[Red Chamber] The imperial examination life of the great master

"Brother Song, what do you mean?" Jia Amnesty frowned and asked.

Song Ziyang said with a smile: "Brother Jia just came here, I don't know yet, let me introduce to you, today's Heroes' Meeting, we discussed it, it's just reciting poems, there's nothing new, so we set up There is a competition, and the lottery is a picture of the toad palace folded by the white number one scholar of the previous dynasty, and the winner can take this picture away."

"Sounds interesting." Jia She said with a thoughtful smile.

The picture of folding osmanthus in the Toad Palace, this meaning is really obvious, it seems that these people are drunkards who don't care about drinking!

It is not difficult to guess that no matter who wins the Toad Palace Zhegui Picture, his reputation will spread far and wide, and it may even be famous all over the world.

This is not only the credit of the Toad Palace, but also the credit of the reputation of those who have been trampled under. It is not bad to borrow so many people and use this game to make a name for themselves!

If this matter had nothing to do with him, Jia She would appreciate the person who set up this situation very much.

But right now, other people are in the game, but they can't let others step on their position.

"This is Brother Jia, right?" Just as Jia She was thinking, a group of people came up to him.

The leader stood out among the group of people, dressed in a moon-white robe with bamboo pattern, with a jade pendant around his waist, and there was a faint arrogance in his eyebrows and eyes.

Who is this?Jia Amnesty looked at Song Ziyang with questioning eyes.

Song Ziyang hurriedly introduced with a smile: "Brother Jia, this is Brother Liu, Liu Jieyuan. It's a coincidence that we can invite two Jieyuans here. Wait a moment, and you two will be merciful."

Liu Yuanzhi smiled, noncommittal, looked Jia She up and down, and said meaningfully: "Being famous is worse than meeting, I have admired Brother Jia's name for a long time, today I finally got my wish."

Jia Amnesty smiled and said, "Brother Liu, you are welcome."

This Song Ziyang's ability to fan the flames and watch the fire from the other side is really skillful, and he put the two of them together in one fell swoop.

"Since everyone is complete, don't delay our game." Song Ziyang said with a smile.

He nodded to Liu Yuanzhi and walked up to the second floor.

Song Ziyang's movement has long been noticed by everyone.

At this time, seeing him walking upstairs, everyone gradually became quiet.

Song Ziyang said with a smile: "I think you are getting impatient for waiting, and I am not disgusting. Today we will meet friends through literature and set up three levels. The first level is to guess riddles. There are about ten paintings, and the pictures are the riddles. Everyone You can choose at will, and then let the shopkeeper judge whether it is correct or not. Anyone who can solve it can enter the second level. The second level is a pair. , enter the third level, this third level is to solve the problem, I heard that Brother Jia's problem-solving is a masterpiece, I will have to experience it later."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at Jia Amnesty.

Jia Amnesty smiled without saying a word, with a hint of coldness in his brows and eyes.

"He is Jia Enhou?" someone whispered.

"it's him."

"I've heard about it for so long, today I can see a real person, they say he can win Huiyuan, today I want to see how much he has, don't even pass the first level, that would be ridiculous." Someone said. Said jealously and maliciously.

"Perhaps he really has some skills." The bystander said in a strange way.

Jia Amnesty listened to these gossip, but his face didn't even change.

Liu Yuanzhi looked at him out of the corner of his eye, seeing him like this, he felt a little appreciative in his heart.

Leaving aside knowledge for the time being, this disposition alone is enough for him to stand here.

Song Ziyang didn't expect Jia She's concentration to be so good, and he would not change his face under such a situation. He collected his thoughts and thought to himself, this Jia Enhou might be really difficult to deal with, and said on the face: "Time For a stick of incense, everyone can do whatever they want."

As his voice fell, everyone dispersed to look at the painting in the first level.

Some people are scrambling to be the first, lest they fall behind by half a step.

Soon, many people surrounded each painting.

Jia Amnesty was not in a hurry.

From Song Ziyang's tone, it can be heard that it may not be so easy to guess the answers to the mysteries in these paintings.

Even if you go around early, it's just a waste of time.

With his hands behind his back, he slowly drew one painting after another.

At a time when everyone is eager to solve the puzzle, Jia She's behavior is particularly prominent.

Song Ziyang snorted, what is Jia Enhou doing?

"Maybe I can't figure out the answer to the mystery." Someone laughed and said mockingly.

"Haha, that would be embarrassing. The future 'Huiyuan' can't even guess the answer to the mystery. If it spreads, wouldn't it be embarrassing?" Someone sneered and mocked.

"It's not necessary to lose someone to death. After all, if someone has a thick skin, they might think it's nothing."

A smile flickered across the corner of Song Ziyang's mouth, and he deliberately smoothed the field and said, "Okay, don't talk about it, maybe Brother Jia has his own ideas."

Everyone laughed, and the laughter was full of sarcasm, so harsh that people couldn't help frowning.

Liu Yuanzhi frowned at Jia Amnesty.

He always felt that Jia She was not what they said...

"Brother Liu, what are you thinking?" Song Ziyang asked.

Liu Yuanzhi shook his head, "It's nothing."

Saying what I think now is just for Song Ziyang and the others to laugh at me, so I might as well wait and see.

Jia Amnesty stopped in his tracks. He stopped in front of a painting and fell into deep thought while looking at the painting.

This painting is not unusual, it is just a painting of eighteen people in the deep mountains and old forests warming up in the mountains at night. The fire is small and embers remain.

"What word is this?" Surrounded by the painting, many people were frowning, staring at the painting with frowning eyes, wishing they could see through the painting.

"Isn't it a kill character?" someone whispered.

"No, no, this fire is small, but it still exists, how can it be a word of extinguishing?" Someone immediately retorted.

Jia Amnesty suddenly said, "I'm afraid it's a loose character."

"Song character? How can it be a loose character?" Someone retorted in confusion.

"No, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand." Someone gave Jia She a dissatisfied look and said.

"What's the matter?" Song Ziyang brought a group of people over, and he asked with a smile.

"This Jia Jieyuan actually said that the answer to this riddle is Song Zi. Brother Song, you are highly talented. Tell me what is the answer to this recitation?" Some people couldn't wait to curry favor with Song Ziyang.

Jia She was indifferent, he said indifferently: "Whether it is Songzi or not, the person who invites the shopkeeper will not be able to see clearly."

"Yes." Song Ziyang nodded and said, "These calligraphy and paintings were all found by the shopkeeper. It would be best to ask him."

He turned his head to order someone to invite the shopkeeper, while staring at the painting.

"Brother Song, what word do you think it is?" Jia Amnesty asked with a light smile.

If Song Ziyang can set up a trap for him, don't blame him for not giving face—repay him with the same way.

Song Ziyang frowned gradually, and said hesitantly, "Isn't it the word Mie?"

He also saw the bonfire that was about to go out.

"That's right, it's the word Mie!" The person who told the answer just now said immediately.

"It seems that it is indeed a word for extinguishing." Others echoed in eagerness.

Jia She said: "That's a coincidence, our answers to the riddles are different, it seems that someone must be wrong."

As he was talking, he saw someone coming with the shopkeeper.

"Shopkeeper, you came just in time. Quickly reveal the answer to the mystery for us. Is it the word Mie or the word Song?" the crowd urged repeatedly.

Others looked sideways, seeing such a majestic momentum, they couldn't help but gather around, waiting to reveal the answer to the mystery.

Song Ziyang had a faint smile on his face, his brows and eyes full of confidence.

There was a faint smile in Jia She's eyes.

The shopkeeper looked at the rebus, thought for a while, and said under the burning eyes of everyone: "It seems to be a loose character."

The smile on Song Ziyang's face froze for a moment.

loose word?How could it be a loose character?

He looked towards Jia She, and saw him showing a faint smile to him.

The smile on Song Ziyang's face receded like the tide.

"Shopkeeper, do you remember wrongly?" Someone asked in disbelief.

"How can I remember it wrong? There are many allusions to this painting. There is also a poem in Su Shi's "Burning Pine Fire at Night": 'Sit and watch the eighteen princes, and look up at the ashes.'" the shopkeeper said Kankan.

Jia She then said: "It's not just this allusion. It is also recorded in "Wu Lu" that 'Ding Gu dreamed that a pine tree was born on his belly. People said:'The word pine means eighteen males. In the next 18 years, his For the sake of justice."

The crowd suddenly realized.

The 18 people in the painting are exactly the eighteen males.

Songzi, the allusion of Shibagong is indeed clearly recorded.

"Young master Jia is very knowledgeable, you have passed this test." The shopkeeper looked at Jia Amnesty approvingly and nodded.

There are not many people who know the allusions of the Eighteen Dukes, and even fewer people can tell them.

Jia Amnesty thanked him with a smile.

He cupped his hands and smiled at Song Ziyang and the others: "Everyone has accepted."

Song Ziyang and the others' faces turned green and pale.

Especially Song Ziyang, he wanted to step on Jia She's position to make a name for himself, but Jia She stepped on the position instead.

Immediately, there was hardly a smile on his face.

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"It seems that Marquis Jia En is quite capable." Liu Yuanzhi narrowed his eyes slightly and said to himself.

However, the more capable Jia Enhou is, the more he looks forward to it.

After all, only an outstanding opponent can show his abilities more and more.

The rebus of the first level almost wiped out more than half of the people.

Jia Amnesty looked around, and there were only fifteen or six people who could break through to the second level.

In this competition, each level is more difficult than the first level, and most of the people who can reach the second level are the most talented people here.

The second hurdle is couplets.

Seven upper-link iron hooks and silver strokes are hung on the beams and columns.

The shopkeeper smiled and introduced: "Everyone, let me introduce these seven Shanglians. Speaking of them, these seven Shanglians are probably older than everyone present here, including XX. They are the first in the world in all ages. Lou Shou Luo got it absolutely, from the previous dynasty to the present, I don’t know how many famous literati came here, but none of them can match the second line.”

"The shopkeeper." When someone heard this, he felt a little annoyed immediately, "You have never been able to tell the truth through the ages, and today is only a stick of incense, how can we tell the truth?"

"Yes, yes, this is not acceptable." Others also nodded.

Jia She looked around the crowd, and found that even Liu Yuanzhi and Song Ziyang looked at those Shanglian with embarrassment, which shows how difficult these Shanglian are.

"Don't worry, just listen to me first." The shopkeeper persuaded with a smile, "I also know that it's not easy to make a couplet in such a short period of time, so I don't need to be good at this couplet. It needs to be neat and reasonable, and even if it is the same upper couplet, there can be multiple lower couplets.”

Hearing the shopkeeper's words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

If you really want to match this kind of absolutely matching second line, let alone a stick of incense, it may not be possible for anyone to match it even in a year.

If the requirements are lowered, it is still possible.

Everyone dispersed immediately.

In fact, these seven upper couplets have already been famous far and wide, and everyone is just revisiting them at this time.

Each of the seven couplets has its own difficulties. Some are couplets with split characters, such as "Water with insects is turbid, water with fish is fishy, ​​water with water, rivers and lakes are Miaomiao", this is the couplet with split characters, while others have the same characters and different characters. The sound, such as "the sea is falling towards the direction of the direction", and some are palindrome, such as "the fog locks the mountain, the mountain locks the fog", whether it is positive/reverse or negative, it has the same meaning. The same is true for the second line.

All in all, every shanglian is difficult.

The only difference is that the difficulty is different.

This time, for the Shanglian, we can no longer adopt the method of watching the fire and slowly drawing it in the first pass.

After Jia Amnesty chose the couplet "The sea is falling toward the sky", he didn't change his mind. He just put his hands behind his back and stared at the couplet in deep thought.

"Hey, tell me, who can win this level?" Those losers were not in a hurry to leave. Today's Qunyinghui is all about Song Ziyang, Liu Yuanzhi and Jia She. Come down, now the outcome is undecided, no one wants to leave.

"Does it need to be said? Of course it is Liu Jieyuan. Liu Jieyuan could speak correctly when he was young, and even the academics praised him for his quick talent." Ju Renhe, a fellow of Liu Jieyuan, boasted proudly.

"That's not necessarily the case. I think Brother Song is very knowledgeable. Maybe he is the one who took the lead." The person on Song Ziyang's side said disapprovingly.

"I think Brother Xu's talent is not inferior. You see, he has already picked a first line, and he will probably come up with a second line soon." Others also have different opinions.

These people were talking all over the place, some said that Liu Yuanzhi could take the lead, some said that Song Ziyang could take the lead.

"What do you think of Jia Amnesty?" Someone asked suddenly.

The man pointed to the silent Jia She and said: "He has been standing in front of that couplet for a long time, maybe he can be the first."

"Brother Jia?" Someone frowned and glanced at Jia She, "He's been standing in front of the Shanglian since the beginning, and he hasn't moved yet. I think he's dead."

"Let me tell you, he is overestimated. Even Yan Shenggong sighed and called it absolute when he read the first couplet. To come up with a decent second couplet in such a short period of time is like daydreaming. Hurry up." Someone said indifferently.

Everyone nodded.

This is harsh, but to the point.

This couplet is the most difficult among all the couplets, so no one chose it except Jia She.

Jia Amnesty made a wrong bet this time.