Christmas is the equivalent of the Chinese New Year for Americans.

Christmas trees can be seen everywhere in Los Angeles on this day, and the Staples Center is a sea of festivals.

Because Yao Ming joined the Lakers this year, and there are also two Chinese players in the SuperSonics in this year's Christmas game, outside the Staples stadium, the Lakers also made a special area for traditional Chinese culture, which attracted many local Hua Qiao, and even people who don't usually like to watch the basketball team came to join in the fun, after all, in this part of the United States, there are really few activities with Chinese characteristics.

"Lu, this is an invitation to the pre-game event." Joe Smith handed the invitation in his hand to Lu Fei.

"Invitation?" Lu Fei was stunned.

"What invitation?" Gu Tang also asked.

Joe Smith couldn't say clearly: "It's Chinese, you can see for yourself." ”

Lu Fei opened it and took a look, only then did he understand.

The Lakers' Chinese traditional culture zone held a couplet competition, and specially invited Yao Ming, Lu Fei and Wang Zhizhi to attend as guests.

What is a couplet?

To put it bluntly, it's a pair.

There are a lot fewer such activities in China, I didn't expect Huaqiao in the United States to engage in such activities, how to say, the farther away from home, the more they will promote traditional culture, for them, this is the culture flowing in their blood, can tell the world that they are Chinese.

"Couplet? Whatever you invite me to do, I'm just a baller. Lu Fei frowned.

"Whatever, go." Gu Tang smiled: "Otherwise, it's not interesting to let me watch you play, it's rare to have a fun activity." ”

Lu Fei doesn't care, he won't have couplets anyway, and Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming will also go, the two of them are not as educated as themselves, even if they are embarrassed, they must be the two of them.

After a while, the hotel staff delivered the tickets for the event.

Lu Fei glanced at it, there were more than a dozen, and if you count yourself, plus Gu Tang Chen's father, you will use three at most.

"Wait a minute, I'll make a call."

"What are you going to do?" Joe Smith was stunned.

"Idle is idle anyway, I'll give a ...... to my teammates"

Lu Fei took out his mobile phone.

"Hey, Ray, is there an event to play?"

"Rashid, I've got a fun event here, well, there's a lot of girls."

"Don't worry, Boris, there's enough coffee."

……

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the cold wind blew gently.

The traditional Chinese culture area at the entrance of the Staples Arena suddenly ushered in a mighty team.

The security guards immediately became vigilant, Yao Ming, who had just entered, had already kept them busy enough, and I heard that there were Lu Fei and Wang Zhizhi, but looking at this posture, it didn't look like two players.

Look no further, oh my!

It's a whole supersonic team, all here?

The security guards hurriedly pulled up the human wall and stopped the fans on both sides of the road, and Lu Fei and his teammates greeted the fans all the way to the entrance of the event area.

The security guard still checked the tickets according to the rules, and after the ticket checking, they led Lu Fei and them to the rostrum of the event, and when the rostrum was built at the beginning, I didn't expect so many stars to come over, let them go around below for fear of causing a riot, but let them go to the rostrum, can they stand on the rostrum?

"It's okay, you let them do their own activities, they're here to visit, please help watch the fans." Lu Fei said with a smile.

The security guard breathed a sigh of relief.

"Lu Fei, Dazhi, here." Yao Ming beckoned to the two of them on stage.

"You're here so early." Wang Zhizhi smiled and stepped forward to say hello.

"Isn't that early, he's a landlord." Lu Fei teased.

"Come to my house at night, we fight the landlord." Yao Ming invited.

"Cheng, when will the event start?"

"Right now......"

Before a few people finished talking, a few old people came out of the rostrum, they were the leaders of the local Han Culture Association, reading a long list of manuscripts on the stage, and everyone was drowsy, and finally glanced at Yao Ming, Lu Fei, Wang Zhizhi, and the three of them, and did not invite them to speak on stage, and directly announced the start of the couplet competition.

Father Chen and Gu Tang were wandering around, listening to the old man on the stage, frowning: "It seems that the three of them are not treated well in front of this group of old pedants?" ”

Gu Tang smiled: "They just came to take a scene, besides, no one of them will know the couplet." ”

On the stage, Lu Fei and Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi glanced at each other, and they were the three tools to attract people.

"Lu Fei, do you know how to couplet?"

"How could I ...... this?"

"That's over, it's cold if someone doesn't give us a question when we go back."

Wang Zhizhi is even more pitiful, he graduated from primary school, and the biggest headache is these things, pouting: "I knew that I brought the computer, but I can't Baidu." ”

"Carrying a computer, right here, it's a shame that you can figure it out."

"Let's see, maybe it's none of our business." Lu Fei said with luck.

At this time, the staff will hang the red cloth on the test questions in all corners of the audience, there is a pen under each question board, write the next couplet and hand it to the staff, someone will tell whether the answer is correct, and the first one to answer correctly can win the reward.

There are a total of 20 boards, which means that only 20 people will succeed in winning the prize.

Wang Zhizhi: "There are only 20 questions, and there are hundreds of people on this scene, so the competition is too cruel, right?" ”

Yao Ming: "There are hundreds of people who get rid of foreigners, and then remove Hua Qiao, who grew up in the United States, and the only ones who can answer the questions are those white-bearded old men." ”

"It's really ......," Lu Fei smiled.

Don't look at the whole audience looking lively, there are only a few elderly Hua Qiao who can answer the couplet, and everyone else is thinking hard there, but can you think of this kind of thing as a couplet?

Lu Fei, Wang Zhizhi, and Yao Ming also went down for a look, of course, accompanied by security personnel.

Gu Tang and Daddy Chen turned around for a while, but Daddy Chen answered the previous question and got the award sign.

"Lu Fei, here."

Gu Tang saw Lu Fei, who was surrounded by the crowd, and beckoned.

"Brother Yao, this is my girlfriend, Gu Tang." Lu Fei introduced to Yao Ming.

Yao Ming smiled: "Brother and sister, hello...... Come to my house for dinner at night, I'll ask your sister-in-law to cook something delicious, the habit of eating Shanghai food? ”

"Really? Great, Shanghainese food, as long as it's Chinese food. ”

Daddy Chen's eyes on the side were suddenly full of resentment, as if I hadn't done it for you.

Gu Tang turned to the side and said to Lu Fei: "Lu Fei, you see that there are still a few questions that no one has answered, do you want to try it?" ”

The remaining questions are estimated to be too difficult, and many people have already chosen to give up.

Lu Fei thought about it, and when he came, so many people were looking at them, if they were really just hanging out, it really couldn't be said.

After calming down, Lu Fei began to read the question.

Couplets, one, three, five, two, four, six are clear. Heaven to earth, rain to wind, continent to sky. Mountain flowers to sea trees, red sun to the sky. Ping, Ping

These basic Lu Fei know it, but once they are connected, they can't be matched.

Spring scenery...... It won't be right!

Peaks and Peaks...... It's so hard!

Sun-smoked ...... I don't know!

Lu Fei looked around, and knew that he had come down early, those simple, what firecrackers said goodbye to, and the peach charm welcomed the new year, these are still known, and now the remaining ones, some of them are a little more complicated, and they don't even know the words.

Lu Fei, Wang Zhizhi, and Yao Ming stared helplessly—this is too difficult.

Not far away, the old man who had just spoken on the rostrum, with a sneering smile on the corner of his mouth......