Jiaochu

"I think this kid is going to lose again." Mr. Guo said proudly to Mr. Gu next to him, who said, "I don't think so." Mr. Guo didn't like to hear other people sing the opposite, and his tone became a little impatient, " Brother Gu, which side are you on?" Mr. Gu said, "Of course I'm on the winning side." Mr. Guo said proudly, "We will definitely win. We want this kid to look good when the time comes." Mr. Gu He laughed it off without saying anything else to Mr. Guo.

Ye Lingxi saw that Xu Dacai had almost finished the painting, and smiled secretly, like a cunning little fox. Seeing this, Yan Fei tilted his head and lowered his voice and said, "Is there any mystery in the poem?" She whispered, and Yan Fei also smiled. Zhao Ce squeezed over and said, "What are you talking about?" Yan Fei said, "Your Majesty, please keep your voice down and don't disturb other people's painting." Ye Lingxi raised his hand and shushed again. Zhao Ce turned his head angrily and looked at Yan Fei again. Fei hit the villain.

Xu Zilin put down his pen first, and Master Guo praised it, but then awkwardly changed it to other complimentary words. When Xu Zilin saw Su Shi's painting, he snorted disdainfully, "I think the outcome has been decided."

"Why are you so eager to admit defeat?" Ye Lingxi said, "When Brother Su finishes the painting, you will know where you lost."

Xu Zilin said disdainfully: "It's just delaying time."

"Brother Xu, please be patient and don't be impatient. If you win, you must win openly, and if you lose, you must be convinced." Mr. Gu changed the subject and said, "But we can't let us wait too long. Why don't we limit it to one stick of incense? How about it?" He waved to a waiter and asked the waiter to light a stick of incense. After the incense burned out, he came over and said something.

After the clerk lit the incense, he stood guard next to it. When the incense was about to burn out, the waiter came over and reported it. Just as the last section of incense ashes fell, Su Shi also put down his pen.

Xu Zilin and Mr. Guo thought they had a chance to win, but they didn't expect to lose three to one in the end.

"Brother Gu, why are you helping that kid?" Mr. Guo looked embarrassed, and Xu Zilin also looked surprised.

Mr. Gu said, "Take a closer look at this poem." After waiting for a while, he pointed out that it was an acrostic poem. Because the four lines of the poem were connected up and down, it was not easy to see.

"Thousands of miles, rivers, and mountains." Mr. Guo read out the first words of each sentence in turn, and couldn't help but look shocked. He couldn't figure out why for a long time.

"Are you cheating?" Mr. Guo clenched his fists, looking furious.

Ye Lingjue said: "Choose one question each, how can you cheat."

"Now we have one win and one loss. It's not easy to calculate the outcome." Mr. Gu said.

Xu Zilin raised his hand and pointed at the blank scroll, "Do you dare to compete with me in this final match?" Su Shi agreed. Although the other party was aggressive, he still maintained a gentle and gentle gentleman's demeanor, neither arrogant nor impetuous.

"I'll write first." Xu Zilin swung his pen and wrote a long article eloquently. After writing the last word, he threw the brush on the table and said very proudly, "This poem is my famous work. If what you write can surpass it, I will willingly admit defeat.”

Mr. Guo quietly left for a while, and then people kept coming around. Many people knew Xu Zilin, a great talent in Qingzhou, and those who didn't knew him were introduced to him. After reading the poem, everyone was full of compliments, and some quietly talked about Su Shi, the minister of the imperial family. Young Master, said that he was arrogant and arrogant because of his status, and did not take the seniors in the literary world into his eyes.

I'll make you embarrassed today! Mr. Guo stood outside the crowd with a sinister and treacherous smile.

"Brother, what's your surname?" Shen Ning came over in a graceful manner, waving a folding fan.

Seeing that Shen Ning was well-dressed, Mr. Guo took the initiative to tell him his name and asked him how to address him. Shen Ning said that he was just an idle person watching the excitement and was not worth mentioning.

"Are you scolding me?" Ye Lingxi raised her finger and pointed at a young man who was gossiping. Before the other person could explain, she pursed her little cherry lips and looked like she was about to cry. Yan Fei swung the knife at him. The other party cringed and ran away. Zhao Ce rushed over and punched and kicked the air a few times, then came back fiercely, looking like "Let's see who dares to mess with me!" Some people who were gossiping quietly also shut up.

When Su Shi wrote the first sentence, some of the onlookers couldn't help but cheered loudly.

"It's better not to start at the beginning but end at the end." Xu Zilin was still very proud and quite confident in his literary talent, thinking that the other party just got an occasional good sentence.

When Su Shi wrote the second sentence, someone else shouted "Hello", and some stretched their necks to look forward, wanting to see how he would write the next sentence and get a sneak peek. As the cheers around him increased, Xu Zilin's self-confidence began to waver, and he still refused to easily admit Su Shi's literary talent.

Suddenly someone yelped and someone pushed him from behind, bumping into the person in front of him, who bumped into Su Shi, and then there was a curved ink mark on the paper.

The onlookers lamented that it was a pity that a good calligraphy was ruined like this.

Su Shi was not impatient and picked up another piece of paper to rewrite. Xu Zilin said no need and admitted defeat in front of everyone. He bowed his hands and bowed, turned around and left without any delay, which was very refreshing.

After going downstairs, Xu Zilin went straight towards the door. Mr. Guo hurriedly followed him, and the two left Kuixing Tower together.

"Why is this great talent gone?" Hu Yuhan said with a smile, "Mr. Gu, why don't you go and coax him?"

Mr. Gu said: "Although Brother Xu is a little arrogant, he is a cheerful person. I came back having a great time today, and I will find time to compete with you in the future."

"You guys know each other?!"

Several pairs of eyes widened at the same time, looking at Mr. Gu and then at Su Shi.

Su Shi nodded and introduced Gu Xianyu to everyone.

Gu's eldest son is in his late twenties and has not yet been married. Their mothers are sisters from the same mother.

Zhao Ce asked him why he helped Xu Zilin just now, and Gu Xianyu explained that it was to test Su Shi's literary talent.

"Knowing that you are going to take the science test this year, my father and mother specially asked me to come over and have a look. When I was entering the city, I happened to hear that the Kuixing Building was going to hold a Kuixing banquet, so I came to have a look. I also happened to hear the person at the next table saying that I would come with you later. How could I miss such an interesting thing like you testing your literary talent?" At this point, Gu Xianyu turned his amiable eyes to Yan Fei again, "Isn't this Xiao Fei? He has grown so tall. The last time I saw you , that’s all you did, chasing me with a wooden sword, you were really a little bully when you were a kid, chasing me every day.”

Yanfei: "..."

"Father is taking a bath today, and mother is also at home." Before Su Shi could finish what he said, Gu Xianyu said, "Then I'll go visit my aunt and uncle first. You can continue playing here. No need to send me off, I know how to get there. "After that, he left in a hurry.