seem to have more respect for a few people, he knows that they are all authorities in the industry, at least they should be leaders in the field of couplets.

"Now, the preliminaries begin!"

When the host announced that the voice had fallen, Xu Tian followed the flow and walked between the boards.

It's a little embarrassing that most of the topics know him, but he doesn't know either.

I don't know

I don't know

I've never seen it

I've seen a lot, but none of them are Xu Tian's works that have appeared in that world, and he doesn't know where to start, but just when he thought that the couplets in this world didn't cross with him at all, a couplet appeared in front of him, and then the second, and then the third

There really is, there is someone he knows

It's exactly the same as the couplets of his world

For example, in question 41, the upper link is: two, three, four, five.

I don't know who has come out of the next link, and the next link is: six, seven, eight and nine.

This couplet looks a little silly, but also a little inexplicable, in fact, there is a hidden mystery in it, Xu Tian's memory of his previous life, there is a record of this couplet, in professional terms, this is a hidden word couplet. Why should 2345 be 6789? Because if there is a lack of one in 2345, it is also called a lack of clothing, and if there is less than 10 in 6789, it is also called a lack of food. Lack of food and clothing - this is the hidden word couplet.

This discovery made Xu Tian very pleased.

After looking at it as a whole, although the number of couplets he knew, that is, the couplets that had been on the earth, only accounted for twenty-three out of ten of the fifty topics, it was quite enough, indicating that he still had a chance.

There are many similar crossover works between the two worlds. In fact, if you think about it, they are all similar histories, and some historical figures are the same, even if it is a parallel world, the overall trend of the couplet culture should not deviate too much, and it is not uncommon for the same couplet to appear.

Xu Tian's "old friend" didn't know when he went up, and when he picked up the pen, he wrote a lower couplet, the handwriting was strong and powerful, and it was very beautiful. This person is that Tu Fanghuai, who is the president of the association in that Jinhui Province. After seeing the judges' approval, he smiled, "Thank you, teachers." ”

The bald judge looked at him and said, "President Tu, you are the runner-up of the last Beijing Couplet Competition, and it takes so long to unravel this couplet?"

Another silver-haired old lady judge smiled and said: "Mr. Li's words are wrong, you don't see that President Tu didn't do those relatively simple questions, but chose one of the two most difficult questions, which is why the last runner-up can have such style and courage, hehe, but that is, President Tu has this level, if he doesn't answer this question, it is estimated that no one will be able to answer it." ”

Another judge said: "There is one last question left? Oh, I guessed well, if this question is left, Old Man Mu, you can't answer this question by ordinary people, and it is so difficult for you to come out in such a short time?"

Mu Lao is the first judge of this competition, and he is also the oldest and the oldest, he touched his beard and said: "But since the preliminaries of the competition are pairs, and you have to brush most of the people, if there is no difficulty, what is the point?"

President Tu obviously knew them, and when he heard it, he said: "The fiftieth question was made by Mu Lao? No wonder, the kid didn't come up with the next couplet after thinking about it for a long time just now, and it is estimated that no one is right about this couplet, let alone saying that it is right, even how to read it is a problem, even if you are an expert, you may not necessarily read it correctly." ”

Of course, Mu Lao is a person known as a ghost in the industry, he is not a member of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles or the Writers' Association, but a member of the Writers' Association of the Republic, and his reputation is very high. And he is keen and good at making some tricky questions, not only in the category of couplets, but also one of the questioners for this year's college entrance examination. The questions he gives are generally not for people to get points, but to widen the gap between the top and inferior students.

Many contestants chose to give up directly after reading the test questions, and there were many excellent writers and university professors. After all, there is a specialization in the art industry, although these people are quite prestigious in the literary world, and they are only eight fights, but there are very few people who specialize in the couplet, and the people who stay and dare to challenge are all masters who have understood this and even immersed it for a long time.

But in the face of this question, as soon as they heard the conversation between Mu Lao and Tu Fanghuai, everyone retreated, knowing that there was no hope of entering the finals today, so let's be an audience honestly.

Mu Lao's question made most of the masters give up, only Xu Tian was still staring at the topic, and his eyes were still blinking, for no other reason, he had seen this couplet.

The preliminaries are coming to an end.

"It's almost time, isn't it?" said Mu Laodao.

The second judge said, "Well, there are two minutes left." ”

The third judge nodded and said, "Since no one comes up right, let's close the stall!"

The three judges gave the final deadline, and this preliminary round cannot go on indefinitely, and the real final stage is still waiting for the opening ceremony. In fact, they didn't plan that anyone would be able to go to this lower link, and there was not enough time, this lower link was very mysterious, and every word had to be broken and crumpled to eat thoroughly, before it was possible to go to the lower link, otherwise you don't have to think about it.

Mu Lao looked at the contestants who had given up, shook his head slightly, and in his heart, he still hoped that someone could match his couplet, but he also understood that it was impossible.