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Chapter seventy-ninth pair

"That's not necessarily." []"

Qin Mu spitted out the melon seeds and said that when Qin Mu was in college, he was very good at couplets. When he was in college, Qin Mu had the title of "King of the Pairs". Besides, with thousands of years of knowledge about couplets in China, Qin Mu felt that he still had a certain hope to win this calligraphy.

In fact, Qin Mu was not sure, but in front of the beauty, his aura was not inferior to others. He regarded the odds of one or two points as ten points.

Lord Xu was sitting in the middle and took out a note from a small box, opened the note, looked at the words on it, and said, "My first couplet is, 'Smoke Locking the Pond Willow', can you meet it?"

Such a simple five-character couplet? Many people were stunned.

However, truly talented people like Xie Jin couldn't help but frown. This couple is amazing.

Indeed, this couplet can be called absolute. The five characters in the first couplet are embedded in the five radicals of "fire, gold, water, earth, and wood", and the artistic conception is very wonderful: a quiet pond surrounded by green willows, and layers of smoke cover it deeply. This is simply a landscape painting.

In this first couplet, even the great talent and current literary leader Xie Jin of the Qin Dynasty were stumped, which shows that it was extraordinary.

However, some people with average talent think it's very simple.

A young young man said confidently: "What's the difficulty? I'm against Yu Luo..."

But before he could agree, Xu Lang had already picked up his pen on a large piece of paper, wrote out his first couplet, hung it in the center of the yard, and everyone could see it clearly.

The young man also saw the first couplet, and then the second couplet behind "Rainfall" was held back by him. He coughed and stopped talking. Only then did he realize how humorous his words "What's the problem with this?" were. Many people around him were stunned when they saw it.

"Smoke locks the willows in the pond?"

"Fire, Gold, Water, Earth and Wood." Each word contains the five elements radicals.

Can you think of such a tricky couplet? And the five elements radicals are so well cooperated with them? This Lord Xu is too good at setting questions. With just this question, more than 90% of the people present will be eliminated.

"It seems that this character has no chance of being with me!" Many people gave up directly.

However, some people still lowered their heads and kept muttering something, obviously thinking about the second couplet.

After all, this first couplet only has the trick of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and the five elements radicals. It is difficult, but it doesn’t seem too difficult. As long as you understand some couplets, you may feel that you can match it. As long as you have time, it is enough, and as long as you find the right words, it is enough. Judging from the expressions of everyone present, it is obvious that they all think so.

However, when Qin Mu saw this couple, he couldn't help but feel happy. Isn't this the absolute absolute thing in his previous life?

In the past life, few people could match it for hundreds of years, and none of them were considered the best second couplet.

You should know that some of the first couplets look difficult, but they may not be as difficult as you imagine. For example, the couplets made with radicals, "lotus stems, lotus roots, lotus moss" are particularly complicated when you look at it at first, and they are all grass-shaped, but when you think about it carefully, they are all plants and plants.

So there is no problem with "the fragrance of hibiscus peony", and there are many others that can match it. However, some of the top couplets seem to be just a little mysterious, and they look similar to other top couplets, which allows you to understand at a glance, but it just won't match it even if you spend your whole life.

"Smoke locks the willows in the pond."

The history of this first couplet can be said to be quite long. In the previous life of Qin Mu, it has been passed down through the ages. Countless literati and poets have been defeated in front of it for a hundred and thousands of years.

Fortunately, Qin Mu knew the lower couplets of several pairs. Although the artistic conception may be a bit poor, it should be considered a suitable lower couplet.

"Time is coming soon, is anyone there?"

Xu Lang asked, Xu Lang felt good about his own couplet, and he hadn't thought of the second couplet yet, so it was normal for Xu Lang to have no one to meet him for so long.

"I'm talking about the 'Bao Zhenhai City Tower'."

Xie Jin said with a blushing face. After all, this couple is barely matched, but the artistic conception is too far from the first couplet, and he is just reluctant to match it. This makes Xie Jin feel a little ashamed. He is still the most famous talent in the Qin Dynasty and a literary leader. A couplet from this old boy Xu Lang stumped himself.

After all, the poor quality of the lower couplet "Bao Zhenhai City Tower" is not only reflected in artistic conception, but also in rhythm. First, in terms of rhythm, refer to the poem "One, Three, Five" and two, four, and six are clear. The second and fourth characters of the upper and lower couplets are all in the tone (lock-zhen, Tang-cheng), which is not good.

Secondly, in terms of artistic conception, the first couplet is green and elegant, and the lower part is rough. Although it is literary and martial, it is not harmonious and lacks overall harmony.

But Xie Jin couldn't think of a better couple, so he had to take them out with difficulty. If he didn't take them out, he wouldn't even match a couple if he was reported, and he would have no place to put his old face.

"Bao Zhenhai City Tower!"

Xu Lang recited a few words silently and couldn't help but exclaim: "It's not a pity that Mr. Xie, the most talented person in our Qin Dynasty. He came up with such a neat second couplet in such a short time. When I published this first couplet, I didn't even think of the second couplet now."

Xu Lang had to accept that Xie Jin was much more talented than himself.

"Mr. Xu, don't say it. Besides, I can't even hold on to my old face." Xie Jin said with shame, "I know my own affairs."

"Old Xie is humble. Is there anyone who meets you? If no one meets you, this character will belong to Old Xie." Xu Lang looked at everyone and said.

"Brother Zhao, have you met?"

"I'm still a little short, it's soon, it's soon, don't bother me."

"I also feel a little bit short and I already have a idea."

"Is there still time? I should be able to try it too, just two words are missing next to the word "fire"... next to the word "fire"..."

Because Lord Xu hadn't said that the time had come yet, some of them started to communicate in a low voice, wanting to come up with the second couplet at the last minute.

"Haha, you can't meet it."

The little princess Zhao Yan looked at Qin Mu happily and said, "It seems that she can save the million taels of silver. Now she can make a good joke on Qin Mu."

"Who said I can't match it?"

Qin Mu stood up from his position and shouted to Xu Lang's position: "Please wait, Lord Xu, I can match this pair."

"Can you meet it?"

Xu Lang looked at Qin Mu with some confusion and asked, "Xu Lang has no impression of this person, it seems that he is not a member of the Jinling Book Club."

"Yes, I can match it."

Qin Mu said confidently that Qin Mu had several lower couplets in his belly, and he could match the upper couplet, which was no worse than Xie Jin's lower couplet.

Xu Lang was stunned and was happy, thinking that you really want to talk about this couplet? You are really a newborn calf who is not afraid of a tiger. What are you doing in such a short time? It took three days to come up with the second couplet. You, a young boy, actually said that you can talk about the second couplet. Xu Lang didn't believe it in his heart.

The others in the yard, including those above, stared at Qin Mu, and everyone knew that there was still such a person here.

“Huh?”

"Who is this person?"

"Is this the first line absolutely? Anyone else wants to try it?"

"It's not absolute, but it's definitely very difficult."

"Is he OK? Why haven't I seen him? Is he a member of our book club?"

There are basically few people here who know Qin Mu, so after working on it for a long time, everyone still doesn’t know who came from this person.

"I didn't expect that Mr. Qin is so talented that I actually thought of this second couplet. I still have no clue yet." Chen Yuanyuan said to Liu Rushi in surprise.

"Of course, Mr. Qin's talent is the most powerful among people I know."

Liu Rushi said proudly that Liu Rushi was so happy that he could match his men like this, even happier than he met.

"Young Master Qin's talent is really that amazing?" Chen Yuanyuan said with some disbelief.

"Haha, you don't believe it, you'll know later."

Liu Rushi said with a smile. No matter how much he said, there was no fact that it was more convincing. After his man won the competition, Chen Yuanyuan would know if he was joking.

"If you can meet, then tell me the second couplet, but time is coming." Xu Lang stared at Qin Mu and said. Xu Lang still didn't believe that this young man could meet his first couplet.

"My lower couplet is, 'Teaches burn the Jinjiang River Dike'." Qin Mu slowly said his lower couplet.

"The peach ignites of Jinjiang River."

As soon as this match came out, the entire restaurant was shocked. Compared with Mr. Xie's "Bao Zhenhai City Tower", this couplet is an irreplaceable "absolute" countermeasure.

Whether in terms of the rhythm, artistic conception, or mechanism, the entire left five elements radicals are in the same order as the upper line (the upper line "fire → metal → water → earth → wood", the lower line "wood → fire → metal → water → earth →), the level and tone are neat and the artistic conception is profound.

If "smoke locks the willows in the pond" is a beautiful morning and evening painting, and "peach burying the Jinjiang River embankment" reflects the vitality of spring, one is gentle and graceful, and the other is passionate and unrestrained, the two paintings form a sharp contrast.

Especially the word "Ran", the pen is not inferior to the word "Lock", and it can be regarded as the ultimate stroke.

If the second couplet is scored, the sentence "Bao Zhenhai City Tower" can only give 70 points. The advantage is that the order of the five elements is exactly the same as the first couplet, but the artistic conception is too different, which can only be called "the right", and "Tao Qiang Jinjiang Dike" can get 90 points.

Of course, the sentence "Taotao ignites the Jinjiang River" also has its shortcomings. It cannot be said to be the perfect answer, but it can only be said to be the best answer in comparison.

On the one hand, "Jinjiang Dike" is not a common noun, and "Jinjiang" is not a common noun compared to "pond", so there is still a certain gap between "Jinjiang Dike" and "pond willow". In addition, "peach" and "smoke" also have the same tone problem. However, it is very difficult to obtain such a lower line.

This is a second couplet that shocked the world in Qin Mu's previous life, but this author is no longer verified, and perhaps it comes from the folk. Maybe he is very smart and predicted that this couplet will shock the world in the future, so he was engraved under the monument, so he let future generations know that there is such a wonderful second couplet.
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