Chen Xiaomu folded his hands and stood not far from the table, looking coldly at the busy scholars and soldiers. Lin Jin shook his head and walked up to Chen Xiaomu, "How is it? Military Master Chen, shall we officially begin the competition?"
Chen Xiaomu shook his head, "Lin Dutong, who will be the killer?"
Lin Jin was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes, pointed at the petite Ximen Ruoen who was standing behind Chen Xiaomu, and said, "Why don't you let this little brother work hard for you, and I'll find another one over there. How about that?" ?”
Chen Xiaomu turned his head and glanced at Ximen Ruoen, who nodded slightly at him.
After seeing Chen Xiaomu's agreement, Lin Jin went back to his group of scholar soldiers, pulled out a tall and thick scholar who looked more like a butcher than a scholar, and asked him to come over and stand with Ximen Ruoen.
After the two signed the life and death test documents in front of Wu Shilang, they began to draw lots to decide who would give the question first. As a result, Lin Jin drew the question lot and Chen Xiaomu drew the answer lot.
Lin Jin took the question paper he had drawn and was very excited. He began to search for the absolutes he had read in books. He wanted to cut the knot quickly and killed Chen Xiaomu during the question process. Seeing that it was getting late, there was a scholar. Bing lit a candle and placed it next to Minister Wu's table. Lin Jin had an idea and decided to intimidate Chen Xiaomu first, then read loudly in his mouth: "Dip the candle in oil, the candle is with one heart, and there is fire in the heart." The meaning is Laozi Now that I'm angry with you, I won't be able to reap the benefits from you!
As soon as Lin Jin finished reciting, Chen Xiaomu replied loudly: "Paper lanterns, with many eyes on the rim, but no eyes." It means that you are a blind thing, and you don't know when you are about to die.
Sitting at the table and sipping the fragrant tea, the absent-minded Wu Shilang was startled when he heard the two men carrying guns and sticks. He held a sip of tea in his mouth and before he swallowed it, it all spurted out and wet his chest. A large piece of clothing in front.
''Bah bang bang." Du Fengxian and others took the lead in applauding. Lin Jinqi's eyes turned red. He glared at Du Fengxian and others and said to himself, wait until Marshal Han, Ban Shifei, chops off the heads of you people. No.
Chen Xiaomu looked at Lin Jin with a smile, "Lin Dutong, is this second couplet I'm right about okay?"
Lin Jin laughed dryly, "Comrade Chen, don't be too proud! I'm here for the second time. Please listen carefully. My first line is, "A tree without bark will definitely die." Lin Jin means to give you face. You are shameless, you are dead this time!
Chen Xiaomu casually said, "If you are shameless, you are invincible." This was tantamount to scolding Lin Jin secretly, "Who do you think you are? How dare you threaten me again!" Now even Wu Shilang, who was sitting behind the table as the judge, couldn't help but applaud Chen Xiaomu!
Lin Jin's heart suddenly sank when he heard this. He suddenly felt that he seemed to have been tricked today. He really couldn't understand that Chen Xiaomu, a big-headed soldier who looked less than twenty years old, could easily match two of his pairs. Lin Jin was lost in thought and was stunned for a moment.
Chen Xiaomu walked up to him unknowingly, reached out and patted his shoulder, "Lin Dutong, don't you have one pair left? Why don't you come out?"
Lin Jin was so shocked by Chen Xiaomu's slap that he immediately came back to his senses and forced a smile: "Isn't that what I was thinking about?"
Chen Xiaomu looked at the dark sky and said casually: "It's getting late. I want to finish the competition and go back for dinner early!"
Chen Xiaomu's light words made Lin Jin feel a chill on his neck, and cold sweat broke out all over his body. If you go back to eat, wouldn't you be the one who gets beheaded?
Lin Jin gritted his teeth and took out his trump card, which was the first couplet that had troubled Zhongtuo that day. If he had known that this first couplet had been exposed by Chen Xiaomu last night, he would probably have wanted to die!
When Lin Jin read out the first couplet again with a pun, "Don't let the thieves come, let the Taoists come", Du Fengxian and Ximen Ruoen couldn't help laughing. They didn't expect that Chen Xiaomu could not win Zhong Tuo. The one thousand taels of silver was now used to win over Lin Jin's head. What was different from their reactions was that everyone present, including Wu Shilang, stared at Chen Xiaomu to see how he would respond. This first couplet was once copied to Wu Shilang's desk by a meddlesome person. Although Wu Shilang disdained the first couplet written by the invader Chu people, but out of the scholar's natural competitiveness, he still tried to correct a few lower couplets. , were not very satisfied, and then simply gave up. Now that Lin Jin took out this first couplet again, he couldn't help but prick up his ears to hear how Chen Xiaomu responded. Originally, he was not interested in the competition between Chen Xiaomu, a big-headed soldier, and these scholar soldiers. What hope was there, but Chen Xiaomu not only responded to Lin Jin's two curse words on the spot, but also cursed back seamlessly, which made him look at Chen Xiaomu with admiration!
Chen Xiaomu looked at Lin Jin with a half-smile but said, "Lin Dutong, this is your last couplet. Is there any difficulty?"
Lin Jin secretly laughed in his heart. Finally, you are a ruthless soldier. You came up with the two pairs above casually. If you can't figure out this pair, you'll waste time with me. You even thought that I would change the pair for you. You Dream on, he immediately waved his hand to Chen Xiaomu and said proudly: "Commander Chen, I am really afraid that you won't be able to correct me, which will embarrass our Chu soldiers. After much deliberation, I'd better come up with a simple couplet to let you correct me, and you will That’s right!”
Chen Xiaomu said: "Then listen carefully, the second couplet of the first couplet I gave you is, "Idle people should not enter, but virtuous people should enter."
As soon as Chen Xiaomu finished speaking, Lin Jin felt as if his head had suddenly split open, and his body swayed on the ground. He did not expect that in his opinion, this couplet, which was absolute, would be underestimated by Chen Xiaomu. Just give it right! If Wei Daxun hadn't seen something bad behind him and reached out to help him, he would have fallen to the ground.
"Okay, that's right!" After listening to Chen Xiaomu's second line, Wu Shilang stood up from the Taishi chair tremblingly and sighed: "I originally thought that the barbarians in Chu would only burn, kill and loot, but I didn't expect that there is such a thing. Economic talent!"
"What are you talking about, old man? What do you mean by being a barbarian?" The few scholar soldiers standing beside Wu Shilang couldn't help but widen their eyes when they heard Wu Shilang's words and glared at Wu Shilang.
Lin Jin waved his hands weakly at the few scholar soldiers, "Forget it, Mr. Wu is old, and he will inevitably say some confusing things, so let him do it." He turned to Chen Xiaomu again, "Commander Chen, It’s your turn to ask the question.”
Chen Xiaomu's heart moved. His original idea was to take the opportunity today to make Lin Jin die under his own knife. Now judging from his attitude towards Wu Shilang, he is not a treacherous person. It seems that in the end he He can be spared his life if appropriate.
When he looked up, he saw Lin Jin standing in front of him with a depressed expression, waiting for him to give a question, and then said: My first couplet is "Lonely, cold, windowless, widowed"
Lin Jin was confused when he heard it. This first couplet was simply not on the same level as the one he had just written. It meant that in the cold winter, a person is alone and has difficulty falling asleep in bed. But what is really difficult about this first couplet is that The seven characters in the first couplet all have a treasure cover on them. The second couplet must not only cater to the meaning of the first couplet, but also have a unified radical for each character like the first couplet.
As soon as Chen Xiaomu's first couplet came out, everyone in the audience fell into silence. This first couplet was so bizarre that even Du Fengxian and others who were standing on the side watching the excitement frowned. Wu Shilang thought hard for a long time and couldn't even think of a clue. Not coming out.
It took too long. Lin Jin looked at the scholar soldiers under him, hoping to pick up a life-saving straw, even if it was not very neat, but wherever he looked, these scholar soldiers were all there. Avoiding his gaze, not daring to look him in the eye, he had no choice but to cup his fists and raise his hands to Chen Xiaomu, "Commander Chen, Lin is not talented, can you tell me the second line of this pairing?" "
"Okay, I am right about the second line of this couplet, which is, "A handsome and beautiful woman is alone." I wonder what Chen Dutong thinks?"
This time, not only Du Fengxian and Ximen Ruoen clapped their hands, but also Wu Shilang and even some of the onlookers' scholar-soldiers clapped and applauded!
Chen Xiaomu waited for the applause to stop, then turned to look at Wu Shilang, who was sitting on the imperial chair, stroking his snow-white beard with his hands, and wrote another couplet to Lin Jin, "Reunion in sixties, plus thirty-seven years." This is a number Couplet, one sixty-year-old is sixty years old, and the reunion means two sixty-year-olds are one hundred and twenty years old, plus thirty-seven and twenty-one years old, which is one hundred and forty-one years old. The lower couplet must fit the upper couplet, and it must make up the one hundred years old. Although the number forty-one is not as difficult as the previous one, it is also very difficult to match the second one! The whole audience was dead silent again!
Du Fengxian bent down and whispered to Ximen Ruoen who was standing next to him: "Is this Mr. Chen possessed by the Wenqu star in the sky? Otherwise, how could he be so powerful?" Ximen Ruoen pursed his lips and snickered, looking at the man standing on the field. Chen Xiaomu thought to himself, this guy asked me to be his wife that day. After the competition is over, I will go to him and ask him whether he means what he said.
Lin Jin, who was on the field, could only read half of the second couplet at this time. He kept chanting, "Double celebrations are rare in ancient times, double celebrations are rare in ancient times." According to his idea, life is rare in seventy years, and double celebrations are two. A seventy-year-old adds up to a hundred and forty years, but what troubles him is that there is still one year left, and he has to make up for it with words similar in meaning to those in the first couplet. He couldn't turn around for a while. Stumped!
"A rare celebration of ancient times, a spring and Autumn period of more times!" Seeing how anxious he was, Chen Xiaomu opened his mouth to complete the second couplet for him.
Lin Jin suddenly realized that he no longer had the arrogance and arrogance that he had when he first met Chen Xiaomu. He immediately made a compilation to Chen Xiaomu and said sincerely: "Master Chen is only eight Dou high, and we are really far behind Commander Chen." Yuan, I think this is the end of this match, Military Master Chen, you win!"
"Lin Dutong, you can't give up easily!" Hearing Lin Jin admit defeat, Wei Daxun was so frightened that he rushed to the court immediately. In fact, what he lost this time was not his face, but his own head. This head is gone, and this life still there? Originally, he thought that Lin Jin would definitely win compared with Chen Xiaomu, the big-headed soldier. Unexpectedly, after the first pair of matches, he would admit defeat so easily. Wei Daxun felt as if the beheading knife was on his neck!
