The best eunuch

"Bold! Dare to be presumptuous in front of the emperor!"

Just as Liang Xin said that Tao Xueming was overstepping, Yang Jian immediately reprimanded Tao Xueming eager to protect his son.Yang Jian's status is no small matter, Tao Xueming was immediately frightened when he scolded him.Tao Xueming's legs softened and he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the student deserves death for a momentary slip of the tongue, and I hope the emperor will make amends."

Zhao Ji shook his head and waved his hands: "Forget it, the antithetical couplets are just a kind of literary entertainment, you don't have to take it too seriously. Let's explore Huaping."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Tao Xueming stood up tremblingly, ready to return to his seat and take his seat.

Liang Xin is not a broad-minded person, so he smiled lightly and said, "Tao Tanhua. We haven't decided the winner between you and me, so let's just forget it?"

Tao Xueming looked at Liang Xin bitterly. In fact, everyone present could see that Tao Xueming had already lost, but Liang Xin wanted to chase after him.Tao Xueming was furious for a moment, and he opened his mouth and said, "Come and plant trees on your grave!"

"Damn it!" Liang Xin cursed inwardly, thinking that this guy was so angry that he wanted to dig his family's grave.But on the surface, Liang Xin just smiled and replied: "The tree is a coffin waiting for you to live in."

"You..." Tao Xueming's face flushed with anger, and he felt the urge to spurt blood.At this moment, Zhao Ji also felt that Tao Xueming had gone too far, and criticized: "Today is a feast for talented scholars, what a disappointment you and the other two said to spoil the scenery!"

"Trouble the emperor's elegance, the slave deserves death." Liang Xin hurriedly knelt down to admit his mistake.Tao Xueming didn't seem to hear Liang Xin's words, and kept staring at Liang Xin viciously.

Liang Xin looked at Tao Xueming and said with a smile: "Actually, Tao Tanhua is quick and quick-witted, and I really admire him. Today we are just starting to learn from each other, and we will come back to have a serious competition in another day. This round will be considered a draw, and I will send Tao to him in the end." Tanhua has a pair of couplets. The first couplet: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven; the second couplet: filial piety, loyalty, honesty, propriety, integrity."

After Liang Xin talked about the couplet given to Tao Xueming, everyone fell into deep thought. On the surface, this couplet seemed to have no mystery, and it was clearly stated that it was given to Tao Xueming, and it also said filial piety, loyalty, propriety and righteousness Lian, seems to be exaggerating Tao Xueming.

Among all the people present, only Cai Jing and Yang Jian didn't think so.Both of them were thinking about the mystery hidden in the couplet. After thinking about it for a while, Cai Jing showed a clear expression on his face, while Yang Jian thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out, but he firmly believed in his heart that there was a mystery in the couplet, because he knew that he This adopted son is a man who will repay every bit of his every vengeance.

Tao Xueming didn't understand the mystery of the couplet at the first time, and thought that Liang Xin was showing his favor to him, so Tao Xueming cupped his hands and said lightly: "Thank you, Eunuch Liang, for sending me the wonderful couplet. I accept it."

Liang Xin smiled, but actually suppressed the smile in his heart so uncomfortable.Zhao Ji didn't want to get too entangled in the pairing, so he looked at the second place and said, "Okay, the round just now was a draw as Liang Xin said. I heard that Li Changfeng, the second place in this subject, is good at calligraphy and painting?"

When Li Changfeng heard the emperor call his name, he immediately got up and went to the venue to salute the emperor: "Students like calligraphy and painting, but they dare not claim to be good at it in front of the sage. All the subjects of the Song Dynasty know that the sage of calligraphy and painting is the No. 1 in the world."

Li Changfeng's flattery made Zhao Ji very happy.Zhao Ji waved his hand and said: "You don't need to be too humble for the second place. I have read your test paper before. If I read correctly, your handwriting should be a fusion of the two directors of Mr. Cai Taishi and Mr. Ouyang Xiu. When you write, every stroke penetrates the back of the paper, which shows that It's powerful."

Li Changfeng arched his hands and said, "Thank you for your praise. The students admire Taishi Cai's rigorous calligraphy, and also love Mr. Ouyang Xiu's dignified calligraphy, which is magnificent. Therefore, they often copy it, and Handan students are just showing their ugliness."

"Okay, okay, I'll let you know first, the calligraphy of this imperial servant is also very good. You have to be careful in the competition later."

After Zhao Ji finished speaking, he waved his hands, and several young eunuchs who had prepared earlier carried two desks.Liang Xin and Li Changfeng stood behind a desk respectively, Zhao Ji looked around and pointed to a court lady and said, "The two of you can draw a picture of a lady for me, with an inscription so that I can taste it together with Cai Taishi and Wang Shaozai." , Let's see which of the two of you is stronger. There is only one stick of incense in the time, you can start now."

"Yes!" Liang Xin and Li Changfeng responded at the same time, and then they both raised their pens at the same time.Li Changfeng looked at the little maid while painting, but Liang Xin was different. He held a paintbrush and stared at the little maid.He still didn't start writing when the incense burnt to one third.

The little maid naturally supported Liang Xin in her heart. She kept gesturing to Liang Xin, but Liang Xin kept turning a blind eye.Then the little palace maid stamped her feet anxiously, and Liang Xin's eyes became clear as if waking up from a dream.The little maid covered her mouth and let out a chuckle, Liang Xin's eyes lit up and began to paint with a brush.

Ever since Liang Xin started painting, Liang Xin never looked at the little palace lady again.I saw that he was a dragon and a snake, and he kept painting on the drawing paper without stopping.When the incense burnt to only one-third, Li Changfeng finished the calligraphy and painting, put down the pen and looked at Liang Xin proudly.

Yang Jian and others saw that Liang Xin was still painting, some were happy and some were worried.Finally, when the last stanza of incense was about to burn out, Liang Xin finished writing the last word and put it to rest.

Yang Jian's heart dropped suddenly.Zhao Ji clapped his hands and smiled, "Okay, okay, both of you finished the painting within the stipulated time, come on. Let's enjoy it together."

The emperor had spoken, so everyone naturally had to come over to take a look to save face.Immediately, everyone's eyes were a little weird, let's talk about Li Changfeng's painting first.The painting style is gorgeous, the details are highlighted, and the artistic conception is also very profound.Especially the lines written on the top of the painting: "The face is like a silver plate, the eyes are like water apricots, the lips are red without spots, and the eyebrows are green without painting. The white teeth are lightly parted, the face is shy, and the eyes are like trickling streams..." This sentence describes the peerless face of a peerless beauty, and at the same time shows Li Changfeng's really good and proud calligraphy.

It stands to reason that this kind of calligraphy and painting can already be regarded as an excellent work, but let's look at Liang Xin's painting.The background is similar to that of Li Changfeng's painting. They both take the artificial mountain and green lake in the Imperial Garden as the scenery, and the content is roughly the same, both of which are a court lady.But the difference is that the maid is obviously covering her mouth, but everyone seems to see the expression of the maid's dumb smile from Liang Xinhua's eyes.

In terms of painting skills, Liang Xin undoubtedly beat Li Changfeng.Let's talk about calligraphy and inscription content.

Liang Xin's calligraphy is indeed a product of a conscientious enterprise that can stand the test of the country. Calligraphy accommodates the directors of hundreds of schools and is self-contained.On this point, Zhao Ji knew a long time ago that Liang Xin must have completely defeated Li Changfeng.It's just that he just wanted to see the strength of Liang Xin's paintings. What he didn't expect was that Liang Xin also had such high attainments in paintings.

Seeing everyone's surprised expressions after seeing his paintings, Liang Xin snorted softly in his heart, and said to himself: "I can't fake thousands of famous paintings from past dynasties, so I don't believe that Li Changfeng can compare with me."

And the inscription on Liang Xin's calligraphy and painting is: "Qingluo small fan white orchid, slender waist and jade belt dancing sky gauze. It is suspected that a fairy came down to earth, and a smile wins Xinghua when she looks back."

Well, Li Changfeng was blown away again.

Just when Zhao Ji and Cai Jing were about to announce the winner of the calligraphy and painting competition after whispering a few words, Tao Xueming suddenly pointed at Liang Xin and shouted: "You curse!"

Liang Xin was stunned for a moment, then looked at Tao Xueming with a smile and said, "Where did I curse?"

"Huh! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, forget eight alone, that is (forget eight). Filial piety, loyalty, propriety, righteousness and honesty. But there is no shame word, that is (shameless). You call me a bastard and shameless!"

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