The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

"Lei Jiu is the leader of this generation of the Lei family. He didn't come early or late, but he came back after losing the Climbing Dragon Stone. His intention is clear. Although the Lei family is arrogant, they will never dare to challenge three people as soon as they enter the capital. It must be to vent his anger! What Brother Qiao said is that this is Jingguo! We must knock down his arrogance!" As Zhang Chengyu spoke, he looked at the two Jinshis from Kangshe and Liufengshe.

The two Jinshi looked at each other and nodded silently.

Although the two of them were opposed to Fang Yun due to their factions and should have helped the Lei family, most of the people here had a deep relationship with the Jingguo Semi-Saint family, and there were even people from the family's side branches. If the two of them were to help the Lei family now, they would definitely will suffer unprecedented ostracism.

"Hmph, he wants to step on us and make a name for himself, so today we have to beat him up and let him know the price! It's up to you." You Nian said and looked at Fang Yun, but did not mention Fang Yun's name to prevent him from being taken upstairs. The Lei family heard.

"Yeah." Fang Yun nodded slightly.

The sound of messy footsteps going up the stairs was heard outside the door.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer. When there were still more than ten steps away from the door, Lei Yuanting smiled and said: "Qiao Juze, I know you are talented and have great literary talent, but compared to my ninth brother, you are like a parrot showing off in front of a phoenix. Talk. For the sake of your and Jing Guo’s face, I advise you to leave Lingyun Tower.”

"Joke! Lingyun Tower is the Lingyun Tower of Jingguo. If we are kicked out by your Lei family, it will be a disgrace to Jingguo. I would like to advise you, the Lei family, that when we reach the borders of Jingguo, You should abide by the rules of our country! Otherwise, be careful of the phoenix losing its hair! Hahaha..."

Many Jinshi in the room laughed in agreement.

The people outside stopped in front of the house's ground floor number and did not enter immediately.

Lei Jiu smiled and said: "I just listened to your chat, and I got a couplet by chance, which is considered as a gift to me. I also hope that the few Shangshe Jinshi from Jingguo will not disappoint Lei. This couplet is, a parrot can speak as hard as a phoenix. , I also hope that all brothers will give me a link within a few breaths."

"Okay!" Everyone in the Lei family cheered.

All the Jinshi in the room were stunned. They didn’t expect Lei Jiu to come up with the question so quickly. The difficulty of this combination is not high. Most of the people present can solve it in a short time, but it is hard to say whether it is good or bad. Whether it is clever or not depends on the level of artistic conception. It's important, otherwise it's bad right, it's better to be wrong.

Afterwards, displeasure appeared on many people's faces. This Lei Jiu was too arrogant. He was simply saying that Jingguo students were all parrots.

Almost without thinking, everyone subconsciously looked at Fang Yun.

Fang Yun stretched out his index finger and dipped it in the tea, then showed off his talent and wrote in mid-air.

I saw the talent supporting the water leaving a line of transparent text in mid-air.

Spiders are not as clever as silkworms.

Qiao Juze immediately smiled and said: "The youngest friend among us has already said the second line, that is, spiders are not as clever as silkworms."

The Lei family's cheers stopped abruptly. Spiders and silkworms both spun silk, but the spider's silk was useless, but the silkworm silk could be woven into silk and worn on the body. The sharpness of the counterattack was even greater than the first couplet. It was almost equivalent to calling Lei Jiu a bastard. Straw bag.

Lei Jiu smiled coldly and said: "You can have such a good match in less than ten breaths. I didn't expect that there would be a crouching tiger, hidden dragon in a simple room. I, Lei Jiu, came to the capital of Jingguo for the first time, and I must meet this Jingguo for a while. The country's 'big' talents! Let's do this. Wenbi has come and gone. If you come up with another pair, I won't enter this door!"

"Brother Lei, you are the most outstanding person of the younger generation of the Lei family. If you really can't get in, wouldn't others blame us, Jingguo, for not knowing how to treat guests? That's not good!"

Lei Yuanting said coldly: "Stop talking nonsense! Do you dare to post the first couplet? If you don't dare, get out of Lingyun Tower!"

Everyone in the room looked at Fang Yun again.

Fang Yun dipped his fingers in tea again and wrote in mid-air.

When Fang Yun finished writing, Qiao Juze and the other nine people were stunned. After thinking about it for a moment, a look of ecstasy appeared on their faces.

Qiao Juze couldn't help but said loudly: "We have come up with the first couplet. It only needs five words. Listen carefully! Smoke locks the pond willow!"

Fang Yun smiled slightly, this first couplet is very famous, and there are many second couplets in later generations, but none of them can really be called a wonderful pair, so it is called eternal absolute.

After Qiao Juze finished speaking, Lei Yuanting sneered and said, "Isn't it just Yansuo Pondliu? The artistic conception of this sentence is good, but even I can match it, let alone my family of nine..."

"Shut up!" Lei Jiu suddenly shouted, with a hint of embarrassment in his voice.

After a while, Fang Yun heard Lei Yuanting outside saying with a guilty conscience: "Who thought of this couplet? It's so poisonous! It's just a wonderful artistic conception. The radicals of the five characters are actually metal, wood, water, fire and earth. This makes How can people be right? The person who came up with this couplet is extremely vicious!”

Everyone in the No. 1 room laughed softly, and several people gave Fang Yun a thumbs up.

"You guys should also think about it together, don't stand there in a daze!" Although Lei Yuanting lowered his voice, the people in the room could hear him clearly.

Lei Jiu didn't speak for a long time.

People in the room started talking in low voices.

"This first couplet seems really difficult."

"It's difficult to find the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth in the radical alone. Where can I find the other five elements in one radical? In the end, I have to use metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. This alone makes me inferior."

Qiao Juze said: "When it comes to the second couplet with the five elements radical, I can also match it, but the artistic conception is much different. For example, Fengfenzhen Seawall, this kind of pairing can barely be matched, but the sentence meaning and artistic conception are very different. , it’s better not to.”

Everyone nodded together, and several people began to smile evilly and give Fang Yun a thumbs up.

"Come on, let's continue drinking tea!" one person said.

Everyone drank a few more cups of tea, and a full quarter of an hour passed, but no one outside could tell the truth.

Lei Yuanting was walking around outside, as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

After a while, Qiao Juze coughed lightly and said: "Brother Lei, are you trying to delay the war? We are eating and drinking, and when we can't hold it in any longer, we go home to deal with it. Do you also want to spread the word about Lei Jiuwen's suppression?" Do you want to publicize that Jingguo’s scholars can’t even hold back their urine?”

"Yes, please give me a letter! We haven't stolen anyone, so what's the point of blocking us at the door?"

"The windows are all frozen by Brother Lei, so it's hard for us to jump!"

"If that doesn't work, bring a parrot over."

Qiao Juze and the other two taunted Lei's family with their words, while the rest of them basically stayed silent to prevent Lei Yuanting from hearing them.

Another quarter of an hour later, Lei Yuanting suddenly said: "This first couplet is too weird. We will read it another day. We want to see who is so absolute! We won't go in, but we can stand at the door and continue the competition!"

Hearing a bang, Lei Yuanting kicked the door open.

Normally, if someone kicked him out of his upper room, even the best-tempered of these upper-level scholars would stand up to save face, but at this moment, ten people were sitting quietly on chairs, most of them with joking smiles on their faces. , looking at Lei Yuanting and a strange face at the door.

The unfamiliar face seemed to have a very good temperament, but his complexion was too gloomy and his bearing was slightly lacking.

"It's just a couplet, the text below is more..."

Lei Yuanting stared straight at Fang Yun, his mouth continued to open, but he couldn't make any sound. His Adam's apple rolled up and down due to swallowing saliva, and his eyes kept blinking as if to confirm the person in front of him.

Lei Jiu frowned, looked at Lei Yuanting, and said, "What's wrong..."

Lei Yuanting shuddered suddenly, covered Lei Jiu's mouth with one hand, and grabbed Lei Jiu's wrist with the other hand. He turned around and jumped hard. He saw the two of them jumping over the railing and jumping from the corridor on the second floor to the lobby on the next floor.

"Bang……"

The two trampled a table to pieces.

"Hmm, you..."

Lei Jiu wanted to say something more, but Lei Yuanting let go of his mouth and pulled him to run out. As he ran, he said, "Jiu brother, stop talking! That bastard Fang Yun is in there! They dug a hole and laid a trap." You are waiting for us to jump! If you really continue to compete, you will be lucky! He's not a madman! He can't fight with words. I'm afraid only those Hanlin or bachelors can suppress him! Damn it! The hearts of Jingguo Shangshe are so dark! Knowing that Fang Yun is in Lingyun Tower, I won’t go in even if I’m blind!”

The dignified Jinshi of the Lei family couldn't help but curse.

Lei Jiu, a Jinshi who was outstanding even when compared with the disciples of the Semi-Saint Family, was led by Lei Yuanting to trot along. He completely lost the momentum he had before, just like a young man who had no independent opinions and was drifting with the crowd.

Lei Yuanting sighed: "The elders of the Lei family asked you to come. They originally wanted you to suppress Fang Yun, or to anger Fang Yun and gamble again to win back the Climbing Dragon Stone. But you haven't waited until the capital, Fang Yun that The beast came and made a big splash. All the old people in the Lei family were frightened. They can only let you Wait and see what happens. I know you are angry. In order to make you feel better, I have to empty the Lingyun Tower to cleanse the dust for you. Who would have thought that Fang Yun and the others are also in there! Ninth brother, if you want to scold me, scold me first. I didn’t know that he would come to Lingyun Tower for dinner right after he finished his lecture!”

Lei Jiu's eyes were dull, and he trotted feebly after Lei Yuanting, with a complicated light shining in his eyes. He was not usually so arrogant, but he came to Jingguo obviously to challenge Fang Yun but gave up halfway. He had nowhere to vent his anger. After meeting Qiao Juze, he naturally wanted to vent his anger in Wenbi, but who knew that Fang Yun was actually sitting inside.

And he never made a sound!

This is a bustling street with numerous shops on both sides. Everyone along the way looks at the two people inexplicably.

The two Jinshi men in white robes and sword uniforms ran hand in hand, just like frightened children. It was really weird.

Lei Yuanting said: "Forget it, don't get angry. Fang Yun must have matched these two pairs. It's not shameful to lose to him! Fortunately, I was smart and took you to jump off the building and escape. If I didn't know Fang Yun, If the competition continues and no one wins in ten consecutive defeats like the Xun family, then the Lei family will lose all face!"

"Hey, who knew Fang Yun would be inside." Lei Jiu's tone was very low.

"Actually... Fang Yun is nothing special, but he carries the overwhelming power and momentum. Whoever competes with him now will be unlucky! Don't be discouraged. I will continue to find out what's wrong with him, and continue to find people! Poems and essays If you can't do it, let's do it with farming! If you can't do it with fortification, let's do it with medicine! If he's good at everything, I'll be his ox and horse!"

"Don't talk about this anymore." Lei Jiu said.

Lei Yuanting said hurriedly: "Okay! Don't be discouraged, there will be the Dragon Climbing Platform that our Lei family is best at later! After the New Year, there will be Spring Lie, a Jinshi of the Holy Academy! I don't believe that I can't beat him!"