Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 263 Heaven did not give birth to me Song Bei... No, Xia Daosheng

Pingyang has a strong aura. After all, he is a man who goes to the battlefield to kill enemies. He is definitely not comparable to those delicate little sisters.

However, the eldest sister also has her own disadvantages, which is that she actually does not have a deep understanding of literary things, and is not even an expert.

It’s just that the lantern was very pretty, and she also got along really well with the puppy that was the third prize for the challenge…

"If you don't want to answer the question, please move aside."

At this moment, a man who looked like a scholar and a girl proudly pushed the princess aside. He lifted his sleeves to look at the riddles above him, and then said to the girl in a boastful manner, "Sister Lian, whatever you want, I will win it for you."

The little girl pointed at the dog that the princess liked, and the scholar rolled up his sleeves and said, "Okay! This is it. Shopkeeper, how many questions do you have to answer to get the dog?"

The shopkeeper was hanging lanterns nearby. Hearing this, he pointed to the four rows above and said, "These four rows, each row has twenty-one questions. The dog only needs to answer fifteen. If he can answer twenty-one, that would be twenty taels of silver."

"Okay! Where do we start?"

"It's up to you, sir. There are four categories here: poetry, lyrics, riddles, and allusions. You can choose any one."

Her Royal Highness the Princess kept looking back at Xia Lin, with a look in her eyes that meant "I don't care, I want that dog too", but she saw that Xia Lin was just playing with a paperweight that he had taken out from somewhere.

She wanted to open her mouth to remind him several times, but in the end she couldn't open her mouth. She could only turn around and nervously watch the scholar answer the questions.

The grand prize of twenty taels is really high, and it costs fifty cents to play once. With this difference, the store owner basically does not expect anyone to be able to answer the grand prize, so basically the highest reward is the dog, and at most the golden nanmu dressing box at the back.

As expected, the arrogant scholar failed after the sixth question. He was answering a question about allusions. He could answer all the questions about the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but he was finished when he went to the Western Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms.

In the end, his fifty cents were only exchanged for a small lantern worth five cents, but his beloved sister was still very happy and carried the gift away. Her laughter was enviable.

"See? Love is enough." Xiao Xia walked to the princess and nudged her with her shoulder as she was reading the questions. "Master, which question do you want to answer?"

"Master Rong, think twice."

Pingyang looked at the four lines of questions and felt that each line was extremely difficult. She was stuck at the third question, so she turned around and looked at Xia Lin: "Hey, hey! Which question can you answer?"

"I will answer the question that the young master tells me to answer."

At this moment, Pingyang ran to the middle and pointed to question 15: "Is this okay?"

"Sure, of course." Xia Lin stepped forward with a smile: "My young master is interested in someone's dog."

He laughed wildly, and the others were quite curious about his appearance. Even the shopkeeper looked up at Xia Lin and the princess behind him, and smiled softly: "If you have the ability to answer all four questions, you will get one hundred taels of silver."

"No, no, money is meaningless. My young master only likes your dog." Xia Lin waved his hand with a look of disdain: "Just the dog will do."

After saying that, he said, "Well, if I have answered all four questions, is it also a dog?"

The shopkeeper didn't waste any time and directly brought up a small frame from the side. Inside the frame were five little puppies, all of which looked the same, cute and adorable.

"I'll give you that bitch too."

After hearing this, Xia Lin turned his head and looked at Princess Pingyang: "Master, how is it?"

Pingyang nodded so much that his head almost flew off. Five dogs including a big black dog, this was awesome!

She loves hunting. She could tell at a glance that this puppy was a five-black dog that is unique to Guangdong and Guangxi. This dog is rare in the north. Although they have no shortage of dogs, they are still very tempted to see a dog with good appearance. Especially a five-black dog with such good appearance, if it is placed in the north, it may cost 20 or 30 taels, and the key is that it may not be available. Because this dog needs autumn and winter milk puppies, but autumn and winter milk puppies cannot withstand the cold in the north, and when it grows up, it will not recognize two masters...

Seeing that someone was going to challenge the highest difficulty, more people naturally came to watch.

Xia Lin didn't care at all about how many people were watching. He chuckled and walked around in front of the lantern. At this moment, the princess' palms were sweating. One reason was that she hoped Xia Lin could successfully answer the questions. The other was that she was afraid that they would brag so much and if it was exposed, wouldn't they be so ashamed that they would jump into the river and commit suicide?

She wasn't nervous at all when she went to the battlefield, but now she was so nervous that she clenched her fingers tightly.

"Hmm~~~" Xia Lin looked around and said, "The question is quite tricky. I will start now."

The poetry in the first couplet is actually more like a couplet, but a complete couplet system has not yet been formed, so these can basically be counted as poetry.

Soon, he smacked his lips, then picked up the pen and began to write on it. It must be said that the results of practicing calligraphy during this period are still effective. Now Xia Lin's handwriting is not crooked, at least not so obviously crooked. Although it is still a far cry from that evil creature Lao Zhang, it is already quite good compared to others.

He wrote in one breath, and quickly came to the fifteenth question. Before he put pen to paper, he turned back to look at the princess and said, "Master, the first dog has been obtained."

After saying that, he wrote it down quickly.

After finishing writing, he took two steps back. Now people around him gathered around and began to appreciate the poem he wrote.

Xia Lin was the best copywriter in the world, so the things on this page were not that difficult. It was easy for him to write them using Ai. The fifteen questions were just a little longer than the previous ones, but they did not go beyond the Three Realms and were not within the Five Elements.

"It is said that clouds are paired with rain, snow is paired with wind, and sunset is paired with clear sky. Coming wild geese are paired with departing swallows, roosting birds are paired with singing insects. A three-foot sword, a six-jun bow, north of the ridge is paired with east of the river." Xia Lin began to answer the second question while saying, "I said this should be listed in the introduction to rhythm. It's really a bit of a disdain for me to use such a simple thing to make a question."

Others don't understand, they just think that Xia Lin's poetry is very neat and beautiful in rhythm, and it is catchy. And when you listen to what he says, you will feel that this person is very talented.

When it comes to the second question, it is even more amazing. The second question is about the tune. There are qupai and ci tunes, and you have to write the lyrics according to the tune title above.

Whether a piece is good or bad cannot be judged by anyone; it needs to be judged by everyone. Yu Meiren, Su Muzha, Zui Huayin, Hao Lixiang, Chai Tou Feng, Shui Tiao Ge Tou, Huan Xi Sha and so on are all names of songs in the imperial teaching house, which are popular at the time. One does not need to read the whole piece; even half a verse or even a paragraph will do.

But Xia Lin was a show-off, so he just insisted on writing and wrote the whole article.

There is no advanced or non-advanced level here, just write fifteen questions.

"When will the bright moon come? Asking the sky for wine, I wonder what year it is in the palace in the sky..."

There was a scholar beside him, and Xia Lin read to him as he wrote. After he finished reading, he clapped his hands and laughed: "Hahaha, it seems that the music studio will have a large batch of goods this year. May I ask your name? Your talent is enough to rival that of Xia Daosheng from Jiangnan."

"Oh?" Xia Lin dipped his brush in ink and said, "You even know Xia Daosheng?"

"How can scholars not know him? His "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng" has become a famous piece of writing throughout the ages."

"Oh my... stop praising me, stop praising me. It's so embarrassing." Xia Lin waved his hands and continued writing, singing as he wrote.

After the fifteen articles were finished, the boss came forward and read them carefully. After reading them, he looked Xia Lin up and down. At this time, many people on the side had already started copying them. It would have been pretentious enough to pick out any one of them, but this time he had fifteen articles. It was amazing... The last person who was so awesome was Xia Daosheng who wrote the Hundred Beauties Poems at the Tengwang Pavilion.

Wow, two geniuses that appear once in a century suddenly appear?

Not to mention other people, even His Highness was stunned. If she can't write, can she read? This guy lied to himself before, saying that he had nothing left and couldn't write anymore. But now, he has sprayed out so much at once, and used up more than ten years of her supply in one go...

The key is that he even looks a little unsatisfied.

But what he wrote was really good, and it was not at all disgraceful for him to be the best in the world. Now thinking about it, it's no wonder that he no longer makes friends with others through poetry. This is not making friends at all, this is clearly making enemies.

At this moment, more and more people were watching nearby. Many young ladies who came out to have fun during the Mid-Autumn Festival began to look at Xia Lin with sparkling eyes.

He is fair-skinned, tall, and very talented, but I wonder if this guy is married.

"Master, here are two dogs." Xia Lin turned around and smiled at the princess. "The latter will be much faster, but if I finish, how will the master reward me?"

"Don't be so slick!" The princess rolled her eyes at him, and a hint of amorous feelings appeared: "Hurry up."

"okay."

The third question is guessing riddles, which is the simplest one. People who are not interested in showing off their skills will generally choose this one. Riddles are usually also called Wenhu. The answers focus on the meaning of words, such as a character, a line of poetry, an object or a name. Poems are written on silk lanterns, sometimes with ridicule, characters, hidden words, and old Beijing jokes to tease passers-by.

Guessing word riddles is the most basic, and there are also painting puzzles, characters, allusions, and various techniques, such as breaking and combining characters, adding and subtracting, half-side orientation, uneven shifting, correct and reverse characters, hidden clues outside the topic, etc. It definitely does not mean that you can win by just guessing a word. To make a living in this field, you have to rely on your brain. If you underestimate the heroes of the world, you will lose everything.

But Xia Lin was firstly well-informed, secondly he had a cheating device, and thirdly he had been trained in deciphering patterns, so this was a piece of cake for him.

By the time he had finished the tenth puzzle almost without thinking, the boss's forehead was sweating, but since the game had already started, there was no way he could stop.

Xia Lin has instantly come to the last topic, which is allusions. This thing can be said to be quite difficult. Some allusions are very obscure. For most people in this era when there are few books, the difficulty of this is no less than that of a poem that comes to mind suddenly, and may even be higher.

"That's it?" Xia Lin looked through the question and said with a smile, "Come on, dog!"

(End of this chapter)