Chapter 10: Couplets
Li Changan hadn't heard the words of the county school students clearly, and the night suddenly brightened.
Everyone couldn't help but look up at the sky.
I saw a curtain of light falling from the top of the star-gazing tower, as if a huge piece of rice paper had been spread out between heaven and earth.
Immediately after that, one after another big black characters, like an axe and chisel splitting, fell into the light curtain, splashing the sky with light and rain.
The theme of the Wangxinglou Poetry Meeting is listed on it - ascending.
Climb a seven-story building and write a poem!
The audience resounded with an irrepressible exclamation.
Liu Zhiyin's eyes couldn't help but widen, "This...... What is it? ”
It was the first time she had seen such a transcendent scene.
A word is like a boulder, smashed into a deep pool, as if even people's hearts will be shattered.
"Grammar – black and white, and ...... A thousand words! ”
Li Chang'an's pupils seemed to have an earthquake erupting, constantly trembling.
Fragments in the depths of the memory of the predecessor, because of this scene, surging with it.
This is the world of Wendao, a world that is beyond the mundane.
The crowd at the entrance of Wangxing Tower gradually diverted.
Those who enter with an invitation card will be the first to enter the building.
Today's poetry meeting is jointly organized by the county school and major poetry societies.
The original intention was to celebrate Liu Chaosheng, a student of county school, who was recruited into Bailu Academy.
So the momentum is huge.
After all, those who have invitations are in the minority.
Even if you don't have an invitation, you want to go to the east gate to try it, if you can climb the stargazing tower, even if you can't write poems, you can make a lot of contacts.
"Erlang, let's go and see what's on the east side, and you can go up to the star tower if you break through the east gate." Liu Zhiyin had full confidence in Li Changan and said softly.
The two came to the east gate of Wangxing Tower, where there was already a long queue.
"I didn't expect that it was the county school Gu Jiao who sat at the east gate, how did we break in?"
"It seems to be a couplet, it should be fine."
The two scholars in front of the queue poked their heads out,
"No, that's right, there are already ten people in front, and none of them can break through the east gate."
"Anyway, we have to give it a try, let's break through the east gate and climb the stargazing tower, even if there are no poems coming out, it will be a blessing."
Soon it will be Li Changan's turn.
Passing through the lintel of the east gate, everything behind him is blocked, and in front of him is a long table.
Li Changan finally saw the county school Gu Jiao that everyone said.
Wearing a square scarf, his body is thin, but his eyes are bright, and he seems to be able to penetrate people's hearts at a glance.
There were four county school students standing behind Gu Jiaoyu, and when Li Changan came in with Liu Zhiyin, they were looking at Li Changan.
Li Changan clasped his fists and saluted, Gu Jiaoyu nodded, and then took out five wooden cards from the cloth bag,
"Twenty breaths to make a pair of downlink, you can go upstairs."
Oh good guys, five uplinks only give twenty breaths, no wonder so many people fail.
Couplets require equal number of words, relative parts of speech, equal contradictions, and the same syntax.
In addition to testing the knowledge base, it is also a test of people's quick intelligence.
But the problem is, in twenty breaths, you want to make five couplets.
It's just a deliberate refusal to let people pass.
Didn't you force me to hang up?
"Five cars of poetry and courage ......" Li Changan swept the first couplet, as if there were pages turning in his mind, and then said in a deep voice, "Eight buckets of talent." ”
Gu Jiaoyu raised his eyes to look at Li Changan in surprise, and then nodded, "Not bad." ”
The thin scholar in front of him is also a little anxious.
It was so quick to get it right.
Thinking about it, he was about to pull out the bamboo stick, but he didn't expect Li Changan's voice to sound again,
"The green mountains do not ink a thousand autumn paintings...... Flowing water has no strings and ten thousand guqins. ”
The county school students behind Gu Jiaoyu looked at Li Changan one after another, their eyes full of surprise.
These couplets were all selected by them, so they were all tested beforehand.
Although it is not an absolute, the thin scholar in front of him is inevitably too fast.
So quickly to make a second uplink.
Have you seen these couplets before?
Moreover, as long as you make a couplet, why do you want to make a second couplet?
Gu Jiaoyu raised his hand slightly to stop the person behind him from making a sound.
Li Changan set his sights on the third uplink,
"The water moon is in hand...... Fill your clothes with flowers. ”
"Ahem......" A violent cough sounded.
A scholar behind Gu Jiaoyu coughed unconsciously.
The other three also looked at Li Changan as if they had seen a ghost.
Isn't that a bit excessive?
Five uplink, you can match three at once.
What is it if it's not cheating?
Definitely seen these couplets before.
You're so lucky, aren't you?
Li Changan looked at the coughing scholar in surprise, "...... this brother?" ”
The scholar coughed even more violently and hurriedly waved his hand.
Li Changan, who was watching, was confused for a while.
Gu Jiaoyu waved his hand, then pointed to the two remaining wooden cards on the table, "Go on." ”
Li Changan hurriedly looked at the fourth uplink.
Time waits for no one.
Only twenty breaths, all blame that guy, coughing wool?
The fourth uplink is, once the red rain flies.
Li Changan said quickly, "Thousands of forests are scattered with green shades. ”
Finally, Li Changan pointed to the fifth wooden card,
"The clouds and shadows are shining up and down the sky...... Songtao bamboo rhyme water central ......"
"Poof." The student who had just coughed sat on the ground, his face flushed.
Li Changan was inexplicable in his heart.
Didn't this county school student have sheep epilepsy?
How is it not normal from the beginning?
Liu Zhiyin behind him nervously tugged at the corner of Li Changan's clothes.
She didn't know much, but she also knew that these people in front of her were all scholars with status.
Needless to say, the students of the county school are at least the children who have passed the county examination.
She is very confident in Erlang, but she is also worried that Erlang's performance is not good and she will be brushed down.
Erlang has been determined to gain fame since he was a child, and if he fails, it will definitely be a heavy blow.
Now this scene is completely beyond her imagination.
I don't know if Jiro's performance is good or bad.
"Zizhao, if you're not in good health, go upstairs first." Gu Jiaoyu said behind him.
The county school student who coughed and collapsed to the ground hurriedly got up, "The student is rude, teach forgiveness." ”
Gu Jiaoyu looked at Li Changan with a smile on his face, "Xiaoyou has no literary temperament, and he hasn't gained fame yet, right?" ”
"Gu Jiaoyu's eyes are like torches, and the late students are preparing for the county exam in March next year." Although Li Changan didn't know what was going on, he still replied respectfully.
"Not bad." Gu Jiaoyu nodded, "I also have an uplink here, you might as well look at it?" ”
"It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate."
"Open by the water, the clouds and mountains on all sides are into the painting." Gu Jiao said.
Li Changan pondered for a moment and said, "Looking from afar by the railing, thousands of fireworks are always concerned." ”
"Okay." Gu Jiaoyu stroked his palms and smiled, then took out two bamboo sticks, "Take it, go upstairs." ”
"Thank you, Gu." Li Changan took the bamboo stick and prepared to leave with Liu Zhiyin.
After thinking about it, Li Changan couldn't help but say more, "Please forgive me for teaching Gu, I have a small suggestion for my later life." ”
"Oh? What is recommended? Gu Jiaoyu asked with a smile.
"The time of the couplet is too short, and the five upper couplets only give twenty breaths, which is still a bit difficult for a strong man."
"Poof......" Zi Zhao, who had just gotten up, couldn't help laughing again.
The other three county school students were also uncomfortable, and their faces turned red.
Li Changan touched his head, looking confused.
I'll you, is there something wrong with you guys?
What are you doing one by one?
Gu Jiaoyu's face was also red and white for a while, and he took two deep breaths,
"Xiaoyou, the old man just said that as long as one uplink is matched, he didn't say that he wants to match all of them, these five uplinks are just for people to choose."
"Huh?" Li Changan's eyes widened, and then he apologized embarrassedly again and again, "Gu Jiao forgives his sins, and he thought that every upper link had to be a lower link." ”
Gu Jiaoyu couldn't help but chuckle twice and waved his hand, "Go ahead, I'm looking forward to your poems tonight." ”
Li Changan hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted, quickened his pace, and trotted into the stargazing tower with Liu Zhiyin as if he were fleeing.
"Hahaha......" The four county school students couldn't help laughing out loud anymore.
Even Gu Jiaoyu shook his head with a smile.
"Teaching, this kid is really interesting." Zizhao couldn't stop laughing while holding his stomach,
"The students thought that he was deliberately showing off his literary talents, but it turned out that he had misunderstood the meaning of the teachings."
"I also made an opinion, and I laughed to death......"
Gu Jiaoyu pointed at the four students behind him, "You guys are still laughing." ”
"Whether he understands it wrong or not, the five upper links come out within twenty breaths, and they are definitely not human."
"Couplets are just a trail, but even if his poems and scriptures are only one-tenth of the couplet's talent, he will be nine out of ten if he passes the county exam."
"You must know that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the human ......"
"Students remember the teachings." The four students saluted.
After laughing, I was also shocked in my heart.
Yes, plus the upper couplet of Gu Jiaoyu, there are a total of six couplets, which came out in such a short period of time.
You can't all see it before, right?
It is already very difficult for ordinary people to match one, and it is unimaginable that he can match six couplets at once.