Chapter 13: Pairs
With them, others don't have to think about the top prize in this competition. Everyone sighed inwardly, complaining about why these people came to join in the fun.
Everyone started to be positive from Mr. Wang's suggestion that the color head was Duanyan, but Zhao Mingxuan was different, he was always excited as soon as Mr. Wang came out.
"Brother Zhixian, look! Mr. Wang is out! β
"Brother Zhixian, look! It's Duanyan! β
Zhao Mingxuan stood beside Lin Zhixian, and became extremely excited as soon as something appeared, Lin Zhixian was already in grief because he had just snuffed out the bud of love with his own hands. Hearing Zhao Mingxuan's babbling voice, he could only try his best to maintain his expression.
"Brother Mingxuan, be steady." Lin Zhixian reluctantly pressed Zhao Mingxuan's shoulder, really afraid that he would rush up without paying attention. "Mr. Wang, it's not like you haven't seen it."
Zhao Mingxuan pouted, Lin Zhixian was too calm, just like a little old man, no wonder he was one of Mr. Wang's favorite students. The two have such similar personalities, they can be forgetful of the New Year.
Lin Zhiyu and Lord Wenzi stood behind the two, and next to them were all students who had gathered together. The maids of the two stood by the side, preventing the people around them from getting too close to the two.
Mr. Wang looked at the students of the college with a smile, and saw the enthusiastic appearance of the students, as if he had seen himself in the past.
"Okay, then I'll start with the questions." With that, he beckoned a scholar.
"The first link, the top link." Mr. Wang stroked his beard and asked the question: "The green water is worry-free, but the face is wrinkled by the wind." β
The students all pricked up their ears to listen to Mr. Wang's question, and when they heard Mr. Wang's question, they all began to think about it, for fear that someone would think of it faster than themselves.
Lin Zhiyu heard Mr. Wang say Shanglian, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and muttered: "Qingshan Yuan is not old, it is snow-white." β
She didn't want to participate in this couplet competition, but when she heard such a poetic couplet, she couldn't help but say what she thought about it.
In fact, Lin Zhiyu's voice was not loud, but at this time, everyone was pondering, and there was silence in the atrium of Nuoda, and now even if a needle was dropped, it would attract attention.
Lin Zhiyu's muttering voice happened to be captured by Mr. Wang, "Hahahaha, okay!" That's right! β
Mr. Wang didn't expect someone to be able to make the next couplet so quickly, and it seemed to be a woman when he heard the voice.
As the first question, this uplink is actually not difficult, and many people have already figured it out. It's just that everyone saw that no one spoke, so they wanted to trim their lower couplets more perfectly, and they happened to be preempted by Lin Zhiyu.
Lin Zhiyu's voice caused everyone to look back, curious about how a woman could get in.
There are very few people who know Lin Zhiyu, but even if she turns to ashes, Sun Yunyu will recognize her. Last time, it was Lin Zhiyu who made him make a fool of himself in Xian Yan Pavilion, if it weren't for the events of that day, he wouldn't have been pointed at when he walked on the road like today.
Sun Yu now lives like a rat crossing the street every day, everyone shouts and beats in the academy, but this time he finally got his chance.
"Where did the woman come from? This is our men's competition, you? Hmph, don't mix it up! Sun Yu looked disdainful and deliberately raised his voice and said.
Before everyone could react, Mr. Wang was unhappy at first. He had just praised the woman for being good to him, and the man ran out and said that the woman could not participate in the competition. "Women can't participate in the competition? Who made this rule? β
Although Chen Hengguo attaches great importance to etiquette, there is no distinction between men and women among the literati. As long as you are knowledgeable, whether you are a man or a woman, you can be respected by people.
On the one hand, these literati and gentlemen are arrogant, and no one obeys anyone; On the other hand, he spurns the kind of conceited people who look down on them who are inferior to themselves. And Sun Yu just occupies both, has no knowledge, and looks down on other women.
Mr. Wang's originally smiling face suddenly became cold, and his hand holding his beard stopped in mid-air. He frowned and said, "I only look at talent in Jizhi Academy, and I don't distinguish between men and women. β
The moment Sun Yu finished speaking, the people around him all looked in the direction where he was. So Mr. Wang also saw him effortlessly.
"Isn't this Sun Yu? Last time, he insulted a blind woman, and was taught a lesson by the prince. β
"What kind of blindness, she is the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but she just has an eye disease,"
Mr. Wang didn't show it on his face, but he blacklisted Sun Yu in his heart.
Sun Yu saw that he had become the target of the public again, so he couldn't hold it on his face, so he lowered his head and fled with his face hidden.
Mr. Wang looked around and found Lord Wenzi and Lin Zhiyu. Although he didn't know Lin Zhiyu, he had seen Lord Wenzi. He knew that Lord Wenzi was the sister of the prince and the most talented woman in Chen Hengguo.
Old Mr. Wang no longer paid attention to Sun Yu, but turned his head to look at Lord Wenzi, and nodded secretly in his heart while looking at it with satisfaction. is worthy of being the heir of Prince Yong, and even his daughter is so extraordinary.
"Hahaha, let's continue. Now you have to work hard. β
Lord Wenzi and Lin Zhiyu stood together, naturally not knowing that Mr. Wang's satisfied expression was looking at her. Lin Zhixian was standing beside her, disturbing her mind and unable to concentrate on creation.
And the maid of the county lord of Wenzi was also beside her, and she wanted to speak several times as if she had something to say, but when she saw her master pondering, she didn't dare to disturb.
The competition is still going on, and with Lin Zhiyu taking the lead, the students are no longer hesitant and shy. As soon as I heard Mr. Wang's question, they were all very positive, for fear that others would take the lead.
Just now, Zhou Yuanbai also thought of the next link early, but this was only the first question, and he would not deliberately be in the limelight, so he did not answer.
When he heard someone answer just now, he also turned his head with everyone to look, but he didn't expect to see a face that he was very familiar with.
Zhou Yuanbai didn't care about the next link that Mr. Wang came out of, and squeezed all the way from the crowd to a few people.
"Sorry, I borrowed it."
"Borrowed, sorry."
Zhou Yuanbai apologized to the students who made way for him as he walked.
When Zhou Yuanbai finally walked up to a few people, his actions also attracted the attention of several people.
"Shizi!" Zhao Mingxuan was seriously thinking about Mr. Wang's couplet, and he happened to see Zhou Yuanbai with a glance of his eyes, and exclaimed at the moment.
Several people also reacted and greeted Zhou Yuanbai one after another.
"I've seen the son!"
Lin Zhixian and Zhao Mingxuan bowed their hands to Zhou Yuanbai, and Lin Zhiyu also followed when he heard a few people say hello.
When Lord Wenzi saw her brother, she remembered the task given to her by her mother, she stomped her foot slightly and patted her thigh, "Oh, brother, I almost forgot." β
After that, the county lord of Wenzi hurriedly ordered the maid to take out the food brought to Zhou Yuanbai.
The maid finally breathed a sigh of relief, just now she had been trying to remind the county lord of Wenzi that the food was about to get cold, but she didn't dare to disturb.
Zhou Yuanbai was more concerned about how the county lord Wenzi was here, and he remembered that she obviously said that she was going to play with the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion this morning.
"Yuan Rou, why did you come here?" Zhou Yuanbai saw that Lord Wenzi's hair was still wet, so he immediately asked the attendant next to him to wipe it with a handkerchief.
Seeing that his brother was just ordering the attendants, the lord of Wenzi County remembered that Lin Zhixian had personally wiped Lin Zhiyu just now, and he was inexplicably a little angry in his heart, so he stopped the attendant who wanted to wipe himself and took the veil.
"Didn't my brother say that there was a competition today, and my mother was afraid that you would be hungry, so she asked me to bring you some food." The county lord of Wenzi took the handkerchief and didn't wipe it, just held it in his hand, and stirred it with his two hands.
Zhou Yuanbai felt that Lord Wenzi seemed to be a little unhappy, but he didn't know what was going on. Just as he wanted to take a step forward to ask, he suddenly found the woman standing next to Lord Wenzi.
Although she was also wet from the rain, she didn't look embarrassed at all, but looked even more refreshing.
Zhou Yuanbai was stunned, isn't this the woman he saw in Xian Yan Pavilion last time?
The county lord of Wenzi said that he came out with the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and there are only these two women in this academy, and it is not difficult to guess that Lin Zhiyu is the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Last time, he never saw Lin Zhiyu again as soon as he said goodbye to Zhou Yuanbai, and he even asked the shopkeeper every day if the woman with eye disease had been there again.
The shopkeeper told him that Lin Zhiyu was the shopkeeper, and told him that he had bought a lot of new books and pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, which would basically be enough for a long time, and he might not come back in a short time.
Zhou Yuanbai was annoyed for a long time about this, and he didn't think to ask her name at that time. Even if he is a woman and cannot discuss with each other, he can still learn from the men in her family.
Zhou Yuanbai felt a little unbelievable when he saw Lin Zhiyu, but he didn't expect that the person who had been looking for so long suddenly appeared next to his sister today, and it seemed to be the person she nagged several times every day.
"You're... The ...... in Xian Yan Pavilion that day"
"I've seen the son." Lin Zhiyu didn't think about it so much, she always knew that Shizi was the elder brother of the county lord of Wenzi, but she didn't feel that familiar, and she was not easy to mention as a woman.
"Brother, do you know Qingshan?" Lord Wenzi didn't expect that the prince actually knew Lin Zhiyu, and when she mentioned Lin Zhiyu to them before, Zhou Yuanbai also asked her to be careful that Lin Zhiyu was deliberately approaching her.
Zhou Yuanbai also saluted a few people, smiled and said, "She is the strange woman I said before, who I will never forget in Xian Yan Pavilion." β
Lord Wenzi also felt that it was a coincidence, it turned out that the woman in Zhou Yuanbai's mouth was Lin Zhiyu.
Lord Wenzi looked at his brother's gaze and never left Lin Zhiyu, and he couldn't help but feel a little jealous in his heart. I also said before that I should be careful of Lin Zhiyu, but now I can't take my eyes off it?
Lord Wenzi coughed deliberately, "Ahem, brother, Mr. Wang is still asking questions above." It's so easy to get distracted, and you're still a student of Mr. Wang. β
Zhou Yuanbai was a little embarrassed to be poked by his sister, but at the same time, he was a little helpless. Looking at Lin Zhiyu by himself, he just admired her talent, and listening to Lord Wenzi's words, it seemed that he had misunderstood that he had fallen in love with Lin Zhiyu.
Everyone didn't say anything, and Zhou Yuanbai couldn't explain it, so he could only look at Lord Wenzi helplessly and smiled and stopped talking.
Mr. Wang didn't notice the exchange of several people, but only saw Zhou Yuanbai walking next to Lord Wenzi. There are also Zhao Mingxuan and Lin Zhixian next to him, these are his protΓ©gΓ©s.
Mr. Wang nodded with satisfaction, and sure enough, things gather people in groups.
But...... There was also a woman beside them who didn't know who it was, but it seemed that she was a little close to Lin Zhixian.