Chapter 282 Disqualification
Liu Lan was surprised to see Su Maolin scratching his head and face, struggling in front of the blank paper, not knowing what to do. Didn’t he know the content of the last four lines of "Song of the Wine"?
Even she, an ancient person from the Han Dynasty, could recite all the poems of Li Bai from the Tang Dynasty fluently, but Su Maolin couldn't even recite the most basic "Song of the Wine".
With just this little knowledge, I still dare to participate in professional calligraphy exhibitions.
It turns out that I have the confidence only because I have my father's protection.
Looking at the others, Wu Qu had already written more than half of it and was full of confidence. The other seven had also started writing a long time ago and looked calm, without any sign of embarrassment as they did when facing "Yunyang Ding".
Only Su Maolin is still a blank slate.
However, when the topic was changed, the situations of the nine people were reversed, which was a great irony.
Because the question was simple, Ouyang Cen only gave everyone ten minutes.
Su Maolin had studied calligraphy with his father on and off for several years. He had indeed memorized "Song of the Wine" a long time ago, but he had forgotten it long ago because he had not used it for a long time. He only remembered the first sentence, and he could not remember what was in the rest. His memory was not good to begin with, and he was exhausted trying to memorize the answers to the questions on the back of the poem and the article "Yunyang Ding".
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In desperation, Su Maolin wanted to use his mobile phone to search on Baidu, but Ouyang Cen sat directly on the judges' seat and supervised personally, with his eyes fixed on him. His father and Uncle Wang shrank to the side like two younger brothers.
There were people watching him from all sides, especially Liu Lan, who was always looking at him, as if she would expose him if he made any small move.
He wanted to cheat but was unable to do so. He was in a daze for too long and the ink on the tip of the brush in his hand dripped onto the paper, forming a large black blob.
Ten minutes passed quickly. Except for Su Maolin's big black lump, everyone else's paper was full of words. Such an obvious difference was obvious to anyone with a discerning eye. Wu Qu's accusation was correct. Su Maolin was a relative of Su Maolin, and the title of "Yunyang Ding" was specially written for him.
Su Xuezhen used his hands to block the strange looks coming from all directions.
The reputation and fame he had spent thirty years building up were destroyed in an instant.
When it was time for the judging, Su Xuezhen sat in his chair without moving. Wang Qinghai hesitated for a moment, walked from the judges' seat to the center of the venue, and together with three other judges, assessed the performances of "Song of the Wine" by eight people. Su Maolin was excluded.
This time the four people's opinions were very consistent, without any disagreement. They all thought that Wu Qu's work was the best. Combined with Wu Qu's outstanding performance in the question-and-answer session, he deserved to advance.
So Chen Jianqiu announced on behalf of the other judges, "Wu Qu is the second place in Group 8, and will enter the final free round with Liu Man."
This time, the remaining seven contestants accepted their defeat sincerely, believing that it was their own fault that they were not as skilled as others. They had no objection at all. The seven of them even walked up to Wu Qu, surrounded him, and congratulated him on his advancement with a smile.
They admired Wu Qu's courage to fight against the judges. They also knew that the question was wrong, but they could only admit defeat and were too cowardly to say a word. Wu Qu spoke for them, and they were very grateful to him. They wanted to make friends with him! So several people exchanged phone numbers.
Wu Qu's expression was no longer gloomy, he smiled so hard that his eyes could not be seen, this was the honor he earned with his own hard work!
But Su Maolin had already walked out the side door in shame.
Time wasted too long with Group 8, so the staff hurried over to clean up the table. However, Ouyang Cen said into the microphone, "Before Group 9 has their face-to-face review, I want to announce something."
This time his voice was unusually solemn, and everyone stopped walking and what they were doing and looked at him.
"Judge Su Xuezhen has behaved improperly, abused his power for personal gain, and disrupted the normal order of the exhibition. In the name of the vice president of the National Calligraphy Association, I hereby cancel his qualification as a judge."
The entire hall suddenly fell silent. Everyone was stunned. They did not expect Ouyang Cen to be so swift and decisive that he could not even wait for the face-to-face review to be over before imposing punishment on Su Xuezhen.
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