Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Showdown of Talents
When Ding Yin heard that this Su Gongzi was facing his cousin's uplink in an instant, he suddenly lost his color, and the fruit pulp that he drank into his mouth squirted out.
"Ahem, ahem, really...... Right? Ding Yin was still a little incredulous, his cousin was the first and third in the imperial examination, and when it came to the strength of the couplet, he looked down on the Jinshi who was on the list in the same year, how could his book union be so easily matched?
"One hundred taels!" Su Chen chuckled slightly, and glanced at Ding Yin, as if to remind him.
"Hmph, isn't it just a hundred taels, what a!" Ding Yin couldn't help but hum softly.
The monetary system of the Southern Tang Dynasty was stable, one tael of silver was equivalent to consistent money, and ordinary men worked as boatmen in river dams, and their daily income was only forty or fifty yuan, and after deducting nest work and free days, a month's income was about the same money.
This 100 taels of silver is a huge amount of money for the toiling people of ordinary households. But for the Ding family, one of the nine giant families, it was just the cost of Ding Yin going to the big restaurant and eating and drinking a meal.
He was stunned at this time, not because he was distressed about money, but because he felt that 'Su Yixuan' could match his cousin's pair, which really surprised him and couldn't believe it!
"Cousin, it's going to be a little tougher!" Ding Yin lowered his voice beside him and reminded Ye Chen, even if the people around him couldn't hear it, they could understand what it meant.
Ye Chen thought that this uplink was enough to stump the second-class jinshi, and even the list of the same year might not be able to match it so quickly, and it was so neat, it seemed that this person should not be underestimated.
Xu Qingwan took a few steps back at this time, and no longer stepped forward to bother the two talented couplets in the duel, she had already noticed that this Su Gongzi was not simple, and he also understood the couplet!
Bai Susu and Peng Jingqing were no longer so worried at this time, and Su Chen's performance made the second daughter very satisfied.
"Did you find it, this Su ..... Yixuan is usually too lazy, but when it comes to money, he is active in everything." Although Peng Jingqing was complaining, a smile still overflowed at the corner of his mouth.
Bai Susu deeply sympathizes, this time he came to the Xufu Poetry Club, and he begged for an invitation at the beginning, but he said that he was afraid of trouble, but as soon as he offered to help him return to the courtyard and buy all the furniture, Su Chen immediately said that what he was not afraid of was trouble, what kind of person!
At this time, the people who were interested in Su Chen were not only the two of them, even Xu Kai, Shen Jiaru, Murong Yan'er, Yan Jiacai and others were paying close attention to Su Chen's performance.
Ye Chen pondered for a moment and said: "Listen to my couplet: willow thread warbler shuttle, weaving the March scenery in the south of the Yangtze River!" β
This poem is realistic and realistic, poetic and picturesque, revealing Ye Tanhua's literary brilliance.
When Xu Cainu, Xu Kai, Fang Chenbo and others heard this, they all nodded secretly, this Tanhua still has genuine talent, it depends on how right Su Chen is.
"Then I'm right: Yun Ji Yan Zi, come to the Saibei Jiuqiu Book!" Su Chen smiled faintly.
It is all real and virtual, virtual and real, and the artistic conception is extraordinary, which is endlessly evocative.
Ye Chen's eyes glanced at the peach blossoms not far away, red and white, very enchanting, and a random book couplet suddenly came to his mind: "The peach blossom forest in Miss Xu is beautiful, which gave Ye a certain inspiration, this couplet, is: red and white, how to distinguish north and south when drunk!" β
"Clever!" Many talented people admired, Ye Tanhua glanced at the peach blossoms, and made such a scene of the couplet, both color, and north-south direction, very witty and talented.
"It's the right one." The surrounding talented and beautiful women all shook their heads, and for a while, they had no clue.
Ding Yin continued to say arrogantly at this time: "The surname is Su, can you match this pair of Shanglian?" β
Su Chen thought about it a little, he had heard similar to this couplet, and said unhurriedly: "I was dressed in cloth, traveled around and scattered all my wealth, and fell to chic. β
"Red and white, how to distinguish north and south when drunk; The green and yellow are not accepted, and the poor come to sell everything! Everyone read silently, and they all felt that the battle was ingenious, very fit, and belonged to the borrowed pair in the couplet, and the east and west were both objects, but in the direction, they could also be opposite to the north and south.
"You ......" Ding Yin was a little stunned when he saw that the other party was on the right track.
"Another hundred taels, already three hundred taels!" Su Chen smiled at Ding Gongzi.
Ding Yin was angry when he heard this, so he could only look at his cousin, let him make another difficult match, and suppress this surnamed Su, so that he could relieve his anger.
Ye Chen seemed to sense that the other party's strength was not simple, and increased the difficulty and said: "Pu leaves, peach leaves, grape leaves, herbaceous woody!" β
This coupling is very difficult, the same sound as the puff and the portuguese, the same sound as the peach and the grape, the pampas tree is a herbaceous plant, the peach tree is a woody plant, so the homonym is different from the family, it is more difficult.
This couplet, even Xu Wanqing and secretary Lang Xu Kai frowned, sweating for Su Chen, this couplet is difficult!
Su Chen hesitated, and smiled secretly in his heart, coincidentally, I have heard this song very much.
He raised his head, put his hands behind his back, closed his eyes and pretended to smell the fragrance of flowers and plants, very coquettish, then opened his eyes and said confidently: "I'm right, plum blossoms, osmanthus roses, spring fragrance and autumn fragrance." β
Everyone was puzzled for a moment, and then chewed on his next link, plum and rose homonym, cinnamon and rose, plum blossoms bloom in early spring, osmanthus blooms in autumn, it is indeed exquisite!
Ye Chen already had fine sweat on his forehead, feeling that he had met an opponent this time, and while thinking about it, he saw a reed on the courtyard wall, and said with an idea: "I'll send you a couplet: the reeds on the wall are top-heavy and shallow!" β
This pair of upper couplets uses the simulacrum, deliberately sarcastic, describing people who have no position, swaying from side to side, going against their original intentions for money, just like the reeds on the wall, looking upright, but the shallow foundation cannot stand the test, and the bottom will soon be exposed.
Some people had opinions about Su Gongzi, and at this time, they stood on Ye Chen's side and laughed at Su Chen's embarrassment.
Su Chen was unmoved, looked at the bamboo forest not far away, and said with a smile: "Then I will send you the next link: bamboo shoots in the forest, with a thick mouth and a hollow belly!" β
He replied to the other party, like a bamboo shoot, with a thick mouth, and he could talk and talk rhetorically, but in fact he had no real ability.
"That's right!" Many talented and beautiful people admired Su Chen's wit.
Ye Chen's face sank, he was dignified and looked at the flowers, and he was scolded in public, and he felt that his face was a little unbearable, and he snorted coldly: "Oil dip in candles, there is a heart in the candle, and there is fire in the heart!" β
He used a thimble couplet, the end of the previous clause as the beginning of the next clause, so that the two clauses were connected end to end, quite cleverly, indicating that he was angry.
Su Chen thought for a while and said with a smile: "Papier-mΓ’chΓ© lanterns, there are many eyes on the edge of the cage, and there are no beads in the eyes!" β
At this time, Ye Chen's face was furious, and he sarcastically ridiculed the other party twice, but he was scolded back, making his face dull, and he no longer had the calm look he had before. After hesitating, I suddenly remembered that at the imperial banquet in the Jinling Royal Qionglin Garden, I saw a painting collected by the official family, and there was an unsolved absolute on it!