Chapter 343 Let you be happy for a while
Since Chu Mingxuan had already said it by name, Cao Yi would not be ruthless. He said lightly: "Chu Mingxuan, if you don't have the ability to match it with your teacher, it doesn't mean that the four pairs I have made are absolutely dead, nor does it mean that no one can match it."
"Hmph, Cao Yi, you said the second couplet. I don't believe that you can tell the first couplets of these four first couplets." Chu Mingxuan said with a distorted face. Since he had already broken up with Cao Yi, there was no need to hide it. He said some resentment words directly.
"I won't talk about the second couplet. After all, I will use it later when my hotel Zuixianlou opens. No matter which couplet is the first to match the second couplet, my Zuixianlou will be exempted from all the food and drink costs in one month, and I will also give him 2,000 taels of silver! Do you think I will tell you the answer now?" Cao Yi said calmly at Chu Mingxuan.
"You have made a wishful thinking. Four couplets that were not right at all were used to deceive the people of Yangzhou. If you say that they have money, you think that the people of Yangzhou are so stupid and you can't see your tricks? Anyway, no one is right at all. Why don't you give whoever is right at all, give whoever is right? The effect will be even more sensational. Ensure that the whole Yangzhou knows the new restaurant you open, it's hard to say that it will be known to the whole Jiangnan!" Chu Mingxuan laughed loudly, and even commented sarcastically later.
"The people of Yangzhou are definitely not stupid, but I think you are really stupid now. I keep saying that the four first couplets I published before are absolutely right, no one comes out. Who told you? You can ask the other talents present and ask if they have any second couplets?" Facing Chu Mingxuan's roar, Cao Yi remained calm and calm. Compared with the two, who is elegant and who is angry, it is clear at a glance.
Although Chu Mingxuan was so angry that he was almost angry when Cao Yi said, he still maintained his only IQ. He turned to look at Master Chengxuan, Duan Xinde and others, especially Duan Xinde. Because both of them had similar personalities before, they were considered like-minded and had a good relationship. So when Cao Yi said this, he naturally asked the two to ask.
It just disappointed Chu Mingxuan and even dumbfounded that not only Duan Xinde and Master Chengxuan, but also Lu Xiaofeng, Wang Honghua and Gong Qizheng nodded to him, indicating that the four first couplets were indeed matched and the second couplets were out.
"Then...what do those four lower couplets look like?" Chu Mingxuan said in a daze. Even his teacher told him that these four upper couplets were absolutely perfect and stalemate. So he always felt that he had not lost to Cao Yi. Cao Yi was just taking advantage of the tricks and using unfair means to defeat him. If the two fought fairly, he might not have lost to Cao Yi. That's why he had laughed at Cao Yi so excitedly before and teased Cao Yi for making fraud.
Even when others discussed Cao Yi before, he showed a disdainful expression on his face because he was not defeated and even looked down on Cao Yi a little bit. The two of them even made a deception in their competition. It was not the act of a gentleman. But now, all the talents told him that the four first couplets produced by Cao Yi did indeed match the second couplet, which was contrary to the concept he always thought was adhered to.
At this moment, his confidence and belief had collapsed, and he fell into the shadow of the previous one that could not even be corrected by the first couplet, so he was eager to ask what the second couplet looked like.
Duan Xinde looked at him embarrassedly, shook his head and said, "Brother Chu, everyone here has promised Mr. Cao, and will never reveal the second couplet. After all, this is related to the bonus of 2,000 taels of silver and the reward of free food and drink for one month. Moreover, a gentleman is as good as he can. Since he promised Mr. Cao that he would not be circulated, we will never reveal it. I hope Brother Chu will forgive me."
The six major courtesans began to whisper. Although they had known that the number one talented man in Jiangning, Cao Yi, only selected Duan Xinde and Chu Mingxuan among the four talents in Yangzhou, and defeated them completely, but everyone was rumored to this result. Most people were not clear about the details. At this time, when they talked about the four pairs, the informed courtesans spoke out the four first couplets. The others gathered together and whispered.
The six courtesans are all talented and beautiful people, so they naturally have a good appreciation for poetry and couplets. Now that they know the first couplet that Cao Yi had published before, in addition to looking at Cao Yi with admiration and his talent, others also looked at Chu Mingxuan with pitiful eyes. After all, they all realized that the previous competition was not that Chu Mingxuan was not talented enough, but Cao Yi was too evil. Although these four pairs were not dead, they should at least be said to be a team of eternal talents. Perhaps someone might not be able to match them in a few hundred years.
Chu Mingxuan is indeed very pitiful. What's pitiful is that the couple that everyone can't match. He happened to meet. What's even more pitiful is that these four couples were matched by the questioner Cao Yi. However, this only means that Cao Yi is indeed amazing. In this way, Chu Mingxuan has indeed become a tragic character who is both sad and pitiful. It's not that he is not strong enough, but that his opponent is too sharp, which makes him look crushed.
Humans are actually born with pity for the vulnerable groups, and even more women, so the six courtesans present looked at Chu Mingxuan with pitiful eyes, which also made Chu Mingxuan's heart even more anxious and violent. He is the four great talents in Yangzhou, and he is very handsome. In the past, he was the only one who laughed at others and sympathized with others. Why now he has become the weak person who is sympathized with others and pitied? When he thinks of this, he feels even more restless!
"Cao Yi, since you have all the four pairs of yours, you have all come out of the second couplet, then I'm willing to give up the disadvantage. But now I'm like you again, let's compare lyrics, you dare to face the challenge!" Chu Mingxuan stood up in a hurry, pointed at Cao Yi and said.
Chu Mingxuan's actions surprised everyone present. If the four talents of Yangzhou generation perform lyrics, if they all perform steadily, Duan Xinde is the most powerful. However, in the previous lyrics competition, even Duan Xinde was defeated by Cao Yi without any suspense. Therefore, the possibility of Chu Mingxuan defeating Cao Yi this time can be said to be slim. No one knows why Chu Mingxuan so confidently proposed to compete with Cao Yi to write lyrics.
Could it be that since he lost to Cao Yi last time, he has learned from his mistakes and has been working hard for a while, and his talent and knowledge have improved again
One piece? It shouldn't have such a fast effect. At this stage, in addition to their talent and their own slow accumulation of time, they can only improve their poetry level by relying on a flash of inspiration. However, this moment of inspiration is the most unreliable, sometimes not. So this time Chu Mingxuan proposed to write lyrics with Cao Yi. They were all very curious about what confidence it was that made him dare to propose such a competition.
However, as long as Chu Mingxuan doesn't say this, no one will know about it, because his teacher gave him a poem before, that is, after he lost to Cao Yi, he said that when he met Cao Yi again next time, he would compete with him to write lyrics and find the place. This is actually equivalent to bullying the small one by the big one. With the age and life accumulation of Chu Mingxuan's teacher Wei Mu, the lyrics he wrote are naturally very important, and it feels quite back to nature. In Wei Mu's cognition, his poems were naturally easy to compare with the younger generation, but what Wei Mu did not expect was that Cao Yi, the object of his disciple Chu Mingxuan's fight this time, was a person who could not be judged by common sense and carried plug-ins with him.
A literary old man who is just a little talented, and a person who carries countless Tang, Song, Yuan and Yuan lyrics with him. He chooses a suitable one from the library of the vocabulary in his head. Basically, every poem that can be remembered in Cao Yi's head is a poem that is well-known or very good in the history of literature, otherwise Cao Yi would not have thought about remembering it.
Therefore, even though Chu Mingxuan and his disciples thought of using this method to defeat Cao Yi, from the beginning, this idea was unreliable, because they felt that no matter how smart Cao Yi was or how amazing Cao Yi was, he still belonged to the category of normal people, and no matter how strong he was, he was the same as other people in this world. But the fact is that Cao Yi happened to be not from this world, so their cognition naturally did not conform to Cao Yi.
However, Cao Yi was obviously not very interested in the challenge of Chu Mingxuan. He had no lottery and was not good for him. Now he proved that the couplet he had made had a second couplet, and he could slap Chu Mingxuan in the face. What kind of lyrics are there? After all, the inventory in his mind is less than one article. If he doesn't want to use it, he will naturally not use it. Good poems are even better if they are put in the back.
Cao Yi shook his head and said calmly: "No interest!"
Chu Mingxuan's face turned irritated when he heard this, and he stretched out his fingers to point at Cao Yi tremblingly: "You...you...you!" You, you haven't said the following words for a long time, obviously he was so angry that he lost his composure.
Cao Yi said "no interest" just now, as if Chu Mingxuan was like an unknown junior, refusing casually, and his tone did not even have any emotional fluctuations, just like a little bug flying past him and being driven away by him with a wave, and he didn't care at all.
But this is true. The main purpose of Cao Yi's party today is to meet with the six courtesans and discuss the endorsement of Huayu Soap. Other things are not important to Cao Yi. If Cao Yi knew Chu Mingxuan's inner thoughts, he would definitely add another sentence: "Yes, you don't have to doubt it, this is the case."
Chapter completed!