"The room in the inn has two kinds of upper room and ordinary room, the first level is a pair, as long as you can hang the upper link in front of the inn, you can stay in the ordinary room at half price for half a month, the second level is still a pair, as long as you can hang the upper link in the lobby, you only need to write a poem on the lobby wall, you can stay in its upper room for free for half a month. Of course, there is still a separate charge for meals and so on. ”

After the peddler Li Da finished speaking, he added: "I don't know how many people have gone to pair in recent days, they are all scholars like the two Lang Jun, but so far only a few people can match the first pair, and no one in the lobby can match the pair of the second level." The two Lang Jun seem to be very talented, if you have the heart, you might as well give it a try, maybe you can match the two pairs. ”

Zhao Yan sighed when he heard this, and asked, "Brother Li, let's talk about something realistic, apart from that Huisheng Inn, is there any other place to stay?" ”

There is no three, two, three, how dare you go to Liangshan, the Huisheng Inn hangs out the pair with great fanfare, and now only a few people can pass the first level, you can know how difficult it is for the two Shanglian, Zhao Yan thinks that he is okay with the pair, but he doesn't dare to be sure that he can match, as for Zhang Wenyuan, his level of the pair is not as good as himself.

Li laughed and said: "Yes, yes, if the two Lang Jun don't dislike it, they can live in my house, and they only need 100 yuan per person every day." ”

"How is Brother Li's house compared to the inn?"

"Naturally, it's not as good as an inn, and there are only two adobe houses in the house."

"What about the rice? Can there be hot bathing? ”

"Hehe, Xiao Langjun said with a smile, naturally there is no food, no hot water."

When Zhao Yan heard this, he turned around and pulled Zhang Wenyuan up and left, this hawker seems to have fallen into the eyes of money, the upper room of an ordinary inn has a maximum of seventy or eighty yuan a day, in addition to including two meals a day, hot water is also supplied for free, this Li Dake pours well, he lives in one of the two adobe houses, and the remaining one must be lived with Zhang Wenyuan, no food, no hot water, and a fool will spend this unjust money.

Zhang Wenyuan was pulled by Zhao Yan and walked a few steps before saying: "Brother Zhao, why don't we go to the Huisheng Inn first, you and I are full of poetry and books, maybe I have a feeling after reading those two couplets, and then I can face them, even if it is only for the first level of the upper couplet." ”

Zhao Yan nodded and said, "It's okay, I'll follow Brother Zhang's wishes, I'll try it first." ”

Fang Cai also forgot to ask the hawker where the Huisheng Inn was, fortunately, there were a lot of people in the market, and after catching two or three people and asking, the two of them learned the address of the Huisheng Inn and then hurried over.

When I arrived at the door of the Huisheng Inn, as the hawker Li Da said, there was a big red banner hanging above the door of the inn, with a line of big characters written on it, and many people gathered at the door.

There is a tea house not far in front of the inn, and the two of them went in and bought two bowls of tea to quench their thirst, and then walked to the front of the inn to see the first level of Shanglian.

Zhao Yan put his hand on the pergola, and looked at the slanting sun for a moment before he saw clearly, the upper link was 'seven-story pagoda, layer by layer of Kongming Zhuge', and he thought for a moment that he already knew where the difficulty of this upper link was.

There are four difficult points in this couplet, one is that the word "layer" appears three times; the second Kong Ming is a pun, the real meaning refers to the bright window hole, but it fits Zhuge Liang's word, Zhuge Liang Kong Ming; the three pavilions are pun intended, the real meaning refers to each attic is bright, but it is homophonic with Zhuge Liang, a historical celebrity; the fourth Kong Ming and Zhuge Liang refer to the same person, and Zhuge is a compound surname, and I don't know where this Huisheng Inn came from.

Zhang Wenyuan felt bitter after reading it for a while, although he had read poetry and books since he was a child, and he was not at ease with ordinary couplets, but the couplets in front of him were really not right, so he turned his head to look at Zhao Yan and asked, "Brother Zhao, do you have anything in your heart?" ”

Zhao Yan shook his head, he was quite curious about what the next link of the previous few people was, so he asked a scholar on the side: "This brother Tai, I heard that there have been a few people who have come out of the lower link of this first link before, can Brother Tai know the content of those couplets?" ”

Seeing that Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan were also dressed as scholars, the scholar didn't dare to be contemptuous, so he arched his hand and said: "I haven't heard of it a little, there have been three people who have made the next couplet before, but it is really a bit far-fetched. The first one is 'three sections of crisp lotus root, and the roots are too white in the sections', and this 'long roots' correspond to Li Changgeng, which is also too platinum star. The second is 'Walking alone in Chibi, stepping by step according to the clouds and following the dragon', "The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is broadcast far and wide, presumably the two must have heard of it, so I won't say much about it. The third is 'Four Seasons Jiangnan, Seasonal Rain and Long Clouds', which must not be explained. ”

After Zhao Yan nodded and thanked the scholar, he turned to Zhang Wenyuan and said, "Brother Zhang, I think let's go to other inns to have a look, if you really can't find it, you can go to the nearby house to spend the night." ”

Zhang Wenyuan can't come out, the secret path can only be like this.

The two of them were about to turn around and leave, not wanting that someone next to them had already recognized Zhao Yan, so they only heard him call out loudly: "Isn't this the head of the Zhao case in the famous Mansion City a few days ago?" Zhao is quick and knowledgeable, and he insists that Qingshan will not relax, but he will spread the name all over the world, and at this time he must have already come out of this couplet, why don't you say it and let me wait to open my eyes? ”

Another person said: "Looking at the appearance of the head of the case, I am afraid that there is nothing, otherwise why would I turn around and leave, I want to come to the house to try the head of the case, I will wait for the eight immortals to cross the sea to show their abilities, and each of them will think hard about this link." ”

The words of these two people are full of malice, Zhao Yan naturally heard it, jealousy is the embodiment of human feelings, anyone can have such emotions, Zhao Yan is neither a god nor an immortal, naturally he can't eliminate this negative emotion for others, but when he heard the man talk about the eight immortals crossing the sea, Zhao Yan was inspired and had some experience for this couplet.

"Brother Zhang, slow down, I'm afraid that our place to settle has been settled." Zhao Yan stopped Zhang Wenyuan, and then said to the guy at the door of the inn: "Thanks, I have some occasional gains at the door of the lower pair, I don't know who to talk to?" ”

The guy glanced at Zhao Yan a few times, said a few words, and then turned around and entered the inn, and after a while, a young man walked out surrounded by several shopkeepers and the old shopkeeper.

The young man was wearing a variegated collared shirt and a square scarf on his head, and his appearance was good, and after seeing Zhao Yan, he bowed his hand slightly, and then asked: "Below is Wu Wu, the owner of this Huisheng Inn, is it Your Excellency who has made this couplet?" ”

Wu Wu, Wu Hook? It's an interesting name, too.

Zhao Yan nodded and arched his hand: "Exactly." In Xia Zhao Yan, he just got a little after seeing this uplink. ”

Wu Yan seemed to have heard of Zhao Yan's name, and when he heard this, he looked at Zhao Yan again, and then said, "But the head of the Zhao case in the previous government test?" It's been famous for a long time, and I ask for advice. ”

"Don't dare to be, it's just not talented." Zhao Yan continued: "This upper link is 'seven-story pagoda, layer by layer Kongming pavilions', and the lower link is 'Nine-fold Immortal Pavilion, heavy cloud room bell curling'. ”

After hearing this, Wu Yan was puzzled, so he ordered someone to move out of the table and chairs, and took the four treasures of the study, and then asked Zhao Yan to write out the couplet.

After Zhao Yan finished writing, some people in the audience praised: "Da Miao, although there are slight flaws, but it is much more clever than the previous couplets." The head of the Zhao case is only eight buckets high, and he can even come up with this, and he really deserves to be the head of the government test. ”

The others did not understand, so they asked the man to explain.

The man smiled, shook the folding fan in his hand, and put a POSS back before saying: "This son only explained the three words 'Zhongli curling', and I think you will be able to understand it later." This 'Zhong Li curling' homonym 'Zhong Liquan' is a character in the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, the Han Zhongli is also among the eight immortals, and its table word is the word 'Cloud House'. ”

After a little bit of this person's pull, Wu Gou suddenly realized: "Wonderful." First, three layers are heavy to three, and layers of pagodas are heavy to heavy fairy pavilions; Second, Kong Ming said to the cloud house, the former refers to the bright window hole and the word Zhuge Liang, and the latter refers to the fairy cloud full house which also fits the word Zhong Liquan; Third, Zhuge Liang refers to the fact that each attic is lit, which is homophonic with Zhuge Liang, and Zhong Li curls up in the bell and is homophonic with Zhong Liquan; Fourth, Kong Ming and Zhuge Liang are the same person, Zhuge is a compound surname, Yunfang is also the same person as Zhong Liquan, Zhong Li is also a compound surname, and Zhao is really a talent. ”

Zhao Yan said modestly: "Where is it...... I heard that your inn has set up two difficulties, if you pass this first level, you can stay in an ordinary room at half price for half a month, I don't know if it counts at this time? ”

"Nature counts." Wu Yu stretched out his hand and asked, "Zhao is the first to look at this second couplet, if you can come out, you can stay in the upper room for free for half a month, and you only need to inscribe a poem on the inner wall of the hall." ”

Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan followed Wu Yu into the lobby of the inn, and saw a pair of upper couplets hanging below the second floor, with the text on it saying, 'A cup of tea, quench the thirst of the yuan.' ’

A cup of tea is easy to say, mainly because the three "solution" words are difficult to match, the first one reads the solution of "quenching thirst", the sound is the same as that of sister, the second reads the solution of "Xie Jin", the sound is the same as Xie, and the third reads the solution of "Xie Yuan", and the sound is the same as borrowing.

It is said that at the beginning of the country, Xie Jin, a great talent, participated in the township test and won the first place, the first name of the township test was called Xie Yuan, once he was thirsty in the mountains, and asked an old man for tea, the old man asked him for his identity, Xie Jin directly said that he was 'Xie Xie Yuan', the old man wanted to frustrate Xie Jin's sharpness, so he came out with a pair of upper and lower links, as long as he could give him tea to drink, but in the end this Xie Da talent did not drink the tea, until a long time later, this Xie Da genius had an idea to come out of the next couplet.

Xie Jin's later couplet is 'Seven Strings Wonderful Song, Le Le Yuefu Sound', the first is the music of 'joy', the sound is the same Le, the second is the music of 'Le Yi', the sound is the same month, it is the surname, and the third is the music of 'Yuefu', the sound is the same month, and Yuefu is the official name.

If you interpret this couplet in this way, you can barely explain the past, but there are two other pronunciations of this musical word, one of which is the same as 'waterlogging', which is the name of a place, such as Leling and Leting; A sound is the same as 'to', which is the meaning of appreciation, such as in the Yongye chapter of the Analects, Zi said: The knower is happy with water, and the benevolent is from Leshan, and the music word is read as "to", and I don't know how to arrange the pronunciation of this lower couplet.

If you are poor in picking out words, you may be able to make another couplet with a lot of effort, but Zhao Yan really doesn't have the energy, so he has to regret it: "This couplet is absolute, and only a great talent like Bachelor Xie can come out, but there is nothing that can be done about it." ”

These two levels were originally set up by Wu Yan to enhance the reputation of his inn, at this time, seeing that Zhao Yan was unwilling to continue this second link, he was not easy to force, but Zhao Yan was a famous juvenile case leader in Zhending Mansion, and now he can stay in Huisheng Inn It is a good thing, if he can let this young man leave some ink treasures, it will be even better.

The plan has been decided, and Wu Yu bowed and said: "Case leader Zhao, there is a reluctant request below, and I also ask the head of Zhao to agree." ”

Zhao Yanxin said, you yourself have already said that you are reluctant to ask, what else can I say? It was really hard to find a place to stay.

"Please also ask Wu Gongzi to speak clearly."

Wu Wu said: "There are two upper rooms on the second floor, as long as Zhao can write a new poem on the wall and leave his name and surname, he can stay for free for half a month, I don't know if Zhao will agree?" ”

Zhao Yan just wanted to take a good bath at this time, and then sleep after eating, and didn't say anything more when he heard the words, and after taking the inkstone and brush, he inscribed a poem on the wall.

After Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan were led to the room by the shopkeeper, some people in the audience looked at a few lines of words on the wall, and slowly read: "Li Du's poems have been passed down by thousands of mouths, and they are no longer fresh. There are talented people from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years. This little case leader is so big......"

Others sneered: "People have the confidence to boast, do you have it?" ”

……

For Zhao Yi's "On Poetry", Zhao Yan remembered it quite clearly, but he forgot to be included in the primary school textbook or the middle school textbook, but at this time, it was enough to deal with Wu Yi.

After a good night's rest, the second day is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, the noise in the street market outside the window is endless, Zhao Yan thinks that he can't do it without hearing the things outside the window, and only reads the sage books, so he must not be able to read the books, Zhang Wenyuan is the same, the two got together to discuss it, and then decided to go around the market to see how the people of Fucheng celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.