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Chapter 458 Challenge

"I want to see what kind of ability he can have." The young master on the left stretched lazily, as if he didn't take Tan Zong to heart. "When he becomes my defeated general, let's see how my mother lets me marry him!"

"The queen mother wants to find a good home for her sister." Qin Rong laughed immediately after hearing this, "I think Tan Guerrilla is both civil and military, but she is worthy of her sister."[]

"Sister-in-law, you know that my younger sister doesn't have the intention to talk about marriage now. If I didn't want him to give up, my younger sister wouldn't have come to this 'Wenkui Conference' to gain fame." The young master on the left supported his chin with his right hand and said listlessly, "If you have the time, my younger sister can read a lot of books."

Looking at the young master with a depressed look on his face, Qin Rong shook her head helplessly, as if nothing could arouse the interest of this Princess Zhaoning except studying those strange things.

This young master who was at the same table with Qin Rong and dressed as a man was Princess Zhao Ning of Dashun. He was obsessed with the research of science and engineering knowledge since he was a child. He improved many equipment for Dashun and was deeply loved by the officials.

A few days ago, Empress Wanyi called Zhao Yuzhao, who was busy in the workshop, to the bedroom and mentioned her marriage: the official family intends to marry her to Tan Zong, who has made great contributions in Jiangnan.

Zhao Yuzhao was shocked by the sudden news. She had never thought about getting married when she stayed in the workshop all day. She knew that the "intentional" that Queen Wanyi said was actually something that the government had decided, but she just notified her in advance to let her be prepared.

Since the official has decided, Zhao Yuzhao knows that she cannot change the official's decision, so she turns to the second best and is ready to start from Tan Zong, let him retreat and dare not marry her. This is her only way to escape from this marriage.

Therefore, Zhao Yuzhao paid attention to Tan Zong, and then learned that Tan Zong had a close relationship with his fourth brother Zhao Yunan, so he found Qin Rong and asked her to help him "teach a lesson" to Tan Zong.

How dare Qin Rong agree to this matter easily? Therefore, she told Zhao Yunan that Zhao Yunan knew that his precious sister was arrogant and arrogant. If Tan Zong could not suppress her, she might not even be able to enter the bridal chamber in the future, which would be a joke.

Zhao Yunan then went to the palace to meet Empress Wanyi, and was preparing to take advantage of this "Wenkui Conference" to arrange for Zhao Yuzhao to compete with Tan Zong. If Tan Zong could suppress Zhao Yuzhao, everyone would be happy and save a lot of trouble. If Tan Zong was unfortunately defeated by Zhao Yuzhao, then he could only think of another way.

Queen Wanyi thought this method was good and asked Zhao Yunan to arrange it. So, Tan Zong, who was kept in the dark, was asked out by Qin Biyong. No matter what, he would never have thought that his opponent at the "Wenkui Conference" would be Zhao Yuzhao.

As time goes by, the competition in the hall becomes more and more intense and exciting. Dashun’s literature and science are both promoted. The talents on stage gradually extend from poetry, songs to astronomy and geography, which arouses warm applause.

Tan Zong and Qin Biyong were drinking and chatting in the room. The people on the stage were just for the talented men who were expected to win the championship.

"Everyone, a guest on the second floor raised a math question, hoping that you can answer it." Suddenly, the voice of the emcee came from the hall, "Dragonfly 6 legs and 2 wings, spider 8 legs and 0 wings, summer cicada 6 legs and 1 wing. If there are 18 of the three, including 118 legs and 20 pairs of wings, how many of the three are there?"

With a puff, as soon as the emcee finished speaking, Tan Zong turned around and sprayed a sip of wine in his mouth onto the open space beside him. This is a typical problem of "chicken and rabbit in the same cage" in elementary school. The teacher's favorite question in elementary school was, but he didn't expect it to appear here.

"Brother Tan, you are..." Seeing this, Qin Biyong put down the wine glass in his hand and looked at him suspiciously.

"It's nothing, I choked by accident." Tan Zong took a towel from the maid and wiped the wine stains on the corner of his mouth, and said to Qin Biyong with a smile.

"Brother Tan can solve this problem?" Although Qin Biyong was suspicious of Tan Zong's explanation, he did not get involved. Instead, he guided the topic to the previous numbering problem.

"I'm willing to give it a try." Tan Zong smiled slightly. This was simply a pediatric department for him.

"Come here, come with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone." Qin Biyong heard this, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he turned around and ordered the maid beside him.

"No, it's enough." The maid was about to leave, but Tan Zong called her, smiled at Qin Biyong and dipped the tea in the teacup, and then listed a two-part system of equations on the wine table, and soon got the answer.

Qin Biyong glanced at the answer and waved his hand at a entourage standing beside him. The entourage walked out of the door, stood on the guardrail in the corridor and said loudly to the emcee in the hall, "7 dragonflies, 5 spiders, and 6 summer cicadas!"

As soon as this statement came out, the people at the scene looked at the follower in surprise. Dashun did not have the concept of a system of equations at this time, and the talents could only make calculations step by step. At this time, they had not even seen the pen, ink, paper and inkstone they had calculated, and someone had already come up with the answer!

"It's totally correct!" The emcee glanced at the paper in her hand, and looked surprised on her face, then asked the follower loudly, "Who dares to ask who got the answer."

"Mo Ren!" After hearing this, the follower replied, he turned around and walked back to the room.

Boom, the hall suddenly became turbulent. The name was too strange. Most people didn't know who this person was. Only a small number of people who paid attention to the odds cards outside the door had an impression of this name, because the name had increased from one to one to three.

"I dare to ask this Brother Mo, there is a calculation problem below. I wonder if Brother Mo is interested in giving it a try!" Just as people were talking, a young man in white walked out of a room on the west side of the second floor and whispered loudly toward the room where Tan Zong was on the east side opposite.

As soon as the young man in white appeared, the hall suddenly became quiet. Many people recognized him. This person was a talented man who was favored by Chunfenglou. The odds were one or two.7. It seemed that he had attacked Mo Ren first.

"Please tell me, this young master." Then, the previous entourage came out, reached out to the young master in white and made a gesture of invitation, and said loudly.

"Now there are chickens and rabbits in the same cage, with thirty-five heads on top and ninety-four feet on bottom. May I ask, how many chickens and rabbits are there?" The young man in white said loudly to the follower when he heard this.

"Finally come!" Hearing this, Tan Zong's face suddenly showed a strange look, and he couldn't help but say something in his heart, "It's really Cao Cao. When Cao Cao arrived, he was just talking about "Chicken and Rabbit in the same cage", but in a blink of an eye, the problem of "Chicken and Rabbit in the same cage" really appeared.

"Brother Tan, are you sure?" Seeing that Tan Zong's face looked a little strange, Qin Biyong thought he was in trouble and asked in a deep voice.

"It's a coincidence that I have encountered this type of numerical arithmetic problem before." Tan Zong realized that he had lost his composure just now. After smiling at Qin Biyong, he dipped his finger in tea and listed a system of binary equations on the table.

The pen, ink, paper and inkstone have been delivered to all the talents. They have buried their heads and quickly calculated on the paper. After all, the previous question was given by the guest above, and no one can determine whether Tan Zong had colluded with the guest. This time, the young man in white asked the question, so he could compete with Tan Zong fairly.

Because the young man in white would never be in love with Tan Zong for the sake of his future, even if he wanted to, the people in the room behind him would not agree. The people in each room on the second floor represent a force in the capital, and they did not want to lose dignity and face for this little money.

"Sister, do you think Tan Gujie can answer this time?" In the room, Qin Rong looked at Zhao Yuzhao with a smile. The previous question of the dragonfly, spider and Xia Chan was what Zhao Yuzhao thought of, with the purpose of ending this boring game as soon as possible. Zhao Yuzhao really wanted to see if those talents could not answer her question, how would this "Wenkui Conference" end?

"I don't think it's possible that he was confused before." Zhao Yuzhao peeled a grape and put it in his mouth, glanced the corner of his mouth and said in a sweet voice.

As soon as she finished speaking, Qin Biyong's follower sounded outside the door, "There are 23 chickens and 12 rabbits."

Zhao Yuzhao was slightly stunned when she heard this. She couldn't believe it. Tan Zong answered so quickly.

"Brother Mo is very talented, I admire you." Then, the voice of the young master in white came over, and it seemed that Tan Zong had answered correctly.

"Sister, how about Tan Guerrilla?" Qin Rong smiled and looked at Zhao Yuzhao.

"Hmph, what's the use of just counting numbers? I don't know if it's a fool in other aspects." Zhao Yuzhao said indifferently.

"Brother Mo, I have a first couplet. Please give me advice." Qin Rong was about to say something, when another voice sounded outside the door, "The two monkeys broke the wood in the deep mountains, and the little monkey dared to see the saw (sentence)?"

"This man is so rude that he actually mocked Tan Zong as a little monkey. I want to see how he is going against him?" Hearing this, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Yuzhao's mouth.

The one who came out of this pair was a young man in blue. He stood in front of a room on the west side of the second floor, looking proudly in the direction of Tan Zong. His odds were one or two, and the odds were extremely high.

The hall suddenly buzzed and people were talking privately. This couple was really a little too arrogant.

When Tan Zong first heard someone ask him to match his own couple, his scalp suddenly numb. If he wants to have a good essay, he can't even write well. What is the opponent of the other party? However, when he hears the other party's couplet, his face immediately showed a look of shock.

If you remember correctly, Tan Zong remembers that he once saw this couple in a costume TV series. The male protagonist in the TV series played a trick on a treacherous minister in the court, which made the treacherous minister lose all his face, so he was deeply impressed.

After a little thought, Tan Zong waved his hand to the Qin Biyong's entourage standing at the door, and then called him beside him and said a few words in a low voice. The entourage's eyes lit up and he stood up and walked towards the door.

"Wait a minute!" Before the follower could take a few steps, Tan Zong thought of something, called him back, and whispered in his ear.

The follower nodded, walked out of the door and whispered to the proud young man in blue standing, "How can an old beast come out with his hooves in the mud?"

"That's right!" After hearing the second couplet of the follower, a cheer suddenly sounded in the hall. Tan Zong used the old beast to mock the young master in blue.

When the young master in blue heard this, his face suddenly became a little ugly. He had never suffered such a big loss in his couple since his debut.

"It's impolite to come but not come back. My son also asked the son to give the previous couplet." Before the young master in blue came out again, the follower said, "Smoke locks the willows in the pond, young master, please do it."

"Smoke locks the willows in the pond!" The young master in blue frowned slightly, and then his face changed drastically. This top couplet not only has elegant artistic conception, but also contains the five elements of "gold, wood, water, fire and earth" on the left radical of each character. It seems simple, but it is actually very difficult to match. It requires both artistic conception and echo the five elements.

"I lost." After pondering for a while, the young man in blue looked dark, and he arched his hand at the entourage, walked back to the room lonely, and withdrew from Wenkui's battle.

"It's absolutely true!" The people in the hall were thinking about the second couplet. Seeing that the young master in blue had actually left, they couldn't help but look at each other and couldn't tell why he suddenly gave up. It was not until the young master in blue disappeared into the door that a talented man reacted and realized the mystery of the first couplet that Tan Zong had just published, and couldn't help but snorted.

The young master in blue has a deep understanding of the couplet. He could see at a glance that he could not match the couplet, so he gave up. Unlike others, he did not realize the power of the first couplet until he thought about it for a long time.

When Tan Zong heard the other party admit defeat, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He had just thought of the words "the most difficult thing in the world" by people on the Internet, and he scared away the young master in blue. Otherwise, if he asked him again, he would have exposed himself.

"What a smoke locked the willow in the pond." Qin Rong has been learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child, so she naturally knew the essence of this first couplet. She smiled and looked at Zhao Yuzhao with a slightly frown on her eyebrows, "What do you think of it, sister?"

"The couple is good, it's a good couple." Although reluctant, Zhao Yuzhao had to admit that the first couplet was indeed incisive and unique. She could not match the second couplet, but then snorted coldly and added, "I just don't know if someone else caught the knife!"

When Qin Rong heard this, she smiled and shook her head. It seemed that if Tan Zong didn't show some real skills, Zhao Yuzhao would never give up easily.

After defeating the young master in blue, Tan Zong immediately appeared as a dark horse, becoming a hot spot for winning the championship. Many people bet on Mo Ren, which caused Chunfenglou to raise Mo Ren's odds again, causing his odds to rise to one or one or five, and equal to those talents who are most favored by Chunfenglou.
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