The literary test is not all about guessing lantern riddles, and when you reach more than 15 floors, you are studying couplet kung fu. These couplets came out of these layers, Fang Yun had dealt with them in his previous life. It's not that difficult at all. Picking up the pen, Fang Yun wrote out the next couplets of these couplets almost without thinking. However, by the end of the couplet, there was a deviation.

"Dragon Horse Negative Diagram, Fuxi Painting Hexagram, Qiankun Ding!"

Seeing this couplet, Fang Yun was stunned, he was not impressed by this couplet at all.

"Childe, this pair of Shanglian is from the Imperial Court Senior Cabinet, Master Rong, a first-class Guanglu doctor. At present, no one in the capital can come out. If Childe can come out, then he will be able to enter the final level. ”

The person in charge of this level was a Confucian scholar from Hanlin. Dressed in Confucian clothes, he is in his forties, with a white face and three strands of beard under his chin, revealing a high level of cultivation and knowledge.

Fang Yun was silent. Fu Xian is the legendary emperor of the three ancient emperors. Legend has it that in ancient times, everyone lived a very long life, and everyone could shoulder the mountains and mountains, and fly to the sky. No one is convinced of anyone. Later, the Three Emperors ruled the world and unified the world with powerful force and benevolent means of governing the world. In legend, Fu Xi was the head of the Three Emperors and had the strongest force. His personal weapon is Ryomatu. Legend has it that Fuxi used the dragon horse map to subdue the world and set the world.

Of course, these are just legends, and the ancient times have been separated from the present for too long. Many things are illusory and misty, and they are falsely spread.

Confucianism has always regarded Fuxi as one of the ancestors of Wen, and the Lantai Secret Garden of the Great Zhou Dynasty is now based on the gossip map handed down by Fuxi. It is used to observe the stars and celestial phenomena, infer the country's country, and the fate of the country.

"I don't have this topic in my mind. Now I'm on my own. ”

Fang Yun has been obsessed with martial arts during this time, and he hasn't touched literary affairs for a long time. But after all, he had a lifetime of knowledge there. After thinking for a while, Fang Yun finally picked up the pen and wrote down the next link he gave.

"Tiger and snake pedal painting, Nuwa Xiangqin, heaven and earth are completed!"

This couplet was written by Fang Yun based on a wild history he had read in his previous life. It is rumored that in ancient times, countless powerful battles caused catastrophes in heaven and earth. The sky cracked, and the earth collapsed. This led directly to the end of ancient times.

Seeing that the sky is broken and the earth is broken, and the living beings are painted with ashes, Fuxi's sister, Nuwa Niangniang, appeases all things in heaven and earth with the supreme sound of the piano. Eventually, the sky was bridged and the earth gathered. This is the continuation of the ancient era. And after doing this, Nuwa also fell.

Of course, these are still legends. It can't be true. However, at this point, it is best to use it here.

"Not bad, not bad! Dragon and horse Futu, Fuxi painting hexagram, Qiankun Ding; tiger and snake painting, Nuwa Xiangqin, heaven and earth become a good pair! What a pair!"

This Hanlin Confucian sang it again, and his eyes showed brilliance.

"Good pair, good pair! Presumably, Lord Rong should be very happy to see your next link. I'll send him there first. ”

He seemed impatient at this point, as if he was eager to leave immediately.

"Your Excellency, go. Fang Yundao.

After seeing the Confucian students leave, Fang Yun entered the next level. I saw that on the threshold, two words "poetry" were written. Fang Yun had an understanding in his heart. The first few levels of this literary test are riddles, which test the agility of thinking, and the couplets in the middle test are smart and shallow poetry ability. At this level, it is directly about self-cultivation.

"This year's essay exam has changed a lot from what I remembered. At least the couplet of the senior cabinet Guanglu Dafu Rong should not appear in this year's literary exam. I hope the next level will not be too difficult. ”

Fang Yun is determined to get the extraterritorial star iron, but it is not easy to get the first place in the literary test. At least Fang Yun already had a faint feeling that the next level was not going to be easy. Taking a deep breath, Fang Yun walked in.

The room was dark, and zhōngyāng had a wooden table on which a lantern stood upright, covered with a lampshade. In front of the wooden table, there is a curtain, behind which is bright, and a tall and thin figure is faintly reflected on the black curtain. The man sat quietly upright, casting a shè yīn shadow, exuding a vast, square smell.

"Fang Yun?" The faint voice revealed the majesty and bearing of a person who held the authority of life and death.

"Yes. Students have met adults. Fang Yun bowed his head and saluted. The bearing exuded by this person's projection and the majesty of his speech are all concealing the fact that this examiner is in a high position and has a great background.

"This room, you were the first to come. Very good!" the figure on the curtain nodded slightly in appreciation.

"This chief examiner, I don't know which lord in the court is it. ”

Fang Yun was silent, slightly nervous in his heart. In his previous life, he was obsessed with Confucian learning, and greatly admired the great Confucians in the court, who had thousands of chests, passed through the heavens and latitudes, and studied ancient and modern times. The dark shadow in front of the curtain gave him a feeling of Confucianism.

"There are pens, ink, and inkstones on the wooden table, and you remove the lampshade on the table, and the title of this last level is in the lampshade. ”

"The students were ordered. ”

Fang Yun took off the lampshade and saw an octagonal lantern with white paper paste standing on the wooden table. The lantern was divided into eight sides, and the side facing Fang Yun was all blank. At the moment when Fang Yun removed the lampshade, the base of the lantern emitted a sound of blinking, and then, the white paper octagonal lamp slowly turned in Fang Yun's eyes.

Fang Yunju stared at the octagonal lantern intently.

The first side is blank, and the second side is blank...... The fourth side is still blank......

On the fifth side, the handwriting finally appeared on the octagonal lantern, and a line of thin and thin ancient seal characters, like a stream of water, appeared on the lamp paper on the fifth side.

"Chess is always happy. ”

Seeing this line of thin fonts, Rao is Fang Yunxin was firm, and he couldn't help but shake at this moment. He thought that the topic of a level might be difficult, but he didn't expect the first line of poetry to be like that. This line of work is not even a poem, and even the strangers in the village may be able to do it.

"This ......"

Fang Yun glanced at the figure behind the curtain, the person was motionless, as if he had turned into a wood carving, silent.

"Boom-boom-"

The machine bracket turned, and a second line of font appeared on the octagonal lantern:

"Once the bitterness is lost. ”

This line of words is still unchanged, and there is still no new meaning. The huge gap between his expectations and reality made Fang Yun almost wonder if he had entered the wrong room.

"A poem has eight lines, corresponding to the eight sides of an octagonal lantern. There are already four faces that are blank, and the remaining four sides should have verses. Let's talk about it for the time being. ”

Fang Yun took a deep breath and hit the jīng god strongly.

The third line of the verse finally appears:

"The soldier fell into the river and could not be saved. ”

As soon as this poem appeared, the artistic conception of the whole poem immediately changed, and a wave of murderous intent broke out of the paper, shocking the soul.

In Fang Yun's mind, there was a sudden buzz and a roar. In a trance, I heard a terrible cry of struggle in both ears, and I seemed to see the scene of thousands of troops and horses crowding into the river and being swept away by the flood.

Boom-Boom-

The machine is still in operation, the octagonal lantern slowly turns, and the fourth line appears:

"The soldiers drowned and rested together. ”

As soon as these seven small thin body ancient seals came out, the killing breath of the whole poem suddenly increased by a hundred times and a thousand times, and between the lines, it revealed the artistic conception of "the furnace of heaven and earth lives and lives, and all things are ruthless and bitter", and the mighty killing breath is surging and unstoppable!

At this time, the sound of the bracket finally stopped. But Fang Yun was still staring at the white paper octagonal lamp, his mind was immersed in this killing aura, and these four lines of poetry kept appearing in his mind.

Fang Yun's brows furrowed.

These four lines of poetry are not simple!--This is Fang Yun's first feeling.

The Great Zhou Dynasty divided the civil and military affairs, and the military did not ask about civil affairs, and the literature did not ask about military affairs. However, in the past thousand years, the Five Faminees have been constantly fighting, and Confucianism has long ceased to be an attitude of ignorance. And the generals also began to be quite critical of Confucianism.

The civil and military have been light since ancient times. Confucianism looks down on soldiers, and soldiers look down on Confucianism! This is a great truth, and it will not change for thousands of years!

This poem on the white paper lantern represents a kind of friction between the civil and military that has begun to rise in the imperial court in recent years.

On the surface, the questions of this last level are to study the students' poetry skills, but at a deeper level, they are what make the students stand out in the literary examination, and the best scholars show their own positions and attitudes.

The scholars who went to the capital basically studied literature and martial arts. This last hurdle clearly allows these scholars, who are both civil and military, to make their own choices between Confucianism and soldiers.

"Lantern Festival, after each time. The questions of the astronomy test will be circulated. If this topic is done normally, Confucianism and soldiers will inevitably offend one. Either way, it's a curse or a blessing for the family. I'll have to think about it!"

Fang Yun's heart was heavy, knowing that the extraterritorial star iron that was rewarded this time was starting to become hot.

"Fang Yun, you have a pillar of incense time to write out the neck and tail couplets of this poem. ”

Behind the curtain, the majestic figure spoke. As soon as the voice fell, a eunuch came out from behind the curtain and inserted a freshly lit pillar of sandalwood into the censer.

Hearing this voice, Fang Yun's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered something.

Legend has it that when the court prince was young, he used to be amusement. His favorite thing to do is to play chess. After a long time, he stopped doing his academic homework, and finally attracted the anger of his mother. Throw his favorite chess into the Lushui River. Taifu watched the chess pieces sink to the bottom of the river, and his heart was like a knife. I couldn't help crying. When I returned home, I sat stupidly for several days, like a soul. In the eyes of his mother, he was angry and painful, so he said to his son with tears in his eyes:

"A good man should have big ambitions, how can he let a few chess pieces be lost for life. ”

Seeing his mother crying, Taifu finally woke up and stopped playing chess and concentrated on reading. This is why there was a later title of the third duke, and the peach and plum are all over the world.

This matter, Taifu once mentioned it by chance on a certain occasion. Not many people know. Fang Yun learned this little story under some special circumstances. I didn't care about it at the time. At this time, seeing these four lines of poetry, this story immediately came to mind.

"Could it be that this examiner is the ?!! of the imperial court"