The little servant boy and Xiao Ge'er standing by couldn't wait any longer.

Xiao Geer stretched out her little hand and gently touched Qi Yuanyu's big hand.

Qi Yuanyu closed his eyes and did not respond.

He was still regretting his bad luck, and was afraid that he was possessed by some unlucky spirit.

What kind of prayers should we pray for and what sutras should we recite?

None of the three pairs he got gave him any trouble.

Seeing that he ignored her, Xiao Geer hugged his legs with her two little hands and shook them violently, "Big brother, read the questions to this big brother!"

She pointed at the little servant boy who was waiting anxiously by the side.

Qi Yuanyu had no choice but to hand the question in his hand to the little servant.

Well, he will admire whoever can match these three pairs today.

Xiaoge is very happy today.

Her brother performed brilliantly, and little Ge'er's face was shining.

This made her a hundred, a thousand times happier than being praised by others.

The little dumpling was as happy as a blooming morning glory.

She couldn't wait to see her brother shine again.

The older brother who drew the question stood next to his older brother's seat.

The little guy turned around, winked at his brother and raised his little fist.

Hao Ge'er understood and clenched his right fist, lightly touching her small fist, then released his hand and turned his fist into a scissors hand.

Then, stretch out your palms and hit each other!

Come on! Get first place.

The brother and sister exchanged information silently.

The little servant over there also took the note and unfolded it.

The little servant was stunned for a moment, but quickly collected himself and read out the question.

The topic this time is three pairs.

Yes, he read it right, there were three, not one.

The first one: Smoke locks the willows in the pond.

The second one: the three lights of sun, moon and stars.

The third one: The green water is worry-free at first, but becomes wrinkled because of the wind.

As soon as the little clerk finished reading the questions, the whole audience was in an uproar.

The students wailed.

Even the people in the pavilion looked at each other in bewilderment.

Is this too difficult?

These pairs may seem simple at first glance, but upon closer inspection, they are difficult for these old guys to deal with.

If you can come up with one correct answer, your ancestors will be very proud.

What about three!

Isn’t this difficult for these students?

Several people looked at each other, trying to see from each other's faces which evil person could come up with such a tricky question?

The wicked Qingxi Jushi ghost shrank his neck and avoided everyone's sight with a guilty conscience.

Hasn't he been collecting these couplets for several years, and has been racking his brains but still can't come up with one that suits his taste?

I'm sorry, he can't even enjoy his meal.

When asked today's question, he suddenly had an idea.

Maybe young people have quick minds and broad thinking, and they accidentally got the answer right?

Looking at his expression, it was easy for them to guess what he was thinking.

I think he is just daydreaming.

Even they had no idea what to do with these couples, let alone the students below.

Several old gentlemen shook their heads and unanimously set the time for answering the questions at three incense sticks. Then they either shook their heads or closed their eyes and immersed themselves in making couplets.

The first couplet: Smoke locks the willows in the pond.

It seems simple at first glance, but think about it carefully.

The radicals used in the five characters correspond to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. The artistic conception depicts a quiet pond surrounded by green willows and shrouded in mist.

To make the couplets neat and antithetical, one must also put some effort into the radicals.

The second couplet, "Three Lights: Sun, Moon and Stars", takes the natural stars as its theme, which is majestic and profound in artistic conception.

In the third painting, the mountains and rivers are originally worry-free, but are wrinkled by the wind.

At first glance, this couplet seems to be about natural scenery, but in fact it implies a feeling about the ruthlessness of time and the vicissitudes of life.

Each one of them can be said to be absolute.

Not to mention thousands of years, at least a hundred years.

For a moment, all the students frowned and thought hard.

Some people picked up their pens and wrote quickly.

But the moment he finished writing, he frowned and crumpled the paper.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Before I knew it, the third stick of incense had burned.

Except for a few people who picked up pens and scribbled on paper, almost everyone else had a gloomy look on their face.

Soon, the incense burned out.

The little servant who had just sung the questions took Xiao Geer to collect the answer sheets from table to table.

Another little servant boy followed silently, holding a wine jug in his hand.

Sure enough, the first few tables were met with wry smiles and shaking heads from the students, who all spread their hands and drank directly.

It’s too difficult, it’s so difficult!

They didn't get any of them right.

Soon they arrived at Qi Yuanyu and Qi Yan's place.

These two people are recognized as the most talented students in the provincial school and Zhixing Academy.

All the students looked eagerly at the top student in the university whom they had placed high hopes on.

Like looking at a life-saving straw.

Expect them to save their reputation.

A slender hand reached out from the side and handed over a piece of paper.

It’s Xie Jing.

The little servant boy glanced quickly across the paper.

He only got the second couplet right, the three lights: the sun, the moon and the stars, and his second couplet was, the five grains: rice, millet and beans.

The other two pairs are still clueless.

He took up his wine glass from the stream and drank two glasses.

Even so, he won the eager eyes of the students around him.

Xie Jing turned his head, glanced at Hao Ge'er silently, then sat down on the brocade cushion with a wry smile.

Others may not know, but he knew clearly from the beginning that Number Eight was this little brat.

If we were to ask everyone here today who can match these three pairs, it would definitely be this little brat.

In the past two years, everyone in their school, big and small, had been beaten down by this little brat to the point that they had lost all their temper.

The little servant boy then walked up to Qi Yuanyu.

Qi Yuanyu happily handed in two pairs.

He faced the second and third pictures.

They are: the three lights of the sun, the moon and the stars, the four seas and the long clouds.

Mountains and rivers are originally worry-free, but they become wrinkled because of the wind.

The peach blossoms bloom naturally, with the smile of spring.

Under the servant's admiring gaze, Qi Yuanyu frowned and took a glass of wine and drank it.

The top student is worthy of being a top student. Everyone looked at Qi Yuanyu with much more eagerness than they looked at Xie Jing just now.

The little servant turned his gaze to Qi Yan again.

Qi Yan didn't say much. He picked up the paper on the table and handed it to him across the stream.

He also turned around, picked up a glass of wine from the stream and drank it all.

Everyone understood that Qi Yan also had a pair that he hadn't figured out.

The little servant unfolded Qi Yan's answer sheet.

Qi Yan matched the first and second pairs.

They are: Mist locks the willows in the pond, and clouds cover the moon shining on the bridge.

Three lights: sun, moon and stars; four seasons: spring, autumn and winter.

He moved to Haoge's desk.

Everyone saw the young boy calmly handing a piece of paper on the table to the little servant.

Then there was no other action.

There was a storm in everyone's heart.

Could it be that he actually...got all of them right?

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