Fan Baotong because of the favor of Mrs. Fan, in the Fan Mansion to be windy and rainy, in previous years, birthdays, all as a major event in the mansion to do, everyone in the mansion to do their best, the stars hold the moon, the gourd young master accepted it calmly, nothing polite.

However, this year, he suddenly said such an idea, and he was so happy that Mrs. Fan was absolutely happy, so naturally his good grandson said yes.

Jiang Zhong saw it clearly, knowing that this Second Young Master Fan was borrowing a murderous plan, and it was fake to use his birthday wish to make a couplet for Old Master Fan, and it was true to ask Ouyang Hanlin, who seemed to be humble but was actually full of confidence, to let him retreat in the face of difficulties.

Although Jiang Zhong's realm at this time could not see at a glance the strength and weakness of his humanity, judging from Ouyang Qing's rich temperament, he must be full of literature and courage in his abdomen, and it is no wonder that he often exudes a cold and arrogant look in his every move.

In order to strangle the next possible companion in the cradle, Fan Baotong did not hesitate to invite such a person and arranged such a similar literary bureau, which shows that he still has merit, and the old lady Fan is willing to educate Fan Baotong with the method of "things must be reversed, and the movement is extremely quiet", and it is clear that he will cultivate this gourd young master into a qualified successor at any cost, and his vision is not old and unique.

Over there, Fan Baotong was very happy when he saw that Jiang Zhong also agreed, and said: "Since this is the case, why don't we have a small gambling game to help the fun, and the rest of the brothers and sisters don't care, just Ouyang Hanlin and Chen Gongzi, the two of you can set a lottery, and you can have a thought when you compete." ”

Jiang Zhong cooperated: "How dare you be with Hanlin Biwen?"

Ouyang Qing said with a smile: "The second prince has this good intention, and Chen Gongzi doesn't have to refuse, just help the fun." After a little hesitation, he continued: "Since it is a fighting text, gambling on gold and silver is vulgar, so we might as well bet on something else......

Fan Baotong asked, "What good idea does Ouyang Hanlin have?"

Jiang Zhong smiled secretly in his heart: "It's two more people who talk about cross talk, I'll just listen to it." ”

Sure enough, Ouyang Qing thought for a while, clapped his hands and said: "Let's just bet on a word, if Chen Gongzi wins, you can let me do one thing, as long as I can, I must do it, if I win by luck, it will be the same, what does Chen Gongzi think?"

Jiang Zhong blurted out, "Truth or Dare?"

Everyone present was confused, Ouyang Qing asked "um", and said, "I don't know what 'Truth or Dare' is, and I ask Chen Gongzi for advice." ”

Jiang Zhong let out an 'ah' and said, "It is the winner who tells the loser a sincere word, and the loser goes to take a big risk for the winner." ”

Fan Baotong listened to the "interesting" and said: "It's really interesting to listen to the two of you, and I want to participate in it." ”

Ouyang Qing said with a smile: "I was just celebrating the birthday of the second son, and I was about to ask the birthday star for a lottery." ”

Fan Bao channel: "That's the case, I, as the host, will give five hundred taels here, no matter which side of the two guests, I don't care about the winner, the losing party will only send me the couplet, and my five hundred taels will belong to you, this is also the winner's reward, and the loser will not sigh empty-handed, how?"

Mrs. Fan, who was listening with great interest, suddenly said: "Hulu'er's words are very popular with me, and it is the best of both worlds." ”

Fan Baotong said with a smile: "My grandson has been exposed to my grandfather since he was a child, and although he is stupid, he still learns a little. ”

Mrs. Fan was overjoyed when she heard this.

Ou Yanqing praised: "It is a polite house! The second young master will talk about your gambling method." ”

Fan Baodao: "I don't think about another idea, just like you, no matter which side wins, you can make me do something, as long as I can, it will definitely be done for you, the same reason, the losing side has to listen to my instructions." ”

Ouyang Qing said: "This is very good. ”

Jiang Zhong said: "In this way, isn't the second young master bound to win or lose?"

Fan Baotong said with a smile: "Whoever taught me to be a birthday star will take advantage of this." Everyone laughed.

Jiang Zhong thought for a while and said, "Second Young Master, if I win by luck, how about going to study with you?"

Fan Baotong's eyes flashed when he heard this, Ouyang Qing lowered his head slightly, and the corners of his mouth provoked a slight mocking smile.

"Companion, I can't be the master of reading, I want my grandfather and father to nod, and I have another school exam. Fan Baotong panicked, quickly regained his composure, and replied seriously.

Jiang Zhong secretly praised: "Quick response, thoughtful, why worry that he won't be able to become a talent one day?" ”

After eating for a while, Zhou Da and the maids withdrew, and a group of family members entered the courtyard, chose a pavilion on the opposite bank of the octagonal pavilion, began to arrange, hung the veil, set up the embroidered soft pillows, and placed two mahogany long tables next to it, one was placed with pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and the other was laid with a tablecloth, with tea sets and various colored dishes, which should be used to place melons and fruits and candied fruits.

Fan Baotong said to Mrs. Fan: "When the table is withdrawn here, someone will also arrange it." ”

Old lady Fan smiled and nodded, and let it go, as if she was quite interested in the arrangement of the gourd grandson this time.

Looking at the level of a person's means of doing things and the ability to dispatch the game, it is not necessary to only focus on the big things, and the small bureau can also see the real kung fu.

After a while, a group of family members entered, carried and carried, and came to the octagonal pavilion, first greeted the old lady and the second young master, and then began to do things, except for not hanging the veil, the rest was the same as the pavilion opposite.

Old lady Fan said: "Xiao Chen Gongzi and Ouyang Hanlin, the two of them can start the manuscript now, and I hope that everyone can get something today." ”

Both of them said yes and walked away to conceive.

Mrs. Fan said to Fan Baotong again: "Tong'er, come with me." ”

Jiang Zhong walked alone to a blooming peony flower, his mind was racing, and he thought: "On poetry and composition, it is in the blink of an eye, but I want to make couplets, I don't know which poem to extract two sentences?"

Then I thought of the poem Saint Du Fu, later generations of scholars will Du Shi overall style positioning depressed and frustrated, referring to the poet's feelings of worrying about the country and the people, Du Shi in terms of skills, extremely heavy refining sentences and has been greatly matured, no trace, there are many couplets in the poem, spread widely, such as children are also familiar with "two yellow orioles singing green willows, a line of egrets on the blue sky", such as the inverted syntax used to get a magical "green wind folded bamboo shoots, red blooming rain and fat plums", such as from the work of the seven laws of pressing the volume, the overlapping words are used to reach the peak of the peak" Boundless falling trees and Xiao Xiao, endless Yangtze River rolling".

However, these battles are wonderful, but firstly, the meaning is detrimental to the whole poem, and secondly, the verses do not match this situation, and it is even more difficult to reflect the thoughts of the old lady Fan, so they are not advisable.

Later, I thought of Lu You, who was a poet who worked hard to refine sentences, and countless couplets were used as couplets...... Thinking of this, I just looked up and saw a rockery opposite, a winding path under the rockery, if I felt something, I really thought of two sentences available.

Just as he was about to start leaving this piece of peony, he saw some petals falling on the ground, and said to himself, "Flowers bloom and fall", his heart suddenly moved, and he hurriedly looked up at the sky.

When Jiang Zhong returned to the Octagonal Pavilion, he saw that Ouyang Qing was already laughing with Old Lady Fan and Fan Baotong, and it was obvious that he had already been fully prepared and prepared.

Ouyang Qing saw Jiang Zhong coming back, and said with a smile: "Young Master Chen, the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone over there have been set up, how about we each make a pair of warm-ups before the official competition begins?"

Jiang Zhong nodded and said, "Ouyang Hanlin, please first." ”

Ouyang Qing gave way, and then walked to the mahogany table, a small servant had already come to lay paper and polish ink for him, Ouyang Qing didn't think about it, and wrote with a pen: "Yunfei sends off the wild goose, and the moon is clear and sparse." ”

After the two sentences were written, a thin tone surfaced on the paper, and Ouyang Qing put aside his pen and smiled: "Offering ugliness." ”

Fan Baotong didn't know whether he really understood or not, and vigorously clapped his hands and praised: "Just to warm up, he is already so talented, worthy of Hanlin, amazing, amazing." Saying that, looking at everyone left and right, the little guys hurriedly applauded with interest.

"That's it, everyone has to applaud for good literature, and I see that Xiao Chen Gongzi is also applauding. ”

Jiang Zhong smiled and nodded, seeing the sentence "Yunfei sent the broken goose", he knew that Ouyang Qing had really worked hard, and then Young Master Fan Baotong suddenly explained: "Look at the first sentence, Yunfei sent the broken goose, it is amazing, it means that the wild goose broke its wings and was saved by a cloud, and then the cloud took it to soar and fly with it, you see, what a powerful cloud!"

The little guys followed and praised, "It's really a very powerful cloud", thinking that their old lady loves to see the clouds the most, and the admiration is even louder.

Old Lady Fan just smiled and shook her head, and did not correct it.

Ouyang Qing just pretended not to hear it, walked up to Jiang Zhong, and said, "Little Chen Gongzi, please." ”

Jiang Zhong was hesitating which one to write, and was amused by the "very powerful cloud", and said, "Lord Hanlin, let me think about it again." ”

When Fan Baotong heard this, he continued: "Xiao Chen Gongzi has been thinking about it for a long time, I saw you looking at the flowers, the mountains, and the sky, thinking that you had already thought about it, but if you keep thinking like this, you will fall behind when the official competition is held." ”

Old lady Fan said: "Tong'er, don't disturb Xiao Chen Gongzi's train of thought, you must know that the text is fine and not much." ”

Fan Baotong nodded and said, "Yes, grandpa." I was joking with Chen Gongzi, and Chen Gongzi thought slowly. ”

Ouyang Qing also said: "After Chen Gongzi's bitter chanting, there will be a good sentence, and I am looking forward to it." ”

Jiang Zhong walked to the red table with a smile, and was just about to roll up his sleeves to take a pen, when he heard a burst of laughter, he turned his head and saw a group of maids and women entering the courtyard surrounded by six or seven young girls, and walked towards the pavilion with a gauze tent with a smile.

Fan Baotong said happily: "Grandpa, it's Sister Dong and Sister Zhuang who are here." ”

Old lady Fan said "um", and sure enough, an old woman walked quickly to this side and saluted Old Lady Fan: "Ask the old lady Ann, several girls in the family over there, Miss Dong, Miss Zhuang and Miss Meng have all arrived, and they will greet the old lady together." ”

Old Lady Fan nodded and said, "I know, take care of it, let's go over." ”

The old woman answered, and returned to the gazebo opposite.

Fan Baotong was overjoyed, and couldn't help urging Jiang Zhong again: "Xiao Chen Gongzi write quickly, and the competition will officially start later, Ouyang ...... Hanlin, why don't you go over and write a couple again and see if you can strike later. ”

Ouyang Qing smiled and said, "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." As he spoke, he also walked over, stood side by side with Jiang Zhong, looked at Jiang Zhong and smiled: "There is an arrogance." As he spoke, he picked up the pen and wrote two sentences: "Fan Yuan's white clouds rise, flying up to the sky." ”

Suddenly, a thumb-thick literary aura rushed up, rising to more than three feet above the head, and Fan Baotong took the lead, and there was a burst of sky-shattering applause, that literary aura for some reason, suddenly turned towards Jiang Zhong, at this time Jiang Zhong happened to start to make a couplet, did not pay attention, as soon as that literary qi touched Jiang Zhong, it turned invisible in an instant, and even the corners of his clothes could not be touched in the slightest.

Ouyang Qing's face changed slightly, and Old Lady Fan, who was standing not far away, also showed surprise, and then slowly let go of the right fist that was slightly clenched behind him.

Someone on the opposite side of the octagonal pavilion seemed to notice the tone and was about to beckon others to look, but it disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"It's a pity, the successor is powerless, regardless of them, let's do our own. A girl with a slightly sturdy figure and a heroic posture waved her hand.

"Do it yourself, and you must judge others first. A thin girl covered her mouth and laughed.

The sturdy girl said: "Since Sister Dong said so, I just want to fight with you today." ”

"Look!" the sturdy girl was arguing with the skinny girl, and another girl with a long figure pointed to the octagonal pavilion opposite.

"It's just three faces!"

All the women lifted the curtain one after another to look, and saw a thick and thin atmosphere of the bowl.

"Whew!"

The strong and vigorous spirit suddenly turned into a whirlwind, and it left directly, circled around a cluster of flowers, and roared away to the sky.

"It's monstrous! What the hell is going on over there?"

Before the words fell, the flowers that had been bypassed by the appropriate and literate atmosphere suddenly withered.

"Ahh

"Look at the white clouds in the sky. ”

Everyone in the courtyard looked up at the sky together, and the tone was gone, but when they saw a cloud in the sky, they scattered and gathered, and the scene was shocking!

Jiang Zhong looked up at the sky, and he was also a little surprised, he didn't expect this couplet to have such power!

The vision lasted for a while, the white clouds in the sky reunited, and the previously withered flower stems bloomed again, more vivid than before.

Both male and female masters and servants in the courtyard were shocked by what they saw, and then everyone saw the young man standing with his pen spent, closing his eyes and looking up, and then his spirit fell from the sky and poured into it!

"Don't be surprised, watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the pavilion; ”

Old lady Fan appeared at the table at some point, reached out to take the couplet written by Jiang Zhong, only to feel that the paper was as heavy as gold, dragged in his palm, and read aloud.

After reciting it for the first time, his expression changed greatly, like a barrier breaking open; when he read it again, his face changed again, and he suddenly became enlightened; until he finished reading it for the third time, he raised his head and laughed and said: "This is it! This is it! Xiao Chen Gongzi, give me this couplet, I am willing to give a thousand words!"