Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 188
Li Zhitian thought about it for a long time, gradually sweat dripped from his forehead, but he still couldn't remember, after a quarter of an hour, when the courtiers in the hall were all discussing, he finally couldn't hold it anymore and said: " Your Majesty, this couplet is too difficult for me to match."

"Okay!" Without waiting for Emperor Chongzhen to speak, Liu Zongzhou stepped forward shamelessly, with a look of pride, and said: "This old man can't even answer the math questions in the exam, so it can be seen that he, Tanhua, has his own strengths." Moisture." Turning his head to bow to Chongzhen, "Your Majesty, the old minister suggests that Tanhua Li Zhi should be sent to prison and interrogated severely."

"Ridiculous." Wen Tiren jumped up and started the last battle in his life, almost pointing at Liu Zongzhou's nose and cursing: "Master Liu is shameless and slanders Zhongliang."

Arching his hands towards the emperor, he said: "Your Majesty, to tell you the truth, the old minister is stupid. The old minister has not thought of the second couplet for the couplet written by Liu Shilang just now, let alone Li Tanhua."

"Li Tanhua saw Tianyan for the first time, and he couldn't help but feel nervous. Therefore, I thought that this exam would not be accurate. Also..." Looking at a kind of courtier on the field, he cupped his hands and said, "Which colleague is right? Master Liu’s couplets can be spoken out, just to let the old man see how many people have written this simple couplet.”

Unexpectedly, none of the people below got it right.

Mr. Liu's face suddenly looked a little ugly.

"Hehehe, it turns out that my colleagues are as dull as the old man." Wen Tiren laughed a few times, then suddenly saluted Liu Zongzhou seriously, and said, "Dare to ask Liu Shilang, you should have a second couplet for this couplet that you wrote yourself. ?”

Liu Zongzhou smiled wryly, and said perfunctorily, "That's what the old man just said on the spur of the moment, and there is no second line!"

I bought a watch last year.

After Li Zhitian heard his words, he greeted his family and the eighteen generations of ancestors in his heart, then knelt down with a dark face, and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Liu Shilang, Liu Shilang bullies this humble minister."

Now it's all right, Liu Zongzhou stole the chicken and put a big urine pot on his head. He couldn't explain clearly, so he said disheartenedly: "The old man thinks for a while, and I will give you the answer."

"No need." Wen Tiren smiled coldly, and then said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, please order to cancel this so-called funny assessment. I think it is meaningless."

Chongzhen also thought it was meaningless, and at first he wanted to prevent Liu Zongzhou from continuing his school exams. However, when he saw Wen Tiren jumping up and down, he had doubts in his heart.

Why is Wen Tiren so nervous? What is he nervous about?Is this so-called top three really tricky?Also, although many courtiers distanced themselves from Wen Tiren on the surface, they were the only ones looking forward to him.

"Continue to take the school exam." These were the words of Emperor Chongzhen, but at the same time, it was also considered to give Wen Tiren face, saying: "Liu Shilang returns to the team, and the other ministers will take the exam."

However, the scene that made Zhu Changyuan spurt blood appeared, and none of the ministers at the scene took the initiative to come out for the assessment.

As a result, Emperor Chongzhen was even more suspicious.

The emperor was silent, the ministers were silent, and Wen Tiren also sensed that something was wrong, and the secret was not good, and it was self-defeating.He hurriedly gave Xue Guoguan, the Minister of Rites who was opposite him, a wink, but this guy didn't know what kind of nerve he had committed, he just didn't see it.

Zhu Changyuan saw it clearly in his eyes, and said in his heart that he must not let Xue Guoguan take the test, otherwise something will happen in the test, and when Wen Tiren is not guilty, then the minister who impeached him will be guilty.

Wen Tiren was not guilty, so he might have suffered.

But he is not afraid of suffering, the worst is to walk away.But if Wen Tiren was allowed to get through this disaster so easily, he would not be Zhu Changyuan.

Finally, Xue Guo saw Wen Tiren's eyes, and suddenly realized, he straightened his clothes and was about to go out, but he heard a childish voice from the back of the hall, saying: "You ministers don't take the exam, I don't Come to the palace to take the exam."

The Crown Prince Zhu Cihong rushed to the front of the imperial court suddenly, looked at Chongzhen and said: "Father, my son and minister have a couplet. If you want to test this Jinke Tanhualang, please give me your permission."

Emperor Chongzhen immediately smiled.

The crown prince is the son of him and Queen Zhou. He is not only smart, cute, quick-witted, but also filial.Sometimes even mischief can win him over.

"Okay, I don't know what couplets Brother Lang has?"

From Emperor Chongzhen's point of view, even if this little guy had a couplet, it probably came from some ancient book or was taught by Li Shichun, and he couldn't tell anything new.

"Thank you, Father." Zhu Cihong jumped down the steps, walked up to Li Zhitian, raised his head and pointed at Li Zhitian's nose and said, "I'm here to test you."

Li Zhitian hurriedly knelt down and said: "See His Highness the Crown Prince, and please ask His Highness the Crown Prince to write a question." But he didn't care about it in his heart, secretly thinking that you are a little brat, what kind of ancient quatrains can you come up with?
"Good boy." The prince touched Li Zhitian's head, and said, "I'm sorry for crying for you, so don't blame me for waiting."

Of course, Zhu Changyuan taught this in secret. Just when Xue Guoguan almost came out, he thought of a note, and quickly whispered a couplet with the crown prince.

Zhu Cihong couldn't tell whether the couplet was difficult or easy, so he asked Zhu Changyuan, "Don't let others laugh at me."

Zhu Changyuan immediately said: "Don't worry, I promise to make that guy cry."

So, just now the crown prince Zhu Cihong just comforted Li Zhitian, it is hard for me to cry for you, so don't blame me.

"I dare not." Li Zhitian looked respectful, but he was very contemptuous.

"My palace's upper couplet is: Yansuo Pond Willow!" Zhu Cihong said proudly, "Are you right?"

Li Zhitian listened to Zhu Cihuang's couplet, a smile appeared on his face, and he thought to himself: Just this couplet, it's too simple.

After hearing this, Chongzhen also felt ordinary, shook his head and smiled, and murmured in a low voice: "Little guy, you are too arrogant."

"Good alliance!" Wen Tiren flattered and praised, with a chrysanthemum-like smile on his face.I secretly thought in my heart that with such a simple couplet, Li Zhitian could really go to jail if I couldn't do it anymore.

The couplet was naturally taught by Zhu Changyuan. Even in modern times, the couplet of Yansuo Pond Willow is known as eternal, and it first appeared in the works of Chen Zisheng in the early Qing Dynasty. That is to say, people in the Ming Dynasty did not know this couplet.

This is also the biggest reason why Zhu Changyuan dared to show it.

"Your Highness, the subject is right: the Yueyang Tower is foggy." Li Zhitian just thought for a while, and then he got it right. It can't be said that the artistic conception is lofty, but it can be regarded as a neat confrontation.

Of course, he thought so.

"Damn!" Zhu Cihong pointed at his nose and said, "Your pair of nonsense couplets, take a good look, what I gave you is Yansuo Pond Willow, are you calling it right?"

"His Royal Highness, the minister has come out!"

"Your Highness, Li Tanhua is indeed right." Wen Tiren said with a smile.

"It didn't come out, I didn't come out when I said it didn't come out, Zhu Changyuan, you tell him!" The prince couldn't tell the reason, and directly threw the problem to Zhu Changyuan.

With a bitter face, Zhu Changyuan thought to himself that you're betraying me again.As a last resort, he got up respectfully, knelt in the middle to salute Chongzhen, and then said to Wen Tiren: "Wen Ge Department."

Unexpectedly, Wen Tiren didn't even look him in the eye, and ignored him.

Zhu Changyuan sighed helplessly, and had no choice but to say to Li Zhitian: "Li Tanhua, Yansuo Pond Willow, Your Excellency is indeed wrong."

Li Zhitian frowned and said, "Why did your lord say that?"

Zhu Changyuan said: "Tanhualang, please look at the left side of these words." After speaking, he retreated to the queue.

"Left side, left..." Li Zhitian on the left was speechless.

"Hiss..." Liu Zongzhou gasped.

Wen Tiren's eyebrows twitched!
"Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth!" Cao Huachun said with a smile: "His Royal Highness is really not simple. The combination of the left radicals of the five characters Yansuo Pond Liu is exactly gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Hehe!"

Although it was the prince, everyone present knew that this couplet was probably made by Zhu Changyuan.

"Okay, okay!" Li Zhitian knew that he had been completely defeated, and there was no possibility of confronting him, so he glanced at Zhu Changyuan with a pale face, "Your Excellency is very talented, I am defeated! There is also a couplet here, if Sir can be correct, I will serve you all now.”

In front of the imperial court, Li Zhitian's tone was not kind.

However, Li Zhitian is not the second-generation ancestor in the legend, he is illiterate, but has a lot of literary talent, but the Tanhua was indeed bought with money.Seeing so many people attacking him in the court hall, he knew that there was no possibility of escape today, so he taunted: "Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, shrimp eat water, the truth comes out."

The couplet is a kind of art for the whole people, there is no distinction between elegance and vulgarity. Although the language is very vulgar, everyone can hear it. Li Zhitian is mocking the entire court.

The big fish eats the small fish, I can't understand it, it's about the court's superiors crushing people to death; the small fish eats the shrimp, hehe, it's a metaphor for officials and officials to protect each other and oppress the people; the shrimp eats water, which shows that the people's life is miserable.Especially important is the finishing touch: the truth comes to light.

The meaning is also very obvious, that is to say, you people have wronged me, a commoner today, but there will always be a day when the truth comes out.

Wen Tiren didn't speak, but sighed.

The court officials looked at each other in blank dismay.

After Zhu Changyuan heard this, he almost burst out laughing.

Because this couplet also exists in modern society, not only is it not a satirical couplet, but also a couplet that can make people laugh and cry.

Wen Tiren, oh Wen Tiren, you deserve it.

Zhu Changyuan remained silent, looking up at the sky.The prince slowly returned to his queue, pulled Zhu Changyuan's clothes and asked, "He is looking at you."

Zhu Changyuan whispered to the prince, and said: "I'll tell you the second line, you go."

The prince said: "Okay!" Standing up and coming to Li Zhitian, he pointed to his nose with his little finger and said: "Your match, I can match it."

"Hmm!" Liu Zongzhou's eyes lit up, Li Zhitian's couplet, although simple, but he didn't even think about it in such a short time, the prince thought of it?
Chongzhen clearly saw Zhu Changyuan and the crown prince cooing just now, but he didn't know what they said, and said, "Prince, right?"

Zhu Cihong raised his head, pointed at Li Zhitian's nose with his little finger, clicked each word, and said: "Listen well, the second line of the palace is: your father presses your mother, your mother presses the bed, the bed presses the ground, and the earth shakes! "

　There is another chapter today, please wait a moment. . .

　　
　
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