Since it was Zeng Bu who challenged him, naturally it would not be him who came up with the problem, and Fan Zhongyan would not stand up, after all, Ouyang Xiu was the master.

Ouyang Xiu thought for a moment and asked Zeng Fudao: "Among the many scriptures, what other scriptures have you not read?" ”

Zeng Bu bowed down and said, "Back to Master, the student still has "Spring and Autumn" yet. ”

Ouyang Xiu asked Fan Zhongyan with a smile, "How is "Spring and Autumn"?" ”

"Spring and Autumn" is a relatively remote door in the Five Classics, and it is certainly impossible for Fanning to read it.

Fan Zhongyan nodded, "Then use "Spring and Autumn"!" ”

Ouyang Xiu immediately ordered his subordinates to fetch three copies of "Spring and Autumn", handed them to the three of them, and he smiled at Fan Ning: "The endorsement of the competition is generally limited to one stick of incense, how much can be memorized, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Fanning nodded, "I understand!" ”

Ouyang immediately asked someone to take a stick of incense and light it, and the timer began.

The three of them immediately opened the book, paced back and forth in the lobby, and began to memorize in silence.

In fact, Fan Ning had read the book "Spring and Autumn" in his previous life, and he could memorize it like a stream, but after two years, he still needed to review it.

A stick of incense is very thin and short, and it takes about fifteen minutes to burn it all, so there is a saying that there is a stick of incense time.

After a while, the incense had burned out, and Ouyang Xiu shouted, "Stop!" ”

The three of them stopped remoting, and Ouyang Qian had some remorse on her face, obviously she didn't memorize much.

She looked eagerly at Zeng Bu again, and Zeng Bu was smiling and confident, which made her heart snicker.

"Well, which of the three of you will carry it first?" Ouyang Xiu asked with a smile.

Zeng Bu was about to speak, but Fan Ning raised his hand first, "I'll come first!" ”

Fan Zhongyan nodded secretly, generally speaking, of course, it was the late endorser who took advantage, and he could get the hints of the people in front of him.

Fan Ning was willing to endorse first, which shows that he is above board, which makes Fan Zhongyan very pleased.

Zeng Bu didn't want to take advantage, so he said, "Then I'll go to the hall and wait!" ”

Fan Ning waved his hand, "Don't go away, if the little brother has an improper back, please ask Brother Zeng for advice!" ”

Ouyang Xiu took the book and said with a smile: "You can carry as much as you can." ”

Fanning began to memorize from the section 'The First Year of the Hidden Emperor':

'Huigong Gongfei Mencius, Mencius died, the step-room was a son, and the ...... was born in the hidden father'

He memorized it for seven years in one breath, and suddenly found that Fan Zhongyan's face was wrong, and then he realized that he had memorized too much, he quickly stopped, scratched his head and smiled: "I'm sorry, I only memorized so much." ”

At this time, everyone in the lobby was stunned, this is just a short stick of incense! Fanning was able to memorize half of "Spring and Autumn", which is incredible.

"Spring and Autumn" has more than 18,000 words, and Fan Ning has memorized nearly 10,000 words, which is not bad, which really shocked everyone.

Fan Zhongyan hurriedly grabbed Fan Ning's arm and asked, "Have you memorized this book?" ”

Fanning hurriedly shook his head, "It's the first time that my grandson has read it." ”

Ouyang Xiu patted his forehead lightly and sighed: "I have seen that there is such a prodigy with outstanding memories in the world. ”

Zeng Bu's face was full of shame, he boasted that he never forgot it, but he only remembered about 2,000 words in a stick of incense, which was too far from Fanning, making him ashamed.

Ouyang Qian was very unconvinced in her heart, Brother Zeng's memory was unmatched in the capital, how could he lose to this little guy? This little guy might be cheating.

Thinking of this, Ouyang Qian said with a smile: "Of course, the competition has to win two out of three battles to be convincing, and Daddy might as well compete in the second game." ”

Ouyang Xiu was a little embarrassed, so he asked Fan Zhongyan with a smile, "What does my brother mean?" ”

Fan Zhongyan also knew in his heart that this competition was not convincing enough, after all, "Spring and Autumn" could be bought in bookstores all over the world.

"Let's play the second game!"

Ouyang Xiu thought about it, then took out an article and said with a smile: "This article is a travelogue of mine in Chuzhou last year, and I only finished writing the first draft half a month ago, and no one has read it yet, so each of you will read it once, and then be silent." ”

Fanning's heart moved, could it be "The Story of the Drunkard Pavilion"?

Ouyang Xiu handed the manuscript to Fan Ning first, and the first sentence was 'All mountains around Chuchu are also .....'

Fan Ning secretly rejoiced in his heart, sure enough, it was "The Story of the Drunken Man's Pavilion", he hurriedly browsed it again, but found that there were many differences from the "The Story of the Drunkard Pavilion" that was circulated in later generations.

He suddenly remembered that this was the first draft!

But before he could take a closer look, Ouyang Xiu took the manuscript out of his hand and handed it to Zeng Bu.

Zeng Bu didn't take advantage of it, he just skimmed through it hastily, and the manuscript was transferred to Ouyang Qian's hands.

Before Ouyang Qian finished reading it, the manuscript was taken away by her father, and she was so anxious that she stomped her feet, "Daddy has the shortest time to show me!" ”

Ouyang Xiu smiled, "You were originally there to join in the fun, it doesn't matter if you watch it or not!" ”

Ouyang Qian pouted, and was unwilling to retreat, so she had to sit down obediently and start writing silently.

Zeng Buyun's pen was flying, for fear that he would forget the content in a blink of an eye.

Fan Ning was very hesitant, he wrote down about seventy percent, but the content of these seventy percent was at least eleven different from the later "Drunken Man's Pavilion", which really made it difficult for him to write.

Do you write seventy percent of what you have written, or do you write the whole story of the afterlife?

Out of the corner of his eye, he secretly glanced at Zeng Bu, and saw that Zeng Bu had actually written half of it, and was stopping to ponder.

Fan Ning no longer hesitated, and simply took up the pen to silence the whole text of the later "Drunken Man's Pavilion", but Fan Ning still learned the lesson of memorizing "Spring and Autumn" and changed a few words slightly in the back.

After all, too perfect is unreal.

After a while, the three of them handed over their respective manuscripts to Ouyang Xiu, Ouyang Xiu knew in his heart that the time he gave the three of them was too short, and it was impossible to write them down completely, it was up to them to remember more.

The first to be eliminated was Ouyang Qian, who only memorized three lines and misremembered three words.

Ouyang Qian was not depressed, she was just joining in the fun, she cared more about Zeng Bu, as long as Zeng Bu could defeat that stinky boy, she would be happy.

Zeng Bu was not bad, he wrote down sixty percent, but there were five places where he remembered wrong.

Ouyang Xiu circled the wrong place with his pen and glanced at him with a smile, Zeng Bu's face suddenly turned red.

"It's not bad, I can remember sixty percent, a little better than I expected."

Ouyang Xiu smiled, put down Zeng Bu's scroll, and picked up Fan Ning's scroll with anticipation.

Reciting "Spring and Autumn" just now, this kid was very shocked by his performance, and he didn't know what shock he could bring this time.

As soon as he picked up the scroll, Ouyang Xiu was stunned, this.... That's a ..... word

Ouyang Xiu looked at Fan Ning a little incredulously, of course Fan Ning understood the surprise in his eyes, and he was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "Seniors are now more timely than calligraphy!" ”

Fan Zhongyan was a little ashamed, and sighed: "This kid is not bad for anything else, but his calligraphy is too bad, and I hope Uncle Yong will give him more advice." ”

Ouyang Xiu smiled generously, "I couldn't write when I was his age, in fact, there is no trick to calligraphy, just practice more, I won't comment today, I'll look at it in ten years." ”

Only then did he take a closer look at Fan Ningmo's "The Story of the Drunkard Pavilion".

Gradually, the smile on Ouyang Xiu's face disappeared and became solemn, Fan Ning not only completely silently wrote the entire "The Story of the Drunkard Pavilion", but also many places were different from his original manuscript.

If it was a silent mistake, Ouyang Xiu found that Fan Ning was not silently wrong, but modified it for himself, and many of his modifications were surprisingly consistent with his own ideas.

The more Ouyang Xiu read, the more frightened he became, and when he was halfway through the reading, he couldn't hold back anymore and slapped the scroll on the table, "Impossible!" ”

He stared at Fanning fiercely, "You give me an honest explanation, what the hell is going on?" ”

Ouyang Xiu was a little out of shape, scaring his daughters Ouyang Qian and Zeng Bu, and even Fan Zhongyan frowned, what is the matter with Uncle Yong?

Fan Ning said unhurriedly: "Senior Ouyang thinks I have read this article beforehand? ”

Ouyang Xiu said, this "The Story of the Drunken Man's Pavilion" was written by himself not long ago, and he never showed it to anyone, and he didn't even have a chance to see his daughter, and it was impossible for Fan Ning, who came to Beijing on the first day, to see it.

But......

Ouyang Xiu sat down slowly, he was extremely shocked in his heart, how could this be possible? He's only eight years old!

At this time, Fan Zhongyan smiled and said, "Can Uncle Yong show me?" ”

Ouyang Xiu handed him the scroll, Fan Zhongyan read it carefully, and then picked up the original manuscript from the table, he nodded again and again, Fan Ning's scroll was more vivid and perfect than the original.

However, Fan Zhongyan did not react as violently as Ouyang Xiu, he had already comprehended Fan Ning's amazing work.

"Uncle Yong, look at these two paragraphs!"

Fan Zhongyan pointed out the last few revisions of the scroll to Ouyang Xiu.

'Drunk can enjoy it, awake can speak to the text, too guarded, too guarded, too guarded, who is too guarded?' Luling Ouyang Xiu also. ’

"Look at this modification, he put the middle 'Tai Shou also, Tai Shou who is it?' Removed, it seems to be concise, but it lacks a little bit of drunken self-satisfaction, but it is actually not good.

Also, 'the sun is setting over the mountains, and the figures are scattered', he changed it to 'the shadows are messy'.

The word messy is not used in a scattered way, which shows that the level of my grandson is still limited. ”

Ouyang Xiu nodded, he admitted that Fan Zhongyan was right, he looked at Fan Ning, and still let out a long sigh, "But even so, it is too shocking for Sun." ”

Zeng Bu's face changed, and he lowered his head in frustration, he knew that he had lost the second competition again.

Ouyang Qian's mouth moved, and she was about to cry angrily.

Ouyang Xiu couldn't help but read Fan Ning's scroll three times, then shook his head and said to Fan Zhongyan: "Ling Sun is gifted, and he is a true prodigy, I, Ouyang Xiu, have been convinced!" ”

It was the first time Fan Zhongyan had heard Ouyang Xiu praise a child like this, he was really happy in his heart, but he smiled slightly: "In terms of true talent and real learning, he is far worse than Zeng Bu, and the virtuous brother praises him too much." ”

Fan Zhongyan turned his head and saw that there was a kind of smugness in Fan Ning's eyes that could not be concealed, so angry that he stretched out his hand and knocked him on the head, "Where are the modest words?" Tell me about it! ”

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