Chapter Ninety-Three: Couplet
In addition, it can be filtered again according to the part of speech of the text - for example, the word "lonely" must correspond to an adjective, and "window" must correspond to a noun.
Gu Xu looked around, looked at this lonely and dilapidated courtyard, and thought of the Qingzhou Lu clan that had disappeared in the long river of history, and an answer suddenly appeared in his heart.
He took out the charcoal pen he had with him from his coat pocket and wrote a line on the paperβ
"It's a bleak and cold day."
After he finished writing the last word, the piece of paper in his hand instantly turned into golden shavings, like fireflies on a summer night, dancing in the cold wind, and then disappeared.
Seeing such a scene, Chu Fengge beside him was stunned for two seconds, but he didn't expect Gu Xu to solve this couplet so easily.
Chu Fengge couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart: My subordinates are so useless, it takes several days to write a poem - if they all have such agile talent as Gu Xu, why can't I become the most dazzling genius in Luojing City?
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At the same time, in an imperceptible corner of the small courtyard, the spirit of the "Shocking Pen" was hiding behind a pillar, quietly peeking at Gu Xu's couplet.
Although she was far away from Gu Xu, what Gu Xu wrote on the paper could be clearly reflected in her eyes.
"The ancient lonely cold window is empty and widowed", this is Lu Shiyao's coupling many years ago.
And the next link of the book inkstone pair back then was "Today's handsome and beautiful woman is accompanied by Lingding".
The couplet of Shuyan is very symmetrical in meaning, but the words are a little less neat - "empty widow" vs. "companion" is a bit far-fetched.
On the contrary, Gu Xu's couplet is more neat in terms of rhythm, but the symmetry in the overall meaning is worse.
You can barely clear the level.
"Bleak and cold...... Is he talking about the current Qingzhou Lu family? The little girl with unkempt hair thought to herself with her hands on her knees.
Legend has it that the spirit of the "Twelve Instruments" will become more and more similar to the owner after recognizing the master.
And this little girl obviously inherited Lu Shiyao's habit of liking in a daze back then.
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Then, Gu Xu took off the second note from another lantern.
There is still a couplet written on the note: "The phoenix falls and the phoenix falls into the phoenix".
Chu Fengge silently glanced at the contents of the note and said nothing.
Writing couplets is obviously not something he's good at either.
In order to prevent being embarrassed in front of Gu Xu again, he decided to remain silent.
Gu Xu was also quietly pondering.
He had already seen at a glance that this couplet was not simple.
Because it is a "palindrome couplet", it can be read either forward or backwards, and the meaning of the content remains the same.
"The word games played by Miss Lu and her maid back then were really bells and whistles!" Gu Xu sighed silently in his heart.
Then he picked up his pen and wrote down the answer on paper:
"Beads come together."
The note quickly turned into a dot of light and dissipated into the dimly lit courtyard.
The "Amazing Pen" spirit blinked behind the pillar.
She didn't expect Gu Xu's speed to be so fast.
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In the following time, Gu Xu took off the notes hanging on the lantern one by one, and wrote one sentence after another on it with charcoal.
Although he is busy with cultivation on weekdays, he rarely plays these games of dancing and playing with Wenmo.
But for things like pairs, what is tested is cultural accumulation after all.
As long as you have enough material in your head, even if you can't write that kind of inspirational absolute, you can still make up a decent couplet.
Gu Xu, who has the talent of [Erudite and Strong], has the most important thing to lack, which is the accumulation of knowledge.
Seeing the upper couplet "Big Wood Sensen, Pine, Cypress, Sycamore, Willow", Gu Xu wrote the lower couplet "Fine water, streams, rivers and lakes";
Seeing the upper couplet "overlapping mountains, winding ring loops", Gu Xu wrote the lower couplet "high and down the trees, ding ding dong dong spring";
Seeing the upper couplet "The green water is worry-free, and the face is wrinkled by the wind", Gu Xu wrote the lower couplet "Qingshan Yuan is not old, it is snow-white";
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Chu Fengge stood beside him, watching Gu Xu write out sentence after sentence, and his mood was extremely complicated.
At this moment, a thought involuntarily popped up in his heart: he wanted to ask Gu Xu to help him write a few lines of poetry for him to use in future battles.
Gu Xu's literary talent is much better than his subordinates who eat and drink all day long - the poems he wrote will definitely make him full of momentum before drawing his sword.
However, Chu Fengge quickly drove this absurd idea out of his mind.
After all, he, Chu Fengge, will be the number one figure in the world in the future, and Gu Xu will be his opponent who cannot be ignored.
If you ask a competitor to help write a poem, doesn't that mean admitting defeat to the other party?
Even if Chu Fengge died, even if his head was cut off with a sword, he would never do such a thing of rebellion.
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Time flies.
In the blink of an eye, there was only one lantern left hanging from the tree.
Gu Xu took a deep breath and took the last note from the lantern.
"Let me see what this finale is."
He unfolded the note, only to see five words succinctly written on it:
"Smoke lock pond willow."
Chu Fengge also leaned his head and took a look, feeling a little surprised.
He thought that this was the most complicated and difficult couplet to match.
I didn't expect it to be so easy.
"Brother Gu Xian, what do you think of the 'Fog Cage Distant Mountain Flower'?" He couldn't help but speak.
It's a rare opportunity to show a hand in front of Gu Xu. Chu Fengge will not let it go easily.
But Gu Xu shook his head slightly.
"Lord Chu, in fact, this couplet is far from being as simple as you think," Gu Xu smiled slightly, "In my opinion, it should be the most difficult of all the couplets today." β
"The hardest?" Chu Fengge was a little unconvinced.
"You may not have noticed that these five characters contain the five elements of 'metal', 'wood', 'water', 'fire' and 'earth'. Our downlink also meets this requirement. β
Chu Fengge snorted coldly and stopped talking.
Gu Xu also fell into deep thought.
In his mind, hundreds of commonly used words including "metal", "wood", "water", "fire" and "earth" quickly appeared, and they were quickly arranged and combined according to the requirements of the part of speech.
Then he decisively ruled out the "potassium beaker wall", "sodium beaker wall" and so on, which are most likely to come to mind as a science and engineering student.
Unconsciously, he felt that he had entered a certain mysterious state, as if his soul had floated out of his body, walking in the hall of words, and seeing the words outline the picture, and the words appeared in the picture......
Eventually, he put pen to paper and wrote:
"Tears are gone."
The white paper turns into specks of fluorescence and dissipates into darkness.
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The spirit of the "Amazing Pen" slowly got up from behind the pillar.
She saw every sentence Gu Xu wrote on the paper.
This sentence "smoke locks the pond willows" is a problem she set for cultivators many years ago, and countless young talents in the entire Atmospheric Dynasty are helpless against it.
The next link given by Lu Shiyao that year was "Autumn Mosaic Wall Maple".
The upper and lower couplets are a spring and an autumn, combining the virtual and the real, the former is quiet and elegant, and the latter is mellow and deep and elegant.
It can be described as neat, harmonious in artistic conception, and very talented.
And Gu Xu's sentence "tears disappear and ashes are gone", the artistic conception is very different from Shanglian.
But when he saw this sentence, the machine spirit couldn't help but think of the desolate cemetery where the Lu family's corpses were buried, and the corners of his eyes were filled with crystal tears.