After Zhu Pingan finished the couplet, the entire inn was silent.
The six pairs of couplets have been hung up in the inn for two days, and today is the third day. The best record in the past was to hang three pairs of couplets. It is precisely because of this that many literati came to visit one after another.
Come try it.
Everyone in the lobby was concentrating on the idea, thinking hard, thinking about how to show off the third mate and the fourth mate to steal the show.
However, in the blink of an eye, the record has been refreshed, and it has almost reached its peak: six couplets were completed in one go, and the answers were fluent; in the first couplet, seven second couplets were said in one go.
However, no one could connect that poor country boy with the person who created this record!
In everyone's mind, the person who set this record must be well-mannered and well-groomed, but this is not a bad thing. The young man in front of him has dark skin, is unattractive, and is shabbily dressed.
It's like rice, so worthless.
The painting styles are so different.
For a moment, everyone couldn't accept it and were shocked on the spot.
Of course, there are exceptions. For example, here are two well-dressed teenagers who came hand in hand to Zhu Ping'an's table. The one walking in front was a well-dressed young man, and the one half a step behind was the one named
Wensheng's boy. Both of them are almost in their early twenties. In our modern times, they have just graduated from college, and they still look a little green.
"I'm Zhang Siwei from Puzhou. This is Wang Shizhen from Suzhou. May I ask what I call this little brother?"
The young man who spoke called himself Zhang Siwei. He was wearing a dark satin robe, with a silver hollow hibiscus border exposed inside the robe. His thick black hair was tied up with a warm suet jade hosta. He was a handsome guy with handsome features. He looked a bit unrestrained.
But the sparkle in his eyes that people dare not look down upon.
The young man named Wang Shizhen next to him is also a talented person. His robe is snow-white and spotless, as if he is a humble gentleman who walked out of a poem, book, and ink scroll. He looks like a good student who obeys the rules and has good standards.
Feel.
When these two people came over, Zhu Pingan didn't feel anything. However, after hearing what this man named Zhang Siwei said, Zhu Pingan didn't feel well.
Zhang Siwei!
Wang Shizhen!
Can you not be surprised? Apart from Zhao Wenhua, this is the second and three famous people in history that I have met, and these two people are not inferior to Zhao Wenhua.
Zhang Siwei was the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty. In history, this guy came to power after Zhang Juzheng died. Although this guy threw away all Zhang Juzheng's policies as soon as he came to power, after all, he
He was also the first assistant. Zhu Ping'an once summarized Zhang Siwei as an upgraded version of Sima Yi and Gou Jian!
The person next to Zhang Siwei is named Wang Shizhen. Although his official position is not high, he is much more famous than Zhang Siwei. Does Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng know that it is this guy's pen name? However, Zhu Ping'an looked at Wang Shizhen, who looked like a standard good student.
.I really can’t connect this guy with that Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng. This Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng is the author of “The Golden Vase”, the “No. 1 Wonderful Book” in the world. I really don’t know what happened to make such a Weird person.
A Taoist priest wrote such a wonderful book.
Of course, in history, there is no clear evidence to prove that Lan Ling Xiaoxiaosheng is Wang Shizhen, which is controversial. However, who happened to be in the period when this strange book was born can help future generations confirm it.
For a time, countless thoughts came to Zhu Pingan's mind.
"Ahem. This little brother?" Wang Shizhen asked after coughing when seeing Zhu Ping'an didn't respond.
"Oh, I'm going down to the river, Zhu Ping'an. I've never seen two such impressive people before. I was a little dazed for a while and laughed."
Zhu Ping'an cupped his hands and explained calmly.
"What kind of style do we have? Brother Zhu was eloquent and answered fluently just now. That was real style. I'm not afraid of Brother Zhu's jokes, so I only responded with two words." Zhang Siwei smiled and shook his head.
"I only have three couplets." Wang Shizhen also smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"I'm just lucky." Zhu Pingan smiled slightly, then stretched out his hand to ask Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen to sit down, then poured two cups of tea and placed them in front of them.
"Brother Zhu, don't be so modest." Zhang Siwei sat down and picked up the teacup, "I'm not lucky enough to be able to make such six couplets."
"Especially the third couplet, which is about being lonely and cold and being a widow with an empty window; traveling far and near to be free and happy. I have been thinking about this couplet for a long time, but it is just a glimpse of it. Brother Zhu blurted out the second couplet, which is really embarrassing.
"
Wang Shizhen shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Wang Shizhen is not an ordinary good person. Wang Shizhen was born in the Wang family in Taicang, which is famous for its clothes, poetry and books. The Wang family is the remnant of the Langya Wang family that has been around for generations during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Wang family settled in Taicang for a long time.
In Tonglu, Zhejiang, there was Qufeng, the governor in the Tang Dynasty, Renhao in the Five Dynasties, and Jianjin in the Song Dynasty. Wang Shizhen, who was born in such an official family, received a good family education when he was young, and his parents hired him as a Jinshi.
He was taught by the knowledgeable Wang Cai and Luo Jujing, who made him academically advanced and sharp-minded. Among his friends, he was second to none in terms of literary talent.
, whose literary talent is so great, Wang Shizhen only answered three couplets. However, Zhu Ping'an opened his mouth and answered all six couplets.
That's why Wang Shizhen smiled bitterly when she heard Zhu Ping'an say she was lucky.
The three of them sat at the same table and chatted while drinking tea. Zhu Pingan became familiar with the two of them before they knew it, and then they exchanged first names. Zhang Siwei, Zi Ziwei; Wang Shizhen, Zi Yuanmei, have a nickname.
He was called Wen Sheng because his family gave him the nickname Wen Sheng because he grabbed a book while drawing lots and kept holding on to it when he was a child. Of course, Zhu Ping'an also told them his cousin "Zi Hou".
Through chatting, we learned that Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen were the same age, but Wang Shizhen was born a month earlier, and they had known each other for a long time. They had been elected three years ago, and this time they came to the capital together to participate in the Enke Examination.
When the two of them learned that Zhu Pingan was also here to participate in the Enke examination, their expressions were very exciting.
"Zihou, you are really a formidable person."
They chatted and learned that Zhu Ping'an was just over fourteen years old this year, and he came to take the examination at the age of fourteen. Although he borrowed Enke's help, it was very rare to pass the childbirth examination and the provincial examination at this age.
Even if they are as talented as them, they still have to say that they are to be feared. (To be continued)