Because Secretary Lu had heard him say when he was chatting with Ye Ming: he had read "Dream of Red Mansions" six or seven times before and after, and he could memorize the poems and couplets in it. [The storm is small! Chinese Therefore, he decided to come up with a few more difficult questions, and test Ye Ming to see if he was bragging.

After thinking for a while, Secretary Lu said to Ye Ming, who was eager to try: "Xiao Ye, I remember you once said: You can memorize the poems, songs, and plaques in "A Dream of Red Mansions" backwards, so I'll give a few questions about this now, okay?" ”

Ye Ming nodded and said, "Okay." ”

"Listen: When Lin Daiyu first entered the Rongguo Mansion, she saw a couplet in the Rongxi Hall, who wrote this couplet? What is the content? ”

Ye Ming thought for a while, and then replied: "That couplet was written by Mu Ying, the king of Dong'an County, for Jia Yuan, the prince of Rongguo, and the content is 'The sun and the moon are shining on the throne, and the front of the hall is dark and smoky. ’”

Secretary Lu nodded, took a sip of wine, and asked: "In the chapter "Ningguo Mansion Chinese New Year's Eve Sacrifice Ancestral Hall Rongguo Mansion Lantern Festival Opening Night Banquet", Cao Xueqin has a detailed description of the Rongning and Ningfu Ancestral Halls from Xue Baoqin's perspective. Among them, she has seen a total of three couplets, what are the contents of these three couplets? Written by whom? ”

This question is indeed a bit tricky and a bit difficult to answer. If you are not very familiar with "Dream of Red Mansions", it is difficult for ordinary people to answer.

Among them, Secretary Li, Xia Bicheng, and Xia Chuchu have all watched "Dream of Red Mansions" more than twice, but they can't answer this question.

Xia Chuchu was afraid that Ye Ming would not be able to answer, so he looked at him with worried eyes, secretly anxious for him in his heart.

Unexpectedly, after listening to Secretary Lu's question, Ye Ming immediately replied without thinking: "The first couplet is the couplet at the main gate of the Jia clan ancestral hall, and the content is 'The liver and brain are smeared on the ground, and the surname Zhao is the grace of conservation; The fame runs through the sky, and a hundred generations look up to the prosperity of steaming and taste', which is the book of Taifu Wang Xixian; the second couplet is 'the glory of the sun and the moon; Fame and grandchildren. The horizontal batch is 'Xinghui Fubi', which is the emperor's imperial pen, and the third couplet is 'Descendants and grandchildren inherit fortune; So far, Li Shu misses Rongning. 'Horizontal batch is 'cautious and long-term', and it is also written by the emperor's imperial pen. ”

As soon as he finished answering, Xia Chuchu, who had been worried about him, applauded happily.

Secretary Lu also showed a satisfied smile on his face and said, "Xiao Ye, it seems that you can't drink a sip of wine tonight." By the way, in addition to the four famous works of "Dream of Red Mansions", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", other Ming and Qing dynasties, such as "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", "Romance of the Fengshen", "Confucianism", "Travels of the Old Remnant", "Mirror Flowers" and so on, have you also read them well? If I ask a few questions in this, can you answer them? ”

Ye Ming hesitated for a moment and said, "I have read all these books, but I have not studied them. I can give it a try, though. ”

Secretary Lu thought for a while, showed a solemn expression on his face, and said: "There is a poem in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", although it is not famous, I am very impressed by it. The poem goes like this: 'The river is cold and miserable, and the thin grass and flowers turn into mud. Thousands of miles of clouds and mountains can't fly, and the dream soul is west of the bamboo bridge at night. My question is: Which of the stories in this poem is in "Strange Tales"? What is this story about? Can you tell us about that? ”

Ye Ming heard Secretary Lu suddenly mention this poem, his heart suddenly became sour, and his eyes gradually turned red.

After stabilizing his emotions, Ye Ming said in a somewhat sad tone: "Secretary Lu, if you ask the poems in other stories in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", I may not remember. However, this poem, like you, is also very impressive: this poem is from the "Tian Zicheng" chapter in "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", which tells the story of a young fatherless Jinshi looking for his father's bones.

The gist of the story is this: Tian Zicheng, a native of Jiangning, capsized and drowned while crossing Dongting Lake once. His son, Tian Liangyun, was a Jinshi in the late Ming Dynasty, and he was still in his arms at that time. Tian Zicheng's wife, Du Shi, heard her husband's bad news, was so distressed that she committed suicide by taking poison. Tian Liangyun was raised by his grandmother, and was later admitted to the Jinshi and sent to Hubei as an official. After more than a year, he was transferred to Hunan. Walking to Dongting Lake, he remembered his father who had drowned, cried bitterly, reported to his boss that his financial resources were not enough, and asked for his resignation. The boss did not allow it, and only demoted him to the county governor, which was subordinate to Hanyang Prefecture. Tian Liangyun couldn't resign, and the department of the hospital repeatedly urged him to reluctantly take office. After taking office, he was dissolute and uninhibited, often wandering between the rivers and lakes, ignoring political affairs.

Then one day, he went out on a tour in a small boat. At night, the boat anchored by the river, and heard the melodious sound of the hole flute coming from the shore. When the interest came, he abandoned the boat and went ashore, taking advantage of the moonlight, looking at the direction from which the sound of the flute came. After walking about half a mile, I saw a few thatched huts isolated in the middle of the wilderness, faintly shining with lights. Peeking in through the window, I saw three people sitting and drinking. The Upper Seat is a showman, in his thirties; The next seat is an old man, who sits horizontally with a hole flute, and is a young man. That Xiucai, who is in his thirties, is the ghost of his late father. In the process of singing and harmonizing with the old man and the young man, his father recited the poem you have just spoken of to express his sadness of longing for his homeland and his wife and son......"

When he said this, he suddenly remembered his father, whom he had never met since he was a child, and he only felt a sour feeling in his heart, tears flowed down his breath, and his voice was choked.

Secretary Lu saw that he was sad, knowing that he was thinking of his own father, which aroused his sadness, his heart was also agitated, and his eyes gradually turned red, looking at his son who had never tasted his father's love with great pity, and his heart was surging for a while, and he almost immediately wanted to rush over and hold him in his arms, gently soothes him, tells him that he is his father, and tells him that his father is by his side and silently pays attention to him......

Xia Bicheng and Xu Lizhong didn't know that Ye Ming had no father since he was a child, and when they saw him suddenly shed tears as he spoke, they were all taken aback, staring at him, not knowing what was going on with him.

And Xia Chuchu had heard that he had no father since he was a child, so he knew that he must have thought of his own father because of Secretary Lu's poem, and his heart was also sour, and he shed tears with Ye Ming......

Ye Ming saw that Xia Bicheng and the others were looking at him with puzzled eyes, so he wiped his tears with a tissue and said, "Leaders, I'm really sorry, I'm a little out of shape." My experience is a bit similar to that of Tian Liangyun, and I haven't seen my father since I was a child. When I was in high school, I wanted to drop out of school to find my biological father, but my mother dissuaded me. Therefore, I am particularly impressed by the story in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai". Because I empathize with Tian Liangyun's misfortune, I remember it very well. ”