The best eunuch

"Hehe, Tanhua is really extraordinary. He actually understands the connotation of this couplet so clearly." Liang Xin had a faint smile on his lips, and he didn't deny at all that he used the couplet to scold Tao Xueming.

Seeing that Liang Xin was exposed, Li Changfeng didn't react at all. Instead, he looked smug and immediately supported Tao Xueming: "Eunuch Liang, this is your fault. Your Majesty said before that couplets are just a kind of literary entertainment. It seems that you are insulting the four words of literature and entertainment by borrowing couplets, right?"

"Insult?" Liang Xin said with a disdainful smile: "I'm just treating him in the same way as he did. Tao Tanhua is already going to plant a tree on my grave, so I don't want me to call him a shameless bastard." ?”

"Hmph! I don't bother to argue with you." Li Changfeng bowed his hands to Zhao Ji and said, "I also ask the emperor to judge the winner of this calligraphy and painting competition."

Li Changfeng was full of confidence, thinking that he had already won Liang Xin, who knew that Zhao Ji looked at Cai Jing and said, "Grand Master Cai, I'll let you announce the result."

Cai Jing, who hadn't participated in the speech, took a deep look at Liang Xin, and then said to Zhao Ji: "Yes, Your Majesty." After the salute, Cai Jing announced: "The winner of this calligraphy and painting competition is Liang Xin, the imperial servant."

Cai Jing's tone was neither urgent nor slow, nor suppressed nor raised, but every word was like a heavy hammer hitting Li Changfeng's heart.Li Changfeng looked at Liang Xin with a pale face and shouted: "Impossible, impossible, how could I lose to a eggless eunuch!"

"Li Changfeng!" "Li Changfeng!" Zhao Ji and Yang Jian called out Li Changfeng's name together, and even Liang Shicheng showed displeasure on his face.

Li Changfeng is Wang Fu's disciple, and Wang Fu is Liang Shicheng's man.In this way, Li Changfeng was indirectly a member of Liang Shicheng, but Li Changfeng directly offended all the eunuchs in the world by saying that he was an eggless eunuch.

Zhao Ji looked at Li Changfeng coldly and said: "Li Bang pays attention to his own words. After all, he reads the books of sages, so don't insult the sages. Besides, the result announced by Taishi Cai just now was confirmed by me, the eunuch and Wang Shaozai at the same time. Don't you think Who will I and Grand Master Cai Wang Shaozai side with?"

Zhao Ji's reprimand was like a basin of cold water sprinkled on the top of Li Changfeng's head. Li Changfeng shuddered and knelt down on the ground, kowtowing his head and said: "Students speak freely, students deserve death, the emperor forgives the crime, the emperor Forgive me..."

"Okay, okay, let's sit aside first." Zhao Ji waved his hand and at the same time grabbed the painting made by Liang Xin and threw it to Li Changfeng, saying: "Taste it yourself and see if it is better than your painting and calligraphy. Some."

Li Changfeng took a look at Liang Xin's calligraphy and painting, and he froze in place.What's the best way to hit a guy?That is to use irresistible strength to directly and completely defeat the opponent in the field he is most proud of.Li Changfeng's self-confidence suddenly collapsed after seeing Liang Xin's calligraphy and painting, and he could no longer show off his might in front of Liang Xin.

Zhao Ji was disappointed when he saw Li Changfeng's appearance. He looked at the number one scholar Cao Yuanzheng and said, "Yuanzheng. Both No. [-] and Tanhua have lost. I hope you will not lose again. The top three in the gold list lost to the little eunuch in the palace. It's a joke. I remember that you seem to be good at the temperament of the article. Let's forget about the article, or you can compare the temperament with Liang Xin?"

Liang Xin had been secretly observing the champion Cao Yuanzheng during the competition with Tao Xueming and Li Changfeng before. He noticed that the expression on Cao Yuanzheng's face was very calm from the beginning to the present, and it has not changed.And no matter whether Li Changfeng or Tao Xueming lost, it seemed that there was no surprise on his face, as if he had expected that Tao Xueming and Li Changfeng would lose.

After hearing Zhao Ji's roll call, Cao Yuanzheng came to the venue and saluted Zhao Ji respectfully: "To the emperor, the son said: "Those who are born to know are the best; those who learn to know are second; those who are difficult to learn are second." If you don't learn when you're tired, you'll be in trouble.' Students were stupid when they were young, but thanks to the guidance of a famous teacher, they have become the talents they are today. At most, they can be regarded as those who learn and know.

On the contrary, Eunuch Liang, it is said that he was young when he entered the palace, and he hadn't made his mark in the past few years.But today, Eunuch Liang is not only proficient in poetry and songs, but also calligraphy and painting.I believe that the way of rhythm is also a lot of attainments.People like Eunuch Liang should belong to those who are born with knowledge, and inferior students would never dare to compete with Eunuch Liang’s superiors, so the students in this round are willing to bow down. "

What Cao Yuanzheng said also sounds quite awkward. When translated into modern Chinese, the meaning is that some people are naturally gifted and know a lot of knowledge from birth, and this kind of person is a superior person.And some people have to learn to understand things, such people are such people.

In Cao Yuanzheng's view, Liang Xin belonged to the upper-class people who were born with knowledge, while he himself was a second-class person who learned to know.This time, there is an innate difference between the waiters and the superiors, so he, Li Changfeng and Tao Xueming should lose to Liang Xin, and there is no embarrassment.It was precisely because of this that he was willing to admit defeat in the contest with Liang Xin.

Liang Xin narrowed his eyes and looked at Cao Yuanzheng. Only now did he become interested in the No. [-] scholar.Liang Xin smiled and asked: "How did the number one scholar know that I understand the rhythm? And how did I know that I was proficient in the rhythm?"

Cao Yuanzheng looked at Liang Xin and saluted slightly, and then said: "There are three reasons. First, the rhythm of "Mo Yuer. Yanqiu Ci" is neat, and people with different rhythms will never be able to make it. The father-in-law competes in the rhythm test, naturally he knows that the father-in-law knows the rhythm. Thirdly, after careful observation, the previous students found that whenever they encountered something that the father-in-law was good at, the corner of the father-in-law’s mouth would definitely show a confident smile. Laughed again."

A real smile appeared on Liang Xin's face, and he suddenly felt that Cao Yuanzheng was really interesting.For a while, Liang Xin's thoughts fluttered, and he thought to himself that after the banquet was over, he must investigate Cao Yuanzheng's life background carefully, so as to see if he could be lured into the West Factory.

Cao Yuanzheng took the initiative to admit defeat, which no one expected.Even Cai Jing was surprised.

Zhao Ji was stunned and just about to say something, when Yang Jian suddenly stepped forward and whispered a few words in Zhao Ji's ear, Zhao Ji's face changed instantly, and he frowned slightly: "Today is my talent feast, why are they here? Go down and let them wait for the call in Honglu Temple, I don't want to see them today."

Yang Jian nodded, thought for a while, and whispered a few words in Zhao Ji's ear. Zhao Ji's face changed again, and he said with some embarrassment: "It's him?" After thinking about it, Zhao Ji said: "Okay, let them in!"

Under everyone's questioning eyes, the little eunuch shouted loudly: "Xuan—the envoy of the Liao Kingdom has an audience."

"Emissary from the Liao Kingdom?" Everyone was stunned.

ps: Since writing the book, I have been moved by the fact that there is a book friend who leaves me messages every day, and he is Flying Dante.I've been looking forward to the emergence of such book friends, so today I don't ask for collections, but for book reviews!Let's chat...