Datang romantic little landlord

Li Er laughed and said, "That's right! Ziyou's Shanglian is very cleverly adapted to the occasion."

As soon as Li Er finished speaking, he heard Wang Renyou come out and said with disdain: "I thought that Huxian Bo would do something absolute, but it seems that it's just mediocre. What's so difficult about it? Listening to this couplet of the old man, it's shocking." The drum, the drum shakes the sky, the drum stops and the sky rests for a while."

Zheng Yuanshou also smiled with his beard: "It's really simple, sing the phoenix flute, sing the phoenix flute, and sing the phoenix harmony."

The crown prince Zuo Shuzi Yu Zhining immediately came over: "I heard that Uncle Huxian has outstanding talents and learning, but this first couplet is nothing more than that. I also have a second couplet. It is snowing day, the sky is snowing, the sky is clear and the snow is reflecting the sky, Huxian Uncle This couplet is really too childish.”

Li Wangyou didn't expect that he would be ridiculed when he casually wrote a couplet.

Even Li Er's face became a little ugly.He just exaggerated Li Wangyou's ingenuity in the upper line, and these three people jumped out and slapped them in the face, which is really annoying.

This couplet is indeed not difficult, the reason why Li Wangyou thinks of this couplet is only because he thinks of the folk story of Wang Anshi.

Later generations said that when Wang Anshi went to Beijing to rush for the exam, he happened to meet a member of the family to recruit a relative for his daughter, and posted this couplet on the marquee.Wang Anshi didn't figure out how to deal with that couplet for a while.

When they arrived at the examination room, the chief examiner wanted to test Wang Anshi, so he pointed to the flying tiger flag in front of the court and said: "Flying tiger flag, flag flying tiger, flag curling tiger to hide".Wang Anshi was so heartbroken that when he thought of Yuanwai's couplet, he immediately countered with "the horse lights up, the horse lights up, the horse stops when the light turns off", and the examiner was amazed by such a fluent answer.

After that, Wang Anshi used the couplet written by the chief examiner to answer the couplet written by Yuan Wai's family, and married the young lady of Yuan Wai's family.

Of course, this is just a folk tale, and it cannot be taken as true. Of course, Wang Anshi would not fail to match this simple couplet.

Li Wangyou said this couplet just for the occasion, to entertain Li Er and the officials, but he didn't expect to be ridiculed by Wang Renyou and others because of this, how could he bear it?

He rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Haha, it seems that the prince and Zheng Gong are also learned people, that's great. I do have a few couplets here, but I haven't come up with a second couplet. I want to talk about the prince and Zheng Gong. As far as Zuo Shuzi is concerned, it is quite simple. I wonder if Wang Gong, Zheng Gong, Yu Zuo Shuzi would like to teach me a thing or two?"

Wang Renyou twirled his beard and said with a proud smile: "Couples are nothing more than small passages, just game words. But since today is the Lantern Festival, I am not stingy to teach Hu Xianbo a little bit."

"That's right, couplets are no match for games, so what's so difficult about it? Uncle Hu County, you can just talk about it, and the old man can teach you." Zheng Yuanshou was also not polite.

Hearing this, Li Wangyou couldn't help but smile even brighter: "That's good, just ask the prince and Duke Zheng to enlighten me. My first couplet is, Yansuo Pond Willow."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Zhining jumped out again: "What's so difficult? I'll hang brocades on the opposite lamp for you..."

In the middle of Yu Zhining's words, he stopped abruptly.His face gradually became pale, and he opened his mouth for a long time, but did not make another sound.

It was only after this meeting that Yu Zhining came to his senses, the above couplet of these five characters is not right...

Li Wangyou secretly smiled, how could this couplet be so simple?

There are five characters in the first couplet, and the characters are embedded in the five behaviors, and the artistic conception is very wonderful. "Yan Suo Pond Willow" is an absolute couplet for thousands of years. Over the years, countless sages and scholars have tried to get it right, but there is no good sentence.Later generations and even many people think that this is the absolute number one in the world.

Not only did Yu Zhining figure out the difficulties contained in these five-character Shanglian, but the other officials present, including Li Er, also figured out what it was like, and couldn't help frowning.

The five characters not only have an artistic conception, but each character has the radical of the five elements of water, which is really too difficult.

Without waiting for everyone to figure it out, Li Wangyou continued to speak: "I have a second Shanglian here, please advise Wang Gong and Zheng Gong. This Shanglian is..."

639 Lantern Festival, Valentine's Day

Li Wangyou said in the second couplet that Yu Zhining's complexion became paler, and the complexions of Wang Renyou, Zheng Yuanshou and others became more and more ugly.

"This upper couplet is, Yanyan Yan Yan Yanyan, please enlighten me, Prince Zheng Gong."

Another eternal absolute, all the characters in the Shanglian have the same pronunciation, and "Yan" and "Yan" are both verbs, which means that the smoke from cooking along the eaves smokes the eyes of swallows, and it is a story to connect them together.

This homophonic couplet is naturally difficult to correct.

All the officials also looked at each other in blank dismay, wondering how this county uncle figured out such a couplet?Didn't you deliberately make things difficult for others?

Even great Confucian scholars like Yu Shinan and Kong Yingda lost their minds for a while and frowned in thought.

Li Wangyou didn't wait for everyone to react, but he said again: "My third couplet, the first couplet is Lonely and cold window empty widow."

Once again, the crowd was completely overwhelmed. Why is it that the couplets produced by Uncle Huxian are more difficult than the other?

The seven characters are all a radical, and yet they have such an artistic conception, how do people deal with it?

The more Li Wangyou talked, the more energetic he became. In his later life, his grandfather forced him to learn ancient prose, so he felt that these ancient essays were absolutely interesting, so he memorized a lot of them.

"I still have a couplet here, long long long long long! Please enlighten me, Prince Zheng."

This is a multi-syllabic couplet, a word with different pronunciations, combined into a pair of couplets.

The faces of Wang Renyou, Zheng Yuanshou and others were already pale, and their eyes were dull.What the hell are these couplets?Why are there such unsolvable couplets?

The ministers also looked confused. When did you become so absolute and engage in wholesale?The gazes towards Wang Renyou and the others were full of sympathy and ridicule.

Li Wangyou, Huxian Bo's talent and learning, is well known throughout the court, so why bother to provoke and ridicule him?Isn't this sending your face up to be beaten?

When Li Wangyou said these couplets, after careful consideration, everyone felt that there was no way to match them, it was really too difficult.

For this, Li Wangyou naturally laughed in his heart.

Isn't this nonsense, this is absolute through the ages, although it doesn't mean that no one agrees, there are still appropriate second lines in later generations.But the reason why these couplets can be called eternal absolutes, naturally shows the difficulty, which is quite large.

He didn't believe that with Wang Renyou, Zheng Yuanshou, Yu Zhining and all the officials, they could come up with a couplet in a short time.Even in their life, they might be dominated by the horror of these couplets.

Now not only Wang Renyou and Zheng Yuanshou, the two patriarchs of the aristocratic family, turned pale, but even the hundreds of officials from the aristocratic family, why not?

Was it Wang Renyou who was humiliated by Li Wangyou?Their five surnames and seven looking at the faces of these aristocratic families were also swollen by Li Wangyou's couplets.

For a while, no one spoke, Fang Xuanling and other big bosses enjoyed watching the fun, but the family officials didn't know what to say.

In the end, it was Li Er who helped Wang Renyou and Zheng Yuanshou out of the siege, and laughed: "Ziyou really deserves to be talented. I can't match any of these couplets, which makes me very embarrassed, haha."

Li Er's self-deprecating words immediately relaxed the atmosphere at the scene.

All the officials followed with a smile and said: "Haha, it's not just your Majesty, we are also very ashamed. None of the Shanglians of Huxian Bo are right."

"Tsk tsk, I've opened my eyes today. I always thought this couplet was just a play, but I didn't expect to be so embarrassed by Uncle Huxian. I'm ashamed."

"Haha, fortunately, Chunwei doesn't take the couplet test now, otherwise Huxian Boruo is the examiner who made the question, wouldn't even a single candidate fail the test?"

All the officials laughed at themselves and joked for a while, so they dismissed the matter, and no one mentioned the couplet, which seemed to give Wang Renyou and Zheng Yuanshou a step down.

Li Er looked at the still spinning marquee again, and asked, "Ziyou, do you have a name for this lamp?"

Li Wangyou shrugged his shoulders: "Uncle, you forgot, didn't you just say that in my couplet just now? Revolving lanterns, lanterns and horses, and lanterns and horses stop. This lantern is called marquee lantern, also called revolving lantern, as long as there are candles in the lantern As long as the fire is not extinguished, the pattern will continue to rotate."

"Marquee? Well, it's very appropriate." Li Er looked at Empress Changsun and Concubine Yang at the side again: "I think Ziyou's marquee is the best for today's lantern, what do you think?"

"Yes, what Erlang said is true. Ziyou's marquee is even exquisite, and what's even more strange is that it can make the patterns in the lamp rotate endlessly without manpower. I have never seen such a lantern. The marquee is today's lantern. He deserves to be the leader." Empress Changsun naturally nodded repeatedly.

Naturally, the hundred officials did not have any opinion on this. Such a unique marquee naturally made everyone have nothing to say about it.

After admiring all kinds of lanterns brought into the palace by all the officials, Li Er ordered people to move these lanterns to Zhuque Street in Chang'an City for the common people to watch.

Today is the Shangyuan Festival, so Li Er didn't stay any more officials, everyone bowed to Li Er and Empress Changsun, quit Tai Chi Palace, and went back to their homes.