Zhao Hao said casually: "How about this, when my white hemp paper starts selling, I can supply it to your Shu Kingdom at cost price for a year."
"If you agree, then we'll fight. If you disagree..."
Qiu Qianren quickly said: "Okay!"
"We agree!"
Zhao Hao smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet!"
Qiu Qianren couldn't help but frowned and asked, "What else do you want to say?"
Zhao Hao said, "I can't fight with all of you one by one, right?"
"I don't have that much time to play with you."
Qiu Qianren asked: "Then what do you want?"
Zhao Hao said calmly: "It's very simple. I have a couplet here. I'll tell you now and you can try to match it up."
"You can even find anyone to deal with."
"Only those who can match this couplet are qualified to challenge me in a literary duel."
"This Lord will give you ten days..."
Before Zhao Hao could finish his words, Qiu Qianren interrupted with a sneer, "Zhao Hao, you think too highly of yourself!"
"We are all the most outstanding scholars in Shu!"
"How can a mere couplet take ten days to write?"
"Don't even mention ten days, I can't even use it for one day!"
"No matter what couplet you come up with, we can come up with a couplet for you right on the spot!"
Zhao Hao looked at Qiu Qianren as if he were a fool.
He actually wanted to trick these guys again.
But on second thought, making a big fuss about this matter was to make the entire Shu Kingdom listen to his voice.
If the offense is really too severe.
That would turn into enmity.
No one listened to his voice.
Forget it.
Zhao Hao said calmly: "Don't be so sure, just listen to me."
Qiu Qianren snorted disdainfully: "Okay, go ahead."
Zhao Hao said, "After I come up with this first couplet, I can give you ten days, and you can ask anyone for help."
"If you can come up with the right answer, you can have a literary duel with me."
"My requirement is that the parallelism is neat and the artistic conception complements each other. If one of them is missing, it is not considered a perfect match."
"how?"
Qiu Qianren immediately said impatiently: "We don't need you to explain the rules of couplets."
"Hurry up and tell me!"
"Look, let us give you the second line of the couplet right now, and see what else you have to say!"
Zhao Hao smiled softly and said, "Then I'll tell you, you all listen carefully!"
"My first couplet is: Smoke locks the willows in the pond."
As soon as Zhao Hao finished speaking, Qiu Qianren sneered and said, "Smoke locks the willows in the pond, huh? How difficult is that? Listen carefully, my second line is..."
The people around and behind Zhao Hao and Qiu Qianren really thought that he could answer them without thinking.
Unexpectedly, after saying "My second line is", his voice stopped naturally.
Zhao Hao laughed: "Why don't you continue talking, Mr. Qiu?"
After glaring at Zhao Hao, Qiu Qianren snorted, "Why are you in such a hurry? Let me think about it for a while!"
Zhao Hao said calmly: "Don't worry, you can think about it slowly. You have ten days in total, and you can ask anyone for help."
After saying that, Zhao Hao ignored the group of people and turned to go inside.
Seeing this, Dashan, Wusong and Blue Bird hurriedly followed.
Following behind Zhao Hao, Dashan couldn't help but whispered: "Young Master Zhao, this is an absolute combination!"
"The willows in the pond are engulfed in smoke, which is truly wonderful!"
Zhao Hao smiled softly and said, "Dashan also wants to give it a try?"
Dashan quickly shook his head and said, "How dare I? I haven't read much, so I can't be so absolute as to say this!"
Zhao Hao did not comment and returned to the courtyard where he lived.
On the other side, more than a hundred people in front of the inn were completely lost in thought.
Smoke locks the willows in the pond...
At first glance, this couplet seems unremarkable.
It gives people a feeling that they can come up with the second line of the couplet without having to think too much.
However, when I actually went to see it, I found that it was not the case at all.
The five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth are implied in these five words.
And it has a very visual impact.
Poems and couplets containing the five elements are actually not uncommon.
But this link...
There were nearly two hundred people, but at this moment they no longer had the excitement they had before.
They all lowered their heads in thought.
Some people were more lively. When they saw that this couplet was difficult, they quietly left the crowd.
At the door, a dozen or twenty people, led by Qiu Qianren, all had frowns on their faces as they thought.
I don't know how much time passed, even the sky was about to get dark, someone finally spoke up to remind: "My fellow students, Zhao Hao's couplet... is quite difficult. It's already dark now, let's go back and think about it carefully!"
At this moment, Qiu Qianren had completely lost his previous momentum.
Hearing this, he took a deep breath, nodded, and then greeted the people around him.
Everyone couldn't help but take a deep look into the inn before leaving together.
This group of young people once again blocked the gate of the inn. The news that they wanted to fight Zhao Haowen spread like a whirlwind throughout the entire imperial capital at an extremely fast speed.
What’s different from yesterday is...
Zhao Hao actually showed up and agreed to a literary fight.
However, Zhao Hao felt that there were too many people, so he came up with this idea.
Use a couplet to screen out those who are capable of competing with him in literary competition.
And, the group of young people was given a full ten days.
Within ten days, as long as you can come up with a neat second line, you can participate in the literary competition with Zhao Hao.
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