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Chapter 254
Chapter 254. Seeing the Poor Dagger
As soon as the words fell, all the children in the three provinces were in an uproar, as if they didn't expect Cui Siyi to recognize her so easily.

At this time another person jumped out from the side, it was her younger brother Cui Simin, pointing to the five things on the table and said:

"Allusions are allusions, and things are things. Here is an inkstone, a porcelain vase, a teapot, a manuscript, and a seal. They don't match at all. What a combination!"

As he spoke bitterly, it seemed that even if his sister conceded, he would not admit it in his heart.

Ren Ping was about to explain, but when he was asked, he just happened to say:

"Fortunately, Brother Cui Shi is also a student of a high school. He actually asked this kind of layman's words. Who said that the same kind of antiques cannot be combined? Haven't you heard of the four major study rooms?"

The Four Treasures of the Study refers to the Hu brush, Hui ink, rice paper and Duan inkstone among the Four Treasures of the Study. They are different things and categories, but anyone who is keen on collecting the Four Treasures of the Study will not want to collect such a set.

Cui Simin hesitated when he heard that: "Why is this the same? The four treasures of the study, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, are all of the same kind after all, so they can naturally be called a combination."

"Ha, what a coincidence, these five things I have are also of the same type."

"Bullshit!"

Ren Ping ignored his nonsense, and said calmly: "Have you heard of Baya?"

"What? Baya?" Most of the people were at a loss.

Lu Ziliang on the side blurted out: "Qinqi calligraphy and painting, poetry, wine, flower tea, known as the eight elegant things in life, are the eight most respected things in life by ancient literati,"

"Zha Weiren, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, once had a famous sentence: piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and tea, gradually inseparable from it in the past, and it refers to Baya."

Ren Ping nodded, and pointed to the five things on the table: "My set is related to the four love pictures of lotus, plum, chrysanthemum, and orchid, and the flowers in it are already there."

"In addition, the lotus inkstone is a thing of the study, which can refer to books, paintings, and poems. The chrysanthemum pot can refer to tea, and the plum vase is a wine vessel. Of course, it can refer to wine. There are already six types in the Eight Elegances."

"What about piano and chess?"

"Good question. Brother Cui Shi knows that Tao Yuanming loves qin besides chrysanthemum, and Wang Xizhi also loves chess besides love of orchid. Isn't that all there? Hahahaha!"

Ren Ping laughed after saying this.

In fact, everyone knew that he had forcibly pieced together the eight elegant pieces, but he put them together so completely in a hurry, his dexterity is really admirable.

Furthermore, even if only poetry, wine, flowers, and tea can be verified, these things are all closely related to ancient literati, inkmen, and reclusive gentlemen. It is no exaggeration to say that they are a set of combinations.

Only then did they truly realize the strength of Ren Ping's collection. The exquisite thinking and the perfect combination of pearls are really amazing.

It was no accident that Chu Limin used these five things as the focus of the game, and then introduced the whole field with the theme of "gentleman"!

"Enough, Simin!"

Seeing that her younger brother was about to speak, Cui Siyi interrupted with a wink in time, knowing that further arguing would not help the matter, but would only add to the jokes, and it was no longer up to them to decide.

After discussing in a low voice for a while, the siblings looked at the three of Cui Hao and the other three provinces as well, thinking in their hearts:

Today they came here to make things difficult, but the result was unexpected. Instead, they were greatly taken advantage of by the other party. For the current plan, they had to leave it to the three Patriarchs to decide.

On the other side, seeing the people in the three provinces suddenly quiet down, Rong Qiancheng and the others also guessed something, immediately suppressed the ecstasy in their hearts, and looked at Lu Ziliang:

"Mr. Lu, if what Mr. Ren said just now is true, then the winner of today's Arhat Competition has already been decided, right?"

"That's right, Mr. Ren won the points competition today,"

Lu Ziliang smiled slightly, thinking that he had already confirmed the result after talking with Mr. Chu on the phone, but Cui Hao and the others had caused many things for no reason.

After a pause, he glanced at Rong Qiancheng, knowing what was on his mind, and murmured:

"According to the previous agreement, the outcome of the competition is also related to the bet. Since the Spring and Autumn League of the Three Provinces loses, I will report to the headquarters and allocate their quota for the capital competition to..."

"Wait a minute!"

With a sharp shout, Lu Ziliang's voice was suddenly interrupted, but it was Cui Hao.

Everyone in the Nine Families knew that the other party was cunning and would never give up their spots easily. However, with Lu Ziliang upholding justice, they were not afraid at all.

Rong Qiancheng immediately said coldly: "Old Cui, what else do you have to say? With your majestic status as the leader of the province, do you want to go back on your word?"

"Of course not, it's just a quota for the competition, and the one surnamed Cui hasn't paid much attention to it yet!"

When he said this, Cui Hao gritted his teeth and jumped out word by word. You must know that the Capital Mountain and River Baojian Competition has been suspended for more than 20 years, and this year is the first year to resume it. The opportunity is rare. How could they not value this opportunity to participate? ?
But things have priorities, compared to today's purpose is more important.

After a pause, he continued: "I mean, we can give up the quota, but there is one condition."

"What conditions?"

"I just can't give it to him, Ren Ping!"

Cui Hao suddenly pointed to Ren Ping who was at the side: "As long as this person is not allowed to go to the capital to compete, even if our three provinces give up this quota, we will have no complaints!"

The voice lingers, deafening.

The members of the Ninth Family had already guessed that the purpose of the other party's trip was to deal with Ren Ping, but now it was just a trick, but it was finally presented in such a way, which is still puzzling.

So what if Ren Ping went to participate in the capital competition?Would it inadvertently touch someone's interests?
Although he couldn't figure out the purpose behind it, Rong Qiancheng reacted very quickly, and immediately thought that you at most don't allow Ren Ping to use the places in your three provinces, how can you still manage us?
Immediately, he made it clear to Lu Ziliang that the two quotas were given to Ren Ping and Qi Wulei respectively, Ren Ping occupied the quota from the Nine Great Masters, and the quota from the three provinces was used by Qi Wuclassi.

The combination of Rong Yi and Qi Wulei's Guan Gong portrait before was considered the third highest score in the audience, and deserved a spot, although it can only be given to one person, but the nine people are one, and everyone is the same.

Although this decision was not discussed with Qi Heng, Su Minghan and the others, it would not be too controversial.

Sure enough, Qi Heng and the others had no objection after hearing his distribution, but Cui Hao, who was opposite him, snorted again:
"I have already said that the quota cannot be given to this person named Ren, otherwise our three provinces will not agree, and we will not give up even if we go to the headquarters."

"Cui Hao! Don't go too far!"

Qi Heng stood up abruptly and pointed at Ren Ping: "Mr. Ren is one of the nine of us, so why can't you go to the capital to compete? You don't care about yours, you can control our own quota!"

As soon as the words fell, everyone in the nine families also echoed:

"That's right! The nine of us have our own quotas, why should you point them out?"

"Even if your own quota loses, it has nothing to do with your three provinces. Taking a step back is enough to give you face!"

"Speaking of which, Mr. Cui has this spare time to boss around here, so he might as well go back and teach his children well, otherwise, how could the majestic Spring and Autumn League of the three provinces lose to our mere Nanling City League? Doesn't this make people laugh? Hahahaha ..."

The anger that had been held back for a whole time was finally released at this moment, and everyone in the nine families shouted in joy.

On the other hand, everyone in the three provinces opposite had frosty faces. Only Cui Hao and the other three could keep their composure. Knowing that now was not the time for bickering, they paused and turned to Lu Ziliang:
"Mr. Lu, we did not have any selfish intentions in raising this condition, but purely for the sake of the Spring and Autumn League. Don't you want to know the reason?"

"Of course, I just wanted to ask, why can't Mr. Ren go to the Capital Competition?"

Lu Ziliang frowned and looked at the three of them.

Among the three, Fan Jingxian stood up, glanced at Ren Ping, and said coldly, "Some time ago, there was a bet on Tiangong Street in Nanling, has Mr. Lu heard of it?"

(End of this chapter)