Zhao Xueyi led Ye Feng and Li Dukang, while Meng Ying felt sorry and pulled Meng Fei to follow them. They came to a more magnificent and resplendent hall.
Here, singing and dancing flourish, and the beauty of the maids passing through is of a very high standard. But Ye Feng doesn't like it here. Because Ye Feng can see what everyone here is thinking. These people are well-dressed, but also have an extraordinary bearing. There are many literati and poets, but there are also many dandies, but they seem to be very reserved. I think if they were not in Qunfang Building but somewhere else, they would probably get involved. Come on.
Li Dukang explained to Ye Feng that the girls in Qunfang House are actually geishas. They make friends here through literature. Of course, they also have projects where they spend a lot of money just to make beautiful women smile.
Zhao Xueyi smiled and asked Ye Feng what he thought of this place?
Ye Feng replied coldly: "I don't like this place. The clothes here are bright and the horses are angry, but the people outside Yong'an are in rags, and the border guards have rusty armor. The mountains and seas here are delicacies, the people eat bran and wild vegetables, and the soldiers eat in the open. So I I hate places like this.”
Meng Ying was deeply touched and unconsciously felt the same as Ye Feng.
After Zhao Xueyi was stunned for a moment, she smiled, stopped and turned to Ye Feng, and said, "Is King Ye a little more sentimental?"
After Ye Feng glanced at Zhao Xueyi, he looked at those luxurious places. After a moment, he said calmly: "I have eaten bran and wild vegetables with the common people, and I have also slept on the ground with the border guards wearing the same clothes. I I think the taste like that is better than the one here, and I feel more comfortable sleeping in such a place than here, that’s all.”
As he spoke, he continued to walk forward, passing Zhao Xueyi who was stunned by Ye Feng's words. As the owner of Qunfang Building, Zhao Xueyi is a human being. It is impossible to hide whoever tells the truth or lies from her, but Zhao Xueyi can see that there is not a single lie in what Ye Feng said, and this That's the most unexpected place. Because it was the king of Kyoto who did the things of eating chaff and wild vegetables with the people and sharing the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. Although Kyoto is not rich in resources for cultivating immortals, it is the most modernized place and the most prosperous and prosperous place.
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After Zhao Xueyi led Ye Feng and others to the seats prepared for them in advance, she walked to the center of the hall alone. When Zhao Xueyi waved, the lights dimmed instantly, and all the spotlight-like light focused on Zhao Xueyi. I saw Zhao Xueyi saying loudly: "Thank you all the proud sons of heaven and the pillars of the country for coming to participate in Ruyan's coming-of-age ceremony. According to the rules of Qunfang House, Ruyan will set two civil and military examination questions at the coming-of-age ceremony, and the winner will get the same Ruyan holds the candle and has the opportunity to talk at night. As for what happens next, it is naturally up to the talented man and the beautiful woman to decide. Now that the distinguished guests of Qunfang Tower have arrived today, Ruyan’s adult ceremony begins now! "
Zhao Xueyi was very calm and skillful, and it seemed that this was not the first time. In fact, usually there is a special master of ceremonies to do this kind of thing, but this time the protagonist of the coming-of-age ceremony is Qunfang House's top oiran, Ruyan, so naturally it has to be grand and formal. So Zhao Xueyi played in person.
Soon the lights in the hall returned to normal. On top of the huge curtain, the five maids each took out a roll of cloth. The five people stood apart and dropped the rolls one after another. They were five first couplets, and this one was also It is the "essay question" in the civil and military exams. People present need to answer the five upper and lower lines. As for the winner, Ruyan will judge.
The five first couplets are
1 "The bright moon shines on the screen window, everyone is bright and bright."
2. "Wonderful girl from the Ni family."
Three "Paint lotus and monk paintings."
4. "Lonely and cold, a widow with an empty window."
Five "Smoke locks the pond willow."
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Zhao Xueyi told Ye Feng before that if he wins everyone present, he can take Jiang Yu and Fatty away. This is the rule of Qunfang House. Although it is said that there is no first place in literature and no second place in martial arts, in Qunfang Tower, literature must be first. The first place is meaningful, the first place is valuable, and only the first place can get everything you want. As for how to win and what the method is, it is self-evident at this point.
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Ye Feng looked at the five first couplets and couldn't help but shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "This girl named Ruyan is really amazing. Her first couplets are absolute forever."
After Li Dukang looked at the five first couplets, he nodded and said, "That's true."
Meng Ying and Meng Fei are both rude and rough people. They looked at Ye Feng and Li Dukang, two gentlemen, with confused expressions?
Everyone in the "cinema" looked at Ye Feng with the same confused expressions as Meng Ying and Meng Fei.
So Ye Feng explained everything to everyone.
“These five first couplets are absolute through the ages, and there is no perfect second couplet yet.
Let’s talk about the first one first, the bright moon shines on the screen window, everyone is bright and bright.
This eternal absolute, its meaning is so clever that no one can understand it.
According to legend, Ji Xiaolan, the chief compiler of Sikuquanshu during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, once boasted that there was no one in the world who could not be opposed to him, and his wife wrote this couplet to question him, saying: The moon shines through the screened window, and Zhuge Liang is the brightest man in all of them. This couplet really stumped the talented man with his quick thinking. Later, someone added the word "明" before "月", which made it more difficult for those who wrote the second couplet.
"The bright moon shines through the screen window, and all the Kongming Zhuge Liang" writes about an ancient theme: the scenery on a moonlit night. The bright moon shines through the screen window, every window hole is illuminated, and many pavilions (Ge Xiege pronunciation) are illuminated. What a scene. The silver world under the moonlight. In terms of artistic conception, this five-character and seven-character sentence can only be regarded as "average", but in terms of its language use skills, it can be described as "highly difficult". What makes it difficult Mainly in the seven characters "Every Kongming and Zhuge Liang". "Every Kongming" is equal to "Zhuge (Ge) Liang", and "Zhuge Liang" is a person's name, and "Kongming" is the epitome of "Liang". Between them The relationship and ordering can be expressed as: character + compound surname + given name. In terms of character meaning, "Gege" is equivalent to the first character "Zhu" of the compound surname, and "Kong" is similar to the second character "Ge" of the compound surname. In addition, there are The requirements for the alternating phonetic pattern of flat and oblique are:
The bright moon shines on the screen window, everyone is bright and bright Zhuge Liang
廄廄廄平平,任仄平平仄仄
Flat, flat, flat, flat, flat, flat.
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Ye Feng said slowly: "And this is just the first couplet, but there are already so many mysteries hidden in it."
Li Dukang was still satisfied after hearing this, while Meng Ying and Meng Fei outside and everyone else in the "cinema" were already fuming. Although Qing Ni was fine, they couldn't help but sigh: "It is indeed eternal."
