The three of Yuwang glanced at each other, their faces suddenly became a little ugly, the little scholar had a special identity, I don't know what he wanted, Yuwang instinctively didn't want Xu Rui to be involved in this matter, and opened his mouth to speak for Xu Rui.

But before he could really say anything, the little scholar smiled and said, "Why, does Lord Xu think that we are lowly in knowledge and do not want to be with us, or is he unwilling to correct the name of my Northern Dynasty student?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately forced to look at Xu Rui, and when they saw Xu Rui's hesitation, they immediately believed it, and their eyes were even more unkind.

In this way, Xu Rui has become a tiger rider, and what King Yu said in his mouth was wrong, so he couldn't say it again.

Excited by this, Xu Rui was shocked, sobered up, and saw that the little scholar seemed to be smiling, and several people around him looked strange, how could they not know that there were ghosts in it.

The little scholar was afraid that she was coming for herself, but I don't know who is behind her, and what is her purpose?

Thinking of this, Xu Rui's heart suddenly sank, and the alarm bell rang out.

"Lord Xu is the number one talent in my northern country, if he asks the question, your young lady won't disagree, right?"

Just as he was hesitating, the little scholar asked Bai Xiaohan's maid again.

The maidservant snorted coldly and said: "What is the first talent, my young lady has seen a lot, as long as he dares to ask the question, my young lady will naturally be complete, I am afraid that the image of your so-called saint is not worthy of the name, and I dare not ask the question." ”

As soon as the two sang and harmonized, the onlookers immediately discussed, completely forcing Xu Rui into a corner.

People are social animals, since he came to this world, Xu Rui has been trying to integrate into the surroundings, recently he is too sharp, already a bit of a wood show in the forest, if it is because of such a trivial matter and the Northern Dynasty scholars, maybe it will cause more trouble.

That's it, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, and preferring to go to the tiger mountains, no matter who calculates him behind him, he will always break off a few of his front teeth!

In an instant, Xu Rui thought about it clearly, and a heroic spirit suddenly arose in his heart.

He suddenly got up and laughed loudly: "Mr. Dongli is very loving, and he is ashamed to be a late student, but thanks to all of you for your face, let the late student solve the question, then the late student should be fine!" ”

Xu Rui's deeds have been legendary for a long time, but there are very few people who have really seen him display his talents, and his intransigence immediately caused a burst of cheers from everyone.

The little scholar had a triumphant smile on his face, staring at Xu Rui, but a layer of white sweat had already appeared in his clenched palms, and he seemed to be very nervous.

Xu Rui saw everyone's reactions in his eyes, sneered in his heart, and said: "Listen, the late uplink is: Smoke lock pond willow!" ”

"Smoke lock pond willow? What is this question? ”

When everyone heard this, they didn't know why, revealing a hint of deep groaning, only the little scholar chewed for a moment, and the first to react, his pupils shrank suddenly.

Immediately afterwards, Huang Zhengyuan also seemed to have discovered the clue, and he was shocked, and looked at Xu Rui in shock.

Later, King Yu and King Su also read the mystery and laughed with their palms.

In the end, most of the people present finally slowly realized the true meaning of it, and exploded with a "boom".

The so-called shorter the more difficult, like the pair, the more words are better, and the number of words is too small.

Moreover, "smoke lock pond willow" is only five words, but the side of these five words contains the five elements of "gold, wood, water, fire and earth", which means that it constitutes a complete picture, and there is no trace of forced patchwork.

If you want to make this sentence, not only can the artistic conception not be too far behind, but also the side of the five words must echo the upper couplet, either start with the five elements, or find another one equivalent to the five elements to break the game.

But the smoke lock pond willow five elements are complete, has formed a closed loop, unbreakable, the five elements themselves are the supreme cycle in the culture, how difficult is it to find the same idea?

In fact, this sentence is not Xu Rui's original, but recorded by Chen Zisheng's "Zhongzhou Thatched Cottage Collection" in the Ming Dynasty, and was later used by Emperor Qianlong as the topic of the palace examination.

One candidate turned his head and left after seeing this couplet, and the other shook his head and sighed after thinking for a while.

Qianlong explained that this uplink is absolute, and the first candidate left immediately, which shows that he has profound knowledge and quick thinking, so he was named the champion.

Just seeing the door first can be taken as the champion, which shows the difficulty of this couplet.

In the hundreds of years since, these five words have often been taken out for comparison, and even collected the following links from Chinese people around the world, but no one has been able to say it, which is truly and absolutely!

After Xu Rui finished this couplet, the originally lively Wentian Pavilion suddenly fell silent.

The little scholar frowned and thought carefully, but he couldn't grasp the clue at all.

Huang Zhengyuan dipped his hands in water and wine, wrote and drew on the desktop, but he didn't write a few words and wiped them with his hands and pushed them all over again.

The little maid on the first floor had a gloomy face and kept looking towards the fourth floor, but there was no reaction on the fourth floor except for the lantern that had just been hung up.

As for King Yu and King Su, the two have given up struggling, like most people.

After a long time of tea, no one came out, and the little scholar suddenly sighed and said: "I am only a shallow learner, and I still have no ideas after thinking for a long time, I don't know who can give me some advice?" ”

Everyone look at me, I look at you and shake your head, the little maid has come to the third floor at some point, standing in the middle of the two private rooms, and shook her head helplessly: "My young lady didn't come out either." ”

Xu Rui smiled slightly and said, "In that case, I won this question?" ”

The maid gritted her teeth and nodded: "It's true that Childe won, but Childe don't be too happy, the next question should be my miss, I'm afraid Childe may not be right!" ”

Xu Rui is just a copyist, how can he really be a couplet, hearing this, his heart suddenly tightened, and he quickly thought about countermeasures, but his face said lightly: "Listen to me." ”

"Wait!"

Just when the maidservant was about to come up with the question, the little scholar interrupted again, and everyone immediately looked at him, only to see him staring at Xu Rui with an unconvinced face.

"Fang Cai's coupling can be called an absolute eternal, and it really opened the eyes of the late students, but the later students are very curious, Lord Xu, what are you talking about?"

When he said this, everyone became curious.

"Do you attack the shield of the son with the spear of the son?"

Xu Rui knew it, but he didn't hide it at all, and said: "The focus of this question is not to let others come out, to tell the truth, it can't be right below." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was immediately disappointed, and a trace of disappointment also flashed in the little scholar's eyes, but more of them were happy.

Xu Rui looked at his appearance, and suddenly blessed his soul, and came up with a clever plan that didn't have to be recruited, and immediately smiled: "Fang Cai only said that let Zai make the question, but did not say let Zai come out himself, so I came up with this eternal absolute."

But since the little brother has raised an objection, then there will be another link in the next, as long as someone is right, it will be counted as a loss, how about it? ”

"Is that true?!"

The little scholar was slightly stunned and asked in surprise, as if he had been aroused to compete with Xu Rui.

Xu Rui nodded and said: "A gentleman's words are difficult to chase, and everyone here is a witness!" ”

Everyone was absolutely shocked by Xu Rui's eternal beauty, and now seeing that he was still going to ask the question, they suddenly became interested, and they actually put Bai Xiaohan's maidservant aside.

Xu Rui naturally didn't care about the maidservant, he pondered for a moment and said: "The upper link below is: the northern goose flies south, and the wings are divided up and down. ”

Hearing this sentence, including Huang Zhengyuan and the little scholar, everyone immediately frowned.

This sentence not only vividly depicts the scenery of the northern wild goose flying south, but also contains the six directions of "east, west, north and south, up and down", even if it is not the eternal absolute like Fang Cai, it is not too much different.

There was silence for a whole stick of incense in the Wentian Pavilion, Huang Zhengyuan sighed, hugged his fist at Xu Rui and said: "I came up with a few pairs in Xia, but they are not neat, so I won't be ugly. ”

Xu Rui nodded slightly at Huang Zhengyuan, and then looked at the little scholar with a smile.

The little scholar's face changed, and he said stiffly: "Read the ancient book today, and turn it before and after the spring and autumn period." ”

His sentence is quite neat, ancient and modern, spring and autumn, and before and after, and can barely go up and down from east to west, north and south, but it is not as natural as Shanglian, and it finally falls behind.

The little scholar himself knew that he was just barely right, and subconsciously looked at Bai Xiaohan's maid, the maid gritted her teeth and said, "My young lady is right: the south is the opposite, and the turn is divided into west and east to go high and low." ”

This sentence uses "north, south, west, east, high and low" to correspond to the "east, west, north, south, up and down" of the upper link, although it is slightly better than the little scholar's, but it is repeated with the upper link, and the division in the wheel of the west and east is a verb, and the corresponding wings in the east and west are nouns, and they are not strictly opposed, or they are inferior.

Everyone shook their heads in disappointment, and their eyes gradually focused on Xu Rui.

"I don't know what Lord Xu is right?"

The little scholar asked.

"Sacrifice ugliness under it."

Xu Rui smiled faintly and said confidently: "The upper link north goose flies south, the wings are divided up and down, and the lower link in the lower pair is: the front car and the back rut, the two wheels go high and low!" ”

"Seconds......"

The north goose flies south to the front and the back rut, the wings are about two wheels, up and down to the height, this joint is not only tightly seamless, neat and tidy, and the artistic conception of the two couplets is similar and can be called the best combination.

"Good! It is worthy of the image of a saint in my northern country, Brother Xu is really talented! ”

King Yu shouted hello and took the lead in applauding, and everyone present reacted at this time, and instantly burst into a burst of thunderous applause.

The little scholar opened his mouth wide, looked at Xu Rui in shock, sat down in despair, and his hands followed the rhythm of the crowd, and he couldn't help clapping it.

Xu Rui was full of smiles, but his eyes swept towards the maidservant, only to see that her face was pale, and she seemed to be discussing something with a few Chang Attendants around her.

Xu Rui's heart sank, and if he secretly asked them to solve the problem again, wouldn't the situation where he finally got through the trick be exposed?

Thinking of this, he immediately stopped hesitating and walked straight towards the maidservant.

When the maid saw him striding forward, she was slightly stunned, not knowing what he wanted to do, and looked at him indifferently like everyone else.

Xu Rui walked up to the maidservant and said with a smile: "Little girl, the so-called heaven outside the sky, there are people outside the people, your young lady wants to take the right pair of small ways to compare with my Northern Dynasty students, it is inevitably too big." ”

This is to stand up for the students of the northern country, hearing Xu Rui's words, everyone was suddenly shocked, but the maid's face changed and she was about to refute.

But Xu Rui took the first step and said: "Since your young lady doesn't know the height of the sky, let him see what it means to be authentic in learning, and ask questions at will, as long as one of the sentences is better than that of your young lady, she will lose in the next, how about it?" ”

Humiliation, this is naked humiliation!

Looking at Xu Rui's proud appearance and the unkind smiles of the onlookers, the maid's face was already extremely ugly.

Xu Rui didn't wait for her to react, and said to himself: "Listen, Shanglian: people have passed the Big Buddha Temple, and the Temple Buddha is bigger than people; I'm right: the guest is a natural dwelling, and the guest is actually a guest in the sky.

Shanglian: Laugh when you open your mouth, laugh at the past and laugh at everything today; I'm right: a big belly can tolerate, and tolerating the sky and the earth can not tolerate yourself.

Shanglian: The refreshing air comes from the west, and the clouds and mist sweep away the world and regrets; I am right: The great river goes east, and the waves wash away the sorrows of the past and the present.

Shanglian: The people are still also, the country is still also, there is no distinction between north and south; I'm interested in: All in all, in general, not a thing.

Shanglian: The sky is the chessboard, the stars are the sons, who can play? I am right: the earth is the pipa, the road is the string, which one dares to play?

Shanglian: Its people are their virtues and talents, and the history is immortal, and Si is admired by the world; I am right: the father is the brother is the brother, the family has a history, so the wind is high! ”

"Good!"

Xu Rui came out with six couplets in one breath, all of which are extremely difficult sentences with connotations, and what he came out of it in one breath is a neat battle and a name that matches the intentions of the ages.

Everyone felt that their ears exploded like thunder, and they were overwhelmed, and when he finished speaking, his head was already numb, and a cheer of "good" blurted out, and the thunderous applause resounded through the four seats again.

The three of Yuwang opened their mouths widely, and Mu Ne applauded, especially Huang Zhengyuan, who was speechless as if he had seen Xu Rui for the first time.

The little maid looked at Xu Rui in a daze, as if it was not a teenager standing in front of her.

The little scholar in the private room also looked at Xu Rui, his eyes were wandering, and his face was flushed with excitement, as if he was thinking about it quickly, and he didn't know what he was thinking.