It rains in the winter in Jiangnan, but it rarely snows heavily.

Usually, there are light drizzles mixed with small snowflakes, but last night, there was a rare heavy snowfall in Jinling City. When I woke up in the morning, I saw a thick layer of snow on the ground, roof and treetops. Moreover, the snowflakes in the sky still did not stop, and were falling down.

The twenty students who were going to participate in today's literary and vocational competition couldn't help but mutter in their hearts when they saw this, wouldn't the theme of this literary and vocational theme be snow scenes?

The literary and essay competition is the same as the poetry competition. In order to prevent someone from writing a draft in advance, the subject of the article is temporarily decided by the examiner.

I went to the banks of the Qinhuai River yesterday. Today, I am in this situation. It is not surprising to write an article with snowflakes as the theme.

It was dawn, and Xu Xian, Fang Zhongyong and others were notified to gather at the Lotus Garden.

Jinling Academy covers a very wide area and is almost similar to the universities on Earth in later generations, so there are many rockery lakesides and beautiful tourist attractions in the academy.

This lotus garden is an artificial lake in the academy. The lake is full of lotus flowers. If it is summer, the blooming lotus flowers in the entire lake will have a unique view.

But it is the cold winter month, with snowflakes floating in the sky, and all that is left in the lake is dead roots and rotten leaves. There is no scenery at all. Why go to the lotus garden?

Everyone shook their heads, unable to figure it out.

Xu Zhengqing still followed Xu Xian and Fang Zhongyong to the end. The two students entered the finals of the literary club. He should be very happy, but he didn't see much on his face, but was full of caution and worry.

He instructed: "Zhongyong, Chinese, when you do literary fu today, you must pay attention to the idea and angle! Especially Chinese, although the poems you wrote yesterday are famous and have profound meanings, if Marshal Yue had not appeared suddenly in the end, you might have been banned by Jiang Haibo! Marshal Yue has left today, and even the great scholar Li Yuanhui may not be able to completely suppress him, so you must not let him catch the handle again! This person is sinister and vicious. Since he took action yesterday, he may not give up. He is likely to continue looking for trouble today!"

Xu Zhengqing did not beat around the bush and directly called Mr. Jiang as sinister and vicious, without any shame.

However, he did not explain the specific reason, and Xu Xian and Fang Zhongyong did not ask much.

They were not stupid. From yesterday when Mr. Jiang exclaimed absurdly and suddenly attacked Xu Xian, they could guess that the relationship between Mr. Jiang and Xu Zhengqing had changed, and it was no longer as harmonious as when Xu Mu'e celebrated her birthday more than a month ago.

"Thank you, Lord Xuezheng, for reminding me, I will not let him catch the handle again today." Xu Xian nodded and said.

He is not a fool either. He will not be able to slap the swollen face and pretend to be fat. Even though he knows that someone will find a way to frame him, he will naturally not be stupid and give the other party a chance.

"Yes." Xu Zhengqing nodded and said cautiously: "Of course, you can't be too timid, and you have to do your best. In this regard, literary fu, we have to admit that Jinling Academy has a great advantage, and what they are best at is this. If you take it lightly, this literary fu might fail."

Fang Zhongyong's face was tense, his voice was as cold as ever, but he said confidently: "What I am best at is literary work!"

Although Fang Zhongyong performed poorly in the first two competitions, both of which achieved excellent results of the A-level. But like Shen Zhou and others, he was also a little a little suffocated because he was suppressed too badly by Xu Xian. His so-called excellent performance was completely worth mentioning compared to Xu Xian.

Of course, he would not be as jealous as Shen Zhou and others, he was just full of fighting spirit.

In the last level of the literary fu, he secretly cheered himself up. Even if Xu Xian was still holding his ultimate move in his hand, he could not beat Xu Xian, but at least he could not let Xu Xian lead the way!

Xu Xian smiled and said, "My literary talent is not bad either."

"Well. I have confidence in you two. I believe that you can all enter the top three in Jiangnan Wenhui this time. But being more cautious is always right..." Xu Zhengqing said.

The lotus garden is coming soon.

However, the three judges arrived first before everyone. A stone arch bridge was built above the lakeside, leading to a pavilion in the middle of the lakeside. At this time, the three judges were all in the pavilion.

However, because of the differences last night, Li Yuanhui and Mr. Jiang were obviously no longer in harmony. Li Yuanhui treated Mr. Jiang coldly without any concealment, but Mr. Jiang still had a smile on his face, as if something happened last night.

This is the difference between a person in the officialdom and a scholar.

Li Yuanhui will not hide his joys, anger, sorrows, and happiness. If you like someone, you like someone. If you dislike someone, you will be disgusted by someone. You will not disguise him and can flatter him.

But Mr. Jiang is different. With his long experience in the officialdom, he has already achieved the goal of not showing his emotions and will hide his true thoughts in his heart. Even when facing his old friend Xu Zhengqing, who has been with him for many years, he can still smile and insert the other person's knife while hugging him.

Seeing many candidates coming, Li Yuanhui put away his cold face and asked with a smile: "Today's literary vocabulary competition, I chose to be in this decaying lotus garden, do you know why?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Li Yuanhui did not keep it a secret and said, "For literati, the best thing they are to write down the scenery they see in front of them. If the scenery in front of them meets the theme, it is easy to write poetry or essays... However, today is the last try of this Jiangnan Literature Conference, so naturally it cannot be so simple."

Li Yuanhui paused, then looked at everyone with a smile and said, "So today, I am going to do the opposite. Today I will take the literary and fu exam in this desolate lotus garden, but the theme of the literary and fu is a hundred flowers!"

"It can be peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, chrysanthemums, plum blossoms, orchids... as long as you write essays with flowers as the theme, you can all do it! Of course, snowflakes cannot do it!"

"I will definitely make a 'a hundred flowers competing for beauty' to you in this dilapidated scenery!"

When Li Yuanhui finished speaking, the scene was silent.

They have guessed many kinds of topics about the recent literary fu, and most of them thought they would take snow scenes as the theme, but they did not know that they were based on the theme of "Hundred Flowers".

Isn’t this someone who writes about spring scenery in winter?

This theme is really unexpected and difficult.

Seeing the twenty students frowning and thinking, Li Yuanhui smiled with satisfaction. It is not that simple to become a talented man in Jiangnan. This last level is naturally a little more difficult.

"Okay. I'll give you a little longer in this competition, half an hour. You guys start!"

Half an hour, it was indeed much longer than the incense stick of yesterday's poems.

However, writing essays and writing poems are completely different, and the time it takes is different.

In addition, I wrote a poem on the bank of the Qinhuai River last night, and the theme was the Qinhuai River, so the speed will naturally be very fast; today I am writing about the spring scenery in winter, which requires completely relying on imagination.

Half an hour was actually very short.

Among the twenty people, more than ten students with the lowest strength immediately turned bitter and had the idea of ​​giving up the competition.

But for the few people who are qualified to compete for the position of talented men in Jiangnan, after pondering for a while, they became thoughts and began to write.

This is true for Shen Zhou, Qiu Ying and Lu Zijiu of Jinling College.

This is true for Fang Zhongyong.

Xu Xian, after a smile, began to write too!

(Second update. Today, I will make up for the sixth update. Book friends, please don’t follow me to cultivate immortality. Let’s get up tomorrow morning and see my wife appear!
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