Mingshi

Chapter 475

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Xu Luqing's face remained unchanged. It's not like he didn't expect that in this situation, he would definitely arouse the dissatisfaction of the scholars in Yanglin County, and even the scholars in the world who have traveled in Yanglin County, and embarrass himself by going out.But there was no panic in his heart, on the contrary, he was full of fighting spirit.Because in Luo Xin's hometown, Doulian, this is also an opportunity for him to make a name for himself.Although his reputation is already very famous, and he once had the reputation of being a talented scholar of the Ming Dynasty, since Luo Xin was born, no one talked about him anymore. In fact, he was very dissatisfied with Luo Xin in his heart.Therefore, he smiled and signaled the scholar to say the first couplet.

The scholar saluted again, and then said: "Lonely, cold window, empty widow".

As soon as this couplet came out, everyone's expressions changed.Even Xu Luqing, who was always smiling, became serious.Luo Xin behind the crowd also became absent-minded, as if he was remembering something.

This couplet has seven characters, but each character has a treasure character cover, which is already extremely difficult, just like Luo Xin's Yansuo pond willow, which has five elements of radicals.

However, the most difficult thing is not this, but the artistic conception of the Shanglian.

The people around fell silent, everyone frowned and thought hard, Xu Luqing also began to move slowly, holding a folding fan in his right hand and flapping his left hand from time to time, but his brows were deeply furrowed.

The corner of Luo Qing's mouth turned bitter, this couplet brought him back to his previous life, to his student days in his previous life.Because there is a poignant story in this Shanglian, when he told this story to his girlfriend, the girlfriend cried like hell, so he remembers it very deeply.

The date when this couplet was published is untestable, and no one knows when it happened, or the touching story compiled by the literati of that era.

It’s about a large family whose owner’s surname is Xu’s name is Zuyin. The family is rich and well-educated, but the family’s population is not prosperous. After marrying three wives, they didn’t have a son and a half. They didn’t have a son until they married a fourth concubine Daughter, named Jingyi.

Although she is a girl, the whole family is very happy, and she is regarded as the apple of the eye. What is amazing is that this girl has been extremely intelligent since she was a child. She can read books at the age of three and compose poems at the age of four, especially couplets. He has a talent that ordinary people can't match.

Once, Xu Zuyin was walking alone in the garden, and seeing the flowers blooming in the garden, he couldn't help being touched by the scene, and chanted a couplet: "It's troublesome to be drunk when the house is full of flowers." Xiao Jingyi, who was playing with the maid, suddenly responded "Stubborn stone without words is the most lovely!" Xu Zuyin couldn't help but be amazed when she heard this. You must know that she was not yet five years old at the time. teach each other.

Jingyi grew up to be 17 years old, and she grew up like a lotus, and it was time to talk about marriage.At this time, everyone in the Xu family knew that there was a talented woman who was as beautiful as a fairy, and the princes and nobles flocked to her for a while, and almost broke through the threshold of the Xu family. From the triple couplet, she will marry this person no matter how old or young she is.

Half a year has passed, and of course there are many applicants, but no one can match Miss Chu's three upper couplets, which makes Xu Zuyin very troubled.

On this day, a handsome young man surnamed Wang Baoyao came to Xu's mansion to see Miss Xu, saying that he came from thousands of miles away.Xu Zuyin saw Wang Baoyao's extraordinary aura, couldn't help being overjoyed, and hurriedly went to the back hall to tell his daughter that when the couplet is coming out, it must not be too biased or difficult, so as not to be wronged and miss the good match.After hearing Jingyi's verbal agreement, she didn't take it seriously, thinking: "If he doesn't have real talents, I'll still send him away!"

Miss Xu shyly said: "My lord, please listen carefully, my family is going to publish a couplet." Baoyao said happily: "Miss, please!" Hearing this, she understood that she was praising herself, and immediately responded: "Ding Dong, it turns out that the heavenly girl has descended to earth!"

The two had the same heart, looked at each other and smiled.Jingyi chanted again: "The article is good through the ages." Baoyao said: "The official career is prosperous." Xu Zuyin beside him clapped his hands and smiled: "Wonderful, wonderful! I think today is here, and the third couplet will be in two days. It's not too late." After saying that, he ordered a banquet to wash away the dust for the treasure key.

In the next few days, Jingyi and Baoyao either took a walk in the courtyard or chatted with each other playing the piano all day long. They fell in love with each other, but never mentioned the couplet.In the end, it was Bao Yao who first asked for the young lady to publish the last couplet, so as to make a good relationship.Jingyi pondered for a while before saying: "This third couplet is wrong!" Baoyao said: "Why?"

Jingyi didn't answer at first, but he couldn't help asking again and again, and said: "The previous two couplets were just because my father told me not to embarrass you, so I made it simple. I have been with you for the past two days, and I feel that I really hit it off, so It's not right." Baoyao was young and energetic, and felt humiliated when he heard this, and said decisively: "Xiaosheng came here to ask for marriage, how can he lose his original intention because of the favor of the adults and the young lady? Please ask the young lady to come up with the third couplet, Xiaosheng If you don't agree, you should leave and go back to your hometown, and don't dare to mention marriage again!"

Jingyi saw that he ignored her affectionately, she was very angry, and she couldn't help saying annoyed: "You said that!" It happened that a servant in Xu's house was hammering a wooden wedge into the wall, Jingyi saw this Immediately, he chanted: "Wedges are nailed to the wall." Baoyao was stunned when she heard this, and she didn't expect her to come up with such a couplet.This couplet seems ordinary but it is very difficult to match. Bao Yao has been thinking hard for a long time but still can't match the second couplet.Jingyi regretted it very much when she saw this, and just wanted to make a new pair, unexpectedly, Baoyao bowed deeply and said, "I have little talent and little learning, I made the lady laugh, so I will leave." Jingyi said with tears: "The matter is over, but as long as I If the young master can write the second couplet in half a year, we can still continue our relationship." Baoyao was speechless, turned around and left.

When Baoyao returned home, he thought about it day and night, only thinking about the couplet in his head, and it suddenly seemed that several months had passed.

One day, he strolled to the riverside, and saw a fishing boat moored by the riverside, and there was only one old fisherman on board. After a while, the old man rowed to the opposite bank with his oar.Watching the oar moving the water, Baoyao couldn't help but jump up, saying, "Yes!" That night he packed his bags and rushed to Jinling.

But when he arrived at Xu's mansion, things had already changed, and Xu Zuyin told him sadly: "You are late, Jingyi had already cut her hair and became a nun in the ancient Mei'an outside the city a month ago. The old man's persuasion is useless. She has to go."

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