The court examination was given a banquet, and Lord Su of the School and the Prefect Liang were all present, and many county magistrates were also present. The talented men who had just passed the boy examination were already ready to show off.

The so-called drinking order is to have fun and join in the fun, and more importantly, it is to have the opportunity to show off. A talented man gains fame. Today is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Lord Su proposed to focus on couplets and riddles, and the following immediately became lively. Some talented men in Yangzhou immediately thought of Lu Zheng’s literary and diving talent in Xinchenghe Cross Street not long ago.

Through this incident, most people felt that this talented man from the northern region should have a close relationship with Su Qing. Today, Su Qing pointed out that everyone should guess riddles of couplets and riddles. His intention was very intriguing.

Lu Zheng’s five questions have been spread in the Yangzhou academic community recently. At present, no one in the Yangzhou academic community can answer these five questions!

Especially Lu Zheng's couplet "Smoke Locking the Willows in the Pond", I don't know how many talented men in Yangzhou, Chen Gui, Qin Yue and others have held several gatherings on the Shrimp West Lake in order to collect the second couplet.

Every time they hold a party, Lu Zheng's reputation became more and more popular. Today, when the court examination was given a banquet, will Lord Su have another wave? To make Lu Zheng famous?

Upstairs of Chunfeng Tower, on the rosewood chair in the upper room, a young man in white sat upright. Behind the boy was a few well-behaved and smart girls, one of whom rubbed his shoulders and two pinched his feet. The young man in white closed his eyes and rested, as if he was about to fall asleep.

"It's boring. My uncle can't answer that question himself. What's the point of asking a group of scholars to guess riddles about couplets? There's no meaning at all!" said the boy in white without any thought.

The girl behind the boy in white was 28 years old, and her eyes were very lively. She said, "Princess, what do you think of these stupid scholars? Do you see it? Zhao Muquan from Anqing Mansion had a pair of eyes rolling around, and he looked like an impure mind at first glance.

There is also the one named Ruan in Changzhou Prefecture. This guy is so imposing. He was the one who came out of three upper couplets in one breath!”

"It's boring, it's boring! I'm only interested in the surname Lu, hehe, don't you see, this boy named Lu is pretending! Everyone else was very active, and they wanted to take out all their life's learning. Only this guy, holding a cup of tea, didn't see him drinking, leisurely and contented. Humph, it really disappointed me!"

The boy in white said.

"Princess, the man named Lu is self-reliant and doesn't take those people seriously! In fact, Lord Su has no choice. This guy is good at couplets and riddles, but he may be even more powerful in poetry and songs!

Don’t the princess like the song “About Wine”? It is said that such masterpieces have been widely circulated in the capital. If the poems are to make this kid lose his temper, it will be very difficult!"

The master and servant were talking, and the boy in white felt more and more unhappy. Today, he was going to visit the courtesan on the West Lake pleasure boat, but it was delayed here again.

He originally wanted to see the scene where Lu Zheng was attacked by a group at the banquet today, but after watching it for a long time, Lu Zheng was not involved at all and completely put himself out of the matter. It seemed that no reason was found for the others to siege him.

The key is that Lu Zheng is too famous, and the five previous questions have been widely circulated. Although there are many talented men in the three palaces today, they basically don’t have the courage to challenge him, worried about causing humiliation to himself!

The young man in white, Mr. Qin was bored to watch, and Su Qing also felt that the banquet was a bit boring! Although these talents on the scene had some skills, some of the first couplets and riddles they published seemed too ordinary to him.

Lu Zheng was not involved at all, and Su Qing could not complete the task assigned to him by Princess Qian. Besides, who can pose a threat to Lu Zheng with these people on the scene today?

Su Qing thought this in his heart, and the others were even more worried. Song Jin stood up and said, "Everyone, Lu Zheng, the head of the banquet today, should be one of the protagonists. Why didn't I see anyone dare to play against him? Could it be that Lu's head of the three palaces are really invincible? You have so many people and more than one hundred people working together, can't you give him a few glasses of wine?"

This time Xinhe County was in the limelight, and Song Jin felt uncomfortable. Nanyou County had always been at the top of Xinhe County, but this time he encountered Waterloo. He was holding his breath!

In his opinion, Lu Zheng's appearance was the key to Nie Yong's fortune. Nie Yong directly transferred Yingtian Mansion this time. Why could he get such an opportunity? Nie Yong's luck seemed to be because of Lu Zheng!

Song Jin's statement was very meaningful. All the talents in Yangzhou were all weird. Lu Zheng was very famous in Yangzhou, and he was famous. Everyone had seen how many talents he had!

However, the talents in Anqing Prefecture and Changzhou Prefecture have different ideas. First of all, Lu Zheng is not very famous in the two prefectures. The key is that these two prefectures are really talented!

This time, the first place was Lu Zheng, the second place was Ruan Shaolin from the Ruan family in Changzhou Prefecture, and the third place was Zhao Muquan from Anqing Prefecture.

Just Zhao Muquan is gone, Ruan Shaolin's reputation is really big. Although the Ruan family in Changzhou Prefecture is not one of the four traditional Jiangnan masters, Ruan Jingnian of the Ruan family is now the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the Southern Ministry of Revenue, but he is a second-rank senior official!

Ruan Shaolin has been famous since childhood. According to legend, he is able to poetry at the age of three and literary at the age of five. He is a scholar at the age of seventeen.

There is another saying that Ruan Jingnian has been suppressing him and not letting him take the boy exam, because Mr. Ruan thought that he was too successful when he was young and might not be able to do so.

The Ruan family deliberately suppressed Ruan Shaolin's limelight. Ruan Shaolin won the first case this year, and he lost to Lu Zheng in the last test. If it weren't for his injury before the test, the result would be unpredictable!

And today, he made a big splash at the banquet. So far, except for Zhao Muquan who can compete with him, almost no one else can match him.

He was eager to try and wanted to challenge Lu Zheng, but Lu Zheng never participated and put himself out of the matter. He wanted to take the initiative to challenge Lu Zheng, but he was worried about being rude in front of many adults. After all, this is Yangzhou, and Lu Zheng's reputation in Yangzhou is really big!

Now that Song Jin said this, this undoubtedly cheered him up, and he couldn't help but think: "Lu Zheng was trying to suppress me in the Taoist test, and his talent may not be much higher than mine.

In today's occasion, everyone is rushing to show off, but he is the only one who holds it alone. He just wants to show his uniqueness in this way. Since that's the case, I will ask him for advice and suffocate his arrogance!"

He thought so in his heart, and immediately wanted to speak, Zhao Muquan said first:

"Brother Lu, I happen to have a couplet here. Please give me a proper second couplet!"

After Zhao Muquan finished speaking, he picked up his pen and walked to the poem desk and wrote: "The ancient wood has withered in front of the mountains, rocks and rocks, and this wood is firewood."

After he finished writing this couplet, the people around him immediately recited it, and someone immediately praised it: "Okay, very good, this couplet is good!"

The cheers of one person immediately aroused a lot of cheers. Indeed, Zhao Muquan's couplet was very wonderful.

The first seven characters, the two characters of mountain and stone form the character "rock", the two characters of ancient wood form the character "dry", and the two characters of this wood form the character "chai", so this splitting of the character constitutes the difficulty.

Seeing Zhao Muquan's couplet, many people on the scene understood that this person came prepared! How could such a couplet be thought of in a hurry?

However, he had never taken it out before, and he only took it out until this opportunity. His intention was very obvious. He had always wanted to challenge Lu Zheng!

This was a bit interesting. Su Qing originally found it boring, but now he stood up from the chair and said, "Hey, this couplet is wonderful, very wonderful!"

Upstairs of Chunfeng Tower, the little girl suddenly exclaimed and said to the young man in white: "Princess, Princess, come, that Zhao Muquan is going to challenge the person surnamed Lu! He has published a first couplet, you see..."

"Oh?" The young man in white sat upright slowly and looked downstairs.

Someone was already yelling downstairs: "The ancient wood in front of the rocks and rocks is withered, and this wood is firewood. It is a bit difficult to get the second couplet in a hurry!"

Everyone was talking and talking. The boy in white heard it clearly. She raised her eyebrows and said, "No, good, this couplet is interesting. I just said that the person surnamed Zhao is a treacherous person! He was definitely prepared for this couplet, hehe, but this is more interesting. I want to see how this person surnamed Lu is right!"

Everyone's eyes were turned to Lu Zheng, and Lu Zheng slowly stood up and said with a shame: "Brother Zhao, I am not very good at couplets. I think this couplet is wonderful, but I can't tell the second couplet!"

"Boom!" There was a commotion in the audience. Lu Zheng couldn't match this couplet? This... won't it?

You should know that the most core convenience of the eight-legged essay in Shiwen is to have eight-legged essay confrontation. Lu Zheng is the first in writing Shiwen, so he must be a veteran in this field. He was so compared by Zhao Muquan?

Even Zhao Muquan was a little surprised, and then he felt ecstasy in his heart. He said, "If you don't match, you will be punished with wine. You are the first in the case and the first in the court examination. You will be punished with wine twice. Do you think?"

Someone responded to Zhao Muquan's statement immediately, especially the scholars from Anqing Mansion. Seeing that Zhao Muquan had a couplet stumped Lu Zheng, they were all excited as if they were injected with chicken blood, and they all followed suit.

Many scholars in Changzhou Prefecture were also very disappointed. They originally thought that Lu Zheng could defeat Zhao Muquan and compete with Ruan Shaolin again. Unexpectedly, Lu Zheng was so useless and was suppressed by Zhao Muquan as soon as he started.

Everyone started to make a fuss, and Lu Zheng finally became the target of public criticism. Faced with the sudden crisis, Lu Zheng's expression remained unchanged and said lightly: "Do you want to drink? Compared to couplets, I'm not good at drinking. Let's do this, I'll try to write a second couplet. Please see if it's appropriate?"

After Lu Zheng finished speaking, he slowly walked to the front of several cases. He took off the pen on the pen holder and suddenly looked up at the upstairs of Chunfeng Tower.

At this time, the boy in white was surrounded by a group of girls on the Chunfeng Tower, staring straight down. Lu Zheng looked over and happened to see them.
Chapter completed!