This question has been hanging high in the Xilin wall for a long time.

In the past three days, more and more candidates have gathered in Qinhuaihe, and I don't know how many people have seen it with their own eyes and heard about it, but no one dares to write and answer.

Even because this question is related to the classics of ancient sages, some people took out this question to seek advice from the scholars of Hongru University in Beijing, but they still did not come up with a good answer, and it was not that the scholars in Beijing really had no clue, but since they couldn't think of a subtle answer, it was better not to answer at all.

The people under the Imperial City especially value face.

This question was very tricky and weird, which made a large number of candidates go home, so everyone couldn't help but start laughing when they saw that there were new candidates who became interested in that question.

"Someone is eyeing that question again?"

"What's the use of staring at it, how many people have tried to answer it in the past few days, aren't they all clueless, even the candidates from those famous poetry and book families have returned home, what is there to see, anyway, the result is the same. Someone sighed.

"If you want me to say that the two families of Wang Xie are monsters, let's just say that the imperial examination was not occupied by Wuyi Lane in what year? Even such a girl is so well-read and memorized, it really makes other scholars lose face!"

After saying this, some people were dissatisfied: "What's the use of her reading more books? She can't participate in the imperial examination, and even if she is afraid that she won't have much chance to take the Northern Sect, her cultivation is not as good as chanting poetry, and how many female disciples are there in the Great Northern Sect?"

It's not a nice sound, but it's true.

Yuan Lai didn't listen to these strange words, but read the question seriously.

"The classic words of the saint are exquisite, and every word has a deep meaning, please answer this question." 'Word meaning. ”

At this point, there is nothing else.

Yuan Lai was slightly stunned, this topic is very ordinary, even if he doesn't understand the Daqi culture, he always knows that in ancient times, the imperial examination often used a certain sentence and a certain word in the classic works of the sage as the title, which is a proposition composition, and the topic must be the words and sentences in the classic works.

But the words that make people elaborate on this question turned out to be". ”！

That's interesting, this." "The word is just a punctuation, and there is no complete punctuation system in the layout of Daqi's books, so there are often words and sentences connected, at most, with ". so that this character is really all over the books, and it is not wrong to say that it is a word in the classics, but ...... How do you ask these scholars to expound the teachings of the saints from a circle?

"No wonder, no wonder no one has answered this question for so long. Yuan Lai laughed, thinking of the wonderful faces of those scholars when they saw this question, and his heart was very happy.

Yuan Li was surprised: "Young master, do you know this question?"

"How did you guess I would?"

"I'll know as soon as I look at your smile. Yuan Li replied calmly.

Yuan Lai glared at him, and then said, "Don't really say it, if it's other questions, we really don't know much, but this question, I really know!"

He really knew this question, from the moment he saw this question, Yuan Lai remembered a small story he had read a long, long time ago, saying that the ancients always quoted classic words and sentences in the imperial examinations, but those words and sentences were limited after all, and if they came out more, they didn't know what was good, so when Ming Xianzong wrote the questions for the palace examination in a certain year and month, he turned over the "Notes on the Four Books and Chapters and Sentences", but he still didn't know what the question was, so he sandwiched the words between the words in a fit of anger. "I put it on the test paper as a question.

That's how he drew a circle on the test paper, and he stumped a group of people.

But after all, there is a genius in the world, and there are still people who use a punchline to solve the problem!

And he still remembered that punchline.

There are still many people around the West Forest Wall, some people are thinking, some people are watching.

Occasionally, someone picked up the pen prepared under the Xilin wall, dipped it in ink, and wrote a line of small characters under a certain sentence.

The low words are easy to touch, and if you want to add two strokes to the high topic, you need to step on a ladder, and there is a wooden ladder on the side of the Xilin wall.

"Bring that ladder here. Yuan Lai commanded.

So Yuan Lixing rushed through the crowd and moved the wooden ladder.

The crowd was suddenly in a commotion, and many people looked at the young man who had just asked the strange question in amazement, and the young man was smiling, took a pen, and dipped it in some light ink, and then the ladder was also set up in front of him.

"He really wants to solve this problem?!"

"How is it possible? This question is strangely tight, how many people have been stumped, is it possible that he doesn't need to go home to think about it, and he has to answer it immediately? I'm afraid it's for the limelight. ”

"I think it's ...... too"

said so, but when Yuan Lai climbed the ladder, people's eyes couldn't help but converge.

Not far from the Xilinbi is a lot of boats on the Qinhuai River, a somewhat fancy boat is moving slowly on the water, the cabin is very beautiful, the sound of the piano comes from the cabin, the rhythm is a bit of fireworks-like intoxicating feeling, it makes people itch to listen.

There was a little boy in the cabin, who was in a daze with the sound of the piano, and slowly he woke up from the state of being distracted, he frowned, and looked at the Qin Huai singer who was playing the piano opposite.

Ge Ji's fingers are as white and tender as onions, leisurely plucking the strings, her face is beautiful, and the placket on her chest is half down, revealing a little snow white, it is when she sees this scenery Shi Qinglin frowned, and he suddenly said: "Stop playing!"

Ge Ji was stunned for a moment, and looked at him with some puzzlement.

Shi Qinglin pointed to Ge Ji's chest and said seriously: "You play the piano next time and put on your clothes tightly, do you understand?"

"Ming...... Understood...... "Singer is a little innocent, who of the guests he has seen in the past doesn't want her to have as few clothes as possible?"

"Alright, let's get out. Shi Qinglin waved his hand and sent the singer out, and then shouted impatiently: "Lao Ding, there are still a few days before the Beizong exam!"

Lao Ding walked into the cabin from the outside and said, "It's been a few days, don't worry, young master." ”

"Can I not be in a hurry, every time my cousin stays in Beizong, the risk of her empathy and love increases by one point! Especially since she was almost married by someone from Taihu Lake some time ago! If it weren't for that......"

"Yuan Lai. ”

"Yes, if it weren't for that Yuan Lai to mess up this matter, wouldn't I really have no chance?"

Lao Ding said helplessly: "Young master, the assessment of the Northern Sect is very difficult, if you can't pass the ......"

Shi Qinglin's eyes widened, and he said: "Stop! Don't say that frustrating words, I know it's difficult, so I'm not working hard these days? How many sets of secret scrolls have I made? I'm about to vomit! And that Xilinbi, they all say that you can see who is more capable from above, and I also heard that you deliberately spent a lot of money to buy a good inscription and write it, and in the past few days, I have seen that the person surnamed Xie is more capable, but I can't even see her face, how can I get close?"

“...... In fact, there are other heroes who have also answered a lot of questions. Lao Ding suggested.

Shi Qinglin sighed, the young man's face was a little hateful, and said, "Lao Ding, don't you know a truth after living for such a long time?"

"What's the reason?"

"Since Young Master Ben is planning to hug other people's thighs, then, you must find the thickest hug!" Shi Qinglin said loudly.

“...... Young master, you're right. Lao Ding sighed.

"Okay, you go out, by the way, don't look for this next time you're looking for a song, the clothes are so thin, at first glance, I want to seduce Young Master Ben, I only love my cousin in my life! Other women, don't you look down on it!

Lao Ding nodded emphatically and turned out of the cabin.

After a while, Lao Ding suddenly shouted: "Young master, come out and see! Someone in Xilinbi has solved the problem again, and that person climbed so high as if he wanted to solve Miss Xie's question!"

Shi Qinglin suddenly got up and said in surprise: "Is that the circle question?! Has someone really solved it?"

[Note:] In ancient times, articles were vertically typeset, and the words and sentences were coherent without punctuation, so you had to learn "sentence reading" first, that is, how to break sentences. Sentences appeared in the Han Dynasty, and circles only appeared in the Song Dynasty, and most of the books in the Great Enlightenment World had no punctuation, and the classic books had circled sentences. The examiners of the imperial examination are sometimes very disgusting, not only taking out a circle as a saint sentence test, it is said that sometimes some incomplete sentences are taken out for the test, anyway, there is no punctuation and sentence breaking, just take a dozen words at will, and people say that it is a sentence, and you have no problem.