Ye Chen saw a lotus painting in the official collection at the Qionglin Imperial Banquet held by Emperor Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty last year and later, which was said to have been given by a high monk.

At that time, at the banquet, after Li Yu drank, he was interested and proposed a seven-character couplet: painting a lotus monk.

This is a palindrome union, asking them these new science and technology jinshi, who can make the next link, but as a result, their batch of jinshi in the same year, whether it is the champion, Bangyan, Tanhua, or other second and third class jinshi, none of them answered.

At this time, Ye Chen took the opportunity to bring it up and said: "Draw lotus flowers and paintings, Brother Su, can you match it?" ”

When Xu Kai heard this, he frowned, this Ye Tanhua and the couplet were already exhausted, but in the end, he used the absolute difficulty of the official family for last year's imperial examination, which was really unfair.

At that time, nearly 100 jinshi, from the first class to the third class, did not come up, and when he said it at this time, he deliberately wanted to make things difficult for Su Chen.

After Fang Chenbo and Zhao Yu heard this, their eyes suddenly lit up, they were also at the Qionglin Imperial Banquet at that time, they heard this Shanglian, they smiled at each other, and they all looked at Su Chen, seeing his embarrassed posture.

Xu Qingwan chewed on the seven words "painting a lotus monk", and the palindromic couplet used homophony, and the pronunciation of the word was exactly the same as the reverse reading and the positive reading, which was very difficult, and it was not an exaggeration to call it an extremely difficult pair.

She thought about it for a while, but she didn't come up with it, she looked at Su Chen, and there were many expectations in her heart.

Today's Su Gongzi has brought her too many surprises, so at this moment, I still hope that a miracle will appear.

"Painting lotus flowers and painting ......" Su Chen muttered to himself, and suddenly felt that this couplet was also relatively familiar, and it seemed to be a more famous absolute in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

According to records, in the Ming Dynasty, one day Tang Bohu went to a temple in the mountains to play, on a wall painted with lotus flowers, wrote this couplet, after an interval of one or two hundred years, to the Qing Dynasty Shuzhong genius Li Diaoyuan to the mountain temple to play, found the wonder of this couplet to give the right.

As for why Li Yu proposed it at this time, why Tang Bohu wrote it at that time, and whether the intermediate record was true, Su Chen had nowhere to delve into it.

But he remembered the lower link, and that was enough.

"The surname is Su, can you come up?" Ding Yin saw that he didn't reply immediately, and the people around him said that it was too difficult to go up, so he finally smiled.

Su Chen glanced at him and said, "You owe me six hundred taels of silver." ”

"Wipe the ......." Ding Yin's smile froze, and he continued to urge: "Don't worry, those hundreds of taels of silver, this son didn't take it to heart, this Shanglian, can you be right, right, you will admit that you lost in front of everyone." From now on, you are not allowed to contact Bai Susu again, as long as I appear, you will roll away. ”

What kind of strange requirements is this, even if I can't match the last pair of books, I faced six pairs in front of me, no matter how you look at it, I have shown my talent, and I am right to win a small victory.

"Ye Gongzi, this pair of upper couplets is an extremely difficult pair, it is difficult to put it here, I am afraid that it will be unfair." Xu Qingwan couldn't bear to be embarrassed by Su Gongzi, so she was upset for him.

Ye Chen smiled faintly and said: "It's indeed a bit difficult to go up, but there is no restriction in advance, this is not a well-known unsolved absolute, it can't be regarded as a violation." ”

Xu Kai frowned, he used to think that Ye Chen was bright and upright and had a good character, but today he was a little disappointed. He was just about to walk out of the crowd, uncover the matter on the spot, and relieve Su Chen, but he heard Su Chen say: "I thought of it." ”

This sentence shocked Xu Kai, in such a short period of time, Su Chen was able to deal with such a difficult pair?

Ye Chen was also taken aback, and said unconvinced: "Are you right to come out?" ”

"Listen up, paint lotus flowers and paintings, and book the Hanlin Book of Hanti!" Su Chen held his head high and said with a smile.

Xu Kai, Ye Chen, Xu Qingwan, Zhao Yu, Fang Chenbo and others were all surprised, and carefully tasted the lower link, and the pronunciation of the word was exactly the same as the main reading, which was perfectly matched with the upper link, which was amazing.

After a long time, the talented and beautiful people around him made friends.

"That's right!" Even Xu Kai admired it very much.

"He's really on the right ......" Fang Chenbo and Zhao Yu were dumbfounded, none of them were on the right track, but they were not as good as a student who had not been examined.

Ye Chen's face also turned pale instantly, if the other party can match this uplink, then he is not wronged to lose.

"Master Su is really powerful, Ye admires it, if you have the opportunity in the future, I will ask Brother Su for advice."

Su Chen touched a strand of hair scattered on his forehead with his hand, shook his head in a chic manner, and felt a little invincible and really lonely: "Brother Ye is polite, why don't I also have a pair, please Ye Gongzi come to the right one!" ”

Ye Chen was stunned for a moment, and proposed a pair in public, but he couldn't accept it, and arched his hand: "Please ask Mr. Su to come out!" ”

Su Chen smiled slightly: "Five words, smoke lock pond willow!" ”

"Smoke lock pond willow?" When Ye Chen first heard these five words, he didn't feel abnormal, but after thinking about it carefully, his face suddenly changed, five words, with the words of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and the artistic conception is very natural, very rare.

For a while, Ye Chen was both surprised and felt helpless, and froze on the spot.

After Xu Cainu and secretary Xu Kai heard this, they thought for a moment, and they both showed surprise, and they couldn't think of the next link.

The talented and beautiful people around are all like this, looking confused.

"Cousin, you're right!" Ding Yin was a little anxious.

Ye Chen pondered for a long time, shook his head and said: "Ye couldn't think of this book union for a certain time, so he was willing to bow down." ”

"Throw in the towel?" Ding Yin was stunned at the beginning, even his cousin Tanhua lost, and the gap between himself and him was ...... Wouldn't it be even greater!

Where did this Bai Susu find such a powerful talent, and he defeated Tanhua.

Ding Yin was quite speechless in his heart.

"Does Brother Su know about Xialian?" Ye Chen asked.

Su Chen shook his head and said, "I haven't thought about it for the time being, hehe, one day when the silver is enough, I can think of it!" ”

Ding Yin looked at this kid with a smug expression on his face, and immediately felt very unhappy.

Ye Chen is such a conceited and talented person, young and vigorous, it is really helpless to admit defeat on the spot, but he also held his breath in his heart, his face was no longer good-looking, and he smiled lightly: "The couplet is a small way after all, Su is the best at writing seven-word poems, I just saw the peach blossom forest in the garden of Xu Cainu, it is very charming and charming, Ye Mou felt something, and planned to write a peach blossom poem, how about you please enjoy it?" ”

When everyone heard that Ye Chen was going to write a poem, they suddenly became interested, and the person who could get the flower exploration exam was by no means a vain person, although he lost the couplet just now, but he was still looking forward to writing peach blossom poems.

Ye Chen successfully led the topic over, covered up his embarrassment, walked to the pen, ink and paper inkstone on the table, and wrote a seven-character poem on a piece of rice paper:

"In March, spring returns to the rainy day, overlapping high and low full of Fangyuan."

"The peach is blooming in the red sun, and the independent flowers feel the passing years."

"I have been Lingyunzhi all my life, and I don't want to live up to the gold list."

"Stay in the prelude to Chengxin Hall, and leave the fame and brocade clothes back!"