"When-" But the deacon sounded the gong and said loudly, "The first five groups of wine orders have been decided." It is a great pleasure for you to borrow wine and express your feelings and poems, so please let it go. ”

This line of wine order seems simple, but in fact it is not, one must have a amount of wine, two must have a talent to learn, each order for a poem, a circle down, adhere to the end, at least four or five poems. Lin Wanrong was in a daze, and she didn't realize how difficult it was to compose poetry, she just felt extremely happy in her heart, and she could say whatever she wanted. It wasn't until he won the first place in this group that he was a little more sober and still happy.

According to the regulations, the first place in each group of wine orders can advance to the next round. The rest of the people lost the qualification to enter the main ship, although there are some regrets, but on this flower boat, there are also set word card poems, and they can also meet friends with poems, and it has become a real poetry club. You don't have to think about the promotion, there is wine and food here, everyone is open-minded, and beautiful poems and sentences are endless.

The deacon pulled the five groups of victors aside, respectfully clasped his fists and said: "Congratulations to all the talents, if you win this round today, you can enter Miss Luo's flower boat and say some poems and songs with Miss Luo." If Miss Deluo is blue-eyed, she can return with a beauty, and her soaring will be just around the corner. ”

Lin Wanrong was already six or seven percent drunk, and said with a smile: "Do some poems to soar?" It's a lot of fun. The other talented men listened to him with disdain, and they all looked at him angrily, but when they saw that he was slightly drunk, they did not want to deal with him.

The deacon said, "The five talented men of the other ship have all been successfully promoted. In addition to our Hou Yuebai Gongzi in Jinling, there is also Zhao Xiaowangye, and the most famous is Wu Xue'an, a talented man in Beijing. Although the people in our boat are not as famous as them, I see that your talents and momentum are also extraordinary. You may not be able to defeat them. Later, someone will come to pick you up from the flower boat in the middle, and I wish you good luck. ”

Lin Wanrong was drunk, and he didn't bother to care who the others were, in this case, entering the top ten would be regarded as a big victory.

Yan Shenghui, who was drunk and fell to the ground, walked over crookedly, took his hand and said, "Third brother, the foolish brother is incompetent, I can't continue to accompany you for a while, you must marry Miss Zhuluo and go home." Grow some ambition for those of us who have no power and no power. ”

This Yan Sheng is very upright, Lin Wanrong's heart moved, it is better to recommend him to Xu Wei, which can be regarded as an opportunity for the two to meet. He smiled and patted Yan Sheng back on the shoulder and said, "Brother Yan, wait for my good news." ”

While speaking, the flower boat that everyone was riding on was already close to Luo Ning's painting boat, and the gongs and drums on the painting boat sounded in unison. Firecrackers shook the sky, a covered bridge was erected between the two ships, a carpet was laid, and the shortlisted talents were invited to enter the painting boat.

Most of the remaining talents are honest scholars, and when they saw this scene, they were envious, and they also high-fived and cheered, giving encouragement to the talents they knew well.

Lin Wanrong didn't know anyone else on this boat except for Yan Shenghui, but the other nine people in the same group as him were all impressed by his arrogance, and waved their hands frequently: "Third brother, you must win and return." Lin Wanrong smiled and waved, and followed everyone across the covered bridge.

Luo Ning's painting boat is really magnificent. Fly the eaves and walk the pavilion, carve the fence and jade masonry, knot red and hang green, the lanterns are colorful, lively and extraordinary. Five talented men from another boat were already waiting for them in one place. Lin Wanrong glanced at it, and sure enough, he saw that Zhao Kangning's little prince was smiling, standing at the head of the five people, but he didn't squint, and he didn't even look at these five people. Behind him was a smiling young man, who was also very handsome, shaking a folding fan, and was very romantic, talking to the little prince, as if he did not put others in his eyes.

Hou Yuebai Gongzi, who had not been seen for a long time, stood in third, also hesitant, staring closely at the two in front of him, as if he had regarded them as his biggest opponents. and so on, and others will not be able to enter their eyes.

Lin Wanrong walked at the end of the five, and Zhao Kangning didn't pay attention to the three. Ten people divided into two teams and went inside.

Entering the main gate, I saw a screen standing in front of the two teams, and the only one in the middle of the screen was a small door that could accommodate one person to enter.

This is called "entering the customs", and it is an obstacle that deliberately tests talents. Although this door is small, it doesn't matter who comes first and who comes later, but the arrogant talents will not give in easily, and they must fight.

Zhao Kangning, who led the other team, said with a smile: "There is a wall in front of the people, and the door is in the center of the wall. If I don't enter first, the yellow dog won't ride on the wall. ”

Lin Wanrong's face changed, and Zhao Kangning was scolding people with poetry, which meant that if anyone dared to enter in front of him, it would be a yellow dog riding on the wall. The talented man who took the lead, afraid of Zhao Kangning's power, was scolded, but he didn't dare to say anything, Zhao Kangning smiled disdainfully, and wanted to step on the wall.

"Slow, slow." Lin Wanrong strode forward and said with a smile: "Little prince, do you still know me?" ”

Zhao Kangning glanced at him, and his face immediately changed: "You, you, didn't you die in the ten thousand cannons?" ”

Lin Wanrong's face turned pale, damn, Lao Tzu said that Tong Cheng is so big, it turned out that you, the bastard, were behind him, he smiled gloomily and said, "Little prince, do you want me to die so much?" Hehe, I have nine lives, how can someone use some means to get it? ”

Lin Wanrong laughed and chanted loudly: "Ride the wall, ride the wall, don't learn from you to be rampant." Before the teacher, go home and teach your mother! ”

Zhao Kangning once said that when he meets Lin San again, he will be treated with a teacher's courtesy, and if the teacher has not entered, how can he enter? Lin San's limerick poem, even his wife trained him, but it still makes sense. Zhao Kangning's face was red and white, but what he said that day was that many people saw him in the place, and he couldn't quibble.

Lin Wanrong snorted secretly, and was about to step in, but heard the handsome man behind Zhao Kangning say, "Wait-"

Lin Wanrong glanced back at him, and the man clenched his fists and said, "Wu Xue'an in Xiajing, I don't know who Your Excellency is-"

"Wu Xue'an?" Lin Wanrong frowned and said, "I haven't heard of it!" In the lower bandit number Lin San is also. ”

"You are Lin San?" Wu Xue'an was shocked, glanced at Zhao Kangning, and saw that he didn't speak, so he said coldly: "You are too rampant, how can you be trained by this little people, little prince?" ”

Lin Wanrong said with a smile: "Can I be trained, what you say doesn't count, you have to say it yourself." Little prince, are you right? ”

Zhao Kangning gritted his teeth, scolded Tong Cheng half to death, and said that Lin San would be killed in ten thousand cannons, so that the prince could rest assured, but now that Tong Cheng has become a demon, Lin San is standing alive in front of him.

Zhao Kangning didn't say a word, but Lin Wanrong smiled heartily: "It's just for the wall, why don't you make three feet?" The Great Wall is still there. I don't see Qin Shi Huang back then. Wu Xue'an, Brother Wu, right, this introduction is the same as hearing the Tao, although the entry is not heard, you read the poetry book is also in vain. This one will let you go first. ”

With that, he grinned and stepped back, letting the door out. Wu Xue'an glanced at Zhao Kangning, not knowing what to do. Ning Xiaowang gritted his teeth, hugged his fists and said, "Mr. Lin, you invite first!" ”

Lin Wanrong smiled slightly, and said to the leader: "Brother, let's go in." ”

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"Sister Ning, the ten newly selected talents are coming soon, go and take a look." Qiaoqiao said to Luo Ning, who was sitting in front of the mirror in a daze.

Luo Ning shook her head: "Go see what they do, it's all a farce arranged by my father, and it has nothing to do with me." He also asked me to hide it from everyone, so that Brother Lin misunderstood me. He refuses to come now, because he must be angry with me. Qiaoqiao, what do you think I should do? ”

Qiaoqiao glanced Luo Ning up and down. The red lips bit lightly: "Sister Ning, you care so much about your eldest brother, isn't it-"

Luo Ning hurriedly said: "Qiaoqiao, don't get me wrong, Brother Lin and I are just good friends." Other things, not yet touched-" At this point, her face was already red, and it was not an ordinary uncomfortable feeling to deceive her sister.

Qiaoqiao sighed lightly: "The eldest brother, although he is shrewd on the surface, is confused about women's thoughts-"

Luo Ning snorted: "He is confused, he is clear in his heart, but he pretends to be confused on the surface, which is extremely annoying and hateful." ”

Qiaoqiao shook his head and chuckled: "It doesn't matter if he is really confused or fake, he is the nemesis of our women." When I first met my eldest brother, I liked to listen to him every day, he never said anything serious, but people liked him very much, every day I thought about him, I thought about him, I wanted to see him to sleep well. Sister Ning, do you feel like this? ”

"Exactly-ah, no, no-" Luo Ning hurriedly denied it, her face flushed, and she couldn't help but bow her head slightly.

Qiaoqiao's heart was a little sour, and she couldn't hold back her tears and said: "Sister Ning, you are so worried about your eldest brother, if your eldest brother learns, he will be very happy in his heart, and he will give up his life and come back in a hurry." ”

Luo Ning seemed to be a little choked up when she heard her words, and hurriedly looked up, only to see that this girl had tears in her eyes, but she desperately gritted her teeth to prevent it from falling, Luo Ning hurriedly said: "Qiaoqiao, what's wrong with you?" ”

Qiaoqiao sighed and said: "Big brother, this person is not shallow, Sister Ning, if you really like him, I will talk to him about it, he is hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, and I will teach you to fulfill your wishes." ”

Luo Ning didn't dare to speak, and whispered a few words in Qiaoqiao's ear, Qiaoqiao was so shocked that she covered her cheeks with her little hand, and said shamefully: "Sister Ning, you are dead, how can you eavesdrop like that?" I hate Big Brother to death. ”

Luo Ning felt sour and bitter in her heart, and said angrily: "If you do something evil in my boudoir, this big brother is the worst person in the world." ”

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This is the scene of the finals? Lin Wanrong entered the main cabin of the painting boat and carefully looked at the scene in front of him. The wall lamps are hung high, the color is picturesque, and it has long been full of high-ranking officials and celebrities in Jinling City. There is a big charcoal stove in the middle, the red charcoal fire warms the wine, and the maids and servants keep walking around, which is very lively.

A master has already sang: "The top ten talents of the Jinling Poetry Competition have been produced, please take a seat——"

Smack. Everyone's eyes looked towards the door, and the talented man in front of him had never seen such a scene where celebrities gathered and everyone's eyes were gathered together, and his hands trembled slightly unconsciously. Lin Wanrong walked in the fifth place, he was not afraid of this kind of scene, he didn't know how many people he had experienced before, and he had trained a tiger courage on the battlefield this time, and others should be afraid of him.

"Brother Lin, Brother Lin—" Lin Wanrong heard a woman's rough voice. turned her head to look, but saw that the person was actually Liu Yue'e, who volunteered to help the Xiao family in Hangzhou in the past, and now she was waving hard at herself, even happier than when she entered the siege herself.

"Sister Liu—" Lin Wanrong waved her hand to say hello. Smiling slightly, since the Liu family has been invited, then someone from the Xiao family should naturally come.

He looked around, and heard a person shouting: "Lin San, Lin San-" glanced over, but saw that in the penultimate row, Young Master Biao was standing on a chair and waving desperately to him, and the excitement on his face was overflowing.

Lin Wanrong waved her hand vigorously and smiled, walked over there and said, "Young Master, why are you here, didn't you also participate in this poetry competition?" ”

Guo Wuchang said with annoyance: "Don't mention it, I gave a hundred taels of silver to the judge of that district, and finally got on the flower boat." I didn't know that the liquor order was defeated in the first round. Alas, I knew that I was still by your side, so how could I get a top ten. ”

Lin Wanrong smiled and talked to this young master. It's like going back to the old days, but now Xian'er has become her wife, but the eldest lady and herself are gradually moving away, and life is really changeable.

"Lin San, I heard that you made Cousin Yuruo angry last night?" Guo Wuchang approached him. Secretly.

"No, it's just that the personalities are incompatible, temporarily separated, everyone calm down." Lin Wanrong said with a smile.

Guo Wuchang also sighed slightly: "If you want to say that my cousin's character is too strong, she dares to teach anyone a lesson." Think about your contribution to our Xiao family, it is a great contribution, and if you continue to make trouble like this, I really don't know what the consequences will be. Why is my cousin confused? ”

Lin Wanrong sighed slightly: "Don't talk about this." How's the second miss? ”

Guo Wuchang said: "Cousin Yushuang looks forward to your return every day, but as soon as you come back, you quarrel with Yuruo, and the eldest cousin has to let the people in the house hide it from her first." Alas, poor Yushuang, every day I draw circles on the calendar and count the time, but I don't know that you are outside the gate, how did it make such a fuss? ”

Lin Wanrong's heart was a little sour, and she looked at the position next to Guo Wuchang, as if the young master understood his thoughts, and said: "This is the position of Yuruo's cousin, she said she was coming, and I don't know why I haven't seen her at such a time." We didn't know that you were in the top ten of this poetry competition, if I knew, I would have called Side, Xiao Feng, and everyone in the mansion to cheer for you. ”

Although the young master is not learned and unskilled, these words are heartwarming, Lin Wanrong patted him on the shoulder and smiled slightly, glanced at the empty position next to him, and sighed silently, I don't know what is going on, it is such an uncontrollable scene.

"Lin San, you work hard, marry this talented girl from Jinling home, serve tea, send water, laundry, cook, torture well, and make her look down on our man." The young master said indignantly.

Lin Wanrong smiled, and before he could speak, he heard someone shouting: "Big brother, big brother-" Dong Qingshan's excited voice came from the side, and he turned his head to look, but saw Qingshan and Luo Yuan rushing towards him.

Lin Wanrong stepped forward and said, "Qingshan, Xiaoluo, how are you?" ”

Dong Qingshan hugged his arm and said, "Big brother, brother-in-law, you're back." ”

Lin Wanrong nodded and said, "Qingshan, what about Qiaoqiao?" Why didn't you see her? ”

Qingshan said: "My sister is helping in Miss Luo's room, Miss Luo has been overworked these days and is a little sick." "Luo Ning, this girl is sick again? Alas, women are just like this, and when they have too many things on their minds, they are easy to get sick.

Luo Yuan said: "Big brother, what have you been doing these days, you have tanned a lot." ”

Lin Wanrong smiled and said, "Do something very important." Xiao Luo, what happened to your sister? ”

Luo Yuan shook his head and said, "It's not good, I'm frowning all day long." My father is really, it's not that he doesn't know that his sister's vision is higher than the sky, and he makes such a poem to recruit relatives, which is very cheesy. ”

Aoyama said: "That's it." Miss Luo's fairy-like characters, which are comparable to these poor acids. Brother-in-law, I think you might as well use some effort to defeat these guys, marry Miss Luo home, and be Xiao Luo's brother-in-law. ”

Lin Wanrong laughed, Qingshan, a calf, always speaks so directly. The three brothers were talking and laughing, but they heard a master shouting, "Please sit in front of the first ten talents." ”

Lin Wanrong walked to the front of the stage, found an empty stool from the bottom, and looked down, but saw that the eyes of the Jinling celebrities in the audience fell on the people on the stage. The most attractive on the stage are Zhao Kangning, Wu Xue'an and Hou Yuebai. As for Lin Wanrong's dark horse, only Young Master Cousin and Liu Yue'e are optimistic about him, and others naturally think that this is at most a foil.

The master walked up to the front desk and said loudly: "The Jinling Poetry Competition, the Poetry Competition, start now." In addition to the celebrities in Jinling, there are also Lord Luo, the governor of Jiangsu, Lord Cheng, the commander of the capital, Lord Xuezheng Tong of Jiangsu, and local officials. ”

Lin Wanrong glanced at it, and sure enough, she saw Luo Min sitting on a high platform in the distance, smiling at herself. Next to him was Cheng De, with an old face dark, and he couldn't see his expression.

The master said loudly: "This poetry competition is practiced, ten into six, six into four. Two of the four are selected, and the two compete, for a total of four rounds of elimination. "This arrangement is reasonable, as the so-called Wen has no second, Wu has no first, this kind of fighting poetry, there is no point in taking the top three, only the first is the goal pursued by everyone.

"The first round. I asked the student to ask the question. The master said loudly, and everyone applauded.

The scholar stood up and hugged his fists around: "Today is a gathering of talented people, a grand event in the poetry world, and the old man will throw bricks and make a poem topic." The four gentlemen of Meilan, bamboo and chrysanthemum, headed by plum blossoms, will ask all the talented people to make a poem in the snow. ”

Everyone in the hall has some talents, and as soon as they heard that the first round was Yongmei in the snow, they secretly shouted to themselves. Because there are countless Yongmei poems since ancient times, and the famous ones are all classics, and the classics are the most difficult to surpass, it is too difficult to make Yongmei's good poems in this short effort.

The talented people thought for a while, and Hou Yuebai, the talented man of Jinling, took the lead in standing up and said: "Student Hou Yuebai, Yongmei song: warm and shocking plum, first pass on Fangzhi, and come to Wanbao Spring at night." The remnant winter snow, and then meet the harmony, it is already a famous garden. ”

Good! Hou Yuebai had just finished chanting, and the crowd burst into a good place. This Hou Gongzi was the first to chant, and he was from Jinling, so everyone naturally had to give face.

Not to be outdone, the little prince stood up and said: "Student Zhao Kangning, also Yongmei song: Spring cold lock, in the courtyard, plum blossoms and a few trees complain about the east wind, Qingrui does not spit out the dark fragrance. ”

Good! This time, it was the black-faced Cheng De who took the lead in shouting, and Luo Min next to him secretly laughed, you black-faced thing can't even recognize a few words, where do you understand the meaning of this.

Wu Xue'an, a talented man in Beijing, had already made up his mind, and the third stood up and said: "Student Wu Xue'an in Beijing, Yongmei song: the sky is pale in snow, and the plum blossoms are embroidered by hand." When the winter arrives next year, it will be opened with one place again. ”

The first three of them are really famous, Yongxue and Yongmei are all captured, although they are not called masterpieces, but they are already first-class sentences. The rest of the people, looking at what these three men had done, were a little ashamed of themselves. There were only three of the six people behind, and they chanted some plum blossom poems with the first three talents, but they were far inferior to the first three. The other three did not get a sentence, needless to say, they were eliminated.

Lin Wanrong accompanied the last seat, he drank too much wine, but in this ring, he also took some naps and yawned. Everyone couldn't help but laugh, if this talent is not amazing, then he must have a world-shattering disease.

Young Master Biao, Dong Qingshan and the others were secretly anxious, this is a knockout competition, not to mention anything else, even if you can't make a quatrain for the ages, then you have to chant a poem of Yongmei.

The remaining nine have all finished the game, and the last one is for Lin Wanrong. He looked at the seat beside the young master, but it was still empty, sighed silently in his heart, and stood up.

"Sister, sister-" Luo Yuan ran into Luo Ning's room out of breath and said loudly: "Good news, good news-"

Luo stared at the face in the mirror, and sighed quietly, as if he hadn't heard his words, but asked coincidentally: "Luo Yuan, what good news-"

"Brother Lin, Brother Lin, he-"

"What's wrong with Brother Lin-" The small mirror in Luo Ning's hand fell to the ground with a snap, and the two women hurriedly said together: "What's wrong with Big Brother?" ”

"Big brother, he participated in the poetry competition and broke into the top ten!" Luo Yuan said loudly.

"Big brother-" The two women exclaimed in surprise at the same time, tears fell, and they supported each other and hurriedly walked out.

Fang Xing went to the attic, and through the curtain, he heard Lin Wanrong's voice say: "I can't chant some poems with plum characters—"

"Big brother-" Hearing this, Luo Ning fell straight backwards and fainted.