Xiao Jiading walked forward slowly, paying attention to the ** signboards on both sides, and walked not far, and sure enough, he saw the "Jade Fang" mentioned by the shopkeeper. The grand three-story building is a cut higher than the others. At the gate, there are warblers and swallows, and richly dressed scholars come in and out.

Xiao Jiading plucked a few thumb-thick branches from a willow tree on the side of the road, made a banner from the white cloth on which the words were written, and stood at the door of the "Jade Building" with a smile.

Soon a scholar came to take a look, and saw a couplet on the banner, and the upper and lower couplets read:

Five carts of poetry,

Eight buckets of talent!

Horizontal criticism: "Friends with poetry"

There are four words below, which are impressively written: "Seven steps into a poem"!

There was still a string of copper coins on the branch in the middle, and some of them were used, and there were about more than 800 yuan.

A chubby scholar was preparing to enter the Jade Building with a few servants, and when he saw a group of people gathered around, he came over curiously, separated the crowd, and when he arrived in front of Xiao Jiading, he looked his banner up and down, and asked with a smile: "Seven steps into a poem, interesting, but I don't know your name, how to meet friends with poetry?" ”

"In Xia Xiao Jiading, I heard that Yizhou poetry is the best in the world, the younger brother loves poetry, suffering from no good teacher and friend, I heard that the literati and ink writers here often linger, so they dare to pick the flag, to poetry friends. There are brothers who are willing to take the recruitment, and each side comes up with three topics, and asks the other party to choose one of them to compose a poem, and if you can't do it, you will lose! It's all done, please comment on who wins and who loses. Lottery head consistent money! However, there is a limit of seven steps to a poem! ”

The onlookers were in an uproar, staring at him dumbfounded, and turned into a poem in seven steps, which is also quite awesome.

The fat scholar was stunned for a moment, and was about to speak, when a personable young scholar next to him had already laughed first: "Hahaha, seven steps into a poem?" Do you think you're Cao Zhi? ”

"If you don't believe it, don't hesitate to give it a try!"

The scholar said: "If you lose, the copper money on your guise will belong to me?" ”

"Exactly! If you lose, please lose my usual copper coins. ”

Seeing that Xiao Jiading was so confident, the scholar couldn't help but have some doubts and looked at him suspiciously.

Listening to Xiao Jiading say that he can become a poem in seven steps, and bet on the same money, many scholars came to see the excitement and discussed.

The scholar sneered: "Seven steps into poetry, Your Excellency is too arrogant, Zhong is already very arrogant, I can't think of anyone more crazy than Zhong, okay, Zhong will get to know each other, spend the same money to see if you really have the ability to become a poem in seven steps." With that, he stepped out, waved his hand, and said to the scholar who followed: "Take the money!" ”

The scholar took out the usual copper coin, held it in his hand, looked at Xiao Jiading with a sneer, and said, "Our son is the first genius in Yizhou!" You've met a real Buddha! ”

The first talent in Yizhou? Wasn't the Taolin Huang Shiyun also known as the first talented woman in Yizhou? This first one is also too worthless, and I met two in one day.

Xiao Jiading smiled and said, "Please teach my brother Taizun's surname?" ”

"In the next Zhong Wenbo!" The scholar said proudly.

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding scholars all exclaimed, and looked at him with adoring eyes one by one.

That Zhong Wenbo seemed to be a little confident in his reputation, and he couldn't imagine that the scholar in front of him didn't care about it, and he couldn't help but be even more angry.

Xiao Jiading said: "Zhong Gongzi, please come up with a question and I will write a poem, and then I will write a poem with a question, each with three topics, and the other party will choose one of them, and make a poem in seven steps." However, in the first place, the topic of this must be able to enter the poetry, don't make it difficult for others to fix those things that can't be on the table. ”

Xiao Jiading has memorized Tang poems under the stick of his parents since he was a child, not to mention the pediatrics of 300 Tang poems, and many good poems in tens of thousands of Tang poems are also familiar with his chest. It's only the early Tang Dynasty, and many famous Tang Dynasty masters have not yet been born, so it should not be much of a problem for Tang poets who are confident in their belly to deal with this situation. Now if you want to make a lot of money for an errand in a short period of time, you can only rely on this method of plagiarism.

For the sake of safety, he emphasized a few sentences later, requiring that the other party's poems must be able to get on the stage and enter the poems, so that if the other party's three topics are not related to the Tang poems that they can memorize, then they can find the fault of the other party's topic, say that they can't get on the table, and let the other party re-ask the question, this is the back road, so as not to make some strange questions and deviate from the topic, and there is no way to cheat.

Zhong Wenbo sneered and said: "Seven steps into a poem, after all, it is not easy, I naturally won't embarrass you too much." However, in the next ugly words, it is also said in the front, seven steps into a poem, that has to be a poem, don't make a few sentences of oil poems to fool people, everyone present is not rubbing sand in their eyes! ”

"That's nature!" Xiao Jiading smiled faintly, "If that's the case, I still have the face to ask for money?" If Your Excellency and all the brothers present think that I am slipping a limerick, then I will find a crack in the ground and get into it. ”

Many of the onlookers who had little knowledge laughed, but those scholars who read poetry and books did not laugh, because they knew that if the other party had no real ability, they would not dare to say so. It seems that I am afraid that there will really be a dragon and tiger fight. They all looked at them with wide eyes of excitement.

"Well said!" Zhong Wenbo sneered, glanced at his scholar next to him and the servant holding the cash box behind him, and squinted at Xiao Jiading, "You help Brother Xiao find a crack in the ground, and after a while, we will appreciate our ability to drill the crack in the ground with Brother Xiao, who has become a poem in seven steps!" ”

The scholar and the servant both laughed. The scholar pointed to the gutter next to him and said, "It's good here, and when he loses, he will crawl out of this gutter." ”

The crowd laughed again.

Zhong Wenbo nodded: "That's a good idea!" Yin Yin looked at Xiao Jiading and said, "What does Brother Xiao think?" ”

Xiao Jiading shrugged his shoulders and said, "Whoever loses will drill the gutter!" ”

"Good!" There was a cruel smile on the corner of Zhong Wenbo's mouth, "Then Zhong is about to solve the problem!" Raising his hand and pointing to the "Jade Building" behind him, "You think that in this building, the **, the turtle or the singer should choose a poem." ”

Xiao Jiading laughed when he heard his question, there are very few things about ** and turtle Gong in Tang poems, but it is related to ** singers, there are simply as many as cow hairs, and there is no problem with poetry solitaire. Of course, when it comes to some of these ** obscene lyrics, his father and mother naturally don't let him recite them, but Xiao Jiading secretly memorized them when he recited Tang poems, because there are several sets of various versions of all Tang poems in his bedroom, and there are many such verses.

He already knew it, but he pretended to be deep in thought, held the banner, and began to pace forward slowly.

He moved forward, and the people around him followed, looking at him one by one, waiting for his ridiculous appearance of the cowhide being blown apart.

The scholar of Zhong Wenbo also smiled and said to Xiao Jiading: "I can warn you, our son is full of poetry and books, and there is no one in the world who does not know the way of poetry, if you want to plagiarize, it will be humiliating!" ”

Plagiarize? Lao Tzu is plagiarizing in person, knocking your head and you don't know the way!

Zhong Wenbo watched him walk out of the gutter step by step, but there was no movement of the poem, he looked around triumphantly, and said loudly: "Everyone, we are about to see Brother Xiao who challenged Yizhou poetry crawling out of the gutter, the opportunity is rare, hurry up and see!" ”

When he shouted, many people came to watch.

As if he hadn't heard it at all, Xiao Jiading paced out seven steps, then stood still, looked back at Zhong Wenbo, smiled gloomily, and said, "Let's see who drills the gutter!" ”

In order to make money in this kind of scene, there is no need for poets and poets such as Li Du to come out, just find the works of a slightly more famous poet. At the moment, he slowly recited the late Tang Dynasty poet Shi Beiwu's "Words of Prostitute Residual Makeup" word by word:

The cloud bun has received the golden phoenix,

Delicately even, light and delicate about the residual makeup.

I don't know what a new song sounded last night,

It's still in someone's house around the painting beam.

This poem is written about watching a singer get up in the morning to make up, and sigh in her heart, I don't know who she went to last night to sing, and the voice is still lingering. In particular, the last sentence quotes the allusion of "lingering sounds, three days endlessly" in "Liezi Tangwen", describing the beauty of this singer's singing, which is very vivid, and at the same time mixed with some vinegar in it, reflecting the love for this singer.

The onlookers were suddenly amazed, and saw that he really became a poem in seven steps, and this poem was also extraordinary, and it was amazing at the moment.

When Zhong Wenbo saw that he had really become a poem in seven steps, he gasped, looked him up and down, and said, "I don't believe that this poem was really improvised by you within seven steps, it won't be your previous poem, and now it's being used for teasing, right?" ”

Xiao Jiading shrugged: "If you don't believe it, you can try again with a different topic." However, before that, you have to make a poem in seven steps, and let's talk about winning or losing in this game. ”

Zhong Wenbo looked at the scholars around him and looked at him, so he could only stubbornly say, "Okay!" You're out of the question! ”

Xiao Jiading has already thought about what topic to come up with, of course, he can't deviate from the topic, lest others gossip. The bet is that the other party can't make a poem in seven steps. smiled at the moment: "It's about the mood of Brother Tai himself, me, and everyone present." ”

The three topics that Xiao Jiading came up with are based on their mood at the moment, so as to avoid the other party taking out the poems he wrote before to be perfunctory.

Sure enough, Zhong Wenbo's face changed slightly after hearing this, and his head was empty for a while.

Xiao Jiading said: "Seven steps into poetry!" Brother Tai can start walking. ”

Zhong Wenbo walked forward mechanically, thinking quickly in his head, seeing that he was moving forward under his feet, but there was still nothing in his head, he could finish seven steps, and under the nervousness, he couldn't even make up a sentence, everyone laughed, Zhong Wenbo was a little annoyed, and said to Xiao Jiading: "You have a strange topic!" You can't even write it yourself! ”

"Hehe, that brother can spend another money to see if I can write it. However, you'll have to give me the jackpot first. ”