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Chapter 269 Three Questions When Entering the City
The carriage was limping, and just turned over a low slope, and the group couldn't help but let out a little exclamation.

In the distance, a gigantic giant city that is as magnificent as a dragon and a dragon is entrenched on the wilderness, occupying everyone's vision.

Just in response to the proud words of the carriage drivers just now: people are like ants, and cities are like mountains.

When we arrived here, we were still several miles away from the city, but there were stalls and sheds of all sizes along the roadside.

The flow of people came and went, and the noise spread in all directions, as if they had come to the downtown of a big county.

After finally squeezing through this lively area, the tall city gate is right in front of you.

The ten-foot-high city wall is like mountains and mountains. Even Zhang Zhe, who has seen a modern metropolis, can't help but be amazed by Dazheng's architectural ability and courage.

Twenty feet outside the city gate, there is a post pavilion.

The pavilion is about four feet wide and two stories high, with yellow wood and blue tiles, flying eaves and animals, and hanging bells at the corners of the pavilion.

Zhang Zhe saw a group of people gathered in the pavilion from a distance, and some servants in green clothes and hats were standing by the side of the road. Whenever people dressed as scholars headed for the capital, they would politely ask a few questions, and they didn't know what they were waiting for. who?

On the second floor of the pavilion, there are seven or eight scholars in fine clothes sitting and talking and laughing. Looking at the same color of academic crowns, it seems that they are all scholars.

Sanqi sat in front of the car and asked the coachman with a smile.

"Those jushigongs are waiting for someone. Why do they just ask people when they meet them? Isn't it a local custom in Beijing?"

The coachman laughed: "Which family has such a strange custom? But I really know about it. In the past few days, how often did they not ask you when you came here?"

"Oh, but who are they looking for?"

The coachman straightened his back straight, and his voice was a bit sharper: "Enke is coming soon this year, and the top talents from all over Dazheng are gathered in the capital. The Wenhui will be fiercely fought, but the outstanding ones are not convinced. I don't know who came up with the idea for a few days. This person came out of the city every day, saying that he was waiting for Zhang Jingzhi from the south? It probably means that whoever wins this person will be the number one talented person in Zhengzhou gone."

Zhang Jingzhi?
Zhang Zhe and Meng Xiaowan glanced at each other, and they knew in their hearts that they were looking for him, Zhang Xinzhi.

Sanqiyi didn't realize it for a while, and didn't realize that "Zhang Jingzhi" was actually the driver's mistake.He said casually: "This is the number one talented person, so what else is there to try?"

The coachman laughed and raised his thumbs up: "The guests can see it clearly!"

Zhang Zhe's convoy consisted of two passenger carriages and two cargo carriages, which were not outstanding among the long line of pedestrians entering Beijing.Zhang Zhe was sitting in the car, and Sanqi, Geng Liang, Xie Lun, and Gao Deshu sitting in front of each car did not look like scholars.

The servants who were asking questions on the road only glanced at the passerby, and then turned their eyes to the back.

With a beautiful wife and pregnant by his side, Zhang Zhe didn't want to provoke these people at all.

Those people didn't come to ask, but in his opinion, a lot of trouble was saved.

Meng Xiaowan glanced at her husband with a smile, then secretly lifted the curtain and looked at the pavilion.

"parking!"

The cold voice made the driver in front of him startled, and he immediately stopped the carriage.

Hearing Meng Xiaowan's sudden call to stop, Zhang Zhe immediately held Meng Xiaowan's hand, and asked with concern, "What's wrong, my lady?"

Meng Xiaowan leaned her head into his arms, and said softly: "I am really unwell, and it is very uncomfortable! There is a white flag outside the pavilion, and the husband won it for my concubine, and I will step on that flag to enter the city. But good?"

Zhang Zhe was stunned for a while, and hurriedly opened the curtain to look seriously.

But I saw that there was a white flag standing outside the pavilion, but because there was no wind, the entire flag was drooping, so I couldn't see it from a distance.When you get close, you can see five big characters written on the banner: "Where did Zhang Xinzhi come from?".

Zhang Zhe sneered, but this banner has several meanings.One is to ask him why Zhang Xinzhi came here?The second is to ask him why he came?The third is to ask him about his ambition to come to the capital?
If he just entered the city without making a sound, I'm afraid that the people in the capital would laugh at him.

"Wait a moment, my lady, I'll take the flag for my husband and my wife."

Meng Xiaowan obediently moved her head into Chen's mother's arms, and watched Zhang Zheshi get out of the carriage with her eyes, without worrying that her husband would be at a disadvantage.

Zhang Zhe got out of the car, took little Zhao Ping with his hands behind his back, and walked straight towards the banner.

The servants standing by the side of the road didn't expect that there was a gentleman with a school crown in the neglected car, and a servant came up and was about to salute and ask.

But he didn't want Zhang Zhe to lead Zhao Ping'er to ignore him, walk past him, and came to the banner.

The servant was taken aback, seeing that Zhang Zhe was looking at the banner with interest, he rushed up to ask again.

"My servant dares to ask the name of this lord, do you know Zhang Xinzhi of Wuling?"

"This flag is not bad." Zhang Zhe ignored him at all, just looked at the flag with a smile, "Why don't you take it with me and send it to my wife to relieve boredom."

When the servants around heard this, they all blushed immediately, what a crazy person!

The people upstairs and downstairs heard the movement below and all looked over.

One of the people upstairs sneered: "This gentleman does not give his name, I am afraid he will look down on my servant. It is not impossible to take this flag. We have set three questions. If the gentleman matches, It doesn't matter whether the banner stands or not. If you can't match one point, you don't even bother to remember your name."

Zhang Zhe looked up lazily, and saw three cloth scrolls hanging down from the pavilion.

On the first cloth roll, there is a question.

"The dancing elephant is not as good as the weak crown, why is it called the crown?"

The meaning is to satirize that Zhang Xinzhi is only 19 years old, and he is still a young man in the age of dancing elephants. He is one year away from the weak crown of 20 years old. How dare he call himself the number one in the world?

Zhang Zhe laughed contemptuously: "I've only ever heard someone ask, how to learn well? But it's the first time I've heard someone ask, how to learn early? Hahahahaha, such a simple matter, do you still need to ask people? Don't make too much of your years."

Someone in the pavilion also laughed: "Forget it, this is here to make trouble, I'm afraid I can't understand the topic."

Zhang Zhe didn't care about those people deliberately laughing, and went to the second question with a smile.

"When you talk about Beijing, there is one question you can't get, so I ask people from the south, and what is the shape of the sky?"

Smiling, Zhang Zhe looked at the last question.

"Since you are planning for the six countries, if you are an official of this dynasty, why do you come here?"

Still want to kill someone?
Zhang Zhe shook his head and laughed heartily. Many spectators on the first floor pointed to Zhang Zhe in surprise.

"You don't do this deliberately. If you can't answer a question, don't leave your name on purpose. Let you go."

Hearing the voice from the previous person again caused a lot of sneers.

Zhang Zhe stopped laughing, and pointed to the "Dancing elephant is not as good as the weak crown, why is it called the crown?" on the first cloth scroll and began to recite casually.

"The big roc rises with the same wind in one day, and it soars up to [-] miles. If the wind stops for a while, it can still shake the dark water. The world sees my constant tune, and hears Yu's big words. They all sneer. Xuanfu can still be afraid of future generations, and her husband is not But young and young."

Upstairs and downstairs are all scholars, all of whom are well-educated. When they heard such amazing lines, most of them, including a few on the second floor, couldn't help shouting.

Zhang Zhe pointed to the second cloth scroll and said: "What's the point of talking too much, the sky is naturally like a human being!"

On the second floor, a scholar in his early thirties burst out laughing: "We have been arguing for a few days, but no one said that this day is actually a human, how can you prove it?"

"Heaven has a head, ears, feet, and a surname. How is it not in the shape of a human?"

When Zhang Zhe said this, everyone was shocked and puzzled.

The middle-aged scholar shook his head: "You are not talking nonsense! I don't know where this theory comes from?"

""poetry"!"

Almost everyone shook their heads this time. They didn't remember that these things were written in the Book of Songs.

"The poem says: It's the west. Inferred from this, the head is in the west, how can you say that the sky has no head. The poem also says: The crane crows in Jiugao, and the sound is heard in the sky. If the sky has no ears, how can it hear it? Poetry Zai Yun: The sky is difficult, but the son is not hesitant. If it has no feet, how can it be walked?"

Hearing what Zhang Zhe said casually, everyone was at a loss for words.

There were also those who reacted quickly and immediately asked a question: "The emperor said that heaven has a surname, but which line in "Poetry" can prove it?"

Zhang Zhe said with a casual smile: "Today's son's surname is Yang, so I know Tian's surname is Yang!"

No one dares to question and ask these words, unless they want to die.

The next moment, Zhang Zhe tore off the banner, rolled it up and carried it away.

"Wait a minute, there is a third question!"

"Everyone wants to ask why Zhang Mou came here, but it is simple. If Zhang Mou is an official, he only wishes to establish his heart for the world, for the living and the people, for the sages to inherit the knowledge, and to bring peace to all generations!"

It turns out that this person is Zhang Xinzhi!
Hengqu's four sentences immediately suppressed the audience, causing everyone to miss each other and watch him dragging the banner away.

(End of this chapter)