As soon as this person's voice fell, he heard someone in the lobby coaxing: "It's you Liu Ruozai again-Brother Liu Yuanyin!" Yesterday you came up with a tricky title fighting poem, and you took the lead. How? What kind of ghost idea did you come up with today, thinking of a way to humiliate us? ”

The scholar named Liu Ruozai smiled: "What tricky problem did I have yesterday? Write about the wind, flowers, snow, and the moon, listen to the convenience, what's so difficult about this? ”

Immediately, someone refuted: "Nonsense, how is it not difficult? Write about the wind and snow, but you can't take the wind and snow in the poem. Not only these four words can't be carried; Even flower names such as plum, orchid, and chrysanthemum can't be carried; Even nicknames such as Jade Rabbit, Kyaukpan, and Toad Palace can't be mentioned, what else does this poem tell people to do? ”

Liu Ruozai listened, scratched his head, and said: "Yesterday was a matter of interest, and I asked the question casually, but when I heard it today, I realized that Liu Mou made it difficult for you." Well, I'm not going to write poetry today, so I'll make a simple one-couplet, couplet, how about it? ”

Someone in the lobby immediately said: "Since it was Brother Liu who made the question, naturally it can't be simple, I'm afraid this pair is not so good, right?" ”

Liu Ruozai covered his mouth and smiled: "That's natural, let's have a ruthless pair today!" ”

"Ruthless, right!"

"Ruthless, right!"

Someone in the lobby exclaimed in a low voice: "Ruthless, that's difficult!" ”

Ji Qingwen traveled from the later generations, he didn't know grammar, and he didn't know what this "ruthless pair" was, so he asked Li Yandao: "Brother Li, how can you still be affectionate to the pair?" Ruthless? ”

Li Yan said: "Ordinary pairs require the upper and lower couplets to be neat and neat, and they must have the same artistic conception. 'Ruthless pair' does the opposite, neat and neat battles are naturally needed, but the context should be as different as possible. ”

While Li Yan was introducing, the old man at the same table was also explaining to the young man next to him: "For example, Emperor Chengzu of my dynasty once published a joint work 'Lust Difficulty' - taken from "Analects and Politics"; Mr. Xie Jin, a university scholar, said it was 'easy'. The words are neat, but the meaning is irrelevant, this is the ruthless pair. ”

Ji Qingwen couldn't help but nod after listening to Li Yan's introduction; The young man listened to the old man's explanation and secretly bowed his head.

But I heard Liu Ruozai say: "Since you all have no opinions, then I will ask the question first." Shanglian is—" He looked out the window, and continued, "Shanglian is—a melon shed to cover Beidou." ”

As soon as these words came out, the originally heavy lobby immediately fell into silence. Here are all well-educated people who have passed the county test and the township test, but as soon as Liu Ruozai came out, no one responded to answer, and they all bowed their heads and thought about this ruthless couplet.

Ji Qingwen knew that he couldn't do it anyway, so he didn't have to think deeply, he just raised his eyes to observe everyone's expressions, only to see that some of them were embarrassed, some were thinking hard, and some were pretending to be relaxed, but no one raised their hands to answer the questions.

Ji Qingwen moved his gaze back again, and saw that the faces of the old, middle-aged and young people were different from everyone else, and they didn't seem to be thinking about the answer, but watching the excitement with great interest.

But I heard Li Yan ask in Ji Qingwen's ear: "Brother Ji, have you made this uplink?" ”

Ji Qingwen said: "How many drops of ink do I have in my stomach, Brother Li still doesn't know?" I am affectionate and ruthless, and I can't get it right. Listening to Brother Li's tone, could it be that Brother Li has already come out? Why don't you speak out and show off? ”

Li Yan said nonchalantly: "These are all small skills of carving insects, don't say it." ”

After another half an hour, Liu Ruozai said: "Is there really no one right?" Pity...... Pity...... It's a pity that tomorrow someone will say that I, Liu Ruozai, am proud of my talent and deliberately have a problem......"

At this moment, the young man who was at the same table as Ji Qingwen and Li Yan suddenly said loudly: "Someone has come out, hey, it's this person." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Yan.

When Liu Ruozai saw it, he immediately said, "Oh? In that case, why don't this gentleman show his hand so that I can wait for my eyes to be opened? ”

Li Yan waved his hand and said: "I don't have the ability to come out in the next place, but my brother is full of wealth and is already confident." As he spoke, he patted Ji Qingwen on the shoulder.

Ji Qingwen was in a cold sweat when Li Yan said this, and hurriedly whispered: "Brother Li, don't make fun of me, how can I be right?" ”

Over there, Liu Ruozai was urging: "Then ask that gentleman to come out and advise." ”

Ji Qingwen had nothing to say and advise, and was thinking of a way to get out, but he heard Li Yan say the following couplet in his ear: "Half of the bamboo hat is sent to Dongpo." ”

Ji Qingwen didn't have time to think deeply when he heard this, so he blurted out: "Half of the bamboo hat is sent to the east slope." ”

As soon as this couplet came out, the lobby of Liansheng Inn immediately resounded with admiration - these two couplets are extremely neat, but they are the upper couplets and the lower couplets talk about people, and they have nothing to do with each other - it is the so-called "ruthless pair"!

Even Liu Ruozai praised: "Good union, good connection!" Then there will be another couplet below. As he spoke, he pondered for a moment and said, "Today, when I kill a chicken in the next store, there will be a couplet-the thin feather poultry died after the anvil, may I ask the next couplet?" ”

Li Yan didn't think about it, and said the next link in Ji Qingwen's ear.

Ji Qingwen also hurriedly parroted and said, "Mr. Liu, a coarse beast." ”

Liu Ruozai was stunned for a moment when he heard this, his eyes widened and he said, "You...... You...... You scold me? ”

Only then did everyone react, and they immediately burst into laughter: "Hahaha! Well scolded, well scolded! I didn't expect you Liu Yuanyin to have a day of collapse and sinking in the sand? ”

Ji Qingwen didn't want to offend people at will in the capital, so he hurriedly said: "It's not that I scold you, I just want to scold, and I can't make up such a link." Well, it's all taught to me by this Brother Li on my side. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Yan.

At this time, Li Yan was also amused, raised his head and said: "It's just that it is in the middle of the mood, and there is absolutely no sarcasm." I have another link, and I would like to ask this Mr. Liu to answer. ”

Liu Ruozai hurriedly said: "Excuse me." ”

Li Yan said: "I waited for the entrance examination in Beijing, all for the sake of fame, if I am the top student in high school, I can be elected to the Hanlin Academy, as a five-grade editor, wearing an azure-colored official uniform, and the uplink is here - a five-grade azure gown." ”

Liu Ruozai rolled his eyes and said, "Coincidentally, my family sells medicine, and the next link is here-Liuwei Dihuang Pill." ”

The two of them sang and harmonized, and they spoke in a funny and wonderful way, so that the Liansheng Inn broke out from time to time with cheers, as if they were appreciating the cross talk of Liu and Li.

In this way, the two of them exchanged four or five couplets, and finally stopped, only to hear Liu Ruozai say: "Liu is a person from Nanzhili, and he has always boasted that he is the first Yicai in Jiangnan, and he thinks that this year's champion is determined to take and give up on me." Today, I learned that there is a sky outside the sky and there are people outside the people. ”

As he spoke, he suddenly raised his voice and said: "Everyone, in today's imperial examination, the champion is this brother, and there is no doubt that the list is below. His tone was still unruly, and people didn't feel the slightest humility.

At this moment, someone suddenly said loudly: "You sour and rotten literati are really useless. Now that the strong enemies outside the Daming Pass are watching, you are dancing here one by one, can you still kill all the Jurchens outside the gate? ”

This person's words were like a thunderbolt from the sky, pulling everyone out of the atmosphere of "Wendou", and they all paid attention to it.

Ji Qingwen also looked at that person, but saw that this person was not someone else, it was the young man who led a group of generals into the city at the gate of Chongwen today.

I saw him standing tall in the lobby with his head held high, and his body was shrouded in a layer of majestic and heroic temperament, and he really had a sense of standing out from the crowd among a group of literati.

He saw that everyone was dumbfounded by his own words, his face immediately showed a smug expression, the corners of his mouth raised a smile, glanced at everyone, and was about to sit down slowly, but he heard someone say: "Look at your appearance, you don't look like a student, are you also here to enter Beijing to take the exam?" ”

The man stopped his movements and said, "That's natural, if I don't come to catch the exam, how can I live in this Liansheng Inn?" I'm a martial artist, and I'm here to take the martial arts exam. ”

As soon as he said this, the lobby immediately burst into laughter: "Oh~ Which master should I be, it turns out that I am just a martial artist." I ask you, will you write your own name? ”

The man shrugged his eyebrows and said, "What about the martial artists?" What about the literati? This time, the emperor issued an edict to open a martial arts department in addition to the original liberal arts, in order to recruit martial arts talents from all over the world. The saint's painstaking work, you can't understand it, and you dare to sneer, I really don't know what to do. ”

He carried the current emperor out and immediately blocked the mouths of the people, and the originally noisy lobby of the Liansheng Inn suddenly fell into a deathly silence.