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Chapter 493 King Chen and Emperor Bai!

Hungry chickens steal rice and are beaten by boys.

This first couplet briefly and vividly describes a life scene:

　　A hungry chicken stole some rice, and a child chased it and beat it with a bamboo tube.

 Four nouns are used in it: chicken, rice, boy, and tube.

 There is another adjective: hungry.

 and two verbs: steal and beat.

 In addition, there are three pairs of homophones in these seven words: "hunger" and "chicken", "robber" and "rice", and "tong" and "tong".

 Be reasonable.

It is quite difficult just to deal with the preconditions of verbs, nouns and adjectives.

Not to mention that the second couplet must also meet the homophonic standards of the first couplet, which really gives people a headache just looking at it.

Lin Zhibai knew everything about the system and didn't know where to click, so he was naturally calm and unhurried. However, the expressions of Li Bai and others changed drastically in an instant.

 This is not an answer they can come up with in a short while.

 Even if there is ten minutes of creative space, it is still too short.

 But the host didn’t care about this. He started the countdown for this question after Xu Haiyun raised the question.

 In the live broadcast room.

 The commentators couldn’t help but sigh:

 “The difficulty of this first couplet is not easy.”

“The main reason is that there are too many prerequisites.”

Audiences from all continents were even more confused. They had no clue about this question, and they didn’t even understand it clearly. They only suddenly understood it after listening to the explanation.

"too difficult!"

 “Various nouns, verbs and adjectives!”

  “The most exaggerated thing is that there must be corresponding homophones!”

“The homophonic stalk is actually not advanced, but it is just right when used in this first couplet.”

“Can these guys think of the second couplet?”

"Hard to say."

“Shouldn’t the whole army be annihilated?”

 “It shouldn’t happen!”

 “It’s moving, Lin Zhibai is moving!”

In the midst of the barrage, Lin Zhibai picked up his pen, and everyone saw through the camera that he was slowly writing on the paper:

Summer Rat…

Some viewers couldn't help but laugh, fearing that what Lin Zhibai was going to write was "I can't be sorry as a summer rat."

 Fortunately, this "summer rat" is not that "summer rat".

The second couplet written by Lin Zhibai is: The summer rat comes to Liang and the guest coughs and is startled!

Before the audience fully understood the meaning, the commentator’s eyes suddenly lit up and he subconsciously shouted:

 “Wonderful!”

  “This couplet also has three pairs of homophones!”

“Summer matches rat, cool matches beam, guest matches cough, and foot matches the first couplet!”

  “summer is an adjective to describe the hot weather, and the following nouns and verbs are also completely suitable!”

“The translation roughly means that the mouse felt too hot and went to the beam to cool down, but the guest scared it away by coughing.”

“This second couplet by Teacher Lin Zhibai and the first couplet by Teacher Xu Haiyun are so harmonious when put together, they together form a folk custom picture full of rural life!”

 Think about this for audiences from all continents.

 That’s indeed the case!

This second couplet seems to be a perfect match with the first couplet. It is so exquisite!

 “It has to be Lin Zhibai!”

“I see Lin Zhibai becoming more and more the favorite to win the championship!”

“Lin Zhibai can win the championship in Go. Who knew he could do this before, let alone his famous couplets!”

 “Ox!”

 “How do you get such a brain?”

 “The reaction is too fast!”

 “It feels like he can fight within five minutes every time!”

 “Oh, Li Bai is also right.”

 “This second line doesn’t feel as appropriate as Lin Zhibai’s.”

Lin Zhibai’s second couplet is too perfect. In comparison, Li Bai’s one is a little less interesting.

But Li Bai is already very good.

 Because ten minutes passed, except for him, the other people were also very reluctant to respond.

Either the position adjective is misplaced, or the three sets of homophones are not achieved.

In this case, the judges will give points as appropriate and will not directly give zero points. After all, if the couplets are really 100% strict, then the "entertainment" significance of this literary and artistic project handed down by ancient literati will be lost.

finally.

Lin Zhibai scored 10 points this round.

 Li Bai scored 8 points in this round.

 Makino Kaze scored 5 points this round.

 Chen Ling scored 5 points in this round.

 Big Bear scored 3 points in this round.

 After all, no matter how strict the judges are, they cannot find fault with Lin Zhibai, unlike the others who are more or less reluctant.

 “Everyone!”

 When Xu Haiyun’s question ended, it was Lin Zhibai’s turn to pose the question.

However, the host did not ask Lin Zhibai to give the question immediately. Instead, he smiled and said:

“I believe the attentive audience will have discovered that after these questions, Teacher Lin Zhibai has accumulated fifty points, which means that he will definitely enter the third round with first place..."

 Each person can only answer five questions.

 Because when it is someone's turn to ask a question, he cannot score points.

 Lin Zhibai has already answered five questions, and he got full marks every time. Unlike the others, who all failed more or less.

Even Xu Haiyun’s score is only 39. After all, he lost one point on the Makino Feng question.

 That’s right.

 It was this one-point difference that prevented Xu Haiyun from taking first place this round!

Even if Lin Zhibai could get ten points by asking questions in a while, the final total score would only be 49 points.

 This is a battle between masters.

 There can be no mistakes at all.

 If you make a mistake, you will have to pay the price.

The price of Xu Haiyun's mistake is that Lin Zhibai will be sent to the finals, and he will most likely have to compete with Li Bai!

In response to this, Lin Zhibai also smiled slightly, "Next, it's my turn to pose the question."

 Said.

Lin Zhibai began to think about which first couplet to use.

 Smoke lock pond willow?

 Okay, this has been used before.

 Today's rules don't seem to say that it is not allowed to be used. After all, he is the absolute "original" through the ages, but Lin Zhibai is very worried that if he does use it, others will protest on the spot.

 Let’s keep it simple.

  Anyway, he has already been sent to the finals.

Whether you can stump this group of people will not affect you.

Thinking of this.

Lin Zhibai took up his pen and wrote down a few words:

 Sit south and face north to eat watermelon, and throw the skin to the east.

 The commentator burst out laughing when he saw this first couplet, and audiences from all over the world were also instantly happy.

"Ha ha."

 “He’s still skinny!”

 “This first couplet is the least literary!”

 “It also feels like the least difficult.”

“Brother, are you serious? Isn’t this difficult?”

 “It’s really not difficult...hiss...fuck you!”

 “Everything from east to west, north to south is included!”

 “Do you still feel it’s easy now?”

　　　…”

 At first I thought it was simple and I stopped talking.

The commentator laughed and said: "Although Teacher Lin Zhibai's first couplet looks vulgar, we all know that he did it on purpose. It is a very interesting first couplet, including the four directions of east, west, south and north. And it vividly outlines the artistic conception of a person eating watermelon with relish. It feels very simple to say what the second link is appropriate, but it is really difficult to think about it for a while."      Scene.

Li Bai smiled.

Xu Haiyun also smiled.

Even Makino and the others laughed.

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 Arrived in ten minutes.

 Everyone wrote a second line.

Li Bai wrote: Plant in spring, harvest in autumn and watch the winter snow, and flowers bloom in summer.

  Xu Haiyun wrote: Read the left biography from top to bottom, and turn the book to the right.

Makino Feng: Looking to the left from above and below, people go to the right...

 Good guy.

 This group of people all came out.

 At the same time, the rankings for the second round also came out.

Lin Zhibai was first, Xu Haiyun was second, and Li Bai was third.

This result was not surprising to the audience. Everyone had already guessed that these three people would advance, while Makino Kaze and others were eliminated.

Host: "Then according to the rules of the third round we agreed, the next step will be a one-on-one competition between Xu Haiyun and Teacher Li Bai. The winner of the duel between the two will compete with Teacher Lin Zhibai for the championship, and the loser will compete with Teacher Lin Zhibai for the championship. The latter is the runner-up in the couplet project."

 The third round has officially begun!

 …

The program team moved a small chair for Lin Zhibai so that he could watch the show. This was the preferential treatment for being sent to the finals.

 Xu Haiyun and Li Bai are on the left and the right.

 There is a table in front of each of them, with pens, ink, paper and inkstones placed on it.

This kind of competition requires writing calligraphy with a brush. Of course, the calligraphy mentioned by literati is also written with a brush. This is one of the reasons why literati attach great importance to calligraphy.

 With the sound of "start".

Li Bai and Xu Haiyun officially duel!

It is said to be a duel, but in fact the judges set the questions and the two of them answer the questions.

There are a total of twenty questions. Whoever answers more questions will win the game and compete with Lin Zhibai in the final battle.

 The judges began to ask questions.

Lin Zhibai feels that the difficulty of these questions is not particularly exaggerated, but at the same time it is not too easy. It can be considered that the results are quite high.

 Xu Haiyun and Li Bai are both masters of this.

Although Xu Haiyun performed better than Li Bai in the first two rounds, the two were evenly matched in the early stages.

 Seven or eight consecutive questions, each with its own score.

 The commentator called the entire process "wonderful". This kind of answering competition can indeed easily arouse the audience's emotions:

“Both of them are top players!”

“But I feel that Lin Zhibai is best at this type of quick-answer duel.”

 “Who do you think will win?”

“Xu Haiyun, in the first two rounds, he was actually a little worse than Lin Zhibai.”

“Especially in the second round, Xu Haiyun only made a slight mistake, otherwise he would have scored 50 points.”

“In comparison, Li Bai is indeed a bit weak.”

"Ha ha ha ha!"

 “Li Bai is so funny!”

 “His mentality feels good!”

The audience suddenly burst into laughter. It turned out that the judges had come up with a very simple first couplet called "A Painting of Flowers and Birds by Chen Wang".

Li Bai rushed to answer immediately, and the answer turned out to be "half a volume of poems written by Bai Di".

This response immediately stunned the judges. Lin Zhibai was even more confused for a while before he realized that Li Bai had cue him.

I thought the jury would dislike this second line of reluctance.

Unexpectedly, several judges unanimously chose to give points.

Xu Haiyun's eyelids twitched and he couldn't help but said: "Isn't this inappropriate?"

The first couplet is "a painting of flowers and birds by King Chen". Before writing the second couplet, you must first know who this "King Chen" is!

 Wang Chen!

 My real name is "Chen Wang"!

 He was the "King of Literature" hundreds of years ago, so some people took the homophony and called him "King Chen".

 This great figure in the ancient literary world can be said to be proficient in chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, poetry, and poetry. He has many works handed down from generation to generation, including some flower-and-bird paintings.

 As for its status in the literary world in history?

 Probably a bit close to Su Dongpo of our Chinese dynasty.

 In the end, Li Bai was lucky, and he responded directly with "half a volume of poems written by Bai Di"!

 The White Emperor is Lin Zhibai.

Many people know this.

Xu Haiyun also knew that what he was dissatisfied with was why "White Emperor" could attack "King Chen"!

Li Bai said calmly: "I think it's very appropriate. Bai Di refers to Teacher Lin Zhibai. Everyone knows this. At the same time, everyone should also know that Teacher Bai Di has very high attainments in poetry."

 “But you can use Bai Di against King Chen…”

“Of course Emperor Bai can fight against King Chen. Firstly, it’s a king versus an emperor. Secondly, both of them are celebrities. Thirdly, I don’t need to say more..."

 The audience smiled knowingly.

Of course I understand, the third one is Lin Zhibai, he is qualified to be put together with the name "Chen Wang"!

 “Li Bai is very good at playing!”

 “This wave is so lickable!”

 “The licking is fresh and refined, it belongs to yes.”

“But this is also a fact. King Chen was a master in ancient times, and he was proficient in all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and song. Lin Zhibai is a modern evildoer, and he was proficient in all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting!”

 “I think it’s still inappropriate.”

“You guys think about it, Chen Wang’s paintings are unparalleled in the world, but Lin Zhibai’s poetry shouldn’t be as high as Chen Wang’s ink paintings, right?”

“I don’t know Lin Zhibai’s poetry level, but his paintings are comparable to those of King Chen.”

“It is said that Lin Zhibai’s poetry level is quite good, and he is known as the best talent in Qinzhou.”

 “Why is he number one in everything?”

“This just shows that Emperor Bai and King Chen are on the same level!”

Obviously it was a couplet competition, but for some unknown reason, the topic of whether Bai Di could be compared with King Chen came up.

This is equivalent to serious discussion on Earth:

 Can a modern celebrity be compared with Su Dongpo?

 The key point was that everyone discussed it seriously, and no one felt that the latter was not worthy of comparison with the former—

After realizing what the emergence of this discussion meant, the audience's mood was a little overwhelming. Even if it can cause everyone to argue, it is enough to show what weight Lin Zhibai has in the hearts of the world now!

 “Give me a five point.”

Due to the controversy and Xu Haiyun’s small protest, the judges decided to give Li Bai points but not more than they wanted after whispering among themselves.

  It means that this second couplet is a little forced.

Li Bai curled his lips and said: "I think this is a serious underestimation of the level of our President Lin's poetry by the world!"

 He knows what the judges mean.

I just feel that although Lin Zhibai is versatile, in terms of poetry, he has not yet reached the height of Chen Wang's flowers and birds.

 “Teacher Li Bai, please concentrate on the game.”

The host couldn't help but remind him that Li Bai was a bit poor.

Li Bai curled his lips again, looking unhappy, but said nothing more and continued the game.

Xu Haiyun is actually not happy either. In his opinion, the judges should not have given points to Li Bai. Comparing Lin Zhibai to King Chen, this guy really dares to mess around!

 Well, King Chen is Xu Haiyun’s idol!

Why should Lin Zhibai...

 “Beep!”

Xu Haiyun was slightly distracted, and another couplet was answered by Li Bo.

Although the answer was average, the judges only gave it seven points. Xu Haiyun didn’t get a single point because he didn’t get the chance to answer.

 Obviously he can answer this question, and he must get perfect marks!

 Xu Haiyun was extremely distressed and his eyes were stern. He could not lose again, otherwise he would be overturned today...

that's all.

 Question 15.

 Question 16.

 Twenty questions passed in the blink of an eye.

 The judges began to calculate the scores of each of the two people.

After calculating the results, the host said with a subtle expression: "The results of the duel between Xu Haiyun and Teacher Li Bai are out. The one who finally has the opportunity to compete with Teacher Lin Zhibai for the championship is..."

 “Li Bai!”

Li Bai actually defeated Xu Haiyun!

 (End of this chapter)