Chapter 7: The Difference Between Beauty and Ugliness

The next night, the gate of the city is opened, the lights in the city are bright, the restaurant is smiling and welcome, and in the middle of the night, whether it is eating or housing, you can make a lot of money. This city of smoke and water is not only a tourist destination, but also a wealthy city that can do business just by choosing this time.

However, Mo Zi and the others naturally would not come to join in the fun. At the city gate, only the sound of copper drums was heard in the distance, and a team of red-clothed people squeezed through the crowd and entered the city gate.

"Blood roses, enchanting the world. ”

In front of the team, there were two beautiful young women holding red roses to lead the way, and some people behind them were shouting, and more than a dozen girls carrying a large red sedan chair must be Blood Rose herself. When such a formation made everyone talk about it, in the eyes of everyone, Nan Murong and North Qiao Feng also greeted each other and entered the city together.

"Big brother, they're in, let's go too. At the city gate, a handsome boy said to a bald monk.

Childe smiled, which immediately attracted everyone's eyes.

The little monk's face was slightly red, and he scratched his head and said, "Third brother, do you really want to go in......?" Here it is......"

Duan Yu was deaf and said with a smile: "What is it?"

The little monk glanced at Duan Yu and said, "Third brother, don't make fun of me...... Sacrifice your life to accompany the gentleman today...... Let's go. ”

Duan Yu is suave by nature, this little monk is Duan Yu's second brother Xuzhu, who grew up in Shaolin since he was a child, and his eldest brother is Beiqiao Peak just past. While Duan Yu and the two were talking, they also walked into Yanshui City.

Another day, early in the morning, it was very lively, and there was a grand scene outside the city, although there were many people, it was not crowded and there was no fighting. Nowadays, there are some men who come and go, and some women who believe in their identities either don't close their doors or don't go to the mountains and rivers, which makes the beautiful Yanshui City full of men.

In the middle of the city, a large platform covered with red cloth was built in a wide area, and a pair of couplets were hung high, attracting everyone to stop and watch.

"The sword at the end of the martial arts dyes the four heavens, and the pen at the beginning of the text adjusts the three landscapes"

After reading it carefully, everyone was puzzled, what does it mean if the water is watery?

"The Beginning and the End of the Water"

It's even more confusing, I thought it was 'both civil and military', but this donkey's head is not the same as the horse's tail, so that some people who are not mentally strong will inevitably fight and retreat. Suddenly, there were one exclamation after another from the crowd, and out of the crowd were Ruo Shuihan and the old storyteller, who had already taken off their veils.

I saw that the person who came had the color of a sinking fish and a goose, and the face of a shy flower in the closed moon. Beautiful eyes are looking forward to it, and the streamer is about to be revealed.

This is the first time people have seen the true face of Ruoshui Han. The two walked on the big red platform, and Ruo Shuihan faced everyone: "As you can see, you have come from afar, and you are all heroes and heroes of the Quartet. ”

The sound is like a birdsong, tactful and generous.

Everyone nodded to each other when they heard it, thinking that it was complicated, and it was good to be both civil and military. Some people ask what is the explanation for horizontal criticism?

She added, "You will know, ladies and gentlemen, that the ceremony will begin in the afternoon. ”

With that, she left. It was only noon now, and the beauty was gone, and everyone shook their heads and sighed. The streets were also empty, and they all hid from the sun. Mo Zi and his entourage appeared for an unlimited time, but there were only three people, Mo Mufan, Zi Xinxi and Bai Chiyun. After eating the purple heart tide sugar gourd, the other two asked her to pull it out and buy the sugar gourd together.

Walking to the Yanshui River, under a bend of willows, Mo Zi and the three of them leaned together, Mo Mufan asked, "Little girl, where is your big eagle?"

Hearing this, Zi Xinxi looked at Mo Mufan with dark and bright eyes, and said, "Big brother, do you guess?" She naughtily shook the sugar gourd in front of Mo Mufan's eyes.

Bai Chiyun glanced at Mo Mufan and continued to eat the sugar gourd, but there was a hint of suspicion in his eyes, I don't know if Mo Mufan would not know this time, Bai Chiyun thought secretly.

Mo Mufan sat down with him, hugged Zi Xinxi into his arms, scraped the bridge of her delicate little nose, and thought for a while: "It should be in this ring world." ”

Mo Mufan pulled up the cyan ink ring on Zi Xinxi's chest, and looked at Zi Xinxi seriously, but there was a hint of amusement in his eyes. Originally, the ring was worn on the finger, but Zi Xinxi's mind was hot, so she found a thread and hung it around her neck.

Bai Chiyun shook his head boredly, thinking that it was still not okay to stump Mo Mufan's question. Zi Xinxi had a flash of inspiration and said, "Big brother must have seen you turn Xiao Kunpeng into an ordinary little beast that day, and big brother can guess that you can let that carving enter the ring world." ”

Mo Mufan smiled. In fact, when Zi Xinxi asked him just now, she accidentally looked at the ring hanging on her chest. However, Mo Mufan was puzzled, remembering that he wanted to let the injured Yun Wu and Rong Yun enter it but couldn't, why could they enter again? Bai Qianyue should still have something to hide from the three of them......

"Mo Shao!"

A heroic voice came, and North Qiao Feng and South Murong greeted him, and it was Qiao Feng who was talking just now. Mo Mufan looked at it head-on, it was a heroic man and a son.

Mo Mufan said: "Qiao gang leader." ”

Qiao Feng was about to speak, Murong Fu interjected first, and he said: "You are Brother Qiao's friend and my friend, you want to come to be the lord of Sifang Ridge, known as Mo Shao, in Xiannan Murong." ”

Mo Mufan snorted, and just said to Qiao Feng: "Don't worry, Elder Weng is in Sifangling." ”

Qiao Feng's face was complicated, and he said: "Hey, Mo Shao, it's not that I don't believe you, it's because I'm afraid that you will die and Fang Ling will not be able to protect himself." ”

When Bai Chiyun heard this, he got up and said, "Then what do you want? ”

Those people were in Sifang Ridge, if it weren't for Zixinxi to take them in, Bai Chiyun would have caused those troubles. At this point, Mo Mufan and Bai Chiyun are the same kind of people. Mo Mufan was silent, but he was on the same line as Bai Chiyun.

Qiao Feng hurriedly said: "Mo Shao, I think you have misunderstood." ”

Zi Xinxi swallowed the sugar gourd, poked his head out, and said, "Uncle, did you say that we misunderstood something?"

Qiao Feng said: "I came to help Sifangling. He rushed for a day and a night, why did he have a good night's rest, he hurriedly came to help Sifang Ling, afraid that the old people in Sifang Ling would be mishap.

Mo Mufan glanced at Qiao Feng, turned around and took Zixinxi away, which was considered a tacit acquiescence.

"Mo Shao?"

Bai Chiyun scratched his head and said, "Whatever you want." After speaking, he hurriedly followed. In fact, he also hoped that Qiao Feng would go to Sifangling, after all, it was rumored that Qiao Feng's Eighteen Palms of Dragon Descent 、、、-- quite fun.

The time has passed, the sun sets, and the ceremony begins.

Competition, the selection of the best people, the competition, the selection of the outstanding.

The rules are simple and straightforward, and those who are capable live in them. This is a rare simplicity, as long as you are talented, as long as you are strong in martial arts, no matter your appearance, tall, short, fat or thin, or what, as long as you become the first, you can get a beauty.

Mo Mufan and the others were bored and came out to breathe under the pull of Zixinxi, and it was also a request from the black clothes.

On the high platform, the black clothes jumped up directly, glanced at the people behind the curtain of the high platform, and turned to everyone: "Ruo Shuihan, it's my people...... If anyone covets his beauty, he may as well come up and be sure to be a whole corpse with you. ”

Everyone immediately bared their teeth, but there was a sound from behind the curtain. "Childe, don't hurt people's lives. ”

The black cloth smiled and said with a sneer: "Life is better than death, how?"

Everyone couldn't help but feel nervous, as if it had been a long time, before the curtain said: "Whatever you want." ”

Not casually, but with you. Not all of them are stupid people, and the question and answer seems to tell them that the two seem to know each other.

At present, the beauty has its own brave husband.

The black-clothed man had won ten battles and ten victories, and everyone was shocked, and after half an hour, no one dared to come forward to challenge.

Everyone was stupid for the black clothes, and they forgot that martial arts could not be done for a while.

The black clothes did not take a step back, and the ten people retreated. There are no moves at all, and between the fights, it is like fighting with ghosts, the swords are useless, how can they not be defeated.

At this time, a thin scholar resignedly walked onto the high platform and almost fell, but he stood up a little tenaciously in the laughter of everyone.

That alone is commendable.

The black cloth said: "You are not afraid of death, then I will fulfill you." His words were as cold-blooded as before, but he didn't make a move, just looked at the thin scholar coldly. The thin scholar hurriedly waved his hand, and said fearfully: "I...... I'm the ...... Bivin's. ”

Although he is afraid, this son is talented and intelligent, and he has studied hard for ten years, but he still has some confidence.

Under the stage, it was Mo Mufan and others who were hiding and watching, Zi Xinxi and Bai Chiyun ran away again. Yun Wu said: "This black-clothed five big and three thick, I'm afraid that I will lose this time." "If You'er was stunned, although the black clothes were dressed in black robes, they were not five big and three thick, if so, then only a person like Senior Brother Mo was an elegant person.

Rong Yun held back a smile, how did his master see it. However, he continued: "What the master said is good, he has suffered hard. ”

Yun Wu smiled, "Really?"

Rong Yunlian said: "That is, others are rich and rich, and his strength is better." Rong Yun turned the short Xiao in his hand around, and said lazily: "But it's still a little bit worse than me." ”

He wanted to say a lot worse, but he didn't want people to hear that he was narcissistic, so he only said a little.

Mo Mufan shook his head, I don't know where the little girl ran again?

"Are you two ready?"

On the high platform, behind the curtain, there is a sound from the water culvert.

The black-clothed and thin scholar looked at each other, which was considered a tacit acquiescence, one indifferent and the other with a little trepidation. In the eyes of everyone, the thin scholar is naturally incomparable in terms of momentum, but the firmness hidden in his eyes makes everyone have some expectations.

The black clothes defeated everyone lightly, which inevitably embarrassed everyone, and this thin scholar, although he looked unreliable, everyone still hoped that he could give everyone a shame.

Ruo Shui Han asked: "The first question is, what is beauty and ugliness? ”

The rules are not difficult.

The thin scholar looked at the black clothes and asked, "You say it first or I ......" Before he finished speaking, the black clothes interrupted him: "You say." ”

The thin scholar pursed his lips and said, "Beauty...... There is a closed moon and a shy flower, a sinking fish and a goose, with good facial features and a noble temperament. With a roll of his eyes, facing everyone, the thin scholar chanted: "Don't be afraid of broken bones, you have to leave your innocence in the world...... Si is beautiful. Spit out two sentences, and everyone applauded, he looked at the black clothes proudly, and said: "As for the ugly, the people who can be deceived in appearance, and the fierce and evil people, you can't look at them directly." ”

Some people applauded, but the voice was less, and the last words obviously offended some people, and the thin scholar was immersed in the applause of everyone, obviously not having a meaning. The black clothes still stood quietly, but the momentum was a little stronger, and the applause also stopped. The thin scholar was stunned for a moment, but he was still the first to react.

"The ...... Your turn. ”

The thin scholar is confident, the difference between beauty and ugliness is that flowers are to dung, and black clothes have nothing to say. The black clothes glanced at him and said loudly: "The beauty is cherished, and the ugliness is cherished." ”

Although the voice is light, the rhyme is deep.

When everyone heard this, they were stunned, and they were gone? Mo Mufan and the others below were stunned, they didn't expect this black cloth to have such insight, it was not simple.

--If Meixi only cherishes the past, it is not beautiful.

--UglyIf you can cherish beauty, you can't be ugly.

Soon, behind the curtain, Ruoshuihan's voice came out, saying: "The second question, recite the poem "Jin Se". ”

"Jin Se" is a poem written by the great poet Li Shangyin, which is a love poem dedicated to his wife Li when he was in his prime. In this Qianyuan Continent, it was also a romantic affair and was rumored for a while.

When Heiyi and Mo Mufan and others heard it, except for Mo Mufan, they all had a look of difficulty, and the world's poetry and songs in this world were like a sea, although they were talented and intelligent people, but they had never heard of it...... Obviously, if Shui Han deliberately came out, it may be to make things difficult for the black clothes.

The black clothes were silent, and the thin scholar should be full of confidence this time, and said: "Jin Se has fifty strings for no reason, one string and one pillar Si Hua Nian, Zhuang Shengxiao dreams of butterflies, Emperor Wang's spring heart trusts the cuckoo, there are tears in the pearl of the sea and the moon, and the blue field is warm and the jade is smoking, this situation can be recalled, but it was already sad at that time." ”

It is also peculiar, the whole poetic conception is low, full of regret and nostalgia for the past, the first couplet is doubled by twenty-five strings in order to miss the past years, and to Zhuang Zhou dream butterfly, azalea and other imagery to express their own nostalgia, the regret of the passing years. There is a kind of reading that is full of desolation and depression. The next couplet is even more so, the merman weeps tears, nature is still like this, not to mention the poet himself...... All kinds of words turned into the last 'this love can be recalled, but it was already lost at that time' endless sorrow and longing.

As for how this poem became a love poem that has been passed down for centuries, it is a happy love story......

The crowd applauded again.

The black clothes couldn't answer, Ruo Shui Han held back a smile and said, "Scholar add one point, there is one last question below, listen up!"

The third question.

"If I fall into the water at the same time as your mother, who will you save first? Please answer. ”

When Yun Wu and Ruo You'er heard it, the two of them laughed, but Yun Wu laughed loudly, and Ruo You'er laughed softly This Ruo Shui Han is also a talent. A question is to stump the thin scholar, he wants to win the beauty, he must choose to save the beauty first, but, since childhood, let the teaching of filial piety first, will save the mother and miss the beauty.

Throughout the ages, I am afraid that this question will become an enduring classic, and it will also become a hurdle that many talented and beautiful women cannot overcome. It seems to be a ridiculous question, but after digging deeper, it is a great test of human nature...... It is also a big failure to test human nature.

Mo Mufan hooked his lips sarcastically. People in the world are ignorant, and they always like to sit in the right seat.

The thin scholar's face was ugly, and he struggled to spit out three words after half a sound.

"I ...... Abandon. ”

He couldn't answer and didn't want to answer. The crowd was disdainful, and that was the look of the loser. The thin scholar shook his head and walked off the high platform in despair.

The black-clothed man laughed at Ruoshui Han and said, "Xiao Nizi, this scholar seems to like you." Why don't you marry him?"

Ruoshui said: "Great, count you as passing." "If Shui Han didn't say it directly, it would be boring for the black clothes to beg him. He didn't ask anything, looked at everyone, and still said indifferently: "No one next, right?"

Suddenly, someone was dissatisfied and said to Heiyi: "You haven't answered Miss Shuihan's last question, you can't be considered a win, we are not convinced." ”

Immediately, a few more people chimed in. Heiyi snorted coldly and said, "I don't have a mother alive, what do you want me to answer." ”

His voice was bloodthirsty, and the few people who wanted to deliberately cause a noise were frightened and didn't dare to make a noise. When the sunset came, the figure in black looked a little cold, and after eleven consecutive victories, everyone was dumbfounded. Qiao Feng and the others who were watching below wanted to make a move and join in the fun, but a bright red figure was one step ahead of them and stood on the high platform......