Volume 1 The Wind and Cloud of the Qiandu Chapter 21 There is only one truth

Gu Fan and Ke Yixue were on their way back to the palace, passing through a troubled area, and vaguely heard a group of Qiandu people gathering to talk.

"Have you heard? Today, the chief envoy of the Great Jin Mission has greatly undermined the spirit of the Great Cadres and literati!"

"Oh! How can I say it? My literati have always been much stronger than those of the Great Jin! How can this be?"

"Yes! I heard about it, and I heard that the Great Jin Mission and the Emperor were gambling against each other, and the literati asked three questions!"

"I heard that even the scholars of the court couldn't answer! I don't know if it's true!"

When Gu Fan heard this, he touched a few immature human whiskers on his chin, his eyes were thoughtful, and he muttered in his mouth. "Three questions from the literati?

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Qiandu Rong Wang's Mansion, in the main study.

King Rong Ke Mo still had that sad face, and his tightly locked eyebrows never let go! He was wondering if he would take Gu Fan to the Heavenly Oracle Hall tomorrow morning, or in what capacity would he bring him to face the saint? Xue'er's husband?

At this time, the palace housekeeper knocked on the door and hurriedly ran to Ke Mo's side: "Lord Wang, Miss and Mr. Gu have returned to the house, do you want to bring them to see you?"

Ke Mo suddenly pulled his thoughts back and said, "Bring them to the study, I'll wait for them here!"

"No!"

After a while, Gu Fan and Ke Yixue appeared in King Rong's main study, looking at Ke Mo behind the desk, Ke Yixue first broke the deadlock and said, "Daddy called me here, what's the matter?"

"Tomorrow, Gu Fan will go to the Heavenly Oracle Hall with me! Your Majesty the Emperor Qian, I want to see you by name!"

"What!" Ke Yixue and Gu Fan exclaimed. This was too sudden, Gu Fan never thought that King Rong summoned him to the study because Emperor Qianhuang was interested in him!

"But, Daddy, Gu Fan and His Majesty the Emperor Qianhuang have never known each other, why did you call Gu Fan to go to the Heavenly Oracle Hall to face the saint?" Ke Yixue said with a puzzled expression. She said Gu Fan's doubts, how did the Emperor know about him?

"Alas," Ke Mo sighed deeply, and said helplessly, "It's not that today's Great Jin Mission is betting against His Majesty the Emperor Qian!

"Daddy, why did the Emperor Qianhuang make a promise to the envoy of the Great Jin Dynasty to ask three questions from a literati? Is the first question so difficult? Why is there no one who can answer so many scholars in the current dynasty?" Ke Yixue said curiously.

When Gu Fan heard the three questions from the literati, he instantly thought of what the people in the downtown area had discussed before! At that time, he felt very interesting, but he didn't expect to go around and go back to himself!

In fact, it is no wonder that Ke Yixue asked so curiously, the thousand-year-old history of Daqian has given birth to many literary people, and this long-standing heritage is much deeper than that of the Jin Kingdom, which was only a few hundred years old!

Therefore, the literati of the Great Jin Dynasty are proud, and they look down on the literati of the Great Jin Dynasty, because the cultural background of the Great Jin Dynasty is weak, and no talented scribes can be born! So much so that today, the Great Jin Dynasty defeated the Great Cadres from the literati level, which is undoubtedly a slap in the face to the Great Cadres!

Ke Mo also sighed with emotion: "I didn't expect that there are such literati in Dajin, and the first question they asked was that a young man who accompanied him said a pair of uplink: a lonely boat, sitting on two or three sausters, using four oars and five sails, passing through six beaches and seven bays, and going through eight bumps and nine bumps, it is a pity that it is very late!"

"It's a good couplet! This two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine is very clever, so people really don't know where to start!" Ke Yixue, who has always loved couplets, couldn't help but clap her hands, her eyes were full of stars, and she praised with interest.

Seeing Ke Yixue's appearance, Gu Fan couldn't help but pout, secretly thinking that the level of literati couplets in this Qiandu was so poor? This can be called a good couplet, and so many scholars can't do it! Just ask me to be it!

In fact, Gu Fan had a little misunderstanding, many of the great scholars in the Daqian Dynasty were born in academies and were proficient in Confucianism and Taoism. Although the couplet is also a kind of literature, after all, it is a small minority, and after all, the Great Jin Mission came prepared!

"The author of this couplet has a very high level of attainment! It is rare in the world!" Ke Yixue felt that the more he tasted it, the more he could appreciate the essence of this couplet!

"Gu Fan, what do you think?" Ke Mo noticed that Gu Fan seemed to have heard of this uplink and did not react, so he asked him.

"Okay!

"Oh, what do you mean, you're sure you're on this couplet?" said Ke Mo with some surprise. Originally, he was still looking sad, but if Gu Fan didn't get right, the Emperor would lose face, and the consequences would be unimaginable!

He didn't expect Gu Fan to look so confident, so he couldn't help nodding slightly, and when he looked at Gu Fan, he looked at his son-in-law with satisfaction. When Gu Fan met Ke Mo's gaze, he shuddered!

"Gu Fan! You're out of the next couplet!Tell me about it!" Ke Yixue looked at Gu Fan with some surprise.

Gu Fan watched Ke Yixue come to his side, and grabbed him with some excitement, as for it, it's just a downlink! He turned to look at Ke Mo and asked, "Tomorrow, can I get the downlink, no one can get it?"

"Why?" Ke Mo glanced at Gu Fan with some surprise.

"Dare to ask the prince, today the saint knows about me, it must not be the prince you told His Majesty the Emperor, there must be other unknown factors in it!" Gu Fan thought for a while, stared at Ke Mo's eyes tightly and said.

Rongwang Ke Mo glanced at Gu Fan deeply, but he didn't speak, wanting to see what Gu Fan would say next! But Ke Yixue beside him smelled something unusual from Gu Fan's words, as if he thought of something, his expression changed!

Gu Fan continued: "Presumably, it must be one of the two highnesses who recommended me to Emperor Qian! I guess he is likely to be the third prince!"

"Oh, why are you so sure that the two Highnesses, or the Third Highness, recommended you to the Emperor, instead of me or anyone else?" Ke Mo suppressed the shock in his heart and asked Gu Fan with curiosity.

Gu Fan reasoned quite confidently: "First of all, I sent you and others because you didn't have to! And I don't know the others, it's equivalent to an entanglement without interests!"

"Secondly, why are you locked in the two princes, because in the palace before, they wanted to marry Yixue, and I ruined a good thing!

"In the end, why the third prince! Because I think that although the fifth prince is a little domineering, he will not hold a grudge against a small person like me! Therefore, I think the probability of being the third prince is higher!"

Ke Yixue, who was on the side, heard Gu Fan's reasoning, and couldn't help but nod her head in agreement.

Actually, Gu Fan didn't tell the truth! In his heart, he must have recommended him to the Emperor of the Third Prince! Although the purpose is unknown, it is certainly not out of any good intentions!

The third prince gives people a sense of knowledge, gentleness and elegance, but Gu Fan keenly feels that he is more like a poisonous snake hidden in the dark, and may secretly and silently stab you in the back!

"Bang Bang!" Ke Mo applauded and said, "You guessed right! It is indeed the third prince who recommended you in front of the Emperor! Therefore, I am very entangled, whether to bring you to the Heavenly Oracle Hall tomorrow, what do you think?"

Gu Fan weighed the pros and cons in his heart, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and he said to Ke Mo: "The prince doesn't have to worry! I will write the following couplet on the rice paper! Tomorrow in the Heavenly Oracle Palace, you can present it to the Emperor! As for me, you said that when the prince was walking the dog, he accidentally broke his leg, and it was inconvenient to go out!"

What the Emperor wants is his subordinate link, not him! Gu Fan's appearance does not appear, it is harmless!

King Rong Ke Mo thought about it, nodded slightly, and said, "This method is also feasible, if you make a couplet, the Emperor will not account too much!"

Immediately, he ordered the housekeeper of the palace to present Gu Fan with excellent pen, ink, paper and inkstone, which were all taken from the famous Mobao Pavilion in Qiandu!

Gu Fan spread the rice paper on the desk, and Ke Yixue beside him grinded ink for him, which was quite a bit of the artistic conception of adding fragrance to the red sleeves! Gu Fan changed the brush and wantonly on the rice paper!

"Ten years of cold windows, entered nine or eight academies, abandoned seven emotions and six desires, studied the Five Classics and four books hard, took the exam three times and twice, and must pass today!"

Ke Yixue looked at the next couplet written by Gu Fan, and was very shocked! The battle is neat, and the artistic conception is consistent! It can be described as absolute!

Ke Mo's previous sorrowful brows were gone, revealing a satisfied smile!