"Old ancestor, let's start!" Cao Yi said in a deep voice, "Which couplet do you want to know first?"

"Looking the river tower, looking at the river tower, looking down the river tower, looking down the river tower, the river tower has eternal, the river flows forever... Let's talk about this second couplet first!" Diao Suo said anxiously. He thought about this second couplet for a long time, but unfortunately it was not perfect. Whether it was neat or artistic conception, it was a little bit worse.

Cao Yi showed a smile on his face, poured the wine in his glass, and then walked to the bed. Because it was night, the full moon was hanging high outside the window, which was particularly dazzling in the night sky. Yangzhou has been called Moon City since ancient times, and watching the moon has been integrated into everyone's life.

"Diaoshou, please come over and see what is here?" Cao Yi pointed to the cup and said to the Diaoshou.

"Isn't the cup wine? What else?" Diao Suo muttered and walked over and looked in. "Oh, there is also the reflection of the moon, what's wrong? There's nothing else?"

Everyone present looked at Cao Yi in confusion. Is this second couplet related to wine or moon? But they haven't thought about it yet. Yu Youwei also looked at Cao Yi with anticipation. No one else knew about these couplets except Cao Yi, because since they said they would use it as a means to attract customers in the Zuixianlou, everyone had a tacit understanding and did not ask about the second couplet.

Cao Yi smiled and pointed at the moon shadow in the cup, "What if I change the cup to a well?"

"Fine?" Everyone retelled in confusion, but did not understand the meaning behind Cao Yi's words. Wang Honghua whispered to Lu Xiaofeng, who had been touching his beard: "Four eyebrows, do you know what it means?"

Lu Xiaofeng shook her head: "It's too difficult. I'm not good at pairs, so I can't guess it."

Cao Yi looked around and found that everyone was in a fog, so he had to speak, "Actually, the moon in the well can be used to make the second couplet. I guess you can think of it if you think about it more, 'Yin Yue Well, Yin Yue Shadow, Yin Yue Shadow, Yin Yue Shadow in Yin Yue Well, the moon well ten thousand years, the moon shadow in the moon well!'"

"Wangjiang Tower, look at the river, look at the river, look at the river, look at the river, look at the river, flowing forever, river flow forever; Yinyue Well, Yinyue Shadow, Yinyue Shadow, Yinyue Shadow in Yinyue Well, Yinyue Shadow, Yueyue Shadow in Yinyue Well, the moon well, the moon shadow for thousands of years!" The Diao Suu recited the two couplets loudly, and his eyes became brighter and brighter, and he said excitedly: "It's indeed absolute, this couplet is stable and appropriate, and the sound is natural!"

Mr. Chen also nodded and praised: "It is indeed a rare and wonderful couple."

The others also nodded and praised each other, and finally understood why Cao Yi used to remind them with the moon shadow in the wine glass.

"Cao Yi, did you have the first couplet first, and then accidentally saw the moon shadow in the well that you thought of the second couplet?" Wen Gong looked at Cao Yi and asked slowly.

"That's right, I really thought of the moon in the well when I was able to express the second couplet." Cao Yi hesitated for a moment, nodded and said.

Diao Suo returned to his seat, picked up the wine glass and drank it in one sip, and said excitedly: "It turns out that the article is natural, and I got it by hand. Cao Yi's couplet is worthy of being revealed!"

"Chengxuan, the reason why Cao Yi was able to write this couplet is because he reads a lot of books and has enough precipitation to make a splash in an instant. After all, he must accumulate enough talent. Therefore, you must work harder in the future and must not be content with yourself. Remember that being full will bring harm to your humility and benefit from humility." Wen Gong suddenly preached to Master Chengxuan.

Teacher Chengxuan quickly stood up, bowed to his teacher and said, "Yes, teacher, I will keep it in mind."

The others also nodded secretly. Mr. Wen told his teacher that he was not talking to everyone in the audience.

"Boy Cao Yi, this first couplet is indeed perfectly matched. The second couplet is to visit West Lake, bring tin pots, tin pots to West Lake, Xihu Xihu, what is this second couplet like?" Diao Suo tasted the first couplet and asked about the second couplet.

After hearing this, Cao Yi laughed and said loudly: "Actually, you have just done this couple's second couplet before."

As soon as Cao Yi finished speaking, everyone was thinking, Diao Suo had just done it before? Didn’t Diao Suo just drink wine?

"I? I just did it before?" Diao Suo pointed at him and asked in confusion.

"Zu Lao, do you have to try to think about it and try to match the second couplet?" Cao Yi nodded and said with a smile.

Diao Suo pondered for a while, but finally gave up: "I can't think of it, Cao Yi, just talk about the second couplet."

"The second couplet is actually 'Keep the wine bowl. After nine bowls, the wine bowl loses nine bowls, and I feel sorry for the wine bowl for a long time'!" Because there are too many homophonic sounds here, if I just recite it, I won't be able to hear it so quickly, so Cao Yi wrote the second couplet on the paper, and then raised the paper to show it to everyone.

"West Lake, Xihu and Xihu are homophones, wine bowls, Jiuwan and Jiuwan are homophones, which is wonderful!" Diao Suo praised after reciting it, and then couldn't help drinking a glass of Qinglian wine. He immediately reacted and laughed loudly, "Hahaha, if I were to serve wine according to the bowl, I really drank Jiu Xiaowan!"

Yu Youwei looked at Cao Yi with a proud look, her heart full of Cao Yi's image of inspiring words among the many talented literary veterans.

Fei Haomiao also had the same mentality. His junior brother was really too evil. While making his senior brother look bright and relieved, he also felt a little pressure. His junior brother was too outstanding. If his senior brother was not outstanding enough, it would be unreasonable...

"Lonely and coldly, the widow is staying in the window?" Diao Suo asked again. The first couplet is the same radical, and the difficulty is that the second couplet also requires a radical. He thought about it several times before. Although the radical is the same, it shows signs of hardness and hardness. It is not very neat, and the level and tone are not very correct.

"This first couplet is actually quite right." Cao Yi pretended to be a pussy while everyone was looking forward to it, and said lightly, then picked up his pen and wrote again. It made the Diao Su roll his eyes. It's better, it's better, I'll listen to you here to talk about the second couplet?

"'Envery Red Line Ending the Fate' This is a kind of thing, loneliness vs. lingering, cold window vs. red line, and bonding vs. widow. This word empty and final word are slightly flawed, but the overall is neat, and the meaning can also correspond to the upper part." Cao Yi said while writing. "There is another lower line that is 'Wandering and lingering'. It also corresponds to loneliness. The word empty and lingering are the word "stop" and the word "stop" can match the upper part."

Then he raised the paper and looked at everyone, with three lines of words written on it, one line of the upper couplet and two lines of the lower couplet, and everyone corresponded one by one. As expected, it was both neat and parallel, and the artistic conception could be matched.

"Second! It's so second!" The Diao Suo patted his thigh with his hand and said happily. "Why didn't I think of it at the beginning?" He then added, making everyone present smile.

"Diaosou, don't say you didn't expect it. None of the people present here expected it, it was all the same." Wen Gong looked at Diaosou and smiled.

"Cao Yi, I believe you are a talented person now!" Diao Sou glanced at Cao with complicated eyes.

Yi, sincerely praised. Even Duke Chen and Duke Wen admired Cao Yi very much, and envied Duke Lu for accepting a good disciple.

"I dare not be a kid, I'm sorry!" Cao Yi quickly bowed and refused.

"It's okay, it's just a compliment in the private banquet. Cao Yi, you don't need to be careful." Diao Suo laughed, "What about the lower couplet of 'Smoke Edges and Swallow Eyes'? What's it like?"

If we say that the previous "Lonely and cold windows are empty and widowed" is the same radical, so it is difficult to treat the outside world. The seven words "Smoke Along the Eaves and Smoke Swallow Eyes" are homophones, but they are just different tones. This is much more difficult than the previous "Traveling in the West Lake, bringing tin pots, falling off the West Lake, and cherishing tin lakes". Moreover, the word "王" and the second word "王" in these seven characters are both verbs. The difficulty of this couplet is not only homophones of the seven characters, but the formation of the pulley pattern makes this first couplet even more difficult!

"This is indeed difficult. I only thought of 'Mist covers the fog and is not foggy'. It is hard to say that there will be better couplets in the future!" Cao Yi wrote the second couplet on paper to display it.

"The smoke is surrounded by the gorgeous eaves and the smoke swallows' eyes, and the fog covers the fog in the black house, which is also absolute! Four are absolutes, no, five, and there is also a 'systool locked pond willow'!" Diao Suo said excitedly. Sometimes others can only come up with one absolute in their entire lives, and they don't necessarily think of the second couplet above, but they didn't expect that Cao Yi could get along with five absolutes by himself. The key is that he can still match them. This is the place where the monster is, but the most difficult thing is to say, "systool locked pond willow".

This pair itself is the most famous among many eternal eternal ones, so Cao Yi used this to make the first couplet at that time. These five words correspond to the five elements, specifically fire, metal, water, earth, and wood. At the same time, the whole sentence of smoke locking the pond willow is profound and profound, especially the word lock, which is regarded as the finishing touch, which makes people amazed. On the other hand, the Great Yan Dynasty is now fire, and the four countries correspond to gold, water, earth, wood, and Da Yan fire at the front, and locks the corresponding countries behind it. This is also another meaning.

Therefore, if you want to match this couplet, you must start with the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and the word "fire" is the supreme. The key is that the artistic conception must be comparable to "smoke locks the pond and willow". Various conditions are combined, so this lower couplet is even more difficult.

Cao Yi smiled gently: "This smoke-locking willow in the pond is really difficult. I thought about it for a long time before I came up with two second couplets."

"Two? Did you think of two lower couplets?" Diao Sou asked excitedly, and the others were also in an uproar. They racked their brains and couldn't even think of one. Cao Yi actually had two lower couplets! He was really a monster.

"Well, two, I wonder if you have read Bai Letian's "New Year's Eve"?" Cao Yi asked with a smile.

""New Year's Eve"? Brother Cao, do you mean 'Sleeping in sick eyes is not staying up to the next year, and your heart is full of feelings and you are coming to spring. After the fire is gone, there will be sixty people with flat heads.' What's this song?" Lu Xiaofeng asked.

Cao Yi nodded, "Yes, this poem that Brother Lu recited. It can be said that the second couplet comes from the third line of this poem."

"After the lights are gone, the sky is dawn?" Everyone recited in their hearts, thinking about how this sentence is related to the lower line of "Smoke Locking the Willows in the pond". Now there are two words "Fire Disappearance", and then the words "Fire Disappearance" are added to the three five elements of water, earth and wood. However, according to the first line, the fire alone is not enough. You have to make a radical, and then form a short sentence with a rather artistic conception. But even this is very difficult, at least they have thought about it for a long time but haven't figured it out.

Cao Yi did not speak, but wrote on paper with a brush in his hand.

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Chapter completed!