Chapter 40 What? The second couplet was correct by me? Three thousand-word chapter!)
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About two hours later, the car arrived at Hangzhou nearby.
Hangzhou has pleasant scenery and clear atmosphere, especially the gentle breeze blowing by the West Lake, which makes people live peacefully and elegantly. This place has been a favorite place for literati and poets to talk about poetry since ancient times.
Lu Yuan looked out the window. A round of moonlight hung high in the night sky. Under the night sky, lanterns floated on the edge of the West Lake. Boys and girls surrounded the West Lake, romantic and happy.
His addiction to cigarettes broke out.
He wants to smoke.
But thinking that he was about to reach his destination, he shook his head and resisted the urge to smoke.
Have some restraint.
At least you can't just walk into the poetry meeting with a cigarette in your mouth, right?
How shameless that would be.
Quality!
I am now a quality person.
At least now I have to pretend to be a quality person, at least I can't lose face.
Lu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
"We're here, just go around the corner. This is your admission badge. Take it. I'll wait for you here."
"Aren't you going in together?" Lu Yuan took the admission pass that the driver handed him and touched it.
He is quite refined.
"Not everyone is qualified to go in there..."
"Then this is..."
"Hahaha, don't look at it. If the people the old man invited again and again are not qualified, then who else is qualified?" Seeing Lu Yuan's dazed look, the driver couldn't help but laugh.
He thought this young man was very interesting.
This young man does not have the arrogance of those literati at all, and is even very humble and approachable.
There are really very few young people like this in today's society.
"Oh." Lu Yuan nodded. After hearing what the driver said, he nodded and didn't care.
Naturally, not everyone can enter a place where men of letters are known...
A vulgar person like me...
Tsk tsk.
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After getting off the car, Lu Yuan walked towards a building called "Cultural Building" on the bank of the West Lake ahead.
The poetry meeting was held in this building.
Lu Yuan originally thought that there would not be many people in the poetry club, just a few dozen literati, but when he got really close to the "Cultural Building", Lu Yuan found that there was a sea of people next to the building, and there were many reporters in front of the camera.
Say this and that.
It seems that this poetry competition might even be on TV.
Of course, Lu Yuan just sighed.
He didn't think he could dominate the poetry competition and outshine the others and be on TV.
He is self-aware.
"Brother, are you here to try your luck too?"
"ah?"
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Li Dongqiang. I am a student in the Chinese Department of Yan University, specializing in ancient Chinese poetry."
"Oh oh oh, hello, hello."
"Brother, is this your first time here?"
"Well, yes, it's my first time."
"You don't know the way."
"Yes, I have never participated in such an event before."
"That's good. Well, don't look around. Have you seen the long queue over there?"
"I saw it, what's wrong?"
"There is an exam question at that door. The examiner is our Professor Wang Mingyang from Yan'an University. Professor Wang Mingyang is very strict. Basically, anyone who queues up will be kicked off. So, we don't want to go there, not even the East Gate. The East Gate is for girls.
Where the queue is…”
"Oh, where should we go?" Lu Yuan was stunned.
Is there such a particular thing?
"We should go to the west gate. The west gate is a couplet. Although there will be a lot of people, there is still a chance that we can get in. Oh, by the way, brother, what is your major?"
"I am...a forestry major."
"Lin Mu, what? Damn it, what did you say you were majoring in?"
"forest."
"Brother, you are awesome. You are a forestry major and you are confident enough to come here to try your luck? Are you a poetry lover?"
"Ah? Not really...but I am..."
"Stop talking, buddy, I understand you! Tsk tsk tsk, you're here to see the goddess Chen Xi too, right?"
"Ah, I'm not..."
"Brother, stop talking. We are all men. I understand you. By the way, what is your name?"
"Lu Yuan."
"Oh, that's right. Since you are so confident and courageous, I will take you to the couplet to try your luck... and show you what it means to be a man of letters!"
The person who spoke to Lu Yuan was a tall young man wearing glasses.
The young man's eyes were wandering and he had a naughty smile on his face. When he saw Lu Yuan, he had a familiar expression of "I understand you".
Lu Yuan looked at the main entrance of the entire building and saw a few security guards standing at the main entrance, but it was deserted. After all, he suppressed the sentence "Why can't we go in through the main entrance" in his heart.
Maybe this is the rule of poetry club?
Now that I'm here, I have to do as the Romans do.
Lu Yuan is not disgusted with this young man named Li Dongqiang.
After all, both of them are slutty types, and many things are slightly similar.
"Brother, do you want to smoke?"
"No." Li Dongqiang shook his head.
"Oh, then I'll smoke."
Lu Yuan finally got addicted to cigarettes and couldn't help but take out his cigarette and start smoking.
After taking a puff of cigarette, Lu Yuan instantly felt that his whole body was extremely comfortable. And in such an environment with the gentle breeze blowing and the moonlight lingering, Lu Yuan felt like he had become an immortal.
When the two came to Ximen, Lu Yuan saw that Ximen was also queuing up, but there were fewer people queuing up for some unknown reason.
Li Dongqiang swaggeringly found a seat and lined up, while Lu Yuan followed Li Dongqiang.
Lu Yuandong looked around, inexplicably thinking about his decoration plan at this moment.
The filming of the movie will be finished soon, so you have to put a lot of things on your schedule, right?
Life needs to be planned early.
"I will know this second line right!"
"I think it is……"
"What? Wrong? I think it is, quite neat!"
"Give me a chance!"
"Next……"
"I come!"
"Next……"
"I think it should be this way..."
"Next……"
The couplet item is very fast.
Originally, there were twenty or thirty people lined up in front, but one person was added every minute...
"What kind of couplet is this? Why is it so difficult!"
"I think I'm quite right, why not?"
"Can't I do it?"
"Hey... I originally thought that Ximen in the couplet was a little easier, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult..."
"What is the real second line? Is it possible that no one can figure it out this year?"
The people on both sides who were brushed off shook their heads, and everyone was not in a good mood.
Soon, it was Li Dongqiang's turn.
Li Dongqiang smiled slightly, straightened his clothes and walked forward...
"Loyal love towards Chao Duan, even if the rain is raining and the smoke is wild, the dream of the soul is still attached to the North Tower, the second couplet..." Li Dongqiang stared at the first couplet, his eyes widened as he looked at the request.
It is required that the word "West Lake" be included below the couplet...
He stared in front of him and held it in for a long time, and then he found that nothing could come out...
"Next……"
An old man with gray beard and hair from Ximen looked up at the people brushing away and shook his head immediately.
"Wait, uncle, give me a chance, I'll be out soon..."
"Next..." The old man saw Li Dongqiang looking like he couldn't hold it in but wanted to hold it in, and finally shook his head.
"..." Li Dongqiang finally shook his head and left.
The whole person felt very sad.
It seems that he has no hope of going inside this year.
Just when Li Dongqiang left and it was Lu Yuan's turn, Lu Yuan's phone suddenly rang.
"Hello?"
"Old man? I'm here."
"Come in? I'm on the road now, right, right at the couplet... I just finished queuing..."
"Ah? What couplet are you asking about? Don't you know? Let's take a look. The first couplet is about loyal love for Chao Duan, even if the rain is raining and the smoke is thick, the dream of the soul is still close to the North Tower. This is the place..."
"What? You said I went to the wrong place? I want to take the main entrance? Is the west gate the wrong one?"
"You asked me about the second line?"
"The second line is about traveling overseas. I wanted to write poems and drink wine, but I stayed in the West Lake!"
"Old man, what do you mean? Why don't you speak?"
"ah?"
Lu Yuan suddenly became confused after hearing the speechless voice of the old man on the other end of the phone, and subconsciously looked at the front door.
Then he looked at the shocked old man in front of the couplet...
He was a little embarrassed.
Just now he was immersed in the plan to open a restaurant, and his whole mind was a little off track...
I feel like I made a big mistake out of nowhere and even went to the wrong place...
"Sorry, sorry, I went to the wrong place... I'm leaving right now... I'm leaving right now..." After hanging up the phone, he apologized quickly, turned around and headed towards the main entrance.
"Stop, you're in the right place! It's right here! Little brother, come on, here's your name, what's your name!" The old man stood up and suddenly took Lu Yuan's hand, and he was so excited.
"Ah?" Lu Yuan was stunned and looked at the couplet again.
He blurted out the second line subconsciously.
It's a coincidence that this second line was something the teacher asked them to memorize when he was in high school before he was reincarnated, saying that they might be able to get it in the exam...
Lu Yuan naturally memorized everything by heart.
But I didn't expect...
Met you here?
This piece of shit luck...
There is really no one left...
"..." Li Dongqiang, who was about to leave, heard a commotion and his eyes widened, staring at Lu Yuan in disbelief.
what's the situation?
Right out?
I didn't even get out of the Chinese Department of Yanjing University, but you got out of the forestry major?
Wait, I seem to have heard something about taking the right approach?
What's the meaning?
What the hell, is he one of the appointed people?
Grass!
Isn't it too abominable to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger?