Before the four courtesans appeared, everyone's enthusiasm had already risen. Some literati shook their heads and pointed at the maids playing on the deck of the bow.

Several maids, under the hot eyes of many men on the shore, covered their mouths and chuckled, their faces full of dizziness and shyness.

One of them was a very delicate maid with a big-eyed face, and seemed quite brave.

She stood on the bow deck, facing everyone, raised a pink scarf in her hand and couldn't help but wave it. The autumn waves secretly made the scholars on the shore dry mouth and a stir.

The big-eyed maid named Xiang'er, who often hangs in Fengyue Places in Jinyang City. Everyone knows that she is the personal maid of the "Meixianglou" girl Yan Feixueyan.

Yan Feixue is both beautiful and skillful, ranking first among the four courtesans in Jinyang City. Her personal maid will naturally not be as good as her appearance.

"Look, Miss Xiang'er is greeting me!"

"Your eyes are not good, Miss Xiang'er is obviously waving to me!"

"I'm going to hide it from you, Miss Xiang'er and I are already old friends!"

"Hehe, I'm still Miss Xiang'er's guest!"

"Bah! You are short and poor, will Miss Xiang'er look down on you?"

"You damn it, can you try again if you have the will of you?"

...

The literati on the river bank were as fierce as a girl in Xiang'er, and her sleeves were tied up, and she was very willing to fight.

It was not until Xiang'er turned around and entered the flower boat that the shore became quiet.

A moment later, Xiang'er appeared again.

She smiled pretty and walked to the bow deck, raised her hand to lift her hair that was blown away by the wind, glanced at the people on the river bank, and then bowed, saying neither humbly nor arrogantly: "You guys, please, I am the maid Xianger of Miss Yan Feixueyan, 'Meixianglou'. Under the entrusted by my lady and the ladies on the other three flower boats, I came to say a few words to you..."

There are dozens of large and small flower buildings in Jinyang City, including Meixiang Tower, Huamanlou, Yixiang Tower and Mingyue Tower, which are the largest in scale, the highest level and the most famous.

Among the four courtesans, Yan Feixue belongs to Meixianglou, Li Wanru belongs to Huamanlou, Shen Linglong belongs to Yixianglou, and Yang Qingyan belongs to Mingyuelou.

The four girls are the courtesans in each building, and among them, Yan Feixue’s best color art, and are the first of the four courtesans.

It is extremely rare for the four great courtesans to appear in one place at the same time, so they have received a lot of attention. Those literati with self-conceited literary talent came today, and everyone wants to win the favor of beauty.

The maid Xiang'er has a graceful body and a pretty face. At this time, her mouth is lightly opened and her voice is crisp and beautiful, which is really pleasing to people's eyes and ears.

On the bank by the river, some literati who thought they were a little talented and had no chance to see Yan Feixue began to lower their goals and target Xiang'er. They thought that if they couldn't see Yan Feixue, they would be nice to hook up with the charming and pretty maid beside her.

I heard Miss Xiang'er continue to say: "Today is the Moon Festival, which is the day when all the people of Zhao State celebrate together... Today, the flower boats of the four major flower buildings are here. I believe you all know what is happening, so I will not repeat it here..."

She cleared her throat and pursed her lips and smiled: "Now, the four ladies have prepared wine and food in their respective flower boats, made up the piano and zither, and arranged the silver, waiting for the talented young master to enter..."

As soon as Xiang'er finished speaking, someone by the river couldn't help but shout: "Miss Xiang'er, don't keep it in hiding anymore! Take out the questions your lady has given out!”

Other scholars came prepared, and they were ready to go, claiming to be true.

"Don't worry, all the young masters, let's continue to say..."

Xiang'er smiled slightly and said slowly: "My lady and the three ladies on the flower boat are all a little literary. When they are so excited tonight, they each came up with a couplet..."

As soon as she said this, someone understood what she meant: "So the first question of the four ladies is to test our ability to couplets?"

Xiang'er smiled and nodded: "You guys are smart, you can guess it. In a while, the four flower boats will each take out the first couplet. Who do you like, please give me the second couplet of the couplet you have shown. Then you can accept the test of the second question."

"Haha... What I am best at is couplets! Miss Xiang'er, take out your lady's first couplet and let me taste it!"

A scholar laughed loudly.

Zhao Guo has a strong literary style and many talents emerge. From eighty-year-old men to eight-year-old children, almost everyone can recite a few poems and match a few couplets.

What's more, those who stand by the river bank at this moment are all literati and talented people with high self-esteem?

Xiang'er and the three maids on the deck of the three adjacent flower boats nodded to each other, and then turned around and entered the flower boat.

After more than ten breaths, amid the urging of everyone, Xiang'er and four maids appeared at the bow of the boat again, holding a scroll of paper in their hands, standing in full bloom.

Everyone knew that the scroll of paper must be the first couplet produced by four courtesans, each of whom was looking up and waiting for the four maids to unfold the scroll.

Xiang'er and the four maids had their eyes circulated, and they unfolded four paper scrolls almost at the same time.

Someone on the shore had a quick eye and a quick mouth. He had already read out the first couplet written in four different beautiful fonts on the paper roll:

"Hong is a bird by the river... This is the first couplet of Miss Qingyan."

"A man was a monk, but he could not become a Buddha... This is like a lady's first couplet."

"The wind blows and frost falls into the house and turns into snow... This is the first couplet of Miss Linglong."

"Frozen rain pours on the window, two o'clock in the east and three o'clock in the west... This is the first couplet of Miss Feixue."

The first couplets revealed by the four courtesans vary in their categories and formats and difficulties. After reading them, the literati on the bank of the river began to lower their heads and frown and think.

"For fairness, if you think of a second couplet, please don't say it. There are pens, ink, paper and inkstone on the ship. You can write it down on the ship. The slaves will announce it in public later..."

Everyone was thinking, and Xiang'er said crisply again.

Not long after, several literary scholars raised their arms high and claimed that they had thought of the second couplet.

So at the invitation of four maids, the people stood on the flower boat with their heads raised their chests, wrote the lower couplet they had come up with on paper, and then covered it for a while, waiting for it to be made public.

The answers to the second couplets of those couplets are not unique. As long as the parallelism is neat and fits the upper couplet, it will be considered as a test of the first question.

"Sir, think about it quickly! Each flower boat has 100 taels of silver, and four flower boats have 400 taels... That's enough to buy how much meat to eat..."

When Yang Fugui saw that someone boarded the four flower boats and tried to fight, Mr. Yang was not slow and anxious, and he couldn't help but scratch his head in a hurry.

Yang Xu patted Yang Fugui on the shoulder: "Fugui, now you know the importance of studying? Making money requires knowledge!"

"But I really can't learn it!"

Yang Fugui said with a bitter face.

He couldn't read a lot and had only brute force. He could do his best to work, but it was even more uncomfortable to let him read and read than to kill him.

"Okay, wait for me here..."

Yang Xu tidied up his clothes and raised his hands high: "Miss Xiang'er, I also thought of the second couplet!"

"Miss Xiang'er, I have a second couplet if I don't have talent!"

Almost as Yang Xu spoke, a voice sounded around him.
Chapter completed!