happy rebirth

In the room next to Ke Xie and the two, King Dejun and Princess Wang were also watching the excitement in front of Yixian Building with great interest.

Of course, the King of Dejun came here to stand to the end.The reason why he did this was not simply because of Xie Jinhua's face, but because his second son had returned from Chongling Temple not long ago.As soon as Li Xu came back, he reached a consensus with the emperor.People wanted to know what they said together, but Li Xu called it the little secret of the grandfather and grandson.The emperor was obviously very satisfied with his statement.

However, King Dejun already knew about the relationship between Ke Qi and Li Xu, so he was willing to pay attention to some trivial matters at this time.

How about Yixian Tower, this is of course only a trivial matter for King Dejun.

In fact, before meeting Li Xu in Chongling Temple, the relationship between Xie Jinhua and King Dejun's family was not considered close or even familiar.

Although the princess is Xie Jinhua's older sister, she was already married when Xie Jinhua was born.Even if the concubine is married in the capital, the daughter who is married out at this time cannot go back to her mother's house from time to time even if she lives next door to her mother's house.The Xie Mansion often only had family dinners together during festivals, and during such festivals, the princess either entered the palace or stayed in the Dejun Palace, so Xie Jinhua had no chance to see the princess at all.

When Xie Jinhua grew up to the age where he could participate in this banquet and that banquet, he fell ill again.Therefore, he is actually far away from all kinds of social circles.

In the past few years, Xie Jinhua only saw Princess Dejun more than ten times in total, and every time they met, they were in the Xie Mansion, except that the princess would prepare gifts for the younger brothers, and there was almost no communication between the two siblings.As for King Dejun, when he arrived at the Xie Mansion, he would often go to the study with Lord Hou to talk.

All in all, at this time Xie Jinhua had no idea that the Prince of Dejun and his wife were sitting next to him.

The activity has already started, and there are six scholars standing on the stage.The challenger's surname is Ye, his name is Ye Heng, his name is Zhengping, and he looks to be in his early 20s.Ye Zhengping has already selected a guest, and they are in the first round of answering questions.Ke Qi specially asked a skilled craftsman to make a timer for this purpose. The water droplets can drip down at a constant speed, and the interval between every two drops is about one second.The answering time for each objective question is only 21 ticks.

Dialogue with King Dejun, who claims to be the favorite food, saw that the princess was eating spicy sticks in a good mood, and said with a smile: "This weird snack can actually catch your eyes."

Latiao is a small snack launched in Yixianlou.

"The taste is really good. It's not in vain. I asked someone to go to the restaurant opposite to take a package." Wang Hao said and picked a small piece of spicy sticks with a stick and put them in her mouth. "I see that the clothes of those scholars are not bright enough. , obviously this event is lively and lively, but it seems that no big fish can be caught."

There were densely packed people standing under the stage, but those people were just ordinary peddlers.Of course, people with real status would choose to sit in the restaurant and look down like King Dejun.This means that if a scholar fails to answer the questions, he will be ashamed in front of those illiterate bosses.They answered the questions, and those who applauded for them were those ordinary people who actually didn't even understand the questions.Some scholars obviously feel that such an arrangement is too cheap.Therefore, the scholars participating this time are those who don't have a lot of money. They came for the high prize money of Yixian Tower.

If it weren't for the burden of money, how could talented scholars hold on to their identities so freely?

"Today you ignore me, but tomorrow I will make you unable to climb up." Ke Qi, who was sitting next door, was also talking about this to Xie Jinhua, "As long as we can make the event bigger, with its influence Keep improving, no matter how face-saving literati have to roll up their sleeves and rush to sign up for the competition."

The interests are touching.If the literati get more benefits from the one stop to the end than they imagined, it is nothing to lose face.

"Where did you learn these witty words?" Xie Jinhua was amused by Ke Qi, "However, this is indeed the truth. Now they all think that Yixianlou can only give out some money, and they think that if they win, they won't be able to pass on their reputation. , so the ones who got their names back here are all little-known scholars."

"If the little-known people can be like this Ye Zhengping, then the capital really is a land of crouching tigers and hidden dragons." King Dejun said with emotion.

There are easy ones and difficult ones.No matter how difficult or easy, the challenger Ye Zhengping could always give the answer immediately, as if he didn't need to think at all.This shows that he has already integrated all those knowledge points in his heart.His foundation must be very solid.The onlookers might not understand the question or the answer, but they were all conquered by Ye Zhengping's performance.Every time Ye Zhengping successfully answered the questions, they all booed wildly.

The concubine smiled and said, "Since you are at the feet of the emperor, you are naturally outstanding." This is really a clever flattery.

The husband and wife were talking, and the first guest failed.Although he failed, he had successfully answered 31 questions before, and he was only stuck on the second question of No. 30, which was indeed very difficult.So, it doesn't look ashamed for him to end up like this.Before he leaves the field, he needs to draw lots to choose a punishment item according to the requirements of the event.The guest was visibly nervous that he might have drawn something extremely outlandish.

Ye Zhengping and this person are good friends.Although he eliminated his friend, his friend did not blame him.Ye Zhengping was standing next to his friend, seeing him take out a piece of paper, he immediately read the contents of the paper, it was to "compose a poem for the beauty".The friend breathed a sigh of relief.

Steward Lu acted as the host, and said with a smile: "Mr. An can go backstage to rest, the beauty is waiting in the backstage."

The content of the punishment was mostly thought up by Ke Qi, such as letting the loser drink a drink with a strange taste, or letting the loser plant a field for a few days or raise a flower once.But Xie Jinhua also thought about it.It was not Ke Qi's idea to write poems for beauties, it was Xie Jinhua's idea.

Ke Qi's face darkened a bit: "Could it be that you asked someone to hire the girls' school in Yinghua Lane?" His good boy must have been spoiled by Xie San!

Xie Jinhua shook his head: "Not really. Just look down and you'll know." When you hear a beauty, you think of a prostitute. Isn't this the third brother's style?

Ye Zhengping was indeed capable, and he killed two guests in succession.The king of Dejun said to his princess depressedly: "Could it be that this king is not diligent enough in his studies? I actually don't know the answers to several questions." Each group of questions is set without any rules, but it is true that the latter questions are more difficult than the first ones.

The princess squinted at the prince: "When did the prince ever work hard? What kind of misunderstanding do you have about yourself?"

Fu Gang, who was probably not so excited, pretended not to hear anything.The competition on the field is still going on.If the challenger fails, the guest will become a new challenger until the last person left on the field, this person will win the final victory.This is obviously unfair.Because the guest who was selected at the end started to answer the questions at the end, he has naturally gone farther than other guests.But it also has visibility.

The longer Ye Zhengping persisted, the higher the monetary rewards he accumulated.By the time the last guest was left on the field, Ye Zhengping had accumulated 150 taels of silver.He now has two choices, one is to take away the 150 eight taels, then the victory belongs to that guest.One is to continue to challenge. If he wins the challenge, he will become the final winner; if he fails, he will lose a tael of silver.

150 eight taels!This is 150 taels of silver with high purchasing power!What a fortune!

The Ke family is considered a wealthy family. How much is Ke You's monthly income?Less than one or two.

The onlookers are going crazy!If they were Ye Zhengping, they would definitely take the money and run away!But how would Ye Zhengping choose?Ye Zhengping was indeed short of money. If he hadn't been short of money, he wouldn't have dragged his friend to stand on this stage.No matter how many fire-avoiding maps he imitates, he can't earn so much!

Ke Qi and Xie Jinhua had no contact with the contestants before the competition, and everything was handled by Steward Lu.But Ke Qi is good at knowing people. As long as he has watched the game just now, he has a certain understanding of Ye Zhengping.Ye Zhengping is a person who will seize opportunities.

"He will choose to continue." Ke Qi said with certainty.All the contestants knew the rules of the competition beforehand, and everyone took turns to answer the questions before, but the last round was a rush to answer the questions.Moreover, not only objective questions will appear in the last round, but also subjective questions for the two to rush to answer.

The highlight is the last round.

Objective questions can only reflect the contestants' knowledge and knowledge, while subjective questions are their chance to show their quick thinking.

On the stage, Ye Zhengping really chose to continue answering the question.The onlookers all looked nervous.Guanshi Lu read out the first question, which is an upper couplet, please ask for the second couplet.Of course, this couplet is not as frenzied as the one posted on the main entrance of Yixian Building, it is not too difficult to disassemble the couplet.

After the couplet, there are also poem titles.

These questions and answers will eventually be written into the first issue of "Yimian Ji".

Ke Qi was not nervous at all.No matter who wins, the biggest winner is Xie Jinhua anyway.In the final round of punishment, Ke Qi will operate in secret.The loser can only draw one option, and that is to go to a nursery on the outskirts of Beijing to teach for ten days.

This small charity home is no ordinary little charity home.

"...If he directly borrows Xu'er's name to do things, you and I may not like it. But this time, we have to thank him." Dejun Wang said to his princess.No pair of parents would like to see their children being used by others, even if the people who use them are their relatives.

Li Xu had already discussed with the emperor to auction off the clothes, and the Young Charity House was established with the money from the auction.The Children's Charity also gave out porridge and rice, but only adopted orphans under the age of 16.Li Xu is personally responsible for all the big and small matters in the courtyard, but he borrows the name of the emperor everywhere.

The onlookers thought that the highlight was the choice of 150 to [-], and the intense atmosphere of the competition.

In fact, the real highlight is only here.

Ke Qi is using this method to tell those scholars, you may think that participating in the Yixianlou competition is sensationalism, but Yixianlou has an indirect relationship with the emperor, even if it is only a little bit, so who dares to say that Yixianlou is not authoritative enough?Who dares to say that those punitive measures are degrading?

But would the emperor really pay attention to these things?not necessarily.He just thinks his grandson is cute.

Ke Qi used this incident to eliminate all kinds of hidden dangers.In the future, he will only work hard to expand the influence of Yixianlou.

Then again, Yizhan was first related to the Young Charity, and thus indirectly related to the second son of the De County Wang family, and finally indirectly related to the emperor, so those extremely boring scholars also had a relationship. There is a reason for self-deception-they didn't stand on the stage of Yixian Building for the sake of being appreciated by the saints, they just thought this activity was interesting.That's right, that's the truth.

The first game and one stop are still going on, and King Dejun is making an assessment of Ke Qi in his heart.It may make people think that he is ambitious, and King Dejun will not take the initiative to recruit talents, but Ke Qi has naturally sided with him because of Xie Jinhua's relationship, so Ke Qi is worthy of his investment.

Xie Jinhua, who didn't know that Ke Qi had already alarmed King Dejun, asked curiously, "What's the meaning of Mensao?"

"It's just...the mouth says no, but the body is very honest!" Ke Qi said.Nine out of ten scholars are boring!

Xie Jinhua still seemed puzzled.

Ke Qi then explained it seriously: "I am extremely eager in my heart, but I am very restrained on the surface. This is Mensao."

Xie Jinhua nodded thoughtfully.

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"Heh, I even know about the girls' school book in Yinghua Lane."

"Third brother must have told him a lot. When I go back to the mansion next time, I must ask my husband to give third brother some homework."

"Besides, Ke Di always says that he doesn't like the little toys that the second brother sent, but when he plays with them, he seems to be able to handle them with ease."

"This is boring."

"I shouldn't have thought too mature of a person who always puts a puppet next to his pillow when he sleeps."

"Trouble, turmoil. Ke Di is so restless in his heart, it really grinds people."