Ji Lai and Liang Yan looked at each other and said with a smile: "Since Miss Xuewei invites you, we are naturally honored. Can I ask you to lead the way?"
As he spoke, he stretched his right hand forward and bowed slightly, making a "please" gesture.
At this moment, Ji Lai, regardless of his expression or posture, looked like a talented man who had read poetry and books. He was completely different from the scoundrel who used to eat and drink. Liang Yan rolled his eyes and thought to himself: "This is about pretentiousness.
If someone claims to be second, I’m afraid no one would dare to claim to be first.”
When the maid saw that Ji Laisheng was handsome, elegant, easy-going, and polite, she couldn't help but feel good about him, and whispered to him:
"Young Master is a man of extraordinary magnificence, rare in the world. If you want to meet my young lady, temperament and appearance alone will not suffice. You also need to have literary talent in your belly. If you cannot pass the first three tests, even if you are a prince and noble, you will never be able to meet my young lady."
Ji Lai smiled slightly and said, "Girl, just don't worry and lead the way. Let's see Ji Lai and I pass the test and win the heart of the beauty!"
The maid was amused by him and smiled again, rolling her eyes at him before moving lightly, turning around and leading the way.
Ji Lai and Liang Yan followed behind them, going around the vermilion staircase to the third floor, and then stopped at the door of an elegant room.
"This is it. You two gentlemen, please come in. There will be sisters inside to receive you." The maid smiled slightly at the door and stood aside, apparently letting the two of them go in by themselves.
He didn't refuse even though he was planning to come. He opened the door first and stepped inside. Liang Yan followed him and also stepped into the room.
A woman's unique smell of boudoir powder hit her face. Liang Yan's face turned red, but Ji Lai looked calm.
It's just that although the boudoir is not small, it is blocked by a huge screen, and the scene behind it cannot be seen at all.
There was a table in front of the screen, and a maid in purple stood beside it. On the table were two long pieces of white paper. The one on the right read:
"On the Independence Creek Bridge, the shadows of people do not follow the flowing water."
The note on the left is completely blank. Obviously the person who asked the question is asking someone to write out the second couplet.
When Liang Yan saw this, he stood aside with his hands tied. He was not good at pairing, so he naturally left it to Brother Ji. And the plan was not ambiguous. He stepped forward to take off the brush, stood in front of the table and thought for a moment, then
He immediately wrote:
"I sleep alone in the wild pavilion, and my dream soul often comes to my hometown."
After he finished writing the last stroke, the woman in purple took the note and walked behind the screen without saying a word. After a while, she suddenly heard a clear voice coming from behind the screen:
"The first level has passed, please move to the second level!"
After saying that, two maids came out and put away the first screen, revealing the second screen behind it. There was still a wooden table in front of this screen, but there were no couplets on the table, only a lantern.
Liang Yanji came and the two of them stepped forward to take a look. They saw a small note hanging under the lantern, which read: "Don't be impulsive."
"Isn't this the lantern riddle we guessed at the night market before?"
Liang Yan suddenly recalled that he had paid ten copper coins to ask the boss to tell him the answer. However, he was later confused by the scholar's dip in the pig cage, and in the end he did not hear the boss's answer.
He coughed and reminded: "Ahem, as I expected, this lantern riddle guesses the name of an emperor from the previous dynasty."
"oh?"
Ji Lai looked at Liang Yan and said, "I didn't expect Brother Liang to be so well-informed!"
There was no trace of his flattery, but Liang Yan's mind was not on it and he didn't react at all.
"Now that we know he is the former emperor, it's easy to guess." Ji Lai smiled slightly, walked to the table confidently, took a brush and wrote on the back of the note:
"Li Zhi, Emperor Xian of the Tang Dynasty".
The purple-clothed maid smiled slightly when she saw this, and opened the second screen directly without informing the inside this time.
"Congratulations to both of you for passing two levels in a row. As long as you pass this last level, you can get a glimpse of the lady's beauty."
Ji Lai laughed and said: "Brother Liang and I join forces, so we can't just get through it easily."
He smiled and took Liang Yan's hand and walked quickly to the last screen.
I saw a few lines of small characters written on the screen. The title of the first line was exactly: "Two Rats Crossing the Wall". The content below the title read:
Now there is a wall five feet thick, and two rats pass through it. A rat's day is one foot, and a mouse's day is also one foot. A rat's day is twice as long, and a mouse's day is half a foot. Question: When will we meet?
"Hahaha!"
When Ji Lai saw this question, he suddenly burst into laughter.
Liang Yan frowned slightly and asked in confusion: "Brother, why are you laughing?"
Ji Lai laughed for a while and replied to Liang Yan: "Brother Liang doesn't know something. This is just a trick to make people laugh!"
Seeing that Liang Yan was still confused, he explained with a smile: "For everyone in my Xiangmen sect, the ten books on arithmetic in the secular world are the basic compulsory courses for entry, and "Nine Chapters on Arithmetic" is even more important.
"The highlight of the game. This question comes from the seventh chapter of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", "Insufficient Winning". As a prime minister, how can Ji not even know how to do this question?"
As he spoke, he smiled and looked confident. He walked to the screen and wrote the word "three" with a pen.
"Congratulations to both gentlemen, please come in."
The maid in purple clothes on the side smiled brightly and removed the last screen.
Liang Yan looked up and saw a mahogany round table behind the screen. There were countless delicacies on the table. The utensils, bowls and chopsticks were all made of jade, and the tableware was extremely luxurious.
"You two gentlemen, please stop drinking wine here. The lady is taking a bath and changing clothes in the next room. She will come back later!" the maid in purple said with a smile.
"Very good! Very good!" Ji Lai nodded and smiled, pulling Liang Yan to sit down at the table. At this time, there were maids around who had already stepped forward to fill their glasses.
"Come! Brother Liang, let me toast you! You are really the noble person in my destiny. I have been here in Mingyi City for several days. I have wanted to see Miss Xuewei many times, but I have never been able to do so. Until I met you today!"
Ji Lai looked excited, but Liang Yan was a little absent-minded. From the moment he entered the room, he silently started his Hun Gong and secretly explored the movement in the room.
Unexpectedly, all the servants and maids in this room were ordinary mortals, and there was no cultivator among them at all. Let alone the powerful ones who could detoxify him.
"I'm told that my turning point is in this boudoir, but I still don't have a clue. Could it be that this person really wants to trick me into paying the bill and deliberately tricked me?" Liang Yan thought to himself.
He casually clinked a glass with Ji Lai, raised his head and drank the wine in one gulp, while still peeping around with his eyes.
But the next moment, Liang Yan's brows suddenly frowned, and a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.
Then there were two sounds of "Puff! Puff!". Liang Yan and Ji Lai fell down one after another, and the room was suddenly silent.
After a while, the woman in purple slowly stepped forward, leaned over the two of them to check, and after confirming that they were both unconscious, she stood up, raised her hand, and struck two palms in the air.
There was a mechanical sound in the room, and the floor beneath Liang Yan and Ji Lai suddenly opened downwards, and their bodies fell into the ground instantly.
Then there was another "click, click, click" sound, and two coffins slowly rose up from under the floor where they were originally. Liang Yan and Ji Lai were each lying in a coffin.
At this moment, four masked men in black came out of the window, two of them each carrying a huge coffin board.
With a bang!, the four people skillfully covered Liang Yan's coffin with a coffin board, wrapped it with hemp rope, and inserted a thick wooden stick. Then they formed a group of two, carrying the two coffins on their backs.
Carrying a coffin, he jumped out of the window again with very neat movements.