"Crispy and crispy moon cakes, eat one to protect your toad palace and win laurels, eat two good things in pairs, eat three three happy ......"

Zhao Yan heard the hawker's shouting, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he thought that the locals were familiar with the way, and where there was a place to stay, it must be clearer than his own two, so he walked over and arched his hand, and asked: "This big brother, let me ask, is there any other place to stay near this test house besides the inn?" ”

The vendor glanced at the costumes of the two, deliberately groaned on his face, and then looked down at the mooncakes on his stall, and said with an embarrassed face: "Well...... It's hard to say. ”

Seeing this, Zhao Yan secretly cursed a profiteer in his heart, then handed over a few copper coins and said, "Big brother, this moon cake looks crispy and crispy, let's have a few." ”

The vendor accepted the copper coin with a smile, then wrapped a few months of cakes and handed it to Zhao Yan, saying: "Xiao Langjun, this is the right person, my Li Da* grew up in Fucheng since I was a child, and I am most familiar with the tiles and alleys in the city, and I can hear a lot of news when I chat with the neighbors......"

Unexpectedly, this person was a chatterbox, Zhao Yan interrupted helplessly: "Since Brother Li is so familiar with Fucheng, he must know where there are inns that have not yet been filled, or other places where you can stay, right?" ”

Li Da nodded and said: "That's natural, if you want to say the place to stay, it is naturally the preferred inn place, but there are a lot of people who come to take the college exam this time, most of the inns are full, only a 'Huisheng Inn' not far away still has a vacant room, but the shopkeeper of the inn has set a rule, if you want to stay, you can also stay, but you have to pass two levels first." ”

Zhang Wenyuan became curious and asked: "This is rare, I don't know how to pass two levels in a row?" ”

"The room in the inn has two kinds of upper room and ordinary room, the first pass 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, and then you only need to write a poem on the lobby wall, you can stay in the 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 the pair in recent days, all of them are scholars like the two Lang Jun, but now only a few people can match the first pair, and no one in the lobby can match the pair of the second level." If the two Lang Jun really can't find a place to live, they might as well give it a try, maybe they 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." ”

Zhang Wenyuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked, "How is Brother Li's house compared to the inn?" ”

Li Da smiled quite tactfully and said: "Naturally, it is not as good as the inn, there are only two adobe houses in the house." ”

Zhang Wenyuan's face darkened, and he said, "What about rice?" Can there be hot bathing? ”

"Hehe, Xiao Langjun said with a smile, naturally there is no food, no hot water." Li laughed even more 'tactfully'.

Zhao Yan heard that Zhang Wenyuan was pulled up and left, this hawker seemed to have fallen into the eyes of money, the room of the ordinary inn was at most seventy or eighty yuan a day, in addition to including two meals a day, hot water was also supplied for free, this Li Dake poured well, he lived in one of the two adobe houses, and the remaining one must be lived with Zhang Wenyuan, no food, no hot water, a fool would 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 come up, even if it is only for the first level of the upper couplet, you and I have to find a place to live." ”

Zhao Yan nodded and said, "It's okay, according to Brother Zhang's wishes, let's try it first." ”

Fang Cai also forgot to ask the hawker where the Huisheng Inn was, but fortunately, there was a lot of people in the market, and after holding a pedestrian and asking, the two 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 has something in his 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'm afraid that I will get 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, try to crack this couplet." ”

The words of these two people are full of malice, Zhao Yan naturally heard it, jealousy is the embodiment of human emotions, 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 person talk about the eight immortals crossing the sea, Zhao Yan had an idea, and he 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: "Driver, you have to deal with the pair next, I don't know who is in charge of your inn?" ”

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 Shenzhou, Zhao Yan just got a little after seeing this Shanglian. ”

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'. ”