In the imperial examination era, scholars in the examination were often listed as protégés of the chief examiner. Once Ji Xiaolan's protégé went to visit him, Ji Xiaolan asked him what his name was, and this person replied that his name was Lin Fengwu, and Ji Xiaolan then asked, "How did you choose your name?"

The protégé replied, "It is said that when my mother gave birth to me, she happened to dream that a phoenix was perched on a plane tree, so she was named Fengwu after birth. ”

Ji Xiaolan laughed after hearing this, and couldn't speak for a long time, which made the protégé feel so embarrassed, Ji Xiaolan's wife asked the protégé to go back first and come back to visit another day. After the protégé left, Ji Xiaolan's wife asked him, "Why are you so out of shape?"

Ji Xiaolan laughed for a while before telling his wife: "Fortunately, when his mother gave birth to him, she dreamed of a phoenix resting on the plane tree, and if she dreamed of a chicken resting on the banana tree, the name would be really bad!"

Ji Xiaolan went to the street with friends one day. Walking down the street, I saw a small shop in front of me, and the proprietress of the shop was busy. Ji Xiaolan made a bet with his friend: "I can just say one word to make the proprietress laugh, and if I say one more word, I can make the proprietress angry." ”

The friends didn't believe it and decided to gamble on a table of wine. I saw Ji Xiaolan walking towards the shop, bowing to the guard dog in front of the store, and shouting, "Dad!"

The proprietress snorted with joy. Ji Xiaolan turned around and shouted at the boss lady again: "Mother!"

Immediately, the proprietress was furious and scolded Ji Xiaolan, so Ji Xiaolan won a table of banquets.

Ji Xiaolan saw off Hanlin Chen Banjiang in Zuiyue Xuan one day, and there was a self-proclaimed Jiangnan genius Wu Wenkui, who wanted to compare couplets with Ji Xiaolan, Ji Xiaolan heard it and said: "Okay, how do you want to compete?"

Wu Wenkui said: "How about comparing it with a rolling curtain couplet?"

Ji Xiaolan said to herself: "Okay!"

So Wu Wenkui came out first, Wu Wenkui pointed to the begonia outside the window and said: "Begonia!"

Ji Xiaolan immediately said, "Yam!"

Wu Wenkui added a word to the begonia: "Tender begonia!"

Ji Xiaolan also added a word: "Old yam!"

Wu Wenkui said again: "Take the leaf tender begonia!"

Ji Xiaolan said: "Lianmao old yam!"

Wu Wenkui added two more words: "A branch with leaves and tender begonias!"

Ji Xiaolan also added two words: "Half of the old yam with Mao!"

Wu Wenkui glanced at the singer on the side and added a few words: "Insert a branch of tender begonia with leaves obliquely on the sideburns!"

Ji Xiaolan said seriously: "Half of the old yam with hair hanging on my waist!"

As soon as this remark came out, it was quite explicit, and the audience was already bursting into laughter. However, although Wu Wenkui was embarrassed, he was still not to be outdone, and continued: "I love you for inserting a branch of tender begonias with leaves on your sideburns!"

Where is Ji Xiaolan willing to suffer such a loss, and immediately continued: "You are afraid that half of the old yam with hair hanging from my waist!"

There was another burst of laughter, Wu Wenkui not only didn't get a bargain, but suffered a loss, so he had to leave in a huff, Ji Xiaolan's banter can be seen in this way.

Ji Xiaolan was still very young when he was admitted to the top prize, so a eunuch wanted to tease him. came up with a couplet asking him to say: "Xiao Hanlin, wearing winter clothes, holding a summer fan, have you ever read a spring and autumn film?"

Not to be outdone, Ji Xiaolan replied: "Old manager, born in the south and in the north, is that thing still there?"

Ji Xiaolan is humorous and unfettered by secular thoughts. On the first day of the new year, after worshipping the emperor, he returned home. A group of people who tend to be inflammatory, want to pay New Year's greetings to the teacher. Ji Xiaolan was overwhelmed, but she had to reluctantly socialize.

Suddenly, Ji Xiaolan laughed unconsciously. The disciples thought that they had done something that pleased the teacher, and they inquired one after another. Ji Xiaolan said unhurriedly: "It's nothing, I just thought of an appropriate couplet." ”

Of course, the apprentices will not let go of the opportunity to let the teacher have a desire to speak, and the teacher must say it.

Ji Xiaolan said: "Everyone doesn't blame me, just say it, this morning the students grabbed the ground with their heads, and last night the master and mother were facing the sky." ”

Ji Xiaolan once accompanied Qianlong to Hangzhou and passed by a grocery store. Qianlong pointed to a signboard in front of the door and pretended not to know, "What is this?"

Ji Xiaolan looked up and saw that the signboard was written with a boxwood comb, and he replied, "This is a couplet!"

"If it is a couplet, how can there be a single order?" said the emperor.

"Hangzhou is the hometown of cultural relics, and there are all kinds of clever pairs hidden everywhere in the streets and alleys, there are the last sentence and the next sentence, all by careful observation and understanding. ”

Ji Xiaolan explained to the emperor, and after walking through a few shops, Ji Xiaolan pointed to another signboard and asked the emperor to see: "White lotus root powder, this is the next link, and it is just paired with the boxwood comb." ”

The two happened to walk to a painting shop, Qianlong pointed to the signboard of this house and framed the calligraphy and paintings of celebrities in the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, and said to Ji Xiaolan: "Could it be that this is also counted?"

Ji smiled: "Yes! Its next link is in the medicinal herb shop that I just walked by, you see, it is not written, purchasing authentic medicinal materials from Sichuan, Guangzhou, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces." ”

When Qianlong heard this, he laughed: "It's really a coincidence!"

Ji Xiaolan was a person who was afraid of heat, and he was also the chief editor of the Siku Quanshu during the reign of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty; the Siku Quanshu was divided into four parts: the scriptures, the history, the sub-books, and the collections, all of which were written in small letters, and it was said that there were 77,777 characters, and this book could not be completed by one person in one day.

It was a stuffy and hot day, Ji Xiaolan and the editors were in the academy to compile the Siku Quanshu, but the weather was too hot, others were very good at wiping their sweat with a hand towel, but Ji Xiaolan couldn't wipe it anymore, so she simply stripped off her clothes, so as not to sweat and show the scroll.

In the past, when the emperor went to a place, he had to report it first, so that his subordinates could prepare to sort it out, but on this day, Qianlong retired early, and suddenly went to the academy where Ji Xiaolan was located on a whim. Seeing that it was too late to report, Ji Xiaolan was naked, which was a crime of dereliction of honor during the imperial period, and she should be beheaded according to the law, so Ji Xiaolan hid under the table as soon as she had an idea.

Qianlong saw Ji Xiaolan from afar, and thought to himself, what the hell is this guy doing? The seat is impermeable on three sides, and one side is open, Qianlong's seat also blocks the only ventilated side, Ji Xiaolan is still hot when he sits outside, not to mention hiding under the table, thinking about who is so lacking in virtue, but after thinking about it, he thought again, maybe someone was afraid that he would be seen by Qianlong, so he deliberately did this, which can be regarded as good intentions.

But after a long time, Qianlong deliberately kept silent, and signaled everyone with his hand not to make a sound, Ji Xiaolan thought in her heart under the table, if you don't make a sound, you don't have to wait for the noon gate to be beheaded, even if you are bored, you will suffocate to death. So he whispered, "Is the old man gone?"

When Qianlong heard this, he said, "I'm here!" Yo, he still didn't hide, so Ji Xiaolan came out to see Qianlong.

Qianlong was also happy when he saw Ji Xiaolan's appearance, but on the surface, he still said with a straight face: "Ji Yun, why are you called my old man, you should talk about it, if you are reasonable, you will live, and if you are unreasonable, you will die!"

Ji Xiaolan straightened her clothes and said unhurriedly: "Old man is the righteousness of longevity, the leader of all things in the world is called the head, and Zi is the honorific title of the sage, Kong Qiu and Meng Ke are both called sons, so the three together are called old men." ”

Qianlong originally just wanted to find Ji Xiaolan to be happy, not to mention that Siku Quanshu was still counting on him, and he also cherished Ji Xiaolan's wit. Seeing Ji Xiaolan's hot sweat, he couldn't help but feel pity and shouted, "Come on! ”

Ji Xiaolan was just about to pick up the tea bowl, when Qianlong suddenly had an idea and said: "Ji Aiqing, I have a fan here, and I haven't inscribed it yet, so you can write a poem for me." ”

Ji Xiaolan took the fan, remembered the enthusiasm just now, and inscribed a poem about Wang Zhilian's exit, the original poem was written like this: "The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, a lonely city and ten thousand mountains, why should the Qiang Di complain about the willows, the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass." ”

This poem is a good poem, the word is a good word, Qianlong took Ji Xiaolan's fan with a wave, he was very happy in his heart, and read it by the way: "The Yellow River is far above the white clouds......"

Qianlong wrote more than 900 poems in his life, and he was no stranger to Tang poetry.

Ji Xiaolan was about to pick up the teacup triumphantly, but when she heard it, she hurriedly took the fan and looked at it, and said calmly: "Your Majesty, the minister's title is not a poem, but a word." ”

Then he read: "The Yellow River is far away, the white clouds are a piece, the lonely city is ten thousand mountains, why should the Qiang Di complain about the willows, and the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass." ”

When Qianlong heard this, he had to admire Ji Xiaolan's wit and literary talent. Fortunately, there was no punctuation in the first inscription poem that year, otherwise Ji Xiaolan's head would have to move.

Qianlong Ji said: "Ji Aiqing, people say that you have quick wisdom and literary talent, I want to test you to see if you have wasted your fame; every time I say a word, you come to give me a poem, and if you are right, you will be rewarded, and you will not be punished." ”

Qianlong said: "Last night, the mother gave birth to a baby. ”

Ji Xiaolan said without thinking: "Last night, the harem descended a real dragon. ”

Qianlong said again: "It's a girl." ”

Ji Xiaolan said again: "Chang'e is nine times in the month. ”

Qianlong said: "It's a pity that he died just after birth. ”

Ji Xiaolan opened her mouth and came: "Heaven and earth can't keep it." ”

Qianlong said: "Do you know how he died? He fell into the urinal and drowned." ”

As he spoke, he thought to himself, "See how you come up?"

This time, Emperor Qianlong thought that he could stump Ji Xiaolan, and the ministers also took care of Ji Xiaolan, but after thinking about it for a while, Ji Xiaolan said: "Last night, the harem descended a real dragon, and Chang'e descended nine times in the moon, and the heavens and the earth couldn't keep ......."

Qianlong interface: "What's wrong with drowning in the urinal?"

Ji Xiaolan said: "Turn over and jump into the Crystal Palace." ”

One day, Qianlong went out on patrol and walked into a restaurant to drink, and Ji Xiaofeng, a university scholar, was on his side. After three rounds of drinking, he suddenly heard the sound of the band passing downstairs, and Qianlong chanted for a while: "The gongs and drums downstairs are dingdong, the bride is ashamed to sit in the sedan chair, and the candles in the cave room are ...... today."

Qianlong chanted to the third sentence, and the fourth sentence was afraid that it would be too vulgar and lose the identity of the emperor, so he said to Ji Xiaofeng: "You come to the end, I will be rewarded for your good work, and you will be punished for your bad work." ”

Ji Xiaofeng deserves to be a genius, and immediately continued: "The hosta is red in the sea hall. ”

Qianlong was full of praise when he heard it, and the two returned with a drink.